skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, we seem to be whittling down on the points where we disagree.

Initial disagreement:

* langcc/XLR is a major breakthrough in the ability to generate parsers for industrial languages

---- Positions:

----------- Joe: Yes

----------- Me: Unclear. Several other works in the past 20 years have similar claims. Benchmark selected by langcc is of unclear significance. langcc paper is lacking indicia of reliability to investigate its linear time claim.

Current crux:

* Linear time guarantee is a bright-line barrier between parser generators suited for tool or compiler development on industrial languages and parser generators not so suited.

------ Positions:

---------- Joe: Yes

---------- Me: No

Is this a fair summary of the discussion so far?

I can say that this is a crux for me because, if you convince me that the linear-time guarantee is this important and that langcc has it, I will be much more likely to crow about / evangelize langcc in the future.

> My comments were referring to the compilation of tree automata to CFGs, which seems to be necessary in order to use them with standard LR parsing techniques. The alternative seems to be to use the automata to filter sets of possible parses after-the-fact, which does not by itself lead to an efficient parsing algorithm.

Cool! So, the distinguishment is more about its use of CFGs as a compilation target than about the main meat of the work. I find this a much clearer description of how you intend to compare Michael Adams's paper than the one I quoted.

-----------------------------------------------------

For the rest of your comment, a few claims:

* "Golang is a representative example"

* "In order to be competitive with hand-written parser [...] a generated parser should at least be guaranteed linear-time, and should be comparable in terms of concrete efficiency benchmarks. "

* "the community had yet to propose an alternative that is general and efficient enough (esp., linear-time) to replace hand-written recursive-descent parsers for industrial languages such as Golang"

This is an interesting set of claims because all the arguments I've heard in the past in favor of handwritten parsers were about error messages, not perf. I know langcc has an idea for that as well, but you seem to be focusing on performance as the real breakthrough.

So, question:

Would you accept a generated parser for Ruby, C++, Haskell, Delphi, or Verilog that is empirically within 3x the parsing speed of the handwritten alternative as sufficient evidence that some existing work is already competitive on this front?

If not, why?
The author comes off as lacking EQ. It’s strange to ask someone’s last night before you’ve met them, so that’s a red flag for the author. Being judgmental about someone’s voice, another red flag. And the 35th and 8th thing? Why wouldn’t you just drop it? Too quick to point out flaws, another red flag. I grew up in NYC and at one point in my youth, I had the same answer as her.
If she was annoyed by the random ketchup question, It’s likely because you have put so little effort into building rapport. Those types of random/abstract questions are best AFTER you’ve built a connection with someone… not topic 1, date 1.

Sorry to vent, but it annoys me to see this posted on HN.
gatta have the means to measure that engagement
The Harry Partch Instrumentarium (2012)
I'm not seeing it. Surely you don't mean a silhouette of an aircraft with twin booms to the horizontal and rear stabilizers, or a delta wing silhouette is a 'UFO'?

Edit: Apparently I am totally oblivious. Please have no regrets for downvoting this comment.
Apologizes, link was truncated (I was sure I checked it!)

search: >'15kW Solar system'< @DDG : <https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q='15kW Solar system'>
They will mandate these in essence. Force everyone that’s renting to go heat pump. That’s the cheapest retrofit

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/rheem-introduces-12...
As Europe is demonstrating right now, being green comes with significant consequences, which mostly fall on the poorest.

Far better to provide incentives to switch to green sources and let people make their own decisions.
This is the first time I'm hearing about this...and I have so many questions.

What did this do to your body aside from the weight loss? Did you have anything anything else to supplement? How did you poop (there's almost fiber in junk food)? How did you manage your blood sugar? Did the caffeine in the chocolate have an effect?

And just how much chocolate are we talking here?
The source of this ridiculous $30->$5 number is linked from the article: https://scet.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/CopyofFINALSavi...

And it is given without a citation, and the document's authors are Directors/R&D/Tech Lead people at Samsung, VMWare, and Google.

And: "This paper was created in an open classroom environment as part of a program within the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology"

So it's just laundered fake research.

The source of such a figure is surely going to be some reasoning like this, plus inflation, which cites the vast majority of "subsidy" being "healthcare costs":

https://meatonomics.com/2013/08/15/each-time-mcdonalds-sells...

But without looking at the source, napkin math tells you at the very least the number is way out of whack, and at best it'd have been cherry-picked for the purpose of deception.
Bottom left of the insignia.
Provided, of course, civilization doesn't collapse first.

If build-out matches predictions, collapse is an easy call. But build-out has been consistently beating predictions.
Of course there’s a precursor to all technologies. Of course smart phones have a clear lineage. Of course everything in existence has a precursor and lineage.

