skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve had plenty of chances before my current job to do a side contract that could have netted me $150/hour when I was making $150K

I declined each time. Anything we couldn’t afford from my working 40 hours a week we didn’t need.
A significant number of homes already have wireless sensors installed. Almost all of these sensors (glass break, motion, contact, key fob, etc) can be monitored via sdr using rtl_433.

I always thought it would be a pretty viable start up business to sell a security system in a box for people with existing security equipment. Connect the security system in a box and then open and close your door/window/etc to begin monitoring those wireless events.

Shameless plug: I wrote the rtl_433 GE/Interlogix sensor protocol decoder.
Reminds me of people who complain about how all music sucks nowadays but only passively listen to the radio.
>The Elon musk takeover has been very positive

Of course it has. Twitter stopped censoring neonazis and harassment and started censoring things Musk doesn't like.

>authortiarians from any side. It's all about censoring ideas they don't like

How ironic
I agree with you that meetings are mostly a waste of time, and at the same time most people do not invest much time in communicating effectively. Because of the later, meetings become necessary to extract information or get questions answered timely because back-and-forth exchanges occur painfully slow over email.

Email could eliminate most meetings if people bothered to invest time in anticipating questions and preempting them. Providing clarity and insight rather than vagary. But they don't, thus we have meetings.

99% of the time the person asking for the meeting can even be bothered to write an agenda or give you any opportunity to prepare. At best you get vague subjects like "discuss stuff".

I'm even starting to see this laziness appear in search results for answers to obscure questions being buried in 15 min long YouTube videos which end up being screen captures with some middle school AV club quality title sequences because that's easier than writing.

But my original remarks were in regards to story telling.
Recent and related:

Sherlock Holmes will finally escape copyright this weekend - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34164546 - Dec 2022 (102 comments)

Mickey’s Copyright Adventure: Early Disney Toon Is Set to Be Public Property - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34150530 - Dec 2022 (56 comments)

January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34072345 - Dec 2022 (460 comments)

2023's public domain is a banger - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34071163 - Dec 2022 (5 comments)
Sadly many professors fall victim to the Curse of Knowledge. It doesn't help they need to follow a tight schedule and intuition isn't something you can develop in a single lecture. I suppose self-study and repetition is the most likely solution.

>The best math textbook (Theory of Algebra) I ever read had little sections about the person who revealed a particular subject, why they were studying it, and how the subject is used.

I've found the best type of books provide motivation for concepts, how they have evolved, etc.

Take Computer Science for example, many of its concepts were area of research for decades but from a student's perspective it seems these concepts were always here instead of being constantly refined until the states they're now in.
This is one of the problems with rate hikes. They reduce production and investment. New home builds are down. Manufacturing is down. All of this is exactly the opposite of what we should want, which is low prices due not to a scarcity of money but to an abundance of wealth.
The thing is, you do not have the palette in advance, that is kind of the main point of the article. As the author says, one could build a palette in advance, but it is not clear that one of the common algorithms for that would yield a really good one as they look at the entire image but in this case we mostly need colors for strong edges that are not handled well by the HAM encoding. So maybe a good solution would be to first only use HAM and record all the errors, the build a palette that reduces those errors as much as possible, and then encode it again with HAM and the palette.

The thing is of course that the errors propagate with HAM as you can always only adjust one channel and so any change to a pixel will or at least might also affect errors of subsequent pixels. On top of that you might have error propagation from a dithering algorithm. But I think here I have reached the limit of my reasoning capability without having to pull out pen and paper and really digging into it. Final note, I would probably try to find a iterative algorithm that tries to reduces the error in several iterations as I think jumping directly to the best solution is probably pretty hard.
The potholes here were so big that it burst car tires and dented rims. The idea seems great, but not sure why it was so bad here.
There seems to be a relatively large amount of uncertainty in those estimates. One source claims 17k “disease dead” while another claims 130k just from smallpox. The war dead estimates have a wide range too.
Hook it up to ChatGPT, put it in a Dalek machine.
Listening to both Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger speak, it sounds like they've been living relatively stress-free lives for decades.

That's not to say other billionaires aren't under constant stress, but they don't seem to be personally.
Judged guilty by multiple judges. Sentences annuled by the supreme court judge who'd go on to censor and persecute Bolsonaro supporters. Lula thanked him for his help in getting him elected during his speech today.
Fireworks cancelled due to ‘masturbating’ walrus
Ah, man made horrors beyond my comprehension, excellent
I use the rule of threes to kill off any premature abstractions. ie. Don’t think you need to make this generic if you have one or two different variants of it. Most often it’s one- so it’s very easy to see that you’re just solving imaginary problems at this point.

