skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Brief Introduction to the Lesli Gem
I haven't made any friends yet because I've only been here for a month, but now I want to meet some friends.
I thought the books where a kind of reference material, rather than a guided study.
One suggestion: if the mathematical preliminary section in Volume 1 of TAOCP is too difficult, you might benefit from the textbook Concrete Mathematics by Graham, Knuth, and Patashnik. Concrete Mathematics is essentially a gentler (but still rigorous) introduction to the mathematical concepts covered in the first volume of TAOCP.
Availability, price, some people get unpleasant side-effects. There are newer and better versions available, and more coming out soon. The whole field is relatively new.
>Human-induced warming reached approximately 1°C (likely between 0.8°C and 1.2°C) above pre-industrial levels in 2017 . source: IPCC https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/chapter-1/

Annual records are

2016 1.01°C
2020 1.02°C

Source: https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/

I reverse the question. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄?
Thinking of this new tool for engineering managers
Less about performance measuring and more about people managing people who write code. What do you think?
I didn't know that, thanks. If this is news to anyone else - in the "What's next?" section of the article it mentions interop between Win32 and WSL using AF_UNIX sockets, which became possible in a later update[0]

[0]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windowswsl-intero...
I agree, I have very little trust in all those climate projections, even today. That being said the industrial rise of China and South-East Asia happened since, and I doubt those were baked into any prediction in 1989 (like I doubt any prediction for the evolution of the world for the next 30y will be worth anything). If you look at the evolution of co2 emissions over that period, those two regions represent the bulk of the increase, with western countries rather dropping. So you can argue that the world we are looking at now is definitely worst that the world they were contemplating then.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-re...
A quick google search says Ford assembly line worker salaries range from $20-38 an hour, with the typical wage of $28 per hour. It’s not a terrible salary, but I wouldn’t necessary say they they’re doing “very well”.

If we’re going off of OP’s math, the average autoworker only has a fifth of the purchasing power that autoworkers had in the 1960’s.

>”For decades, the UAW tugged wages upward. In 1960, a UAW member made 16 percent more than the average American manufacturing worker. By 2006, the figure was 74 percent. Today, new hires in the UAW make about 20 percent less than the average.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbna37789668
Maybe one day there will exist a happy medium between centrally-planned Zerg economy and a free “Ebay for organs” market.
What about risky borrowers?
Looks like ChatGPT hallucinating.
Honestly, you probably want to shoot for the middle with everything in moderation and I think it's hard for people to see that in this age of the internet where extreme voices win out.

Good idea, encouraging diversity at your company. Bad idea, trying to enforce a rigid system of quotas where you are literally discriminating against people based on their race.

Good idea, encouraging ESG investments. Bad idea, creating a complex statistical system gameable system where Tesla is not an ESG investment, but literally investing in an oil company is?

Another thing, are israel or black lives matter immune from critism? Of course not. If you go to a rally or start joining a cause against them, are you essentially surrounding yourself with some really evil people who could potentially be really bad for your reputation in the long run in a justifiable way.

Again, probably want to aim for the more sane moderate middle in most things.
I recommend you read through volumes 1 and 3 cursorily, skipping things you can't immediately understand.

I read through volume 1 several times. I then skimmed through the arithmetics part of volume 2 and read only the section about random numbers, which is very fascinating but you will be able to live without unless you are doing simulations or cryptography/cryptoanalysis.

Whether you will need volumes 4a, b, c depends on whether your work has much to do with combinatorics. I'm a professor and I did not need most of it, but had a good laugh about the hidden gems and jokes like the exercise about Knuths personal pipe organ.

As a software engineer, you may occasionally consult volumes 3 and 1 (searching, sorting, data structures).

[Side node: If I was Knuth, I don't think I would have created three subvolumes instead of the planned single volume 4. While it is true that the material exploded, that will always be the case, and is also true for the other chapters. In his shoes, I would have worked on succession planning and trying to map out the remaining volumes so that the book can be completed one day. Under Knuths approach (esp. going back to update the existing volumes repeatedly on the way) TAOCP will unlikely ever be completed, which would be a shame.]
I used it with FF mobile.

As FF ask you to confirm in a FF controlled dialog there is no risk for spam.

At the same time it allowed me to get notifications for a site like with an app without needing to install any app.

And at least on FF mobile it was also always clear where the notification is coming, in difference to Windows+Chrome where I had to help an older person to fix an ad problem and it took me an embarrassing long time to realize where the ad is coming from.
Yes, this is an article about S.F. There are other articles about Woodside trying to say its whole town is Mountain Lion habitat, Los Altos, Palo Alto, etc.

