skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Weird Nerd who can't get a job in the industry [1], this resonates.

On one hand, I understand that I can't get a job because of my own flaws. After all, who needs a solo-only C-only [2] programmer who can't build theory of mind and thus, can't read code written by others and who refuses to prioritize employer over user?

On the other hand, it is hard, and I secretly hope the industry can change so that people like me can have a place.

Edit: To clarify, I don't think I am a Genius, just a Weird Nerd in the sense that I do not like politicking. However, I am trying to learn from my empath wife how to do it because yes, it is a necessary evil right now.

[1]: https://gavinhoward.com/2024/06/my-programming-journey/

[2]: https://gavinhoward.com/2023/02/why-i-use-c-when-i-believe-i...
Well... did you scrape their site? There are loads of similar tools out there, so it would be quite random for this guy to single out yours.
But most of the time, you don't. The vast majority of CVS use-cases don't need to store CSV inside CSV. Most of them need to store numbers and text, both of which contain commas and may occasionally contain tabs, but will never contain a field separator character.
Cable ferries exist, but the longest cable ferry route is 2 km [1]. Ignoring material science conerns, energy efficiency concerns, and the difficulties they add for other navigation, cable ferries tend to be quite slow even compared to intercontinental shipping, have a single vessel per route and have a two point route.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Baynes_Sound_Connector
> I’ve had to answer to a Weird Nerd when I was starting out in my field, it was the worst fucking experience of my life,

I wouldn't want to tar all people who might be perceived as Weird Nerd, based on one data point (which AFAIK might not even be due to them being a Weird Nerd).

Almost all of the too-many people I've seen burn others under their influence, I wouldn't have called any of them Weird Nerd. And none of them appeared to be geniuses. Rather they tended to be at least somewhat successful as political operators, unlike how the article characterizes Weird Nerd. (Arrogant seemed to be the most common attribute, then greedy, dishonest, and unprintable bad word.)

Someone might decide to call some of those FTX cryptocurrency scammers Weird Nerds, but you could also just call them overprivileged brats with consequently warped worldviews.
I really hope that is the case.

My understanding is that in the DC case, the SREC values are anchored by DC's Solar Alternative Compliance Payment (SACP). This is a penalty energy companies must pay if they don't produce their quota of SRECs. Currently, the penalty is $480 per SREC, so the energy co.s save some money paying $350-400 vs. the penalty.

In tandem with this, DC is small, meaning rooftops are really the only place you can put panels, and DC requires that the SRECs are generated by systems located in DC:

"The D.C. City Council passed a law in July 2011 preventing out-of-state systems registered after January 31, 2011 from participating in the DC SREC Market, further limiting supply."

Source: https://www.srectrade.com/markets/rps/srec/district_of_colum...

This program has benefited me and other DC residents individually, but I would be much more at ease knowing that this is actually globally good policy. I'll admit I don't really know.
Almost all scientists? Basically, except the ones with an agenda?

Check out where that talk was given. Climate change is inconvenient for them because it's mostly an externality that can't reasonably be solved without government, taxes, or changes to capitalist and individual behaviors.

"The Steamboat Institute promotes America's first principles and inspires active involvement in the defense of liberty. We stand for the following five founding principles:
1) Limited government
2) Limited taxes and fiscal responsibility
3) Free market capitalism
4) Strong national defense
5) Individual rights and responsibilities
"
It's also lacking support for 2D arrays, recursive functions, etc.:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JE-Lt5apM-g4tZN3LS4TDbPK...
I think what they're saying is that with some minor control over the data in your dataset, you don't need to care about escaping _in your parser_ at all. The same might be said of CSV but I would argue that in the majority of situations tabs are less semantically meaningful than commas and newlines, so it is generally fine just to strip them out.

Obviously this is not robust solution, but in cases I've seen, it works adequately. If one were to be doing it "the right way" then I agree with you wholeheartedly.
Because it's irrelevant.

The jury decides guilt or innocence, and then the judge issues the sentence.

No need for step 1.
Sorry but I don't think people that read HN are the right audience for this scam.
> Use of health data is permitted so long as it’s for payment, treatment or operations

please, do tell me, where "estimating better pricing models to extract more profit" fit into those?

> Doctor writes script -> EHR -> Pharmacy -> Switch -> Clearinghouse —> PA Processing -> PBM/Plan makes determination

All the OP mentions happens way after the fact of those paths you described. People have already been charged. Treatment was already decided.
"Earning" doesn't necessarily come with a truly elite status job, because you're not relying on a salary to live. Having to live off a salary is lower status.
I can do the same with few lines in Processing.
The author sidesteps the problem entirely by picking the most idealistic Weird Nerd possible: A person who is indisputably talented, accomplished, perseverant, and even benevolently forgives those who wronged her in the past.

