skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a fan of rust at all, but I do like non-fankid posts and comments about it. It has a couple of good ideas at a cost I personally am not willing to endure, but still can learn from.

I follow and have written code in other languages like prolog, haskell, erlang and forth. I know I will never write any "real" code in any of them, and I'm not interested in the literature of those heavily involved (unlike C++ which I do follow semi-closely) but I am always interested when an article about them makes it to the HN front page. Same with rust.
Are we in a pandemic of chronic fatigue symptom (CFS)?
I think it's a bit more complex than that: free trade is almost always better for the US overall. Sometimes the US does not engage in it for political reasons (including corruption which is what this seems to be). But yes, self interest is ultimately the motivating factor unless a narrow group can hijack that and hard US interests for (for instance) corporate interests...
This is a timely question, given the front-page headline on this morning's WSJ:
"U.S. Core Inflation Hit New Four-Decade High Last Month." Here's an excerpt:

"Prices excluding energy and food rose 6.6%

The increase marked the biggest annual rise in core prices since August 1982, a sign that persistent increases are becoming entrenched in the economy. The overall CPI rose 8.2% in September, down slightly from the previous month’s gain."

I admit I don't know enough to tease out whatever subtleties you're referencing; can you explain what about this is misleading?
Seems very understandable to me that your customers' profile doesn't necessarily meet your customers' customers profile.

If I sell a cash register app to indie businesses who sell trinkets at the art fair, that doesn't mean my solution meets my own needs for billing my millions of those business customers.
I went over to Nix cold turkey for my new work laptop. Took about a week or two, to get it where I wanted it. The real issue I hit is that Nix is so alien to working with "normal" unix stuff... like stuff that assumes /usr/bin/grep exists etc, I had issues, with the existing code-base I was hired to work on.

So, I went back to Fedora. But I'd goto Nix again in a heartbeat. It is a great system, and if you start a company with it day 1... there will be a bit of heartburn as you start, but I can't see regretting it.
indeed. can also be true that they are decoupled from each other, whereas the implication of this article is that one is driving the other.
I absolutely love Obsidian, and have been enthusiastically recommending it to everyone I can. Congratulations on hitting 1.0!
What I saw wasn't inherently racist but maybe it is. I am no fan of Kanye though.
Full control isn't an option but one can be a CEO and even own a substantial portion of a company in H-1B status. This is one of the reasons that founders get O-1s and not H-1Bs.
MERGE does not have locking built in in the way that ON CONFLICT does, so it handles more cases and fewer cases all at the same time.
Regulators of Facebook, Google and Amazon also invest in the companies’ stocks
That doesn't seem to be the case in the statistics from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

historical data:
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/research/70-years-inflatio...

more recent history:
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/economy/price-indexes-and-...
> Models showing 4% IFRs without drastic measures like lockdowns seem fairly accurate to me.

The infection fatality rate is: deaths / anybody who is infected. Everybody is gonna get Covid, mitigations or not, so the denominator is always going to be the same. IFR is independent of mitigations.

The only way the IFR might change is if healthcare systems got so overrun that they could no longer give care. This did not happen anywhere in the industrialized world. In fact all of the temporary field hospitals here in the states were closed virtually.

The models showing a 4% IFR were pure fantasy. The IFR for a healthy human under like 65 is something less than %0.1. If you are a kid, your risks are lower than dying in a house fire.
People are upset that changing literally anything on the system like adding a deprecation warning to stderr will break their fragile shellscript setup.
Two reasons why I’m using Obsidian instead of Craft:

Craft uses a proprietary data format. Obsidian is more portable since it just uses folders of Markdown files.

Craft for Windows doesn’t work offline (only online).
For me, that's the biggest takeaway:

Nothing is stopping users from maintaining the behavior they had previously.

It's being made explicit that the burden of maintaining that behavior is changing.
I can see how this is horrible for internal tools. The incentives are all messed up.
> Well, no, it isn't. Clearly you don't do old people tech support.

Actually, I do — in fact the largest system I work on supports predominantly older people with disabilities. I would strongly suggest that you consider whether your assessment of the relative difficulty levels is skewed familiarity with the existing problems with password systems.

> No email identifier or thing to remember. How can I know log on at my other device?
> With a QR code? What on earth is that?

You still use your email address. This replaces passwords, not SSO, and QR codes are only used in some cases for some implementations where you might have restrictions on things like network connectivity. Try the demo here:

https://www.passkeys.io

Here's the signup process:

1. Enter your email address
2. Select the option to use a token
3. Approve your device's prompt (on iOS, this is a system dialog which explains that it's stored on all of your devices using iCloud Keychain and the site owner doesn't get any of your PII)

Note what's not there: picking a secure password, setting up MFA, remembering that password, and entering it reliably every time. You also can't get phished, which seems like something a lot of people would like.

