skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LOL, yeah, good point. I think most of us are also exposed to a lot less intentional jank these days. Used to be a whole somewhat-popular genre of website. Lack of exposure could lead to reduced immunity.
I'd sub the ISP router for a £120 topton box with vyos on it, just because it can handle smart queues at line rate. It's really nice when you have exactly the same low ping and jitter regardless of other load on the network, with bandwidth splitting equally, and ISP routers just can't do that in my experience. It just works and requires zero fiddling.
I think most people accept that sports change over time and it's difficult to compare historical players with current ones.

Ignoring rule changes, there's the fact that athletes can collect so much data about their performance and use that information to improve in ways that just weren't available 30-50 years ago. Not to mention all of the scientific breakthroughs society has achieved in our understanding of the human body, nutrition, pharmacology, etc. An athlete born in 2020 has a huge advantage over one born in 1920.
Why is there a common perception today that the NBA competition is weak? Given the time it has proliferated, now we have players who have been playing since they were 5. And they're absolute physical beasts - in size and athleticism.
Monkey patching is extremely useful in Ruby but it has to be done with great care. Not having monkey patching available in an OO codebase comes with a lot of headaches.

Small example: You're using a 3rd party library that happens to include layers of object inheritance. You notice a piece of functionality a couple of layers up that you need access to or actually requires correction, but wasn't exposed in a way that you can fix it. With monkey patching, you can add a couple of lines of code in your code base that corrects the library without any changes elsewhere. Then you add a test to monitor it to see if something ever changes.

Without monkey patching, you have to fork the entire 3rd party library, make the change, use your fork on your project, keep it up to date and hope the library owner eventually accepts your PR. OR use the code as is and rebuild the inheritance tree in your own code base everywhere it's impacted.

It's indispensable when this scenario comes up.
But we did have "DHTML" and Flash.
I don't know anything about Alex Jones other than that he is on the fringe. People on the fringe can mostly be ignored unless they become dangerous, and they do so be acquiring significant power and influence. The difference between the extreme right and the extreme left is that the former has virtually no political, cultural, or other power in our society, while the latter is ascendant and yields vast amounts of power today.

Hillary Clinton called middle America the "basket of deplorables" and "racist", "sexist", "homophobic" "xenophobic", "Islamophobic." Hillary is not on the fringe. She has ties to some of the most powerful people in the world! She almost become the President of the United states. And, her opinion is frankly mainstream in the Democrat party. Alex Jones's opinion, however, is shared by no one with power or influence. He really is on the fringe. The comparison is not remotely apples to apples. The extreme left is the greatest existential threat to our society today. The extreme right is a joke.
Michael Jordan definitely didn't have this mindset, and he was the greatest of all time. He was the epitome of cut throat.
I was very happy with zsh and fish when I was at small companies or grad school.

Now I work at Google where there are tons of shared bash commands and scripts. It's so easy to simply copy/paste something that works into your shell instead of futzing around with compatibility differences.

It'd be neat to work at a place where everyone used fish but I've never experienced that.
that's interesting...apparently transferred within Microsoft to work on future Github functionality?
This kind of thinking is strange. It's similar to saying no type of exercise can save you from death. While true, we are talking about probability bounds here, not certainties.
The quotes, because luck implies counterfactual outcomes. You're lucky if you miss a car accident by a minute, but it's not clear that you could have been born as someone else, because then you wouldn't be you, and that's nonsensical.

> Doesn't it make sense to question or try to change these assumptions? Or are things fine the way they are?

Pretty much every new government since the US or French revolutions have tried, and the outcomes have been less than ideal. Inequality is a constant feature of human society that cannot be engineered away.
Typically not - you're looking at nursing home care. That means you'll pay $300+ a day for care that is awful at best and horrific more typically. Sometimes hospice patients have a better experience because the outside entity (the hospice) has eyes on the patient and (in)competence of the nursing home staff.

The tragedy of modern medical care if you're over 65 is that it's hard to die. Medicare only pays hospitals for results, so there are powerful incentives to limit hospital stays as much as possible - unless you're in an ICU or similar scenario, if you are hospitalized more than a week it's likely because someone fucked up, and Medicare will reimburse the hospital next to nothing as a result.

It's easy to get sick or become incapacitated, but people can and will "save" you and leave you in a situation where you are not well, but not dead. The options are 120 days of Medicare nursing home coverage, followed by a slow drain of all of your assets and ultimately Medicaid enrollment. Nursing home means you're effectively warehoused, and the more help you need, the less care you get as you become a cost center.

