skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Atomic drills", as done for sports, do not apply well to programming IME. The following will make a lot more sense if you are familiar with the book Thinking Fast and Slow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow), or the research upon which that popularization is based.

Atomic drills as performed for sports allow you to use System 2 (slow, deliberate, logical) to train System 1 (fast, reactive, emotional). But when programming you are almost always going to be in System 2. Programming does not deal with instantaneous reactions in the same way sports does. Sure, you might react to a bug report (dammit, Johnson, I told you async was a bad idea for this!) but its not like sports, where by the time you consciously process input your physical reaction should have already occurred. To take the example from the Judo article, if you have formed the thought of "that guy looks about to throw me!" you are probably already on the ground.

There may be very time limited, competitive programming events where you need to think so fast that atomic drills can come into play. I do not know of any but they could exist.

But basically, when programming, at least on a professional basis, you are not relying on physical reactions to get the job done. And atomic drills are about training physical reactions.

There is definitely value, lots of it, to the "realistic work scenarios" you describe, it is just not the same as figuring out the bare fundamentals of a sport and practicing until they are entirely subconscious.
I would reach for Elixir, Phoenix, and LiveView for any new web development. We were using Java before and were running into major productivity issues. After extensive testing with Elixir, Node, Clojure, Go, and a handful of other languages, Elixir won out, we rewrote our entire stack, and our productivity skyrocketed. I can’t say enough good about it.
It can, but when I last looked, you needed the paid version to have similar features.
I would use sortition instead of elections and then pay them 95th percentile salary, plus 4 years of the average of their last N years private salary upon returning to the private workforce for retraining and reintegration.

Elections are basically a mixture of corruption-fest to curry favors and a popular contest and the skills needed to get elected have almost nothing to do with the skills needed to do the job. Just get a random but large enough sample of the populace.
Oh sure, it is meant to increase visibility when you're car stalled is the middle of the road. I meant to refer to scenarios when illegally double parked on a side street, or in a handicap spot.
Keeping the lights on and innovating are two very distinct workflows.

Heroes are a bottleneck in KTLO, but they are a necessity for innovation.

It's not a coincidence Google no longer innovates. They threw the baby out with the bathwater.
Can’t tell wether you are being ironic or not.
When I think war AI, I am thinking 3 levels: the global coordinating AI on a battle field, the AIs of a swarm of "killer robots"/weapons (should not work with good EM jamming), the embedded AI in each "killer robot"/weapon with a local non-jammable tactical "vision" (should not be very interesting due to the very limited "size" of an "embeddable" AI).

I am a dota2 player, and I very well remember E.Musk openAI: a team of 5 independent AIs with each a different set of skills based on the hero... and they had to slow them down and make them inaccurate...

In the end, I cannot see clearly where an AI would pertinently fit in a battle. Stategic assistance?
Actually, given how companies manage the WARN act, I'd wager they actually do. Often they keep an employee on the books for the 90 days as an employee, just with no responsibilities. I would presume changing the responsibilities would be no different then being re-assigned to a different team.
CoPilot sticks its fingers in its ears, scrunches its eyes closed, and shouts "Not Listening!" repeatedly...
Companies who treat employees as meat-based dysfunctional robots diminish their social capital... If they want a "social capital, people who feel to be part of the company, something like a family" and so on, it's not WFH the point but how companies hire and behave.
Show HN: Bella Coven, A GPT-3 powered tarot reader Discord bot
Presenting Bella Coven, a GPT-3 powered tarot reader Discord bot. Pulls cards from an AI-generated tarot deck, and answers your question based on the pulled cards' energy.

Code:

https://github.com/BeforeCutieAfterDoggo/bella-coven
There's a particular Calvin and Hobbes strip that always comes to mind with articles like this: "I don't know which is worse... that everyone has his price, or that the price is always so low."

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/04/08
In this market there is plenty of compeition that is driving down prices. me personally i switched from hr block to freetaxusa and i saved 50$. As far as markets and antitrust is concerned there are no monopoly problems here.

I wish an agency like the CFPB or FTC could step in to say, although the market here is "working" there are still consumer concerns not being addressed that you must address.
It shouldn't matter. But it does matter because ultimately, they're the ones with the decisionmaking power.
> I actually thought that black holes slowly evaporate

This is believed to be true, but the time scale is something like 60 or more orders of magnitude longer than the age of the universe, so (a) no evidence for this effect exists or is likely to be found any time soon, and (b) it's irrelevant for the dynamics of our current universe anyway.
Who is behind Iceraven? I feel uneasy using such a critical component from unknown Internet randos.
Except … for spewing out fortune responses, most of your cost by far will be in bandwidth charges. Those won't change with the implementation language. If anything, the C++ version will just be able to burn your dollars faster.

