skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My (more or less extensive) experience with Julia has been rather good.

Step 1. Prototyping. Small data, don't care about performance. Julia is as easy as python, but faster. GC doesn't matter.

Step 2. Production. Very large datasets. Performance is very important so I make sure that hot loops don't allocate, and so GC doesn't matter.

Really, I struggle to see how someone can not like this.

Regarding hiring. My experience has been that you can roughly divide people into two categories. Those who like using tools, and those who like solving problems. For the former, a different language might be an issue because they might not know and might not be in the mood for learning it. For the latter, they're happy to learn any tool that can help solve their problem. We want the latter, and for the latter learning Julia hasn't been an issue.
Yes, see this for more details of how XetHub deduplication: https://xethub.com/assets/docs/xet-specifics/how-xet-dedupli...
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> I guess, what I'm saying, is just be careful not to get stuck in an ADHD local maximum where you're getting a dopamine hit for jumping to the next new thing. Sometimes taking the time to become a real expert in something can pay off on a longer time scale.

> I'm not saying that it's bad to have 1 year of experience n times, you're probably pretty good at getting up to speed - you have n years of experience of learning new things, and that is also valuable in many contexts. I'm just saying that it can be a local maximum.

That's a really great way to phrase it, thank you.

It's definitely like that now I think about it... although I do see many engineers get caught working in bad environments because they choose too early.
I think that we need to just…de-emphasize online communication significantly. I say this, as a stranger communicating with strangers online, but I think that this activity is a lot more pleasant without having to consider all of the technological underpinnings (and the goofy name) of the Fediverse.

When I chose a social media platform in the past, I didn’t care about engagement, or who was there or how to find people, or the philosophy behind how it operated, all I really cared about that the content. I didn’t even care about the content being moderated. Why would I care about Nazis using Tumblr if I didn’t follow any?

I think that some people have become almost dependent on the concept of online social networks. Yes they are cool and all and its cool to find ideas and conversations online, but I think we are heading down a road where that intangible taste and intrigue is being lost because certain factors are being prioritized to the point where people are forgetting that if they just cared a little bit less, they could disregard the whole jumble of protocols and policies and start a message board.
> This is the same in the US, if you hire someone in a different state you need a legal entity in that state, and there may be different local laws around taxes, health insurance, pay, etc.

While you have to register your business in the other state, you most certainly don't need a separate legal entity. I help run a small company with employees in three states, but we only have a single legal entity.
Good job on PDF editing updates, it is really convenient when you don't need an additional PDF program and can do everything in browser. You know what is also convenient? Adding web apps to desktop, so you can use web application like MS Teams without installing huge application. Also, with Teams desktop app being deprecated in favor of PWA, this would be very useful for many businesses. And finally, how is video conferencing support going? It is really inconvenient to switch to another browser or use yet another application to communicate with co-workers. I thought proprietary video streaming implementation should've been decommissioned around this time and only open standards left supported?

Sorry for what seems like another long rant, but thinking about business use, those two small features could help onboard quite a few new users, and retain current users.
Yes well done .
I've thought about that, but that's closer to the metal than I prefer and I think it's not beneficial for less experienced programmers.

Structured programming is, I believe, a good idea for the vast majority of use cases. Though one can technically use structured programming while using goto, encouraging goto can therefore allow programmers to go down a path that is counterproductive. It's basically the opposite end of the spectrum from OOP where encouragement of rampant objectiveness and inheritance makes programmers write code that is way too complicated.

There's absolutely a place for goto. I once made a "language" (actually YAML) specifically for developing for the Amazon Alexa platform, and it used something similar to goto called "go to scene" and "go to random". For that sort of thing, goto can be much more practical and even easier to reason about than "better" constructs in general purpose high-level programming languages. It's just not something I would consider appropriate for the kind of language I am proposing, though I still ponder on it.
Aha that makes sense, it's a jumpstart basically?
This is what I captured from the press conference:

300 megajoules was used to generate the laser (this is also captured in [1]). They also mentioned that newer lasers have 20% wall plug efficiency. If so, they need to improve the energy output by 5x in order to break even relative to wall plug energy consumption.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/13/world-record-fusion-experi...
Can't get the fascination with this desert? It's like post apocalyptic Earth.
Well done! I wish there were more tewkin uncles around.
Right, and btrfs can send a compressed stream as well, but we aren't sending raw filesystem data via VCS.
I got a new job long before COVID--so mostly in-person process--and it was about a 3 month process. But a lot of it was I was interviewing with people who traveled a lot and getting on calendars even with flexibility on my part (I was very local) just took time.
People have much more free time than they used to have and also are actively deciding to spend that extra time criticizing the macro-sphere. Macro-economics, macro-politics, macro-society etc as opposed to the micro-sphere which would be their personal lives , their homes, their families, their neighborhoods etc

As a result of this the sentiment is that institutions are less credible than ever, and in the worst shape they have ever been. But that is only because there are people criticising them more than ever, whereas such people would be busy living their lives beforehand

So people like OP who would love to break out either via personal branding or by being at the helm of an institution are disappointed and yearn for the old days when people weren’t so critical of institutions. Regretting the good old days is never a good thing but in this case it’s also meritless because becoming an institution nowadays is easier than ever, while in the past the barrier was geography and location, nowadays it’s one’s ability to withstand hatred and public criticism .

