skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mean that the solutions to these problems are similar to the solutions to version control problems in software, I'm just making an analogy. Version control is a tricky business and has evolved over time, and it's that evolution that I'm referring to.

And I did mean "totally possible" in the sense you indicate, that is, technically possible, but far from a solved solution (after all, I'm not quitting my day job to start offering this as a service). The historical reason for a payday is that cash is hard to move, so the armored car would swing by and people would line up for money; later banks would do the same thing. Because "paydays" and "paystubs" exist, other processes and organizations latched on to them as a standard place to add more process, so "running payroll" became a more and more complicated beast, thus making it even harder to make it an incremental process.

So the first barrier is now gone -- while some segments of the population are cash-heavy, modern inter-bank transfers and the rise of electronic payment systems mean that banks can easily handle the cash outlays necessary to support the demand for physical specie out of cash on hand (not to mention improvements in modeling that allow them to anticipate cash demand).

But the rest of the "hanger-ons" are not even close to being able to support this; everything from landlords asking for paystubs, to how payroll taxes are handled, to the way that benefits (like health insurance or retirement plans) are calculated, to the way that non-direct-payroll services like phone bills and cable bills are calculated, and the idea of limits on services (data, etc.) that are metered on a sliding monthly window instead of a continuous rolling window mean that it would be very difficult to do effective planning, unless all services started adopting these methods.

To actually allow people to do this you'd almost need to have intermediate services -- a "cell phone account" that gets funded, say, daily, and remits payments to the cell phone provider on a monthly basis. Similarly a "rent account", and so on, that would gradually allow you to get an idea of what your actual cash flow looks like, without having to deal with periodic shocks that represent lump outlays and receipts.

For now it's just an interesting thought that the foundation that the concept of "payday" is build on has turned to sand, and the question is whether we can find a way to take advantage of this new flexibility. Yudkowsky's tweet addresses one possible way that this may provide a benefit, and it's interesting food for thought even though I'm not completely convinced.
> This is a weak economy if you're a laborer and not a capitalist.

Replace capitalist with monopolist and I'd agree.

How many capitalists make losses for 20 years and not only stay in their job, but actually become the world's richest person? Where would Uber be if they couldn't use VC money to undercut taxi companies, and subsidize hundreds of millions in losses. And let's not even get started on the issue of offshore tax avoidance, something your local hardware store will never have access to.
"I'm the disreputable dog. I'm your friend" <3

- Discworld is an obvious thing here.

- Anathem has a distributed network of libraries of most knowledge with an interesting time-limited distirbution scheme.

- Snow Crash has A Librarian -- and also a hypercard knowledge system.

- If On A Winter's Night, A Traveller by Italo Calvino features books and libraries prominently. They're not exactly magical, but they're not...not magical, either.

edit: it's not a novel, but the library in the sands in Avatar is another fine example of this trope.
It's not just pressure but peer support. If you're alone and you got chest pain. You might have anxiety that doctor will say nothing is wrong and that's embarrassing for some.
Protothreads is a library implementation of this trick. In fact, the protothreads creator even references the linked site in their explanation of protothreads (very last paragraph) [1].

[1] http://dunkels.com/adam/pt/expansion.html
> The GPUs are manufactured normally, but this technology is basically "just" a wafer-scale interconnect.

I wonder if this is something like Intel's Foveros 3D chip stacking, where the wafer is treated more like a "PCB" (with the traces and such for signals/power) to the CPU chips bonded on top?

Basically, a "PCB" made from silicon, where the components mounted on it are also bare CPU dies?
Refi that bad-boy to your local credit union
To echo the other commenter. How easy is it to transition to embedded if all the experience you have so far is web related? Is this possible?
Writing YAML is not easy for end-users. The indentation--especially in large files--is really difficult to keep track of, and some really basic stuff like when to quote strings is not consistent at all.
>paying one of those people for sex seems just ya know...like a bit of a shitty thing to do.

Why? There's nothing wrong with sex work, it's just a job. Would it be shitty to pay them to wash your car or whatever?
Schumer proposes limiting ability of corporations to buy back shares
Airships couldn't fly great-circle routes of shortest distance, so the actual distance would be much longer. They did pressure-flying, skirting around weather formations like a helicopter flying through mountains. Sometimes they could get a slingshot by riding a wind as it flowed from a high.
> real selling point of JSON

Is that really the selling point? I interact with numerous services that speak JSON...and most of them aren't written in JS. YAML and JSON both have to be parsed to be used, even by JS. Otherwise it's just a string.

