skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Money should not be the primary goal, but rather a by-product of pursuing your passions.

This is very wise.
I want to highlight this paragraph:

Freeze all payments that would not result in an outage: rent,
non technical vendors, professional services, etc.

You’ll get back to them in a more discriminate way in a couple
of weeks, once you have a clearer overall plan

Is the author suggesting screwing over the companies you buy services from by not paying them?
I don't quite agree. The essential piece that transforms the study of Turing machines from mathematics into science is the Church-Turing thesis. And the Church-Turng thesis that is not deductive in any sense of the word.
Usury is not interest.

Interest is not usury.

They are different things, at least in out modern language. One has a moral value, the orher has not.
Reliance in India is planning on manufacturing sodium ion batteries as well, and purchased Faradion - a startup that was designing sodium ion batteries, for this purpose.
In Oregon we did that with forests dedicated to the support of schools. But forest harvest has been significantly handicapped (and on the Elliott halted all together) by environmental activists/litigators.
Ultimately any purpose is circular because there's always another why. And science doesn't necessarily describe chaos.

There are some questions science just doesn't answer and doesn't need to. We might never get the tools to peer past the boundaries of space and time, so speculation made by scientists in those areas is still kind of religious or at least not science. Religion can simply say God created everything last Thursday as if it had always been, and science has no refutation for that and doesn't need one.

Therefore I disagree with your analysis just because currently you can make that analogous comparison. There's probably always something like that because social discourse will spread current science to religion and vice versa, but they do not really need to compete. Also science has a chance of solving it's split but religion and philosophy will bang on about consciousness forever.
Russian Hackers Need Help So Much They’re Offering Bounties
Guess Sesame street should have thought twice before featuring the letters C, R, and T for today's lesson
I was a happy Goodreads user and librarian for many years, but quit the service completely last month, when they irrevocably changed their book interface. Old interface was one of the main reasons I liked Goodreads. I wrote them two feedback emails during testing period asking them to leave at least an option to switch back - never even got a reply. Oh well, I guess they don't need me as a user.

As for Footnote, when I go to https://footnote.cc all I can see is a sign up form and nothing else. I generally hate creating accounts, unless I absolutely have to. And here the first thing you ask me to do - is to sign up ... just to browse through your web site. No, thanks.

I guess I'll stick to my .ods spreadsheet for now.
Anyone can make $50000 from wheat if they get free land, free labor, and free machinery.

Also, $50000 for 7 students for "most of the year", assuming 7 months, is about $1000 per student per month. They'd make more working at McDonalds.
> It puts systems, politics and economic success far above the integrity of the human individual.

This sounds weird to me. I’m not American, but to me it seems like American culture puts a very high value of integrity, much higher than most of the rest of the world.

I’d say integrity is always in conflict with belonging: if you insist on being yourself, having your own values and beliefs, then it will be more difficult to “fit in”. So I’d say American culture prioritizes integrity over belonging. I guess that’s what individualism is.
Ask HN: How to deal with multiple working languages in the workplace?
I am a non-leader position a IT security consultancy company in a country in Europe. Our department is around 35 people, where about half is now hired from around Europe and the US, and have moved here. I am from this country, and English education is decent here, so we have all defaulted to (broken) English as the working language. However, we currently have the following challenges:
- What should be our working language? English, or should everybody have to learn the native language? Those that would, will not be able to have a technical discussion with a customer or write a report in the language for probably 1-2 years anyway.
- The native english speakers in the department have a major advance language wise, and "eat us up" in technical discussions, because most of us non-native english speakers can't convey the same arguments as fluently as them.
- Non-native english and non-native struggle with not being fluent in either of the working languages.
- Serious department discussions and meetings in (broken) English often lead to confusion and misunderstandings. We've seen an significant increase in personnel conflicts primarily because of poor use of language, or misunderstandings of it. And several remain unresolved because we in reality are working with 5-10 different languages and cultures.
When I started using Paredit I found "The Animated Guide to Paredit"[1] very helpful. It basicaly demonastrates some of the most useful commands in short videos.

[1]http://danmidwood.com/content/2014/11/21/animated-paredit.ht...
interval-timer – Python package for iterating over precisely timed intervals
https://i.imgur.com/fTE2wi3.jpg

Tsinghua students being cheeky protesting with the Friedmann Equation i.e. expansion of space / open up.
Without prison sentences for higher level people responsible, this is a pointless exercise.

Start throwing them into prison, and they will rat each other out.
Whether or not this is true has zero bearing on whether or not it is the job of marketing folks to engage in deception.
Fantastic work by Ken yet again.

It's striking how many of the early microprocessors shipped with bugs. The 6502 and 8086 both did and it was an even bigger problem for processors like the Z8000 and 32016 where the bugs really helped to hinder their adoption.

