skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3 days is a very typical prescription length to stop addiction kicking in
> Startups work because you have skin in the game, when you build something people want, you get to reap rewards proportional to it.

Eh... not really. Especially not for the rank-and-file employees. Most don't get proportional rewards even if the company exits successfully. Unless you're a founder or one of the early employees, for the high percentile of successful startups, rewards are proportional with what you'd have gotten at FAANG companies during the same time.

Not to diminish your experience, but I think the idea there was that you get to work on something 'risky' but regardless of its success you'll still get your paycheck, health insurance benefits. And if it goes belly up, you can just do a lateral move to Azure or whatever instead of worrying about the very existence of the company.
It's interesting to see all the recent HN complaints about Apple's app store in light of this, since this is exactly the kind of abuse that Apple's consumer-biased policies address.

Specifically, if you subscribe to the NYT via the app store, unsubscribing is a quick, no-bullshit process. You can even do it from your Apple Watch.
I use a MacBook Pro 2016 everyday. Safari is easily the best browser memory and systems wise, but I still mainly use chrome because it’s better at addblocking and synchronises with my non-Mac devices.

Chrome is fine though, as long as you don’t open 20+ tabs. Beyond that it’s not fine.

I replaced Firefox with Chrome because it kept ranging from a great to terrible user experience with various updates.

This is all anecdotal and based on personal experience.

On iOS I mostly use Safari even though that is kind of against my synchronised argument, but it works alright as I have found that I use my phone for very different web things.
Cool! Those guys are great! If you ever need anything from us we are at your service.
Would Rust secure cURL? https://timmmm.github.io/curl-vulnerabilities-rust/
> In reality, teather claims their reserves are cash and cash equivalents.

FWIW, no, they claim their reserves are

> currency and cash equivalents and, from time to time, may include other assets and receivables from loans made by Tether to third parties, which may include affiliated entities

which is pretty different.
Why do people continue to use Chrome? Inertia? Genuine love for Google's "services"?
These are great for emergencies and the odd occasion where the regular building heating isn't enough.

I think Cast Iron or stone fireplaces serve a different purpose, in most cases. They're for show, and novelty.
A Case Against Multitasking
I don't see how the distinction matters to the individual consumer. It's interesting as an insight into how the credit scoring system is organized i guess
So Clubhouse will have a market cap of $96 billion? Seems worth it for them then.
I find Firefox dev tools sufficient pretty much 100% of the time... have you considered it?
Hope somebody sends this to congressional committees investigating Facebook
Glad you shared your experience. The title of the article is completely misleading and many people in the comments who claim it's impossible are either wrong or don't understand the meaning of this phrase.

I have been a (very happy) part of two such startup-within-a-big-corpo initiatives during my career in investment banking.

Although on different (in my opinion: better) terms, it does happen, although quite rare.
> government has nothing to sell

Governments have assets and the legal right to others’ assets (e.g. taxation).
Then it becomes attractive for the neighbour to sell their house. There are two sides to a market.
There was an old s.f. short story about the tripulation of an space ship stuck in a planet where they found plastic-eating plants and little animals moved by gears. Somebody remembers the title/author?
I can see addiction like unpaid debt.

Just like everyone may need a bank loan (which is totally socially acceptable), sometime you may need a happiness/energy/relief/whatever loan.

The thing is, just like a money loan, you should be ready to pay your debt after. The day you think you can run away without paying, it's where the trouble begin.

This is true even with alcohol: Go to a party, drink a few glasses. One or two more. Have fun. The day after you pay it with a little (or even big) hangover. Just drink a lot of water and you will be ok.

Obviously this is more difficult with some drugs. They are dangerous because they are more subtle, somehow you think you're still in charge, until it's too late and your debt is out of control.

Now, I'm aware that this is quite complex, but still I wonder how many people there are out there who can self-control themself and diligently keep their debt in order.

I guess, compared to "meth-heads" and other rock bottom abusers, they just don't make the news. Plus they may want to avoid a lot of social rejection.
Yeah, my wife used to work form them hahaha However it is standard to refer to latin america as LATAM.
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As others have mentioned in this thread, "right" and "left" are all relative. From my point of view, a neoliberal like Biden is right-of-center by any reasonable definition of "right" and "left", but obviously that varies person-to-person. My point is that most of the people on the far left tend to dislike identity politics since it's such an effective distraction from real economic issues.
> Obfuscation may be our best digital weapon.

