skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can definitely relate!

When I was a young trial attorney working for a small firm, my friend and I decided to start our own firm. His gf was a realtor and sent a fair number of closings our way. It was barely enough to live on, but we were having a blast trying to build a business.

Then things suddenly changed. Two corporate clients whom I had tried cases for while with my former employer contacted me and started retaining me to try cases for them. More corporate clients followed and soon many more cases than I could handle (my partner handled only the real estate). Within 5 years we had 10 associates and 25 employees total.

And I was miserable. Yes, the money was terrific. But...
- 5 primary clients accounted for 90% of our non-real estate work
- Several clients refused to allow anyone but me to try their cases, forcing me to change how the firm operated.
- I was working insane hours. Much more than I would ever be working if I was an employee. But I had no choice. It was either that or my clients would walk. The success of the firm now felt like a huge anchor around my neck. It was no longer fun.

At the 20 year mark, I walked away and took a position with one of my clients to work in-house for them. For more money and less hours. But that changed too when I was promoted to oversee one of their 10 regional legal departments. No more trials. Now I was a middle manager in a Fortune500 company, and I was miserable again. Three years later and I moved to another large company where I could get back to trying cases and stay away from management. Stayed there until I retired.

I loved the freedom and independence to run my own firm. I especially loved being able to practice law according to my principles and ethics. That, of course, changed when I walked away from my private firm and became a corporate employee. I traded away the horrible anchor my private firm had become - in exchange for fighting for my self respect and ethics in a highly pressured corporate atmosphere.

Sometimes winning is losing. The best time I had in my work life was during those first two years when we were struggling but having fun.

So, I hope you take the time to appreciate having fun while you can. And my best of luck to you.

PS: Retired now. Spend all my time programming (a life long hobby ever since buying my Tandy Model I in 1978), learning linux, and networking. I'm having a blast again!
How are you controlling chrome in this case?
ADHD and PHD here. Somehow I survived and thrived. I think for us it’s important to know that we are extremely slow on one aspect which is reading/acquiring knowledge/editing drafts, but really fast at making connections, writing a first draft, coming up with new ideas. I’ve always felt my input bandwidth is like dial up, but the output is high speed glass fibre. You will meet many people that are the opposite in academia. Just don’t get frustrated when people pull past you at the start, you catch up later
Yep. HIV is a treatable disease, and with consistent medication adherence it can become untransmittable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undetectable_%3D_Untransmittab...

It's a disease that we could eradicate from society over a few generations if everyone got tested and treated.
You don't have to possess it as an infant for it to be innate. You don't have color vision when hour born either.
Can I control those robots using VR?
In languages like java, jits are really good at optimizing the happy path and outlining these rarely taken cases. In a language like c++ the branch predictor has absolutely no trouble blasting right through branches that are almost always taken in one direction with minimal performance waste.
They'd be great for the Moon though.
Making excuses for abuse is just as unhealthy as seeing it everywhere.

I have been diagnosed both autistic and adhd and I experienced food insecurity despite living in a house with several balconies and a detached garage bigger than my friends' families' houses because my parents thought I would get over it and start going out to eat with them if they didn't bring me any food. I don't think they intended deliberately to harm me - or realize that me not going out to eat with them didn't mean there was enough food - but their authoritarian way of thinking did the harm nonetheless and it's a completely predictable outcome of such a way of thinking; so it's not "I didn't mean it" so much as "I don't want to think differently because I value my attachment to this mode of thinking more than the wellbeing of others; and when I harm them I'll say 'nothing could be done' because changing how I approach the problem isn't on the table".

The healthiest thing most autistic/adhd people ever do is moving from 'I am sick' to 'the society I inhabit has an autoimmune disorder'.
From this post I'm not sure which of two parties is the one.
I feel like Swift is being held hostage by Apple. I can't get get the next version of Swift, because it's being distributed with a higher version of Xcode that only runs on an OS version I don't want to install (yet), and even if I did, I'd first have to buy a new Mac for that. That trick seems to work with enough developers to make Apple ever more rich and powerful and even more arrogant (if that's possible at all), but it doesn't work with me. As much as I appreciate Swift, I will only ever use it on my terms, not on Apple's.
Look at the exam and scoring rubric: https://kaisoapbox.com/projects/faa_biographical_assessment/

Look at questions 29 and 33. The first (about whether negative feedback bothers you) is a plausible question but the grading is completely nonsensical. The second question, about art/dance classes you took in college, is nonsensical both as to the question and the answers. These seem obviously designed to be gamed with secret information.

This was used as a mandatory screen for several years. The FAA didn’t fix it, Congress found out and banned it. How many people at the FAA saw this and green lighted it?
i know a guy who wrote this about capitalism (Karl Marx) about how there is this system that dis-empowers human decision making... all that is solid melts into air...
There's some pretty fundamental problems with spin launch.

