skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding the short cords on appliances, my mother (retired) has actually taken the time to call up at least one appliance manufacturer and give them an earful about kitchen appliances whose cords don't reach. The manufacturer had the gall to try to tell her this is "what consumers want" and they're saving her the favor of having a cord that could tangle or be dangerous.

So her kitchen features appliances plugged into orange extension cords.

I had a German-made burr coffee grinder that died after a few months of use. When I went to repair it I found an approximately 2"x3" circuit board packed with components including relays, optoisolators, chips, and capacitors. I replaced that entire board with a single honking big momentary toggle switch.
Almost assuredly, it is generating on the fly, then caching.
> since no one is allowed to say anything comparing Coverity to anything else

A product where the company is afraid of comparative reviews implies it just isn't a competitive product.

Feel free to compare D with any other programming language.
>It's important to note that if you take a sinewave and clip it, then sample it, you'll still get aliasing because you'll still have a big infinitely fast step somewhere, which is why audio equipment is so big on having steep lowpass filters before and after digital (or, sampled, at least) bits.

Ah-ha. Gotcha. So my intuition was more or less correct. It's not that clipping in digital is especially susceptible to aliasing, it's that when people clip in analog they brickwall the signal to get rid of the harmonics.
> a lot of the systems we build and use just don’t need the level of reliability that e.g. a bridge needs

Sure. As the saying goes, "Anybody can build a bridge that never falls down. But it takes an engineer to build a bridge that _almost_ doesn't fall down" (referring to being able to build it in a cost-conscious way). There's a spectrum there for sure, but as an industry we're on the other side of it from where I personally wish we were.

We should be embarrassed that "it must have been a computer glitch" can be used to explain away nearly any problem. Because it's usually right, and it's usually our fault rather than the cosmic rays.
Me too, specially in social settings. It nicely stops the conversation about work.
Alberta is ostensibly free of invasive Norwegian rats, but overlaps with the natural range of native bushy tailed wood rats.
ssh myserver -c “git init” && git remote add origin git@myserver && git push origin HEAD.

headless git is just ssh to a sever with an associated repository, ya?

What else do you need?
Have a look at SideFX Houdini - the whole environment is node based. Building models can take some getting used to, but it's really powerful.

https://www.sidefx.com/products/houdini/
Back in the day we did in-person interviews around the floor, and would make an offer before the interviewee left the building (or say sorry no).

But that was a long time ago. Still, in a competitive market it seems a sensible approach.
Whilst simultaneously realising the absurdity of the topic, I feel compelled to say how much easier the second style is to use - a thought I've oddly had more than once.

I like to cook with my child, they were able to peel carrots at age three using one, albeit with me holding the carrot!
So how many firearms did they bring to this insurrection?
I agree with this stance. It's the same as branch prediction, out of order execution, or anything else about computing efficiently.
Yeah they don't burn coal, they are hoping to transition to natural gas and we shouldn't stand for that shit. That is literally the whole point of my comment.
Is that a fair comparison? Did everyone or anyone have unlimited options for substitute calories and nutrients without milk? How does modern factory farmed dollar per liter milk compare to the milk back then?
web, email, images and a bit of security are not the reason windows UI is laggy as fuck
It should be no surprise that I take the same approach, and have not met anyone offended by a sincere restatement. (for that matter, my reading of the original FA was that it also was compatible with this forgiveness-over-permission strategy)

That said, unless one lives one's life with elbows permanently out, there are really not so many Y's as to be intellectually taxing. Even Gen. Robert E. Lee, whom I suppose very few would accuse of being woke, recommended that gentlemen avoid Y.

> What was X is now Y.

When in Rome, tempora mutantur.
Main issue I see with this form of trying to keep people up to date with your life is that it requires a more intense attention span and willingness to know what’s going on. I think social media as it is thrives on short form content because people who do care will call you or message you or whatever.

If you’re a very popular person - celebrity, executive, or otherwise some form of a status holding person in a community - I think something like this could be useful. For normies and the 99%+ of rest of folks - I don’t think this is really that relevant. I can’t really think of many normal friends who would use such a thing.
I am a Catholic first and foremost.

When it comes down to the personal philosophy, I believe that a life with a focus on longevity and capability for the purpose of helping and providing for those you love (your family and friends) is most important.

I also consider physical activity and education (either through self-learning or something more formal) under the right pretense are highly spiritual experiences and should be maintained.
Best practices from six founders: How startups can navigate today’s economy
Thanks for the note!

I just ran a query, and 93% of email signups on Postcard have completed the email confirmation step. A quick look at the incomplete signups shows a lot of obvious fake emails, too.

