skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At age 40+, my biggest regret is that I mess around with a lot of things but never focused on one long enough to make any meaningful progress.

My list of messing around:

- Back in high school, I read a biography of Bill Gates and found it cool to learn some programming. Back then we were taught FOXBASE but I taught myself FOXPRO because it is more pretty with all those Windows UI. I asked my parents if I could do some work for their university (they worked as professors back then) but didn't get any reply. I messed around for a bit longer but then my bad grades caught up so I never did any programming for a long while

- In university I got fancied by level design (big thing in late 90s/early 2000s), again only learned a few tools and made some samples. Never drove myself deep enough and gradually lost interest after a couple of years

- Fast forward maybe 10 years, finally mustered enough courage to teach myself C++ as game programming seems to be fun. Learned a lot and made a few simple games including half of a Ultima spin-off in 3 months. Life was a bit hard at the time so had to focus on getting a job and working as a salesman (really hate it).

- Worked hard to squeeze into IT as I still like programming. Wasted a few years on that sales job but eventually landed a BA job. After a couple of hops I managed to land an IT job (current one). In the middle married my wife and got a baby, but never truly found the focus/passion of life. Actually, the closer to my target IT job, the less passionate I'm. I still pick up hobbies nowadays (am reading binary analysis today) but don't really think I can drill deep in any of them.
"buy back" doesn't imply destroy. If I sell something to you then buy it back from you, there is no implication that I subsequently destroy whatever it was.

Your position in this whole sub-thread is very odd.
"easily replaced by other methods" ... like what?

How would this other method make it hard/expensive/infeasible for a malicious company to produce 100M accounts to cause problems with spamming, DoS, and related issues? Phone numbers are finite, cheap, but not zero cost. If sending a spam email cost $0.01 much of spam would disappear.

How would this other method protect a user's social network without having to upload that meta data in signal? Currently this is handled by a user's address book hosted outside of signal. How many users would you lose if you required some key exchange in person?

Sure it's easy to think about generating a key pair, uploading the public key to a DHT, and allow people to communicate directly without a central server. However that has a fair number of practical issues that would be worse for the average signal user, not the least of which would be much worse battery life and bandwidth charges.
JetBrains Ring UI
Fake-smart business language is a plague. "Per" (worse: "as per"), "utilize" where "use" is more correct. All sorts of absurd euphemisms for "chat" or "meeting" or "talk". It's gross.
Can you copy your toots across yet? Last I heard you can only migrate profile which seems a bit.. well I can do that by hand in 10 minutes

E: called them tweets
When I first heard about this, I thought "oh man, how dumb! they're just going to make inflation worse!", and then I read more of the details.

By my understanding, the case for stimulus checks leading to inflation comes when the stimulus checks are paid for by printing more money (thus increasing the overall money supply).

This program is not that. This program is providing a tax refund from CA's tax surplus. No new money is being created. The only change is who gets to decide how the money is being spent? (e.g., the state? or the people?)

If CA could have seen the future, they could have achieved the same end by lowering taxes this last year for people in an equivalent amount. Would anyone seriously argue that lowering taxes is inflationary? How about the contrapositive? Would anyone seriously argue that we should fight inflation by _raising taxes_?
Experiment Nebula Mesh – Part 1
No, Korzybski (or rather Korzybski's disciple Bourland) invented E-prime, not fnord RAW. E-prime prohibits "is true" only as fnord collateral damage; no real difference exists between "RAW invented E-prime" and "It is true that RAW invented E-prime".

Bourland hoped E-prime would improve people's thinking by removing "Aristotelian" notions of identity of entities and of entities having attributes, not by removing the passive voice or the distinction between truth and falsehood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
I think this is completely wrong.

When I was in school (what the US would call K-12 school), our school library had Encyclopedia Brittanica and a few other large encyclopedias. We frequently used them as launching off points, because they almost always had a lot more information in them than "children's books" about a topic. In later years at school, it would start to make more sense to use the still-non-primary-source-books-but-still-much-more-detailed books in the library. In college university, we used a mixture of textbooks (still not primary sources!) and actual papers.

There is a complex web of information sources. Brittanica was fine back in my day as a "someone who knows something about this wrote up a really fine summary that will give you some directions". There's no reason for Wikipedia not to play this role today (it is both at least as accurate and more expansive than EB). There are many years of education before "seek[ing] out higher quality primary and secondary sources" makes much sense, and even then, the introduction you can get from Wikipedia will frequently stand you in good stead before doing that.

