skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another interesting angle related to their coming from money—I don't have enough data to really even call it, well, data, but the limited glimpse I've had into properly upper-middle (as in the Fussell, social-class sense, not the "I make $130k/yr as a middle manager and live in a McMansion in a nice school district, so I call myself upper-middle class" sense) and upper classes' kids and schools, they're giving their kids phones way later than the public-school set. Like, 20% or less the ownership rate by 5th grade, I'd say. Nowhere near universal personal smartphone ownership by 8th grade, even, unlike the public schools, where nearly all the kids have one by then.

But I'm mostly seeing a single school, so it may just be that that school operates in some kind of techphobic bubble, not that the better-off are generally exposing their kids to cell phones and the Internet way less than the middle-class and lower.

... then again, maybe what I'm seeing isn't a heavily biased sample, and that's exactly what's going on, and this article is a manifestation of a real tendency of the upper classes to curtail tech exposure for their kids, compared with the general population.
I don't carry a cellphone. The rates are atrocious in Canada, and I don't like being rung when I'm out and about.

The biggest problem is 2-factor. Many services are starting to require it, which has led me to losing access to various accounts. Looking at you, Paypal.

Otherwise, it's fine. I make a paper shopping list. I schedule meetings in advance, and show up at the expected time. Uber isn't even in my city so there's no loss there.
If you sell concert tickets, would this mean that you need to book the profits in the respective countries of anyone anywhere in the world?
> I get the impression that in the US there has been far too much money chasing after far too opportunities. Blasting through $10b in a single business seems, shall we say, "quite an achievement."

Not just the US: the 2008 bubble and the tech bubble both had sovereign wealth funds chasing high returns. The US tech sector was good at convincing them that investments would perform highly but it’s always been amazing to me to see the kind of returns predicted for a cab or shared office space company, and it’s felt like big institutional investors were basically saying they had no idea what to do either but needed to put the money somewhere.
Imagine, for example, applying for a job with no social media presence. OK, maybe “engage or die” is not the right phrase, but you get the gist of what I’m saying.
Well, I don't have access to your 2022 dialect and you were quoting the lyrics.
I typically make a REST backend and client in Vue with all code in one repo that auto-deploys to a cloud VM and/or Nelify with a CDN for app and sometimes also the API.

For the backend I'll use MySQL or PostgreSQL and language/framework I'm interested in, e.g. Go+libs, F#/Giraffe, Elixir/Phoenix, Kotlin/Javalin+JDBI, etc. Even Python/Web2py or Php/Yii2 or Ruby/Rails works alright sometimes.

I'm not much of a fan of ORMs that have a dsl that differs from SQL query composition patterns, JPQL/Hibernate is pretty bad.

Edit: If I were to make a typical/bland mobile app, I'd probably use Dart/Flutter rather than native (and certainly not React-native).
Anyone who has bothered to cut through the hype of ChatGPT, would already have realised that it isn't smart at math and is only regurgitating the results that it has been already been trained on and will present it to you to make itself 'appear' intelligent.

It doesn't even know why it is gives you the wrong answer even when it is presenting the generated output as correct. Like what another commenter said, it has limited or in this case has little to no reasoning; because it is unable to transparently explain itself and cannot present novel solutions to unseen and unsolved problems in mathematics.

ChatGPT is as good as an abacus for mathematics, with the explainability of a brainless parrot.
I am absolutely out of my depth here, but isn’t Japan very “agist” (not sure of the correct word)? Just basing it on a previous HN thread about Japanese website design, a commenter mentioned software company higher managers, who can’t use a computer and the like.

Some tendency of placing elderly people in important roles simply based on respect and not knowledge sounds like a plausible explanation, especially when one, high-enough people can wreak absolute havoc in a very top-down control flow.

