skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
with all due respect to Aaron, I've had this link shown to me by developers not wanting to write a simple merge statement instead of some block of semantically weird shit full of lock hints enough times for it to be annoying. be careful, of course, but don't be superstitious - start with straight forward code and test.
> 1) Universal Healthcare, regardless of employment status

But this isn't a problem that Uber can fix. I too wold love to decouple healthcare from employment, and it doesn't have to be single payer: Something where people buy their own insurance from healthcare.gov would be fine for me. (Obviously employers would have to increase salary to account for the healthcare costs they are no longer paying.)

But right now we need to solve this within the constraints of what is available. Decoupling healthcare isn't something that's going to happen any time soon, although California could just go and do it, same as Massachusetts, they don't have to wait for the Federal government.
> VMS was definitely more elegant

Please, can you offer an example for this?
> I posit that much of what we herald as "innovation" is just what you'd naturally come up with if you work on the problem long and hard enough.

It was the invention of tri-state logic that made address multiplexing easy to do.

Yeah, with tri-state logic (high voltage, low-voltage, and high-impedance state), its easy to implement. But before the high-impedance state was formalized, its less obvious how you're supposed to hook up multiple chips onto a single address + data bus.

Someone had to invent "Chip Select", as well as how the transistors, voltages, and currents flow under such conditions. Its certainly easy to "reinvent" after you've been introduced to the concept, but it probably wasn't easy to think up first.
There was the "uno" proposal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parts-per_notation#Uno

I'm glad it never caught on.
I considered such an assignment operator for a little language I was developing, but there was an ambiguity between this:

a <- 25

and this:

a < -25

Since everything was an expression in the language, the latter would evaluate to a boolean. In the end I just went with "=" for assignment, and "==" for equality.
Shouldn't long term illness be covered by disability insurance then?

These are all insurance problems that eventually end up with the government being the most efficient end point, where the tax for them should collected for any kind of personal income, no matter if it is capital gains, W2 or independent contractor work.
True. My comment really doesn’t acknowledge that growing inequality is actually a problem. I guess there’s one aspect I see that I’m roasting a bit.
I enjoyed your anecdote, as someone who has never played Monkey Island.

Just FYI, the word you're looking for is "elicit", not "illicit".
A History of YouTube’s Closed Captions Part II: Bringing It All Together
I’m of the opinion they definitely misled everyone to get users. Hey look at this! It’s FREE! Gmail, maps, youtube, all free! Not once did anyone ever say free except you must surrender all of your inner secrets first
So, 50MB installer. How much RAM does it require? Can it actually play MP3's in real time on my Pentium 60? ;)
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As I mentioned in another comment, I'm apparently the person who said this, but I think the tone of the article strips the talk of all of its context. The talk was largely meant to be salty and humorous, not critical security advice.

Talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu4zzfbvO_w
There's a big difference between two people and one person holding all power.
Ever wanted to own an NBA highlight? Now you can
> thinly veiled nepotism and cronyism

Exactly my experience as well, but it's often not even thinly veiled.

These processes should not even be referred to as "performance" reviews since they often have little or nothing to do with performance. It's loaded and deceptive language.
Defense Dept. orders Stars and Stripes newspaper to shut down
That is a disadvantage.

> First, silicon-gate transistors were smaller, faster, and more reliable.

> Second, silicon-gate chips had a layer of polysilicon wiring in addition to the metal wiring; this made chip layouts about twice as dense.8

> Third, metal-gate circuitry required an additional +12 V power supply.

This implies silicon-gate chips DO NOT require the additional power supply.
a broken clock is always right twice a day
It makes me weep when interviewing and I ask developers about fundamental stuff such as "what is ACID?"[0]

None of this stuff is hard to learn, and I'm not exactly Mr Ace Developer. But time and again I've been asked to debug/fix data inconsistencies that were caused simply because the developer didn't know what a transaction was, whilst running multiple inserts and updates, and one of them failed along the way.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID
A flawed poll is not necessarily better or worse than an anecdote. I believe the poll is polluted by the FUD Uber/Lyft have been propagating (including most recently threatening to shut down with little notice if they didn't get their way in court). Of course someone who wants to work will say they prefer the option that seems more safe/stable, and that's being an IC right now.
We used Google Sheets. Honestly, it appeared that culture was more important than tooling here.
> basically been free money for the last several months

Can you please not say stuff like that?

You're only calling it "free money" with the benefit of hindsight. And even then, it's still not "free", since you got a big 5% drop in one day.
Subclass polymorphism in typical OO languages (Java, C++, Python) is nothing like type class polymorphism. Class inheritance is nothing like type class sub/superclassing.

