skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have some stuff on real splines (their similarity and difference from the mathematical idealization) in section 3.12 of my thesis (page 39 of https://www.levien.com/phd/thesis.pdf).

There's also a bunch of stuff in there about Euler spirals (aka clothoids), including application to railways - see section 6.6, page 106. Fun fact, I'm going to get my first tattoo soon, and it will be an Euler spiral.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_finance_reform_in_t...
My current plan is legal loopholes which I am researching. I want to know the odds I'm against.

There are plenty of loopholes if you just Google it but most of them are absolute nonsense and clickbait. There's one guy I know of who managed it through wood management building gray area. Looks most promising as it doesn't require 12 acres of land.
Yeah, I know, I worked at Waymo.

My point wasn’t that these systems will never work in some capacity - my point is that they’re taking a lot longer to roll out than people predicted, and that the internals of these systems aren’t end-to-end ML models - it’s ML-based perception feeding in to a lot of traditional robotics code, with ML models handling certain prediction tasks in certain spots.
California case law now recognizes a way of necessity where the common owner was the federal government. Problem solved. Other states may follow.
Yawn. For a joke, it's generated a huge amount of value for the world, so I'll laugh and carry on using it.

EDIT:

Including your PHP WordPress blog. Curious.
Rust fans, when you take a dig at Java or Python, be a bit nice and don't throw numbers without any basis

> Python is two Orders of Magnitude (100x) slower than C. Suddenly, your $3,000 MacBook Pro barely beats an early-1990s-era 386DX computer.

Right under Java logo

> It is not just 60-frames-per-second games that long for high performance. Any CPU-bound or repeated process also requires it
This link doesn't work if you DNS block trackers. The URL redirects to https://tags.news.com.au which is a tracker. Do you have a direct link that works without a redirect?
The worst part is that it dehumanizes the person who might legitimately have a mental illness condition.

When shitty pop-sci articles like this "helpfully" label certain behaviors as bad-sounding medical terms, it helps no one. It just cements the stigma of mental illness in society and prevents people from seeking help.

I've recently adopted a very strong principle - I will vehemently oppose any kind of narrative that puts down people with mental illness, because I believe it to be cruel and unhelpful at best, and malicious and sadistic at worst.
I think it's definitely a spectrum. You read the article and thing "yes I also get sad and somewhat defensive when I am laid off, broken up with or not hired." But just feeling those narcissist feelings for a moment is much different than it be out of control, or causing you to binge drink or yell at your partner etc etc.
> I can’t find equivalent data for sexual assaults in schools in the United States, but I’m going to go out on a limb and say that it is almost certainly much lower - one small survey in the UK showed that 22% of kids said they’d been shown unwanted pornographic images at least once.

According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center: "almost one in four undergraduate women experienced sexual assault or misconduct at 33 of the nation's major universities".

https://www.nsvrc.org/statistics
Be sure to read up on oxygen barrier vs permeable Pex. (You probably already have, but if not, you almost certainly want barrier Pex in a closed-loop system.)
IMHO it’s worth bothering to disagree with people who espouse all those things.
Does a nix language server improve discoverability?
> Aside: It' a little unclear what area exactly the article is talking about. When I look up San Luis Valley, I see an area of mostly center-pivot irrigation (near 37.698, -106.009), so I assume that there is a non-arable part of the valley with low property values.

Try looking at areas like around San Luis Valley Ranches: https://www.google.com/maps/place/San+Luis+Valley+Ranches/@3...
>"It's this new, belligerent "Toxic Individualism" that's taken hold, supported by recent technological change (such as social media) and recent political/cultural change (many examples)."

I feel like this started with reality-tv which predates social media by a few years. I think reality-tv took poorly-behaved and uninteresting people and elevated them. I think this not only normalized bad behavior but even celebrated these people as special. It seems like this just primed the pump for what came after with social media. TikTok/FB/Instagram et al, seem to enable and encourage everyone to star in their own reality-tv shows where the mundane, banal and uncivil are treated as interesting and worthy of attention.
My city water pressure was around there, with few ill effects. I've since installed a pressure regular to drop it to around 60psi. But I liked it better before, especially on the silcocks.

