skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, it was apparently not the initial intent, but he did simulate that behaviour, and "Many academics believed that the program would be able to positively influence the lives of many people, particularly those with psychological issues, and that it could aid doctors working on such patients' treatment."
Imagine this:

You start a fresh REPL session with a vague idea of something you want to build. You have good tooling that enables you to write code in your favourite editor and pipe it to the REPL through a socket. You write a couple of functions and send them to the REPL. You call them a few times with some test arguments, maybe define a couple global variables while testing, and realize one of the functions doesn't quite behave the way you want. You tweak the code and send it again to the REPL. The function is redefined and works properly now.

You're happy with what you have for now, so you save the entire current environment of the REPL, functions and global variables and all, into a file (called an image) on your disk. The next day, you come up with a great new feature so you load up the image and continue exactly where you left off yesterday, with all your functions and even global variables as they were defined previously. You add your new feature, all while testing and tweaking your functions interactively, and then you save the new environment into an updated image. Any other code that loads that image will be able to take advantage of your updated functions and variables now.

The power of lisp is not just the fact that there's a REPL — a lot of languages have that now. It's the ability to save and reload the entire current state of the REPL (interactively or programmatically), which enables the powerful interactive development that so many lispers, including myself, rave about.
Google is doing the same business with VirusTotal.com.
We're hosting malware as zipped files, and providing passwords to users. It's not possible to accidentally run the malware as user.

And the problem is not about this, we removed all the files and Google said you didnt. They're not saying you're not trustable website, they said you still have the files but we haven't.
The kind of personality he describes does exist but it has little relation to bipolar disorder.

Given how he defined the term, I suspect he is using the word bipolar in its general meaning of having two states.

Bipolar is a bit of a misnomer as is, multi-polar is a better descriptive what what the disorder actually is. There are not two states, there are several overlapping, non-exclusive “states”. (For example: mania and depression are not exclusive.)
I mean, she's a grownup; she presumably knew what she was getting into. (I suppose it's borderline possible she thought she'd actually be the CEO, but she'd have had to be very naive.)
Dicewars
> Can't the institutional investors just pull their investment if they think it's a bad deal? Can't they read the fine print on the LBO deal?

I can think of a few reasons why they don't.

They need 'uncorrelated returns' which PE provides, and it might be worth paying extra fees for this. That does not mean the fees are fair, it just means there is not enough competition. Also institutional investors might not perfectly rational and informed, as the article notes some of these fees are somewhat obscured and investors might be looking more at direct management fees. Relatedly, there is probably an asymmetry of skills and power, as institutional investors are second or third tier firms whereas PE firms are top tier. Finally, there is the usual agency problem, institutional investors are not sufficiently incentivised to reduce fees, because the fees are effectively paid by people who put the money in the funds, namely you and I, via pension funds or sovereign wealth funds.

> Do we need to somehow protect institutional investors who manage tens of billions of dollars? Are they a victim that needs protection?

We need to protect the people who ultimately put the money in the funds, not the chain of asset managers extracting their rents on top of it. Historically for PE these were high net worth individuals, so nobody cared, but nowadays they are California's teachers and Japanese pensioners.

> How is it all that different from a company owned by a majority shareholder who makes bad business deals? What do institutional investors do then? Presumably they use their voting power to stop it, or else just exit their position?

It is a similar agency problem I think. It's easier if you're investing directly in companies, because there are many companies competing with each other to attract institutional investors' money, so they care more about making investors happy.

The underlying question is why aren't PE firms competing with each other to provide lower management fees to attract more institutional money. This has happened in public market funds, with Vanguard for example providing very low fees. But for some reason it doesn't seem to happen in private markets. PE firms compete on where to put the money, trying to win deals against each other, but do not seem to compete that much on where they get the money. I don't know why. It could be that quantitative easing made money so abundant that they had more money than deals to spend it on, so there was no reason to compete.

Edit: to be fair this seems to be happening somewhat now [1]

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/05b0d935-678b-418c-8a86-b1a99bb04...
HDDs are very durable when off, I’d be fine running it but I have backups.

Otherwise you may want to purchase them in person so you can see the box.

I’ve received drives from Newegg that were just tossed in a box with some of those large bubbles and they’re still going fine.
Just got back from youtube with a fresh link to Chris Allen. No denying Jerobeam is the OG, but Chris does some INSANE stuff.

Edit: Look at the replay chart in the youtube player for that Dancer track. It perfectly encapsulates the ramping intensity.
It's "infected". Like all the other services.
"we'll stop these DDoS attacks if you pay us!" - chris@notcloudflare.com

The ol' window manufacturer trick /s
For thermoelectric generators you need a cool side. Where would you get that?
> Solaris had a “special feature”: any passphrase entered that was longer than 8 characters long was automatically reduced to that length anyway.