And the problem of bugs was a motivation for both the Berkeley RISC team and for Acorn ARM team when choosing RISC.
> Multiverse is just the null hypothesis.

I've never seen a cat in a 3/5i |dead> + 4/5 |alive> state before.

If unitary evolution is all that exists those states should propagate to macroscopic objects.

I'm not buying that as a null hypothesis of "just trust the QM math" because it is seriously fucking weird-ass math, beyond which most everyone who gets into these arguments generally appreciates. And to get to the multiverse you have to assume some kind of other extra mechanisms to make the world make sense. That isn't a theory without its own unknown magic sauce.

My own personal null hypothesis is wave function collapse and/or that QM is just precision math and not even epistemologically correct, and that cats are either |alive> or |dead> and not both (and certainly not a complex linear superposition of both). And the "extra mechanism" I'd postulate is just that we don't have the right mathematical model yet, just like classical mechanics was incomplete and that our math is just an approximation to reality (which quite a historical track record of being correct).
Companies do make new towns - a series of demountables that's moved offsite when the mine starts to wrap up. If companies cared enough they'd build sustainable towns in those areas - but they don't care about communities, they care about profit.

Australia's mining is 86% overseas owned. The rights over the mining "economy" are by vast majority held by overseas companies.
There's a gem in the notes at the end of this essay which resonates strongly with me:

By "good at reading" I don't mean good at the mechanics of reading. You don't have to be good at extracting words from the page so much as extracting meaning from the words.

The first lesson is that reading is not simply parsing glyhphs and assembling words. It's contextualising that information, assimilating it, analysing and synthesizing it. Strong shades of Mortimer Adler's How to Read a Book.

It also brings to mind a recent Ezra Klein podcast episode with Maryanne Wolf, on the neurophysiology of reading:

If you think about language, that is a natural process. There’s a genetic program in which it unfolds. There’s nothing like that for reading. We were never meant to read. But what is amazing is that the brain does have this almost semi-miraculous capacity to make new circuits within itself using the processes that are genetically there but in new ways. So what the brain has is the capacity to make novel circuits. And the invention, the human invention of reading, required a new circuit. So the brain very gradually learned how to connect parts that were there for other reasons and made a new circuit that became the first underlying network for reading very simple symbols 6,000 years ago.

<https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...>

Transcript: <https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/opinion/transcript-ezra-k...>

TL;DR: we've only been reading for 6,000 years, far too short for dedicated neurological hardware to evolve --- our brains are doing this in software as a learned behaviour.

Language: you're born with the innate capacity to do this, with dedicated neurological regions, speech hardware (the larynx, tongue, and other physiology), and possibly some hearing adaptations.

Reading? You've got to teach children how to do that, starting with alphabets, phonetics, meaning, and all the stuff we layer over atomic symbols: simile and metaphor, idioms, cultural touchstones, and all that jazz. And we do really well at that, at least at basic levels. Though if you look more deeply into actual skills, it turns out that literacy levels vary tremendously across the population, in ways which are not nearly as evident in, say, spoken language. See: "Adult Literacy in the United States" <https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019179/index.asp> (HN discussion: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29734146>)
> as 90% of them are drug addicts or alcoholics

Citation needed.
> with a separate interrupt stack

Some detail here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/x86/kernel-stacks.htm...
I agree this would be very useful. There are a number of datalog idioms (demand transformations is a big one for encoding functional programs, adding provenance, inlining relations, doing some light compile time backwards proof search) that it would be nice to have a good meta-programming/macro language to express. Prolog seems like a natural choice. I briefly tried going this route programming in prolog syntax so prolog could parse it, but generating souffle syntax out of the prolog metaprogram.
This is a Just So Story. "The fact that I killed him proves that he was weak and deserved to die." You can do better.
urban sprawl may be a factor. Loneliness is a physical thing. Even without friends, it feels good to know that humans are within 10 meters rather than 40. Most european cities are old and very high density, built for horses.
There's a long way between a concept that works for the mathematical model and reality.
> A very vocal subset of Elon's followers went from "free speech absolutists" to organized mass reporting their enemies in a matter of days. That has to be some kind of record.

Keep in mind "Elon's fans" is not one guy. It's different groups of people with different agenda. Many cheered for free speech when Elon proclaimed it so. Many of those were right-wing due to the perception (and reality) that Twitter's moderators are predominantly left-leaning, and Twitter has left-leaning culture.

Those in a hurry building hitlists are not the moderates cheering for Elon. They're opportunities on far right that are taking advantage of Elon, as he's easy to manipulate right now. He wants to be liked and he wants to "score a win" for Twitter. He falsely believes he's scoring wins for Twitter by appeasing the worst of the worst on right.

