skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I had a hell of a time getting my first job out of college, in no small part because my community college did absolutely nothing to equip me to apply for internships at the start of my junior year.

I volunteer with a non-profit trying to fix this problem. Check us out?

https://mentorsintech.com/
Not saying this is right, but many Americans disagree with the very concept, and want to maintain their freedom to opt-out of everything that goes along with "society". Gault's Gulch and all that. And I think it was that famous British voice of reason Maggie Thatcher that said "there's no such thing as society".
I'd been using C for a couple years in 1989, and "never use gets()" was advice that had reached me. I don't remember how widespread that was.

The style was just as unusual at the time, though I think there was more variety in style generally, and lower standards most places (most of us didn't have open source or internet discussion to learn from).
Even if you lack the skills to get a white-collar, professional job, what's stopping you from working as a labourer in a factory, farm or supermarket?

It doesn't seem like you really need that professional salary so much as you need _something_, and the difference from a mental health perspective between having a low-status job and none at all is immense.

Especially given the labour shortage at the moment, what's stopping you from turning your complete hellscape of a life into a mere moderate disappointment?
That's not the argument. The argument is that what might be presented to you as inappropriate conduct by native-american tribes may be mis-represented, or taken out of the context of posturing by interested parties in disputes over land access. So I would treat reports of such stereotypical behavior with more than one grain of salt.
We Tell Our Kids That Hard Work Always Pays Off. What Happens When They Fail?
Demonstrating That Scheme ~= JavaScript
Gosh damnit, that was my idea!

To put it another way, Twitter is/was a notary/PR firm as well as a "microblogging" service. Popular people and brands could verify their identity with Twitter, and users could trust it.

I think, though the idea is unoriginal, that there is money in hosting Mastodon servers as well as hosting a particular mastodon service that does brand/personal identification. Perhaps even semi-automatically, such as via DNS.
I suppose that's easy to get the contents of private Facebook groups, then?

Notice, getting stuff out of Facebook - or Twitter or similar walled-gardens - is double quandary. How you do scan/scrape/whatever the data and how do you avoid being banned for doing so. This given the formats/apis etc constantly and the degree of abusive platform protection also changing (we've seen Twitter's upheavals, imagine a similar abusive dictator buying Facebook and see how much he can squeeze).

And I'm sure someone will "you shoulda know about Facebook but my subscription sure ain't gonna trap me, no". Okay then...
You don't want your neighbor to not have trash pickup if they live within smelling distance. You want their trashed to be picked up. If you live in an area where that can easily become a problem, it becomes important to make it regular and "included".

If you have more space/land in between, it doesn't matter nearly as much.
not till its for sale.

the money you pay your housekeeper? part of the economy. you cleaning your own house? not part of the economy.

your point is valid, that it "has a value" and the economy "depends on it", and there are economists and critics who have said "we need to fix this", but definitionally economics at present is what it is and isn't what it isn't.
I appreciate your passion on this topic but you've posted hundreds of times about this and basically nothing about anything else. That's a single-purpose account, and we don't allow those on HN [1] because they're too agenda-driven—which is the opposite of curiosity, which is what HN is supposed to be for: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

I don't want to ban you, partly because people will inevitably go "omg they banned $account for talking about shadowbanning" (and then I have to go "no, people talk about that on HN all the time and it's fine", blah blah blah) – but more because you're obviously sincere and a good user. But can you please use HN as intended?

That means posting on a variety of topics that you personally find interesting, and not treating it as a target for an agenda. This applies regardless of what the agenda is and how worthy it is [2]. It's predictable, and predictability and curiosity are disjoint.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7682659
The limit is now 30x that :)
I read it as maintaining privacy while doing legal things that a corrupt government might punish despite their legality.

What led you to think laws are being broken in those scenarios?
Navy cooks will bust the bubble promptly. They clean the pots religiously, the difference is that each cook treats the brew differently. If a cook left a vessel or had a mate make the coffee, sailors'll notice the change in treatment.

Also, you have to keep in mind, Navy coffee is a mythic thing. Taking on a spiritual character from being a source of constancy and solace in an otherwise stressful/hostile environment. It's a morale thing.
Lambdas can run for 15 minutes
Github actions FTW! > https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/events-th...

I remember seeing a couple projects shared before, using this technique to scrape sites with GHA
For all the "just go to therapy", what's the best way for me to accept your payment for this? Paypal? venmo? ko-fi?
I wish there were a convention for sharing whole websites. Even a zip file containing an index.html plus images, css, other pages, etc. would be fine if browsers just supported it.
Check out vault’s response wrapping with cubbyhole for one such case.

