skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything that has transpired over the past ~30 years with the big tech companies should have shown you that the private sector does not give a shit about our individual rights.
That's an example of poorly written Perl code to grab the first character from $_, and bad code can be written in any language. More conventionally it would be written as "$fc=substr($_,0,1)" which seems reasonably clear and obvious.
Lots of us out in the country are on septic systems and wells.
They don't have to make up a source to be taken for a ride. Look at CNBC eating up the story about two guys (Ligma and Johnson) who were supposedly fired. If the source is anonymous we can't check they worked at Twitter.
Functional JavaScript has saved me so much. And I'm not talkin Ramda, just functional principles.

I can't tell you how much time I spent chasing a bug when it was a date that was passed by reference.

Rather than trying to keep track, I just return copies of arrays and objects and it's way easier.

Even a simple

```
function yeppers(input) => ({...input, x: 7})
```

(An overly simple example)

has made things smoother.
it isn't rocket science, but https://github.com/fkling/astexplorer significantly raised my standard of what a readable, modifiable, nontrivial react/redux codebase could look like. bonus that astexplorer is basically used by everyone in the js tooling ecosystem
Was anybody beaten for solipsism?
You’re blaming tech for legal issues and requirements.
> I'm sorry but I find it incredibly absurd the number of people walking away from autonomous driving basically saying "The hard work is done, the problem is solved, it's time for me to move on to something else".

In Hotz's case he's selling a product with a built-in ceiling: most cars don't have strong enough auto-steering to do anything beyond staying within a lane on at highway speeds. So now that they've iterated their product a few times it's becoming a game of reducing costs and making deals with other companies. Yawn.
Nice little chunk of change for him!

Wow and their (OSS Capital) first exit since founding in 2018. Talk about patience, but well worth it I'm sure!
This uses trial division to find primes, which is not efficient, and I would not recommend using this implementation.

Instead you should use the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm. Unfortunately this algorithm is easier to implement in an imperative, eager fashion than in a lazy, functional fashion.

See the paper "The Genuine Sieve of Eratosthenes" for more details: https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~oneill/papers/Sieve-JFP.pdf
I encountered this technique and I learned the concept of coroutines, it was quite something.
> I've read that doctors now spend as much as 50% of their time documenting their work. Companies such as Epic, which provide the software that hospitals use to build databases of patient data, have been big winners in the new world of hospitals-depending-on-software. But did the doctors become more productive? By almost any measure, they became less productive.

I'd ask another question: did lawsuits decrease? I'd imagine that a lot of this software is to avoid lawsuits. America is especially litigious and that's got to correlate strongly with the increase bureaucracy.

I also suspect that a factor at play is that people are losing trust in the whole system. Most people now know that productivity has skyrocketed while salaries have remained relatively flat. With increasing economic disparity (not even just the West) it is no wonder that people become less productive. Who tries hard at a game that they believe is rigged against them? (doesn't matter if it is or isn't, just the belief)

> People in tech keep thinking more tech will solve problems

Because historically it has. But there are different types of tech. Tech enabled the modern world. It is the new medicines we have to cure illnesses that devastated populations. It is the chemicals that enable us to grow enough food to sustain our populations. It is everything from a wheel to the computers we use to make more efficient wheels that use less resources. But it is also naive to think that tech alone can solve every problem. It is also naive to think that tech can't create new problems. To create tech that solves problems we need to think long and hard about the intricate complexities involved and gather the expertise from relevant domains (an often missed, but essential, component). The other problem is that people hand wave away things like climate change saying "tech will solve it" rather than investing in said technology and waiting for it to magically appear. I do think tech is an important tool in solving many of the problems we face, but you're right that they are not all technology dependent (which is a continuous scale of weights, not a binary option).

Also, we're a tech forum. Peoples' expertise here is in tech. So they see things through that lens and it is also very likely that the most we/they can contribute to solving these problems is, in fact, through technological means. The trick is to remember that tech isn't a cure-all and that the problems we face are exceedingly complex. Over simplifying is often harmful.
Why the Time Is Always Set to 9:41 in Apple Ads
I'm with you 100%. And also never had a problem getting a hard number or a range from the recruiter.
What does it even mean to "believe in democracy" and is it a moral failing not to do so? Putin was elected democratically and still has a strong majority supporting him.
Oh, internet drama. I love internet drama! So I looked it up as I never heard this story before.

https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/

Looks like this CEO isn't of good character after all. He looks almost like a jerk when looking at the end of the story. Even in his last email he tried to get his (obviously wrong) point. He never apologized for the things that mattered most, only tried to extinguish the social media fire all in all.

