skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that I continued fighting for that degree regardless of how many failures I had in the past. I genuinely believe that if you continued, even now, to learn these subjects (even without formal education) you can do great things.

I challenge you to three months of relentless self education. Instead of watching YouTube or browsing socials in your spare time but some very basic projects on your plate then move from there to larger ones.

Here's how I self-taught website design:

1. Khan academy JavaScript courses (intro first) with small khan academy projects between: https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming

2. Khan academy HTML course with some small khan academy projects between

3. Bit of a jump here but Angular Tour of Hero's: https://angular.io/tutorial/tour-of-heroes

4. Small, self designed angular site. BE SURE to use the tools you have at your disposal, USE GOOGLE SEARCH.

5. Learn "First day on GitHub" https://skills.github.com/#first-day-on-github

6. Host an Angular site on GitHub Pages.

After this I learned Python and some data science stuffs, got into Flask (which allows for website backends via REST) and MongoDB (database).

If you genuinely apply yourself to learn this kind of stuff and feel confident in you capabilities, I know you can apply it in a way that at the very least will help you feel a bit more fulfilled in your skillset.
I’ve got one, in pristine condition no less. Using it is satisfying in a way that is very hard for me to bring across in text. You can feel the mechanism when turning the crank, and it feels very “intricate, but not fragile”. It clicks and burrs just in the right way.

I have once or twice used it for simple calculations in some special context for fun (calculating salary related stuff after a raise or something like that), but obviously it’s much quicker to just enter that into a modern calculator or computer.

It’s a marvelous piece of art now, basically.
Hmmm, I like this idea. It's more or less rebranding good ol' blogs that do the same thing (more or less) as "Personal Newsletters" which I'd imagine have a wider appeal and may get wider adoption/traction?

Telling people "I have a blog" or "I have a substack" or any of the other many alternatives, doesn't sound quite as nice as "I have a personal newsletter".

And I've been telling people I have a blog since the 90s!
There wasn't any pressure. It's in the evidence provided, but if anyone needs guidance through the material:

- https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/20/no-the-fbi-is-not-paying...

- https://hellscape.substack.com/p/twitterfiles-is-becoming-a-...

Both of these authors are critical of and acknowledge problems within the FBI.
I agree in sentiment. You're fighting a losing battle though. People like inflated, grandiose-sounding titles that make it sound like what they do requires a mysterious rare skill.

We are builders, with some amount of analytical ability and creativity. We aren't much different from pipefitters, blacksmiths, or furniture builders, and we aren't any smarter than those people.
How can you feel sorry for them? They're professors of LAW at Stanford. And this white-collar crime was being committed right under their noses. Pynchon would have had trouble coming up with a plot this wacky.
Yeah, I was astounded by how quickly my singing improved when I started practicing with a metronome. Keeping time seems to me the easiest thing to improve if you focus on it (but that's just my subjective opinion). Once you can keep good time, the rhythm of the song imposes restrictions on you that actually help you figure out how to physically perform the movements demanded by the music and then subsequently groove them so that you can focus on all the other elements of making music.
just don't link to it from Twitter or SUSPENDED
Communities with rules are not necessarily against the ideas of anarchism as long as participation in that community is voluntary.

Anarchism != chaos
You may find many of the Activision titles still hold up. River Raid, Megamania, Seaquest, Frostbite. There's a lot of fun to still be had in those games, especially if you're competing head-to-head.

But for my money the most fun you can have on an Atari 2600 today is 4-player Warlords with well-maintained paddles.
And have core cmdlet features available in all supported versions.

For example, `Invoke-WebRequest` generates an error when you get a response by default with a 5xx status code, even if there's data in the response body. The switch to turn that off (`-SkipHttpErrorCheck`) wasn't added until ~7.2, so to support older Windows installations I don't have control over, I have to write it targeting the older version.

You don't find this out via the online documentation (unless you explicitly diff the call signature); only when it fails running on that Windows Server 2016 VM do you find out that, oh, it's only a supported parameter in newer versions of PowerShell.

And that's just a single example.

Did you make a typo when referencing a variable? Ha, let's silently initialize it to null without saying anything. Want to turn on strict mode to catch stuff like that? Better not put that line before the script-level parameter block, because fuck you. Great, that's sorted... ugh, now some type in some random function call doesn't explicitly match so the silent casting we were doing for you is now an error! How was the silent cast being done before? Fuck you for asking, we're never telling. Did you want to put some log / print statements in your functions? Have fun finding out why the function return value is suddenly an array!

As a shell scripting language for short, personal things, it's great. But for building anything bigger? Give me Python or C# or TypeScript or anything with better tooling around it.
Make taxes too high, and who is going to invest in America? It will be a Pyrrhic victory for you.

We already see wealthier people fleeing California for Texas and Florida, the same for New York.

