skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a comment on the last point and purely opinion. Touch typing is fast and worth it if your typing like a word document. I've tried to get into touch typing, and it can be worth it, but for everyday programming, it doesn't really help me type faster. I type a few lines, stop and think about the code I've written. Programming also makes you hit a series of weird symbols most people don't. Think turbofish operator. The, probably, milliseconds touch typing saves me between writing a few lines to then contemplate just isn't a big enough speed benefit.

With that being said, I consider how I type a combination. I sort of touch type, but Im not completely glued to it. I don't worry if my hands cross as times. However, at the end of the day, if people enjoy touch typing and feel it helps them, they should! No one should swear it off just because I don't feel its that much of a performance boast for me personally.
It was, until a few months ago.
I had a little thought a while back about using names that express why you're doing something in order to make it a little more obvious to the monkey when we're over abstracting something that might just be incidentally similar.

https://t-ravis.com/post/doc/what_functions_and_why_function...
Yeah, all those vaccine inventors from Harvard that became staggeringly rich are what's wrong with society. /s
Exactly. And people living longer means everyone has a bigger chance to succeed.
The OP didn't ask what was the least impactful tax deductible way to spend.
In some of these countries, going to school might give you a less prosperous life. How should the typical westerner deal with these facts?
You seem to be from a bizarro world where these certifications are the be-all/end-all. No major advance in security was ever achieved by trying to follow some standard written by a bunch of people who haven’t themselves solved any of the engineering challenges.
If you’re calling that article “utter nonsense” than I would completely agree!

That’s exactly the BS that was peddled back in the day that people like the NYT happily took home Pulitzers for, but where it turned out they spun it nearly out of whole cloth.

Actual research [1a] into the effect of such a meager ad buy showed not only were staunchly Republican voters the ones who predominantly saw the ads, but unsurprisingly it had no effect on their voting.

Looking back, it’s fair to say that on the order of 0-100 votes may have been changed by this “meddling”, for which the nation was subjected to years of breathless left-wing coverage.

It was, in short, a sham story and it’s well past time to be still be carrying water for such thoroughly debunked propaganda.

[1] - https://www.scribd.com/document/618991728/Nature-Article-on-...
Yes, there should be 2 modes of operation. One for authoring and one for consumers. This link looks like it's authoring because it has the markdown on the left. Viewing mode presumably wouldn't let me edit the markdown at all. In that mode, letting me tinker with the numbers and not have them save might be helpful. But I'd go one step further and add a "Make a copy" button under the sheet which exports the data into Google Sheets or downloads an CSV.
Or just mildly competent investors. If the economy is growing their wealth will compound. If the economy is shrinking they’ll still be rich and everyone will suffer.
Related, Nixon's speech in the event of the Apollo 11 mission failing:

https://www.archives.gov/files/presidential-libraries/events...
I really hoped this was common knowledge. Guess it wasn't.
Servo is now under the Linux Foundation umbrella. It's refreshing to finally see some more players in the browser engine space than the tri-opoly of Google (Blink), Apple (WebKit) and Gecko (Mozilla). LibWeb (Ladybird Browser) is another browser engine, but also in very early days of development.

Gecko is depressingly tied to Firefox and not easily embedded. Blink has somehow become the de facto browser engine thanks to Electron. Even Qt (QtWebEngine) is now based on Blink instead of WebKit. A lot of web apps like Teams only support Blink/Chromium, just like the dark old days of Internet Explorer. Chrome and Edge are basically spyware which people are most drawn to because of being somewhat default and/or well known for their phone/PC.
I think there's very little risk mitigation we can do to prevent a human from trying to kill us all, so the addition of an AI trying to do the same is sort of "who gives a shit."

Like, there was a fifty fifty chance we made it out of the 1980's without nuking ourselves. Average person's ability to influence this? Zero. So, you know. Chill out and enjoy the consumer products while they're available.
No, I think precogs would have been required to prevent this case, which is why I used the words “this case”.

