jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That's a lot of effort to increase your risk of not having a trusted middleman and pay more fees.

WIth regular systems you have a Bank, a payment processor and a sale processor which collectively provide the following experience:

1) transaction fees at the range of 0.1$ and up at %1-%3 that is incorporated in the price.
2) Visa/MasterCard etc, you don't have to choose your merchant depending on your coins you have, it works everywhere globally
3) Fraud protection is included, if something doesn't work out as expected or you simply made a mistake you get your money back easily
4) payment takes about 1 to 5 seconds and usually is hassle free, like tap a botton to start the payment tap once more to confirm the payment.
5) funds security is guaranteed through reversibility and active security, no risk of going broke when trying to listen to a conversation online.
That seems to be an obsession, but in an abusive vein. Here have so many tools and millions of options we made for you, just be careful, it would be a shame if you had to mortgage your house if you forgot to configure something. But we are here for you.
But you have to get to that future first! If you lose your customers because you can't deliver something on time due to complexity of your 'scaling-proof' system or because you can't accommodate changes requested by clients because they would compromise your architecture, scaling will be last of your worries.
A few years back (before the iPhone & Android were out) I hosted a website on my Nokia N82 phone. Nokia enabled this by routing requests to the server on your phone via a URL hosted at '<yourname>.mymobilesite.net' (now discontinued).
Is Zynga really worth more than EA? This seems unlikely, but could someone point me to more information towards this?
I'd have to disagree with him. Python is a blast.
The new and "readable" syntax looks truly ugly compared to the S-expression counterparts. Why is it that some people dread parentheses so badly and other people just never mind and choose to spend the time working with them?

The main reason I consider parentheses and S-expressions superior to other syntax is that it allows for flexible navigation in the source code. I can move forward and backward, upward and inward in the tree, unit-by-unit and the unit can be a literal or a compound S-expression or anything and it just works the same. (At least in Emacs.)
You're making a mistake. Apps have a fixed life-cycle. Once everyone who wants your app has your app (happens quicker with niche products), then it will start dropping in ranks.
I want something with EEG sensing like the Zeo, but which talks all night to my computer, vs. having to download to an SD card. Then, based on if anyone has added morning meetings to my schedule, or traffic is heavy, or flights are delayed, it wakes me up gently by increasing ambient lighting in the room, temperature, music etc. If I don't wake up, it can become increasingl insistent, and most importantly, if I go back to sleep without getting up, it can escalate.

Or, get a pet which expects to be fed in the morning.
<Today the western democracy is existing by forceful takeover of independent kings and kingdoms, where minority rules through the tyranny of power and weapons.>

Is that so? Now I'm left wondering what world you are living in.

<If you read the history you will know that over 75% of population in Sikkim wanted self governance, India just helped through that transition and prevented minority to be ruled by force.>

Self governance, by India. How does one miss that? smh
We create a tool for solving your problem and will gladly share our experience.

Use, at the very beginning, the advertising rooms of social networks. They provide an opportunity to know your audience before you start spending money on advertising. You will have access to information about the demographic characteristics and interests of your chosen target audience.

On Facebook, for example, search for "audience insights" in your ad account.

You can also use google trends and SEO tools (similarweb or semrash). With their help, you will be able to understand the number of the audience and their interests. Plus cost per click.
Yes, PDF is the standard. Some people get it managed to generate HTML out of their PDFLatex code. This could be a nice starting point for an enriched reading experience in the web browser. However, with standard print-first latex, I never could generate HTML for any nontrivial documents (especially large documents with many hundred pages).

Putting your animations in traditional video formats (mp4, ogg) or on vimeo/youtube is probably the best way to make them accessible for most people. Many scientific labs have their own youtube channels.
Yes, the entire point is that what was obviously correct in hindsight was not clearly advantageous to begin with, the author's thesis is that exploring models which may seem worse than what we currently have can ultimately lead to better overall results. The author is specifically criticizing the narrow definition of science which says every incremental step no matter how small must improve your models' predictive power rather than exploring the possibility space.
Wow nice :) I can see that the idea is to use a simulator and reinforcement learning to train an AI to navigate unenven undergrounds.

Another killer upgrade would probably be to add cameras and use SfM so that you have a 3D environment map for proactive movement planning.
Most people on here dislike Azure because they don't buy into the Microsoft ecosystem, which is absolutely understandable, but if you do buy into the ecosystem, Azures really pretty great.

AAD ties everything together (this is a pro or a con depending on whether you use it), meaning you get secure SSO (including biometric security) for everything from device provisioning to machine identity (through service principals), and then Microsoft 365 E3 and E5 licenses offer every internal business tool you'll probably ever need in one place.

