skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here’s a different take: if you find yourself needing to sort a lot of data all the time, maybe you should be storing it sorted in the first place.

Stop faffing about with college text book solutions to problems like you’re filling in a bingo card and use a real database. Otherwise known as Architecture.

I haven’t touched a radix sort for almost twenty years. In that time, hardware has sprouted an entire other layer of caching. I bet you’ll find that on real hardware, with complex objects, a production-ready Timsort is competitive with your hand written radix sort.
The simplification is (was) part of the appeal. It felt clean and refreshing to mostly look at pretty photos with minimal text. And it was a much more positive space. Photos of vacations, food, clothes, pets, friends. No political fighting or conspiracy theories or bitching about an ex. The comment space, a usual cesspool of unmitigated negativity and cruelty, was conveniently tucked away.

I miss the pre-pandemic Instagram. Now, it feels like it's transformed into a more general-purpose, Facebook-like social network. Which I guess should have been predictable!
Excavation is very expensive.

For the limited subset of a parking garage, which generally has much lower ceilings than is normal for other uses, the cost of one underground parking space is around $30,000.
Same, feels like I was replaced just before I had a chance to start. Chess and go are games, impressive but not society changing problems to solve, these things are real stuff. We'll eventually go full circle where labor working with one's hands, fine motor skills and so on are the thing left for humans
Nope, this will lead to the same problem that the OP has discovered, viz., that a dependency update creates silent errors. Unless the argument is a keyword, but everyone is too lazy for that.
I think it’s a copypasta but I can’t quite recall.
It takes a second to open an app, become a MAU, and then close it in disinterest. I'll admit this is my relationship with Facebook. I never see anything on there I am remotely interested in. Just old relatives spewing nonsense. But I guess I count as one of those 2 billion MAUs. I wonder how many are in the same spot.
* if I were college age I'd definitely try to get as much exposure to AI-related courses as I can

* in our line of business nothing is future-proof, in 10 years your resume will retain at most 20% of the buzzwords you put on it now

* In the last 15 years backend development has lost its shine (interesting problems moved to DE/MLE or got replaced with cloud services). You stand a better chance with frontend development and native mobile Swift/Kotlin stuff is probably a natural extension

* it was said 20 years ago that software development was not a promising career and the developers would be replaced by this or that (e.g. RAD/no-code, AI, automation, outsourcing); IMO jobs moving to cheaper locations is actually the highest risk with FWH normalized at scale for the first time in history
What a stupide and offensive article. It would be like saying US supports Russia by buying its Soyouz rocket to fuel the ISS. You guys are usually way more clever and subtile to lower yourself in such brainless analysis about international dependency of strategic industries.
A french guy !
My wife and I have been married since 2012. She had an old beater and we bought a 2011 used Ford Fusion for her($15K) from CarMax.

I had a 2008 Honda Civic. In 2015, I gave my car to my older (step)son and bought a 2012 Sonic Fusion ($14k).

In 2020 when I started working remotely, my older son who didn’t live with us needed a car so I gave him my Sonic and we lived with one car for a year - I had a permanently remote job at $BigTech by then.

We shared the 2011 Fusion. A year later in the summer of 2021 we bought the Hyundai ($36k) and I drove the 2011 Fusion.

When we decided to do the digital nomad thing starting in October, we sold the Hyundai back to the dealer for what we owed and saved $750 between the car note and insurance. Right before we left, we sold the Fusion saving another $80 a month in car insurance.

Again this doesn’t count car maintenance.
Big Tech is Indian. It's Chinese. It's international. But one thing it isn't is American. It's unrealistic for people to expect that these solidly multi-national firms would uphold values such of freedom of speech, that the majority of the globe don't hold dear. China never had an Enlightment, nor did India. Neither of these countries value freedom of speech or expression, so it's strage to think that "our" big multinational tech firms, with their hordes of foreign and non-integrated first generation immigrant employees, would share these values.

