skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also find it infuriating when crypto fans defend the massive advantage afforded to early miners. To me the only truly fair distribution is one where the rewards never change; later generations of miners should get the same reward as those mining right after genesis, rather than fight over crumbs. A pure linear emission doesn't really make money any less sound [1].

[1] https://john-tromp.medium.com/a-case-for-using-soft-total-su...
One of the machines I'm targeting is 60 wide, and another 40. But I'll give it a shot and see what happens!
I can't do any objective measurements but there's a clear impact in battery life while browsing with Javascript disabled. The entire web becomes snappier and loading times instantly drop.

Doing so also breaks all web applications (and web applications posing as websites, i.e. React rendering) so it's not something I turn on permanently. I usually only disable JS when my phone is running low and I'm not near a charger, or when I'm trying to read something and the terrible website hijacks scrolls/taps/somehow makes my phone run hot doing stuff in the background.
Yeah I guess that's what it really comes down to. I am willing to make you sad to make it harder for nazis to organize and recruit.
So then you run into issues every time you floor your car in electric mode, as that will cause the ICE to kick in and make them work in tandem.
Yeah, my playhead is over the clip. It still keeps going back to a clip I never opened in fusion.

Re: render in place, I'll try your approach next time I run into it. Thanks.
> Continue reading your article with a WSJ subscription
Yeah... as much as I wouldn't mind doing more "smart home" stuff, I absolutely won't as I don't trust anything to be supported for a decade or more, which is where I consider home stuff should be.
So when did Chrome start doing this?
> I avoided social situations all my life because I was (and still am) afraid of rejection.

You've acknowledged this is a problem. What are you going to do to fix it?

> I feel like the "social" parts of my brain that should have developed years ago have now atrophied/cemented themselves into place, unable to experience the emotions, unable to mentally process social cues and understand the "hidden meaning" the things people say.

Fortunately for you, your feeling is incorrect. Those parts of your brain may be underdeveloped, but the brain is plastic and can be changed.

> but why bother if it's likely just going to end up in regret/rejection/heartbreak/etc? The pros/cons don't seem to weigh out - but then again, how would I know if I've never been in a relationship?

If you don't try, you'll never go anywhere. Have the courage to get hurt. If you get hurt, keep moving.

> I'm incredibly embarrassed to admit I've never been on a date of any kind

Don't sweat it. Many men are in this same position.

> It kills me inside every day I look at myself and scream internally at why and how I feel so broken socially and mentally.

So what are you going to do about it?

> Doesn't help now that the hairline's receding.

Take a look at the work of Derek from More Plates, More Dates. He had a receding hairline as well, and managed to reverse it with a combination of select shampoos, microneedling, and some other things.

> just looking to see if anybody else feels this way or have felt this way

Yes. I looked in the mirror for many years and hated what I saw. I still feel that way sometimes. There are many just like us.
Reminds me of https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/2wpf2h/indian_joke_a...

(sed /indian/native american/g)
Using io_uring for network I/O
What do you expect monitor technology to look like in 20 years; the same as today just with more pixels? If someone types by touch, what's the difference between a VR monitor and a physical monitor?
Really hoped that the fact this came from xkcd was itself an example of citogenesis.
How is receiving funding from someone not a form of affiliation with them?
It's not too far off as the change affects user ergonomics, but it's not the first place one would think of, you're right. I'd prefer an hierarchy like "Devices -> Keyboard -> Shortcut Keys".
He lives in Germany too, where it takes way more effort to turn an incidental encounter into something more.

And I agree with you. I think, for a lot of these guys, if you literally never ever get a good chance, then of course that you go into "monk mode". I only fell in love the first time at 22, because I met a girl who I found amazing. The second time at 28, again because I very randomly met a girl who was amazing.
The issue is no reliable data can easily be found ( closest for me was this -https://www.statista.com/statistics/183505/number-of-vehicle... ) suggesting that neither of us actually knows. Sounds to me like a bad reason to base an argument( or policy on ).

- I know that most people I'm aware of all drive their car by themselves to their work, there was very little carpooling.

how many of those are suvs?
and then we go bk to use case. there is a reason soccer moms exist. u focus on work commute and likely on metro areas only but fail to account for other activity types
I'm of the advice that lifetime licenses are only sustainable if they're sold as a way to attract early users, as a way to reward their faith into a product that had chances to fail and see their money gone forever. It shouldn't be a type of license that keeps getting sold once the product has matured and has some brand recognition in order to make it sustainable.

If the product can run standalone on the client's computer, make it a license for that specific major version, and sell the upgrade to the next major versions for a fraction of the price. Those who wants the latest features can buy the upgrade and sustain the business, and those who are happy with the current version can keep using their version without feeling wronged.
Yes, of course, but I think it's a slightly shallow perspective.