Yes, it is true that using Wikipedia the way you describe it is a bad habit, but that's precisely why children (and adults!) should be taught how best to use it. I remember being actually taught that EB was pretty much the entire summary of all human knowledge - laughable now. We can do better than that by embracing, not by rejecting, wikipedia.
Is genomic code typically distributed-memory parallel? I'm under the impression that it is more like batch processing, not a ton of node-to-node communication but you want lots of bandwidth and storage.

If you are doing a big distributed-memory numerical simulation, on the other hand, you probably want infiniband I guess.

AWS seems like an OK fit for the former, maybe not great for the latter...
yes, exactly. encourage innovation here, please, IBM & HP. accessibility is key
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
--- Thomas Sowell
There was a bill to improve digital identity in the us Congress but I don't think it went anywhere. I do think govt issued digital id, while in some ways problematic would be a step in the right direction

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4258
Separately from the Gmail 2FA cluster fuck, maybe that Obamaphone program should fix its number nonportability problem?
The job of the politician isn't to make things better, it's to get re-elected. In this respect their actions are quite shrewd. Making things worse may help them!
This isn't the first time this has happened in "children's" communities.

Is there some way to prove a person is under 18? We can prove that someone is over 18 via ID's or using credit cards as a proxy, but is there a way to keep adults out and let children in?

Roblox seems like a space that could potentially be limited to children. I've never met an adult with an interest (anecdata, perhaps it doesn't generalize).
Every now and then I like to read through Wikipedia pages for things I know more than the average person on. It keeps me skeptical of the things I read on there. For people unfamiliar with a subject (students) I think Wikipedia pages are misleading, poorly organized, and sometimes wrong. That doesn't make Wikipedia useless, but the author's best advice is to use Wikipedia as a map to other sources of information.

I don't think Wikipedia has a path forwards for fixing the quality of its articles. In my opinion it requires every page being rewritten by an expert with a single voice, as a traditional encyclopedia would have, which is the exact opposite of Wikipedia's core. Though I did check, and they have more than enough cash to write a traditional encyclopedia.
In Fightcade [0] the unpatched MK2 rom works fine.

Seems patching a ROM should be possible using MultiPatcher [1].

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[0]: https://www.fightcade.com

[1]: https://projects.sappharad.com/multipatch/
10,000 hours may be a vague rule of thumb, but it says nothing about what is going on, and it's not just a matter of practicing. Learning, knowledge, wisdom, etc. all come from neural growth over time - your brain responds to thinking/concentrating/practicing by growing in the areas of the brain that were used, and this growth accumulates over time. Even in much older people the brain is plastic and is producing new neurons in addition to growing existing synapses, albeit at a gradually slowing pace. A corollary to this is, don't expect to understand things immediately - keep working at new concepts and skills. If you persevere, over time you will understand them and become proficient.

It's important to note that "practice" can't be something like, for example, simply taking tennis lessons - you must be challenged and struggle for it to have an impact. I would also include desire as being essential - it must be something you truly want to do, not something you just go through the motions for. Also consider that your physical health, regular exercise, diet and quality of sleep are intimately tied to cognitive growth.
well it shouldnt be surprising that businesses, especially people who are not developers like you, are much better customers to serve :)

$15/mo is already super low, you need to recalibrate what good saas pricing is
I'm still pissed at Google for deleting everything related to a Google+ profile. I had a second gaming profile linked to my main one which also has a YouTube linked to it.

Their email about shuttering went into a tab in Gmail and didn't spot it, a suddenly my entire YouTube channel was deleted.

Hundreds of hours of work of crafting early videos of Elite: Dangerous and the beauty of its simulated galaxy just gone.

Luckily backed up on a NAS but I've never put them back up.
Tax cuts are better than giving hand outs to people that go out and buy worthless goods and services. At least tax cuts gives money back to people who are actually productive and pay into the system.
Vectors are over, hashes are the future
This is the industry term for people between housing (they can't make rent, they got kicked out, etc). It differentiates from the chronically homeless who can not be rehoused simply by giving them a place to live.
Correct. If the children are going to get any value from the many, many hours spent in a school, why not use the library resources that the school pays vast fees to maintain access to (public, private, AND parochial all pay for these things), which require actual skills to be developed to use effectively? Why should the teacher earn a salary for telling children to type into a text box? A computer could do the job of telling kids to "search Wikipedia" for less money, but a teacher can be more helpful to train students in the core academic skillset that is formal research.

Why do we look at the state of affairs in which undergraduates even at "elite" schools arrive to universities completely unprepared to use any academic-caliber library research tools and consider that acceptable?
We engineers are absolutely fantastic at rationalizing subjective tastes.

