skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > I still can't help compare myself with people who are like 40 years old

You are jelous of their money and these guys are jelous of your erections

erections > money

The only problem is that you are killing them with your anxiety and if you kill them then they’d have an advantage again because if 2 guys have both problems with erections then it’s better to be the guy who has more money.

You might not notice it but even stuff like writing this post or doubting yourself is killing your erections so stop.

I am using erections because I assume you are a highly competitive and ego/money driven guy, there is nothing you would not sacrifice to make more money: relationships, friends, mental health, physical health, diet…..but not erections, would you accept losing you erections forever for 200bn dollars? I don’t think so.

Economists say there is no free meal, well there really isn’t. When you doubt yourself you are actively stabbing your penis and killing your erections and at 65k/yr you are way past the point where selfdoubt leads to accomplishments that make them come back stronger.

The world is much less violent than it used to be: 99,999% of the warfare is psychological. When you are doubting yourself you are actively opening fire on your positions, you are not only making your enemies win but they are winning thanks to your self destruction.

So you better delete this post or I’ll catch a plane and come there to kick you in the nuts until you pass out . So you’d be at least able to tell other guys that you lost your erections because of a vicious attack from a maniac instead of self inflicted psychological damage

And get the fuck out of your parents house
Probably not a lot but given how specialized that work is, and how high the clearance levels probably are, my guess is it’s also a much, much smaller talent pool.
For me it was the profound perspective shift from being a leaf node of a tree so to speak to becoming just one link in a long chain. It tends to relax the do-or-die drive quite a bit.
High Temperature Superconductor – Brian Keating Interview with Vishik and Hirsch
Jorge Hirsch, usually quite skeptical of superconductor claims, sees no reason to rule out recent claims
> It seems to be expressing something true - if you were to split your money into a thousand piles and "play" each individually, you make money overall.

This is exactly the catch of the experiment. It's proposing you cannot split your money in independent experiments. You need to pick a history and stick with it. That's what ergodicity is about.

Hence, no one owns the average (EV) money of all possible outcomes and it's a pointless metric, even though it doesn't say something that's mathematically false.
If we think more complexly we can find a much better answer. Cloudflares profitable services depend on DNS working properly for both the customer and the customers userbase. DNS servers outside of cloudflares control may not be correct, or may not route properly in various edge conditions. Therefore an easy way to solve this is to simply host their own DNS.
I am compiling these as a case against adoption of Microsoft

Can anyone provide references for these proving their current existence?
Except, in your simulation you only consider accumulation of dollar amounts. Pure gambling, wealth in a vacuum. Calling these dollar amounts 'wealth' is not helpful because they need to have purchasing power, there need to be goods and services to buy, otherwise they're just meaningless entries in a ledger, bits of paper (see Zimbabwe). It's wrong to dismiss capitalism on the basis of this simulation.

In the real world there are usually side effects to these 'bets'. For example, a person, who is already rich, uses their wealth to purchase a factory and produce goods at a dollar price in the hope to earn more wealth. Those goods might be rejected by the market, but if accepted, they receive dollars and the rest of the world receives goods. The factory owner can only receive the dollars if others can afford to buy them. This means there is another road to ruin - fail to produce anything people want at a price they can afford and you'll soon go bust.

The buyers who receive goods in exchange for money, particularly durable labor saving goods like dishwashers/fridges/cars/computers, are surely more wealthy in some sense? In addition, the factory owner might make tools/machinery that enables other entrepreneurs to make stuff too.

Also consider ongoing costs, that capital has to be replaced (things break!), unexpected bumps in the road, finite lifespan, waste, and so on.

Which leads me to our current system: the rich have got richer through financialization, government lobbying, zero-interest financing et.c, that has allowed them to acquire assets that appreciate without a substantial increase in production.

The solution is to make rich people take much bigger, potentially ruinous, risks with their wealth on production instead of financial chicanery. More abundant goods and technology are the payoff while failure leads to liquidation of their assets, making assets more accessible to everyone else who might need them.

Deflation, and crashes are a feature, not a bug. Inflationism, stimulus, cheap money et.c helps protect workers in the short term during a downturn, but prolonged stimulus makes assets unaffordable. Worse it causes huge misallocations of capital into unproductive endeavors at no risk to the investor.

My belief is you don't 'prop-up' the big fish using the government/central bank. Then yes, you may still have inequality, but it won't be nearly as static, but more dynamic. i.e there may always be an extreme power law wealth distribution, but what's more important is there's regular turnover at the top and nobody spends too long in the top or the tail.
> When people are discussing equality and you bring up tangential topics, you're labeled as an enemy

Sorry, I enjoy a culture of growth in understanding, so when I do something sloppy, I want to know. I don't assume I know everything.

