skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't claim that the author is still "religious". I claimed that the author maintains the importance of "faith". This is the same thing as being religious, of course, but without the specifics.

He is publicly making an argument that math team is dull and bad. The argument is based in the evidence of his personal experience, and the philosophy with which he approached this math team is very important context that he has left out, which undermines his claim.

He's also not a private stranger. He has 1500 followers on twitter, and an extensive blog about his personal life.
God bless consultants and their hefty fees for keeping me employable.
There is a nice implementation buried deep inside the Free Pascal run time libraries. There has to be some way to allocate memory at runtime for them to work properly.
> So while it's clear that bitcoin is a cultural phenomenon it's hard to say exactly how much of the market is real and how much is a show to get more people holding bags and willing to pick up more.

And to the next layer: how effective it is at getting "people" (how many people/how many dollars) to "hold bags" (invest/purchase it/hold-on-for-dear-life)?

How much of Bitcoin's ~160% runup/return this year so far can be attributed to regular Joe's investing their hard earned money into it? How can you quantify what portion/contribution of the probably... billion/trillion shift of money (from USD/EUR/whatever into BTC) it's taking to keep BTC at this $40k+ level?

How is there new demand every day?
Lessons on building business value
My family always ate wholegrain products when available, many years ago gave up adding sugar to tea/coffee and reduced all sugar consumption. Ultimately switched to Mediterranean diet (not for weight loss) due to its excellent health benefits.
Became aware of the Pareto Principle and how often it applies to every day situations. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/04/health/mediterranean-diet...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
Bigger plug is a big one, like you mentioned. 3 phase isn't an issue in the US version IIRC, but it still has more pins than NACS to maintain backwards compatibility.

Thicker
+ heavier cables too (not sure if that's required by CCS or just an implementation difference w/ NACS). Together that makes CCS much more unwieldy than a gas pump.

The NACS latching mechanism is a lot better- latch failures are a big part of why so many J1772 chargers are broken and unusable.
Do you mind explaining? What country did you leave / moved to?
It depends on what you mean specifically by "worth your time"? What "value" (in the sense that you're using) are you trying to get from the book? If you are reading to solve a specific problem, then a book being worth your time would depend on its ability to help explain the problem or approximate ways towards a solution. However, if you are reading non-fiction for other reasons, such as leisure, then the value-approach becomes more complicated.
Sorry to shatter your illusions, but unlike the leftist NPCs I mentioned I don't care what others think. I was never afraid to speak up during my time at an Ivy League university where the most common political posters were for the "world socialism" movement. In more than a decade on Reddit (or here) I have never once complained about being downvoted, and the first time I mentioned the concept of being up/downvoted at all was many years into my tenure there in response to some question/discussion not dissimilar to this.

The next time you are about to post something online, or say something to friends, or patronize a business, do you first ask yourself "What would it do to my public image if other people I knew saw me doing this?", and let that affect your behavior? Not me.

PS - I can also say that I have never up/downvoted a comment anywhere simply because I disagreed with it. I have upvoted many comments critical of me, or something I believe in/agree with, because of their eloquence or wit. I downvote very, very, very few comments, and only because they are completely useless (say, off topic), or ridiculously foul-mouthed in an inappropriate context (by the same token, I have upvoted such if funny enough). Even if few others seemingly believe in the original rationale for up/downvoting, I still do.
> This practically guarantees the bitcoin market will become extremely liquid for extremely large amounts

Isn't it actively walking towards block-halving and there being a fixed number of coins in circulation (aka walking towards eventual illiquidity)?
I mean I have definitely felt like a liability before :p

"What do you mean, we have to pay health insurance for all of them?? Let's get the cheapest option available!"
Because the exclusions are written around civil air certification, of which there are many subsonic examples but few (any?) supersonic examples.

Consequently, it's likely other clauses otherwise targeted to military-only powerplants might apply to the Olympus 593, despite being a civil certified engine, simply by virtue of also being supersonic.
Supercharging, yeah. But you (or rather "everyone") won't constantly be supercharging. You'll mostly do it at home or at your office. 7kW :)
> Machiavelli would seem to dismiss the possibility that a society can reorient itself towards empathy, charity, and equality without imploding.

Pretty much accurate. Machiavelli viewed the 'average person' as capricious and most rulers as corrupt. He viewed the mix of the two as a recipe for societal decay that could only be controlled by rulers of benevolent intent but willing to act without virtue to prevent decay and disorder. In Discourses, Machiavelli reveals his hope that virtue might be pervasive in a republic, but he did not view human nature as necessarily aligned with that goal.
Indeed, there's a significant portion of technical debt that's created with the full knowledge that it isn't the optimal approach and will incur a cost of maintenance or use, but might still be the correct tradeoff at the time.
I think the key is the "D word" here, which is distribution. The reason why Uber worked is because there was a giant inventory of vehicles owned would-be drivers ready to service a population looking for that service.