Censorship on Twitter was driven by first generation children of immigrants, who clearly never had to learn about American values, obviously don't respect them, and in fact make it clear by their actions that they resent these values. We need to better integrate our citizen-immigrants, and their children, and inculcate the enlightment values which are the foundation of America in them. Perhaps forcibly. Because if we don't, they will destroy our society.
Reading through your answers I’m hugely impressed by your honesty and forthrightness. Hoping Threekit gets huge.
But that's not a good way of doing it. A one-word reply rarely makes clear what needs more explanation, or even that that's what you're after.

On the other hand, a low-effort, drive-by unsupported claim doesn't necessarily deserve great effort and eloquence in a response. Maybe we should be better than them, but we also all have limited energy.
> Is there a way to phrase statements that challenge others in a way that leads to conversation and not flags/greying out?

Of course there is! For example the way you have worded your question. It makes it clear what you diagre with and stimulates a conversation.

At the moment the greyed out comment simply says “why not?”. I would love to answer their question too, but it is not even clear what exactly it is about? And then further more are they disagreeing or are they requesting clarification on the root causes of some detail? If they are disagreeing on what grounds are they disagreeing?
Yes, the training doesn't encourage this. It encourages guessing, because if it guesses the next word and it's right, the guessing is reinforced.

Whenever the model gets something right, it's the result of good guesses that were reinforced. It's all guesswork, it's just that some guesses are right.
Or even if the device is authentic, every bit of data has to be assiduously validated because there’s known evidence of modifications after it left the repair shop. DKIM signatures did that for some emails but a lot of stuff has no obvious path to validate like that and now the repair shop guy is expressing concern, too:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/12/now-warni...
And even the non-advertisement posts are still self-promotional posts.
One thing is clear: the problem—the problems—are too multivariate for any one solution. Programs like these are triage, the root causes are distant and largely unaddressed.
Taxi service before Ridesharing were pretty atrocious, outside of maybe NYC. I think just destroying the cab cartels was a good enough benefit.

As far as transit goes: I suspect this is a more complex question. Transit needs to be planned and built intelligently, and the service needs to be reliable and safe. Most transit systems are not this. Once people have a bad experience on transit, they will immediately look for alternate options, and forever consider transit to be unsafe, ignoring the fact that more people die in vehicular accidents than in transit.
I am not doubting business potential; I can give two expletives about you or anyone else making money. I care only about users / customers.

A few things:

1) please read my other comment about encrypting / address encryption of data.

2) a ToS can be changed at any time in the future. If you value privacy, bake in client-side encryption ASAP. Use bcrypt + salt for the password hashing and use something like libsodium (https://libsodium.gitbook.io/doc/secret-key_cryptography/sec...) to encrypt/decrypt. These are both available in js:

Bcrypt: https://www.npmjs.com/package/bcrypt

Libsodium: https://www.npmjs.com/package/libsodium

Off the top of my head, have a user enter a password, generate a random nonce, hash it with bcrypt, store that hash to localstorage. Create a secretbox stream with that hash and run any data being persisted through that stream. This will add some safety to userdata.

3) if you do well and get acquired your ToS doesn’t protect anyone but yourself / the new owners

4) the instant you start accepting VC money you will slowly have less and less say in any of this — make protecting customers your first priority asap.
Anybody can sue anybody for any reason.
You're saying it's lying about itself?
Right. But it would be more fun for everyone here to conclude from one headline that they should now talk 95% of the time, not to ask any questions of the other person, and even cut them off for bonus like points. +500 social XP!
How the 8086 processor's microcode engine works
In this respect I disagree with the article.
No, the credits could only be used to run ads. However, the ads were run publicly, and competed in ad auctions with campaigns from actual customers paying actual money.

If employees had a $25k ad budget, that would mean increasing the demand for ad placement by $25k, which could actually affect the ad campaigns of real customers - definitely not ideal.
> "Pascual Jordan was a literal Nazi and a significant participant in the destruction of the centuries-old German mathematics and fundamental physics community (and the respective refugee-fueled rise of the American one)."