I'm trying to minimize my reliance on big tech, so I want to avoid Google's captcha product. But, hCaptcha and Cloudflare both seem to have more privacy-focused alternatives that I'll check out.
There is a great deal about modernism and the possibilities associated with it that can taken from The Great Gatsby. The Living Moment by Jeff Hart who used to be on the English faculty at Dartmouth College and was an expert on 1920s American authors among other things is probably the best read on this.
I haven’t used LabView much myself but did work at a company whose product replaced it with .Net tooling. I got a sense that some common programming idioms become spaghetti. I want to say maybe that there wasn’t a proper loop in LabView?

Take this with two grains of salt. I’m not actually a LabView user and what I know comes from a company replacing it.
Why Outliners?
> Do you think I should consider making it a priority to code in a fairly low-level programming language (e.g. Rust)

Maybe. Premature optimization is said to be the root of all evil...

But at the same time - the assumption that everything will be easier and faster in Python rather than Rust or C++ is often invalid. Sure, for smaller scripts it almost always is like that, but once your app grows, this may stop being the case.

Start with a language that's convenient for you and with which you can release an initial version. Then get an understanding how it behaves in terms of performance, and draw your conclusions.

> as fast and efficient as possible.

Responsiveness is not the same as speed or efficiency. Of course it's important to be fast and efficient, but it is even more important to not just start crunching numbers and ignore the user and the rest of the system.

Do your hard lifting asynchronously and have a thread attending to user input and your UI (or even different threads for these two tasks). And this is easier said than done!

Also remember you'll have to try and work around delays and slowdowns due to other apps and the (non-realtime) OS. Specifically, you might have to play with thread scheduling and I/O priority (although - that's usually the user's rather than the app's job).

Additional notes:

* Also consider C++; it has some advantages and disadvantages relative to Rust (which I obviously will not get into), but it has seen a whole lot of progress in recent years, in particular w.r.t. the ease of doing many things which used to be painful.

* If you think of Rust as low-level, then your head must be in the clouds... :-P
If I was a prosecutor, I’d definitely be wanting 100% disclosure of all the dirty stuff he knows others are engaging in. For sure, CZ is probably regretting not having followed through with the purchase of FTX, which he could have then swept under the rug.
I've been experimenting lately with different forms of dairy. For as long as I can remember, cow's milk has given me issues with acne and other related skin/inflammation issues. It's not lactose intolerance, since I get no stomach issues, and drinking lactose free milk is no better (even ghee still gives me problems). So then I tried sheep dairy. No such symptoms. Then I tried goat dairy -- but was not so lucky. The confounding factor here though is that both my cow and goat dairy were purchased at a regular grocery store and my sheep dairy was purchased by some guy selling direct at the farmer's market.
I believe so, yeah. The dates are derived from a grouping query run directly on my local copy of the hacker news data. It's synced from the official api via
firebase, not the algolia api. As best I can tell, the api stores all the stamps as UTC unix time. (today is of course incomplete)
It could be scientifically dubious for reasons that are not related to the scientists' methods or integrity directly. For example if the funding source makes it less likely that they would have published a negative result.

Such factors are not evident by simply examining the study, but still allows exploiting science to promote a message.
Read my comment again, I said in the vast majority of cases, not "all".
When I bought my current desktop the two CPUs I was looking at were the i7-9700K and i9-9900K. This was the generation where intel went from 6 cores with HT to 8 cores w/o HT for the i7. The i9 has 8 cores with HT.

I liked the idea of the i7 because without HT you have a real picture of how utilized your CPU is. If it says 100% on a core it's 100%. I ended up going with the i9 though when a promotion was too good to pass up.

When I got it I ran Cinebench both with and without HT enabled in the BIOS and it made a decent impact so I left it on.
Thanks for clarifying this important fact…
> Ask for forgiveness later may work at a smaller joint, but willfully and knowingly bypassing existing policies can land you in a heap of trouble at a bigger corporate.

Interesting. I've found that the bigger the company the more I need to do that. In a small company I can actually discuss things with people and a motivated decision rolls out. In big companies I ran into one of two problems.

1. Many people dare to say no, but few dare say yes. I have seen discussions about spending half a day engineering time kicked up three management layers because it wasn't a pre-approved task. It was obvious to everyone that it needed to be done too.

2. People just not deciding. If you don't keep chasing a decision, nothing will happen.

The political cost of a bad decision grows the higher up it goes. Make a bad decision as a grunt and you get chewed out a bit. As long as you were genuinely trying to help the company, it's nothing you can't get out of with a bit of charm and a willingness to learn. Make a bad decision a bit higher up and people start sharpening their knives. Sometimes it's better to just decide for your manager and give them plausible deniability.
"Code compiled and deployed by programmer who didn't bother to read all of the modules and libraries it used." Better they be domain experts for sections they are interested in than try to pretend that they understanding the entirety of the workings of the government.
And a whole bunch of other systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502#Computers_...

