skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want more costcos.

To people who don't know, part of the core of Costco's business model is curation, which leads to customer trust. I know that almost any product that I buy at costco is going to be high quality. I know that anything with a kirkland brand on it is going to be so high quality and so cheap that it feels like I found a cheat.

What's funny about costco is that their in store experience is so good that they have seemingly ignored any sort of online presence. Yeah they have a website, but it doesn't seem to actually have a comprehensive list of everything they sell. You have to go to the store and check out what they have (and get a hot dog or a piece of pizza while you're there)

If there was a delivery app that curated restaurants, I would absolutely love it, and I also think it would be really successful.
Because the Germans have a huge say in EU energy market regulations.
I can assure you that there very much is a competitive market for engineering talent in the UK. Salaries are generally lower than the US market, but a £60k salary still puts someone in the top 10% nationally in terms of income.
>chat or follow some old school, based interest rates traders

How do you find someone like this?

>look into the Eurodollar system

Suggestions for a first foray? Too much financial conspiracy stuff out there.
> Starlink shows it's possible

I wouldn’t say it shows it’s possible yet. They claim it’s possible but there are none of the starlink v2 satellites in orbit that are required for it to work. Originally v2 satellites required Starship for launching, it sounds like they are pivoting to Flacon now though due to delays in Starship reaching orbit.

Apple will want the service to be available as soon as the Phone launches, so potentially in late September. It’s going to be at least late 2023 before the SpaceX/T-Mobile service lunches.
I'm not anti-length-variable! I'm saying, which of

struct bytes { size_t size; unsigned char *data; };
struct bytes { size_t size; unsigned char data[]; };

you want depends heavily on what you're doing with the string(s) - plus other common variations like len+cap instead of just size, SSO, etc.

So if you can't standardize the data structure, what's the common interface? A function that takes a pointer and a length - which is what we already have. So everyone in this thread appealing to the C standardization process or stdlib to do something wants instead - what, exactly?
In addition to what the sibling comment said, Beeper is a great 'all in one' bridges type of software. The client is proprietary, but still interoperable with the larger Matrix network (and they contribute to upstream too).
One problem I have with economics books is that they tend to end with either “and therefore, government spending is bad” or “and therefore, government spending is good”.

What I’m really after are non-ideological macroeconomics books that will help a layperson have a better sense of where the economy is headed so I can invest better, not books that would help me make better decisions if I were running a country, which I’m not.
You’re 23. Seriously stop thinking like this. You have a lot of time.

I’m 37 and I’ve just started out. I know at this point my career has a low ceiling. But I’ll try my best.
Garry Tan has the best career advice: https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1377661970178973696

My best career advice: at every job you should either learn or earn.
Either is fine. Both is best. But if it's neither, quit.

My suggestions would be focusing on a few cosmetic things:

- Update your resume (you can get inspiration from Dribbble).

- Update your personal site to look nice.

- Update your GitHub account to have a few repos.

These are mostly cosmetic, but that seems to be the problem you’re having right now: getting your foot in the door to interview for positions.

Earn or learn. If you’re not doing either, it’s time to move on.
You'd help me by explaining those cases. I'm not connected to the 'industry'.

Also some major impl are 24 or even 32 bytes. With a generous SSO you catch a lot of strings w/o overhead.
Yeah, I think there's opportunity to learn about it in most high schools, usually through extra/co-curricular activities like that.

Like someone else mentioned in another comment, I experienced Robert's Rules during speech and debate class when we did model UN.

However, I also got a second dose in a place that might surprise some, Ag classes. Future Farmers if America also uses Roberts Rules for their meetings and competitions.
Archived version https://archive.is/rThRA
mosquitos evolved naturally, within the rules of the universe. doesn't mean they shouldn't be eradicated
> “We will never know” sounds overly pessimistic to me; I could imagine someone from the 10th century claiming we will never know the trillionth prime number.

There are tons of stuff we as human beings we'll discover and be pretty confident about it. There are other things we'll never know. I think that's part of being human, to know our limits.
upsilon is were the development continued
Isn’t this the same as whether a fund manager can do well in one year and bad in another? I.e just randomness?
I know right, it’s definitely not related to words you write on a regular basis…
The search for the perfect blogging platform
In the case of the Bible, it makes it explicitly clear that God is uncreated. Asking the question, "Who created an uncreated God?" doesn't make much sense in that case.
Correlation between experience and efficacy of programmers [pdf]
> 'Fuck it, fuck you, fuck this' are words to live by, in my opinion.

