skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an old pg essay about what the dotcom got right.

I don't quite remember the details, but I remember that I did take away a "correct but early" interpretation of the whole thing. "First movers takes the whole pie" was taken too literally, eventually dominant online businesses did build unbreachable moats. E Commerce is eating retail. The dotcom was just 5-10 years ealy in its predictions.

Anyway... WFH and outsourcing did have a small boom and bust. On WFH, Marissa Meyer pulled the plug and the WFH reversed. "IT Outsourcing" was imminent circa 2000, but a lot of companies had to reverse out of this strategy.

It may be that these were right-but-early. WFH & outsourcing are now ready.

I also think they are hard to seperate. Once WFH becomes a norm, the labour market is internationalised by default. Not just tech jobs. If you can work from Montana, you can work from Sophia.
Here's a neat use of OBS by Scott Hanselman for PowerPoint presentations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciNcxi2bPwM
I joined a company with a very old codebase this year (code started in the 80s).

It looks to me that adherence to very strict standards made the code very maintainable today. The standards are precisely defined by a multi-team committee. This is combined with just enough careful evolution of the codebase over the years to use more current tools and libraries.
UnRaid (syslinux under the hood IIRC) and I'm running Plex in Docker. I've seen guides on doing a GPU passthrough to the docker container so I know it's possible to do. That might be my next build, a AMD CPU and a GPU for Plex, it will depend on where UnRaid AMD support is at the time (it has had issues in the past from what I've seen on the forums) but I really want my next build to use AMD.
Becerrillo was a Spanish conquistador attack dog
Terraform and AWS for serverless APIs and static sites
Because HashiCorp's @HashiConf is next week I decided to release a long-form post on how to use Terraform to setup massively scalable and (almost) free infrastructure on AWS. AMA
Too often "we'll have to clean this up later for a high-quality-long-term solution that's easier to maintain" is never cleaned up until the company fails and the entire system is thrown away/replaced. The lack of investment in improving vs adding can be discouraging.
I love the web 1.0 design. Gandhi might deploy nuclear weapons!
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For context, Tesla sold 140,000 cars last quarter.
The title should be amended to "free for non-commercial use."
Thats funny because that was the exact comment Matt Levine made in our email correspondence. I mentioned I'd be happy to include it if he got me a Bloomberg api subscription, but no luck!

My guess would be that expectations wouldn't help much. The analysts at banks that provide estimates are relatively conservative (don't want to stick out from the crowd too much). For instance, it's much better to be way off from actual as compared to other analyst estimates. Because you can always say everyone else believed the same thing as an excuse. If you're way off from others and you happen to be wrong, then thats more embarrassing.

The analysts also rely on internal estimates pretty heavily, and companies aren't dumb, so they usually downplay expectations. So much so that the majority of companies beat their own estimates (over 70% of the time). So I think these numbers are gamed and without being a sophisticated practitioner, they wouldn't help IMO

[0] https://insight.factset.com/record-performance-vs.-eps-estim...
> Tribal instincts reduce the ability to challenge bad ideas because no one wants to get kicked out of the tribe.

Spot on. In the work place, this is toxic. Especially if on top of this fear of being kicked out, you have a psychopathic boss.

What happens in this scenario? Bad decision after bad decision with workers even though they know it is wrong, won't challenge out of fear.

>So people either willingly nod along with bad ideas, or become blinded by tribal loyalty to how bad the ideas are to begin with.

Damn office sheep....
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Was quite hard in my experience. I only have 2 years of work experience so most jobs were out of reach as most are looking for senior devs.
Microsoft sides with Epic in its fight with Apple, promises a more open MS Store
I disagree that if a bank in _generic foreign country_ doesn’t work with _us agency_ we should start politically pressuring the _generic foreign country_.

Sure, while we do this we will start catching loop holing billionaires, but we will also begin effectively putting the IRS in a position where it knows (or can learn about) about literally every transaction in the entire global banking system. This seems like an undesirable outcome.
Is it possible he's correct?
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As it is for rockets, methane is the optimal fuel for aviation

https://energynews.us/2013/08/26/midwest/could-natural-gas-f...

small airports can get liquid methane the same way they get liquid hydrocarbons

https://www.onlocationinc.com/energy-policy-case-studies-liq...

large airports could have a big pipeline compressor and liquification station. At least liquid methane doesn't take weeks to get into thermodynamic equilibrium as does hydrogen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_isomers_of_hydrogen

Methane is a better synthesis target than liquid fuels from biological materials, coal, asteroid tar, etc. It would be sweet if you could get the carbon out of the atmosphere somehow.
Only after they've done their damage and likely reached critical mass to survive through this on other parts of the internet.
As the author of the blog post, would you be willing to change its title to "The Jim Roskind C and C++ Grammars"? The text makes it very clear that you know that C and C++ are separate languages, and that the archives actually contain separate grammar files for these separate languages. As they should.