Stay at this game long enough and you start to see the yada yada about cycles (fashions) repeating themselves. Is this debate one? I don't know, but I suspect it to be so. Personally I don't think all the extra moving parts of having "cattle" are worth it unless you're trying to be like Youtube, and the reality is lots of folks think they are when they shouldn't. I'm also not OK with a pay-for-compute model, but I also understand that the accountants and bean counters love it.

In my homelab and in every organization I've ever been a part of, there is a mix of both pets and cattle (servers) depending on need. (Although, maybe that applies to people too?) But drift too far in one direction or the other and you're going to be pissing a lot of people off that you don't need to be.

In any case I think this tangent is bikeshedding. Which is another thing we engineers are great at. I should have realized how much one word could nerd-snipe
I would have to imagine that at runtime there is no difference between a generic and non-generic function. I imagine (emphasis on imagine: no actually knowledge) that generics are used at compile time to check types? I have no idea whether Go erases generics though. Maybe introspection is slower with them?
They very much do have citations as I recall. Maybe not the junior encyclopedias they had your grade school, but any proper encyclopedia had citations.
My house is actually semi-detached with a driveway and flower beds, rather than detached, but there is one huge disadvantage to town houses: it's practically impossible to get equipment into your garden, which makes a lot of landscaping really, really difficult. Even just getting forks and soil into your garden is bound to make a mess of your house. Terraces (like town houses but with front gardens or driveways) are very popular in the UK, but most people will ultimately prefer a semi-detached for that reason.

An interesting approach we used to have was where rather than adjoining gardens at the back, we'd put an path down the back of the townhouses between the gardens, with a door into each garden, so you could easily walk/cycle and, if needed, get equipment into your back garden. Apparently we stopped doing that because those alleys turned into major crime and antisocial behaviour hot spots, and people stopped buying houses with alley access due to people constantly jumping your fence and nicking anything in your garden that wasn't tied down.

Where I grew up was like a townhouse/semi-detached hybrid - the upper two floors were terraced, but at ground level there was a car garage that connected the street and back garden. A lot of people don't like that design because it's associated with council homes (mine was a council home), but I actually thought it was a best of both worlds.
At age 50+ your biggest regret will be spending your 40s focused on past mistakes and lamenting your regrets.
I don't think it was the local homeowners stealing live copper from the walls.
I chase a lot of wikipedia citations, and this is a much bigger problem than I think most people realize. A huge chunk of citations (at least around 19th century history) is paywalled or is a printed source that is impossible to find and verify.

To be fair this is a problem for most academic papers and most books as well, so it's not unique to wikipedia. It does however, require a lot of "faith" to be exercised. As a skeptical person, I find that unsatisfactory.
For what it’s worth - Sensodyne uses a finer grit abrasive than many other brands. Might be a better choice if trying to repair cd scratches.
Cloud worked really well for me when I was in school. A lot of the time, I would only need a beefy computer for a few hours at a time (often due to high memory usage) and you can/could rent out spot instances for very cheap. There are about 730 hours per month so the cost calculus is very different for a student/researcher who needs fast turnaround times (high performance), but only for a short period of time.

However, I know not all HPC/scientific computing works that way and some workloads are much more continuous.
I go through this experience every time HotChips releases their talks on YouTube.
Same here. I have screw ups, definitely some big ones, but I don’t understand regret as a concept.
> If scholars find some claim on Wikipedia and repeat it in their published work

When people say not to cite wikipedia, they're telling you to not do this. They're not asking you to plagiarize wikipedia.
Replace sms with yubikey and he first part of this post is correct. But it invalidates the second part.
UPchieve (YC W21) is hiring a tech lead and senior engineers
I’d wager it’d work just fine in a university setting. 10 references per paper, 10 papers per student, 200 students in a course.

I doubt anyone is fetching and fact checking 2000 links a semester.
There is (almost) no such thing as unskilled labor. If you've ever tried to move your furniture to a new place and also paid people to move your stuff you'll see that movers are like 5x more efficient, yet it would be considered an "unskilled" job.
I had been worried about this with respect to Mastodon for a long time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30447645

I think it was only a matter of time before the human resources issue came front and center. My hope is that there can be a good balance between small federated instances kept alive by altruistic volunteer admins and larger instances with enough moderation and funding to handle the number of users that a social network expects but increase centralization. Maybe the conclusion will be that no matter how the technology scales, finding a way for the instances to be kept alive will be a social problem that requires constant attention.

The reliability issue also makes me wonder how much of the Fediverse is setting itself up for link rot and the loss of unique content after their maintainers lose passion or move on. And that wouldn't be because of a business decision that is hard to empathize with (in the case of Google+), but simply because a single human body has its limits.
> But it is different dealing with adversarial behavior.

