skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Raises an interesting question: is something only trash if there are better options available? I'd say no, personally. Something can just be bad in isolation, it doesn't have to be worse than something else to qualify.

But at the very least, maybe it was just trash compared to the experience of not watching a short video on your phone while riding on an escalator. Trash compared to just looking around. Would staring at your shoes, or the head of person in front of you, or the environment surrounding you have been a better experience than those short videos.
I don't disagree with you, but doesn't the IRS already know most of the information you're putting into the forms?
And in a real situation I have all of these tools set up and running, so I shouldn't need to spend more than a minute faffing about with them. I'm just writing exploratory tests to make sure that I've got the bits right before I put them together. Even in an hour task those tools can be a force multiplier, once you figure out how to make them work instead of fighting them constantly.

What's happening in interview loops is that we're implicitly or explicitly selecting for people who prefer to YOLO instead of writing tests, and then we are surprised how hard it is to get new and existing hires on board with mature testing processes. The people you need don't work here, they work somewhere else.
I guess not growth, but the potential for growth - as an investor, it's what I look for. If growth is already happening, then it's likely already priced in. If growth is not expected to happen, then unless there's a generous dividend, there is no reason to hold a stock. But if as an investor, you thought Twitter (when public) was primed for growth, it might have made a good bet as an investment. As it stands, I don't see it having any potential for growth, but again, the Twitter example is moot, as it's not public.
Recently got my shodan and can relate to this article and the merits of structured practice. Judo taught me a lot about how to learn a skill as it's really pedagogically laid out by Kano. The method for learning is spelt out in such a way that if you repeat the process then apply what you've learned during randori, you will improve.
I actually think this might be a great solution. Buy the shareholders out at a fair price, stop the damn lobbying, get some pretty good tax software in the process.
This is impressive. When you say "school project", what kind of school was that?

Since you mention muons and their detection, I would expect some university (I used to be a physicist)
As pmOS folks (and anyone running alpine on their desktop or server) will happily tell you, size reduction is not a goal only relevant to container runtimes.
I get your point, "biodegradable" is not necessarily indicating the end state, but I think it's generally a better idea than using previously sequestered carbon like oil (depending on the energy needed to produce useful goods, and the source of that energy). As a related example, anything made of wood is biodegradable, but if you then burn it, you're not really capturing any net carbon, although you are sequestering it for a period of time.
> return to the office to get your focused work interrupted

At least in my team people are gonna keep using Chime for meetings, and Slack/mail for exchanges, blocking slots on Outlook for themselves because they understand the importance of focused work. Just we'll all be at the office instead. Big success!

Personally I go to the office every day, but I also liked the office not being another crowded mess.

Even our L7s don't really come often to the office.

The whole thing is extremely stupid.
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They are already connected to the IRS. I forgot to add in an Economic Impact Payment when I filed with TurboTax last year. 5 minutes later, the corrected 1040 came back to me. They already know everything, I don't know why they make us do all the work. Maybe in case THEY miss something?
I honestly can't believe this company is still in business - it's been terrible for decades.
I can't wait for Intuit to go the way of the phone book and telemarketing companies. Disappear overnight without so much as a whisper and not a single tear would fall. They are a blight on the public.

Their existence is a good litmus test/proxy for determining if or whether the complete capture of our so-called democracy by corporations has receded.
For contrast, here's footage recorded last summer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCwg2h7i4Ac

The company that collected it, OceanGate [0], is going back in May-June this year to continue cataloging the wreck and documenting its degradation.

[0]: https://oceangate.com/
The longest part is getting Rust to build inside Docker (even cached warm builds take forever), and fly.io to figure its shit out when the image is pushed. Both are needlessly slow bottlenecks.
For real, filling a prescription with mouth pain is not such tragedy people are making it out to be.

Not to be a dick, but I find it very interesting that people expect to go through life without experiencing pain.
Because the reigning ideology of anti-trust until the last year has been consumer welfare [0], where a monopoly is basically assumed ok unless you can demonstrate definite harms to consumers.

[0]: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/peeing-in-the-economists-...
yikes, imagine an open office plan, where everyone is on a different meeting/call at the same time
I think he considered those hobbies to be wound down when he was no longer around to enjoy them? Ya, think less of him because of that, but he spent his money on things he enjoyed that just happened to be what other people could enjoy as well. He wasn't really thinking of his post-death legacy, and just gave simple instructions with that regard (and his sister is taking the flack for that).
I don't see the point in the IRS running TurboTax themselves. The IRS should simply keep track of everyone's taxes and automatically send refunds or bills accordingly. Spend any extra money they have on auditing the rich.
Are you sure it's the decay they're using, and not the natural blurriness and texturing?