I now get that isn't your thing, sorry. I don't spend much time on social media, so I forget sometimes.
No, there were some swaths of SpaceX, but this was another company I had never heard of, I want to say the company was listed as being in Virginia, but I don't remember any details.
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> ... abstract class that integrated with ... the ORM that I was using back then

> Yes, I had failed to see the proper solution: a class generator

Looks to me like the problem is actually object orientation
I have used the internet since, well, since back when a 56k modem was a dream. I have had zero security incidents via a browser. On the other hand Google collect data on me 100% of the time I start a Chrome browser. "What if" versus "this actually happens" is the typical argument.
The lock-in is mostly because competitors were not good enough to implement a similar solution, not because of artificial restrictions.
It removes the ability to run custom logic to decide whether a net request should be allowed to go through, switching Chrome to a system like Safari's where you can only declaratively specify what you would like blocked.

While Google claims it is a change they are making for security and performance, a lot of people are worried that it is actually intended to make ad blocking harder.
Worldcoin says will allow companies, governments to use its ID system
You could easily solve all of this without HFTs - you might introduce a few seconds of latency but virtually no real investors care about that level of latency and it would save them billions per year.
Sorry, I guess I'm coming across wrongly somehow? I think 120m towers are crap as an energy storage solution. Maybe they could shove them inside skyscrapers that are being built, but that seems like a reach, especially given the size of the blocks needed for things to be practical. Leveraging existing mine shafts for it seems relatively sane. The work is done, it's unused, might as well get some ongoing value out of it, vs building a whole sodding great tower.

Static concrete being able to store power like a battery, like the article is talking about, is ideal if it works (possibly with caveats depending on how quickly it degrades). It's a ubiquitous material, used all over the place. It'd be getting value out of something that is going to be used anyway.
The biggest blocker for me has been the lack of convenient profile switching. It's an important part of my workflow to have a separate profile for home/work/other, with history, bookmarks, etc. Container tabs are not a good replacement. Worse, I get irritated with the fact that Firefox fully supports this under the hood, but seems to push back against actually implementing a convenient way to use it.

I'm currently doing my yearly attempt to switch, using the Profile Switcher extension [0]. It works well enough, but requires external software running and I fully expect it to break eventually. I also can't open external links in anything but the default profile (vs Chrome opening in the profile most recently active, a nice convenience).

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/profile-switc...
Pretty much. And just as entertaining.
It also makes it feel all the more exploitative that young developers are encouraged to work long hours and put their everything into their job. And that women are de-incentivized to have children by the market, if not capitalist society at large - don't do it, it'll cost you your career! We only give you two weeks of leave after you gave birth. You can't afford child care, or all your wages would be spent on it! etc.
Programming is a job, it is not a mission to save the universe. A few programmers become famous for a combination of talents and luck, but nobody can control either of these things. In the end, 99.99% of programmers do the same things that this guy is making fun of.
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Safari doesn't even support adblockers. It's a DOA browser.
The problem with Chrome is it would have no funding unless we suddenly end up with subscription browsers.

It also means the fall of Firefox because they are still dependent on the Google moneytit.

The future I see in this direction is Chrome ends up getting a free easy takeover/hijack by Microsoft since they are have no problem throwing money at Edge.
Ah yes, the CrudController to solve all your problems. Also in this list: the AbstractBaseRepository
How to Avoid Debugging Software
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Prescriptive linguists are losers. Descriptive linguists are winners. Almond milk is called almond milk because it's milk and it's from almonds.
Samee understanding I got. He got laid off for breaking security protocol and then tries to put a racial spin on it to claim wrongful termination and add the dying relative story to gain sympathy.

A friend works at Airbus and needs to check his phone into a locker before entering the secure area where most of the work takes place, so if he wants to take a personal call he must do it outside that area and never bring his phone or other personal electronic devices inside.

Often you'll have penetration testers try to break in or security auditors who try to convince random employees to break security protocols to test you and it's no joke, if you loose your security certification you automatically loose your customers, as defense contracts depend on having said certifications. Rules are rules over there.

The paranoia is high because there are nation states who are well funded and well motivated to get their hands on your defense capabilities, so the tight security protocols must be obeyed by everyone if you choose to work for defense contractors, as consequences are dear, nothing against your ethnicity or language you speak.
I suggest changing the link to https://huggingface.co/ibm-nasa-geospatial. The currently linked press release is an insufferable corporate PR word salad.
Google is not quite Standard Oil though and generally modern tech function in an environment is different from the cartels/trusts/monopolies of the day that it's hardly comparable.

