skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's why, no matter what financial windfall you may experience, give it 6 months and you'll be just as miserable (or worse) as you were before. But because you got a high off of it initially, you keep pursuing more and more, always convinced the next upgrade in your life is what will do the trick. But it doesn't. All you're doing is raising the bar for what it takes to make you momentarily happy.

I am pretty sure someone who has no security of shelter/food/water/healthcare/education/legal who gains those securities is happier than before they had those securities.

At least I am. It is nice being able to sleep knowing I don not have to worry about my basic needs, and being able to walk away from tasks I do not want to do.
Thanks everyone for the informative replies. So it sounds like if I wanted to get serious about any app that may use their services, the way to do it is to try and establish a partnership.
I just checked for the two Gmail Workspace accounts I am reading using IMAP, and in both cases links are not altered.

Does this replacement occurs for free Gmail accounts ?
The majority of Americans are morons who would vote for anything they want without regard for cost. Look at California's ballot initiatives.

Fact of the matter is that the president and senate should not be elected by the masses. The masses need to vote for local control up through their state legislature. After that, the States should vote for their representatives: the senate and the president.

At the same time some small group of self-starters should act as citizen journalists to actually keep these people accountable. For too long the powers that be have the media running cover for them. New organizations and individuals on YouTube and other media sites are showing how corrupt the government is. We need to take them seriously, still confirming their validity.

Finally, reform the US House so that it has the appropriate size for equal population representation. California needs more seats in the House. So do other States.
There have been a few US presidents that have been much better than it is likely for a randomly chosen American to be.

Unfortunately, among recent US presidents, there have also been many who have been much worse than it can be expected for a randomly chosen American to be.

I do not believe that it is possible to make with any certainty an estimate of which president selection system would have been superior, i.e. how the better and worse presidents would have been compensated in the 2 systems.

So judging from the US historical experience, it is impossible to reject the system of a random selection of the president, like for jury members, as clearly inferior to a president voted by the people.

Maybe a combined system would be better, with a set of presidential candidates chosen randomly from all citizens, one of which is elected by popular vote.

This would exclude the people addicted to power who have progressed inside their party through dubious means, becoming the party candidates.
QuickTime + iMovie gets you what you need for anything short of full-on professional videos.
People do define Facebook and Google as Adware companies…
That’s exactly my strategy for shutting down the existential dread mill. Whenever it bothers me too much I’m pointing my attention to how it all eventually turns to dust. The effect of that enables me to try to enjoy the now.
Lua used to fill a niche very similar to Javascript: small lightweight OOP language that focuses on being embedded in a larger C program. Javascript won this war, mostly based on the explosion of the Web and the insane optimization work that was put on JS engines during the late 2000s.

JS ate Lua's cake, not on pure technical merits (the two languages are very similar) but because of their respective environments.
I think it's only theoretically possible, in practical terms it is not. With enormous wealth inequality you get an oligarchy class who will use their wealth/power to chip away at the societal stabilizers that would keep the worst excesses of wealth inequality in check like the social safety net, strong labor rights, etc.

In any case, I agree that selling out the lower classes for is pretty much guaranteed to make them angry, resentful and susceptible to the charms of right wing populists wanting to ascend to power upon a platform of blaming one or more convenient minority scapegoats.
> (although I posted this and nobody could point to something obvious)

For someone outside the field of DSP, please note that your post gives no context to the problem, nor to the input data. It's pretty hard to optimize something when we don't understand the structure of the problem or the input, and what exactly the code is trying to accomplish.

I remember taking a look at the post when it was posted some time ago, and having to give up pretty quickly because it was hard to make sense of it (in any language), and it seemed like I had to install specific Python libraries to (- hopefully, if everything works -) generate the input data. That takes it beyond "fun little optimization diversion to the day" to something that feels like work.

(Also, to anyone who hasn't read the post, I'll note that somebody did point to something obvious, as mentioned in the update to the post - a single suggestion that only needed superficial understanding of the code, that lead to a 3x speedup from OP's original Julia code.)

FWIW, someone with some domain knowledge on the Julia Discourse [1] was able to generate the input data, and posted code that they claim should be faster. They only mention the run time of the new code - 9 ms - so I don't know if, and by how much, it is faster in comparison.
(Note that the code uses global variables at the end - which is fine there since they're using `@btime` and `$`s, but if using `@timed` instead, those should be enclosed in a `main` function or a `let` block.)

