skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not inentional. I disagree with otherw saying it is cultural as well.

It is a combination of personality and the persons understanding of the topic.

It boils down to you yourself not communicating your intention in the conversation a lot of times. You can say "java is a poor choice because of gc", do you want to talk about langauges in general, are you looking for them to relate to you on your experience with java, are you trying to get better context about why the person wants to use java? Are you mentioning that because you want to get to know the person better and that was your ice breaker?

Understand that other people live in a completely different world in their minds than your own. Being clear and direct is not enough, being specific might also be required which means saying obvious intentions and meanings out loud.
Definitely not something that's going to play well at her sentencing hearing. Not that she's entirely incorrect but sometimes you just don't say certain things out loud.
It's also the case that it's a language people want to learn. For better or worse, you'll get candidates who want to use it. C is probably still better for performance due to compiler maturity, but the proportion of devs who say "I want to code more C" to "I want to code more or start coding in Rust" is likely not great.

A year or two from now the investment will probably look pretty good.
Ah, I see. What about those cheap "floating globe" or "levitron" desk knick-knacks? Do those maybe only work because they freely spin, whereas a clock could not?
Indeed they do. And on that team is a massive number of salespeople who are constantly farming the world for advertising dollars and a large team of machine learning engineers helping to ease the burden of moderation.
“Based on recent developments, including Trump’s announcement that he is a candidate for president in the next election, and the current president’s intention to be a candidate in the next election, I have concluded it is in the public interest to appoint a special counsel”

But as just an ex-President, he was just going to let it all slide?
The hardest bit about climbing it is dealing with the crowds. There is literally a long queue for the peak, and people leave rubbish everywhere. But, yeah, it’s beautiful and I was one of the crowd so I shouldn’t complain.
Let them handle it in the future when it becomes an issue, in roughly 500 years (that's when the lack of leap seconds will sum up to roughly 30 min). If they still care about having the sun above London at exactly 12 (or whenever it is in ut1) they can handle it.
"Hey AI. I need x, y and z configured and implemented for client a."

*Ai does job*

"Aight cheers, fill the brew kettle and set temp to 72 we'll try squeeze in a double mash now works done before it's beach time."
Interesting that one my the developers on my projects was Dan Wood.
> That's how we got flat Earth to get so big. We mocked, ostracized, and argued them out of common spaces until they created their own. I'd rather flat Earthers and DiAngelo followers find their way back to rational society, not out from it forever.

How are you going to bring irrational people back to rational society? If someone has signed on to some fantastically unrealistic position and made it a part of their personality the only way out is deprogramming. That takes so much effort. It's also not something most people are equipped to handle. It's also not something the general public should be expected to do.
I'm firmly of the belief that if you never get down voted comments, you're probably not adding much to the discussion forum in the long run.
Thanks for the d10 idea!
I'm a little confused about this.

He wants to find anyone who can write code to meet with them personally, but also insists that he is not concerned about things as he retained only the best people.

Which is it?

Does he understand who is left and has identified them as the best, or has he got no clue who is left and hopes that he did not fire everyone who can actually write code?
Hey, yeah this looks somewhat similar to what we're building at https://webapp.io (nee LayerCI, YC S20)

We migrated to a fork of firecracker, but we're a fully hosted product that doesn't directly interact with GHA at all (similar to how CircleCI works), so there's some positioning difference between us and OP at the very least.

Always happy to see innovation in the space :)
> Often it's a 4 week old baby.

You are stretching the word often, most people in the ICU are close to the end of their life. A lot of people don't realize but most of the time if you needed to spend weeks in an ICU you are probably not "living" in a dignified way. Almost all ICU doctors/nurses I've talked to would rather have a DNR in their old age than live like that.
Pet peeve of mine: articles using stats like 96% accuracy.

If the test set had 4% deep fakes, and 96% legitimate videos, a model which always predicts legitimate video would score 96% accuracy, even if it were useless.

Stats like precision, recall, F1 scores etc. are important.
Drawing inspiration from:

> Complex assertion functions often do not provide useful failure messages and context that exists within the test function.

I think the best compromise is to avoid combining individual logical units into one assertion. For example:

Bad:

assert.True(t, myStr == "expected" && myInt == 5)

Good:

assert.Equal(t, "expected", myStr)
assert.Equal(t, 5, myInt)

Real world example: at my workplace we have some code that tests HTTP request formation for correctness (right URL, body, headers, etc). Replacing big all-or-nothing booleans with individual assertions on each property of the request provides much more useful test failure messages.

As with any published "best practices" like this, have an open mind but don't just cargo cult whatever Google does. Best to be selective about what does and doesn't work for your situation.
A gender imbalance emerges among trans teens seeking treatment
> highly radioactive for millennia

Something can be highly radioactive for a short time, moderately radioactive for a long time, or slightly radioactive for a very long time.