It's not just a matter of finances, it's a matter of humanity. The harsh reality is your disabled loved one will be treated like cattle unless someone who cares is directly engaged in caring for you. After the horror that my father went through after a suffering a stroke, and the pain caused to my mother after she took on full-time care, I did what most doctors do and have DNR care instructions on file with every hospital in a 50 mile radius.
End of life is a topic that doesn't nearly get discussed about enough. With life expectancy and infant mortality rates being what they ware, the average person doesn't encounter this part of the lifecycle near enough to make it an expected part of life.

That's not to say there aren't people dealing with it, it's just that I don't spend a lot of time communicating with them.

Phrases like 'passed peacefully in his sleep' is often code for 'the patient was terminal, so we upped the pain meds to reduce their pain'

To see a person live til they were 80...experiencing and then bouncing back from the injuries you get when your body gets frail, then see them pass when multiple subsystems just give up all at once....is a thing...and some people die at 50 and other's are still trucking along at 104.

I'm not saying it needs to be an ad campaign and reality show network....but we DON'T talk about it, and really should.
A salient question would be what OS you are running. It's been my experience that Thunderbird is orders of magnitude slower on Windows. I find it to be fast enough on Linux, though still acknowledging the fact that it is a bit slow. I read somewhere that this speed difference is due to antivirus.
Tennis player banned for life, found guilty of 135 offences
Unfortunately people who like to socialize much less than their colleagues seem to have these labels put on them quite frequently.
Depends on the environment. In a startup, the top performers often say basically “what took you so long? Glad we can move faster now. And try to hire some more top performers for me to work with.”
Great so Califonia has business in knowing if some worker lives in California. So they should be the one to ask. Employer doesn't have to know.

Do you report and pay federal taxes and state taxes separately? Or do you just deal with IRS and they forward the docs and the money to the state you live in?
You’re right! Writing is hard. Sometimes it takes publishing something to discover the important bits. It’s easy to botch your message and to get lost in your own internal monologue
Over 30, just in that neighborhood. And that was after a brief search.

> We tested Comcast's coverage claims in Hillier's area by clicking nearby addresses on the FCC map and then entering the addresses on Comcast's ordering website at xfinity.com. Our search wasn't exhaustive, but we found over 30 residential addresses on Quartz Loop and several abutting streets that had the same problem—Comcast claims to serve those houses on the FCC map, but each address is listed as "invalid" on the Comcast website.
And stupidity isn't the only possible reason for a party to engage in what seems like a counter productive move.
Certain motivations are often hidden.

Mike has been married for 12 years, happy couple, no children. He suddenly changes in attitude and make his wife life a nightmare every single day, turning his brother in law against him, losing the one job his wife's brother gave him out of pity. Never crosses a line, but jobless and a constant jerk, he ultimately get the divorce document handed over by his wife.

Is he stupid? He might have won the lottery and had his own agenda for what he would do with the money. And that's a personal affair. Let's not underestimate to which extent business and the capital at wide can go making up stories, getting books to look a certain way for a zero sum profit far below the cost inflicted to the other parties.
Reading the article, I was expecting the dreaded “and we’re rebuilding it on Electron” (because apparently that’s the only way anyone knows to build a desktop app nowadays), but apparently they don’t plan to move to an entirely different technical base, just to rewrite stuff.
Depends what it is. If it's "more opportunity because you inherited my house when I died" - fair enough. If it's "more opportunity because I got my mate Dave to hire you over other more qualified candidates" then that's shit.
From what I can find online this seems to be an American invention. Do they mean Kiviak [0] possibly which sounds like it was invented as a form of food preservation?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiviak
US, looking for remote. 15+ years experience been looking since early January, and I still don't feel like I have traction. Worst job market for engineers I've seen in a long time. I have hope it'll improve in March when budgets are finalized, but at the same time I'm preparing for it to be a long one. First unemployment in my career, up until now I had employers coming to me.
What product? You mean the experimental "research release" that was so in-demand that currently people are paying for guaranteed access?
I think webmail is not worth the effort and loss of end user control and I prefer local mail clients.
That's the xenophobia tax -- pay extra for a preferred country name on the label.
Yeah, old versions of Apple Mail used some weird 'RTF' format and IIRC security issues around attachments. I use the modern version, but NextMail was a different thing and legacy bits hung around for a while.
This is great! But what are the alternatives to using MS Kinect as the capture now that it's been EOL?
My one criticism of this post is referring to the work of Aiken in improving the static memory management in ML Kit. That should be "Aiken et al".
> One of my coworkers literally went into his first oncall shift, [...], and resigned the next morning

I've seen people nope right out of there, and (anecdotally) it's always been an experienced person seeing something that was worse than they should've expected, and having an idea how unusually bad it is.
I thought it was partially owned by Musk, and everyone pretty much thinks that's a death sentence.
There's plenty of standards bodies just awaiting new proposals — you've got your work cut out for you — thanks for volunteering!
Thats fine for you. Im just pointing out that people have different wishes and values with respect to death, and VSED is an attractive option for some.

