skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“hey can you look at my computer? "

Think about having a friend who is doctor. We might often just ask them hey I have this pain in the neck what do you think could it be? It is not seen as asking them to work for you but merely asking for advise, like you might ask any friend. Advise is free right? And the person asking you for advise is happy to give their advise to you if you ask them. Reciprocity!

The problem with the computer MIGHT be very easy to fix if you know how to fix it.

But if you accept their invitation to help them then you don't want to just give up after 10 minutes. It would make you look not smart if you could not help with the problem after all. You have been hood-winked into working hard to look good.

The worst part is if you do something to their computer and some new problems appear later, you will be responsible.
I've only been up to that part of the world once. Seems like an enviable place to have grown up.
An excellent summary. I've used this method on whole libraries and it works great. And it makes a good excuse for hanging on to old hardware (a Sony DCR-TRV17).
Thanks! How do I go about finding a good analyst then? Are those some of the Twitter names you listed. How long did take you before you felt you were making some progress. I'm very intrigued by this.
> ADHD is a "disorder" that is predicated on "this person's behavior annoys people around him and therefore should be corrected."

This is just wrong. I have ADHD and it can prevent me from doing and completing tasks that I decide to do myself and which are entirely on my own schedule. The constraints and expectations of others certainly don't help, but even if I lived in a world where I never had to be anywhere at a specific time, never had to perform any task that didn't interest me, and always had total freedom over where/when/how I performed the activities I chose to participate in I would still suffer because of ADHD and I'd still require medication.

ADHD is not just some quirky march to the beat of a different drum thing that wouldn't be a problem if people were only more accepting of it. It'll always be a problem for me. Thankfully it's one that can be managed without being 'pumped full of amphetamines until I'm so drowsy during the day I'm just struggling to fall asleep'.

If I'm drowsy during the day its usually because I'm my symptoms get more severe late in the day and it can result in me getting caught up in something and staying up until long after I should have gone to bed. That's something I've noticed I can struggle with both on and off medication. It isn't too often it's a problem though.
It's dubious rumour by German intelligence if the publication is correct. The claimed original source of the intel - Russian intelligence - is already extremely unreliable and adversarial. And then we add Chinese whispers game on top.

It's silly to give any credibility to this type of rumour. We should all wait for hard evidence and if there are none or if it can't be made public, then for courts verdicts.
> I have been told that foreign men are often considered less masculine as a kind of racism

Not defending him, but Gilfoyle was foreign as well? I've known plenty of people like that, and they are just pricks.
For TypeScript there's little difference since most of TypeScript support comes from the same language server running in the background (there's an option in the menus to restart it if it breaks, same as in vscode).

Although autocomplete is better (especially for pure JS), it doesn't warrant paying for a license IMHO. Personally, I use IDEA for TS because I use it for other languages where it blows everything else out of the water (so muscle memory).

Also, if you're doing server-side development, it has a very good built-in client for two dozen databases (which pretty much replicates the functionality of their DataGrip product), so you get decent data editing / import / export / DDL support, and excellent autocompletion for your SQL (interspersed among TS code, or not — doesn't matter).

Edit: also, 100% of their products' funtionality can be used from keyboard. I don't touch the mouse at all. I think vscode can support something like that, but with very heavy customization (and even then I'm not sure). Out of the box it pretty much forces you to use the mouse for many things.
> what was being satirized

It was everything.
Anime is the reason I won't switch from Android to iPhone
Proof of solvency and beyond
Could be in part bot activity. I've seen a couple other weird things rise up on here.

The blogging platform for this one is interesting, if you follow the rabbit hole a bit you'll find e.g. https://herman.bearblog.dev/building-software-to-last-foreve...

I don't see that many posts, but it appears to have some interesting traffic on it at present. Worth holding on to perhaps?

https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog/
A system with all those properties is a git repository containing all this data. Which would also scale to more operations per second than a block chain, is much more battle-hardened than any blockchain...

And decidedly isn't a blockchain. It's just a merkle tree that can easily be replicated / updated via "git clone" / "git fetch".

Your definition of a blockchain seems to be different than what most people use, though I admit a lot of blockchain advocates seem to make the definition tighter or looser depending on which is more convenient for the current argument.
My understanding is that this particular proof works by constructing a curve over a finite field built of the number to be tested with a "sufficiently large" prime order, you prove its order by just multiplying a generator by the order. The curve won't work right if the field isn't a field (or in other words unless our candidate is actually prime). The proof has to be applied recursively to prove the order of the test group is itself prime.