Also he doesn't look very smart, imho:

https://amasad.me/meta

Big LOL here! The abstract things are the simplest, yeah! That's why progress in something like math or theoretical physics is made by the dumbest people, in contrast to something like sociology where you need genius level of intelligence to come up with some new ideas. Sure, sure.

But that's of course not everything this dude got completely backwards.

Would explain why replit is the most useless of all the online IDEs: It has no direction, no true value proposition. It's not a good cloud coding environment. It never was a good code snippet playground (actually one of the worsts). Now they even require accounts, so the quick code snippet aspect is also gone. Also they badly positioned in the education space…

Of course I wish them luck!

But I guess they have no chance against something like Gitpod, Github, or OpenShift codespaces, which are light-years ahead.

OK, maybe the exit-strategy is "just" to be visible enough that at some point they get bought by one of the above. (Which doesn't look like the most ethical thing to do ;-)).
Ah thanks, didn't take that into account.
Obviously pedophilia exists in the world. There obviously should be authorities whose job it is to investigate such things. People absolutely need to be able raise suspicions to authorities for due investigation.

Pizzagate was not that: half the people repeating it were doing it as a meme, were in on the joke. People spread it even knowing it is not true.

I don't know what your point about journalists are: it's literally journalists deliberately spreading damaging misinfo like Alex Jones that need to be held accountable here. The DHS isn't able to go after grandma at Thanksgiving dinner for saying Clinton drinks baby blood.
While we're at it, Windows 10 suffers the same problem.
For codenbases... Objectweb ASM blew my mind.

It's a library to read/write java class files. The core at that time would fit into 2 java files.

It was a reader and a writer built around a visitor pattern.
At that time apache bcel was also big, a library to build in-memory class file representations which you would then manipulate. ASM allowed you to do many transformation without ever holding the whole file in memory.

ASM also had an in-memory representation as an add-on. It was all nicely layered and the core was just a marvelous small piece of code, with incredible low memory consumption.
Flaming hot take: the Internet was better in the past because only developed nations had access to it. As soon as mobile phones lowered the barrier to entry and BRIC countries and the like had easy access to it, the quality of everything plummeted. The amount of bad actors that flooded into the system was astronomical.
I’ll have to take a look at Matrix. As a professional I do end up going to academic conferences (work pays) and they are absolutely the best time. Academics typically love having someone from industry show an interest in their work. I’ve found folks very welcoming and willing to explain the parts that are highly specialized/PhD level. However, it can be difficult to find relevant ones to my area (I haven’t liked any of the conference search websites I’ve used).
Haskell is one of those that I want to get into, but don't have the bandwidth. I'm getting into elixir and even that has had to require a shift of perspective
We're actively working on math notation! Tough problem but lots of people have asked.

And we'll push an update soon with better loading :)
There are two points here.

1. The actual cost

2. What is charged

As a father of two here in the UK and one birth requiring serious surgery I have no clue at all what the cost was. Why? Because our National Health Service did not send me a bill because the charge was zero.

Cost? All the medical staff were going to be paid anyway, all equipment was there and powered on, all drugs used were already budgeted for. So the 'cost' was all part of the service.
Check out timestamp 1:01:08 in the Harvard case.

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Okay. So we're talking about race as a determining factor in admission to Harvard.

MR. WAXMAN [representing Harvard]: Race in some -- for some highly qualified applicants can be the determinative factor...
> It's that easy - if the ad doesn't specify salary and that is a key requirement for you, don't get angry, just don't apply.

Seems like there's a third option: vote for legislation to make this practice illegal.
It seems silly to argue about whether the people who are making an argument are misrepresenting what their concerns are instead of just believing what they say. But it sounds like you are ready to make some sort of conspiratorial assertion for why that could be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOR_swap_algorithm
You're claiming people in conservative states have better quality of life? Do you have any evidence for this?
Landlords buying land does not unilaterally inflate the cost of land. Arguably in the long-run, the price of land just reflects the discounted cashflow of its future rental value. City centre land is expensive not because of landlords, it's expensive because so many different parties are able to derive so much utility from occupying it, and are willing and able to bid large amounts to capture that utility.

Arguably there are two big problems with the market for land/housing, and landlords aren't one o them:

#1 Increases the value of land due to neighbourhood effects accrue to the owner when they do little to deserve it (you can tackle this with land-value taxes).