We're familiar with the friction around passwords but consider how many hours a day humanity spends creating passwords, resetting them, dealing with typos, etc. If you support older people or especially those with disabilities, that process is a lot harder. For example, entering a password over a screen reader which meets most site's complexity requirements is terrible. Most non-WebAuthn forms of MFA are pretty painful that way, too, because it requires someone to switch apps, copy/paste or remember a code, switch back, etc. before it times out.

This won't be perfect on day one, I'm sure, but it's already easier and faster to use and that's only going to continue because now the system can be improved by the browser vendor rather than needing every site to agree on improvements.
It's the anti LinkedIn where everybody is kissing asses.
It is dystopian, lacking of soul, and created to be interchangeable and and indistinguishable.
You need consent to read or write data from the user's computer except that which is strictly necessary for providing the service provided. This torpedoes analytics which identify users by setting their own pseudonymous identifier.

There's a bit more leeway to take data you already need to use for your service, and using it for a secondary purpose like analytics. So things like analyzing logs, including making use of a user identifier which you had to collect and process for other reasons. There are still restrictions, but much less severe than "strict consent." You can use "Legitimate Interest," legitimately.

Note that reading cookies is covered by the ePrivacy Directive, while processing personal data is covered by GDPR (reading cookies with personal data is covered by both). This is the source of many issues. In this case, it means collection is severely restricted (ePD) but use afterwards is less-restricted (GDPR).
People get pissed off when their neighbor gets something and they don't.

They aren't even usually aware when the rich guy in the other neighborhood got a handout.
Fair point. I guess Twitch takes 50% from their streamers (and runs ads for the folks who don’t sub). YouTube takes 30%. So TikTok is at the high end, but the number is not as insane as it first appeared to me.
I think that sounds conspiratorial. If there is someone in elected office who has this sort of control, why not do it year-round?

Since this is a worldwide trend, how are they able to control it outside their borders?
Meta’s VR Headset Harvests Personal Data Right Off Your Face
I want to love scuttlebutt but multi-device is critical to me.
Yes, we could improve the wording -- suggestions and users are welcome! The tool is indeed much more general purpose than integer overflows: it is a based on a deductive verifier which uses symbolic execution to figure out which nodes in the CFG are reachable and under what conditions. panic!, unreachable!, failed assert!s, etc are all checked. If one can be reached, the error to show to the user is reconstructed from the compiler's span information.
Where is my flying car
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Math.htm...

Random also exists, with a bunch of options including CSPRNG. But if you’re just simulating a die roll, Math.random is sufficient unless you’re writing gambling software.
"This is how large companies operate once they surpass the innovation phase"

So true. Family members have seen it in pharma. It's endemic in retail banking. Large parts of media/entertainment have gone this way, too. The core ideas of being your own PR department -- and hopping from one short-horizon metric to another are just how these places hand out recognition, promotions, etc. At the better ones, innovative work will be tolerated, too. But the easiest path is pretty much what OP describes.
Shift4 Payments Profile (NYSE: FOUR): not pretending to be a software company
400+ companies. https://www.scylladb.com/users/
This will take up some space in your home, but there are a ton of used textbooks on Amazon and eBay. The older ones that aren't used anymore are only a few dollars each. The books themselves may only have answers to the odd-numbered questions, but that's still a lot of questions. (Learning how to check your own work is also a good exercise, but if you need something guaranteed to be reliable, you can plug a lot of problems straight into Wolfram Alpha or even a good graphing calculator.)
I giggled a bit at "war" being a new thing instead of basically the oldest thing (yeah I get what they meant but still).

I think regulatory opportunity is often under-appreciated. Very subtle, boring things can move a business model or technology from impossible to insanely valuable.
For those that stood up against the erosion of our most basic human rights during the greatest psy-op in living history, thank you for your service
What’s new in System.Text.Json in .NET 7
Actually, one thing I have found has benefit is switching to async idea generation.

The power of a group chat where people discuss ideas as they occur is really powerful.

Many times in an in-person whiteboard session, you may not fully explore the ideas or people who are not comfortable jumping in get ignored.

An async idea generation session often sees a wide variety of ideas explored as well as more in-depth exploration as people can think about ideas more and cross reference sources. In addition, it is easier for someone who may be more introverted to put out their ideas.

Also this takes advantage of the just got an idea in the shower or while doing a long run phenomenon.
File > Reopen with Encoding > UTF-8 (or pick your encoding of choice)
I was in a ~12 person group conversation this past weekend and most people genuinely thought the continued reporting of the rolling average was ~10% compounding monthly. I hate being a "know it all" type in casual social situations but it was so disconnected from reality that I had to put on my mansplaining hat and give everyone a lesson on how these things work.

