skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a theoretical level, a service like Cloudflare is the most terrifying entity on the Internet I'm aware of. They've accumulated an insane degree of insight into the traffic flow of the web (since their entire service is essentially acting as a HTTPS middle man), and their business is offering protection against bot spam that could ruin most websites. Even if they aren't operating the bots themselves, they're essentially displacing the bot problem to the unprotected websites. Like the overall shape of this operation is something the cosa nostra could have cooked up in the 1970s.

However, being on both sides of this, both operating a bot for my search engine, and operating a web service that is aggressively targeted by bots. They're not actually bad to deal with.

The big unanswered question is how they'll manage to stay good given the obvious incentive of abusing this setup. Maybe this CEO has a moral backbone, but will the next, and when they're acquired by the Meta-Amazon-Alphabet group in 15 years, will they still stick to these principles?
DuckDuckGo, but I've gotten into the habit of !g almost all queries :(
I think lit is more like an agnostic helper lib for web components, not more than that and pretty focused
New York Bureaucracy Finally Breaks Lewis Rossmann
To be honest I doubt Elon could even write a fizzbuzz in a language of choice if his life depended on it.
Nothing but hot air that guy.
He's as much an engineer as I'm a neurosurgeon.
I can't delete it now, let it go :(
Huh, TIL. I never did much enjoy the “truffle” flavored stuff, makes sense now. It really does smell like petroleum, I suppose it only makes sense if that’s where they get it.
Why better? More canonical, sure. But honestly, Wikipedia interface is bad: the super long lines are hard to read. Also WikiWand shows the table of contents in the left sidebar, making it always visible and accessible. I find this much nicer than having to go to the top of the page.
Enjoyed this, as with most of Hillel Wayne's writing. One bit that puzzled me:

> “Representation” is similar to mimicry, except it’s about encoding a data structure in primitives that aren’t well-suited to it. Examples would be representing a tree in SQL tables, representing a matrix with nested arrays, or representing a graph in json.

I can see the first two exampples (tree in SQL, matrix as nested arrays) because there are limitations in the representation. The last one though (graph in json) doesn't seem obviously limited.

Mathematically, a graph G=(V, E), i.e. a set V of vertices (nodes) and a set E of edges between nodes. That has a direct translation into json:

{
"G": {
"V": ["v1", "v2", "v3"],
"E": [["v1", "v2"], ["v1", "v3"]]
}
}

Perhaps it's that each edge is encoded as a list? Or that lists aren't sets, so there might be duplicates? Enlightenment appreciated.

--

EDIT: fixed typo.
FOSDEM 2023: Nix and NixOS devroom
As a european it is always weird to catch glimpses of the stick shift vs. automatic topic. Not because I can't imagine what it's like to not have the ability to drive stick, but because it seems like some kind of heated, ideological debate in the US, and I do not know why. It seems to me as if it is either treated as an arcane art, something to be shunned, a trait of "masculinity", or a trait of toxicity and pretentiousness.

Automatic is very much the minority here and almost everyone learns to drive on stick, even if they switch to automatic later.

While I won't deny that people like that exist here as well, not once have I encountered someone personally or in the form of a news article (in my native language) with strong opinions on the matter.

Edit: when I say "here" I mean my home country, not trying to speak for all of Europe of course
Thank you for your answer. But do you use any specific platform/website to do this? Again worth mentioning also that I'm not in the US.
Any doctor who says they treat nurses as valued professional colleagues should be presumed to be lying unless you have seen it yourself, in person. Doctors treating nurses like shit is the norm, not the exception. How badly varies a lot.
me neither, but I can attest to the massive difference between flash freezing and freezing from other foods. I would assume the same holds true here, as well: significantly less cell damage during flash freezing, preserving more or original flavor and texture.
This seems to be a consequence of a contradiction at the heart of calling what we do “Software Engineering”.