From past experience I find "C/C++" a very grating term. Back when I was reading comp.lang.c, "C/C++" was used in questions by particular brands of people, who tried to compile C++ with a C compiler, or compile C with a C++ compiler, or use C++ features in what they thought was C, or in general were confused about the fact that there is no single language called "C/C++", but rather two separate, incompatible languages called "C" and "C++". Anyway, wouldn't it be good to not add to the (potential) confusion?
I've never encountered an issue, with Privacy Badger and uBlock.
Its 2020 not 2012. The small round trip calls on 4g are much more annoying than one call of a few a mb of data, in my opinion.
I thought something similar. Just to contextualize that number the LA Times only has 170 thousand digital subscribers.
The joy of using Mutt. Plain text and no flashy markup or images.
Especially strange because the concept of white as he uses it didn't exist in many of the times and places he's talking about.
France: Thousands of protesters wrongly punished under draconian laws
Sure, I misread your point. Such burgers do exist, and I thought you were talking about those.

For sure, efficiency is part of "working". I guess my baseline for "working" is a far lower level of efficiency than yours.

Yours is certainly contextually-relevant to our society (ie., we should always hope for better efficiency). But I think when taking a step back to answer the binary question "does government work?" our baseline has to be against governments which dont (rather than some minor local inefficiency).

Governments which don't work produce civil wars, mafias, mob patronage structures, impoverished citizens, etc.

It is those governments we shouldn't trust, rather than a somewhat incompetent western bureaucracy which should mostly get the benefit of the doubt towards "working".
Leading up to "Columbus Day" / "Indigenous Peoples Day", I've been listening to lectures on the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. There was a lot of brutality, especially by Hernán Cortés. The war dogs are but a footnote.
A separation here is that these facilities are inherently unequal due to the existence of gendered signs declaring one restroom "Men" and the other "Women". In this existing framework, it doesn't make as much sense to go to the expense of stocking an item 99.99..% of users won't use.

Instead, the signs could be changed to simply state "Restroom". Sure, one might have urinals and the other a tampon dispenser, but anyone can use either and everyone could agree to be adults about it.
Except when they send you an html email with the plain text attachment saying only "your mail reader is incompatible" or whatever.
When I saw the issue (https://github.com/hyperium/hyper/issues/2265) for adding support for a C API to Hyper I was puzzled - couldn't you just use curl for that?

As a user of software, it makes me happy to know that folks are investing in making the nuts and bolts safer and more secure.
"It has always been that way." doesn't seem to be a helpful statement here.
Yes exactly, there was just too much social, economic and political volatility that far back to maintain a sustained pace of scientific development. Frankly the pace of advancement was very slow, so more value was placed on understanding and propagating existing knowledge rather than valuing the processes for developing and testing new methods.

It was really the switch over to valuing processes and methods, rather than facts and knowledge, that turbo-charged the rate of development.
To all those that are telling me how much verification is going on, I want to offer this very simple and basic question.

How was water proven to you to be made up of 2 gases?

Please don't refer me to youtube videos where a showman's pop is made, and we see some water droplets from the air condensate on the bottle. I want to see 2 gases being added together and making a liquid, that is water. We are apparently on a planet that is mainly water... surely this isn't too much to ask?

You might think this is basic, and it is. If you review this information, you will recognise just how little you actually know.
...rich people happen where there are bottlenecks in trade.

I was nodding all the way until "bottlenecks in"... and then the Expanse slang. Tsk tsk :)
Steel production can be done electrically, no need for hydrogen. Electrical metallurgy is very promising technology. Just replacing what we do now with hydrogen is about as difficult and will end up more expensive.

Check out Boston Metal.

> Finally, the higher energy density makes it suitable for larger vehicles like long range trucks. Electrification is preferablem but not everything can be electrified.

Trucks will be battery electric, its clearly more efficient for 99% of the routes.

> Also, if you have enough renewable generation capacity to reliably cover peak loads then there are also going to be times when you have massive overproduction.

Renewables will only cover peak loads with the help of massive amounts of batteries in the first place. No amount of solar power will create enough energy to cover the evening peak.

> Battery costs for the coming decades will be too high with to buffer multiple weeks of power use so it makes sense to have an "electricity sink" where you can dump any excess. Hydrogen production via electrolysis is an excellent option for that since it's very quick to scale up and down and the end product has many different uses.

Battery cost have been coming down fast and the trend is looking to continue.

