skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The people fighting in Spain, Greece, and Africa were largely Italian Romans or non-Italian Romans or allies. Caesar and Pompey were Italian Romans. It was in every way a civil war of Romans. What difference does it make that, for logistical reasons, the battles took place outside of Italy proper?

The non-soldiery weren't involved, a total war wasn't invoked, and proscriptions were largely absent? Come on.

>Caesar almost lost multiple times and was beaten and in retreat when he turned around to fight and win at Pharsalus. Had Pompey avoided a full scale engagement, it's very likely that he would have won.

This is absolutely irrelevant. Your counterfactuals concerning a mythical competent Pompey are pointless. He didn't win. He fled Italy, fled Macedonia, and died commensurate to his honor and integrity. In a small boat, by foreign underlings.

The civil wars that actually impacted the peoples of Italy and Rome, as in proscriptions, institutional and physical damage, preceded and followed Caesar. The lull was enabled and continued by Caesar, sabotaged by such heroes of the Republic as the sole consul Pompous, sorry Pompeius, Magnus.
If I sell you a share the represents a beanie baby, that’s a security. It doesn’t matter what the underlying asset is, a security is a security and NFTs look a lot like securities.

Your AAPL shares are just entities in a database somewhere (or a series of databases, it’s complex), an NFT is essentially the same, database entries that point to ownership of an abstract thing which can be traded.
XML would probably fall into that category.

But I do agree with your point more generally speaking.
Yeah, I really don’t like the above take either. I have a history degree, and I’ve done very well for myself at a tech company. The writing and critical thinking skills I acquired have given me a huge leg up over more “technically minded” people in many situations (though I would never go as far as to say they wasted their time or I always have an advantage. It’s case by case, like most things in life).

He’s basically doing the “kids go to college and get a useless English degree” line that many boomers throw around, just with different window dressing.
No. It’s pure greed. Move with your feet people. Sign petitions, form unions, quiet quit.
What's your proposed alternative? What does the alternative cost? If non-zero, what mechanism would you use to disable it?
Sounds great until you run into half the open jobs on LinkedIn requiring a degree. Very depressing.
Funny seeing Chef/Ruby on the top of that.
Maybe you do that.

But my HR department which made me write "publish X papers in top-tier journals (see list)" as a condition in my probation agreement most certainly does not.

And alas, as long as I'm under probation, their opinion carries far more weight in the debate than any moral argument you could come up with.
What I would have done is first create a map of the file, just the keys and shapes, without the data. That way I can traverse the file. And then mmap the file to traverse and read the data.

A couple of dozen lines of code would do it.
“The most ethical action a company can take is to maximize the shareholder’s value, no matter the long term cost.”

/s (for me at least)
My dad had a mk2 diesel. He used less than 5l/100km and drove for 200000 km until he sold it with 350000km. As far as i remember he never had a serious issue. It wasn't a comfortable ride but very reliable.
It's like exercise. As a software engineer, I'm very unlikely to need to lift heavy things or run long distances. But my body is (probably) healthier long-term if I'm able to do those things.

Disclaimer: going through my Anki decks is one of the 50 things on my 10-item to-do list. I don't get to it often enough. But it does work, and I now know how to memorize things I want to remember.
The news widget is terrible, and the sole reason I haven't switched to windows 11. I spent about 30m turning off news source after news source before giving up. Apparently there is an infinite supply of them.

It's actually a problem for me at work because they keep drawing my eye and distracting me from getting work done. It's crazy. What are they thinking?
"Roach trap pattern" is actually a great name.
So long as the person in the other country is capable of solving issues and can communicate clearly it doesn’t bother me. I’ve had many good experiences with American Express’ outsourced customer service. American Express seemed to have the nicer office buildings around Delhi so I presume they are recruiting really good candidates
Star labs does this using fwupd
> It also grows the intellectual souls, exposing people to far more depth of thought.

I think this is one of the more valuable components of attending university - in part just because it exposes one to more people, from more diverse backgrounds. It encourages you to see the world from more than one perspective, and to (I hope) be able to understand and be more compassionate about others.

There is a segment of people (in the US at least) that don't want kids to go to college for exactly this reason - they don't want their kids, or other young people to be exposed to or trained in critical thinking and broad perspectives.
If these people want severance on top of maternity leave, it’s not really fair to the other people laid off.
I did go to WGU. It took me way too long. Over 4 years because I put almost zero effort in and did most everything at the end of the 6 month term. I wasn't much motivated to do the courses as I was battling depression, dealing with a wife and child with health issues, and was the sole breadwinner.

I would estimate that I put in less than 500 hours total towards my degree. I had like 15 pre-credits.
> INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE statements won't be implemented. Welcome PRs.