A bridge which stands up for centuries without significant change is a good bridge. This is widely agreed. Nobody expects that a bridge will change much over time. A hydroelectric dam which needs constant maintainence to avoid the killing a million Iraqis is a bad dam. This is also pretty widely agreed.

Is software which cannot be easily changed but just does the same thing for years…

A. good software because it is reliable.

B. bad software because it is not changeable.

?

Is Django good software?

Is Unix good software?

Is our field mature enough to have a clear idea of what good software is?
You know what, I believe you're right. On reflection it's more like 15-20 years since I've seen one. Apologies for the bad phrasing.
Tech debt should be concious Engineering trade offs made for some business benefit.

Tech mess is on the other hand just messy code.

Rewrites are rarely the best solution for either. Especially for a product that pretty much works and has paying users.
Sounds like we need to make a virtual universal machine and account for the limitations when emulating it.
This random culinary blog seems to say it's kind of true that you can't preserve the original truffle through freezing, the process changes them. They compare it to freezing fresh bread - the result is safe to eat, but not the same as the original.

https://blog.dibruno.com/2016/12/10/how-to-preserve-a-fresh-...
Total nitpick, because i generally agree, but “normie” is a 4chan/libertarian dog whistle? I don’t identify with that group at all but i use plenty. I just thought it referred to generally “the not nerdy / not terminally online crowd”.
Be fascinating to see how this changes when the Elizabeth line is properly in the mix.
> function from {0,1}^N -> {0,1}^M

"{0,1}": the set containing the values 0 and 1

"{0,1}^N": a discrete n-dimensional space, where the possible values in each dimension are 0 or 1

So they're saying a computer takes a length N binary sequence input and produces a length M binary output.

(As for "what level is this", I didn't cover any of this in my double A-level[0] in maths/further maths, but I am covering it in brilliant.org and some popular maths books, so my best guess is it's first or second year degree level?)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-Level
It bothers me that you think other people haven't experienced it because they disagree with you, as if they couldn't possibly disagree otherwise. It doesn't really bother me of course, I'm just mirroring your phrasing; but it's wrong of you to think that.

I've seen too many of these kinds of discussions devolve into "my trauma can beat up your trauma", so won't offer my biography into evidence. Your experience is valid either way, and the details of mine aren't relevant other than to say there were no lasting effects.

No doubt some of how we turn out is the sculptor, and some is the clay.
The westernization of Ukraine is well funded only because The West is interested in defeating Putin. For Russians if they capitulate again there will be no enemy against which for them to be well funded by the west, and it will again be just as terrible as the first time. The countries in the middle have to hope of playing both sides, but for Russians there is no other side to rally with the west against.
I don't know who managed to blow their life more. With her intelligence, good looks, connections and charisma she could have easily been a Marissa Mayer 2.0 by hustling 10 times less than she did, if only she played it safe in any of the big tech companies. She could have easily had an 8 digit net worth by time she is 40. Instead she will be spending 11 years in prison.

On the other hand her CFO made 50m by the time he was 30. Now he is going to be penniless spending most of his rest of his life in jail.
Does this apply to the EU? I had store bought truffle oil and self-made truffle oil and both tasted similar, so maybe it’s more regulated over here.
http://example.com is also good.
Yeah as I said I don't hold Tesla. I was long on it as I sold it years ago. Could've made more money if I held on to it, but I was not smart enough to realize what the global economy was doing to tech stocks, and not dumb enough to think Tesla actually was going to have any sort of intrinsic value close to their market cap.
Principles – Foam
I learned ASM on hp48 which has a very explicit syntax

A=A&C A;
?A=0 A;
GOYES bit_is_not_set

Then MOV style syntax felt weird..
Quake 1 was roughly 80mb once installed. Why this version is taking 1gb?
Is this one on one or in a gang? Get a gang of devs in a retro and some will veer that group off topic every few seconds! One on one I have rarely had problems.
> Tech debt should be concious Engineering trade offs made for some business benefit.
Tech mess is on the other hand just messy code.