That's your opinion. Integration tests on another planet are just as hard as integration tests across a crypto bridge. One can even argue that an integration test on another planet is more difficult.
An Interview with Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman About the Democratization of AI
People enjoy joining conspiracy communities because it makes life feel meaningful. I watched one of my neighbors warp into a 9/11 truther and in the last few years I run into a lot of people online who wake up in the morning and have to inform everybody about the latest discoveries they've made about how everything the government has done about COVID-19 is wrong, not just because people were having to make decisions in a hurry with limited information, but because the people involved are evil.

My first take on that article was that my answer to 5 of the 7 of the questions at the top are ambigious. For #1 for instance I think there is no real proof of the lab leak hypothesis but that it is also not implausible.
I'm skeptical of elected officials sending money to constituents right before elections.
> But it is and should be painfully obvious that the only things crypto has principally enabled or made efficient

how have you quantified that, and how would you go about doing so? It isn't obvious to me. It also seems like your standard is quite flexible, like even if you quantified that use and didn't find the results you wanted, you would say that the subset of transactions that did fit your results were "enabled" and "made efficient".
I think the answer here is not that Google makes bad product design decisions it's that we shouldn't live in a society of incredible wealth but some people still don't have homes and have to sleep in places where they are constantly the victims of property crime.
Lifting heavy will stimulate testosterone production. You probably won't need TRT if you continue to lift.
Yes, especially for businesses. $15/month is super low.

But yeah, for some people, especially developers, it can seem a little high.

I will also change the pricing for sure in the future, once I have some business specific features like API access, multiple seats etc.

Just wanted to test the waters, and I was already able to get my first 100 customers, so I know this works. Now I just have to optimize the pricing and work on things that users request.
How incredibly out of touch one must be to think that the people getting these checks won’t use from for food, fuel, and rent. The lower classes live in a constant recession, and will put these funds to better use than the marginal dollars of someone very well off: survival.
Would a Google Doc survive nuclear war?
As someone who suffered under teachers who like to play god, and thrived under teachers like you, thank you.

> citations must be written in Comic Sans size 11 font with every third word italicized

you would become a legend if you did this :-D
It's all about feeling the flow of life as it happens in different contexts. Working outside all day long and sometimes all night added to the sense. I've done so many different things over the years that I have a feel for just how long it normally takes to accomplish things and then I use the Boredom Factor along with the Time Flies correction to adjust. It can be incredibly accurate with practice. I haven't needed a watch or clock since I was a teenager.
Neat writeup!

Vaguely related - recently discovered that old iphones can be repurposed to serve rtsp with app heriscope hd. Works in a pretty idiot proof manner, though amount of heat generated is concerning.

Still interesting though given camera quality on old ifruits is pretty good still
Actual studies (even back in 2005) comparing EB and Wikipedia find Wikipedia to be at least as accurate as EB. The level of "peer review" in EB is generally overstated in the popular conception of that work.
Don't get hung up on the number. I've always taken Gladwell's writing to mean lots of deliberate practice (on the order of a decade) is necessary, but maybe not sufficient, to master something difficult.
Well, Philips did actually define these capabilities in a standard known as "Extended Architecture" (XA). CD-XA introduced Mode 2 sectors, which could hold 2048 bytes of data with ECC, 2324 bytes of custom data without ECC or even a chunk of ADPCM compressed audio to be played directly by the drive without intervention of the host CPU. ADPCM sectors could be "spread out" throughout custom data, so the drive would play them while the host would only receive the non-audio data (such as video frames). Multiple ADPCM tracks could also be interleaved, allowing playback of compressed audio at the same drive speed as regular CD audio with no need for buffering.

Now, CD-XA unfortunately didn't take off... or did it? It was initially only supported by the failed Philips CD-i, but it turns out that a few years later Sony would reuse most of the technology for their upcoming game console. That's right, the PlayStation 1 made heavy use of XA and of its audio capabilities; the system's native video format was in fact a custom container format interleaved with XA ADPCM audio, and many games took advantage of the ability to interleave multiple audio tracks as well.

Video CDs also used 2324-byte Mode 2 sectors without ECC by the way, but I'd say their popularity was far below that of the PlayStation 1.
The fastest way to do a lot of genomics stuff is with FPGA accelerators, which also aren't used by most of the other tenants in a multi-tenant scientific computing center. The cloud is perfect for that kind of work.
> You called it an investment, it is not an investment, it is an acquisition.

Okthanksbye.

> It was not 100% obvious what you were implying, obviously

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's not double spending, and BNB has nothing to do with ETH migrating to pos
AI solved this programming problem. Can you?