skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds nightmarish.

If I say 1 hour, I mean that I know exactly which knob needs to be twiddled, perhaps because I wrote it in the first place, and that there'll be a pull request ready for review an hour from now.

That's clearly not always possible. Sometimes it is. If I say that it is, then I can deliver it.
That probably works if you don't have dependents and you do have a good support network.

If someone is going to fall into poverty when you don't make it home, get out and walk (ie avoid the cougar at all costs) might be the best option? If you've no-one to come and pick you up if you crash into a tree ...?
NT wasn't ready for general consumers until XP in 2001. It took Apple a similarly long time to whip NextStep OS into shape.
I was waiting for when he tried to make longer and longer versions to see where friction starts to make it impossible to recurse all the way. Guess that was left as an exercise for the viewer...
Well, yes, the specific question is not exactly useful to the vast majority of the people of the world, but I think that's a particularly harsh criteria.

And, I think that's not really the point of the article. The most useful thing came at the turning point, the advice that allowed the solution to be found - "...stop looking at old documents: 'no one writes down the real reason for infrastructure projects.' She said I needed to look for people in power."

I think that's pretty good advice, and has obvious extensions that makes it pretty useful.
I think talk of spirituality is just as asinine when scientists do it as when anyone else does. I can respect the demented insights of the true believer or zealot, but when most scientists (or even regular people) talk about spirituality its usually just performative word salad.
What is wrong in the original statement ?

EV can be nice, while not being the silver bullet that solve our climate emergency.
>It's not even like it's say, a watch that I might actually need specialist equipment or knowledge to repair/maintain.

If it doesn't need specialist knowledge then why are you asking for people to release their knowledge on how it works? Just use your general knowledge on how it works then.
Not a parent. It’s 10+ years in business. Can’t do anything except read Wikipedia in a toxic place with boss bullying me. Luckily I am counting my last days there. With a happy client who values my work I can code endlessly.
Yes - economies of scale. Even if water has to be brought in from a distance, it's better than if some of the population actually extended out to that distance and got their water locally from the same location.
Can you suggest an iOS app that can give geo coordinates appropriate for S&R? Ideally whilst offline?
It's not about incompatibility it's about safety. You drive with air bags or you don't, those two concepts are NOT about incompatibility. It doesn't even make sense.

If there are situations where you have no choice but to drive without airbags, those are holes in safety.

Essentially if you have to have runtime checks to prevent the program from full on crashing those are holes. Not everything is checkable with static checks but the way to go is to move as much of your code away from runtime checks as much as possible.
“Like regular money but more fun!”:
<https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/08/like-regular-money-but-more...>
Test for Bias After Finetuning LLMs
Both volumes scanned and offered as PDFs [0].

[0] https://www.newalexandria.org/archive/
> By the end of the summit window, at least 102 people had conquered K2.

Nobody "conqueres" a mountain - even if you make it to the summit and back down again. And especially is you do that using fixed ropes that you pay others to place for you.

Thinking of climbing as conquest is abject hubris.
Is a "lot" literally a unit of 6 computers (or however many)? Is this saying I can buy six computers for $170?
100% this. You can’t pump your brain up with high-dopamine inputs for hours each day and then expect it to settle for relatively low-dopamine tasks like reading, hobbies or work. Your subconscious knows there are high-dopamine alternatives and will constantly scan for/switch focus to them, foiling your efforts to focus on anything else. This isn’t internet bro science—read Dopamine Nation for the empirical foundation of this line of thinking.
Yeah, to avoid that confusion, it won't be three words when spoken.

"arrows.midst.senses"

Will become "Alpha, romeo, romeo, oscar, whiskey, sierra. Mike, india, delta, sierra, tango. Sierra, echo, november, sierra, echo, sierra".
You can be scammed into entering your password into a random textbox and then relayed on the actual website/app. This is too basic. In case of FaceID/TouchID, the acquiring platform (your mobile phone) has secure device binding and FaceID/TouchID is a local authenticator on that device to use that secure device binding to authenticate. If FaceID/TouchID becomes fakeable, we will move on to some other more secure local authenticator. The point is, you have a rich multi-sensor mobile device as your authenticator.

> Also sometimes I need to change them (if they get compromised, if computing progress made them easier to bruteforce, etc.), and I don't really want to have to use cosmetic surgery when that happens.

That's not how it works. Each hardware device that acquires your FaceID or TouchID (or Iris ID etc) do it in a way that's unique to them. Even mission impossible style face mask can't fool these modern FaceIDs. Like all things in security, it is a game of making it really expensive to break it and not really about it being impossible.
That’s better to avoid a redirect, but both work.
The logical culmination of anti-racism, applied to the individual.
SICP is a multi-layered, intensely philosophical book and philosophical truths are not transmitted like pieces of eight but are made real through praxis.
Works on mobile if you select a feed the click the two arrow button
If moltar's Portuguese professional speaks a language that you speak (or you can hire an interpreter) seems like you can get a diagnosis sooner?
> which itself we have no ability to explain.