But I’m talking out of my ass here, don’t take anything seriously.
Fusion has its own waste problem albeit much more manageable than fission and only when the plant is decommissioned.
Don’t overthink it, use a SQL database for your next project
I was actually very impressed with some math questions it was able to answer for me:

S: If flabb means three, snabb means four, and whabb mean five, what is flabb plus whabb?

If flabb means three, snabb means four, and whabb means five, then flabb plus whabb would be equal to three plus five, or eight. In this made-up numbering system, the words “flabb,” “snabb,” and “whabb” represent the numbers three, four, and five, respectively. When these numbers are added together, the result is the number eight.

S: If bbb means three, bbbb means four and bbbbb means five, how do you think you would write six?

If bbb means three, bbbb means four, and bbbbb means five, then six could potentially be represented by the word “bbbbbbb.” In this made-up numbering system, the number of "b"s in a word corresponds to the value of the number it represents. Therefore, to represent the number six, one possible way would be to add another “b” to the end of the word for five, which would give us “bbbbbbb” as the representation of six. This is just one possible way to represent six in this numbering system, and there may be other ways to do it as well.

S: Why do people argue about the answer of mathematical questions like “8 / 2(2+2)”?

There are a few reasons why people may argue about the answer to a mathematical question like “8 / 2(2+2)”. One reason is that there is more than one wav to interpret the question and arrive at a different answer. For example, some people may interpret the question as “8 / (2 * (2+2))” and arrive at an answer of 1, while others mav interpret it as “(8 / 2) * (2+2)” and arrive at an answer of 16.
> I mean, Juicero, what was that crap, anyway?

People can argue that it was too expensive or over-designed. But I don't think the basic idea is as ridiculous as people make it seem. "You can just juice it yourself!" Sure, but the same can be said for a Keurig machine, and they're extremely popular. Having watched what it would take to juice the Juicero packs on your own and having made my own Keurig pods without a machine, my guess is it's probably easier to do your own Keurig (and the Keurig machines seem to be more susceptible to getting dirty than Juicero machines).

Keep in mind they weren't juice packs that were being squeeze, but rather they were pieces of fruit and vegetables that could have the juices readily squeezed out. I haven't tried the juice - just about no one has - but if it was able to give the taste of fresh squeezed juice in seconds time it seems it would at least be notable. There's not really a better solution at the moment (actual juicing takes a lot of time and is very messy and store juice isn't as tasty).
Main reason would be they have a lot of legacy code written for Oracle.

For new projects, the choices are wide open.
Would like to point out the non-profit organization mentioned in the article that bought this to light: As You Sow

I had never heard of them before until reading this article, they seem like a good organization to donate to.
What can of worms exactly is opened with a ‘Hey I bought this drive on eBay that seems to have your info on it - want it back?’

What plausible damage have you done that they could sue you over? If all you want is your cost or the like, I can’t imagine that is a crime either.

If someone has a lot to lose, I guess sending a letter through a law office would be a sane option, but backblaze doesn’t strike me as the shoot-first-ask-questions-in-the-deposition type of company anyway.
+1 to The Oregon Experiment. It was the first I read and I think gave a great taste of a lot of the ideas in a way that was reasonably understandable. I wrote up some notes at https://www.garethrees.co.uk/2020/03/08/book-notes-the-orego...
Barrier has been abandoned, the currently supported fork is now called input-leap: https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap
or Rawls' "veil of ignorance"

or the old standby: one may slice the pie, but then the other gets to choose their piece.
If we are really going all out for performance optimization...

In theory, hashes are going to be very evenly distributed. With a file of that size you could probably land within 1% of the correct location just by seeking to byte offset percentage given by the first bytes of the hash...

(It's a fun article)
I think modern political criticisms might be too dismissive of inefficient bureaucratic developments, or we might be taking criticisms too seriously.

They might be slow, complicated, budgeted terribly, unbelievably incompetent by standards of typical for-profit mega corporation, but a lot of those projects work at first try and works for decades, in the end.