It's quite possible for one to be good and the other to be bad (and I would claim that is indeed the case).
It's trivial to defeat with a faraday cage.
They had over a year to comply since the law was enacted. And even more since Dynamax was ruled on.
PDF literally says no, probably not
> Sure we have access to more knowledge than ever - but have we seen the effects of such?

yeah this the disruption I mentioned. Our society is going to change because mass communication. Not all of that change is going to be good. All of that change is going to be resisted. The same was true for all changes in society, from feudalism to parliamentarianism to democracy, including electricity and steam power.

> Technologists face the same biases as anyone else.

I get that. But technologists tend to get clued-up about everything else before airing their opinions. For some reason, Art Critics especially, intellectuals seem to think it's OK for them to know everything about 19th century impressionism and nothing about Internet Protocol and still have a valid opinion about 21st century Art.
A few years back, a designer waded into the middle of the echochamber on some HN thread about inculcating people from other disciplines. They wrote that "as a designer" they did not consider Git (GitHub?) to be thoughtfully put together or well-suited for the kind of work they do or something like that. It was a short comment, about as long as that, and there was no flaw or faux pas or even anything incendiary about it. HN wasn't having it, though, and downvoted it mercilessly. (There were no responses to say why it had been downvoted; the subthread dead-ended there.) It's things like this that remind me of the now-infamous comment in the Dropbox thread.

I didn't think at the time to bookmark it with my "hn sucks" tag, and over the past year or two, I've tried several times to find it again, for reasons similar to[1], but I've been unable to.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22991033
We had a constrained resource, we did not have a way to protect that constrained resource, so we replaced it with a better resource.

Which is fine, and I can't argue it's the wrong call. Except I wish they had talked a bit about how they implemented a back pressure system for Rabbit. They didn't seem to mention anything about other systems honoring the back pressure in any concrete fashion. Which is not so much a criticism as a problem I am trying to answer for myself and I found no comfort here.

Their final architecture bears quite a resemblance to a poorly specified, bug ridden implementation of half of Erlang.
He's still relatively young, and likely realises the near absolute power he holds over one of the largest companies in the world is not something he can get back once he gives it up. Also Gates, to put it in very uncharitable terms, has shown that it doesn't matter if you're seen as a hated, greedy CEO as long as you do enough philanthropy later in life.
All billionaires are right-wing. They uphold and embody social inequality. Whether they endorse rigid social divisions along cultural lines is just extra gravy.
I'm doing home-office since 2013 and I'm doing fine. Have my surf and social life in my routine. Work focused, produce more and spend less time trying to get stuff done. Cook daily is hard but sometimes a joy and a must if you want to leave healthy. I would never come back to a 5 days in the office routine. Never.
IMO (and heavily-- just my opinion) it's incredibly repetitive stuff that's often making fun of its audience.

I love Alex Grey's art and I liked the music when was in high school, but I get why folks who are into stuff like hard bop or Chopin think that it's not super refined.
A genuine belief in what you are doing—and then effectively pursuing that over opposition—is going to depend on having and using power. It's not pure "thirst for power" in the sense that power isn't the ultimate motivation, but it's almost indistinguishable operationally. (And, historically, it seems hard to tell when one becomes the other or vice-versa...)
They're expensive because supply is explicitly limited by a license limit and the taxi license holders extract monopoly rents. On top of that they are often in cahoots with local politicians and form a symbolic relationships where politicians limit their competition in exchange for political support, with organized crime connections that are too petty for most federal investigators to take notice.

Actual taxi drivers are paid shit too. Often have to pay something like $3000/month to rent the license & car from the actual license owner as independent contractors, at the end of the month you end up with Uber-esque pay anyway.

Talk to a taxi driver and ask them how it actually works, it might surprise you.
The OKR's can be ignored as long as there is "progress", but progress measurement is still very subjective and statistics can be deceptive, so the process often just ends up being the usual game of nepotism. Not hitting OKR's can also allow managers to request more headcount, meaning they are incentivized to make excuses instead of delivering value.
True. My apologies. My only excuse is that I'm passionate about this.
'I’m pulling all of my money out of public equities for the next few years (except my tax advantaged accounts).'

To avoid paying taxes on realized capital gains, you should be selling stocks in your tax-advantaged accounts, not your taxable ones.
Dear friends, there is a tale
Constrained solution space.
How are these issues any less for NoSQL databases? They don't have non-obvious idiosyncracies? You don't need to understand their concurrency models?
I have a similar issue on one of my laptops. Windows Update always fails to install those big updates. I think it's because it reboots into some sort of safe mode where power management isn't active, so the laptop quickly overheats and shuts down. My work around is to set the connection to metered so it doesn't automatically download those big updates. It's been working so far.
These days a lot of games is more sedate albeit not that much better compensated and not always amazingly well run. Lots more cross-over with regular tech as games aim for a longer tail of sales as well. Personally though I’d make them for fun if you want another hobby.

