skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent project, I hope it takes off.

I say it often, but there is a big pot of money for someone who makes a nice form designer-Python IDE. Specifying a UI in code is a pain in the ass because you have to mentally model how it will look as well as behave. This isn't ideal to do in a text editor, so it's very common to rough it out with pencil and paper or something and then work from that design.

But dropping widgets from a palette onto a blank form and then moving them around with the mouse until they look about right is easy for most people, and saves them a step of analog drawing and then translating that to code. And a few widgets on a form are often Good Enough to provide an accessible UI.

For backend programmers who get ideas about compiling/collecting data and then organizing it into a neat structure where it can be manipulated in useful ways, front-end frameworks are an irritating overhead that distracts from the main task. I make little command line tools for myself, but my non-technical friends get lost easily on the command line and don't find it a natural environment to work in. If something needs a light GUI I'll usually throw something together in Dash that they can use in a browser, but deep down I kinda hate webapps. I'd like to be able to just give them an app that looks and feels like a native desktop tool even if it has very minimal functionality.

Will such lightweight and easy to use tools lead to a surfeit of poorly-designed applications with sorta sketchy widgets that kinda break OS UI guidelines. Yeah...but it'll also mean a lot more utilities that get used regularly rather than tried once and forgotten about, and get more people into programming that otherwise wouldn't try.
Hey I’m just going to throw it out there - it’s weird and kinda creepy for an adult to follow a non-relative teenager on social media for just about any reason.
I don’t think anyone is imagining that SPS is going to implement social media regulation, it’s asking the courts (and indirectly Congress) to do that.
https://archive.ph/4JzZy
I'd be interested in seeing how frequently the US government "saves" accidental Americans around the world.
It is quite a common pragmatic architectural pattern in the HTML architecture. For example, data urls where a MIME type representation is encoded in the URL format is used for embedding images and other MIME types.

So, if one is building an application and needs to render a proprietary data object, this is a good way (not the only one) to handle it using a client library.
That’s one model, but we really don’t know what happened before the Big Bang.

Still labeling pre Big Bang as SpaceTimeTime or calling that Space Time and relabeling what we experience as local space time doesn’t really matter here. The point is our Big Bang could be happening infinite times in a multiverse without beginning or end. That’s one possibility where there isn’t anything conscious to point to as a GOD just the same kind of things which make up physical reality.
Sorry, I meant that the article doesn’t talk about life as information processing. Perhaps I should have said, “I’m surprised there wasn’t”. Although I got about ¾ of the way through it so maybe I missed it. But at the time of posting, nothing in these threads either.
Twitter has full-text search, not just hashtags.

Also, the big data storage isn't text, it's images and videos.
There's a middle tier, broad tests in the sense of not mocking local dependencies but only external (slow) ones.

Many developers mock every dependency in a SUT, even if they own the dependency. I like the idea of broad tests that run-in memory (no I/O interaction).

I think Ian Cooper does a great work explaining it in this talk (he talks about TDD, but I think the main idea applies even if you write tests after code): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ05e7EMOLM&ab_channel=DevTe...
I feel that the writing style reinforced the well-thought-out consistency of the system. The information of value was all right there, so I didn't feel worried about getting a bill.
FBOW Navy as well as AF/Army (At least in Europe and parts of Oceania) provide power protection that may or may not contribute to economic prosperity.
They sampled a single instance for this figure.

Shit reporting.
I wonder if a side effect of this policy is to disincentiveize brain drain.
I've never played this game on an emulator. That's pretty interesting. I need to find a ROM now.
Hm, thanks. Yeah, I thought it was already released. The thing I read said "implemented", I guess I took the wrong meaning from that.
I am talking about countries. Khashoggi is a not country. You can save the drama. Would you start a war over a single human?
Because that’s not how it works? If you give up your citizenship, it is irreversible. You’ll need to immigrate like you never were.
I agree that they want walled gardens (it seems like the only thing holding them back is not wanting to boil the water quick enough to make everyone jump out), but they could continue that move just the same whether they put macOS on an iPad or not.
As I understand, v4.22 is released now and available in some distros already :)
Sure, if they're residents. Not if they live in Mongolia where they're paying for Mongolian schools via Mongolian taxes.

The real question you should be asking is why are you ok double-taxing non-resident citizens?
How to subdue the cost of abstraction. Very well explained !
Boris Johnson offers a case study of why one might wish to renounce US citizenship: https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2022/07/10/boris-joh...
Why do you offer an opinion without spending time any time with the thing you are talking about?
> Chrome is in maintenance.

Unfortunately this is not good example, because Chrome undergoes continuous refactoring and is always adding new web features. Even V8, which I worked on for almost 7 years, is definitely not in "maintanence", as JS changed radically in that time and we added the Wasm engine subcomponents.

