skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. It's not without controversy, but it's widely accepted.
I used to work on these problems in school all the time, but once I decided to join industry I encountered a bunch of these Lisp-style engineers who love computation in the abstract but not the application thereof. Scala seemed to attract a lot of folks like this. Maybe if I had gone into scientific computing I would have found more.

I get to use these skills every so often though. When I was designing one of our early two-level caches at $WORK, I wrote an analysis of chosen TTLs and jitter values by looking at microservice latency distributions. I've debugged a nasty concurrency issue by modeling it in TLA+ and then fixing the bug (full disclosure: once I thought through the TLA+ model, the bug was fairly obvious to me, but the modelling itself was the valuable exercise.) I've used MILP solvers for capacity planning our boxes. I've designed queue backpressure through probabilistic analysing. Each of these things has been crucial in designs I've used, but I only encounter a problem like this once every some years. (And these days I often write more docs than code.)
Presumably the government would then return the assets to the creditors. Do you think this is unjust?
I'm curious what you mean by stable here. Which other country would you consider stable and suitable to set up your manufacturing in?
I've been using GPT this way. "Write the header file for a function that does X." Now write the implementation. Does a great job when prompted with a header file.
For folks without significant generational wealth or hitting the startup jackpot, feeling rich <=> having lots of disposable income. Before we even talk about personal finances, here are some hurdles I could see:

1. TC numbers (hypothetically ~$400k as you quoted, which generally agrees with levels.fyi) are not real income. We know what happened to (tech) equity this year --- this (unfavorable) gap between grant price/share and vesting price/share has deflated a lot of the TC, much more so if the grant date happens to be right before the onslaught. (Personally I landed almost square in this territory due to a somewhat forced job switch but that's another can of worms I'm not opening today).

2. Whatever is left from that TC number, tax man takes ~40% of it period. Deductions are for most cases a rounding error.

3. TL;DR housing costs scales with salary over here too. Long version: The kind of housing that (transplanted) SWEs and their families would reasonably consider in SFBay has generally been priced (by "the market") right up to the limit of their income-derived affordability, most of which is calculated (by the underwriters) straight from SWE base salary, which we know is constrained by BigTech paybands (which propagates to startups too).

4. Okay, now an inevitable personal finances bullet point: Educated responsible adults as we are, a significant savings (incl. investments) rate surely sounds prudent eh? Say (temporary) goodbye to another xx% of whatever's left at this point.

5. Adding insult to injury, avocado toasts are now about 1.5x to 2x their price compared to early 2020. I feel compelled to add that this agrees with the larger trend of any kind of prepared food.

6. Elephant in the room: Kids.

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I can go on and on, but hopefully I am getting the point across. The "salary man" of today has not only his theoretically big TC "pie" shrink over time, but an increasingly larger slice of it becomes marked as non-disposable. Assuming reasonable (not necessarily optimal) personal finances management and maintaining a reasonably high QotL (nothing excessive), I don't see me or my similarly positioned peers feeling rich / upper-middle-class-y any time soon.
"I wonder what neat trick they'll use to clear the calculator after getting an answer."
> Pulls out rocket launcher and just starts shooting the monsters.
"Oh."

Had a good chuckle over that one.
To get the YouTube channel Id: on the channel home page (you may need to reload the page or open it in private mode to avoid caching), open the developer console and enter:

ytInitialData.metadata.channelMetadataRenderer.externalId
3 days from idea to Product Hunt launch and $720/- in sales
Last Thursday my co-founder and I were traveling to a startup event in San Francisco. We had just missed an event earlier in the week and I would have totally missed this one if not for him reminding me. I told Harish how this was a pain for us and others like us. Others like us needed to be at these startup events to be part of the ecosystem of the customer, founders, and investors.

Harish agreed that it was a pain and something we faced every day. We said why not "solve" it over it the weekend. Put it up on PH and see what happens.

We put together a simple Airtable. Harish would update with events coming up, and I would automate this with the calendar. We spent last weekend on it. I read a ton of articles on "How to" do a PH launch. I learned that Tue-Thu are good days to launch. Most of them suggested a 2-3 month prep. But we had given ourselves just that weekend to built and a day to launch. Also, we decided to hunt ourselves. We did not think this was big enough to ask someone to hunt for us.

We prepared the PH page, a Gumroad store to sell the calendar, and prepared a few paragraphs that we could post. At 12am on Monday (Tuesday morning) we launched on Product Hunt. Check it out here https://www.producthunt.com/posts/the-essential-founder-calendar

We had made a list of groups that would be active at different time zones. We started engaging those groups, some at 12 am, some early morning Tuesday, and some Morning to noon PST.