I think I would rather do it than morphine.
In the Python codebases I work on, I always create a monkey.py in the repo root. With a comment warning against adding to it, but occasionally it’s the lesser evil.

A long time ago, when Django was less mature we had a monkey patch to add a join condition to some of our queries. It obviously broke when we needed to upgrade to Django 2, but it did allow us to eek out a major performance boost without abandoning the ORM quest builder. One of my coworkers practically fell over laughing when he discovered the file.
Thanks for the reply. Upon further inspection, it looks like it's `lines`. It might also be `filter` but I haven't quickly come up with a way to determine whether that's the case. I opened an issue:

https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/8016

I couldn't apply labels myself, I don't think.
Padlet Is Hiring to Build Software for a Good Education
The Online Safety Bill: An attack on encryption
> Also "outsourcing the lucrative parts" - give source for your claim please.

This one indicates "unfunded mandates" - a trick the GOP in the US has done for decades (notably so-called Medicare Advantage which created a crisis that didn't exist):
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/05/tories...

Another specific tactic is privatizing things that didn't need privatization (or the result is less efficient than what existed before, but it happened to make some corporations and ministers/secretaries a lot of money) - see "failed efficiency savings and privatization" here:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/nhs-crisis-rishi-sunak-cons...

Of course, Brexit (another Tory gift to their owners) really messed up things for NHS and caused a number of challenges (see above).
No, you dohave a valid list of features you want to group together, but attaching them to a word you have not clearly defined -- especially in this incredibly fraught case -- is just confusing you. If you haven't decided on a definition, you can't agree on a definition with anyone you are conversing with, and you will just talk past everyone. That is how this topic usually goes.

There's not some objectively true definition or there that you are homing in on with your intuited features.
Let me introduce you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
I'm not including social science, sorry, I should have pointed that out. I am including physics (excluding string theory), chemistry and biology; all quantitative things with falsifiable experiments.

I agree entirely that social science news reporting is crap. I should have been much clearer about that.
Nevermind that the 3pointer was introduced 10 years after Kareem's rookie season. He has a single 3 pointer made in his career
Yep, that's what I have.

One large bank I worked for was very surprised and practically enraged when they figured out I work on a VM and they don't actually control the device I am sitting on. It all started because they decided I am obliged to "provide for basic security" and install an antivirus. I told them there is absolutely no need for me to install an antivirus on this machine. This machine has only ever been used to connect to their network and I have neither installed anything or even visited any website from it. Moreover, it is snapshotted and restored from a snapshot every single day. It is fun to sometimes battle those mindless corporate drones.
> use of GPU is likely inaccurate.

The number 1 supercomputer in the world has 8 million GPU cores (or is it 8 million GPUs? Execution Units?) and 600k CPU cores.

They are doing floating point math on GPUs. Numerical analysis [1] is used to create the best accuracy possible. This is something that has been done for thousands of years, basically since math has had problems with no "exact" solution.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_analysis
It doesn't really matter if their service tool is wrong (as in "We technically have lines to this address"). It matters that their service tool disagrees with what they're reporting to the federal government, which they use to participate in federal grant programs.
yes, but imagine a small layer around chatGPT (or whatever good LLM that spits out code) that takes the generated code, compiles (if needed) and executes it.

[EDIT]: readability
I am a big fan of Netgear’s Orbi line. Really I think distance is more of a relative/ location issue and a mesh system that allows you to move the satellite endpoints around to suit your needs is very useful to figure out the optimal situation for a given environment.

https://www.netgear.com/home/wifi/mesh/orbi/
Thanks, that is a clear explanation.

> The discrepancy between the value of the time and the value produced

I am thinking how can one value this time. If it is valued by the market (how much someone is willing to pay for it) we would end up with the same problem, no?

It must be intrinsically valued, I am assuming.
Go Daddy is proof that a fractured market can be consolidated with extreme marketing exposure. Wix, Monday.com, Asana, etc. are using the same playbook imo.
Before disparaging all of these people, consider the "provably false conspiracy theories" in light of the public health approach taken by the government and major tech companies. The beginning of the pandemic, especially, featured a great deal of noble lies and "following the science". These things have yet to be acknowledged and there hasn't been an honest discussion and apology from those involved and there has been no indication that the right lesson has been learned.

> that is not understandable. It's a dramatic and seemingly emotional overreaction

I think what you mean is "rational" in some platonic sense of the word rational. It is entirely understandable that humans, as sometimes irrational and always emotional creatures could react this way. It is not all history that we're talking about, as your own example demonstrates, merely the "history" and the institutions that provided the history that you grew up with.

> The difference of course is that anti-vaxxers and other anti-science types were and are literally dying due to their belief in nonsense and conspiracies.