Here’s a recent one (their mayor is as bad as the NIMBY SF BoS):

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2023/11/21/high-rise-dev...
x restaurant will only let you eat if you show your bank account details beforehand "to make sure youll be able to pay afterwards". obviously you wont go to that restaurant, but maybe thats the workplace restaurant (environment forces you to use it).

that doesnt sound good, no?

privacy laws must be enforced
Nothing to important but, just for readers who may be unfamiliar with Python, your last example can be rewritten in a quite idiomatic Pythonic way:

for i in range(len(iterable)):
...
The problem with this analogy is that pressure waves can only travel in a medium. The pressure wave exists because the particles in the medium bump against eachother to propagate energy so the analogy gives people the impression that electrons are bumping against eachother to propagate energy. Photons are distinct entities that can travel without a medium. See michelson-morley experiment. Electricity is nothing like what we experience on our macro scale. Analogies never convey the full story.
I used to see it as giving up, but in practice, this is just a smarter way of working and taking care of yourself.

It's better to have a few lines on half-assed code left for the next day when you can finish it in 5 minutes, with much better quality/clarity because you're well rested.

The alternative being: grinding, writing messy/hard to understand/overcomplicated solutions which will take longer to untangle than the time you thought you'd saved.

I still struggle with this since I think there's an ego/impostor syndrome/anxiety aspect in play here -- I want to feel the reward of having done X, and I want it now, I want to prove to myself that I'm not terrible at this job. Sometimes I need to stay working on something for longer (e.g. an important demo), sometimes it just doesn't make much sense, but my judgement is clouded, because I don't have enough distance to the problem.
> Social networking as a fundamental human right?

Nobody, absolutely nobody said that ever. So the question is why are you asking that question? No, social networks are not a fundamental right. Privacy is. What is so hard to understand about that?
Thanks for the advice!

https://hsm.tunnel53.net/article/just-use-google/
Thanks. I'll replace the image on the page soon!
Library Genesis has almost all releases available.
One Year of ChatGPT – The Impact
In three days, ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, will celebrate its first public launch anniversary. Its success has shown us just the tip of the iceberg of ML and deep learning capabilities. GPT models and other Foundation Models (FMs) have since ignited numerous debates about the future of AI development: Will the focus be on synthetic data, or perhaps a novel architecture beyond transformers? Or both, or something else? That we will see.

But today let’s reflect on just a few significant achievements and impacts ChatGPT has made in just one year: https://www.turingpost.com/p/fod30
Global warming didn't seem to happen? Uhh.

"Climate change" is used to cover more bases because the effect is not only the warming itself. We learned that you get issues with sticky weather patterns too etc. While the avg yearly temperature of Earth rises, it can also cause effects like extreme cold that sticks in unusual areas.
Orion has actually triggered two kernel panics for me in the past week. It's easy on battery life though, so I've been using it still when I'm on the go.
and In 2018 , Google has acquired Sigmoid Labs Pvt. Ltd, the team behind the “Where is my train”.
It looks like it's another ARM emulation box. Specs unknown, but no doubt it's going to be some kind of Linux + UAE. It will do nothing that a Raspberry Pi + emulator won't do*. It also does not have a license to call itself an Amiga, nor does it have licensed Kickstart or Workbench. Really not very compelling unfortunately.

They're trying to sell it as a sort of entry point into the modern 68k Amiga ecosystem for enthusiasts as well as a plug-and-play gaming box, but I feel like both niches are well covered by other devices.

* The more expensive tier is apparently going to have DB-9 ports for classic Amiga mice and joysticks, so there's that... I guess...
Thanks for backing up your point with a link. I agree that Galileo is more accurate than the much older GPS system. On the other hand, the GPS system became fully operational in 1995 as far as I understand, and the Galileo system is yet to be fully operational almost a decade after the original target date.
Without Europe keeping big tech in check, I can only imagine a dystopian future with all sorts of mental illnesses emanating from internet addictions.
As a pastime, maybe. For a practitioner CLRS offers better value for time spent IMO, and is not devoid of mathematical rigor either.
I don't think so. Conservative ethymologically means "preserve the current state". Hence the opposite would be pessimistic.

Another person mentioning that these are Farenheit units, makes it clear. There were publications in the 80s predicting much higher numbers and shorter timelines.
Good advice. Having empathy towards a situation foreign to you is hard. I would take the advice generally a bit further: do not judge. Judging doesn't help and only increases your own discomfort.
What software are you using to read? I'll look into and fix whatever strangeness it's doing with my stylesheet. It's specified as very dark grey on yellow.
Maybe people are still in a denial that all companies want is some LeetCode and funny scripting languages.
The OECD paints a much less rosy picture. In their words:

…higher levels of AIC correspond to higher price levels for hospitals
as richer countries have generally higher price levels than poorer ones.
The correlation is, however, not perfect: as an example, the hospital
price level in Switzerland is twice the level observed in Germany, for
comparable consumption levels.

https://www.oecd.org/health/health-systems/International-Com...