It's a push-pull between the hardware vendor and Microsoft. You can bet that a hardware vendor with large numbers can get a better deal on the Windows license. Why? Because the vendor effectively "sells" you, the customer to Microsoft.
Yep, Rebble kept my Pebble running for many years after the company was bought. I finally gave up on it because the battery life got so short, and I don't trust myself to repair it decently. I loved that thing, and I'm so glad it was able to live beyond the acquisition of the company!

Hopefully someone can figure out a way to do something similar for these devices.
> I don't think that LeetCode questions have any particular advantage over work sample tests when LLMs are involved.

I agree. We do work sample tests, and in addition to the code and docs the candidates hand in, what really matters is the walkthroughs we do with them. Why did they do it that way? What alternatives did they consider? What are the pros and cons? What past projects did they draw on? How did they research this?

Candidates usually enjoy this - most programmers enjoy talking about a just-finished project, especially when they feel good about the result - and you get to learn a lot about them.

If someone turned in an LLM-assisted work and lied about it, I doubt they'd fare well. And if they did use LLM assist - could be an interesting conversation all the same. What did you reject? What did you correct? Why?
>much of what's posted on 4chan is ironic, deliberately inflammatory

This hasn't been plausible, much less true, for 10 years. I don't know how anyone can look at, for example, Payton Gendron's manifesto and say it's ironic. Were the bullets he fired ironic as well?

There is an entire generation of users, who are probably the bulk of users now, who were never in on the "joke" (if there ever was one).
We are venture-funded.
> I can't say about communists, as there are so few around these days.

I dated one. Her description was basically the "People's Front of Judea" scene in Life of Brian — they're all in their own tiny rabbit holes, completely convinced all the other tiny groups are pawns, puppets, or stooges of capitalism.
Yes that's how words work, NPR is not State Affiliated media. No one from the government is there dictating what they report on or what projects they pursue. When a lab at a private college takes NIH funding to do research, that does not make the private research institution state affiliated. When oil and gas companies accept government subsidies, they are not labeled as state affiliated (and in this case oil and gas are far more deeply intertwined with the levers of government). Elon Musk is a reactionary polemic and these choices are obviously intended to further those goals.
Well, first, mrshadowgoose has a point: I know a lot of people who would love to take a self-driving car but wouldn't got near a bus.

But also, while I'd love (love!) to see much better, European-style public transit in US cities, it would take a fantastic level of political will, lobbying, and pitching to even begin to happen. For all sorts of reasons, public transit is wildly unpopular in the US, and construction is wildly expensive.

But a company like Tesla could (if they could figure out the FSD part) just roll out self-driving taxis after a few legal tweaks. It's achievable in a reasonable timeframe (once the tech is in place).
> Online users are now more interested in engaging, up-to-date content rather than keeping up with their friends' activities.

You can't infer what people want to do from what they are doing when the platform is trying to influence their behavior.

Facebook has not been a good platform for keeping up with your friends in 10+ years. The main reason is that Facebook is a business that needs a business model. It's not enough to provide a useful service to the users, but you must also be able to monetize it. For FB that meant ads, and then it meant an addictive algorithmic feed to make more money.

That happens often when you run an online service as a business. First you have a good service that attracts a lot of users, and then you gradually destroy it and replace it with something similar but worse to make money. When young people started preferring other social networks, it was a clear sign that Facebook had done that.
n is the length of the string. As for why it matters whether it's linear or quadratic, we are assessing the candidates ability to analyze a problem and possibly improve an algorithm. It might not matter in the problem at hand.
Expert mode gets this question right: https://www.phind.com/search?cache=a2edcf55-5cf2-4545-84e6-7...
So, is it ok for you to use proprietary, not open source OS that actively restricts your possibilities, shows ads for you, logs most of your actions, etc. etc and created by profit driven giant corporation when this OS is based on Linux kernel?
PowerShell's slowness doesn't have anything to do with its feature completeness, though, nor the capabilities of the language itself. Many new shells inspired by PowerShell's structured pipelines and built-in coreutils replacements share both of those features with it, but not its abominable slowness.
I'd say that much of the M2 speed comes from its ultrawide RAM interface, only possible because RAM is soldered basically directly to the CPU die(s). It can't scale to server sizes, but it makes perfect sense for a laptop or a smaller desktop.
The pedophile scare alternates between the absurd and underestimated.

On the absurd side are:

- Satanic preschools

- Pizzagate

- most recently, drag queen demonization

On the underestimated side:

- unending Catholic priest incidents, most recently Baltimore. Non-Catholic pastors too

- Boy Scout leaders

- sports doctors
Okay, yeah, that's fair.
I’ve read that book and found it very helpful.

As for the reasoning behind my actions, I often feel it’s not only about sex, but a deeper need to avoid confrontation and keep a relative peace in the relationship.