Sad to watch.
Makes me wonder why there are no portable system language keywords that abstract "hey, I know my peripheral touched this DRAM, please don't take it from the cache".
To be fair, it is a rite of passage for anyone doing a proper software engineering degree anyway.

Hence why there should be a very good reason to start an ecosystem from scratch, given how many languages get invented per year across the world universities.
https://archive.ph/ziimf
Most B2B are on 30/60/90 day payment terms anyway. You should be able to get your shit together in 30days without delaying any payments.

The more prudent thing would be to scrap all subscriptions/SAAS solutions you can live without, with one month notice where you are not contracted, where you are see how to activate any break-clauses etc.

So this month you pay the same but maybe next month you cancelled some nine essential stuff and your burn rate is 1-10% leaner? shrug
all countries have that. and yes, by design.
There'll be an option to Share to iCloud Drive (or some other file manager like Documents or File Explorer) or AirDrop to a Mac etc.
Sodium ion is much safer. Electrolytes in it may still be flammable, but CATL says there should be no thermal runaway or spontaneous combustion like Lithium-Ion. They’re also safer to ship without the hazmat warnings in the packaging.
thats why loneliness feels bad, because it feels like abandonment
I feel so bad for the people there, what they have had to put up with for the last couple of years, and what they still have to endure. It's all so pointless.
it isnt just american and seems to be widespread in northern europe too. maybe it's protestant or sth
I would also look for projects that are being majorly run by a number of large organizations, and see how you could be of help. Look at the CNCF project list and take your pick!
>narcissistic idiots who are intolerable to be around

>want to hang out all the time and have lots of sex and everyone will oblige you

Same people.
Yes, but butter is better than guns (most of the time). Take our escapades in Afghanistan: a lot of jobs but what do we have to show for it?

If instead we had a modern day CCC or such where we'd actually invest in our communities, etc., we could have far more healthy and prosperous society. But no, that would be socialism if we spent it on something nice.
I agree. My personal belief is some form of super determinism but I understand that may not be testable either.
Not sure if this is not an ironic comment in line with the topic of this post about Gen Z financial illiteracy.
> Will anything come out of this

I sincerely hope so, this was the only way that the Yellow movement would have any meaningful impact after the fall of HK: inspire mainlanders to start taking the necessary actions towards the CCP after what has been a totally disillusion period of prosperity financed entirely on their own eventual oppression and abject compliance.

Exceptionalism is what allows for these travesties to occur in the first place, once the harm is turned inward as a result covid policy and economic downturns would they be open to hear any of this: how soon did they forget about the efforts of Dr. Li Wenliang [0] who was censored by the CCP and ultimately died of COVID after the initial outcry?

0: https://archive.ph/tS3pw
Well, shit happens.
> This movement toward individualization correlates very strongly with the capitalism.

This idea never made sense to me. Capitalism is organized around people self-organizing to form companies. One man companies don't get much of anything done. There's nothing whatsoever about free markets and capitalism that prevents or discourages people working together.

BTW, even small voluntary collectives don't work. Jamestown didn't work, the first year the Pilgrims tried a collective didn't work, the kibbutzen in Israel doesn't work (they get subsidized by the government funded by taxes on capitalists).
With the almost absurd defensive advantages of the terrain and neighbors afforded to the US, the only effective existential threat is nuclear ICBMs or nuclear hypersonics. That in mind, it baffles me that half the DoD budget doesn't go to development of missile defense technology.
Science - here is our evidence, how do we interpret that.
Religion - here is the interpretation, how do we find evidence for it.

I don't know anything about religious thought. Not that it doesn't exist, but I don't know anything about it. Like I said, the way I see it, most people find value in it for practical everyday life. And the older I got, the more I understood it -- life is definitely easier if you are convinced of something and don't question it. But in that view it's mostly for the earthly things, and less for the religious thought.
> Well, good luck enjoying anything when you're surrounded by environmental feedback that points to its futility.

You're only surrounded by this feedback if you already buy in to the ideology that if you're not The Best™ at something then it's not worth doing.

This is a very toxic perspective.

The millions of people who learn to program/woodwork/paint/cook/etc. by watching YouTube videos certainly don't buy into this ideology, and have no problem enjoying it. I think the issue less "environment feedback that points to futility" and more your own perspective here.

People have hobbies for many reasons, "socially acceptable excuse to interact with people" is just one of them, as is "demonstrate exceptional mastery".
Well it does make the developer try harder to have a vulnerability. You can't just forget to bound check an array indexing, you need to actually take instructions from the Internet (e.g. eval, import, or exec in case of fail2ban), but of course the way this happens is usually very indirect (e.g. race condition).

