skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Possibly. We did not base the design (or name) of Durable Objects on any other product we were aware of (except arguably Sandstorm.io, which was my startup before joining Cloudflare). I haven't looked closely at Azure Durable Functions.

We actually did call this product "Actors" internally for a long time, but we found that people who had done previous Actor Model work (e.g. in Erlang) ended up more confused than enlightened by this name, so we ditched it.
Wow. We somehow failed to notice that horses don't fit in foxholes, but we did eventually get rid of ours when we noticed they weren't really cut out for NBC suits.

(Youtube is failing miserably for Parade Song of the Camp Animals. Kipling actually had tunes in mind for them, something none of the interpreters in my bubble seem to have noticed.

For instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av2-A-igOJk

By the brand on my shoulder, the finest of tunes
Is played by the Lancers, Hussars, and Dragoons,
And it's sweeter than "Stables" or "Water" to me--
The Cavalry Canter of "Bonnie Dundee"!

Then feed us and break us and handle and groom,
And give us good riders and plenty of room,
And launch us in column of squadron and see
The way of the war-horse to "Bonnie Dundee"! )
Really nice looking app and I've been looking to move to something else. Will give it a try :-)
Right that's the theory and you can read about it in his various books.

So instead of paying $260k per year for 10 engineers (2.6M), they might pay 451k for 3 "10x" engineers (1.3M). Costs are 50% lower overall, and if the engineers are even 2x more productive than the average you "break even".

Smaller staff means you need fewer managers.

I'm not saying this is actually how it works in real life (can a developer really be 10x more productive? who know). This is just their operating theory.

Source: https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Netflix,Google,Facebook,Micr...
How one feels about a truth generally has little weight on the validity of a truth.

Tha's not always the case, notably in systems in which beliefs themselves form a feedback. In which case the salience is less that beliefs would invalidate the prediction as overly long, but rather that unbelief at population levels would instead extend the timespan and push back the endgame through a failure to take effective hygenic and preventive measures.

IFR neglects long-term adverse effects, also notable.
They write about some of the interesting engineering work on various blogs.

https://netflixtechblog.com/
It looks like Trump has paid millions in taxes at some times but also has more than $1 billion in losses that have offset almost all of his taxes for decades. My takeaway is that he has been able to rake in huge amounts of money (like $200 million+ from the Apprentice) but he then pours it into businesses that appear to lose money on paper. He lives his life on the back on these businesses so his lifestyle is almost 100% deductible. He's found away to keep spending an extra 20% to 30% by avoiding income tax. However, he's also spending like a drunken sailor and currently has more than $400 million in loans due in just a few years with personal guarantees.
Well, I think if the app get popular enough, eventually someone will do it. I just hope that whoever do it is kind enough to give me a credit (and the link to buy) in the install message or something.
This is just not an accurate assessment of the admissions process.

> Neither is being non-white likely to help you much

Oh please. I actually think this is a good thing, but you're kidding yourself if you think being a non-Asian minority isn't an absolutely massive boost, even in professional school (and note: law school isn't grad school).

Similarly, the parents of influential and well-connected children will get a second look, plus as others have mentioned - many of the tasks you are listing are limited to the wealthy.

It definitely takes merit to get into Yale law - but even with merit it is a crapshoot. Being rich, well-connected, or the benefit of affirmative action policies gives you a step up there. This is also true for HMS.
$3,200
Telemark skiing is still a different thing.
i think you'll find that the work and value being created is required to support the high salaries. Imagine a super-market checkout person or a waiter - i'm sure they talk about their wages too. Why don't they get higher wages just by talking and negotiating?
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But the problems were very much foreseen!

The chief architect of the Fukushima plant tried hard to convince his bosses that the wall which protects the plant is not tall enough to protect against rare but possible huge tsunami waves, but hasn't been heard. He turned out to be right.

The plant also had emergency cooling pumps, but the pumps were connected incorrectly. This was unforeseen, I can give you that.

