skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know of an example first hand where syntax only mattered: OCaml vs ReasonML. ReasonML is merely a syntactic change from OCaml as it's simply OCaml underneath, but people, especially coming from web languages like Javascript, liked ReasonML more than OCaml and were more willing to use it.

Another example, Gleam (an Erlang BEAM based language like Elixir) [0]:

> Shot in the wind, but is there a plan for different syntax? For those who've become comfortable in different fp camps, I can't really see myself picking up curly brackets and C-style code again. I really like the idea(s) of this project, but it's the thought of staring at that kind of code that's just a bit too much. I'd rather do something like [Nim,Scala,Clojure,F#]->JS if I needed to have that.

> > Unlikely I'm afraid. We used to have an ML style syntax but once we switched to a more mainstream syntax we had a big surge in popularity and interest.

> > I am very fond of the ML syntax, but I think it is the semantics and type system that really matter, so I am very happy to sacrifice syntax in order to make Gleam more widely accessible.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27063049
Lots of lifestyle issues with serum cholesterol, but per the Mayo clinic plenty of dietary sources contribute to high serum cholesterol too, including meat and dairy:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/high-blood-ch...

Presumably Norton isn’t having issues with a lack of exercise or high body fat.
Some business school professors are accomplished former businessmen. Some are just lifelong academics. The ones with power are because of their non-professor credentials and connections.

Schools, business schools especially, like to hire influential people as professors. So there are many powerful professors. But that's not why they are powerful.

Since that's not why they are powerful, there's no reason to bring it up.
He's a big cat. There was a little gap at the bottom where the latch came up into the door. He would get his claws under the gap and then he could wrench it open. The clip on part covers the gap. I guess they have enough people with that problem to have designed a fix but not enough to update the product.
I am not a Republican, and have voted straight-D for multiple decades, with two single candidate exceptions. This isn’t a partisan thing for me.

That is why I was careful to say exactly what I said without making broader claims or citing the DoJ of all organizations (on this thread of all threads!) or some Fox News article.
No doubt, but I bought a VCS2600 and actually used it a couple of years ago. Pretty fun!
Hmm, coffee or chocolate?
> and never once cared about this crap

By any chance, are you privileged enough that you never have to care about such "crap"? Because believe me, what you call "crap" might be a big ladder for someone less privileged to climb out of their actual crappy situations. Such "crap" labels often help getting admission to a good college, or embellishing your resume if you want and need a good job.
Ice cream and milkshakes are perfectly fine deserts. One simply shouldn't eat too much desert.
A d100 does have a 100 side, just like you can roll a nat 20 on a d20. True about rand(100), though. So be the die-rolling kind of geek:)
I remember seeing oil wells all over the area when I lived for a while in Oklahoma. Heck, there was even one in the middle of a mall parking lot. Very oil friendly area. But still, Oklahoma is the third in the nation for wind energy production. Texas is number 1. I think the oil and gas lobby must not be quite as powerful as you think.
Can you point to the time on this chart where any young person could own a house.

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2018/08/homeownership...

or perhaps this one going back to boomers born in 1940.

https://www.prb.org/resources/u-s-homeownership-rates-fall-a...

I do see a slow decline for young people, but no golden times of free houses. I suspect it might also have something to do with the factors of house size and urbanization. See:

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/todays-new-homes-are-1000-squ...

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_in_the_United_Sta...
Anonymisation has always seemed to me to be a reduction in the probability of exposure rather than a complete guarantee of safety.

Arguably you should need compliance on both staging and prod, but you do the anonymisation to reduce the risk of exposure from (less tested) code in staging.

I’ve always viewed staging as the environment that gets prod data (maybe anonymised), but has ideally no exposure to actually affecting prod, rather than a completely fake environment.
YES! "Science is ultimately cultural and there's no way around that."
I think that many people recoil at this idea and just don't want to believe this, but it is the truth. To those individuals I would say do not confuse the map with the territory or perhaps they map making and surveying they also are not the territory.
I’m willing to play the game as a survival mechanism. I’m not in tech (professionally) because of passion. I’m in it to survive and solve problems that having money can solve.

I make open source software and give it away for free in my spare time because of passion. The fact that my job and my hobby are very similar is merely incidental.
New Method Addresses Problem with Perovskite Solar Cells
But it's possible they found some other money lender, not a bail bond specialist and got (improbably) better rates than 10 percent upfront, nonrefundable.
One thing that puts me off about Common Lisp is functions that do multiple different things depending on a flag passed to them. (format nil s) formats a string, whereas (format t s) formats a string and prints it to stdout. This doesn't look like good design.
Dupe: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34096911> (60 comments presently)
And a vanilla soy latte is a three-bean soup!
Sam Bankman-Fried Released on $250M Bond with Restrictive Terms
I am having trouble getting the demo to run. It just errors out
There are tons of milk alternatives many of which do not have any added sugar or amounts far far below a milkshake.
> I went through long recruitment processes

Sadly a lot of startups are still doing that. I was too, but I learned from my mistakes.

