skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RUST propaganda.FUCK YOU RUST. C++ IS KING!!
Part of Zig's core philosophy is that you can readily assess the "cost" of any particular expression is doing. There are no hidden function calls. If an expression doesn't contain (), you can be completely confident that it's not jumping away to some other piece of code.

btw, I know it's not as nice as first-class operator overloading, but Zig's comptime might enable writing DSLs for e.g. vector/matrix math: https://www.reddit.com/r/Zig/comments/g83h12/comment/foleoa8
RUST IS LIKE BITCOIN, TRYING TO REPLACE C++ BUT IT NEVER WORK SO WELL. FUCK YOU!
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The irony of course is that you're listing three different systems to solve the same problem :)
Can someone explain how you would actually do this?

Assume their thesis is true. How would you short it? What's some real figures and returns if true.

I'm not sure I even understand the bet/prediction.

Is the bet it will drop in the next 5 years and drop lower than now and then stay lower until the 5 year mark, then we profit? How much do we profit to investment?

Saying there will be a substantial fall sometime in the next 5 years seems to me still hard to profit from, but I don't know the numbers.
OTA -> OTE, I can't imagine 'over the air' headphones :)
If you include Borg (Kubernetes' predecessor as an internal tool at Google), then the tech has been around since 2003:

https://blog.risingstack.com/the-history-of-kubernetes/

I am sure that's not what they meant though!
What’s Up with Hagia Sophia?
GAMD is the new stack? ;)
There was definitely a phase where individuals would record music to vhs - as Techmoan mentions towards the end, some vcrs could record quite good quality audio -- but I don't know if it was done by radio stations or just individuals.
Ask HN: How Successful Is Stellar.org?
I am going through the documentation of Stellar platform and it looks really good. But the adoption does not seem very impressive compared to other somewhat similar offerings e.g. Ripple.

Why has stellar.org not taken the cross-border payments systems by storm i.e. why don't we see many "anchors" on the stellar network compared to ripplenet?
Aerospace in general is all about "document document document", and "process process process".

There's this classic article about programming for the space shuttle (https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff) that probably has reasonable parallels to how the raptor software was written.

These approaches aren't problem free of course. They're definitely slow, and can appear to be inefficient depending on your frame of reference and constraints.

My experience is in medtech which has similar ideas (but again obviously isn't the exact same). Ultimately all simulations used to prove that the software is working correctly are supposed to be validated (either in part or in whole) by some sort of real testing. The most expensive/real version of that is when they go off and do real test flights (or in medtech, when we go and do stuff on real people).

The type of tests of they have is probably "all types of tests". You pick the right set of tests to test your software components at the scale and detail required, while finding ways to validate the assumptions you made along the way. For example, maybe you have a pure function that takes pitot tube measurements to generate air speed. You could test that function with something like a unit test, and then back it up with another set of test cases (integration or system or whatever) that show that the function is being called correctly in all cases.

Every company/project will have their own Change Control process and defect resolution process defined. Typically they consist of someone reporting a defect, some sort of investigation into the defect (determining rate of occurrence, root cause if able, estimating the severity of the defect), which then gets fed into some sort of risk based problem solving algorithm to determine if an immediate fix is needed, or if there's flexibility. Then you go ahead and try to fix the thing, and when you're done, you go ahead and run more analysis to determine the scope of retest you need to do. If you're lucky, everything is self contained within the "pure software" part of your project and the "worst thing" that can happen is you have to re-run the whole software test suite. If you're not lucky, the change interacts with non-software components in ways that cannot be safely mocked out, and you have to add some kind of real world testing.

I think most places lean more towards replaceable cogs - that is the whole point of all of this process and documentation. It's to minimize the overall risk of the project (which isn't the same thing as maximizing benefit). It's hard to minimize risk while requiring super top tier talent.
I have to use it once a week, but since it requires filling daily slots, I think it qualifies too: NetSuite time tracking.
It's just database internal structures exposed to end user with no business logic layer whatsoever.

ADP is even worse, but I don't use it daily.
> What do you think is going to happen if you increase minimum wage to the point where it makes automation a more affordable alternative?

This is going to happen anyway. Walmart is planning to go cashierless. Taco bell has kiosk for ordering. New PlayStation manufacturing plant is fully automated.

Universal Basic Income is the solution. I don't even think 20% of the population is doing even a simple task.
There are gdpr exceptions for use cases like audit trails, so if there is a requirement to keep the data, you can.

It’s an excellent point to be aware of.
Depends which sort of government: sovereign or otherwise (US state, Scotland, Eurozone member). Sovereign government don't really have debt in the sense you would recognise as debt.
Of course Techmoan has done a video on it: https://youtu.be/jiu0LPeLQPE
Yes, master of none cannot get a job.