Agreed. Life's much too short to get screwed by a job for a long time.
Possibly could be used to write an automated co-pilot though.
Proof requires axioms, and the universe hints towards what they are but isn’t explicit.

Per thermododynamic axioms, incompleteness is implied by the arrow of time and information atrophy. This would imply an unknowable beginning.
Right.

And since we created God, we're The Masters of the Universe.

Cue He-Man music.
> the FBI didn't believe they were deleted for the purposes of avoiding the subpoena, which may be true, but that doesn't make it less of a crime.

Sorry, what now? The subpoena was for related emails. They claim they deleted unrelated emails and the FBI agrees. It’s not a crime to delete emails unrelated to a subpoena, especially when the subpoena (according to your link) did not request those emails. And doubly so when the FBI agrees those deleted emails were unrelated. So where do you see a crime in this?
Consider a thing: prices are MEANINGLESS, really. At a certain point people will revolt, simply. The revolt might be ride or not but the actual profiteers (or some puppets, who appear adversaries to many people's eyes but that's just theater, like the actual far-right movements) but it will happen. At that point PP will simply run depending on their technical capacity, no one will talk about price or consumption in different terms.

That's an old classic we already see at the start of '900 where the level of rapacious businesses and corruption reach a break point. To save themselves in skin the failed profiteers choose to push nazi-fascism with success, apparently those dictatorship was a new and different beast but in reality they just makes the public actions needed to keep a country run, leaving profit to the private, for some time. The profit part makes the game last little time, a war was needed (see Ucraine and Taiwan next), and after the war a new start. It's a cycle who can last until or all the world became capitalist in the same way and so there is nothing left to steal or we simply have depleted enough resources to be unable to survive as a modern civilization or for some miracles people decide that enough is enough REALLY and act positively instead of destructively, something almost never happened reading the history.
Well it's not so hard to break apart all the presuppositions in that sentence, but I know you're not looking for this.

Arguing tiber-river style divine simplicity is best left up to the dominican monk gregory pine and his debate partners.

You might be disappointed to discover I was making a practical point, not using the ideal-metaphorical language of sabine and her culture.

Practically speaking no matter where sabine and the concept of simplicity, teamwork and the coming relational tribalism goes, one can work on the ghost of the tree she is trying to chop down or drag an incomplete, complex part of science through the bubble of 'simplicity' out to disrupt the other side.

Put more briefly, no matter how simple we all agree 'it' is, you can disrupt that bubble with infinite complexity, just as easily as she cuts down trees.
In my view, the most important book is missing from that list:

De Soto, Hernando. The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else. Basic Books, 2000.

It shows by experiment and historical analysis, that there's a clear pattern to explain the gap: the legal institution of property being accessible and affordable to everyone, not just the privileged or rich. And if that's introduced, things can change around quickly.
No they don't.

McDonald's cooks its quarter pounders from fresh beef (hasn't been frozen since 2018). Their Roma tomatoes are also, you know, fresh. Just like their lettuce. Their Egg McMuffins are cracked from fresh eggs onto the griddle.

They deep-fry their fries, good luck doing that at home in your microwave.

All their sandwiches are hand-assembled. Buns and english muffins all freshly toasted.

McDonald's is an actual restaurant. They're not just reheating and repackaging. Unless by your standard every restaurant falls under this category...?
They'll probably confiscate anything with a radio while underway.
Your comment is absolutely fascinating.

Is there a place on the web folks can read more about your time fighting apartheid?
OP is trying to get out but hasn't been able to. Adopting a "fuck you, pay me" attitude when you have no ability to leave is not a smart move.

Absolutely they should be somewhere they're more valued, but should be patient while they work out how to do that.
If you leave, can this report take over and be successful?
Yes. This is exactly what happened.

DIGG basically became what new Reddit looks like now, but they were specifically transparent that every post was essentially a paid marketing blob and the corporate commercial took over all of DIGG - pissed everyone off and they all flocked to Reddit.

Reddit is doing the same thing, however, when DIGG messed around with the UX, bots were not a thing in the same form they are now…

“Video killed the radio star” but now it’s

“Bot killed any sense of trust on social media”
Its a very political field and whichever little clique gets the ear of the decision makers that year determines what policies get enacted. I'll grant you that this doesn't matter in practical terms, because we all know that the policies will benefit the rich, not us, but at least you can get a better understanding of how you'll be robbed.
And your are very prone to propaganda. One side walks back on a contract and calls us europoors, the other side invades us and bombs us cities. This should be clear cut, but morons like you are very confused.
Our thingies have the production date printed on them but the color only depends on the brand.
Cloudflare Quietly Powers the Internet but It's a Haven for Misinformation
We're not screwed. We're just witnessing the accelerated death of the fossil fuel based power generation industry and it's making renewable power extremely lucrative. Prices are high because of gas prices. Except it's August and Europe is producing a lot of solar power and a fair bit of wind power. That's why there are no blackouts. There is no power shortage; just a gas shortage. Europe has plenty of reserves to generate power. It's just not going to be cheap to use those reserves. The current crisis is not a capacity crisis but a fuel cost crisis. Anybody who was complacent about renewables is going to be paying the price for that this winter. Anybody who wasn't is going to reap the rewards.