And some phosphors have a much longer decay than others, but you could easily emulate those long-term effects on a normal screen.
> There's not an infinite amount of crypto secure randomness available for all processes to go nuts sucking it up

In fact, there is! The idea that your kernel has some finite amount of entropy that can be "used up" is a persistent myth. See https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/

Okay, it's technically not infinite, but 128 bits of "true entropy" is enough to seed a CSPRNG that will generate as many random numbers as you will ever need.

> Almost nothing needs CSPRNGs

This is how we end up with, e.g., hashmap implementations that use non-cryptographic hash functions, and then an attacker DoS's your server with 10,000 keys that all end up in the same bucket. Or "random" automated tests that always use the same PRNG with the same seed, meaning certain code paths will never be taken.

We used to live in a world where developers frequently had to choose between safety and performance. Except for a few niche applications, that is no longer the case: we can have both. I certainly agree that there are situations where maximum performance is required, and security is pointless -- but 99% of the time, developers should not even be asking that question. They should just be using the default RNG provided by their language, which should be a CSPRNG, not a PRNG.
Monopoly would imply that there are no viable alternatives, which isn’t really true at all. There are dozens of companies with similar products.
> A coworker opened up to me a few weeks ago about a vacation that got denied, and just needed someone to vent to. That wouldn't have happened over a scheduled Zoom.

Happens to me plenty of times, with multiple people (like I'll have a scheduled meeting with the PM and we'll do the meeting, then chat about some things, then it'll drift into bitching/venting about stuff at work, etc).

I probably have had way more of those over Zoom than not, because there's no chance anyone can overhear us (assuming we're both not in the office).

I think I tend to give off that vibe, though. Like you can share that stuff with me, and I'll understand and reciprocate and won't tell anyone because I'm obviously not playing office politics, not sucking up to anyone, I'm just there to do my job and help get others unstuck when possible.
> $250/night in a hotel X 4 nights

If you are staying in the city four nights a week you'll probably be better off getting a studio apartment, both in costs and comfort. SLU studios would be ~$2100/mo with utilities. If you assume $5000 for initial furnishing a studio will cost $30,000/yr instead of $50,000/yr for a hotel.

It'll also be faster to go between SEATAC and SLU on the Link Light Rail than an uber (unless you are traveling between 9pm-6am), which costs $2.25/ride compared to $50. So that reduces the costs by another $5000.

If you claim Washington state residency you can probably stop paying your current state income tax (Washington doesn't have one) which will save you thousands or tens of thousands a year.

After looking deeper into it my $15,000 estimate is way too low, but your $85,000 is much higher than reality for Seattle.
Lobbying is surprisingly cheap. We should probably pay our politicians way more, uncomfortable as that sounds to many.
In the meta, this article reminds me of what I perceive as a surreal disconnect between the amount of influence lobbyists have in government(s) vs the objectively small amount of money that actually is changing hands.

If Intuit spends (just) $3.5M to significantly impact decisions that are worth Billions to them and potentially hundreds to every taxpayer (!), I think I'm frustrated that corrupt politicians aren't doing more to leverage their corruption.

This kind of illegal influence should cost... at least $100M? Selling everyone out for fractions of a penny on the dollar is frankly just kind of embarrassing.

Crime harder, elected reps, if you're going to get out of bed.
This can be fixed; just make the nationalization a forced affair for a fixed price (far below what the company is “worth”), with no option to turn it down.

The same should be done with ETS (Educational Testing Service) as well.
There's so much I could say in response to your points, but you're too deeply entrenched in your position so I'm not going to spend any time on a response other than to say reliance upon the gender-based suicide success figures is a tell for someone who is cherry-picking data: it's not an honest argument.

The difference in men and women's suicide rate is not a reflection on men being more suicidal, in fact, men attempt suicide at a lower rate than women! Men are less suicidal than women! The difference is that if a man attempts suicide, he is much more likely to succeed, whereas women are much more likely to survive. If you want to use suicide as a measure of gender-based wellbeing, success is a meaningless statistic[1], because it's a reflection of metholodgy... suicidal ideation and suicide attempts are a much better measure of wellbeing.

