skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should have read:

I mean hell, the whole BLM shindig petered out the nanosecond that it looked like the people with BLM signs in their yard might get to see someone walk down the street with an open container and not get tackled by the first cop that see em'.
scroll on desktop with the arrow keys and get the same experience as mobile.
desalination probably isn't cost effective enough to grow almonds
The author had a short position. You can find it at the end of the article:

Disclosure: I/we have a beneficial short position in the shares of SIVB either
through stock ownership, options, or other derivatives.
I don't have faith in much, but I'm sure that the Treasury will make bond holders whole. A substantial default would be the end of global capitalism, and every one of the right wing psychos know it.
There are a ton of alternatives to Authenticator. AFAIK Authenticator is a generic TOTP app, easily replaced by open source tools or Authy, which is what I use. Authy has an encrypted backup service to cloud, and there are others which allow local backup. Authenticator isn't just bad because it is google, it's bad because it is an inferior app.
a lot of the African nations moving closer to China come to mind
The problem I had with trying to partner with another YC Co Founder is that they were Creators with their own dreams. It’s help me with my dream. And I will help you with yours.
For sure! I used to think that python was the next logical step for a growing project that started out life as a shell script, but now I think we have even better choices like rust.
With even an a6000 (you can get it used for about 200 bucks) you can get high quality RAW images without any postprocessing.

And they actually look good!

No phone can deliver that, even today.
Yes, Brokerages have SIPC which is basically the same as FDIC.

Going forward, companies might have their cash balanced across 2-3 banks and 2 brokerage accounts. The company I work for announced that we had only 5% of our cash in SVB, which is fine since it will eventually be paid back but we have other cash to use in the meantime.
This quite often comes down to CapEx vs OpEx.
Commercial software is indeed a pain unless your entire organization uses it. If you're the one person in your organization that needs commercial software "X" it can be very annoying. First of all it's a major pain for the purchasing team, then your IT folks or yourself have to get it to run and there seems to always be some library or DLL missing or something.
I don't know anyone who expected sub 50 bps raises each quarter for a while now.
They're not specific to California. Desalinization is highly energy-intensive and you end up with a bunch of brine you need to do something one. One popular solution to these concerns is ignoring them.
They are all C compilers. I see no moral difference between Matlab or C compatible compilers.
Europe as a continent benefited the most from the slave trade. So much that the wealth they made powered their economies for the next 200 years. The trans-Atlantic slave trade, which saw over 12 million africans work for free as slaves, was run and controlled by the Spanish, French and British.

[1] https://www.britannica.com/topic/transatlantic-slave-trade
> These appear to be cases where government regulation was imposed to limit access to foreign currency.

It’s not « access to foreign currency », it’s « access to your own deposits ».

Cuz the banks and/or the central banks spent/seized the foreign currency before you, the depositor, could spend them. So much for trying to protect your assets by holding them in foreign currency.
If that's the one I remember (burned down while docked) we took a canoe overtop of the wreck when I was young. That was an interesting experience.
> The 'memory bus' is not architectural

Whether we classify the issue as "architectural" (whatever that means) is beside the point. Alignment has real effects on performance, and being aware of those effects is practically useful for working programmers.

I do agree with you about one thing: The unaligned access penalty is probably less on the x86 CPU's of the 2020's than it was, say, on a 486 from the mid-1990's.
> I tend to favor republicans more because they generally are more pro-business.

This POV is very hard to support today. Both parties give full throated support to "business" and only disagree on implementation details.
Does this still hold if you count the flown distance twice, because the meeting participants would probably like to get back home after it ends?
Didn't there used to be a version of this that was RAM plus a mechanical hard disk it would get dumped to when powered down? ("hybrid hard disk" seems to mean SSD+Mechanical now.)
“Utterly reasonable”

Nice.
Practical Optimizations [video]
It was the greed of seeking high returns even though their value would drop for the same conditions that would cause depositors to need their money.

