skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The suggestion to use the word entropy by von Neumann is a great story:

My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it 'information,' but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it 'uncertainty.' When I discussed it with John von Neumann, he had a better idea. Von Neumann told me, 'You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.'

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/403036/john-von-neumanns-...
Would this creature infect or infest my wounds without remorse?

Would this creature accidentally injure others due to the perchance unsuitable environment?

Are we all ecologically dependent and interlinked?

Would this creature eat my brains, again without capacity for remorse?

Lions are shamelessly omnivorous. Do we guilt or shame the lion to change its behavior?

What's taking too much; what's taking more than an ecosystem can handle? How do ecologies recover from parasitic or just naturally exploitative species?

As it is allowed to continue scaling itself per the available environmental resources, will this species peacefully coexist?
Have code samples and be persistent. Being able to demonstrate ability is a superpower. I got my first job based on an object oriented MUD I wrote in C (using the struct casting trick and some tagging). It showed I could write reasonably structured code and that I could follow simple instructions to write a correct multiplexer (from Stevens’s book). It also demonstrated that I understood the basics of event handling[1]. That was my passion at the time. Follow your passion and write something cool. Demonstrate an ability to follow instructions! I’ve interviewed hundreds of supposedly senior engineers and most have trouble coding something as simple as a RPN calculator. Trust me, if you can show that you can listen, think, and write programs you will find a job.

[1] Which is something supposedly senior engineers fail at all the time in interviews. Even though the elevator design problem is literally a cliché now I still see supposedly senior engineers completely blow it because they can’t think about the internal and external elevator controls in terms of events.
I guess we're seeing different things? I just got back into hobby electronics and the kit market in electronics seems pretty healthy. I mean, I don't have any hard numbers, but there's a lot of activity.

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To me the sequence of events in the RepRap (self-printable 3D printers concept) space is very telling: the middle ground between hobbyists and professionals seems to have hollowed out. You can design a part and have it printed and shipped to you within days, of pretty much arbitrarily high quality, involving plastic, metal, rubber, etc...
Or you can get a kit for a 3D printer, but it will take time before you can actually print well enough to do anything useful, in the sense of being economically competitive with the 3D print shops or e.g. the Daiso chain.

Daiso is incredible. You can outfit an enter household with quality items for just a dollar or two each. Average item price is about $1.75 I'd guess. That covers the entire thing: raw materials, design, manufacturing, distribution, profit, etc... You're just not going to beat that with a toy 3D printer on your kitchen table, eh?
The biggest problem is that you can make money from the internet.

The internet was more about self-expression and fun. Then people realized they can sell things or themselves (being a "content-creator", "thought-leader", etc.).

As a result the most active people are tailoring their actions towards increasing engagement, getting you to buy something, getting you to think a certain way, etc. and we have a divide between "content-creator" influencers/producers and passive consumers who like or retweet things they haven't thought through but sound catchy and provide the same opinions.

It's not 100% bad; content is more polished and organized, but you have to be discerning in order to get good value and a lot of people don't have those abilities.
Signs I look for of an impending recession:

Stagnation. Inflation is a sign of a booming economy.
Unemployment. I see help wanted signs everywhere
Huge building projects abandoned. Here in SE Michigan I am seeing active construction sites everywhere.
The Economist runs headlines like "Are Recessions a Thing of the Past?
Strong CZK is partly due to FX interventions (sell EUR, buy CZK) done by the central bank (https://think.ing.com/articles/cnb-fx-intervention-september...).
The idea is that interventions makes CZK stronger, which makes imports cheaper (think gas etc.. bought in EUR), which lowers inflation.
The point is they want them to renew the lease. He is likely to move it anyway, if SF keeps harassing him. They recently did inspections and threatened him with eviction.
That's why upvotes and downvotes should be shown separately.
I loved reading this, thanks for the collection.

The funding trouble is somewhat surprising. Has anyone gone through and done a deep dive comparison of other open source projects that are doing fine.

Mastodon, doing fine on donations because the product small and well defined ?

IPFS, from the start they planned to make money with fileCoin and IPFS is a supporting service they develop because it is useful for fileCoin?

Elasticsearch, well defined product with traditional enterprise feature split and users who are very accustomed to paying for this kind of a product ?

MongoDB, well defined product and much more restrictive license ?

Supabase, much less to develop because they are mostly gluing existing code together. But they are bringing out some great new things and the glue has value . And again its a database so people are accustomed to paying ?

gitlab, nginx...

There are actually countless open source companies doing well when they are in a category of product that people are accustomed to paying for.