I stand by everything in my original reply. The modern video conferencing tools, collaboration tools, dynamic websites, etc absolutely could not have been made with 1994 technology. I remember that time period well and there were so many revolutionary technologies and ideas missing.

With all the knowledge you have today, could you go back to 1994 and recreate a Facebook or YouTube, serving 1B+ users with real-time interactivity using CGI and Berkeley sockets? No, that’s just laughably absurd.
X-15B (2019)
This is absolutely brilliant and a fascinating walkthrough of how to make bad science seem "legitimate". Kudos to the journalists here, this is good work. I'm especially amused that they mentioned that online commenters usually did a better job of fact checking than the publications!
It’s off the coast of Ecuador as usual.
Is this US story? Sounds pretty damn ridiculous to me as European. But then again I use only rentals for my and my family's vacations, and simply going with cheapest offers in given category worked great for us in dozens of cases.

No shenanigans like mentioned, but I never used the big companies since they are more costly for 0 added value to us (and often have huge queues on the airports, not something I want to experience with 2 small kids).
No, it's the literal flying saucer to the lower left. It's even got a row of dark "lights" around the edge.
Not seeing it? You must be an alien then ;-)
Fantastic to see more open source ML.
Take advantage of anything they have to offer that can make you more valuable to someone else in the near future.

While you are still there.
Timing can only be as accurate and precise as the system that is running the emulation. Accuracy can be expressed in relation to limited bounds. For example, loading software through a filesystem instead of a physical cartridge slot is inaccurate, but practically meaningless, so we don’t take that account in a metric for accuracy.
Wow. I stared at it for a bit and was completely blind to it.
May be slightly different. I don't think one is pushed out in the so called "quite quitting".
Pretty sure that's a known Framework hardware limitation, see https://community.frame.work/t/high-battery-drain-during-sus...
I'd posit that there's almost certainly a way to design a study in such a way to get the opposite result.
You can't eat plumbing either -- this point is nonsense.
Parentheses as pipes is what you do when you’ve backed yourself into a corner.

Ruby has decided (for some reason?) to use two ways to declare.

Function(param, param)

and

{ |param, param| }

why? What is a good reason for this?

It would be an anti pattern in design, not sure why Ruby gets a special hall pass.
Reading through the first few pages, I’m impressed with their bluntness about the shortcomings of the original MacOS. While Pink itself failed, they actually managed to achieve a lot of the stuff they discuss in that document, even before the switch to OS X. I remember when they started moving low-memory globals into system calls. And, obviously, they did eventually get it working with other processors. This makes me think 2 things: 1) You can achieve something if you have a plan, and 2) What you plan won’t be what happens, but you may still achieve the same goals a different way.
Indeed on both counts.

This is a demonstration of why a code change may seem simple in theory, but when you actually do it, you can see all the side effects that you didn't consider when estimating. This is one of the many ways that estimation without looking at existing code, can be completely off...not to say it will be right-on when estimating and looking at code. I have worked a company with 8 hour planning, where every single change is by committee while looking at existing code. Mercifully, this methodology didn't last more than a few months.
Even just the Ada ability to define integer and other ranges always seemed great! Rust doesn't provide integer overflow checking on release builds unless you use specialized methods.

I think creating new number types like "Positive" also seems to require using unsafe, or at least the stdlib used it for a few of the number types I looked into.
The primary literature is a huge waste of time in so many cases though. It can be really frustrating. IF there's not a problem in one of hundreds of representational practices, you can find out later there was some other compromise (and some are HUGE) of the data or methodology.

And then if you point out a problem with a research undertaking or study when it is brought up, you can get some set of true-science-believers looking at you like it can't possibly be. It's unreal sometimes.

It's really no wonder people spread their subjective experiences as if they are science. Institutional "science" is great as a set of models and perspectives, but when you dip into the product you can start to wonder if you are effectively doing the equivalent of product research by watching the home shopping network.
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>Some day, the company might even want to run Pink on something really obscure, like an Intel processor ("bite your tongue!").
We can simplify the situation quite well and avoid the projection. It's too late to do anything about the acquisition, but Google is too powerful and too shady to begin with, and should be vigorously opposed in anything it does or tries to do by default on that basis alone.
How I made this website and started writing blog
Here you go @sithadmin:

https://imgur.com/a/75awHl6
I'd like to believe it was the original poster's goal to point out that women tend to make smarter choices regarding work-life balance because they've been socialized to "want it all" meaning work is only one facet of success alongside family, friends, community and personal fulfillment, while men tend to be socialized to pursue high income to the detriment of all other aspects of life. As a consequence of this, if you want to have a diverse and inclusive workplace, you probably shouldn't base promotions based on who's responding to emails at 8pm.
Layoffs at Canadian tech startups
This year, I got my first job out of college through the HN job postings.
nothing to see here gentlmen, please continue...
> True -- it cuts down on middle men though!