In the real world, the "Weird Nerd" rarely checks all of these boxes, let alone most of them. I bet a lot of people will read this and identify as the Weird Nerd despite checking none of the boxes. That's the nature of articles that leave out the nuance and instead give us the most idealized view of a noble scientist who was a victim of the system. It leaves an opening for everyone to feel like they were a victim of the system.

That's why this problem is far more complicated than articles like this would lead you to believe. Many of the "Weird Nerd" people out there aren't perfect scientists or engineers unfairly shunned by the system. Many of them have real flaws of varying degrees that would require a lot of guidance and mentoring even within a perfect system. And it's not easy! In fact, it can be very taxing on teams to work around the quirks of your average (non Noble Prize winning, like this article) Weird Nerd even if they can produce good output, which is why so many companies select for Boring Nerds instead.
The law in question is a New York State law, not a NYC one. The state is much less politically homogeneous than the city is, and Hochul's (tepid) argument for suspending the law is in part based on this political dynamic.

(The entire situation is a pathetically self-inflicted one: the MTA is a state entity instead of a city one, meaning that the city's single most important mode of transportation is perpetually shackled to the state's political slapfights.)
It seems there is actual standard behind it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_rule_for_Camera_File_sy...
One thing that has always unsettled me in these space simulators is the sense of scale.

Yes, the backgrounds I'm staring at don't scale; they're flat, fixed bitmaps due to limitations of the program.

But I let myself forget that sometimes, and the thought that I could keep moving in this direction seemingly forever, and the size of that planet wouldn't change, because the distance is so vast and the size of that planet is so huge and I am so minuscule and my progress is so infinitisemally insignificant, inspires a sense of dread, of strange hopelessness.

I suppose a VR experience would amplify this effect because now you're actually surrounded by this phenomenon: your eyes can perceive old light, ancient light, from places so distant, from objects so incomprehensibly vast, that physically you'll never be able to reach them nor make any significant progress in reaching.

I used to get this sense in mathematics sometimes when plotting graphs in scales with wild upper and lower bounds, just inconceivably large or small scales, and I could pan right and left and the curve just continues on to infinity (as numbers do..)

Mathematics itself containing the seeds of infinity is probably why I've always approached the subject with a sense of awe, that yes, it's an ingenious system used to model our world, but it contains concepts that have philosophical implications as well as numerical. I'm reminded of John Cleese's character in The Day The Earth Stood Still: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpopz6HxU_w&t=78s

I feel like there's a term for this: dread when confronted with the infinite?

Anyway, time to go outside. The rose bushes are very near so as to be reachable :)
When I have to spend 10 minutes finding a store employee to unlock a case for me to buy underwear and socks at Target when I didn't have to five years ago, I conclude that crime has gotten worse.

When I see videos on the internet all the time of criminals just walking into stores and grabbing whatever they want while the security guard looks on and does nothing because the police will side with the criminal if he touches them, it is perfectly valid to assume that crime is worse.

When the police do nothing to enforce the law I do not trust the statistics because they are based on reports to the police.

Maybe the statistics are right, over the whole city, but where I live, crime has gotten worse.
For more about Kling AI, please visit: https://klingai.co
Hey thanks for bringing this up. I'm not able to reproduce the error you are getting. I just ran `cargo install lsp-ai -F llama_cpp -F metal` on my mac and received no errors and a clean install. Can give me the full output of your command either here or in a github issue?
Yeah, she was talking accurately about the benefits until very recently. The complete reversal using transparently-untrue claims should cost her the governorship since it also means nobody can trust her on anything.
I hope they listen to data. Either that they gather themselves or gathered by reputable organizations. Consumer confidence index for example tries to gather the sentiment of the consumers.
This is the core issue. Unchecked executive overreach, by politicians of both parties at the federal and state level, will end terribly for the republic.

But no one cares if it serves their political interests.
You think germany would have taken over europe by convincing them if the citizens of the other countries spoke german?
Hochul keeps on messing with every nyc / nys initiative I get excited about.
rustup update
No, not in this case. The article already assumes the existence of a near perfectly-efficient process. It's just looking at the minimum energy needed to remove the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according to long-established physical laws, no matter what mechanism is used.

We could definitely work harder at supporting the existing natural mechanisms for removing CO2 from the atmosphere, but it's far, far easier to reduce the amount we're emitting.
Sorry... What is justice?

Surely it's not paying overpriced layers to argue back and forth in a courtroom for years?

That's just sometimes prerequisite to get to the actual justice.
The bleakest cyberpunk future event to date.
Quality is a process that begins with management. How they value it is revealed by the actions they take in cases like these.

It's unfortunate OP wrote plenty about their displeasure with the candidate but failed to tell us anything about their role in the hiring process, how well the job description matched the actual job requirements or how HR got the impression it did.

