skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At that young age I would recommend working on just generalized cognitive skills. Here is my list of things (off the top of my head) most adults are horrible at. Some child are absolutely gifted in these items, but most are not:

* Number acuity - This is the skill of visually knowing the number of things by looking at a collection of things without using a counting system, for knowing the number of dots on a card instantly from vision only. Some children struggle with as a few as four, but most will average around 6. The most brilliant of people will top out around 11. Tree sloths can do around 40.

* Tree model navigation - This is the abstract skill of navigating data points via node relationships in a large data model. Children are surprisingly better at this than adults, but its still makes for fun puzzle adventures. Females are far more gifted at this than males. Even in programming where this is a very real skill most male programmers who do this for a living are absolutely terrified of it and will make up all kinds of bullshit excuses to avoid reasoning about it.

* Cause and effect - This is far less straight forward than most people consider especially when both the cause and effect are points taken from an abstract set of relations. Adults actually fail at this skill just over half the time.

* Greater than and less than - This is another thing that is less straight forward than it seems and largely accounts of bias. Consider how people apply this form of comparison to non-numeric qualities or falsely equivocate non-numeric qualities to numeric values to ease their own reasoning. Examples may include perceptions of space/distance and whether a thing is better, more important, or more immediate than another thing.

* Measurement - This is another thing most adults, especially programmers, commonly fail at and also accounts for bias. Teach children how to measure things, what constitutes valid measures, when to apply measures, and what defines a measure.

* Listening - Listening is not hearing. Hearing is a physical sensual quality. Listening is an information processing quality necessary for empathy and following instructions. There are many adults that fail at this too for a wide variety of reasons. In childhood experiments males tend to do better at listening if the subject matter relates to an ordered list of instructions despite females measuring absolutely superior in language skills across the board.
Time, maybe, but not effort.
Acquaint yourself with the “coaching” industry (think: life coaching)

Almost all the money in it comes from milking people who’ve been sold on the idea of launching their own life coaching business, not from people with other careers seeking life coaching.

Whatever tiny legitimate side of that market exists is very-obviously saturated to the tune of a large multiple over what’s sustainable, and it’s pretty clear the real money remaining is in selling people the idea that they too can launch their own coaching business (“be your own boss! You don’t want a boring corporate job forever, do you? That may be fine for some people, I guess, but not for you!”) and have an easy, lucrative career, then charging them money to (supposedly) teach them how (“well of course coaches need coaches, too!”).

And yet, despite all this being pretty damn obvious, lots of people get sucked into the scam-vortex anyway.

Similar things happen all over the place. Starting restaurants without a solid path to success even on paper, et c. Folks deceive themselves really well when dreams get involved.

So, lots of people waste both time and money on clearly-bad business ideas.
In much of California, electricity prices are high enough that you shouldn't get an EV and you shouldn't electrify your space or water heating because gasoline and natural gas are cheaper per delivered utility.

When my marginal cost of electricity dropped to zero at my single-family home thanks to solar+battery, I dramatically increased my consumption. I got an electric car, two electric laundry units, an induction cooktop, an electric oven, a heat pump pool heater, and am about to switch over to electric space and water heating. I'm using about 4x more electric energy than I did prior to having solar panels, and it's definitely going to keep going up.

Note that the winter off-peak rate in PG&E territory is $0.49541 per kilowatt*hour. That's ludicrously high. The summer on-peak rate is $0.62647. See the tariff sheet: https://www.pge.com/tariffs/assets/pdf/tariffbook/ELEC_SCHED...

And in case anybody doesn't believe me, check out a Bolt vs an ICE vehicle at current electricity and gasoline costs (about $5/gallon in my area):
https://zlnp.net/serve/bolt-vs-ice.png

Any ICE that gets about 35 MPG or better will beat a grid-powered Bolt. So if you don't self-generate in northern CA, get yourself something like a Prius.
Might be irrefutable but it's not like it's immutable.

Buybacks used to be illegal so it's not like it couldn't change again depending of peoples "desire".
slashdot is also still alive in 2024
It's easy to find examples within a career though, if you find that relevant. I'm a (US) physician that chooses to work a federal government job rather than private / for-profit sector, making about half as much money in exchange for numerous QoL benefits.
Thanks for checking it out. That behavior is intentional and mirrors apps like Tinder and Bumble. Swiping left means you aren't interested in the profile and won't see it again.

Got a lot of feedback for needing a neutral skip, so that's on my list.

Also considering replacing the swiping UI entirely, as many people here pointed out that it's not really ideal.
Check out miniMAL from the person behind Make a Lisp. It’s exactly what you want, I think: http://kanaka.github.io/miniMAL/
Yes, but then a PhD is a chicken and egg problem. You can't get into the top PhD programs under a respectable professor - unless you have some publications under your name.

