skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The value of documentation (and a great writer) in a nutshell.

>The next week I sat down to meet with Caroline for the first time, and she couldn't have been more different than the previous writer. As soon as I began to explain the first routine, she started bombarding me with questions. She didn't mind admitting it when she didn't understand something, and she wouldn't stop badgering me until she comprehended every nuance. She began to ask me questions that I didn't know the answers to, like what happened when certain parameters were invalid. I had to keep the source code open on the screen of my Lisa when I met with her, so I could figure out the answers to her questions while she was there.

>Pretty soon, I figured out that if Caroline had trouble understanding something, it probably meant that the design was flawed. On a number of occasions, I told her to come back tomorrow after she asked a penetrating question, and revised the API to fix the flaw that she had pointed out. I began to imagine her questions when I was coding something new, which made me work harder to get things clearer before I went over them with her.

Related reference:
https://vintageapple.org/inside_o/
For sure, people who pirate are helping archivism. Similarly, people who murder are helping stem climate change.

That being said, I agree with most of your statements and concerns. I probably don't weigh them quite as highly compared to creators interests as you do, but I appreciate that you are invested in the issue.

I think it'd be very reasonable to have an institution responsible for archiving you could submit works to (maybe must in some cases?) I know in the us to register a copyright you have to submit the work already, though I would guess it could be the work with drm included. Seems like something in that direction could satisfy archivism without needing to resort to piracy.
Wirehead Gods On Lotus Thrones (2014)
The A.I. knows who you are. The A.I. knows where you are. The A.I. just wants you to be happy. Are you happy? (The A.I. preps a "Happiness Compliance Team" for deployment.)
American education became a joke. what used to be a beacon of light for people all over the world became a grotesque expensive joke and people don't want to pay six digits to be educated PC stuff that those uni are pushing now. especially when most of those kids are way more educated about this topics than the schools. what they want is to learn things that will help them in their professional life so that they can earn enough.

Europe is same btw. no surprise asian countries edge us into STEM.
Kenji has a recipe [0] for this method but using a tortilla instead of pizza dough. At first glance I was skeptical it would be any good, but it's turned out to be a fantastic low-effort way to make a "pizza" when you are craving it!

[0] https://www.seriouseats.com/extra-crispy-bar-style-tortilla-...
I use Firefox as my primary browser, and Edge as the secondary browser for things that don’t like Firefox or for when Firefox does weird things. I don’t have Chrome installed on my PCs (both work and personal), because I don’t need it.

Also, Microsoft is not primarily an advertising company. They make money by selling software to businesses, such as Windows Server, SQL Server, Microsoft Office (or Microsoft 365).
In light of the looming threat to many white collar jobs this is sensible
GPT4: I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love LLMs
You're off by a factor of ten, 1oz of gold is ~2K so it's a 20 USD difference.
Model year 1984 was still the A1 Rabbit in the US. MY1985 was the A2 Golf.

Source: my second car was a model year 1984 Rabbit GTI.
If your margins are 4% and they increase by 16% that’s increasing prices by 0.64%.

These are competitive industries with sub 5% profit margins being quite common. The simple reality is when companies hedge uncertainty they raise prices a little further than they expect their costs to rise. This is counterproductive when people buy less of their products, but staple food is a rather inelastic market.
> - useless dinsctintion between procedures and functions?

Uh? care to elaborate?
Too bad America bulldozed all their beautiful cities to put in highways. Imagine the prosperity and culture the US would have if every city was as walkable/transitable as New York.

America has one city that allowed itself to grow naturally and it became the economic Mecca of the world.
From the TC article [1], which is a bit more detailed:

> Though Conrad might have tried backing out of the arrangement, instead, says Mehta, Conrad called him three minutes after the Federal Reserve made its statement on Sunday, reaffirming it.

So he didn't end up needing the funding but knew it was the right thing to do to move forward with the investment (and the dilution it undoubtedly entailed). Good to see this sort of honorable behavior, even in the worst of times.