And even if the polymath does get a job,
their new colleagues will not understand them,
or actively persecute them for having a broad approach.
Video showing how it worked from LGR:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TUS0Zv2APjU
> Obviously, a private company with hundreds of millions in stable recurring revenue shouldn't operate debt-free -- debt can be a useful tool, even if only as a rainy-day tool for situations such as the recent pandemic.

Why obviously? Seems to me when a crisis hits the last thing you want to have is debt you need to pay back. For example, should Apple, with their huge mountain of cash, have debt? Do they need debt?

I guess one can also ask the same about countries. Do they really have to maintain some level of debt in order to have a healthy economy? Why not just have a big bunch of cash put aside for a rainy day? How is this "obvious"?
Hiring the smartest people to do the "simplest" tasks is how you reduce errors and variance.
At first approach I wanted to agree with you, but after trying to imagine a room full of women vocally laughing at a male recruiter who’s made a similar mistake I must concede that the matter is not so black and white.
I would not dismiss his arguments at first sight. but they are presented as anecdotes, not as convincing proof. his gut instinct might be right, because he is experienced, but there should be a proof. And genomics proofs are actually easy nowadays. everybody is familiar with neural networks and how long it needs to come up with optimized mutations. I just miss the mathematical proof of the low likelihood of natural mutations in x generations to come up with that special spike. Note that the period of 10-14 days per generation is extremely fast. Like with the drosphila. extraordinary claims need better proofs.
No paywall link: http://archive.is/YGqjl

Someone had to speak out. But I am not sure if the list is entirely accurate. There was this news about EU travel info that's relevant: https://www.nytimes.com/article/eu-travel-ban-explained-usa....
Apple making the iPhone changed an entire decade.
primary/secondary is even an alternative to master/slave? To me it means that they're on the same level and can do the same thing, while master means that it operates over slave devices.
How does the airline have the legal right to sell your items, and at a possibly lower value than the contents are worth? The article says a diamond rings and expensive watches were discovered. $3k in compensation likely seems insufficient.
There is no general AI: Why Turing machines cannot pass the Turing test (2019)
Your personal perception of a company's products isn't really correlated in market stock value of a company. Just because you personally switched products it doesn't mean that the companies are struggling or having issues - just think of all the thousands of articles announcing Apples, Microsofts, IBMs or whoever elses doom because they managed to muck up product strategy for a few years.

Remember how there was a time where everyone here said that Microsoft's products are complete trash, Windows 8 is a failure, the company is doomed to failure and no self-respecting person would ever use their products and would never invest in it? And the stock kept growing and growing and growing.

Investing based on your personal product usage is about as sensible as using Las Vegas casinos as a way of increasing your wealth.
sure, but they get addicted to something we call debt
So they found a great way to highlight what was going on in current events and canceled it? Now we’re left in the lurch.
But only in the Pro version?! Windows 10 Home doesn't have it.
PolyFit: Perception-aligned Vectorization of Raster Clip-art
Not sure what you're suggesting here concretely, or how you imagine pension funds actually work. Asset managers at pension funds need to make some target returns on their part of the portfolio (say 5% on high-yield corporate bonds). They're just mundane desk jobs, buying and selling contracts on computer screens. We're not talking about people playing golf with the CFO of Boeing or anything like that. What kind of incentivizing responsible behavior would you imagine them doing?

Yields on all debts have been structurally declining for more than three decades now. So all asset managers find themself forced to buy riskier and riskier debt at higher and higher prices (= lower and lower interest rates). If they don't, they need to tell their clients to expect lower returns / save a lot more for retirement, risking the clients taking their money to other asset managers promising higher returns.
Um...what?

Given the choices

a) Business pays employee a living wage; taxpayers pay nothing for that person's survival

b) Business pays employee a less-than-living wage; taxpayers pay partially for that person's survival

c) Person has no job; taxpayers pay fully for that person's survival

(Note, of course, that this leaves off choice d) Person has no job, or does not make enough from their job to survive; for whatever reason, they also cannot obtain welfare, and they die.)

...I think that most people would agree that the best of these three is (a). In that situation "the rest of us" most certainly do not have to pay those costs.

Furthermore, I think the more important point than "the person would still exist if they didn't have a job" is "other, better jobs would still exist if that company folded due to unprofitability, or was never created in the first place".

People have an inherent right to life, liberty, and property.

Businesses are not some sacred abstract; they exist purely to support people. Any privileges they have (down to and including their existence), we grant them, and we can revoke from them if they are not fulfilling their fundamental purposes.
Osano Privacy Audit – Scan Your Site for Privacy Issues
I sat down and was thinking about these numbers.

Most of the post I could find that share their Data with blog post hitting front page of HN suggest they got less than 100K PV. They do get over 100K aggregate over a few days.