And, more recently, the Commander X16.
Ah oops, I misremembered what they were.
Tdlr: Tiktok's Chinese parent company used Tiktok user data to track US journalists who uncovered they were accessing US user data in China.
It's better than any other carbon fuel that we could use, and not by a little but by a lot because emissions of mercury and other very bad things are much much lower with natural gas than with other carbon fuels. It's not just a bit better than coal.
LastPass is an enormous target, obviously. And, I guess, the inevitable has happened: Encrypted trove of passwords is "out there".

Let's assume one's master password is strong. And that LastPass knows how to encrypt data. We're really down to whether 256-bit AES can be brute forced, right? And I guess understanding phishing attacks.

I mean, yes, wouldn't it be great of LastPass took the measures with its development environment years ago? So put another way: Lack of operational excellence hopefully is made for in strong encryption. I hope.
Ask HN: Air gapped computer to avoid distractions when being creative?
Curious if anyone has tried this. I'm considering an air gapped computer not for security, but for creative hobbies. The benefits being less distractions and no updates getting in the way or breaking things.

Software tools to temporarily remove distractions haven't been successful for me. I just turn them off in frustration.

I'm often using ~50 individual software/plugins, so it can also be frustrating to open a project and see update notifications or that a plugin somehow broke since I last opened it. It's rare that any of these updates provide any meaningful value, too. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

In general, I imagine a separate desk and device could be beneficial for getting in the zone as well.
> IT is the outlier in "well-paid office jobs which garner lots of respect"

That is a relatively modern thing - I thought IT was relatively unrespected even 20 years ago, although I am not in the US, so maybe different there. I suspect the change was occurring about when Zuckerberg became wealthy, maybe late 00’s?

It is fucking bizarre to me seeing “geek” go mainstream (although commercialised geek is definitely different from traditional geek - maybe even incompatibly so?).
For me the UI hangs whenever Thunderbird downloads new messages. It seems as if they are doing network I/O on the UI thread - which can't be true...
Amazing! Another step forward in defeating aging!
I believe there is a strong generational divide here. A lot of people from the previous generation seem to assume "My degree did not help me make it big/I made it big without a degree, so a degree is worthless" without realizing that the labor market has shifted (for various reasons, pick your favorite culprit) so much so that if you are looking for your first job, a lot of entry level positions will not even consider your application if you do not have a high level degree.

I am glad you could make it big in tech without a degree in tech, but maybe it is necessary to rethink whether the same policy would work for your children.
So there's going to be some evidence presented at some point that someone was doing something illegal or unethical?
Thank you for your perspective. What do you think should be done about professors who have no interest in teaching but are forced to anyway by their university? The issue as I see it is about incentives. There are no incentives for being a good teacher, so all the effort goes into research, leading to subpar experiences for undergrads.
I agree this feels like a sign of the times and the greater macroeconomic environment has forced many startups to choose between going into survival mode or going bankrupt by running out of runway too soon.

I've always been frustrated by startups that hire over-optimistically. I worked for one that doubled headcount twice from 15 to 30 to 60 in just a few months (with a heavy emphasis on engineering) pre-PMF only to turn around just a few months later and layoff half of the company, then a few months after that, half again. That obliterated the culture and morale, and then also follow-on effects of more people leaving that made it even worse.

They are a rare success story that went on to eventually re-raise a "seed" round two more times (!), rebuild and eventually achieve unicorn status. However, in the process it required changing virtually the entire company (90+%) including all new C suite, the founders being demoted, etc.

I can't help but wonder in a parallel universe what could have happened had we not hired excessively to begin with.

I think too many founders today expose themselves to being overly dependent on venture capital by growing headcount too fast.
This point reminds me of Costco's Mission Statement and Code of Ethics. It's so simple and easy, but for reason it's really hard for companies to copy/paste into their organizations.

https://customerservice.costco.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/8...

I inherently agree that this is a good Code of Ethics. It comes down to whether the people at these organizations conduct themselves in a way that embodies these principles. In the OP and my specific cases it was not the case. My position is that these principles are difficult and not particularly well adopted.
I care more about the content of the story than any quality of writing. Beautifully captured footage of an automated waste treatment facility in the middle of nowhere is far less compelling than, E.G. low quality traffic cam views that happen to capture timely or educationally useful content.

There's more than enough books vying to be classics; do future readers a favor and select one that fulfills BOTH criteria; Well Written and Interesting to Read.
There are benefits to being a US based company that doesn't target EU users, even if it doesn't reject EU users, I guess.

I can't think of a way to actually use any kind of tracking cookies, even non-ad/sales/data-harvesting related that wouldn't be annoying in EU.

Of course, if you manage your own load balancing, could definitely combine a load-balancer pinning cookie (uuid) for "all" uses as a single "essential" cookie.
Hijacking stories for unrelated discussion is frowned on.