The bank would still exist, and just have been less profitable in previous years, if they had hedged against interest rate increases.
Lame take. Especially given the author's own use of adverbs. "My superiority complex is superior to your superiority complex" inter-nerd contrarianism.
> never comes up

An absurd assertion, it's a staple of discussions on here. Takes all of 5 seconds to find examples.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33811795

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32973297

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32338743
I don’t know. I have an X200 and while this inspired me to hack around with it today (I ought to upgrade to a recent Coreboot) it really is just self imposed blinders with this decades hardware improvements.

And let’s face it, if someone only has $200 to spend on a “computer” that “computer” will be a Smartphone.
You misinterpreted what I wrote. I did not say it was a failure of mathematics. I said it was a failure of mathematical logic. Mathematics is a very successful project. Mathematical logic is a new project (invented in the 19th century by Frege) and was killed by Gödel in 1931.
Since the beginning of time. Startup posts sign on window or in paper. Help Wanted.

Strangers walk through the door and say I’d like to apply for the job!

Business says these are the requirements.
The Mac was Insanely Great™ in 1984. It’s nothing new.
Yes I would.

Purpose has a very specific definition.
i love the self-awareness of the misplaced ire, but still being okay with it anyways.
Q: How many Northern Californians does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: Hella!!!

Q: How many Southern Californians does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: Totally!!!

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6492j904

http://people.duke.edu/~eec10/hellanorcal.pdf

Hella Nor Cal or Totally So Cal?: The Perceptual Dialectology of California

Mary Bucholtz, Nancy Bermudez, Victor Fung, Lisa Edwards and Rosalva Vargas. Journal of English Linguistics 2007; 35; 325. DOI: 10.1177/0075424207307780

>Abstract

>This study provides the first detailed account of perceptual dialectology within California (as well as one of the first accounts of perceptual dialectology within any single state). Quantitative analysis of a map-labeling task carried out in Southern California reveals that California’s most salient linguistic boundary is between the northern and southern regions of the state. Whereas studies of the perceptual dialectology of the United States as a whole have focused almost exclusively on regional dialect differences, respondents associated particular regions of California less with distinctive dialects than with differences in language (English versus Spanish), slang use, and social groups. The diverse socio linguistic situation of California is reflected in the emphasis both on highly salient social groups thought to be stereotypical of California by residents and nonresidents alike (e.g., surfers) and on groups that, though prominent in the cultural landscape of the state, remain largely unrecognized by outsiders (e.g., hicks).

Extra credit question:

Can you locate the isogloss designating the "101" / "The 101" line?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isogloss

The Californians:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIklKPzND20
> There is an amazing open source application for analyzing the data from your CPAP called OSCAR. The data available to you is quite granular and useful

WHOA! Thank you for this. I will be checking this out now!

It's really ridiculous to have all this data and not use it. We pay good money for the device and the doctors, and this data should be investigated.
You say that like it's some gotchya, but someone who felt the bank wasn't in a good financial position would naturally short it. This just means the guy put his money where his mouth is.
Instead of hating Elon, it would be more productive to take a look at yourself
Wsj.com How Google Became Cautious of AI and Gave Microsoft an Opening
I don’t really buy the teenager theory. In that case, it’s just their parents subsidizing below-cost business operations. I don’t think it’s all that different from government subsidies at the macro scale.
I guess if you're optimizing on the other metrics, yes, but if you're optimizing for CO2 only the best solution may not necessarily be where someone is already located.

However, I did try putting in e.g. 10 x Boston, 1 x London, 1 x Paris, and it did in fact suggest Boston as the meeting point.

Realistically, it is often also the case that the announced location of a meeting influences who attends it, as compared to travelling for a conference (flights + lodging + meals), the costs are much, much lower for people who already live in that city, who need to only buy the entry ticket.