This is good! Because it filters out people who want to become institutions for the wrong reasons (be loved by everybody and not be criticised ever) and only practical individuals remain in the arena (those who are aiming for conspicuous consumption).

So to summarize . Fear not OP it’s the easiest time ever for becoming a millionaire, but if you do it for the wrong reasons such as being admired by others or above criticism then you are sabotaging yourself .

Also money doesn’t buy you love, but it does buy luxury escorts and boats, and that kinda the same thing.

The American Dream is alive and well, and it has always been about chasing conspicuous consumption (or the ability to do so).

I don’t know where this trend of being in need to be loved by everybody started but it has to do with insecurity and anxiety.
Don't take it too personally, but you, and many others here, need to rethink their approach. You see a short tweet without context about a topic you clearly know nothing about (which is totally, fully okay, it's a complex topic), and think you are now able to criticize milestones in this impossibly complex topic.

Not even ask questions, not something like "hey, I saw this tweet, I know it's just a tweet, but can someone help me understand context?", no, you actually go ahead and criticize work that you know nothing about, and when confronted, you double down.

On some level, you must know yourself that it might be better to ask as many unloaded questions as you want, but otherwise sit this one out in terms of assessment.
Nope. Helium has 2 protons and 2 neutrons. Here is an image that shows the reaction:

https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_artic...
I have no interest in giving a stranger my account number. Heck, for Zelle I'd have to give them my email address and that's already too much.

Chip & pin for most people is less convenient, so you'd not find too many Americans thinking they were behind in that regard. The PIN does give some added security, which is great if you are a bank because it's easier to justify denying any fraud claims.

About the only thing I might agree on that is a meaningful limit is sending money between my accounts at different institutions. Instant only if I do it at the branch, less instant if I want to make it happen through my smartphone.
The next steps in the story are, how easy is it to make this process more efficient? Is there something fundamental that is lessening the efficiency, or is it a matter of needing to buy part X or laser X or variant y to improve efficiency?

Most research achievements are wildly inefficient because efficiency is not really their goal, they're looking for proof of concept. Once the concept is proven, you step into a whole different ballgame when efficiency is the goal. (Hopefully, who knows.)
There is a huge problem.

Young people are still taking up smoking in large numbers.

It is not uniform: The children of smokers are much more likely to smoke.

I am unsure this is the correct approach, but the health and economic impacts are huge.
Sweden does not seem to have this problem. Spotify, Klarna, Neo4j, SoundCloud, Pirate Bay just to name a few.
Yes, but the name "ignition" is very useful.

The idea, ultimately, is that like with a wood fire, the energy from the fuel
"burning" is what starts the next bit of fuel "burning", and then as it runs on it's own as long as you keep giving it more fuel, you collect the excess heat by boiling water.

So, similar to a wood fire, you might need to use a blowtorch to get it started, and run at a net negative of energy, but the exciting thing is that there was a little flame... that means we can probably make a roaring fire out of it.
If that was true, they wouldnt be getting their lunch eaten by tiktok.
But Meta already has people employed now building their version of tiktok. How many more jobs would Meta need if there was an influx of users because of no tiktok? The recent round of layoffs implies they think they can do it with fewer and not more.

Just playing the tape all the way to the end.
What is UBO?
As nonsmoker I'm strongly against this, when did alcohol prohibition, war on drugs or their COVID restrictions worked? You will just anger people and it seems completely unnecessary considering there is steady decline in smokers and there are surely more dangerous issues to deal with, in case of NZ it would be pandemic of obesity.
The founder of bolt is Europe's youngest billionaire [video]
Oh so the P frame after the one you want to cut at may be looking farther back than just one I frame. I guess you could do the lossless cut at the previous I frame as this tool does, then also set the start media timestamp to the frame that you actually wanted to cut at, as described elsetheread by NelsonMinar.
There was also the joke: Who is general failure, and why is he reading drive A:?

Making that joke tended to mean someone just lost something important.
I usually prefer to pipe fgrep -v into fgrep -v. With egrep you need to escape brackets and other characters.
They could do much better than that, cut at a keyframe and change the metadata to start at the correct time.

You end up with a tiny bit of wasted data, but it's happy middle ground compared to having to give up the key selling point
I'm sure this has been considered, but I haven't ready anything about the "geo-political" effects of virtually unlimited energy from fusion.

