skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But then you'd get slower execution, because CPython is slower than the JS engines we tend to use

I have not found this to be generally true. It depends heavily on whether your code is limited by pure high level language code[1] and culture makes comparisons harder if you’re not just switching languages but also abstraction models and a big stack of optimizations. In theory Java beats Python but in practice I’ve seen multiple times where a Java program was replaced by Python seeing whole number multiple improvements in performance and reductions in memory consumption because what was really happening is that a bunch of super complicated, optimization-resistant Java framework code was being replaced with much simpler code which was easier to optimize. Node is closer to that side of Java culturally, I think in both cases because people reacted to the limited language functionality by building tons of abstractions which are still there even after the languages improved so even though it’s possible to do much better a lot of programmers are still pushing around a lot of code with 2000s-era workarounds buried in the middle.

1. I’m thinking of someone I saw spend months trying to beat Python in Go and eking out a 10% edge because the bulk of the work devolved to stdlib C code.
> See if a small block of lines around where you’re working can be extracted into its own little function [...] add a little test for the little function, and make your change, leaving the rest of the code alone.

To me this is the best compromise.

You can:

- change code without worrying about breakage

- ensure your new code is tested

- not have to worry about long LOE that comes with trying to scope in writing tests for the entire codebase
If you withhold a small amount of data, or even retrain on a sample of your training data, then isotonicregression is good to solve many calibration problems.

https://scikit-learn.org/dev/modules/generated/sklearn.isoto...

I also agree with your intuition that if your output is censored at 0, with a large mass there, it's good to create two models, one for likelihood of zero karma, and another expected karma, conditional on it being non-zero.
Re: "hard decision-making strategy games", are there any that you'd recommend in hindsight to future founders? To get a feel for the mental lived reality of decision-making in a startup?
I'm not sure what decade you have in mind, but for all the recent ones, the memory controller has both been on the CPU, and not been part of the differentiation between low-end and high-end CPUs for a given socket. So the only significant RAM limitation coming from the motherboard is if it's a small form factor board with only two slots instead of four.
I'm working on a PEG-based Turing complete language. It is self-hosted, generates standalone/embedable C, is reasonably small, and comes with a fully-featured REPL. It has only a single keyword: "macro". Feel free to reach out if interested.
You might be interested in "Namma Yatri". It's a fairly successful open source ride hailing app from India.
Modern config languages offer strong validation and advanced IDE support, which is essential for a great user experience.

https://pkl-lang.org/intellij/current/highlights.html
Related:

How not to sort by average rating (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29200103 - Nov 2021 (82 comments)

How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15131611 - Aug 2017 (156 comments)

How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9855784 - July 2015 (59 comments)

How Not To Sort By Average Rating - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3792627 - April 2012 (153 comments)

How Not To Sort By Average Rating - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1218951 - March 2010 (31 comments)

How Not To Sort By Average Rating - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=478632 - Feb 2009 (56 comments)
Popular 6 months ago (225 points, 24 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40323785
As a former engineering manager: no, I don't want to have a discussion about the hypothetical emoji. I want the engineer to put a rocketship in their commit message to have a slightly brighter day, and I want to acknowledge that someone else made a positive comment about it.

If you are genuinely at the point in your life where "people saying they like things" is the same as ... what you're describing ... please be aware of the emotional impact you're having on the people around you.
Pynchon seems happy
This is a good article, and throughly debunks the proposed tradeoff between fighting corporate vs government surveillance. It seems to me that the people who concentrate primarily on corporate surveillance primarily want government solutions (privacy regulations, for example), and eventually get it in their heads that the NSA are their friends.
very cool, hard and exciting problem!
How are you handling the stability of the ultrasound sensor relative to the hand? Usually that's the shakiest/blurriest part.
An app that syncs a timeline containing posts with whatever you’re watching (TV Series, Movies, etc).

The discussions and content displayed will be relevant to whatever is currently playing on your TV at the specific time.

Have a rough app built and my potential initial target audiences identified. The integrations aren’t TOO technically challenging and should be feasible.
To add, dealers aren't referred to as "pushers" for no reason, either.
Levine:

> Or Dan Primack writes today that “it’s not possible to even pretend that the equity value has any relation to the underlying business. At this point, owning TMTG is basically an in-kind donation to Donald Trump. Both financially and reputationally.” Yes! A lot of people want to associate themselves with Donald Trump, and also for some reason want to make him richer, and Trump Media’s stock is a quite straightforward way to do that. Why does it have to have any relation to the underlying business?

