skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ISBN was introduced in 1970. While hash functions did exist at this point (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function#History) the computational resources generally available for this sort of thing were... rather lacking. The Apple II wasn't introduced until 1977.

I will leave figuring out which hashing functions were known back in 1970, and experimenting with calculating them by hand, up to you. :)
Next peer-reviewed journal debunks that measure of man his bank account.
Wouldn't productivity from better UI be something measurable that can be then advertised by vendors and extrapolated into savings for the customer? I feel like that could be a pretty compelling selling point to the CxOs.
Thank you! It's a really nice community here and I get a lot out of participating.
OK but those are passwords she should have now, not only when you die.
Please show me the user who espoused a Laissez-faire trade policy or strict constructionism and was subsequently banned for that expression.

Twitter banned dangerous idiots and assholes. It's not Twitter's fault those happen to be largely conservatives.

Maybe look inward if a group you identify with keeps getting called out for being dangerously wrong and/or violent.

Edit: I'm literally staring at Ben Shapiro's Twitter feed right now, and if conservative speech were forbidden, his account would have been permanently banned back in 2008. He posted a picture of a toddler wearing a fake beard with a, "What is a woman?" sign on their chest today, and it seems like his account remains active.

It's such a disingenuous claim to say "Conservative views are censored on Twitter." when even a cursory glance at a wildly popular conservative on Twitter demonstrates the opposite.
With SARS-CoV-2, complications are more common than death, and it’s still among the top reasons why people die.

Re. cleaning it out of the air: It’s literally airborne and it can literally be cleaned out of the air.

When infected, people emit tiny fluid particles which contain the virus. These are so small that they don’t fall to the ground. Filter materials like in HEPA filters and respirator masks strip these particles out of the air. Very effectively. (Surgical masks don’t work. Same kind of material, gaps at the sides. It doesn’t work.)

We can literally clean the air. We do not have to breathe this virus in. That’s just one of the things we can do.

Paper: “Effectiveness of HEPA Filters at Removing Infectious SARS-CoV-2 from the Air” – https://doi.org/10.1128/msphere.00086-22

Paper: “The Removal of Airborne Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Other Microbial Bioaerosols by Air Filtration on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Surge Units” – https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciab933

“Ten scientific reasons in support of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2” – https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(21)00869-2

Why am I saying all of this?

Because I have a moral obligation to do so.

Why do I know this?

I don’t know anything. I’ve just read those scientific papers.

Why did I read them?

Because high-risk pregnancy.

But does it apply outside of high-risk pregnancy?

Yes.
If Apple didn't have an App Store and behave monopolistically, it wouldn't be ridiculous.

Apple lets your competitors purchase ads in the name of your trademark.

Apple makes you jump through hoops to develop, doesn't let you deploy at will, forces your technology choices, and can unilaterally destroy your business.

Apple purposefully cripples web to force app development.

Apple forces you to model your customer relationship in their system, which they can sever. Thinking forward, they'll probably start to charge access to this too.

Apple has 50% of American consumer computing. As Microsoft and Facebook and many others have shown, this market is now impossible to enter.

All companies need access to computing. They've captured something as essential as air and hobbled it all up.

Apple takes 30%.

Apple isn't using these proceeds to advance mobile computing, and small companies need these margins to fund their own teams and developments. This singular dynamic is an unnatural weight and strain on the free market and how technology is supposed to develop. It's a calcified ISP move.
Moving from C++ to Java in 1998 instantly made me twice as productive, as I was no longer spending half my time managing memory.

Together with starting pair programming in 2004, that is the biggest improvement in my work life.
> Nobody has a right to city-subsidized on-street parking.

In theory, you are correct.

In practice, drivers feel that they are entitled to it, to the exclusion of parking for all other vehicles.
It's more reasonable to say that determining the value of divorce is beyond the scope of GDP.
...which was set long time ago with significantly more powerful cars.
You should share shared content with them now, not after you die.
Hasn’t it been a popular topic on here of how bloated Twitter’s staff seems to be given how little the platform has apparently changed over the years? Not taking a stance on that, I don’t know, but to that cohort of commenters this probably seems like victory for common sense.
If you zoom in on the control system, you can see it says Antarctic Program
You really can't evaluate what Meta is doing unless you adopt a particular perspective on the future of computing, and I think there's a fairly stark divide between a minority of people and the rest on this: either you think VR/AR is the future of computing or you don't. You can have a big argument about that, but once you "red pill" yourself and become convinced that one way or another this tech is the future of computing, just about everything Zuckerberg is doing makes sense.

