skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always liked the second proof they show. You see it and you think something must be wrong with the method... but then try it with other numbers.

10x = 8.888

- x = 0.888

-------

9x = 8; x = 8/9 = 0.888...
You can tell from their wording that they have a "renewables good, oil bad" mantra. Like I said, they're happy to mention deaths stemming from fossil fuels, but not mention the lives that were helped by that form of energy. It's a tired narrative of people who are too lazy and/or uneducated to discuss the complicated issue of the pros/cons for fossil fuels.
It’ll need to be durable enough to walk on then.
it's not about what language you're using

it's about what you accomplish.

that's in isolation of pretty much everything, even computers in general.
I had the impression observability + canary deployments + feature flags were current state of the art.
This is another incredible value that YC provides. In the same way YC helps prevent investor bad behavior, it also prevents company bad behavior on behalf of candidates. Not saying it was intentional from the companies, but just makes sure everyone keeps candidate experience top of mind.
Posting Becker's since it hasn't been posted yet: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/

I think there are a few more healthcare-industry specific publications that escape my mind right now, but Becker's is pretty comprehensive.
Here's an abyss to stare into:

Humans generally don't have an idea of what their needs are.

Challenge: list all of your needs for surviving and thriving from memory and also give a definition of each that's clear and not simply some desire/want or societally created artificial construct (computers and money are not needs).

Also, Maslow's hierarchy is too individualistic, so cheating with it automatically loses. And another hint: excess and deprivation of needs is a need in order to learn what the individual body's needs for moderating each need is.
Even though I was grew up well into the Nintendo dominated era of video games (NES,SNES) my first video game experience was playing on my parents Atari 2600 and both Adventure and Pitfall where common go to games for me. Reading the beginning of the article gave me real food for thought about how the manual of Adventure needed to specifically explain to the user about the concept of multiple rooms. Even with my limited exposure to more modern video games at the time I instinctively knew that going to the very edge of the screen was how you got to the next screen so the idea that this was something so new in Adventure it needed to be explained just blows my mind.
In our new house this summer, I sprung for a 77" LG C2 OLED. Almost embarassed by it looking back, since I could have bought a 75" "standard" 4K TV for about 1/4 the price.
The problem is not just that it results in a wrong order for 8-bit encodings, but that it doesn’t result in a well-defined order at all. For example, you get:

-2 > 127 > 64 > -2

This can make sorting algorithms loop infinitely or crash.
I hold out forlorn hope that someday my modern workstation will achieve the responsiveness and fast boot times of my Commodore 128. Not joking in the least.
This sounds more like "playing devil's advocate" or taking a contrarian view, or questioning one's assumptions or decisions. Whatever you call it, the author is right about it being a useful skill.

If you want to talk about "staring into the abyss" though... to me that phrase evokes the casting of all reality into doubt. It means to grapple with the Münchhausen trilemma, or to perceive the limitless and arbitrary space of metaphysics, or to acknowledge the oblivion of meaning that the shadow of death casts over us. Either way, the abyss really is an abyss. I don't know whether it's useful to stare into it.
more like s/staging/git-hash/, spinning up on PR, and down on merge.
> telegram client can drain my battery in a very low number of hours (got suggestions here? any client supporting UnifiedPush?)

It's possible. There is nothing ready right now.

[1] https://github.com/UnifiedPush/wishlist/issues/18

[2] https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/issues/5...
It still stands out as an actually-fun game on the 2600.

The 2600 is before my time. I grew up with the NES and its library. I do see 2600 nostalgia in older generations, but for me, Pitfall is pretty much the only title worth playing.
Cool thank you - thought so, but always good to check :)
I mean, he's 33, that's well old enough to understand getting in over your head and understanding the value in humility, even if only deployed sparingly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz
If you have a starving child you might steal a loaf of bread. If you need money badly you might make it hurting people.

