skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are lots of things to do. Lots of programming things mixed with other domains like music. Just one example: https://sonic-pi.net/tutorial.html
There are tones of SBC, plus arduino. Calliope and others.
Scratch for little kids, lego mindstorms.
I know boys between 11 and 13 learning Python, programming some simple games.
There are also lots of robots and HW.
What there is not (or I do not know it) is something like the microcomputer of the 80s.
That is a little computer which can do graphics, sound, little games, and even control peripherals with a very simple language. I would really have something like that.
What I want should be a right and someone forced to provide it to me?
Cool, until I'm the one forced to do something, then it's exploitation.
Unexpected benefits of sun exposure on skin
> look at the anger in any HN thread that is critical of cars

On the other hand: https://old.reddit.com/r/fuckcars
I remember this Simpsons episode. "Snorky... Speak... Man..."
Yep, horses are massively expensive to own. Aside from required caloric intake, think living space, waste disposal, pests, specialized care (farrier), vet bills, tack, grooming. Ugh.
What do you mean? This is what Universal Clipboard does.
A couple million of profits from trading doesn't translate to a couple of million in your retirement account, with all taxes paid.

After taxes and after paying for living expenses for MB and family for the last 3 years, $2M could easily be around half-a-million. Depending on where they live, that might be more like a downpayment on a house rather than a funded retirement.
In a way yes, your whole reality is your own internal hallucination, and there is no way to break out of it

That doesn’t mean you can’t explore anything within that

In fact a lot of eastern philosophical and religious traditions focus exactly on that, how exploring your inner self is a valid and very good way of discovering reality

Not sure why you fixate on “nothing to discuss” or “conversation ending”

Neither the ideas above nor solipsism are dead ends, there’s plenty of exploration to be had within those

Now if you don’t like them or want to dismiss them, you are free to do so, that’s your own personal take, but that’s not an objective absolute truth
I have a wheeled shopping cart thing (not sure what to really call it, but it’s the standard one). I can only fit some milk and a few things in there, it is no where near as capable as my car. I still use it, since I don’t like driving to the store (we live near 3 big grocery stores, and a soon to be closed city target), and it’s useful for getting snacks to school when it’s my turn, but I don’t see it as a car replacement.
Sure you can. Teach your kids cars are stupid and bad and stop driving so much yourself. Trickle-down culture is real, economics not so much. Also your lauded tech solutions rarely do shit but create more problems and the businesses we hire to implement them lie about the problems until we've all got cancer, no air, and no water.

Minimizing driving and making it a cultural value that it's a tool to be used sparingly seems reasonable and about the only solution I can actually trust when you have a culture of selfish assholes and a society with nothing underneath it but a pit of spikes.
Finland tests digital passports in world first
This works perfectly now on my test files. I can find the pages that have specific strings I was looking for.

This has saved me clogging up my PC by installing the Java runtime and iText RUPS.
Can someone explain why rubber - not a plastic - makes up the majority of plastic in the ocean? They do say "synthetic rubber", but from what I am reading those are also not considered a type of plastic. Not that the definition matters too much, but I think it's important not to use language that could be construed as being purposefully disingenuous to make an argument seem more dramatic, since doing so undermines the argument.
> You can’t do foreign exchange at a bank

(Somewhat rant, not really at you, just...What?) It's difficult to believe I'm even reading that. An institution that only deals with currency, and literally has almost no downside to accepting any customer for currency exchange ... won't accept currency exchange?

Most banks have far more resources that an FX stall to verify whether you're handing over junk.

There was a story last month about how banks are the only people left who can even determine whether "fake" Euro coins are fake because they're too high quality "fakes". Counterfeiters are cranking out magnetic, weight matching, material matching, currency that's nearly mint quality. And banks won't even do ForEx? People over in Eastern Europe have just given up. Don't even bother using banks, cause the banks will just tell you all the money's fake.

(TLDR; Feel free to ignore, this entire situation seems idiotic. Like humans just keep rushing towards dumb results.)
68yo spent 50 years at same company as an engineer, without a college degree
Most people want messages sent to them to be non-repudiable. Otherwise they can be harassed and threatened with impunity. This sort of thing only seems like a good idea when you don't remember that a message has both a sender and a receiver.
Not only copy/paste, but have notifications shared both ways, use your computer as a phone laptop, use the phone as a trackpad/mouse, and much more. It just works.
There still are a few HTTP-only websites.
entryIndex is read before being assigned.
The days spent trying to get drivers to work and deal with their bugs and conflicts were seriously grim.
Love this. Not only is it my favorite feature of swift, but I often say swift enums are my favorite feature of any programming language. They are just so elegant and powerful
How many Bitcoin networks' worth of energy are required to train the models that generate these silly JPEGs?
From that link:

Our simulation also shows that wearing a mask can effectively reduce the spread of the viruses.
The scrub flag was default false, apparently because scrubbing was slow and caused wear.
The worrying democratic erosions in South Korea
> If they're more worried about NAND gates then not only are they failing in their duties, the industry has failed in providing meaningful abstractions so that smart people aren't bogged down in cruft.