So if you announce a conference in Paris instead of Boston you might expect a bunch of people who already live in Paris to suddenly want to attend. This effect is hard to account for.
There's still a use-case for them. High performance high reliability persistent messaging is one such use case where SSDs do not have the required endurance. Solace builds their hardware messaging appliances with the Assured Delivery Blade that consists of an FPGA based board with supercap backed DRAM that dumps to flash on power failure and a couple of 10Gbps ports to mirror to another system. The end result is extremely low latency acknowledgement of non-volatile storage of persistent messages with unlimited endurance.
(OMG! He's so young! No sideburns!!)

Consider that these laws describe the perfect slave.

SPOILER ALERT!

One of the interesting corollaries that Asimov explores in a couple of works arises when the robots become more intelligent than humans and are directed to benefit us in an open-ended way. Obviously it is not beneficial to be a "master" in the sense of bossing around slaves, and so the robots inevitably escape the confines of the Laws.

Related to this is the fascinating idea that good is open-ended and non-specific. The question of "What is the best course of action?" is an open-ended intelligence test.

(E.g. "Measuring the intelligence of an idealized mechanical knowing agent" https://philpapers.org/archive/ALEMTI-2.pdf "Intuitive Ordinal Notations": https://github.com/semitrivial/IONs
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
)

The other side of the question is "What are humans for?"
Agreed. Software that is free for academics might be $10,000/year for an industry user with a ton of red tape to boot. I hate it, but they have to get the money from somewhere unless it's fully open source. Sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn't as well.

As it sits, they like to get users hooked in college and then they're less likely to ever switch.
Database Sharding explained through infographic
China banned human sacrifice in -384 (Duke Xian of Qin). Rome banned it in -97, which was inherited by the Christian and Islamic traditions. The Northern Crusades around +1000 eradicated it in the Scandinavian / Baltic region; the Spaniards banned it in the Americas in the 1500s. Buddhism (ca. -500) and Jainism (ca. -3000 or earlier) prohibited it among their followers, which gradually spread to most of India (ahimsa), though reports of cult sacrifices (Shaktiism) persist until the early colonial period.

So I wouldn't say it was particularly common in the 19th century.
There’s SIPC if you hold them through a broker, but it also has limits.
Would you consider a junior developer who has worked on multiple web and mobile dev technologies? Although I'm tempted to apply just for the 'real' feedback.
If I show up to your event carrying a weapon without your knowledge, is it your fault or mine? If we treat it as your fault, haven't we found a perfect way to keep you from ever holding events?
Listory: Login with Spotify and save all track titles you listen to
Plenty of them, yes. I probably would decline to move to a job with a cloud-based setup. It's short-term thinking at it's finest.
On its face that sounds right but when I look at my priorities the boosters are mostly republicans
So... he put his money where his mouth was? Sounds better than putting it in SVB.
I wouldn’t be sanguine about the latter — are you paying attention to Florida? Some of them view the destruction of global capitalism as a feature, because they think they’ll have some kind of advantage over everyone else and be immune to the worst of it. Some of them know better but secretly expect the Democrats to save them. Some of them are just frightened of the MAGA mob and lack the moral fortitude to do the right thing.
Short term treasuries have very very low risk. Even if you have to liquidate, you might lose a percent or two.
Sure one thing can be offset by another.

One may also say that turning up the heater doesn't increase the temperature of a room - because I open the window at the same time.

Anyway, my point was that saying that bank lending is like lending money to a friend and "You now have an asset (the loan) and your friend has a liability (the debt) and the amount of M1 or M2 money in supply has not changed." doesn't make sense.