I kind of agree with your other points, but this is really a spectrum. For example, a 115 year old house is in "maintenance mode", yet it needs new insulation, wiring, upgrading the heating/cooling, interior redesign, floors, windows, etc.

The truth is that most long-living systems are composed of many different subsystems which run the spectrum from "install once, fix it when it breaks" to constantly being rejiggered.
I would say his work in linguistics is philosophy.
My problem with anti-trust is my problem with taxing the rich. How do you define rich? How can you logically explain why, say, $999,999 per year is not rich but $1,000,000 per year is? Wouldn’t a homeless person say everyone with a roof is rich? It’s simply illogical.

With anti-trust, it’s defining monopolies. Maybe a company like Google dominates search advertising. But they don’t compete economically in search, they compete economically in digital advertising - or is it all of advertising? Isn’t Amazon and Apple eating their shirt in new spend on search ads? By the time the anti-trust case works itself through the courts it’s often that the “monopoly” has fallen quite a bit from their perch.

Now to get to start ups. Startups being acquired WANT to be acquired - otherwise they wouldn’t be sold. There is no gun that makes them be sold - their shareholders agree to it. If you love startups, you should be pro-founder, and that means letting them be sold if they want it. Otherwise it’s simply coercion and authoritarianism to prevent an owner to do what they want with their company they put their blood and sweat into.
A song that laments how 911 ignores poor/black neighborhoods embodies a different sentiment than "fuck the police."
If they guess the recovery time wrong, doesn't matter. It's biology not math.
They will also be able to apply for you to become citizens when they turn 21 via an Alien Relative Petition.

They will likely not pay much tax between now and then so the cost of the opportunity (if you would ever consider living in the U.S. permanently) is minimal.
This, totally. I manage a large B2B CRM with complex user-auth requirements and we use an off the shelf provider. It was an easy decision when we began, but now it has become a bottle neck in many ways. As your application becomes big you need a lot more customization to your auth logic. Large customers have specific customizations that off the shelf auth providers don't provide, or make it complex to implement. Over time auth and RBAC becomes crucial to your application. Engineering effort required to read through your providers documentation and implement workarounds exceeds a purpose built, native solution.
I was more interesting in learning about the $3T/year number. Turns out that it is eye-catching but the math here is very dubious.

They have several factors - the primary being their taking a few very specific instances of companies, declaring these companies' manager-employee ratio be the ideal, and then computing how much other companies would save if they had similar manager-employee ratio.

This is just wrong.

By the same argument, given that Apple's retail revenue is $5,500 per sq feet while Target is only $300, we should conclude that Target is wasting retail space and it should save money by shutting down 94% of its locations.

That is of course completely incorrect - these are two very different businesses. The same problem exists with the original analysis.
Because GPT doesn't "know" what you're asking it to do. If you want it to be able to call out to a chess engine when you ask it "Solve this chess problem" then we're back in the old world of grammars and trying to parse sentence structure.
The planet has 2^47 square meters of surface, so more like 6 bytes.

Plus you can group together people in the same area and/or sort positions as integers and store only the deltas between them, so you can probably get down to 2-3 bytes per person.

And you can get dozens of models of smartphone with 16GB of RAM right now. So there might be a gap there but it's a very small gap. The phone of tomorrow will have the RAM.

Edit: Thinking about it more, with 2^33 people and 2^47 locations the average delta would be 2^14, and it's pretty easy to guarantee that fits into 2 bytes per person. And with a more accurate world population count you'd free up at least a gigabyte for your phone to actually operate with.
I once built a quick and dirty load testing tool for a public facing service we built. The tool was pretty simple - something like https://github.com/bojand/ghz but with traffic and data patterns closer to what we expected to see in the real world. We used argo-workflows to generate scale.

One thing which we noticed was that there was a considerable difference in performance characteristics based on how we parallelized the load testing tool (multiple threads, multiple processes, multiple kubernetes pods, pods forced to be distributed across nodes).

I think that when you run non-distrubuted load tests you benefit from bunch of cool things which happen with http2 and Linux (multiplexing, resource sharing etc) which might make applications seem much faster than they would be in the real world.
Could make them each the price of 2 (once over)
Wow interesting. I've read a lot about this topic and I've never once heard of any people in history that have practiced what your describing. Would love some links to read more

The first step of making any compost-based fertilizer is always to mix the "greens" (high nitrogen material, in this case the poop) with browns (high carbon material such as hay, leaves, straw, etc). Cow manure and other manures based on pretty much any other animal will have had this done. Any composting toilet, any night soil transportation truck, etc will also do this. Compost toilets usually simply mix it with sawdust, peat moss, or coconut noir.