It's not the government that produces the wealth in the economy, it's business. Confiscatory taxes will wind up with everyone poorer, including you.
that sounds to me like a great excuse a billionaire could use to make himself believe that no, really, me keeping all this money is actually good.

sam bankman-fried is purported to have used a variation of this.
Related reading which I found very interesting is this in-progress essay/book:

https://metarationality.com/

It’s mostly a kind of applied epistemology. It also asks the question “how do we move past postmodernism?”. It accepts that tools like the scientific method have obvious limits and are not foolproof recipes for knowledge. This is what Feyerabend argues, and I pretty much agree with him.

However, it rejects the postmodern idea (post-Feyerabend) that this makes rationality useless or wrong. The idea that all truth is subjective or that truth is not a useful concept. Instead he argues for embedding the tools of rationality into a larger framework that he calls “meta-rationality”.

I think there is not really anything “new” in this analysis — he is in some ways just describing how applied rationality already works in practice. I have nonetheless personally found the ideas very clarifying.
TIL there was a Jurassic Park trailer where not a single scene there ended up in the movie
If you're a billionaire, a $12m exemption isn't much of anything.
I saw the video of the woman being shot. She was unarmed. Nor did any of the protesters in the video appear to have firearms. If they intended to use deadly force this is a strange failure to plan, particularly for people that fetishize guns.

As best as I can tell this protest is being dramatically overhyped compared to very similar protests in the Capitol and other government buildings. I guess they didn’t get the memo that the Capitol is not a “free speech zone”, as I remember we complained about during the Bush years. Protests in Canada and the US are only allowed now with the proper permitting, in certain areas, and if they don’t threaten the existing power structure.
“River Raid” stands out to me as the most actually fun Atari 2600 game.

Despite having awkward controls, “Combat” is also fun due to couch multiplayer. “Jungle Hunt” is similar to Pitfall but faster. I also managed to spend a lot of time playing the 2600 version of Asteroids, but I don’t know if it actually holds up.
I've always thought it was abundantly clear how to make smaller models perform as well as large models: keep labeling data and build a human-in-the-loop support process to keep it on track.

My perspective is more pessimistic. I think people opt for huge unsupervised models because they believe that tuning a few thousand more input features is easier than labeling copious amounts of data. Plus (in my experience) supervised models often require a more involved understanding of the math, whereas there's so many NN frameworks that ask very little of the users.
I'm pretty sure you are. I've never seen M being used for thousand.
Physics (especially classical physics) has the advantage of dealing with things that are both extremely repeatable and consistent, and are just about omnipresent. When a physics model is flawed, you start piling up edge cases that violate our current understanding of physics, until someone comes up with a model that explains most of them while not violating the relatively decent predictive power of the previous models (which obviously have predictive power, since they've been being used to predict things successfully for a while).

For example, Newton laid out classical mechanics. Which very adequately modeled most things moving around in scales we could observe. Except Mercury's orbit was a little fucky. Now, one new model could be that "Classical mechanics works everywhere but on Mercury, where they have different physics", but eventually relativity was postulated, and calculated to predict Mercury's orbit to within our ability to observe it. Rinse, repeat, for things like QM, orbital mechanics, etc, etc.

Heck, there's a pile of inconsistencies in our current models. Neutrinos have mass, the universe's expansion is accelerating, and where's all the antimatter?
Again, not making a normative statement about the superiority of film grain or analog or anything. If your perception is that grain is a gimmick, then you should likewise not want it synthetically reinserted into the stream. The point I'm making is that those who do like film grain overwhelmingly hold that view in part because of the source of its creation and not because of its detached-from-context aesthetic effect per se -- much the same way that people enjoy the warm crackle of a vinyl record, but don't want a facsimile of it overlayed on their spotify audio.

So, for the majority of those that like film grain it feels deceptive, and for those that don't it's an added annoyance. It's only appealing to what I surmise is a vanishingly small subset of Netflix's customers that just want the visual artifact of grain and don't care where it came from or if it is original to the analog transfer.
The Economist Examines Tech Philosophy in Silicon Valley
Anger is for sure a sign of something going unaddressed, as humans can learn to enjoy
and accept anything.
I imagine it might be difficult to get FDA approval for a medical appliance like this one. WiFi is already challenging to get right for its core purpose (ie. to wirelessly transmit data with a predictable throughout).
> If all of the big social media sites appear to be "left leaning"

> [...] your calibration is off

Big social media moderation is systemically biased, for instance, Twitter is/was staffed overwhelmingly (at times almost exclusively) by people who support Democrats [1].