I have huge question about the ideas of trying to store many weeks of energy production, the economics of that are very questionable. And hydrogen is just one of many technologies that can potentially 'solve' that if it even ever is solved. Hydrogen is far from clearly the best way to approach that problem.
The quality of that show is debatable. People liked the baby yoda a lot more than herzog. And herzog said he did it for the money to do his own thing.

Freeman did okay, but again the art overall is not that good. I do recommend listening to “Snitches & Rats (interlude)” for a taste of Morgan’s work though. [1]

I agree everything associated with magic leap looks bad but that happens with everything that falls on the wrong side of history.

And while magic leap’s contributions appear meager, we haven’t had enough time to contextualize them or see what departed talent does next.

NeXT could have ended up in a dustbin.

[1] https://music.apple.com/us/album/snitches-rats-interlude/153...
For something a bit closer to traditional compression while using NNs / "AI", there's wave.one
That's how your brain works as well.

Adding a secondary, uncontrolled layer of perception is definitely not the same thing, but in general, what you "see" is barely "real".
3500 accounts? single bot will make those in several weeks
Adam Grenier (Uber, Lambda School): How to Bend Reality on Product Teams
Apologies, the employee who attacked their coworker on Twitter is the one who was fired.
Interesting that you mentioned diapers. This is a quote from page 398 of the subcommittee report -

>The Subcommittee’s investigation identified several instances in which a dominant platform was pricing goods or services below-cost in order to drive out rivals and capture the market. For example, documents produced during the investigation revealed that Amazon had been willing to lose $200 million in a single quarter in order to pressure Diapers.com, a firm it had recognized as its most significant rival in the category. Amazon cut prices and introduced steep promotions, prompting a pricing war that eventually weakened Diapers.com. Amazon then purchased the company, eliminating its competitor and subsequently cutting back the discounts and promotions it had introduced.

I'm curious... After reading that, do you still feel the same way about Amazon?

Price might not mater to many on HN but to millions of people it does.
Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age had an element like that. It was even possible that the actors ("ractors") didn't necessarily know what they were acting in, just the general parameters and the next set of lines and actions necessary to continue the performance.
There was a time in history where certain areas of research and discussion were more or less forbidden. Scientists were sometimes killed for their findings that went against the prevailing narrative of the day
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Hm, this response essentially says "other languages have this problem too, so deal with it".

While thats true, it completely misses the point. The point is not that dependencies exist, or even that a package might have many dependencies.

The point is, Rust (and NPM) I have found many times dont care or even consider the impact of a large amount of dependencies, and often take no steps to mitigate or reduce that number.

As others said, some features could be split off into other crates. Maybe someone only needs HTTP, or maybe they need HTTPS but no Async. Or maybe they dont need logging. With Hyper and others you just have to build everything whether you want it or not.
Turns out it just wasn't performant enough for their applications, per this follow up post:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/technical-details-of-why-cloudfl...

ARM just needs to be a little bit more competitive on performance per watt and a few other metrics...I think when Apple inevitably either proves ARM can be a very powerful platform via their migration to complete ARM based computing, we'll see a lot more movement and investment here, I'd say ~5 years is a good timeframe to start seeing serious long term shifts to ARM. If Apple fails to do this within that time frame, I think that may push it out longer. They're already pushing the limits of ARM as a platform with their custom chipsets

I think nvidia's long term strategy is going to be built around this, among other things, otherwise I believe they overpaid for ARM holdings. They'll need to make sure they can expand the market for ARM CPUs to drive ever more GPU sales in the future. They haven't been as successful getting their embedded GPUs into the ARM market if I recall correctly
I used rc as my primary shell for many years. Day-to-day usage is pretty similar to sh honestly. It has an extremely "clean" syntax, and handles command arguments containing white space correctly - particularly useful for scripting. Always hoped it would see broader usage.
My thoughts exactly, it will take a dedicated organization less than a day to re-create 3500 accounts
I guess VMWare is aiming at server market. Here is the summary section of OP:

> Over the past several years, you've seen us demonstrate our virtualization technology on the Arm platform across several use cases, everything from running mission critical workloads on a windmill, to running on the SmartNIC, to running on AWS Graviton in the cloud.
There might be a far cheaper way of producing hydrogen by igniting oil fires underground;

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24649235
I use this feed with my reader: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...

It was working up until he went on his parental leave, I expect it to get updates when he is back.
He deserves the mark twain prize for his series on we work. I mean , that was art!!!!
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Talking about the complexity of modern software might be a tangent. However.

I think that if time and effort were limited by this fragmentation, we would find that we're able to do just fine with browsers that have fewer hours of effort put into them. The current range of second-tier browsers have a ton of strange and interesting ideas about them, but because the web standards they have to support are so complex they simply can't support much of the modern web. I imagine that those standards would be written much more conservatively if the writers knew that it would be impractical for anyone to implement them.