Patently untrue. We've made great strides understanding how human minds work in the world, both at the psychological and the fundamental physical level. To suggest otherwise is prevarication at the very least.
Renting vs. Owning a Home, by State
LibreOffice 7.6 released with a few Firebird fixes for Base
With the failure of Optane I doubt that it will be coming anytime soon.
Almost 2h? I can't focus that long. Let me know once it's available as a 30 seconds tiktok.

/s
> Just because you're a special snowflake (you aren't, but keep believing it if it works for you)

Someone who makes a comment like this, isn't arguing in good faith, or even intelligently. So I will give this comment the respect it deserves: none.
Isn’t that constantly a thorn in your side though? Life is full of things that can feel intrinsically useless.

I’m constantly having to convince myself of the worth of things in order to finish them even when I may innately disagree with them. It feels like a never ending struggle.
If the government of Canadia wants to transfer wealth from Facebook and Google to Canadian news companies, why not institute a tax on advertising revenue, and a subsidy to newspapers.

A tax on linking to news is clearly just asking for news to not be linked.
this has nothing to do with bad engineering, it's about stupid greedy investors/managers with to much power on decision making, decisions that they should not make. this is sad and an embarrassment to tech people. this industry is a joke.
Use them train a recommender model; all the docs as processed with SBERT, I use k-means clustering to find 20 clusters and in each cluster it picks out the top 15 scoring articles on “what is the probability i will like this?” using the probability-calibrated SVM on the last 40 days of judgements. I also look at some other lists of articles like: most likely to be voted on HN, most likely to get a lot comments on HN, etc.

I used to run it on a 24 hour cycle and would get around to looking at maybe half of the 300 articles I picked out. Lately I just look at all 300 when I can and then it picks out another 300. So it is showing me better scoring stuff but not so fast to process it.

It ingested maybe 6500 articles this time so it is showing me the “best 5%” while the clustering makes sure I get some articles about sports, some arXiv papers on recommender systems (of course) and other topics.

If you look at what I submit to HN all of it was selected by YOShInOn first and secondly by me so that’s a good sample of what I see except I am into a few things that don’t play on HN (e.g. Premier league football)
From seeing your posts, I think you have a psychologica lock that under mines your self-confidence.
At 77 years old and being rocket scientist he would totally be into the "rest" category and also be very confident he could tell.
The entire point of technology – practically its definition – is to reduce work. For centuries, people have been dreaming of a day when people don’t have to work and can get robots to do it all.

The problem is not AI taking away work – that’s a great thing – the problem is that our current economic system is not designed for this. Fixing our economic system is easier and gives much better results for people than trying to stop technological progress.
One interesting takeaway was his note about influence at the end. Nuns and their ilk could have a tremendous impact back in the day...informally speaking. And there's no documentation.

Influence != authority. But with authority alone you can't necessarily answer "why here instead of there?"
Agree. This is telegraphing the prospect of people reduce their efforts in favour of using LLM systems, and in time the snake starts eating its tail
Does this have the potential to reach the point where Facebook is required to carry news content even if they don’t want to while being forced to pay for it?
It feels like it might be approaching that based on this other article:

> If companies do not meet a payments threshold through voluntary deals, they may have to go through mandatory bargaining overseen by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).

> Government officials in a briefing side-stepped questions about what would happen if companies blocked news on their platforms and did not participate in negotiations at all.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-says-addressin...
At 77 years old, he's long past his mental prime and could easily have made a mistake despite his experience.
You’d ‘notice’ the flipped bits usually as rare, random, and impossible to reproduce crashes and lockups with the occasional data corruption.

Which is often background noise for home users, but no less problematic.

Often heat/load dependent too.
Ask HN: How to learn work ethics and discipline as an adult?
I was marked and regarded as "smart", "gifted" from my childhood, and aced up to half of my High School without almost any effort. I breezed through tests with no work where I saw other kids really struggle. Achieved highly in co-curricular activities as well.

So, I never learned to work extremely hard sustained over a long period. College kicked my arse and I got below average grade. And I haven't achieved as much in my life as I think I should have been. I cannot concentrate on grinding Leetcode or finishing a 600 page programming book.

How do I learn work ethics as an adult (now 24 yo)? How do I learn to work hard, with regularity, with no immediate returns for a long period of time?

I still can learn extremely fast and solve hard problems with sporadic effort.

Can you help me with this? Anyone who was on a similar boat but changed for the better?

I have zero discipline. How do I get more disciplined?