Note this still takes a dependency on the service.
If you have a GCP, AWS, or Azure account already and know Javascript, you should be able to whip up a serverless cron task real quick. IMO the simplest setup is probably GCP via Firebase (which makes deployment super simple once you install the CLI): https://firebase.google.com/docs/functions/schedule-function...

You won't spend much at all, it's fractions of a penny per call and I think there's a free tier.
Cool idea, there is a town in Austria where the sun doesn't shine in winter and they were going to build something like that on the adjacent mountaintop. I think it never happened, though.
Binance.us to Buy Assets of Bankrupt Crypto Lender Voyager
We use Bazel at work for C++, and while defining targets and dependency is easy, I've really struggled with some stuff I would consider basic, like conditionally changing build flags, especially to external dependencies.

Basically, I wanted to conditionally use sanitizers for a specific target and propagate the sanitizers compiler/linker flags to the whole dependency tree.
For code you own, from what I could find, you need to duplicate each target and each dependency (and their own dependencies) for each possible sanitizer and then select the right one. And for external dependencies, you need to use "Aspects", if I understood correctly, to modify the build dependency graph and inject your flags. There's a question on stackoverflow about it, but the answer is very high level (presumably by a Bazel dev), and unfortunately I didn't have time to dig it further and just abandoned.

I also had a lot of issues on an ARM Mac, including the linker issue that is apparently fixed (hooray) and recurrent crashes.

Given we do not use any of best features of Bazel (remote/distributed compilation, multiple languages, and caching (because we basically spawn a new docker container for each build)), I think CMake would have made more sense.
Shitty company gets caught doing shitty things. Not surprised.
Citation here https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/gettingstarted-...
Instead of volunteering PR and adding distractions, it might be better to say that power companies have "lobbyists" that bribe news sites in return for slandering critics of those companies.

Even though it's strange to call people who bribe news outlets rather than politicians "lobbyists," because that sort of begs the question.
I don't know anything about the subject itself, but I don't like that the article makes hyperbolic claims like

> Together this weighty band of experts has just published a paper in the scientific literature that’s likely to be seen as landmark in our understanding of life on Earth.
The bit about predators hanging around the only access across a highway I saw in a documentary. Mountain lions would hang around under a bridge over a stream. It's the same reason predators hang around water holes, etc. They aren't stupid.

> I am sure that more thought has been put into this

I am not. Sometimes it takes someone outside the industry to see the obvious. And besides, SpaceX figured out how to launch rockets at what, 10% of the cost of NASA?

I saw a documentary once on one of those zillion dollar animal crossings, and the activists and designers simply went ape over it like they were building the Taj Mahal.

Highways are built over culverts all the time. They know how to do it. It doesn't cost $100,000,000 to do it. They don't even have to raise the highway - the highway is often raised up already on a berm of dirt to keep it from flooding.
Google for many years thought my office in Sweden was in fact in central Tokyo. This happened after a vacation trip there. And then it somehow got stuck with the idea.
I definitely saw a lot of that in him when I read "Masters of Doom".
The general use-case is "high-performance and/or embedded systems." Games, and especially console games, happen to check both of those boxes. Another high-perf case is financial systems (eg: high-frequency trading). Other embedded systems would include things like robotics, automotive software, audio synthesizers and processing, etc.

Packing data into bits is a space optimization. On modern processors, accessing memory is hideously slow compared to doing logical operations, so if you can pack more info into fewer bits, you get higher information density, and need to access main RAM less often. Thus, it speeds things up, sometimes dramatically.

Sorry, I don't have reading material per-se.

But just as an anecdotal example: I was using some of this trickery to implement a densely-packed Quadtree using Morton Codes. Morton Codes interleave the bits of the X and Y coordinates for a cell on a grid. So, in order to break a M-Code apart and combine them back together, you need to "select the even bits" or "select the odd bits", which can be done with some tricks like these.

(aside: it's "piqued" :)
Just use a 2.5$/month instance on Vultr for your cronjob, and plain old sendmail for your emails (they will go in your spam folder but at least you don't have to waste time setting up emails).
Dow falls more than 300 points as hope for a year-end rally dwindles
Very good! There are more efficient multi-junction solar cells in commercial use, but the existing ones use stacked III-V semiconductors and are very expensive, really only suitable for space applications. This record is for a thin perovskite material solar cell on top of a conventional silicon solar cell. Both materials are inexpensive.