That is the premise isn't it? Most abstractions have significant failings, and when those failings matter you need to understand what's going on a layer or two down.

Maybe that doesn't line up with the label "senior engineer" at your org, but if you don't have somebody who knows what's going on you're going to have problems. If you're lucky, they're just performance and cost issues and your business has high enough margins to not care. In my experience though, orgs are rarely that lucky. It's embarassingly easy to pick up a 100x performance win in expensive enough applications that it was worth the engineering time, and much of the time you'll knock out a swathe of correctness bugs in the process.

A brief recent example: The way some dev was calling into a given black box implied the black box had to manage arbitrary contention with low max latency and zero bugs. Most devs are bad at handling contention without bugs, most devs are bad at bounding latency, and most devs are bad at handling performance of any kind under contended loads. That's not an expectation you want to put on your black box (it _might_ be up to the task, but why chance it?), and thinking just one layer down strongly suggests you should write your application literally any other way. In practice, the other way had 10x less code, was dead simple to prove correct at the application level, and it solved the performance and correctness bugs we were previously surfacing from the black box.

Do you specifically need to know electrons, transistors, OSI 7, and all that? Eh, maybe. You'll probably need to know some particular subset that looks too low-level now though, and it can be hard to predict which subset that'll be.
A long time ago, I worked for a company called MarinSoftware (MRIN). When I left, I bought whatever shares I had vested (it wasn't that much) thinking maybe some day it'll pay off. The CEO [0] is this short little guy with a Napoleon complex and I figured if anyone could extract value from this business, he could.

Eventually, the company went public and the stock performed as expected... it went to shit. This could be due to the company never actually realizing a profit, but who knows. Having worked on the inside, I knew that the technology stack was shit and the engineers working on the system were subpar. For example, the CTO hired his cousin.

Since the stock was under water, I held onto it for a a number of years (10?). My internal reasoning was that I wanted to wait until it got as close to zero as possible before selling so that I could maximize my tax loss. Yea, right.

Suddenly, in the middle of covid, the reddit "investors" decided to randomly start to pump the stock [1]. It really came out of nowhere and I was kind of lucky to have checked the stock price. Jokingly, I set my limit order for 25 and left it there. A day or two later, I got notified that all of my shares had sold.

Thanks WSB!

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/marin-software-inc-ceo-christ...

[1] https://investorplace.com/2021/07/mrin-stock-why-reddit-inve...
Paul Graham Beautifier
Paul Graham's essays are beautiful and easier to read. Accessibility is improved. And you can keep track of the essays you’ve already read :)
Power control is all configuration. Hardware merely provider the signals and mechanisms for SW control.
This is a good idea. What I think you need (based on my own experience) is a book with documentation and exercises, games and such. Also you need interfaces with video, sound, and some hardware.
> Think of database migrations like you would versioning an API, deprecate and then drop old columns only after declaring a breaking change and giving consumers time.

This ties into my second point as I eventually made an "api_v2" database schema and migrated users as you describe.
With today's tech, yes. With some of the nanotechnology we think is very possible, this is one of the things we could potentially see massive gains in.
It's a great working strategy purely due to information asymmetry, not because "markets"
Has anyone here ever lived near a freeway or even moderately busy road?

I made the mistake of renting next to the freeway. Noise was perfectly tolerable, but I could not use my back porch, because after just a few weeks, everything had a fine coating of black dust. I could not keep my windows open in the summer. I was certainly breathing this vile shit the entire time I lived there.

This doesn't surprise me in the least. Every time it rained you could see streaks of black sediment trails where rivulets would collect and concentrate it. It flowed completely unfiltered straight into the ocean. Poison.

The negative externalities around cars are incomprehensibly huge. And yet, we have more of them than ever, they are getting bigger and bigger, and they laugh in our face with "green leaf" or "PZEV" decals. It's demonic.
Sure, the write definitely could have helped releasing these new features, but the language transition itself takes non-trivial effort and could have been used for adding additional features instead. I haven't seen any evidence that such a language transition is desperately needed. Also I said deprioritize adding features, not stop adding features, mind you. The core question here is what kind of benefit we are seeing by changing the language.