> Tech mess is on the other hand just messy code.

Not having coding standards, code reviews, and time allocated to refactoring for code health built in are all choices, made based on management business priorities. They may be poorly informed choices, but that’s true of the choices that result in traditional financial debt, too.

Distinguishing between well-considered tech debt and poorly-considered tech debt is certainly meaningful when you are discussing the management processes involved, but narrowing “tech debt” to the well-considered is unjustified, and blurs the fact that the impact once it exists is the same no matter whether the trade-off was worthwhile or even thought through that resulted in it.
"each pound of animal flesh requires between four and thirteen pounds of plant matter to produce, depending upon species and conditions. Given that amount of plant death, a belief in the sentience of plants makes a strong pro-vegan argument"

https://yourveganfallacyis.com/en/plants-are-alive

https://yourveganfallacyis.com/en/vegans-kill-animals-too
From skimming the paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09055), the proof seems to be amazingly short and relies only on a few theorems that one encounters in introductory class on information theory. Definitely recommendable to read if one is interested in that kind of combinatorics.
There are (short) computer programs where you input a mathematical proposition and a proof in a kind of proof programming language, and the program will then check if it's a valid proof. Saying that mathematical truth is a social construct is technically true but misses the point entirely.
The Case Against Shakespeare (2019)
I'm guessing this will never run on Chrome, especially after manifest v3?
>>I really do think there is such a thing as "over democratizing" our development process.

I 100% agree, though think a better way to term it is over localizing and over veto-abling governance over the development process. Democracy means collective control, with one vote per person. Not necessarily that the votes on each decision are held at a very local level, and certainly not each person/voting-block getting a veto.

Take Japan: it has a democratically elected national government, and that government controls all zoning, with local municipalities having no say. That's both democratic, and pro-development.
A friend of ours has a truffle farm (in France) and he does very well selling to restaurants all over Europe. The taste is nice but can be overbearing if you put too much. Don’t think I ever had the synthetic one as I was raised with real truffle taste. Did not know you could not freeze/keep them; will ask my friend now.
> There was an interesting article that showed "state of the art delivery rooms" from the 1950s - and they were ALL oriented around the doctor and nurse's convenience.

And women are still giving birth lying down, fighting gravity, for the doctor’s convenience.
>people’s right to free speech

There is no "right to free speech on hn". This is a moderated forum with rules and guidelines.

>it’s not a stinking cesspit like Reddit

In no small part thanks to the guidelines and moderation.
They definitely can be frozen. My girlfriends Italian family does it all the time. They start to lose flavour after a month or two in the freezer though and the texture is very conspicuously different. But absolutely good enough for slicing onto pasta.
Hey I built something vaguely similar!

See it in action to compare translations of Enchiridion (https://enchiridion.tasuki.org/) or Tao Te Ching (https://ttc.tasuki.org/).

The project is at https://github.com/tasuki/side-by-side, it is backendless: just drop in some markdown files, and serve it as a static website.
More people are discussing CBDC and would love to share some of my experience working on a CBDC.
Occam's Razor? interesting. I thought I was applying this one: the simplest mental strategies able to propel you to the top of the capitalist and media elite. "Being incredibly impulsive" may seems straightforwardly "true" but it does not look "sufficient" as explanation to me.

Maybe The truth is somewhere in the middle. I don't know.
Ideated and built a low-code platform in 2011, that went on to be primary tool for a company and won accolades from Gartner. Company achieved multifold growth, opened door for partnership with giant software firm and eventually the department itself was sold for more than $500 million. We worked for crazy hours, not caring how it impacts health and family. At the end, we didn't get anything apart from regular paycheck. :(
Ask HN: Resources to Become a Better CTO
Hi all, I am a CTO of a 30 person startup and looking to better myself and make sure I'm doing the best job possible in my role. Any recommended readings, courses, coaches, tools to become a better CTO?
After intensive study sessions

Mama shrimp creamy tom yum
with additional creme cheese, must be eaten standing up, preferably over the sink and under strobing flourecend light for maximum effect. The illusion of nurishment combined with the freshness of lemon grass.
Yeah. In Italy it's a different story though. We ended up with way too many black truffles last year than we knew what to do with. Helped to know the right people of course and clearly this hobbyist collection process doesn't scale. But for the locals and local restaurants they are well catered for... for a while.
is the app open source? I'm on android, so :c
Restoring my Commodore P50 calculator with a little solder and a 3D printer
Preferring to put your disposable income elsewhere sounds exactly like an affordability thing.