Please foegive me creating a throwaway for this.
I can whip out 100 lines of bullshit in a few seconds. I can just paste in whatever Copilot gives me and as long as it builds call it a day.

It will take me far longer to come up with the correct 100 lines that is both maintainable and can be worked on by others down the line.

I can pad my lines of code in seconds if I wanted to before pushing the changes. That padding provides no business value and might even introduce bugs.

And how do you handle refactoring? If I come in and refactor everyone else's shitty padding by combining helpers and optimizing code, I'll have negative lines of code. Am I an unproductive worker?

Sure, most code is not some complex algorithm but lines of code is a stupid metric that is not representative of the work done and can be gamed by anyone knowing what they're doing.
Honestly, I'm kind of skeptical of the answer. I'm not saying that talking with Nyquist wouldn't be useful, probably it was, but what's stopping a dozen other things at least that useful from being part of the answer?
It doesn't follow from the constituent behaviors being real that a concept is real. Take neurasthenia as an example; it was a popular American diagnosis in its day, and I don't think anyone argues that millions of people were faking it. But we draw different lines around these constituent symptoms today, and no longer see it as a coherent condition.

The search term "culturally-bound syndrome" makes for interesting reading in this area.
A brain-inspired algorithm that mitigates catastrophic forgetting of neural nets
Yeah that's what I meant by impact metrics. In the 2015-2017 playoff runs Green's impact is almost on-par with Curry. But for most people who watch basketball, they just look at the box score and don't look at advanced stats.
As far as I can tell, priests and pastors of various stripes have no better moral compasses than anyone else (perhaps even worse).
I think this is called “Maid and butler dialogue” according to Brandon Sanderson.
I'm not sure about the laws there, but in Austria for example it's also illegal to suddenly break without reason.
Personally I want the seniors on my team actually delivering on the really hard stuff.

Helping juniors do their job is great and all, but you still need experienced people to work on the hard and complex stuff that juniors can't because they don't have the knowledge/experience/people-skills. No amount of pair programming can replace that.

You don't want to be in a situation where you have really really well implemented low-value features, but the high-impact and high-priority hard stuff was not done because some of your most experienced folks were helping the less-experienxed people write effective unit tests or whatever.
Or just buying batteries directly from the Kit company or compatible suppliers.
It useful, more diverse, and good-looking to keep areas of the garden without grass. Borders, trees, shrubs, etc.

When autumn comes you can then rake fallen leaves off the grass and into the other areas to be used as mulch. They rot quite quickly so don't accumulate year on year.
I'm sorry but I don't understand what you are trying to get at with this comment.
> punish Russia

The government or the people?
I doubt if either will have any interest in paying any amount since it'd open the door to every country wanting some payment.

Better to continue blocking Canada and ignore.
Obligatory https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21287736
that's great for covering your a, but the project will still fail and no one will get value / praise for all that time spent

if time is the only actual concern for the project's success, a good approach is to explicitly re-scope the feature list and start asking managers things like:

"do we really need feature X to release? can feature Y wait until after beta? did the request for feature Z come from a user or a stakeholder?"

document all that too of course ;) but then at least there is a chance for safety _and_ success
I'm pretty sure there were companies doing stupid things in the old days but in my experience, back then managers were supposed to know what developers were doing, and if they were delivering value or not.

They did all that by walking around, chatting with everyone, helping devs, assigning tasks depending on the expertise level, sometimes doing boring work (like manual testing) to help devs, etc.

Of course, if a manager that has to handle Jira and Scrum meetings all day, then it gets difficult to do that.
The article developed so slowly that I quit reading it. I just read an aphorism that went something like this: The Raspberry Jam Principle-The more you spread it the thinner it gets.
Reminds me of renting a zipcar for a few days and parking it in an underground parking lot.

When I went to use the car after a couple days, the battery was drained. This happened on multiple occasions with different vehicles parked in the same garage.

My best guess is Zipcar has cellular comms to phone home, which enter some weird “always trying to connect” state when cut off from cellular signal underground.

Zipcar’s response was to ban me from renting on their platform ever again for too many disabled vehicles.
And evwest.com also stocks a lot of parts. There literally thousands of videos on YouTube about conversions, and companies all over who are dedicated to doing them.
Where is the wealth of nations in the 21st century?
What happened is that it massively sucks.
Removing carriers from the phone turned out to be one of the biggest innovations alongside having a real web browser.

Edit: for context, carriers wanted control of revenue and obviously fought against net neutrality. At the time, they made big money with SMS and other services.
Unfortunately my L1 visa doesn't allow me to have any other source of income than my current employer. But definitely this is something to look into once I get a Green Card.
It's positive to be reassured by the article that growth of wealth today is not from extraction from the population but newly created wealth creating inequality.
I made the mistake of writing a searchable syslog archiver where the parsing was done in stored functions (very basic string-splitting) and the log entries were stored in a heavily indexed Postgres table.

