skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, but what I quoted was specifically advice on being an employee:

>Many asked how to know what programming language or stack to study. It doesn’t matter. There you go

And I'm saying the language/stack absolutely does matter when it comes to advice for new developers.
Views from the OpenStreetMap Foundation on the Launch of Overture
Some people in finance and consulting think we live in a world where money=status or to be honest the students aspiring to career in finance and consulting tend to think that - people in the trench get pretty jaded. Thankfully this is a microcosm and there is a world beyond that.
Gyros offer interesting learning curves.

Which are often tangential.
> I've suspected for a while that companies with long, drawn-out hiring processes are using the delay to see if someone better (for some definition of "better") will come along.

Ah, that's an interesting explanation, seems much more likely than a hustle to get (not even very cheap) short term labour. That could be the case at least for the second of the companies, for the first one I think it might be more down to inexperience or recklessness.
Algorithms are standards recommended by institutes like NIST, so probably not going to change anytime soon.

To your point, the W3C Crypto library APIs might change, and break my secrets.
Unlikely but possible.

I don't know that bringing in a library makes this better: it could use features/constructs of the language that get deprecated and break.

There's other factors to consider (convenience, amount of review a given implementation has gotten, etc).

Overall, agree to disagree. Using a library has slightly different tradeoffs and I can see why you are recommending it. But I stick by my choice to depend on browser APIs.
I'm of the mindset, and ever more so... reducing the number of environments from source to production and trunk-based development is a better way to go. "Don't break production!" In the end, getting rid of longer testing cycles, and faster paths to production allows one to change fast and reduce the risk that is inherent to longer release cycles. Especially when you only have a single production deployment for a website/service.

Having one gate between is probably okay (test/demo), but more means there's more chance of breaking things when trying to merge and reason with ever broadening code bases. Especially with smaller teams.

Yes, this all means production may break, but it also means the lesson is learned, devs get more careful, and testing evolves more rapidly out of necessity or pain.
There's very little relative trading volume on the price slope below 165-150 here, I wouldn't be surprised to see a fall to 95 and down to 30-50 in the medium term, and a cap of "only" about $100-150bn.
It’s not the holes for the cables that are the problem. It’s the anchor screws that mount the panels to the roof. If you’ve ever installed shingles on a roof you would know that you have to be careful to cover all of the nail heads with the next row of shingles and preferably use roofing tar as well to get a good seal. The anchor screws for solar are supposed to only go into the rafters below the roofing but anyone can tell you that is hard to do 100% of the time on an existing roof even if you are being meticulous and judging from the installs I’ve seen most solar installers aren’t.
> making choices that are, as far as I can tell, objectively both absurd and hateful.

Do you interact with many of the "other" 49-51%? I know many people who voted for one candidate or the other in both 2016 and 2020 who are intelligent, thoughtful, reasonable, loving people. That you can lump half the country in one bucket and call them objectively wrong speaks more about you than them.
Which bail bond company came up with the other $225M?
>The robber-baron version is basically the thing you see in capitalist-dystopia sci fi like The Outer Worlds, but it actually happened.

Also a significant portion of the country seems to be actively attempting to let it happen again. High school made them read The Great Gatsby and they all imagine themselves as Gatsby and the other obscenely wealthy people instead of the 99% of awful and perpetually dying lives most people experienced.
Yes, they exist, and they are called Linear Regression and Decision Tree. Not everything needs to be a neural network.

Anyway, residual connections in NNs as well as distillation being only a 1% hit to performance imply our models are way too big.
You could say that about a lot of games. It is a common approach. Every compression scheme you can imagine has been used and more, from simply shipping the whole thing after all to procedural generation and everything in between. I seem to recall Oblivion was mostly procedural on the overworld but then people would come in and edit the maps afterwards for various things.
When I saw the title, I assumed this would be about Zachtronics games or Human Resource Machine (And it's sequal, 7 Billion Humans)

But yeah, I've definitely had projects I've written purely for fun, or as a "I wonder how well I could code this..."

Sometimes, my project has been "This shouldn't work, but I want to see if it somehow does". An example of this was trying to use a neural network that would figure out a single bit of a private key given a Bitcoin address. I generated a testing set of 1000 public/private key pairs, then would do a loop of generating a training set of 1000 key pairs, training until it could predict the last bit correctly 75% of the time, and then testing on the testing set, then generating another training set and beginning the loop again. I let it run for a full week before terminating it. I think the best it got was 57% accuracy, and really, that was a fluke. It typically was 47-53% accurate, which is what I would expect. I never got better than a coin flip.
They have special deals with the telcos that TCP connections to their servers can have longer TTLs. Plus of course, even if you do polling, if you have 5 different apps that connect every 10 minutes to their own respective services with different offsets, you have the device waking up every 2 minutes, with a potential latency of up to 10 minutes for each individual service. If it uses a central push service, you can set it to 5 minutes, the device would therefore wake up less than half of the time, and maximum latency would be 5 minutes, not 10.