How far away would matrix be from becoming something like Cloud Native Computing Foundation or Linux Foundation. I suppose larger tech companies need to start making money with Matrix not Goverments or smaller anti capitalism groups.
Thankfully I work in an area where data science has clear fundamental value to the business.
They had a major outage a few days ago, and I see a steady stream of reports from people of little things not working.
I would say a lot of this is just the nature of online discourse that allows the loudmouths, blowhards and nitpickers to have their way while more balanced people disengage because it just isn’t worth it for them. This dynamic can be seen in all online communities that grow large and it’s not specific to technical topics.

That said, I think programmers are prone to some of this simply due to the fact that programming requires a baseline obsessive attention to detail that most people don’t want to think about. Combine this with the fact that businesses need tech and the situation has led to a lot of secure jobs for technical people with poor social skills. This has led to a situation where a lot of people can get by in a sort of comic-book-guy bubble of expertise without having to learn anything about civil discourse.

Now I think it bears repeating, these people are a tiny minority, definitely less than 5% in my experience working with hundreds of engineers over the decades. It’s just the increased size of the community and incentives online that cause them to bubble up without consequence.
As an aside, avoid OR as much as possible in your WHERE clauses. Adjust your relations if necessary. ORs can really blow the planner up and slow things down. ANDs are reductive wrt indexes. ORs make multiple passes on the indexes necessary.

It's not always possible to avoid, and it makes perfect sense sometimes, but it'd be better if folks didn't lean into OR so much.
Didn't they do that trick of pretending to end remote work to make people resign so they don't have to pay severance?
So which is it? And how have you acted look it?
I agree, but at that point if they're going to make this kind of observation on my resume ("hmm, you move around a lot"), the reply is going to be of equal tone ("I move around a lot because the companies I choose tend to make bad decisions and change direction with equal frequency").

There's nothing much to lose by that point.
Google Maps story about how “Satellite” was almost named “Bird Mode”
As soon as your 1 day late you are in default. Most organizations however give noticed and plenty of time before filing law suits thus my question. The "news" here seems to be lacking any context, and I assume bad intentions on the part of NY Times and Bloomberg so...
Telegram's app is really performant across all platforms but I don't think it's native? Or how are we defining native?
Emacs has lisp for that, it prompts for a password on open. On save it encrypts it if it was changed.
I was about to edit the same observation after some thought. Not every piece of communication hasti be a story - even on YouTube.
This is from 11/18. A lot has changed in the last 1.5 months. Truss tax cuts, cited in the article, are not not on the table. Inflation has moderated. Etc.
I believe that combining state and functionality - the root of OOP - is a mistake. Tons of programming patterns and concepts exist to solve this fundamental mistake. When you stop using classes all of your code becomes so much cleaner, easier to reason about, test, debug, and so on. You can never create only pure functions in the real world but you get closer to this ideal.

I stand by my statement that OOP is totally unnecessary.
I would but it'd be like Trumps lawyers: Cash up front only.
The Economist is the Cramer of publications. To get to the truth do the anti-Cramer.
Spot on. You remunerate people based how much respect you have for them and what esteem you hold for them. If your company pays you less than you’re worth, then they clearly don’t value you.

Very few people would show up to work without the money. Let’s stop pretending they would.
The use of TLS for QUIC does not imply or require the use of the Web PKI which is what I assume you're thinking of by "certificate authorities outside to validate packages".
Yeah, I got up to 5k. I think that most of the problem was running the same route every time. There's no new experience, it's just a slog on the same roads and paths. When I know I'm going out on a hike, I pick really nice places to go, where there's beautiful scenery. I take my son, my nephew, and friends. We go to the pub afterwards. Also it's not an after work activity, but a dedicated day. Half the year in the UK, before you start work, or after you clock off, its dark.
This was suggested for learning Greek here few weeks ago: https://www.languagetransfer.org/

I tried few lessons and the method seems very promising.
I was in school in 2002 and wrote a freeware app as a hobby. The app got the attention of a company that produced a paid version of the same kind of app, as it was apparently cutting into sales and they liked what I'd done. I was offered a job and left school early to take it. 20 years later my career is still cooking - all because of a hobby/passion project.

I have to think that human nature is still somewhat the same and that kind of opportunity still exists. Probably a low percentage play, but wanted to share none the less.
Wrapping-paper style?
While C and C++ have been around longer than COBOL was when building new systems it it was halted, at least COBOL does its job well while C and C++ don't due to their lack of safety. Also, COBOL is more difficult to replace than C and C++ are. I expect C and C++ code to start being seen as dangerous and money will be spent to eradicate it due to its potential to be a security risk in this online world.
aurrou ding !?