It adds two middle-manned transactions instead of one?

This seems to be the same wishful thinking that's come out of the crypto space for about 10 years now. There's no reason to think now is any different.
It sounds like you're not really over the job. If you were, you would be fixedly focused on getting a new one. So my guess is that anything you do about pulling back effort or leaving whilst working from this mindset is going to be half-hearted. I personally think advice on this matter will be wasted, because if it mattered to you, you would have figured out an answer to your question yourself. People naturally drag their feet on things they don't believe in and aren't excited for, it's not a learned skill.

Anyway, if I'm right, it follows that you're struggling to do the bare minimum because people who care don't do the bare minimum, they do their best, often at expense to themselves.

I would suggest maybe you try to come up with some rules (no emails before X AM or after Y PM, answer emails at least 1 day after receipt, work no overtime unless asked) and you could practice them until it becomes reflex. On top of this, I find it useful to look at what your 'worst' peers are doing and slowly adjust the pace of work to meet them if you're outperforming them.

Whatever you do, start the search for a new job now. It takes time and applying and interviewing is a skill that you should practice, something amazing may come up and you can go for it, but you won't know unless you look. If you're aiming at big companies, you don't want to have to wait to the last minute when they give you notice to start grinding leetcode questions, do you?
I am confused. Did you use dark chocolate to lose weight? Or was it chocolate full of sugar?
Bild is a tabloid.

“Bild has been described as "notorious for its mix of gossip, inflammatory language, and sensationalism”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild

The next headline will be “I fooled Hacker News readers…”

Another HN story that should have been flagged.
Wait. That logo seal doesn’t even have the circular text aligned properly. It looks like someone is still trying to master “type on a path” in Illustrator. C’mon, man!
Classify I think
A related story, shortly after upgrading to the new iPHone. I noticed while driving I got a big album art preview on the Lock Screen while I was driving. However, after customising my Lock Screen it’s gone back to the small activity preview. I have tried a few changes to back, but no dice. New versions of iOS have been successively making the album art smaller and smaller, and i thought this was a return to form, but I guess it must’ve been a bug.
Yes, but often only one side has money available to run such a study. It's not like the anti-chocolate lobby has a huge corporate base.
Which part? All looks circular to me.
That is absolutely not true!

Greater than 85% of the heat generated in a water heater, and 95% in a boiler is captured. For electricity it's closer to 60%. Your "vast majority" is completely backwards.

Your info is utterly wrong about natural gas efficiency.

> Don’t just throw up your hands and go “well we tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!”

That's better than doing things that are known to be worse. Like electric water heaters.
Seems quite difficult. For example in his study the sample size was a problem:

"Here’s a dirty little science secret: If you measure a large number of things about a small number of people, you are almost guaranteed to get a “statistically significant” result."

"A woman’s weight can fluctuate as much as 5 pounds over the course of her menstrual cycle"

As a regular person how would I know what the correct sample size for this type of study should be? Remember, that number isn't some fixed value but a range that increases confidence (if I'm using that wrong sorry) and it's all subjective.

I would also have to think about the uncontrolled factors, like mensuration, as having an effect since he didn't mention it in the original study.

This is far too complicated for the majority of people.
This is great, more work needs to be done exposing epistemic failures in science. Reminds me of the data thugs.

https://narratively.com/nick-brown-smelled-bull/
All you have going for you is momentum and that is changing rapidly. States are passing real school choice all the time. Real school choice means the money goes with the student no matter where the student goes. Home schooling is spreading like wildfire. Your schools are failing and they will die once enough people have escaped them. Your approval or disapproval is irrelevant, you've already lost.
Are you serious? If so please tell me more.

“CICO” so yes you can lose weight (fat and/or muscle) on any food as long as you leverage the first law of thermodynamics and don’t eat too much. But I find chocolate kinda addictive and crave
inducing. So I would make it a rare treat and on an already full stomach.
If there’s a particular show that you love, enjoy watching reruns of, and you know almost every line, then switch the language to Spanish!

Otherwise, telenovelas are good.
Look at "intelligence" on the right of the seal. It veers to the right side of the band it's in as the curve is not tight enough to match the circle. Really amateur stuff.
"If you got a dead body and you think his brother did it, you're gonna find out you're right."

