skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine if an AI system could actually generate annotations like this... Probably too much to ask and fraught with issues, but I'd love to see what it'd do to misinfo behavior
That works if the data that you want to put in the sequence is copyable (doesn't have "identity"), or if you can arrange so that it gets created in the right spot from the start and you can always choose the iteration order to be sequential in memory. For many more complex structures, that is not the case.
The NYT is the mouthpiece of the centrist establishment. If the NYT is too "right" for you then you probably want WashPo or HuffPo. And if those are still too right, you're an ultra-progressive and I don't knwo what they read.
I never said they are far right. I said that they are more right than I am comfortable with. I now consider them to have right-center bias, with some instances where they go a bit further. Also, it's a fallacy to think that pissing off both sides somehow mean they are doing something right. It can also just mean that they are not good at any particular thing.
Maybe, but I wonder if it is especially easy to produce horrific code in R. For example, I remember trying to refactor an R codebase that made ample use `load`, leading to all these mysterious variables appearing from nowhere.
Seems fair game to compare Biden's White House tweets to the tweets from Trump's account while he was the sitting President.
> Try to imagine LISP without lists ...

It's called Clojure.

Getting rid of CONS (effectively removing singly linked lists) is a huge benefit.
I’m actually a bit surprised it’s in the standard library if it’s so uncommonly needed. Isn’t Rust’s stdlib tiny with a philosophy of letting the community fill in most things?
> Put bluntly, the Ethereum “world computer” has roughly 1/5,000 of the compute power of a Raspberry Pi 4!

https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/web3-fraud
> Honestly all of that sounds like it maps pretty well to programming.

Yes, definitely. And, BTW, this also means that lots of useful work can be done without necessarily having golden credentials.

Here's where I see a huge difference between hardware and software at scale (I have been doing so for 40 years): Hardware, again, at scale, represents a serious financial and technical commitment at the point of release. Software gives you the ability to release a minimum-viable-product that mostly works and issues fixes or updates as often as needed.

If we imagine a world where v1.0 of a piece of software must work 100% correct and have a useful service life of, say, ten or twenty years, we come close to the kind of commitment real electronics design requires. You have to get it right or the company is out of business. Not so with most software products, be it embedded, desktop, industrial or web.

If I go back to the late 80's, I remember releasing a small electronic product that gave us tons of problems. The design went through extensive testing --or so I thought-- and yet, contact with actual users managed to reveal problems. I had to accelerate the next-generation design, put it through more extensive testing and release it. We had to replace hundreds of the first generation units for free because we felt it did not represent what we wanted to deliver. This is where knowledge and experience can be invaluable.
During the piratebay case, the prosecutor only had to illustrate that it was likely (as in, convinced the judges) that copyright infringement had occurred. They did this by showing the top 100 torrents. They did not have to prove with certainty that the top 100 torrent actually was used by people. The fact that the names of movies and games showed up on the list was enough to convince the judges.

The lawyers defending the founders did try to make the argument that no infringement had been proven, and that the list itself was not proof of any infringement. It was just a list on a website, and they even presented evidence that the counter on the list was algorithm faulty. The judges was not convinced and applied the common sense approach that taken as a whole, it was not believable that no infringement had occurred by the website given the context of the site (the name, the top list, the overall perspective of how the site was designed).
> There are no other homoiconic languages with amazing REPL support.

True but nobody outside of the Lisp community cares. Not trolling just stating a fact.
I've really only heard of it in areas that actually have a competitor
Neat! VOO is number 22 on the list. I wasn't too far off after all.
That's an extremely bad way to decide what to believe.
> This is a very good summary of the liberal woke mindset: people deluded into thinking they are important and untouchable when they are replaceable cogs. Give it a few more firings and this guy will be the next generation of deplorable.

(Sans labelling) this mindset has existed for a long time; for instance, labor unions have existed in the US since the civil war in order to allow workers stronger collective bargaining rights, and have been a federally protected right since 1935.
IIRC, they suspended to bandwidth caps around the beginning of the pando but a year or so ago reinstituted then.

Edit: Looks like Comcast threatened to reinstitute the restrictions, then rescinded the action temporarily, but only through the end of 2022 [0].

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/16/22840165/comcast-data-ca...
Agree. Org-babel makes the alternatives look like toys.
Actually, BuzzFeed aside garbage reporting have also decent investigations journalism as well https://www.buzzfeed.com/investigations
> I finally stopped reading them after their highly biased coverage and openly stated support of the Canadian alt-right occupation of our capital.

It certainly seems like you wouldn't have any bias when discussing this topic as well.

> They had statements in their articles such as "the majority of the funding for the protests came from Canada" when the actual number was 54% came from Canadian sources. Maybe from a strict mathematical definition that is still a "majority" but it's certainly not what anyone imagines when they hear the word.