In any case, the Fukushima disaster caused one direct human death, or something like that.

In general, modern nuclear stations are no less reliable than fossil fuel plants, and only freak accidents, like a major earthquake and a tsunami, or personnel knowingly switching off all safety systems (the Chernobyl case) lead to catastrophic failures. This still can and should be improved upon, by using reactors with inherently self-contained designs, lack of high-pressure components within the reactor, etc.
I haven't worked at Netflix, but I believe there are a lot of problems around video encoding and infrastructure which are quite tricky to solve. Netflix uses something like 15% of the world's internet bandwith, and the infrastructure/delivery challenges are probably enormous.
> 355/113

Just memorize those six digits to get you four digits beyond the three that everybody knows.
Hex Fiend, if you don't have it already: http://ridiculousfish.com/hexfiend/

There's also the old HexEdit, but I'm not sure that it works anymore. http://hexedit.sf.net
This is awesome! I will be using.
In the same vein, even I get confused what to call myself when talking to other people.

There's like 5 or 6 different ways to identify my position: programmer, coder, developer, engineer, hacker..."technologist" isn't that big of a reach from them I guess.
So, I'm not arguing "USA #1". Never would, and to be honest, I haven't been to every country to compare. But their reasoning for ranking it low is 'Trump cracking down' blah blah. Go to CNN's website right now, their top headline is literally calling him a sham. The press here is free to do this, naturally, despite alarmist theories.

Some of the countries ranked higher(in rank = lower number) are not even so safe to be in. How can you consider liberty among a place people can't even freely go where they want to report?
It doesn't make any sense since most countries aren't testing = underreporting
Yes, that's at the bottom of the article:

> YC has a "standard deal" where they take a 7% stake in your company. YC also gets pro-rata rights in future funding rounds.
I'd love to see a shipping keyboard with a proper-size trackball in the thumb-wing.

I had half-baked plans to integrate the trackpad from a Steam controller into a custom build, but I got lost in the planning stages a while back.
Nim and D have a similar feature, but Zig's radical design is not in including this feature but in not including others it can replace (generics and macros). Both D and Nim have generics as a separate features, and Nim has macros and D has conditional compilation as a separate features. Zig is not special in having comptime; it's special in having only comptime as the single partial-evaluation mechanism.
Go to eBay and find a suitable NoS symmetrical mouse. I have a late model IBM scrollpoint in the left hand right now.
Thanks for the tip, I actually could always understand the variable names although they are not "original" ;-)
If I'm understanding the article correctly, the New York Times isn't counting the millions it found that Trump paid in alternative minimum tax over the years when making all its big, attention-grabbing viral claims about how little income tax he paid because technically alternative minimum tax is a different, seperate thing from income tax.
another +1 for the kinesis gaming keyboard [1]. I use it without the hand rests that are too bulky for my taste.

One thing I noticed with split keyboards which is kinda funny... sometimes I suddenly start typing gibberish and the reason is, I seem to naturally get used to a certain distance between the split parts, but If I move one of the splits for some reason then one of the keyboard splits appear shifted. It seems for me I used the left split as reference, and so I need to adjust the right split from time to time. In theory I should use "F" and "J" for reference.. I guess I never learned to do that.

Edit: I do use a sticker over my caps lock on the left split [2] to make it easier to find it without looking. I wonder if that's the reason the left hand is always more "calibrated" than the right one? :-)

1: https://gaming.kinesis-ergo.com/edge/

2: https://www.amazon.com/Loc-Dots-Keyboard-Location-Dots-Clear...
Rust will be safer.

Reasoning is pretty simple: a dynamic approach (Zig) will only catch the memory errors for the tested code paths. This is probably only marginally better than running your C++ code's test suite with address sanitizer.

Rust's static approach provides memory safety for all code paths.
> q.Update(document.ref, { data: { hits: document.data.hits + 1, ...