- Verbal Kint
This post is from July. And earlier this year:

(March 22) Hackers claim to have breached Okta systems [1]

(March 22) Updated Okta Statement on Lapsus$ [2]

(March 23) Okta’s Investigation of the January 2022 Compromise [3]

(March 27) Okta: “We made a mistake” delaying the Lapsus$ hack disclosure [4]

(March 29) New documents for the Okta breach [5]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30762520

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30769537

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30775180

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30819368

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30841413
That? Looks like swamp gas to me.
Software engineers are making cashiers obsolete. This too is worrisome if we want jobs to be accessible to people of below average intelligence.
> Heat pump water heaters are drastically more energy efficient.

And also don't work in most of the United States. They are very slow, and only work in places with warm climates - in cold places they are dumping their cold into the living area, which then has to heat it.

On top of that the incoming water is cold, and they don't do a good job heating it.

I've looking into buying one, and they just don't work in cold climates. They could work in California, true, but are they mandating that? Nope. They are just eliminating gas.
They're making fun of all of you.
The irony of this comment is amazing
Yes, or in a computer RPG controlled by a pre-programmed "AI" (pre-determined scripted actions / dialogue). This is the one I suspect the meme is more likely built upon.
I really DETEST people like this. All they do is rob people of their trust and leave the world worse off. They are no different from the likes of Tucker Carlson who chuckle that they got a rise out of their critics. "We weren't being serious. We are entertainment, not news", when caught out.

Then they have their usual defenders, including in this thread, who take the stance that it serves the uninformed reader right, that one should do one's own research and not trust everything that is written or said. What does one base one's research on? What sources does one trust? What does one do when one is not an expert on that topic, but merely interested in it?

Trust is a beautiful thing. Let the trust-breakers not get a free ride.
Yup. This is an interesting time for the project. It's after the '88 meeting where they separated features onto blue (easier), pink (harder) and red (hardest) cards and before '91 when they were actively talking to IBM about what would eventually become Talingent in '92.

They've had enough time to think about things and get some early coding experiments under their collective belts, but not so long that the impact of infighting (and mild panic) is so apparent.

I contributed a small bit to a serial port manager in this time frame. In retrospect, it's clear they wanted something that could work on different hardware (like the 16550 popular in PCs and Z8530s already used by the macs) - but I'm a little sad to see it isn't mentioned here.
You’ve made liberal use of fallacious argument, taken my arguments exceptionally uncharitably, and have conveniently ignored many other of my arguments while projecting your own shortcomings onto me. You should read the site guidelines. At this point it is clear that you are arguing in bad faith and it is not worth the effort of even reading your replies as you have made it abundantly clear that you have no interest in engaging in a rational discussion. Instead it is obvious that your goal is to spread to your widely debunked talking points; truth, evidence, merits, respect be dammed.
I want to love the plain text accounting tools. I used them for over a year on all my finances. They’re incredibly expressive and exact, and they play well with vim and git.

The trouble is ingesting transactions. You do your best—save receipts, try to note things in your phone. Then some auto-pay thing blindsides you. Or, that separate tip charge from Uber Eats. Yes, you can capture all of these things, but it will require hours of weekly time investment to counteract financial entropy.

I ended up just buying Banktivity. I do miss the perfection offered by plain text accounting. I miss nothing now because they’ve contracted with teams that write scrapers and API clients for banks I would have otherwise had to write myself. Reconciliation is now the work of minutes. It’s not perfect, but everything is a tradeoff.
Your point is valid, but assumes I have a deep enough social pool that I can drop friends and replace them with more compatible communicators. That might or might not be true, but I’m hesitant to test it. I like my friends, other than their stubborn refusal to embrace my anachronistic tendencies.

I think by talking about myself I distracted from my intended point though, which is the experience of being a child in the age of smart phones.

The sense of freedom and adventure of being a teen away from home seems incompatible with having an internet connected device on one’s person.

An anecodte: My neighbors are totally reasonable people. Their teenage daughter was an hour late home from school one day, and not answering her phone. They started canvassing the neighborhood, driving her usual route home, checking to see if any neighbors had seen her. She was fine, she went to get a burger with some friends and her phone was out of batteries.

Nothing about that story strikes me as unreasonable today, but when I was a teenager it would have seemed a ridiculous overreaction. Kids had impromptu hangouts regularly. Rarely would they phone home. Most parents were gone until after 5:00 anyway.

Our culture has changed in a direction that feels sad to me. I feel like something has been lost. It’s clear that this is a minority view on HN. Hopefully that means the average person experiences phone culture as a positive change.
Is it also easy to tell if the author is a fraud? Or if the study was designed specifically to get a specific outcome?
How do you tell from scihub if an article was funded by a party with affiliated interests?