No programming language can stop a determined developer from creating a vulnerability, but some languages make the task easier than others.
> We've been sitting in cars by ourselves since the mid-century.

Before that we've been riding horses by ourselves.

Before that we walked by ourselves.
https://community.bluettipower.com/t/bluetti-new-battery-sod...
Generators have a few footguns even for seasoned developers, calling len(mygen) or mygen[4] works, but after that it's empty when trying to iterate it. Particularly problematic is when someone adds a log of the generator content, exhausting it before before it is used. All this leads to people shotgunning mygen=list(mygen) on everything, without understanding what really happens.

How one could solve this i don't really know, generators are such useful concept that you can't really remove them either, and you still want them to be compatible everywhere other lists and iterables are. Even with type hints, it's not exactly obvious when you type the code whether a certain variable is a generator or a concrete list, both of them mostly adhere to the same protocol.
> She's absolutely right.

I wonder how much contact you have with the world of research in theoretical physics that lead you to this conclusion. More to the point: do you have any, or is this person your only source of information?

Do you know that phenomenon where you think you're learning good information from a source, until that source talks about a subject you're an expert in and you realize they have no idea what they're talking about? That's how I feel every time I see Sabine hossenfelder on HN.
I have a PhD in theoretical physics in a string-adjacent field[1], and my view is that this person has had negative net contribution to physics. First by contributing zero from poor research, and second by detracting by spreading the impression amongst the general population that experts aren't really experts, they don't know what they're talking about, are stupid or corrupt etc etc. Seems to be the theme of the 2020s that the most incompetent of any field become financially the most successful by making a business out of writing about how their colleagues are ignorant.

[1] my experience interacting with the kinds of muppets that are fans of Sabine is that at this point you'll have learned the argument that "well of course you think that way, that's because you're in the system and benefit from its rotting, being a PhD in X". If that's what you think about me, don't bother even responding. In reality I've left the academia for industry and am doing 10x better financially than any of my ex-colleagues - I benefit nothing from the effort I make in trying to communicate what is really going on here.
She has (or had?) a consulting service for autodidact physicists:

* http://backreaction.blogspot.com/p/talk-to-physicist_27.html

* https://aeon.co/ideas/what-i-learned-as-a-hired-consultant-f...
Glad you liked it! I'm amazed that you liked it cause it was my first semi-serious blog post haha.
Many thanks, my friend
I have similar experiences as the top-comment. Moved to US in 2017, bought a house in suburbs of Seattle.. have great relationship with neighbors.. meet new people through kids' school. I went to houston for a short period and met some interesting people through meetup groups. I think some of it is just individual leanings - you need to adjust to be part of a community.
I remember reading an article about youth unemployment in Spain. It was extremely high, something like 60% for people under 25. And the obvious answer (to me an Irishman) was why don't you emigrate. Lots of other parts of the EU have healthy job markets. But the reason given was that the young people didn't want to move out of their local town and move away from family life. I thought that was very interesting and I think it's just an example of what the opposite orientation looks like.
Slides give speakers more control. But I like using a combination approach, so some of my slides link to a zoomable/scrollable canvass.

I disagree that giving people information visually before you speak about it is bad. It may be a creative and engaging way to present. I like to pose visual mysteries sometimes and use my oratory to reveal the secret.

But I agree that the speaker is putting on a show and must be allowed to control it.
Railroad curves are usually splines. That was the original physical application. You need a curve that minimizes jerk as the radius changes.
You have a lot to say today.
Dupe: "Emperor Charles V's code cracked after five centuries"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33739437 (122 points | 1 day ago | 29 comments)
Thank you very much. I forgot about this.
Imagine how out of touch are you, thinking independent companies owe you money forever, because they once ran ads on your platform (... when it was still working).
Thank you for the respone.

Can we write like this?
Klass ssc __attribute__((64));

This could convey more info than padding.

Further, I wish, gcc could have provided an attribute
that explicitly forces for the cache line alignment than just
generic alignment. Generic scalar type alignment is not same
as the cache line alignment.

Example:
Klass sc __attribute__((start_at_cache_line));
Thanks. Too bad you didn't find Drupal worth hanging around for. Great you found a stack that makes you happier.
If we're looking to find root causes, then, in most cases, we can't stop at the drugs. There are almost always outside, causative circumstances which lead to those individuals taking the addiction pathway in life.

It's not a type of life that many would choose knowingly with eyes wide open.

As such, I don't see much point in stopping the buck at "the addiction".

Because even if we could magically, instantly reform all such people to full health, we'd just end up with another batch soon enough, if we did not also address the underlying societal and family causes that leads to the downfall of these susceptible individuals, and creates permanent "underclasses".
That link doesn't seem to point to a video.