Unfortunately, the media is to blame for this and their motives are aligned with the misinformation. They do a horrible job with almost all numerical reporting.
Sounds like GoCQL and its Rust counterpart are poorly implemented.
It loaded slow but apart from that it looks normal. I use firefox on android with ublock origin.
I see! That'll be a challenge if I ask some top tier VC to share all the details of their recent fundings.
How long does it take to get IEP approved? Do I need to re-enter into USA after it's approved?
Thanks for sharing that. It was an interesting read. Particularly this comment:

> The irony... that one of our own tests used fgrep!

If ever there was an argument for fgrep becoming a pseudo-standard that should remain, that would have been it.
When applying to jobs, write a cover letter. A cover letter tailored to the company you're applying to.

A cover letter gets you very far, it's the battling field you control. With just the CV they "screen you out" and the game is rigged to whoever presents it best. The recruiter has a checklist and decides "flat" on the CV.

However, with a Cover Letter, they see you went an extra mile and can see your communication skills. Given these are good, you improve your chances a lot.
Also "XTree" which was probably the best software ever for DOS.
This is a zsh thing, it's shorthand for:

cat "$(which egrep)" "$(which fgrep)"
Isn’t keeping a logical slot alive holding a snapshot?
If you compare CA vs FL, FL only has a 10% higher age adjusted population mortality rate from covid. This indicates that some the strictest covid measures in the US made little difference vs the laxest. You can point to other countries if you want, and you would be right, but the type of strict measures that China used to stop the virus are not remotely politically possible in the US (and thank god they aren't).

source: https://www.bioinformaticscro.com/blog/states-ranked-by-age-...
If optimizing for TC is a nihilistic way to see the world, your take is naïve.

The reality is that even if someone is a good engineer, they may not always have the right opportunities, they may struggle to sell their work, or they may have other challenges that we cannot foresee.

With such unpredictability in mind, all advice here on HN is anecdotal, and everyone has to optimize for their specific situation. Optimizing for TC isn't necessarily bad, it may be the only option at a better life for some people.
The FED hasn't measured inflation by CPI since February 2000.
> Is this measure effective?

To determine if it's effective, you need a well-defined goal. Here's there's just a claim of "national security threats", which is as vague as it gets.

Does it fulfil the goal of removing foreign competitors from the local US market? Sure, that's pretty much all it's doing.
Because it's supposed to be an experiment that "unlocks their full potential".
Not a charity program.
The O-1B standard is different from and much easier to meet than the O-1A standard and it is often within reach of talented artists, designers, etc. One of the reasons for this is that unlike the O-1A, letters from critics, experts, etc. check one of the O-1B boxes/criteria whereas in the O-1A context such letters are simply evidence in support of one of the O-1A boxes/criteria.
Yes, I you're right. I misinterpreted "pure quantum states" as "basis states" (I'm not much in the habit of thinking about QM these days). I believe the "(i.e. as a density matrix)", which makes my mistake more obvious, was added after I commented.
There's no such thing as "free". Companies just are subsidizing consumer acquisition costs, until they decide not to.
Favorite cocktail?
While my first reaction is "well obviously", there are some interesting observations in the paper such as some commercial vpn providers making bullshit claims of "undetectable" while applying XOR to openvpn streams to/from servers in ip ranges that are extensively used for vpn servers.
> I imagine Disney sees them as a net-positive though, as I'm sure they drive tons of ticket sales. Most influencers are travel agents who get paid by Disney, or are affiliated with a travel agency.

FWIW, I dug into this a while back because I was curious.

Most of them don't get 'paid' by Disney in a traditional sense, but will get things like exclusive access to press events/rides, free upcoming products, or in the case with that flop of a star wars hotel a "free $7,000 hotel stay."

All of which lets them technically say "I'm not paid by Disney, they just gave me this to show all of you!"

Most of their money comes from donations/stickers/whatever the latest term for it is from the livestreams.

Usually the order with Disney showing off new stuff goes something like

- Travel agents

- Social Media Influencers

- EDIT: Club 33

- EDIT: Timeshare suckers (DVC)

- Passholes

- D23 (aka pay $100/yr for access)

- Joe Shmoe
I'm not an expert on AI, but your complaints sound like minor versions of the major problems that these image generation AI's had a couple of years ago. It used to be that they could only create a mishmash of textures reminiscent of the subject and style, and struggled creating distinct objects at all.

Now, your examples simply show some slight artifacts and lack of details on specific things. You're presenting remaining shortcomings on these metrics as "fundamental to how it works not a flaw that can be iterated away", when in fact they have mostly been iterated away over the past few years.
> an unmet need of someone else.

I found this to be very productive, especially when I'm able to speak to senior managers who know exactly what the problem is; what is holding their performance at a lower level.

