skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let’s see it. To not be a total gobshite, go download these things and see what ‘instant’ really doesn’t mean. Instant means not wait 1 second; it means when I type code, it has results in milliseconds. None of these have that.

Or show me a non trivial open source ts project that’s instant; doesn’t exist and I have literally no clue why people keep defending this stuff; you didn’t make it right? I would be embarrassed but definitely not defending it.

https://www.kirandev.com/open-source-nextjs-projects-open-fo...
This reminds me I've been curious to know what Hackernews people walk around with. I memorized 18 digits of Pi in highschool that I still remember and sometimes use as a bad joke here and there. But curious how many digits people here walk around remembering, specially if you aren't into competitively doing it (which I found out later is a thing).
[citation needed]

Consider the opposite extreme, where the government subsidizes investments to 100x what they are actually worth. Would this create more jobs and innovation, or merely "bullshit investments"?

If a subsidy wouldn't create jobs and innovation, a tax wouldn't take them away.

There is also the likely possibility that the same investments would be made, but valued lower.
There are many ways in which a number might not never repeat itself, but not contain all sequences (e.g. never use a specific digit). What you want is normal numbers and pi is not proven to be one (though probably it is).
I love the return link from the footnote back to its reference.
This highly influential story was published in 1954.
Mac sales decline as owners keep devices for longer
Nonsense.

You posted this comment 7 hours ago. Current you has zero impact on whether you posted it.

Time flows forwards, not backwards.
The value of the fund is now up to $63B.
Here is the latest overview: https://www.nvpers.org/sites/default/files/2024-05/PERS-Inve...
For context I mean software tools like Trello, Figma etc.
Firefox should have just focused on privacy, security, and customization/personalization. It's a niche that isn't filled by anyone else. That wasn't going to make them rich the way selling out their userbase to advertisers will, but it would have made them loved and successful. Right now, people who want their privacy violated are better off using chrome.

Every time firefox pulls shit like this they piss off and alienate their users. What do they think is going to happen? If I were a Mozilla employee and my goal was to destroy firefox, this is exactly the sort of thing I'd be pushing for. I have no idea what firefox thinks it's doing, or if it's thinking about anything other than how to get more money from advertisers, but it shouldn't be hard see what exploiting users will lead to. Maybe they've already given up and their plan is to sell their users until they don't have any left.

Personally, I'll be exploring alternatives and forks and I'm looking to jump ship as soon as I can.
Interesting but it appears to only take account the topographic feasibility of the project.

The first location I looked at (link is not working :(), it relies on building two dams on rivers (which is something we tend to do less not more) and would flood some houses ...

And there is supposedly a price estimate, but it's just an A, B, C, D or E ranking could not find some costs to make comparison with battery storage for example.
> I see this (3-6 mos savings) constantly quoted in basic personal mgmt blog posts, but it seems unrealistic for most. Seriously, what percentage of people in OECD can do this

Also worth noting that in most of the OECD, 3+ and even maybe 3 months depending on the situation is quite high, bordering on the wasteful. Americans have to worry about healthcare and crappy if present unemployment payments if they lose their jobs; in most other developed countries (of course your mileage will vary), you cannot be fired on the spot with no notice without compensation. And if you do, you don't lose your healthcare. Also, you can't be fired for being sick/unavailable to work for medical reasons, and at least some countries have medical provisions for burnout too (you get months of paid sick leave to recuperate, while your job is being kept).

Therefore, in most of the OECD (at the very least the EEA + UK + Australia and NZ), there are very few, if any, situations which can leave you with zero income with no notice. Therefore the safety cushion you need is much lower than an American that might lose their job tomorrow and then need to pay tens of thousands in medical bills.
For context I mean software tools like Figma etc
> investing in the same sector that you are employed-in is actually a kind of anti-diversification

You can reduce your microeconomic risks by making investments in and around your sector of occupation. Especially when betting against yourself.

For example, someone who works in the electric vehicle space could reduce their risk by making personal investments in ICE companies, just in case EV adoption is slower than expected. A person who works in a payment processor could invest in visa/mastercard, to protect from the risk of fee rises. A privacy tech investor could put money into adtech, so they can make money whoever wins.
Great Implementation!! Jackbox games are ever more popular with remote work. There's a huge market for games like these.

I think bundling a few of these and selling B2B to corporates as FunFriday activities would bring huge sales.
While I don't like too, at the end it's just a detail. All languages have their issues
Sorry just so u understand the problem you have is that you want all your software tools like Figma etc in one place?
And what's wrong with that? Regular people, not having to compete with rich people, might actually be able to afford stuff.
There's one kind of visual programming that I find interesting:

ProtoFlux, found in Resonite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxXRbHDaMKg

Part of the point of this is making it possible to write code that does something useful while wearing a VR headset, using VR controllers. The downside is that you can tangle it up in all 3 dimensions!
Pretty sure you can commit crimes in your bedroom, and pretty sure a crime is easier to get away with when you have a private space to do it/hide stuff in.
Your story resonates with me. How did you get into contracting?
Our front end is ~200k LOC of TypeScript and all changes are instant (<1s).