You're not freaking Google, good candidates (the ones you should hire) have multiple offers and are not going to wait until you make up your mind. Being able to send an offer fast might not guarantee a great hire, but being slow drastically increases chances of getting a mediocre one. You get 90% of the signals in the first interview anyway, and there's a lot of evidence that even the best hiring processes are not very far from coin flip.

Bundle all your interviews in a single day. Send offer in one day at most. After all, startups are about moving fast.
Law is a philosophical construct, not a programming language. By their own statement Microsoft demonstrated bad faith and intent to coerce, and this forms an antithesis of compliance.

Never dick around trying to use contract terms and narrow technicalities to bypass regulations and obligations. It won’t go well.
Did no one here play "Kaboom!"? That was a fun game...
There have been a few YC companies to reinvent / optimize / improve the tech hiring process, such as Triplebyte.

In theory, they could be a better approach. In practice, my experience has been that many companies don't actively monitor and interests go unseen or trivially dismissed. I had companies like Dropbox mark my interest on Triplebyte as "no relevant experience" after viewing my profile for less than a minute and for which I've actually been doing and have 5+ years of relevant experience.
> Problem: Send the decryption pasword

I can choose a password such as 'The name of uncle Robert's favorite movie' (i.e. something that it's easy for her, but hard for everyone else).

OR

I can call her, and say: 'Just sent you a password-protected file. The password is 'Foobar'

OR

I can include the password in the email itself (doesn't protect from an attacker but protects from mail provider snooping/indexing emails).

It doesn't make my communications NSA proof. It adds a little bit of privacy. For the specific use-case, it's more than enough.
I worked with a brilliant engineer who had previously worked at one of the major hard drive manufacturers. He told me about a project he'd worked where the disk manufacturer had their firmware writers collaborate with low-level OS programmers to significantly speed up modern PC boot times. The conclusion was yes they could technically do it, but they found so many peripherals and device drivers that relied on the boot being slow (either intentionally or unintentionally - e.g. hardware or software race conditions, device drivers not actually making sure the device is ready yet, etc.) that there was "no point."
If you've got the paddle controllers in good condition, and a low latency screen, super breakout in progressive mode is a treat. And paddle controllers disappeared since then, so hard to replicate. Arkanoid with a spinner on newer systems is similar but different.
And now released on bail, see: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34096911> (60 comments).
Similar to “not your keys, not your crypto” is there not an analogy to be made for passwords? Genuinely interested in the reasoning of people who store their passwords in a cloud service they don’t control.
I hated Gatsby in high school and when I re-read it as an adult, I still didn't like it. None of the characters were interesting to me and when you don't care what happens to them, it's a chore to keep reading.

There were some books in high school that I really enjoyed that I'm afraid to reread because maybe they wouldn't stand up for me. I'm thinking about Lost Horizon, The Chrysalids, Brave New World, Canticle for Leibowitz, On the Beach, and Grapes of Wrath.
Before 2000, there were the "shared spaces" of mailing lists. I think of Winer the same way you probably think of Zuck.
I did not know who you were at first. Would you have any thoughts on why another group made Golang when D already existed that you would be willing to share?
I saw 2 images of pandas in the examples
And happened: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34096911> (60 comments)
Any idea how this, and those other two models, would compare to GitHub Copilot?
> 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.

In a way, yes. Hiring isn’t a game of finding the first person who walks through the door who passes an arbitrary bar. It takes some time to collect candidates, interview multiple people, and choose which one to hire.

However, that process should stop after the offer letter is extended. A company that rescinds offers as part of their normal hiring process would be very unusual. I suspect in this case the companies’ explanations (financial situation changed) is honest.

I always try to get candidates through the interview process as fast as possible, but recently it’s usually the candidates who are extending the process out. A lot of people like the idea of shopping around at different companies with your offer letter in hand, which can take weeks or months if you let them. At some point we have to thank the candidate for their time and inform them that we’re moving on to other candidates, because we need to hire someone.
Now I know what to read during the holidays! Great suggestions!
Karma schmarma.
It makes you wonder how 50% goes to admin costs. That feels like a lot of overhead
What if "milk and dairy" was a bad abstraction?

What if we should consider cows (or chicken for eggs) as transformation mechanism where the inputs matter as much as the outputs?

I think there are studies showing chemical differences depending on the feed - at least for chicken roaming freely vs kept in a cage.

