skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great link, thank you!

... but oh dear, history is not what we think, as per the oft quoted Churchill:

"For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself."

... even that quote is not what we think!
https://slate.com/culture/2019/11/history-is-written-by-the-...

This is probably closer to the truth:

"History is a set of lies agreed upon."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Yeah, except no. Every time a New Apple emerges it gets immediately swallowed or destroyed by the likes of Apple and FAANG before it can grow big enough to be a threat to them, like it happened to Oculus, WhatsApp, Snap etc.

The FAANG quasi monopolies have too much money and power to let new competitors grow big. You either let them buy you out or they'll copy your innovative shit with their enormous R&D resources and crush you so most founders are happy to just sell out and enjoy their riches instead of wasting their time fighting Goliath.
Apple’s business model is entering or creating a new field every decade. This is part of the process.
> "Investor value". It's a symptom of western economies, and the US in particular.

I absolutely agree. And pushed to extremes it makes for sociopathic reasoning where nothing else matters.

We humans have a hard time finding the middle way : no I don't want communism but I don't want full blown predatory capitalism either.
Thimbleweed Park has a setting to turn on/off the "annoying in-jokes". Maybe that could help?

(I personally enjoyed the jokes)
Which gives way for New New Apple :-)
> Why can't the organization chart gymnasts do that?

They need to not understand that.
> A bigger question is why don't the MBAs understand this?

MBAs are never in for the long term. They move from one company to the next and follow where the next big position is. That's why they could not care less what happens in the company in the long run.
Qualified immunity is a mess; to sue a government worker for something they did on the job, a court would have had to of previously found, in a different case, that said something was unconstitutional, IIRC.
Great to see Gavin Andresen's writings getting exposure here.

Andresen, along with Roger Ver, laid much of the ground work for Bitcoin's massive run up in adoption, brand recognition and price.

Their subsequent ousting by a group that basically acted like trolls, to sabotage Bitcoin's plan to hard fork to remove the 1 MB block size limit, and thereby prevent it from becoming a ubiquitous electronic cash, has irked me to no end.
I found it much easier to understand than Pascal. It just clicked. Later there was a moment of confusion with "char* a, b".

It helped than I've learned by K&R C book. Windows API and code examples are horrific, like another language.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/learnwin32/wi...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/learnwin32/ma...
Disagree on calling Suzhou Industrial Park a failure. I grew up there and can say that while it may not have attracted the desired profit levels it certainly did have miraculous effect on the people of Suzhou. Wages have sky rocketed (as has property price). It may not have been profitable within 5 years, more than 400 fortune 500 companies had their factories located there in 2014. Suzhou went from a city with two big super markets and one KFC to a city with a mall around every block (and yes people could afford to spend in these malls).

Also Lee's success in Singapore is not only due to his authoritarianism as most western scholars put out, but also due to the sheer pragmatism of Singapore's policy making elite. They respect no ideology but the one that is suitable. If they need to have free markets they will have free markets. If they need to regulate pricing they will regulate it.
> -- For the working parent whose productivity has been slashed by 50% and stress has gone up by 50% due to parenting obligations, WFH might be terrible.

Why have kids if spending time with them is such a burden?
I think it is because they are a publicly traded company that is legally obligated to make money for their shareholders, however that is possible. They've had a few rough years on the tech side, so the business and marketing folks have taken over to ensure they sell even though there hasn't been anything interesting, consumer CPU wise, in nearly a decade.
Would this even be a problem for projects based on Europe, where there are less issues (or none at all) coming from software patents?

If so, I wonder why more Open Source projects don't get based on European grounds and get immunity to the absurd state of things in the states.
This may be a moot point post Covid, but if I were young and single, the burbs would be depressing. A lot of old married couples with kids - like me.
Yeah but when you don't maintain the house sooner or later you have a ruin from which you can't extract rent.
All knives, or a certain size of knife?
Surely his 'expertise' expires over time.

Before YC, there was no real playbook about how to start a startup. Now there is one (startup school). That's one reason why sama switched gears towards openAI. Starting up is now kind of a solved problem, conceptually

But on top of that playbook, there is tons of advice available from countless people in any kind of niche imaginable, state of the art, updated almost every week. SaaS, e-commerce, platforms, engineering, marketing, you name it.

But this very differentiated professionalism was a direct result of the success of YC, among a bunch of other players. Starting up in your early 20s in your doorm was a niche itself before YC, now it's very much mainstream (thanks as well to cloud and mobile).

PG never was a 'startup expert' it seems to me. He always has been and still is a hacker that enjoys building things that are interesting. It just so happened that between 1995-ish and 2015-ish that very niche-y hobby turned out to be extremely valuable for (more or less accidentally) building the foundation of one of the most lucrative global commercial and societal transformations in history.

