skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel there is a huge over indexing on Clean Code and self describing code. Essentially are we suffering from a journeyman problem where the commentary we focus on are written by those that are new and have trouble understanding basic syntax? In that case the comments can be largely removed as describing a code statement with a comment indeed can often be replaced with a better statement.

Though, comments are so much more. They can be like the foreword in a book, the intro paragraph of a paper. While every paragraph might be easy to understand, a foreword to help the reader know what to expect can be invaluable.

Comments can be a scaling tool. A few lines above a test to tell me what is being tested might take 5s to digest, compared to adverse engineering the codd which might take 25s or longer. Multiplied over a dozen test cases, and you have something that can be understood in a minute compared to a dozen minutes. Multiply that put to a half dozen test suites or more and it is a time savings of hours.

As another analogy, it's like someone providing a travel itinerary. If you know the overall itinerary,the individual parts became expected and obvious - so much guess work of "where are we going with this" is removed. Instead that is replaced with, "I now expect these three steps", which makes it easier to recognize those steps and fit them into place.

Another analogy is a puzzle. Well written code is like having very large pieces where you can see a lot of detail. Good commentary is like having the full puzzle picture provided to you. Having both makes for an easy puzzle (which requires less time to understand, which means it requires less time to modify.)
The sooner Twitter dies the better. Let's hope Musk loses big when it craters.
This isn't great for Asians at all. But honestly, it worse for those minority groups that are discriminated against to a far greater degree. It is not looked over that Asians are discriminated against in this country, nor isn't it irrelevant that far too many biases exist against any and all groups, but imagine Asian Americans being denied for loans at the rate of Blacks and Latinos or being shot & killed at the rate as those groups. Imagine Asian communities being burned down for having any success and then buried under lakes. This landmark decision didn't help much for the Asian community as far as college admissions, but so many aren't recognizing how much it set back those communities that are exponentially being targeted to a greater degree by discriminatory practices. Many think that things will revert to "merit" going forward. Yes, in some society that is not America, that happens. In this society where financial institutions and so many other institutions still close the books on people as soon as they walk in the door based off of just the color of their skin, it does not. And how else are actions based of denying entry, services or goods supposed to be countered now? it didn't help or hurt Asians to have this Affirmative Action struck down in this case. It very much so hurt the groups that are discriminated against more so.
The holistic design is certainly a big piece of it. While we certainly admire aspects of both Apple and Sun (and we count formerly-Apple and formerly-Sun among our employees), we would also differentiate ourselves from both companies in critical dimensions:

- Oxide is entirely open where Apple is extraordinarily secretive: all of our software (including the software at the lowest layers of the stack!) is open source, and we encourage Oxide employees to talk publicly about their work.

- Oxide is taking a systems approach where Sun sold silo'd components: I have written about this before[0], but Sun struggled to really build whole systems. For Oxide, we have made an entire rack-level system that includes both hardware and software: the abstraction to the operator is as turn-key elastic infrastructure rather than as a kit car.

We have tried to take the best of both companies (and for that matter, the best of all the companies we have worked) to deliver what customers want: a holistic system to deploy and operate on-premises infrastructure.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2287033
Did you actually read the tweet that you replied to?

> "I'm certain I scroll at least 100 tweets/minute."

Many Twitter users, including literally the person you are in conversation with, scroll through dozens/hundreds of tweets a minute.

Not sure if you're actually used Twitter before, but many tweets are only a line or two of text, and it doesn't take more than a second to process them.

Additionally, if you're quickly scrolling through replies or someone's history to try to find something, it can render hundreds of tweets in a matter of seconds.
TL;Dr - be rich enough that you don't need to do Real Work and can focus on your personal passion projects.
He misspoke and actually meant one, billionaire user by 2024
My first impression isn't all that good.

- I see a lot of elements loading with no content for several seconds.
- Posts open up in the same type of overlay new reddit also uses. not a fan of that.
- Closing the overlay makes the page reload a bit again.
- Heavy focus on fluff content, a lot of the issues people have with reddit is the heavy focus on fluff content in the past few years.

"The Fluff Principle: on a user-voted news site, the links that are easiest to judge will take over unless you take specific measures to prevent it."

Source: Article by Paul Graham (the guy that started HN and funded reddit way back in the day) http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html.

What this means is basically the following, say you have two submissions:

1. An article - takes a few minutes to judge. 2. An image - takes a few seconds to judge.

So in the time that it takes person A to read and judge he article person B, C, D, E en F already saw the image and made their judgement. So basically images will rise to the top not because they are more popular, but simply because it takes less time to vote on them so they gather votes faster.
I see what you're saying, but I'm not sure you see what I'm saying.