See Figure 7 on your own link: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide

[1] Unless, I guess, you want to go down some sort of line of thinking where women are attempting suicide for attention and "know" they'll survive so actually it doesn't count and men's use of more violent means is actually proof that men are suffering more.
I agree with most of your points here. The thing to understand is that these are all tradeoffs. For example, it's true that collapsing flagged subthreads by default is unfair to the users who post substantive comments in that subtree and haven't broken the site guidelines. (Sometimes we rectify this by manually snipping them, so they can go back to the top level, if we see them and they make just as much sense at the top level.) However, it's still a major improvement to thread quality overall to collapse flagged subthreads by default. Moderation is fraught with these tradeoffs, and when we find any major improvement to overall quality, we pretty much have to do it. In this sense we're basically all victims of statistics here.

Re https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34838236: that got hit by a simple spam filter. Clearly it was a false positive (another tradeoff—no spam filters without false positives). Sorry! I've restored it now*. The funny thing is, I was just looking at that particular filter this afternoon and realized it might need some work—I just haven't had time to review it yet, which involves looking at everything it has killed recently and evaluating whether it's still doing more good than harm.

* ("Robot war dogs" is linkbait though, so I've taken that bit out of the title, as the site guidelines ask - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
It doesn't know your deducations.
> we have good or at least adequate public transit in a lot of major cities.

I don't think this is actually true. I can think of two cities that have decent public transit: New York (so I hear, I haven't been there) and Chicago. I've been to a lot of the other cities, including many who have won awards for their public transit, and I would call the best of those "poor".
> You can ingest and emit JSON in any language.

How is this relevant? Serving a JS application to a client is not like serving a JSON API.

> You can even compile backend-friendly code to run in JS on the frontend, via emscripten (and increasingly, Wasm), which will output very lean and JIT-friendly code.

Not in my experience. Compared to front-to-back JS, shipping your applications as WASM ends up with downloads and memory footprints that are several times larger than the same application in ordinary JS, and this matters a lot for slower networks and mobile clients.

Edit: not to mention that Go has a very limited WASM story, so your "realistic" choices for shipping back end code to the front end are C++ and Rust.
If turbotax was better than the free gov site then I would still use it. Good to have a free option though.
Snaps: click on file that USED to load, doesn't anymore. Why? Snaps can't see outside of your home directory.

Oh, does linking the dir to your homedir work? Nah. something something fstab something.

What's worse is the Ubu devs forcing snaps are sooooo condescending on forums.

Darker, grows the future, it does.
how is wisdom teeth removal the same as a root canal?
Teeth extraction is orders of magnitude more painful in recovery.
> 1) Working in an office full of people is what they personally prefer

Why does it matter what leadership prefers/why do they prefer it if 80% of their employees are saying "I'd rather work from home / going into the office in inconvenient for me / I'm just as productive at home"?
Sounds like an opportunity to get rid of unnecessary regulation and eliminate the system that is built to support tax filing companies. There's no good reason that taxes aren't automatically calculated for basic returns and you just need to sign a document. It's done in other countries. But their monopoly and lobbying have led to the government making the system more rather than less byzantine.
You make a excellent point, I agree that as a species we should collectively pursue this, as an option at least.

I expect a successful artificial procreation attempt is on the horizon, a few decades away at most, as we already have stem cell technology that can do part of this, and in-vitro fertilization is a well-established technique.

As a symbolic gesture, it would be wonderful to see a lesbian couple co-conceive with each others' genetic material, entirely eliminating males from the process.

The really hard part will be perfecting and commodifying the process before hordes of angry men rebel at their sudden uselessness, and have such research banned and the labs destroyed.
"Building a startup in Rust".

I know the hype around Rust, but this is really exaggerated: you build a startup for creating a product or giving a service, not to have something written in Rust. Your customers should care about what you are offering, much more than about which language do you use.
I wonder what that would mean for their IPO, which they have been gearing up for to happen later this year.

If Reddit ends up getting slammed by this ruling and still end up deciding to IPO this year, I will have a really difficult time convincing myself to not stock up on their puts.
Agreed.