#2 Various planning controls inhibit the market's ability to respond to high accomodation prices with the construction of more accomodation, keeping rents at a higher level than they would otherwise be without this government intervention.
I've read and re-implemented a lot of stuff by Inigo Quilez. Much of it is ingenious but eventually straightforward once you get the hang of it. I still find this particular snippet magical:

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MdB3Dw

Well, the code itself is simple GLSL. The math is (and I have not verified this) not that complex either, as I believe it's all about integrating the raytracing equation for a moving sphere over the time variable. I guess what I find most impressive is just the fact that it works and that someone even thought of doing that. I also think this is currently the only example of this method being used anywhere, and it might mostly stay that way because the method might not be super generalisable.
Yes it was. And the WWW existed with a few dozen websites, as I said.
What's the rationale behind reserving an ISBN before even beginning the writing process?
Numerous LNG tankers are forced to drive in circles taken to the port
Eh, I mean to be fair, the proposal to "end world hunger" is really more of a proposal to "temporarily alleviate world hunger in 2022 only". And the plan outlined in the article seems rather optimistic, it assumes there's no corruption, grift, etc. I think what Musk was looking for in his original challenge was a way to permanently end world hunger.
There is nothing new about this. Mobs, riots, and mass unrest have occurred as a result of rumors, conspiracies, and "disinformation" since the beginning of human civilization.

It was a major concern during the Constitutional Convention that:

> In Massts. it had been fully confirmed by experience that they are daily misled into the most baneful measures and opinions by the false reports circulated by designing men.

What's different is we're coming out of a time when a very small class of people had near-total functional control (or so they thought) over mainstream media, so there were huge swaths of people they really had no experience of. Now these people are @ing them on Twitter. And seeing these people out there makes them very, very uncomfortable.

The arguments you're making are not new arguments. They're the exact same arguments made by authoritarian regimes for millenia. From the article:

> In a March meeting, Laura Dehmlow, an FBI official, warned that the threat of subversive information on social media could undermine support for the U.S. government.

The problem is dissent. Much of the government is run and controlled by a class of people whose beliefs and values are becoming increasingly divorced from other segments of the population. And rather than re-adjusting their policies and goals in line with a democratic consensus, they want to stay their course and tighten control of speech and even thought in the name of social order and harmony. None of this is new at all.

200 years ago, everyone had about the same power to reach people. Oh, sure, it was easier the richer you were, but the difference was not dramatic and wealth inequality was not as dramatic a factor. Then in the 20th to early 21st centuries, broadcast television and media consolidation put a lot of one-way power into the hands of a very small set of hands. Now everyone is on the same playing field once again.
That's why the Tarsnap key file format includes a checksum on each line, so tarsnap can tell you which line to look for the OCR (or typing) error on.

When I was writing this code I wasn't sure if it would ever matter but figured "hey, why not..." -- but I've probably had a dozen emails since then from users thanking me for including those.
I think you mean quakes fast inverse square root? Not aware doom had a clever sqrt routine, but I would be happy to be wrong!
Everyone else support the other format? No one supports JXL
The move is meant to insulate the country from being cut off by Microsoft.

More likely is the fact that Microsoft has been suborned by the three-letter organisations over the years to supply them with information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
Would that make my definition clearer and less arbitrary, if i said that by "socioeconomic status", in this specific scenario, I am referring to where you fall on the spectrum of "your family's income + savings"?
> mckinsey

Yeah, right. They're consultants - this is what they do. Better hire them so you can figure out how to get your slice of $5T!
Productivity is like pornography, we know it exists but there is no single definition or measurement of it. But people treat it like a bank balance...
Ah thanks that makes it a bit clearer. I guess I (falsely) see mathematics as the “purer” manifestation of a thing and thus hold it to account to abstract the complete substance of a thing and its properties. But as you say, the physical is of physics and that is where I should look for a more exhaustive abstraction perhaps.
It’s not likely that will make you immortal. Being forbidden, your technique will not be used, so your name won’t be mentioned, and it will be forgotten (You might get famous if your technique keeps getting used by accident)

For example, there’s “Félix Erausquín”, who invented a javelin throwing technique you probably never heard of.

http://rethinkingathletics.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-javelin-...:

However the true revolution of javelin throw came in 1956 when a 49 year old spaniard, Félix Erausquín, invented what came to be called the “spanish style”. Erausquín was a specialist of shot put and discus throw (with several national titles and records) but also of the “barra vasca” which consists in throwing a heavy rod using a rotational technique. Erausquín adapted the style of the barra to javelin throw with a greased hand and managed a throw of 83.40 m at a few centimetres of the world record.