I am however eternally jealous of getting a flight in a small jet.
I recall hearing github is planning on Sha-256 some time
Squeezing is what happens to short sellers who are wrong. I suppose "when they get squeezed" would have been more accurate, but I was failing to put that into words.
Sent you an email :D
when I need to do some kind of upsert on SQL server, I tend to refer to this post: https://michaeljswart.com/2017/07/sql-server-upsert-patterns...
https://archive.is/jnChJ
I don't know if it's worth a damn, but I have no idea what the acronym stands for. I'm sure I knew it at some point and I know it's a database compliance standard kinda thing.

But I use the shit out of transactions. I rather have contention issues than non-atomic operations done to corrupt our data. When I get to Facebook scale I'll let you know what I think about eventually-consistent and NoSQL, etc. ;)
This technology will make a big dent in blithering as an industry. Too much of journalism, and far too much of the web, consists of taking in press releases and speeches and rewriting them. That now looks automatable.

I wonder if GPT-4 will be able to take over the romance novel industry.
> And that's aside from the point that, when everyone is remote, you're also competing with the world who is also remote.

Yup... once everyone is remote anyway, won't take too long for some manager to decide to offshore work to cheaper countries. Even if that doesn't happen to you, if it happens to enough people elsewhere it'll bring salaries down for everyone.
Good post, but I'm inclined to take all the stated numbers with a grain of salt. Not because he is lying, but because so many drivers have so many different experiences. Some are paying off their car, some aren't. Some of their cars get 15 MPG, some 35. Some drive in rush-hour traffic, others on airport or suburban trips. Some drive a few hours a week during surge pricing and if they get lucky can make more than what they do in their day jobs. Even the standard IRS vehicle deprecation rate is wildly inaccurate in most cases.

To me that highlights a more important problem - Uber/Lyft are enjoying the benefits of a massive data asymmetry. Neither customers nor drivers can make the right economic decision because we have a very, very tiny slice of the whole picture.

Maybe one quick way to start solving the rideshare problem is force them to publish this data publicly?
Right. Facebook, a young and suddenly influential company is a very different thing then the very large privately held companies. Those are usually very old, owned by multiple family interests, or associated with a government.
I use pianobar, driven by key bindings in my window manager. It's conceptually something I easily could have had 20 years ago, but I didn't.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24375923.
Awesome, I apologise for judging your ignorance then.

I have studied Art. I have an "O"-level in Art History. I have been to famous museums, and looked at world-class paintings, sculptures, etc.

I mean, I've stood in front of the Night Watch in the Reiksmuseum, and it was great. I get that. I sketch (badly), and I appreciate the craftsmanship that went into that. It's a great piece of art, and it moved me.

But to say that that, awesome as it is, is more "Art" than any video game... is bollocks. It's just not true.
Because it overly primes everyone to come in with their kneejerk "DAE reddit suxxx?" reaction. If they have to click the link first and see the actual title, then only 10% of commenters will see that priming bit and the comments will be slightly better because of it.
"The slide of music toward mindless manufactured repetitive pop started in the 80s, but it was in the late 90s that it became really obvious. "

Just an opinion (and I am aware it's not a popular opinion), but the Beatles going on Ed Sullivan is what really screwed up our system... prior to that the contemporary popular music was jazz, and that was a moment when every boomer musician I know gave up accordion or clarinet or whatever and got into a shitty garage band.

Like, I think there are worthwhile developments even in the shittiest, most repetitive music. Lately I've been having a grand time making electornic music in a single groove box...

my main point is that there's no transcendent "goodness" to US pop music, as various generations each think the newer generations stuff sucks for one reason or another.

Personally, I love the stuff my teenager sends me, even if a lot of it heavily rips of Devo or the Talking Heads or the Dandy Warhols or whoever.
I assumed sap too. As a kid we had a load of sycamore trees - a close relative of the maple. My dad saw a documentary about tapping maple trees and he set out to tap the sycamore - it tasted vile.
Very insightful article. I wasn't aware of "Apps Hungarian", which indeed seems like a much better idea of the redundant "System Hungarian".
I think you misunderstand what he's calling bullshit.

He's not claiming they don't actually believe the reason they give. He's saying the reason is bullshit.
From Byzantium to imperial China, there have been classical civilizations with bureaucratic administrative states.
Because this can't possibly end badly - letting nuclear reactors be operated by a nuclear power cooperative whose founder created the company as part of a Ponzi scheme [1]. Idaho is a beautiful state with awesome people, but if I lived there right now I'd move. All it will take is a few cut corners on training or parts [2] to cause something similar to Three-Mile island.

