skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
F: A few months ago I'd have said apps. Now after their latest spat with A, maybe they're having a think?

A: web, for sure. That's how they make their money.

A: I wonder how much money they would lose if they shut down their website? Would they sell their stuff on A instead?

N: Who cares, it's only there to make the acronym nicer.

G: Web.
Ory is really interesting but not, IMO, quite there yet. There are a bunch of Kratos features that aren't there but, once they are, I think it's a really compelling option.
We don't know what they said. We are getting second hand knowledge. We know they wouldn't replace battery.

The standard approach here is warranty doesn't cover the part you damaged through misuse. So if you stab the car seats with a big knife, they won't give you new seats, but that doesn't void whole warranty.

Some things do void entire car warranty, those are pretty standard as well. Things like salvage title, submerged in a flood etc.

Others void out powertrain warranty or larger areas, usually pretty logical (flash cars computer with a tune, race car and destroy engine probably one of the more common ones?) Even though just engine may be obviously destroyed, you might lose warranty for entire powertrain (clutch / transmission etc).
Change my mind. Elon Musk is the greatest man alive today.
SpaceX’s Starship SN10 prototype flies to 32,000 feet and sticks the landing
That's almost as much as a credit card sized passively cooled NVIDIA Jetson TX2.
My concern is should we, the US and China, be doing gain of function research at all. This research investigates the possible routes/mutations that viruses can use to infect a different species. However, the results of this research are new variants of viruses that are capable of jumping from an animal to a human host. Is it possible to handle these new viruses safely, maybe not considering the worldwide devastation that might be released though a mistake in handling these invisible pathogens.

I understand that the research does aid our understanding of how a virus might perform the difficult act of jumping between host species in the wild; this is important because it does (rarely) happen on its own. Should we be taking chances by creating zoonotic viruses in light of millions of deaths due to this one (regardless of whether it was a lab mistake or a bat sold at a market).
I generally agree with all of that.

The Lancaster way mentioned here is great for writing assembly code, and learning.

If one is maintaining assembly code, or authoring it, the derivative ideas remain solid today, particularly on smaller or simpler CPUs.
Congrats to SpaceX for sticking the landing. The most important launch of a reusable craft may be its second. Looking forward to SN10 flying again.
Hopefully WebGPU lands in Safari faster than WebGL2, which is already in the works but lagging behind FF and Chrome.
I'm not sure I can answer that without confusing things more, but I'll see what I can do. In an MOS transistor, the gate is insulated, so there is no base current, just voltage. This voltage controls the transistor.

In a bipolar (NPN or PNP) transistor, the current through the base causes a larger current through the collector, amplifying by the beta factor. So the transistor is amplifying current. But the current depends on the voltage between the base and emitter, so from that perspective the voltage controls the transistor too.

Whether you're amplifying current or voltage depends on the circuit, so I can't give more than a handwaving answer.
SpaceX lands Starship prototype rocket for the first time
The original couple locations had _good_ food. AKA food good enough to go there just for the food instead of some local joint. Somewhere along the way I think they must have cysco'ed their food, because the last couple times I went there the food was definitively subpar.

This seems to be an unavoidable side effect of trying to scale like this, but I guess its just something you have to suck it up and move on (there is a up market drafthouse clone near my house, although their food was also on a decline pre Cov19.).
This is how enterprise software is written. Performs exactly as specified, and completely unusable.
"i5" isn't terribly specific. There are new i5s done on 10nm SuperFin.
That was awesome to watch, one step closer to mars!
size vs performance, since Adam and Eve
Incredible to watch although landing was a bit rough and Starship is leaning.

What an achievement SpaceX!

Next test?
Eh, executives seem pretty receptive to the idea of not cutting their own pay during uncertainty or a downturn[0].

My understanding is that retention bonuses are the norm during bankruptcy. Of course, I understand the reason for that. But the reasoning is pretty clearly "we're betting on you not being mobile enough or irreplaceable enough".

Of course it is a bit cynical, and maybe some companies are acting different. But in general I think the cynicism is justified.

[0] https://on.ft.com/3rfL1n4 (paywalled, but link bypasses)
Is it really impossible to believe that a dog whistle culture might pose some danger to a smoothly functioning and cohesive society?
Yeah. Sold it. Then every other job was in seed stage startups.
I don't think so. Look more closely. (x * p) is repeated addition with p integer - we can do this no multiplication involved. Then dividing by q involves finding r such that r * q = x * p. Here, again, we can do this by finding r such that r, added to itself q times, equals x * p. Since q is integer, again, this again involves repeated addition. (It does need an algorithm to find the right value of r. I suppose that trying an arbitrary value, then increasing or decreasing it, would work.)
The absolute mad lads did it. Personally, I always thought "this seems a lot hard than it has to be" about this landing maneuver [1], but here we are.