By the end of the day on Tuesday, we were at #16, got ~85 upvotes, and had 6 sales @$120/- per year. That's $720/-. Not bad I would say for a weekend of work. This was our first-ever PH launch and learning what it takes to launch made it worth the effort.

A few things we learned
- If you want to try something out, just launch the damm thing
- Launch on PH does not end with hitting the submit button it starts there, you let your network, groups, and individuals know you launched. You engage in discussions and you watch the action. Its a full day of work.
- Hunters can really help push the needle for the first upvotes so they do matter a lot. But you can still launch without them.
- You get votes and sales after the launch day too.
Last time I checked, just a couple of years ago, Wikimedia's CEO makes ~$350k / year which seems extremely reasonable compared to most CEOs in the USA. It was ~2.5x my salary when I worked at the foundation. Typical CEO salary multipliers (as compared to typical staff salary) are far far greater in the USA.

From my experience, and I worked there for 7 years, Wikimedia pays below average for the industry, though the benefit package is absolutely top-notch.
Man, you really are fixated on getting people to do things for you.
That is totally written by a robot.
Which parts are complex? I got a webrtc video chat app up and running from nothing in a weekend.
How can you possibly know what musk wants or thinks? This sounds like what you want, maybe what you want him to want.
Good point. On the other hand, looking at the rest of North America, Mexico managed to abolish slavery with comparatively little violence, and Canada (as part of the Empire) did so with no violence. Both did so before the US took 4 years and 650k+ deaths to getting around to it.

cf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33931615

Between all that and the Monroe Doctrine having been enunciated suspiciously close to the Vienna Congress anti-slavery declaration in Europe, I lean towards the US as having unique issues with slavery and its aftermath.
when the writer is not the primary owner of the property it would make sense. When the writer is the primary owner and creator it does not.
Mistborn (Era 1) is the best book(s) I think I have ever read. Truly remarkable.
The paper this links too is free access:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3575861
Can large language models reason about medical questions?
Minsky's "Society of Mind" is still relevant today, IMO. It's a provocative idea that explains the complexity of the human mind as a society of simpler processes working together. In AI, it's inspired researchers to try and build systems with lots of interconnected, simple processes that work together like the human mind. And in cognitive psychology, it's a key concept that's helped researchers understand the mind as a complex network of simpler processes.
> You can get an RSS feed for any Mastodon user by simply navigating to the user's page on Mastodon and adding openrss.org/ before the instance's domain of the URL in your browser bar.

Or you can simply add .rss to the Mastodon URL.
I don’t get it. “How do I light my house on green?” A: you can’t, yellow is a primary light color.

What does yellow being a primary light color have to do with lighting up your house in green?
You haven't been paying attention to Mercedes' EVs, especially. Quick, how many models do they have?

Edit: I'll skip the suspense, they have 10 models, more than Tesla. And several more are on the way.
I think there are a couple of nuggets of useful information in this article, but most of it is asking more a more developer friendly future, not a user centered future. The reason there are apps to control your keyboard color is that's what people want. They don't want the specs of the SPI interface so that they can program their own daemon to talk to it. The reason that different HID device vendors don't share the same app is "why would they ever". Why would you go through the trouble to create the "Universal HID LED color Consortium" with the associated meetings and hack fests to insure interoperability?
Texas has no income tax, very little government owned land, no zoning in some places, etc. It’s laughable that you try to put it in the “bit lower than California” category. Texas is basically the opposite approach to governance than California.
The Celtic Triads
Thanks for the link, and for your patience.

Unpacking that, (xii) says that "such surety shall have a net worth which shall have sufficient unencumbered value to pay the amount of the bail bond", while (xiv) says that they can instead "satisfy any other condition".

Does this mean that in your interpretation the headline $250M bail bond number is indeed nominal, and likely no one was required to show that they can actually afford to pay this amount? That if Sam does flee, the court accepts that it will likely collect less than this amount from the signees? And that bail could have just as easily been set at $1B, or $1T with no difference to the court as to his parents' ability to sign for it?

(I added an edit to the thread starter mentioning your correction)
Public ownership isn’t just more effective, it’s more democratic
Obviously. We can't actually punish bad actors, because it would set a president that the pursuit of profit at the expense of individual freedom is actually dangerous. Much better to give out ritualistic slaps on the wrist to run on headlines and reinstill trust in our endlessly crumbling system.

Be on the lookout at Meta's campaign contributions in the next few years, I'm sure none of the regulatory bodies of US communications will be on it :)
Bun 0.4.0
> But from a consumer perspective, surge pricing is a regression from the predictability of metered fares.

No, in what are now surge pricing situations, you used to usually simply not be able to get a cab at all. A tiny fraction of the time you'd get lucky and get a cab, maybe after waiting on a street corner for an hour trying to hail one. But usually you just wouldn't get anything.