If something is “radioactive for millenia” then it’s probably so mild that you could store in your underpants without I’ll effects.
tech support at any level could likely web search for it and confirm it quickly. But maybe i'm being a smidge optimistic :-)
The FTX Investors' TombstoNFT
DiAngelos book focuses on painting a monoculture out of white people with unilateral experiences. It also turns race into what closely mimicks a religion and amplifies the concept.

Intersectionality acknowledges race as a component of struggle but more aptly paints a picture of class issues. It's a far healthier way to look at the world.
In an MA program in biblical studies, I realized that the best way to understand what words mean in context is to see how they're used in similar contexts. To do that, you've got to be able to find similar contexts. I didn't like the solutions available from the major software vendors, but it turns out there's a whole bunch of tagged data that's openly licensed. So I built a webapp that has all the search functionality that I need and I put it online (https://parabible.com).

Apart from word of mouth and the occasional post like this, I don't advertise it, but it's getting about 100 users a day. Many of my users come from the majority world and couldn't afford the software from the major vendors, which is very gratifying.
enhance blood flow in 3... 2.. 1.
Bubbling up is a great option. It is such a good opportunity to capture relevant context that the caller doesn't know about; like the internal state of the method, and the "why" behind making the call. If everyone does this, you can end up with an error message like "handle /ping: health check servers: ping server 1.2.3.4 (3/42): i/o timeout" instead of just "i/o timeout" (which you get if you just lazily "return err"). You see the first error message, and you know you need to adjust the ping function to treat a timeout as a part of the response. You see the second one, and all you can do is scratch your head. It could be anywhere.

(BTW, stack trace proponents... stack traces don't capture loop iterator variables, or "why" you're calling a particular function. But when you write a quick error message with fmt.Errorf, you can include all of those things.)

Software engineering is a job of continuous improvement. Make it really easy to find the right place to target improvements!
He would be screwing over his current creditors, they would then be unlikely to fund his future investments.
could have been an email...
I feel like posts about how tired you are of hearing about someone are pretty self-defeating since it involves talking about that person.

But whether you talk about Musk or not, he's still going to be setting fire to Twitter, which is genuinely one of the largest and strangest tech stories of 2022.
Elon Musk discussed this on Apr 26, 2022:

> By “free speech”, I simply mean that which matches the law.

I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law.

If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect.

Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.

Source: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519036983137509376

If you want to argue Musk's position on free speech is anything else, "absolute" or otherwise, kindly cite your sources.
Accessing QEMU storage features without a VM
So, for information: as the program was asked to do more and interface with more (and since the output formatting keep changing every semester), most of the code logic was deported in the configuration files.

Nothing really had any outsized impact in the last 12 months of the project imho. Once the minimum viable product was done, every bit of improvement i did was either simplifying, performance-related or adding more configurability (and test, and documentation).

I did a piece of code that adapted to the ES request that i really like and could be showed off, but it took me three weeks, but 90% of what i parametrized could be hardcoded and it would have changed nothing in the long run.
Stop consciously thinking about what comes next and go and do some of those things you wish you could do when you were working. Do lots of exercise, it’s mind cleansing. If you feel like doing something go for it, otherwise don’t. Making use of the break by using it to be ready to work again will exacerbate the routine fatigue you’re describing.
Most people I know in the Amazon have never had ayahuasca, or consume any psychoactive substances except alcohol. Everyone will tell you it's real. I think if you just spend enough time in the jungle you're gonna start noticing things. It's very strange.

One time, a girl I know came crying because she had been chased by duendes. The men went out in the forest to blow tobacco smoke to keep them away.
You are more than capable of figuring out why the scenario you laid out has very little, if anything, to do with how we treat animals. I have responded the comment you just wrote _literally_ hundreds of times. I am so tired of it. You can figure it out, you seem smart.
> But the word arbitrary implies that they could have been something else, and we really don't have justification for that.

Well, we’re looking for a reasoning that would support that they couldn’t have been something else, and the article is about one way of coming closer to that.

There are really only two possibilities: Either there’s a reason why they are what they are, then we want to find that reason, or there is no reason, then in other words they are arbitrary.
Remember how he became leader: he bought the company while waiving due diligence, only to later cry that he hadn't done due diligence after the deal was signed. "Move fast and break things" taken to its logical conclusion.
Thanks for this. Love the end:

> And this stealth IPO has one more advantage: There’s nothing preventing Groupon from doing a real IPO in 2011. If anything, the reassuring cash pile makes it a more attractive investment.
Many of the top causes of death, per the CDC, are from diseases that can be prevented or naturally mitigated. We're all going to get old. We're all going to die. But carrying two or more "pre-existing conditions" into your later years is going to decrease your quality of life, as well as your use of healthcare.