Plenty of innocent people died and had their lives ruined or negatively impacted because of the nonsense beliefs and decisions made by the "follow the science" crowd. Which science was being followed when hospitals decided they did not need a stockpile of masks? Which science was being followed when it was decided that schools must be closed? Which science was being followed when it was decreed that masking children would have no negative impact on their development?
I agree. Warm lead is way more important, but I think that cold calling, live meetings in general are also good strategies to bring your name out there. Warm leads also need basically to "cold call" your network and try to find leads. Email only brings you so far.
> For example, if I archive an email, it takes 10 to 15 seconds for this to be reflected in the interface

Have you tried changing local storage format from default mbox (one big linear file per folder) to maildir (each message in its own file)?
Is a vendor obligated to charge a price similar to another vendor? Wayfair did the work to show you a product you couldn't find elsewhere first, and charged you a price you found fair.
"What the world needs now

is love, sweet love.

It's the only thing that there's just too little of

What the world needs now

is love, sweet love

No, not just for some,

but for everyone."
He had a mean streak

https://youtu.be/aN57mvDICXw
This is so frustrating. We bought a house out in the sticks once it became WFH forever, thinking there was service because of the FCC's map which said there was Comcast and CenturyLink broadband. When we moved in and I called them, Comcast said they didn't have service in the area and CenturyLink offered me 1.5mbps (!!!) DSL. We limped along
on a spotty LTE connection until we got starlink after waiting a year, which has been great.
The lobby is strong with Comcast.
From $2 to $5, possibly more if you add a bunch of sweeteners or alternative milks. Even at 1/day every day of the month the expensive Starbucks is substantially cheaper than the above offering.
Lowest unemployment rate in 50 years: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE
> Don’t mistake the fallibility of chatgpt for a problem with the entire field. It would be like saying transistors don’t have much of a future because they are too big to fit many in a device.

Fundamentally, GPT itself and LLMs are essentially still black-box neural networks and all have the same drawbacks as them:

* More data needed to train them. Which then...

* ...Increases the size of the model (Getting bigger on each revision)

* Opaqueness (Cannot transparently explain its own decisions when it confidently generates the wrong answer.)

* Massive cost involved in training, retraining and fine-tuning it.

The best part is that you can't even give an explanation on why it is generating nonsense or why it overfitted or got confused over an invalid character or input. Little to nothing fundamental about neural networks (which is what LLMs are based on) has changed. It is essentially more of: 'Just waste more money on training it on more data.'

> The Bing openai integration is already dramatically different and better than chatgpt. I’d really advise trying it before forming too many opinions.

What I have said about ChatGPT and GPT-3 still holds true and hyping about a chatbot confidently generating nonsense and that cannot cite its own sources makes it highly untrustworthy to use. It is always eternal to the shortcomings of neural networks fundamentally; which is what LLMs use. They are great sophists and bullshit generators.

At least what needs to exist is an open-source LLM that is more transparent and is smaller than GPT-3 or GPT-4. There is a basic reason why OpenAI won't do that.
He wrote a great book about the 761st, tank battalion manned by African Americans in World War 2. He's a very thoughtful person. Also, I wish Magic had run for mayor of Los Angeles. He'd win in a heartbeat and he is also done a lot for Los Angeles as a business person.
For world affairs/international relations, CaspianReport on YouTube is great.
Ask HN: Is “learn to code” now “learn to drive a big rig”?
We are all familiar with the layoffs in the tech sector. Will the people who have been laid off eventually have to find other avenues for employment in sectors of the economy where hiring is still strong?
Sorry; They are just gender-neutral pronouns, since I don't know the comment author's gender. I find it easiest to parse, when reading, as "she" and "her", in my head, because trying to use "he" and "him" gets me mixed up when I read "ner".

I know it's not the common pronouns, and I'm happy to use whatever "xe", "they", or [insert] anyone wants me to use, about them. But when I'm making the editorial decisions based on ignorance (don't know the person's pronouns and have no reasonable way to get them before publishing), I prefer the "ne" pronouns because they don't have the plural confusions* that "they" does, nor do they turn your mouth to mush when you try to pronounce them, like "ze"/"xe".

*(heading this off at the pass) yes, "they" is often used singularly. But where "they" can, in contrived instances, be confusing as to whether you mean a group or not, "ne" simply doesn't have that problem. "ne" removes one more complication and I'm all for that. I also prefer plain JS to typescript; I'm aware that "simplicity" is a vice of mine.
What I see in this thread is A LOT of people complaining about a free product, but I wonder how many of them have actually donated money to help with the development? I just donated $100 myself because of the current donation campaign, but I'm happy with what I get largely for free.
I think this could work, but the problem is that your industrial-size Keurig/Nespresso machine is competing against the Starbucks/Dunkin/McCafes drive thrus. IMO they're not acquiring customers with price or convenience but variety and customization.