The period between 2000 and 2010 laid the foundation. But not because it was intended, but because in hindsight, the right people with the right mindset turned out to build the right tool set that paved the way.

And once this way was paved, the 'army' marched in with trillions of dollars and a global flocking of talent and ambition.

Job done, it seems.

That's why he lives in England now, writes, codes and checks out interesting stuff built at Demo Day. Like it has always been, but in a completely different world, in which building tech became the most valuable thing.
> Tech people generally understand when something is far outside their skillset. Why can't the organization chart gymnasts do that?

I am not so sure. There's a huge bias in IT tech to approach every problem outside of tech as a technical bug floating in a vacuum waiting to be solved by applying tech methods. I think battling (and most of the time winning) all day long with psychologically rigid computers does that.
not just difficult. you're now that paranoid guy who wants to be special.
Allowing symbols increases the search space, but requiring them reduces it.

And in practice this effect can be exaggerated when people don't use random passwords but must actually choose a password they'll remember - because what they'll actually do is choose something easy and then shove a symbol in there to meet your requirement. You may well allow 30+ different symbols, or even more, but the users will invariably pick one of a dozen or so that were easiest to reach on their keyboard and they may learn to be shy of characters that sometimes "don't work" such as quote marks and any local currency symbol even if those are easy to type.
This is so ugly.
Already we have things like AND vs &&
or tailing if's that don't quite work like three line if's
or how scoping do..end vs {} is ever so slightly different.

I'd wonder how the right assignment would work differently. What small gotcha would it create.

I also wonder how my co-workers would take it, if I started using it.. Or if I figured out how it was different and used it for the once case that it worked.

For me. having a million ways to do something leads to slower dev time. More context I'd need to load.
The only cryptocurrency that has achieved the "one CPU one vote" goal is Monero. RandomX is an impressive feat; I encourage you to look at the technical specifications and the security audits it has been through from notable firms.
The ‘Gooseberries’ excerpt sounds close to ‘stream-of-consciousness’ with the attempts to describe the inner mood—and indeed I can't think of anyone speaking or writing in English in the manner of that passage, except Nabokov. As a translator, you'd basically have to imagine maybe John Malkovich narrating your book, and then whack at the words until they sound natural coming from him.
Many of us prefer a wired mouse and keyboard! Faster to wake up, more reliable, don’t need recharging.
> It might be better for Intel to split into two.

How exactly would it be better -- again, given the volumes?

-- The "design" split-off would be instantly lacking modern-node fab capacities (TSMC already said they wont scale up
for Intel),

-- the manufacturing part would find itself in competition with those already having better node tech ==> not enough orders to fill the pipe (customers with comparable volumes are already all set WRT fabbing).
The mandatory GDPR training session at my current place in Berlin said that we could be personally liable with regard to personal information.

(Not that I can read German to the standard required for understanding laws and looking it up for myself; I can just about manage tabloid newspapers…)
> For others software is an experience of research and crafting which requires minimal feedback and no social interaction to grow and experiment.

If you are young and new in your career, I don’t see how it could not stunt your career or lead to being an “expert beginner” without getting feedback.

This definitely happened to me for the first decade of my career. Not working remotely, working either as a sole developer or working with two or three other self taught developers who had been with the company forever.
Dude it is not because mathematical obsession or something we dislike Go.

Consider checking whether an element `e` is in collection xs

JS:
xs.includes(e)

Python:
e in xs

Java:
xs.indexOf(e) != 1

C++:
std::find(xs.begin(), xs.end(), e) != xs.end()

It is already pretty verbose in C++.

Go:
contains := false
for _,x := range xs {
if x == e {
contains = true
break
}
}

Some fanboys claim Go is readable. Readability is not about conveying what each line does in micro level, it is about conveying __Intent__.

Go is nothing more than C as far as facilities to convey intent are concerned.
I also use Typora. Very good editor for every daily notes

https://imgur.com/HEV00M6
Ludger Sylbaris
Upwork can be really great, but most people use it wrong.

Don't wait for the good developers to apply, invite them proactively. 95% of the developers applying themselves are sadly the bottom barrel. First weed out from their profil history if they know what they are doing. Only work with people that have 100% Jobsuccess with relevant projects and have the "Top Rated" Badge. Then do a small test project with them or a free consultation call to check for details, how good their english is and cultural fit.

I have both hired myself and got hired on very successful projects (e.g. build an MVP for a startup in a month that led them to secure a funding round) this way. In case anyone wants to see my profile https://www.upwork.com/fl/tobiasheidingsfeld
Great insight. I wonder where are limitations today?
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Could be worse.

They might write it on a flipboard next to a window.

https://grahamcluley.com/plymouth-passport-offices-pitiful-p...
F1 cars in general are mid-engined (like Porsche Le Man cars) rather than rear engined like the 911.