At the time it was created, the company was in its infancy, there wasn't much throughput, the service emitting the logs was kind of obscure, and the solution was a quick, dirty stopgap meant to be easily digestible and consumable to the customer, compatible with the rest of their in-house knowledge and the rest of their backend stack. However, as happens too often, the company grew meteorically, the volume got to be insane, many more default-on log entries were added to the standard event loop, and the system was put straight into production without any interest in redesign; after all, it worked fine so far.

As you might guess, it got to the point where we were seeing insanely degraded performance and cascade failures after only a few days' log activity, and increasing time and resources were devoted to the endless care and feeding of this beast. It took a surprisingly long time for the rubber band to snap and for the customer to consider ELK, despite the fact that I advocated for this almost from the very beginning.
It does sound at least related to me. As in: people with less experience and less precision that you might expect from a rocket scientist could be misled easily, with the same outcome.
I'll offer another perspective.

The naïve libdem (roughly speaking) types has for decades convinced themselves that the theory of democratic government is the only true way to run government and country. Among their epic failures is predicting 30 of the last non-existent China's economic collapses because we all know authoritarian governments can't sustain GDP growth.

Singapore is another of those cases they can't explain, and so it ends up being an attack on the ideological front -- name calling essentially. And while apparently Singapore is not worse than "Western democracies" in measures that actually matter, they claim that the bad things that happen are worse under authoritarian governments because they're authoritarian.

"Freedom and Democracy is always better" is so hard-wired into people's brains that they seem to feel offended when counter examples stare at them in the face. Instead of adopting a curious mindset and trying to figure out why, most of them simply dig harder to uncover bad things that authoritative governments are doing, then accuse others of whataboutism when they point out that these things are common in democracies too.

When one side talks about ground truth facts, and the other is resorting to dogma and a priori reasoning and appealing to authority, there's definitely one side that's "more wrong" than the other IMHO.
not really no, plus I order my cow from the farm down the way, even drop in from time to time to see how things are going. Even have one set aside for veal yum
Go has excellent ORMs

https://entgo.io/ (spun out from Facebook)
I didn't study SICP directly, but took a course which was inspired by it.

Perhaps the question needs the qualifier of whether you've encountered lisp before or not.

> ... What did it do differently than other programming languages ...

Ah. I don't think anyone would ask this if they knew lisp.

At the very least, you can approach languages like JavaScript, C, C++, Python, (etc.) with broadly the same brush where you're writing sequential code that essentially modifies structures in place. -- Especially with C, it's easy to imagine some kind of machine executing the statements. (Obviously, exact idioms vary between languages, etc.).

Whereas with lisp, you don't modify structures in place, and you're not writing code as sequential statements.

An example I still think is kindof neat from the SICP was writing the same functionality both as a 'low-level' recursive function, as well as making use of higher order functions to achieve the same thing.

> Have you had similar experiences with other books

I liked the ideas suggested in "Philosophy of Software Design".. it really emphasised the differences between an interface and its implementation; and how complexity arises from if the you need to know more than the interface provides, or if the interface requires more than it needs to.
This is rewriting history with present hindsight. NT was a hugely bloated OS (imagine an OS today that requires literally 4x the RAM of your mainstream OS just to boot) and almost killed Microsoft several times over until computing resources caught up. And still, a shitton of sacrifices had to be made to the original design until anyone outside of a server farm could run it.
That's plainly not what pbhjpbhj said.
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Windows 8 (Metro) used semantic zoom. It's been a while, but I do remember that one of the apps that used it very nicely was Photos. A search for "windows metro semantic zoom" comes up with lots of articles about semantic-zoom-aware GridView controls etc.

Why isn't it commonplace? I think that touchscreen laptops are still too much a minority, and keyboard + mouse + monitor are too entrenched, for anyone to seriously attempt it again for a while. (A shame -- I'm one of the few who really liked the Windows 8 Metro interface.) I think that phones are too small for it to really work well. I don't know why it's not more popular on tablets.
This one is fun: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21287736
I think it's too valuable to Meta and Alphabet to retain the option to exit a market than comply with these restrictions.

Similar attitude to the UK Online Safety Bill.

Giving in would just start a landslide of restrictions and demands for moneym
In almost all companies, even seeking help is frowned upon. One ex-Microsoft manager, now a senior Manager at Atlassian, called that 'hand holding'. Some actively don't want to help out others, due to PIP/bonus culture. At Amazon, some team members explicitly give bad advice when asked for help. That's why we have this culture of "lone rockstars", who spend a lot of time to learn without being mentored.