I wouldn't be surprised if similar differences were found for milk and dairy, depending on grazing freely vs being fed some premade mix.
ChatGPT Has Infiltrated Twitter Replies
You think LeBron is more or less privileged than some poor white kid from Appalachia?
https://archive.ph/mdyH6
The cost is longevity. Flexible panels don't last anywhere near as long as conventional rigid panels. But they're handy, for sure, if you want a simpler installation.
JSON can be parsed very quickly: https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson

CBOR could be another option: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBOR
>... Just hide inside the underground bunkers like in Terminator.

I should probably learn how to cook rat ahead of time so by the time the machine apocalypse arrives I'm able to command the respect of a five-star chef.
I take what the author describes as "staring into the abyss" as a special case of playing devil's advocate: one where the contrarian view has significant and emotionally difficult consequences, and you're actually letting yourself feel the emotional weight of potentially choosing it instead of just playing with the idea.

For example: Imagine you go to an engineering college, and you start feeling like you might not like the idea of an engineering career. You could play devil's advocate by chatting with your engineering-enthralled friends about how fun it'd be to drop out of college and go to culinary school instead, but that's just talk. Staring into the abyss
would be actually thinking through the financial, social, and personal implications of that choice, looking into culinary schools, and letting that dread and anxiety and excitement wash over you while you genuinely contemplate making the switch.

> If you want to talk about "staring into the abyss" though... to me that phrase evokes the casting of all reality into doubt.

In a more literal sense, yeah, I agree, that's what staring into the abyss is. I think here the author uses it as an effective way of saying "question the assumptions of your immediate reality".
If you want that sharp corner in the analog domain you can use an active clipper circuit (e.g. diode inside an opamps feedback path).
Having C functions isn't all that much better. You have replaced a crufty text format with crufty data structures full of paddings, unions, bitfields, VLAs, unaligned nested structs and other crazy stuff. Look at ioctls or cmsg. With C structs + 3rd-party kernel drivers you can even get UB because the driver returns data that is invalid under the struct definition (e.g. incorrect alignment, invalid bools).
> Notably, he is going to make a plea deal

That’s not what the article says. It says he will enter a plea later.

To enter a plea means to plead guilty or not guilty. All they are saying is that he hasn’t said either way yet.
That's not true either. The only notable example you can come up with is Google Chrome. And let's not sit here and pretend that Google was what all the designers were copying. Google's design has always been that terrible flat stuff. Google Chrome's icon, for some reason, used the "realistic" design for only 2 years before changing it to match the rest of the company's icons.

The "wider industry" was copying Apple. Tons of icons changed from "realistic" to "flat" in 2013, which was a direct reaction to iOS 7.
"Nature loves courage. Throw yourself into the abyss and discover it's actually a feather bed."
Do you think that paywalling, after seeing cover and first page would be more honest/acceptable? Or maybe we should give some free generations after email confirmation. It certainly something we will be thinking through as we don't want anyone to feel we are being dishonest.
I seriously doubt that... to me it's becoming very familiar and probably to anyone who was in software development around 1999-2002 timeframe. A lot of companies at that time rolled over with little to no notice. Promised offers were revoked, on a few occasions after expensive relocation. There was a whole "recession club" movement even as the jobs were completely dried out in the west coast for software devs. Hit the Phoenix area about a year following, post-911 was when a lot of companies just cut projects that were stalled or further from done.

If you're in a position, hold on to it... if you are looking, look for company+industry stability first and foremost. If it's like a couple decades ago, it could last a year or three.
Unsurprisingly since most of them are trying to figure it out as they go and don't realize how much of their time they should be devoting to this until much later.
> The lesson is that government doesn't care about you.

I'm sure you can cite examples of governmental bad behavior that are as neglectful or worst, but this behavior was by Comcast, not the government. In fact, in this case, the very existence of the Internet Essentials program in the first place was because of a government-imposed condition before approving a merger (although Comcast now continues it despite the specific provision having lapsed).
> Traditionaly most cultures eat fermented diary (cheese, kefir,...) NOT raw milk

Raw milk is sorts of dangerous and unpractical, that's why we pasteurize it first, most cultures didn't had access to pasteurization so they managed in other ways to preserve it longer

It is important to differentiate normative from prescriptions
If you don't like them then don't visit them or visit them with an ad blocker on. Don't deprive users from the content and don't deprive staff from their jobs.
Dupe: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34096911> (60+ comments)
Wow. This is basically the worst case scenario. Attackers got access to the vaults themselves? While they are encrypted, it all depends on how secure your master password is now. Because the brute-forcing has almost certainly already begun.

I switched away from lastpass to Bitwarden a while ago, and have changed many of my passwords since then. But I’ll probably rotate most of my passwords anyway, out of an abundance of caution.
Those slow notifications actually affected college admissions process for the kids. Read the last paragraph:

"On Monday, December 12, after getting caught, Kosatka sent an email to the parents of Commended Students, notifying them of the “important recognition” and saying, “We are deeply sorry” for not sharing the news earlier. He claimed school officials would contact college admissions offices to correct the record."
Sorry, it's too late for you. That single glass of soy milk had enough estrogen to feminize an entire city block.