In fairness there are currently 96 nuclear reactors operating in the U.S. The average age of these reactors is 38 years old. And there have only been 13 nuclear incidents during that time, that we know about, resulting in 7 dead total. That however is 7 dead directly. A number of people who got Cancer around Three Mile Island attribute it to the incident, so that death toll could be much higher, or it could be accurate - we don't have the means to verify it at this point.

However, this permit allows them to build 12 reactors, with no history of operating a reactor safely AFAIK. Also, these reactors are a new type, smaller and modular, which may mean they are less risk but also means they are more of an unknown.

In my opinion this is an insane risk.

[1] http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/59407581/nuscale-...

[2] https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and....
I thought decadence equated to a corrupt and inefficient ruling class, where decline is inevitable if power is handed over to whoever has the biggest bag of coin to offer or highest number of spears.
You cannot give something away without realizing it. Google's collection of shadow data on people is not "Given" to them. Most people don't know when and how they collect it. I didn't "Give" Google data any more than I gave data to the guy who drove by my car and collected the plate number when I went to the store a few weeks ago.
US judge says alleged Ghosn escape accomplices can be extradited
I hope that more and more lens implementations should catch on in languages with immutable data structures.

They really are the key to make immutable data structures as easy to update and work with as mutable data structures.
> Monarchs just need to pay armies, and the easiest way to do that was to keep them conquering new territory and paying them off with the spoils.

You "just" have to be one of the greatest military geniuses of all time. Easy.

Actually, this was an insurmountable problem even for Alexander the Great. His army simply got tired of marching all over the world, and demanded to go home.
Well, somebody seemed to have registered the larry.page domain name when I checked a few months ago. Given that .page is a Google TLD, I just figured...

Shame to be sitting on something like that and not doing anything with it.
How many hours of video are in such a course of yours?

Since I sell a subscription service, I've mostly studied others doing the same, but I've bought a few courses from very successful creators. Adam Wathan, for example, sells a 4 hour course for $150 a 22 hour course for $250. He's later said in interviews that he regretted making it such a giant course.

If I were to sell a one-off course, it would probably be at least somewhat grounded by those values since it's what the market has already set.
Doing GUIs with Rust is difficult. Gtk-rs lucked out because Gtk has introspection that maps out its C object API. Qt is not so good. Something simple like Win32? Not so good.

Maybe I want to write a game. Gfx-rs is deprecated. Its replacement? It’s in a half ready beta state, and most of its developers are now focusing on a compatibility wrapper for MacOS, so progress is stalled.

The ecosystem just isn’t there. System libraries have an interface that is extremely suited for C. Interfaces have to be uniquely adapted for rust or be marked completely unsafe. Dynamic linking is convoluted, so Rust encourages statically linking everything. It’s not easy, and the situation needs to improve or Rust will be relegated to just another text processing language. C library symbols need to be accessible as a first-class part of the language.
Gotta fuel these flaky startup investments somehow! I always wondered how this company was still alive despite terrible investment track record. I guess they are at least good at financial engineering and market manipulations...
Rome conquered most of its territory when it was a semi-democratic republic. The Roman republican government was more popularly legitimate than many of its contemporaries. Even the early Roman emperors were quite weak within Roman society. It was not a dictatorship, although it became moreso over time.

The Roman tax system used delegation, where tax collectors were given a territory and a target, and any revenue over the target could be kept by the official.

And as motohagiography points out, the military as a bare-bones state can be sustained with continuous conquest where the potential spoils of conquest are used to gain military allegiance.

It's not a coincidence that the Roman Empire entered a period of crisis, that proved terminal, after it stopped expanding.
It should be considered illegal product bundling for Oculus to require a Facebook account. Facebook has an extreme monopoly on social media and should be shattered into a dozen companies.
The Postgres team decided against implementing MERGE when they designed the ON CONFLICT feature (it actually started as a MERGE).

It's been a while, but as far as I remember, the main reason was that the behaviour of MERGE mandated by the SQL standard, wasn't clear enough and doesn't deal with race conditions when multiple transactions try the same insert (or update) (not so much the syntax itself).
Q: Which is heavier, a toaster or a pencil?
A: A pencil is heavier than a toaster.

Seems legit: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/102759-la...
Nowadays when reading articles I usually have a "did a bot write this" meter running in my head. When the author has no point and is just spewing related words that form sentences I usually click away.

I wonder at what point it'll switch to "did a human write this" and I will click away when I realize it's inefficient monkey words.
This may be true, but a lot of the early 60's music was very much collaborative. I think it's more about a risk-taking culture. Universities are not risk-taking cultures.
I like the theory that Satoshi was Paul Le Roux: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux#Satoshi_Nakamoto_...
Results of Russia's Covid-19 vaccine produced antibody response: The Lancet
I just read it. It sounds like the proposition is treating the drivers as employees via a big compromise, where the companies cover people falling through the cracks. Do companies typically offer contractors such protections? It sounds like employment to me.