TypeScript compiler is too slow for hot module replacement so it’s used only for IDEs. During development, all transformation happens via esbuild/swc and is abstracted away with Vite https://vitejs.dev/
I think that is too much infrastructure for just a link. I think links are fine the way they are today. There are other problems with the web, but it's not links. Also, simetimes taking a look is the same as acting on it. Clicking on an link in outlook is often acting on it, if it's some script or whatever it is that people do on outlook.
A Framework for Finding a Design Partner
Difference Between Expat and Immigrant
Google DeepMind is accused of plagiarism？
You need both index and length, I guess. If concatenating both value is not enough to gain sufficient size shrink, you can always prefix a "number of times still needed to recursively de-index (repeat,start-point-index,size) concatenated triplets", and repeat until you match a desired size or lower.

I don’t know if there would be any logical issue with this approach. The only logistical difficulty I can figure out is computing enough decimals and search the pattern in it, but I guess that such a voluminous pre-computed approximation can greatly help.
That's rather evasive. The broccoli must have done something quite traumatic.
For the meeting class of employees it would take them longer to write the half page memo than to have the hour long meeting.
The paperwork and common rules were updated after the dissolution of the Continental Congress in 1789. But it seems a few people still haven't gotten the memo.
Thanks! Jamscape is free to download and use, at https://jamscape.com. Currently only for macOS & Windows, but we are working on broader platform support. Very happy to help you test if it is something for you and collect your feedback.
>it's about lowering the bar so that (cheaper) non-developers can participate.

I think that is a terrible approach to anything. Programming isn't that hard and without a doubt anyone who can do business analysis is mentally capable of writing Python or whatever other scripting language.

Instead of teaching people something universal, which they can use everywhere and which they can expand their knowledge of as needed, you are teaching them a deeply flawed process, which is highly specific, highly limited and something which the developer would never use themselves.

Having a business analyst who is able to implement tasks in a standard programming language is immensely more valuable than someone who knows some graphic DSL you developed for your business. Both the interest of the learner and the corporation are in teaching real programming skills.

Even the approach of creating something so "non-programmers" can do programming to is completely condescending and if I were in that position I would refuse to really engage on that basis alone.
My recent experience as a L5-L6 eng: applied to 15 companies advertising on LinkedIn, plus 2 recruiters reaching out, got into the interviewing process for 7 companies. Plus ~3 potential opportunities from network but not for the sort of thing I was looking for. Got a few offers, although some were for a lower role than I was applying for.

I was mostly applying for companies with a strong product and solid revenue, ranging from ~50 to a few hundreds employees, with a few bigger outliers. No startup or faang.

It was much higher success rate than I was expecting given all I heard about the job market these days. All humility aside, could be that I just have an appealing resume.

Resume was generic, cover letter mostly generic, slightly tuned per company.

I’d say network is still the best way, just didn’t work for me for the sort of company I was looking for.
Kinda telling that you don't mention the hazara.

Flip it over, why would you allow the US this kind of power?
For people who are interested in Virginia Woolf as a novelist, I would strongly recommend "Mrs Dalloway" as a starting point. It's an incredible novel - startlingly modern and beautifully written.[1]

In terms of her essay writing, "A room of one's own"[2] is probably most famous/influential, although from a personal perspective I didn't find it as enjoyable to read as Mrs Dalloway. In general I prefer novels to essays so take that however you like.

[1] Btw my recommendation is don't read anything about it beforehand. Synopses/cliff notes/the wikipedia entry will probably ruin the experience for you. The book is about really getting inside the head of certain characters and understanding their thoughts and motivations. If that sounds interesting to you, then that's all you need to know to dive in.

[2] https://victorianpersistence.wordpress.com/wp-content/upload...
If you live in America, Republicans made it as difficult as possible with the intention of you hating it. If you live in any other country, you simply get less money than you would have otherwise.
Lot of visualization options in this post from 6 weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40571995
18 including the leading 3.
https://www.youtube.com/@CMUDatabaseGroup

They publish their latest course videos every year, during the year. Andy Pavlo is highly knowledgeable about the field.
I don't think I would pay for temp email service, or be bothered to set up open source one by myself. But if I could buy a throwaway domain name from company that specializes in temp emails as a package deal, then I would be tempted.
Since we are talking bird and mating rituals, HN member once pointed out to me the fascinating bowerbird mating rituals[1] that result in them building fairly ornate structures showcasing their resource gathering skills.