Also, I’m not following, people are fleeing SF because bandyaboot on hn thinks precogs are required to prevent “any level” of crime? I didn’t know I had that much clout! And my clout transcends temporal cause and effect!
This is not “a little CO2”. Buy or rent a sensor, go cooking without the hood set to the proper setting / a window cracked open for long enough, and you’ll be horrified.
Sure, this might help. If you've had experience, what's unique about Emacs for you?
I'll use Algolia and search maybe.
"has finished" ffs
It literally is "no tracking until opt in" under the GDPR, and websites voluntarily choose to force the dialogue on you in the hope you might accept. Nobody is forcing them to do so.
"Shareholder primacy" led to the invention of modern vaccines and mRNA discoveries. Was this a poor longterm corporate investment?
> As for old people in politics, it's because there's a lot of old people who get to vote.

That’s only a small part of it. You can’t get anywhere in US politics without being in one of the two main parties, both of which have become in-effect oligarchies. Age and wealth are big factors in getting ahead in oligarchies.

So voters have little choice but to vote for one of these two oligarchies which are both stacked with rich old people. It’s not that much different from the Roman republic, except that instead of a single senatorial class you get to choose between two competing parties of patricians.
(Hardcore punk)
Is this website satire or an honest/evil attempt to poison the well?

Oh....I see, at the bottom, says satire specifically. Or rather "sAItire". Cute.

Didn't waste any time putting that up.
Does this article contradict Apple's 2017 change in suppliers

https://fortune.com/2017/03/03/apple-cobalt-child-labor/
CO2 is obviously a proxy here indeed, although it is harmful by itself.
30k is 0.01% of 300m, or 1 part in 10,000. It was also just a small part of 900k of grants given out to many different works.

This is how art grants work. They are tiny - in the 10k to 50k range, a few thousand are given out. Some of these artists produce great works and some don't. But it's cheap as heck compared to other things, and if we spend nothing on art, we don't get any great art. Are you also one of those people that hates federal arts funding?

Btw HPMOR is also pretty good. Harvard probably spent more than 30k on their sign and got a lot less.
Don't forget the beach that makes you old and getting ratatouilled:

https://youtu.be/etaA94eM2AE

https://youtu.be/we1I6nK6OBg
I am an emacs user, but sometimes I do feel like it isn't a meme. If you could give me a linux kernel that just boots and interfaces with emacs, I am pretty sure it would cover 90-95% of my computer usage cases. Essentially emacs is an OS that just lacks a kernel. And in a way it is a compliment, Emacs is so much more capable than just as a text editor.
Mine doesn't want to be fed and I don't think it's worried about me...but it does want me to know about the birds chirping outside. Yes, little one, I can hear them too.
True... if you're determined enough you could write one though.
Why does it matter as long as you get To live forever?
I am giving the GP the benefit of the doubt and don't think they are engaging in child labor whataboutism, but I also think they should write in a way that does not invite the qualification of "I think his point is...".

>pointing out just one particular item isn't very helpful

It absolutely is. And pointing out more is even better!
That sounds about right for the 30-40' range with decent gear and a finished interior. Some makers will sell bare hull, so no interior, no gear which can save a great deal of money. Most of us just exploit that boats depreciate just as quickly as cars and buy used.
and then in 2017 Friedman’s former department was renamed the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics after he donated 150m
Dumb question: if CSS is under-specified and everyone designs their sites for Chrome, could we analyze Chromium's CSS rendering code and use that to create a more well-defined CSS spec which other browsers can implement?
What you're alluding to is calibration and base gpt-4 had excellent calibration before RlHF.
Never had to maintain legacy code, huh?
Really depends on what you consider a “switch” to be. Most of Mikrotik’s CRS series supports full fat RouterOS, which includes wireguard support. Though the CPU on the CRS line is much cheaper than the proper routers (CCR series), so if you’re trying to do much more than a basic firewall and NAT on a residential connection (can probably handle 1Gbps fine on most of them) performance will not be great (even my CCR2004 can only handle ~3Gbps of IPSEC traffic).
Oh, thanks for that! As an atheist I always wondered what annoyed me so much in other more vocal and militant atheists.
I'd love to believe in God, a superior power, benevolent aliens, re-incarnation, anything! The problem is that I just can't, no matter how much I try.
Lol, we're about 30 years late. Everything, all the bits, are slurped by the NSA. ECHELON started in 1970s with the big five brothers.