Also thankfully general regulatory situation (and arguable level corruption) isn't as quite yet as bad as it was back in the 1900s.
Right, but it seems to work for them.

Plenty of people believe that it is better to buy a gas powered Subaru instead of a Tesla because Elon doesn't support cluster bombing European farmland.
While the article is certinaly and little "fluffy" - more infotainment and information - the concepts behind local first are sound, they are a strong and compelling way to build apps.

Quite right CRDTs are not magic, but they do get you something like 80-90% of the way there for most CRUD style apps. There is also a bunch of work going on into developing new CRDTs for different use cases.

What's important is articles like this help us to explain to less technical people what local first is, the advantages it has. They help to sell the concept.

But ultimately Wired is entertainment isn't it.
> IE was absolutely hated for not evolving. I'm curious what "its own vision" was, other than "do as little as possible, while Mozilla and Opera keeps pushing forward."

IE introduced DHTML and made designing webpages way easier than just using the DOM , IE also introduced AJAX. Sure it stagnated at some point but IE contributed a lot to the web.
It's upcoming. But you can use StartAllBack today.
Surgery bots are cool. My software just keeps track of drugs
> a large part of western capitalism in 2023 looks pretty much like a dystopian landscape out of a cyberpunk novel. It's a democratic nightmare in the making.

My take is that this process is inevitable while the following is in play: DoJ rubberstamps monopoly creating mergers, merger desiring companies fund campaigns & otherwise gift politicians, voters keep reelecting those politicians while not overly objecting to their corruption, news orgs fail to cover mergers in a historical context while generally preferring fluff and stenography.

Those wishing to expose flaws in my analysis can use the space below.
Some one suggested using the WEI API to block access to chrome. It wouldn't really work but it was amusing, until I realized the censorship potential of the whole thing on the world stage.
Yes, though I lost it when I moved back with my parents. I didn't recognise it until they confronted me with it. They had moved to a place where I knew no one, and my mind wasn't in a place where meeting anyone would ever happen. My solution, though I am not recommending it, was that one day I packed a bag and headed to somewhere where I might meet up with people I knew. I had no accomodation but I did meet some old friends and I slept that night in two armchairs pushed together. I never lived with my parents again.

I think the moral might be that we all need other physical people to relate to. Sadly today actually being with people is too easy to avoid.
You shouldn’t be “handling scrolling” at all in your code, that’s the browser’s job. Sites which attempt to interfere with native scrolling have terrible user experience and often break accessibility tools like screen readers or magnifiers.
If the API was used by 90%+ of the internet, then it was the standard.
> The struggle itself towards the lack of bugs is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Arthur happy

My favourite passage from Camus' little known book Software Development is Existentialism
1. Judges don't order an "antitrust" case, a prosecutor must do that start a case. A judge can then rule on it OR a jury (the DOJ in fact requested an anti-trust jury trial this year)

2. Your theory was basically proven broke by the fact that ATT which was broken up in anti-trust, became ATT, again.
If you think of a model as a function approximator with an error that can only be characterized empirically, it's not a bad term at all to describe the class of algorithms ANNs belong to.

It's a real shame that the term is being abused so badly, because it's really appropriate in a lot of these cases. Or rather, it would be if people used it mindfully.
Punishing users for the browser they use when it can render the site perfectly fine is so hostile. They may not even have the choice of browser installed on the machine they use.
I guess I said it kind of the wrong way around. The written script has evolved to be used by humans. It's still evolving, of course, so it's not like it's a paragon of efficiency; but humans are good at pattern recognition, and the written word is exactly just that.

Learning to read, is learning patterns.
Consider this alternative bet:

heads +100%
tails -75%

The expected value is positive: 12.5%

If you play five times in parallel you're as likely to make money as to lose money but when you gain you gain 45% on average and when you lose you lose 20% on average. Overall, the expected gain is 12.5%.

If you play five times in sequence you're unlikely to make money (less than 20% probability) but then you make a 300% gain (four heads) or even a 3100% gain (five heads). Overall, the expected gain is 12.5% compounded five times which is 80%.

As the number of coin flips grows it is less and less likely that you lose if you do it in parallel (the expected gain is 12.5% and the distribution of returns converges to that value) and more and more likely that you lose if you do it in sequence (the expected gain is again 12.5% compounded but the distribution of returns is an increasingly skewed lognormal).