Their reaction is always pragmatic saying what they need and, believe me, at what cost.
They use 12 months because some of the indicators lag by many months. Some data is only generated quarterly or biannually so looking at a smaller timeline wouldn’t really be helpful. The real issue is that CPI is not a poor metric anyway. It was watered down in the 80’s for political purposes to make them look better(on both sides, not one party or the other). Quite frankly, I don’t trust CPI. In my opinion, the best metric for inflation is your eyes vs the rate of change in prices. If you notice several price increases over a span of several weeks, inflation is a problem.
Much of the value in such a charity would be getting the nets to the correct people, who are often thousands of miles away from the donor.
You can just loop the footage to cap your capex.
> If the GNU folks want to remove the wrapper scripts, they can. It's their software and they write the best practices for it.

I'm not making any argument about the maintainer's rights. I am making an argument about whether it was a good technical decision.

> [people can work around it]

That doesn't make it a good idea, though.

> Microsoft has deprecated and removed tons of stuff and so did browsers.

Only when there was a real benefit deemed greater than the cost.

In this case there is essentially no benefit whatsoever to the change, except some abstract notion of cleanliness or pedantic spec compliance.
What does the company do? What's your educational background?
I worry about any company that doesn’t track priority and severity separately. Priority is political, and often bullshit (everything is top priority!) but some tasks, if not completed, are company killers, and some just embarrass a loud-mouthed salesperson in front of a customer.
As someone who previously found art very inaccessible, I loved diving in with p5 and feeling like I finally found a medium (gen art) that I can freely create and experiment within.
yea, that's how I read it too. Those standard deviations are pretty wide.
Best place to rent a A100 GPU in the cloud to run Stable Diffusion?
If I was starting a startup today. I'd probably just block Europe and focus on other markets initially. Loop back on Europe once you have product market fit and the resources to deal with GDPR.
Sad to see UK sabotaging its own infrastructure just to boost insider trading profits for some US politicians.
As someone who learned about regular expressions before extensively using grep, I found grep to be quite unintuitive, since extended grep is what I am conceptually thinking about from a “theory” point if view. One difference between grep and compression is that grep is bounded by regular languages, but compression is more free form. It’s conceivable to therefore view grep as mature enough of a technology to be finished once and for all, but compression will continue branching into many disparate algorithms.
Always find these statements strange, and needing qualification.

If I look at the S&P 500[0], it's currently up 27% from what it was 5 years ago (and 152% from 10 years ago), before accounting for dividends and inflation. (Dividends being roughly 2% and approximately matching inflation before 2022.)

So what I see is an irrational uptick in 2021, and a correction in 2022.

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/chart/%5EGSPC
> I don't think our government leaders have learned anything.

The next group of politicians will have "learned" from this - in the sense that people will have voted them in based on whatever random views they had that matched with how the will of the people has changed.

I doubt existing politicians ever learn anything. Especially when our politicians pride themselves on "not flipping" on views. How are you supposed to learn anything if you never change your mind?

We don't elect people who learn. We elect people who we think are always right (charlatans).

I skeptical the people we elect in next will have any better ideas, because I don't think "we" learned anything from this either.
My interpretation of “Post-corporate Memphis” basically involves everything about corporate Memphis minus the imagery. It’s more about how the style is conveyed without the use of that sort of art work.
Variations of this exact question are asked so often. Have you tried searching about it?
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As a small, bootstrapped one person startup, the part of GDPR that seems impossible for me to comply with (I am not lawyer nor am I European, so maybe I am wrong, but everything I have read about it indicates I am right) is the appointment of a Data Protection Officer. I do the duties of the DPO myself, but from what I have read, this is not in compliance with GDPR, which requires the DPO to be "independent". See https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/data-protection/refer...
Not sure if this is for me. I use one large text file where I put all my notes. Organizing everything into folders and files with formatting seems to be just too high friction.
> round composition

For my current company (self-funded for the past year, raising about the same size seed round now) I have a goal of 1/3 strategic partner, 1/3 customer, 1/3 professional investor. But I know if I get a professional investor(s) to cover more than 1/3, or all of the round I'll just take it and move on to the next task. Fundraising always takes too long and is too distracting to try to optimize on this scale at this point in time.

A strategic investor is extremely rare at the seed stage, and for many of the reasons that it is rare, it usually a problem when you do it. Our plan is a very special case...but still it's unlikely, despite expressed interest.
This will stop working when not enough people adopt .0 versions anymore, because errors from regular usage will not pop up. .0 will become the new beta release that nobody cares about.
It's unlikely but the SB1 route would be the way to find out.
There are a lot of eggs. People in the comments seem to go crazy for it. And the point? At the end he basically pops the egg anyway and starts all over. And yet ppl send him “roses” the whole time.
I don't think you're joking at all. People underestimate how quickly people can navigate through complex systems when they're given time to practice:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/xa50x1/ma...
Who Let Retirees Move on Campus at Arizona State?
All of this hinges on being found guilty of an illegal act, not a legal albeit immoral one.
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