Edit:

I found it relatively difficult to make an apples to apples comparison as much of the details seem to only be available in French. However, nothing I saw put the Swiss rate of savings at 19%.

FT put the German rate at around 10% for 2018, and a source citing the BFS put the Swiss rate at over 12% for the same year (with a peak of 18.7% in 2020). So no, I don't buy that per-capita consumption is an inaccurate method here. Swiss health care is expensive even if you adjust for the overall wealth of the nation.
> jesus overturning the money changers' tables was because they were the equivalent to payday loans

Jesus apparently didn't appreciated that a Jew coming from say Alexandia or Gallile had been bringing a bunch of coins of different origin, issuance, often clipped or destroyed by use... Charging 4-8 percent (kolbon) for exchanging used and foreign coins into new shekels required by Temple wasn't excesive. It is on par on charges for foreign purchases by today's banks.

Temple services (purification, healing) were on the other hand prohibitively expensive while Jesus provided them for free...
Thank you very much. I do prefer to start with small. This way I made whole emulation of my first computer showing assembler commands as it executes each operation and it was able to run original ROM successfully. It was a pleasure to observe. Hopefully I can reproduce it in FPGA to make the circle complete ;)

My challenge is to play with CPU designs at some point but in the beginning I agree it is easier to start with something like led blink, nand , register and then to other staff.

Is there some FPGA hardware you can advice to use for easy start? One that potentially(once I learn) capable to do let’s say UART or USB ? I do not know really how much of FPGA power required for those. Or it would be too big/expensive ? I can’t orient myself with this yet but I wish something physical to have for real motivation to ignite.
And yet somehow magically HN discussion trends towards big, bad San Francisco. Go figure.

For those keeping score at home: San Francisco has a population density of over 17,000 people per square mile. Woodside? 460. For all of its corruption and inaction San Francisco's already done far more than the surrounding communities.
From what I understand, actual tesla employees/contractors in Sweden are not interested in forming a union (they like the American shares model, I suppose), it's all the other unions forcing Tesla to have its employees form one, because how the minimum wage/collective bargaining system works in the nordics.

I understand that the other unions see this as the thin end of the wedge, if they allow Tesla to not form one, then others might follow and the scandanavian socio-capitalist system might fall. But I don't if we should blame Swedish Tesla employees wanting to profit from stonks.
There could be a CISC vs RISC argument for Transformer, which I can see, but my bet is the traditional transformer has established enough fundamentals, it is going to take a long time for alternative architectures to prove they are indeed alternatives on a wide range of tasks.

Pretty much at this point, to succeed transformer, one need to showcase, the alternative model could achieve chatgpt level performance with either significant reduction of compute or data requirements.
> That didn't materialise so we moved to 'global warming'. Then when that didn't seem to happen either, we moved to the generic 'climate change' - a term which is always true (and meaningless).

This is a bit silly and I feel like you should already know this. The very simple message is that the globe is warming and that this changes the climate. It's important to emphasise this last part because it's not the case that making the planet warming simply makes us all a bit toastier.

> We had Leonard Nimoy

An actor who played a scientist from space.
Because it's impossible while it's not in the digital medium?
Woah, that is crazy that DALL-E is so good now.
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> I hate to say it, because that's not how science should work

I have the opposite view. Science should be incremental and authors should be incentivized to share their (interesting) findings early and often. This makes the community as whole move faster because you get more visibility, funding, man-hours dedicated to things that are on the leading edge of research. Consider a scenario where a researcher is required to explain exactly why some phenomenon happens. Maybe it took 1 year to find the original phenomenon and then it takes 10 years to explain it to a reasonable level. Everyone only gets the benefit of this research 11 years after. Now consider the opposite scenario. After 1 year the author publishes and gets the attention of fellow colleagues. Some of them will collaborate together adding more man-hours / year, reducing the total time. Some of them might have already discovered something similar and thus avoid all repeated work. Some of them might be better positioned to solve the explanation piece based on their field of expertise, personal interests, availability. All of this makes the innovation happen faster.

What you often see (or should see in high quality papers) is an hypothesis of why something happens. This in itself is valuable. Many hypotheses are unproven until today. If you assume that these hypotheses are true you'll often find better results or find them faster; and if you don't you have discovered something interesting to report on.
I'm not exaggerating when I say that HN changed my life. When I first started using the site almost 15yrs ago I was a junior recruiter barely making ends meet. I learned a huge amount about the tech startup world through HN and when I found out there was a small HN meetup in London (where I worked), I jumped at the chance to check it out and ended up attending the meet-up every month.