Surge pricing removes the gamble and doesn't waste people's time. Either you pay lots for a ride soon, or you find an alternative means of transportation. It replaces unknowns with knowns. It's an improvement.
"not going out and getting better vaccines for narcissistic reasons"

Not narcissism but the loss of face, which also means a loss of power. Which is the only thing Communists care about; compared to that the loss of a few million lives is nothing unless that also brings about a loss of power.
I'm using https://theoldreader.com/. It is very similar to the discontinued Google Reader.
Audible is somewhat like this. They have some "included" stuff that is all-you-can-eat with your subscription. Just like Netflix, the big titles aren't there, but if you search within the included content you'll find good stuff to consume.
I don’t remember the details, someone asked about Right of First Refusal from Tor during the Q&A live stream following the kickstarter announcement and he said something like a polite version of “we can sort of do what we want as long as we keep giving them the big series”
It’s wonderful, right? Being able to directly observe creativity and iteration in the story.
It's not that they want the same injustice happening both ways, it's that injustice seems to only happen to poorer less well-connected folk. The justice system is not supposed to favour people based on connections and/or wealth.

There's a reason people say crimes that are punished with a fine are laws that only apply to poor people.
Implementing numerical solutions for math concepts can give you insight into the math ex. Newton-Raphson Method or FFT. I would not sell yourself short on being able to understand. You may not be skilled at doing all the symbol manipulation required for what people consider typical "math" but that does not mean you cannot understand it.
How Watford got all its homeless people off the streets
Signed, Reproducible builds from source off a trusted build farm are possible with conda-forge, emscripten-forge, Fedora COPR, and OpenSUSE OBS Open Build System
https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide/issues/795#issuecomment-1...

What does it mean for a package to have been signed with the key granted to the CI build server?

Does a Release Manager (or primary maintainer) again sign what the build farm produced once? What sort of consensus on PR approval and build output justifies use of the build artifact signing key granted to a CI build server?

How open are the build farm and signed package repo and pubkey server configurations? https://github.com/dev-sec https://pulpproject.org/content-plugins/
Yeah, the RSS ecosystem was never the leading ‘social network’ by number of users, but it used to be systemically important, in a way that it isn’t today. Keeping track of what was happening in many fields (particularly tech, but also others) used to be primarily via RSS, now Twitter (and in some cases moving to Mastodon, now).
Waiting lists can't be Show HNs. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html. I've taken Show HN out of the title now.

When it's ready for people to try out, you'd be welcome to come back and make a Show HN then. But it's not intended for "validating ideas and seeing if there's interest". It's intended for things that people have already built. Preferably because they just wanted to build it.
If we want real 2FA, then we need to insist on client side TLS certificate support. So a device with the private key, client-side TLS cert can connect, and then the account holder enters the username password credentials to log in.

If you don't have the client-side TLS certificate, then you cannot log into the account. The account holder should take responsibility in adding more devices with their own private key/client-side TLS cert associated with the account in case they lose access to one of their devices.

SMS, email, and OTP based 2FA offer a false sense of security at best.
> try finding people in Europe who think abortion in 9th month is business as usual.

Leftists in the US don't think that's business as usual either. You're literally getting mad at imaginary people.
Being a faithful user of keepass and it's variants, I see no problem with offline managers like that and I would always recommend those over any other manager. That being said, if password managers are not your thing, you really have only one option.

Your own memory.

More precisely, create pass phrases (emphasis on phrase meaning: multiple words) based on certain characteristics only known to you that are relatively easy to remember by you and you alone. One trick is to use a common base phrase and then based on the service/app etc. you pick some characteristics of it to enhance the base so your full password would be [base-phrase]+[your-service-specific-parts]. Kind of like semi-analog version of a password and a password salt. Of course, if someone cracks your base phrase you are SOL so even that is not foolproof.

Either that or invest in memory palace techniques to make yourself supermemory so you remember every random password like yesterday.

Or third: get whacked in the head real hard so your brain rewires itself and you develop photographic memory and never forget a thing (yes, this one is a joke).
Glen Cook has an absolutely fantastic series called The Black Company where the entire series is framed as being the recorded annals of a mercenary company, with who is writing them switching occasionally between books to different characters, which let's you see the narrating character who usually writes them from a different, and sometimes less flattering, perspective.

In any case, unreliable narration is obviously a big of the series, and the concept that just because something is written down doesn't mean it happened that way is pretty central, and I think it's outright brought up by the narrator at least a few times, and reading between the lines/making inferences that don't line up exactly with what is recorded is pretty much necessary to understanding the plot of the series sometimes.