Atmospheric drag is greatest at sea level, and drops as altitude increases. A traditional lift vehicle is traveling slowest during the early parts of its ascent, and starts reaching high velocity once it's cleared the thicker parts of the atmosphere. In contrast, spin launch is at its highest velocity (before the rocket engine ignites) right after it's released, so it's going to bleed off a lot of speed before it reaches the upper atmosphere.

Second, spinning exerts very heavy lateral Gs on the vehicle and load. This is not typical for space launch payloads, which are usually only designed to withstand vertical Gs. When the catapult releases the payload, atmospheric drag is going to put heavy vertical Gs on the payload. So a payload delivered through spin launch is going to have to withstand both lateral and vertical Gs.

Its an interesting concept, but I'm not sure if the advantages of this approach outweigh the disadvantages.

I do see a future use case for spin launchers based in vacuum, say, on the moon. Or maybe on Mars where atmosphere is much thinner.
This is a good point, and why so many ADHD people feel guilty or unsure about their diagnosis. Doesn't everyone feel like this?

Adrian Chiles' "inner chimp" and other columns [1] helped me understand it. Also, when I laughed off my psychologists' questions ("oh, everyone would answer these questions the same way, this is silly"). Oh no they don't, she said.

There will be a grey area for sure. But for people who have it, it is real, and it is different to how other people experience the world.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/sep/30/my-treatment...
Genuine human connection and traditionally: religion.
The problem is that very often people can't distinguish ... or perhaps, refuse to acknowledge the importance of the particular rules they are personally inclined to reject.
"partied" :D
Raising a $1.5M pre-seed, any advice on getting warm intros?
I’d appreciate any candid feedback on landing warm intros!
Additional benchmarks on the same dataset:

uncompressed - 19'291'709'440
bzip2 -9 - 3'491'493'993 (sanity check)
zstd -16 --long - 593'915'849
zstd -16 --long=31 - 122'909'756 (requires equivalent argument in decompressor due to needing ~4GB RAM)
zstd -19 --long - 505'728'419
zstd -19 --long=31 - 106'601'594 (requires equivalent argument in decompressor)
zstd --ultra -22 - 240'330'522
zstd --ultra -22 --long=31 - 64'899'008 (requires equivalent argument in decompressor)
rar a -m5 -md4g -s -mt8 - 64'837'044

As you notice my sanity check actually has a slightly different size. Not sure why. The benchmark is a bit underspecified because new perl versions were released in the interim. I used all releases up to perl-5.37.1 to get to the correct number of files. Just treat all numbers to have about 2% uncertainty to account for this difference.

I can't provide compression/decompression times, but the --long or --long=31 arguments should not have major impact on speed, they mostly impact used memory. --long=31 requires setting the same in the decompressor, making that option mostly useful for internal use, not archives meant for public consumption.

As you can see, the benchmark chosen by the author mostly comes down to finding similar data that's far away. I wonder if bzip3 can do this better than other algorithms (especially in less memory) or simply chose default parameters that use more memory.

Edit: added more benchmarks
reddit is all rage bait at this point and if the big subreddits aren't over 50% propaganda I'll eat my hat. The recent election shows how out of touch the front page is and you can conclude that the average poster is hopelessly out of touch or that the 'average poster' doesn't really exist or that the 'average poster' is there to make people feel complacent or make people feel indignant or make people feel superior.

You are supposed to be outraged. You are supposed to think that the 'dumb libs' have no legitimate points, that they only believe 'orange man bad' and therefore everything they say can be completely disregarded.

Stop reading, sit back, and figure out what you think without feeling like you have score points over some imaginary opponent.
The blogger who helped spark Nvidia's $600B stock collapse
But work from home has revealed how wrong that was and returning to office is a waste of limited free time that we are not compensated for.
A gramme a day…
> I also invite him to consider his own parent's past and whether he can find any evidence of "forced assimilation" in their lives. I have a hunch.

Well yeah. Every time I followed the thread of a bad behavior, I found feelings of helplessness at the other end.

Following the behavior-threads of the people who hurt me, you know what I found.

Knowing that helped shift the dynamic (between me and abuser) from animosity to shared support. In some cases, anyway.
This sort of thing probably doesn't work particularly well with file auto-saving, which is almost necessary for some language servers to reprocess files to reflect "real-time" in VSCode. Aren't you also just committing half-baked work and totally menial changes?
It’s got an Intel i7-7700.
The solution is as simple as responding on slack/teams/etc in reasonable time during work hours.
Not only here but now people as close as my family have heard of Deepseek through other channels and are telling me I need to get on top of the trends now in order to stay relevant in my industry, or I'll be left behind.

The combination has sapped away any interest I might have had in pivoting to an AI career.
>Can you please site some...