This very simple process was used in pretty much every culture the world over. It's simple and extremely effective at neutralizing odors and changing the microbiology to aerobic conditions which can make it safe to handle in as little as a few weeks
Because I got high made a ton of money, and he would have made a lot more if 9/11 didn't happen. There's a nice documentary on him and that song. Seems like a genuine guy.
I read an article a while ago that said for high net worth individuals there is a backlog of people waiting for US to process giving up US citizenship, US is under no obligation to hurry processing.

Quick google search shows articles citing "30,000 backlog" of people wanting appointments to cancel.
I'm not talking about asymptomatic or abortive infections and talking about typical symptomatic infections in otherwise healthy (but unvaccinated) adults.

Rhinovirus, common cold coronaviruses, metapneumovirus and even RSV don't commonly cause the high fever seen in typical symptomatic influenza cases--which is what the influenza vaccine is seeking to avoid.

And the whole point is that vaccination will help to prevent a symptomatic infection typically characterized by ~103F fever for up to 3 days with one of those asymptomatic infections that you mention.

And the problem is that most adults may go years or even decades between those severe enough flu infections. They're mostly likely just catching colds. Maybe they caught a flu strain and their adaptive or innate immune system fought it off so they really did have "24 hour flu". But the point is that those very mild respiratory infections are not characteristic of a typical symptomatic influenza presentation which can be prevented by the vaccine. People become complacent talking about those symptoms as being typical of influenza, while typical symptomatic presentation of influenza is much worse.

And even if you want to go down the rabbit hold of arguing PCR this or that and maybe there's a wild amount of asymptomatic influenza infections every year -- it doesn't really matter -- the point is the severity of the infection on the higher end of the distribution. And rhinoviruses really do lack that level of severity because they don't carry the same disease burden and don't kill as many people.
>>"All of our deferred maintenance issues, some dating back over a decade, were addressed in the first 6 months of being freed of the managers"

Right... So how many business goals got accomplished?

The techie in me hundred percent empathizes with you. I want a Clean system based on best practices and modern technology stack.

It took me a long time to understand that my technical OCD is irrelevant from business goals perspective. I don't know your full story but as presented, there's a possibility that while you enjoyed six months without management, business suffered for it. Or not - don't know the details. But it's important to understand that my techie perspective of what's important to accomplish, and business perspective, may differ. Management's job (amongst others) is to enact company strategy and prioritize business goals.

To wit, a business may be more successful with certain percentage of outstanding maintenance issues (his ibportant was that decade old issue really?? :) while having important new features built.
It's actually harder. I think when you apply for a visa, they'll make a special note if you once gave up your citizenship. Legislation to never admit entry to expatriates have been proposed before.
at least the lighting can be controlled, this post processing cannot.
May the Factory Farms Burn
Citizenship of _some_ countries come with rules and expectations on the holder. As far as I can tell, if I leave India for good I don’t owe India anything after 1.5 years. That sounds correct.
Cheap, sustainable hydrogen through solar power
There’s “shield you from shit” as in “don’t let upper management abuse you” and then there’s “treat you like a mushroom.” Some managers conflate the two.
>engineered pandemics escaping labs (not COVID; I mean an actual engineered pandemic sometime in the future)

This kind of adlib really works against getting people to care. Given the immediate (and intentional) destruction of all evidence that could point either way, such definite claims are ill-advised.
> why does every food product have a "nutrition facts" label, mandated by the FDA

The FDA can't compel you to say anything you don't want to. But they can refuse to let you sell your product. The right to sell food isn't as strongly protected as the right to political expression.
That's nice, I just completed it at full price and it felt like extortion.
Lat long and assuming at ground gets you most of the way there.
HN unfortunately has a lot of people like George Hotz.

They are knowledgeable to a certain level but they simply aren't great engineers who almost always are humble, cautious, thoughtful and respectful of the intentions behind what other engineers build.

Anyone who thinks they can jump in and replace any tech stack without an extensive deep dive of the business requirements, design decisions, cost constraints, resource limitations etc that drove the choices deserves the pain and unemployment that inevitably follows.
why not just use POSIX hton{,s,l} ?

https://linux.die.net/man/3/htons
The problem isn't doing it as such; ALGOL 60 could do nested functions just fine.

The problem is doing it in an ABI-compatible way when you already have an ABI. The gcc implementation of nested functions does that - they are compatible with regular function pointers - but at the cost of requiring executable stack on at least some platforms.

