skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Constraints raise creativity and sometimes new things are born
The rationale behind the 3-month number is that most people will need an income by that time since savings will have run out. It's entirely possible to start a service-based business and be profitable from day 1.
"also don't ever give someone an unsolicited code review on Twitter. It's rude."

I'd personally welcome people's free code review, on any platform, when clearly the code "wasn't perfect". I don't see why someone would take offence from free advice, unless it was condescending. You're always free to ignore it. Eitherway, you won't excel in any topic without feedback.
There’s an awesome write up of some of the tools written specifically for this demo.

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/metaprogramming-for...

Probably worth a discussion in its own right: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37386377
Maybe they’re setting the evil bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36330116
What I'm arguing is that we need aggressive negative emissions. In case it's not obvious this means not only stop putting carbon in the atmosphere but also removing what's already there.

I'm all for growth as long as we don't deplete the Earth and don't cook ourselves to death.
> When you stir-fry vegetables, salt the oil before adding the aromatics

Are you sure? What is it for, evenness, or are you playing with the chemistry? I never got this memo and a search suggests otherwise:

https://magnesol.com/six-enemies-of-oil-salt/
https://www.americastestkitchen.com/cooksillustrated/how_tos...
So this means that Abe's assassin saved a bunch of innocent people from an exploitative cult? I hope they don't punish him too badly.

You really don't want to normalise assassination though, last time that happened in Japan it led to bad things.
Thanks. I'm a morning person and I strive for efficiency to an extent that most other people would question, haha. What's conspicuously missing from my routine, for example: any significant time for taking a shower (if I do, it's 30 seconds) or other personal hygiene.
This assumes a level playing field. Yet Apple was born into a largely monolingual market, with one currency, almost no regulation (for better and worse), a mostly continuous land mass with porous borders (among the states), and grew in a young field with mostly small competitors (IBM and Microsoft being exceptions). And Apple still nearly went bankrupt.

With iPhone and Mac they control critical choke points in a crowded market, where all the choke points are now taken by large and powerful incumbents.

Europe cannot deregulate it's way into success. In fact I'd say asleep-at-the wheel regulators and anti-trust are what got us into the mess of few real choices and luxury taxes for mediocre offerings.
I’m pretty sure the people voting think it’s what they want - I’ve seen some get angry if you question it too.
Threat modeling is in the "best practices" Neverland between the necessary pillars of getting code to production (DevSecOps, the sneaky rebranding of the Dev-Ops conversation to include someone from Security) and satisfying auditors (re various compliance regimes, that are broken down to specific evidentiary controls, many of which are to attest to specific threat model principles like non-repudiation).

Threat modeling can help indirectly with both getting code to production securely, and satisfying auditors, but it's neither necessary nor sufficient for either, so rarely makes sense for a company to practice themselves.

Instead there may be an aspect of threat modeling carried out by a third party pentester, but mostly what that will do is raise the direct cost of the pentest and maybe lead to more expensive remediation costs as well.

One can look at fuzzing- architectural as well as endpoint- as an actual automatable, codeable DevSecOpsy activity that is kind of distilled, operationalized threat modeling. Eg automatically build a fuzz plan from Terraform as well as as from OpenAPI schemas. It needs a clever name.
Elite: Dangerous has 400 billion star systems - that's star systems

Each of those systems has at least one star, or black hole.

There can be zero planets, or other stars or black holes, or a combination of stars, black holes, or planets and their moons.

The makeup of each star system is dependent upon various origin parameters, e.g. star type, combined system mass, where the system is in relation to the centre of the simulated Milky Way galaxy.

Elite's simulated Milky Way galaxy is based on actual scientific theory at the time it was designed and generated. It is an incredible achievement. I don't understand why NYT is making those claims about Starfield.
Wouldn’t it increase reach to be playing ambidextrously and always forehand?

I think the real answer is the switching cost between hands. Not enough reaction time to swap hands in the middle of a play.
It does sound foolish to share that directly to the cloud provider. They have an incentive to maximize spend--although they may also provide more than enough oomph with that much spend. It would lie on the payor to collect on all the available discounts (multi-year commitment, etc).

Assuming the tool is more or less one step removed from an elaborate spreadsheet and more of a crowdsourced, open optimizer, do you feel there would be any gains to generating multi-cloud setups, or just unnecessary complexity?

Is it possible to have a good-faith network of operators reporting monetary info along optimal routes?

Routes less like distances, and more like "given your compute and memory profile, a tier 2 storage bucket in AWS and 4gb VM in GCP would fit your budget."
They're asking why nobody switch-hits every ball as a one-handed forehand, like baseball players have learned to do to mitigate sidedness issues.
Often they’ll attack you while denying there is a problem.