[1]https://blog.nature.org/2021/01/04/bowerbirds-meet-the-bird-...
> In other words, all the examples you mentioned are great but they are not how a "software engineer in a software company" does their job.

creating blueprints or max/msp programs is definitely software engineering, it requires you to think about correct abstractions, computations, data flow and storage, etc.

also, there's currently 398 Rust jobs worldwide advertised on linkedin, vs. 1473 for "unreal blueprints"
It would average the same size as the actual data. Treating the pi bit sequence as random bits, and ignoring overlap effects, the probability that a given n bit sequence is the one you want is 1/2^n, so you need to try on average 2^n sequences to find the one you want, so the index to find it is typically of length n, up to some second order effects having to do with expectation of a log not being the log of an expectation.
Apple CEO Tim Cook and Software Chief Eddy Cue Attend Sun Valley Conference
"even if" is generous, I am kill -9 crazy if stability is even slightly threatened
Apple Approves First Retro PC Emulator for iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro
A large org is a totally different beast from a small org, and yet they seamlessly transition into each other. So, a large org is dysfunctional when viewed through the lens of a small org. A large org is also dysfunctional when it is run like a small org, as is a small org when it's run like a large org.
Unfortunately looking at the job requirements for a "Cosmic sys admin", it looks like the universe was written in PHP after all.

https://www.cosmicdevelopment.com/careers/system-admin/
You can't presume that. They might quite enjoy living in Norway. More than they'd enjoy having twice the money, especially when both numbers are high enough to have anything they want.
Are you asking why an arbitrary group of American companies, popularized in an American TV show about the American stock market, has only American companies? I don't know. That's a good question. Why didn't they include others like Tencent, Alibaba, TSMC, Samsung, or BYD?

It's like asking why are the Fortune 500 companies all American companies. In contrast, Fortune Global 500, using the same criteria but in a wider pool, has companies from other counties.
5-6 years, then I started another company
Thanks! Re "what would be some use cases for this", there's obviously an unbounded limit to what can be done based on data fetched from the internet and our focus is more on making the time between "getting data" and "extrapolating from said data" as minimal as possible
ueber-ueber-ueber-ueber-morgen?
On what hardware? I have a m3 and yeah, it’s terrible with ts. Instant (milliseconds) with cl (of el even). Go is not terrible.
True, but in Delphi's case _ and - aren't part of case insensitivty, that is probably a bit too far.
I'm writing an OS that will never be used
Nobody is against farms and factories in general. Some people are against some specific farms and factories, such as for environmental reasons. Many people are against the way the government chooses to allocate control of farms and factories (based on tradeable scrip).
It guarantees certain correctness it is having conversations with you about - this way more correct
The U.S. goes fascist. How do you escape? By Cecil Adams (2016)
There is a lesser-known but still insightful book by Bernstein.

https://www.amazon.com/Three-Degrees-Above-Zero-Information/...

Backstory:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2019/october/three-degrees-above-...

My takeaway from that one is that Bell Labs' success relied on the common feeling that they were all contributing to the nation's survival and flourishing by supporting the core infrastructure role of the Bell System.

(Compare with the cynicism of Googlers/Eric Schmidt)
51¢ per $ spent on cloud services is wasted by overprovisioned resources
[REPORT] The State of Kubernetes Efficiency

Quick Highlights

- Staggering 97% of Kubernetes clusters utilize Horizontal Pod Autoscaling.
- Over 90% of Kubernetes clusters are overprovisioned, with up to 65% of resources allocated but not utilized
- Over 50% of every dollar spent on Kubernetes is waste due to over-provisioning
For people interested in Russian cinema and not only Tarkovsky, it should be noted that this is only one of the playlists that Mosfilms has published.

Going to their YouTube profile https://www.youtube.com/@Mosfilm_eng one can find many other important films. There are 120 entries in their "Full movies with English subtitles" playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7EqAsBxqGggrcgR5EkZm...
> I'd be surprised to hear of any successful case where a non-public good was made public in a Western country.

The UK is renationalising railways now.
What I wonder is how did Kobe know this was a sign that he was done. Why didn't he think he was just burned out and maybe just needed a break before returning to the game? How can you tell when you're burned out vs. just being completely done with it all?
Pi's a trick that was invented to keep us busy.

That or integers were and we should have an natural number of fingers and toes.
I remember up to around 3.14159265, which is roughly what most cheap calculators will show you.
Legitimate question here: Is there a legit reason to Firefox over Chrome at this point? I mean, its not performance, its not convenience, and now its not even privacy. At this rate, it looks like Firefox is going to end up just like Chrome, but slower and less fully featured.
> If one is a random variable, so is the other. It's a simple change of variables. What's your point?

Not sure I follow your reasoning. Prices are positive only, and non stationary. That is very much not the same for returns. Usually prices are log normal, leading to normal (log) returns.

> Could you quote the part where they say that actual, real-world stock prices (or returns, whatever) are random?