Azure basically only works if you go all in.
It really depends on what you mean by "standard of care".

Yes, there are a lot of people without coverage in the USA, and there are a lot of people in deep medical debt.

However, when it comes to the actual quality of the healthcare facilities, the USA does have some of the best in the world (CHOP, UPenn, Mayo Clinic, etc.). The fact that it's extremely expensive/overpriced is a different issue.
I wonder how much more expensive was it to create the parachute with the code.
No matter when it happens, I think that when General AI shows up most of us will be shocked and surprised.

General AI showing up will be kind of like the discovery of quantum mechanics and the nuclear bomb. No matter how much speculative fiction we write about it, we won't be able to predict ahead of time how transformative it will be on society once it actually exists.
We spend 100s of 1000’s of dollars a month on AWS. Our rep tried getting me to upgrade to paid support, and I said there was no way I was going to do that. I’m already paying AWS millions a year and will be giving them more and more business as Loom continues to skyrocket in usage. No way I’m paying for support at that scale. It’s a bogus model to charge your customers more when they’re continuing to accelerate in growth and pay you more money. I expect to get more support and attention over time automatically because I’m simply paying much more and my need for support hasn’t proportionally gone up in the least.

That was it. Other than that one conversation, my experience with AWS has been _absolutely stellar_ every step of the way. We’ve struck deals with them for several products and have felt like they were fair for both parties. Instead of continuing to focus on getting me to pay for support, they focused on areas where we’d want to rely on other AWS products and have come back with some amazing suggestions. I am extremely impressed with the teams I’ve worked with at AWS - it seems like they really understand the customer, and that incentivizes me to stay and use even more managed services when the unit economics work out for us.

For GCP I’ve had reps reach out. I tell them there’s no way we’ll go multi-cloud because it doesn’t make sense for our business goals and detracts from them. They respond as if they never even heard what I said. I get that you have to be persistent as a sales person, but the response wasn’t even talking about how _part_ of our infra would be worth hosting with them. There’s no conversation - it’s just what GCP wants me to do for them.
Did you try SAC-305 solder pastes from different brands?

I'm quite happy with my current SAC-305 solder paste from ChipQuik, but curious if I could find an ever better one.
You can, just somewhere else.
No. They are vibrations of the electron field. There are no point particles in the standard model.
I had a job lead that wanted an 'expert PHP programmer' and then wanted me to do the same: Slice up PSDs and create well-formed HTML and CSS from it. It was even at a well-respected company.

'Expert programmer' doesn't mean what it used to, apparently.
It seems to me the teachers were neither prepared to teach the book nor to defend the book in front of the parents. Making a second mistake - taking an important book (after all, we seem to have avoided 1984 just to fall into BNW) off the curriculum - does not correct the first one (not preparing teachers to... teach).

Like I said elsewhere, this whole mess is depressing. Sometimes I wonder if our species will be able to find a way out of this or if I will just wish the cockroaches better luck...
In business relationships as in personal relationships, the courtship period is where people take the greatest pains to be on their best behavior.

Thus far, the potential investor has shown himself to be uninterested in direct interactions that would let you get more comfortable with each other, and nothing in his behavior provides reason to expect he'll suddenly become helpful and acquire a deep understanding of your business once he's your partner.
I'm sure they are "inspired" by the interest in this device. I'd never buy an Xbox, but I'd get one of these just to hook it up to my computer and play around. Why would they not want to take my money?
Hasn't it always been that way?

(for some values of always)
Yea, I know sphere-frustum checks in and of themselves are cheap, but when you consider the cost of false-positives for octree traversal and the cost of sending unnecessary data to the GPU, it doesn't seem like it makes a lot of sense to me.
I set it up a few months ago and ended up disabling it after a few weeks due to this reason. All my SSH servers have password authentication disabled and a strict AllowUsers list, anyways.

The only thing I do externally from sshd is have a cronscript run every 15 seconds to grep my authlog file to find any IP addresses that fail authentication and put them in a global blacklist for my PF firewall. It cuts down the ssh authlog noise considerably, and rarely accidentally blacklists myself.
Recently, LinkedIn asked me whether I know the administrator of a ning I use occasionally. That ning is basically the only connection I have with its administrator, as far as I can tell. The funny thing is, I haven't used my real name on that ning for years. I go with a pseudonym, these days. Anyone know whether LinkedIn is looking at archives of social websites to mine connection information?
Are you using a pay as you go mobile? Under that definition, everyone that 'tops up' is connected.
Ah ok. Best of luck. Side projects make great portfolios too, I hope they work out for you, or otherwise they can be a great thing to show future potential employers.
Management are fixing it - they are requiring everyone to go back to the office.
Address Sanitizer -- never seen a false positive. Ever.