That's an oversimplified account of his role in the Nazi era.

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.882858
The speakers are even properly aligned to form a triangle with the listener's head rather than facing straight ahead. Rare for these studio profiles.
Show HN: This Hacker News Does Not Exist
I have done exactly that... the results were basically the same as I get from DiffusionBee app for stable diffusion

i.e. regions of the image are locally impressive, it has understood the prompt well, but the overall picture is incoherent... the head or one or more legs may be missing, or legs or wings sprout from odd places

like, it gets the 'texture' spot on but the 'structure' is off
I'm not sure whether this is another example of convincing hallucination but the linked Tweet discussing GPT3 on HN yesterday [1] suggested that adding "browsing: enabled" to the prompt allowed the model to query web pages... Could be worth a try with your prompt?

[1] - https://twitter.com/carnage4life/status/1598332648723976193
Maybe it's not possible with picking, but having worked at Amazon IXD, I think it's certainly possible with most items (>70%) in the receiving, sorting, and preparation processes at the cross docks.

I'm not sure about Amazon Logistics in the US, but at least in Europe I got the feeling that management just doesn't care about automating processes because humans are still cheaper in most cases.

Amazon Logistics uses some brilliant tactics in Germany to basically get workers for 50% off while maximizing productivity; all subsidized by taxpayers:

In West Germany we have countless unemployed people after the migration wave of 2015/2016, and those who were able to stay and gotten asylum are often "unskilled" workers who have trouble finding a job. These people go to the employment office (Arbeitsamt), and the Arbeitsamt's "Jobcenter" then sends them to Amazon. If people don't comply, the Arbeitsamt cuts their unemployment benefits, which would lead to even worse living conditions for those who are already living in poverty. So, there is a big incentive to take these very bad jobs at Amazon.

The worst thing about this is that in Germany the government pays employers an "integration subsidy" (Eingliederungszuschuss). This is a percentage of wages paid by the state.
It's up to 50% for 12 months for everyone who joined Amazon via the Jobcenter; and for people who were unemployed for >2 years, it's 75%(!) the first year and 50% the second year.

Also, after two years, an employee is entitled to a permanent contract. Everybody wants to have this unlimited contract, but only a small percentage gets it. Therefore, workers with fixed-term contracts try as hard as they can to get this offer at the end of their term.

However, Amazon knows exactly that after the workers get a permanent contract, the productivity decreases. There are internal statistics for this (this is also the reason why only such a small percentage gets this offer in the first place).

But the smart thing now is that each warehouse is a separate legal entity. This means that in reality, workers are terminated after 2 years, but are offered a new contract by the warehouse that is right next to it. There they then have to work extremely hard again for 2 years, hoping for a permanent contract. HAt this state most people give up and leave Amazon.

Anyway, back to automation:

In Europe, Amazon has always just bought extremely expensive instead of investing in research themselves. We then bought overpriced machines like OPEX Sure Sort. The sorting system itself works quite well, but it's just not integrated into the process at all. This means that at the end of the day, people have to fill the machine manually, and the bottom line is that only two workers per machine (which costs a quarter million euros, so you need 4 years for break-even) are eliminated.

The only in-house product we had from Amazon Robotics / Ex-Kiva was a robot for palletizing EPAL pallets. This thing is actually great and really helped to maximize throughput.

I don't think Amazon will ever achieve an all lights off IXD with the current governance.
This seems more annoying than using tailwind.
I usually just upvote and move on, not to add a noisy comment to the discussion; however you comment was so informative and well-written that I felt compelled to comment on it.