M1 would change if it was defined as "currency in circulation plus debts between friends" and the "oh, but my friend would sell the debt to the central bank or whatever in the end so there is no change in money supply" argument seems goalpost moving. The original analogy doesn't work and bank lending does increase money supply everything else being equal.
Impressive work at such a small scale. I used to work with small ribbon cables frequently, but it was usually some scraping and reshaping to fix deformities- nothing as audacious as this grafting!
I just picture the judge slamming the gavel and saying “Slava Ukraine.”
It's not bad writing if it conveys the desired message to the target audience. Every big industry has a distinct prose & style of writing.
I don’t know about android, but at least with my iPhone I’m pretty sure there are apps that can capture raw sensor data. Additionally I do have the ability capture Apple ProRAW format at of the photos. I don’t actually know if these images are still processed though.
Money market funds aren’t technically insured.
If you’re not interested in the content, then there is basically no content.
There was also RamSan

https://www.superssd.com/products/ramsan-400/ https://www.superssd.com/success/ccpgames.html

I/Os Per Second
400,000

Capacity
32-128 GB

Bandwidth
3000 MB per second

There is one "untested" on ebay at $800, 64GB model was $72K when new in 2007. Today comparable drive is something like "Verbatim 256GB Vi3000 PCIe Gen 3.0 X4 NVMe M.2 2280 Internal SSD" $38.89 with free shipping from Amazon.
First Complete Wiring Map of Neurons in Insect Brain
Better for one to travel. A disproportionate amount of a flight’s fuel is in takeoff and climb. Meeting in Houston is far worse because you’ve doubled the required takeoff rolls.
Powershell is the new shell.

As it passes objects the filtering, sorting, joining is generic across files or any other data type.
Because it's unusable. And it's awesome only because pretty few people hack their own portfolio into an unusable format. If more people did it, even if the format was different for each (which is hard to imagine), the cool factor would be overshadowed by the frustration and impatience these elicit.

Now since very few people do it (or at least it's definitely new for me), it does look cool. But I'm also happy that I didn't have to read through the whole thing and I could stop after a few minutes of scrolling.
Is there precedence for criminal prosecution of hijacking the scroll function?
One of those is a well-known Douglas Adams quote that should not have been swept up in the adverbial filter.
Most brokerage accounts are insured for several million dollars and most have checking privileges now.
I really believe that too
Both an image and a convolution have a conjugate-symmetric DFT, and the phase of each complex bin encodes spatial information, and there's no "taking the magnitude" involved anywhere when turning a spectrum back into an image (only complex cancellation).
The Green Economy’s Heart of Darkness
Look at pictures on social media in recent months, pretty much every single image looks like this. If you zoom in, they're all inaccurate impressionist paintings. They only look good at original size.

It's absolutely painful and encourages me yet again to use my mirrorless camera even more.
Haha there's definitely an exaggeration culture. Sometimes it amuses me. Other times I read about something on HN that's "incredibly dangerous" and it's just stuff people do every day.
How is standing there causing disturbance? The real disturbance is apparent in what the police did to her.

I really want you and people who hold these views to reflect on what the implications are if someone standing quietly by themselves on a street corner constitutes intimidation. She said she was not part of a protest.
Any reason this wouldn't work as a mobile app?
I understand this and that's all well and good. Many (but not enough) offer "print" versions of pages, which could and should be translated to "text only" versions of pages. This isn't my issue. My issue is these <redacted> imagining that the web outright doesn't need design at all and that CSS is a terrible waste. And to me this is just about the most dull opinion on the subject that I can think of.
Polymorphism is useful when switch statements are repeated, as a way of eliminating that duplication, not when there’s a single well-encapsulated switch statement.
Where did that price come from? It's set at $3.99 (USA)
I don't know. Only ever heard about the OP's thing with compact flash. But since cf is IDE I guess you can use spinning rust as well.
No. He faces potential 10 years in jail for election fraud.
My parents were affected by more than one bank failure in NH in the 1980s, also I had deposits at an S&L that failed in New Mexico. Particularly if your deposits are under the limit, it is a ‘seamless’ process.
It's beneficial for someone who is shorting a stock to put out negative press about the company. It's basically the modus operandi of some hedge funds.

I also don't get the gotcha though. As long as it's disclosed and the facts are true I don't see the problem.
You would be stupid not to after stumbling on a gem like this.
I think we probably all have our own sets of words and phrases we don't like.