But the situation as described strikes at a reason I've left previous jobs: the feeling that I couldn't trust the competency and integrity of those I worked with.

Like the time our in-house recruiter presented me "resumes" they fabricated from linked-in profiles of people they wanted me to interview but who hadn't actually applied to our company, or the time I was pressured give passing reviews to candidates who couldn't pass basic programming tests from managers eager to hire loyal toadies.

A small outfit with a focus on personal development, intrinsic motivation, good climate, and low turnover can't afford incompetent or perversely motivated HR people who "hire at any cost" candidates with mediocre reviews.
Got it, apologies for the misunderstanding as well.
Sorry, "turning your mailer off" seems outbound-related to me, whereas DNSBLs are typically used for inbound filtering?

And in 2009, filtering inbound SMTP traffic using a popular DNSBL or two was definitely effective (as was greylisting). Alas, no more.

But I probably misunderstand what you're saying?
‘Rep. Gottheimer hopes this is the end of the road for congestion pricing, and as far as it coming back after the upcoming elections are decided, “I don’t think so,” he said. “We got it done. ... indefinite pause, the word indefinite is key here,” he said.’

what a joke of a statement; then none of you mean to pause it, you meant to kill it. if you’re going to ruin what little progress this damn country can make at urbanism in its most urban city, at least wear your mockery and ruination on your sleeve proudly, rather than weasel out of it with a bullshit “pause.”

garbage politicians.
As far as I can tell this is a "he said"/"she said" conflict. What evidence is there that you did not scrape his site? What evidence is there that you did? I'd like to hear from both parties before rushing to judgment.

As an outsider looking it, it seems like an attempt to create faux-outrage just to drive traffic to your site
Anti-competitive pricing.

This shouldn't really be confusing this is first hour first day stuff if you study how and why monopolies exist and can persist.

Here's an instant example. Let's say I own every single gas station in your city, a thousand of them or so, and I charge 100% gross margins on gasoline. I do hundreds of millions of dollars in business.

You want to open a gas station with lower margins and undercut me. You pick a good location and open it.

Great, my location across the street can just sell below your cost unit you run out of money. Bye, see you later. Was that in your business plan? Where'd you get all that capital? What kind of return were they expecting, and how will you deliver it selling below cost for an indefinitely long period of time?

Also where are you sourcing your gas? Maybe I have already locked up all the current deliveries given my buying power with the refinery. Also what happens when you find out that nobody will service your pumps because I've locked them all up too, and am paying more than you can afford. And you can't afford anything because you're selling every gallon at a loss. Meanwhile the last couple years of 100% margins have given me a giant pile of cash I can use to do all of these things.

That's just a basic example. Sure yeah maybe you could somehow attack this market, with a bunch of capital, maybe there's like something you could do to compete with me.

But you're an ambitious and aggressive entrepreneur and that is going to be a TON of work. Why not just, like, start a different business?
This is a very well done attack. Enjoyed reading about your efforts to gain community credibility. You rapidly transformed this from a small number of victims into an epidemic.

I'm surprised that VSCode extensions don't have a permissions system (EG:
"Request network access").
The calculations here are based on the laws of thermodynamics that cannot be broken. This represents the ideal efficiency that is way better than we could achieve in real life.
Policing was effective enough that I never had to find someone to unlock a case for me at the store unless I was purchasing something particularly valuable. It was effective enough that you didn't see videos of people looting stores or driving around breaking into cars with impunity.
I expect the author would mostly agree with you, but see the "motivation" header under https://htmx.org/
Was that for the new 2k? Need to scroll a bit
I always wondered the same about ultrasonic parking/proximity sensors on cars.
Not going to lie, I would like to see myself as one of these smart people who was held back by lack of social skills like selling oneself and capitalizing on political situations. I think that's probably unrealistic. However I do sympathize with much of what the article describes. It would be nice if politics and stuff wasn't so important.
I am not involved in this, or any other promotion. Moreover, I don’t see how my tendency to lurk and not comment is relevant here, but if you really want to know, the description of the woman in the article reminded me of someone I personally knew, which may be the reason it touched me enough to reply today.

I just feel that there’s no reason to be combative in regard to the featured article even if you abhor any and all types of promotion, given that there’s so many much worse offenders around.
Enhanced rock weathering for CO2 removal potentially avoids the high energy requirement problem of DAC, since it relies directly on natural environmental processes to work. But it has it's own issues and question marks.
OxyContin is a medical drug. I have unfortunately had to assist my mother with visits to the "pain clinic" and seen firsthand many patients with a problem with self regulation of consumption.