If I have £15,000 in the bank, spending £8,000 on the manual vs. £9,500 on the automatic (Renault Clio, 5 years, both on motors.co.uk) is significant. I'd choose the cheaper car.

If I have £50,000 in the bank it's much easier to justify.

(And if I have only £8,000 or less I don't have a choice, but I might tell my friends I "prefer" not to put a lot of money in the car.)
Can confirm some of this. The real problem is expensive synthetic stuff. Makes sense to imitate the real deal, since truffles exist in very small quantities. But at least say so.
Just because something is extracted from petroleum doesn't mean it must always taste or smell like gas. We have plenty of synthetic compounds that taste nothing like it at all.

That said, it's very ugly that this happens, I hope the EU will start protecting the term truffle.
Was her deep voice really fake? She has a pronounced larynx, deep jaw and chin, somewhat androgynous face--isn't it possible she simply has/had high-T?
Ask HN: Why do rich tech companies lay off?
title basically.

Why? Dont they have enough cash to easily last them the recession? Shouldn’t they instead start hiring more to get more talent than other companies? It would also allow them to pay people less than usual because people who’ve been layed off are desperate.

I’m talking about companies like amazon, meta, google, etc
Postgres supports timezones. In general Postgres is excellent for correctness at the cost of performance.
I either use https://www.bitaddress.org/
Or Electrum on a Tails LiveCD.
I've found this program a few months ago when I was looking for non-web free chess software for windows. There are surprisingly few options, mostly outdated and with unpleasant interface. Lucas chess is an exception. Interface looks nice, although it takes some time to get used to it, and there are many interesting options to analyse your games, play with many different engines an study (various problems, endings, openings). The source is open (python!) and there are quite frequent updates. I am a happy user and I recommend it to all chess enthusiasts, it's worth to try it.
He owned 9% of Twitter in April - that's what represented in the chart - the dates are clearly stated there.
I like Kagi. I found that DDG is really bad and often resorted to !g; but I gave Kagi a shot, and it's become my main engine.
Would be interesting to see an example.

I’ve been on the receiving end of people who want their question asked exactly as worded, cross-examination style, and it is not fun. I wonder if it is that?

If the other person doesn’t answer how you expected, then expect that, persist, be kind and be calm. Assume the best intents.

They might actually be saying dumb things to help themselves make sense.

Here might be an example:

You: Why is the test suite taking 30 minutes now?

Them: Did you run it last night?

(Because they know something about the system state last night and want to check if the implied unhappiness about the test run length might be due to that)
Explains a lot. I remember having truffle shavings at the table on pasta at a posh italian restaurant in the early 2000, and it was reassuringly expensive. Didn't taste of much, I wasn't overwhelmed. A bit earthy, but nothing special. Then I read somewhere that some people can't taste truffle. So I put it down to that.