I think I read it in Swami Vivekananda's "Raja Yoga".

I'm more of a Zennist. Thought and knowledge are overrated. Study and cultivation of awareness is where it's at.
Using different libraries across projects is an organizational issue, not the fault of the programming language.
I doubt Apple really cares much about competing with other languages, tooling, or platforms when it comes to Swift or Xcode. They have a completely captured audience and ecosystem, and anything beyond that isn’t even a "best effort" — it's more like, "You're welcome to see if it works for you, but don’t bother us if it doesn't."
Guess we’re gonna have to build our next generation of spacecraft with an inch of milled solid titanium, just like we build our deep sea submarines
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It’s not that it’s from my country, it’s that the top athletes from a pool of 350 million or so people are all competing to play it at the top levels. I’m not sure how many are competing to be ice skaters, but that’s why I said it’s ‘one of’ the most competitive sports.
I did mention tracking?
I have 4 working Paintboxes and was working on the last fully working DPB a couple of days ago in LA.
My Instagram is @quantelpaintbox and am always collecting memories, software, hardware and peripherals for my archive and to post online.

Adrian Wilson
I remember this being a horrible idea for many reasons.

One reason being the speed needed at the start which probably meant most loads burning up in the thick atmosphere immediately.

Another reason being that if you would use it to start a rocket which will only use the spin launch as a booster replacement, you would run into the problem of the fuel being pressed towards the front of the rocket as it is constantly decelerating after the launch. So you would probably need a system to actively move the fuel down to the nozzle.
Both of those links come from that same person, tracewoodgrains, who links the documents on their google drive. Looking through the documents, it appears there was a case that happened in 2014, which was investigated in 2016. They found an FAA employee in a New York state office held a teleconference about how to apply to the open positions. People asked him questions and he answered them. The investigate was closed noting the following:

"OIG reviewed official government emails for the period January 2013 to July 2015 and did not identify any additional matters or information of specific interest to this investigation.

AEO-500’s ROI Case Number AHQ20150170 did not develop information that demonstrated HR employees gave improper advantages in processing the applications of ATCS candidates affiliated with the NBCFAE. A review of the ROI did not identify any issues that warranted additional
review in this investigation.

The findings in this investigation did not warrant a referral to a federal prosecutor."

What exactly makes 'diverse' candidates more likely to answer 'science' and then 'history' on those questions? Are you saying there was a conspiracy to create hard to answer questions on the test and then give out the answers to diversity candidates?

Occam's razor says this was a bullshit 'behavioral' test that meant nothing but disqualified a lot of candidates, and someone who knew that gave others a way to bypass it to get their foot in the door in one instance.
Replace "AI" with "The Economy" and that's pretty much how it is and has been for a while. So many "rational actors" obeying ever so willingly.
Autonomous to a certain degree. When a mandate comes down from above you have the autonomy to figure out how to comply; which depending on the mandate may leave little wiggle room.

So, if a CEO mandates everybody get off the Oracle JVM then you have some discretion on moving to OpenJDK or say re-writing things in C#.

Also, managers often have a lot of discretion is reporting problems. If somebody you supervise doesn't ever show up in the office but is still getting their work done then you have little reason to inform HR. However, if HR is monitoring badge data on their own then your discretion is irrelevant.
Is that actually common? I did a spot check of few big ones and couldn't find an example.
I have a photo of Jerry on the Paintbox with Tony Redhead
Not sure why you’re downvoted. Happy to hear your experiences good and bad with it.

My quick take: Kotlin is a joy to write in, Jetbrains tooling is pretty good (though a bit dicey lately), build systems seem a bit eh, and the whole ecosystem is a bit too locked on spring boot. I use Quarkus, which has been pretty good, but it is much smaller in terms of user base.
You are wrong about "some parts" - you can browse github.com/swiftlang to find out.

About control - serious question: how is this different from for example Rust, Go, Zig or Python? For each of those you can submit a change proposal through an official process and you can submit code changes through a pull request.

But also for each of those there is a non-zero chance that a smaller group of people who do governance of the project, the core team or leads or module owners, will either tell you that your proposal or code change is not appropriate or compatible with the project's goals or they will help you to merge it. That is exactly the same for Swift.

Why is Apple suddenly a dictator while every other project also has an agenda and strict rules that are being enforced?

Is the expectation to just be able to do whatever you want in a project like Swift?
as posted by two others - hotel Gitmo on sands is expanding.
> There is no reason to believe in a singularity.

There are reasons, and the proponents aren't shy about stating them.

> Technological progress follows a sigmoid pattern not an exponential pattern.

That's true, but you don't know in advance where it will start to flatten.