In one of my last relationships, part of the problem was a constant war over my personal boundaries. My partner was requiring too much of my attention and energy, pushing things, moving fast at every turn. This eventually eroded the lines I set.

This situation is something I need to keep an eye out for future relationships!
Imagine a world where children have grown up, relying on ChatGPT for each and every question.
NPR gets 1% of funding directly from the government.

13% of the 31% (4%) they get from member stations comes from the government, for a total of 5%.

The "hand that feeds" NPR is mostly corporate sponsors and member stations' listeners.
Read about the paradox of tolerating intolerance.
It was suggested to me that a PhD is more a test of perseverance than genius...

I don't see why a prof would be reluctant unless they are not sure of themselves and think that the system is somehow zero sum. Maybe the student shouldn't want such a prof as supervisor.
This might get a little weird... but I think some people might be interested in my perspective on intimacy and relationships.

I'm asexual, but not aromantic (or adverse to sex). "Relationships" aren't high on my priority list. All of my friendships are platonic and I'm quite happy with that. Where it gets weird for people is several of them are emotionally intimate and physically tactile.

For men in the US, touch is wrapped up in sex and relationships. The idea of cuddling with someone else without any sexual relationship is strange. It's one of the reasons I'm drawn to the furry fandom. For the most part, furries know some people have a need for touch without a need relationships or sex and don't consider it weird. (Whether or not a given furry will respect that boundary that is a very different thing.)

If it's hard to imagine what this is, think of how a dog or cat curls up on your lap. That's basically how I feel about physical closeness. It has nothing to do with the deep of my friendship and everything to do with how my friend feels about it.

So... relationships.

All of my emotional needs are fulfilled by my friends. Living with someone else seems like too much effort for not enough reward. I don't need sex... I have people I can touch... I have people I can call if I need help... If housework or rent was an issue, I could get a roommate. What's left? :)
The aggressivity isn't the topic of discussion, the topic of discussion is what Steve Jobs would have thought about ads in an OS, but we already know what he thought about Microsoft ("no taste" anecdote) and MS were already pushing things in Windows prior to Jobs' passing, ergo he almost certainly would have found it tasteless.

If the goal of a tool is to provide an efficient means to tackling a task, Windows is becoming further and further removed from its ability to effectively do that with layers of cruft, up-sell and dark patterns. It's not been great since the '90s.

With that said, I'm sure Jobs would find plenty to dislike in modern macOS and iOS too with all the crap bolted on top of them. Apple TV UI is a good example too. I'm sure he would have had some strong opinions on the Apple Pencil as well.
That's putting it nicely. Aaronson's test was more focused on shamelessly parroting the professor's ideological views which were strongly hinted at in the question.

GPT-4 indeed was better than the real students at that task since it lacks a sense of shame.

This one seems more focused on actual application of economic principles.
My teachers were always clear that encyclopedias were not to be used as a primary source either. They're not even a secondary source. Encyclopedias are tertiary sources.

They're better than Wikipedia... but only barely.

In the end you use Wikipedia and an encyclopedia the same way: to get a broad understanding of a topic as a mental framework, then look at the article's citations as a starting point to find actual, citable primary sources. (Plus the rest of the library's catalog/databases.)
I have read this book, and can confirm, it is extremely interesting and pretty damning.

I'm frankly surprised it hasn't had more of an impact; it really does seem like SSRIs are causing a lot of harm to a lot of people in the form of side effects, and the scientific evidence seems to point strongly toward them being no better than any other active placebo. Yet, they continue to be prescribed in ever-increasing numbers.
Cheers!

I've heard of, but never used, the emacs spreadsheet / org mode stuff. I should probably review it for concepts that I could steal / be inspired by ;P
Someone uses chatgpt in the most basic way, not harnessing any of the power of asking followup questions even, and complains it's not that great. Yet when reading, I get the feeling that the employee isn't that great.
If there was a privacy preserving micropayment system that charged pennies for per news article across a wide variety of news sources, I'd sign up immediately.

There was a service like this maybe 10 years ago.

You subscribed to the service and then you could pay something like 3¢ or 5¢ to read different articles.

The problem was that it didn't carry the entire newspaper, only "featured" articles. And it only had maybe a dozen periodicals in its collection.

Great idea. Poorly executed
Has a popular podcaster or news stating been saying this recently? I never heard this excuse until a few days ago and then all of a sudden it’s all over the Internet forums.