Maybe I am interpreting your assertions too literally.
You’re missing the point. The chance of someone investing in the development of drivers for niche failed outdated niche product is nil.
This skill alone would cause most of the Internet and politics to shut down:

being agreeable when you disagree, even when you are 100% certain you are correct
I don’t have advice for you, as I am just as bad at kissing ass. Maybe try to elevate your perceived image/worth by liking what he likes outside of work: trying out a <sport> that he plays. Watching a <movie> that he likes. Wearing the same shoe <brand>. That stuff might be easier to do yet might buy some credit.
Sorry, I never paid attention to those.
> Despite the botfly score of an 83% LLM poorly auto-generated article

Can you explain what this comment means?

This article is the personal writing of Matt Stoller, the most prominent writer on issues of monopoly and anti-trust.

What do you think it is?
Steve Jackson Games, Inc. vs. United States Secret Service (1993)
An interesting write-up on what went wrong the the NYC congestion charge and better alternatives.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2024/06/05/new-yo...
Doesn't 10.x.x.x only have 255x255x255=16 million addresses? Still a lot through.
i would like to see more hard data on this instead of what amounts to a rant. or does that make me a weird nerd?
How does sifting people into smaller and smaller buckets work to make people feel more part of a group? Seems more like people who have felt marginalized in the past want others to feel marginalized like they did, and work to place people into smaller and smaller categories to do so.
And a risible salary

And the possibility of doing a post-doc somewhere else for another dogsht salary (maybe complementing it with some teaching), then to maybe be able to continue in academia.

just go around YT and see the average opinion on a PhD and postdocs. Or google PhD and "mental health issues".
I think being direct and giving someone a chance to explain what a good path for them looks like is a good option. That way, you don't dance around the issue and provide them an opportunity to explain (maybe something is going on in their personal life) which obviously doesn't guarantee their employment but may allow for a bit of leeway.
Every GPU vendor knows that actually supporting a reimplementation of CUDA for their hardware immediately signs them up for two problems:

1. Protracted lawsuits with the (now) second-most-valuable company in the world.
2. Any significant customers being loudly reminded by Nvidia that the EULA for CUDA tools prohibits their use on non-Nvidia hardware.

The problem is not the technical challenge of reimplementing the CUDA API or tools. The problem is the users want CUDA, not something that looks and behaves like CUDA but requires them to load a different set of libraries.
> That’s an example of why the nihilism of MAGA is so appealing. The world is collapsing around many people.

And this is what I don't get about current US politics. MAGA = Republicans. The Republican party is the party of generational wealth transfer. The Republican party is the party of elite businessmen lording over the working class. The Republican party is the party of all the economic forces that are unraveling rural communities and turning them into slums. They're voting for and supporting the very politicians who are "collapsing the world" around themselves. But why? It's not just idle nihilism. They're one of the most actively engaged political demographics in recent memory. Is the Culture War so important/motivating to these people that they are willing to help implement their own economic destruction?
The EU fixed it for airline tickets. It's not rocket surgery.
As startups become a viable path to status and success, it too gets infiltrated with non-weird nerds.
This is a bad interpretation of events, and an intentional ignoring of wealth gains.

> Since 2016, real (inflation-adjusted) wages have risen quickly for people in the bottom quartile

This "quick" wage growth, as you point out with your image, is on the order of 1 or 2% for the past few years, and was massacred by recent inflation i.e. if raising the minimum wage raised your standard of living, you've almost exactly kept up with inflation.

Meanwhile, wealth amongst people who hold investments, a group that often includes upper-income workers, has massively increased during that time. The S&P has had a 130% adjusted return since 2016. The share of wealth held by the top 10% is as high or higher than it was in 2016.
Normal computer recording only goes up to 48kHz (24kHz Nyquist rate, with analog filters lower than that to prevent aliasing) but high-quality equipment might support 96kHz or even 192kHz.
Normies don't require feedbacks to be verbally and explicitly delivered most of the time. It's the last resort path. Constantly delivering and being delivered clear and blunt express feedback is not normal. It's "sad"-"agitated" state if you ask them

It might be true that allowing minute variances between normie nonverbal feedback gatherer people to be a factor to their successes has its own problems, but encouraging everyone to drop that BS and just be offensive and blunt to make things simple is at least not a widely supported solution.

So be nice... it sometimes gets complicated to be just a nice and happy person, but you actually don't have to be a fearless warrior at all times.
This is just Geeks, MOPs, Sociopaths restated. It's the nature of all fields: explorers discover, exploiters scale. But there are explorer mimics and exploiter mimics and they succeed at some rate dependent on the cost of verification.
I moved Mac to Linux a few years ago. I found the trackpad and pointer precision on my X1 to be a constant irritant and went back. Someone is working on a smooth trackpad driver project so maybe it is better now. I considered going back a few months ago after some bullshit from Apple but never closed the loop.
That split function looks a lot more complicated. Thanks for the reference, though!

The SplitMix algorithm looks pretty useful. In Java, this is the built-in SplittableRandom class, and there seems to be an npm for it:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/splitmix