Occasionally they’ll be okay with it. At least until the DT’s.

It’s usually not pretty either way.

And doing it too fast can kill them, yes.
+1 for messing around with Minecraft! There's SO much tutorial content out there that will teach you how to make your own mods, modify mods, modify things in-game with mods like computercraft (in-game Lua interpreter!), and even just red stone in the base game is complex enough to spark lots of curiosity!
The lead researcher of this study also claims parent alienation doesn't exit

https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publications/the-malign...
Sigh... world is just bonkers. Time for a thermonuclear war.
Google was founded on this day in 1998
> PS3 onwards

By most accounts the PS3 was not fun to write software for due to its unusual specialized processing units.
Exactly. But I think if we at least recognized that metrics are guides rather than targets we could get reviewer 2 to stop wasting everyone's time or get an AC to tell them to shut up. It wastes a lot of tax payers money.

Similarly I think we need to recognize academic funding as that of long term investments. You can be highly risky and should be. In reality our total investment into this sector is very low, we aren't even investing a penny from our dollar.

And I could go on about the scam of "peer reviewer" which just seems like a way to extract government money, using another players workforce, and providing at best a trivial amount of utility
If $bad_thing happens more often, that doesn't mean it stops being insurable. It just means the rates go up.

Things become uninsurable when either they're unpredictable in aggregate (I can't predict when your house will catch fire from leaving the stove on, but a decent actuary can say how many houses that will happen to next year), or when the government sets price controls to forbid them charging high enough rates.

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"More fires" does not prevent fire insurance, unless the government imposes price controls. "Fewer bigger fires" might, since they'd be harder to average out.
Human population growth is set to reach a peak in just two+ decades, and then will start declining for some time. Where we've seen fertility drop below replacement rate we've also seen that drop be persistent for decades, which means that population declines will accelerate before they arrest (if they arrest).

So this is a bit of much ado about nothing. We're not going to exceed low single digits percentage points of the energy reaching the planet from the Sun.

Heat dissipation is relatively easy if we use 1% equivalent of Solar energy on Earth: the water cycle can speed up in response to positive forcings and slow down in response to negative forcings. This is why the planet's climate has been so stable in the sense of being a random walk centered on an optimum that supports the sort of life that we have on the planet. Similar observations explain Mars' and Venus' inhospitability: there's not enough atmosphere, much less liquid water on Mars to drive a similar thermostatic system, while Venus' climate is pegged at a maximum, with albedo as high as it can reasonably go, and it can't cool itself significantly with anything like a water cycle.
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37319562
we’ve stolen babies from their mothers and enslaved them for entertainment, maybe they know now…
Appreciated! If you still have questions, let me know.
The craziest part of that saga was that what.cd later banned unreleased Salinger works from being uploaded. They are still banned from a number of private torrent sites. How is Salinger's estate so scary?
California DMV Now Offers ‘Digital’ Driver’s Licenses. How to Get It
Your are absolutely a software engineer. Counter point for counter point sake.
A capped resource limit and/or budget does sound easier to manage. Here is your possible max; after that, shut stuff down in this order.

If it were any easier, it would likely be automated as a layer above Infra as Code (IaC). Someone may need to manually check on teams and ensure critical apps are not throttled before less critical ones.
No conversation about in-office productivity should happen without factoring in commuting hours. These are hours that are required for in-office work to happen, and they're dead weight on productivity for both the worker and the firm.
District court decisions don't set precedent and the case is still under appeal.

But I also notice that you're not providing a counterargument in any logical sense and only an appeal to authority. We're not in a courtroom, we've having a public policy discussion about what the law should be.

If you have prospective customers with iOS devices you want to distribute your app to, name a feasible distribution method that isn't Apple.

> But by that logic Shopify has a monopoly on distributing Shopify apps, and McDonalds has a monopoly on Quarter Pounders.

Anyone can make and sell a Quarter Pounder to anyone. They may need to call it something else if McDonalds has a trademark on the name, but that doesn't cause it to be a different market when the product is a substitute and the customers are the same people.

Maybe Shopify does have a monopoly on distributing Shopify apps? That presumably depends on whether you can install the apps in some other way. Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly on distributing Windows apps, for example, and the fact that there is a difference between that and what is going on with Apple is demonstrative.
Howto https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/removing-password-from-pdf-on-...
Ok, I've shortened that a bit and put it up there.
A related question I think about from time to time. If our energy consumption grows, how soon we will destabilize the Earth?