Also, there's non sweetened soy milk like there's non sweetened dairy milk.
Newsletter to me reminds me of the tedious letters that people used to send out in their yearly Christmas card. No thanks.
Humans give explanations that other humans find convincing, but they can be totally wrong and non-causal. I think human explanations are often mechanistically wrong / totally acausal.

As a famous early example, this lady provided an unprompted explanation (using only the information available to her conscious part of her brain in her good eye) for some of her preferences despite the mechanism of action being subconscious observations out of her blind eye.

https://www.nature.com/articles/336766a0
It sucks that your grocery stores are closing, but I would be pissed at the store owners if that was the reason they gave. It sounds like they didn’t want to pay their own security/loss-prevention staff, so they had the taxpayers foot the bill.
Really reminds me of around 2000-2002 or so.
Postdocs were striking, too.

https://www.science.org/content/article/postdoc-union-reache...
/r/buyitforlife is a decent start if you don't mind Reddit.
How long do your test builds take?
It evens out a little if you include GHG effects of methane leaked during extraction. Recent work suggests we might have been undercounting that.

Gas still leads coal and is cleaner burning so less polluting in othet ways but its not quite the GHG slam dunk it is if you just compare CO2 from combustion.

Renewables and nuclear are way ahead of both.
1) You can't just blow them up. You have to crush the rocks into something resembling sand to get the alkalinity released in human time scales.

2) Large means quite large. I ran a back-of-the-envelope estimate some years ago and found that the Hawaiian island [1] of Kauai could reduce atmospheric CO2 roughly back to pre-industrial levels if it were completely pulverized and weathered away down to the seafloor. That's trillions of tons of rock.

3) The benefits of curbing CO2 are shared globally, but the costs are concentrated locally. It's the same kind of prisoner's dilemma that results in e.g. people still burning billions of tons of coal each year.

I think that accelerated silicate weathering is the best geoengineering option and one that's likely to be deployed at scale later this century, but it's not really going to be easy.

[1] AKA "underwater mountain, with the top poking above water"
I didn't read Grapes of Wrath until I was an adult, but I certainly found it worthwhile. Same for Canticle.

I did read Brave New World in high school, but it didn't do anything for me until I re-read it a couple years ago.
> the relationship between labor and capital is kind of like predator and prey.

That is not inherent. Businesses have mutually beneficial relationships with suppliers and customers. Transactions are win-win. There's nothing fundamentally different between a business and its employees, and no reason why the relationship cannot be win-win.

But unions frame their negotiations in terms of win-lose. This is a sad state of affairs.
That is not the first `memcpy()` issue that I have heard. There was the reverse `memcpy()` in glibc 2.13 that broke plenty of software using `memcpy()` in places where `memmove()` should have been used.
Numerous submissions of this from other coverage. Aggregating those links here:

NYTimes: <https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/business/sam-bankman-frie...>

BBC: <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64068810>

NBC News: <https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ftx-co-founder-sam-bank...>

WSJ: <https://www.wsj.com/articles/sam-bankman-fried-to-make-first...> (Paywall: <https://archive.ph/eMrPC>)

Bloomberg: <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-22/prosecuto...> (Paywall: <https://archive.vn/5zOnu>)

Related:

- Caroline Ellison (Alameda Research) plea agreement: <https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/12/22/caroline-elliso...> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34096548>

- "The SEC’s Crypto Crackdown Is Just Getting Started" <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-22/sec-s-cry...> (Paywall: <https://archive.vn/jrt8I>) <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34098054>
Department of Defense on using more sensitive words (re: Stanford)
I cede that racism played a part in HOAs historically --however, there have been many new developments since then in the 2000s and beyond with HOAs. They cannot be racist since many appeal to new immigrants (as well as all sorts of American citizens of all stripes.

In my experience, HOAs hurt mostly retirees who don't have the same cash flow as recent purchasers of homes. Again, in my experience, newcomers to the States seem to be the most vocal in asserting the bylaws, presumably to ensure their investment keeps increasing its value. In second place come the people who are considering selling their house and also want to maximize value.
I don't think YCombinator is supposed to be a megacorp with that much control over the startups it's founded, and I don't think that a few slipups like what happend to OP warrant adding all that red tape in the long run
Natural gas is better than coal. That's a low bar.
Yeah, I just vaguely remember something about it from a documentary I saw a while back.
That’s fair. I guess I would think of Twitter echo chambers —full of bots & coordinated algorithm manipulators— as fringe in comparison to what most liberal-minded people I know care about. The predictable response online isn’t as prevalent in-person in my experiences. But to each their own.
It's sad that HN has been infested with this level of sensationalist ridiculouness.