Solaris is known for having stupid defaults. I once had a box refuse to boot because the whitespace in a config file used tabs rather than spaces.
My only point was that it’s misleading to compare power.

I don’t have an opinion on whether mobile phone usage is more or less likely to cause cancer than working in a radio station.
A glimpse into the prompt engineering powering the Smallville simulation
Yes, the reason is we changed the domain. We had to that, because people couldnt login the app they paid.
I’ve been using 1Blocker since day one and have nothing but praise for their product. Not as powerful as uBlock Origin, but pretty good nonetheless.
FF has had better adblocking capabilities than Chromium before Manifest v3 was announced

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
You fail to see how parasitic modern US capitalism has become.

US capitalism has been extremely productive but the gains in productivity have disproportionally distributed to shareholders, and employees got the short end of the stick. [1]

And this isn't capitalism problem btw. This is a corporate culture problem.

[1] https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
We have randomised trials comparing long-term with short-term therapy; they show no significant difference in outcomes.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02727...
> What fool reads all of Finnegans Wake out loud?

Well I heard it said from Joyce experts that reading Finnegans Wake and Ulysses, which was intended to be read out loud, is an important part to unlock some of the meanings.
The home row is the whole row of keys. jkl; are the home keys of the home row that your fingers rest on.
When lightning strikes, the phone network and power network are often driven to different electric potentials, meaning a current will flow between them. When that happens equipment that is connected to both the phone line and the power will act as an (expensive) fuse.

With only one connection (power or phone) the whole device tends swing at the same potential. Damage can occur if it arcs to ground, but that's less likely as in a device the isolation to ground is typically higher than between the power and data parts of a circuit. (Extra bad news if the arc to ground happens via a person.)

Incidentally, if a lightning strike is nearby a typical consumer surge protector will improve the odds but probably won't prevent damage.
I’ve discovered that spreadsheets with checklists are more effective for personal and recurring tasks than any to-do list app I’ve tried – plus, you control the data.
Remind me of the Bible "No meal offering that you offer to God shall be made with leaven" (Leviticus 2 11)
I wonder if I could write the story of the BBM once he left the university and went on to work in Corporate Land.

My career (if may be called that) can be summarized by a constant swing.

On one side, I have a "job" where I start well but after a while I fall out of grace from higher-ups because I inevitably end up calling out their bullshit and/or start seeing the pointlessness of it all and lose interest in progressing there. This leads me to either quitting or getting fired, which brings me to the other side of the swing: I dive into another project where I try to do everything "my way", no compromises, no shortcuts, no justification of "best practices" because "that is how everyone else does it".

While I am on this side, I feel incredibly productive and I am forced to grow/learn a lot of things that are required to the problem at hand. Yet, because of this hard-line stance on not compromising, my projects gets either out-competed by a startup that was (rightly) willing to take the shortcuts I didn't take, or I end up building something that had no market for, or (worse) there is a market and no strong competitor but I refused to pivot out of the original idea for a matter of "principle" that only I cared about - hub20 definitely fell into that category.

When I am finally out of steam (or financial reserves), I go back into the job market, usually with a renewed set of skills which helps me land a job that was better than the previous one, and the cycle is complete.

Honestly, I am tired of this. These swings were fun for the first 3 or 4 times but now I am increasingly feeling that my luck will run out soon and that I need to get out of this swing, no matter on what end. Either I finally make one of my projects more than a nice portfolio piece or I learn how to settle and navigate the corporate world without hating it and myself so much.
https://archive.is/ZJp4m
SQL extensions for JSON in RDBMS is not the same thing as MongoDB query language on MongoDB. Try this on for size:
https://moschetti.org/rants/postgresvmongo.html
I rushed through my first post, thanks.

In my case the problems were not obvious. I was enjoying my life and was professionally and dating-wise successful. So the analogy would be a system that appears to be running fine.

My psychiatrist friend made me realize there could be more. So by the time I went to see the therapist I wasn't really sure that there is a problem. They helped me see that a bunch of areas in my life were suboptimal and I was getting in my own way.

So in my case it wasn't like hiring someone to debug problems I am seeing in my system. It was like hiring a systems architect and saying "this seems to be working fine but we probably don't know what we don't know about performance" or whatever.
(Further to other replies:)

Regulative ideas, ideals, can be productive.
I’ve been listening and really loving the hacker news recap. Keep up the good work and please let me listen in different languages!
Related to this post from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37073938

Link to a precomputed simulation: https://reverie.herokuapp.com/arXiv_Demo

Link to the prompt templates: https://github.com/joonspk-research/generative_agents/tree/m...
USB drives are fine, but they’re just made for a different use. You can spend money and get good ones, but super cheap ones exist so it’s safer to say “avoid”.
This is such a weird question.

