skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In my findings, the reason unlimited doesn't work is a small percentage of users (very small, like ~0.1%) who push it to the extreme. In other words, if your exhaust 50% of your resources to service 0.1% of your users, at a fixed subscription cost, the model doesn't work."

I maintain that there is a deeper problem and that is the concept of aligned interests.

The provider can say all manner of nice things and we can all smile and feel good but if the economic interests don't line up no matter how trivially there is going to be an antagonistic relationship. I don't care how much tailwind we're all getting from diminishing hard drive costs - the relationship remains fundamentally broken.

I want my provider to enthusiastically embrace my own goals - especially in critical areas like data backup.
I use these or equivalents (e.g. 'Night Shift' on macOS) on every device I can permanently (not just at night). It has been a big help and my eyes have acclimatized to the color shift even for graphics work. Also zero problems going straight from a device to sleep at all.
I mean... ok. There are two things going on here. The first is that MSTR can get really cheap loans because they're essentially a profitable business that can service those loans. Although I would caution that the "But it's got a track record dating back to 1989" stuff - the only reason MSTR is in this position is because it hasn't really grown in pace with the market. They're an income stock not a growth stock, and their business analytics experience tells you nothing about their investment experience.

The second part though is - does investing in bitcoin make any sense? Well in my opinion no. MSTR has no strategic advantage in buying BTC. It's also extremely worrying that they've crossed the rubicon, they are now leveraging up to buy more. You don't just have to factor in whether this current debt looks like it's servicable. You have to question whether this company is going to continue levering up to buy bitcoin. Also, the down side risks the article mentions are like "Let's assume no downsides". Ok assuming that BTC goes down they can service the debt with other income. Fine. As long as they don't issue more debt which they likely will. Also, even if they can service the debt that doesn't change the fact they've made a bad investment of several hundred million dollars.

It also doesn't include downsides such as "Someone hacks you and all your BTC are gone" or "The US issues a new regulation changing the tax regime massively increasing your tax exposure".

The reason people are bearish on this move is because it's a guy with no busines in investing just punting everything he can onto BTC, which is fine for him to do, but it's not a particularly smart thing for him to do. I mean one obvious concern is that this company is probably trading at a significant discount vs it's assets now, so what's going to stop someone coming along and saying "Hey, $X a share, I'll liquidate the BTC and hand it back to investors" when BTC has it's next dip?
Getting a solid grip on bash scripting was a game changer for me. From there, you can go several directions: Perl, awk, whatever.
Seconding this. Great game. My favorite part is the xp modifier you get from really long kill streaks, something that exists in many games (like diablo) but really adds a fun twist to the grindy combat.
The author has also written a hilarious book: Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain
The Gospel of Wealth (1889)
None of anything of what you said makes any sense at all. I absolutely develop web applications on my Mac, using a graphical IDE. I've also developed for Arduino boards using a graphical IDE on my Mac. I've written software natively on my Mac that I put into production on Linux and Windows machines. And all of that is supported on the M1 as well. They even built a complete and complex and powerful subsystem to allow you to run Intel code on their new processor.

Apple has never stopped me from installing VSCode or Atom or Sublime or Jetbrains and they've never given me any reason to think they would do so in the future, especially given Rosetta 2. I've never run a VM on my Mac.

I have no idea what point you're trying to make here, so I'm trying my hardest to argue against the best possible interpretation, and that interpretation is still so unbelievably wrong that I still feel like I must be missing the point.
I personally dream that Ethereum 2.0 will be used as the basis for an alternative which is built on and readily exchanged with all the new major sovereign digital currencies. Or maybe somehow it will be based on carbon or energy although that is a long-shot.
> The steam explosion would have resulted if they were unable to prevent the core from melting through the floor to water below.

They drained the water and installed a heat exchanger. But this turned out to be unnecessary, since the core did not melt through the concrete flooring.
Does the US conduct offensive cyber operations like this?

