skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could try writing down actual goals where you want to be at 1 month, at 1 year, in 5 years. Then unravel into tasks from there. Without a plan I end up doing nothing.

Like Julia has sciml youtube lectures showing the guy doing all kinds of optimization to improve the libraries for HPC but he had a specific goal why he's doing that, he runs a startup pumas.ai

For me it was basic competency
at Y subject I was very interested as first goal, find a mentor and work beside them for Y subject (second goal) finally become an expert at Y to freelance and I wrote all that down years ago because I too was just aimless and dabbling then giving up.

To find a mentor I had to impress them first to make it worth their time so that was motivating to slog through all the fundamentals in the beginning. Normally I would've given up here because who on earth wants to deep dive logical relations unless there's a good reason. Working was then a motivator too because I was given tasks to figure out with deadlines so there was urgency and focus so the person I chose as a mentor would actually keep teaching me.

Before that I would take interesting thing, that thing goes into the weeds to teach foundations and I gave up bored chasing new thing and repeat with no direction at all.
I think you're both attacking this problem from similar places. Panicking is a good way to get people to disregard safety measures. Shelter in place is important and one way to help it work is to reassure people that there are enough supplies.

From what I gathered, you're both saying that the correct situation is to stay in place because there are enough supplies? The key is to reinforce that idea and downplay the risk as long as everyone listens. If the roads are muddy and miserable remember that the more experienced participants prepared for this. Staying with them, sheltering in place is your best bet. If you try to leave and not follow safety protocols and the experienced participants you're likely to get yourself into trouble.

While you two are arguing it seems to be on the angle of approach and not the outcome. At least that's what it seems like to me who honestly has no idea what's going on and only barely read the article.
This is really disappointing
I was starting to think I had a competitive edge of having full time employees
Defined as people who come to the office
To be fair, it doesn't sound like they were trying to complain about it or get rid of it. Somebody came to them for their opinion and they don't like it. There are plenty of things I'll complain about if asked that I generally suck it up and deal with.
Because of the counterveiling effect of representation. I mean in a direct democracy city-specific policies would always win.
Kinda able to do some math tasks some of the time whereas you can use techniques from the arithmetic textbook to get the right answer all of the time with millions of times less CPU even including the overhead of round-tripping to ASCII numerals which is shockingly large compared to what a multiply costs.

Kinda "the problem" with LLMS is that they successfully seduce people by seeming to get the right answer to anything 80% of the time.
> Especially when companies like tesla put the same pack in all their cars and determine your "capacity" in software.

This is an enormously exaggerated statement, bordering on entirely false. Yes, the company has done this from time to time, including on some current Model S/X models, but the vast, vast majority of Tesla cars sold (the 3/Y) almost always have a different sized battery pack in reality, not just in software (~50kwh or ~75kwh - there is genuinely ~1/3 less cells in the 50kwh cars almost always).

The Model S/X sell in very tiny volumes, relative to the 3/Y too. There absolutely is not the same pack in "all their cars". Even the type of cells used varies between model packs, typically 2170/4680 in the 3 or Y, 18650s in the S/X. I think there are even some BYD blade batteries in some European Y variants, but I'm not as familiar with the German or China made cars.
> 1. Algebra-based "just apply the formula" d=vt, y=v_0*t+gt^2/2.

Referring to an algebra-based physics class?

Now also move the notion "include the units and they must work out" back to intro algebra classes, and kids could have a superpower in solving word problems.
True. You keep saying that we have the tax system we voted for - that was true, once. But what we have had for years now is the tax system that the lobby is preserving for their own benefit.
Love this type of historical research article. Thank you for sharing
Can LLMs solve sudoku yet?
Do growth mindset interventions impact students’ academic achievement?
Unfortunately union / labor movements in the US suffer from a big problem: due to historical circumstances they’re very combative. The labor movement here never grafted the idea of being business oriented on behalf of workers into the movement (like in Germany) rather, they treat the business as the enemy pretty much from the outset.

Some of that is indeed earned by the businesses reputation, but ultimately this is what I think spurred the decline of union membership in the US because businesses don’t get a lot if any value out of having a union around and the organized workers often find the benefits stagnant after some time
Ive even seen good managers hold a few incompetents on purpose in preparation of layoff cycles in larger companies that do them consistently.
PAYE (Pay As You Earn) is automatic for all employees. Anything more complicated involves a P11D ie "benefits".

