skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a boy, my parents had me doing royal conservatory piano. The thing is that I really enjoyed piano, but I didn't want to have to do recitals or exams. Once I was old enough to really say no, I quit lessons. I still play, but it's mostly chording. I have always been pretty good at playing by ear, and even when I was in lessons, I did better mimicking the teacher than I did sight-reading.

I still play a bit of piano, but I'm no-where near as good as when I was practicing regularly when I was young. I've also picked up guitar a bit, but I'm just chording there, too.

That said, I play to have fun, to entertain my son, or just to belt out a fun tune.
Generally speaking those 10k lines files are shit code, regardless of context

Generally speaking it's only Enterprise(tm) code that has miniscule (not small, miniscule) files with shit code

As long as it's good code, no one cares. If you aren't working on Enterprise(tm) code odds are every bad code you'll look at has way too many lines in the abstraction unit that is being used
Well, Keynsian Beauty Contest, then. As long as you play it better than the others, you win.

I don't do a lot of individual stock picking, because I can't be assed to look too closely at fundamentals and I don't think I have a good enough pulse on the public opinion that I can predict who Redditors will think is a sexy CEO next.
Benchmarks indicate as such:

> Wasm is 1.95-11.71x faster than JavaScript on Firefox

> Wasm is 1.15-1.67x faster than JavaScript on Google Chrome

> Wasm is 1.02-1.38x faster than JavaScript on Safari on

https://www.adservio.fr/post/how-fast-and-efficient-is-wasm
ATF acts are not congress acts. Brilliant statement. No one is saying ATF is congress, so by definition their act is not an act of congress.

>Second, your citation appears to be out of date and the current regulation defines "frame or receiver" differently.

At the time of US v Rowald there were pretty clear inconsistancies. If you're referring to recent changes there's barely been enough time to create a historical record as the judicial process is slow, so it seems kind of silly to constrain to only post-latest change examples.
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34254677.
HR will consider downside risk too. It's usually not the whole story to say that getting rid of you will be simple and easy. You might file a lawsuit. Your colleagues might be demoralized. Other teams might start hearing about the situation and protesting in various ways. The government might get involved. It might lead to bad PR.
Purchasing crypto as an investment asset is the primary use case. Just because this asset was part of a speculative bubble, doesn't mean it's a fraudulent or corrupt asset.
> who is doing the permitting

The "who" is just greedy connected people, who are everywhere. Including government and finance.

Thankfully we have laws and regulations, which at least serve as some checks and balances to prevent these people from causing too much damage.

The genius of checks and balances government as that it doesn't rely on ensuring "bad" people never get into positions of power. You will never be able to stamp out 100% of bad actors. Instead it sets things up such that the damage bad actors can do is minimized and/or identified quickly. Less collateral damage, and a chance for justice afterwards.

"No regulations" in crypto should be a warning flag to people.

Meanwhile, I'm really really interested if any crimes were committed on the "regulated" side of things. Those people need to be put in jail. Will be fun to watch this unravel.
Also Schnorr != Shor != Schneier, which was a confusion in the HN thread about Bruce Schneier’s response to this paper
https://sr.ht/~ph14nix/kalina/

Sure, here it is. Enjoy! It can do all the basic things, but stuff like error handling is rough (it will panic if it fails to parse something).
> straight from the 8088 + cga graphics to the pentium 100mhz (really an overclockerd 90mhz model)

Now there's a jump... that must have been around two orders of magnitude more compute performance (not to mention all the rest of the new capabilities.)

> + matrox something and a decent Sony screen .

One of the things I did with that 486 machine was upgrade to a Sony-17SE1 monitor. This is when 14 or 15 inch CRT's were normal, so the 17 was special, expensive, and a very significant financial stretch. Still worth it for all the reasons you'd expect.

