skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like the author, I went into computer systems engineering though in around 1995, and then bailed because I wanted to design with computers, not design the computers themselves. Should've read the abstract a bit better, huh? I quit and have worked for myself over the 25+ years since, and similarly straddled design and development up until recently.

Something I've found challenging is that in my projects and pricepoints, it's felt like there is no time for craft. Always harried, always spread thin. Never enough budget to do much more than burn through code. And working with clients who barely know what they expect, so it's hard to confidently spend time on design polish while the chance of concepts being rejected on a whim seems quite random. I'd be the first to accept that these are likely self-inflicted situations through misguided quoting/positioning and lazy process.

I have many side projects, and craft is a difficult thing there too. We typically preach getting product in front of people as soon as possible, to hone from there. But when, as an individual or small team, do you get time to absolutely polish your login screen, as one example? You're generally adding requested features or fixing pain points. I see a login screen from Stripe or similar and think of the teams and meetings and testing that probably went into it. Obviously as smallfry, we can take a shortcut and copy what they've settled on, but that's not exactly craft.

Maybe when I retire I'll have time.
>Ulcers, heart-attacks, kidney damage

Also, tendon injury/tendonitis seems linked to ibuprofen use. It may delay other kinds of healing (bone fractures, etc)
I’d posit there’s a generic way to assess the hope:

Does the protocol come with inherently good way to deal with spam right in the core design? If not, it’ll eventually end with delegating trust to corporations.
I think the "market creator decides" works really well for play money markets. https://manifold.markets doe this. The risk of a "rug pull" is often discussed when assigning probabilities, and you can see people's history to decide if you trust them.

A good market will have a well thought out process of deciding the truth. For stuff where there is a betting market or money market, it is easy to refer to that. Otherwise for something like "Will Russia invade Ukraine", at the time the definition of "have they invaded yet" had to be figured out, especially as no one knew how far it would go.
Move to Texas and you can literally do this. There is no zoning. Go ahead and build those townhouses on your land. Your next door neighbors might build a strip club or pesticide manufacturing plant, though.

Even if you luck out with your current neighbors, the addional risk will lead to worse terms for you if you need investors to finance the project.
Think about using the Despain algorithm, derived by recursively decomposing an N-point FFT into FFTs of size sqrt(N). You end up with a bunch of 4-point FFTs where the twiddle factors are rotations by multiples of pi/2, which can be implemented with swapping of real/imaginary parts and a change of sign. Non-degenerate twiddle factors still occur between those 4-point FFTs In this way the number of maths operations can be reduced. The cost is that the input and output are both in a weird order.
I really hope this historical puzzle is about cracking the elusive ancient Indus Script [1].

The fact it's very difficult to crack because unlike other ancient scripts it does not have multiple languages reference or its own equivalent version of Rosetta Stone [2]. In order to crack it most probably massive datasets and AI are required.

[1]Why Is Indus Script Language Still Undeciphered?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rd0ssSmxGw

[2] Rosetta Stone:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone
Why shouldn't it matter? Many open source licenses require attribution, so it is reasonable to think one point of making software open source is to get attribution. Generative AI prevents getting attribution, so it matters whether it is through generative AI or human brain.
I would have thought Singapore had more policing in all respects versus US cities.

Also the subway stories are probably more about general fear of whatever criminals are apparently lurking down there. It can get kind of scary in the subway when it's deserted. especially Upper Manhattan where it's so deep down. Meanwhile when I travel in developed Asian cities, it's not scary at all. Just really really crowded.
One thing I want to hit on is how Usain would look against a normal person. Imagine Usain, at his best, (at 17) runs a race against the 200th fastest other 17 year old, of all time, at his best. How do you think this would look? From your comments I suspect you think it would be a photo finish. We can actually answer this precisely with a bit of math (and record keeping).