Take your pick of redundant WP articles for a more technical explanation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primality_certificate#Atkin%E2...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_primality
I can assure you from personal observation that supposedly well-run train services in Austria and Germany are totally crowded while on schedule.
Armed mobs probably don't care about the blockchain though. And shall I lose the ability to sell my land if I or somebody else loses a private key? Shall my land be taken from me if a criminal is able to hack a computer and transfer it to themselves?
My car also keeps on going when I release the throttle.

It also self drives if I let the steering wheel.

Until it doesn’t.
Heh, as someone who moved around the world I'm relying on technology for half of that. I can only boardgame with my friends thanks to TTS (even those in my new country aren't meeting up in-person an the moment). And the selection of books available in my native languages would be very limited and expensive if ebooks weren't an option.
> I do agree that IRC is stuck in the dark ages when it comes to feature support, and even just features in the spec. I dislike Slack, but whenever I use Slack for a while, and then switch to IRC for something else, I miss seemingly-simple things like being able to easily share images, react to messages with emoji, start subthreads in messages (a feature of Slack's I initially hated, but eventually came to appreciate).

I like that IRC doesn't have those things. IRC is great because most clients have very high information density. Look at this screenshot [0], look how many messages fit on the screen.

Compare that to something like slack. Every message has a bunch of upper and lower padding, an avatar, space for reactions etc. If someone links an image, it can use up half your screen to render it. If someone links something, suddenly there is a preview wasting space.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/XchatScr...
Truth. I'm shocked by it every day. Folks can easily get by without pushing a single commit for a month.
I was diagnosed at 6, given several medicines, I stopped taking them around 12/13 because they just didn't help. Nothing helps but illegal drugs.
>I also have a list of favorite knowledge-base style websites, databases, etc

Please consider sharing that list on an awesome-x style GitHub account if it is not confidential.
It could be added to by others too.
This isn’t any difference than traditional escrow SaaS companies. They’re fully automated unless you have a dispute.

In your stated case, “smart contract” means software. It can’t verify that both sides of the transaction have met their obligations unless both obligations are on-chain, in which case there’s no added value.
Not all code is the same. Who's using the code? You, your department internally, or your clients?

How many times does the code run? Daily, monthly, once and maybe never repeated again?

How resource intensive is it? Does it take a second or a month to execute?

Do you know from the start where you're going to end up? If it's a research problem, probably no. Then you don't need to prematurely optimise the code.
I think that was a reference to dark sprawling data centers.
>iOS, which is superior for digital privacy

False dichotomy. GrapheneOS, LineageOS, you have options on (some) Android handsets. You have no options on iOS. Further, much of Apple's walled-garden ecosystem is closed source.

Apple is HORRIBLE for user privacy, only marginally less horrible than Google. The difference is that Google isn't a tyrant who insists on making devices that MUST run their own OS. Ironically, Pixel devices have some of the best support for flashing other OS's, modded ROMs, rooting, etc.
10.5 billion is a lot but it's less than FTX, if there's something apocalyptic coming it should be something else.
Be it as it may, everyone I know who tried Copilot trial is now paying for it. While my company expenses it, I started paying with my own money before that.
If my employee would rather not pay for a tool, why would I spend my own money to help them save money?

The blog post was quite clear on the ”the tech doesn’t work” part, which seems like a more likely reason for their demise. Selling developer tools is hard, but selling non-functional tools is exponentially harder
> randomly selected the last ten or so on hard and got more than half of those right

Me too. Sometimes, things just looked nicer without really knowing what was wrong. Goes to show the power of subconscious perception. TBH, this activity elevated my perception of UX and QC work a lot. This can be hard stuff.

On the other hand, sometimes I felt like I saw color differences that weren't really there.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Crypto+bro
You know you went too far when the dutch are looking at you thinking 'hmm that's too much gambling' from their boat casino

And they're correct lmao
I'm trying to figure out what a good alternative is, though. I absolutely agree with you, and have been on planes before where I've been very uncomfortable due to a nearby dog triggering my allergies. (I've been doing allergy immunotherapy for the past couple years, so my allergies are in much better control now, but I still have off days.)

But people do need to travel with their pets sometimes; consider moving to a new house far enough away such that it requires air travel. I would not consent to putting my cats in the cargo hold; I've heard enough horror stories about the conditions they experience (not to mention incidence of death, injury, or loss) there to allow that. I read that there used to be a "pet airline" in the US, but they had very limited routes and destinations, and haven't flown in many years at this point.
As someone who lives in Los Angeles and is mostly surrounded by people in film/tv, the indie film industry is a LOT bigger than many people outside of the know realize. And I’m so thankful for that, because that’s where the “things that don’t scale, … original ideas that are difficult to translate to movies, etc” flourish. In a way, the indie movie scene is in better shape than it ever has been— with well-known big name actors even hopping in now and then.