I carried the monitor over to the Pentium, which was its own learning experience. The Pentium machine was built to be a dedicated Linux machine, so I had to be fairly careful about the hardware I used. When I ordered it from Micron, I bought it with the cheapest possible video option the offered, and upgraded it myself to a Number Nine 771 (which had a discrete IBM RAMDAC and was much better supported on Linux.)

The reason I mention this is that I got to see the same monitor driven by two different outputs. Even at the same resolution/etc, the quality of the image was much, much better on the 771, for reasons that I am sure were related to the discrete RAMDAC and a better analog section. It's the sort of thing that's totally a non issue these days (digital link ftw), but mattered a lot back then.
SQLite is used by flight systems on the Airbus a350.

It is the only major database that has obtained DO-178B certification, allowing it to operate legally in this avionics environment and role.

Relaxing the strict controls upon it, and allowing contributions that do not pass the tests (in th3) will remove newer versions from avionics applications.

There are some people who are actively trying to fork, which means precisely the above.

I read at some point that Airbus has a software support agreement in place for SQLite that expires in 2050.

https://sqlite.org/th3.html#history
There is likely nobody remaining who is capable of processing this HR work; I think it's fair to say that Elon Musk's claims about treating ex-employees nicely were not meant in good faith. Also, his own use of twitter changed recently in a way that indicates he was accepted that he is well and truly fucked, and entirely due to self-owning.
https://sr.ht/~ph14nix/kalina/

As replied in another comment, here it is. Enjoy!
> do not need additional energy to be delivered to the Earth from outside, we are warming it already

Waste heat isn't our problem.

> we need to harvest energy that is heating up Earth surface already

If we're being artistic that's what an in-orbit solar panel, which at least part of the time blocks photons from reaching the Earth, does.
HTC Vive XR Elite
Tall lunar pole towers:
https://futurism.com/the-byte/harvard-super-tall-towers-powe...

Maybe better: nuke the moon and reduce a few key crater rims, then use much shorter towers. Could be that a series of regular bombs might be more effective and less likely to "alarm the horses (general public.)"
TIL. I always took spooks to mean the CIA.
Newcomer Questions about TeXmacs
Well I give them props for at least having a facade of a "what went wrong" section, which most RN articles leave out, although it doesn't feel like an honest analysis of the negatives of their switch.

I'd like to see some actual data about what percentage of their code is written in native vs RN. In my experience you need to maintain massive amounts of native framework code on both sides to support the RN code, and to implement stuff that RN can't do or does horribly. Adding RN into the mix just basically adds one more platform to be supported, making things more complicated, rather than combining code into fewer platforms. RN teams never bother to mention how much native code is needed to support them, and seemingly never include native work that was done when giving metrics about how long it took to "write" a feature in RN, usually because a separate "native" team does that work, not them, so it's conveniently not mentioned.

Also curious about other metrics such as how many developers they lost that weren't interested in becoming JS developers. Or have they stuck around because there's still so much native work that they need native developers for, to support RN.
Substack already exists. Twitter wasn't the innovator in the area, like the other products you mention.
When I was in grad school I had done measurements of the magnetic anisotropy of amorphous compounds. I had found an interesting link between the structure and the magnetic properties which is surprising since the material is amorphous, the material properties should be isotropic yet these had a preferred magnetization axis. During the discussions of these results with my advisor I was told in very clear terms that he would not let me publish results that contradicted a paper of his from the 1980s.

I didn't push back, because I had no power and I just wanted to get the fuck out of there and start making money after being scammed out of 5 years of my life where I poured a lot of effort and got shit pay. I lost respect for my advisor and I was stunned by how un-scientific his response was when it came to correcting his 1980s results. My measurements were more accurate and were strongly supported by structural measurements he never did and couldn't do back then. But he was more interested in protecting his "legacy" of his paper with 13 citations.

So petty and small. I dropped those efforts and was able to get out completely obviating those results, never mentioned them in my thesis even.

Anyway, my point is that I'm not surprised that scientific results are lame, vanilla, uninspired. When the committees that decide on what gets funded are all 65+ dinosaurs stuck in their ways, very few disruptive ideas will be founded because you're disrupting the very research that got the committee members clout and recognition.