It's not really the pressure that has me worried, but rather the potential flow rate. I've dealt with a flooded basement before, and I'd rather not do it again.

I don't see many people complaining that PEX fails by completely pulling apart, but it's hard for my intuition to accept that.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/well-heeled

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/well-heeled.html
Are people in this boat thinking of working on fun or side projects as they look? Especially non-commercial or for-good work. Curious if we’ll see interesting creative work come out of this period it if people are growing disillusioned enough with the current system to start experimenting with other approaches.
My family is not in a city, I do not misunderstand. A lot more than farmers live in rural areas.

The kind of take you have isn't unusual for HN though. Most people from HN have spent their entire lives in cities or suburbs, so their empathy is short.
I have only one comment: He should’ve sued earlier. Inexcusable.

Also, the fact that the Powerwalls have processing overloads with 10 connected? Give me a break. A Nintendo Switch can coordinate with up to 11 other Switches in Mario Kart for a LAN party without internet.
Arguments about what's easy to do in any editor lose a bit of their shine in the post-GitHub era. Barring the development of a really good language-aware semantic diff algorithm that I'm guessing doesn't exist yet, you really do need to have a consistent coding standard everywhere if you want to avoid injecting unnecessary chaos (and, in this case, accessibility challenges) into exactly the parts of the modern software development lifecycle where code readability is most important.
Remind me of the song: The sound of silence.
> There are some APIs like this but last time I checked they didn’t cover all usecases.

This refers to[1]

<&mut [T]>::split_at_mut(usize) -> (&mut [T], &mut [T])`

used as

let (first_42, rest) = mutable_slice.split_at_mut(42);

but you can see that the inner logic is just a bit of pointer twiddling[2]

let len = self.len();
let ptr = self.as_ptr();

// SAFETY: Caller has to check that `0 <= mid <= self.len()`
unsafe { (from_raw_parts(ptr, mid), from_raw_parts(ptr.add(mid), len - mid)) }

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.slice.html#method.sp...

[2]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/src/core/slice/mod.rs.html#1641-16...
Show HN: WebStickies – Sticky notes for the internet
I made a browser extension that lets you leave notes on websites.

Some features: search by content, add tags, sync, export/import
R has much much better statistical packages that R, if it is statistics, you can probably find a package in R to do it, not same with python. And the programming language is much better for statistics than numpy/pandas if a package is not sufficient. I use both, and for statistics have no choice but to use R. For data, I use python.
Anecdata: I worked at a large non-FAANG tech company, and went down to 60%. There were many fewer issues like that than I expected.

There were downsides (A project failed because I didn’t have time to fill in the shortcomings of a teammate, which I’d been quietly doing), but on the balance it was very positive.
As someone who is NOT a pipe fitter but lived with one for many years.. It was odd reading this and I'm glad someone like you responded to correct things.

> For what it’s worth, I tightly wrap the tape 10 times round the male thread and get an enraged mountain gorilla to tighten it up.

Again, not a pipe fitter but this just screams "WRONG". If someone needs to use that much force to tighten it up, one can only assume that the pipe is now so full of tape it simply doesn't fit?

My roommate had a "unlimited BTU" gas fitter license (Canada Class "A") and this for a living and preferred "pipe dope"

"Pipe dope is generally stronger seal than Teflon tape, which is why plumbers and other professionals use it rather than tape for seals that are permanent."
As I recall, one of the clinchers was his use of the phrase, "you can’t eat your cake and have it too" as opposed to the now-predominant variant "you can’t have your cake and eat it too."