The current 200th highest world record for a U18 is 21.04. Usain's record is 20.13 (my mistake). In the 200m you're generally looking at around 4.2 strides per second with each stride covering around 2.4 meters. So we have all we need. The difference at the end would be (21.04 - 20.13) * 4.2 * 2.4 = 9 meters, or more than 30 feet - multiple car lengths!

And that 200th fastest 17 year old of all time is not just a "fast kid". He's a physical outlier several sigmas away from the mean that would be creating similarly lopsided finishes at nearly nearly every local, state, and even national competition he entered. But Usain is just on an entirely different level than even that. So Usain racing against anybody even remotely normal would look like "fast kid" vs "extremely slow kid."

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Basically it's not really possible to fail to notice this sort of achievement. In PE he'd casually run laps around everybody without even trying. And by football, I don't mean any sort of team event - just a bunch of kids grabbing a football, imagining some nets, and playing. Nobody would be even close to being able to keep up to him. Literally anytime there is any sprint movement in anything, he would be on top - by far.

As for the hypotheticals beyond this, I don't know. We might have to just agree to disagree. I tend to think people are drawn to the things they're good at. And with running it's basically impossible to not notice that you're this many sigmas away from the mean. It's not like we're talking the best Polo player.
For further context, try yourself playing NES Tetris at Level 18 speed - the slowest starting speed used in high-level competition.

It looks very easy when they do it. Almost relaxed and lazy. I'll leave it up to you to find out exactly how easy it is, or isn't. :)

And the speed escalates a great deal from there!
It starts by defining a cell as a bakery. First of all, what exactly is more systematic in comparing a cell to a bakery? Other than the fact that both things produce crap the analogy has no real substance. And there are so many wrong facts in that one paragraph (many of our genes are present as more than two copies in our genome, for one).

You are absolutely correct, there’s an information theoretical underpinning of genomics and systems biology that’s rarely if ever tackled in text books but (a) neither does this course tackle it, and (b) you can’t just skip on biochem basics and Jump to that. That’s like trying to become a physicist without learning math.
I think serial numbers would be enough to stop the vast majority of people selling stolen items.

It would require companies to track serial numbers that go into the store, and serial numbers of items put on shelves, or otherwise legally leave the store. After a while, it'll be clear which items & serial numbers were legelly sold vs. stolen. And, to address the original point, copied stolen serial numbers still aren't any good.

The serial numbers of stolen items get reported to the authorities and/or Amazon, and it becomes their legal problem. As another post in this thread poins out, pawn shops have to do something similar to check for stolen items. So there is some sort of legal framework in place.

Im not saying that this should be i plemented or anything, I'm just trying to say that individual serial numbers might work. It will not be easy to implement, and cost money. But so does rampant theft. Maybe it's worth pursuing.
You are only seeing the cases that make it to the courthouse, right? How many shoplifting events are ignored, missed, or otherwise let off before things make it that far? OK, there is no discretion on the cases they allow into court but there is a hell of a lot of discretion before things get to that point.
I've been spending way too much time making content about the hardware, and still would if my new job would not absorb so much of my time and energy. I still write a Weekly Update on the PinePhone and similar projects on https://linmob.net.

I also still have a PinePhone (postmarketOS CE 3GB, 32GB) for my second SIM, and I don't miss calls or texts (SMS, MMS aren't popular in germany) as far as I know - e.g. I've never noticed 2FA SMS not coming through. I am running postmarketOS stable and use the open source modem firmware by BiktorGJ.
But: This depends on your mobile carrier, and it may work different for you or impossible, e.g. AT&T in the US has gotten really strict about whitelisting devices for it's network and PinePhone is just not on that list.

Now, about battery life: If you use it as phone, and don't have too many calls, it's fine. It can even last two days, if it's mostly chugging along in standby. But: As soon as you do compute-heavy things, like browsing the modern web, ... Well, it lasts a few hours, depending on how much you do (I sadly did not find the time to do a battery rundown test since mid 2020 (when things were early and terrible), but don't expect more than 2 hours of Firefox use). It's definitely not up to modern iPhones. Also, PinePhone is really slow. I love it, but it's really not fast and never will be.