Each abstraction has a mental cost for reading and understanding the code so I try to be sparing. Too many code bases in my youth were a nightmare to navigate because I could never find any actual concrete code.
The Foundation series is considered a classic of science fiction.
You got personal there.
I am wondering what is the cross-section between “no interest in computing” and sufficient knowledge of Microsoft to have an actionable opinion. I am not sure this group is what “normie” is meant to refer to in this thread.
Check out Wellsaid Labs (https://wellsaidlabs.com/). Much better quality for longer text.
I have to agree. I couldn't understand templates until Haskell introduced me to it. But Haskell is expressive enough that the intuition comes naturally.
That's a strawman. The quote you disputed was:

> only when you steal from the powerful that the wheels of justice turn so swiftly

Not:

> only when you steal from the powerful that the wheels of justice turn [at all]

And certainly not:

> SBF is facing consequences only because ...
I checked your links, and it confirms that basically everything Megaman69 said was indeed false.
4.Experiences and relationships are valuable only because they are time-limited, either by change or death.

Nope. They would be more valuable if they where not time-limited.
I do want to mention how we're now in Phase 3 of online recipes.

Phase 1 was just putting up a recipe online without a giant preamble.

Phase 2 was adding a giant preamble to get that SEO.

Phase 3 is now having a "jump to recipe" button at the top of the page (I assume because, once again, it uses microdata or something and helps SEO)... but making that button incredibly unobvious. It's literally the opposite problem of those 2005 era sketchy "find the correct download button" sites.
Capture the Earth's surface state from giant sphere "pano", run simulations off of it
The idea that atheism is a form of religion.
So all these people are posting with likely their normal accounts and announcing their security posture to the world… feels insecure ironically.

I miss having a solution that was locally synced across multi platform.
Dynamic Branch Prediction with Perceptrons (2000) [pdf]
> I completely lack interest in the aspects of "respect" that end up expressed as praise, or chummyness. I'm not a dog.

You probably wouldn't have enjoyed working with me then. No big deal. We find the environment that motivates us.
Landlords aren't in proper competition in supply constrained cities (most of them), so they aren't actually competing that much with each other. In reality, landlords are charging as much as the tenant can afford to pay (in aggregate). This means that the tenant will not be able to pay a higher rent, even if every other landlord also raises rent, so instead they become homeless (or move back with their parents). This happens across the tenancy market, so landlords are already charging as much as they can.

Lars Doucet has a good essay on this with empirical sources on AstralCodexTen: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/does-georgism-work-par...
I believe he frequents HN as well.
I'd have to say... Linear Algebra & SQL.

SQL is something that is a permanent journey for me. It is a domain-specific language, so the nature of its use depends almost entirely on how the domain was modeled in the first place. Much of my interest has been drawn towards the modeling aspects and how we can arrive at schemas that business experts can tolerate.

Linear algebra properly clicked for me when I started getting into writing my own 3d rendering software. Systems of linear equations are absolutely everywhere. I didn't really tie together their use in control theory, DSP and graphics until I was forced to learn them "for real" to achieve my project goals.
Overleaf works well for writing papers on any tablet, hell it's even usable in a pinch on my phone.
checkout the cache lab [1]

[1] https://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/3e/labs.html
I agree with this, but the point of these user interactions is to whittle them down to something that others can easily relate to.

If you then say "well people can agree/disagree" with comments, then we're back where we started. Why are they agreeing? Do they find it funny, useful, or just like the way the user makes their point? How MUCH do they agree? What if they disagree?

If your reaction is that we should completely kill these interactions then... well have you ever been on giant forums with no way to sort? Sometimes they're fine. Like when there's low volume. Some forums evolve chronologically and that method works as well. But if you're not gonna commit to reading a pamphlet, you're probably not gonna find such a comment section very useful
Do you have a link to this organization?
This is not a good take. The company that enables an improvement of 10% can still make tens of billions of dollars. I assure you that adtech knows all about the value of optimizing at the margin.
Looks to me like one set of rats has been replaced by a different set of rats, hopefully slightly less plague-ridden.
Seventy-Five Years After Indian Partition, Who Owns the Narrative?
Brazil's politics continue to be a mess. Lula, the newly elect president, was formerly convicted for corruption and then had the supreme court set aside his conviction. Bolsonaro has also committed multiple crimes and tried to the Trump election denial-ism tactics.

I feel for the folks who live under these people.
Pardon me, I haven't been actively following the science of aging.

