skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that intellectual curiosity seems to taper off after a certain point. I don't really blame this on the education system specifically, as he does. I think at a certain point in their lives human beings just tend to find their rut and continue in it. I observe this across different countries, and throughout history, so I conclude that's it's largely biological, though I grant you the environment may contribute to it.

I disagree with the bit about simplicity existing on the other side of complexity. Nothing in my life has turned out that way: I find mountains on the other side of mountains. Everything I learn a lot about just leads to more complexity. Maybe that means I've never gotten over the hump of the distribution, but there are at least a couple things I'm considered an "expert" in, and it's just as (if not more) true in those domains.
Just use canonical S-expressions, then you've got linked lists where the atoms are vectors, best of both worlds :)
I think that's the point -- "very sad" is unpoetical because it doesn't convey anything more than "sad", which is itself a generic word. If you're writing poetry or fiction you want to be describing emotional states more interesting than "sad".

The important corollary here is that not all language needs to be poetical. It's OK to use generic language in a lot of situations. Sometimes "I'm very sorry to hear that ____" is the tool for the social situation.
It's clearly a good article otherwise. We've changed the title now—if there's a more representative phrase from the article itself, we can change it again.

Submitters: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait;" - this one was linkbait, so should not have been used. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't think they are necessarily dismissing fiction as a whole; rather it seems they are dismissing what they see as the shallowest form of reading - reading only fiction and even then only books that are most likely written to be as appealing and captivating as possible without necessarily having much deep content.
> Meaning, if government suppresses demand and limits supply through laws they stand to benefit the most from taxation. Just like anyone would with the same power in the free market as a middle man.

Yes, but that situation can happen without ever banning something.

The problem is the way taxes and/or regulation can be set up, which I see as a separate issue.
All the other streaming services already do the weekly thing. I think I enjoy it more and remember more, so it's worth the delay. People have actually talked about the latest episodes of (for example) Andor and Rings of Power longer than the week after the first episodes.
doesn't "breakneck" have to be followed by a noun? e.g.: "breakneck pace" "breakneck speed"

I do really like "It's going to be Siberian tomorrow" though, I might start using that one.
Isn't this just a bunch of static object pools? That's extremely common in embedded programming. I'm glad to see someone recognized it could apply to a database.

Zig in particularly makes this really approachable. Too dumb to pull it off in C myself, trivial in Zig.

YMMV.
2.5MB unobfuscated!

Maybe splitting it up by feature?
Ive been a paying customer (off their Sync feature, the rest is free) for more than one year. I love this software and use it everyday. Congrats and keep up the great work :)
Yep, every field is fixed width. Nullable would just be zero but N zeroe for the width of the field.
In case it's helpful, here's a bookmarklet that instantly searches any public repository for the most common secret patterns: https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/no-more-secrets. Sourcegraph built a feature called "code monitors" that basically runs a recurring search in the background to guard against anti-patterns like API keys and secrets being committed into the codebase.
> boosting per capita quality of life

The per capita quality of life has been stagnant for like 20 years. Housing crisis does not boost quality of life at all

> People do not want to have so many children (3-5 or more) and it's not due to lack of housing.

We've conducted polling and studied the issue. You don't need 5 kids, you need 2.1 for replacement rate

"The stress of housing problems is preventing almost 2m people from having children, the Affordable Housing Commission has claimed"

https://www.mortgagestrategy.co.uk/news/housing-stress-preve...
You can compile dash with a line editing library, but it does not come in most packages.
There is a difference between going rogue and taking initiative though! Talk to your manager or set up some 1:1s with people on your team, just saying "I have bandwidth" during standup isn't really the best time.

While talking with your teammates try to ask what projects or tasks they would like to see done but don't have the time. Flaky integration tests? Implement a ticket flow for incoming bug reports? Improve team wiki and system documentation? There's got to be lots of things to do.

And like a previous comment said, waiting around for work is a junior mindset. Take a look around and try to improve the pain points for your team.
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Yeah I got that number wrong, that's the valuation for this particular industry as a whole.
Looks interesting - is it a proper / native app or is it Electron?
Because the Big-G CEO Sundar Pichai and CFO Ruthless Ruth Porat are merely stewards serving at the wish of and executing orders from, erm, fulfilling the vision of the board of directors (Larry Page, Sergey Brin, etc).

At this late stage, it's time to exploit the resources and milk thr asset for every last penny. The board of directors are concerned primarily about profitability and ROI.

Nothing lasts forever. Except perhaps man's greedy desire to accumulate ever more wealth and power. This too, shall pass.
I had 8 companies reach out to me via Hired.com when I put my profile on there in June/July 2021. One of those companies successfully hired me. They were also where I was getting the highest stated offer ranges (and got the highest offer).

