skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aye, I think (not that my opinion is worth a shit) y'all are using protobufs correctly assuming I'm grokking your use case correctly. I'm mostly focusing on discussions moving from JSON to protobufs... or essentially any problem space where serializing/de-serializing your data types isn't a ever going to be an issue (assuming one is not totally negligent).

Most of these articles focusing on protobufs as schema definitions are able to use gzipped JSON just fine. Their only reason to use protobufs is for schema definitions because they believe the "type system" will help them enforce constraints, validations, and or enable consistency across application boundaries.

The binary format, specification, and platform independence are completely irrelevant for these "schema" definition scenarios being brought up on HN constantly... and yet, they should be the things at the top of the list if you need protobufs and having a better more robust schema definition language should be damn near the bottom.

I think I just figured out a way to sum up my protobuf feelings (so, sorry for the late tldr):

Protobufs are a contract for serializing/deserializing data structures NOT enforcing validations/contraints of those data structures.

If you're using 'em as a serialization contract: fuck yeeeeeeaaaaah. If you're trying to use them to improve validations/constraints then: fuck naaaaaaah.
What's preventing you from picking one at random, then?
Organizations are not scalable by default, and counting on our managers alone to scale the company will only make the company more fragile. If you consider the ratio of managers to individual contributors, this post by Tom Bartel can help you shift some of the weight so everyone could assist. Make sure people get the appreciation (compensation and praise) they deserve for being a good coach or mentor to others, even more so if they're not a manager, as this is often overlooked.
You’re not wrong, I also think carefully about whether candidates show signs of being acutely deranged privacy freaks, sovereign citizens, gold bugs, and a bunch of other modern-day mental illnesses. Sad but that’s how it goes these days. Maybe I should just ask for their HN handles?
It sounds like people who invest the time to properly learn finance can make a pretty good living at it. If that’s you, I wish you the best of luck.

But I’m a retail investor, and will almost certainly remain one— Not only do I not have the training to come up with these strategies, I don’t have the knowledge to judge the veracity of anyone claiming to sell them to me either. I’m content with my suboptimal portfolio that I don’t have to think about more than once a year, and have more important things to spend my time on.
In effort to keep Covid case numbers low, Australia to deploy drones at beaches
https://archive.vn/L94Ug
I'd imagine fuel costs are a big part of the cost of running a ship. Wouldn't a 5% gain be something ship owners would jump at? I realize it would be lower once you account for the added cost of the system and you may not always get 5% but even a savings of 1-2% of a big number is still a big number.
It's obvious they're just lacking leadership at the top.

I think all the groups have just kept doing what they've always done which is to incrementally improve what they're good at.

so "I have these two codebases that are drastically different, let's combine them" - toolkit folks

and "I have all this hardware that's drastically different, let's optimize and make them the same" - hardware folks

and "I collect a little data, can I have a little more?" - marketing folks

and on and on until it's all mud.
New technology beams sound to your head others can’t hear
I'm 100% certain that a number of opportunities I've been offered have been because I proved a certain level of competence by maintaining my own email and domain; this certainty is largely due to the incidence of comments like the ones you note. It's definitely a way to stand out.
Seems like there's one shipping product.
https://theappliancesreviews.com/review-of-innovative-built-...
The vast majority of famous people also have a lot of haters
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25095110
Why? Great technical resumes make for better outcomes for professionals. We talk more about here: https://www.meetleet.com/#faq

Silly numbers: ok, if those numbers are silly, I agree, you shouldn't use them. What numbers are relevant to your professional success? How can you demonstrate, as a technology professional working in a commercial enterprise, that you helped improve the company, team, or product during this year?

The important thing is to find numbers that you don't believe are silly, but that are meaningful and relevant to your performance and share those. The nature of the accomplishments you cite, and the type of numbers you use, reflect the type of professional you perceive yourself to be. And that signal is meaningful to hiring managers in recruiting processes.
Sure, that's conceivable, though there are three very limited ways that it can happen:

1. It's always been technically and administratively possible, you're just the first genius to overcome those hurdles. All the combined efforts of thousand developers at a FAANG found it impossible, but against all odds, you succeeded where they failed. Congratulations if that's you, but don't bet the farm on that being the result before you start.

2. Technological developments have only just now made it possible. Maybe your idea requires resource-heavy neural networks on the users' mobile phone, and current high-end models have just become capable of that. If tech has only now made it possible, you also have to be the first of millions of developers to realize that and get to market. Good luck, this is how most of the startup ecosystem has worked for a long time.