[1] https://discourse.julialang.org/t/this-post-claims-that-juli...
>I was surprised that you couldn't easily copy a table

Lua's designers have a sort of maxim "if it can't be done perfectly, let the user roll their own". This can be frustrating, but for table-copying it's not surprising. Do you copy subtables by reference or value? What about recursive tables? Mutually recursive subtables? Closures in tables? And then userdata can contain references that are opaque to the language runtime. It's not easy to define the behavior of deep copy in the fully general case.
You get a flight booking email confirmation. It contains the day and time of your departure. Two weeks later, the flight takeoff time is moved up by an hour. It's nice to see that information reflected in the initial confirmation email when you go to look it up and find your confirmation number or whatever.

That's off the top of my head...
> president is the least important federal position

The president has an outsized impact on general discourse and party direction, not to mention international crises like the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The Lowdown on Dust Separators (2020)
True leaders (in the abstract, idealised sense), maybe, but actual people we have in real-life leadership positions definitely not. They need to be super-smart to handle the corporate game of thrones without getting stabbed in the back too quickly.
Has anybody created anything similar to Portia for scraping? I'd love to self host or pay a nominal fee to allow my team to create / adjust scrapers via a UI
No sh*t... UK, Canada & Australia really disappoint when it comes to civil liberties, rights & online privacy. Especially since the start of Covid(not to say the unlawful imprisonment of Assange or even sooner).

But then again, it's the place that solves everything with "banning"(see knives).
Medians, averages, and the peak of a probability distribution are all distinct in the general case.

You can't be stupider than a rock, but there seems to be no upper definite upper limit to human intelligence.

Hence the IQ curve isn't a Gaussian. It isn't symmetric. The average is dragged upwards by very-high-IQ people, above the median.

This is like a billionaire moving to some tiny country town. The average income suddenly becomes much higher, but the typical (median) income doesn't budge.

Rich people is a useful analogy to the point I'm trying to make.

When I was on holidays in Vietnam, my chauffeur was horrified to hear that I was too tired and that I wanted to skip a pre-paid dinner reservation at a "fancy" restaurant and that I preferred to simply go to my hotel and crash. That fancy dinner was something like $20. To him that's a lot of money. To me it's nothing. Meanwhile I hear about rich Saudis abandoning italian supercars because they're "broken" in the same way my kid throws away broken toys.

Intelligence and wealth are vaguely similar. People used to a certain level just can't wrap their heads around how people at different levels do things.
4G is not so bad here because of the 700 / 800 MHz band which has really good penetration.

But 5G is mainly done on 3.5Ghz and that's tough yes. Of course they can use the same frequencies for 5G. Though the bandwidth at such low frequencies is limited, and thus the maximum speeds.
I think its the leader part that is the problem, not the democratic vote.

Why do we have one absolute ruler? You could make up reasons about deciding votes and stuff, but clearly it's a throwback to the good old days when one person killed anough people to become King.
I send international MMSes from my phone(android) to my mum's iphone, from UK to Poland, and it seems to work fine. Hasn't bankrupted me yet either(I just checked and it's apparently 30 pence per text).
As a Republican i support this. I think that being required to broadly appeal to voters in a all states instead of focusing on winning tons of low population, overrepresented rural states would bring a bit of sanity.
Competitor pricing, stock, leadtimes, promotions.
I think you're strongly misrepresenting motives here. The House + Senate system was setup so that less-populous states would still get a say in federal policies that impacted them. The alternative was (and is) that farmers in Kansas who have much different concerns than urbanites in NYC get effectively zero representation at the federal level. Hence the senate was setup specifically to prevent tyranny of the majority, which is exactly what you're now saying should exist.
There’s a difference between engaging in petty office politics and endeavoring to grow your soft skills. And everyone, including hard core techies, can benefit from learning how to better interact with other people.
Yes, I was more referring to insisting on being right and being dismissive of other viewpoints. I have caused incalculable damage to my personal relationships because of this pattern of behavior in myself.
General Relativity has https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress%E2%80%93energy_tensor which is the term that generates the gravitational field. It includes the energy of photons.
> No, this isn't removing some imaginary consensus process on money

> "The many" are not using ethereum-based money laundering tools, nor will they. Cryptocurrency in general is already a niche activity of techbros and crimininals. The very, very few.

This consensus process is very real. Money, like language, is something that is only useful when shared, gains importance with increased usage, and eventually becomes unavoidable once it reaches a certain level of adoption. That's why people use dollars, and that's why they may end up using crypto, unless some authoritarian interventions disturb the democratic process of adoption.

> it's sanctioning a criminal money-laundering operation

The Tornado developers are clearly not criminals, or sponsored by criminals. You can talk to them at technical crypto conferences. This is a very different clique from the shady operators of centralized crypto platforms you likely hear about a lot in the news (Binance, Nexos, ...), who certainly did have many links to criminal organizations, and did intentionally help launder money.