Self assessment nowadays gets all P60 details pre filled in. I run a closed company with two other directors and 20 odd employees. My tax affairs are pretty simple - I don't do anything fancy. It takes me abut 30-60 mins to fill in the HMRC SA questionnaire online. I get a tax calc at the end and I cough up my tax. Dealing with shares etc is pretty straightforward because there is statutory reporting - ie each year you get a standard form declaring all relevant amounts and what to do.

Taxation in the UK is pretty easy to deal with unless you want to take the piss, in which case you don't have a leg to stand on.

I've been on the receiving end of a HMRC audit and I don't recommend it. Bizarrely I came out better off when they found some additional things I could claim for, which more than offset my cock up that caused the audit, including the fine! That was for a former small business I ran (pre IR35) and I had an accountant, that I promptly fired for obvious reasons.
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Nice to see that TLS 1.0 and 1.1 are also on the list: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/deprecat...
are you feeling okay now? have you had other consequences from donating your kidney?
A nice use of async generators is when you have an API with paginated results.

The generator function keeps track of the current page.

This allows you to use a `for await` loop which is quite concise.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

You can do it without generator functions, but generator functions allows the caller to not have to know about the underlying pagination API.
This is a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature on growth mindset interventions. The abstract's punchline:

> We conclude that apparent effects of growth mindset interventions on academic achievement are likely attributable to inadequate study design, reporting flaws, and bias.
I have played around with GPT-4 and some fairly simple but completely new math ideas. It was fabulous at identifying special cases I overlooked, that disproved conjectures.
Same here... I also realize that over time I learn to predict what the top comment will be on certain topics. For example, in the AITA subreddit, I will always form my own opinion that is then "tested" by reading the most popular responses in the thread.

The problem is, just because redditors think that a response is correct does not mean that it is. But at some point, especially on topics you know less about, you may start to confuse this prediction with your own opinion. Scary stuff!
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37358063, which was posted a bit earlier!
Do you know anything about modern labor laws?

Can a scab walk past the picket line and take their job?

Yes --- legally, they absolutely can. And anyone who tries to use force to prevent them can be arrested.
All of this can be provided to the IRS through a crud interface in your IRS account and it’s entirely desirable to make paying taxes as easy and cost efficient as possible.

Automate what can be automated, make what cannot straightforward.
The definition here is a fairly narrow one and doesn't nearly cover what I think of when I think of "pork".
Also, it shifts the responsibility for the mechanics of income tax payment from individuals to businesses.

Which... I can see an argument for. Especially when coupled with regular payments vs end-of-year.

It's silly for everyone to individually have to think about "How do I get these dollars to the IRS?" all during the year.
It seems that what's really needed is a formalization of the uncertainty of scientific claims, which I'm not sure is even possible to implement fully. But it's perhaps possible to schematize the relevant information - a database of who did what experiment, what the current hypotheses are, and which ones scientist believe the evidence favors, like a prediction market. Besides being a valuable tool for science, it would serve as a way of assigning appropriate levels authority.
Very interesting! Just a heads up that your charts on dark mode under Growth have yellow text on a white background which is near-impossible to read for me on hover
I have to manage up, gently, reminding my manager and his peers that we’re managers first.

Any meaningful contribution or engineering is extra credit.
Are German schools behind? In North America, learning algebra means we learn to solve for x/y : solving quadratic equations is pretty much the ceiling for "algebra" and even that isn't taught until grade 8, usually grade 9.
You really took OP’s point and ran with it to make a deeply radical and ideological argument. I can only imagine that the only way that you maintain this view whilst finding HN a palatable community is by drawing fairly artistry distinctions between technologies that you enjoy and those that you have declared “for the kids” or whatever. We were talking about an application for a washing machine, not TikTok. What if TikTok was implemented as a web app?…which it is I must add. Or is this all some deeply impractical RMS-style Lynx fetishism?
I always wondered when these were going to be available. I've seen these things like forever (at least 10 years) on expo's like IFA and Cebit. I'm assuming there is something in the production process which makes the process hard to scale.
Foul play usually means in people falling out of windows in Russia, no?
Sounds more like lead poisoning.
50% > 0.

Impact location is randomly distributed. Curiously enough, extrapolation from observations based on half the surface are should be reasonably possible, though some may find the maths involved challenging.