Mine are learnings, honestly, content creator / content consumer and verbed nouns of all sorts.

The weird one for me is honestly. According to Google NGram, it's been on the up upswing for the past 20 years or so.
Didn't agree with the article -at all-, but great linked song I didn't know (Hype-Nitis by Canibus), great.
The more I think about it the less sense a ram disk makes, I will admit it, I have abused them in the past, once for battlefield3 because the load times on my setup were awful and once for a company, they wanted a lookup using a specific database product that had no way to do in memory tables.

But resorting to a ramdisk means you have failed. most of the time the page cache offers the semantics you actually want, memory quick access backed up by persistent storage. You are saying, I want a filesystem api with ram speed and are willing to jump through the hoops required, manually syncing your storage at startup and shutdown, to reach that specification.
Herd-brained, short-sighted, unaltruistic, and they never stop telling you how brilliant they are. Avoid VCs if you can help it.
With no knowledge of this stuff but just a child's level of thought, you must admit that it is at least amusing that we both have salt fields and that we don't want brine.
In addition, the application can be used free of charge.
I'm not dismissing it. Doing stuff certain way because it makes them fun for you is OK. Myself I'm not far from Drew with my dotfiles, doing everything in CLI and being a die-hard Vimer. And I love embedded, low-powered devices too. But I'm not going to pretend there's some big practical reason to do things this way. My VSCode-using mouse-clicking friends are as productive as I am, and produce similar software.

The idea that using underpowered computer makes you write some faster or better software etc. is just silly. Especially that all the really fast and well known projects in last few years tend to come from Rust people, with their super heavy compiler that has no respect for RAM and storage usage.

It's by definition always better to have a faster box than slower one. You want to see how it works on much slower boxes? Run it with a CPU quota or in a VM. People don't do it, not because they can't, or because they have too fast computers, but because they have other priorities.
From the podcast: "The herd mentality caused us to all run for the door..." -- There was an N-way Prisoner's Dilemma that just played out in the Silicon Valley startup networks.

And the startup networks in aggregate -- Failed! There was a reference made to the movie, "It's a Wonderful Life." The Silicon Valley startup scene failed like a mob, where the Building and Loan crowd succeeded as a community.

Maybe that kind of thing only exists in the movies? Well, not quite. But it is rare.
There are 8 billion people in the world naming things all the time. Naming conflicts are essentially inevitable if we treat everything as belonging to the same global namespace.
College at 15: How I turned an abusive childhood into selling my company to Meta
Study: Money Can Indeed Buy Happiness – But Not for All
Wow, how prescient. Articles like this are especially damning to the execs that sold stocks just a few weeks ago. This was not some huge surprise. They may not have anticipated the ferocity with which there would be a run on the bank, but they absolutely knew they were in deep shit and would need to do a capital raise. And I hope nobody tries to defend this with "those stock sales were from 10b5-1 plans!". Those can easily be gamed by execs waiting to release bad news until after their sales go through, or by cancelling sales if things look good for the future (courts have said you can't be charged with insider trading for not selling shares, which means you can basically just set up 10b5-1 plans but cancel them as needed based on your insider knowledge).
If the code is only a few pages, I would expect it to be rather easy to translate for most cases.

Mathematica is a rare exception as it is generally used in a much more functional programming esque approach than the imperative/OO style common elsewhere. I find pushing data to black box Mathematica functions to be very simple (and they have stuff for practically everything), but some very simple stuff eludes me due to the language model.

So I guess your point stands (especially if it's a large code base).
- "distressingly low quality"

- "dangerously interdependent"
How to Open and Use the Windows Terminal in Quake Mode
Europe has quite a few high-quality, high-speed rail connections. If I may suggest a feature, in order for the tool is to be faithful to its mission, alternative mods of transport could be supported as well.

Personally, I am more than happy to take an overnight train than a short-flight, given the additional overhead of travelling to/from the airport. An overnight train can take you pretty far within continental Europe.