In most cases we never buy directly from the company that makes the product. And in the cases where we often do, like with Apple, they sell with high margins in part to allow third party shops to have enough margins to survive. Apple wants Apple products to be sold in as many places as possible. Cutting their margins so tight that no third party seller could survive is not in their interest.

There's some weird dealership laws in the US, I know. I don't think car companies can do what Apple does (except with workarounds like Tesla uses). But it's not clear that things would look very much different if it was allowed. I don't think most car brands would want their own shops, just as you generally don't buy an Asus laptop directly from an Asus shop.
Google Twitter-bis was called Google Buzz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Buzz
Half that billion has probably been spent on interviews that they randomly decide they no longer are hiring for right before they take the entire company to Hawaii.

I'm not salty about the 6+ interviews or anything.
Ever saw a preacher dispute gravity? This stopped being intellectually honest for quite a while now...
Nice, love seeing Paolo post this! He is a great guy, we used to work together, and I’m excited to see where he takes this.
Hydrogen storage has a round trip efficiency of about 40%, so you need less than 2.5 times overbuild.
Yes, but not under a commoditization format. Maybe a product or service can increase the willingness and earnestness of the seeker, but ultimately, just like there's no golden path to geometry, it's up to the seeker.
I'm exactly this type of student. 18 yo, just starting university next month. Any advices?

Every single thing in the article fits my life so far, the boredom, the pointlessness of all things, the ease of brilliance, 1 to 1, sans the sadness because I'm still hopeful that the world can be fixed and am still an idealist. (I attribute this to my faith.)

My classmates always envied how little or none I work for the same results but very few realized it's kind of a curse at the same time[1]. When you don't have a habit of working, you can't work hard when you need it. I think this can be a problem now as I'm entering university (it happened to be a mild problem in late HS too). I would not throw it all up with girls and beer (cos I'm muslim) but I don't know whether I will be bored, because I heard the curriculum isn't exactly full of shiny things.

1: Still I'm forever grateful to Allah for it, no complaints. Learned so much in my all free time not spent doing pointless homework.
https://archive.is/aC8rM
Russia heads back to the Moon with Luna 25
Internet Denizen Of The Day Award Winner!

(I am glad I had swallowed my coffee before seeing this comment)
Wouldnt it be faster to do length & 1 instead of length % 2 and also length >> 1 instead of length / 2? But maybe the compiler does this behind the scenes?
Integer overflows cause panics in debug mode. And its undefined behaviour in release mode.

Where do you see that in the code? I can't see (left+right)/2 anywhere in the code I linked?
I don't fail to see that, I just think it's an entirely different problem, with a solution unrelated to this issue. I agree about the current corpocracy.

If people want a nonparasitic system, they need to implement a tax system that supports that.

Permitting or banning or any other restriction on private equity won't solve inequality. Redistribution of capital, education and healthcare, proper infrastructure and more opportunity in general will.
IMO key is the cost of shelter. In all the desirable locations with good jobs the cost of accommodation rises so much that even well earning middle class in uncertain of their future. There is a number of key services and goods everyone needs: somewhere warm to sleep, some food, and healthcare. If people weren't constantly worried that they will lack this the whole nonsensical piramid of useless work would fall apart and everyone would be much happier
>> In the past, there were some ambitious projects aiming at this goal, though they all failed.

So some people like to repeat. Yet, outside of the hand-picked examples in the article (the 5th generation computer project? Blast from the past!) there are a whole bunch of classic AI domains where real progress has been achieved in the last few decades. Here's a few:

* Game-playing and adversarial search: from Deep Blue to AlphaGo and muZero, minimax-like search has continued to dominate.

* Automated planning and schdeduling: e.g. used by NASA in automated navigation systems on its spaceships and Mars rovers (e.g. Perserverance) [1]

* Automated theorem proving: probably the clearest, most comprehensible success of classical AI. Proof assitants are most popular today.

* Boolean satisfiability solving (SAT): SAT solvers based on the Conflict Driver Clause Learning algorithm can now solve many instances of traditionally hard SAT problems [2].

* Program verification and model checking: model checking is a staple in the semiconductor industry [3] and in software engineering fields like security.

Of course, none of all that is considered Artificial Intelligence anymore: because they work very well [4].

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[1] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/research/technology-onepag...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-driven_clause_learnin...