UBSan -- again never had a false positive.

Thread Sanitizer does have false positives in some circumstances. They're hard to verify to be falsy and in many ways it's better to refactor to eliminate the complaint because you'll end up with better cleaner code. For example, Qt uses those atomic fences that the article describes [0] [1].

[0]: TSan does not produce false positive data race reports when properly deployed, which includes instrumenting all code that is loaded into the process and avoiding primitives that TSan doesn’t understand (such as atomic fences).

[1]: https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/interest/2014-March/0...
I work on a beautiful campus with amazing work facilities and it is only 2 miles from my house. We have fitness facilities, walking trails, tons of food options, etc. But having to go back and work there instead of working from my house is giving me major anxiety. I do not want to return to the office, at all. It's not my coworkers or boss, they are all fantastic. I just love being able to see my wife and kids more frequently. I love using my own bathroom. I love being able to roll out of bed and start working instead of having to get ready for the day and then riding my bike to and from work. I love working from home, I'm almost in tears thinking about having to go back to campus.

Oh, and also I have 1 gigabit internet service to my house which is much faster than what I had at work ;-)
I mean thats kind of sad that the team is so helpless to not be able to enable a very low bar for sound quality. How hard is it to buy a headset or a headphone and a microphone to everyone on company dime? At least on all of our teams people are very capable of saying "hey X can you freaking plug your microphone in, we can only hear your neighbors dog"
That's pretty wild if you think about it, Warcraft sold 100k copies at release and maybe 300k copies total (according to Wikipedia) so of the nearly six billion people on the planet at the time, you and I were two of 100k of six billion, and we both hex edited the save game for money.
Back when I was the boss, long before covid was a thing, I let people work from home because I liked working from home. One thing I did that I've not seen many other people do, but which really helped make it work, was to get everyone to formalize their working time by announcing their virtual arrival at and departure from work every day. So the first thing everyone would do everyday is send an email to the team with the subject, "I'm in", with a few very brief sentences saying what they were working on and hoping to accomplish that day. When they were done for the day, they would do the same thing with "I'm out" and again a few brief sentences saying what they had actually done. the guideline was that they should spend no more than five minutes, and probably more like one or two, composing these emails.

This policy had a dramatically positive effect, including on me. The overhead was negligible but it made it harder to slack off because that would be more immediately visible to the entire team. It also made it clear when one could expect timely responses to emails sent out during the day. And just forcing everyone to actually think about and what they were working on and rendering that into words made it obvious when there were organizational problems and tasks were not being distributed effectively.
The same reasons why some teenagers find exploit in online games, finding exploits is "easy", programs nowdays are so complex that the security vector is pretty open.

On the otherside those rock star dev will get their stuff broken because of the above.
If it's true, we will certainly hear about it in a more reputable newspapers soon enough. I personally wouldn't consider that site trustworthy.
> Microsoft wants you to use their spreadsheet software.

... and windows OS, visual studio, sql server, azure, linkedin, github, bing, skype, etc which all collects data on you. Also, I love that you dismissed their office suite as just "spreadsheet software". It's only the world's ubiquitous office suite used everywhere in the world.
> What docker allows you to do is to isolate all those 20 services in separate containers that if any of them is being hacked your attacker will end up compromising only that service without any access to the main server.

Have the Docker developers changed their stance that they don't promise that Docker can safely untrusted programs running as root? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7910117)
Yes, understood, but I think the OP means "committed".
I thought the riots were about the abuse inflicted upon George Floyd. Sorry for not being adequately sensitive. I think you're over-reacting a bit and it shows misplaced priorities.
Maybe it'd better to write that as: Only the languages that suffer from similar issues get wide adoption at the enterprise level. (Yet, I don't think that completely captures causality.)

Enterprise architects have a surprisingly big diversity of culture. I'd look first at the process by what enterprises choose their development stacks. It often has little input from architects, developers, testers, or admins.
my last 2c - all those abuses are very easy to deal with compared to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome, especially when your parents (and therefore you) know nothing about it or that it even exist. =)
This is one of the reasons why you have to start talking about governance in these situations. Businesses should have governance strategies. They probably mostly do for finance, or safety, or similar, but they should also have governance strategies in place for ethical/social/cultural impact as well. Things like risk assessment or technology assessment can help here, but they're just part of a wider strategy needed to really nut out all the potential problems and benefits associated with the decision being made.

Of course this is quite tricky, but I think in Europe they're starting to move towards the right idea: they have the precautionary principle, EU commission-funded technical research projects need to follow strict ethical and social governance programs, and the commission is directly funding more research into how to more effectively govern these sorts of endeavours (rather than simply relying on "ethical codes" or "ethics checklists"). It's only a few steps up from that to regulating more widely across Europe (but obviously they need a playground to test in first! and the billion+ euro research Framework Programmes are a pretty good one for that).