3. It's currently illegal, and you're just going to hope no one stops you. This is a big administrative problem, and maybe all the efforts of a big company couldn't change the law and make their idea work when fighting eg. the hotel or taxi lobbies, but if you side-step all that and just do it anyway, well, you might see all your hard work disappear in a courtroom, or you might succeed.
Inventions are one thing, but mass availability and affordability are another. I recall seeing an interview with Mikhail Gorbachev where he talked about how embarrassing it was that the Soviet Union could send men to space, but failed to produce pantyhose (of quality , in quantity).
Thanks :) In terms of custom emoji, it may be worth checking out our new public roadmap for Element (which is new this week and hasn't yet been announced): https://github.com/vector-im/roadmap/projects/1. On the plus side, custom emoji are on the roadmap. On the minus side, they're on the 'Later' column - so you can see where they stack up relative to other work. Agreed that they would make a massive difference. We will get there eventually though (or perhaps folks will contribute them sooner :)
it's even more fun in the phone app, where you touch random things and it makes a call.
German grammar has lot of unnecessary things, could have been simpler.
Many of us are? And we can replace parts from third parties.

It is getting more and more integrated though which makes it hard to replace parts. But that has more to do with greed and size requirements than vertical integration, a soldering iron can amend some of that. Driver situation isn't by any means something new or necessarily an indication of vertical integration either.
> Sorry, you're complaining that we... did the thing you want us to do? But it took longer than you wanted? My heart bleeds.

Wasn't complaining. I don't use Matrix.

> Meanwhile, portable identities are also in active development (as part of P2P),

Portable identities should be how it works by default. Nobody should be asked to sign up with a server and share their email address and metadata with it.
This is my major criticism of protobuf and by extension grpc. IMO it emphasises two salient points, size on the wire and centralised control. The first is laudable but in my mind is taken too far because of the second. A decentralised distributed system requires ease of discovery and a decoupling of server and client.

I'm well aware of the many reasons to build distributed systems, not least of all the ability to distribute engineering effort, and so can see that if team distribution is a primary motivator for creating a micro service system that there would be a desire to make it appear like it's actually all one process. Of course it isn't one process but I can see the desire.
AWS S3 and m3u8 support. Let me point the editor straight to livestreams that are still being made/recorded.
Yeah, I don't think there's any meaningful way to "port" a "gmail.com" email address away from Google. The entire internet infrastructure is set up so that can't happen, based on the meaning of "domain".

Seems like there's an opportunity there though. If someone could create a platform that would take your address, create you a custom domain, set it up, get your email flowing there (including porting over all your existing email out of gmail), and then helping you move your sign ins to that new address..

That'd be huge. It would also be very, very hard, the amount of infrastructure it would touch.. but doable.
I'm a foreigner that's lived in the US since college. Half of my friends and family are american and the rest foreign. There's a huge cultural difference between both sides' approach to wealth.

My american f&f (outside of silicon valley) think of wealth in terms of "saving for retirement." 401ks, tax strategies, etfs, stocks etc. It's very passive, probably "correct", and very unambitious.

The foreign side is totally different. They have very little interest in saving for retirement--they think in terms of investing in businesses. They don't buy etfs or stocks. They buy (small, then larger) businesses. It's very active and after age 40 or so takes up most of their time. The goal is to never retire, but rather to build a series of cash producing entities for ever.

Part of this is certainly cultural. In lots of the world, being a boss is higher status that being an *employee", regardless of the actual income each activity generates. The owner of a business with 200k in revenue is higher status than a McKinsey employee with a 500k salary.

This cultural difference is reflected in a desire to escape "wages" as soon as possible, not necessarily "save for retirement".
Well, i think what will happen , is the implementation of adapter classes, eh companies, that represent and adapt a concept locally - and are for the local law responsible, while formally independent from the multi-national mother ship.
If you have photosynthesis, you already have photosensitivity. The process of photosynthesis will cause chemical gradients in the reaction's inputs and outputs (and those of secondary reactions) that indicate where the plant senses light.

Exactly how those are leveraged, I don't know, but based on hanging out with folks who study this for a few years, I'm going to bet it's very complicated and somehow involves auxin.

An overview of some plant growth influences and auxin: https://www.biologyonline.com/tutorials/plant-auxins-phototr...
Mostly just pointing it out. I think you're probably right as to the "why". UPX/packers often flag this sort of thing.

I'm assuming the Registry keys and the like are from the statically linked in libs.
How does a dev claim credit for increasing engagement by refactoring? So many of these metrics will be the result of a team. Switching to AWS may save money. But who gets the credit? The engineer? The manager? The architect?
it really depends on the underlying asset. short dates bond trading involves large leverage because short-term bonds tend to not move much
And I disagree with the leather part because leather production isn’t causing animals to be killed. It’s a by product of the, mostly beef industry. It would take a massive decline in beef production to cause cows to be killed purely for their leather. Leather goods also last decades.