I think Zuckerberg sees it as totally inevitable that VR/MR/AR is the future of computing and he also sees from living through the iOS/Android experience that there is really only room for two players in a space like that. Given Apple will cruise into one of those, it simply comes down to, who is number two? Mark wants to be number two. Who could stop him? There isn't really anybody. In theory Google could have but they've chose to stand by the sidelines. They appear to be making the lazy assumption that, since they are smarter than everybody else in the room, if it turns out to be a mistake they can come back in and overtake - that looks delusional to me but it fits with Google's character. If you're Zuckerberg this looks like utter foolishness and the most important thing right now is to race to cement as much of an advantage before they come to their senses.

Another interesting feature of the iOS/Android comparison is that arguably Google has never really made much money from Android. It has worked for them defensively but it hasn't ever really done more than support their other businesses. Mark doesn't want to be in that position. So he's going to make an open ecosystem play but he's going to do it by owning the hardware and hence a vastly greater share of the profits.

The author asks whether Meta can earn $20B/year from the metaverse. I would say that Mark is shooting here at a 30% chance of making $200B/year. Which is to say in a completely different way, to him at least, it's a no-brainer. However he's effectively taking Meta back to being a startup. So it's right for conservative investors to leave - they never really should have been there in the first place. But it's not necessarily an indictment of his strategy if they do. It's just the wrong risk profile for such investors.
I know this is sarcasm about the usability of Amazon's notification emails but the "job" email managed to get past my email filters/categorization and jumped into my "Orders" section. A company using a dark pattern to try and get eyes on their job posting. What trash.
Took me a minute to realise this is a Mario Kart reference.
It is always fun to see a strange rule, though, and ask yourself why something so daft was actually written down.
How about, that C program which produces random dot (well, character) stereograms, whose source code is such a stereogram?

Winner of 2001 IOCCC:

https://www.ioccc.org/2001/herrmann2.c
>> It should be readable, as a complete document, in its existing text form without any transformation.

> Is this _needed_, or is this nice to have?

It's kind of the ur usecase of markup languages. Without this property WYSIWYG is significantly better.
Its a pretty big comittment at this point, but if youve got the time I'd recommend starting at the beginning. There's also an annotated episode guide if you wanted to learn about a specific topic in a more targeted way
The California WARN Act requires companies of a certain size who are laying off 50+ employees to give 60 days notice to the employees.

Technically the company can't get around the WARN act through severance but it is essentially pre-paying the damages so there's no reason to go to court.
Unproven allegations?

1% of Harvard faculty identifies as conservative: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/7/13/faculty-survey-...

77% of students say professors espouse liberal ideas: https://freebeacon.com/campus/campus-conformity-college-stud...

Other miscellaneous statistics: https://www.aei.org/articles/are-colleges-and-universities-t...

My own anecdote from my time as an undergrad at UConn: my ethics professor once said, verbatim, that anyone who supported a pro-life stance was, flat out, wrong. I watched conservative speakers come to campus and the associate vice president said that “even the thought of an individual coming to campus with [conservative views] can be concerning and even hurtful” [1]. This was after an “event review process” was stood up, ostensibly with the intent to moderate content that could be discussed at the university, following a right-wing speaker’s talk breaking out into violence after being called a Nazi and having his property stolen [2].

My own experience has been that “liberal indoctrination” correctly captures the magnitude of this effect.

1: https://www.dailywire.com/news/uconn-acts-uc-berkeley-offers...

2: https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/29/us/lucian-wintrich-uconn-spee...
What a strange loop!
The ember does look amazing and like a normal mug. So if your enjoyment has increased through its use then it certainly could be worth the cost for others.

I agree, the Thermos equipment is typically functionally rather than designerly, which I think the Ember is.
Exactly. I have, as of a moment ago, read exactly one article about javelin throwing in my life, and it was about that guy and the throwing technique he invented.
Actually we can get better metrics than GDP by measuring amount of light on satellite night images. It fits GDP more or less for western democracies, but it it better measure for other countries.
I always thought a metaverse was defined as a virtual 3D world that is composed or federated across multiple apps or servers from different sources (that's what the "meta" part signifies, right?), so the OS-like and/or protocol-like things that structure the composition or federation are the core of a metaverse. So under this definition it doesn't depend on AR or VR, it can just be rendered to 2D displays like regular video games.
What benefit does the long random part provide?
I’ve first seen this in the Quake 2 source as a way to dynamically load the render code, e.g. software/gl: the structs exchanged can be seen here https://github.com/id-Software/Quake-2/blob/372afde46e7defc9...
I'm a distance runner and had a physiotherapist friend who said obesity is the main cause of knee injuries. I'm sure there are instances where running can wreck your knees, but from a statistical perspective, you (including your knees) are better off with the benefit confers.
>> If they're not doing that, they're wasting your time and their time.

>Actually, they're getting paid for the their time. I'm not. I'm actually burning my time.

nit: "they" refers to the business, not the employee conducting the interview.
Why not just keep the phone plugged in?
While it's fair to mention that, I don't think it's really of relevance.