At this point I'm quite certain they're going to iron out the kinks and will be able to get this consistently right soon enough.

[1] Starship basically does a belly flop to slow down and only flips to an upright position just before landing.
“I think I know what intelligence is; I think I know how brains do it.”
Another great example of why it's so hard to see the obvious flaws in something when you are too close to the product!
I'm so pumped watching this stuff.

Everything looked perfect, except perhaps it set down a little hard. I think I saw it bounce a bit, and it might be leaning a little bit.

One way or another, a spectacularly successful test. Well done SpaceX! I'm keenly looking forward to seeing the first video of a Starship sitting on the surface of the moon and Mars.
It's not cheating. It's precisely the point. There are contexts where multiplication is not simply repeated addition.
>There's no real big theoretical problems in the quantum computer building space.

I don't think this is true...
> Nuclear power isn't cheap. Miners need cheap.

Yep. And I suspect there isn't any power cheaper than the output of an over provisioned wind or solar farm on a windy or sunny day. And they all will be over provisioned. In fact they all assume a faction of nameplate output now.
Rather than nationalize Intuit, if we take for granted that TurboTax is indeed too complicated a product to efficiently replicate, couldn't the government simply strike a deal to acquire the TurboTax IP?

From there, we'd just shut down or deprecate the original TurboTax service, and launch our rebranded fork as a free government-provided service like healthcare.gov (could call it taxes.gov). That would work as a short-term solution to make taxes easier for everyone, and it would remove lobbyist pressure against implementing long-term improvements like simplifying the tax code and automating everyone's taxes by default.
People pay $100 fees all the time in return for goods and services that provide some utility to them. The problem is "blockchains" don't seem to provide much utility to anybody at all.
What's so miserable about working on Ads at FB?
I've found https://www.volkerschatz.com/noise/alsa.html to be a good overview of ALSA's architecture (though many of the things mentioned, like ogg123, are no longer in common use).
Tom Cruise TikTok Deep Fakes are quite good
Meanwhile, EU salaries are stagnating and it's one of the worst places to be a software engineer. An average salary for a software developer in Germany was 46000 Euro per year in 2020, and don't forget, it's one of the richest countries in Europe. The average in EU is even lower... After paying taxes a single person with that salary will only have 2400 Euro per month (~ 2800 USD). The guy who cleans our house in Germany without any education (an African refugee) makes more money than that. Even my friends from Ukraine (which is a much poorer country) don't want to move there, because in Ukraine they only pay 5% taxes and cost of living is much lower. So they can afford a much better life comparing to German developers.
I don't work in cloud, I work in a completely different part of Tech. However, we do deal with big clients, and essentially it was always a different game for them- extended support for products, alpha/patch releases where necessary, because those businesses drive so much revenue and the last thing you want is for the corporation at an organisational level say "We're a <vendor> client".

That doesn't help the smaller developers though - you just have to hope that Deutsche Bank wants the same things you do, which is.... unlikely.
That's OK, Atherton residents are against Caltrain electrification. We must maintain the quaint character of our multi-billionaire enclave!
I just realized that even minimizing HN comment threads has like 1s+ of delay.

Profiling: https://i.snipboard.io/UPhtmH.jpg
Is 900GFlops of GPU compute supposed to be impressive?
It just blew up!

Landing legs didn't deploy so it landed on its body, and fire suppression kicked in, but I guess there was a leak.
Yes I'd be surprised if the fiddly open-source parts of non-XCode toolchains are reliably being built for M1 (or ARM in general) yet. An interesting downside to the M1 macs for sure, at least for a while. Thanks for bringing it up.
Two of the three engines flaming out in the last few seconds, was that intentional? Something similar happened last time too, but at least this time it landed.
That camera angle for the flip was epic. Like watching real life Sci-Fi
It just blew up ha, but did its job.
Historic milestone for spaceflight, I don't know what to say. Very exciting times.
I doubt there's any plan to fly SN10 again. The point of this vehicle was to learn about controlling the flight with the flaps. The landing was a bonus, and reuse isn't part of the plan for the early prototypes (they already have several more in the pipeline, including SN11 which is pretty much ready to go)

EDIT: I take that back... It did fly again...
If you already use both TiddlyWiki and Anki, check out my TiddlyRemember plugin: https://sobjornstad.github.io/TiddlyRemember/
Sure, but there are also strategies to buffer yourself from that. Barring the first year where you have to wait/make it up to the 12-month mark to get the full 25% of your equity paid out, 99% of companies (i.e. almost everyone except for Amazon IME) will vest 1/4 of your annual 25% stock comp quarterly - I've even seen 1/12th-monthly in an offer.