> No significant new physics applicable to humans has been discovered since maybe the 1970s or 80s

It really depends on what you call "new physics". There are lots of discoveries related to quantum dots, graphene, high-temperature superconductivity, meta materials etc. Those aren't really "new" in the sense that they contradict the Schrödinger equation, but that was also true for Giant magnetoresistance, which was crucial for magnetic hard drives. Heck, a new form of magnetism was discovered just last year, first published in December 2024 (see https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08234-x for example).
I am just now at FOSDEM and I haven't found yet an interesting enough talk, compared to AI. Hopefully robotics tomorrow will be better.

LLM's are certainly more interesting now, and extremely useful coding tools.
This is cool. Would love to see something similar that’s open source.
You joke, but this is not the worst idea.
Haha I also studied as part of a student project and I remember my computer science teacher saying "it's dark magic" ^^
> Orient the white edges on the yellow side

This feels like a useless step. Making the white cross first is just as easy as getting the white edges on the yellow side, it’s just a matter of picking which side to move the edges to.

Seeing a white cross at the end of step 1 is also much more satisfying than seeing a yellow square in the middle.
The goal is probably rather to allow CI on the cloud. Many companies are ok with open source licenses.
I think it did what Windows 8 did for desktops to tablets. Just all around worse to use on them for no good reason. And pretty much every UI change is a step back and kind of brain dead. Really the only positive I can think of is x64 support on ARM but they had that working on Windows 10 but decided not to roll into the mainstream release. It's not unusable but I'm not convinced it's BETTER.
Not only was it blatantly illegal. How do you trust the overall judgment of the people who signed off on it? Who thinks it’s okay the make a mandatory screening test for air traffic controllers where the scoring rubric is basically random and has a 90% failure rate unless you have secret information from affiliated groups.

What else did they think was a good idea?
Apple is not for nieches, that’s clear.
You can set an old language version for a modern C# project. The compiler will behave exactly like 10 years ago, but it outputs a modern assembly.

If you think this is the way to go in your organization, just do that.

But I seriously don't get why it's so impossible to just read the changelog every year. Takes literally 2 hours per year. Most of the changes are quite self-explaining anyway.
> other than backwards compatibility
Communism in Poland fell, ultimately, over meat price increases. None of that freedom of speech nonsense. And it was overthrown by the "proletariat", who was not only the social group keeping them in power all along, but also the social group whose standard of living was catapulted into the 20th century by the very Communists they ousted. Up from, dunno, 17th century serfdom...
They are mostly pushing for a strong Unitary Executive theory-based government. At least so far, their grabs have been within the Executive branch
> If you're running on a simple system architecture,

His point was that even a feature flag system in a complex environment with substantial functional and system requirements is worth building vs buying. If your needs are even simpler, then this statement is even more true!

I'm having a hard time making sense out of the rest of your comment, but in larger businesses the kinds of things you're dealing with are:

- low latency / staleness: You flip a flag, and you'll want to see the results "immediately", across all of the services in all of your datacenters. Think on the order of one second vs, say 60s.

- scalability: Every service in your entire business will want to check many feature flags on every single request. For a naive architecture this would trivially turn into ungodly QPS. Even if you took a simple caching approach (say cache and flush on the staleness window), you could be talking hundreds of thousands of QPS across all of your services. You'll probably want some combination of pull and push. You'll also need the service to be able to opt into the specific sets of flags that it cares about. Some services will need to be more promiscuous and won't know exactly which flags they need to know in advance.

- high availability: You want to use these flags everywhere, including your highest availability services. The best architecture for this is that there's not a hard dependency on a live service.

- supports complex rules: Many flags will have fairly complicated rules requiring local context from the currently executing service call. Something like: "If this customer's preferred language code is ja-JP, and they're using one of the following devices (Samsung Android blah, iPhone blargh), and they're running versions 1.1-1.4 of our app, then disable this feature". You don't want to duplicate this logic in every individual service, and you don't want to make an outgoing service call (remember, H/A), so you'll be shipping these rules down to the microservices, and you'll need a rules engine that they can execute locally.

- supports per-customer overrides: You'll often want to manually flip flags for specific customers regardless of the rules you have in place. These exclusion lists can get "large" when your customer base is very large, e.g. thousands of manual overrides for every single flag.

- access controls: You'll want to dictate who can modify these flags. For example, some eng teams will want to allow their PMs to flip certain flags, while others will want certain flags hands off.

- auditing: When something goes wrong, you'll want to know who changed which flags and why.

- tracking/reporting: You'll want to see which feature flags are being actively used so you can help teams track down "dead" feature flags.

This list isn't exhaustive (just what I could remember off the top of my head), but you can start to see why they're an endeavor in and of themselves and why products like LaunchDarkly exist.
> When it comes to spatial safety

Only at the cost of runtime checks and/or misusable allocator passing.
Yeah, he wants to stay but he's gonna die of old age before his term is up and no one will learn anything
don't they have to have to have done this /before/ it gets deleted?