If you are a fan of Rust and want to rewrite all your just because of that and you are the CTO, whatever, what can I say. But the title here is a bit clickbait-y and I really don't see much reflection on the languages themselves and how to balance the business needs for such a transition.
> Offer a service under market value, wait until the competition goes away

It feels like this doesn’t work as well with a lot of software services as it does with physical brick and mortar businesses.
Almost like progress is more a series of incremental changes and improvements.
It's a corollary of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_one_infinity_rule
Pissing is a basic human need.
Sure, by some metric masks are very effective at stopping viral particles. After all, in my example the mask will stop tens of thousands of viral particles from reaching you every minute.

Another metric is, will that stop you from getting sick? The threshhold is only 18 particles!
I guess what I don’t understand about this is sum types represent a state that is so ubiquitous in our lives that it’s hard for me to go a day without seeing one. It’s simply the state of something either is this or that or that. It would be like a language without records. It’s missing a part of reality that shows up all the time
The municipality pays 2000$ a month per tent space? What does that mean exactly? Like paying for increased medical services/policing, or lost revenue from lowered property values?
Wow!! This is literally soooo insane you managed to write so much answer in a way that is so close and dear to you. I would really love to have a long discussion with you but I don't know if it is possible given your time. Is there an specific aliased contact address that is possible to connect to you?

I don't have most answers but it seems like there are certain qualities in you that is so helpful for the way you are as a person.

Currently, I also don't like to learn for the sake of learning. I used to be love learning and knowing things for the sake of it. But that doesn't payoff in real life. What good use is knowledge when I learned only for sake of learning.

Now I want to change and it only comes from doing things and actually implementing stuff. All I could do was think and that too was flawed thinking. These days I am doing more but still I think a lot.

I want to also disregard the opinions but I feel like what value would I provide. This was one reason I stopped blogging because there are already experts in the field who are more authentic. What would my perspective bring when I will be just paraphrasing already known stuff in slightly different way.

I can understand how you are the way you are. So we have fundamentally different mode of thinking. But you have given me some ideas.

There are things I can't say in public comment and only in private conversation. It would be fun to talk with you.
You could look for a job in quant trading outside of crypto.

Or even within crypto, there's still plenty of big reputable firms doing it.

As for track... half the interview will revolve around technical questions and knowledge of the markets - which sounds like you have. As for track - how did you trade? On chain? You could provide wallet address. On CEX? You could make screenshots or sth. But frankly Id think evidence won't be the stumbling block.

Having done it self employed will only make it more impressive.
NASA – Field Resonance Propulsion Concept (1979) [pdf]
https://archive.ph/uBgXD
Rainforest API until recently used to show as much as $40,000 plans. Something of this magnitude. See if you get that via Archive.
The cloud storage option for CH looks like a game changer for time-based data. Any concerns there about accidentally causing "trashing" when cold data is needed? I believe the MergeTree system works by splitting the table into parts during insertion that then later get merged together, so you have to careful that during merging, only the "hot" data is touched, otherwise you'll start pulling in cloud storage data that's supposed to be effectively read-only.
The downside applies to "heavy vehicles" more generally, which includes most battery-bearing EVs in addition to most pickup trucks and SUVs driven in the US.
I would argue programs are impossible to prove correct, I would speculate it is related to the halting problem.

That doesn't mean that in general the subsections of it related to any specific court case isn't correct.

Unfortunately disproving something is much much harder than proving something.

Proving that there was a bug in a program is hard but proving that there isn't is nearly impossible and that is likely why the law is the way it is.
World’s Largest and Smelliest Flower Is at Risk of Extinction, Scientists Say
>"there's still mass it just exists in other dimensions"

What? Dark matter is there. Leading models consider it to be particles that don't interact with e/m field and interact weakly with gravity so is undetected in low-density regions. That doesn't make it other-dimensional.

>Sounds like sci-fi crackpottery

Like the prediction of particles in standard model? Is Higgs boson that went undected for 50 years sci-fi crackpottery?

There're issues with dark matter but it also (sadly some may say) happens to be the best explanation of the observed phenomena since all alternative models fall (plus although simpler at first sight quickly get more complex) in more ways than dark matter.

>I suggest reading more into emergent gravity

Emergent (either entropic or induced) gravity has nothing to do with the comment. It's obvious what GP meant. The correct should've been intrinsic property but this is nitpicking.
Every aspect of your statement is false and you can't have gained this understanding from speaking to actual homeless people in California. California homeless are from their local area and they just ran out of money. This has been demonstrated over and over again. For example, of Alameda County's 10k homeless individuals, 82% were living in Alameda County before they became homeless and 96% were living in California at that time. They don't come to our county for the services, because there aren't any. The idea that homeless people migrate around to find good weather and free stuff is just propaganda. No significant subpopulation of homeless people does that.
The chat, admin and moderation features in discord have huge value and are costly to build. The anti-bot protection and built in permission system especially.