> Back when the Trump Media special purpose acquisition company deal was first announced in 2021, the stock jumped, and I pointed out that there was not a single dollar sign in the investor presentation. I said:

>I think that a more realistic valuation method here is not to worry about cash flows at all — as Trump SPAC clearly does not — and treat the stock simply as a token of public interest in Donald Trump. My guess is that the price of Trump SPAC stock will not, for instance, be much affected by its earnings announcements, unless Trump himself does the earnings calls in which case it will go up no matter what he says. … My guess is that each day that goes by without Trump news, the stock will go down a bit. My guess is that the stock is essentially a bet on Trump’s personal newsiness, on Trump-news volatility.

From a different newsletter:

> And the story makes the reasonable point that, if Donald Trump becomes president again and you want to bribe him, Trump Media gives you some good ways to do so: A really ambitious bidder could try to acquire the company and cash out Trump’s multi-billion dollar stake, but even short of that you could buy stock to show your support, buy advertising on Truth Social, etc. If you’re an institution, your stock ownership would be public, so Trump could see it and be grateful.

There are 200m shares outstanding. The company has $300m in cash, is losing $100m a year, and a return on equity of -250%. They also have no appreciable market penetration for any of their services. In a vacuum we'd be talking about a stock that should be trading < $1. So yes, it's not completely worthless, but there is not a rational argument to be buying it at $45 a share.
My comment is broad-based and not directed at you specifically.
Thanks for the user test, It was great to review it. I have to say there is no feeling more terrifying then watching someone browse your own blog.

As for ELO Style, to which are you reffering? I'm only familiar with Chess ELO which I'm not sure how I could apply here.

As for comparing one to one - I see what you mean. I'm intrigued by that but feel it might make the exercise take even longer then it currently does.

I agree with the overwhelming element, and am reviewing options; right now I copied the paper exercise nearly one-to-one, which I agree doesn't translate well.
So, even if it is deceiving language, it is justified by how the world currently works.

Which is basically like saying "the world is amoral, so everything is justified".

So forget "justified". The point is that it's obviously deceptive, manipulative language.

And so when we hear it being used on us -- it's time to start thinking about who is doing the manipulation, and why.

More to the point, the whole argument being made here is completely absurd, from the very get-go: "The US did X bad, Y bad. We don't like that. So therefore when Russia does Z bad, we should start treating it with empathy in regard to its security concerns, and all the awful things that the US did to not provoke it, thereby actually causing it to do Z".
Zork was amazing, and was on the internet in the 1970's.

Zork history is pretty amazing too: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29885/eaten-grue-brief-h...

If you've ever seen source code with comment warnings such as "It is pitch black" or "You are likely to be eaten by a grue" or "You're in a maze of twisty little passages", then you've encountered some of Zork's famous lines.
https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html is gret
I have learned to varying degrees Mandarin Teochew Cantonese Japanese Spanish French German (and Latin lol) I was shocked at how intuitive Italian was when simply walking around Italy after having a grounding in so many adjacent languages (and learning classical music).

Admittedly I am atypical in my exposure to languages and I do enjoy linguistics but it seems to me there's a high initial barrier to the dialects but after the initial wall is overcome it just becomes a mapping exercise and a handful of idioms.

I'd be curious to know which bits of Mandarin you find difficult? Vocab? The grammar is close enough that you have a huge advantage over almost every other language in the world especially for the everyday stuff. Reading and writing, if you know traditional you'll pick up simplified in no time (speaking from experience backpacking through China armed with only a paper dictionary we didn't have smartphones back in my day) the Cantonese tones are quite wild but if you can do tones you have a huge advantage of languages which don't have tones.

If I'm allowed an uncharitable take, my experience has been that a lot of people from China don't feel a drive to learn more languages maybe with the sole exception of English. Maybe it's the result of being in a country of a billion+ that all ostensibly speak the same language. I've always found it so frustrating encountering people who move to the UK to study and they can barely hold a conversation in English despite doing A levels, Bachelor's and Masters in the UK sometimes. For all the complaints that dialects are hard a lot of south east Asian people back in the day would pick up a handful of them and often learn the basics of other languages like Bahasa. This kind of mindset and interaction reminds me more of Europe in the sense that people are more adaptable out of necessity
Stream, transform, and route PostgreSQL data in real-time (early build)
If they could be used as monitors, then my iMac 2018 would still be worth 1700€ (the price of the Apple monitor)!