One could argue that GDP is objectively bad, whether there is a boom or bust going on or about to happen.

Things will naturally get worse before it gets better. Just strap in and enjoy the ride.
Yea, and the annoying part about Google is that you know that they know you're user X, just not logged in. They know I am logged in to several different accounts from this IP, they know I search for similar stuff under those accounts as I do when not logged in, etc. I feel like it would be more honest for Google to write something like, "Hey, ok_dad, we know it's you, just log in so we can save your porn searches to your account properly, rather than having to do data mining on your nasty habits."
Whatever attitudes there are in regards to GDP across a diverse set of societies is essentially a deliberate and sinister choice by someone. That much is obvious. However, the thrust of the article is actually pretty much the opposite, that Western/developed countries stubbornly want to keep the metric of GDP due to "vested interests".
"The philosopher John Stuart Mill noted more than 200 years ago that, once decent living standards were assured, human efforts should be directed to the pursuit of social and moral progress and the increase of leisure, not the competitive struggle for material wealth"

Yes, we took the wrong turn. Most people are subjected to a life long rat race of economic relevance/volatility where most of their waking hours are spent just trying to make a living, by any means necessary.

What makes the state of humanity extra sad is that all this raping of the planetary resources that we do still does not elevate us out of this misery.

It's unclear who this destructive machine is serving. Consider the point of view of an ordinary citizen. Who genuinely has your best interest at heart?

A business? No. A bank? No. A country? No.
Thank you for this, which matches my experience. What many people miss is that the most useful suggestions come from YOUR OWN code, not from anyone else's. They're not copyrighted or lifted from anywhere.
Discussed 22 hours ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33401148

(8 points, 5 comments)

Alternatively: https://archive.ph/TTjg2
"The productivity plunge is perplexing, because productivity took off to levels not seen in decades when the coronavirus pandemic forced an overnight switch to remote work, leading some economists to suggest that the pandemic might spark longer-term growth. It also raises new questions about the shift to hybrid schedules and remote work, as employees have made the case that flexibility helped them work more efficiently. And it comes at a time when “quiet quitting” — doing only what’s expected and no more — is resonating, especially with younger workers."

Perplexing,really ? I do not find this perplexing at all. Maybe productivity increased at the beginning of the pandemic because people were afraid of losing their jobs. Maybe once people realized they could work from home and not worry too much about getting fired, they are simply letting gravity take its course and finding out how little they need to do to keep their jobs, or if they even care if they keep their jobs.

Look what has happened to remote education. We may now have a damaged generation.

Yes, for certain people in certain jobs, working from home can be a productivity boost. This is not true for the general population.
Interesting. So, why is the stock down to 42% of what it was the last time he said it had a bright future? Stock price isn't everything, to be sure, but: what metric, set of metrics, or other piece of information would Thompson use to evaluate whether Meta's next 5 years is going to be better than its last 5 years?
Thanks for the pointers! I'm very much a noob, this is really the first formal class I've taken on the topic. Are there any books, papers, or websites that stand out as particularly useful for grasping these topics?
And loop unrolling. Performance must have been mindblowing.
Jack Dorsey's new social media platform sees 30K sign-ups after Twitter takeover
Most likely Ted Sorensen, JFK's chief speechwriter and also very involved in RFK's 1968 campaign.

Edit: He also wrote the "We choose to go to the Moon" speech
Is this really a good thing though? Sounds a bit more like a soft landing than a success story. I am not sure this is in the interest for the framework either. Michael and Ryan will stay for two years until their lockin is over and then resign and start building the next thing (a good thing).
Show HN: markline command to select lines from stdin to stdout (Rust/TUI/CLI)
A big plus of being a landlord in our current time period is that what you charge the tenants in rent covers: a) the cost of your time b) the cost of maintaining the property c) the cost of paying interest on the loan d) the cost of repaying capital on the loan. After 30 years or whatever once the mortgage is paid off, the landlord's costs will drop significantly, but the amount they charge tenants still takes into account the last two, which is why being a landlord is often seen as a great way to fund retirement.

One way to change that could be to have mortgages that have an unlimited term and are interest only. The way the landlord wouldn't need to charge (d) to tenants and they only advantage to them being a landlord would be (a). But I'm sure if that were to happen capital costs for properties would increase significantly that at the end of the day rents would be exactly the same as they are today.
At least with the while version I have complete control over the loop. With the async version I have to figure out what the timing model is by reading documentation and assume it’s accurate. Async can make things easier but it’s not going to magically make code more maintainable. It’s hard to debug async problems. With a loop I can debug it on a sheet of paper.