The main obstacle to commercialization is keeping the perovskite material stable over long periods of operation. This family of materials is more sensitive to water/oxygen/light than silicon itself, but they need to last nearly as long as silicon for cells used in solar farms and rooftop panels.
Thanks for the link. Although I wouldn't describe that as extreme demands.
"Stories of Your Life and Others" by Ted Chiang (from 2002). Contains the short story that the movie Arrival was based on, and a bunch of other cool stories as well. Definitely the best SciFi I've read in a long time.
There are attempts like that for various communities. For example https://journa.host/about

I'm sure when bigger celebrities migrate, someone will start a service optimised for few huge (in follower count) accounts.
EventBridge + AWS Lambda

It's cheap as in free, thanks to the generous free tier.
Do you think they’ll drop the cubes into the reactor, The Expanse style, or have to move them in from outside between firings, while also keeping them cryogenically cooled? That sounds like a slow process, especially in a chamber that just had an artificial sun inside it and is running a power generator off of the heat produced.

Could they really fire this design more than twice a minute?
I'm fine with monthly payments as long I have time to use it. Which is fine with Spotify, because I use it daily. But I refuse to pay 4 streaming services when I know that I can watch 3-5 hours weekly on their content. It makes 1 hour for one service monthly. So no deal for me.

As long time Adobe user for professional work I'm fine with paying, because I use it daily and make money from it. As tool I like it. What I hate is their development that is more bloated and robust with every update. Also they do not respect users privacy and usage is not possible on linux - which is only reason why I cannot use linux as main OS.
It replaced Twitter for me. Pretty much everyone I was following on Twitter is on Mastadon now, but also a whole bunch more because discoverability is easier for me on Mastadon.

Maybe it will never replace Twitter as the place to follow celebrities, politicians and corporations; so you can see what their social media teams have thought up in the last hour. But for keeping up with personal interests and chatting with other like-minded folks? Absolutely. And I'm not gonna miss the use-case that falls away. Also not going to miss the ads!
The influence of evolutionary history on human health and disease
"The Idea of the World", by Bernardo Kastrup. A complete departure from my materialistic view of the world, and - in spite of certain arguments made in the book, with which I disagree - offered me the chance to learn something that now requires more reading on the topic.
What do you do if you're not in possession of any scraps of white fabric?
I am of a similar mind... I will say the work that Cloudflare, Deno and a handful of others have done has been really interesting/compelling. I mean, if you don't like TS/JS, there's still WASM as an option. Similarly I think WASM target frameworks will become very interesting in terms of cloud scaling apps in the longer term.

IMO, I think considerations for general search is probably one of the biggest shortcomings of most cloud first solutions.
I… don’t think that’s it.

I’m tempted to find and buy one a pressurized popcorn popper like that, and set up at my local farmers’ market. It might be popular, or it might not - but it would definitely be fun.
I think OP doesn't want to keep a machine running permanently. If you do that, adding your own crontab entry would be trivial as well.
They happily let you pay for both even though Apple music includes the functionality. I recently found this out when I moved, and had to escalate at apple support to get them to cancel the remaining 6 months of my itunes match subscription and everything kept working via Apple Music.[0]

[0]Because you can't change regions while having an active subscription. Normally you are blocked from doing so but apparently if you use family sharing, the head of the family can change regions and your account will be broken.
Sorghum (Jowar) popcorn is really good and healthy (Gluten free).

Amaranth (Rajgira) popcorn is really good too but hard to make it home. It buns really fast after popping.

If you don't wanna do it yourself, both are available at all the Indian grocery stores.
> have they been used to clean up the mess of some other offshore company imploding?

Investigating FTX, extraditing SBF and putting people in jail isn't free.
The ones that relied on Flash, for example. And the layouts designed for 800x600 displays may not work particularly well on modern computers.
Anyone know the previous record? Curios how much of an improvement this is.
Neville Shute's novel 'On the Beach', from 1957.

I won't spoil it -- Wikipedia has a synopsis if you want -- other than to say it's end-of-times dystopia. But from 1957. It's delightful.

My friend Tim:

> Just finished On the Beach. Simple and profound. Just need some Zoloft and I will be great. Thanks for the recommendation.
huh. This comment is now downvoted a lot. Can someone who wants to downvote explain why?
This is simply standard using the builtins that the major c++ compilers already have. It does not remove the absurd “overflow is UB” semantics that introduces security bugs.
Not tech-related, but “Conversations with Tyler”, Tyler Cowen (of Marginal Revolution’s) podcast[1]. It’s consistently thought-provoking and he has some amazing guests on.