To me the real selling point in JSON is the dead-simplicity for humans to read and CHANGE. YAML is human-READABLE, but frankly I often screw up changing it because the formatting is a little too magical and I'm a little too unfamiliar. JSON is downright picky and obnoxious...but that makes it really easy to make a change. Screw up the quotes? It'll complain about the quote. Dangling comma? It will complain. Did I cut-and-paste from an HTML display that screwed up my whitespace by compressing everything down to a single space? Nothing cares.
It did. The claim of the post is false.
Have you ever spent time with long term meth/ice/coke/crack users? The problems don't disappear if you give someone clean drugs. These drugs are simply nasty.
I agree and use it sometimes too but hearing "bootstrapped" applied to companies outside of tech doesn't feel right. Example: my dad owns a 20 person small business selling commercial doors and hardware - we are in the construction industry. Saying he has "bootstrapped the business" still feels weird.

That's when good old "small business" should be sufficient enough IMO. It has a stigma but it shouldn't.
Ehhh, the signal can be pretty valid even if it's not so in 100% of cases. And I imagine that it's less correct at the top: rank and file NGO employees are likely to have made significant sacrifices in terms of pay or lifestyle to support their org's mission, but I don't know for certain that applies to the C-suite equivalent at the top.
Not sure about the overall ideas in this one. I am currently writing apps in Angular using Python on the backend. Just got a new contract. My career started years ago with only HTML and CSS.

Being experienced, I would agree with the thesis here, except for the fact that we hire several junior devs here at my new office with only HTML and CSS knowledge and then gradually teach them frameworks and tools they will need.

Other places I have worked have taken this approach too. Don't know Angular or ember? That's okay...if you are teachable and really want to learn. Those are the real skills you need.
But the simpler format of JSON should be easier to write and read.
It might be scary to you, but who runs Python at scale?
youtube ran it for quite a long time.
reddit
yelp

Those sites seem mainstays to me, with good load. Perhaps performance is a problem for you for the server load and costs that you want, but it does allow you to iterate quickly to get your product out the door.

Last thing though: Checked errors. I think that's largely solved with type hinting (along the lines of TypeScript) where you get some guarantees.

Stacks of choice though for me is really Python and Go. I would use Go for when I truly need that raw speed with a lot fewer servers in Go in terms of horizontally scaling.
"I was sitting here, [reading HN] and drinking my coffee and replaying the [bug reports] in my head, when I had what alcoholics refer to as a moment of clarity."

https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
DeLong has been on a strange Graeber-witch hunt over the years and it appears there is a lot of bad faith in his criticism of Debt. Here is a response to DeLong from Graeber and it specifically addresses most of the points you quoted here:

https://davidgraeber.industries/sundries/brad-delong-reply
Apple tells app developers to disclose or remove screen recording code
I personally love Python where whitespace matters a lot too. But I regularly find myself fighting with the whitespace in yaml for some reason.

To me yaml (especially with templating) seems like a very contrived way of avoiding having to program, while still effectively programming. I much prefer json, or if more intelligence is required, actual javascript objects.

The only big downside of json where yaml does shine is the support for comments within your files.
Yubico customer experience is terrible
I've bought a $700 YubiHSM and the documentation for using it is simply incorrect. It just does not work at all with the tools they publish.

Yubico's phone line is a 3rd party answering service and there is no way to reach them directly. They never called back after me making several tickets to call us.

It took a week for them to reply to an email support ticket and the person asked for basic troubleshooting information that I already put in the email.

How are they hoping to disrupt the HSM market if they fail to even support their devices when companies buy them?

twitter: https://twitter.com/LevDubinets/status/1093629155701211136
Helm reminds me of the 90s level of webtech. I.e. php cgi files mixing html, logic and includes.
LOL we are doing the same with k8s. We deploy to any environment, where each environment is a different k8s namespace. We even have a namespace for each developer. The variables are things like the image name (the tag is effectively a git commit id, or sometimes different for not-committed yet stuff). Beyond that just about nothing really needs to be a variable, but we do have different RAM amounts.

We have a couple ways that we template this out, but mostly we literally just do this in bash:

sed -e "s/\$CI_COMMIT_SHA/$CI_COMMIT_SHA/" kube-deploy.template.yaml | kubectl -n $ENV apply -f -

(Where CI_COMMIT_SHA comes from gitlab)
ENV comes from our gitlab CI file.