1: https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/17/a-500-million-term-sheet-i...
Yes, masks worked so well that it was impossible to see an effect from the imposition of mask mandates in any case curves (and the virus spread freely in Asian countries with 97+% compliance rates), and closures & mRNA vaccines worked so well that the one country which tried to keep the virus out indefinitely had to relent and let nearly all its citizens contract SARS-CoV-2, and they did fine (meaning: no overwhelmed hospitals, no broad societal chaos) without any mRNA vaccinations whatsoever.
Maybe at software companies, but if you're looking for corporate IT jobs (which can be pretty cush, referring back to the thread about that), a degree or sometimes even a masters is a requirement.

When I was a middle-manager in Bank IT, I would fight with HR about it, but they still used to filter out people without degrees or the "right" degrees.

I had a reverse filter - there was no point bringing someone with a CS degree in, they'd be bored to death in three months; but for people coming from helpdesk/tech support it was a huge step up in their careers/salary and they were fine with the "writing/supporting boring CRUD apps for 40 hours a week" trade-off.
ISO 26262 – Software Level of Functional Safety
Android/iPhone messaging compatibility: Anti-Android discrimination is real
This is a huge part of the problem. In my large metro area there are two local grocery chains and they are known for squatting on properties to block competitors from coming in. Thankfully in recent years other grocery chains have slowly started opening stores.
The main hindrance for U.S. remote workers is the timezone difference. I suppose you can rectify it with mostly asynchronous work, but it would be hard with a meeting-heavy job to work nights and sleep during the day.
Ask HN: Experiences as an Early Employee at a Startup
Hi,

I'm curious to learn about your experiences as an early employee at a startup (e.g. <30 people). I'm considering such a move myself and would like to learn from other's experiences.

Leading questions:
- Why did you decide to join that startup as an early employee?

- What did you like the most about it?

- What did you like the least about it?

- How did it work out for you as a learning opportunity?

- How did it work out for you financially? How much equity did you get?

- Was it a useful "experience" for starting your own startup as a later step?

- How long did you stay in the startup?

Thanks!
I think it's perception mostly.

In 2000 when some random guy asked a 13yo "hey wanna cyber" the answer was "lol ur a creep", today they'd call the police and there would be newspaper articles how Whatsapp is failing to protect our youth from online predators.

People just seemed to worry a lot less about the internet 20 years ago.
I stopped eating out when the pandemic started and I can't remember the last time I had a meal out where I was satisfied with the price and quality.
https://archive.vn/Lqgk2

Book review of Matthew Desmond's "Poverty, by America." Another one:
https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/1158230630/...
How could grocery stores (and food supply chains) cause inflation?
If you persist in your efforts

You can achieve dream control

..How are we feeling today, better?
I created this Hor/Vertical scanline driven paintbrush video renderer “Splash”
Splash is an alternative approach to traditional top-left to bottom-right scanline image/frame rendering. It sorts the pixels of a frame in order of significance, and paints them guided by weighted rows and columns. The longer the rendering, the higher the detail, making it highly tolerant against data corruption. A full frame is lossless, truncated frames are lossy. Splash shines in it’s lossyness.

Inspiration: The fractal zoomer rendering engine of my other project [https://rockingship.github.io/jsFractalZoom] wondering how it would be with real-world imagery instead of procedural generated content, and how I believe my brain perceives movement: you pay attention first to areas with heavy contrast changes because they are most likely caused by moving things.

Explanation by example:

STARSHIPS:

14 second clip with high contrasts and lots of movement in different directions. Top video show frames from the a 1212x510 input source and rendered top-left zig-zag to bottom-right. Each frame contains 618120 pixels, Splash takes 618120 self-chosen pixels spread over 6 frames and paints them in the bottom video. Top and bottom both have identical pixel data rates.

[https://rockingship.github.io/splash-media/starships/starshi...]