From Dan Geer's portentous talk "Cybersecurity as Realpolitik"[1][2]:

>> Privacy used to be proportional to that which it is impossible to observe or that which can be observed but not identified. No more -- what is today observable and identifiable kills both privacy as impossible-to-observe and privacy as impossible-to-identify, so what might be an alternative? If you are an optimist or an apparatchik, then your answer will tend toward rules of data procedure administered by a government you trust or control. If you are a pessimist or a hacker/maker, then your answer will tend towards the operational, and your definition of a state of privacy will be my definition: the effective capacity to misrepresent yourself.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT-TGvYOBpI

[2] http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt
Sure, but "everyone knows" what happens when you call a null pointer, and it isn't system("rm -rf /"). This is the point GP was making.
From [1]:

> ORC is Nim’s all-new cycle collector based on ARC. It can be considered a full-blown GC since it includes a local tracing phase (contrary to most other tracing GCs which do global tracing). ORC is what you should use when working with Nim’s async because it contains cycles that need to be dealt with.

Sooooo unless you

> disable the GC and do manual memory management, but then you lose access to most of the stdlib

you still have to run a memory-managing runtime
> when they pay little if any taxes

Who’s paying the taxes then?
I'd be more interested in what percentage of global GDP are the debt repayments. This is a bit of scare mongering on Axios part - if the denominator goes down (gdp as a result of a pandemic) of course the % is going to blow up. At least they did put in a time-series plot of the last years. Yes debt flew up this year ... is anyone surprised given the large scale stimulus by most central banks?
As a side note / gripe - Any reputable news organization should always be putting in time-series plots for any news article talking about talking about budgets/large scale economic values so people can grasp concepts and get honest context. Otherwise it always feels manipulative when they place random large numbers for shock value.
Yes, that's a good point. We should also consider that a lot of the interest rates are negative in real terms.
AFAIK the 550M loan was because bitfinex lost that money somehow (not sure whether it was because of a hack or their accounts got frozen). Them repaying it back would mean they were able to cover up that hole with their profits, which means tether is more capitalized than before.
The video on the article https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8fyUOxD2EA
On the other hand the government had to step in and make alcohol restrictions because of the abuse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systembolaget#History
You say "we" and "our", but both you and the article assume the world is one whole; looking a bit further, it's countries that are indebted to one another.

Now, I'm no economist or anything so this is all armchair stuff and bits I've picked up over the year.

One concern: Being indebted means favors. China could offer to waive some of the US's debts in return for a favor, e.g. Chinese companies having more of a presence in the US (or the other way around). The US owes China nearly 1 trillion, Japan 1.2 trillion. (https://howmuch.net/articles/foreign-holders-of-us-debt-2020)

Another concern: Credit worthiness / rating. Currently, the US is looking very good and they have a AAA credit rating with various organizations that measure it (http://www.worldgovernmentbonds.com/credit-rating/united-sta...). But, if the US fails to pay interest and down payments because they're too deep in debt or their GDP drops for whatever reason, these companies may opt to lower the credit rating (which actually happened in 2011: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-14428930). A lower credit rating means that they will have to pay higher interest rates, and that requests for loans may actually be rejected. If the US depends on loan to e.g. pay for government employees (and they do, given that the US's expenses are higher than their income: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget, revenue is $3.5T, expenses are $4.4T, so they're borrowing $900B from somewhere to make ends meet).

Mind you, I get the impression most countries have a budget deficit and compensate by taking out loans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_governmen... has a good chart. The US tops the list though, in terms of deficit. The countries that aren't running a deficit - only ten of them - are pretty small countries, who I think may not have the same credit rating as others.

TL;DR I have no clue what is going on or what I'm talking about. It's a big borrowing circlejerk that is probably self-balancing.
Yup, there is a group of people who think that we should add brakes and lcd displays to horses because cars have these nifty things. For some reason, they don't understand it's ok that horses are not used for everyday travel anymore.

I hate the mess that c++ is. It started out with a object based programming paradigm with c like syntax. Then generics/templates were added. Then we have modern c++. It's 3 different languages crammed into one. The c++ committee has a serious case of nifty-itis.
> As the phenomenon spreads, however, this becomes less and less likely.

To big to fail often is related to who is involved. Are influential big companies, politically connected and banking companies involved? Then it is more likely there is a bailout of some time.
Fixed line ISPs who use cgnat typically have ipv6, tho.
> it is a Service.

No, it is subscription. Much like a magazine subscription, where you are purchasing the magazine each month, you are purchasing credits each month that you can use to buy audiobooks that you then own (yes yes, do you really “””own”””” things in the digital world of licenses, blah blah). So losing access to the app, and therefore the audiobooks you purchased, is not how it is supposed to work.
We will get the money back. It won't have the same value though. 100% of work results in 356% money = inflation.
Going to the moon was a government project. We need the extra 1023 MB of RAM to store all the advertisements and user tracking scripts required for a company to do anything under capitalism.
Yup, there are laptop mining farms in China. Anything with 30?0 GPU in it is instant buy for them.
Texas Capitalism ftw!!! What a mess.
> My theory is that most folks these days learned to type on membrane keyboards where you have to bottom out the keys (often with quite a lot of force, if the keyboard is old)

I hate this. It's uncomfortable. If you aren't old enough to have used a good laptop before laptops could be thinner than two inches, you can think of modern laptop keyboards as the 21st century equivalent of a girdle. You give up a certain amount of comfort, but hey, at least you look sexy.