You could argue the indie scene is similar to the startup scene in SV. You have investors/producers pretty much funding these films based on team/talent and a pitch alone, with the festival circuit (could be considered an analog to SV demo-days or investor powows) essentially serving as a way to get bought by big studios for potential wide release, limited-release runs (which can still make a lot of money for those involved), or teams hired/screenplays bought and adapted by other studios. You can even make it big right out of college (or in college) [1] with little-to-no connections, though of course even more-so than SV a name and pedigree gets you further faster.

There’s so much in LA (and NYC) that gets released in theaters only locally, and the city is better for it. It’s the wide-release that, almost by definition, must serve lowest common denominator in order to make its 8/9-figure budget back in a span of months (tech companies get years!!). It’s sad that SF and LA, so close geographically, have industries so socially polarized to each other in every way, since there’s really a lot of overlap when you get down to it (and each industry could definitely learn things from the other)

[1] https://variety.com/2022/film/news/apple-cha-cha-real-smooth...
so it all just gets worse
> [IRC, MSN/ICQ/etc, ...] is also sorta prone to this weird and cringy sort of internet culture which regular people find a little gross, I’d think.

Nothing new under the sun.
I'd say it is true for most companies. But companies hire people not just for keep the current business going. A matter of fact, having fewer people may be beneficial if you want to stay in current business as it is. Companies, especially growth companies, hire people to speculate the next big thing. One of the employee is going to do something great, and expand the business.
Love Imba[0] as well which is the programming language Scrimba is written in. Truly revolutionary.

[0] https://imba.io/
I agree that cruise ships are an abomination in terms of energy consumption. But wrt flying, the whole "personal carbon budget" thing is a PR move by the major carbon generators to shift responsibility from themselves (who have the ability to make systemic changes) onto individuals (who don't).

The planes fly anyway; business travelers make them worthwhile even if they are mostly empty. Your 100kg does not make an appreciable difference, and no significant percentage will stop flying even if most vacationers abstain. See in particular the flights that flew completely empty during early COVID so the airlines could keep their precious airport terminal allocations.
Spotify has the ability to show you when navigating to an artist its monthly listeners. I am often really surprised at the number of people listening to older bands than the current.
In the old days Office came with a macro recorder that you could use for that kind of thing.
> To emulate functions with objects, you just create a single method class.

You still can not "call the object" you can only call its single method.

But I see what you are saying I think. You can accomplish similar things with closures and objects.

For them to be "equivalent" I think should mean there is nothing you can do with closures that you can not do with objects, and vise versa. I don't know if that is the case, is it?
In response to Paul Graham’s cryptic tweet: “A person I have known for more than ten years, who I consider trustworthy, is convinced the cryptocurrency economy will shortly experience a systemic risk. I don’t know anything concrete, but if I were exposed, I would be concerned.”
You can probably survive if you fire the right 80%, but if you fire people who are pretty integral to particular services at random, you might not keep the lights on for long enough…
You can do the same thing with modular exponentiation, i.e. Pocklington's primality proving, but that requires finding a large factor of N-1, which is not easy in general.

With elliptic curves you get as many shots at finding a group order with a large factor as you want, since if you fail the current attempt you can simply try another curve with a different order. So you can keep trying until you find a curve that has an easy to find large group order factor which, as it turns out, happens in probabilistic polynomial time.
Muh brand identity/recognition though.

There aren't many legitimate ways to have people audibly self hypnotise themselves using your brand.

It's very black mirror.
I don't often hack my own tools either, but it's great to have the possibility to do so.

When you really need that bug fixed for your edge case or platform, it's much easier to submit a patch rather than wait around for someone else to fix it.
There's another kind of hard firebrick, called "high alumina", which is used in soda and salt wood-firing pottery. The alumina content resists the sodium oxide from the salt or soda decomposing in the wood fire.

It's on my todo list one day to build a wood fire kiln out of "splits" of high alumina on the inside and 2800 rated IFB on the outside, to do my own soda firing. IFB absorbs water so it has to be protected from the elements with a roof and walls, but it's worth it given how much efficiency you gain.

There's an interesting playlist of videos about wood fired kilns for pottery here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_wVFkKwCmg&list=PLS6Mrdpt53...
> There exists a non-serious branch of math.

Try paging through OEIS sometime... https://oeis.org/

There are many seemingly silly bits of math. However, the answer in mathematics is often not the most interesting part (or even interesting at all), and a lot of important mathematics was created to produce answers for seemingly silly or pointless questions.

If you have a silly math problem and it's answered quickly-- well then it didn't waste much time. If you have a silly math problem and it's fiendishly hard to solve, then the discoveries that lead to the solution aren't silly-- they teach us how to do something we didn't know how to do before and may have important and useful implications.