If you want to maximize your chances of being a great writer, obviously write. But if you want to maximize your chances of being great period, then you need to decide if writing the next great american novel is the course you want to work toward. IMO you are an order of magnitude more likely to become famous/great from youtube than from writing, even if your best skill is novel-writing.

Sure there are people who persevered at writing at made it work, but also probably more people persevered and wasted their lives on writing than most other pursuits.
Interesting about parents not being trustworthy to look out for their kids best interest. If not parents, who is?
I don’t think that Jewish organizations like Birthright discriminate. They want all Jews to have children. I can’t think of anything equivalent to Birthright that operates on a national level.
Basically Usenet then?
I wonder if this reaches into the territory of “abandoning your copyright” though.
Yes, that's clear.

I'm not very familiar with how quicklisp works. I thought that “updates once a month” implies a separate update channel (distribution, ...).

Looking at the relevant issue, https://github.com/quicklisp/quicklisp-client/issues/167 , it's not clear that even hashes are in place.

I recently found out that most Nix fetchers use https, but do not actually do verification (`curl --insecure` or equivalent libcurl settings). Channel updates do verify and include hashes, so the overall chain is authenticated.
I think one of the issues is that there can be a significant gap in the level of teachers that you encounter. There are tons of teachers out there that are probably not much better, and maybe even worse, than going through people on YouTube, personal websites, online courses, etc. But then there are the truly masterful teachers in which the experience is on a whole different level, where the learning is beyond what you could do on your own. It's more on the level of a traditional guru, in the original sense of the word [1].

I've had both experiences, and I agree, in most cases a private teacher might not be worth it, but if you find the right person, it'll bring you way further than you ever could have gone on your own.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru
The thing I try to keep in mind most when dealing with these kinds of blog posts is that something that must be helpful to a majority of its audience will inevitably lose a lot of the value it can provide to each individual.
The project was a custom compiler to turn a simple query plan (think select, where, group by) into wasm. So it was basically hand-written raw wasm generation.

I did compile some helper functions from Rust though, which also served as the "skeleton" of the wasm artifact I was later generating my wasm into, since wasm doesn't have any kind of proper dynamic linking right now.
i can't even see mine ..
Those must be some crazy out of the way employers.
Twitter is currently broken and very few tweets are loading.
I think the bond wire pattern was just for layout convenience: if the buses end up on one side, why run wiring around to the other side?

As far as the NSA, I haven't come across any mention of the NSA using the chip, but I guess that doesn't say much :-) The chip was popular with the military and it seems like to would be good for NSA-style applications (processing large quantities of data). The i960 has bit instructions that would be useful for the NSA such as scan for the most-significant set bit in a word, although I don't think it has population-count which the NSA likes.
It's strange that the electronics is the problem. A redesign using modern electronics should not be too hard. IR sensors have improved enormously since the 1980s and are now consumer items. You can even get high dynamic range versions for flare resistance. Might not even need sensor cooling now.

You'd expect the rocket and explosive parts to be a more of problem. Many companies make electronics, but few make rockets.

DoD has a new consortium to make a new Javelin, but it's just Lockheed and Raytheon. They're not going outside the DoD contractor community.
They're not temporary they're indefinite
Meng was PRC royalty - the daughter of Huawei's president, imagine a literal billionaire being a spy. She was taken hostage under Pence's China Initative for Iranian sanctions shenanigans that historically was dealt via fines. The initiative explicitly called for targetting PRC nationals.

Hence intense reaction. The 2 Canadian Michaels on the other hand, were text book spys with NGO covers. Western propaganda likes insinuate PRC would capture innocent westerners when state security have massive state survillance capability that completely dismantled CIA networks a few years prior. Like literally friend of Michael hinted he was in "intelligence" and CSIS (Canadian CIA) publically celebrated on twitter upon their return. The Michaels weren't executives. The TLDR, while in PRC, don't traffic drugs, don't be a spy/do anti state activities, don't get involved in expensive legal proceedings - the latter is what actually get (white) westerners in trouble via exit bans.
Ah, as usual if there's a complaint there's an open spec proposal for it.
Thanks for sharing!
Looks like you got it. Have fun!
Interesting topic but this paper is frustratingly difficult to read due to the low quality print, almost like it’s a photo copy
In spite of Wikipedia, there's not much of a lake left and there are dozens of roads crisscrossing. No amount of conservation may bring it back due to climate change. The West is desertifying.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulare_Lake#/media/File:Tulare...

https://goo.gl/maps/LZy1W6haNy3EG3iv9
That's everything they do I do believe.
There is a bit more to it. It allows one to create mixed C++ / Lisp projects with memory management, CLOS methods for C++ classes, CLOS subclass of C++ classes, Lisp and C++ gets compiled to LLVM-IR, debug source output mixing compiled C++ and Lisp frames, ...
Replace “cable management” with “piano playing“ and the idea that virtuosity is a collection of tips, tricks, and shortcuts is exposed as the absurdity it is.

my cabling ends up a total mess

Good cable management means tidying up the mess as opposed to accepting the mess.