But there's no such parallel for rental scooters. In that case, the only capital efficient go to market would be to partner with brick and mortar partners who already have an extensive market presence (and ideally rental infrastructure); of course, that would've made Bird a fundamentally different company.

In the form in which it was conceived and went to market and subsequently folded -- I fully agree with you that no, it makes zero sense to build out all of that infrastructure from scratch and try to capture market share.
https://archive.ph/PIUwL
Yeah I always forget the name but it’s totally real
Hah. The last time I saw Bird in the news was when they were throwing a tantrum and leaving SF because "strangling government regulations" were ruining their business. Someone in SF city government pointed out that all their competitors were making record profits and said Bird was run by spoiled rich kids with very bad business sense. Goodbye Bird. I lived in Austin when you rolled out your terrible service there and I won't miss you at all.
For Bird, they were sold on a SPAC at $154, so mission accomplished for the VCs. Retail is left holding the bag now.
Unfortunately, I don't think they're gone yet. They just filed for bankruptcy protection. Cities are still littered with their scooters - and no clear plan to clean them up.

We should probably publish COO Steve Schnell's address and send him all the scooters littering the cities. You know ... just as a drunken prank.

Reference: https://www.businessinsider.com/bird-coo-drunk-pretend-fired...
Houston and Phoenix are 2/5 top 10 cities in America and both have a lower population density than the small farming city I live in of 50k people. America is just huge.
How Some Governments Eliminate HTTPS/TLS Encryption [1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37irG5pKur8
I still don’t get it. A fund of what? As the article rightly states, a normal ETF consists of a basket of different companies’ shares. I’d understand if this was marketed as a fund containing various cryptocurrencies, but this is… just Bitcoin? Different Bitcoin forks?
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From what I can tell, the definition in the link you provided is precisely what you're saying it's not. He says this:

> The explanation I gave to my boss, and this was financial software, was a financial analogy I called "the debt metaphor". And that said that if we failed to make our program align with what we then understood to be the proper way to think about our financial objects, then we were gonna continually stumble over that disagreement and that would slow us down which was like paying interest on a loan.

So indeed, his definition of technical debt is explicitly that by rushing software development now you will slow down future development.

The specific software engineering task that caused him to develop the analogy was about rewriting some code to incorporate new learnings, but the analogy itself is clearly applicable to any software engineering task that could be deferred to the future (with a cost).
One concern I have with designing for testability (which often means, designing for ease of unit testing) is that everything becomes a abstract interface.

Whereas before you might have

void Foo(){
Bar();

}

void Bar(){
Baz();
}

void Baz(){

}

Where Bar and Baz only really have a single implementation

This is fairly easy to grok and debug.

You end up with

void Foo(BarInterface* bar, BazInterface* baz){

bar->Bar(baz);

}

Now you have a lot more moving parts. If you have a problem with Foo, now you need to try to find out who all implements the interfaces and which implementation is being passed to.

Of course, after a while people get tired of passing in these interfaces and come up with some kind of "automated" dependency injection framework, which then triples the complexity.
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Not bad. But what about replicating the KDE 1 classic desktop?
They're making fun of you for using the wrong spelling of brake/break. I guess pedants don't have anything better to do.
Even there, you can use a subset of C++ and get pretty good compile times. Worse than C, as you're still dragging around the full weight of a C++ compiler, but still.
Sounds like a pump and dump with extra steps. Hype up any obvious future failure to pump the stock to crazy valuations, then dump and leave the suckers holding the bags. All enabled by zero interest rates, and VCs were willing to fund some because they knew there's gonna be other suckers out there to enable them to raise the valuations.
Additional? - A lot!

Even if consider shaders, just new way to run C programs, they have totally different ground - another RAM organization, another variable types than CPU (or even GPU), another variables visibility (and special methods to deal with it), some very special limitations (on code size, on exec time), and non-guaranteed RAM integrity (yes, for VRAM is normal to lost data).

What I see, IF you could fit there, you will got at least one additional high-end CPU core speed for free, even on integrated graphics (for example, nearly all game examples successfully run on intel 630 GPU, and as I understand, CPU there used only to transfer data in-out and to JIT compile).
you can build HTML however you want on the server

string templates work fine for lots of people (xss was/is a solved issue w/ escaping, but whatever) but if you want to use a DOM builder, or some sort of reactive mechanism, go head my dude

and that's leaving aside the danger of exposing so much application logic on the client side (an untrusted computing environment) inherent in SPAs, things like GraphQL, always revalidating server side (do you always remember to?) etc.

https://intercoolerjs.org/2016/02/17/api-churn-vs-security.h...

the idea that securing hypermedia driven applications is hard is dumb, it's been done successfully for decades now
That's a fair point. TBH, a combination of GPS (or just smart defaulting) and entering a short code would work pretty easily as well.