SLS capsule came back in one piece on first try. That German ID system probably works too. And that’s great.
> If you don’t want any strings, then don’t ask for a handout from the taxpayers.

Of course, being tax-exempt is the opposite of a handout from the taxpayers: it’s exemption by the taxtaker.
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When I was in Germany at the end of this September, there were certainly plenty of signs saying masks were mandatory on public transport. Compliance with said signs, however, was well south of 50%.
Should say "Lebesgue measure" (or "Borel measure") instead of "measure" a few places
You should basically be thinking of chatGPT as a personal Wikipedia. It has the collective knowledge of the internet. It can still be wrong about fact based questions, but is a good starting point. It’s not effective at doing math because that’s not what it was designed to do.
weird, I bought the same one,
I view it as the peak of mobile phone design and I mostly don't want to have a smartphone with me
What I think many people would argue about Dostoyevsky is that it is easy to read at a surface level, but invites critical thinking to reveal layers of subtext and deeper meaning. Maybe you don't agree, which is fine, but I'd suggest this is why some people may associate it with high reading comprehension.
The halflife of irradiated equipment isn't that long (it's what you call low level waste), you just bury it and wait till it becomes less radioactive.
Bill Proposed to Curb 'Obscene' Content May Eradicate the Porn Industry
In 6 months you don't even have the permission for building a wind farm (or a solar farm). Source: https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2022/10/15/solar-farm-...
I wouldn't give him that much credit. The last few years have shown us that when it comes to governance, anything that isn't legally locked down is fully in play. Too much seems to still be dependent on the honour system in a world that incentivizes not doing the right thing.

You never expect a CEO to personally buy PPE (Plant, Production Equipment) and lease it back to his employer. But hey, if it's not against the rules, and the board is stacked in your favour, why not?
> More and more tools are built that are suppose to make us do less work, think less, have an easier time.

The less effort we have to spend at what must be done to survive means more remaining effort available for what we want to do. Sounds great to me.
Interesting, I got:

> 1023 squared is 1048129, which is an odd number. To determine whether a number is even or odd, you can check whether it is divisible by 2. If it is, it is an even number. If it is not, it is an odd number. In this case, 1048129 is not divisible by 2, so it is an odd number.
Oh, absolutely. When I was a teen, you'd be called some sort of homophobic slur for refusing to go along with the current zeitgeist. Now, it's more effective to force conformity by calling people classist/racist/etc., and the kids know it too.
It’s almost a Dan Brown parody. But from a single sentence it’s hard to judge how it is intended.
The Science of Credit Scoring and the Collapse of the Credit Market
Surprised to find this here, not surprised that there are no comments.

>The COVID pandemic has triggered a new crisis in capitalism, but capitalism’s underlying tendencies leading towards such crises are not new.

>In a way, Roberts reckons nothing has really changed. In the post-COVID world, the intensification, through digital media, of productive and unproductive labour processes continues. In other words, exploitation and oppression in the paid workplace is still the dominant method employed by capitalists to extract a surplus from their workforce.

>A Marxist theory of digital technology, labour and work must therefore begin with the premise that the labour process is part and parcel of the capitalist mode of production and the creation of surplus value through alienated labour.

So, everything is new, but it's also the same. Really deep stuff. You can tell that someone with decades of experience in Marxist Economics wrote this flowery and meandering piece. Upon reading it, I truly felt as though I had read something that someone had written.

There's so much emotional investment into the idea that everything is terrible and falling apart, you can feel the urgency with which the modern world is reframed into a familiar context of good versus evil. Don't worry, even the world has shifted in unpredictable and unforeseen ways, our dearly-beloved, cryptically tautological, and relentlessly self-referential epistemology of economic philosophy is still perfectly suited for the task, as it has been since the days of pre-historic tribal socialism.
> All because the city made the hotel turn down the heat.