That’s work of course, but being good at something doesn’t mean working less. At best it means becoming more efficient so more gets done in the same amount of time.

In the average case being good is more work. Good luck.

[edit] The important thing about learning the piano is the expectation it will take time and dedication to a process of correcting poor results.

Sure you can hire a piano teacher. But you can also hire a consultant to come in once a week.
They did, it just happens to be intentional this time.
Man, this is beyond reality, rate limiting on reading?
Technology makes it easy to abuse resources which were previously freely available.

Telemarketing calls abuse our attention. Well then one of possible solutions is to charge money for stealing or attention. We should be allowed to set price per minute to call us via phone.
> Not only you are wrong, you are wrong and arrogant.

Facing facts ≠ arrogance.

> Notice even California had a Republican governor until 2011.

And? California has long been a leading indicator of societal trends. (And 2011 was a dozen years ago.)

"Biden’s winning base in 509 counties encompasses fully 71% of America’s economic activity, while Trump’s losing base of 2,547 counties represents just 29% of the economy." [0]

[0] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/biden-voting-counties-equ...
> not really sure what she thought was going to happen

Fat severance package, a post-termination book deal and international name recognition?
If you think about it Google Groups could have been Reddit if presented in this way.
Give this people air! https://youtu.be/X8lT-Sn-HqE
Somebody help me understand the business value. All the tech is cool but I don't get the business model, it seems deeply impractical.

* You buy your own servers instead of renting, which is what most people are doing now. They argue there's a case for this, but it seems like a shrinking market. Everything has gone cloud.

* Even if there are lots of people who want to leave the cloud, all their data is there. That's how they get you -- it costs nothing to bring data in and a lot to transfer it out. So high cost to switch.

* AWS and others provide tons of other services in their clouds, which if you depend on you'll have to build out on top of Oxide. So even higher cost to switch.

* Even though you bought your own servers, you still have to run everything inside VMs, which introduce the sort of issues you would hope to avoid by buying your own servers! Why is this? Because they're building everything on Illumos (Solaris) which is for all practical purposes is dead outside Oxide and delivering questionable value here.

* Based on blogs/twitter/mastodon they have put a lot of effort into perfecting these weird EE side quests, but they're not making real new hardware (no new CPU, no new fabric, etc). I am skeptical any customers will notice or care and would have not noticed had they used off the shelf hardware/power setups.

So you have to be this ultra-bizarre customer, somebody who wants their own servers, but doesn't mind VMs, doesn't need to migrate out of the cloud but wants this instead of whatever hardware they manage themselves now, who will buy a rack at a time, who doesn't need any custom hardware, and is willing to put up with whatever off-the-beaten path difficulties are going to occur because of the custom stuff they've done that's AFAICT is very low value for the customer. Who is this? Even the poster child for needing on prem, the CIA is on AWS now.

I don't get it, it just seems like a bunch of geeks playing with VC money?
Collaborate with Anyone, Anywhere
Why write about when it starts collecting data? We could wait until actual worldview changing research results surface because that’s what really matters.

The fact of the matter is worldview changing results will likely not ever surface, just as they didn’t from JWST. So instead press departments pretend all the steps along the way are important because it helps improve public sentiment for the financing of these “moonshots” (which hardly even deserve the name, we haven’t accomplished anything remotely like placing a man on the moon in decades).
> "Follow your interest/passion" - is such an easy advice.

> For example people here just jump into doing something and then eventually develop a passion for it (setting up a shop, or running a business or producing/distributing boring everyday products, etc).

No one said you first had to sit down, ponder hundreds of life options and then choose your passion. Passion might also come to you as you progress in whatever field you're in. Put differently, you might as well follow your natural inclinations (whatever you find somewhat interesting in the moment) or submit to life/financial constraints (choose a promising career path), and as you become better and better at what you do, develop a passion for it.
It was used by Nokia Networks for all their HP-UX based infrastructure, in a mix of C++ and Perl.

Eventually it was replaced by a new server infrastructure based on Java EE and Red-Hat Linux.
Great. After today's blows against open Internet (Reddit, Twitter, YouTube) I started to consider IPv6 as a necessary enabler of truly decentralized (as in p2p or POSSE) social networks.
> Elon reported that Twitter hit a new all time high of "user seconds" last week.

A famously trustworthy source.
Yep. That’s the worst part — all these startups and people’s time and effort are just a ploy by rich people to get richer.
That's what happened Esther Crawford, now she tweets about her hopes to productize 'moments of calm and psychological intimacy', whatever that means. Can't load the tweet rn because rate limited (lol) but the replies were divided between people shilling their product and other people suggesting that fireplaces and loveseats already meet this need.
More on "UNCLASSIFIED": there are 36,520 of those sites.