I feel like we never hear about them in the news.
> We were told a lot of things by the media

This actually came from experts. Maybe not the same ones working on the specific vaccines but ones who have decades of experience within the vaccine space. Just because you read it in the media does not mean the media came up with it. They don't actually make things up. And 18 months was not worst-case it was average case with the best case in the media being Autumn. Just because the best case came out, doesn't remove the point that we were repeatedly told by experts (WHO) that 18 months was a good case scenario. While other experts said that was super optimistic.
But in my case, people always can see what they are getting after payment. As they can see the preview also they'd know the dimension (e.g. 4000*2000px, or vector)
I also haven't found phone software that is as good as a TI-89 or HP Prime other than emulators of those calculators.
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Eh, maybe. Your core responsibility is to ship on time. Especially at a startup, it's not only "ok", it's usually the "right" call to ship faster, and accumulate technical debt. This is constant, and never really goes away. So you tend to have to intentionally bake in this time, or else it never happens.
And I think this is OK! It's not always clear what is and isn't technical debt at the time it's being introduced. A lot of things seem "gross", but aren't actually much of a problem. Or you think, "oh god, this will never work when we add X feature", but then you just never add X feature, and so it's totally fine 2 years later.

But to your point, of "well shouldn't that intentionality be part of normal duties?" Sure, but shouldn't coming up with Gmail? Or fixing bugs or UX improvements also be part of normal duties? Yes, they all should. The truth is it's hard to prioritize small things like that, and it's really hard to get a sense for their value as a centralized management team. They aren't close enough to the code or the product to always know. So I think 20% time is a great way to just decentralize that, and allow the engineers closest to the issues to pick what's important to work on.
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For me english is mostly a written language, as I speak it very rarely. I think that I speak with a mix of french and spanish accents, incorrectly stressing the last syllables of many words, and pronouncing different vowels using the same sound.
I don’t know a lot about how states conduct cyber espionage against one another, but it does feel a bit off to be told that this was the work of a nation state with zero proof as to why.
Do you have a source that they don't already support some sort of SVE? I don't think they would make this public information if they don't have to. As far as I can tell they wouldn't need to recompile any previous ARM binaries so this could remain under the hood and they would never need to tell you whether or not they're doing it. So I'd be interested if you have any source on this.
The price of Bitcoin is not as relevant as you think.
Maybe you're thinking of everynoise.com -- probably one of my favorite sites on the net.
What is the company size where you think a 20% policy like this matters? Does it only make sense for large companies like Google?

Thank you for your take on these questions, your answer would be very much appreciated.
>there are a lot of software developers out there who either don't have the inclination or skill to push back against their boss's boss's boss, or question why a particular abstraction is request over another.

I definitely agree with you. There are a lot of people who for various reasons (inherently lazy, not engaged with their current role, etc...) would not do this.

My problem is that I think this is a learned behavior in a lot of environments. A lot of places try to treat developers as code monkeys, where it's actually the brilliant designers and business analysts making the decisions and it's just the responsibility of these programmers to execute their vision.

This compartmentalization doesn't work well and it leads to a lot of really bad software. Here's my theory as to why.

If you look at all the various jobs involved in creating a piece of software: Design (UX/Screen Design), testing, project management, business analyst/requirements gathering, programmer. There's only one that's actually required to produce a functional piece of software: the programmer.

And as much as people want to pretend like this isn't the case, the programmer often has to do a little bit of every one of those other roles to effectively do their job. In this comment thread, we've been discussing how they have to put on their project management hat and help shape requirements, but it's deeper than that.

After all, what programmer hands off a feature for testing without themselves testing that it worked? UX might give you a wireframe, but there's almost always edge cases not accounted for. As for project management, if you're lucky you have a good one who actually makes the project easier but more often you will have a bad one who adds no value and only forwards emails to you and bugs you about timelines, which effectively means you're managing the work yourself.

And this isn't to say that the people in those other roles are necessarily bad at their job - but there's a context you get as the person actually building the thing that you can't get in these silo'd, standalone roles. You see issues that other people can't and you have an ownership over the end result that they don't. The programmer is the most important piece of it all. They tie it all together and the buck really stops with them. Programmers who don't take ownership ultimately lead to worse software.

If companies understood this on a more fundamental level and tried to select more for it in hiring than whiteboarding questions, they'd probably be more successful.

The parent comment tried to make a distinction between "architect" and "dev" - but this should start at the Jr. levels. Teach them at the beginning of their career.