I can't really see the US going for this sort of thing though, to be honest, even though it'd most likely prevent things like the BP catastrophe :(
His Question:

'Why is there so much interest among web developers and entrepreneurs with the business of music?'/'Why are you so compelled to enter in to the conversation at all?'

My answer I think addressed that question.
This would be a great facebook app if you could set a group of friends and limit the info to just that group. And if you could be sure it wouldn't be broadcast to the whole Internet.
Yes I think THAT was the point of the article.

Having lived in the bay area (both in sunny suburbia and shady SOMA) for many years, I really appreciate living now in an Asian city with safe streets, excellent public transit, busy nightlife, and a 7-11 or Familymart on every block.
Why does this keep getting downvoted ? I was fascinated by this article, I've never heard of this before and was expressing genuine excitement.
Under "What programs support f=f?" he mentions Pine but not Mutt. I use Mutt and was curious, and it turns out you can easily set f=f in Mutt. (I'm not sure yet how much good it will do me. What really matters in this case is what other people send me, and they are nearly all sending me HTML mail at this point. So it's probably a wash.)

1. In your .muttrc use the option 'set text_flowed=yes'

2. Configure your editor so that it outputs proper messages. For Vim, you add 'w' to the formatoptions for email.

Note that these are two distinct steps. Mutt itself doesn't handle composing messages; your editor does.

See here for more information: http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#ff
The problem is that whoever you follow (whether they're friends, family or just interesting people) they ARE following the outrage parts.

And of course there's the "trending" sidebars, and ads and other stuff that gets injected into your timeline without you asking for it.

So things bleed in no matter how careful you are. The platforms are designed to drag you in and outrage you. Trying to avoid that is a constant battle - and you're going to give in to it from time to time.
Interestingly, since Fortran 90, using dynamical allocation is much more developer-friendly than in C (I know, low bar).

Fortran’s allocatable variables can’t leak memory, can’t be used after being deallocated, and can’t be deallocated twice. Bounds checking is also trivial and all decent compilers have a flag to do it automatically.
> I don't know where people find the energy to fuel all this outrage when there is surely somewhere to meet in the middle.

Extremists and activists like this don't want to meet in the middle. They want to move the middle towards their point of view and then they want that middle-ground to be the only acceptable ground to hold.

It's an unreasonable position to hold in a free society, and we as a people should not encourage these individuals by giving them attention or giving in to their demands.
The number of figures is pretty irrelevant when you factor in cost of living.
> (yes it will probably blow up in modern compilers, or at least give you a warning)

Nope. For the code snippet I posted an hour ago, even with -pedantic -Wall -Wextra gcc won't issue any warnings. And why should it? It's perfectly standards conformant, because the standard actually defines the [] operator through the equivalent addition expression.
Just factor that in the price.
I legit lol'd at "woop dee doo". Glad to see you see the humor in all that full-stack madness ;-)

Out of curiosity, 45k€/year in what industry and country (if you're willing to share)? And is this a salaried position or freelance?

If it's job in a company, have you tried asking whether you can go part-time? Family reasons or whatever... I think in some countries is now legally required that your boss offers you an option to reduce your hours or go part-time if it is possible in any way (I don't see why it shouldn't be for a "full stack web dev" ;-)). Can't hurt to try, certainly.
I do agree that charity is often overplayed and many billionaires give away so little that they barely notice. But Bill Gates definitely is an exception. Of course they don't spend all their money in a few years, that wouldn't allow them to continue their work afterwards.

But the whole life of Bill and Melinda is about their work in the foundation. It's not a side gig for good press, they don't do anything else. I can understand criticism where billionaires have a charity next to their business. But there's no other business left for Bill.

But to be fair, Bill Gates is probably the only prominent example of a billionaire who quit the industry completely and dedicated his whole life towards charity.
OK, let's bet money on it.
The environment has changed, most significantly in that Trump is no longer going to be in control of the DoJ in a few weeks. This isn’t the straw that broke the camel’s back, this is the last straw before the straw dispenser was relieved of power and no one had to accept straw from them anymore.
I am not convinced that it helps preventing totalitarian state, quite the contrary.
Yeah, I agree. I've started reducing the amount of social media I assume and deleting certain people off my networks. Way too much vile behavior on social media and it is a net negative to my life. I suggest others to do the same.

Social media is the cigarette of our generation.
This is only in the current low interest rate environment. Back in the day you kids probably don't remember, where interest rates weren't 0, you could make some serious returns from the cash you got from selling the shares short.