> Wishing that this herculean effort was forced to be duplicated 19 times over just so that you could have alternatives to choose feels kinda perverse.

There is absolutely no reason for you to get personal.
Surely it is possible, and costs nothing, to listen to another point of view. Surely testing what you know against a contrary opinion can only be a positive experience.

> > But, I see science as an individual's pursuit. I really mean it when I say that science is something one should verify personally.

> Sure. But you can't. You literally can't. And since you can't, it means, given this sentence, that you consider all science to be in the realm of belief. This is really sad.

Yes, but when you haven't verified, you can't say you know. You literally can't. You believe.
> When the CDC said repeatedly that masks would only make you catch the virus or that Americans shouldn't prepare or panic about the new virus...

Could you cite where and when the CDC said that?
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Great to see this using mjml [0] which I think is a great way to quickly create good looking and responsive emails. Many of the benefits mentioned are a direct of using mjml, I think ;-)

There is also a visual code plugin to preview mjml formatted emails plus they offer an api to convert mjml to html on the fly.

[0] https://mjml.io/
I hope Oracle gets hit extra hard in that case
Gross pay (not including employee benefits and before payroll tax deduction), split among a team of 5 people, unclear if they were working on this one project full time, and amortized over other months with less renumeration. It may not be better amortized pay than a regular software job.
Pools are interesting to think about.

Quick story. Once upon a time I was in a Contract-to-hire position where the contract house (CH) was paying my salary/etc until I was on-boarded.

However, this was a small shop, they had 3 people running the business and less than 2 dozen contractors under them at a time.

Between the Owner's Knee surgery, and some health issues I had had years prior, the CH's premiums were going to jump by 200$ (both on their end and the employee's). Thankfully they were able to find another insurance provider, but it was a pretty clear cut example of how sick people in the pool can sway costs by a large amount.

That's part of why a lot of US companies now will give you discounts for various wellness tasks. My BIL's company offered an insurance credit just for taking a smoking cessation course (not even STOPPING.)
I hadn't considered a NUC to run the plex server, right now I enjoy managing everything through UnRaid but I'm not opposed to another device that would manage plex alone. QuickSync is CRAZY good, I stumbled onto a post about it a month or so ago and thought "Ehh, I'm probably already using it, w/e" then saw I needed to run some commands and mount a device in my plex docker container to actually enable it and I was blown away by how little load there was on the CPU. I know there has been some grumbling about QS not producing the best output but that seems to be mainly related to the earlier iterations of it, I have not noticed any issues. It kills me how long I waited to try this, it literally took <10min to setup and has been a huge performance boost.

To everyone else: If you have an Intel CPU that supports QS and you are running Plex in a docker container then I HIGHLY recommend you look into enabling HW acceleration (both in plex settings and by mounting a device, /dev/dri, into your container). Here [0] are the directions I followed. Make sure you read the instructions, the first time I tried to follow this I misread the instructions and thought my CPU didn't support it or there was some other issue but it couldn't have been easier when I actually stopped and read instead of skimming.

[0] https://forums.unraid.net/topic/77943-guide-plex-hardware-ac...
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From a quick glance on the web page I cannot tell what JuliaPro now really is.

"Fastest on-ramp"? What is that?

What I would want to see in first 3 seconds is something like "JuiaPro is a subscription service giving you access to curated packages"... You know something "tangible"... Maybe it's just me being lazy...
I completely agree agree with you on the 4th, it has become persona non grata to both parties. Republicans and Democrats are beginning to see the Bill of Rights as more "suggestions" than the actual foundation of our system of laws. I don't even think they consider it a "living Constitution" anymore and just consider it fodder for election speeches. Do not blame only Republicans for this, the Dems own it as well. Obama kept up mass surveillance and the unPatriotic Act as well as did Bush. They're all complicit. Sure Dems have a better record on progressive social issues, and some Constitutional "features" but so do Republicans with gun rights and religious rights. However both are ignore fundamental aspects of it that don't fit their narrative.
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This is the point where old hands mention JANET. (-:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24005111
Travel to Europe is still eye opening experience. People not stressed out, quite happy and relaxed. It feels safe, something that's not possible to buy.

In west Ukraine a lot of people been there. I think that's what divided country. In no way I am going to support pro Russia policy once I've been to Europe.

Citizens visiting prosperous neighbor country is worst enemy of authoritarian regime.
First off, China censoring anything is a "dog bites man" story. It happens all the time. It's not news to anybody with half a clue about what's going on.

Second, what's your reasoning for why "liberal" outlets might be doing this? Who are they "protecting"? What are they protecting them from? Are they beholden (financially, or ideologically) to the CCP?
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