As they say, change comes a funeral at a time.
> One assumes there is a relatively fixed supply of plumbing problems.

The volume of plumbing problems is going to increase at least linearly with the housing supply, which (theoretically) increases more-or-less linearly with population. Plus, people move around, so there will be concentrations of problems, and those concentrations will move with the population.

That doesn't account for how technology and building codes and material changes have made previously simple plumbing problems more complex over time.
Former Shopify iOS dev here. I pushed SO HARD to get dark mode to be a thing we would do. It's table stakes, IMO, in 2020 and beyond, to support it. We'd get roasted on Twitter, LinkedIn, just about everywhere. HN Comments, even. :)

Got shut down at the highest level. Like, definitively. As in, please don't ask again.

I don't think you'll ever see it as long as Tobi is CEO.
I don't think there was an actual attempt to make it work. They've acquired it, slapped it below the profile, and when Musk took over Twitter it was immediately obvious it's going to die.
not an insider, but apparently it's almost impossible to get funding in (theoretical?) physics outside outside of quantum mechanics.
I don't think threads are a poor idea but they have sharp edges.

I work on multithreaded software and I get 31,516,776 synchronizations per second with a lock free algorithm and 12 threads and 31,565,052 on the lock benchmark.

When the threads are increased to 100 (contention) the lock benchmark does 3,419,271 requests per second whereas the lock free algorithm does 19,926,428 so the contention hurts them both but the lock free benchmark scales far better.

Threads aren't bad. The domain is not easy.
what does "Cutting comp" means?
> Fukushima has severity 5 risks

> Firstly that Fukushima was a severity 5 event rather than a severity 2 event.

What are you angry about this time?

A 5 is any risk we don't want to accept in the future. Unless you're ok with Fukushima and Chernobyl happening again, they're all a 5.

I'm trying to give vocabulary for establishing risk requirements. If you don't want the bad thing to happen, it's a 5. Doesn't matter if it should be a 10. 5 is the threshold of being unacceptable. If it's 5+, then it's just 5.

If the new proposal only changes the likelihood but doesn't reduce the severity, then it doesn't meet the requirement. That's it. It's just a framework to dispassionately discuss risk.

Gen IV technology? Has severity 5 risks. Doesn't meet the requirements. We agree.

Relying on operational controls? Can never be 100% foolproof. Only changes the likelihood anyway. Severity is still a 5. Doesn't meet the requirements. We agree.

We agree, but you're still arguing with me. Why?
Where I'm working we're porting the native apps gradually to SwiftUI on iOS and on Android using Kotlin Compose - addressing a lot of the development speed issues mentioned in the article, and shifting to a 'reactive' model while retaining truly native performance and components.

Developing in SwiftUI is lightning-fast - there are a few bumps and bugs that have been extensively discussed, but it's really simple to still use UIKit components in the places that need them (which are becoming fewer all the time).

For me the tone of the article is very 'positive' but the amount of time and effort seem horrendous. And now they're stuck with React. Not sure how many times these articles need to be written and then... [0]

[0] https://www.twopicode.com/articles/this-is-why-we-stopped-us...
There's no reason to believe they speak to their coworkers in this way. This is a different context.

Edit out swipes please.
I wonder where the break-even point hits that it becomes cheaper to plumb hot water pipes or electrified heating elements under better-built sidewalks than to resurface every year.
Stanford distances itself from now-viral ‘harmful language’ list
Presumably a combination of survivorship bias (we are most aware of the successful tech companies with asshole-founders-and-foosball-tables-in-the-lounges, and not all of the unsuccessful companies with the same) and fundamental attribution error (we think having an asshole-founder-and-foosball-tables is predictive of or causally related to being successful).
Which do you think is more important to the question of service and reliability - the fact that GM sold 6.5 million cars, trucks, and SUVs last year, which was a down year for them, or that they only sold 70,000 EV's?