My point is, what's not sociopolitically allowed is discussing how personal choice as well as normalized systematic issues (e.g., urban food deserts) are killing us, slowly. It's unfashionable to suggest someone's weight is (ultimately) unhealthy. But the USA wants to have its cake and eat it too, literally. That's not working out. It's not sustainable.

Finally, not to get off topic but over the last couple of weeks there's been a thread or two on HN based on acticles suggesting the GDP and similar "classics" economic metrics are hiding underlying social issues. That is, for example, healthcare care contributes to the GDP (or whatever) but that healthcare is for diabetes, opioids, faltering mental health, etc. We're falling apart but not to worry the economy is doing just fine.

It's complicated. But to your point, the fact that some important topics are ofc limits isn't helping. Until that changes the status quo will continue.
Not investing into companies that are obviously either frauds or extremely incompetent is the investor's job. We don't need a lot of new regulation to make it harder for you to buy bridges from people you meet on the subway.
> why the changes at Twitter might in the end be rather less stark than some people anticipate

IMO, reading between the lines a little, the deeper message is a criticism of Musk's decision to make moderation decisions before he creates the Content Moderation Council he promised. Without that council to shield Twitter's brand from being damaged by its moderation decisions (or account reinstatements), he seems to expect Apple to pull Twitter from the App Store. I think it's quite telling he ended the piece with that.
I think the reason is that he was seen as a financial genius boy wonder who just understood crypto better than anyone from the "old guard". So he got away with wildly inappropriate things.

More generally, we (as a society) seem to be worshiping those who make a fortune, and forget that they too are just as faulty as the rest of us. Initial innovative success gets projected to mythical proportions, and once the investment streams are open there is no limit to the wealth they accumulate. Looking at you Elon and Zuck.
The correct spelling would be “Jordan Balthazar Peterson”.
Also, China is able to build it at a reasonable price (~$40/MWh). It's not destined to be expensive, the price is just a consequence of excessive safety precautions.
Haskell for web? That's very impressive if you can get it to work at scale. This is the hardest language I have ever personally tried to learn.
That's how the majority of people would interpret:

"only those who cannot physically get to Twitter HQ are excused"

the key word is "physically".

> That seems more like a deep personal hatred
No need to make strange assumptions. I have no feelings one way or the other. Yet I'm pretty sure that most reasonable people would interpret what Musk said the same way I did.
Modified (UU) New Zealand Liturgy night prayer,

It is night.

The night is for stillness. / Let us be still

It is night after a long day. / What has been done has been done; what has not been done has not been done; let it be.

The night is dark. / Let our fears of the darkness of the world and of our own lives / rest

The night is quiet. / Let the quietness of peace enfold us, / all dear to us, / and all who have no peace.

The point in the post was semi complex. It felt like it was about finishing, deciding what was doable now. Finish well, I felt. Turning it into a post about breaking things up both makes sense but also was just a small facet of what I thought was strong about the lead post.
But the immigrants have to come here and deal with all those problems. (On top of dealing with the fear our children will also end up “child-free.”) The fact that they will put up with doesn’t seem like a great reason not to fix the problem.
> Three months earlier, in July 2021, Mr. Bankman-Fried bought out the roughly 15% stake owned by Binance, FTX’s first outside investor. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao tweeted this month that the amount totaled $2.1 billion, paid in a combination of FTT, FTX’s in-house cryptocurrency, and BUSD, Binance’s stablecoin, whose value is pegged to the U.S. dollar.

Hmm. Binance triggered FTX's downfall by dumping FTT, causing the domino effect.

Does this mean that Sam was the one who sold Binance the FTT which Binance subsequently used to cause FTT to collapse? I just assumed Binance bought a bunch of tokens themselves for some reason.

That's quite the turn of events!
If there's a Toronto office for Twitter, then I wouldn't need to move. The commute sucks, but I'm already dealing with that at my current employer.
It was fraud all the way down.
The sensible thing is likely the opposite of HN consensus.
Yep. It was the supply of cheap meat that drove demand. Before large scale animal husbandry, it was super expensive to butcher healthy animals, and comparatively cheap to keep them around for milk and cheese. Pigs and chickens are an exception because they eat everything and they thrive pretty easily.
Yes! This is one of the tiny few things I don‘t like about rust. In a language so focused on safety, why can anything panic? Every single failable function should return result. No ifs or buts.
It's pretty well know and often discussed that up to 1/3 of Medicare spending is wasted. Being fee for service doesn't help but neither does spending 13-25% of all medicare dollars on end of life care[1].