Adding support for modifying Google Sheets would be a game changer. I see many (SQL-like) extensions that will query GS, but none can change it.
Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower, dude.
wow that's nuts... I don't know how many months I'd take me to catch up/by that point ahead again

15 years is insane though... I only recently started with an i9 and 3080Ti on medium/highest priority
> Nuclear power is advocated principally by the current energy industry regime because it maintains their existing distribution model.

In what world? Yes, nuclear could cleanly replace existing fossil fuel plants, which is exactly why the fossil fuel industry tries to stop it! In contrast, intermittent solar and wind aren't viable full replacements to fossil fuel electricity, so Exxon-Mobil and co are comfortable investing in it.
TLDR “Aws networking costs are a racket”
Pages about pizza, especially crap like "top 10 pizza joints in Chicago!" are a guaranteed way to generate clicks in the midwest. People will argue about that shit for days.

I've had Fox's, I've had a lot of Vito and Nicks (or Nick and Vitos, they listed in the phone book both ways), when really the best pizza is whatever is local and your parents bought you all the time as a kid. Which means Pinocchio's in Niles IL before it burned down the first time.
One thing that will greatly help with `jq` is rebuilding it so it suits your machine. The package of jq that comes with Debian or Ubuntu Linux is garbage that targets k8-generic (on the x86_64 variant), is built with debug assertions, and uses the GNU system allocator which is the worst allocator on the market. Rebuilding it targeting your platform, without assertions, and with tcmalloc makes it twice as fast in many cases.

On this 988MB dataset I happen to have at hand, compare Ubuntu jq with my local build, with hot caches on an Intel Core i5-1240P.

time parallel -n 100 /usr/bin/jq -rf ../program.jq ::: * -> 1.843s
time parallel -n 100 ~/bin/jq -rf ../program.jq ::: * -> 1.121s

I know it stinks of Gentoo, but if you have any performance requirements at all, you can help yourself by rebuilding the relevant packages. Never use the upstream mysql, postgres, redis, jq, ripgrep, etc etc.
Yes. I suspect that nobody involved in this kind of thought process would argue with that.

While the liver is outside the human body it is no longer being a liver for a human body. It is in some other state

If we took a human kidney and used some scifi technology to use it as the functional component of a dialysis machine, does the nature of the kidney change while the dialysis machine is in use, vs. at rest?

If we transplant another animals liver into a human (maybe invoking scifi — I don't know where we're at with transgenics research) does it become a human liver or is it always a pig liver in a human?
"ab" is 4 bytes, while a 64 bit pointer to an interned string is 8 bytes. It would seem that the savings of CSV would be better analogized to static typing - the type is defined once, then each record only contains data.

I had the same intuition as the original comment. But no, the relative sizes of data formats aren't that straightforward. One could intern symbols to say 16 bit values, or one could infer structural types and compress the data that way. But those are both creating additional assumptions and processing that likely aren't done by commonly available tools.
It does work, but it is a huge headache to use, in part because the documentation around it is nowhere near enough to understand how to use it.

If I used it regularly I'd probably develop a feel for it and be much faster - it is reasonable, just abnormal and extremely low level, and much harder to use with other jq stuff. But I almost always start looking for alternatives well before I reach that point.
Layoffs suck.

I think I would be upset if I was laid off but those on medical or baby leave were specifically given a pass. It kind of feels like a slap on the face for those whom are unable to have kids.

Layoffs should be focused on performance, cost of salary, team business utility, etc.

That said, if layoffs disproportionately hit those on that are on medical leave, that would be pretty cruel.

Moreover, I think those laid off during leave should be given additional severance due to the incredible imposition.

Everywhere I've worked has stipulated that leave, sabbaticals, etc. were still subject to layoffs.
I have a suspicion that cloud vendors are using bandwidth pricing as a way to deter abuse. Can't use them for ddos, tunneling, file sharing or mass scraping that easily anymore. The lock-in is a nice side effect.

Though Corey is talking about internal network use and I am talking about bandwidth to internet
So, in the same way pixels have been found to illegally transmit protected health information (PHI) back to the social giants, MSFT is just sending any data in text boxes to their servers…? They’ll just deal with the class action when it comes…?
Had, not has. That option no longer exists.
You have the choice of running redis on an EC2 instance.
I recently had an idea for a web-based game I wanted to build. Unfortunately, I have zero experience with web development, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. So I thought to ask ChatGPT for help to get started. It worked (well, sort of! While writing this I realized it works on desktop, not mobile).