GM has been dealing with global supply chains for decades.

GM has been dealing with auto unions for decades.

GM has been dealing with service centers for decades.

Who do you think can more quickly adapt to whom? GM to Tesla, or Tesla to GM?
To be fair, the readme does not mention ytdl.
nit: 6.75 is a run for a lot of people. It's even a sprint for some. 4mph is a very, very fast walk for a lot of people.

A "becoming healthy" 5k (3.1-2) time is 30 minutes, which puts the runner at more than 6 miles per hour.

A friend of mine is returning to health, and he was winded after a 30 minute walk at 1.8 mph the whole time.
What is the current valuation, or how much money have you raised, and how many rounds?
The chicken-and-egg problem illustrated in this thread seemed like the most appropriate place to highlight:
So (see disclaimer at the end) there is a publication I appreciate called Seeds of Science. My understanding is that it is (in part) intended to offer a pathway to work around structural failure in comventional peer review; As its web page describes:

" What is a 'Seed of Science'? It is a speculation, an idea for an experiment, a novel observation, a thought-provoking question and discussion, the highlighting of an under-appreciated problem, or an unorthodox research study"

They got an ACX Grant last year from AstralCodexTen to pursue this.

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CoI Disclaimer: My work is published in SoS.
Let me guess: I need to pair it with my phone, create an account, accept a ridiculous EULA that forfeits my right to participate in a class action suit, and update the firmware to add a new mapping feature that tracks my whereabouts (as a feature of course, with a heat map or whatever.)

I feel like these days, when I see a flashy new product, I need to be immediately informed that it doesn't require a smartphone or cloud app. I don't want to be hostage to my fucking shoes because Oracle acquired the company that runs the server for them.
Minimum Viable Inspiration
There's even a recent case with far more similarities. Incidentally, also related to a crypto scam, one of the FBI's most wanted criminals is believed to have escaped on a yacht in the Mediterranean and has managed to stay hidden for five years (and counting): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruja_Ignatova
Aside from Apple's processors is 1.5TFlops in 5w possible with other archs?
It's probably because the aesthetic here is relatively bland, and sandals are an existing form-factor of shoe. Airpods are aggressively sleek and white, and they sit in a weird uncanny valley of accessory and tool. Technically, wired earbuds have the same hanging-stem, but everyone's used to them, so no one notices them.

As to the aesthetics, I'm sure people thought the same of all types of bicycles. Penny-farthings used to be the cultural norm, and people still ride less-common forms like small-wheel and recumbent bicycles.
Would definitely be useful for airport employees who already often use kick scooters
Recent and related:

FTC cracks down on companies that impose harmful noncompete restrictions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34254183 - Jan 2023 (165 comments)
I think NC clauses are pretty bad in general. But, I can't shake a weird feeling that crops up from time to time. Anyone out there operating without one of these things over their heads that feels like maybe they should?

I started out at a tiny company that didn't think their app idea would make it as far as it did. It mostly has. Now I am looking at the terms of my employment and finding myself approximately as encumbered as a McDonalds employee on their first day.

Some of the things I know could be leveraged to turn our biggest competitor into an unstoppable explosion in very little time. I'd never actually do this (there are always higher-order effects w/ betrayal), but I do think I could use this concern as part of my salary re-negotiation this year.

Equity and other forms of compensation serve as a very powerful carrot to abate this temptation. Carrots don't always work though. You usually need some kind of stick at some level.
> we are not cynical enough

What supports that conclusion?

Fear of being deceived?
In my experience, there definitely is that pressure - and higher performing wives definitely complain about and lose respect for partners who they married awhile back, but who now earn less (or they now earn more).

Not everyone of course, but it’s an obvious pattern.

Lots of infidelity, or strained relationships.

However, there are also a lot of higher educated and professionally accomplished women that don’t find long term partners. I’ve run across quite a few of them over the years. The ones I knew more closely, the issue was often that they were very occupied with work and stressed out, which is not conducive to, well, much of anything. Gender roles not helping.