Exercise for the reader: take this interesting but simple and well-known fact and make a career out of it from repeating it again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again...
Ya, if I was told correctly by management at the time, Microsoft’s first large scale layoff (that would layoff people without perf reasons) was in the 2008. They actually moved a bunch of IE KLTO to China by the mid 2000s, and then took it back to Redmond in 2009/2010 when they realized chrome and Firefox were kicking their butts.
I said "also hated", as in "in addition".
Security clearance work in any capacity is already a very small pool
What does it mean in this context to compete against yourself? Anything at immediately at hand or on the todo list? Or is it just a reminder to get something done you thought of doing but normally wouldn't otherwise?
Just a few years back, I checked out datasheet for an IC encountered in an USB card reader (newly bought).

Turns out a 8051 core was included (iirc clocked @ ~30 MHz, to control jobs like light busy LED on card read/write ops, some bus arbitration / priority settings, power management or the like).

Made total sense to encounter an ancient, 'fast', tiny 8-bit core there, even though unexpected.

There must be (and will be) an endless list of products including tiny CPU cores like that (eg., RFID tags come to mind).
> At that level of abstraction it’s all just strings

Exactly... I worry about the masses learning of this and gaining literacy over the landed gentry.

PHP/CGI basically had it solved. I emulate PHP in .NET6 today using verbatim and interpolated string operations.
IE was super strict on the standards it seemed. Can't remember the specifics anymore but it seemed something would work in CSS or JS on Chrome but not IE. Then I would look up & IE was correct but Chrome was adding features that made sense & made life easier.

When TypeScript came out the type support was what made me become a very early & passionate adopter even though it was very bleeding edge & a pain to use with other libraries. The cuts were worth it because they always saved much greater pain later. It was also an easier sell than something like Elm.
> However, Apple did not attempt to divide the web then use it's dominant position to make all the content only compatible with their stuff.

Flash would like a word with you.
Careful. I just got a slap on the wrist for calling out lazy commentary, apparently it’s “taking a swipe” at someone.
True, but people usually don't start with this on retirement. And the end of the story is about him planning to eat cat food(?). Not sure how to take this, as it also talks about Soylent and Premium Mix, which are not the cheapest.
that’s the danger.

you built a system for cogs.

someone hired a thinker.
They’re called Limited Areas and you’re not allowed to bring so much as a smart watch past the very clearly labeled door.
lol there might be some on my nokia phone .. just let me dig that out of the closet. To be clear this project was moderately large, if i recall the hour hand (which was the longer in my design) was about 1 foot long.
> Working on the hardware directly is more than half of the fun.

It never really worked until you gave blood to the computing gods on a sharp edge of a metal case.
Found solutions also tend to be super clever. Because they're packaged in a generalized library or white-paper, where the author doesn't have to worry about implementation details.

Clever works great outside of your actual business code.
I don't have much need for a calculator what I'm doing currently, but I have the same TI-84 from when I was a teenager, and when I had a desk I kept it on it. I find myself using the phone app calculator for most things "around the house" or for craft projects lately, but I am so irritated by it, it's not as easy to see the history if you made an error, and if you don't hit the enter key you get an answer but it doesn't commit that answer to history, meaning you need to do the whole calculation over again if you forgot to copy your answer or hit enter. And the reason I don't hit enter is because I still want to see my input operation, and hitting enter makes the output a new input more or less. On the TI-84 I can see everything conveniently laid out and more easily chose from my last outputs for new inputs. Never doing anything complicated, mostly just scaling ratios (how much material do I need for x size item), but it's irritating to have to do everything twice on a cell phone.
It seems, in some subcultures the FactoryFactory or ServiceService approach to reducing repetition and increasing complexity is common. In Lisps/ Scheme the best approach is usually the copy&paste until you established it is a problem and then introduce some wrapper function or a macro or whatever.
First immortal mice when?
This may be a silly question as I'm quite inexperienced w/ ML and a lot of the words in this article don't mean anything to me yet:

But, could this "model" be used for something like monitoring land use in a city? The specific example I'm thinking of is getting a percentage breakdown of what land devoted to paved surfaces (parking/roads), to vacant undeveloped lots, and to built structures. It would also be interesting to see how those percentages have changed over time.
For some reason I read it as if you think that is a bad thing? In my opinion that is how it should be and it is a strength.
There are cases where doing the "same" work twice is sufficient, preferred even...

Somehow some colleagues found it absurd to parse some code twice, but don't see the insanity of parsing code, getting an AST, serializing, sending it, and then deserializing correctly.

Never mind the fact that the serialized AST is 250x larger, and deserializing arbitrary constructs without codegen is a whole different can of worms, and especially harder when the code is running in 2 different programming languages.
If the Tokyo firebombings were more deadly, doesn’t that mean that was less moral than dropping the bomb?
Hey OP, your intro video source URL is using an IP address instead of your domain name, and that's causing an SSL error which prevents it from loading.