So how does one get published, enough to get into a good PhD program?
The fact that msvc generates the unaligned loads for every avx instruction but gcc didn't gave me so many headaches. Most people worked on PC or Xbox and I was on the Playstation team.
"oh boy, another one of these..."
> They are completely nonsense to non-programmers, and they rarely ever have good documentation

This applies the same to other "popular" languages like Javascript i.e. NodeJs. I'd argue Java apps being supported by large corporations actually have better documentation.

> Most only show up in old SO post, or application specific forums

And a lot of "popular" issues only show up in a hidden github issues comment that may or may not be relevant anymore.
It is changing now though. TenneT now has some huge projects coordinated with the Ministry for Economic Affairs. All the doom and gloom is unhelpful, the Netherlands has come a long way in the last 10 years and we should celebrate the victories. People only want to see the bad news about a supermarket that couldn’t get a grid connection and declare that it’s all a mess.

There are definitely many places on the grid with big backlogs but the rate of upgrades to accommodate them has accelerated immensely.
Open-source YouTube-to-MP4 tool written in Python
I think I have read that, IIRC it was around 150k?
I recommend Alan Szepieniec's series of posts for a clear, direct mathematical description of how they work - https://aszepieniec.github.io/stark-anatomy/

Vitalik also has this more informal series of explainer posts - https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2017/11/09/starks_part_1.ht...
Does remove words like “the” and “and” improve outcomes on this?

I’d imagine speed would
> Because the whole thing is literally made up out of their money.

Yes because labor comes out of thin air.
Whatsapp being e2e is almost (but not entirely) worthless, it tells me that they are likely not training LLMs on my messages, but I have zero trust of their safety from client-side backdoors.

The security of e2e cannot be higher than the security of the clients
It sometimes makes sense to made a distro that is specifically for new or unusual hardware.

I point to Asahi Linux, supporting Apple computers based on their M1, M2 and M3 ARM cpus is a load of work that is still in progress and sometimes issues are only found when a load of people use it. Eventually the source code that has been written or modified to support Apples relatively-new hardware will reach mainstream distros so people can run Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat etc on an M1 mac with working sound, gpu etc.

If some new RISC-V single board computer reaches the market it might make sense for someone to make a distro specifically for it.

A distro for specific hardware may get better performance by being compiled to use the specific instruction set and cpu features.
Good for you! You should do what makes you happy and revel in the knowledge that you provide many different kinds of value and you yourself extract value from something you like doing in multiple ways. The way I think about it: no one else has to be me and work my job. Since im going to so the work then I will choose how and what I do so long as I can. It took time for me to build the emotional strength to do what I love and not care about what others think but working on that intentionally has brought so many unforeseen, manifold benefits that I wouldn’t change that path for any other opportunity.
Well, compared to what? The alternative to exceptions is usually worse:

1. Error codes. Try debugging Win32 software and have fun working out with all those HRESULTs mean, especially as every Google hit for any given code is just endless support forums with people complaining their computer is broken.

2. Panics. You get an error message no more helpful than an exception, except with no stack trace to help you figure out what's wrong.

3. Segfaults. You get nothing.

Exceptions are the best form of error handling yet invented. Making programmers more helpful is hard, but exceptions have auto-generated error messages that at least tell you where the program died, how it got there, and very often the chain of problems that led to that surface level problem (a particular weakness of error codes where causal chains are often lost). They also often have JavaDocs explaining what they mean.

Although it's not really a weakness of Java or exceptions per se, I think some people don't like them because lazy devs don't bother translating them into something more user friendly (especially for developer tools). There are simple patterns that fix that though. My company makes a CLI developer tool written in Java+Kotlin running on the JVM (see bio) and it defines a dedicated UserError exception type. If an exception bubbles to the top level of the program and it descends from UserError then it's formatted nicely with colors and shown as you'd expect. If it's not then the exception is logged and a crash reporter is started, the user is asked if they'd like to report the crash. The exception details are then printed without the stack trace and polished slightly ("FooBarException: abc" -> "Foo Bar: abc") which often makes the messages good enough that the user can unstick themselves. There are utility methods to catch and rethrow exceptions as user errors when the underlying messages are already good enough, and the product is careful to rethrow manually if the messages need to be improved. There are also utilities to verify that a file/directory exists and if not, throw a special subtype of UserError that yields a spelling corrector [1]

The result is that if you check our homepage, you'll see at least one customer explicitly praised our error message quality! They were very happy to never see a stack trace from a developer tool, only actionable errors that tell you what to do.

So exceptions can definitely yield a great UX. You just have to care and put in a bit of effort.