Is this a new Australian metaphor?
It was not really an outage. Devices had to login again. I noticed having to do that.
How does it compare to a Ryzen laptop?
I know a lot of people who make more than me and never went to a college or university. They were just good, got a job, continued being awesome, and got another job. I think a degree can help accelerate promotions, but even that isn’t a guarantee. There is no real alternative to job performance, and getting that first job is the most difficult part.
For me the only laptops I’ve ever seen that had consistent, efficient, and “just working” sleep is MacBooks.

I’ve had ThinkPads and and Dells over the past 10 years that I just shut down every time I put them in my bag because there were too many occasions where I opened up my bag to find my laptop on, fans blasting, and very very hot.

On the other hand I’ve had a MacBook for the past couple of years and the only time it ever reboots is for system updates. My M1 Pro I can close the lid, come back 2 weeks later, have it instantly wake up and have 90% battery left.
This is the way, but it’s tough to sell “we’re not going to unit test this part” in a professional setting where there are incentives to look more responsible than thou, directors are looking at unit test coverage reports, etc.
Elon had leaked tweets indicating exactly this
It can be a combination of things. Beyond Meat shares got hammered. The reasons are diverse: They lost a deal with McDonalds. And they apparently reached market saturation at a much lower level than expected.
https://github.com/shadcn/taxonomy has been very useful for me learning the new Next.js 13 app/ React Server Components in Typescript.
If you work on a legacy code base with tens of many millions of lines of code, the non-OOP will be a better code base. My opinion.
Isn't the whole point that you can change the position of a person who says "fuck cars" by talking to them and telling them why some people need them?

If they are not trolls, learning about how much of the world is reliant on cars should absolutely change their position.
I have the same thoughts. However I would say, why are there so many endless help wanted signs?

Probably because the jobs don't provide enough income to be sustainable. I think the system currently is wabbling as employers are failing to keep rate with inflation in regards to pay. This will cause a bottleneck in regards to growth/performance for many businesses and ultimately be their downfall.
> The entire problem lies with the twisted motives of social media.

Just media. Social media might be latest iteration, but traditional media works the same way, outrage gets you views or sells your newspaper.
The economist is blaming it all on Ukraine but the reality is that rate increases will likely be the primary driver for the recession, at least in the US. And those rates hikes (and roll off of the Fed B/S) are a response to inflation. And as much as the economist or Biden would like to pin inflation on Putin, the reality is that the inflation started a year earlier than the Ukraine war, and is the result of money printing and mass covid subsidies. Ukraine is only making the matter worse.

It is important to recognise the causes because a lot of governments, in the US and Europe are running inflationary policies of mass subsidies in response to inflation, making the matter worse.
Seems a reasonable for a service company with no inputs to COGS that are on credit terms. Payroll is not on credit, and most infra is metal, or on some VP's CC, anyway.

The reasonable signal is yes indeed for Twitter vendors, if you are opex and a long contract, be ready to have our lawyers sit down and hash it out.
I'd note that one of the problems Russia has run into with Crimea is that Crimea used to get water from Kakhovka Reservoir but now it doesn't.
Rust is already replacing C and C++. Ada is too. As the importance of safety increases, more safe languages will appear that can replace C and C++.
We are going to blame teachers and poor people again like in 2008, right?
150 mg/kg of acetaminophen in adults is considered a toxic dose and carries a high risk of liver damage.
Might one do a cache-aware code competition? Given the simulator's determinism and cache.

As attention to cache-friendly data layout seems often lagging its importance ... err, and the world doesn't yet have enough premature optimization.

Implement this algorithm; it will be challenged with <large n> input sets; here is a training set generator; your competition set runtimes will be aggregated with <metric>; minimize it.

Does anything like this exist already?
I'd happily subscribe to mastodon.theverge.com just to avoid Twitter.
There are many things, but I think they all boil down to KISS: don't download, don't install and don't run what you don't need.

Most of the compromised servers on which I've done post-mortems have had much more software than they need. Some people think that they need every last tool, gadget, extension and plugin they can find, and they don't realize how significantly it affects their security surface.

One thing that people who have security issues seem to have in common is their willingness to pipe curl / wget to a shell. If some software is asking you to do that, the software authors are already showing that they couldn't give the slightest damn about security.

A few other little things help, like: Never execute where you can write, never write where you can execute (looking at you, Wordpress - that's the reason Wordpress is the #1 phishing site hosting platform on the planet). Handle dependencies yourself and avoid scenarios where you're waiting for someone else to implement security fixes (like dependencies inside of containers). Use chroots / jails / whatever your OS offers. Only expose services to the Internet that are absolutely necessary and well vetted, and use ssh for things that don't need to be exposed to the Internet. Use unprivileged accounts to run services. If you can, avoid binaries and compile from source using documented snapshots.