I quickly became friends with the organiser of the meetup (Dmitri) and started helping him out. Together over the next 10 years we turned the meetup into the largest tech meetup in Europe with nearly 10k members and an average attendance of 500 people (max capacity for our venue). I ended up hosting the meetup and through that event (plus HN itself) my career took off. I've worked with multiple YC companies and have launched various products and businesses leveraging the network I created through HN. Dmitri and his family are still very close friends and honestly, it really is all thanks to HN.
It's both. The texts are comprehensive and go into great detail on the covered material. There are also a large number of exercises throughout. It's suitable as both a reference text and a study text.
Yes, I find it ridiculous, too. But then tell me how would you run a platform that costs hundred of millions dollars without ads and without fee? Is that also too hard to comprehend?
"nice post" is not a useful comment.

"salary too low" is not useful.

"lol php" is not useful.

"what a dumb business model" is actually harmful.

"ceo used to work for rocket internet, what a fucking hypocrite" may be useful, but too many of these would reward personal attacks.

I can't really think of many useful comments.
there are plenty of places where you pay before you get your food
> As long as it doesn't get annoying (multiple appeals every quarter, incessant "support us or we'll DIE!" messages...)

reminds me of wikipedia
> Social networking as a fundamental human right?

Nobody said that. Now, you want to create a fundamental companies right to do whatever they want for revenue. They can't, they'll be shutdown one day, hopefully
Thing with discount cards is that they track you when you buy something and thats it. But you cant get 10$ discount in exchange for retailer getting a right to track all your web browsing and profiling you using that information. And EU is fighting this.
I've been doing the same since 2018 - 'reading challenge' from Goodreads.

2018 - 4 books

2019 - 26 books

2020 - 38 books

2021 - 34 books

2022 - 36 books

2023 - 26/30 books atm

I think 24/26 books per year is the sweet spot that I will target in the upcoming years.
I didn't knew Gandi was taken over (I was never a customer).

I recently started to use NS1, which was taken over by IBM. It's nice and fast, comes with a great API, which even their web control panel also uses. The only negative side is that it's now owned by IBM.

I use some RHEL-alike products anyway, so I didn't mind NS1 now being IBM. NS1 doesn't mention any pricing, and I'm using their free developer accounts for my personal sites. I think it will get very expensive really quick once you become enterprise customers.
>I think the "Adults in the room" know about the problem. But there's also the need for the underlying community to believe in the problem and have an ideological shift to successfully keep the community in unison.

much easier said than done. That's the one big issue on surges of traffic driven through controversy, you get "Witches":

"The moral of the story is: if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consisting of approximately three principled civil libertarians and seven zillion witches. It will be a terrible place to live even if witch-hunts are genuinely wrong." - Scott Alexander [0]

Most people by nature are apathetic, so the ones who do get riled up and change more often than not tend to be the highly opinionated ones. This could make for excellent power users who will provide tons of content, or venom that turns the entire community sour.

It sounds like Lemmy has handled this much better than Voat, but identifying the "witches" without disupting the "libertarians" is quite the subtle but ambitious endeavor. I think the key is simply transparency: be ready to show that an active but disruptive user has been nothing but combatative to the community, and explain why certain servers can't be federated as of now. Some will twist the words, but overall a good policy should feel like common sense (even if it takes a lot of designing to properly establish).

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/01/neutral-vs-conservativ...
OK, I have a better comparison: companies are not allowed to give away rotten food for 0€, and talk bollocks like "we give you a choice to pay for the fresh one". They need to dispose of it to make sure no-one attempts to eat it, even hungry people in poverty who have trouble to get the food in other ways.

Because getting free food is not a fundamental right either, isn't it?

Personal data is a toxic asset. It also needs to be disposed of.
> None of the interventions in western countries has made any impact globally

The Montreal Protocol[1] is the first counterexample to this that comes to mind.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol
It looks like pure magic in the end even though you see how it works at first.
It's the byline for this article

https://amycastor.com/2023/09/12/pivot-to-ai-pay-no-attentio...
What is a kernel panic?
>Paying for your groceries is the right thing to do, even if you do not want to.

facebook is luring by giving away free groceries and taking pictures of your toes when youre close to sell to toe-loving private customers. thats not a proper way to pay for groceries.

spying and profiling users is not ok, crazy that this is so hard to enter on some dense-skull brains
The comment above clearly and honestly stated that "your mileage may vary".

Generally people that continue reading through TAOCP and invest the time and effort in doing so do get value from that or are foolish to keep going.

I read the early volumes thoroughly in the 80s and 90s and got a lot of insight into, for one example, methods for constraining error when doing chained numerical calculations.

His approach alone was inspiring at the time even if specific chapters weren't of any immediate interest.

They're not especially useful for general journeyman programmers and they're but one star in the firmament for people aiming higher .. but they are worth the effort if the material is of interest.
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