And if we disregard intention when calling something a "criminal operation", is the federal reserve criminal for having issued untraceable paper dollars? It's certainly possible to imagine a money system with strict tracing, yet they didn't implement that. It's almost like privacy is not criminal.
Another unusual alternative could be the V-language [1], depending on if you consider this a "sane language" ;-).
Not having used it myself and obviously you have to consider other arguments as well (community, developers, development activity, documentation etc.), but I was caught on all the features it promises, e. g. a "Native cross-platform GUI library": "V has a ui module that uses native GUI toolkits: WinAPI/GDI+ on Windows, Cocoa on macOS. On Linux custom drawing is used."

[1] https://vlang.io/
This was such a weird decision. Lua is meant to be embedded, meaning it will have to call application code where indexes start at 0. Why make the Lua indexes not match?
Stress–Energy Tensor
> a large lua game code base, over 4000 files, 1.5 million lines of code

Interesting; how do you manage to keep consistency? Do you have special tools to e.g. detect inadvertent global variables? I once wrote a Smalltalk VM in Lua (https://github.com/rochus-keller/Smalltalk/blob/master/Inter...) which is a much smaller code base, but even with this modest size I quickly would have lost track of e.g. scopes and names without tools I had to write myself (https://github.com/rochus-keller/LJTools).
> The hypothetical case you describe where a cancer ends deadly in an average of 6 months for 90% of the population and is suddenly cured by a miracle treatment simply does not happen

That was an exaggeration (in line with the title of the article) - what I meant are cases where we historically have a good knowledge of the trajectory of an illness and this could be used as the control group.
In the same vein, I miss cold fusion. It was such a lovely idea, and had such great promise. A shame that reality intruded...
There isn’t anything “most” autistic people have. The disorder is defined by having at least three of twelve major symptoms so it’s possible for two people with autism to not even overlap in their symptoms. There is also a huge range of severity and many people with the disorder are high-functioning. High-functioning autism is significantly correlated with high IQs. This dismissal amounts to “this can’t be hard for you, you’re just choosing not to practice” which is a rather offensive way to deal with someone’s disability.
Slightly OT, but I had a job a while back where they were fed up with titles, and let you choose any title you want that wasn't a protected title (in practice a C-level officer).

God-Emperor of code? Alright.

Artifex maximus programmanorum? You do you buddy.

Most people just chose "senior developer".
Like I said in my other post, your unwillingness to invest any time into getting hired tells me a lot about you. Let me tell you a story about how I got hired for a job I really wanted.

They had a take home. Ridiculously simple. Build a 4 endpoint CRUD API for bear sightings. Took about 20 minutes in Python Flask. Sent it in, immediately moved to the next round which was two weeks away.

You know what I did in those two weeks? I rebuilt the same API in Node, Typescript, Rust, Go, C++, Ruby, Django, Sanic, and I think a few more.

Then I deployed it on App Engine, Lambda, EC2, Google VM, Kubernetes, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, and my local home dual Xeon server. (while keeping the compute size of all of the cloud offerings as equal as possible)

Then I benchmarked them all. Turns out how you deployed it made little difference but the language made a huge difference. Sanic came in 2nd place while Rust was far and away the winner.

Then I wrote a 10 page report including my methods, code, charts, and tables showing the results.

Two weeks later when I arrived at my onsite interview, I was scheduled to meet with 8 people for 8 hours to talk BS l33tcode questions. You know what I did? Explained what I had spent my time doing. They loved it.

I got a very nice offer that day and worked there for 3 years.

Sometimes the amount of effort you show a company how much you want to work there is what can land you the job.

I didn't ask to be paid for that time and I was employed elsewhere. I did this in the evenings and weekends during what would otherwise be social media downtime.....and it was fun. I explored new technologies, learned several new languages, and expanded my abilities as a developer. I don't regret that time investment one bit.

And you're saying you can't take one hour to do a take home?

That DOES tell me a lot about you.

edit: To be clear, this didn't take away from any of my other activities. I still ate out, spent time with friends, went out, etc.. This just took away from useless social media time and turned it into something productive. I also had a lot of fun not only exploring everything but also knowing I'd have a lock on a well compensated position and be in control of my interviews instead of their potentially being disinterested in just another candidate. It was time very well spent. I don't nearly expect this kind of investment from any of our applicants but if someone demonstrated they wanted to work for me that much you'd bet I'd hire them.

edit 2: I was also told later that numerous applicants struggled with this take home assignment despite it being literal CS 101 level stuff. That's why getting a sense of it someone can code is so important.
> Asking a trusted domain expert for an opinion about whether some technical investment would benefit the business.

Sure, that's good management - ask the expert.

But this manager didn't want to clarify the question, so that the expert could give a considered answer.

Perhaps the manager already knew what answer he wanted?