I imagine that power dynamics would change drastically, but I have no clue, really.

I understand that's still far away, but are there any articles/discussions on how large scale fusion-generated energy would change the world?
This is more of "Serious spanking" on drugs, hardly "war".
We Moved from Pony to Rust
Never had bugs with desktop linux? Even with ACPI? How long do you run Linux?
I've been doing Rails for 10+ years and `unless x` absolutely breaks my mind. I have to internally convert it to `if !x` and evaluate it in my head 90% of the time.
That seems likely, on the other hand, without putting their thumbs on the scales, it's possible that no company would have been a break-out like many of the Chaebols.

So maybe the question is: level playing filed where everyone has equal access to capital and labor but achievement is limited, or do you want an uneven playing field but which results in economic juggernauts which leave small businesses behind?
There’s an excellent post on this at https://www.filfre.net/2017/04/the-640-k-barrier/
SQLite-loadable-rs: A framework for building SQLite Extensions in Rust
Well, I'm curious about it - I guess it's not all that important to me.
Such configurations sadly aren't relevant for me, because neither are any of my workloads that demanding, nor could I ever afford to rent such servers anyways. At that point, one might as well make the argument for forking over money towards the more "enterprise" platforms.

However, out of curiosity, I actually checked all of the mentioned platforms, to figure out where they cap out.

Cloud services:

Contabo - CLOUD VDS XXL has 12 CPU and 96 GB of RAM, 149 euros/month
Hetzner - CCX62 has 48 CPU and 192 GB of RAM, 532 euros/month
DigitalOcean - caps out at around 32 CPU and 256 GB of RAM, 2096 euros/month
Scaleway - ENT1-2XL has 96 CPU and 384 GB of RAM, 2576 euros/month
Vultr - caps out at around 96 CPU and 255 GB of RAM, 3840 euros/month

Dedicated servers:

Contabo - AMD EPYC 32 Cores has 32 CPU and 256 GB of RAM, 249 euros/month
Hetzner - AX161 has 32 CPU and 1024 GB of RAM, 833 euros/month
Scaleway - EM-T210E-NVME has 128 CPU and 2048 GB of RAM, 2625 euros/month
Vultr - NVIDIA A100 has 96 CPU and 960 GB of RAM, 14000 euros/month

So to answer that question, yes, most of the platforms out there have more performant offerings, while the prices and details vary. It's great that these alternatives exist, even if the needs of most people will be more modest.

For example, my hybrid container cluster with 6 nodes has 13 CPU cores in and a total of 54 GB of RAM and even that's with room for growth, hosting basically everything that I need for about 30 euros a month. Most people out there will probably care about finding ways to cheaply run their WordPress site or something, as opposed to scaling way up.

That's kind of the beauty of the current market - there's something for everyone out there!
equally confusing is the BBC article which mentions the energy used for the reaction does not include the energy needed to power the lasers, which renders it a net loss
What are you talking about? 9000?
>This is the same in the US, if you hire someone in a different state you need a legal entity in that state, and there may be different local laws around taxes, health insurance, pay, etc.

Incorrect. You dont need a separate legal entity in each state you operate.

>It's true that there are a lot of different languages, but I don't understand how you get from there to "Europe isn't real". I don't really know what you mean by synergies, but EU countries can easily trade with each other and citizens can freely travel between countries, so one country's growing economy certainly benefits residents of other countries.

Incorrect. Those countries are still in internal competition. One country grows more at the expense of other (brain and resource drain).
Actually, my OS was written by a guy in Finland.
Gonna have to figure out how to deal with relativistic iron nuclei:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11540033/
Thanks, finally got to use my physics masters degree.
This is closer to pure science. This is in a lab. They aren't even attempting to make a "power source" so much as testing and verifying the theory.
I feel for your friend but this sounds naive.

Public job postings get hundreds or thousands of applications, most of which are terrible and need to be filtered out. Expecting an immediate response on one is not reasonable.

If your friend is such an industry insider, it's surprising she didn't have a network that could short circuit this process for her.

In general, my experience that if you are cold-applying for a job, you are very likely to get lost in a pile of trash. The recruiting experience is much better if the company finds out about you on their own and goes after you. Having an internal referral is a form of that.
People in Oregon and New Hampshire tend not to have very strong affection for their state.

This sounds like the opinion of a European who has never actually lived in the US. People are much more married to their states than it seems that you'd believe.
Tldr: Being stupid and naïve is not a good legal defense
You just described every big social media platform.
Agree with improvements available in other editors.

But disagree with this:

> I never think "damn, typing 3dd would be so much faster than selecting 3 lines and hitting delete"

I actually do think that all the time, and get annoyed when I have to take the second or so to move away from the keyboard to find the mouse/trackpad.