I often wonder if stylometry can be used to positively identify a person based not on general word frequency, but by a single phrase or two which are rare in general but commonly used by the individual. In theory this could be relatively easy to find given a large corpus. You'd pick out the top few n-grams for short phrases by an individual and identify the ones which are most overly-represented compared to the rest of the population.
No, I've never felt that way about a union electrician or generic handymen.
https://archive.ph/D8HM6
It's good that the decision came out the obvious right way, but it's really shameful that such a clear-cut case involving an individual asked to share a bed with another still tool 7 years to settle. This is really a sign that something is wrong in the court system.

This was not a business dispute or a clash between companies, 7 years is a long time when an individual has their individual rights violated.
More recently, beyond pH control, cities are doing orthophosphte corrosion control. Nearly universal in UK but hit and miss in other places.

https://www.haldimandcounty.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Or...

A big source of lead can be recently sweated copper lines (takes a while for the corrosion control to coat it), but lead solder isn’t supposed to be in potable use anymore. And old fixtures!

Even newer “lead-free” fixtures aren’t 0% lead.

https://www.epa.gov/sdwa/questions-and-answers-about-final-l...
Summarily, after 2h of posters: hearing what is up from other people they care about is why.

Kind of like Twitter, only Twitter is also good at discovery.
> Narcissism is a just a term in pop-psychology for someone who is doing something we don't like.

Nobody who has lived with this type of person would agree with you.

Yes for scientific or legal purposes one may require a high burden of evidence.

But for everyday usage the narcissist terminology is a life saver for many people who may otherwise not understand the behavior of these dangerous individuals.
Not really surprising, since failures of introspection are quite central to the "dark triad" and related syndromes. It happens to some extent with every psychological condition, but especially with those. In general, people don't see themselves very clearly, and those who most need to are often least likely to. It's like the Dunning-Krueger effect, though with social/emotional things rather than intellectual.
Dr. David Sinclair: The Biology of Slowing and Reversing Aging
True, but there are way more typesetters employed today than in the 1930s, and what they are able to do with their skills has changed a lot. I guess I’m just arguing that animation will follow the same path.
Mm yes but BEL is not a character that can be typed on a keyboard with any amount of ease.
So you have no idea how the interview went, and you're coloring in that absence of information with your own biases? This is the type of annecdote you should keep to yourself.
It will be a good idea to check out the previous/ongoing layoff reasons, and decide accordingly.

Are they closing one of the products and those people can't be reassigned? They decided to get rid of sales team because they weren't as effective?

There is a huge bubble of layoffs nowadays BUT they all are not equivalent in nature. An example: layoffs have been a normal thing in financial companies for over few decades (performance based).
Beyond risk tolerance, companies post-layoffs are miserable places to work. Emotions are high, moral is low, and work piles up. Whatever "company culture" is boasted during interviewing is not going to exist if you take the job.
Lanier’s books are very, very good - he’s a genuinely novel thinker with a deeply humanistic perspective on technology. I highly recommend “You are not a gadget” and “Who owns the future?”, and “Dawn of the new Everything” will get you genuinely excited about VR.
This looks like great stuff if you follow the pointers, but lists don't make good submissions to HN (which itself is already a list). They tend not to lead to deep discussion because comments are about lowest common denominator of the items on the list, and this is usually pretty generic. What's better is to pick the most interesting item on the list and submit that instead. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

Edit: let's do that in this case. I've changed the URL from https://madebyevan.com/algos/ based on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33764875.
Wrong. This is in a late state, and very high quality.

And Google is not really known to release high quality projects overall. Only some of them are.
First I heard of this bit - hilarious! Thanks for sharing.
This particular situation had to do with `&'static str`s baked into the program repeatedly getting compiled into `Regex`es at runtime. It wasn't possible to precompile these `Regex`es due to `serde` architectural limitations.