Even 100% clean energy, if infused into the system may increase temperature, or speed up circulation of currents, and other effects.

Of course, it's not nesessary all energy goes into temperature. Some can be conserved, e.g. as chemicals.

But in general, the more energy we have in our disposal, the more potential for damage.

We will dig deeper, smelt more ore, etc, etc.
For the web and other use cases where it is embedded in another program (e.g. sandboxed plugins, other places where Lua or similar would've gone previously), I think yes. But I really don't see something like WASI or WASM servers sticking around, especially because it still has a noticeable performance penalty compared to native (can't source this right now, need to sleep)
Mutual insurance companies exist, presumably they are also bailing in places where the cost is unsustainable.
> Not really; the argument would be that it creates a crime only Hindus can be accused of.

I replied to "that only indians can be convicted of" but as you point out AND THAT I POINTED OUT it's about Hindus, not Indians. There are big populations of Hindus in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal.

Basically you just replied "not really; exactly what you wrote".
Walking/hiking/running outdoors. Never ever gets boring for me. After a few hours I feel a good tired.
Hard Launches vs. Soft Launches
Strange how there are ads in magazines, on billboards, TV, and radio, without tracking. Especially since they're so much more expensive to place.
No. The one group the reporter embedded with studied sperm whales and after years of recording and study the researchers know that the whales use a series of clicks at each other and that different family groups use different series of clicks, and to human ears, it is very repetitive in all cases. It could depend upon almost anything else that could be relevant to cetaceans, like current direction or speaker depth. :) That research group has private funding for two more years. It was actually believed that sperm whales were silent until about seventy years ago.

We also know this is similar behavior (pod specific vocalizations) if not in sound or pitch to orcas that hunt whale calves.

https://kuow.org/stories/listen-to-the-last-song-toki-the-ca...
Okay, but it could do that more effectively if they picked better events for their timeline.

I feel like the article, as it stands, basically only works on the basis of "the boiling frog of digital freedom" as a concept that people already feel is happening. Unfortunately, the actual details are poorly chosen—which don't matter if you're already bought into the concept, but are imperative otherwise.
Oh, I might have misunderstood the question, because there are players who play a two-hander on both sides, but none who switch hands.

The answer is that most people are dominant on one side, right-handed or left-handed, and their non-dominant side is much weaker, so a right-hander hitting a left hand "forehand" would be much worse. That's just how our brains work. :-)

The thing about baseball is, all hitting strokes are two-handed, so it's more analogous to the two-hander from both sides than the one-hander. Also, baseball hitters don't have to run to the ball. :-)

I would guess that the second hand in baseball helps a lot with stability and accuracy, because a baseball is so much harder than a tennis ball, and the barrel of the bat is so much smaller than the string surface of a tennis racquet.
Yes, that's the whole point of static analysis, to move runtime checks to compile time

Move simple runtime checks to compile time. Most if not all of these can be done with iterators or simple loops. Index lookups that depend on use input and data still have to be checked somewhere and should probably be done outside of a loop anyway.

Static analysis is always welcome, but this seems like a lot to go through to solve something that isn't much of an issue in the first place. Bounds checks were a big problem in C, but with more explicit iteration and runtime checks they are almost never a problem I see anymore.
Pdfmaster is a good tool for this too but the free version leaves a watermark
‘Let’s give it a try,’ recalls Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine
We should draw tidal power until there are exactly 360 days in a year, to make the arithmetic nice, and incidentally give us 24 minutes extra sleep.
I haven't seen any researcher that supports your contention. SGDR (SGD with restarts) has been shown to work well. https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03983
It just started working for me again too, though it was definitely down, all the calls were timing out.
Only on acquittal. A judge can set aside a conviction if they believe the jury erred. Cases where the evidence is overwhelmingly on the side of acquittal may even convince the judge to instruct the jury to acquit. If the jury ignores this and convicts anyway then the judge may set aside the verdict.
It's probably more training-compute intensive, but they can do drop-out, right?
The strategy they used for ImageNet recognition, when they were using supervised learning and training data was scarse.
That's fine - you can just use SGDR (SGD with restarts). https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03983
I wonder if it would be possible to put game library code in a web assembly component and then compile small .wasm files that used it.
If you listen to a flock of crows there is clearly some form of communication happening. It is amazing that nobody has figured out how to translate it. I wonder how many different languages or dialects crows have developed.
"Try" is doing a lot there.

I can't see how Arm is even worth the $32 billion SoftBank paid for them now. RISC-V didn't exist outside of Berkeley in 2016 when SoftBank bought Arm, but now it's becoming a serious rival and especially a serious limitation on how much Arm can raise prices.