Instead, the 2018 iMac is incredibly slow, and can be thrown away.
It's interesting that service complaints are so popular on HN. I always feel a bit bad that my most popular HN contribution was me complaining about a popular service
The tl;dr

You should be skeptical of surprising results, and see to disconfirm them rather than accepting and repeating them at face value
The author disagrees with Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer, whom Levitt interviewed on his podcast, People I Mostly Admire, which is part of the Freakonomics radio network but not the main show, Freakonomics. The author thinks Levitt should have been more critical of his guest. Perhaps, but this is a podcast and not a peer review.

In my opinion, Levitt didn't even say he agreed with Langer, although he did compliment her work.

Disclaimer: I'm a hug fan on all the Freakonomics shows. I appreciate the author pointing out some opposing views and think the post is well-written, although exaggerated and overly emotional.
I was thinking the other day that self-storage facilities seem ideal: you don't even need to account for discrepancies in utility usage, as in missing water at car washes and laundromats. Just say units are rented and paid in cash. Not aware of any KYC laws but haven't looked recently.
I have both; I got the LG when they first came out and the Studio display last year during a good sale on Amazon.

The panels seem the same but everything on the Apple one is better, as you would expect.

But lately my LG is starting to have issues with ghosting and color shifts around the edges. It's still ok to use (I'm typing this on it) but I guess it's nearing the end of it's useful life.
Valuation can sometimes depend on things like whether it's still in the package, and wear and tear. It would be interesting to try to estimate that, have you tried?
> It's not like there WASN'T drinking, vaping, and weed. Just no one is pushing it on you. The pushing is a lot more focused on social (and online) things now. But that's a different topic.

Exactly!

> I'm on board for it being a good thing. The kids are alright eh?

That's my opinion as well, but I'm part of the Zillenial cohort as well so I'm biased.
EM Forster lived a long life and seems to have found some happiness. Joseph Heller wrote one of the best American novels of the 20th century, and while he had medical issues later in life, I don't think he suffered from hard living.

Also, I don't know why you think "non-commercial" matters.

I think writers are similar to other people; the outcomes vary. We tend to notice the most atypical cases.
Thank you for reminding me that I don't have to live in Berlin anymore, and in Germany in general.
One of the commenters on that article says how they are supposed to be entertaining. But I’ll add one more: they’re shitposters. It’s entertaining to a certain audience who don’t take them seriously, but causes an outrage in others who are trying to do proper work.
AI model reaches clinical-expert-level accuracy in complex medical scans
IP protections give a company a monopoly on a product for a period of time. If the company uses that time to build an even better product, that’s great for the consumer. If the company uses it to gut their engineering department (who needs innovation anymore!) and enrich themselves, I am much less sympathetic.

The fact that our legal system can’t tell the difference between the two and the market doesn’t seem to care doesn’t mean we should pretend there isn’t a difference.
Galatea is an old one I enjoyed, essentially as a character piece: https://textadventures.co.uk/games/view/emrhyy7pp0c8bjkjeuhs...

I'm not sold on generative AI for this purpose -- maintaining a consistent character who remembers and reacts appropriately given past interactions seems tough.
Planetfall.
Apple Intelligence is coming to the EU in April 2025
Sounds about right, but I don't have unit conversions and I'd count anything less than lifetime sustainable as gradual starvation.
I think by adulthood, most personality traits are relatively set and unchangeable (there’s always exceptions). If someone is a hard worker, apathetic worker, self-driven, praise-driven, exhibits or causes learned helplessness, etc. — you’re certainly not going to change these traits as a manager.

The goal of a small company that aims to do well then is to hire the right people from the very start. Unfortunately, as a company’s success grows, the “wrong people” are going to want into it. Keeping these people out is a much more challenging problem than finding a decent group of people to start a company with, because the wrong people are motivated in all the wrong ways to destroy what already exists (or extract what value they can from it) rather than to create something great which does not yet exist, arguably a much riskier and more complicated endeavor.
Even if not the literal Mafia, there are companies that will get violent over territory. I used to work with a guy who had an arcade game side business in the 90s and would lease or whatever to bars. Starting out, he didn't know about the territories and put some machines where they shouldn't be. The group that "owned " the territory found out he was putting machines in their turf and started vandalizing his machines and warned him to pull out or they were going to vandalize him. He ended up slowly selling off his machines because the competition and craziness of it all was too much to deal with.
I see similar lead times simply trying to get a PCP.
Also, we know how to protect power grids by grounding the equipment. My understanding is that grounding is harder than just running ground rod, but that it is doable. It is the kind of thing that government mandate and some money could solve.
Same here, I wish I went for 128. That said, I don't think this use case applies to 99.9999% of iMac buyers.
> Falsifiable != directly observable

Fully agreed.