High prices for electricity and no production cost for renewables basically means whomever produces using that is making a lot of money right now. More than 5x of what they could reasonably expect normally. Probably closer to 10x. That's great news because that will be invested in even more renewable power. Solar and wind are the closest thing to a perpetuum mobile that you can get right now.

Electricity prices are high because all the gas and coal production is being kept at a minimum rate because of the high cost of fuel. Companies still in the business of burning that have to pay such high prices for fuel that it's cheaper for them to shut down operations. Unless they are absolutely needed in which case they'll charge for the fuel cost of course.

However, most of Europe is relying on renewables and topping up gas supplies for the winter instead. E.g. Germany hit their 80% reserves target ahead of schedule a few days ago, So, any gas plant that doesn't absolutely have to be on right now has probably been idling for months. No reason to turn those on.

The reason France has a tough few quarters ahead is that quite a few of their aging nuclear power plants are down for maintenance right now. They'll be importing power from abroad and probably at high rates. A perfect little storm of overdue maintenance and an international gas/oil market that suddenly shifted. They'll be fine. But it will cost them.
Even finance experts like Matt Levine use index funds. Unless you are mega rich and have connections, you almost certainly have no advantage against the many people who work 100 hours a week trying (and often failing) to beat the market.
What do you think the heat pump and district heating runs on? Heat pumps still need electricity and district heating is often using gas.
I'm not aware of any common string implementation that takes 3-4 words just to put an empty string in your struct especially if it also still requires external allocation with additional size words once the string gets above a certain size. Java takes 1, Go takes 2, SDS takes 1, libstdc++ takes 3 but doesn't require an external store later, etc.
I wonder if something along those lines would work in the traditional job search:

Generate tens of thousands of brand identities (random name + random e-mail address) and mail-merge them onto basically the same resume, maybe with some minor wording perturbations. Flood companies with these resumes and then sit back and wait for one of your brands to slip through their hiring algorithms, and you got the interview. If you eventually get the job and they ask about the name, just say it was an old alias, and you'd prefer to go by [your real] name.
Due to HN max title character limits I had to chop up the title, no click bait intended.
>Let’s say your uncle tells you about his new stock trading strategy that’s guaranteed to make him 10% returns per month. Will he be rich two years from now?

That depends on whether the stock he bought was GME.
Smaller in what sense? I look at this repo and think, this is what is wrong with the JS ecosystem. All that stuff, just for

let str = "",
i = 0,
arg: unknown;

for (; i < arguments.length; ) {
if ((arg = arguments[i++]) && typeof arg === "string") {
str && (str += " ");
str += arg;
}
}

I mean the only "interesting" part is ~20 lines of code in one file. I can only imagine what cloc would report about LOC

How about

classes.filter(x => typeof arg === "string").join(" ")

now it is one line without the need for all that other junk
'Mind-Reading' Technology Translates Brainwaves into Photos
Related:

Launch HN: Hyperbeam API (YC W22) – Multiplayer embeds of any website - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30433104 - Feb 2022 (63 comments)
the issue with a god is "who created god, and who created that who created god..."

It is if you assume God is bound to the chain of causation, but obviously any creator is likely unbound by the system of laws in which his creation exists, the same as when we create a video game we stand apart from it. I always liked the Dr. Quantum Flatland as an example of god-like capabilities wrt dimensionality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEVEKL1Fbx0
California has to shut down their grid occasionally just because it's in such poor repair that wildfires are a risk. I can't imagine how they are going to handle everyone getting EVs.
That makes sense. It was a race to the bottom. Now we're at the bottom.

It's like 2001 in a lot of ways. Spesh the terrible economics of websites, or apps, or call them almost whatever they want, platforms, anything.

Giveaways bring users. Free beer people show up.

Like there's no business here. No excludability. It was a prettification of IRC, which of course nobody pays one fuck of a cent for, and now they want to charge...well guess people will go to IRC directly. And maybe there'll be an FOSS prettification.

And that'll be it.
Without thinking too hard about the efficiency, it's clearly just not a _safe_ proposition with our current best (most energy-dense per weight) batteries.
No.