What non-strict, non-mathematical definition of the word majority do you propose?
> a permanent underclass of people whose specialties are automated away and there are no equivalent quality jobs for them.

Isn't this pretty much a description of the US manufacturing sector over the last 40 years?
I'm not sure I'd rank "giving employees 60 days pay for sitting at home doing absolutely nothing" up there with "working in a Victorian coal mine", in terms of abusive employee relations.

What, in your opinion, would be fair, other than "paying them forever for doing absolutely nothing"?

The law apparently says he has to pay them for 60 days. He's doing that.
Nobody has mentioned immutability yet - linked lists are easily used as one of the simplest immutable persistent data structures. Your definition of "better" appears to be solely about keeping the CPU burning, but if CPU isn't the bottleneck, I prefer "immutable linked list" over "clone a vector many times" merely on aesthetic and reason-ability grounds.
I do like WashPo, though HuffPo is far too left. I generally prefer places that are as neutral as possible. As a Canadian I find CTV news to actually be very good, despite not being a very large news outlet. They are down the middle and avoid inflammatory headlines.

edit: Interestingly I also like the Globe and Mail, and people debate whether that is slightly right or slightly left.
why would your refer LinkedBlockingQueue? You have ArrayBlockingQueue, too. ArrayDeque is just better than LinkedList.
> The system is benefiting the already wealthy and leaving others, particularly young people, out in the cold.

That is correct, but I think your cause and effect analysis is wrong.

We have 5 million people bidding against each other on 2 million households.

People bid as much as they can on their home, so if lending becomes looser, home prices shift up. The long term affordability doesn't change much. There can be other dynamic effects in the short term, I am talking about long term stability.

People bid to the limit of their affordability, so houses remain at the limit of affordability, regardless of the actual prices.

The structural problem is that home prices are a zero-sum game where we collectively bid to the point we can individually only just afford the interest payments. And we also screw the country because we are bidding on how much money we can give to Australian banks.

Home prices follow the same distribution as income (I think), until you reach a minimum wall of a few hundred thousand, below which nothing is available.

The problem of house prices is an effect of bidding, and I believe prices have almost nothing to do with land availability or the costs of building houses.

We could build more houses, but wealthier people will just buy two or more. I would like to own a second home in town for my occasional use.

What to do? I don't know. Keep increasing minimum wage so that 50% of people are in the lowest income bracket? Extra taxes on investment properties or empty vacation homes? Suggestions?

Are our city council rates already a significant way towards a Georgist taxation system? I looked at a wealthy suburb in Christchurch, and they were paying 5x as much as I do on rates ($15k per annum for the house I looked at).

Living in Christchurch, we had heaps of as-is houses that couldn't get a mortgage, and their prices reflect the cash price, which was wayyyyyy lower than the same home would be with a mortgage. I bought a perfectly good 3 bedroom home for land-valuation + $5000. At least half the price, because a mortgage was unavailable (and market was slow, so amplification factor on price too).
Depends on your size, needs, scale, visibility and other requirements...

I've seen good/bad usage of Azure DevOps. You can also use Trello, or actual cards/tape on a wall. It's just the first time I haven't hated Jira.
The most effective way to fire your best engineers.

If this is true then Elon is truly not an engineer.
Man, I’ve got plain old auth fatigue. My sso needs to re-auth after 20 minutes or so, for five services I use all day. It’s killing me.
I'm sure if Facebook cured cancer that would get them favorable coverage. Right now their products decrease quality of life, not increase it.
Because it has to get worse before it can ever get better. The current generation of satellites are too small to ever be profitable. So they have to get the next generation up there. That requires the rocket to be ready, and lots of money. So they need to get people signed up even though it will degrade everyone's performance, in order to pay for the upgrade that will hopefully enable better performance in the future.
For me, this is one of the complaints

> Almost never curious about technology or in awe of progress and potential.

Why does it need to be in awe? that seems like an extreme in an unproductive direction.

> it’s that they’re being selectively critical to propagate their own interests.

where in the thread is the support for this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Station_(restaurant)
This is definitely one of the most interesting and insightful descriptions of working at a FANG company ive read.

The only note worth mentioning is confusion around the pod system, which I think actually sounds surprisingly effective for creating "culture". The op looks for an engineerimg explanation to justify meeting up with a group of disparate employees working on different projects, at different levels, and in different facets of the company. To me it sounds like a genuinely productive way to create relationships and "water cooler" interactions by letting it not have some ulterior motives related to the product.