IntelliJ is another example of a product where the exception UX is highly polished. Its exception reporter can figure out which plugin an error comes from, route error reports automatically, deduplicate errors based on the stack traces, attach files that the exception object advertises and so on.

[1] https://hshell.hydraulic.dev/14.1/user-interaction/#path-ass...
And as an interviewer, winning means not hiring the sort of person who's going to do the absolute bare minimum, because then you'd have to suffer through working with them.
There's probably no single cause for such a short average tenure length. However, Marcus Lemonis always blames high turnover on bad management. Every time a boss tries to argue with that premise he immediately shuts them down.
Outside of the US does this actually convince anyone? Just repeating the hymn?
I have been using sbcl for a very long time and never knew that the core is a small optimised c part and the rest all written in Lisp. Not totally self hosted but quite close.

Now I have been searching for an overview of the CL commands that make up that core which would be needed to implement CL (run the rest), but I cannot find any. Anyone here knows?
You can start pretty much any business and be successful with a small group of founders and no VC money (from experience, this can be anything from a wholesale flower business to a WordPress plugin to a hosting provider). The problem is that VCs push you to grow too fast and too hard, then pull funding when it "fails" and you've got an entire staff to feed, pay, and manage. Thus, you go bankrupt.

If you choose to play a long game, you can have a nice stable-ish income for 2-3 people after 5-ish years.
> […] is that income isn't the only measure of happiness.

It may not be the only measure, but it is a very important part:

> One could draw a snap judgment from this analysis and conclude that money, in fact, simply buys happiness. I think that would be the wrong conclusion. Clever sociologists will always find new ways of “calculating” that marriage matters most, or social fitness explains all, or income is paramount. But the subtler truth seems to be that finances, family, and social fitness are three prongs in a happiness trinity. They rise together and fall together. Low-income Americans have seen the largest declines in marriage and experience the most loneliness. High-income Americans marry more and have not only richer investment accounts but also richer social lives. In this light, the philosophical question of what contributes most to happiness is just the beginning. The deeper question is why the trinity of happiness is so stratified by income—and whether well-being in America is in danger of becoming a luxury good.

* https://archive.ph/4ofJ6 / https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/happiness-...
Vehicle regulations, norms and crash test etc are not the same in china, and obviously it makes EU/US cars more expensive.

Although it's obvious that those norms are probably bad and are created by the automotive lobby.
Hate to be negative, but with all these ambiguous tweets and interviews... if this is what they've been hyping it better have a "one more thing" moment and include GPT-5...
Here's some pseudocode that should help you get started on a very simple thing

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switch peekChar
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That's beside the point and misses it entirely. Solar and wind are the cheapest thing to build right now, so it's not going to be coal going forward. We have an absolutely enormous interconnection queue because it's impossible to build infrastructure. We'd be much further along with the energy transition if we could stop tripping over ourselves and get on with erecting pylons and wires.
> Like many young children, Kendall was initially slightly scared of Chuck E.

It's probably no surprise that an alternative that brings immediate pleasure / curiosity ultimately won out.
Well yes, that's my point – the process is not trivial, with surprising technical details.

For a more in-depth take on grooves – at least more in-depth relative to "concentric circles" or Lehner's "wet sand" video) check out my link above, https://antropogenez.ru/drilling/. Specifically on Petrie's testimony they offer this:

> Of course, Petrie’s Core#7 does not bear any regular helices or a thread cut in granite with a fixed jewel point with a pitch of 2.0 mm, as it has been described by him. There is only a series of grooves, the formation mechanism of which is described above in detail. Their pitch, being very irregular, is not related to the advance movement of the tool cutting edge.

Most importantly, they ran actual experiments on actual stones.

And their theory for those grooves is a sort of emergent property of the accumulated effect of corundum grains falling into the same crest/trough pattern along the tube wall while drilling downward, leading to the observed series of (irregular) cut spiral grooves.
They have already achieved this in the microcontroller market. Check out WCH and their parent company Nanjing Qinheng Microelectronics.

High performance is much harder, but they seem to have the money and the talent to eventually do it.
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Stock buybacks are an illegal stock manipulation that were routinely prosecuted as such before the Reagan administration waved a magic wand and decided it was kosher. If Google has $70 billion for stock buybacks, then Google has $70 for taxes, and strong pro-unionization rules are called for to tip the balance of power towards workers. Why did we create rules of the road where corporations and shareholders became the guiding force of our economy, when workers’ spending power keeps us afloat?
Only if the prospective employer was confused and thought they were hiring a business exec rather than a developer.
I don't think it's a matter of complexity as much as it is a matter of development.
Highschoolers have an under-developed prefrontal cortex — this region of the brain fully forms by 25.