Would you share some credible sources ( books, links ) that explain the new discoveries in slowing down human aging?
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And nothing prevents new volcanic explosions from doing this again. How would the northern world deal with this today? Not that well.
The fact that you were responding to an incorrect description does not make your description that “The low unemployment rate indicates we’re likely either in or about to start a recession” correct. 1+1=3 is wrong, but that doesn’t make the response “1+1 is actually 1” correct.
Happily running dual stack, with a routed /48 (further subdivided between work, IoT, management and trusted VLAN's). It's crazy though that the 2nd biggest ISP in the country, Virgin (DOCSIS cable) STILL haven't rolled out IPv6; say what you will about BT/OpenReach, but they got IPv6 to market in the UK pretty damn fast.
>A bachelors is enough

This is still only about 1/3 of the US population. If we’re generous to the OP’s point, it still supports it (granted the tone of “a few elites” may be read differently)
But Lula got arrested by the judiciary, right? How do you reconcile that with what you're saying?
I mean, he went blind in one eye after a botched medical procedure and can hardly see at all with the other one. I don’t think he’s been getting some amazing life preserving treatment or something.
perf can do the job on Linux.

Networking cost will be within callstacks for the system calls that send and receive packets (sendmsg, sendmmsg, recvmsg, recvmmsg).

Crypto cost in functions which sound like the crypto primitives being used. They typically won't have ssl_ in the name, because QUIC implementations directly make use of lower-level primitives - that are e.g. exposed by libcrypto/ring/etc.

Here's one example of an old profile using Quinn:

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Matthias247/47dc290dde72e...

It clearly shows the networking and crypto parts (here using ChaCha20). However don't interpret too much into the actual values in this graph, since the profile is nearly 2 years, uses ChaCha20 instead of AES (much more expensive), and used loopback networking (cheaper than the real thing).
There's definitely a lot of psychological interplay with running and willpower/self discipline. I think I read somewhere that there are disproportionate number of professionals/PhDs/otherwise successful people who are into ultra running, in part because they have the resources and flexibility needed for the training, but also because the ability to delay gratification and work towards a long term goal is required in both venues.

On a more micro level, a good run can make the rest of life's challenges much less daunting...as I say to my wife: busy days seem a lot less overwhelming if you start them by dragging yourself out of a warm bed to run 8 miles in freezing rain.
It felt like my understanding of pointers was a bit vague until I learned assembly. I think programmers would benefit from starting off with a simple virtual machine that runs a tiny set of instructions with everything presented cleanly in a visual format which can be inspected and stepped through.

The biggest a-ha! moment I've experienced was in my Comptuer Architecture course when it finally clicked how you could build up a bunch of logic gates into a real modern computer.
I've had two (main) careers -- I was a journalist for 20 years, starting as a sport reporter for a local weekly, and ending as the legal affairs editor for Europe for a international news service. But I had also been a computer geek for at least as long. My Dad worked for IBM and I had one of the first IBM PCs, which was utterly useless when the family got one unless you could program in BASIC. I took a few CompSci classes in college (but got a degree in history) and used those skills often in my journalism career, even creating one of the earliest web sites (and announcing it on TBL's email list at CERN).

My second career is as a software engineer. I did it by leveraging my domain knowledge and going into R&D -- looking at how to design software for journalists to help them be more accurate and faster. For example, how to draw the eye toward areas where mistakes are commonly made and how to handle mundane things automatically. (These kinds of things are important on a news wire, where competition is measured in seconds.) Eventually, it was evident that I knew as much about programming as the programmers and things took off from there. I'm now a Principal at the BBC.

(Edit: I've been paid to program now since 2007, so I'm probably well on my way to having a second 20-year career before I retire.)

So, basically, start where you are, using what you already know. That's more valuable than you think. Most programmers know relatively little about their users, and one who knows can be very valuable.
Yes, everyone contributes to society in some way, hence "outsized to their contributions." If you sit on a piece of land and wait 10 years in my city, you might have made $500,000 of tax-free land value gains, but without needing to contribute anything to achieve it. In fact, if you do nothing but sit on the land, you're a net negative on society because you deny access to that land from everyone else.
Maybe Musk has changed his mind about remote work:) Certainly don't need that office if you're employees work form home.
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Right, I generally agree. But even comments can be agree/disagreed with or voted on or saved to lists or... etc. We're back to where we started

Imagine hackernews or stackexchange if there was absolutely no upvote/downvote mechanism
Interesting. I’ve hired At least 100 developers in my career And have never seen coding challenges or boot camps as Red flags, rather I see them as someone going out and trying to learn and improve. On the contrary certain universities and employers certainly are( too much indoctrination(and ego in some cases) to undo). I know a number of boot camp graduates working in FANG level companies.

Coding challenges are very important, leetcode questions come up a lot in interviewing loops at most big companies and I think their use is expanding. As much as I hate LC, it’s still a good skill to have if wanting to become a software engineer.