Thus, it makes total sense to have one mechanism for push messages for the entire device. It's great to have degoogled alternatives here.
My first exposure to the concept of this kind of procedural generation was with the game Elite and how it created different galaxies. With such limited capabilities available it was eye opening to see the creativity that was unleashed.

See https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/oct/18/features.weeke...
For that matter, you generally will have a single app firewall or ingress server that reverse-proxies to your application anyway.
That's stolen. All that real estate will be clawed back in the bankruptcy.
I don't know why Apple made the decisions they made, but we have to keep in mind that GUIs were novel to both developers and users back in the day. It is probable that Apple tested both click & release and click & hold on users, with the results indicating the latter was a better solution. Why would disappearing menus be a better solution? Perhaps people got trapped in menus when they stayed up after releasing the mouse button. We are talking about the early 1980's here, which was a time when some people were quite intimidated by computers. Few of those who had used computers would have encountered a mouse before. (Think of the famous scene with Scotty using a Mac in Star Trek IV.) Something like clicking on an unused area of the screen to make the menu go away would not have been intuitive, while some would have feared unintended consequences from clicking on the wrong thing.
Not sure how old your son is, but this is what I'm doing with my 5 year old with the same issue. Find some good old-school funk from the late '70s / early '80s with a four-on-the-floor type of drum beat. Zapp, Cameo, Gap Band, or something like that. Get your son to count along "1-2-3-4" with each of the beats and clap his hands on "2" and "4". Once he's reliable at doing that when you don't start it for him, then get him to stomp his foot on "1" and "3", or just "1". Once he's got that down, there are all sorts of things you can do. He can copy rhythms you clap, or if he's good with notation, he can practice writing down a rhythm you clap.

Alternatively, you could always get him drum lessons. This is the meat and potatoes of what a good drum teacher would cover.
Right, it really doesn't matter—until you are interviewed by a shortsighted manager in a hurry, which is all too often.
So can this be generalized to other collectable items? If as a hobby I collect, sell and exchange X does it mean I will lose money in the long run? Recently there was a few articles about investing in Lego sets, from this article POV it may not be that good investment, the future price is hard to estimate and probably you will guess price increase/decrease about half of the time right. So using this model you will lose money in the long run. Or did I miss something?

Returning to the simulation, the coin experiment can be explained using different model:
Imagine position X on a line: |A A A A X B B B B B B B B B B B|, X can move either left or right by the amount specified by the rules of the game. But since one person is poorer the boundary | is closer to X. X is doing a random walk, so it will move with exactly the same probability e.g. 5 positions left or 5 positions right. But for the poor player 5 positions to the left means he is left with no money to play again, and for the rich player it means he lost some of his advantage. If the difference is huge like x100 the poor player has basically no change at winning at all. So this game is only fair if A and B have similar amount of money.
Hobbes: “Leviathan” in Modern English – Introduction
We have laws like it in Norway too. Old appliances can be taken to the local recycling centre or to any shop that sells appliances of the same general type. All shops that sell electrical goods have to be willing to take back discarded appliances even if they did not sell that specific article or even brand.
I drive a Chevy Volt and GM reduces the torque at low speeds to help limit tire spin. Still happens if you really push it or if the pavement is a little wet, but it does reduce tire wear.
Some things have gotten better, some worse.

Current car is at 202,000km and 11 years and essentially nothing has gone wrong with it except normal wear and tear replacement and it isn't even (in this road salt envioronment) noticeably rusty and it's never even had a spark plug out. Try that even 30 years ago.

On the other hand, motorized kitchen appliances really seem to be designed to be about 0.0001% better than the absolute minimum reliability requirement, lest a few extra pennies of manufacturing cost be wasted. That said, there are still gems. I have reason to hope that the current version of the Braun hand mixer is as good as my 20+ year one. I've had to open that up to resolder a transistor that had shaken loose due to vibration - design error; this heavy component should have been better anchored - but the mechanicals run as if it was new. One the other hand, the design of Braun food processors leaves me with little confidence in their long-term function.

When the delivery guys showed up with the fridge, 17 years ago, they said don't expect much, 10 years maybe. 17 years later the plastic parts on the outside are yellowed and cracked and the door seal is showing its age too, but it still works just fine. And I suspect chest freezers are still as good as they always were i.e. work for many decades (while consuming less power).

I'm not hopeful about the replacements for the washing machine (2000ish) and dishwasher (1987ish) when they wear out.
It's weird that for that many made they still fetch pretty penny on ebay
I think you just explained the cause. The demand for a US PhD is higher than a European one internationally.

Supply and demand.