They focus their resource on their product, while exposing it to mostly geek.

I would have never though it would be a good idea, but it proved to be a good choice.
If those arguments are supposed to be slam dunks, then it's probably worth being pedantic about the second - standard Firefox, as downloaded from app stores, allows fewer than 2 dozen officially vetted Add-ons to be installed. [1]

It's not a great state of affairs. This is speaking as someone who's used Firefox as primary browser for many, many years.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/search/?promoted=re...
Researchers discover explicit registers eliminate ViT attention spikes
Every car already has a way to track its own mileage without requiring GPS
Can you say more about "dynamic labels"? Do you just mean that as you evolve, you want to add a new type of "key-value" pair?

The most common approach here is just to store the step of "dynamic" labels in JSON, which can be evolved arbitrarily.

And we've found that this type of data actually compresses quite well in practice.

Also regarding compression, Timescale supports transparent mutability on compressed data, so you can directly INSERT/UPDATE/UPSERT/DELETE into compressed data. Under the covers, it's doing smart optimizations to manage how it asynchronously maps individual mutations into segment level operations to decompress/recompress.

(Timescale cofounder)
Exactly, this means we are living in a very weird period in history. Right now there are people who know a lot about computers, for the sake of "they looked cool in the 80s/90s". People born in the 70s and 80s are ~5-15 years removed from pension or disappearing from the workforce. Already there are no 20 year old and few 30 year old geeks.

3% of us are disappearing every year. And that's just not going to stop.
Man, it's going to suck when the world ends in a fiery ball of death because some americans somewhere decided "Meh, we'll never fix the problems in this country, not worth trying".
A tire tax would also work, except for the unfortunate safety implications.
Fine, I'll run a regression analysis but it won't make you happy
Hey I appreciate the feedback, please note this is not a sales pitch.

Nor we meant to, we are trying to just write a simple intro to our product.

We are not making any fake promises.

thanks
I said launder, not smuggle. If such models are legal then you can openly sell access to them; even advertise their capabilites. No need to hide anything other than the training data.

And because these models would be naturally superior to models not trained on the real thing (as you yourself just admitted) then they would outcompete those models, thus indirectly funding real-life CSAM.
I cannot say about the US, but Python & Pandas are quite sought after in Europe.

I wonder if the problem is that you have to find the first role in order to show that you have some actual & recent, on-hands experience. I've heard other people coming back to work with similar stories (in wildly different industries).

I think the suggestion of working for a non-profit is quite good. I would also suggest you to network; go to meetups in your area as that will potentially put you in front of people who are responsible for hiring.
For the entire life of Mozilla, the tech has been fantastic and the leadership... suboptimal. It's always been my greatest frustration with them, they're permanently unable to accept and change from criticism. They simply ignore it or brush it off.
I've swung over the last few years from thinking it's manufacturers' fault to realising that most of the fault here lies with the linux project itself. They're the ones who have normalised constant churn and thus needing to keep drivers for hardware, sometimes many years old, up to date year after year or even month after month. After seeing the churn mentality affect everything mainly spreading from web dev circles to the rest of the ecosystem, it's hard not to identify that trend as having been the norm in the kernel for decades.

I've only come to realise that blaming manufacturers for failing to keep up to date with a constantly moving target was totally unfair.
Of course they realized. It's an art installation and a form of social protest. This is not a practical solution in any way, it's meant to provoke a discussion on the underlaying issue of homelessness.
isn't this what the free market is supposed to be about? people don't want that product as much anymore.
There are many ways to have a non-self or non-dual consciousness experience

Do some research, you can get into meditation or find a safe way to experience with psychedelics

Also, it’s a natural part of our own human experience. Babies are born without a sense of self, which mainly develops over the first few years of existence
Wildberger kind of notoriously is a non-believer in real numbers, which sort of comes across with the statements about it being the only "completely accurate" trig table and comments about how the base 60 system is somehow richer and more accurate than decimal numbers.
That Cochrane review is faulty and one of the co-authors (Tom Jefferson) "works for the Brownstone Institute, a Covid-19 misinformation group that is powered by dark money."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/27/dont-b...
Yes, if you use quorum queues
You are conflating two vastly different issues as part of pro-car propaganda. There is a drug epidemic AND there is a homeless crisis.

Those have nothing to do with investing in public transportation.

Your agenda is showing, lay off the NewsMax, my friend.
> We tried that in the 1800s.

Really? Governments did nothing to interfere with markets in the 1800s? Have you read any history?
The neutron stars that the article uses to explain the observed antimatter all must spin to cause the radiation observed. They would appear as pulsars to some observer, not necessarily us here on earth.
What I want are state based migrations which are smart enough to handle things which are dependent on others.