In this post, I’ll share some thoughts on the experience, as well as the more detailed step-by-step process of building the game for those who are curious!
This assumes there will be people that can afford to pay them for their work...
Yeah, everyone who really wanted to make quality products or had too much self-respect quit Microsoft years ago. Right at this very second it makes sense to stay put, but most of the time any Microsoft employee can grind Leetcode for a few weeks and hop ship to another company with a 30% raise.

Last time I was there, nobody working there was happy about how things are going, except a few random sociopaths.
these may help

https://hackaday.io/hackerspaces/

https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Bay_Area_Consortium_of_Hackers...
yes i know. i’m just clarifying for the above comment that all lower ranked colleges are not worth attending
There are no immutable arrays. If you have a slice of capacity ten with four elements, you can write a fifth element to it. If you reduce the capacity to four, then a new slice must be allocated to store five elements.

The backing store for a slice is just a pointer. The rule is you don't give people pointers that you don't want them to write to.
"The chemical compound glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide, can weaken the immune systems of insects ..."

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2021/ingredient-in-common-weed-...

Negative Effects of Common Herbicides on Non-target Invertebrates

https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.c...

Direct and Indirect Effects of Herbicides on Insect Herbivores in Rice, Oryza sativa

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6502833/
Well, I'm not sure I buy it, and the actual date is 1997, but here is the story on Mises.org from 2021.

https://mises.org/wire/why-arent-there-more-free-market-surg...
I’d assume they do (get in the way) but I don’t have confirmation. A mile is 5 thousand 200 and eighty feet.

When I visualize the bird’s experience, I would hesitate to cross the Atlantic.
Layoffs shouldnt be focused on anything. Corporations shouldnt be at liberty to drop workers as it suits them, their need to be stronger worker protections so that preventative action is mandatory.
That headline would pass the pedants, but it would have another problem: It's not sensationalized, so nobody would care about it.

The whole point of saying that it's "simpler" is for the wow factor of "obviously this is a more complicated, more detailed, game. Isn't it weird that the model for the coin is simpler despite all of that?" It's the sort of thing that would be clickbait if it were in a news article. The point of being "pedantic" is to point out that the clickbaity implication is inaccurate. Of course it's simpler, if the complexity is moved to the other parts of the model.
It feels like this is also where natural selection and evolution kick in. Surely insects will evolve resistance to insecticides given their ubiquity, rapid life cycle, and prodigious ability to reproduce?
Talent beating out education is OBVIOUSLY still an idea here, you're just asking disingenuous, leading questions.

Is $80k on its own supposed to turn a non-artist into an artist? No, nobody is saying that. You need to be talented to get admitted in the first place.

Would $80k lead to lessons, connections, and experiences that could make an artist's career more successful? Quite possibly. Or not. It's a risky investment: you pay a lot, and maybe it pays off, maybe you break even, maybe you end up behind.

I'm not defending the >$80k price tag of art school. I'm saying that it's not irrational for a budding artist to see it as worth the gamble.
That sounds like me, but I don’t issue csvs.
Arguably, the Cambodian people could have potentially avoided the genocidal deaths of millions of people by analyzing the weaknesses of the Soviet/Communist culture, weaknesses that repeatedly lead to mass death. Seems pretty meaningful and deserving of study to me.
Nothing about firing 12K people while doing hundreds of billions of dollars in share buybacks is ethical, yet here we are.
There's libraries like ijson.
At my last job, i wrote a wrapper around this C++ library called rapidjson to parse streaming json. It worked quite well.

Here's the write up about it: https://dinesh.cloud/2022/streaming-json-for-fun-and-profit/
And here's the code: https://github.com/multiversal-ventures/json-buffet

The API isn't the best. I'd have preferred an iterator based solution as opposed to this callback based one. But we worked with what rapidjson gave us for the proof of concept.
The reason for this specific implementation was we wanted to build an index to query the server directly about it's huge json files (compressed size of 20+GB per file) using http range queries.
> almost all of whom will lose and be saddled with 6 figures of debt and 7 figures of opportunity cost

Not quite so for immigrants who are likely prevalent (or close) in grad schools.
Some garage bullshit made by someone who clearly hasn't even HEARD of laser safety is not what I want outside of a sealed box

A valid perspective, certainly, but at some point you may need to ask yourself if a site called "Hacker News" is right for you.
CLI utility to counting GPT-3 tokens in a file or directory
Append mutates or copies-and-appends based on the capacity of the slice it's given. And since slicing an array or a slice gives you just a view, not a copy, it can cause "spooky action at a distance" and mutate things you didn't expect, especially if it was a slice with extra capacity of data used somewhere else. Which is what this article is describing.

Plus the knowledge of the change in length (to see the appended data) is only visible with the returned slice (a new view with the larger length), but the underlying data is changed either way.