For those who want to try the fedora, I recommend the “Indiana Jones” look (https://herbertjohnson.co.uk/collections/indiana-jones-colle...). I had one of these but unfortunately the parent’s comment about them being aerofoils is true: lost it to a gust in the Grand Canyon. It fell tantalizingly close to the fence, re-creating the “Let it go!” scene :-)
If AI will be able to do your SWE job I can't really see why it wouldn't be able to do basic to mid-level AI work. So in that case lots of data scientists will lose their job as well...with perhaps a tiny tiny minority of freak geniuses still developing and experimenting with better AI techniques.
I see where you're coming form but don't make huge changes based just on fear. You'll keep being afraid even if you move to AI...it's in our DNA to be worried all the time.
Details? And, um, we had an official Communist Party back then, and maybe still do, and the people in it were not killed, so... maybe what you're implying isn't a reasonable inference?
I’m wondering if the answer isn’t to do consulting. Build up your private toolkit of frameworks and best practices so you can get super fast at providing high quality results.
Hi Hackernews! This is a little project I made in my free time. It's a fun and whimsical parody of Hacker News. I wanted to experiment with Faker.js and other JS libraries.

It randomly generates Hackernews headlines. You get new results each time you refresh the page. I spent about 4 days making this, and learned a lot in the process, and it was my first open source side project in a long time.

It was inspired by This Person Does Not Exist and other 'Does Not Exist' projects which you can find here: https://thisxdoesnotexist.com/

If you spot any bugs or have any ideas on maybe how to improve it, post your thoughts here.

The source code can be found on GitHub, where it's hosted:

https://github.com/coxomb/This-Hacker-News-Does-Not-Exist/tr...

I hope you enjoy the project :)
The economist is a center left publication
This looks lovely!

If I can find a way to easily sync notes between computers this may be a long-term replacement for Simplenote and nValt.

Thank you!
2019, just in time not to be a covid adaptation.
Their managed databases aren't that great unless you're willing to spend $100+/month. The cheap $15 instances are single threaded on oversubscribed hardware. I wouldn't recommend it unless you're okay with queries taking a long time. (Like over a minute when it gets really bad)
BCD = Binary Coded Decimal
Possibly related:

Too Clever by Half

https://www.epsilontheory.com/too-clever-by-half/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17079369
I simply don't fly any more. It's just not something I'll do. The last three times I flew, I got sick as well. Cabin filters are obviously not changed as regularly as they used to be. And Boeing's $6 an hour employees will literally KILL YOUR WHOLE FAMILY through their negligence as the Boeing compliance people chuckle about fooling the FAA in email chains.
> Yeah just means you have to rely on linting and your ide to catch those errors. And hopefully the rest of your team does the same thing.

Yes, and that’s roughly what TypeScript is: a linter that everyone on your team is running.
or just units of measure a more general solution than what you're suggesting, implemented by languages like F#

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-ref...
Ah, my bad there. That was what I meant with subtypes, but you're right, things have moved further there already.

Sorry for the misinfo!
It doesn't get cheaper than Uiygur slaves. It's impossible.

Edit: Weeeger? Huioghur?
Because the economist (a left liberal organization) is evidence based all far leftists will see it as right wing even though it never endorsed conservative candidates.
A general point in drug harm reduction - the “classic” drugs are mostly surprisingly safe. MDMA, LSD, cocaine, even heroin (when pure) have quite favorable safety profiles compared to, say, alcohol as a benchmark.

Also, the long-term health effects are well understood, and treatments for overdose established. For example, it’s safe to take (pure) heroin regularly (though I wouldn’t personally advocate for this of course).

On the other hand, the new families of synthetic drugs (Cathinones that replaced MDMA, random novel psychedelics, and fentanyl replacing heroin) all have far worse safety profiles.

When you make drugs illegal, the market responds by finding the cheapest illegal substitute, with little concern for safety. On the other hand, if we made heroin legal, then nobody would mess with fentanyl. Ditto with MDMA over m-cat or whatever. And while drug use would increase a bit at the margin, harm to society would dramatically decrease. Most people don’t actually want to be junkies it turns out!

The money saved from not criminalizing drugs could provide extremely good addiction counseling for anyone that wanted it, further reducing the harm.