I chose to cache them at runtime by compiling `&'static str`s once and leaking to make a corresponding `&'static Regex`. This is a "leak" insofar as I can't ever release them, but it's leaking into a global cache, and it's bounded because the input strings can't ever be released either. There was a code path which handles dynamic strings, and that path still allocates and frees regexes after the changeset.
Stress should be on the fact that 5 acres is just tiny in this context. Even Texas, very lax gun laws, has a 10 acre minimum in most areas to be able to fire a gun or hunt. My family has 100 acres in remote part of Texas and neighbors can still be a pain in the ass. They also see your coming and going so unfortunately you will likely he burglarized by a neighbor at some point. We keep trained guard dogs on the property at all times and have video footage of them chasing off several people from trespassing (likely there to steal stuff).
Its definitely worth considering, but it's also entirely possible (especially at a very large company) that you are being hired into a different part of the business which is in some way isolated from the layoffs. E.g. joining a core business team while R and D / exploratory new stuff is getting cut might still be fine.

I'd also just ask them, although of course it's hard to trust any answer you get completely.
> If we could shift ever so slightly away from "Biggest Number at end of year - bigger than last years number - at all costs" we could increase staff by just a little bit and move just about any industry to 4 or even 3 day work week.

The problem with this approach is buyers are looking for the lowest price, so it requires efforts on the national government scale (or multiple national governments, even significantly all of them) to put a floor on this lowest price.

Otherwise you will get outcompeted by someone able to obtain/perform labor for cheaper.
https://outofthefog.website/what-to-do-2/2015/12/3/medium-ch...
Ok, let's try changing the URL from https://madebyevan.com/algos/ (a generic list) to https://docs.rs/fractional_index/latest/fractional_index/ (the item you're taking about).

Explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33764956. Thanks!
Why would it be obvious? For that matter, since I'm out of the loop, what's the mechanism for losing fat to improve insulin control?
No, it's not necessarily a red flag. The company might cut back on unprofitable businesses and reinforcing their profit making arms.

It is important to consider your own preferences, don't listen too much on others :) For example, some people thrive in companies that are doing extremely well, have lots of money for experimentation, there's not much financial pressure, etc. Some others (e.g. myself) like being dropped into crisis situations because they're interesting, you can learn a lot about people and every decision matters. Also, being a contrarian can help you to opportunities that you'd not get during 'peacetime'.

You can ask about job security during an interview. Many interviewers will be honest, and if they're not, you can still guess based on their reaction.
This is so smart. Even if it requires an initial reinstall action of magnetizable spots along the roof.
Dr. Les Carter
https://www.youtube.com/@SurvivingNarcissism

If you have or had to deal with people with NPD, this doctor is a very, very good source of lots of information / videos on the topic and how to deal with it and finally: move on.

I don't think there is any topic left, that wasn't discussed there and in a very human tone.

The space around NPD on Youtube is very saturated, but this one channel really stands out.

I never expected to see this topic on HN and now really had to share this to all interested parties.
In South India, they have a carbohydrate-rich diet. So when you get hit badly with T2D, you switch to fish, limited brown/red rice, and veggies. In most cases, all of your medication stop if you maintain your weight and diet with exercise. Unfortunately, only some maintain a diet and healthy weight. Even 10 kg weight loss gives far better control for T2D.
I think the French judgement sounds reasonable. Especially given the sexual and humiliating overtones. But this one:

>An auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers in England sued the company over severe injuries he sustained at a work event that “made a competitive virtue” of “excessive” drinking, in a lawsuit filed in London’s High Court this year. Michael Brockie fell down in the street, went into a coma and later had part of his skull removed after participating in the company event

Dammit! --if only he'd thought to say 'No thanks. I've had enough' after the first few pints... or even 'No thanks. I don't drink'.

But much better [and more profitable] to fail to take responsibility for your own actions, do something really stupid, fuck yourself up... and then cast around for someone to sue.
> e.g. my colleague's `pr-to-pr.sh`
script

That saves typing for sure, especially if it can generate a story ID too (via Jira API, for example). The script itself represents knowledge just in case someone forgets.