[1] https://conversationswithtyler.com/
Two good articles from the last few weeks on what has made the cut over the last few years and proven to be useful :

https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/12/05/excited.html

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/why-im-less-than-infin...

I won't summarize, beyond agreeing with the second that a lot of the view that "all of crypto is a scam" is driven by the fact that essentially all public facing crypto advertisements are for scams. However behind the scenes there are open decentralized system that do move billions of dollars smoothly and safely for millions of people.
My experience is that you need a few developers who know how to use the technology effectively, and who are willing to mentor junior developers. Doing things like pair programming and code reviews goes a long way here.
Smaller households can generate less trash. In our area you can pick between 3 sizes of trash/recycling/green bins. The trash bin size determines the service cost but there is no additional cost for the recycling and green bins.
To be fair to Binance, they have thus far honoured their wildcat dollars.
The audiobook, read by the author, is terrific.
They are probably very good at leet coding and FAANG interviews.
Nothing in this comment has explained why we should ignore the Cato institute or the findings in its article.

“It’s ideologically misaligned with me, therefore it is propaganda” is really difficult for many of us to follow.
Say that to rob74, the starter of this thread, who essentially says "so what if it is the first time we've ever had a net positive fusion reaction, there is still work to be done and I don't like the people working on it" in order to wave it off.
Razib Khan was a PhD candidate in genetics at UC Davis - https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/in/razibkhan , he’s pretty qualified to speak on genetics IMO.
I'll tell you what I tell others when I recommend it - the trilogy is so good that I am jealous of your position of having not yet read it!
That's kind of the feeling I had. There's experienced cavers that know what they're doing, but "professional" (at least in the sense of getting paid to do it) isn't really a thing.

Kudos to you and the work you and like-minded individuals put into exploring and mapping these systems.
After Terry Pratchett's death in 2015 I started rereading all of Discworld in publishing order, I had read about half of them before.

This year's batch included _The Fifth Elephant_ and later _Night Watch_, and they're really fantastic. The pinnacle of the series? I have about ten books left to find out.

Also _The Loom Of Life_ (in Dutch, its Dutch title translates to "Why are there so many species") and it was a nice dense introduction to biodiversity and ecology.

And others less worth mentioning.
https://cryptoquant.com/asset/btc/chart/exchange-flows/excha...

its measurable on chain if you know what wallet addresses to watch, which can be crowd sourced by people taking money off exchanges.
Using their Python library called chalice was really easy to make cron style lambdas in Python in my experience. https://github.com/aws/chalice
I came to suggest the same thing.

I use their cronjob functionality to ensure my docker images are built daily and therefore in theory secure.
> Powell begging people to quit their jobs

Out of curiosity, where did you read this?
I mean, I would really like us to fully understand nutrition, and I'm optimistic that we eventually will... its just that we don't, right now. Not really.
Emacs, Vim, a UNIX shell
Ask HN: Bet on the Success of OpenAI/ChatGPT
A friend of mine and I were debating the likely "disruptions" that ChatGPT will have in the coming years and how it will alter various industries.

The timeline he suggested was 2 years. The questions I have are this:

- What do you think is a reasonable litmus-test for measuring this? (e.g number of employed workers in AI)

- He was willing to and I quote "bet my career" on the outcome of this. I have no need for his career. In the spirit of the bet what would you think is a prize that is worthy of this? (e.g something tongue in cheek like dinner at an AI powered White Castle[0])

I will be posting the bet on Longbets.org. I have attempted to leave my position/bias out of this post in relation to the bet.

[0] https://www.engadget.com/white-castle-flippy-2-100-locations-205023731.html
My dad in the AF once saw that engineers devised an elaborate draining system so a highway could be built across a swamp. He suggested instead they bulldoze a berm and build the highway on that.

That reduced the cost by about 95%, and they adopted it.

Note that the civil engineers working on it all failed to see the simpler, vastly cheaper option.
that's the question, ain't it? Telling people to just suffer through terrible therapy probably ain't the answer
It's probably a silly thing to do, but if you can pickup a 4770K or Xeon 1281v3 for the price of a pizza I bet you could get a a bit more life out of your machine. More cache and hyperthreading always helps.

I had a 1271v3 in my son's PC until the motherboard died earlier this year and it was still quite beefy.