Choose abstractions and higher-order expressions when it makes sense to do so, not just to avoid low-level or ‘deprecated’ ones. I believe arithmetic ifs are higher-level than boolean ifs from the computer’s perspective, but you wouldn’t prefer that over a boolean if, would you?
just a little further than that and every 3 manifold is surgery on a link.
It is not just Canada. The US and other countries justify their debt levels by this and it is used by bond traders to measure health of bonds issued. Military spending as percentage of GDP is also cited. So if military spending and borrowing ability is pegged to GDP, you can see why we pump it up as much as we can as distorted as it is on a nation's internal well being.
Definitely this. Lots of good practical advice in his videos too.
Also, why did Kent C Dodds leave a while ago? I mean, not the official story, but the actual one? He became a co-founder and left within a year...
2nd link on Kagi search (first one says the same things):

1. https://www.businessinsider.com/states-where-teachers-unions...
She does have (access to) them now but she'll likely only ever use or need to use them after I die. It's a lot easier for her to ask me a question than figure out how to log in and find it herself.
They're different beasts. In fact, they're different enough that they have their own niches. Gnome is the boring, serious, stop-fiddling-and-get-things-done UI. KDE is the quirky uncle that lets you play with his porcelain figures.

These days I prefer KDE, and I accept quirky behavior like losing a widget panel from external monitor 1 if you unplug external monitor 2, because I know it will come back after reboot/relogin. In exchange for that, I get different wallpapers for each monitor, custom/extra panels, several alternatives for application menus and taskbars, lots of widgets, and a few small QOL perks I can't remember right now.

If KDE becomes too quirky, I can always go back to Gnome, but right now I'm happy with KDE.
I've been thinking a lot lately about those two examples related to experience in programming, domain knowledge and producing good work. Jon had written 12 compilers by the time he got to Jai, and many more games before his Sokoban, and he started making games as a contemporary to Abrash, in an era where you had to really learn what was going on to produce something good. That knowledge from constrained environments adapted really well to the increasing power of computers (both in terms of processing power and ergonomics), whereas coming at it from a modern programmer's POV you can get away with very little in terms of know-how (which is both good and bad)

I'm working on trying to reach their level (it is reachable) but I sometimes feel like I started with a handicap of comfort from modern OSs and tools
I don't think there is any agreed upon measure of "national success". GDP as a measure pretty closely tracks the economic condition of a country, and that is what it is used as.
How does that help OP receive SMS?
> for no reason at all

Never underestimate the value of making those in charge feel better about themselves.
Do you see how fast he is going compared to the other cars? They are going as fast as they can without losing grip and spinning out as they go round the corner. He has the wall supporting him around the corner and could floor the accelerator in top gear.
The economy of the 70s wasn't weighed down by a 31 trillion dollar debt-millstone.

Just raising the interest rate by a mere 2% will incur an EXTRA 600 billion dollars of interest per year. A 3% interest rate hike will incur an extra interest bill that's greater than the whole Defense Budget.

The US is headed for 'interesting times'. Pun NOT intentional.
From Luke Smith's post on GDP: https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/why-its-bad-to-have-high-gdp/

"GDP is only a measurement of how reliant a place or country is on the global economy. Self-sufficiency has a GDP of 0. Wasteful consooomerism has an extremely large GDP."
A New Walden
The law change would double the period for which severance had to be paid. This additional liability would have been a significant fraction of the net worth of the company.

The 2008 financial crisis had left the company in a position where it needed to downsize anyways, and the board of directors gave the CEO the choice between covering that liability by making the US layoff bigger, or avoiding the extra liability by getting rid of basically the whole Argentinian operation. The CEO chose to preserve US jobs.

The Argentinian operation would have seen a layoff either way. But nowhere near as dramatic as the one that actually happened.
> The meta verse should have been the extending the space where people and technology over lap

it's interesting because what you say is actually highly aligned with the vision Zuckerberg has stated. Whether he really does it or not, who knows. But, for example, Horizon Workrooms let's you participate equally in 2D or 3D, and they are already shipping unintrusive "smart glasses" as wearables [0].

[0] https://www.meta.com/us/glasses/
It is not difficult to fake (e.g. China for the last 20 years).
But I agree with you, we should add new metrics (and targets) but keep a GDP as one of them, also for the other indicators to mature (how they are measure, methodologies, transparency, etc...). Maybe one day GDP would be able to be left behind...
If your predictions are correct, fine. How exactly we test them on the typical human scale is unclear.
Not just that: the playing field is flatter, but the reach of every player has greatly extended.

There's no particular guarantee that the past can be used to predict the present here. Lies go around the world before truth gets its boots on, and now everybody can spread a lie with cross-continental reach.
It makes sense though. Wages going up could easily lead to a wage-price spiral.
Apparently there is an archive of it on yt

https://www.youtube.com/c/georgehotzarchive/videos
Would it surprise you then to learn that in every country in the world where medical personel get paid in currency, health care is part of GDP?