Jupiter's rotational period is ~10 hours. Atmospheric scars from sufficiently sizeable impacts will be visible on average within half that period. (See the Shoemaker-Levy instance for how farside impact atmospheric scars appear.)
A portrait of Tenochtitlan -3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire
They said "in", not "on".
> FOURTH GRADE

What age(s) is this? (We don't have 'grades' in Blighty)
Did you not see people warning against this previously?

These warnings are like "make backups", "use a password manager". Afaict, people are either going to, and have, or they're going to be lazy and assume it won't hurt them until it does.
If you use some other system, you still end up needing to track all of tasks and their progression in the database then identify all the ways they may have gone off track and update their state..
The thing is: all five colonies are close together, on the peninsula. So "widespread" is false, incorrect, a lie, pick your favorite term.

So, yes, clickbait.
Not judging, just pointing out it's possible to go further and just hang out in the present moment. That can bring the experience to daily activities, which can bring about surprising changes.

In fact, it's not even necessary to switch off thinking. The key is to give no value to thoughts that come up (unless you're actually engaged in focussed thinking, eg intentional planning, problem solving, etc), or emotions. It changes everything.

An example: I've been suffering from melancholic thoughts for some months, carrying a heaviness with me I couldn't shed. I recently decided I'd had enough and I didn't want them any more. I decided they were nothing to do with me, much in the same way as I'd treat a fart - some process that occurs but which passes and I forget about. This has resulted in a subtle but significant transformation. The melancholy has been replaced by something difficult to describe but no longer heavy and depressing, and at times elating.
No one knows how the brain works and how it is connected with the body. Did you know your gut is directly connected with cognition? An unhealthy digestive system has been linked with several neurodegenerative diseases. Also, walking and cardio in general is known to create new neurons and prevent cognitive degeneration.

It's always funny to me when people on online forums confidently proclaim to know what cognition and thinking is all about and that furthermore it can be reduced to symbol shuffling on computers. No one has any clue how to make computers intelligent and anyone that claims to know is either doing marketing for some "AI" company or thoroughly confused about what counts as biological intelligence.
> Housing is strictly a significantly worse investment over the long run than stock markets, if you consider just appreciation and expenses.

But if you live in the house, then just considering appreciation and expenses leaves out a huge benefit: you have a place to live without spending any other money. If you buy and rent, you have to spend additional money for your own place to live. The latter situation is comparable to investing into the stock market instead of in buying and then renting a house, but the former is not. That's why so many people take the former option even though, "on paper" (i.e., leaving out the huge benefit of living in the house), it looks like a "bad investment".
This intel one is 7nm and apple bought every 3nm capacity this year. I feel like apple is beating intel on chips.
An "open-source 3D renderer in just 1,000 lines of code" that just calls DirectX, I would call out, yes. Especially if it was made and released by the people who make DirectX, at the same time (or days before!) they release DirectX under a proprietary license.

Other apps, probably not.
> Prigozhin fell from the sky in a plane so at least that one was still a fall.

I’ve heard his plane fell from a window.
There are about 125 million households in the US. I'm making the assumption that most households are filing a single tax return even if there are two or more incomes. Statistica reports that about 60% of households owe Federal taxes. So the market size of tax filing households is about 75,000,000.

How many small dollar donations would it take to either rival the lobbying dollars of Intuit or create a fantastic free alternative?
Is it a sarcasm?
We have tens of people dying from mushroom poisoning each year.
Usually with stories like "grandma fried some mushrooms, whole family died, dad in coma".
This is easier than you think. If more people are apt to be disadvantaged by your actions than not why shouldn't they simply vote your rights away?

As a business person in any industry this is already true in 1000 mostly reasonable ways that mostly derive from outrageous behavior of prior actors in your space. In that context it seems ridiculous to argue against 1001 on principle unless the specific regulation is itself ill advised. The only justification it needs is for it to be a net positive.

Basically why do 338 million people give a fuck if a handful of people want to do user hostile things. Do them somewhere else.
You should find a camp to join that can help coordinate tickets. (Whether Directed Group Sale or just having the network for overflow tickets.) Unless you’re prepared to spend $$$ and suffer through figuring out a lot to truly DIY it, it’ll be a much better experience to be part of a camp that knows what it is doing anyway.
sure, that's entirely possible, and even that all the recently released information is just that. but again, until this is proven, it's unfair to dismiss everything with such an explanation. it deserves a thorough investigation and study.
Uhh no… Almost by definition, science encompasses all (valid) methods for getting knowledge.
Brier ("quadratic") store is another popular way to evaluate ensembles of forecasts.
I see this argument very often in relation to various medical interventions. First off, insurance anywhere isn’t going to just pay for experimental treatment. Second, a great deal of inventions were not available to the masses at first. So should we stop inventing things? Or wait for a new worldwide socialist revolution first?
If you don’t own your company, you are always measured on optics. If the person who employs you does not optically see your value, you don’t stand a chance working there. If employment is the measurement, optics will always be important. For those who disagree, I would argue they are arguing on what would be ideal. Sure, it would be ideal to have a fully meritocratic performance system but if someone else is in charge of your employment or performance evaluation, your success is 100% based on their opinion of you. How do they get that opinion? It’s the optics whether valuable for the company or not.