Cook also served for 10 years, not sure if he ever saw active combat but the series is constantly praised by veterans for it's accurate portrayal of what life in the military actually feels like.
If you're used to ASAN, think of Valgrind like ASAN, TSAN, MSAN, and UBSAN all at once at the same time, and then has other facilities like profiling.

In any situation where I have control of how the code is built, I personally prefer to run those various SANs instead of Valgrind, usually three parallel builds: one with -fsanitize=address,integer,undefined, one -fsanitize=thread if more than one thread is involved in the project, and one -fsanitize=memory too if Linux is available. That gets you almost all the benefits of Valgrind faster than Valgrind.

But Valgrind is still an exceptionally powerful tool to learn and use. Its chief advantage to me is to be able to work with an unmodified binary. Its chief downside is it can be slow, and occasionally you may run into issues with support for more obscure instructions like vcvtps2ph.

MSAN is really the star of the sanitizer world, and is worth spinning up a Linux VM for. It tracks the initialized-ness of all your data and catches any use (really, branch) on anything uninitialized. I like to think of ASAN as "did I get my pointers right?" and MSAN as "did I get everything else right?".

If you're not familiar with integer sanitizer, it's like UBSAN except it checks for things that are often mistakes rather than things that are actually undefined. The most common situation I've found is code that's hashing data will often pop up a warning about unsigned integer overflow, which I choose to suppress as finely grained as possible with something like __attribute__((no_sanitize("unsigned-integer-overflow", "unsigned-shift-base"))). That way you can still find unintentional unsigned integer problems (e.g. with size_t).
I remember both of these programs you mention not being that hard to install offline.

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95346

https://learn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/install/create-an-o...

The main challenge with VS is trimming languages and features you don’t need. But if you don’t care about size you can just download everything. And it has support for incrementally updating the installer and pruning obsolete packages.
There is also Intel who have made DXVK as the DX implementation in their Windows driver in certain scenarios.
I tried to do this with hacker news data [0]. I wanted to feed the model the entire community's discourse and then ask it questions (like simulating an interview with a HN user). The main problems encountered were:

- 1. Token limit: You can only input a limited amount of text at once. The challenge then becomes trying to compress data to fit into the window. But it can be lossy.

- 2. Trust: This is the main one. It's hard to determine if the output is based on the new learning material or the large amounts of data the model was originally trained on. There are techniques that can help but they add a lot of additional work and don't guarantee great results.

- [0] https://idiotlamborghini.com/articles/using_gpt3_and_hacker_...
ESP boards are Wifi, Zigbee is a completely different protocol with encryption and mesh capabilities and all that.
This. None of this software is prioritizing the developer.

It's prioritizing value extraction.

It's capitalism in it's worst, most naked form. Advertising spend is worth more than a quality product - because we've inverted the classic information problem: Information is no longer scarce and valuable, it's flooding out everything and is mostly worthless noise.

Making sensible, educated decisions becomes increasingly harder, and you're presented with an environment designed to cause choice paralysis until you finally cave and just buy the item at the top of list presented to you by Google/Amazon/Apple/Walmart/Etc.

That item will be terrible, but it's paid the right protection money to the monopolies (sorry! advertising spend) to keep its spot.

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Can developers win in those situations? Sure - sometimes. But most times they're some poor contracting team paid literal peanuts to create this product, then immediately go through "staffing reductions" to the bare minimum needed for legally required product support. The developers are not the root cause of this - although they are also not absolved.
> instill ethics in others

Yes very much. Bare ethics, like monatomic hydrogen, doesn't exist in
"room temperature" reality. It's relational. There have to be two of
you. Technologies that destroy the relational undermine ethics because
all consequences are divided through by infinity.
Assuming someone is paying attention: https://www.oregonlive.com/news/erry-2018/12/9b5b1eff724150/...

Having someone pay attention is also all that you need to prevent the world's most wanted man from hanging himself in a federal prison in Manhattan.
> education-influenced tendency is more of a positive systemic bias than a negative one

If anything, there's evidence that education has a negative influence in ways you may not expect. I seem to recall Germany being the birthplace of the modern university, "Humboldt's Ideal," and we all know how they ended up. In fact, doctors in Germany were 7x more likely than the average citizen to join the Nazi party. [1]

And the issue is more about disposition, the educated seem to have an extreme blind-spot because, as your argument evidences, they tend to think so highly of themselves. They also have the mental machinery capable of producing very enticing & sophisticated, but ultimately wrong justifications for horrible things. And in combination with a self-righteous moral self-concept, you're playing with some real fire.

Read C.S. Lewis's God in the Dock, I'll quote:

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

[1]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...
As a Bernie-style 'leftist', I can't say a response to this abortion assertion any better than Pete Buttigieg did on Fox news (<2 min clip), and I bet the vast majority of _all_ Americans would agree with this take:

https://youtu.be/wKOoWYfIzIw