If you don't have a choice then you do things that will hurt you (assume you have some empathy) because you don't have a choice.

Who wants that job though? Who wants to see other people in a job that requires them to hurt people? I'm not saying there aren't people who make their living doing that but either they have, their ignorant of the harm they do or they don't care about hurting people; in any of those cases I feel sorry for them.
> The regulation explicitly says so.

Where do you see that in the ePrivacy Directive?
Things change. For example, now those students have enough awareness of how they were getting screwed, and ability to organize, that they did something about it.

And whether you think it's fair or not, apparently the UC system needed them enough to strike this deal.
I had the opposite experience in 2007, Nokia N series for me was miles better than iPhone OS 1.0 - it did a lot more than iPhone:
- GPS navigation in the background
- Chat applications - IRC, XMPP in the background
- Photos and videos better than compact cameras
- HSDPA 3G (3.6Mbps)
- Sharing 3G via WiFi - tethering
- Device to device file sharing
- Real 3D games using OpenGL ES 1
- TV Out

The (really important) things that iPhone had were:
- bigger screen,
- capacitive multitouch,
- better GPU acceleration
- a lot better input latency
The other part is the stock market basically became a government-enforced ponzi scheme through 401ks, 403ba, HSAs, IRAs and other tax advantaged accounts. Of course stock prices will go up as long as people are forced to use arbitrary stock funds for retirement to avoid crippling taxes.
Surely we'd be at back square one at that point?
Why do you say unashamed of it?
I don't know the exact impacts of changing our current climate trajectory, or implementing green technology, so better to stick with our current course.
There's a quotation, which I think may have been Monk, which I've been trying to track down the exact source. It's along the lines of "All I want is a simple melody, and I gotta go through all the bullshit again."

Ring any bells? I had someone tell me that I was completely high and it was Ellison, not Monk, but I cannot confirm.
> Original PYREX was borosilicate glass

Generally still is in Europe. For instance this: https://bakerenogkokken.no/borddekking/serveringsskaler/pyre...
>While procfs has a lot of historical baggage, sysfs is rather specific about the layout and providing only a single value per file, as plain ASCII, rather than using anything complex that has to be parsed. Structure is implemented via the filesystem.

I'd rather have structured file than to have open 30k files (for say conntrack)

Hell, just example from the article, /proc/<PID>/stat has 52 parameters. That would be 52 opens and reads with single value per file.

> ABI compat issues aside, I think that implementing "a standardized [structured] record format" as suggested in the comments here is a rather bad idea, going into exactly the wrong direction by adding complexity rather than reducing it, which would definitely cause even more parsing related issues in the long run.

It's literally the opposite. You have to implement it once on kernel side and once in userspace vs every special format that currently needs
These articles pop up regularly and don’t move the stock. It’s not related. There have also been times when it’s reported autopilot caused the accident but NHS investigation reveals it wasn’t even engaged.
Fossil fuels enabled overconsumption of resources at levels never before possible. Can't wait for next year's Earth Overshoot Day! Also, CFCs enabled some true miracles in refrigeration, we shouldn't demonize them. Damned bleeding heart tree huggers ruin everything. >:-(
How will ad-supported sites function without ads? Government subsidies?
Dang, but we should all be preaching safe following distance (at least 3 seconds or 8 [or whatever ${x} car lengths]) a lot more. It's basically the easiest and most 'bang for your buck' way to be safer in a vehicle.

But it's tragedy of the commons - if you actually do follow a safe distance people get SO pissed off. They'll honk, pass you, and cut you off and everything else - give you the finger. This is my experience at least. Larger following distance is especially "handy" when driving in bumper to bumper traffic (more so with a manual) as well because you can maintain a more contstant speed - essentially modulating the traffic jam.
People still get pissed off though and will cut you off to get somewhere a second faster.

End rant - but I'm just happy to see someone calling out the importance of safe following distance.