I believe more in a overall balance. You can’t get everyone to be vegan, the earth simply can’t support that.
Just wanted to say that I am absolutely astonished that "chemical restraint" with ketamine is a thing. I am confident it is not a thing where I am from (UK).

How have you people not realised that a country full of guns will generate constant escalating violence?
https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/4733 "Docker fails to launch on Apple Silicon #4733"

Even though, yes, in theory. Each new platform and arch requires work.
WebAuthn is great! I don't see any reason why Promise shouldn't implement it.

I see it this way, that Promise makes it possible for all its relying parties leverage WebAuthn by implementing it once, so they don't have to.
You may have posted this many times, but this is my first time seeing and it explains so much about what is going on right now in my life. It doesn’t give me hope, but it gives some clarity around what otherwise seems like dysfunction. Thank you!
> Everything related to Microwave ovens seems to have stalled - because of patents?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiS27feX8o0
Thanks for the comments. Perhaps I can be helpful by walking backwards from something you do perceive as valuable? For hiring conversations, what's a great one look like to you?
Question: now that we know that Intel is dead and stuck on 14nm process why has the share price not tanked yet? I mean it should be trading on the future PE?
Thanks for making me aware of this.
I’m interested in finding the derivation of this law. Intuitively it sounds sort of like Grisham’s law were bad money drives out good, but it can’t be quite that simple, can it? Is it more of an empirical thing? I know I am being lazy just asking but a quick search turns up only statements of the law. I can make up my own thinking behind it but I’d like to get it from Pournelle if possible.
(Aside: Rothbard was great at this sort of logic chaining I think)
Also nice rabbit hole generally here!
> Note: It is recommended to use the versioned C runtime when and where possible; this script is only provided for the convenience of developers familiar with the pitfalls and caveats that come with using the unversioned copy of msvcrt.dll and the minimal APIs it exposes!

I'm worried that people won't heed this warning.
There is always rice in that stupid trough around the edge. Always. I clean it, and then I come back the next day and there's rice there again.
I know. I get the exact same push back every time I mention this. I don't know why? I'm literally saying, on average, over the long-term, it's mathematically better to ditch the EF. This is a mathematical statement, but always someone says ""but what about 2008!?" as if I havn't considered it. It's quite bizarre. I suppose an EF is an emotional issue for a lot of people maybe.
If you use Greasemonkey / Tampermonkey, etc. you might want to check out 'Google hit Hider by domain'[0] [in spite of the name, it works on several search engines, not just Google]. It provides a really simple interface to ban [with various levels of extreme prejudice] sites from ever again appearing in your search results.

[0] https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/1682-google-hit-hider-by-d...
path dependency is the main problem with margin trading. S^P 500 fell 60% in 2007-2008. So that should give you an idea of how much of a cushion you need to give yourself for the worse case scenario.
Who gets the credit? Who knows.

Who claims the credit on their resume and/or performance review? All of them.
There are strong arguments for this. Alcoholics have support groups to keep themselves accountable, but also when they do relapse to help get them back on track. Having a firmly held belief doesn't mean you're immune to temptation or are unforgivable if you have a lapse. Moreover the kind of criticism and shaming that comes from not giving people "a break" does two things 1. It lowers the power of the shamer to make real change in a persons life and 2. It can cause exactly the kind of depression that leads to more of the undesirable behavior.
> Speed?

I just have a big 12L boiler on the counter, it's always hot and usually full, and I never have to wait very long for a hot drink. It's amazing. I couldn't live without it now.
that's a lot of redundant unnecessary job you have done, could have sticked to something simpler, no?
This is a symptom of people being to primed to believe that mentally ill people are dangerous, not a legitimate cause for concern.

Purple call the police on someone yelling. A mentally ill person yelling isn't a danger. They might be in crisis or pain, or they might be unable to effectively communicate.

A gun didn't help in any of those, the vast, vast majority of cases.
Do all Vitamix machines have the rubber seal arranged so that the threads are on the food-side of the seal? Look at any other non-conical thread, like for garden hoses or fire hoses. The thread doesn't even get wet. All of the vitamix machines I've seen let pulverized food collect in the threads and quickly begin to smell terrible, because the rubber seal is at the base of the male side rather than the base of the female side.
Yeah as I say, it's fine to do whatever you want with your money to provide emotional comfort. I'm merely saying it's a psychological bias you may want to be aware of.

I mean, you chose a 10% figure. Why 10%? Why not 20% or 5%? I think it's helpful to really think through the math sometimes.
But that's not what clickbait is. Clickbait is a title that quickly imposes the feeling of missing and important information. Especially to get people to click through so the link target can serve ads. That's clearly not OPs goal as he makes the title a call to action, omitting no critical information.