(Yes, I know, it's just a silly example, but compute costs are only one aspect, and the bandwidth pricing in the on-brand public cloud actually tilts overall costs towards being bandwidth-dominated for many applications.)
You can create your own.

In the days before Docker what we would use is CentOS with custom scripts using Anaconda[1]. You start with the base system and then add on whatever you need. You can also configure /etc however you need. The output is an ISO of your own custom Linux distribution.

One neat thing about Anaconda is you can add a provision script that runs on initial boot. So if you need to "bake" in your app but leave a certain amount of configuration for install-time, that's the way you do it.

[1] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...
How did you find Meet to be worse? They're broadly similar in terms of UI and features (but Meet is definitely slicker). The main difference I've found is that Zoom cuts out way more than Meet. In fairness when it does cut out it has a nicer recovery mechanism - it replays what the person said at like 3x speed so you usually still get to hear what they said. Meet doesn't do that. But Meet is still way better because it very rarely cuts out in the first place, whereas Zoom is just the classic "sorry could you repeat that" video conferencing experience that everyone expects.
There is a way to build an even smaller version of Tailscale for embedded systems, though there are some trade offs with regards to ease of use and security. https://tailscale.com/kb/1207/small-tailscale/ has more details.
> Microsoft is already testing ad placement within the new Bing, according to the report. Ads are being placed within generated responses at the moment
Why do you think the black box with the black hole will gain mass over time?

AFAIK:

On the contrary it will lose mass over time due to Hawking Radiation and evaporate eventually (though that might take literally forever).

Also spacetime curvature will be slightly different for point mass vs distributed mass.
But where would you split it? Regardless of what the blue/red state maps show, it's really an urban/rural split.
Corporations will just bribe more, they can afford it. I don't think the public can outspend them.
Trials are necessary when facts are in dispute. (Juries are traditionally the arbiter of facts, and judges the arbiters of law.)

If there are no facts in dispute, and the case is only about what the law says, it's a more efficient use of the plaintiff's, defendant's, and the court's time to have it decided via summary judgment.

If you sue me for painting my house red, and I say my house is actually pink, but the law says you can't sue someone because you don't like the color of their house, then there'd be no need for a trial to determine if it's red or if it's pink.
Yes, it is. But they're human, and their decisions are subject to human fallacies as much as anyone else's.
As a fellow Idaho resident, I don't know many Idahoans that received the vaccine. But I don't know any that would want to prevent you from getting it, either. You should be free to do what you think is best for yourself, medically. And everyone I know thinks the same.
Not to out myself too much, but my Amazon office is a mix of SDE and TAM. When in office I get to enjoy "Jim" talking to a customer while I'm trying to work. "Brad" opening the windows because he's wearing a suit (customer meeting) in the middle of the Canadian winter and 4 people having a loud meeting at their desks because there are not enough phone booths for everyone. All the desks are "agile" so if I have another member of my team we need to find a spot with two free desks.

That's what I'm working with here. So it angers me deeply that they could even suggest that this is in anyway better than my home office with a good mic and webcam.
I wish I had made that connection, nicely done.
Sounds like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR5N2Jl8k14 - rehashed 6 years later
OTC ibuprofen works just fine for a lot of these cases btw.
People think that opiates is like the only way to relieve pain.

I don't think what I am sayin here is that you will get addicted after taking 10 Vicodins, of course not.

But what about 30? 45? There is a point when it becomes dangerous.
And here is where this mentality becomes problematic. If you need to take opiates for 3 days after a root canal, surely you'll need to take them after you broke your arm, or after any other procedure and for longer. And you didn't have a problem after taking it for 3 days, so what's the harm?
Not taken into account that if they're not a millionaire when they enter congress, they tend to be by the time they leave.

Because it's not insider trading if you're a congressman. It's total crap.
> You can run it as a desktop or server OS on real hardware.

And it literally rocks at that. I would strongly encourage everyone with an old or small pc/laptop/sbc/whatever that is too resource limited to run a "regular" distro, to try Alpine on it. The amount of resources saved thanks to using musl instead of glibc is astounding.
I found it fascinating to see how far a modest individual contribution gets you in the political process. Less than $1000 gets you an unprompted one on one personal call with the Governor at some length, ~$100 would allow similar access to state-level legislators or local political executives, and senators are only modestly more expensive to garner attention from, certainly a maxed $3,300 personal contribution would absolutely get you direct redress of your grievances, should you desire.

At that price we should all purchase access to legislators, it's a screaming bargain.
upx is not used in the macOS build (we only mention it as a possibility in https://tailscale.com/kb/1207/small-tailscale/, which is for embedded systems), so I have no done any benchmarking with it.
I think "institutional knowledge" is more common.
When you've spent the past 30 years ensuring that your plate is always filled first by buying out the political class, of course you'll get record profits.