And for C compilers that aren't gcc, the question becomes: why partially implement a non-standard gcc feature?
Most users aren't meteorologists. I found the precip radar view good and it was smooth for projecting out a couple hours which was important for deciding if I wanted to golf or not because it wad easy to see if a storm was likely to clip my club. That's something none of the current apps I've tried since replicate nearly as well.
Quite a lot of countries have a fast-track for restoring citizenship if you had one. Not on the “when you feel like it” basis, but often without onerous requirements of foreigner naturalization.
The bulk of Bernstein's productive time was at Haverford, where almost half the graduating class were philosophy majors. He was well-matched by Ashok Gangadean, Aryeh Kosman, Paul Desjardin, Kathleen Wright, et al; the department flourished for decades with funding from Gest secured in the 1960's by Desjardins. The whole department was a national treasure, the best philosophers in the country teaching undergraduates. They each had their way of taking the BS out of philosophy; Bernstein's was to root it in ordinary social thinking.
Former Fed Chairman: Crypto Is "Too Dependent on the Greater Fool Theory" [pdf]
The most important problem in the world is that our technology has evolved far faster than our irrational primate brains, and we've finally reached a dangerously self-destructive level. Individually and collectively, we lack the ability to use that technology wisely.
Can someone help me understand why they are having these waves? Is it because they won't use Western vaccines?
The situations are so different though. No matter how hard you try, if you are living in a country, you are going to use SOMETHING that is paid for by taxes. Roads, walking down the sidewalk even, snow removal, throwing away a wrapper in a city garbage can, NOT stepping in glass because someone picked it up, ambulance if you get in an accident, etc.

Whereas if you live in another country for years, you use pretty much NOTHING (except for some consular services MAYBE). Huge difference.
Most embassies have been canceling and not scheduling these appointments, since 2019. The wait at a lot of them is still several years. I had to travel to Azerbaijan to get it done in a timely fashion.
(1) Many people don't know that they're "US citizens"

(2) Even if you are aware of (1) you have to know of this unique bit of US taxation BS, and know that that means you have to file a US tax return (something that functionally costs money) to not be breaking the law and so be subject to fines.

(3) Even if you do realize that you need to renunciate your citizenship you have to do it in person, so you have to have the ability to also get to a US embassy, and hilariously prove you're a US citizen.

(4) As the article states: renunciation itself also costs money, in addition to the other costs incurred.

Given (1), many impacted people don't ever actually interact with the US government, and with (2) never occurs to them that they need to do anything. (3) and (4) then add an actual barrier to renunciation, couple with the potential "immigration" impact (Flying through LAX, NYC, etc can become questionable, which is a problem given they're major hubs), means that you actually get stuck in a damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Finally, despite it being ostensibly a legal right, the US government has a track record of denying basic constitutionally guaranteed rights, and renunciation is no different. Because of (3) it's necessary to make an appointment and visit in person, and the US has actively ensured that that isn't possible by understaffing and even simply canceling appointments. So while only ~2700 may have renounced citizenship, the actual backlog is in the tens of thousands.
When I was working there I implemented my patent during a hack week (given a set of follows return the list of matching tweet ids, very similar to his prototype):

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20120136905A1/en (licensed under Innovators Patent Agreement, https://github.com/twitter/innovators-patent-agreement)

I could have definitely served all the chronological timeline requests on a normal server with lower latency that the 1.1 home timeline API. There are a bunch of numbers in the calculations that he is doing that are off but not by an order of magnitude. The big issue is that since I left back then Twitter has added ML ads, ML timeline and other features that make current Twitter much harder to fit on a machine than 2013 Twitter.
If you’re a US citizen you can move back get welfare or qualify for Medicaid if low income. Or get a heavily subsidized healthcare plan. All paid for with tax dollars.

Not saying I agree with paying US taxes if not living there, but there are financial benefits to US citizenship.

Compare this to say Canada, where you can leave, never pay taxes, then retire in Canada with free healthcare that you never paid into. It’s “privatize the gains, socialize the losses”.

And to be honest, most Americans living outside the US will pay no US taxes. It’s just the filing burden that is the issue.
You mean non-empirical? ;-)
Doesn't work with desktop computers sadly.
I guess it's been 12 years on i3, time flies :)

Thanks to the maintainers -- a stripped down Linux distro + i3 is an incredibly powerful combination.
Every book, holy or otherwise, that was ever written was written by humans. What makes you think they are “real” in the first place?

There’s no mention of a ton of very significant things we now know to be real in any holy book. Why isn’t that stuff enough “proof” they’re “fake”?
What you say isn't really wrong, but I guess there is a different perspective.

I wish there were more startups that just keep operating standalone without being bought. Having the often passionate founders staying in control and evolving their company.

Of course, if they can sell than they get more money out of that and maybe have time for something else/new. But at the same time, how does it impact society if passionate founders leave all the time? Maybe that isn't really great for the overall progress.

On the other hand, were there less startups if they can't be sold/bought as easily? I'm not sure, but I imagine the impact wouldn't be so huge, since I expect for most people, selling their company is more the icing on the cake and not the major reason why they start something on their own.