They could also put the QR on a small screen to make it harder to fake. A little epaper display wouldn't add much to the cost.
I've dabbled with Qt and other heavy GUI tools before. Switching to Imgui was a breath of fresh air.

And I love how it allows me develop for Windows, Linux and MacOs with minimal overhead.
Going full indie.
I would also wager that potential repeat customers eventually just bought their own scooter. It's not like they're particularly expensive. If you really enjoyed using one of these, why rent? (I know there are reasons, e.g. I wouldn't want one of those batteries in my house at all. But my point is simply that they can be inexpensive, especially compared to the price of renting.)
Right, I should have clarified that they're properties of the window object.
JSX does seem to fit that niche better than any other alternative I've tried. It pulls off a rather remarkable trick of avoiding the "uncanny valley" that you usually get from starting with a language and contorting it to do something different.

JSX manages to feel just about right: it's plain-old-HTML when you want it to be, and plain-old-Javascript when you need an out.

Still... I wouldn't mind writing in a truly standard language. You're "really" writing the DOM, and HTML and DOM are this godawful bastardization of a user-interface description language. I'd be slightly less grumpy to have a good DOM-writing library, and deal with its ugliness, rather than mix-and-match the domain-specific-language in with my actual coding language.

I'd written myself a good Java version of this type of thing, and I found it kinda pleasant -- especially since it let me do HTML structure checking via the Java type checking. Typescript is -- God help me -- actually a pretty good language, and I'd be OK with actually writing my user interface structure in it, with the help of a good library.

At least then I'm writing in only one language. That saves me time to go out and learn the godawful bodge of CSS to make it look pretty.
I'm not sure what bullet we have to bite and why. I'd rather the personal freedom to just drive across town and shop. Our sidewalks are great, we have bike lanes, lots of parks. What we don't have here is a lack of space. We're surrounded by miles of farmland, as are all of the other cities near me.
Almost certainly. I've seen photos of the acres and acres of perfectly good ebikes being piled up. Makes me absolutely sick to see such utter waste.
>As a company/team, you need to seek for ways/mechanisms that enable your employees/folks to tell the truth.

In my old company, we used to have team-seeking meets every week, which consisted in a stand-up 10 mins per employee. It was quite handy cause we learned to tell the truth in benefit of everyone there.
Just seems like a weird way to qualify the name is all.
Germany to Permanently Deploy Troops for First Time Since World War II
People use Github for private projects as well, both personal and corporate. In that case you’d want generated commits to go through PR preview and any automated testing cycle you have. So I don’t think the idea of generated PRs is bad in itself, but you’re right that open source projects would want a way to manage these.
I think this video is exactly what you’re looking for.

He explains the paper but also gives a lot of context, how it fits into the big picture, etc.

It’s actual kind of exciting hearing the plot unfold.

https://youtu.be/ouF-H35atOY?si=y2Ckp9MCFd7ulLL3
Like JVM "hot spots," or JIT optimization.
I've written video game editors in Win32, MFC, wxWidgets, Fox Toolkit, Qt, Cocoa and Dear ImGUI.

I will never use anything other than Dear ImGUI from now on. The explicitness, lack of state, speed of development and maintainability of the code means it wins hands down.

Well worth investing your time in and if you are a leader in the games industry well worth supporting financially.
Well, yeah if you only play three games a day, what do you expect?

I play probably 20 a day.

Look up chess speed runs on YouTube.
I can relate; I didn't study quite as hard as my peers, didn't get into the prestigious private colleges that they got into (still went to an excellent public school across the Bay from Stanford), studied a fair bit of math, and ended up with a decent job where I've found that my math and problem solving skills have paid dividends. I'm certainly not making tech or F-U money, but I have a comfortable life a few years out of college and I'm lucky that I didn't have to sacrifice my youth or my interests to get here.

It's also interesting to follow the trajectories of people who were in the group that over-optimized for outcomes but have fallen off that path. I think the author was able to mitigate his burnout (I presume he had a good tech career), but I know a fair amount of folks with good pedigrees who haven't, and are still in limbo (unemployed, underemployed, or taking an extended break early in their career/schooling). I know they have the potential to do great things, but it seems the stakes of burnout are much higher today and harder to recover from financially.
I think this glances over don't details here:

> get_legal_actions(): returns a list of legal actions

What's the expectation around your actions? It's not just 0..n for current actions with any arbitrary ordering, right? There needs to be some consistency between steps for training.
Politely, what the hell are you talking about? Who is telling anyone what they can or cannot compute?
Dupe from earlier today -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38707589
I used them a bit in Denver this fall. There were plenty of Lyft and Lime scooters around (I used the Lyft ones, because I already had the app installed). People were about 50/50 on riding them in the (pretty damn decent) bike lanes vs being sociopathic assholes brushing past pedestrians on the sidewalk.
Driving with a near empty tank is more likely to cause corrosion.
Basic question: how does civilization prevail over barbarianesque warfare, at macro and micro scales.
Agree, the brand and the product.
If this is true, shame on the company.
I wouldn't blame the education system as much as I'd blame industry in this case, actually. The problem is companies that are too big for their britches: Most of the time, you don't need the best of the best. You need someone who will show up on time, get the work done, and not turn out to be so abrasive that they alienate the rest of your team. Most companies are not working on hard problems, they're not even working on tricky problems. They're just working on the remaining problems. Average should be adequate, and that's what average schools produce.

Of course, some places are working on genuinely hard problems. They need outstanding individuals, and these are what elite schools offer: They've already done the filtering, ensuring that the very highest performing individuals disproportionately possess one of their diplomas. The elite school may or may not have the greatest instructors, but regardless the students will get a superior education simply due to the fact that they are embedded in an environment that surrounds them with outstanding talent.

In this way what university you went to acts a signifier as to your abilities, not just how much you know, but how rapidly you're able to learn new things, and how much work you're willing to put in.
The zero interest rates make getting loans cheap, but aren’t there angel investors who lose their investments recommended by VCs?
There are some odd intersections in Phoenix. And don’t even ask about the “suicide lanes” which change from turning lanes to unidirectional during rush hour with the direction depending on time of day. AFAIU Waymo drives everything in their coverage area ahead of rollout so they’re definitely “training” on oddities.
Yeah, but these tend to be enclosed inside of a factory, with no external factors like cable-seeking machines (i.e. your average backhoe) or terrorists to take into account.
What field of scholarship is this.
> For the larger apps/those from specific publishers it may likely be a choice of: Meta apps only from the Meta Store, Epic Games apps only from the Epic Games store, etc.

That's not really different than anything else. You can only get Great Value brand products from Walmart. But when this happens it's typically because the store and the maker of the product are the same company. Then you don't have to worry about the store having a monopoly because either the product has competitors, and then you can use those, or it doesn't, in which case you're dealing with a monopolist regardless of how many stores you can get it from.

But it's not even clear this would happen if there actually was competition between stores, because why does every random company need its own store if there was enough competition between stores that they could just put their app in existing popular stores without having to pay excessive margins or being subject to abusive monopoly practices?

> And regarding the security aspect: once people expect to download a random app store for every company, they'll be less hesitant to download one that's just malware.

An app store which is just malware would be illegal, and then get removed by court order for being illegal (or cease to exist because the proprietors are in prison). You can allow legitimate competitors without allowing overt criminal activity. The obvious distinction is that who decides what's prohibited is an elected government subject to constitutional restrictions rather than a competitor with a conflict of interest.
Online searches to evaluate misinformation can increase its perceived veracity
I would be surprised is they don't already share at the detailed map level. Was any published on how much the cars contribute to improving the map day after day (including temporary road closures and road work)? - but probably not yet directly when at the same intersection.
> why would you rent one when you could own one?

Because storing them and dealing with them is a massive pain. I use these scooters way more than I use my bike, and it's not because I don't want to pedal.

When I go out on a scooter I like the flexibility of leaving it at the first place I go. This prevents me from needing to leave my bike parked overnight if I decide to go somewhere else that isn't bike friendly. Not to mention that stealing scooters is really easy and bringing them inside most places isn't really an option.
Hi, I'm curious how you deal with the potential for hash collisions across a large data set - is that a post-join check?
The electricity grid has three phases in the US right? Are devices seldom connected to three phases?
This isn't really advice, but I just want to say I sympathize. I struggled quite a lot in learning C and C++ back in school. The thing that wound up helping most was to pick one or two projects that I actually wanted the results of (in my case, software to resurrect an old pen-plotter). That kept me going when other tasks like following along to "blink the LED on Arduino" tutorials just left me languishing.
> Don't worry guys, I teach 8th grade. You're not missing much.

> A student recently introduced me to BLP Kosher. That was... an experience.

A lot to unpack here, but it sounds to me like you don’t like or appreciate rap music, which says more about your own individual music taste than the quality of BLP Kosher’s music or this particular track.

I think the production is on point and the track low-key slaps, but that’s just my opinion.

I like rap. In my opinion, rap music embodies the last vestiges of individuality and creativity that rock and roll pioneered. Rock is now just a snake eating its own tail. All the soul is gone.
IIRC some ADHD medicines have slightly decreased growth as a side effect. Wonder if the increase in the number of prescriptions for school-age children and adolescents may have some influence on it.