Just to be clear, I’m not talking about programming skill or value. I’m talking about employment and evaluations which I think most people are commenting on.

And also, it’s not mutually exclusive. I know many people who are very productive and also manage their optics well.
Is Notepad now able to read files with UNIX-style line endings? Because Wordpad was the only one able to read .txt files created on Linux.
Medium is the message
This Planet Money episode[0] has a few short interview clips with Grover Norquist (author of the conservative Tax Pledge). He said that supporting a Ready Return program would be equivalent to breaking the pledge because it is then easier to raise taxes.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/22/521132960/epis...
"web skeptic". I'm pretty skeptical of embedded code in markup. Throughout the years my experience has been that the less code you have embedded in your HTML, the better. Optimally just stick with standards based HTML templates and you will always be forward compatible.
You don't know what you're talking about.
If you dispute the debt, unless they verify it, they are not allowed to report it to the rating agency.
I hope that feedback didn't discourage you from continuing with your approach to software development and teamwork.
> Increasing rates will raise rents in the professional demographic cohorts of folks who buy houses.

Well with the way houses have inflated in my neck of the woods very few people even financially savvy DINKs are going to have trouble buying homes in cash.
I wish they would open source it so it would continue to exist
The Top Programming Languages 2023
It's hard to pin it down to just a couple of things, because I came across SICP early in my programming life and it changed so much of my approach to the art. But here are a couple:

1. It taught me to think of programming languages as constructed things, rather than just being "there" and immutable. In particular, to think about the purpose of each language feature, and separating features into core primitives vs. syntactic sugar that could be reduced to those core primitives. It becomes harder to do this for "complicated" languages like C++ and Python, because many of their language features are not for one purpose but bundle together lots of disparate ideas. But it's still worth making the effort to see what choices the designers of those languages made, and how different choices would give you different points in the space of programming languages.

2. Once you have a small enough "core language", you can start thinking about algorithms that operate on programs. I had always thought of programs as expressing algorithms that operate on data, but didn't think of programs as data themselves. Of course every program is text, but in complicated languages with many constructs it seems horrendously hard to write programs that operate on other programs and change their meaning. But if your language desugars to a simple core language, the ability to transform programs opens the door to techniques like automatic differentiation of programs, probabilistic programming (like Church), and many others. These would now be called domain-specific languages, but those are often thought of as limited toys for very specific tasks. Instead, I like to think how every task has the "right" language to express it, and when you do API design you're really embedding a DSL in some "host language".

Since you asked, the other big development in my approach to programming came from learning Haskell and embracing types as an elegant way of expressing universal truths about programs. Sometimes the type of a function fully determines what the function can be, like how the only function of the type (forall a) a -> a is the identity function; this idea becomes more revelatory with more complicated types.

I don't use functional programming very much in my day-to-day life, but I think learning these ideas has shaped my approach to every language. It's not really about the superficial "functional patterns" that people often think of, like using map and filter and such, which is often idiomatically wrong in many other languages.
77 is long past the point at which we usually ask people to retire from safety-critical roles. Even when retirement isn't forced, regular evaluation is strongly encouraged for people that old. For instance, consider this statement from the American College of Surgeons:

> Although age-related deterioration varies from individual to individual, gradual decline in overall health, physical dexterity, and cognition generally occurs after the age of 65. For this reason, it is recommended that, starting at age 65 to 70, surgeons undergo voluntary and confidential baseline physical examination and visual testing by their personal physician for overall health assessment. Regular interval reevaluation thereafter is prudent for those without identifiable issues on the index examination. Surgeons are encouraged to also voluntarily assess their neurocognitive function using confidential online tools. As a part of one’s professional obligation, voluntary self-disclosure of any concerning and validated findings is encouraged, and limitation of activities may be appropriate.

https://www.facs.org/about-acs/statements/aging-surgeon/