[1]: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/twitter/totals?id=D00006711...
The wealth that wealthy people have isn't "concentrated", it's created. I.e. they didn't take it from you.
So much delusion, so much effort to make things sound complex and sophisticated to justify your beliefs. A fact is something like the sun existing, giving out heat.. etc. A theory or scientific theory isn't that, is it? So what if there is difference between the terminologies, not that I'm ignorant of the difference but in this context it doesn't matter because neither is fact.
I think there is a problem with using money to measure wealth. Maybe a better question may be to check how land or housing is distributed among people? If 10% wealthiest decided one day to e.g. purchase land, the effect would be: 1) equity/bonds or whatever they are using to store their wealth would plummet and crash 2) land price would skyrocket. So suddenly they would not be that rich. I think much of the wealth is overvalued currently, it is like with Bitcoin, the price is crazy because not much people are willing to sell.
When does M mean thousand? I've never seen that. K means thousand.
What recourse would a bail bond company have if they monitored him fleeing?

Can they physically detain him? Or just report to the authorities?
It’s really simple. You can look it up online and know pretty much everything necessary for using it after about 5 minutes.
The question is around Economics Professors and their effects on society and how well-connected they tend to be. Many Econ professors at business schools are former bankers. Many bankers are former Econ profs (banks have a ton of staff in research roles).

You’ve changed the argument to… i don’t even know?

The question is whether Economics Professors are influential outside of academia and if they’re well connected. The answer is obviously yes. The top professors (i.e. MIT Profs, Harvard Profs, Yale, etc.) are extremely influential far beyond academia.

I'd agree that you're right in other contexts. Like, a history professor or something. But that's not what we're talking about here.
It's entirely likely she'll land on her feet, write a book, get a netflix documentary, and end up on daytime talk shows talking about her new line of hemp handbags.

If she can semi-credibly claim to be mostly ignorant, and cooperates energetically with prosecutors, anything can happen.
If it's US-centric, especially if talking about amounts of money, it's million. Always.
movie production cards. roman numerals.

i would not expect that to be the case in this context. you would also probably never mix roman numerals and arabic numerals like that.
Ten thousand reasons to use Textpattern (2021)
Maybe YC should take over The initial interviews. I’m not sure how to non technically evaluate candidates but I’m sure it would be on the basic stuff like dress, communication, and narrative on experience. This would give firms some assurance and less need for extensive multiple interview sessions. I mean you already took over the application portal. So maybe also take over the initial interview upon first selection by YC firm.
I have been deep in the 6502 hole writing an emulator and watching Ben Eater. Throw off the shackles of your massive computers and compute for the sheer fun of it! Almost everything about the 6502 and writing assembly for it is relevant in some way to modern systems programming. You get to trim all the fat from programming and computing and see the ingenuity of computing unfolding before you in a tiny little 2^16 address space. Where you are going there isn’t even a div instruction. It is a cool way to compute and as retro as it is if you were ever interested in systems programming this is a cool, nostalgia themed, way to start.
Then surely, they would have no problem returning to that exact system right? No they want to avoid that by all means necessary? Sounds like they know how much it truly effects things.
Bond is not bail. Bond is a percentage of bail that you pay to someone willing to put up the entire bail, and who will help find you if you abscond.
Tl;dr: good
OP here.

Blogs have a permanence about them. I think that permanence make people hesitate to write - almost like the posts are academic papers.

I prefer "newsletter" instead because it sounds more ephemeral and personal. You can delete or hide them in the future.

(For Postcard specifically - I'm working on the ability to add better privacy controls to individual posts - so that they can be public, unlisted, or private.)
piggybacking here. I can't do without in-ears. Headsets/devices that cover the whole ear are too uncomfortable and all other options' mic catches simply every possible sound generated in whichever room I'm in.
How professors’ children are shaping the world
Auth0 can be used as the SP as well.

https://auth0.com/docs/authenticate/protocols/saml/saml-sso-...
They usually publish what the discount is, but yes, there is uncertainty in which hotel you’re getting.
This is tweets-as-news, and of course is not news but instead just thin, speculative commentary. It could just as easily have been written about Lex Fridman's similar, and probably more serious, response to the new ceo tweets.

A more interesting story is the interview of Mr. Beast on the my first million podcast. He talks about about how the "company" operates, and it's very fluid and unstructured. He just focuses on making content and surrounds himself with folks willing to help fill in the gaps.
They're free to let him take a plea deal and go to prison
And the generation before the one Jobs was nostalgic for didn't have integrated circuits. They knew every transistor, resistor, and capacitor.
or you know people who have gas and bought their house with a perfectly adequate gas stove. It has never failed me. I guess I'm a poser though because I don't want to spend $1500 on a new induction stove. Not everyone uses a wok; I'd be willing to bet that 90% of households here in the USA don't even have a wok.
Apparently M can mean thousand in finance: https://www.insurancejournal.com/blogs/old-republic-surety/2...
Also known as Parkinson's Law[1]. "Data expands to fill the space available for storage." And the reason building more highways doesn't reduce traffic congestion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law
His parents wont be. In my case the loan was from a personal acquaintence.
You are denying that writing is an art that has its own inherent (~objective) system of evaluation that transcends the grasp/reading of a specific reader. The individual reader is entitled to its opinion, but any given school of criticism within the confines of the discipline (here writing) is also entitled to its professional assessment of the work.