For things like these primarily proofs the mathematical discoveries have already happened (at least until someone comes up with a new one!)-- and the ongoing effort is in engineering for numerical software and the IT work required to manage the computation in a cost effective manner.

Some families of primes have important mathematical structure that has a lot of known consequences, special algorithms that work with them (such as repunit primes in base 2), etc. Other's don't, or at least don't have any that we know of yet-- but they still divide up the literally infinite space of primes and give people interested in studying them a subset they can focus on.
Those loitering ammo things from Iran that Russia uses reportedly cost around 35k each, and they have that range. Very easy to shoot down, but an air defense missile costs a lot more than the drone does.

And it's China, they are the world's manufacturing capacity, so just send hundreds at a time.
While being a solopreneur is hard, it's 2x harder to build multiple businesses with a full time job
Yeah I don't really care about the stuff you're arguing on. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing, I think it's not relevant. My original point was to address the idea that we shouldn't be allowed to criticise a regime that commits abuses against people because our own nation did something in the past. This applies to you, your moral stance is of equal weight to mine regardless of what the previous generation in your place of birth did.

And the speaker making that comment missed a big point... Most fans of football didn't want this country hosting. None of this would have been a problem if they had rolled back that decision when the corruption was discovered.

I'm not from the US. I agree with your argument on local laws. Fans and players should have rebelled against the corrupt FIFA decision and forced change 10 years ago.

However, I disagree with being told we can't criticise due to the actions of others who happen to be our ancestors or even present day in my own country. I'm from the UK, I marched against the Iraq invasion, but the intimation here is that because the UK went to war anyway my voice is forever to be dismissed.
In Other Words... I don't agree with someone's lifestyle because it doesn't comport with my own, therefore I will recruit others to join me in an attempt ruin them.

Classic Woke reaction.

Not exactly higher level thought processes going on with this person.

I almost wish i cared enough to reciprocate back and attack the authors lifestyle (beyond my one sentence critique that is)

...but i don't
what is the definition of "perfect food"? For me that would probably be a banana. eady to eat, tastes great, relatively easy to ship all over the world.

even in Japan, half the country doesn't like natto.
Ahahaha you still don't have an iPhone because of anime characters? Come on man. It's time to grow up, overspend, and validate the superiority complexes of smug people you don't know or like.
Its not just any old dumb rule. Say I wanted to make something really unlikely to be divisible. Well, let's try taking something very large and very evenly divisible, and then add or subtract a 1 so that it's always just a tiny fraction off from being divisible. In the addition case we might get something like 10000001. In the subtraction case for the same number we would get 9999999, after which we could factor out 9 to get 1111111. You could also do it with numbers that don't line up with base 10. 360 is a highly divisible number (hence its use for angles) but 361 / 359 are going to be 1/360th out of step with those divisors (and in fact, 359 is prime).

So, for this reason, a repeating sequence of 1s is a natural choice to try and find prime numbers.
To be fair, WoW caused a couple of people I knew to really suffer in college, and one failed out as a result of a WoW addiction. DOTA addiction caused at least one other to fail out.
I mean I could do a mockup/wireframe - but that's about it?
I think this is an interesting design tension. On one hand it's simple and cheap to make. On the other, electric resistance heating isn't the most efficient, even with the storage mechanism (and a lot of places don't have cheaper power at night).
Trivially lying to the ledger makes that irrelevant.
You might enjoy the non-work possibilities that city center living provides.
Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova by Leo Damrosch. Solid biography of an interesting 18th century figure.
Also, absence of problems isn’t a metric that leads to recognition from leadership (unless you’re inheriting a problem with the explicit mandate of fixing it). How do you attribute cause to the absence of problems? Would they have never existed anyways (in which case the opportunity cost was a bad decision)? Or do they not exist because of your efforts? It’s unfortunate, but the system doesn’t incentivize problem avoidance; only problem solving.
>People who criticize IQ scores as a proxy for intelligence should publish their own IQ score, no? If the author did so, I missed it, which is certainly possible. The not-intentionally-snarky point is that perhaps the author is not "smart enough" to assess this reliably.

From the article:

>I did try an IQ test in the past a few times. [..] I will not disclose the results, because I do not want this text to be skewed by a number I am criticizing. If the number was low, skeptics would say I am not smart enough to appreciate the value of IQ or that my claim is just sour grapes.
By far the biggest problem with e-bikes is theft. Theft of regular bikes hurts but a regular bike costs $200-$600. A $2000 ebike is both more a target for theft and more painful to lose.

I’m not sure what we can do but people aren’t going to ebike to the supermarket when thieves carrying battery powered grinders are everywhere.
Yeah, the slot-machine-like reward tricks have gone way too far.
This looks like something you might read on McSweeney's