Regarding a credible report, maybe check out the latest episode of the postmarketOS podcast [1].

In terms of hardware, I keep recommending the Xiaomi Pocophone F1 [2]. It's fast and has decent battery life (being based on a chip actually designed for phones helps). I had to use Windows to unlock the bootloader, after that, installing postmarketOS was easy. You loose the camera and the option of not really usable kill switches, it also does not run all the distributions that PinePhone can run, but other than that, it's as good as it gets IMHO.

Also, keep in mind that the app ecosystem is limited, I try to track it on https://linuxphoneapps.org.

Overall, if you can afford to buy a PinePhone or a used Poco F1 (plus a new battery ;-)) easily, just give it a try. You'll find out quickly whether it's for you (you should like to tinker a bit) or not. :)

PS: If you have further question, feel free to send me an email - I might not see replies here.

[1]: https://cast.postmarketos.org/episode/25-Interview-Alyssa-Sp...

[2]: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Xiaomi_Poco_F1_(xiaomi-be...
The tips at the end of the article are pretty solid. I'll add some more that helped my writing immensely:

* Use bold text once or twice per section to break up the monotony and draw the reader's eye to where you want it.

* Shorten! Cut away anything optional to the reader understanding your main point, and move it to footnotes, sidenotes, or a linked document/page.

* Have someone read your first draft. If they ask a question, don't answer it directly! Update your draft instead.

* Use lists religiously! Walls of text tend to repel attention.

My favorite article [0] happened to use all these tips, if anyone wants to see an example. Happy writing!

[0] https://verdagon.dev/blog/higher-raii-7drl
> Last week Twitter was supposed to break in a couple of days.

The "it was supposed to break in a couple of days" meme is an often repeated strawman by Elon's defenders. Can you point to any ex-Twitter employee claiming Twitter is supposed to break in a couple of days?

Most said the system is built to be resilient, as long as THERE ARE NO CHANGES MADE TO IT. And no significant outages, hacker attacks, and so on challenges.

You tell me, can Twitter coast indefinitely without changes? How do they plan to monetize it without changes? And without advertisers?

The problem is Elon and his goons are randomly shutting down things in attempt to "remove the bloat" and then they don't know how to turn them on. So things have been breaking in the last few weeks.

Any way you look at it, Twitter is on a course to disaster. But like the Titanic, it takes a bit to get there.
I think Calico (Alphabet) pay is not too far from a SWE at Google. However, this requires a PhD and much more experience.
Startups Are Calculated Bets
deja vu: 20 years ago, I was always hearing people in IT at Stanford bitch about Oracle Financials. They'd been struggling through a 2-year migration to it that was mandated by top management. Some things never change.
was he Henry Kissinger?

no, https://www.newscientist.com/letter/mg18224505-100-the-real-...

but he really looks like :)
> do you really need - or have any desire - to communicate with random strangers?

I have circle of acquaintances on Twitter and Facebook which are not strangers, but I don't feel like updating directly.

Sharing a wordle result with them and having an occasional exchange is akin to meeting them while walking on the street and exchanging a few words.

The chats with my family and friend groups are at a different level of communication.
There are mobile apps. Do these use standard API's?
This is something I struggle with. I'm a perfectionist in my work- I'm the person who, without being told, periodically walks through our products flow and scrutinizes every detail. I make note of every little performance hitch, everything that looked a bit off on one device or browser, everything that would've annoyed me just a tiny bit as a user, and I go through and fix each and every one of them. Just because I want it to be good.

But I feel like larger companies systematically resist this kind of care. Through removal of agency (approval processes, splitting stakeholders across teams, top-down assignment) and through sprawling product complexity that leaves people no time to give attention to all the details because there are simply too many.