That don't stop your decisions from being arbitrary and just following the herd.
Capturing CO2 and then what...burying it deep underground?

If you're keeping it above ground, it's just going to biodegrade into carbon again real quick. I don't get why people think this is a thing. The only exception is lumber, because if you keep it dry it can last 100+ years (which is a fairly decent sequestration target given our current timelines).

If you're going from capture to release in 5-10 years, I don't see the point.
Composting does not sequester carbon. Yes it would replace mineral carbon, but that is not what sequester means.
> That assumes that the tourists and visitors confine themselves to the major tourist areas.

Which is a valid default assumption, unless it's made clear the speaker didn't do that.

Especially in this case, where you have an actual Dutch person who lives in the actual Netherlands getting told they were wrong by someone who cites visitor experiences.
I have yet to see anyone defend Intuit's bribery and corruption on any forum. I'm sure there are plenty of Intuit employees on HN. Do any of you want to defend the other side? Or maybe a non-Intuit employee can play devil's advocate?
I was lucky enough to go there once in 2019 and couldn't wait to take my kids there as they got older. What an incredible place, one of the very best museums I've ever been to.

It's a real shame if it does not re-open in some form or fashion.
There's more chance for corruption, but at some point each connected person needs to rent 4 apartments to fill all the space, which they won't, so it'd likely still be a net-positive effect.

And unlike normal nationalization campaigns, it's easy to keep the government from making itself the owner's administrator: just rent out your rental properties. I understand that it's nicer to let them sit empty and wait for prices to double and not deal with renters because rents are a joke compared to price increases, but that's not going to work out.

I could live with a different alternative: the government declaring the buildings condemned and rezoning them as non-construction ground. That'll quickly motivate investors to actually put the houses to use.
do you have source for that?
Too niche topic?
I mean, I'm glad it's working for you, but things have been breaking since the layoffs.
> Corporations and LLPs allow shareholders and partners to escape those liabilities, and it's reasonable to expect some duty to act in the public interest in return.

The entire concept of limited liability was created with the public interest in mind. Limiting personal liability encourages business creation, which encourages growth, which is in the interest of the public.

> It's reasonable to expect some duty to act in the public interest in return.

What is it that you're wanting to make these companies do, specifically?
Sure. Given the choice of one file or 50, one file is clearly better all other things being equal.

My feelings on this changed over time. About 10-15 years ago I thought single executable output was a critical feature for a language, because everywhere I went I saw people saying how important it was for them, how much simpler it made deployment. I figured, OK, people know what they want so that's what they should get.

Then Docker came along. Docker images aren't single files, they're the polar opposite. They aren't even things you directly manipulate using the filesystem at all. Yet people loved it and it took over the world. Clearly what all those people demanding single-file executables were actually wanting in 95% of cases was simpler deployment, and they were phrasing it as single executable because that was concrete and understandable whereas simpler deployment is a very vague concept so who knows what you'd get if you asked for it.

For people who are selecting Go or Rust or Graal native images primarily because of single-file output, I'd actually really appreciate a chance to ask a few questions or interview them quickly to learn more about the deployment context. Conveyor is all about deployment and it's good to understand more about how people are doing things and what could be better.
You are correct. And personally, if I lived a 10-15 minute walk from the office I would go every day. Unfortunately, much of the world (and especially the US) is not designed for such a lifestyle. Even NYC most likely involves riding a bus or subway for 30 minutes or more.
The real solution to all of this is to just get rid of the overly complicated tax code. No more deductions or credits. Everyone just pays some % of their gross income. Stop using tax policy as a way to pick winners and losers. The tax code is grossly stacked in favor of the wealthy. If you want to redistribute money to the needy then do so using direct payments.
Why should lawmakers get rich at all? It's a public service and honor to hold that power -- an above average wage should be plenty reward (not to mention the millions of discretional fund most high profile offices come with).
Study: https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
You've got to give them some credit. MIT laboratory types are apparently clever enough to get funding for a multi-month "research trip" to Amsterdam.
Your comments tells me you are in the group who doesn't know better. Data is passed in json which is a format other languages can read and send back. If that's your reason for using it you do have other choices.
LineLeap (YC S19) is hiring senior full stack and mobile engineers
Is ChatGPT a General-Purpose Natural Language Processing Task Solver?
Is this based on a special diet?
Even walking burns calories... I mean a lot less than moving at 60mph, but still those groceries had to get to the city center somehow, and the fertilizer didn't make itself.
Ah, that was the first result when I googled "Epstein doc" and I believe I watched it on Netflix.
There must be a myriad ways. This was on the front page today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34835096
This is the same thing they've been doing for the past 20-30 years now to stay at all relevant as a business. The only reason taxes still cost to file is Intuit and the other scab companies that sell software to everyone. Cheaper to pay off politicians in "lobbying" them vs. getting a modern business model.
What would you recommend? dlopen is only used when running in CLI mode (which is not super performance sensitive), but not making it slower than it needs to be would be good too.
Cyberpunk? Nah, it's called the company town and being paid in scrip
My bad. Posted in the wrong thread.
This disconnect is called the "Tullock Paradox" in Economics, after Gordon Tullock who first asked it in "The Purchase of Politicians" (1972) [couldn't find an online link].