That might be bias and optimism on my parent, and I'm sure the reality isn't that pretty either.
Yes it is, I’ve looked at various options to publish jupyter notebooks, finally found Quarto, and it’s a full publishing platform with surprisingly decent UX and easy customizability.
Legally speaking I think that might be in a different category than what I was referring to (nonprofit vs corporation). And there are other legal structures, like co-operatives (and credit unions?), with similar ideas.
Seems fair to slow data after a certain amount (and 1TB seems pretty reasonable right now), but it's definitely shady to quietly add it to the terms and conditions and not actually tell customers.
Top of the 1st inning, everyone. Let's not come to too many rash conclusions.
Nurse charged for allegedly cutting dying man's foot off without permission
As I understand the situation, I would guess that they are bottlenecked by satellite bandwidth capacity. IIRC, they plan to launch ~4k units in 2023, which would double the current constellation. They will also switch over to version 2.0 units as soon as they can, and those are 9x larger and presumably come with considerable improvements.
Apparently some of the layoffs in Twitter are being portrayed as for cause[1], which follows the trend of SpaceX's layoffs that tried not to be classified as layoffs by instead firing employees for cause.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/29/technology/twitter-layoff...
...which accidentally gives us the information in question. With 1.4 billion people using chopsticks on average twice a day, that'd mean 511 billion instances of chop-stick usage per year.

So the Chinese use disposable chopsticks about 8% of the time, thus debunking the grandparent's claim that they're primarily disposable.
I mean the NYT is wrong about everything. Krugman said the Internet was never going to be a thing, post Covid the editorializing was inflation wasn’t possibly a thing, the government should go bigger with stimulus and print more money. Their whole paper ages like milk, the only reason it persists is apparently Americans have no short term memory.
They will convince people that it is for their own good. It s not like the mainstream media have a real competitor in terms of narrative-building
I count myself as a glad evangelist of the counter-reaction to this wave of technobabble charlatanism.

Can we arrange to bankrupt Andreeson? Can we un-fi defi? Can we jail them all?

I'd suppose not. I'd hope someone has a match: light it!
> They decided tech was a major power center that needed scrutiny

I mean, that is for sure true.

The tech has been enormous force against freedom, democracy, human rights and science. If it wasn't for Facebook and Twitter, we wouldn't have had Brexit, Trump wouldn't have been elected, antivaxx wouldn't become mainstream stance and millions more people would have survived the pandemic, oh and women in US would still have access to abortions.

Then there's Google and their mission to end privacy. Then there's Uber and Amazon and their mission to end labor rights. Then there's Airbnb and their mission to make cities unliveable. Then there's ... you get the point.
Absolutely, and like all new things some of the original uses will not work out but what it brings to the table is awesome. (I'm unconvinced by trying to "speed up" normal web apps with it)

The two places I'm most excited about it is using it in combination with WebGPU for games/engineering/ai/science, and with the "origin privet file system" enabling client side databases such as SQLite and DuckDB. I think it's the final peace of the jigsaw to make PWAs take off like a rocket.

Honestly, PWAs are the true future of the web, the perfect extension of its vision.
Further in the thread:

> from an editorial integrity perspective there's a big difference between 'it's good to write hard-hitting exposes' and 'it's good to have a top-down editorial directive about the tenor of coverage'.
That is not true, the eq method can also short-circuit, in the same situation (hashes are different).
Even if memory was packed by a GC, linked lists still have to pay the cost of allocating and garbage collecting every cell of memory individually. I doubt a GC would solve linked lists’ woes.

Do you have some benchmarks demonstrating your claim?
There is always a clause saying you can opt out of the arbitration stranglehold in writing, it'd be unenforceable if there wasn't. It's just that nobody gives enough of a damn to utilize it, and it's time-gated, so by the time you actually run into a dispute, you're already stuck.
All connections are made using one of two IP addresses:

18.171.7.246
35.177.10.231

Block these IPs.
Guy decides to build a couple of dApps... and immediately makes a pyramid scheme.

I just can't, hahahah
This post and comment section is about things that are happening now, not things that might have happened if other things would have happened.
Is Apple Pay considered Web3?
I must have missed the part in the post where he talks about collective bargaining. All I saw was how much privilege he had and how it will protect him from being fired (it didn't).
yeah, I can't even really be upset about it.

It's like the whitehouse, they SHOULD be skeptical.
Allocating a huge chunk of memory all at once when the array grows can also cause a bunch of problems. Linked lists are also much simpler in a multi threaded context.
Discussed yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33456708
not really, alpine really wanted it. openbsd did not, it was a simple patch. you are probably going to maintain a patchset anyway(for the port to alpine) might as well maintain one more to support a simple feature you really want.
.. There was this French bloke at the turn of the 20th century who built a giant whistle that produced sub-bass frequencies of around 7.1 or 7.2 Hz. The first time that he got it to work, he liquidized himself. It just turned his insides to mush—poor bugger.

https://djtechtools.com/2014/04/10/funktion-ones-tony-andrew...