Arm have around 2.7 billion in annual sales with $500m or $600m of profit.

That makes $32b a P/E ratio of 50 to 60, and $50b a P/E ratio of 80 to 100.

In simple terms, if you pay $50 billion to buy Arm, and they make the same profit every year as they are making now, it will take 80 to 100 years for you to make your investment back.

It's like putting your money into a bank paying 1% interest, but a lot riskier.

Such P/E ratios can only be justified by the company and its profits growing rapidly.

Arm's revenue actually fell 1% from 2022 to 2023. The last four years have been roughly 2.0, 2.7, 2.75, 2.7.

Is that a peak, and it's only downhill from now on, because of RISC-V (or otherwise). Or will they start to grow again?

Either way, it sure doesn't look like the very high annual growth rate needed to justify a price of $30b let alone $50b.
I think you might have too much faith in the HR departments of Texas universities :)

UT Southwestern is quite famous for protecting its image at all costs.
Vacancy is for rentals. If you own a condo and leave it empty / don’t live in it, that doesn’t show up in a vacancy rate.
yes, there are absolutely no confounding variables to productivity during a global pandemic
I was thinking the same. This is the second link I click today to jwz.org mostly expecting to see the usual "welcome HN" page, only to be surprised by actual content.

Anyone knows if he has grown out of his hatred for HN, or is this just a misconfigured server?
While humans can't understand what's going on in LLM's, it would be logical to say mission critical equipment won't be replaced..
The irony of "don't give people unsolicited advice" always gets me.
I'd really like to see you point to specific instances of this.

I could point to any number of examples refuting this, but really prefer you lay your cards on the table first.
Yeah, dogs have an amazing sense of smell. When I was a kid I used to pick up a pinecone and throw it for our lab-cross into an area under the pine trees that was littered in pinecones.

She would run to where she saw it land and roll, then sniff around and find & return the exact pinecone I had thrown :)
they don’t want any up to now and say that only leetcode matters

when they do start asking for them i won’t be doing leetcode

my opinion is that they should use that rather than leetcode interviews and ask people about the code they wrote

that should be enough to get hired.

past experience should override any bullshit code interviews. these type of interviews should be for people with no existing code bases.
Language programming and problem-solving are two entirely different things.

Almost all books on those two subjects are suitable for self-study.

The only ones which aren't, are those deeply into the theory rather than the practice of the subjects. Those can usually be ascertained because they have quite a bit of mathematical formulae sprinkled throughout the text. Those books require a background in mathematics*, and so may not be as useful to you as others which look at the practice of being a programmer and problem-solver.

* An example of this may be (say) the mathematics of comparing various sorting methods. As a programmer, you probably merely need to know that a Bubble Sort is not as efficient as a Merge Sort.
See for yourself it's worth the fuss. magnet:?xt=urn:btih:bu3ganlgj7pvdt56t5ztsu52gjlxnzth&dn=EleutherAI_ThePile_v1&xl=772891257239&fc=51
Definitely a paid/hype article. People has been doing the "lots of automated generation" stuff for a long time. It won't work because if there is one thing our human brain is good at, it is pattern recognition. And no matter how advanced or detailed the generation is, we will see the pattern and get bored with it.

Even something as sophisticated as the LLMs get monotonous really quick after a while.
- Dog usually is up by 830-9. Take on walk and get sunshine and fresh air to help wake up for about 20 min.

- Jump on morning standup calls. Some are active and some aren’t so use the secondary ones to start breakfast consisting of eggs, protein, and some fruit.

- Make coffee. I wait 90-120 minutes before I drink any caffeine from waking up.

- Work on short higher priority items that I noted from the night before until noon and hit the gym to break up the day.
I did a Google search and found
https://surehatch.com/

If that doesn't work for you maybe try Kagi search?
Thats a revision of a paper with roots back to 2006. I applaud them for having a rich source, but the primary objections can be understood to be in their apologia:

https://www.cochrane.org/news/statement-physical-interventio...

The original Plain Language Summary for this review stated that 'We are uncertain whether wearing masks or N95/P2 respirators helps to slow the spread of respiratory viruses based on the studies we assessed.' This wording was open to misinterpretation, for which we apologize. While scientific evidence is never immune to misinterpretation, we take responsibility for not making the wording clearer from the outset. We are engaging with the review authors with the aim of updating the Plain Language Summary and abstract to make clear that the review looked at whether interventions to promote mask wearing help to slow the spread of respiratory viruses.

The problem was how they communicated. The data is the data.