So the engine is behind you but in front of the rear wheels. This is generally thought to be optimal layout for a super car.

Porsche used the mid-engine layout for the 959 for example.
As an end user who uses Chrome and who's mum does too it means you can tell her to use Chrome's suggested secure password rather than 'P@ssword' or similar.

And my mum who's not really techie does care because she gets emails from Yahoo and the like saying sorry we've been hacked yet again please reset your passwords and gets in a panic over it.
Refactoring Rust Transpiled from C
>Wages have sky rocketed (as has property price). It may not have been profitable within 5 years, more than 400 fortune 500 companies had their factories located there in 2014. Suzhou went from a city with two big super markets and one KFC to a city with a mall around every block (and yes people could afford to spend in these malls).

I interpreted from the article that it was nothing special. That is, it followed more or less the same trends as Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou and Wuxi rather than trailblazing its own path.
Why is nail file so popular in those? Does anyone actually use or is it just cheap to produce? It doesn't look practical.
I'm not saying it's impossible to create a Kernel in Rust, but I don't think Linux or any of the BSDs will switch to anything other than C for their primary kernel development language.

The only option for kernels that are mostly Rust I can see is a ground-up kernel, but those rarely succeed if ever. There's been small kernels in C# for a while now, for example, but those are usually no more than a fun experiment.

Fuchsia is the closest thing to a completely new kernel that I can think of and despite its age and the amount of people working on it, it's not used outside of lab environments. Perhaps in ten or twenty years a new kernel will replace Linux, and that might very well be written in Rust.
Agreed. Just look at Icahn asset stripping TWA in the 80s at the cost of thousands of jobs, just so he and his investors could get rich quick.

Here's a good example of a non-technical CEO: Steve Ballmer. From wikipedia

"His tenure and legacy as Microsoft CEO has received mixed reception, with the company tripling sales and doubling profits, but losing its market dominance and missing out on 21st-century technology trends.[13][14][15] "
It was not my goal to equate the two - I’m not a native speaker so maybe I expressed myself imprecise.

America being the good and leading the fight against evil was always just a story told to the masses. In reality you were gaining a lot from aligning to one of the blocs in the Cold War and a lot of countries had common enemies with the US. All this is missing now. Already with the Iraq war unanimous support by allied countries was not there anymore and with the Trump administration the US stopped to be a reliable partner.

I don’t think you can easily say that other countries abandon their willing to try to change China. They just keep on the diplomatic way.
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Would social login (Google, Facebook, Twitter etc) be a partial solution here? Basically outsourcing the authentication.
>Because of dark silicon, you won't be able to fully light up the chip anyway.

If it's a separate chip, that's better, because I can cut power to it, or outright desolder it.

Still, I'd be uncomfortable having paid for a chip I did not want. Much like being forced to pay for Windows when buying a laptop to run netbsd on.

My point, if you missed it, is that this is not the sort of purchasing experience those who'll pay extra coin for a board with a slower chip that's also less power efficient just because it's more open would actually desire. And thus, it is not sensible to include such a chip.
Only ones I know of are aimed at mobile streamers eg https://www.obs-server.com/obs-server/

However you can run obs and stream from pretty much any of the cloud gaming services that provide a full system eg shadow.tech, paperspace
The two aren't mututally exclusive.
> Storage – TBD, likely MicroSD card

Meh. I wish they would realize that SD cards are not made to be a system disk. I need SATA or NVME ports and lots of them so I can build my own NAS!
Because kids are a long-term investments in happiness. Also, they're not that big of a burden when you have access to institutions such as grandparents, babysitters, daycare, kindergarten and schools. All of which got shut down due to pandemic.
"..As a recent new citizen who was born and brought up in Germany, I am very grateful for the heroic sacrifice of many British men and women in the Second World War. But why does the Home Office want us to forget the many Americans and Canadians who died alongside them on the beaches in what was a joint Allied invasion?.."

Quite a delicious irony, given general consensus in Britain that, if Hollywood is to be believed; the USA won the Second World War single-handedly.

PS: WARNING modal dialogue obscures most of article text.
I believe that Hey does something like this:

1. A stranger send you an email

2. Hey asks you if you want to whitelist the sender or not

3. If rejected, you won’t be bothered anymore by any of their emails

4. Otherwise you just get their email moving forward and can decide to reject them later if necessary

https://hey.com/features/the-screener/
It never gave any problems at airports?
> If your email is compromised, the attacker can request a password reset, then log in that way.

Doesn't this answer your own question? (ideally email password reset should also require MFA)

As another, non-security point, occasionally it can take a good few minutes for emails to arrive in your inbox. Though to be fair, that's sometimes the case for SMS too.
Ha, shows what you know about capitalism.