You'll find a more recent discussion in "Why is There so Little Money in U.S. Politics?" (2003). [1]

[1] https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/08953300332116497...
This is definitely the eventual answer. I can't imagine in ten years we will be hand measuring walls.
Your overall point stands, but I can see where the original poster seems to be coming from. There are "anti-radiation missiles", which lock into transmitters to blow them up.

IE: The AGM 88 "HARM" missile does this. But these are not used by air-superiority fighters like F22, but instead by "Wild Weasel" fighter jets against ground RADAR targets.

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I think the poster you responded to magically assumed that a AGM-88 would work against a balloon. But that is mistaken: the balloon isn't transmitting enough of a RADAR signature for something like HARM to lock into it.
> they chose companies that were struggling or undervalued, brought them into the fold and multiplied their value.

Even if Berkshire did that, and they don't, isn't that also good investing?
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great point! I definitely recommend OP and anyone else feeling this way to read "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl, a holocaust survivor.
Oh no. Since a large part of many medium-large sized tech companies' management style seems to consist of "copy what Amazon and Google are doing", I am scared of what silly decisions in other companies this might inspire.
LunaNet Interoperability Specification Document [pdf]
this is a non-answer unfortunately
REUnziP: Re-Exploiting Huawei Recovery with FaultyUSB
Interesting points, but I'm wondering if you're possibly missing the point here. It's not only that Intuit uses their "right" to lobby the government and politicians allow Intuit to exercise this "right" to make money themselves; it's also that politicians ideologically agree with Intuit that Intuit should be charging $X to citizens to file taxes. Some politicians, either superficially, or truly authentically/rationally, think government should not be allowed to do anything a private enterprise can do, and therefore categorically want Intuit to charge us $X as a middle-men instead of government doing the filing, in order for Intuit to turn profits. Consequently, although you're right that politicians have incentive to extort more money from Intuit, they likely want to work with Intuit and come to a balanced compromise so that Intuit is able to make huge profits off of our tax filings.
This is where ES Modules come into their own and why importmaps are very much an ESM thing, predominantly. ESM was built with "natural" tree shaking in mind in a browser context. Only URLs that are actually imported in a module are loaded. (importmaps are not prefetch maps.) Modules themselves are loaded in a such a way that unused exports in them may be lazy-JITted "weak references" and easily garbage collected (a form of tree-shaking).

You get better "natural" tree-shaking from that library of lots of small little ESM modules, you don't need to rely on maintainers building their own minified bundles.

The obvious trade-off, of course, is that HTTP 1.0 wasn't optimized well for lots of little files and even HTTP 1.1 servers haven't always been best configured for connection reuse and pipelining. Bundling is still sometimes useful for a number of reasons (whether or not minification matters or compile-time treeshaking makes a noticeable difference from "natural" runtime treeshaking). Of course, all the browsers that support importmaps and script type="module" all support HTTP 2 and most support HTTP 3 and that trade-off dynamic shifts again with those protocols in play (the old "rules" that you must bundle for performance stop being "rules" and everything becomes a lot more complex and needs "on the ground" performance eyeballs).
As a customer, please give enough notice and some initial feedback, if you 3x our costing(or even 2x), we’ll be forced to find an alternative or shut down the feature that relies on your API.
The punchcard station was a real blast to use and show off to younger folks, too.
Most of Twilio is working. The status page shows must things in green. The same could be said of Twitter. However, in both cases, there have been serious issues. The difference is Twilio is paid to keep these features running, whereas with Twitter, less so. Even then, people were losing their job at Twitter just a few days ago because they couldn't explain why their CEO's tweets weren't popular. There have been numerous reports of Twitter failing at properly handling CSAM despite claims by their CEO. There were reports of massive issues with regards to getting service for advertisers.

Robust? No. I mean, if the only thing you look at is your feed, maybe? But that's not Twitter.
International company, 500 staff in three countries, $30 million last year. I'm the only IT person, and I have secure servers in my garage.