That all being said, the extent of our k8s integration is lots of stuff like that. We could write a JS file that creates a JSON k8s template, but honestly, that would be more work and more learning than we had to for what we're doing. Why would we do more just because we want to avoid templating in a YAML file?
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I have the same experience. I just think think it is possible to design easy-to-write indentation-sensitive formats but YAML is not. For example is always baffles me that

a:
- b
- c

has a list inside an object but the list is not further indented. There's in fact a hierarchy relationship but absolutely no indentation.
Not particularly; most growth is still at hubs
A lot of debugging and profiling features.
NYC to London presumably could still support the larger plane.
The iTunes podcast directory is the defacto listing many (most?) podcast apps use. For many people if a podcast ends up only on Spotify, they will never even know it exists.
because people are trying to use configuration files for the things that programming languages are made for. it's masturbation.
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Wells Fargo reports outage on mobile app and online banking
David Heinemeier Hansson gave this speech at one of the early YC startup schools and he's still right about everything. This feels like such an impossible relic now that YC is firmly part of the grow-like-cancer VC universe. How things change.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY
That's because the actual DOM isn't what devs look at. Its the vue/react dev tools. The real Dom is full of layout divs.
Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep has a "dataset", basically an educator PDA for a child (covered in fake fur, IIRC) that contains a nearly bottomless amount of information. It's captured and used by an alien race to get a technological advantage in a local war.

I really like the idea that even a kid's toy would have petabytes or exabytes of data, just because it was easy for the designers to include it.
Likewise I would say not enough people put their monitors in portrait. It's amazing for coding.
A bank without redundancy is the best place to have your mortgage. Just hope that one day they forget about your debt.
I think it is partly momentum - at this point most CI systems use YAML in spite of its insanity - even Azure Pipelines!

And partly it's because the syntax for multiline string literals is very minimal, which is kind of a nice feature for CI since you tend to have a lot of them.

It's still insane though. TOML is much more reasonable.
The best thing that ever happened to Cloud Formation was the new YAML syntax.

Writing YAML is easy with a good editor like VSCode. Install the YAML code outline extension for sugar; works great for OpenAPI specs. YAML flow style offers some good options for keeping the file compact.
https://allthetropes.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel#Literatur...

I was going to list a lot I could think of, but I figured it would be easier to link here. Not linking to TVT because I started this fork, no ads, and less censorship.
Having a good product is no indication that the stocks are good.

- Stock price can be overvalued, even for that good product

- A costly proccess to make that fancy product could eat up the margins

- Company strategy, investment in the future etc need to be considered.

Basically you need to know how much a company is really worth to buy stocks, not just "I like their product"
Exactly. In 1999 I had enough money with AOL that I could have completely paid for my 4 years of college tuition. I knew nothing about financial markets or investing but I thought and was told that AOL was a good company.....obviously that didn't last.
How is the Raspberry Pi still relevant? There are better/faster/cheaper/more open SBCs.
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> I think people are always going to vote in their own best interest

How many railroad workers, miners, and other working class laborers in Utah vote Republican, despite the fact that they would stand to benefit far more from Democratic policies? Why do they do that? Is it possible that certain well-funded actors with access to media markets have exerted "nudge"-like influence over their thinking for decades? Is it possible they're relatively isolated from the world and operate to a degree in the fearful state of being that isolated humans tend to develop?
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How much is who paying who for what?
Anyone working with cloudformation would wonder why we ended up writing json?
poor guy, only making millions since 19. let me get my violin out.
Works for me in the US, could it be a region thing?
Do you also refuse to have your trash taken due to the power imbalance between the garbage men and their employer? I don't imagine garbage men have many other options.
Never heard of a Bundeskartellamt but I'm rooting for'em
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I understand the skepticism, but I'd point out that, if I was trying to tilt the scenario in my favor, I'd have written about how founders should always take a preemptive deal quickly and secretly. That way, every time I made an offer, someone would accept it.

I was a founder before I became an investor and, for the most part, that's still how I approach advising startups. That's been the ethos of YC from the start, and it seems to work well.

Also, I like your framing - I'm spending quite a lot of time trying to establish norms and ground rules so that founders (and investors) operate on a level playing field. That's been the driving force behind much of my work the Series A Program, and generated resources such as our standardized diligence checklist and term sheet.
Why C Corps Are the Preferred Entity for Tech Startups
I agree 100%. I'm a big fan of just calling them businesses.
The first website I built was a static HTML/CSS website for a family members party hire business. And this was only about 5 years ago.
Kinda hard to prove a negative.
Can’t you just admit you were wrong, instead of moving the goalpost to some (also wrong) median vs mode argument, and then repeating your other impossible-to-disprove opinion on NGO worker’s character flaws?
Not at island preservation over long periods of time, apparently. Seems like the islands we have are explained by largely by survivorship bias
Riding a bike isnt a theory of classical mechanics. Talking to another person isnt a theory of human psychology.

Both require something to be true, but have no content on what that is.
The "it's just a job" rationale falls apart when there's no alternative to having that job. When you have no other option, you'll say yes no matter what, so you have no agency and can easily be exploited. It's likely the case that these women had no real option for survival, which is why the third world recent disaster part is an important detail, and why the comparison to Vegas/Amsterdam isn't super accurate.

It would be shitty to drive from your city (where a car wash is $10) to the neighboring tent city and give them only $1 to wash your car, because you know they won't have another option.
Historically, many funds made their bread on charging management fees for beta, and now that index funds can do the same thing but at a much lower price, they're going to go extinct.