Need to delete three lines, starting with line 54 at the top of your screen?
54gg
3dd

I would never reach for my mouse for that unless I had to.
Running on a British designed CPU architecture (Arm Ltd.) and with ICs made using Dutch made machines (ASML Holding N.V.)
Yes, we pay doctors too much in the US. And we spend an irrational amount of money on drug research chasing that long tail. The actual care is great.
Early in my career I had the pleasure of interning at LLNL (ironically, working on a completely open source compiler project) but I was able to go on a number of tours of NIF. It was extremely cool. They have a whole team of software engineers writing software just to keep all the mirrors calibrated and things like that. In person it is much bigger than it seems in pictures.
Let me add:

Only BUSD on Ethereum (ERC-20) is issued by Paxos. The BUSD on the BNB Chain (BEP-20) is not affiliated with Paxos and not regulated by NYDFS. Quoting Paxos:

"BUSD is issued by Paxos on the Ethereum blockchain and regulated by the New York Department of Financial Services. Separately, Binance wraps BUSD and issues separate tokens (known as Binance-Peg BUSD) on several blockchains, including BNB Smart Chain, Polygon, and Avalanche. These tokens are unaffiliated with Paxos and not regulated by the NYDFS."
Maybe I'm misreading things ... let me try again based on your initial comment:

> if you believe China is a dystopian state why would a Chinese tech product that isn't even allowed in it's international form within China not itself "dystopian"

^^ The classification here as "chinese" tech product is the first issue

> imo the most dystopian thing about TikTok is the fact that China intentionally exports a highly addictive product that they don't allow their own people to use

^^ second issue is "china intentionally exports"

At least I read this as if there's an assumption there's some centralized bureau of dictats speaking with one voice in orchestrating policy as opposed to an $18 trillion economy with 1.4 billion people consisting of 43 million companies and a parliamentary system with 3155 members representing 10 political parties including 480 independents.

Everything is actually a confusing complicated hot mess and I reject such attributions and framings.

That's not to say there aren't policies, of course there are. It's more to say that if you are not only describing but also attributing intentionality and goals to an international policy in a way that takes under say, 10 words, I'm going to be suspicious of the accuracy.
If you've done the math to determine the threshold, you may as well show it already
Probably this. I'm also second guessing myself that _I_ didn't read it wrong lol
Good times. Reminds me of learning to program in GWBASIC
Likewise... by the time I got my hands on MS-DOS, I'd tinkered with a half-dozen or so other systems, from Commodore PET to IBM System/370.
If you're waiting for undisputable hard evidence of any macroeconomic theory, you'll be waiting a long time. The global economy is constantly changing and evolving and nations interact and trade in different ways over time.

I have no faith in central banks to engineer a perfect landing, that's not the argument, it's simply that the concept of "deflation = bad" is not necessarily a universal truth.
>It’s amazing seeing all of society stumbling towards re-learning basic economics

You mean capital will follow the best rates to fight inflation? Crazy!
“The nitrogen in our DNA,
the calcium in our teeth,
the iron in our blood,
the carbon in our apple pies
were made in the interiors of collapsing stars.
We are made of star stuff”.
– Carl Sagan
Yes, on a centralized entity you're required to trust ("we're totally backed by cash and bonds, for realsies"), as opposed to owning and holding your crypto outright.

From their web page:

> Transparent

> A top auditing firm will attest to the matching supply of BUSD tokens and underlying U.S. dollars on a monthly basis.

Note the future tense, as in, "sometime indefinitely away in the future".

Their attestations (as opposed to audits) just say that at a certain instant in time they had the required amount in a bank account. That means Paxos could have borrowed it for a short while. Quote [1]: "Any activity prior to or after the Report Dates and Times at 5:00 pm ET was not considered when testing the assertions described above."

This is the same trick pointed out by Coffeezilla about a year ago, about Tether. [2]

And the one from November is missing.

[1] - https://paxos.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Executed-BUSD-E...

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-whuXHSL1Pg
That is a significantly different issue from slowing a residential road down.
What's the nature of the startup if you're able to elaborate?
Conflict-of-interest evident in the HN re-title-fication of this post.

Recall that making something less salacious when you are the subject is quite different from toning down clickbait headlines when you're wearing your neutral-editorial hat.

Original title was 'Why are some YC companies breaking the law?' And frankly, that's a great question.

Admittedly not-so-great is the absence of any specific example on the OP, but that's another matter.

The post is about law-abidingness and to change that to protect YC on a chat board run by YC is sketch, YC.
RetroNAS: Use a Raspberry Pi as network storage for retro computers and consoles
For what it's worth, the combination of the source and the title made sense to me, so I think it's fine as is.
I'll keep an eye on this. I have a very technically interesting project soon which will require quite a lot of cuts; my thought was just "re-encode everything as I-frames" (all of the source material consists of clips under four minutes long). This might help.
What does, under these constraints?