More recently if I get something that says "truffle", it's this crazy almost garlic style punch (without the aftertaste of garlic). I've been confused why my experience of this changed so much from then to now… should have known I was being scammed!
What Moore giveth, Gates taketh away...
Isn't that in its most general form exactly the halting problem?
The MacGuffin, Part 2: The Story Arc of SBF and FTX
If you are in Europe, Interactive Brokers is the most well-known and seemingly well established platform. I am still exploring it myself, but it has low purchasing fees and a lot of learning material to start from.
Some of the most poisonous fungi are very tasty. Does it mean we should switch to eating them?
Use your bank
Sometimes Windows installs an upgrade that insists I must connect my user account to a Microsoft account. It will not let me boot the OS if I don't. Only hell if I know what my Microsoft account is. I never use it. I need to use my web browser to find out. But I can't, because I need to set up my Microsoft account first. So I have to use another computer which will let me use it even without a Microsoft account, and then try to figure out my Microsoft account password. Then boot into Windows, let it connect the accounts, go into account options and try to find the hidden dialog to separate them again because hell fucking no I don't want Microsoft to associate my user account with my email address.

Being shafted like this every now and then has eroded my trust for Windows' updates.
Still not drag&drop and no shared folder?? Seriously? For $150!?
Words Are Magic – How the Language You Speak (and Hear) Changes Your Reality
You may not be the intended audience.
> Sprott Asset Management CEO John Ciampaglia told Yahoo Finance Canada in August. The Toronto-based financial firm operates the world’s largest physical uranium investment fund.

Just a not very convincing advert.

Canada is probably one of, if not the, most ideal places for nuclear power (northern latitude, existing plants, hydro to complement it) but even there I doubt more than running existing plants for a while makes financial sense.
Europe is wide continent. For example, in Finland most new cars sold are automatic. Hybrids and EVs make big portion of sales (even a majority) and are of course automatic, but it has been a longer trend.
Be cautious with banks having crazy transaction fees for generic stock. Most of them have own funds and you can purchase them for low fees, while the rest can be even at 15 EUR per single transaction.
What we need is to have an app store as a public service. Why on hell would you want a for-profit company to decide what companies are allowed to exist?
Hard not to read this as "I have a lot of money. I shouldn't have to wait in line with commoners!"

Sorry for the almost political comment but that's how it hit me
> that truth in mathematics was a social construct.

This is garbage.

Everything under this definition is a social construct and as such why would you only relate it to mathematics?

The rock I'm holding is a social construct. Deep.

If they want to get stoned and talk about the meaning of life cool, but it's beneath a math professor (Who's not at home getting stoned)

Following it logically you quickly find murder, rape, genocide being bad are just social constructs. And why exactly should we follow social constructs? Lets all go and start the next FTX because everything is just a social construct so who cares?

And we've just rediscovered nihilism like the other 120 billion teens did.
In the UK auto vs. stick felt like the ideological debate you mentioned.

Myself having done 10y consecutively of both, auto is a better experience overall. Except when you need that bit of immediate power from smaller engines. This is for my normal A to B driving, I don’t race.
If I get something in a restaurant (in EU) that has "truffles" in it the taste is exactly like described in the article. Kind of gross and very pungent. I don't exactly go to high end restaurants often.
threat of state violence only work against the poor.

after you join the elite you need market forces to be controled.
She doesn't appear to feel that she did anything wrong originally, and by implication will feel like she's a victim of injustice, so, very likely to reoffend.
It works perfectly well for 99.9999% of the users. The few exceptions are people with proxy servers, virtual machines and other exotic network configs.
Exactly my thoughts. I don't know anything about medicine, so my ultimate opinion is "I don't know". If I were to guess, the article just describes a well functioning medical structure and the author has some problem with people paying taxes.
The guy is a dickhead, simple as that. Let’s not forget when he called that cave diver a pedo!

I won’t be giving any business associated with him any time or money.

I really don’t know why people worship him so much.
Add and Mult are added as extension of the type Effect.t and run installs the effect handler. To add more operations you would have to extend Effect.t again then setup an handler somewhere.

The current effects syntax is very rough. It’s considered an experimental feature by the compiler team. Currently effects handlers are exposed to users as a thin wrapper on top of their implementations in the runtime. A better syntax will come but the Ocaml dev team wants to take the time necessary to get it right.
I'm curious: When you say "something different" what do you mean? For example,when you engage in bible reasearch, does it feel that a different part of your self is gaining sustinance?