We make distinction between great and good code. We celebrate certain software at the source code level. And what should we think of say someone who has never written a line of code telling us that there are no clear lines separating source codes and dismiss us as "critics".

Mencken gave a professional review. He rated the story as banal, but true to the scene depicted. He rated the character development as spotty. But he seemed pretty excited about the crafting of the sentences and pages. Now this here is something that will likely escape the notice of the general reader (they may just 'like it a lot' but won't be able to tell you why) but a pro like Mencken zeroes in on that.
There is a mountain of difference between:

We did not have good alternatives, until we did; and

We suppressed progress, had people killed, and squashed all attempts at public ownership of the goods, launched defamation campaigns, buried people in lawsuits, had them locked in their homes or jail for no reason other than being a block at corporate earnings.

If you have to slave away your life to pay for access to education, you clearly don’t have access to it, you are paying with your life for it.

What wall street and the rich are asking for is absurd. Gains on top of gains, chasing growth on rate of growth.

People in places of influence care about creating more wealth for themselves. They clearly don’t care about the average person because they are not the average person.

lets assume for a moment that we don’t have access to space, we are confined on earth, and have finite resources to work with. Certain people by virtue of chance end up consuming orders of magnitude more resources by virtue of their lineage and the place they were born it.

By said virtue, they impose onto the rest of us their will, and make it so they don’t face any repercussions for their wastefulness.

Can you argue, in good conscience, that all the resources spent on and by somebody like Musk, are better spent on Musk than feeding families in Africa, building infrastructure and providing top notch education to have more doctors and researchers do stuff like, idk find cures to all the different forms of cancer that we have?
https://archive.ph/DV1AI
> The things which make a company successful for the investors are usually not aligned to what makes it a great experience and outcome for the employee.

This is simply not true. Having happy employees is very good for business profitability.

The unions are always trying to recast the relationship as adversarial, which is a huge mistake.
Cycle-counting is useless on modern workstations, since different processor are used in each. I don't see how the choice of language is significant either, as long as it meets your goals for responsiveness. Goal could be instead to limit latency where possible (measuring time from click to completed action is easy with a framework), or communicate to the user when an action will take a noticable amount of time.
I'd do it in C, but that's just me. If this is a one-person project you can hold you code to a high standard. Clean standard C11 with all warnings turned on (-Wall Wextra Wpendantic Wconversion). Write unit tests. Run them with valgrand/sanitizers. Use clang-format. Build with multiple compilers (GCC/clang/MSVC). ...

EDIT Not many hackers on hackernews apparently.
The Solana Foundation
No, it is not the same problem. You need to trace every function, and every function calling those functions, and every function calling those functions, all the way to catch.

You can't "just" search for function name, you have to rely on code analysis tools.

Making code more opaque coz you can get thru the mess of it via tooling is terrible direction
The time saved is not the time required to click 'subscriptions'.

The time saved is the time not spent mindlessly scrolling through endless recommendations designed to keep me hooked.
Google tells employees more of them will be at risk for low performance ratings
https://archive.vn/lcYYx
Ctrl-F in a 10MB PDF in Adobe DC lags when typing while (I guess) it builds the search suggestion index. On an i9 11th gen with over 20000 CPUmark, and 64 GB of RAM. Madness.
I'm terribly shocked. I think it won't be long before I have the vapors.
Hydroelectric plants are not, in fact, "the only large-scale storage". Numerous practical storage methods are being fielded, many suitable at any scale.

Pumped hydro is not, in fact, "highly dependent on the geology of the country". It needs a hill. Hills are very, very common. I can see them in every direction, here. Maybe you can, too.

A "solution to seasonal storage" is not, in fact, needed or useful. NG backup works and will continue working into the indefinite future.

Renewables + some storage are good for baseline. NG is good to fill in lulls longer than storage covers. Nukes cost so many times more than all other alternatives, there is no legitimate place for it.
SQL being a plaintext, human-friendly language is a good thing. SQL is a common skill transferrable between languages and environments, and it is also easily usable by non-developers. If we replaced SQL with some abstract language, what language would you use when talking to the database directly (via psql, sqlplus, or whatever)? Would you need to learn the PythonQuery, JavaQuery, and C#Query languages separately? Would the language used in ETL tools be different still? What language would you write database views, triggers, functions in?
It would be fun if Finder was called File Safari and Safari was called Internet Safari and Activity Monitor was called Process Safari.