What's worse is how much of Medicare's wasted spending goes to harmful treatments.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6610551/#:~:tex....
This was the idea behind https://webapp.io (YC S20):

- Run a linear series of steps

- Watch which files are read (at the OS level) during each step, and snapshot the entire RAM/disk state of the MicroVM

- When you next push, just skip ahead to the latest snapshot

In practice this makes a generalized version of "cache keys" where you can snapshot the VM as it builds, and then restore the most appropriate snapshot for any given change.
I didn’t read it as an indictment (why are we wasting all this money on people who are dead soon anyway?) but more of just a straight observation that makes sense if you think about it but probably isn’t what most people would expect if asked unprompted.
What a ridiculous way to make an argument. Even a silly seatbelt had to wait for about 10 years after being released before it was required to be in cars. Maybe write a few other kernels in Rust before using it in billions of devices? But no, shoot straight for Linux because "C bad, Rust good".
For profit businesses will never apply rules consistently, there is too much profit in inconsistency. Hell, anything ran by humans, in by belief, is incapable of applying any set of complex rules consistently. Individuals can't even apply moderation rules consistently as our emotions and how we're feeling on a particular day can dictate what we ignore and the punishments we choose.
> Smoking is mainly about trying to look cool

I thought you were talking about weed. Smoking cigarettes is a whole other
story.

Regardless, the "people smoke to look cool" perspective is very limited. There are multitude of reasons why people do anything, including smoke, and simplifying them to a single reason that's the easiest to attack might work on small children, but will wear out as they get older.

But I'm not here to give you parenting advice. You seem to be very strong in your beliefs, while having a condescending attitude towards the people who use drugs. I don't appreciate the condescending attitude, but I doubt I can do anything about that just by writing words on the internet.

So farewell, enjoy your sobriety.
SSN theft is a real thing, but as far as automation goes, it's probably the safest in our opinion, and we'll obviously keep it optional.

We think the most reliable way is your loved ones signaling it, so they can access your plan and all the stuff you wanted them to know.
Thank you!

The point on ABI compat is interesting - I guess that's the sort of thing that makes Swift truly an "end to end" language. Though at the same time, the focus on dynamic linking is a source of one common complaint with swift, IIRC - people often complain that the language features they use are tied to OS versions.

> which has been tried do be emulated (Jetpack Compose, Druid). However, nobody got it as magical as Swift did.

That's interesting, too. I'm not a UI programmer by any means, and from what little I tried of SwiftUI and JP Compose (though I have written more server-side Kotlin and found it perfectly pleasant) I didn't see a significant difference. Do you have any further reading I can look into this further?
whoopie. Can we get rid of daylight savings time? That one actually kills people

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2344401-annual-us-clock....
>The author's dad was being seen by a variety of highly trained specialists all working to treat him

The training doesn't really matter. Context is very important as is caring about doing a good job. You'll find a severe lack of both in hospitals. You eventually have to stand up and defend yourself against bad healthcare... or search endlessly for good healthcare which is terribly difficult to find.
... and you must be from sales.
According to witnesses in this case, the cyclist called "on your left" (which is the local convention) prior to attempting the pass, and the pedestrian moved left. The descriptions did not sound over-the-top reckless to me.

"Heartbreaking" was really the only word for it.
> I don't know if the word "contamination" is appropriate here, but it's pretty clear that Elon doesn't see any kind of sharp boundaries between his various enterprises.

Even without "contamination", TSLA stock price collapsed by over $100+ because Elon Musk predictably sold $Billions of stock to pay for the TWTR buyout. Its not like $33 Billion came out of nowhere. Elon had to sell TSLA to get that money.

If TWTR keeps losing money, Elon will be forced to sell more and more TSLA stock to keep it afloat.

And this is all the legal / ethical way of doing things. No "contamination" in just selling stock to support another. Even then, we can see the huge drop in TSLA stock prices (compared to the rest of the market, which rebounded in the past few weeks on good inflation data).
Twitter’s Mass Resignations Test Elon Musk’s Management Playbook
> I've also found it helps if you make really exaggerated "thinking gestures" (look up with a very quizzical expression on your face, tap your had, stroke your chin, etc.).

A human loading indicator.
Even if it is, he's right. Although this is anecdotal, I have a friend who works in finance that said the drop in stock was coincidental to the stock price dropping. Apparently pharmaceuticals are a defensive sector in a bear market, and the market popping up last week meant the price of Eli Lilly dropped, as I understand it. In his words that tweet causing the stock to drop was "fake news"
When the hype train is rolling and the valuation is skyrocketing, nobody asks questions.
Confusingly the article doesn’t ever explain this, just noting that the goats are “aptly named”:

> The term is a reference to Judas Iscariot, an apostle of Jesus Christ who betrayed Jesus in the Bible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_goat

A perplexing omission given its verbosity.
My Eureka Moment with the TiddlyWiki (2019)
> Using machine learning (ML), Test Intelligence determines which tests are necessary based on the code changes.

I hope this is exaggeration and they are using simple dependency tracking and not actual machine learning.
Because every ML algorithm has some probability of errors, and falsely ignoring test is the last thing I'd want on my PRs!