[…]

Could the spaniards have won the 1956 Olympic javelin title? Yes and no. Had they kept the style secret till Melbourne they would certainly have taken the javelin world by surprise. However at the beginning of October, a month and a half before the Games, Salcedo used the new style during a competition in Paris. This opened the way for experimentation with the new technique to non-spanish athletes but also alerted the instances of the international federation who by the end of the month had modified the rules so as to ban the rotational technique. However, even if they had kept the secret, the athletes from Spain would not have had the occasion to throw at Melbourne since Franco’s government had, at the last moment, decided to boycott the Games.
> Yes, KF was used to document awful things by awful people, but it was also used to encourage harassment of people who were just existing (well, existing while trans mostly)

No they didn't. Null and the mods are very, very emphatic that harassment is unacceptable (hence the phrase he loves to hate, "Don't touch the poop"). Further, nobody was ever nominated as a lolcow simply for being trans. There's nothing particularly funny about that. OTOH, people falsely accusing streamers of rape and trying to get hormones to minors all while holding yourself out as some kind of moral person? Yeah, that's pretty funny.

> A few of those people took their own lives and blamed the harassment that KF enabled.

There are exactly three people alleged to have offed themselves, and not one of them ever actually did it because of KF. That too is documented at KF since it's a lie that comes up so often. Since you're familiar with this, though, I'm sure you can name them. I'll wait.
> I got this from reading Supreme Court rulings.

No, you didn't. You got that from "reading Supreme Court rulings" with your funhouse mirror.
I talk a lot about this flexibility gap in my day job in UX. Getting an organization onto a digital platform is great but a lot of them don’t recognize all the small ways that their current system’s flexibility is helping them.

With big systems though I honestly think GUIs can only go so far, even at their very best, and any system that is required to be complex at some level will require expert knowledge of the system itself. That’s extra work and an extra burden for someone with the critical experience that an organization relies on.

For doctors and the like it would make sense to try a system where the critical person/expert has an assistant who is a systems expert and does a lot of the needed data entry and the like. Doctor doesn’t have to worry about the system, they can talk to the assistant who manages all the extra work. If the system needs to change for any reason the assistant manages that and the doctor doesn’t have to worry about it.

I think of this assistant role as the human API layer. It’s not far off from some social programs like insurance navigators, who help individuals find health insurance, including working through options and even—critically—filling out forms for folks.

ETA: It’s a thing! I didn’t know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_scribe
The paradox of intolerance says we should not tolerate (or protect) intolerance.

That doesn't mean we should allow murderers to be murdered. But nor should we protect the speech of someone who is using it to harass, intimidate and victimize people.
All of the above, plus a fair bit of delusion. The amount of people I've seen pretending to be engineers in order to normalize the most ridiculous things he says or does has been growing and when pressed they often just vanish or stop responding.

That said, should Twitter eventually fall apart it will never be the fault of Musk. It will be because insiders preventing his vision, or the government blocked him, or any number of excuses.
>but it does limit the number of patients they can handle.

Or, by extension, it limits the amount of time with each patient if they have a throughput constraint to stay solvent.

Tbf, I’m not sure the data supports the claim that doctors spend less time with patients, but the increase in documentation does seem to correlate with doctor burnout.
> I had multiple instances of this with matters addressed to Bezos but never with Apple.

If I was a hedge fund manager I would do a fund where we go long all companies that have a [ceoName]@[company.com] and short all companies that don't. In my experience the former have crushed it (apple and amzn being 2 obvious ones) and vice versa.
>Twitter was already planning layoffs.

Their CEO told them no layoffs were planned in the immediate future just a few months ago.
Mine was super basic, one of many, that a 0 DAY can push an excel date a day behind, so DATE(2022, 10, 0) means Last Day of October. No need to keep an array of which month has 30, 31 or 28/29 days. Simple DATE(2022,3,0) gives the last day of February.
My understanding is that you don’t get Spirit Halloween everywhere precisely because of some of the commercial-specific idiosyncrasies like being able to postpone bank payments for unrented properties + equity being based on the current lease price (or last lease price if unrented), both of which encourage keeping commercial rents from lowering and incentivize keeping them unrented if the alternative is lowering prices
> The operator was borderline incompetent, but also siting docks in Seattle is very difficult because of the propensity for car drivers to vocally oppose any efforts at space reallocation.

Sadly, this happens in all US cities. Motorists in and around cities are extremely territorial and want the right to use many times more public space than is allocated to other forms of transportation, in addition to huge portions of private land via parking minimums. Successful bikeshare programs like DC has, while they still have a long way to go, are so valuable in showing what could be in this country.