I think I just can't ever work at a large company. I care too much.
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Same reason stories are about running Doom on underpowered devices and not on GPUs. For the challenge.

Running FFT on powerful devices with FP would not be a story.
Elon Musk's 'hardcore' management style: a case study in what not to do
One tidbit I got out of this that is not directly related to the content of the post is that there are apparently some high-quality instructables out there, and that people spend time writing them!

99% of the instructables I’ve come across in the last 10 or so years have been low-effort junk that aren’t even worth reading. The few the author linked are quite great.
The issue isn't that a menu was bold, but that no one in the test chain caught it. One reason being that chain is mostly not there anymore. That suggests other less visible, and more important slip-ups are happening, and will be happening.
Drink water until your pee is mostly clear. Any exact X amount of recommendation is inaccurate because diets vary in the water content of your food and other drinks.
Not really, I bought it a long time ago (2013) and I understand that volatility is the price I pay in my life for having a currency that's super hard to print more of.

Right now I'm on a smaller budget than before, it's no problem for me.
Policies vary. Where I work, you can seek permissions to work an outside gig that is "regular or continuing". The request might very well be met with a firm "Uh, yeah, no, nope. Not signing off on that." I actually don't know, I don't know anyone whose made the request.

On the other hand, the requirement to ask permission only applies to "regular and continuing* work. If it isn't "regular" (say, temporary contractor gigs) then there is no obligation to report or request permissions. Verbiage on the issue says the employee is responsible for making a reasonable determination on whether or not it's regular or irregular.

So, rules vary. Intel for example has baked into their employee code of conduct the assumption that some people will have outside employment &/or businesses, and simply provides a detailed code of conduct around how to navigate any issues that might arise from it: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents...

The tech world especially is in the era of the "side hustle". Taking on an actual extra full time job under the premise that a person can do both in under the nominally required 40-hour work week probably (well hell, all but definitely) pushed the limits a bit over the line, but some type of outside employment is often not impossible & well within the guidelines of many reasonable companies.
> For example be the only k8s guy and then say “deploy a new cluster? give me a week!”, and a couple more days to scale it up to 6 nodes!

It's this. It only works at big companies. You carve out a niche where you don't have to work with anyone too entrenched in the enterprise muck, then you match the average rate of work and discover it takes basically no effort if you keep your code clean.

There are armies of developers out there that would legitimately take a week to "deploy a simple cluster" (I know basically nothing about k8s but can extrapolate to different things in other tech stacks). There are plenty that would legitimately take a month.

Big companies hire scores of cookie cutter junior consultants that have zero experience with the tech they're using, then erect incomprehensible mountains of accidental complexity that basically permastun the entire organisation.

On your typical 2000 developer team, the company is usually being held up by 50 or so devs that have managed to blast a path through the bullshit and deliver something useful. The other 1950 or so developers are doing absolutely fuck all. Most projects get cancelled. Most of the people I've worked with in enterprise I wouldn't even be able to tell you if they were trying their best or playing video games all day. It's all just cacophonous noise that you can occasionally pull a working feature from if you're lucky.

I find people that haven't worked in a few of these environments vastly underestimate the lack of productivity that drives a big organisation. It's the entire thing that makes startups possible. If it wasn't like this, we'd all have no shot against competitors with that much manpower and money.
"The key is in the fat molecules, or sterols. Animals make cholesterol, plants make sitosterols and fungi make fungal sterols. If you find fossilised cholesterol, then it is a sure sign that what you have is an animal. This is exactly what Bobrovskiy and Brock found. An abundance of fossilised cholesterol shows that Dickinsonia is an early animal."
“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” – Martin Fowler
I don't know what you mean by "cleared world". Can you explain?
> You have completed ignored my question and the explanation of why I asked

I did not. I wrote that it amounts to demagoguery.

The reason is simple: a pragmatic language lets you write a single `Logger.log` line without pseudo philosophical discussions on the semantics of a program and "sometimes re-writing 100 lines of code".