100K Vs 5M. This mildly suggest HN has a very high engagement from its users.
It's tough. You can't take it personally. Most likely if you have a good buzzword list you're worth a conversation at least.

Another data point: 30 years exp, I just finished a job search for remote s/w. Total time to sign was about 5 weeks.

* 10 cold applications, all with good fits and detailed covers and research: 1 cold no; 1 few interviews then a no; 8 ghosts after bot ack

* 1 internal referral: got to final talks

* A few external recruiter engagements: two final talks; accepted one of these; and a few ghosts

External recruiters can be a pain but they have one superpower: the ear of their client.
If an airline had to compensate people for the full value of their luggage, no airline could bear the risk of transporting luggage at all.
> Road noise is extremely unpleasant

We have to stop treating noise as a mere annoyance or as something that "Karens" bitch about because of their priviledge.

It's polution, a health issue, something that ruins quality of life, and for people with certain health issues can be a chronic problem. It prevents people from sleeping, focusing, lowers productivity, make people "dumber", you name it.

In a lot of ways, the impact of noise can be similar to that of lead pipes. And we act like we can just tell people to deal with it, and that white noise machines and earplugs (hello ear infections!) are a solution (spoiler. I use both and it barely makes a dent in the noise sometimes).
That CW McCall line from Convoy brings back some serious memories.

Talk about old hobbies. When I was about 9 I found an 8-track of his and fell in love with that song. I spent much of that summer buying stereo equipment at garage sales to get a working 8-track player setup in my bedroom just so I could listen to that song on repeat.

"There's a road-block up on the cloverleaf and them Bears was wall to wall. I said Pig Pen this hear's a Rubber Duck, we justa ain'ta gonna pay no toll. So we crash the gate doing 98 I says let them truckers role 10-4."
Good point on the nastiness in the name of positivity. See the askwomen sub on reddit. On some threads EVERY comment is deleted and the topic is closed because people supposedly weren’t being positive/inclusive/whatever enough. Really, every single person?! The moderation is off the rails and it creates an atmosphere of paranoia.
Wells Fargo wants employees to delete TikTok from company phones
Domain-Specific Multi-Level IR Rewriting for GPU
Thanks, I was not aware of this!
Don't feel that way. I initially had to jump on the bandwagon and have a nice, link-filled README on my profile, but I ended up removing it all. The profile page is already good. It has your avatar, a short description from your profile, your group memberships, a list of your repos, and a good graphical representation of your work on Github.

It is a github profile, after all. A personal webpage is better for all the other information about you, and you can just put that link in your profile description.
In my imagination it works something like: If melatonin levels have to exceed cortisol not challenging yourself physically would never require a lot of melatonin? You might still sleep but barely?
Yep. Indeed you're better off not picking the grand label even if it perfectly suits you, because people are more likely to chuckle at your pomposity if you start describing yourself as one (see also self-described 'intellectuals', 'geniuses' and 'ninjas') than be impressed.

It doesn't help that for much of the post the author seems to conflate the concept of the Aristotle-type polymath making breakthroughs in multiple unrelated fields with standard career paths [engineer, manager, teacher, founder, advisor] and transferable career skills. All of which are entirely worth pursuing without the dubious label.
I think GP was referring to people that desperately wanted their belongings back.

I understand that a lot of business flyers would write off their underwear, toothbrush, and gym shoes -- but I don't think GP was suggesting those people should be dumpster diving in Alabamaba. (I'm in Australia, and I really don't have any idea how inconvenient it is to get to Alabama, and to then dive through a warehouse of bags, assuming it's even possible.)

> They're listing outlying extreme cases. Most people aren't travelling with a $64k watch in their checked baggage.
It says this in the article only a third of it is worth selling at any price.

Totally agree - but the point is that in some cases (npi) there clearly were valuables worth the effort, at least from a naive calculation perspective.
I just put a single gif (a "cinemagraph" to be exact) in my profile for now:

https://github.com/kinoute

I'm already amazed by the different profiles I've seen so far.
My jaw dropped. Unbelievable.
“The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to.”

The ones we can solve right now? Or the ones we might solve eventually... if we make the right choices and exert the right effort?
> I have at least a basic understand of the problem domain when writing software for chemists or biologists

While that may be efficient in certain scenarios, what are the odds of winning that lottery?

As market efficiency shows up in income, and incomes have held stagnant even as the population gains more and more education, we know that most people aren't winning. They are only losing.
Did it not occur to you that the word “hacker” is in the name of the site?
I grew up in Japan as well as in the U.S., and I'm inclined to agree with your take. This brilliant letter is the result of a cross-cultural exchange of ideas, philosophy, ways of life.