To be clear, I do think those other roles are important and valid. I just think it's very very rare for a team to be staffed with people who are good in all of those areas and when someone is deficient, it basically falls on the programmer to make it up.
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A rather small GUI windows program with few dependencies is 1-2 MB; if you pass it through UPx (https://upx.github.io/) it will be less than 1 MB. Take a look at this program https://github.com/spapas/pdfsigner/releases/tag/v1.0 build with lazarus if you want to see how it looks like.
History is written by the victors, as they say
He wrote an entire essay on politics and the English language: https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_poli... which he complains about incoherent metaphors as cover for bad politics. Newspeak is a language in which metaphor is banned, and therefore politics and opposing the state is impossible.
I wouldn't call Heinlein nuts. I think he was deeply interested in the idea of how social mores are a reflection of the times and conditions they exist in. It's one of the things that set him above his peers. The technological advances and space cowboy stuff was just a backdrop to discuss philosophy and morality. He did so in a generally entertaining way. I don't know that he was advocating any particular philosophy or moralism. He was just exploring them. The difference in points of view between Stranger in a strange land, starship troopers, and the moon is a harsh mistress demonstrate that.
One I haven't seen anyone mention yet but also haven't tried myself is https://codeclap.handmade.network/

It's not free, but it looks like a high-quality cross-platform gdb and lldb frontend with an imgui UI.
> Not only do we know that highly-processed foods are not good for you

Could you elaborate on what exactly "processed" means here? It seems like a very loosely defined concept. What specific changes or additions to raw ingredients are happening and how do these make the food less healthy?

Simply saying "processed food is bad" to me seems like a fallacious overgeneralization along the lines of "natural is good" or "chemicals are bad".
The United States has admitted to perpetrating coups to get a us-friendly dictator in otherwise democratic societies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2khAmMTAjI
It was certainly a move to stabilize the stock market and Treasury market. However, having a reserve asset that steadily, stably climbs lower is not a store of value by any definition.
I'll add it to my list for a followup post.
Speaking as someone with no clue about chicken farms, do the chicken naturally go back in the coop at night? Does your automation risk locking chickens outside the coop?
This is gold. Thank you.
Intentionality and consciousness are demonstrably not the result of simple aggregation. You acknowledge this, I think, with the phrase "each device is in some ways more capable than one brain cell". That may be true, but the devices are not linked (and I would suggest, are not likely ever to be linked) in ways that would make them powerful the way neurons are.

They are not children. The do not develop. Individual instances are semantically prototypes which are destroyed or powered down, and the information gained from their existence is used by humans to create new ones. There is no "evolution" because there is no mechanism for variation beyond that which we, as humans, introduce. These machines are the perfect material for an intelligent design argument (one to which I do not subscribe). I do not see them as counterparts to, let alone examples of, biological evolution and development.

I do not subscribe to these attempts to find correspondences between whatever our current understanding of life/the brain/consciousness is and whatever current technology we have on hand. In the 1800s, people were doing this with hydraulics and gearing. Today, we're doing it with computers. It's so transparently parochial.

I don't doubt the theoretical potential for life as well as consciousness to exist on a non-biological substrate. I do very much doubt that the IoT is that substrate, and ditto for AlphaFoobar, GPT-N or whatever other computational marvel one might point to.
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Yes. Stuxnet being the most famous which brought this to more daylight -'cat out of the bag.'

Trump admin also did a press push after changing policy to ramp up digital offense [1]. Notably these stories were obviously is coordinated and on purpose. e.g. not just someone leaker talking to reporter it was strategy.

[1]
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/under-tru...
Ehh, no.

There is a common dishonest conversation tactic which is to ask for a source for every single thing, and then pretend like you weren't trying to challenge the conclusion.

If you ask for a source, I am going to interpret that as you disagreeing, and then when I provide the source, I am going to attack you for being wrong.

We would have to write multi page long essays, if we provided sources for every single statement that we make, in everything. That's not feasible.

Demanding a source should entail some minor cost. IMO, that cost should be that you are now implicitly disagreeing with the conclusion, and you get to be attacked if you are proven wrong.
What+Does+the+Bible+Say+About+Running+The+Race?
Allergic reactions to adjuvants is an entirely different matter (than autoimmune reactions) and may actually not apply to these vaccines. This just goes to show, don't get your medical advice from HN.
> 1984 is often taken as a denouncement of socialism

It's specifically a denouncement of Stalinism and the paths that led there. The tendency of people to conflate everything from Blairism through Fabianism to Stalinism into the same "socialism" makes it hard for them to see that it's not a denouncement of all of those things at once.
Ahh yeah sorry API was used wrong here. I knew it’s a type of CPU instruction set. Of course NEON is specific to ARM so x86 won’t get it. I didn’t know the neural engine is basically SIMD though.
Well, Paul built Gmail in a day, by layering it on top of Groups, and that's 20% of a week, so I guess technically, yes, it was a 20% project? How it came about, though, is more that Paul had been working on email for many years before Google, then the execs decided people needed to be working on more important impactful projects, and Paul suggested he try to build email.
Of course ("some")!