And lots of crime is just stealing to buy drugs; it’s plausible that overall crime would go down substantially if we gave heroin prescriptions to addicts. I’d rather prescribe heroin (with free access to good addiction counseling) to someone who is addicted than have them breaking into cars stealing stuff to fund their habit.

Finally, another related argument - the geopolitical harm of the drug trade is immense. Drugs flow north to the US, and money and weapons flow south to the cartels. If we legalized cocaine, then we’d stabilize many regimes (eg Mexico, Columbia) that are currently struggling with cartel violence. On net you’d see a massive flourishing of humanity under this policy. A little bit more drug addiction in countries that can afford to treat it, and way less murder and kidnapping in countries that are trying to catch up. (Surprisingly, the Economist recently advocated for legalizing cocaine: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/10/12/joe-biden-is-to...)
> Are you referring to “Classic” style of prose as it is portrayed in the book “Clear and Simple as the Truth”?

No, although that's an excellent book. I'm referring to the essay-writing tradition that started with Michel de Montaigne (who first used the word 'essay' in that sense). He was a skeptic and thought of essays as wandering and exploratory, not probative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essays_(Montaigne)

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/montaigne
> in younger generations & high-value markets like the US that have higher future cash flows

People in their 30s and 40s earn more money than college students and new grads in their 20s, and they are spending that money right now. Facebook groups for home decorating, design, cars, fitness, parenting, all of those are really popular. You can go on Facebook and find a large community dedicated to literally any style of home decor you can imagine, and those people are quite willing to spend money.

Same with the parenting groups. DINKs don't spend money at anything near the rate parents do. DINKs have higher free cash flow, but that is because they have free cash, parents are buying stuff all the time.

Honestly, 5 years ago I barely used Facebook, now that I am older I am using it a lot more.

Also, with that entire population decline thing, each new generation is, at best, the same size as the generation that came before it. If constant double digit growth is desired, sure, need to get that next generation on board, but at some point Facebook may have to be happy with "just" earning hard to imagine amounts of money each year and only seeing single digit growth in revenue.
I'd actually keep using social apps more if they stayed closer to their original versions.

My Facebook feed turned from updates from my friends and family to garbage filled with politics, ads, suggested pages, and I stopped using it.

My Instagram feed turned from photos of my family and friends to garbage: again ads, recommended pages, later videos. Eventually I deleted it.

Twitter was close to that when they introduces algorithmic feed which showed stuff I didn't want to see and I was close to deleting the app, thankfully there's a way to still have the chronological feed without all the "likes" and "recommendations".

I keep using Reddit because I still can use it the same way as years ago - join communities that interest me and not see the stuff I don't want (even though they regularly push some more useless stuff to show me)

I believe social media can last long, but they need to find balance between monetization, innovation, and staying true to their users. Facebook and Instagram went way too far in alienating their users, and while they're still popular, they're declining.
one bit of advice about contracting in the uk - given to me ages ago when I first started contracting is:

"It's like playing a game where the rules change without you knowing and people cheat"
these studies really aren't that obscure or uncommon. just search for "gut biome and weight".
Yeah, to me the moral of the story was write more tests.
Modern London taxis (the electric ones) are made by LEVC (1) which is "a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chinese automaker Geely." (2)

And also an excellent real-world testbed for commercial electric vehicles.

1) https://levc.com/

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Electric_Vehicle_Compan...
So I was wondering if it needs a more complicated procedure? Lateral thinking?

Should I be asking it for a picture of a cat in the style and setting I want and then use image-to-image to replace the cat with a dragon?
Looks like a nice, personalized setup from the perspective of an electronic musician. For as much as he's invested in that setup he should really consider upgrading his studio monitors to something nicer.

Those Yamaha speakers are like mixing with cotton stuffed in your ears and they're easily the biggest bottleneck that I can identify within that setup.
Great news for HIV patients. How come this didn’t get attention and upvotes? The mysterious ways oh HN algorithm.
I tried browsing: enabled today and it always just told me it can't browse the internet.