Propaganda has nothing to do with the definition of clickbait, so saying "[propaganda ...] Aka click bait." Is very misleading. And betrays your argument that everything should be exclusively logic, specifically omitting any appeal to emotion. That's exactly what you're trying to do by portraying op as using propaganda. And rhetorically speaking would be a disservice to both reader and article.
The Boeing of semiconductors
I glanced through it, and can pretty much guarantee there is no case here.

I'm no lawyer and have no special knowledge, but this is for "new account" and represents log files, according to the suit. I can almost guarantee Google will show the data is some kind of anti-fraud/spam analysis (thus why it doesn't wait for you to get on wifi).

This it's not an apples to apples comparison (they are only guessing the logs are for ads, but the suit doesn't appear to actually show evidence that the data is advertising related). Similarly, they extrapolate that it will continue to log that much data forever, but it may be related to the fact they are new accounts, and data usage may drop off after the account gets some history behind it.

But hey, I'll be happy to take a class action payment, I just don't see this actually going anywhere.
say WhatsApp too
Yup, I'm considering offering to help with programming extracurriculars at what will become his school just to get a sneak peek at how the older children deal with unfamiliar abstractions. I've been living in a bubble of tech savviness and contempt for as long as I remember, I need to reset.

And he's actually 3, so I can't really sit around and wait another 5-6 years before I get to figure out the perfect "business customer" :D
Free speech without universal free education is a mistake.
Apple should change their name to "Peeping Tim".
Lol, wut. What do you mean by excessive carbs?
Let’s say you want to hear to 85c instead of boiling. Or just use it to heat water to 40c for baby formula.

Electric Kettle is wasting energy either way - almost none have configurable temps.
> Door has a handle; no door button.

Door button is a safety feature. Door handle would be inherently less safe because easier to forcefully open and easier to break in such way that it opens itself.

> Expire remaining time after a short while.

That would make interface unaccessible for people who can not react and press buttons fast enough.
in theory, all your money should be in the market if the market is efficient and has a positive drift
China leapfrogs world with first 6G experimental satellite
>> Right now medical systems in a lot of the country are exceeding capacity and turning away patients who would normally be hospitalized or treated due to the impact COVID-19 is happening.

Does this account for the dynamic aspect of capacity? e.g if health care providers had layoffs due to lack of cases wouldn't that result in reduced capacity?

Also I followed the Arizona ICU bed utilization and noticed the capacity figure followed the number of cases and the number of beds total varied by roughly 2x low to high. This implies the capacity was not fixed and followed utilization. Which makes sense from a business management perspective. But it invalidates utilization as a harbinger of TEOTWAWKI.
Ships are already risky & expensive projects, and to modify them experimentally can have large follow up costs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanic_anode
As someone with a family member with schizophrenia I can support this, things tend to turn violent during a psychotic event. Bed restraints in hospitals aren't just decorations.
“The Innovator’s Dilemma” has a rather terrible track record as a handbook for tech corporations.

Nokia’s leadership was also big fans of this book in 2000-2010. They saw themselves as the nimble disrupters, eventually eating away all computing markets with their cheap plastic phones and a smartphone OS derived from embedded systems. If Nokia would just keep adding features, the Christensen theory promised that they’ll one day own the upscale markets too, like in all those case studies in the book.

Instead Nokia’s business was destroyed by actual innovation: Apple combined a new kind of mobile UI with an OS derived from high-end PCs. It didn’t fit on the ladders of innovation shown in the book. It wasn’t a cheaper thing becoming good enough, but an expensive thing that was nearly impossible to manufacture initially. And that’s why Nokia thought they could safely ignore it, until it was too late.
And honestly, animals will play an important role in sustainable agriculture, so animal products will still be part of our lives. I was watching a presentation about soil health by a farmer. They don't use fertilizers, pesticides, irrigation, etc because of a system of cover crops, free range animals, and mob grazing(a dense herd moved through the field quickly to trample and poop all over) to build healthy soil. The problems we have are from factory farms, monocultures, and destroying old growth ecosystems so more people can consume in excess, instead of moderation.
The whole Twitch music DMCA fiasco and the obvious outrage of punishing people for playing their favourite tunes in public made a funny thought occur to me. With the trend toward "smart cities" and "smart vehicles" and the increased surveillance that comes with that, how far are we from the day when the smart freeway Content ID's the music you're playing loudly enough for others to hear and shuts down your car speakers? It's a really asinine dystopia we're headed towards.
How is that different to microsoft logging your keystrokes or google reading your email? Having to deal with old fashioned employee espionage seems quaint.
Ah, my bad. The REFERENCE implementation, written in Python, which was supposed to be supplanted by a faster, better implementation years ago, now has 10x less bugs.
Idris, a language that will change the way you think about programming
A market without competitors might not have any customers either. In a crowded market, you might be able to carve a profitable, specialized niche.