They could do infrastructure, kind off, not code - no chance (I like them as a person but they depend on me to teach them how to code)

Hire "younglings" (star-wars) is my remit.
I'm not confused, i read history, i respect its timeline, and i do not take shortcuts

I read and analyze both sides

ESA will give up Ariane and use SpaceX, again, that should ring bells ;)
I found it interesting as an early example of a similar line of reasoning with a similar conclusion.

The Wikipedia link mentions that: “Astronomer Carl Sagan quoted it in discussing India's "tradition of skeptical questioning and unselfconscious humility before the great cosmic mysteries."”
Don’t know about other countries but several people were arrested today in Croatia cos of similar business practices:)
One person under you for 3-5 years with a four attritions in that period (this latest one being Person #5?) constitutes an incredibly high attrition rate. That’s worth introspecting on. Average tenure of under a year?!
Our human brains cannot grasp the idea of "it simply always existed".

Imagine a non-human being (e.g., "god", "beings from another dimension", "beings from an advanced civilization", etc.) telling us the theory of everything (with maths and all, if you want), and the end saying: "btw, there is no origin, and no end. Realiy has always existed". Do you think our scientists (or any other kind of curious human being) will say "Alright, got it. Won't keep investigating then. Thanks!". That won't happen, our human brains cannot understand that concept, and there will always be the "but how does it work?!"
Yeah vendor lock-in starting with a capitalist subsidy provided by venture capital.
Works for me (also Windows)

Version 1.42.97 Chromium: 104.0.5112.102 (Official Build) (64-bit)
I know. I get that. I'll have a nice, tiny, convenient url after I find out if people actually want this website.
This has been my experience with every cloud kitchen "brand" I've dared to try (because it was late and they're usually the only ones still open.)

I think fundamentally the concept just doesn't attract the right kind of business owners. To open a restaurant of your own you must, on some level I assume, be interested in cooking or cuisine. Cloud kitchens as a concept seemed like they were marketed more to investor/vc types as a vertical to invest in. Typically this group would have gravitated towards franchise ownership where some other corporate entity has figure out the "food" part of the equation. It may not be the most healthy or even the best but they take care of making something palatable and most importantly consistent.
I believe it will be a permanent, maybe generational war. It will take a very long time to get Russians to exhaust their artillery munitions stocks. Anywhere from 3 to 30 years by different assessments. That moment will come, there is no way Russians could replace the spent shells one for one, but it is far away.

Economic effects on Russia are heavy for their people and will be heavier but they will never stop Putin. Security apparatus and propaganda is sufficient to handle situation under absolutely any circumstances, remember Putin's regime safety is based on support of non-Russian, non-Slavic nations living in Russia, so they won't stop from even wholesale slaughter of their own people simply because they don't see Russians as their own people. This is also why Ukrainian war goes without much strain on Russian morale - most Russians are convinced that Ukrainians are same people so many expected problems in that department - the worst atrocities are simply commissioned by non-Russian, non-Slavic units.

Russians will by some point run out of artillery stocks, but it takes patience. It already happened with guided missiles and that was a big relief for Ukraine. If artillery fire rate falls as much as guided missile fire rate fell in August vs March (suggesting difference between what they can fire and what they can produce on the go when stocks were out), Ukrainian victory will be easy.

In the meantime, Ukraine has to be bankrolled by the West. It's not expensive at all: what the author misses is that economic cost of getting away from Russian fossil fuels are several times over the entire Ukrainian GDP. And the fossil fuel part needs to be done, no one puts it under a tiniest doubt. So support of Ukraine is, in relative terms, not at all expensive.
“Synthetic” Mouse Embryo with Brain and Beating Heart Grown from Stem Cells
Does it make the situation better if everyone is mistreated? Part of me wonders if its a bunch of old money Lords and Ladies bank rolling these businesses. They just crush you and tell you its a "competitive market".

What do I know. I'm literally making stuff up on a Saturday morning. At his experience level and skill set you can make triple in America.
It doesn't have to be 1:1 equal to SDS, rather at least having WG14 doing something, anything at all, instead of keeping pushing the agenda of C being a Swiss cheese of security exploits, to the point everyone is adopting hardware memory tagging as the ultimate mitigation.
The transmission issues will be solved: more and more HVDC interconnections start construction in Europe every year. Grids that still rely heavily on coal and natural gas can, and will, be improved.

An EV bought today will only get cleaner as the grid gets cleaner. A new fossil-fuel vehicle today will always be dependent on fossil fuels, and will always pollute at least as much as the day it was purchased.