I'm not suggesting that you put all of your money into one name, on the contrary, I think an index tracking ETF should make up the majority of one's portfolio. Maybe 20% should go into bonds or pure alpha and maybe 20% should go into 3 or 4 single name bets.

Institutional investors nowadays are doing something very similar. A core of their portfolio is now cost passive maybe with some smart beta tilt. The rest is allocated into bonds or pure alpha, whill a small portion is put into high conviction equity bets or hedge funds with beta exposure. This allows them to significantly reduce their management feels.
> Review the dependencies listed in Cargo.toml: Will the latest version be used? (preferable but not always the right choice) Are these established, trustworthy packages?

The author seems to have forgotten about Cargo.lock....
Rails first, it makes develop simple for beginner
Heck, even the continuation scenario has a major caveat: “commercially reasonable efforts”.

So they can easily decide not to stick with it for a year, or they can decide to continue to provide service without, say, any technical support.
So, barring metaphysical axioms about the intrinsic worth of humanity, we measure worth by utility?

The utility answer resolves some of the tension, but it doesn't address what happens when an animal might have more utility than a human. What about protecting endangered rhinos versus viable fetuses with severe but nonterminal developmental issues?

Not really a rhetorical question, by the way, the Down's Syndrome population is way down and not because we cured Down's Syndrome.
I'm surprised to hear you say that, since I find the two very different. 747s are much noisier (unless you're up top) and have less humidity & cabin pressure, making them materially less comfortable on long flights.

Also, most airlines are now buying 787s and A350s instead of 777s.
I think the argument here is that you don't need to keep your Bitcoin in a bank, and instead just horde it all under your digital bed.
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HBO Theranos Doc to Focus on Holmes as Blood-Stealing Vampire
> Stuff that isn’t heavily regulated still works this way.

No it doesn't. That pest control company may pack up and leave (although this is admittedly unlikely), but AT&T and Verizon are legally obligated to offer POTS service.
Holding a position for years is the best bet for me because I don't have the patience to investigate the same reports (with small changes to the numbers) constantly to figure out what is going to change in the near future. I just buy a good index and let it grow. I'm up 3x my money over the last 10 years and I think about that account once a year when I have to put it on my taxes - except for one time when I wanted to make a big purchase: I had plenty of money to spare in that account.
You can indent it though, but the hyphen already means a list item.

That is a preferred syntax for many that are used to YAML though.
Dumb and naive, I know.

No - it's a learning experience. An experience many people are too afraid to even consider allowing themselves to make.

But I am burnt out, depressed, filled with anxiety, and have become at times suicidal.

My quick advice - please quit now. As in -- give yourself a few days to sleep on it -- but basically, you need to turn the page on this dead-end situation as soon as feasibly possible.

Not only do none of the side factors you're worrying about (which seem to boil down to basically: what a bunch of strangers think about you) have any significance, in the scheme of things, that would justify threats to your self-esteem and well-being -- they just don't have any significance at all.

Really - 80 percent of the startup world is based on mindgames and bullshit and pure and simple rank amateurism of exactly the sort you're describing. And at the end of the day, almost none of the things they elevate so highly (like being written up in glowing terms in the technical press or blogosphere... mostly by people who have very little direct knowledge of what they're talking about) has any significance at all.

What matters is (1) your health (mental and physical) (2) your friendship and familial relations, and (3) some minimal financial safety net (which, since you haven't mentioned it as a factor... I'm assuming you have). The rest -- accolades, wealth, thrills -- I'm not saying they're completely worthless - but they just don't mean all that much, compared to (1)-(3) above. And at your age there will be an endless stream of opportunities to pursue them -- and you can be entirely certain, under much better conditions than what you're facing now.

Finally: for heaven's sake, don't worry about your reputation going down as a consequence of quitting. People quit all the time and in most cases end up looking all the better for it. What you don't want to happen is that you get fired (especially as a reword for putting up with a no-win situation like this).

Trust me - you'll feel way much better about yourself after all this is over. And you're traveling in South America, or reconnecting with your friends and family... or doing whatever it is you've always been wanting to do these past 5 years.
Those system calls don't really work like that; there isn't really a public way to say "don't save a copy of this page on disk" on Windows, OSX, or Linux.

For instance see Raymond Chen's explanation here

> Is VirtualLock safe to use for cryptographic purposes – that is, to avoid sensitive memory being written to disk?

> ...

> [There does not appear to be any guarantee that the memory won't be written to disk while locked. As you noted, the machine may be hibernated, or it may be running in a VM that gets snapshotted. -Raymond]

VirtualLock and the equivalents only guarantee that the canonical copy of that page stays in RAM, not that other copies won't make their way out to disk.

Edit: add link https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140207-00/?p=...