Does FaunaDB have an "atomic increment" a la Firestore? Knowing nothing about FaunaDB, I suspect this code in the blog post has the potential to "lose" hits that come in at roughly the same time...
Try this link:
https://outline.com/AFBUbY
Why did nobody tell us the future would be this stupid
> I don't think this is a widely held view,

Outside journalism, possibly. Inside journalism, opinion columns are definitely not journalism. Which is why they are clearly marked "opinion".

They're held to different standards, basically because it's clearly labelled as "just someone's opinion" - there's no need to fact-check, provide balance, or even quote sources.
I think there are so few tech companies that are entirely bootstrapped and profitable that you could probably take the time to specially consider one if they made an offer.
Netflix is famous for paying absolute top-tier engineering salaries. Amazon is pretty middle-of-the-pack, or possibly slightly lower (hard to separate from the COL of being mostly Seattle-based).
The Army has had more horses than tanks for a while:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-229...
Let’s use another analogy here: YC makes F1 race cars, some of the best in the world. Proven time and time again to be fast. You, the driver, need to be able to handle it in order to achieve optimal results. Accelerator X makes race cars too, but a different class - possibly even a different style all together. Again, as the driver, you need to be able to handle it for optimal results. Question is, what, as a driver, is your motivation? Is it to go as fast as you can? Or is it the thrill of the race? Or do you really just want a kit car you can work on yourself?

This is one of many analogies I use to describe Accelerators/Incubators/Startup Camps. YC is no different. What they have though is a long history of building successful (and not so successful) companies. You can do it elsewhere. You can go through a program locally or something and you may end up just fine. Business, like all things, is a risk. Your first test as a leader is mitigating the risk of “How do I start?” which is a big one.

I’ve tried a few times to start. Still looking for my pit chief.
Part time executive assistant even if you’re not an executive.

Do you have reverse ADHD? I don’t know what the name for it is. Some people get deeply focused on a small group of things, and are less productive when they have to do mundane or administrative things.

It’s not about being lazy or spoiled, somehow defocusing hurts the momentum or intensity of higher priority things.

It might not be as expensive as you think. I was surprised to find how many smart, organized, reliable people there are interested in part-time work they can do 80-90%+ remotely for reasonable pay.

I don’t mention pay first. I ask what they would feel good about, then decide if it’s worth it to me. The reasoning is if someone takes an offer but secretly thinks it’s unfair it has less chance of working out well over time.

Last person said $15/hr. I made a counter offer of $20 because after the interview it still felt like a deal.

The amount of hours per week can just depend on what you need, and their schedule. They might have other part time work. 10 to 20 hours a week can be filled pretty easily with random things that grant you a lot of freedom.

I think the benefit partially depends on how you like to work and prioritize your time. But for some people, as in my case it’s worth every penny.
Twitter plans to bring prompts to ‘read before you retweet’ to all users
Perhaps, but Walmart (and many other retailers) do not pre-buy all the products that they sell.
Yep, I read it wrong. sorry

https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/26/yc-to-cut-the-size-of-its-...
2.8 million Americans die every year, so other risks, that are causing the rest of the deaths, have to be weighed as well.

Far more than 200,000 people can die in one year if we set up an apparatus of censorship, as these tools could always be commandeered by corrupt individuals and used to horrific effect.

Look at autocratic societies around the world, and see what giving any group, no matter how seemingly altruistic and enlightened, the power to censor, can lead to.

Once the social taboo against violating the right to free speech is broken, dystopia becomes a possibility, as it becomes possible for voices to be silenced and concentrations of power to magnify their control through constricting the flow of critical information.
> who's putting effort into the far less-sexy defensive capability?

In this case, exactly the same people. The UK's defensive capability is public knowledge - here's the website of the public facing part:

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/

This article is news because its one of the few times they have spoken about the offensive side.
The article seems a bit backward to me. The reason they use 3.141..793 is because that's the value of pi in double precision floating point. And that was set by the Intel 8087 coprocessor. So to me, the real answer is that Intel (and Kahan) decided on the number of decimals in 1980, and NASA uses that because it's the standard.