[3] https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/7/253448-program-verif...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
Left and right are both usizes, which are 64-bit pointers. You will need work on an array of 2^63 elements before you have to worry about integer overflow issues.

This array would not fit in any kind of memory for the foreseeable future :)
Oh, thanks for pointing me to it!

And thanks for the comment. Indeed, I was thinking about countries like Russia, where US three-letter agencies don't have extradition power, as far as I know (thinking about Snowden). Countries like mentioned in that thread, indeed, have more complicated relationships with US.
It catches tech literate people's bugs so often too.

I maintain my teams VPN, and I have a script that I ask people to run to generate logs when there's an issue. It checks connectivity, flushes DNS, restarts the VPN and toggles the network device off and on again, then checks connectivity again.

The only person so far who this didn't fix the issue for (on an engineering team) was someone who had another VPN client installed and running, despite their insistence that they had followed the setup instructions clearly. That person was an engineer working on infrastructure and online services.
Early AirBnb was much closer to “extra room to crash in” than “house purchased to be rented out peicemeal WeWork style”.
If you're trying to assess the data quality based on the source, rather than the data itself (no shame, I'm doing the same - I don't have time to debunk every half-truth out there), you probably need to go one deeper to the report's author - Enrico Mariutti. I can't find out much about him.
UK tech industry pushing up salaries – but UI devs out of luck (May 2023)
My family started implementing a “poor week” or as my wife prefers a “free week” where we pick 1 week a month that we don’t spend any money. This has greatly reduced our overall spending.
The problem is not how to find the time to hack on it, my question was specifically how to come up with an idea since I do not have any particular exposure to any niche field.
The "most leverage" is networking with other people - on other teams, other companies, at differing career levels, and in various roles

Since high school, I have had precisely one job where I did not know someone going in and/or who did not come to me: and that was cleaning cars at Hertz at the turn of the century

Every single other position I have had came from: a referral, personal inquiry, or a recruiter finding me

Maintain a good reputation, and get to know as many people as you can
Have you considered part-time?
Also see:

GlobeNewswire report... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37082263

And...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37086136

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37086031

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37085382
HDDs are older technology and logically are an order of magnitude simpler than SSDs.

A really bad HDD will most likely fail within the first few hours of use. If not, the AFR (annualized failure rate) of the worst HDDs are under 3%.

A really bad SSD often provides no clue until it's too late --- as this case shows.

If safety and security and integrity is the main concern, you should be using HDD in my opinion.
First of all, I'm pretty sure that my PoV is biased by the fact that I'm European and grew up in a Latin alphabet world. With that said, I'm not saying that Chinese writing hinders Chinese people capability or development - China had been and it's becoming again the leading country in the world on many aspects - but just as programming languages syntax go, the same applies to human languages. Python syntax is simpler and less verbose then old-school Java for example, but that doesn't mean that shitty software can be written in Python and great software can be written in Java, or that someone cannot learn Java as their first programming language.
Maybe there are some mental tricks and shortcuts that kick in with pictographs that I'm not aware of because I'm not a language expert or a Chinese speaker, and that make everything simpler for the brain that what I can imagine from my point of view.
Thanks for the interchange anyway, I learned something new :)
https://archive.is/9AHJw

Everyone Wants to Work at UPS After Union Scores $170k Driver Pay

Previous Discussions on HN: (5-comments - 2023-08-08) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37054416
>people didn’t want to do it because it would out their incompetence and start to reveal the tremendous pile of tech debt they’ve built everything else on

All part of the great circle of (software) life. Once they pass on from the company, you'll rip out their old, ossified way of doing things, and then when your new purer way hits the hard reality of business requirements and other considerations that don't fit in the nice world of software abstraction, you end up adding patches and edge cases and caveats until your software ends up looking a lot like the old one. And then a new dev comes in and complains that your process is terrible and they could do it so much better...
I've complained a lot about the crippled add-on support on Android and other poor decisions Mozilla has made, BUT I also donate monthly and encourage everyone who asks to just use Firefox.

So I think that on the balance, I'm a supporter.

This decision, to finally re-enable add-ons on Android, is a good one and I applaud Mozilla for making it!
Whale like filter-feeding discovered in prehistoric marine reptile
I don't find none of the things author is using to be useful, or do I ever use them in my C development process.

I don't have a need for Docker or any containers for that matter, unless the goal is to deploy in containers.

I would never touch VSCode with a ten feet pole. Same goes for CMake -- unless forced to by external circumstances, I will never use it.

Even if this environment was set up by someone else for me, I would've found it painfully difficult and uncomfortable to use... so, I don't know why would anyone else want this.