Here's some fun keywords to whet your whistles if you wanna:

Camp Williams
Boundless Informant
ICREACH
MAINWAY
DCSNet
BULLRUN/Edgehill - NSA breaking encryption by intentionally weakening encryption schemes and stealing master keys.
I heard that Firefox incorporated some parts of Servo years ago as part of the Quantum project. However my knowledge is limited to those buzzwords and I don’t have any real sense of how big a portion of the work that went into Servo got used.
I make my coffee at home because the shops are too expensive
EMQX and Mosquitto are two of the most popular open-source MQTT brokers. EMQX is a highly scalable, distributed MQTT broker with clustering support. Mosquitto is a lightweight MQTT broker with a small footprint and a single-threaded architecture.
This blog post will provide an in-depth comparison of the two brokers in 2023.
You can disagree with it but Clausewitz is central to modern military doctrine. Analogizing interstate anarchy to bullies is fine but a bit limited; you’re never going to capture IR neorealism that way.
Mozilla abandoned work on Servo in 2020 (source: https://tildes.net/~tech/ra8/i_am_a_mozilla_employee_amaa) shortly after Layout 2020 came about. Servo was in limbo for some time before recently being handed over to the Linux Foundation, hence the time delay.
Lucky you. I don't have a garbage collector so much as a "good-memories" collector. My mind is kind enough to surface my embarrassments and disappointments from years past (some of which are objectively irrelevant) and very rarely the happy memories. Taking this mind deficiency into account, I have started aggressively taking photos and documenting happy instances as well.

I think being optimistic and positive by default is a superpower that some people possess.
Yes they exist but they confirmation bis their own hobbies as “useful” even though they too have hobbies!
Why is that true? It certainly led to the crippling of general corporate scientific research.
sigh I'm now old enough to watch yet another wave of "reinventing 2005 web dev again"

Did you know HTML and CSS are basically text files with some special organization that allow you to make really snazzy colors and marquees and stuff?

It's just a text file you can POST, too!

Super simple, use the same tools you use now.

Well, you'll need a browser to make it look pretty, but that's not the point right?
> I find it endlessly fascinating that Putin et al understood our election system better than us.

I think you’ve been brainwashed on this one. Local campaigns spend orders of magnitude more money and are run by extremely capable social media strategists. The IRA struggled with proper English grammar and mis-targeted their ads to staunch Republicans.

It was by all actual evidence an extremely shoddy effort run on a shoestring budget that made no difference at all.

Which when you look at the general competency level of Russia these days, I guess it’s par for the course.

For me the big takeaway isn’t arguing about political bygones. It’s that by and large, these boogeymen are entirely incompetent at what they purport to do, and don’t deserve a fraction of the hand-wringing that they seem to elicit.

They are hyped up boogeymen for political purposes. The reality is that they are poorly trained, underfunded, and entirely corrupt, and so the results of their efforts are predictably lame.
> Never had a problem or thought about manipulating directories inside of Vim.

It's extremely useful though, I find myself using the fact I can treat my directory list as a text file quite often.
I feel like that would be helpful context at the top of this article, because before knowing this I was pretty confused why a project was publicly questioning a decision it made 3 years ago, whereas with that context it seems this was more a discovery exercise by the new maintainers.
Yes, the way I phrase this when defending it in review is "these things have different reasons why they would change, despite being the same right now." Thanks Sandi Metz.
Similar thought about religion being established around these experiences rather than these experiences being a result of religion as the direction of cause and effect.