Someone with the same set of attributes but who was male, would be (and looking at compatriots, are) married with kids.
Supposedly you can easily go up/down stairs with these as the wheels lock automatically. Not sure how that works.

Edit: In the video, it looks like a heel-up-toe-down motion with your right foot locks and unlocks the wheels.
> Rising rates don't make the dollar stronger. There's no empirical relationship between interest rates and exchange rates.

I think this is the first time I've ever heard someone try to claim that printing money does not, ceteris paribus, impact the exchange rate.
> The short answer is because cops defend cops, including bad cops.

Show me a group that doesn't do this.

In Seattle's 2020 cop-free zone CHOP/CHAZ, the self-appointed "security forces" killed an unarmed 16-year-old. It's all on video, and the statements made by the assailants in the aftermath are heinous. Plenty of people were there to see it, but nobody's talking, and at this point it looks like they'll probably never catch the killers.

I don't excuse or accept bad behavior by cops. But I can't call policing unethical by nature unless you can show me an alternative that is more ethical. Seattle got an experiment in the alternative, and it was not good.
Ask HN: Recommendations on NLP solution to compile meeting notes?
Yea, I've always wondered if finance companies intentionally structure their comp this way to make garden leave more damaging
I think there are probably warehouse settings where a product like this (assuming it worked) would be valuable. These places are going to be mostly flat predictable floors anyway. If you can reduce the amount of man hours needed that saves on labor as well other health related costs.

Though perhaps by the time tech will work full scale robotics would be able to replace most of these workers anyway.
DeFi and Crypto: Retrospective and Analysis of 2022's Developments and Trends
The science is with him how? Masking is somewhat effective, even the cloth masks may prevent infection in passing. It's only when sharing the same space for extended periods of time that it becomes ineffective, and N95s and Surgical masks remain effective in such environments.

Before vaccines masking and lockdowns were the best things we could do to even blunt the death count, refusing to blunt the death count because you considered masks of all things inconvenient is still repugnant, selfish behavior. And validating said behavior in others from a position of influence is even worse. He may or may not have gotten COVID anyway before the vaccines, or perhaps he would have avoided it until vaccines were available and survived, like many people did. We'll never know, because he didn't even try and actively made the problem worse than it had to be.

Now there were public health measures that were misguided, outright dumb, and completely ineffective. But the fact that they existed does not vindicate Herman Cain or anyone who agreed with him at the time. They weren't misjudged prophets who knew something other people didn't, they were selfish people making selfish decisions who happened to be partially correct, but also made the problem worse than it had to be.
[Put this in another thread but adding it here since I didn't realize it was a duplicate thread]

My Dad was forced to retire early as a network engineer after the small (5 person) RSA consulting shop he was working for actively threatened his livelihood with a non-compete. No one in the industry would touch him because of how aggressively and proactively the owner of the shop was defending the non-compete.

I offered my financial resources and network to help him fight it, but he was nearing the end of his career and just didn't have the energy to fight. He now delivers dry cleaning at $15/hr just to get out of the house.

Non-competes can't die fast enough.
that is definitely more than $5000 and incredibly vapid response. I don't see how this adds anymore value over online searching, can you ask it for more interesting ,off beaten trail things? since retraining is infeasible, can you maybe maintain prompts that are more easily updated like new cool restaurants and experiences in an area X.
From what I can see, they download the repo to their server, generate per-function semantic embeddings (which will no doubt cost them at scale) [1], then use some combination of GPT-3 and Codex prompted with something like "Here's the source code of a git repo. Answer the following questions about it: {USER_QUESTION}."

[1] https://beta.openai.com/docs/guides/embeddings
I wonder if it will work with the IDE that someone had written in AHK V1. I can't remember what the website was, but it was a rather impressive IDE. All in one 10,000 lines file of course. Does AHK even support support packaging multiple files together?