I guess we won't have comfortable laptop keyboards again until the electronics and battery are small enough to fit entirely under the palm rests and trackpad.
I get your point in a general sense, but if I were in the OPs shoes I would certainly not wait for or expect something like that. He's in crisis mode. He's looking for any job that will allow him to remain at home with his family. He will have to hustle to get that first job which likely won't have any interest in supporting growth like that. That's why I said "leapfrog to the next better job".

Back in the day instruction/certification for things like this would run in the thousands/be in person would be a non-starter in a situation like this. We're in a different world now where instruction like this has an infinitesimally small cost compared to the value it can bring.

The question is whether or not doing this now is the best use of his time, and I would argue yes, absolutely, the earlier the better. Just the education alone is powerful, but having an actual AWS Certified Developer cert will open doors.
...which is not practical and therefore only of consequence for a person of interest, i.e. a criminal or suspected criminal. I'm not saying it isn't a big problem, (suspicions can be invented) i'm just pointing out it is unlikely to lead to a dystopia. I think that laws will be drafted to invalidate most data as evidence in court (since minor offenses are universal and can't all be prosecuted).
Solved meaning it was way better than the average Starcraft player. If we can get driving to even average levels that will be a huge win because it won't get distracted or drunk.
> This is factually wrong. We've been miraculously efficient since 18th century.

Being more efficient than the 1700's is an astonishingly low bar.
No, it's not. There is no "3rd party content", it's just links, the basis for the internet. Anyone can stop their site from being indexed with one line of code if they're not happy with the value proposition. Google offered to stop indexing all Australian news sites altogether but that was deemed illegal because this is nothing but a forcible cash grab by a dying media monopoly that has the Australian government by the balls.
Memory safety is not about what a language has. It's about all the things a language doesn't have, doesn't allow.
> The Celts did in fact inhabit most of Europe in pre-Roman times, or at least very big swathes of it. For example there are some stone-made Celtic-crosses that are popular in what is today North-Western Romania

Celtic crosses are a Christian thing and Christianity only got started after the Romans had subjugated large parts of Europe, so any "Celtic" crosses in Romania are guaranteed to be unrelated to a possible pre-Roman presence of Celtic tribes. (And it's not like putting a cross in a circle is a terribly original idea, so they probably came up with it independently from the Celtic Christians in Ireland.)
> The difference is that the people originally saying bitcoin was nonsense didn't understand it and the people saying lightning is nonsense are the people that do understand it.

You don't think that anti-cryptocurrency people weren't saying the same thing a few years ago (or even now)? Of course everyone believes that they are the ones who truly understand the situation and all their opponents are the ones who are wrong.

> Why would someone use a secondary layer

There are tradeoffs to increasing the block size/rate. If the market overwhelmingly believed that Bitcoin was doing it wrong then they could easily move to one of those other coins. Maybe Bitcoin does have it wrong, but I don't think it's obvious like you are implying.
This won't have an effect on any other workloads?

(I am an ignorant layperson on this topic.)
It's a real shame that companies think that they should be the ones dictating how you use a piece of hardware you bought from them.

It's a further shame that they would artificially hinder their hardware for such purposes.

I will avoid nvidia in the future as a result of this sort of attitude, and I don't even mine cryptocurrency. I have no dog in this race other than a philosophical one.
I would say that what really matters is the interest rate.

Interest rates worldwide are really, really low. In quite a few countries, below zero actually. So the real debt burden, which comes from the need to pay interest, is not really painful right now.

It is not at all clear if such a low level of interest rates can be sustained forever. If it jumps up a bit, heavily indebted countries like Italy and France will be immediately in serious trouble and risk of default.

There is another risk of having interest rate too low: zombie corporations can be kept alive longer by borrowing, unprofitable projects too.
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That optimization is not random. The only possible targets for that function pointer are null and the function EraseAll. Since you're a careful programmer, you are therefore smart and you never call a null function pointer. Therefore the compiler can disregard the possibility that the function pointer is null, so the only possible valid target is EraseAll.
there’s going to be a brisk market in reverse engineering the drivers and getting around this

“RTX 3060 software drivers are designed to detect specific attributes of the Ethereum cryptocurrency mining algorithm, and limit the hash rate, or cryptocurrency mining efficiency, by around 50 percent.”
Cybersecurity Is Like Food Safety: Digital Haccp
He is talking about curl, not all software. But the claim is still BS as debunked 4 years ago by simias: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13966967 7 out of 11 are pretty clearly caused by C being an unsafe language.