It is not said, but rather implied. Take the Sharpe ratio for instance, it is a measure that:

1) is used to compare different assets / portfolio returns

2) rely on the 2nd moment of the returns.

The standard deviation is less relevant the further away from the normal distribution you go, so since this is a comparison metric, it can only be reasonably applied to compare normally distributed returns.

If you believe the returns are not generally normal, then you reject the use of the Sharpe ratio as a relevant measure of comparison.

I don't have a B&S reference at hand, and I did not read it since 15 years, but I'm pretty sure it assumes lognormals prices as well.
> you are teaching them a deeply flawed process, which is highly specific, highly limited and something which the developer would never use themselves.

That kind of lock-in can be a feature from the employer's perspective. I did actual coding for years in an environment where what I learned was not very widely applicable at all, for similar reasons. I'm now happily in recovery :) But it makes it harder to leave when you feel like you lag behind where you should be in your career.

I don't think tools like Zapier are condescending. I can and have written code to connect APIs, but Zapier made some stuff way easier, and it lets people like my wife get the same stuff done with far less effort. She has no interest in learning programming. There will be stuff the tool can't do, so then the programmers can step in.

And in my prior job, many people became BAs from a coding background specifically to get out of writing code. They can do it - they don't want to. They're happier in MS Office or similar tools.
It's a shame they don't mention why they use specifically 15 digits (because of doubles?). Would give some satisfaction to why the specific amount after the explanation.
Just encode your business logic in types first! Coq, Idris, or F* will certainly get the job done for you!

/s
I think because he was already 37 or 38 at that time, and was suffering from injuries, too. There was no point continuing if both his body and mind are not the way they used to be.
There is a lot more value being produced, but the capitalist class has managed to capture a much higher percentage of it, leaving the worker bees with less and less. At least we have lots of toys to distract us!
Show HN: Scraping structured data with AI
Yes, you do if you want to make money on decades timescales instead of some grifter vc 2 year thingy.
I'm nostalgic about the good old days prior to 2016 when every technology change meant improvement. Nowadays, tech doesn't change as much, but when it does, it's for the worse.

It's been a challenge for me to adapt to the new reality of coding as a game of busy-work and lock-in through complexity.

It has become a bit of a theatre for me, unfortunately. I know I could do something in a way that's 100x more efficient but it would negatively impact my job security so no thanks. Also, if I do the right thing, taking all the risk upon myself, nobody will appreciate. I'll stick to inefficient popular tools and methodologies. I'll play the game of Whac-a-mole... Like a bad gardner who pulls the weeds out by the leaves and leaves the roots behind. That's the smart move.

I tried the other approach, doing my very best, outperfoming and it couldn't have worked out worse. The manager class feels nothing but contempt for people who outperform. "Good boy! Here, have a pat on the back... Sucker."
Google in talks to buy Israeli cloud cybersecurity startup Wiz for $23B
No invertible function can map every non-negative integer to a lower or equal non-negative integer (no perfect compression), but you can have functions that compress everything we care about at the cost of increasing the size of things we don't care about. So the recursive de-indexing strategy has to sometimes fail and increase the cost (once you account for storing the prefix).
> As pi never repeats itself, that also means that every piece of conceivable information (music, movies, texts) is in there, encoded.

You reminded me of this Person of Interest clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXTRcsxG7IQ
Same, M3. The DX within a modern frontend stack is indistinguishable from Bret Victor’s ideas (even if a decade late).
Yeah, I can't say I didn't see this day coming, but it's still weird to think I'll be saying goodbye to Firefox after so long. I moved to Firefox from Netscape!
>Also, why are the FAANG companies all American companies?

There are probably hundreds of reasons why SV snowballed this hard
I memorized 20 digits when I was 11 or 12. I still remember them.
IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, ACM CCS, NDSS
Yes, definitely this.
I have worked for a couple years on webMethods, where programs can ONLY be created by "drawing/composing" sort of flowcharts (see https://stackoverflow.com/q/24126185/54504 ) and the main problem was always trying to search for stuff inside the "Codebase".
And... another benefit of purely text-based code is that you can always run a diff-like utility and quickly zoom in on what has been changed.
The natural numbers are a subset of the integers.

Either just the positives or the positives and zero.
> instead depend on the Windows PE format, FAT filesystem, and an overcomplicated API.

Sometimes I wonder: if UEFI instead used ELF format, ext2 filesystem, and somewhat less complicated API (let's be honest: UEFI API is pretty straightforward if tedious), would people still complain about such dependencies? Or would it be deemed to be "fine" since it's not Microsoft technology even though it still would require one to use a multi-megabyte toolchain?
Thank you Nirsoft, your simplicity has been invaluable. Hope it can keep going long in the future.
I'm curious what the longest string of digits of PI embedded in that is (and what the most efficient algorithm for finding it would be).