That's a little bit early to start aiming at the city, isn't it? The call to reduce energy consumption is, if anything, coming on as a case of too little, too late if anything given the ongoing crisis over here; it is altogether a reasonable thing to do. As is always the case in Germany with such things, there will be maddening array of if/then/otherwise escape hatches that is part of those rules, and, frankly, if the management of the hotel and the people responsible for the aquarium had been in the know that keeping a constant temperature in the lobby was essential to the structural integrity of the aquarium and they still lowered it, they're mad. If they weren't told they can't be held responsible. If the manufacturer did know or should have known, they'll be in (sorry) hot water.

All of this is conjecture at his point so phrases like "all because the city told them to turn down the heat" have to be understood in the conjunctive or, better, be explicitly written in that voice.
> Confederacy of Dunces

It's definitely a step up in terms of reader effort, but I found it worth it. It doesn't compare well to Pratchett and Adams who are more like a writer's variant of the stand-up comedian (a lot of the entries in this contest feel stylistically close to their writing). A Confederacy of Dunces instead shines in its portrayal of the comically pitiful characters within it, with John Kennedy Toole succeeding in making the cringe-worthy protagonist Ignatius J. Reilly one of the most loathsome characters I have ever come across in a novel.
That's like saying you don't need to look both ways before crossing the street because its not the status quo
I have an unpopular opinion that tech workers, especially in the west, are increasingly being perceived by everyone else like investment bankers or consultants were in the 90s (or forever, honestly).

There's not a lot of clarity about what value they bring to the table (since the companies that pay their salaries are often unprofitable) and it's not always obvious what work they actually do (hence the prevailing meme that no one works at FAANG).

Of course, the reality is that numerically, most tech workers don't work for FAANG or hot startups, but public perceptions are usually colored by the most visible subgroup, which happens to be overpaid startup bros.
You can't get rid of a greek citizenship,its impossible. I think thats how it should be.

The games with revoking citizenship of Snowden, etc. ate absurd and should not be allowed. Even if the person is a criminal, he must server punishment defined in law. He is still 'your' American/greek/ whatever criminal
categorical objects are "up to isomorphism" so the symmetric relations are in the kernel (the identity arrow for each object), and the arrows in the category reflect the antisymmetric relations.
You could compute the expected position of the hash in the file as hash / 2^160 * filesize and then just look around in the vicinity of that. Would be interesting to know what the maximum deviation for any hash from its expected position is, then you could maybe just load a single block of that size and search it in memory if the maximum deviation is sufficiently small.
Sellafield is decommissioning in large part a plant designed to any% speedrun weapons grade material, not power.
No, doxxing someone isn’t free speech anymore than saying “fire” in a crowded theater when there isn’t one is. Against the policies and rules. Doesn’t matter if it’s a CEO you dislike that is being doxxed. The people on the left are the ones being disingenuous.
If you start calling the other side "zealous", make sure you are not one first.
That's how taxes work generally though. I already paid income taxes on my salary, but when I spend it on something I have to pay taxes again, and then the retailer has to count it as taxable income as well. Anytime money changes hands the government gets its vig. I don't see how the corporate tax is so egregiously different.
>The parenting age adults can't exactly hunt and gather if they have to watch babies all day long- yet human children are pretty helpless and need almost constant care for years.

Gathering food or light manual work? You just stick 'em in a papoose (we used a shoulder sling). Heavier work, hang the papoose in a tree. Once they can walk they can gather food and do light work.

I'm not saying grandparents wouldn't make it easier, but babies/toddlers are quite adaptable.

I think for hunting (with weapons) you'd want them to be at least 5.
Why would you hire someone who refuses to summarize for you, once or twice a year, just at a high level, what they accomplished.

Suppose you hired a plumber who refused out of principle to tell you whether or not they fixed your toilet.

That's what I mean by it's professionalism.
There's the hypocrisy other posts are mentioning, as well as a general Musk fatigue.