There's this estimating technique: it's called "Guess the number the manager wants you to give". It's much less career-limiting than giving an honest answer.
I do think that we need some other markup language that is more consistent across platforms, but AMP doesn't sound like it. Neither should emails have dynamic content (though some vendors bypass that already with .gifs).

I would already be satisfied with email clients supporting Markdown, but then it couldn't fully replace HTML in terms of flexibility. It'd just be a nicer middle ground between plain text and HTML.
As someone who's been working in email marketing for 5 years, I couldn't agree more. I'm quite surprised with the amount of negative comments.

But it is what it is. The main problem with amp for emails is that email marketers don't have the time to make them. We're always excited when somebody get something out that's awesome, but it stays at that.

We're back at our day to day operations. Unfortunately amp is staying in the "Important, but not urgent" category for a few years now.

Look at this email for example: https://reallygoodemails.com/emails/discover-more-with-the-b...
ScrappingBee is a fantastic paid solution that makes most of the pain of modern web scraping go away.

The prices are not very friendly though...
i wish discourse allowed us to feel safe sharing our political views with eachother
I encountered some people that percive any discussion as arguing and frame every information exchange in combative terms (defensive, attacking, winning, loosing). They also tend to exhibit some narcissistic behaviors and qualities so I wouldn't think they are the norm.

I think you've just met some people from that flavor of assholes.
i'd say about the same - less than 10 times a year. this isn't just about us as individuals; we still have buses, taxi's, rental cars, service cars, trucks, car-sharing, planes, etc.

few of these can viably use batteries (and when they can there's usually an additional consequence). not with out either a significant increase in energy density - which has its own risks - or another massive investment in things like rapid battery exchange.

great, your vehicle works for you. as i said, EVs have a significant role to play in our society. i don't want you to throw away your EV or have it taken from you.

all i'm saying is that i believe gasoline to be a better energy storage mechanism for a significant proportion of transportation needs.
Descriptors Are Hard
Nothing an LCD and some cameras can't solve
> BATNA?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_alternative_to_a_negotiat...
I'm really starting to think there is an argument where the OFAC list cannot apply to smart contracts, at least on Ethereum or EVMs.

OFAC literally means the Office of Foreign Assets Control, it cannot be applied domestically to American assets.

In EVMs, no node is aware of which node saw a transaction first to relay it to miners. Therefore, one argument is that the deployment of the contracts cannot be known to be done in a non-American source. To strengthen an adversarial argument one could move to the account owner that paid for the contract deployment, but I believe there are challenges for that as well since sole custody of a private key cannot be known, only assumed.

This isn't to weasel around any attempt at government control or consequences, only the OFAC designation. It seems like the incorrect authority.
Just as the transient inflation camp emptied...
I would also recommend Go for web developers who want both speed and memory safety. It works well and is hard to beat, but I haven't seen any Go web framework that comes close to Ruby on Rails. If anything like that ever does come along, I think it will be very popular.

I like Ruby a lot. I'm not knocking it. It's probably the most enjoyable language I've ever used.
While you may be correct about criminal law, I'm certain this would impact their SOX compliance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbanes%E2%80%93Oxley_Act) and would put their ability to participate and operate in US securities markets in serious jeopardy.
Sorry to hear that. I hope you feel better.
I think your grapefruit comparison is inaccurate unless you are referring to just the head. The Mayo Clinic's guide to pregnancy lists a baby's head at 24 weeks, just the head alone, at 8.7 inches (circ), but total length heel to crown is also 12.2 inches, which is about 60% the average length of a full term baby.

23 weeks is also more or less the borderline for where we have standardized national practices for saving an extreme premature delivery. I've read studies that put viability in the NICU at week 23 anywhere from 10% on the extreme low end, to 50% on the extreme high. By week 24 that jumps to ~30-75%.
Yes, both in terms of money and dev-hours, I wouldn’t be surprised if Google put 2 orders of magnitude more resources into V8.

Nonetheless, Shopify’s investment into truffleruby may well be worth it, as it builds on top of the many many work-hours that went into the JVM.
That’s correct. Farmers in Kansas shouldn’t be dictating how this country is run. We don’t need to compromise with them.
If you have mutable members you can still absolutely do myRecord.member().methodThatMutates().

The only way to stop this is to remove the mutable methods from the interface entirely, which is what I'm complaining about.
This is quite similar to the RDF triples model. Everything is a 'thing' including 'relationships' between things. So you just need a thing table and a relation table.

The issue with this is schema management and rules gets pushed to the application layer. You also need to deal with very massive tables (in terms of # of rows) for the relationships table which leads to potential performance issues.
That's fair; my understanding was that this was a pretty common thing to expand on a 5150, but I'd love to know if anyone has personal experience with having owned one back in the day.
His thesis is that autistic people are unfairly characterized as not being able to admit when they wrong… and then he proceeds to explain that he’s almost never wrong.