Generally, just don't trust stuff on the Internet. Everything should be vetted :)

For logs, find the kinds of things that indicate attempts at nefariousness, then write a few scripts that give you some stats on the kinds of nefarious attempts made. As long as some new vulnerability doesn't come along, and as long as you don't have a bad configuration, you should be fine.
It wasn't better. It was cheaper.

Cheaper is better, all other things equal. If the other systems were ten times more expensive, were they also ten times better in some other metrics to compensate?
Is it easy to find the right freelance? I think there are stuff that I can do well, however I don't even know if a freelance job would be too difficult for me or not. There are bunch of web development jobs but it is an area that I'm not good at
I'm not very impressed by the article. I'm sympathetic to the idea behind it, but the analogy is misleading and intended to make an emotional appeal.

The Dragon is an external malevolent force. The Dragon wants to eat more just because. People often die due to the natural evolution of their own bodies or choices other people make, and death is impersonal (Prachett books aside). Replacing Death with Dragon is a rhetorical device to allow hate to colour our judgement, and make the issue simpler than it is (you can't 'kill' death. Even a perfect medical science will still have the problem that some people may want to kill other people).

The effects and choices here are also a tiny bit more complicated. We could spend a lot more on health after all. Presumably the author isn't fine with redirecting 100% of the budget to the health sector, and I don't think he judges each allocation decision by 'this could have gone to health!'. How about merely winding down all AI research and redirecting the funds to hospitals? So there must be some limiting principles.

By the same token, I doubt anyone (even a 'deathist') thinks 'We should have a lower average lifespan'. So it's just an allocation decision, and the criteria are probably boring and political.

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This does leaves us with the 'sexy' issue, that of mortality itself. It's actually not much of an issue in practice? Barring absurdly extreme scenarios*, even people who favour mortality won't kill anyone who refuses to die, or prevent Bostrom et. all from trying. Given the wealthy are just as subject to the 'Dragon' as the rest of us, I'm sure they'll have no shortage of funds. If they succeed, society will 'suffer' the consequences, no matter what theoretical discussion may think.

* e.g. a life extension tech based on parasitism. Or an uploading tech that warps the subject to the point we can't say they have anything nearing a morality allowing them to participate in society.
Rust has already begun to replace C in the embedded space.
Genuine question: how is he expected to contract/consult/freelance as a hobbyist with 0 YOE? Outside of race to the bottom Fiver gigs that you probably don't want a lot of good contract work is more "getting shit done" than salary roles; which usually requires selling yourself with a track record/network.

Personally I'd just ship some crapware on the app store of your choice and spin it as a 'venture'. As others have noted always nice when they can play with your skinner box rather than glaze over when they see a Makefile.
>The biggest problem is the like button. The like button is not only a bad metric - it's the worst possible metric.

ANY single metric is going to be unfit for purpose. We need to have a continuum of responses, tags or perhaps a vector for votes instead of a scalar.

It's like trying to force everything into a single hierarchy, it never works. You always end up at Matthew 6:24[1]:

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.
Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Any single vote/rank/option range ends up serving mammon

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_6:24
When it's 100x your apartment rent on the line, late payments don't happen.
The landlord will be lucky to recover the costs they're collecting while rent remains unpaid.

Edit: reminded me of this :-D

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/bank-america-florida-foreclo...
I think all those studies that say running even 5-10 minutes makes you almost invulnerable from death should be taken with caution.

One problem is that people who run regularly are just different from people who do not. People who will run will make a lot of other choices that are also better for their health, for various reasons like being probably more intelligent (to see the reason), having means (to be able to carve time each day to do it consistently) and also have the willpower to stick to something that will only have positive results sometime in the future. Running might be, at least to some extent, a result of people being in better health both mentally and physically and not the cause.

Don't get me wrong, I truly believe running is good for you and I see how I get worse when I can't run and then get better when I can. But I red a bunch of those studies and pretty much every one of those studies has some problems, and basically that is because it is neigh impossible to have long term randomised study on real people on a topic like running where it is basically impossible to point finger at people and get them to adhere to your prescribed lifestyle.
I don't understand the urge to see politics everywhere, even in a normal business practice.
In some countries delaying filling for insolvency this way is a crime which is hold against the person responsible for it (instead of the company).

So I'm not sure this is the case tbh. but I'm also not sure if this applies here and I don't know the respective US laws.