This would be worth a submission, however.
> I feel sorry for his parents - legal fees is going to financially wipe them out and any plans for retirement.

Losing your money sucks but it's preferable to losing your freedom. It is very likely the parents are guilty of abetting or enabling the fraud in some way.

SBF "agreed" to be extradited, that implies some negotiation. The only possible incentive I can think of him agreeing to what is shaping up to be a slam-dunk case of a very long prison term, is immunity for the parents.
Iris Explorer. I would probably still be blown away today. The examples that came with it made you think you were driving a supercomputer. It turned out to be rather hard for me to get it to do anything it wasn't already set up to do, but maybe I just missed the point.

IBM's open-sourced OpenDX is similar in scope and appears to run fine on Linux. I haven't used it in anger.
Well I had a BBC as a kid before progressing to pcs. The idea of programming never really occured to me. I had a book but it's idea of programming consisted of typing out an ASCII art house.

I only got in to programming in my 20s when some company called canonical were giving CDs away of this thing call Linux.

Point is. We have the internet now for kids to discover these things, and schools are more up on it and we have inexpensive computers and stuff for kids to play about with.
Yes, I wear them over my better wired in-ear monitors that have good passive isolation.

An especially good combo on noisy flights, etc.
Salaries/Trustfunds are the main reason that people lose this skill of staring into the abyss and or never gain it in the first place.

You literally can't build this skill without taking your own decisions and bearing the consequences of the same (without your boss shielding you).
This is great advice! Over the years, most of the shiny new household goods from our wedding registry have ended up donated or binned, and more and more of what we use every day is either inherited or bought used. Estate sale cast iron cookware and shop tools, inherited fiestaware, utensils, and dining room table, a commercial deep freezer from Alejandro's used appliance store.

When inheriting or estate sales aren't an option I've actually been buying a lot of used stuff off of eBay lately. PC's (the trick is to select "no OS included" to find the business ones IT departments are discarding), a label maker you could use as a bludgeon in a pinch, a vintage flannel that's actually wool.

I've come to really like second hand. Clothes don't shrink when you wash them, boots are already broken in, and things have generally survived past that first failure spike that weeds out the lemons.
I just submitted an article about a paper by Deepmind whose main conclusion is that "data, not size, is the currently active constraint on language modeling performance" [0]. This means that even if we have bigger models, with billions and trillions of parameters, they are unlikely to be better than our current ones, because our amount of data is the bottleneck.

TFA though also reminds me of the phenomenon in mathematical proofs where some long winded proof eventually comes up but then over time it becomes simplified as more mathematicians try to optimize it, in much the same way as programmers with technical debt ("make it work, make it right, make it fast"), such as with the four color theorem that was until now computer assisted but it seems there is a non computer assisted proof out [1].

I wonder if the problem in TFA could itself be solved by machine learning, where models would create, train, and test other models, changing them along the way, similar to genetic programming but with "artificial selection" and not "natural selection" so to speak.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34098087

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34082022
50% less CO2 emissions is a big deal.
My I-think-conservative WAG for the cost and land-area-use differences between England and Switzerland, for this kind of storage, would be about 50x and 5-10x, respectively, for similar amounts of stored energy. Both elevation and grade of the surrounding land matter a lot for how much energy you can reclaim per stored liter, and having two or three sides of your reservoir provided by nature in the form of steep-walled valleys has to provide serious cost savings.

Like of course any water you push up a hill is gonna gain potential energy, but I think a reasonable reading of "works" in that post was "works efficiently enough that it's actually worth doing", not "is technically possible".
That's one use case. SMT is not designed to address it. POV-Ray will saturate your execution resources in the core and adding another frontend doesn't change the facts.

SMT is designed to hide memory load latency. In this use case it is completely brilliant. You will get 2x speedups with hyperthreading when randomly accessing memory.
“In the First Place, in the Second Place”
Did you check?

I tell my QA people all the time: If you come to me with "I think" or "I believe", it sounds like you've got some reading to do.
Email isn't terribly expensive to send--a common rate is roughly $0.80/1,000 emails. It's absolutely dirt cheap ($0.10/1,000 emails) if you can get past the application for AWS SES. (I didn't--don't know the magic words I guess!--so I'm a happy Postmark user instead.)
Old-school banking, M is thousand, MM is million.
A 1960s Children's Book about Computers
If you tell that same art expert that it actually sold for $200k, they'll happily give you a post-hoc justification for that too. ChatGPT is equally good at that, you can ask it all sorts of "why" questions about falsehoods and it will confidently muse with the best armchair expert.
Yes, the reason those people support Democrats is that they are educated and live on the coast. Tell me where you live and what your level of education is and I am happy to place a very large bet on your political choices.