There's a strong Buddhist influence in Japanese culture, and in that value system, it's emphasized that selflessness is a virtue. "The nameless" is one of the phrases in this tradition, for pointing at the "ineffable mystery" - similar to how other religions like Christianity have words to talk about God indirectly, in deference, as "the Lord" or "the Highest".

In American culture, there's a strong tradition of individualism, self-reliance, and self-respect. Also, generally speaking, there's a sense of society as a competition.

On both sides, there are unhealthy extremes. The self-effacing approach can lead to loss of confidence and purpose, and to suppress the fullest expression of one's unique nature. And being "full of oneself" can lead to arrogance, blindness to one's own limitations, lack of empathy, and so on.

Personally, I read Feynman's letter and feel his humanity, the care and consideration for fellow thinkers, to encourage and support each person to value who they are.

Maybe the Japanese colleague did not need that advice, with a whole another understanding of the value and pride of being nameless - but, I tend to believe that Feynman sensed something, and had empathy to feel that this person needed to hear positive words to be confident in who they are and what they do.
Sale of the Century: The Inside Story of Ethereum’s 2014 Premine
Can anyone find me someone who actually gets offended by this?

(And doesn't write a column for the Guardian or make money out of claiming offence everywhere).
Cool. Thanks for the link. I developed the code for the IEEE1394 interface on the JVC 2nd generation decks (HM-DH40000U, HM-DH5U and HM-DT100U) when I was at LSI Logic.
Taiwan is much harder, but I was thinking more about precedent: if there is not much international blowback, that’s going to tell them that there won’t be major consequences if they try to ratchet Taiwan into their orbit. The U.S. provided a big shield to Taiwan for years but China has built up a lot and Trump has been ceding power as quickly as he can. It’s not clear to me that the other countries in the region or the EU would set a line and hold it for very long. The international businesses acquiescing to expansion in Hong Kong are probably setting the tone.

Remember, this almost certainly wouldn’t just be a straight-up invasion. I’d assume something more like funding pro-China political parties, expanding business and other ties, and then at some point an incident involving a friendly politician asking for help which never leaves. TSMC is important but just one business and not one many people are going to go to war over when business is going to continue mostly as usual.
Black people: can we stop the police from killing us please?

White people: we will change the terminology in the Linux kernel, you are welcome.
maybe controlling/controlled
There's also leader/follower if you are looking to replace master/slave.
The guy republished his own blog posts under his real name in print and online publications. If it's a "secret", it's a very open secret, even from the author himself.
How dare you prefer plain language! Somebody somewhere thinks USB devices are people so it's time to shut up and listen.

It's so sad to see the most dishonest, bad-faith arguments and ideas take over society. Hopefully the people enabling this will be held to account, in due time.
Just put a timer on it?

You can also write comments above or under the section if it absolutely needs to be corrected immediately.
Problem is, the black people who call this out are "not the right black people" and the white people who call it out often lose their jobs.

Do society a favour and get this cancer out of your HR departments, and start saying no while you still can; because if you wait long enough, all of the activism will be fake, because it's cheaper and you're not allowed to notice the difference.
I think you don't properly appreciate how many job applications somebody can get, and just what a large percentage of those are just spam disguised as applications -- "let me recruit for you", "hire me on contract", "I'm in <country>, sponsor me", "fire your team and hire my offshore consulting firm", ...
This same conversation came up at my job. I personally don't think that the effort put in is worth the advantages that it affords, or if there are any real advantages at all. However, I largely kept my mouth shut because I was afraid of the social repercussions.

I wonder how much of this is occurring in tech companies because of the same phenomenon - people are just probably don't want to risk their jobs over something so unimportant.

As always, paycheck comes in, jira ticket gets dragged from left to right. Whatever.
Rust for JavaScript Developers – Pattern Matching and Enums
Digital audio storage on video predates this, and even VHS, by quite a long way. The whole reason we have the weird sample rate of CD audio is because it was one that could conveniently be stored and retrieved as a video signal in either PAL or NTSC.
I didn't compare it to the Holocaust. Genocide does not start and end with the Holocaust, even if it's the most well known example.
> Who teaches people that this is OK?

Candy Crush. Farmville. Pervasive market segmentation.

What happens when the children who were fed a constant diet of DLC become the c-levels of our future corporations? That world to me looks like some shitty vending machine version of corpofacism
> Private industry should not be in the job of providing a social safety net.

Someone should. Instead of taxing industry, and transferring wealth to poor, its best way to increase wages for the bottom 20%. They will spend that and increase economic activities.

> I noticed that you called out people making $500K instead of $200K. “Tax the rich” often translates to “tax people who make more than I do.

I didn't call anyone, nor I said: "tax people who make more than I do". I used to work in silicon valley. Now a business owner. I said it's pathetic that people (like me) who make $500k/year pay less than $75k in federal taxes.