America is one of the only countries to tax their citizens income abroad.

This would affect 0.001% of people who had managed to capture a huge amount of wealth and were attempting to avoid taxes.
That's right, we tend to label every successful economy "capitalism", but actually if you look at Singapore there's some things that are not so obviously free market. Housing, for instance.
All knives, even craftsman who carry tools are officially violating this local 'law'. Several cities in NL have this.
I don't think it's fair to say they were completely stubborn about it.

Porsche have used rear (e.g. 911), mid (e.g. 959, 917, 956) and front (e.g. 928) engine layouts over time.

The 911 is iconic though and customers like its design so they've persevered with it.
I've been working on a virtual machine where this wouldn't be a problem: https://esolangs.org/wiki/RarVM#Jumping_processes

(small process snapshot sizes and sandboxing capabilities)

Using the WebAssembly VM would be a good alternative for real applications.
Looks like you can use it with mobile without downloading an app, so there's that
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Just to remind that a open wheel car or a single seat f1 style doesn't have the a rear engine like the 911, but is a middle engine car.

In fact, almost every car have a front or middle engine. The 911 is very unique in this rear placement layout.
I have another simple but revealing example from a few years ago : we had a biscuit factory where I live that had a financial return of 8% per year but the shareholders wanted 10% minimum so they demanded the factory to be moved in a cheaper country without any thoughts for the local employees that would loose their jobs.
FYI the Veyron is NOT rear engined like the 911. It's mid engined, like most super cars.[1]

That's what makes the 911 a weird and unusual car.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti_Veyron
Hah, when I read this, I envisioned a movie poster of a B-class "cyber" action movie and this line under a picture of people holding keyboards and pistols.
Glad it's of interest.

They have various other such documents, they're each a chapter of their Helicopter Flying Handbook, or you can download the whole lot as one enormous PDF. Here's the hub page:

https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/a...
I feel like many product managers and senior leaders I know take this advice to heart, and too literally. It's great to yearn for the sea, but if you actually want to sail, you'll need a boat, and that boat had better be built by competent organized professionals paying attention to what they're doing rather than a bunch of folks sitting around talking about the endless sea.
>Tech people generally understand when something is far outside their skillset.

I see you don't read HN much
You are right that Japanese as a language existed before Chinese writing system was introduced. Learning details of how this happened is fascinating when you know some Japanese, it explains many of the quirks of the language, and why it's so complicated. I will try to make a summary.

Chinese language was introduced mostly between 4th and 7th centuries [1]. Japanese had no writing system at that time, so they adopted Chinese ideograms (hanzi) and vocabulary, but changed the pronunciation to fit the much (much!) simpler Japanese phonetics. They also started to use the ideograms for words that already existed in Japanese, with their Japanese reading. That's why Japanese ideograms (kanji) have two kinds of readings: Chinese readings (onyomi) and Japanese readings (kunyomi). To make it even more complicated many kanji have multiple readings, and you have to learn which to use depending on the context or the word it's part of.

Later some ideograms started to be used purely for their phonetic, ignoring the semantics, to better match Japanese grammar. With time these ideograms were simplified and they became two different syllabaries: hiragana [2] and katakana [3]. These are not ideograms, but letters that represent a full syllable. Hiragana is used for grammar particles, to spell out kanji and for some words. Katakana is used for borrowed foreign words, or sometimes as a sort of "italics", to emphasize words.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_influence_on_japanese_...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana#Table_of_hiragana
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana#Table_of_katakana
I lived 2 years in Singapore as an exchange student.

The economic success of Singapore is a relatively new phenomenon, and it was largely a doing of Lee jr., not Lee sr.

LKY was not well versed in matters of economics, and industry, and his forceful early industrialisation pushes failed miserably. For the bigger half of its history, Singapore was not that successful economically.

The money came to Singapore when it liberalised financially, and became a tax heaven.

LKY severely lacked vision, and ambition, and was very content with Sing remaining a "Lee family villa." What has really brought the change was LKY's extremely timid kid, who conceded much of authority to technocrats.
How can longevity mean increased fertility?

Women biology cannot support birthing a child very well passed ~35. At 40yo heaving a child for a women becomes very hard.

So what good is increased longevity if biology prevents women from having more children at a later age.
I found funny that the physicists’ model failed because people don’t behave according to their model.
Maybe try PM role? You have been working for long, you might have an idea how things work in shop.

Here, the most of cognitive load of will be talking to people, thinking how to design product and getting work done.

Okay, this might seem a lot at the moment but this is something to think in your position.
I never thought about doing that - thanks for the tip.
I have a white one, and even though option-clicking was a pain, I sort of missed it when I moved to the new Bluetooth Apple Mouse.

The design and aesthetics were just _so_ good, like a sugar drop.