I wish cops would crack down on this more but in my experience they're often guilty of tailgating as well
Related reading some of you may enjoy: My Heart Feeds a Series of Tubes: https://medium.com/message/my-heart-feeds-a-series-of-tubes-... A nostalgic love letter to Yahoo Pipes
If you want to stick with HyperCard, I recommend LiveCode (www.livecode.com). I have a dozen stacks or more that I use to keep track of things, remind me, my own very personalized calendar program, etc etc etc.

They no longer have a free version, but to me it is well worth the approx $100/year.
There are lots of organizations that have embraced trunk based or other fast-path development cycles. In general, it leads to better sanitization practices as it's too easy to break things and devs get more careful and setup their own guard rails.

As opposed to the last place I worked, where there were 2-3 month+ long branches alive in various stages of features/testing/bugfixes. THAT was painful. Give me trunk to production with a small team over that mess any day.
Well that sounds utterly repulsive. And somewhat pointless.

In fact, I choose not to believe it. Is there some document discussing this kind of functionality?
It is obvious to me that computers are insecure, and the reasons for that are foundational. It has proven exceptionally hard to convey this fact to others understand in anything other than a close personal discussion.

What's missing?, Capabilities based security.[1] People see the term, and instantly think they know what I mean, but don't really.

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Somehow I managed to pick up the idea of systems wide thinking, that keeps the big picture in mind. I see how suburban sprawl is completely unsustainable, because of infrastructure that is nowhere near dense enough to be affordable, for example. Trading away farmland for lawns is a bad side effect.

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I tend to think of things in systems, most people think of the one artifact they interact with or own.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security
> Using some older/unfashionable languages or maintenance-only frameworks indicates a lack of investment or interest in technology. It probably also indicates a lot as far as what your colleagues would be like and how much you'd learn from them.

Not everyone is looking for the same thing. Over interest in new technologies cautions me that a candidate may be more interested in hype than finding suitable technology for a problem, it's a continuum, but sometimes you see a pattern of hit and run, trying new tech and then leaving projects behind (not even them knowing what happened to them, if it turned out to be a good decision long term)... that's not attractive from a business perspective where stability is valued.

At the other end you get people who are not comfortable stepping out of the box they've made for themselves. You want a bit of both, it's good to be interested in new things and even consider them for use in production - but it must be accompanied with a healthy amount of scepticism and keeping your evangelism in check, because technology can be subjective.
> > And then you pay the 40% federal inheritance tax and the 20% state inheritance tax on the total value at the date of death.

After the $12 million (nearly $13 million next year) exemption, the unused portion of which passes to the surviving spouse and increases their tax-free estate exemption.

But, yes, in the limit case estates aren't the tax-optimal way to transfer capital to survivors, which is why other vehicles are used for people for whom the estate exemption is small potatoes.
Just curious, how many "daily" deaths are there from extracting gas out of the ground?
Thanks for the post! Right before I saw this on HN I was watching a video on how to build a Klon clone, so this write-up couldn't have come at a better time.
The internet is still a place if the young. High schoolers, college kids, and people without children all have more free time and very much lean left.
> I think SQL Server can do this, but...then you have to use SQL Server.

Yes, SQL Server can update indexed views incrementally, but there are severe limitations:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/v...

If memory servers, indexed views have been in SQL Server for 20-odd years, and haven't seen meaningful improvements in all that time. We still can't do a LEFT JOIN, or join the same table more than once or MAX etc...

The same story with T-SQL, which is firmly stuck in the '80s (not that other databases are better).

There are some extremely powerful features in SQL Server that can be used effectively with some pain, but they could be so much better if Microsoft invested in fully fleshing-out their potential instead of chasing the latest buzzword.

Sorry for the rant.
I think this is one of those issues where it's easy to observe from the sidelines that models "should" be smaller (it'd make my life a whole lot easier), but it's not so clear how to actually create small models that work as well as these larger models, without having the larger models first (as in distillation).