LinkedIn was a crapshoot and most of the stated offer ranges were lower, although I did get bombarded with recruiters via LinkedIn (30 reached out the day I flipped the switch, 18 the next day, then it started slowing down).

But in general I had a good experience with Hired and plan to use them again next search.
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It's totally free - there are details of how to join the program at https://docs.github.com/en/developers/overview/secret-scanni...
Couple off the top of my head: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33150260

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30921231

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30952084 (this one’s funny because the team pulled the rug on their users after a month or two)
From your link:

> The service will remain live for players until January 18th, 2023. Google will be refunding all Stadia hardware purchased through the Google Store as well as all the games and add-on content purchased from the Stadia store.

I know it's trendy to hate on Google but this doesn't look unannounced to me.
Universal in the sense of structure, but vectors are pretty faithful to the machine memory.. which also makes them universal but more in terms of content. Therefore we should use canonical S-expressions as a universal data interchange format. When you build metaprogramming on top of it then you can do some cool things I think (check out datalisp.is).
Ya, true geniusses invariably add gratuitous multiple syllables to everything they say. It's one of the signs.
Yes, same as the value of a plumber, electrician or architect. Difference there is there isn't a supply/demand imbalance of labor in those jobs. And there soon won't be one in engineering either
And audience!

Eg. many in the tech world are not native English speakers, and this surely translates to most content to be published on the web.

While I do appreciate learning a lot more of the literary English vocabulary, I prefer to do that through well known works of fiction, and only seldomly through texts I read for my work (eg. API documentation).
> ghost of a chance ... down to manageable levels

Argh. Manageable as in non-divergent, so take a small step back to regularize your confusion, and get haunted by a <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_(physics)>.
The executive function of a large enough organism may lose control of some of bodily functions. Or their compensation may depend upon the existing incentive structure, regardless of how customer-hostile it may become.
He's probably getting promoted, since he's finishing his work too quickly. You gotta learn to pace yourself. That was one thing I learned in my first corporate job. If you can finish something in a day but it's expected to take a week, don't rush. Whenever you hear the comment "wow, you finished that fast!", you know you screwed up.

In higher level positions, you're not paid for output, you're paid to be available when the shit hits the fan. Basically, you're an insurance policy.
Heh, sometimes, sure. In a separate comment I mention a company with whiteboard passwords. What I didn't mention is that they had a glass wall that you could look into from a well-traffick'd hallway. One of the larger companies that worked at the office (not any longer) rhymes with loinbase.

Also, I no-joke heard of a company that absolutely, unironically, did the webcam thing with RSA tokens.
Is the site calling for the elimination of very or just suggesting that its overuse is a common problem for writers?
Forth is also homoiconic (arguably more so than lisp) and it can be thought of as being purely vectors.
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This is really insightful, thank you!
Glad to see the white house pulling a classic "too little, way too late". How about we pour that money into actual solutions. Crazy idea, I know. We already have them, the US just needs to actually grow a spine and commit to them.
Difference in tech has been that productivity has largely been divorced from capital, OpEx, and experience. This may be becoming less true today with large enterprises owning specific market segments through network effects... but I wouldn't bet on that quite yet in the long-term.

A doctor can't help but work at the world's best hospital, because it probably will still be the world's best hospital next year. A jet engine designer can't help but work at Boeing. A fresh college grad can start a tech business tomorrow.
Hard disagree - I'd consider it the encyclopedia of Computer Science. Yes, might not be great to read in entirety but found very useful exploring some search algorithms recently - KMP and Boyer-Moore both explored in the excruciating detail I needed
I sort of agree, but I think this is strictly orthogonal to the underlying problem . Achieving carbon reduction by removing state subsidies doesn't tackle the problem first class, it achieves it as a second-order effect.
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Blanket writing “avoid this” advice is almost always a list of code smells rather than errors.

(“Substitute X for Y” advice, OTOH, is usually just wrong.)
Or run your own server like emby or plex both have offline access / download for their mobile apps...
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33047525
Will take this into account, thank you.
They would normally be called 'Home Computers' in that era before the 'PC' and during the 8-bit to 16-bit changeover, say from 1975 to about 1985. CP/M was the main OS back then.

At that time the two technical categories were the 8-bit systems which had been around for about 7 years (CP/M machines, S100-bus machines, apple 6502 machines, 6800 machines, Z80 systems such as TRS-80, Sinclair, etc) and the newer 16-bit 'PC' market which was originally slanted towards Business, especially with price-tags of 6-10 thousand dollars.
I don't think this needs to be tremendously expensive, and there are side benefits to this.