Edit: downvoted for stating a fact that shows US relatively better lol
Compared to the literally millions that die every year from carbon-producing power sources and resulting air pollution, no, Fukushima was still not a catastrophe
> Mouse cursors are mostly handled in hardware. GPUs composit the cursor during scanout, so all the OS has to do is calculate the new coordinates of the cursor and tell the GPU about them.

Is this true on modern Linux DEs (e.g. on KDE Plasma)?

Is it also true on Windows and macOS?
The whole idea of a “cost centre” is nonsense anyway.
Having driven in the SF Bay with waymo and cruise vehicles - they definitely do signal a sort of extremely hesitant/cautious "body language".

Slowing to a stop in an otherwise clear lane because it's cautious around shadows; Always ceding the initiative on 4-way stops, etc.

It's like there's a (diligent but overly cautious) student driver behind the wheel.
You do have to pay tuition for those "thesis" and "dissertation" classes.

In the 1990s-early 2000s, when I was a gradual student at UT Austin, I worked for the university, but not as a TA or RA; as staff, I had to pay for my tuition. At the time, just the "dissertation" class was about $1000 per semester.
Big if, but if you can use database containers it's relatively low cost to spin them up in a namespace, load data from a database snapshot, run the migration, and then tear down the container or even the entire namespace.
Why would MrBeast want to ruin his branding?
"Staring into the abyss" is only half the challenge; the other half is knowing what (values) you can hold on to while the abyss stares back at you.

The latter is what stops people from looking too closely, or asking hard questions -- because they fear that they might not have a strong enough framework in which to answer them. And so they look only as close as they can handle while they slowly work up the strength and the courage.

Another kind of person happens to be very comfortable staring into the abyss, interpreting with Procrustean simplifications, and reacting to what they see -- without necessarily the strong values in place to ground them; they are a loose canon, especially if they are a high-agency person biased for action.

When the gentle equilibrium has been upset by an unexpected outcome, the high-agency person has the fortitude to iterate the cycle of staring into the abyss (still a loose cannon, if they’re not well grounded).

However, the median person might not -- and can end up doing an incredible amount of collateral damage (to their own lives, and the lives of people around them) if they do this with insufficient skills or commitment. I wouldn't be surprised if a fear of the abyss is an evolutionary/cultural survival mechanism to protect them from themselves.

Very few people have the nous to carry out the whole iterated process well.
When's the last time SBF stayed silent though
If interpretability is sufficiently important, you could straight-up search for mathematical formulae.

My SymReg library pops to mind. I'm thinking of rewriting it in multithreaded Julia this holiday season.

https://github.com/danuker/symreg
Restating what you're saying: 1-0.999 = 1/infinity. Substituting and rearranging, 1/0 = infinity. Which is true.
I agree that no one is working 100+ hr/wk but you still have to be in the office that long. I.e. you don’t have time away from the office to partake in hobbies and other interests.

Any management consultant (McKinsey, Bain, BCG, etc) not travelling at least 4 full days and in the office 2 of the other 3 isn’t making enough money to be relevant to this conversation. Again, it is time being sucked away from other aspects of your life, regardless of whether you’re working or not.
Can’t get adjuncts for the price you pay phd students in California though.
"Staring into the abyss means thinking reasonably about things that are uncomfortable to contemplate, like arguments against your religious beliefs, or in favor of breaking up with your partner."

These might be difficult to discuss. But is there really anything uncomfortable to contemplate?
But not the same memory operations. Unless your code fully saturates the memory bandwidth, which is rare, you get some gains here.
How many bail bondsmen have $225M lying around and why would they risk it on SBF who is a major flight risk?
Nobody expects, demands, or plans "UK pure renewables". So all of the above, conditioned on it, is specious.

Renewables are the cheapest power generation the world has ever seen, by a large and growing margin. Storage in many practical forms is being deployed.

Everything that has always worked still works, and will be abandoned only when it is not needed anymore.
These days I would assume it's securitized.
I still remember the days when students were students, and workers were workers.

First, you were a student, and paid tuition to learn.

Then, you graduated into the workforce, and paid off your tuition.

Now students call themselves "student workers" or "academic workers", and treat the PhD like it's a job that's supposed to pay them enough to raise a family.