On the other hand, in the 1960s NASA figured out exactly how many bits of precision they needed to get to the Moon and came up with the 15-bit Apollo Guidance Computer; 14 bits wasn't enough and 16 bits was more than they needed. (The computer supports double precision and triple precision for tasks that needed more.)

The point is that in the 1960s, aerospace systems would carefully consider exactly how many bits they needed and build systems with bizarre numbers of bits like 15 or 27. Now, they use standard systems, which generally have way more accuracy than needed.
One reason for that is way more variability in developer compensation. A company hiring a senior SWE in SF might be paying 130k or 400k. But until recently there wasn’t much transparency.

My buddy is a nurse in Bay Area with a CRNA, it’s pretty much understood you make 225k plus any overtime so there’s not much more to discuss.
Looks unsafe if there is a fire and the power goes out.
comptime combined with introspection gives you something similar to generics and typeclasses.
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You're absolutely right with your impression of GPT/these models - they will generally generate plausible text.

And it is also worth noting (as you've sort of mentioned) that appearance of fluency can bias translators who are instructed to just evaluate accuracy, or to evaluate accuracy and fluency separately. There is ongoing research into that problem.
YC is remote for the time being. Not sure in the future. https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-w21-remote-batch/
I also wonder why there's so few experimental keyboards with any kind of built-in mouse. Realistically you need one and I feel like switching one hand between the keyboard and mouse should be optimized as well. At the moment I'm using a 65% keyboard and a Logitech track ball next to it. I'm mostly happy, but I also feel it could be improved. The ThinkPad TrackPoint keyboard is probably the best solution I've found so far. In prehistoric times I've tried the TouchStream but that just didn't click for me.
3.1415927, which I memorized in 10th grade (just a hair more accurate than 335/113) has always been more than adequate for every engineering task I've ever had to engage in - including those in the aerospace industry (both rockets and planes/jet engines), and the oilfield industry (all kinds of stuff, including precision sensors).
My inclination is that for most 1st Time founders, the 7% in dilution you give up is immediately gained back with a better valuation in the subsequent round. There are also other benefits to the Halo - recruiting, credibility with customers, peer network, etc. And.... You may learn something.
> it’s insane how quickly everyone has sold themselves out

I’m old enough to remember the culture of ‘90s internet. It was already clear that the original “anarchic” tendencies were on their way out, and mobile/IoT has been the nail in the coffin.
It's not a contradiction to state something is not a problem most of the time. (Though the next point, calculating checksums prior to build, is much more significant.)

Related example: on a cloud instance with SSD drive, I have scripts that generate a ~10GiB file, then immediately after (while it might still be in cache), calculating an md5sum still takes tens of seconds (maybe it wasn't in cache? I've not investigated deeply). It's just an example of a case that falls outside of that "Mostly" category.
Yeah, in that case it makes sense, but if your wife worked for a different company, what's stopping you from claiming to be the primary caregiver even if your wife does the majority of the child care work? Or vice versa? This policy seems unenforceable in this circumstance which is surely more common than both spouses working for the same company.
If Rick was found to act as to refuse to work with others or being a ego centric ass, he shouldn’t be called a “10x” anymore.
Is this not a repost? I seem to distinctly remember reading this, and I'm fairly sure it was here on HN.. But it's a good read nevertheless :)
> I built something similar - A set of scripts that generate SQL statements from typescript types to wrap a PostgresSql db.

If you think these are similar I don't think you understand what this is / what it's actually doing.
The issue isn't whether TikTok is currently doing it or no, its whether this is a national security risk in the future, which is absolutely is. I think he's an idiot and he's using the issue to distract from Russian interference, but its a concern that if you only wait to address this _after_ its already a problem, it will already be unaddressable for the reasons enumerated in my comment.
> I don't publish for the occasional visitor.