It's not often a source of errors, but when it is it can be extremely hard to diagnose.
When was the last time you were hired like that?
Where I am, a long time ago, it was a unwritten rule to leave people on medical leave employed. Then I suspect when they are back at work maybe they would be let go. Back then I never knew anyone in this situation. I do know a few that were fired while on leave in the past few years.

But with how the US medical system has pretty much transitioned from non-profits to profits, I doubt there can be any argument saying doing this is OK. Money now talks more than it did years ago.
It sounds plausible, but university towns (at least in the US) are pretty unique in that they are dense and young people can afford to live there. You could say commuter campuses don't have the same social scene because not "everyone desirable goes there," but I'd wager it's more due to students driving in from 45 minutes away rather than living amongst each other.
I have to strongly disagree with "not much better." I'm not saying Apple doesn't do some annoying stuff, but it is MUCH much better than Microsoft. Every time I use Windows I am just floored how obnoxious they are with pushing their BS. The difference is night and day.
The article indicates it is tritium, hydrogen-3.

Though if it was heavy water, "Poisoning would require that the victim ingest large amounts of heavy water without significant normal water intake for many days to produce any noticeable toxic effects." [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water#Effect_on_biologic...
Then youre wrong. There is no market incentive for layoffs due to GPT-like technology, as I have demonstrated above. Similar breakthroughs "replacing jobs" have happened before in the field of software engineering, this is nothing new or unprecedented. Its merely another tool that will become in widespread use to increase production.

What i think will lead to mass layoffs is the current recession rather.
The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two – Miller (1956)
the massgrave activation scripts work great and will perma register w a real license from ms servers. only thing id advise, if you use a pihole turn it off while running it as many popular lists block the activation servers (or related)
Using Anki for a 72-hour cram session is kind of missing the point though. For me, the main benefit of Anki is to escape the cram->forget cycle and learn things low-stress and for good.
I miss the more genuine and naive world of 90s hacking, or even something as simple as local LAN parties with people dragging their giant CRTs with them to be in a sweaty room with a bunch of other early PC gamers. I suspect those worlds aren't making a comeback.
Before Apple, Old Tymers [1] like me went to Cicero's in the early 1970s when it was still called Coppola's [2] [3], in its original location on Sunnyvale-Saratoga Road before that was called De Anza Blvd.

The pizza came on a typical aluminum pan, and you didn't get a plate for your slice. You would just put a napkin or two on the table. Messy but good!

The Cali Brothers Mill and Feed Store [4] was just around the corner on Stevens Creek. It had a drive-thru where you would drive inside the building to pick up your farm supplies. Different times!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymshare

[2] http://www.cicerospizza.com/CicerosMenu.pdf

[3] http://www.cicerospizza.com/pub_html/Restaurant%20Cicero's%2...

[4] https://historysanjose.pastperfectonline.com/photo/41B3BE66-...
That's not a problem to be fixed through fake journal prestige.
Deterministic Artificial Intelligence
ChatGPT just helped me tweak my Emacs configuration
Lambda was built on top of crosvm, which has been known for very long but only acknowledged recently in their 2021 paper.
I didn't go to college, nor did a few of my best friends - we all work in tech/IT. Careers spanning development to sales and IT. We make good income, have little if any debt, and all own homes. Compare us to some of our peers from high school who went to college, many still live at home and have some pretty typical Fortune 500 paper pusher jobs. I think what set us apart was our general interest in nerdy/tech things from a young age. We built computers, modded video games, learned to code, worked on cars, etc. We all came from very low to middle class backgrounds too. Didn't have parents uber concerned about their legacy and if their kid was going to be a "loser" or not. Ironically, most of us made more $$ than those parents by our mid to late 20s.
Isn’t the whole point of severance compensation for terminating your employment and other prior agreements, given that you are not at fault?

It doesn’t really make sense for one to demand both severance and their leave.

From my understanding the Google severance effectively pays you more than maternity leave anyways unless you were at Google for less than 3 years. I wonder how many are in that situation.

One example in the article involved a person who had been at Google for 10 years. They would receive 36 weeks severance. More than the 24 weeks they would receive as maternity leave.

It seems that person is arguing they should receive 60 weeks severance.
Disagree is too strong, more like disregard and find generally trivial and distracting.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35206040.
(subsets of )ASN.1, LEB128, and of course UTF-8 are all examples of encoding binary integers with variable length.
Yes I do that, thank you.

Thanks for clearly stating how journal prestige is harmful to academics and scientists.
Informative article. But how the heck do they manage to publish all this without even clearly stating when this important vehicle was first launched into the world?

I think it was probably 1974. The article never says that
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the current LTSC is nov 2021. the next one will probably come with incrementally more crap but we'll have to see
4. Time spent outside the rat race without leaving a hole in your cv