More reflective footpath and road surfaces (think paler in colour rather than mirror like) are cooler - urban heat will be a problem that also needs solving and that solves both. Solar panels are also somewhat reflective.

I think it's a mistake to think 'large mirror' than to think about what we can change about the massive surfaces that we are already covering with man-made structures.
Oh I agree, it doesn't apply to this particular case but it is the textbook definition of a reasonable limit on free speech. The poster I was replying to seemed to be under the impression that the first amendment protected all forms of speech. As you said, the courts have carved out many exceptions to the first amendment.
Why would Toyota need to have that info to provide service?

We need to get PII as a liability on companies’ balance sheets to get them to take it seriously and to collect only the minim viable data.
Pretty wild finding.

If it holds up, you could monitor kids in class, dementia patients.. wild. Start your startup engines.

Extrapolating, this also suggests neurolink should work and you can probably do it with less invasive tech.
in the interest of balance...

reading through your past comments, it's clear you rather like Google! [0] [1] [2]

even this corker: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22108416

this one's pretty ironic too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23223195

I'd say it's quite likely you're a Google employee [3] [4]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23224294 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23495439 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229532 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23968906 [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24608220
Or the ferries (where a number of cars have gotten stuck I think).
Very interesting! thanks for this. The n-ary relations are bipartite graphs, one partition in the graph is the relations (hyperedges). This is /the/ universal (turing machine) theorem of computing.

By the way, check out datalisp.is, I think we should re-encode the web :)
> I somehow was never bothered by the fact that some geniuses in 19th century already knew enough math/physics that I could digest in my life. Science is infinite so however much knowledge someone gained, it's zero comparing to the total amount.

I think this is important to consider. Anyone even cursorily interested in science can know (just via public information, libraries, etc.) so much more about "everything-except-very-specific-thing" than any of the 19th century geniuses who knew and understood so much about "very-specific-thing".

Ofc, the geniuses are ultimately the ones responsible for the advancement of the state of the art, but... there's also a lot to appreciate for the rest of us.
Great, I’ll give that a look. Thanks!
This reminds me that it was mentioned how the decrease in global shipping during the pandemic and the fact that the bulk of those ships burn high-sulfur fuels may have had an observable effect on warming.
TL;DR Thomas Carlyle called economics dismal science because economists used supply and demand to argue against slavery and support personal freedom.
Nobody was bashing dissent. The original poster spoke about why THEY take covid precautions, with the anecdote that their wife hasn't recovered, they have a friend with long covid, and they lost their father.

You then willingly entered the thread with "I'm sorry about your dad, but let's not exaggerate based on personal anecdotes." Who accuses someone of exaggerating a death?

Stop making this about your anticovid cause... you received a negative reaction because you were being highly insensitive.
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Most of the time, being autodidactic doesn’t get you very far.

At the beginning you may be progressing really fast and it’s all fun and games until you hit a plateau.

At that point you need a teacher, a mentor, or a guide to give you structure and planning and highlight which subjects are important, otherwise it will take you 10x the time to get there.
>But even so, the scientists were surprised to find barium, which is 2.5 times heavier than iron, in the upper atmospheres of WASP-76 b and WASP-121 b.

It's amazing how often it seems that scientists are "surprised" - i.e. their theories were not borne out by the observational evidence. Perhaps because it's surprising, that makes it more headline-worthy, therefore there would be a bias in what gets reported. It would be interesting to see a meta-analysis of the "surprise" factor for study results.
Like many people, I tend to use "very" a lot. But there's often no need to find the appropriate superlative: the best cure is simply to delete it. It makes the sentence stronger by making the reader do half the work.
What's the math for this? How much CO2 per gram into low orbit, these days?

My naive assumption is that the amount of CO2 released to put them into orbit would be a net negative, since they'll eventually fall away, revealing the the now increased CO2 to the sun.
I’m not discussing fiction as a whole. All of my examples were specifically from the thriller and romance genres.
Ah, this is truly beautiful - neuropsychology and artificial neural networks making connections.

From the paper: ”These advances raise a major question: do these algorithms process language like the human brain? Recent studies suggest that they partially do: the hidden representations of various deep neural networks have shown to linearly predict single-sample fMRI, MEG, and intracranial responses to spoken and written texts.”
As much as economists hate to say it, economics is a social science. Sure, it's the pretty sister of the social sciences but at the end of the day it can't ignore people's behaviours and with this comes a lot of unpredictability and uncertainty.