The question stands.
Not at Google, but rather Shazam.

I've always been a big proponent of 20% time. Shazam is the first place I worked at which taught me about them and I've written about it here:

https://umaar.com/blog/lessons-learned-from-working-at-shaza...

It was the way in which I learnt what I'm passionate about.
Also I don't think gmail was a 20% project (at least according to wikipedia which links to http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-07-16-n55.html):

> [...] they asked me if I wanted to build some type of email or personalization product. It was a pretty non-specific project charter. They just said, “We think this is an interest area.” Of course, I was excited to work on that.
‘Dune’ Director Denis Villeneuve Blasts HBO Max Streaming Deal
"Streaming services are a positive and powerful addition to the movie and TV ecosystems. But I want the audience to understand that streaming alone can’t sustain the film industry as we knew it before COVID. Streaming can produce great content, but not movies of “Dune’s” scope and scale. Warner Bros.’ decision means “Dune” won’t have the chance to perform financially in order to be viable and piracy will ultimately triumph. Warner Bros. might just have killed the “Dune” franchise. This one is for the fans. AT&T’s John Stankey said that the streaming horse left the barn. In truth, the horse left the barn for the slaughterhouse."
Put a mirror on top of your monitor so you can easily focus 20 feet away, and to see what's going on behind you
Leaping from tree to tree?
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It's still very difficult to convince black people to partake in medical trials, largely because their trust in the system was so thoroughly violated in the not-so-distant past:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study

It's not hard to imagine a patient noping out of an experiment if he's the token black guy in a room full of white doctors poking and prodding at him.

I work for a company that makes medical devices for people with diabetes, (a disease which disproportionately affects people of color), and we go out of our way to ensure that we have a diverse cast of people who interact with the patients in our studies.
Yup. Jon Pollard, for one. He spied for Israel.

Israel certainly has the chops to do something like this, but lots of other "friendly" countries with good geeks wouldn't mind having this kind of info.
Kevlin Henney makes interesting points on this. We often assume that abstractions make things harder to understand, at the benefit of making the architecture more flexible. When inserting an abstraction, it is supposed to do both, if at all possible. Abstracting should not only help the architecture, but also the understanding of the code itself. If it doesn't do the latter, then you should immediately question whether it is necessary, or if a better abstraction exists.

The take-away I took from it is that as developers, we love to solve problems using technical solutions. Sometimes, the real problem is one of narration. As we evolve our languages, better technical abstractions become available. But that's not going to prevent 'enterprisey' code from making things look and sound more difficult. Just look at any other field where abstractions aren't limited by technicalities: the same overcomplicated mess forms. Bad narrators narrate poorly, even when they are not limited.
I worked on a 120% project but was advised not to let my manager know about it unless it was successful. Not sure that is an indication of it working as intended.
Algol was not prone to abbreviation. Algol 58 used "or if," so if they had wanted "or else," they would have used "or else."
True enough. And the response that I think should appeal even to the close-minded: those perspectives don’t go away just because you’re not exposed to them, and you won’t understand enough to push back if you never study then.
Right. But I can't think of a good sentence that starts with 'if' and contains 'or else'.

It could be that the 'if' is implied if you say 'or else'. But 'otherwise' works fine following 'if' and it would probably have been better if they stuck to that. (Albeit lots more keystrokes - but as keywords go it's shorter than 'instanceof' and people don't complain about that one.)
Does it randomize the profiles shown in the fist page?
Many good advice in this thread already. Personally I'm doing ok with good warm lighting in the room, low brightness/contrast (~60/30 during the day, ~50/25 in the evening), and I activate "night light" mode of Windows once it gets dark; window on the side, take breaks from time to time and use cold water to refresh your face. I wear glasses and as other say, I zoom in the text a lot. Big text makes things quick to read and hence less eyestrain.

Whether to use dark mode or light mode in text editors/websites depends on the lighting condition around you. I mostly used dark mode now (except GitHub), but I make sure the contrast of the theme is not too big, not too small. But in my prev job we had white room with white everything and lots of light, and I was much more comfy with light themed terminal (although not white; soft bgcolor like HN has).

On top of that I will add that for some reason for me, mobile usage contributes way more to eyestrain/headache/fatigue than computer use (order of magnitude diff). I can work all day long on a laptop without much issue. But checking mobile, especially as first thing in the morning or in late evening (even in blue light reduction mode), makes me much more tired nearly immediately for some reason.
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