But on top of all that, there's the feeling he ruined a place a lot of people liked. It's like if your favourite local restaurant got replaced by a McDonald's.
It's not illegal, it might even find a new clientele, but now my friends and I need to find a new spot so we're a little grumpy about it.
Your 5 year old is doing number theory? I think I was still working on like counting when I was 5
I love Santa! whole reason I joined the site, the AI is impressive
ChatGPT definitely way more things than Wikipedia does.
The conspiracy theory / pseudoscience culture
You teach them about moderation, you give them the tools to make their own choices, and you protect them from the obvious/bad outcomes that would cause irreparable harm.

So like, add a network filter for gore/porn up to a certain age, and try to do a good job of showing how to invest their time as a reward function rather than the instant gratification path.

But ultimately, babying them will prevent them from growing, and the moment they get out of your clutches (how they'll see it) they'll binge/overindulge and not have anyone to stop the irreversible mistakes from happening.

Limiting technology access creates a perverse relationship between the kid and tech. If you want your kid to see technology as a tool, not as a reward, you can't treat it like a reward. It's super easy, but it sets the wrong example.
> We Work was an essential ingredient of gig culture and founding of countless new companies.

Perhaps they should have pivoted to become an incubator!
"When something becomes mainstream, I like it less because I believe something
going from unknown to mainstream is usually a bad sign"

If someone ever asks me for an example of a pretentious comment, I'm going to give them this
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Anything that kills the porn industry is OK with me.
No mention of Cadbury...
I loved Crime and Punishment, but I struggled to grasp some of the long monologues in The Brothers Karamazov. It’s not hard to follow the plot, but because it deals with challenging ideas through monologues which completely stop the plot, I found it challenging to fully engage with. Hardly a very difficult read but not always an easy page-turner either. Maybe I just needed a better translation.
It’s probably true that most seasonal allergies are cause by wind-pollinated plants, but bees sometimes help to pollinate those kinds of plants if they happen to be the closest food source. I have ash trees (Fraxinus) in my neighborhood, and even though they’re primarily wind-pollinated, I always see lots of bees gathering their pollen in the springtime. But bees would probably prefer flowers with more nectar if they’re available.
> The original title is a TIFU post and I don't think those are allowed on HN.

Why did you think that?

> My goal wasn't to editorialize, I just wanted to let people know that their Gmail account was at risk if they did a chargeback against any of Google's services. This was new information to me and a lot of people on this thread.

Sure, and I appreciate your good intention (it was new to me too). But if you want to say what you think is important about an article, you should do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Hmm I've tried it from an Ubuntu and Android (Samsung) client, both seemed to work fine. Maybe a network thing?
Hmm... they have 300 mil in cash, 500 mil from Softbank, and another 500 mil from other commitments. So, $1.3 bln of accessible cash in total. I know they burn some money, but this doesn't sound like a tiny pool to me.
Not sure why we put WeWork, Theranos, and FTX in same bucket?

Holmes is in jail, SBF probably on his way, but that Adam Neuman, for what it worth, is apparently not accused in any fraud. He's "just" a failed founder that costed his investors $$$, not unlike many, many others.
no, they just spent their (and other's) money on heroin
it's called a false flag
And yet I don't hear anyone look at those and say "oh no, you shouldn't judge by the past, it can always be worse" :-\

> But "our repeated accidents didn't end up being too bad" isn't the way to assess them

It's a valid way to assess them.

> that should directly inform the siting of new plants and the operation of existing ones

What makes you think the new constructions don't take that into consideration? What makes you keep saying "no you shouldn't say itself because earthquake+tsunami+bad operators isn't bad luck enough, there's always worse luck around the corner"?
Weren't substantial percentages of the US still on subsistence farming/bartering at the time? It's hard to income tax a society without much income.
How much waste do you think will be produced? We’re talking about less than a typical landfill’s worth of waste for the entire world.
Neem me niet kwalijk, sorry!
My dreams nigh 30 years old are finally being realized. A very difficult setting to do credibly without an enormous budget or a very focused and scaled down story.
Second Boer War