If you have any ideas to do better and aren't idly wealthy, I'd suggest pursuing them. Create a model that's within a percentage point or two of GPT3 on big NLP benchmarks, and fame and fortune will be yours.

[Edit] this of course only applies for domains like NLP or computer vision where neural networks have proven very hard to beat. If you're working on a problem that doesn't need deep learning to achieve adequate performance, don't use them!
> I wish there was a modern language that compiled to SQL (like PRQL, but with data mutation).

That is nice, but much better will be language that is relational itself.

I'm working on one (https://tablam.org) and you can even do stuff like:

for p in cross(products, qty) ?limit 10 do
print(p.products.price * p.qty)
end

The thing is be functional/relational only is too mind-bending and is very nice to work with procedural construct.

BTW my plan is that the query (?) section will compile to optimal executions defined per storage engine (memory, sqlite, mysql, redis, etc) `products ? price = 10.0` is executed on the server, not on the client.
>When you don't know exactly how things will be affected, then you shouldn't make changes.

We can hold to your standard the moment we hold to that standard for other activities, such as burning fossil fuels in the first place.
I know the whole cash bail thing is 'problematic' but if there was one guy who should be forced to show up with a big bag of greenbacks . . .
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FWIW, I (author) agree wholeheartedly with everything you say.

I'm just sharing a little hack I came up with. I hope some people add it to their toolchain (not my specific implementation, the idea in general).

And offering a bounty seemed like a fun things to do, which may also catch some shallow bugs, reward the hunter, and shame me publicly :-)
State of the Sanderson (Brandon Sanderson Speaks on Audible, Spotify, Speechify)
I'm guessing there is a lot of overlap here with the author Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn, Way Of Kings, Wheel Of Time,etc), but in this case he has some interesting things to say about Audible, Amazon, book publishers, Speechify and Dyslexia. Look for the section entitled "AUDIOBOOKS for NON-BACKERS"

(oh, and the title of book 5 of Way Of Kings)
Don’t resort to ad hominem attacks
Did you try Ms Pacman? It's pretty solid.
Don't be ashamed to call yourself a programmer. Alex Stepanov, who created hundreds of billions in value by creating the C++ stl calls himself a programmer.
> How do you duplicate the behavior of the 10 direct data dependencies of your app and the constellation of transitive microservice dependencies? Wingman, Galactus, etc.

For those, like me, who had to think for a moment where they had heard that reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
If they can be rolled and unrolled repeatedly this would be great for RVs since you could use them instead of the canopy material for shade. Fabric covered buildings would be another application if they can be made durable enough.
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Milk and dairy products: good or bad for human health? (2016)
Length is probably a factor. It packs a lot of nice prose in a slim little volume. Its simple story and characters are, at least, more complex than your average pulp adventure tale—combine that and the length and it's just about an ideal Baby's First Real Literary Novel, which is probably why it's assigned so much in high school and 100-level undergrad literature courses.

I also take a bit more depth from between the lines in the novel, than it may always get credit for, but that may just be me. Largely due to Fitzgerald sticking (perhaps too much) to his perspective character's limitations, there's a lot happening just off the page. A lot of suggestion, a lot left to the reader to fill in, which I personally enjoy.
My point is to not blow off Fukushima... and you respond by blowing off Fukushima.

Maybe approach it from the other direction: what was the impact of Fukushima?

(You wouldn't really argue the sum total impact was one human life, right?)
> If you look up "Victor Wooten Music Lesson" on YouTube

I can't recommend Victor Wooten enough. His book "The Music Lesson" is also great.
128 bytes. I'm trying to think of something in today's world with that little memory - a 'door opening' smart card? a car key? There are light bulbs with literally a thousand times as much.
What do you mean no prosecution? She’s going to be a convicted felon. Just because there isn’t going to be a trial doesn’t mean she’ll have zero consequences.
> I can't think of a good principled reason to say SMT cores aren't "real".