It's a sign of a failing bureaucracy when the terms start to contradict themselves.
If I'm not mistaken CJR also has a podcast that I remembered liking more than the NYT or WSJ podcasts coming out at the same time (last I listened to it was 4 years ago, not sure about how good it is now).
I don't think it generates the story for you, no. I think it handles parsing inputs as natural language, though.
> Grinding to make money in your thirties and beyond

I sort of think grinding is generally wrong at any age. If you feel like you're grinding, perhaps it's time to take stock and consider what you could be doing differently so that you don't have to keep grinding to both meet your responsibilities and enjoy life. Of course some might find themselves with enough exigencies they have almost no choice but to grind, but I doubt too many people on HN are really in that boat.
50 years? Where, Europe? With tile I’m guessing because in North America most people have asphalt roofs that need to be replaced every 15 to 20.
People leave government jobs for higher paying ones in the private sector? Who would have suspected?
This is an incredibly common thing. The worst I've seen it is when people drop their SQL DB for a No-SQL thing (for no good reason) and then end up implementing all the joins they lost in the application :(
Speed Queen on the washer will last awhile and parts are plentiful when they do wear out. You can replace the fridge door seal pretty easily, too.
This is some incredible work, and my personal hope is that it paves the way for proper archival of apps and games from the early iOS era. Early iPhone games in particular are at risk of becoming lost works as sometimes even era-appropriate hardware renders them unplayable due to OS updates.
Awesome write up, thank you for the deep dive and nostalgia!

I also like that this is on the front page the same time as “24 cores and I can’t move my mouse” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34095032

It tells us that software is like a gas - it naturally expands and fills the container it occupies.
They don't care about users who don't pay the bills.
schrödinbug*
I really get fatigued seeing people bash dried animal feces, wood, and whales as if they have zero value...
Congratulations to France who are standing up for us all and reaping reward.

I could only wish for the Danish authorities to be so couragious as to actually enforce the law - especially against the biggest offenders.

This means that Bing will become a good example rather than a good excuse.
Are we assuming these submitters are changing the headlines? Because I was focusing on articles that have headlines with all-caps words in them on the original site, and I can't think of any I've seen on HN.
The wake up one thing is the issue

Plus the real time push works differently… like a phonecall comes in and your phone rings thay same second
Why stop at a containment building? It's economical to build underground mines to extract coal and minerals. Might as well build mines to house nuclear reactors in stable geologic structures. If it goes wrong seal it and return a hundred years later to scoop out the corium and burn it in a breeder reactor.
Show HN: Fully offline, open-source alternative to Scribe for Firefox
I had to do a bit of web-workflow documentation and found the process of gathering screenshots, placing them correctly into a document, and creating captions extremely tiring.

I figured it’ll be easy to automate and also a great opportunity to get to know the Browser API, and here we are with the first release of the extension. It’s extremely easy to use but barebones which I plan to change in the near future, so any feedback will be appreciated.

I want to keep the docs generation process completely offline to avoid dealing with server costs and GDPR stuff which poses a lot of challenges when planning more advanced features like image editing.

It’s available only for Firefox because of Firefox’s great Browser API support, which Chromium currently lacks.
Also, there’s a tool like this already available, called Scribe but it requires an account and also is not available for Firefox for some reason.

Hope you’ll like it!
I don't understand why this is downvoted. Perhaps you struck the WrongThink nerve.

No organization is going to invest seriously in doing an awesome job at something that is a pure financial loss. Just follow the incentives. One would have to be completely insane to expect otherwise. When you are just a number to the organization you are dealing with the effect is magnified.
Any kid who wants to build an app for the iPhone/iPad can do it pretty easily, they just need a Mac and Xcode. With Swift Playgrounds for iPad, you don't even need a Mac.

I know you mentioned it "doesn't spark as much imagination", but I'm going to strongly disagree with you there. I don't think most software engineers got started by tweaking existing software. _You_ may have started that way, but I didn't. I got into programming by seeing the kinds of apps people made for Mac and iPhone, and wanting to build those kinds of experiences.
I know of https://autonews.io/ mentioned before. They look unrelated but would you know of any connection except for their similar domain?
This sure takes me back to hand-coding embedded systems firmware for a family of products on Microchip 8-bit microcontrollers... and that was as recent as this millennium.

In the days before ARM and when we needed to use a $3 processor to hit our BOM cost, my code used every byte of the 8K and every register... bit-banged I2C, bit-banged RS232 up to 56Khz, LED and 8-key touchpad debouncing, and best of all, an IR receiver and IR emitter which both learned arbitrary consumer IR codes in the fashion of a then-fashionable universal remote, and reproduced them including press-and-hold behavior, while emulating their carrier frequency... and could do bi-directional device cloning via IR by holding the products up to one another face-to-face...

And had a rock-solid bootloader for encrypted firmware updates.

Ah the good ol' days... a tear for the old skool.

I called the binder with the hard copy of the commented assembler source "my first novel"...
There are plenty of things which are more interesting than consulting which is why most consultants actually use the career as a stepping stone to go do what their clients were doing.
> Caroline's dad is an MIT econ prof and wrote a series of books titled Hard Math for X

He wrote them for caroline and her sister when they were in elementary school, because they excelled in math and wanted more of a challenge.

I bought these books after reading about her when this first started happening a few weeks ago.

No joke, those books are really tough. They are for elementary and middle schoolers, aannnndddd I can't get thru them. lol