It's not practical to list all of them. But we can randomly sample. And large-sample statistics start to apply at about n=30, so let's just grab 30 of those sites at random using `sort -R | head -30`:

1 sfg.io
1 extroverteddeveloper.com
2 letmego.com
1 thestrad.com
2 bombmagazine.org
1 domlaut.com
1 bootstrap.io
1 jumpdriveair.com
2 desmos.com
1 leo32345.com
1 echopen.org
1 schd.ws
1 web3us.com
7 akkartik.name
1 bcardarella.com
1 cancerletter.com
1 platinumgames.com
1 industrytap.com
2 worldoftea.org
1 motion.ai
1 vectorly.io
2 enterprise.google.com
1 lift-heavy.com
1 davidpeter.me
1 panoye.com
3 thestrategybridge.org
2 fontsquirrel.com
1 kettunen.io
1 moogfoundation.org
2 elekslabs.com

That's a few foundations, a few blogs, a corporate site (enterprise.google.com), and something about tea, all with a small number of posts (1--7).

I'm looking at some slightly larger samples (60--100) here on my own system, and can actually make some comparisons across samples (to see how much variance there is) which can give some more information on tuning what I would expect to find under the "UNCLASSIFIED" sites.
One on one a good teacher is far more effective than even the world's best book or video.

As a child I was taught one on one when I had trouble. It really got me unstuck as needed. I still remember some of those lessons fondly.

I used to teach one on one for pay. I've taken the worst cs student in class and in a few weeks made them well above average. I've helped people pass math classes that they were completely failing at in just a few hours. This isn't anything special.

And now teaching my PhD students one on one I know each very well. I know what they know, what they tend to miss, and no amount of online videos or books will be better than a tailored explanation designed just for them where I recast a tricky problem into one that they already know.

You haven't experienced a good teacher one on one.
Humans are also the only animal that may cause total extinction
Update from Elon: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675214274627530754

> Rate limits increasing soon to 8000 for verified, 800 for unverified & 400 for new unverified

lolwut. Quoting a post from Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@maxkennerly/110640373859329500

> LOL this is not how you deal with "data scraping," this is how you deal with a catastrophic loss of system capacity.

> You limit data scraping by blocking things a human user couldn't do, like access a thousand posts a minute. This is aimed directly at reducing normal activity across the whole system.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36552324
I have been struggling a lot with dating. Despite being a quite social, and often popular guy to be around, there has been some block/hump that always stood in the way of dating. Funnily enough it struck me some weeks ago that I probably have to go on a psychadelic trip to rewire my brain to be able to show my interest romatically to others. What I'm scared of is the possibility of it having some other undesired effect though

I had a similar experience with dancing though. Thought I hated it, and I always had to force myself to do it, until I started (modestly) drinking alcohol. My body would dance for me and I would enjoy it. The effect more or less stuck around and I even genuinely have days of more confidence after a night with alcohol.

All of this is mildly depressing though. It feels as though we are just our brains (maybe obviously), but just that we're the strange effects of the functions of a non-magical/soul-less organ in our heads primarily just meant to steer our bodies. Those thoughts make drugs both existentially liberating but at the same time also "imprisoning" for me
Have you tried https://libreddit.de ? It can also be self-hosted
Making Infrared Cooling Paint from Grocery Store Items [video]
All of these things have been prohibited to varying degrees of success throughout history. Just because there are times and places where it doesn’t work doesn’t mean prohibition is a universally ineffectual measure. That’s a fairy tale.
Instagram Threads is going to thrash Twitter. It will be insane, like Snapchat stories but much worse
Elon gutted infrastructure, and now Twitter can barely handle Internet loads. It’s one DDoS attack away from service unavailability. Cheap bastard.
Were these apps made possible with VC money, or just made monopolizable? In a different world, I could see most of these areas spawning smaller companies—on a slower timeline, sure—if VC-backed companies couldn't use massive up-front capital to suck the air out of the room. We could certainly have app-based taxis and restaurant delivery without Uber or DoorDash; hardware and bandwidth have gotten cheap enough that we could have more Vimeos and Floatplanes instead of one big YouTube; Slashdots and Diggs and HNs without Reddit... etc.
Layout seems to be mostly locked in. Apart from back buttons from elite controllers. What we really need are more controller sizes. It's ridiculous they're still one-size fits all.
I realize I mistakenly responded to @Devasta thinking it was yourself [1]. You should read that response first as it was (mostly) intended for you.

Playing the blame game is politics 101 so of course laws will reflect that.

It is clear to me that @Devasta and yourself are more interested in addressing symptoms rather than identifying root causes. I would rather address root causes because in doing so I believe the symptoms will be addressed. We will have to agree to disagree.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36548445