I think that's a perfectly fine approach, and I understand it.

Now, could we please have filters in HN that would allow me to hide all the submissions that link to articles that are not published for the occasional visitor?

I am very serious — I am in a similar situation to Tim Bray, where I subscribe to a number of publications and have no intention of subscribing to anything else. The links pointing to paywalled articles have zero value for me. I understand they have value for subscribers of these publications, but HN is wider in scope.
YC is a fantastic shortcut to the Bay Area market. They protect you from abusive investors, attract talent and entice new customers. Farther you are from the Bay Area, less helpful they are though.

Even in the Bay you can do it all by yourself, but it's much more complicated route filled with negative experiences. At least that's my experience. The way we were treated by highly celebrated investors was hard to swallow. Anytime I spoke to a YC alumni friend they have striking, opposite experience.

With companies mostly operating remotely, I think the value is now dropping, but is far from non-existent, especially for new founders. It's like a university degree. You can have equal or larger knowledge if you put the work into it.
Like the article mentions, private sector credit systems have the same or similar result in dictating outcomes, but as long as its not from the state, nobody in the west will care about it. Which is very weird because it is exactly how people end up living in worse neighborhoods even if they have enough money to pay rent elsewhere, leading to worse and worse outcomes and no way to change that.

A state sanctioned one having more immediate effects and denial of service just is too convenient for us to express our opinion about. But as the article itself and commenters mention, credit bureaus in a variety of countries have the same effect.

We should use China's system to galvanize support in addressing our own private sector systems at home.
A hackney cab already is a commodity, just a more expensive one.
I don't take it as an insult. But I'm perfectly sane. Its interesting that you attempt to smear me though rather than engaging meaningfully with me - but I understand and would have done the same in the past.

If I provide you some evidence, will you take a look and let me know what you think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QqxLalvh-4
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gVSD2EphQY

Cheers.
As a founder, self funding makes a lot of sense,
as you avoid dilution and aren’t beholden to a group of people expecting 10x growth every year.

But as a candidate I’d be cautious about taking a job at a self funded startup. They’re probably cash constrained so the base salary might not be as much. And if there is equity, I would want management beholden to people expecting 10x growth.
Dynamic linking provides some benefits: You save disk space and some memory, especially for things that are used by most of the system like libc. You gain the ability to fix some problems in libraries without updating every app that uses the library.

Dynamic linking as implemented by most UNIX-Like OSes has a huge drawback: you only have one system copy of any given library, so all your applications are stuck using the same copy. There's no easy way to have multiple versions (say, with different features) of the same library without giving them different names. This isn't really a failing of dynamic linking, it's a failing of the OS library management model.

Dynamic linking in general has some other drawbacks: you lose Link-Time Optimization, there's more overhead at load time (and on the first call with lazy linking), and a few other performance-related issues can crop up on occasion.

There's also the issue that replacing a dynamically linked library is a lot easier than replacing a statically linked one for an attacker, so dynamic libraries can allow for vulnerabilities to be introduced (though this also is an OS issue, and there are often good mitigations for it).
> I would be far more reassured if it was working hard to defend critical civilian infrastructure

NCSC has an 'exercise in a box' [0] that you can use for precisely this purpose.

[0] https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/information/exercise-in-a-box
I'm talking the collapse of infinitesmals as a basis for Calculus, the development of a more rigorous foundation, the rise of axiomatization, debates around the validity of pure existence proofs, the failure of naive set theory, and so on.

On pure existence proofs, mathematicians have generally agreed that something can be proven to exist by proof by contradiction on an infinite set. The result is that we say that it exists even though there is no way to find it, and no way to verify that you have found it if you are presented with it. Nothing in Kant's philosophy had anything useful to say about the debate about whether to accept this kind of proof.
What if you need to instrument these libraries?