There are simply too many moving pieces to be able to properly predict things, until you've got certainty that all the right pieces have moved you can't really say much. But of course, part of being a good economist will involve being able to see the major possible lines and adjust your models based on that.

In any case, we've had financial crisis over and over again so it's clear they're a feature of the system rather than an exception and I think maybe there could be some dogmatic elements to this; it might be difficult to accept the flaws in the system which might let you view things in a more positive way than what reality really is.
My experience is 90% of the people who like AS never read it. Same for libertarians, don’t even know what I’m talking about if I mention Road to Serfdom.
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> Stadia, their cloud gaming platform. It was cancelled without warning two weeks ago:

You mean, they didn’t give warning in advance of their 3 month+ shutdown warning, which is what actually happened two weeks ago?
Really is the sun not the root cause of our warming problem? We should simply blow it up.
It essentially means everything goes on the same partition, which for the scenario in question was exactly what we wanted. Not everything needs to be hyper-scalable, and usually there’s an amount of overhead associated with making things so. In a demanding SLA sort of environment an extra hop to a new physical partition can mean the difference between getting paid or not.
I've had jobs like that, that were pretty much in "keep the lights on" mode, they were doing well enough and new initiatives were few and far between.

But I've had several jobs where there's way too much to do and you'll never get it all done, so you have to prioritize. My current job at a consulting firm is like that. Working at startups tended to be that way as well.
> whether it's J or BQN

Any reason you're not considering APL?

I've personally found it the nicest set of characters - BQN's too spacey for me :)
For the desktop, they mostly have more P cores than E cores. For mobile chips, it's reversed.
Strangely, I think I would be more okay with this than a longer lasting chemical- TP is predominantly lignin, of which the atmosphere already has the constituent elements. Only worry is stray chlorine, lead and other heavy metal contaminants absorbed into the source material from trees as they grew- but presumably the TP would offset whatever shenanigans those get up to.

Since it would break down and burn up upon reentry (or maybe just float down?) there might not be that much interaction anyway.

Compare that with the unknowns of longer-lasting particulates of sulfur and other nasties, the back-of-the-napkin math really doesn't sound that bad.
Fundamentally, even ignoring the ethical problems, eugenics doesn't work. The interactions between nature and nurture, genetics, epigenetics, etc. are waaaay to complex (and even multi-generational) to boil down to a simple decision to allow/deny birth.
Heartbroken is a particular type of sadness though, and again, doesn't apply to non-living occurrences (like "news" or "excuses" or "movies"). You'd probably have to use "pathetic" for "excuse", but a "pathetic movie" means something quite different...
Regarding your [1], I think people reach for "very" for two different reasons: because they habitually "overseason" their sentences, adding intensifiers when the underlying language is already intense, or because they "underseason" them with limp adjectives that they're trying to pump up. The former people just need to build their confidence to drop "very". The latter need something like this site to help learn better adjectives.
Because one of the solutions seems to be "burn more sulfur-containing fuels"?
Pejorative putdowns of countries are nationalistic flamebait, regardless of which country you have a problem with.
Not exactly the same but I had to integrate with a payments API which required one call to an auth endpoint with user/password under HTTP basic auth to get an access token. The actual calls to calculate and execute payments used this access token instead as a bearer token. Those ones expired.

I'm not sure I really see the point, but I guess you could lock down the main call on another system, store the temporary token somewhere, and have the other systems use it.

As you say, you still need the top level credentials somewhere to get a new token.
What makes you think you shouldn't?

Basically all the ways of exposing a service running in your house boil down to "port forwarding" in one way or another. You can use a cloud service (or a cloud server you run) to forward the traffic. The only relevant factors, as far as I can figure, are:

1. If you port forward on your router, you're exposing your home IP to folks who access your service. That may or may not be something you're OK with

2. You have to keep any DNS or hardcoded IPs up to date if your home IP changes. Pretty doable via a number of different methods, with varying lag time depending on how you do it.

3. Somebody who finds a vulnerability in the service you're running have a foot in the door to your home LAN. But that's a factor with "making home services available on the internet", not specifically with port forwarding on your router.

The thing that I would say is a bad idea is what many routers refer to as "DMZ" mode or similar, where you broadly send incoming connections to a system. That's got a lot more risk since you have to be a lot more cautious about what services are listening on your server.
I would imagine the main expense for you will be your implementation cost:

https://docs.github.com/en/developers/overview/secret-scanni...

Your dev team would probably be able to give that a glance and estimate the work.
I'm huge fan of DuckDB. Awesome to see a blog post like this describing what looks like a fantastic local ecosystem surrounding it.