> [why] use git (the CLI program) directly
> include among those "tools" the few CLI
commands for things I do so often
> not extra cognitive waste

Admittedly, that's why: fear of forgetting the simplest invocation. So strong that somehow my brain doesn't think, "Okay, write a shell script wrapper around this."

But also, seeing .gitconfig of others, "I really shouldn't type this all out each time."

And then, "Where can I put this so it's mine?"
> as soon as a legitimately better search engine popped up

Kagi?
(broad generalizations ahead) Technical management and people management are different jobs. People management involves a lot more focus on hiring, performance evaluation, and performance management. It also tends to have many more meetings, including 1:1 meetings with all of your reports weekly or biweekly. This generally does not leave time for significant individual contributor work.
Not if you have a balanced dataset. If not, you're already getting into trouble with GANs, which is why they were superseded by diffusers on image generation tasks.
> Take Wordpress as an example. There really should not be a need to cache a Wordpress site. But some of the most popular plugins are those that cache.

Caching gives sites about two orders of magnitude speed uplift in my experience. Sometimes more.
Especially if you are building the pages live and compressing them.

Brotli -11 is really really expensive and egress data transfer is one of the more expensive commodities to purchase from cloud venders.

Caching also reduces latency significantly - which is a much better user experience.
It's not abstraction, QEMU uses Hypervisor framework (which is equivalent to KVM). Virtualization framework is Apple own hypervisor (which is equivalent to QEMU).
I thought this was common knowledge. Type 2 diabetes is 100% reversible through diet.
The moment gmail asked me to "verify" my account and that only using one of the massively grotesque and absurd vanguard/blackrock web engines (including their SDKs) out there (I could log and use gmail with a noscript/basic (x)html browsers as tons of internet services should), I became self-hosted.

But this is not enough. This has to go to regulation/court. They are extinguishing all alternatives (usually, making interop technically a real pain): oligarchy of compuserves. Those are nasty ppl, really nasty, expect rough times.
This is like that effective altruism nonsense, but with extra guilt added. No thank you.
>Why?

Because by itself it's just an ad hominem, just an attack against someone's character, with no other substance. It's not better than to point a finger and yell "Ur dumb!".
Ask HN: Would a degree bring any value, in my case?
For context, I'm in my late 20s and wrote my first snippets almost a decade ago.

Initially, I considered enrolling in a formal program, but my math skills at the time (required for passing the entrance exam) were far from brilliant, which meant that getting into it required relearning all high school math from the ground up. Since I was still young (and optimistic), I delayed going to uni until the following year and started improving my math skills. Long story short, going from being unable to add two fractions to computing derivatives and integrals by hand took longer than I'd like to admit. To be clear, I could have finished earlier had I focused exclusively on math, but I simply couldn't, as it was too dry. In parallel, I went through three-quarters of the literature recommended in the curriculum. I have also acquired plenty of hands-on experience and have written a bunch of stuff, ranging from a traceroute clone to a virtual stack machine.

Frankly, I feel worn out after all these years of delayed gratification, and I can't imagine spending another 4-6 years this way. My entire self yearns for tangible results.

Even if I didn't feel this way, what is the value of a computer science or software engineering degree in 2022/23, in my case? Certainly, not knowledge, as virtually all information is widely available outside the uni walls. Networking? Is a uni an ideal place to network for someone like me, considering that my peers would be more than a decade younger than me? Wouldn't I be better off networking with people in the industry? I have high aspirations and dreams of working at a FAANG company. But even then, not having a degree isn't a deal breaker because I know, for sure, that it's possible to get into a FAANG without one. Immigration paperwork? Even for that, work experience can be a substitute for a degree.

Yet somehow, I still can't let go of this idea. I suspect it's burned into my brain as a boolean test of whether I'm capable.

My other plan was to find a local job, stay there for a few years to gain some marketable skills (for example, web), and then find a well-paying remote job in a couple of years.

So, tell me HN, what do you think?