There are studies around this topic. My issue is that, they are never cited when these decisions are announced.
> The usual "isomorphic" case for backend.js is no less 'presumptuous' or 'dismissive' than the comment you're pointing to and criticizing here

> You can even compile backend-friendly code to run in JS on the frontend, via emscripten (and increasingly, Wasm)

Lol, you can't be serious
Or we could put them in jail for corruption, for much cheaper.
It’s funny you lump in MrBeast with the other two. I’ll admit his content is 0 value, but in terms of entertainment, it’s far higher than anything else on the platform. I’d be far more upset at my kids for watching a reaction YouTuber or any influencer, than I would mrbeast.
We just need to go to prefilled tax forms.
I wish more people would blame the government officials for being so susceptible to lobbying and refusing to enact policies to curtail the behavior rather than be angry at individual companies for lobbying. As the old saying goes, don't hate the player, hate the game. Intuit is just operating in the best interest of their stockholders and employees. It isn't their job to operate in the best interest of society. That is the government's job. This situation is a governmental failure not any problem with Intuit specifically and it happens in plenty of other areas besides tax reporting.
this is a wall of text citing a single paper which itself is entirely unverifiable.

regardless, if this described how drug dealers engineer the distribution of their product to optimise addiction, we would not be celebrating it as an engineering marvel.
Don’t Bet Against India
> PMTiles aside, this is still Mapbox’s world.

Isn't this a bit like saying we're still in Google's world because most maps still use Web Mercator? :)

Good tech builds on what came before. Mapbox did a lot of ground-breaking work in building tooling around OSM, but so have many others. The fact that they named it Mapbox Vector Tiles is genius in hindsight, because even though we may use tons of tooling they didn't create to build and render them, their name is still there.

> The next challenge is to evolve the tech stack to something beyond what Mapbox worked up five/ten years ago.

Agreed, and I think we've seen a lot of iterative work in the open since then. The next challenge is likely building a OSS stack to do proper 3D: open data (including OSM) to pixels, and that work is already beginning across a lot of organizations: https://github.com/nyurik/future-mvt/discussions, Overture Maps, MapLibre, etc.
Yeah, Scala is absurdly bad for startup time because of poor modularization of the standard library. It's a decent language with a terrible standard library.
There's actually quite a substantial difference between Scots law versus English and Welsh law in particular! Even disregarding substantial divergence in legislation, Scots law is a mixed civil/common law system, versus the common law system of England and Wales. I'm no US legal expert, but I'd imagine the differences are roughly on par to those found between US states. My understanding is that it's similar to the sort of difference you'd see between Louisiana's system and other states'.
N-Slit Interferometric Equation
Not even close, no. It certainly exists in those echo chambers, but it's also very common in the general population.
The context about layoffs is important! Users depend on not just reliable services but predictable management.

Here’s a related HN post describing a hiring effort during the layoffs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34804077

“For example, Twilio 2 days ago announced they were laying off 1000+ people, and here they are opening a staff software engineering role a day later.”

That’s just more evidence of significant incompetence at the leadership level that needs to be weighed when considering a service offering.
> because they are the least well-equipped to know when strong entropy is necessary!

Yuh. I'm not sure what "strong entropy" means, in this context; entropy's usually reported as some number of bits of entropy. So perhaps "a lot of entropy" is clearer.

At any rate, by default a (CS)PRNG doesn't have any entropy that isn't present in its seed. According to some, at least, that entropy is diminished every time you read from the RNG, so it depletes to nothing after a finite number of reads.

I've finally come to the conclusion that entropy, whatever that means, is orthogonal to RNGs. Instead, RNGs should be classified by their unpredictability. A CSPRNG is one with high unpredictability. And I've given up on trying to build a DIY HWRNG. It was a misbegotten project.
> The Titanic's wreckage was supposed to be completely gone by 2030, according to a study, because of bacteria that eat metal.

> https://www.businessinsider.com/titanic-shipwreck-disappeari...

> What's become of that? We have less than seven years to go. (taps wristwatch)

Considering that claim is cited to a republished version of an article [1] from the tabloid The Sun [2] (apparently from the credible-sounding "virals" section), I would guess the claim was exciting but wrong or misreported.

[1] https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/natural-wonde... (which, by the way appears to misidentify what looks like a literal illustration as an "undated video image of the Titanic wreck")

[2] https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/2334495/the-titanic-wreckage...
> We should probably pay our politicians way more

Lobbying is legal though. I am not sure if thats case because we want politicians to make money.
>Help me understand, it sounds like you're saying that "when the poor people agree with the rich people, everyone gets what they want and democracy is proved to be healthy, nevermind that when they disagree, the rich people get what they want anyway."

Not the GP, but I think that the interests of the general public are actually much more closely aligned with those of "the elite" far more than people would like to believe. If for 90% of the issues the elite are just as likely to disagree amongst themselves than with the general public, it would be absurd to conclude that "democracy is a sham."

When Roe v. Wade got overturned, a lot of people on the internet were proclaiming this was an act by "the elite" who want cheap workers. In reality, virtually every billionaire who has a vocal opinion on abortion is pro-choice, and several have donated hundreds of millions towards the cause.