I’ve never once looked at a candidates GitHub. There is no proof they wrote anything there. Plus I’ve usually worked in domains that always required tools and knowledge you most likely wouldn’t have anyways, no point in testing, so I hire based on if your a good person with the propensity to learn, grow, and do good things.
As a Pole, I'm very much nervous about the fact that China is not outright denouncing the aggression on Ukraine, and instead keeps promising tighter alliance with Russia. It could be just that they want to reap all the benefits of Russian resources by being the only place that will really trade with them in any capacity, but if they start supplying Russians with weapons and pushing towards escalating the conflict.....who knows what will happen. I really don't think a conflict with NATO is completely off the table, as suicidal as it would be for Russia(and everyone else). And with China's backing, they could be emboldened to do something that will push everyone over the edge.
Or the Incas, experimenting with micro climates 500 years ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moray_(Inca_ruin)
Oh wow, thanks for all the links!
I would also note that it was supposedly the son of a TPG partner(one of the largest private equity firms in the world) who spearheaded the Goldman Sachs analyst revolt mentioned in the article
> Unfortunately you guys did not have an alternative candidate, which I was rooting for.

I agree with you. I don't really support Bolsonaro, I wish we had better candidates. I'm just so sad to see this communist become president again.
I have used GNU/Linux as my personal desktop and laptop OS exclusively since 2012 (though I have used Windows 10 and MacOS Yosemite on work computers), and I have had a few issues:

- Going from Ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10 broke Xorg (maybe a problem with the AMD drivers, I lacked knowledge at that time to look into fixing it).

- I have occasionally gotten kernel panics under OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, I seem to recall a time when watching videos on YouTube via Firefox would reliably cause it to happen, I don't remember at all how I fixed it at the time; maybe an update or running from a snapshot... or was it under Arch and I installed the LTS kernel?

- And a problem of my own making: around the time when the KDE project started transitioning to Plasma 5 I was going back and forth between Arch and OpenSUSE TW and wound up trying Plasma 5 before it was really ready for use and I had a difficult time for a week or two.

I also wound up wrecking an Intel NUC the day I got it by putting it to sleep when it had an issue that suspending to RAM would wreck the thing, but that's more of an Intel failure than a GNU/Linux failure.

Anyway, I used Windows from version 3.1.1 until I wrecked my 7 install in 2012 so I've seen plenty of blue screens in my life, and I remember the iMac I used Yosemite on hard rebooting every time I started a Xubuntu VM in VirtualBox, so I have no issue just using GNU/Linux even if I do encounter some warts every now and again.
FatFs – Generic FAT Filesystem Module
Interesting, Fourier transform has never been an issue for me but Laplace never clicked. I know it's kind of similar (convolution, exponential and all that) but I miss the connection with the frequency domain that is there for Fourier.
We're able to kill ourselves by blocking our ability to breathe when eating.
Interesting perspective. I could see my inner child treating it like an astronaut going on a spacewalk!
For pullups you can use bands to lower resistance and a belt with attached weight (or simply grip a medicine ball / weight with your legs) to add weight.

No need for an expensive machine :)
the imprecision of language is bewildering - there's a 'budget problem'?

Why not just say budget deficit, a technically precise term which is also widely accepted and understood. The document then goes on to point to the definition of 'budget problem' in a 'nearby box'. Am I being a snob or this is just unprofessional work?
And earlier still if you have a family history or certain bowel diseases. From that page:

However, you may need to be tested earlier than 45, or more often than other people, if you have—

Inflammatory bowel disease such as Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis.

A personal or family history of colorectal cancer or colorectal polyps.

A genetic syndrome such as familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP)external icon or hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (Lynch syndrome).
They’re just very good at managing it.
Isn’t a recession necessary to curb inflation? Powell said that economy needs to cool down:

When rates are hiked, a home with a mortgage, using credit cards or seeking loans to start a business become much more expensive. That results in people stopping purchasing homes, cut down on spending, think twice about starting a business. In addition to that companies will lay off workers and enact hiring freezes.

Everyone says it, the signs are obvious, and people here still think we won’t land in a recession.

Kinda feels similar to the irrationality of tesla investors, where everyone knew that the company is overvalued and needs to come down. Yet people continued buying or didn’t want to sell. Why? I would like to know.
Even in a place like Canada where so much food is imported, transportation only adds up to about 12pc of the total energy cost.

I'm not aware of any vertical farm that is 10x as efficient as a regular farm.
I'm way out of my depth with the ADF. A friend gave me an old rotating marine ADF receiver I've been playing with, but as it turns out I'm not gonna get that spinning fast enough for my purposes.

I've got the mathematics background to eventually get this working, but not the radio background to do so very quickly.
There could have been a round of modern “trust busting” ala Teddy Roosevelt. Too big to fail is a clear center of too much market power. (That the smaller banks like credit unions weathered that era better underscores the need for some “right sizing”.)