It really depends on your definition of "real", yes you can treat them like "real" independent cores but that's not ideal for performance because under the hood they're not actually independent. Your operating system is aware of this and will often avoid scheduling two tasks onto the same physical core unless it has to. If you have 20 logical cores (10 physical ones with hyperthreading) and 10 tasks to execute, the OS scheduler will usually allocate one task to each physical core and leave the other logical core idle.
Looking at the current trend, there will be 3 classes: the elites, owners of the automates, the domestics, with a status somewhere between servants, slave and pets, and the useless, the masses.
Maybe there's no right answer and everybody meanders through life goals at their own pace, or not at all.

The requirement to make enough money to survive is unignorable. Anything beyond that is just making up goalposts. There's always another goalpost you could strive to reach.
So it wasn't just my imagination that installers became faster when doing that...
What would be the appropriate prison, one where she lives in depravation and is regularly assaulted by guards and other inmates? Our prison system is deeply unjust and more people should be going to her kind of prison rather than vice versa by my view.
> 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.

That’s ridiculous.

There is a world outside of the top 3 strategy consulting companies where people do make good money. What you just did is akin to limiting IT to Google, Apple and Meta.

Plus even there, assignments don’t always have you travelling for days especially if you work from a capital as your clients are likely to be there too. You don’t work 6 days a week every week and the hours get a lot more reasonable as you climb the ladder.

And I say that while not even thinking it’s a good job. I have been in and out of consulting (yes you can go back) during the past decade and think this stint will be my last. When it’s nice, it can be very nice but when it sucks, it sucks a lot. Also at some point you actually forget if you really do interesting things or just get really good at selling what you do.
At a certain point, a high enough income IS wealth. How many american's become millionaires? How many SF software developers can become a millionaire in just a few years?

If you make $400k a year, you are rich/wealthy. If you don't feel it, re-examine your lifestyle and whether you are actually spending your money well, maybe you're buying too much avocado toast /s
> Most early stage companies are wildly optimistic about their future and are at constant risk of going belly up.

Yeah, sure. Ideally I'd like to see them being super optimistic in their own mind, and perhaps with potential investors, media etc, but more realistic when communicating with people like prospective employees. I would still have gone through the trial work and all the interviews even if I had known that their finances were shaky, the only difference is that then I wouldn't have stopped my job seeking efforts, and it would also have been less of a shock.

Of course, pausing job seeking was my decision and my responsibility, but it wouldn't have cost them anything to be more forthcoming. If changing financial fortunes was indeed the true reason.
Texas is one of the reddest states yet produces significantly more wind+solar power than liberal California. Government policy is far less important than economic realities. People are self-absorbed and think their political opinions are important. The real world works more like a cowboy hat wearing power company executive saying, "Holy shucks, this solar/wind installation is going to save us more on NatGas than it costs to install. Get 'er done."
Wasn't there a YC newsletter email where they told companies to tighten their belts so to speak? I feel like them not being able to hire due to money issues could be down to YC telling people to calm down with their spending.
Noise cancelling headphones need to generate exactly opposite "anti-noise" to cancel noise. This of course works better at lower frequencies.

They're near magical at cutting down the rumble of ventilation systems, airplane wind noise, and even bus engines. But spoken voice contains high-pitch elements that they just can't track and so you still hear it. Though attenuated, it's at about the same ratio to the attenuated background noise.

For me, personally, this means I generally don't use them as just noise cancellation devices. I'd rather have the whole sound spectrum than "cone of silence" with voices still cutting through. I find playing some music, even at a low level, solves that, but I concentrate better with random background burble than with music.

Mine are QC35s. I also have a cheap pair that cost about 1/8 as much that doesn't have quite the "whoa" effect of the Bose ones, but still very satisfyingly cuts down diesel engine roar in the rear seating row of a bus!