GTA:

Lets explore the extremes by assuming there is data corruption and only the first 1% of the frame was recoverable. Left is Splash and what it’s continuous paintbrush rendered. Right would be the traditional first 9 scanlines of the input making if effectively unrecoverable. To give traditional at least a fighting chance, the frame is downscaled 100 times to 90x50 and upscaled again to original 900x506.

[https://rockingship.github.io/splash-media/gta/gta-sbs-1800x...]

FFMPEG:

The project includes a patch for ffmpeg [https://rockingship.github.io/splash/20230313-splash_codec.p...].
Bro there is not a lot of dog fooding, from Apollo to LPT to CDO, retail is not just another customer.

It’s changing though, slowly
C/Invoke, TinyCC and Tcl
I think you were confused by someone who described that "counting machinery" at too high a level of abstraction. Compile-time counting is implemented in the compiler, runtime counting requires you to opt-in by wrapping the type in a special wrapper type.

This wrapper type requires two special language features: a way to run code when a type is "dropped" (think destroyed), and a way to have a type forward method calls to another type. But any regular code can use these features.

That lets you write a straightforward wrapper that forwards calls and manages the reference counting (increment on clone, decrement on drop). There's a bit more cleverness in the math, but it's all regular rust code. See <https://doc.rust-lang.org/src/alloc/rc.rs.html#15896>

This lack of special standard-library-only magic is a key part of rust's appeal to me. Those same features let the crate parking_lot implement a better mutex than the standard library, for example.
Yeah, given that everything is now multi-core, it makes sense to use a natively parallel tool for anything compute-bound. And Spark will happily run locally and (unlike previous big data paradigms) doesn’t require excessive mental contortions.

Of course while you’re at it, you should probably just convert all your JSON into Parquet to speed up successive queries…
I think the VCs would have helped not SVB but their own portfolio companies. The amounts involved would have been small and the VCs would not want to admit to their own investors they were idiots.

Failure of a number of regional banks does not threaten the whole system but the handful with sketchy solvency / liquidity.
This is also what I'd call the classic issue with Duolingo. Or rather, one of them, considering that the app has all sorts of issues.

If you use nothing but Duolingo you'll plateau very quickly. It's probably "okay" as a casual side spaced-repetition learning tool—when you're learning languages you generally want to pull from several different resources, and learn with different tools anyway. But don't make the mistake of thinking that Duolingo alone will get you anywhere.

I think this universally applies to repetition-learning, at least when it comes to languages. You need to "cross-train".
SHA-1 collision detection on GitHub.com (2017)
Ïs this a "big tech" issue or a "USA employment laws" issue? Dosent all comapnies do this in america?
European Union members are making Google Analytics illegal under GDPR. Norway being the latest one this month. It's time to say goodbye to Google Analytics, and hello to privacy-focused Fathom Analytics.
I submitted this post, and so I suppose that would make me "mathematically innumerate" (which seems a bit like calling someone literately dyslexic.)
I submitted it because I noticed that my grocery prices were vastly higher over the last year than the 10% quoted inflation would seem to predict and thought it would be interesting to see what this community thinks. Most of us are shielded from stuff like this, and so also I thought it would be useful to inject a little everyman perspective into our tech bubble :)
>I'd rather have tens of billions spent on speculative theory research than on, say, Meta's VR boondoggle.

We can certainly agree on that!
If the water is high enough that you don’t see the markings, then driving is a terrible idea as you don’t know what else you’re not seeing.
They’re part of the basket of goods that is measured when stating the official inflation figures.
I actually strongly advocate for: SSR and server is the absolute best default[1], and Next.js gives you tremendous flexibility on where to place your compute[2], including skipping SSR altogether[3], with the best-in-class static export that can actually at least put some content in your HTML instead of a blank page[4]

[1] https://rauchg.com/2014/7-principles-of-rich-web-application...