It's no wonder any discussion on "how to do logging in Haskell", for example, devolves into discussing the merits of various types of monads and "composable co-monadic contravariants" with 15 equally cumbersome ways of using them.

"All for want of a nail"
Yeah, possibly demo broken, but I don't understand how this is supposed to be a new way to do footnotes at all. Looks like a broken Markdown footnote to me.
16 GB version:

https://www.aliexpress.com/store/group/OPI-5/1553371_4000000...
I have an aesthetic sense but I'm glad I have a (sharp, agile) designer to work with. I don't think I could come up with an entire (interesting) look and feel, and I certainly couldn't make splash art/SVG graphics. I can come up with a boring-but-aesthetic look and feel, or I can take an existing look and feel and carry it over to new views that haven't been covered yet, but there's a lot more to it than that.
Exposure to famine, or more generally malnutrition, is linked with diabetes and heart disease. Exposure to DDT effects epigenetic changes, resulting in predisposition to obesity. It's hard to believe that generations of oppression inflicted on black and indigenous Americans wouldn't have a lasting impact. Especially given the prevalence of obesity, heart disease and diabetes in those populations.

https://heart.bmj.com/content/84/6/595

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7428621/

https://www.thejuggernaut.com/south-asian-diabetes-incidence

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4124473/
Da da duh da da! Terminators.
How come you are designing those systems single handedly? Might you be setting people against you at this early stage? That could be by outshining them, but more likely might be by ignoring their advice, and in general not including them?

If that is the problem, try including others in the process. Build a team, and be mindful of buldozing through people who have 'wrong' objections. Not saying to avoid it completely, but consider long term effects before doing it. And getting a few good people who enjoy working with you makes things much easier.

Just a theory ofcourse. And the suggested solution requires a bit of consideration of office politics.
holly hell
Whales dying from consuming plastics
> Oracle vs. Google when Google suddenly realized that they should lose and intentionally threw the case.

But Google won?
If the majority of servers federate with each other and block the same servers, wouldn't the larger group be the "not islanded" group?

My argument is that if a server behaves in a way that the majority of large servers block it, then it is islanded, not the others.
I don't think this is newsworthy at this point. My Pixel 6 and Pixel 7 both are unreliable when trying to call 911, calling with an over the top app or dialing the PSAP's number directly are the only workarounds.

Google doesn't give a fuck about this issue. I have filed repeated support cases over the past year with Google about this when using T-Mobile or Verizon.
How dangerous is this? Just thinking about working with live wires makes me nervous.
I agree Humans Only Clause does not prevent Microsoft from training Copilot from codes on GitHub due to GitHub's terms of service, but I think it does prevent, say, Salesforce from training its CodeGen model.

So if the clause is widely adopted, it may be good for Microsoft and bad for Salesforce. If you want to reward Microsoft and punish Salesforce, it may be a good idea.
Linear Git History
It is, which is impressive because 2 weeks ago we only had initial hints of the shipwreck that Elon's leadership at Twitter will be. But banks sniffed it early and immediately tried to offload the loans with 40% LOSS.
I don't care if players were playing to win or to cooperate, but if exist a sequence of movements that ends up in this position. According to a comment above such a sequence exists, so the answer to my question is yes
Web search for "therapeutic vaccines." You're missing about half the picture.
Unfortunately HN stripped the operative word "extremely".
This is perfect! I've boycotting any official broadcasts. I want this WC to be a disaster(it has been the whole time, but I want the Qatari state and FIFA to feel it), but I still vaguely care about the results.
I tend to agree, but to play devil's advocate, if we were talking about a biological neural network (person) training themselves by looking at GPL code, the GPL would of course not apply to code they release later in general.
Yes, I thought about this kind of position, but I didn't want the king to assist the mate
Urusei Yatsura
Super insects are devouring the forests