When I look at https://curl.se/docs/security.html today, it does not seem to be 70%, but there is still quite a big new things called "double-free", "buffer overflow", ...
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It's very Anglo-American focused, and draws primarily on American and European history.
and that 1gb of ram costs less than $5. That 4kb of ram costs, i bet, way more than the inflation adjusted $5 back then.

And chrome's UI is much more fancy, displays way more data, and has way more functionality, than the UI that was powered by the 4kb of ram.

It's a cute comparison, but ultimately, it's meaningless.
This headline includes private sector debt. Most of that number is private debt.

If you have a mortgage or a car loan or a credit card, you’re part of that number. And you certainly owe real money to real lenders.

Likewise, government debt is still real debt. A not insignificant part of your taxes goes to servicing interest on government debt. That’s because it’s still a real debt owed to real people who expect real interest payments.

Money isn’t some made up concept. We can’t simply print more and declare it all good. Don’t confuse money with wealth, which is a separate concept that underpins this system.
The debt and the money is not "made up," but the "we" is made up. The owed amount will be paid by our children and grandchildren through their taxes. The money will go to foreign countries, federal agencies, central banks, hedge funds, and pension payouts.
Anecdata: I find browser RAM usage varies enormously depending on which specific websites you use.

The Flotato test uses Twitter and Gmail (for the first set; it doesn't specify the sites used for the 2nd set). Both Twitter and Gmail are large, complex, slow webapps which likely do some sort of advanced active memory management (extensive use of service workers, local storage, etc.). They also load mainly (exclusively?) 1st party resources.

The Brave tests use a large varied set of sites[0], which seem to be a combination of simple news & ecommerce sites. There are no complex webapps in the list. Modern news sites do have a reputation for being slow and heavy, but this will mostly be due to 3rd-party resources from ad companies; the sites themselves are simple and lightweight in terms of 1st-party content.

So they seem to be comparing very different browser usage patterns.

Given that, and looking again at the Brave tests: Safari does actually have lower memory usage than Chrome for most of their graphs. It just creeps slightly ahead of Chrome in the later tests.

[0] https://github.com/brave-experiments/browser-comparison-tool...
There's an excellent recent Joe Rogan podcast episode on Spotify with Carl Hart - the fella in this article, for those who want to get a more comprehensive understanding of his position.

He's basically for personal freedom and responsibility, drugs included.

His position is really hard to argue with, given the disaster that alcohol prohibition and this 'war on drugs' has been.

The word heroin has triggered a lot of comments here - just because you've known someone who has ruined their life and feel strongly about it, does not make you qualified to draw conclusions on the effects of drug use at large.
> To me this idea sounds a lot like "why do we need IPV6? Why not keep IPV4 and add a few bytes?" except it's effectively almost the same amount of breakage.

[DJB disagrees](https://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html). Quote:

>The IPv6 designers made a fundamental conceptual mistake: they designed the IPv6 address space as an alternative to the IPv4 address space, rather than an extension to the IPv4 address space.

> Either you're C-compatible or you're not.

If we take this black and white approach then we must say that C++ is not C compatible just like Ada isn't C compatible.

The reality is that C++ being broadly a superset of C was integral to its adoption, even though that compatibility isn't perfect. It enabled easy incremental porting of projects.

This is really just a nit though. I do agree with your conclusions.
I've used Zsh for 15 years or more, and when I started I read the manual. (I realize this is unthinkable nowadays.)

I noted down the things I thought would be useful day-to-day, and started using them. A few months later, I skimmed through the manual again. I still do so, every year or two. My work gradually changes, and I find Zsh has features that are now useful to me.

This is the suggested manpage: https://linux.die.net/man/1/zshexpn
It's a feature of the zsh line editor called "push-line". http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Zsh-Line-Editor.html
Wuffs? Never heard of that one before.

Edit: here's the link, interesting idea. https://github.com/google/wuffs
And we've been doing it for as long as I've been alive. I'm certainly never going to make enough to pay it down, and nobody else in my generation is. So like... who's paying it and when? Or again, do we just acknowledge this whole thing is just a Ponzi scheme to direct more money to the same boardrooms who already have more money than they could ever conceivably spend?

Take all of Bezo's wealth away, and just leave the number there. He'll never know nor will anyone else, because there is nothing you can do with that much money. There's nothing to buy.
Yeah, that seems a bit unfair. You could start any article on the stock market the same way, but it would sound gratuitous.
Why would you hold erring on the side of caution against them?
Facebook should just pay the link tax. They then need to add a link insertion fee for the media outlets, when they are the ones creating the links. Don't pay the fee, don't get any links. Make the fee 3-4x the rate of the link tax to cover added expense of everyday users sharing links.
Said another way, your mortgage PAYMENTS shouldn't be that high. I.e. what the debt repayment terms are of the overall debt of the economy is the important part not the total debt (yes it is important but not nearly as much as the repayment terms).