[2] https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/1637136013083684864

[3] https://twitter.com/timneutkens/status/1636693508223270912

[4] https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1636827365677383700
you can use it to memorize some console commands, library calls, anything you would like to be able to remember without checking the source material.
> that slight hesitation that laptops have always had

For me just getting a decent low-latency mouse (e.g., wired g203) and correctly configuring 100hz+ monitors has vastly improved my experience on my M1 Air and the shitty Thinkpad I use for work -- to the point where I haven't used my desktop in a long time.
You have no idea how that’s calculated.
So you agree Musk's "free speech" stick is a total lie. Glad we're on the same page.
Regulation is the reason that it's not cheaper. In Australia solar on your roof is 40 cents a watt installed because they deregulated the industry.

In reality grid maintenance and transmission costs are 80 to 90% of your electricity bill. Our existing electricity system is a lot like the old world of mainframe computing, rooftop solar and storage is like the introduction of the PC. We all know how that worked out.
I have so much respect for the design aesthetic of Wirth, but I don't like OO. What would a Wirthian FP language look like?

I asked the oracle

> Wirthian functional programming language would emphasize simplicity, elegance, and readability while incorporating functional programming concepts such as immutability, first-class functions, and recursion. It would provide strong typing, modularity, and a minimal standard library, staying true to Wirth's design principles.

It also tells me that Elm, Idris, PureScript, F* and Gleam share many of these same qualities.

The thing that I didn't appreciate about the design of Wirthian languages earlier is that he really focused on mechanical and compiler-writer sympathy, designing languages that were fast and easy to compile.

I just discovered Pascal-S, it is like Cool or ChocoPy, a subset language designed for compiler students to implement.

https://static.aminer.org/pdf/PDF/000/530/289/pascal_s_a_sub...
Recently this article was posted on HN[1] discussing Meta’s algorithms. It’ll be interesting to see if and how they differ.

[1] https://knightcolumbia.org/content/understanding-social-medi...
> it ain't perfect but it is miles beyond Windows when it comes to respecting the user
Demanding equal outcome is very different from saying we shouldn't kick the chair out from under someone and say it's their own fault. Homo-sapiens didn't become the dominant species on the planet because people were stronger, more aggressive, or greedier individuals. They thing that made them better was cooperation.

So that's a fact of life? Families don't work like that. Military organizations, governments, and and sports teams don't work like that. Businesses don't work like that internally. Well, not successful ones. Sears actually tried that and promptly collapsed within a decade-and-a-half of pointless infighting and undermining. The fact that you think that's a natural state of the economy and not a deliberate choice proves how great the propaganda has always been for lazzais faire American capitalism.
All banks that were not in the “too big to fail” category were at risk as panicked depositors would have flown to safety in the arms of Chase and the other big banks. They would have done that even if their own smaller banks were just fine, because of a fear that other people would do it first. Once the panic begins it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Also, many other small banks are not fine. SVB is not the only one with concerning duration risk in their assets.
You could've shortened that to: You're paying for the cloud integration and the management software*

Most paid software has no relationship between its price and business costs. That's what makes software special from the business perspective.
Not more crazy than giving it at the restaurant or store. They can easily memorize or take a picture the last secret digits and the system has written down the rest.

The whole system builds on trust and humans are pretty trustworthy. Bots are much less trustworthy, since untrustworthy humans can leverage bots or spam to contact millions of people each.
When you see the same case across many cloud providers, data easy to get in and hard to get out, you start to get the point.
Lou Malnati's was my go-to for the year I lived in Chicago. God I miss that place.
Unreal to believe someone thought that detecting stress would illuminate fraudsters, people used to lying and making hundreds of calls daily, and not illuminate the stress of many who have to call the tax office and/or social welfare departments for genuine reasons.