A lot of people in the west have not believed in capitol “F” Free Will for a loooong time. A huge swath of the intellectual world stopped around the time of Hume, so it’s been a central idea in the intellectual class since the American revolution. Not sure why now is different.
A Renaissance from Below
Thank you! The vision is to support as many spreadsheet capabilities as possible while retaining the simplest API and a small enough size. So multi-sheet is possible as long as using the component with a single sheet is still simple.
On the contrary, I think it should be applauded that they publish stuff even if it goes against their own interest/image.
Well, they claimed to have socialism and to be building communism, but Marx himself would hardly approve or consider it "socialism" if comparing notes. There's a reason why Lenin and company were seen as hacks by many Marxists of their time.

But I don't think Walter had that degree of precision in mind when he said "Marxist". It sounded more like a generic label for anti-capitalist left to me, so I went with the broad definition to match that.
The Rust Foundation goes to war against people using the word “Rust”
I'm from the internet and I can assure you it has no basis in truth.
> Steve Newman (an American who circumnavigated the globe on foot over four years in the late 1980s)

I read Newman's Worldwalk some time ago. It's a long book that covers his adventures in the US and Europe in detail, then describes landing in Morocco and being freaked out by all the Arabs who speak only Arabic, and then conveniently elides the rest of the world entirely and finishes off with him returning home. Did he really walk across Africa and Asia?
ETA: see response

Probably not no basis, Dunning and Krueger really did so research & found [retracted] a negative correlation between self-rated ability and performance on an aptitude test afaik [/retracted]. But it's often overgeneralized or taken to be some kind of law rather than an observation.
Yes, for Public Broadcasting!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKy7ljRr0AA
And yet she is a black lawyer, despite of all the assumed systemic oppression. Maybe she knows more about the actual challenges of black people than the CRT theoreticians?
So any company that uses internet servers to run code they wrote is a tech company? John Deere wrote the firmware on the machinery they sold to farmers that connects to a server on software they wrote. Are they a tech company?
why do they insist on using average where median would be much more useful way to measure this ( lower extremes impact )?
Juul will pay $462M to 6 states in underage vaping settlement
Where and how often? I get a notice every time I update my OS for things I don't care about. But imagining every time I opened my main search interface that I saw an ad... no thanks.
>Bill was dropped to 250,which to me was still outrageous for a freaking ibuprofen (dollar store knockoff brand to boot!).

Yes, medical billing in the US is hopelessly opaque. And I've had an even more egregious experience[0] myself.

However, that $250 wasn't just for the ibuprofen and tongue depressor. It's for the physical plant, infrastructure and other operating expenses as well. Although the largest portion of that is likely the cost for the time of highly-trained personnel (nurses, doctors, etc.).

How much do you earn in an hour? No. Don't tell me. I don't care.

But I'm sure it's more than zero, right? Would you work for zero dollars an hour?

If not, why are you ignoring the costs of paying hospital personnel?

Not sure why you went to an emergency room. Those are for, wait for it...emergencies. Was it an actual emergency? If not, they should have charged you even more.

[0] A physician to whom I was referred posited (incorrectly) that a skin lesion might be infected with MRSA[1] and insisted that I go to the hospital for testing and immediate IV antibiotics. I reluctantly (as I -- correctly -- believed that wasn't the case) did so. I was in the hospital for three days (the length of time -- at least they claimed it took that long -- to test for MRSA), after which time I was told (shocking...not!) that I was not, in fact, infected with MRSA and discharged. I received a bill for something like $100 and an "explanation of benefits" (EOB) from my insurance company. The "total cost" listed on the EOB was ~$12,000. Out of curiosity, I perused the detail and found that I was being "charged" for being in two hospital rooms at the same time (a neat trick, I wish I could replicate it) as well as having had a Pap smear[2], despite not (ever) having a cervix.

I complained to the insurance company that there was obvious fraud going on. They responded that I shouldn't worry my pretty little head about it because I wasn't paying anyway. That made me even angrier and I demanded that this be investigated and addressed. A few days later, I was involved in a conference call with the insurer and someone from the billing department of the hospital in question. The insurer and the hospital went back and forth (performatively, I soon found) about billing codes, but when I pressed them on how I could possibly have had a pap smear when I don't have a female reproductive system, they finally fessed up and told me that the contract between the hospital and the insurer capped hospital stays/services at $500/day, and that the stuff in the EOB was complete bullshit.

Just as the $3500 on your bill was complete bullshit. But $250 actually seems reasonable for an emergency room visit. Even with health insurance, I'm subject to a $150 co-payment for emergency room visits -- just for walking in the door and signing in.

[1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/mrsa/symptoms...

[2] https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/pap-smear/about/...
Agreed entirely for most. I have seen so many insanely complicated and eye wateringly expensive architectures for what are simple web apps on the big clouds. Often the team don't really understand the intricacies of all these services and how they interrelate which causes often cause a lot of stability problems.

Even if they don't, there is usually a huge tax on developer productivity with these architectures, which often outweighs any improved stability over the long term.

Let's keep in mind that modern hardware and software is very stable, generally.