Someone knows more about it ?
This is completely representative of the twisted incentives that exist in the US housing market -- people treat housing as a retirement account and not as, well, housing.
One of the standard texts on the matter: https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview
I think it’s incredibly convenient for Amazon to wrap it up in one score so it looks like the seller is at fault.
I recall a time a few years ago when it was deemed illegal for the president to delete Twitter content
There is no such things as objective reporting. Everyone recounting an event be it journalists or historians will inject some bias in its récollection.

What you should want is journalists to be thorough in their fact checking and open about their editorial line and where their interest lies.

What’s annoying me here is that it’s both top-down and covert.
Pardon my ignorance, but are reactor games a specific sub-genre of these games in itself? Are there other examples I can play?
Redhats whole business model was to make linux too complex to understand by anyone not at redhat.
how about 20-40x for 20-40x the traffic? streaming Netflix all day long isn't the same thing, bandwidth-wise as supporting an entire military base. Comcast gets to charge different rates for home vs business, it seems military traffic which runs at a higher priority than business class should be straightforwards to charge more for. We can disagree over the exact price to charge but the different QOS seems justified.
Where is this Intel/AMD Blender benchmark?

DX11 (and OpenGL) need to do a bunch of resource tracking, barrier injection and ad-hoc re-programming of the pipeline. That stuff takes effort to do efficiently. I don't think the perf is simply due to game-specific arrangements. DX12/Vulkan just move all of that responsibility on to the application side, and you can see similar disparities among those applications themselves depending on how much time was put into optimizing the rendering.
Doesn’t Craigslist have like 12 employees?
McKinsey is a consulting powerhouse. But is it a force for good?
Manu Cornet posted on his personal site about being let go from Twitter, and said he was given no severance. I’m not sure he was technically part of the mass layoff, or if his removal was pre-layoff.
It is funny what you get downvoted for in this garbage forum. 15 years ago we built stuff in C and used cheap commercial available tools that detects EXACTLY this issue. There is no excuse to end up with this in prod 2022. Amateurs.
Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33459740
I would like to see more proof for this than just one guy saying he heard it from others. It may very well be true, but it would be far more convincing, to me, if some one with actual direct knowledge commented publicly. Surely, if it was so widespread, and unambiguous, it would not be be difficult to get clear evidence of this directive from NYT leadership.
What does one have to do with the other? Do substantially less people need housing in general, or lower cost housing in particular, than before the layoffs?
Alright, this is getting tiring.

Zig, Nim, Rust, D, V, whatever -- can't we just move on from C/C++ already? It's obvious they are not up for the job.
> Whenever I try to learn about it the discussion digresses into blockchain pyramid schemes that clearly won't scale and other such nonsense

Congratulations, you understand exactly what web3 is.
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I wonder what you really get when you put down money for this. Vicinity to the spawn point? Marketers are paying to get eyeballs after all. But how do they expect Meta to redirect eyeballs to them when Meta or their sucessor can also just open up another plot? You may be downtown today, but not tomorrow. And now your virtual mortgage is underwater.
Hugo (a great static site generator) supports Asciidoc, but it needs Asciidoc for the parsing.
> Loose monetary policy is what enabled the US to respond to COVID in the manner it decided to.

This still fails to explain why the US is seeing lower inflation than most of the rest of the world, almost none of which has the borrowing capacity of the US federal government.
Yes, I did take that into consideration. Pennsylvania was the best case for a voter in 2020 because it had the highest likelihood of being the tipping point state in that election. But I also tried to estimate the expected value of a vote in California and got a number around 60 cents. So the expected value can can vary by nearly four orders of magnitude depending on the state you are in.

The main factor in this discrepancy is not so much the number of electoral votes, but the partisan lean of the state. Am election that ends up being decided by a single vote in California would imply that there were extremely unexpected results in other states. But your expected value in Florida is much higher because it would not be unusual for the election to be decided by an extremely close result in that state.
Feudalism lives on beneath a thin veneer of electoral democracy
My data is a 600 char string of letters and following some very loose rules you slice 7-10 substrings of the string. The string is an RNA sequence and the substrings vary depending on the genus/species/etc. I know loosely how far down the string each might be, but it’s not perfect and it varies. I definitely know in what order they are, so that helps. Right now I have a script that works 90% of the time, but I’d love to make it learn from the data it reads so it can guess the other 10% or be ready for new discoveries. So I’m not sure how flash fill would work in this scenario.
>" They also said Brown told her that her family has a taxidermy shop and Brown intended to preserve the foot and put it on display with a sign that said, "wear your boots, kids."

what a caring thoughtful nurse
Britons now have the worst access to healthcare in Europe, and it shows