> This brain region is involved in a wide range of higher-order cognitive functions, including speech formation (Broca's area), gaze (frontal eye fields), working memory (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex), and risk processing (e.g. ventromedial prefrontal cortex). The basic activity of this brain region is considered to be orchestration of thoughts and actions in accordance with internal goals.[3] Many authors have indicated an integral link between a person's will to live, personality, and the functions of the prefrontal cortex.[4]

> This brain region has been implicated in executive functions, such as planning, decision making, working memory, personality expression, moderating social behavior and controlling certain aspects of speech and language.[5][6][7][8] Executive function relates to abilities to differentiate among conflicting thoughts, determine good and bad, better and best, same and different, future consequences of current activities, working toward a defined goal, prediction of outcomes, expectation based on actions, and social "control" (the ability to suppress urges that, if not suppressed, could lead to socially unacceptable outcomes).

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefrontal_cortex
> Building stuff is fun.

That's the thing that needs to be taken into account during these discussions. 12 hours grinding away at a steel mill? Hard. 12 hours at my computer having fun writing code, cracking bugs, listening to good music, and eating tasty food throughout the day? Pretty neat.

> This is the first vacation I've had for over a year.

This is the tough part, though, and I admire you for that. I've always been perfectly happy to work 12+ hour days without days off, but only as long as I know that if I need a break, I -can- take a break, go off for a week or whatever. Knowing that I -can- tap out whenever I want is the key to stopping burnout, for me. If I couldn't, I'd have to be much more restrained.
They installed quite a lot of coal capacity while also installing the most renewables of any country (by far):

https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/net-solar-pv-...
> I asked "Why can't the company buy back stock to increase value ?". He was shocked at the question and explained in detail why doing that is bad. It was something about doing that does not create real value.

Either you misunderstood your professor or your professor was very misinformed.

Stock buybacks and stock dividends are two ways for companies to return value to shareholders. They’re not actually as different as non-Econ people think. They both have the same effect of returning value to shareholders.

> So now we are living in that environment with no care about the impact of buy backs.

I’m old enough to remember people hand-wringing about stocks that did not have dividends or buybacks. The complaint was that they weren’t sharing profits with shareholders which was somehow evil.

Ironic that people are now angry that companies are sharing profits with shareholders.

I think the bottom line is that people like to get outraged over anything companies do.
This is not true, unless you are putting more into your startup than your marriage. It's priorities. My marriage and child is always more important than money and chasing an idea.
I just want to push back on the contrast part -- you'd be right for most apps.

But video editing requires a dark interface with low contrast, so that it doesn't disturb how you see the video itself.

If you're working on a relatively dark nighttime scene, then bright UX icons would be kind of blindingly bright and impair your ability to work with the footage.

Just look at the interface for something like Adobe Premiere and see how dark and low-contrast it is. It's that way for a good reason.

The usual visual accessibility concerns simply don't apply here because if you have vision problems then video editing is probably not something you do in the first place. In the same way that DAWs (digital audio workstations) don't have accessibility features for the hearing-impaired.
Sure, But there's still decreasing utility to you for each additional kilowatt hour of power you consume. At some point, you are maintaining maximum comfort and convenience in the house, have switched everything over to the cheapest energy source, your driving cost is entirely determined by the price of tires. I guess you could operate an aluminum smelter at home... :)

Using a cs metaphor, it's amdahl's law applied to one part of an overall cost and happiness equation. After a while, the other factors dominate and there's no point in using more energy.
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Yes and your goal also isn’t to hire a person who’s so ambitious and such a go-getter that they’ll hate your dysfunctional organization and leave super fast.
Stock buybacks were always an illegal form of stock manipulation, until Reagan decided it was fine, and then it stopped getting prosecuted.
> So why is Java scary?

There's a lot of Internet trolls that like to bash it and influencers e.g. on Youtube that like to use it to look hip.

It's less about the facts and more about it being the biggest target they can hit.

Coincidentally their religion is called Javascript and according to them there can only be 1 Java.
Added in 2014, but it's updated continuously, e.g.
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>but for parts like these risc is massive overkill

You seem to underestimate how small a RISC-V core can be.

Take a look at SERV.
Right - in case it's not clear to all, the square root metric Vitalik mentions is about measuring both proof size and verifier complexity. Neither the prover nor the verifier is doing any square root computations.
Hm, that article says cosine similarity ranges from 0 to 1, but it can range between -1 to 1 if the vectors are allowed negative components.

Also FYI to any Postgres users: the pgvector operator is for cosine distance, which is 1 - cosine similarity, and thus ranges from 0 to 2 or 0 to 1.
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