The symbolic significance of boats in ancient Egyptian religion mirrors the river theme in a lot of the accounts with the sun god Ra travelling through the underworld at night.
We don’t know if any spies are going to get burned or if any methods will be discovered and shut down. There was intelligence on specific things individual foreign leaders said in private. Combined with other info, that could definitely lead to spies getting killed. This is often the way spies are discovered.
For clarity, they’re leaving Salesforce East, which is next door to the more widely known Salesforce tower.
> It absolutely is. And pointing out more is even better.

I don’t see how.

If I point out your PC, car, house, office, etc are all likely built in some small way from child labor you’re going to do what exactly?

There’s plenty of documentation for many egregious cases, but when you look at the full supply chain for anything it quickly starts to look like the global economy as a whole. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/reports/child-labor/list-o...
I tried nostr but found it hard to find anything except people sending micro transactions to each other and posting memes about Bitcoin.
But it is a smell.
These consent forms are not about cookies. They cover all forms of tracking, whether by cookie, local storage, ip adres, browser fingerprint, or any other technique.
> Salesforce is ditching the last of its remaining office space at 350 Mission St., listing 104,051 square feet for sublease at the tower known as Salesforce East.

SFDC is moving out of a smaller building, but not the Salesforce Tower which is at 415 Mission.
Did it really? Wasn't the research leading to mRNA vaccines performed in a grant-funded university lab?
I try to remember what great product did Google release since he took over.

I fail to find one. Except milking the YouTube and Google search/ads cows that now are increasingly unbearable.

YouTube is worse than cable tv with ads every couple of minutes. Google search is polluted with seo optimized results. Ads are pushing plain scam companies without any due diligence.

So yes he increased the revenues, by putting the system in overdrive, but failed to release the next big thing. And now that the cash cows are running out of steam I am not sure where Google is going.
I find they often are bad. I don't know if this was written for radio but why not include a simple diagram since we're on the internet? Or is The New Yorker too cultured for that so they can only include snide comics?

In any case I didn't think this one was the worst I have come across. Can you really put your hands side by side with palms facing downward and middle finger tips touching? And if yes, may I see it?
This is the median check amount. A single company may receive checks from multiple angels, so the total pre-seed round may be larger.

Regarding valuation, pre-seed investments are often SAFEs or convertible debt, with a discount and valuation cap.
In case anyone got confused like me, the story is not about the Salesforce Tower, the tallest building in SF. The company has a 15-year lease on half of that building, and I doubt they would be able to unload that much space at any reasonable price in the current market. They are leaving Salesforce East, one of several nearby buildings where the company has also leased some floors.
Here is the relevant table. It seems that it's not compared to none, but rather compared to less than one serving per month.
https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1291...
That is fair, I agree they don't bid for the same projects.

In terms of listed points.

1. Simplicity... perhaps? I guess Racket has a larger surface area, but just like all Lisps/Schemes it is built on a simple core.
2. Distribution. Janet probably wins here. Racket can produce static binaries, but they may not be as tiny. Relatedly, there is a Racket subset, Zuo, that ticks this box.
3. Parsing text - Racket's whole shtick is this, given it is a language for writing languages :)
4. Subprocess DSL. `sh` looks like a nice library. I can see the value for using this for quick scripts since you can shell out to bash whenever you want.
5. Embeddable. Janet is better here similar to Lua. Also see Zuo.
6. Mutable and immutable collections. Racket has these.
7. Macros. Racket has these.
8. Compile time to run time. I'm not sure about this, being a Racket newbie.
9 and 10 - very subjective :)

Cheers! Thanks for the great article!

https://docs.racket-lang.org/zuo/index.html

In some sense it is a little sad that the Lisp and Scheme like languages diverge so much within themselves, as it makes an already unpopular set of languages even harder to standardize on and evangelize.
NASA’s New Vasimr Plasma Engine Could Reach Mars in Less Than 6 Weeks
> Some of these artists produce great works and some don't. But it's cheap as heck compared to other things, and if we spend nothing on art, we don't get any great art. Are you also one of those people that hates federal arts funding?