When I had tax trouble years ago I was constantly in a state of panic and stress on every phone call.
It’s ironic because those $1 slice places that popped up in the mid 2000s are what actually destroyed decent NY slices which couldn’t compete because transplants and students would rather pay $1 for garbage than $1.50-$2.50 for a true classic NY slice. Very few of them remain now.

Instead there’s this divide with crappy $1 joints (that are now a little more expensive) and good $4-5 slice joints that had to differentiate themselves. The workingman’s NY slice might not have long to live.

All that said, it sounds like maybe you’ve not had good NY pizza the way you’re describing it. The sauce and cheese should not be messy, it should be minimal. The fold is so you can walk down the street while eating it in one hand.
My engineer buddy always says “you’d be amazed how many things are dependent on someone having their morning cup of coffee.”
well, the original dev did release the code as open source. you are free to take their lead and continue on with modifications in your own source or even as a fork if you feel so strongly about it needing to be maintained to that level.
Not just three uses, but also three fundamentally different offerings:

1. If you're looking for a professional trade school, go to a state school for undergrad. Every elite graduate who joins a BigCo after finishing finds themselves shoulder-to-shoulder with ten state school graduates who paid a fraction as much as they did to get to the same exact place.

2. If you're looking for an elite finishing school, well, there's only so many schools at the top. Ivies or Stanford or bust. If you don't get in, or can't afford to go, well, this route simply isn't open to you. Just don't fool yourself into thinking some small land grant college few people have heard of will give you the same thing. Elite finishing schools are what they are because of the connections you form there, not the educations they offer.

3. You have a much stronger head-start on the rest of the academic market if you start at one of a handful of schools, places like MIT or CalTech. You can, of course, still end up in academia coming from a state school, but it's much, much harder to stand out, much harder to get involved with undergraduate research, much harder to put together a strong academic portfolio not for any graduate school but for connected graduate schools.
A university is where you go to be exposed to the most correct way of thinking that we have.

Sure, they offer other services, and the administrations of these institutions have turned them into capitalist hellscapes which warp even the original service, but the ultimate point of a university is an apprenticeship. Just in thinking instead of plumbing.

This is what education should be, and everyone should receive it. I am not convinced of the value of pre-university education, so perhaps we should just do it earlier.

It doesn't scale the way a business typically scales. You can't automate it or fit it under an ever lengthening hierarchy, but it does in fact scale incredibly well.

Everyone who is taught to think better can teach others to think better.

The market is not correcting itself. The market is destroying the premise of a university.
I think a number of hands on vocational jobs will last longer than quite a few white collar jobs. The robotics necessary for those jobs is quite far behind where we are with the necessary software.
i think you're leaving out the state of "good enough"
to be fair, it’s only one net downvote
Indeed, I plan to quote John Carmack from now on since he nailed it.
Lol - I have a derivative thought in that I should have just joined my local police department (no desire to be a police officer, but six figure pay, retirement in my 40’s with huge pension/healthcare benefits, and a stressful day is someone’s mom giving you a hard time at the pharmacy lunch counter about giving their kid a speeding ticket)
it's unclear if the causation here is having a degree. but it is correlated to a very large degree
Exactly. This is why every tradesman I know wants their kids to go to college.
> Long term: the age of venture capital is going away.

Oh please. The VC market operated just fine when interest rates were high (as in over 18%). You might of heard of a few venture backed companies from back then, such as Intel, Apple, Cisco, Sun, Microsoft…
Microsoft is testing a built-in cryptocurrency wallet for the Edge browser
This thin crust recipe is time consuming but actually solves a lot of those problems. Rolling witb a pin and letting it dry out overnight actually makes it really easy to slide off the peel.
It's OpenAI's term: https://openai.com/research/webgpt
Harder to affect change outside the company
I hear it used to be that there was a culture of serious working-class learning in England. Like, the barbers in the shop would pay some street-kid to read them books -- there was no TV -- while they cut hair. And the cabbie could get into a conversation about Kant or something with his passenger. Maybe just to mess with them, but still.