> A good hypothesis has to be falsifiable

Yes exactly which is what I'm saying. Speciation-by-random-mutation is in my understanding not a falsifiable hypothesis, or do I see that wrong in your view and why?
Pandering to the over-estimated intelligence of contrarians is the problem. People who self-describe as contrarians, independents, or skeptics are consistently associated with lower education, lower information, and lower analytical skills than others without these self descriptions. This extends to politics where people who say they are moderates or independents also have these markers of lower information compared to people who will describe themselves as having a position, no matter what side that position is on. But in popular communications we have for some reason decided to exalt and praise the skeptic and the independent.
> As for ELO Style, to which are you reffering?

https://eloeverything.co/
Wow. So much discussion, and so little of it actually about the content of the article. Everyone's hung up on discussing whether they should or shouldn't have kids, and that's not the point at all.

The argument of the article is that there is pressure to finish your education before you have kids. The longer your education lasts, the later you wait to have kids. That's all right for males, but female fertility runs out sooner. So particularly, the more education females get, the later they wait to have kids, and so the fewer kids they have. The claim is, this mechanism is enough to explain why education cuts fertility.

Would anyone care to discuss that?
A+ article. This was excellently worded, and provides a cogent breakdown of both how people misinterpret these topics and why people need some education on their differentiation.

As someone who has been a high-performing IC, a low-performing IC, and a manager, I think so much about performance comes down to whether the organization understands that many things come down to bets. So some amount of failure has to happen, if you're going to be making truly useful things.
This isn't directed at you. I just happened to read a bunch of comments before yours. Stu2b50's response seemed like a good enough place to point out the dynamic.
Discussion (19 points, 3 day ago, 28 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41945562
This leaves out the important context that key verification for these packages isn't functional.

In the last 3 years, about 50k signatures had been uploaded to PyPI by 1069 unique keys. Of those 1069 unique keys, about 30% of them were not discoverable on major public keyservers, making it difficult or impossible to meaningfully verify those signatures. Of the remaining 71%, nearly half of them were unable to be meaningfully verified at the time of the audit (2023-05-19) 2.

More, recently, on this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41873215
I’ve been using an M1 iMac as my main home computer (with 16 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD) and have zero reason to upgrade. I’ve loved it. Exactly what I need, though I offload a lot of home server type tasks to a big tower PC, including messing with local AI stuff.

BUT a new hockey puck Mac mini that shared a screen with my gaming PC would be a nice space-saver. If only the studio display could switch inputs—using macOS on a curved gaming monitor seems weird.
> I see it as similar to arguing for the status quo when the church held that the earth was flat

You see it as similar to something that never happened?

It was generally accepted that the earth was round centuries before there even was a church.
It depends what the person meant by ordinary, but if ordinary just generally refers to "off-the-shelf" or commodity SSDs, then we've been able to get equivalent or better performing NVMe SSDs for a long time, for a small fraction of the price. Within what you can get retail, I think you'd still want the higher end of it for comparable speeds and yields, but would still save A LOT doing so.
Discussion (73 points, 4 days ago, 36 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41942103
Not surprising. YouTube for a very long time now has quite obviously had a list of keywords that trigger the search results to only return videos from the mainstream media.

EDIT: Go ahead and downvote me, but just know that YouTube behaves this way regardless of political party.
There are additional paths people can beyond high schools and we have different tiers (allgemeine Hochschulreife; Fachhochschulreife) for different tiers of universities (academic further qualifying for a PhD career / practitioner); as the original post was referring to Chinese high school students specifically I tied it back to Gymnasium where give or take 30% of students go (probably a tad higher today because they lowered the bar).
Agreed. When a VC backed company is in hyper-growth, and barely has resources to scale up their shaky MVP tech stack so they can support 100+ million users, I doubt anyone thinks its reasonable to give the engineers 6 months to stop and learn Rust just to rewrite already working systems.

Adding Rust into your build pipeline also takes planning and very careful upfront design decisions. `cargo build` works great from your command line, but you can't just throw that into any pre-existing build system and expect it to just work.
Why did it take so long for them to be demolished/change ownership after they were abandoned?