Ignoring the fact that you don't know how art grants work, you seem to be (carefully) ignoring the entire proposed idea behind Effective Altruism.
The major Servo components that made it into Gecko were the style subsystem (Stylo) and WebRender.
Usefulness as a concept assumes that you can make a connection between an activity and a desired outcome. But for many things someone giving a lifetime to something odd might result in something useful down the line. A million people with an odd hobby might create an insight that saves the planet! It is you just don’t know in advance which useless activity would help.
I don't hate Yoko. But she had no place on that specific performance, and Berry's face - and the fact that her mic was cut - proves it.
Not at all. There's a few major differences:

1. The unit of "following" is a subreddit, not an individual account. This means that your feed might contain a lot of content from a popular subreddit, but never of a single person. In fact, an account's karma on Reddit has no bearing on the reach of its posts. This lets me curate my feed based on the type of content, not based on who posted it and how many followers they have.

2. Because of (1), I have another option to the "front page": browsing a specific subreddit of my choice, where I see posts in basically the same order as everyone else. The closest that Twitter has to this is "Topics", but those are not communities, they are Twitter-curated feeds. You can't make a Topic, and you can't post to one. If your niche interest is not a Topic, you're out of luck, and most subreddits have no analogous Topic. Twitter lets you browse a user's posts, but individuals are high-variance. There's no way to say "show me all this person's tweets related to ML, which is why I followed, not when they talk about cooking." The only way around this is if the author has the prescience to make domain-specific alt accounts.

3. Downvotes. Twitter refuses to let you downvote content, which contributes to its toxicity. Whether you are retweeting to support or to criticize, the outcome is the same: you increase the post's reach. The most outrageous tweets get the most coverage. Reddit's downvote mechanism means that you can signal that a post is inappropriate for a subreddit, which means that the posts in a sub are more relevant to my interests.

Twitter has no such option: popular accounts naturally have high reach by default, and the lack of negative signal means that they can only accumulate more reach. The only way to decrease an account's influence is through coordinated unfollowing campaigns, "cancelling" them. Cancel culture isn't really a thing on Reddit because it's not personality-driven.
if you like a more functional POV then I would highly recommend Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design (Bird) and Purely Functional Data Structures (Okasaki)
Ah that makes complete sense. They’re dusting it off to see if it’s worth continuing development of.
Is there any evidence provided to support (or refute) this claim?
And are the deplorable conditions suddenly a-ok the day they turn 18?
Relevant Silicon Valley clip: https://youtu.be/Q1QPXyebhiY?t=895
His “donation” is essentially just a couple updates to some database tables. He doesn’t need the money, Harvard doesn’t need the money, neither will buy or not buy something as a result of the transaction, it’s just numbers moved from Griffin’s row to Harvard’s row. What else would you expect from two entities exchanging money when both have far more than they’ll ever need?
Is there a word for people who think they're logical but mostly driven by emotion? Like an emotional dk effect?
As someone who knows little about this and isn't from SF, I feel like that title, while technically correct, is pretty damn clickbait-y
The bigger issue is that these typical “post-crisis infrastructure spending results in massive economic gains!” stories ignore the opportunity cost of spending that money on repair rather than something else.

Committing this mistake can result in very unfortunate conclusions, such as breaking windows leads to economic growth.
I mean that's what happens when you signal for two decades that web is the highest paying salary for the lowest upfront investment. Furthermore, the ability for companies to do their compute in the cloud just means more HTTP traffic.
Do you think the same argument applies to communism?
That’s basically what’s happening, chrome implements something, it gets put into the standard, some others choose to implement or not.
This DRY discussion is... um... repetitive? I've got nothing new to contribute. But what I really want to know is what "fovea" and "peripheral" mean here

> Sorting out some similar code for “fovea” and “peripheral” reminded me that I had made a mistake here.
Knees be jerkin'
And I'm sure he would have accepted that in a discussion about the complexity.
Why do you assume making a bunch of cheap but potentially impactful bets is an ineffective strategy?