If you're willing to take the short-term cap gains hit you can sell your stock immediately after vesting and reinvest in a total market index or w/e aligns with your investing philosophy. If we're talking hard numbers, you'd still be pulling in 150-200k+ in base salary/cash and let's say, in a non-ideal situation, what would've been your $125k of annual stock vest is now worth 30% less - still not a bad deal IMO.
So this is why I’ve suddenly been getting new interaction on that old tweet! I’m glad I saw this comment, because I was quite confused.
I see. I'm not a real mathematician, I just dabble in it on occasion. And I fully admit: my math professors always criticized my proof constructions throughout my life, so its definitely not something I was ever that good at.

I'll happily take your advice however! Proper mathematical rigor is always something I appreciate, even if its something I'm not very much practiced at.
It did land, then exploded right now. There was a fire at the base of the SN10 and apparently got to the tank after a few minutes. 99% success. Next time for 100% hopefully.
Impressive how they seemed to have a bit of time in-hand too. It came in very gently to begin with at least.
I think the lean is expected, I’ve been predicting it. The vehicle lands on only one engine at the end which is off centre, so the landing legs are going to get asymmetric forces on landing. Also these are only interim leg designs.

Oh, keeblewey!
Nope, they actually launched (eventually).
... aaaaand kaboom.

NASA Spaceflight guy: "That. Was. AWESOME!" - that was great.

What a win.
Many of the cultures cited in the article do indeed have strong norms against divorce. I don't think any stereotypes need be involved.
I've seen that way too many times. "Why doesn't this link in the internal console work?" "Oh, after you click it and get the error, you have to remove the trailing dash character and refresh." "Weird, I wonder how this slipped by Jared in QA when he tested it. We better let him know." "Don't bother, Jared is the one who showed me how to remove the dash...."
Maybe this is falling into the trap that OP wanted to avoid but I think you're right. Sure, if I moved to the Bay Area my income would go up by 10-15%. But about half of that would go straight to taxes, and IMO the remainder wouldn't be enough to set me up with a comparable quality of life.
He's doing a lot of important things. He's a pretty lousy man, in my opinion.
I’m curious to see what he’s say now, given how strongly he made the claim that it was:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26308271
I think that problem is that expressing SLIGHTLY different opinion, or sometimes even refusing to express opinion automatically causes angry reaction.

Source of tiredness is not, that "left" side is at fault or "right" side is at fault. It's level of polarization of almost every public discussion, that makes me not want to join them at all.
Target demographic plays huge role in validity of your claim.
My experiences with Flutter have been generally impressive and pleasant, but I feel like it's a great GUI framework for an imaginary mobile ecosystem. You can quickly put together a beautiful UI, but as soon as you want to interact with the filesystem, or run a foreground service that won't immediately be nuked by Android, it's completely unclear how to accomplish this, if it's even possible.

There are lots of libraries for abstracting over the differences between iOS and Android for a lot of these things, but it turns out the least common denominator between the two doesn't leave you with much exciting functionality.
Not the first time this happens. Reminds me of a case where they had to reverse-engineer parts for one of the stockpiled atomic warhead types.
> too much young JS devs who know nothing else

The problem is not the language or framework, is that very few people/devs/businesses actually care about performance anymore, so they just implement the quickest solution without even thinking about the performance impact.
Sure but presumably many developers who are deciding whether to adopt Flutter aren't only targeting a population of you and other people in this thread. The fact remains that this is not a significant issue for most users and rational developers will weigh it as such against potential benefits that Flutter provides.
I wish they would ship a Surface Pro like form factor with touch and tablet functionality. iPad Pro with MacOS basically.

Remote development is the name of the game for the backend, for frontend the M1 chips seem capable enough and can fit the form factor easily.

When I'm doing focused work I use an external screen/keyboard/mouse, the only times I use laptop ones are when I'm trying to get work done in a coffee shop or something like that - I even travel with BT keyboard/mouse because the laptop ones make me unproductive.

And for media consumption and casual browsing, couch surfing, travel, bed shopping - the laptop form factor is clunky, a tablet is a much better device.

Maybe I should just give up and buy both, but I wish I could have one device for everything (even if it costs as much as both of those combined)
During the escalation of the Vietnam War, the Air Force ran short of jet transports and decided to pull a bunch of WW2 era propeller transports out of mothballs and put them back in service. The mechanics, however, complained that they followed the instructions to the letter on tuning the engines but could not get them to develop the power they were supposed to.

The AF finally hired a bunch of old WW2 airplane mechanics. Those mechanics never looked at the manual, they just listened to the engine, made few adjustments, and the engines were soon singing at full power.
Enterprise customers with Enterprisey wallets.

Edit: Ping Identity might be a good place to invest, they look a bit low right now, and they support cloud and on-prem.
Platforms being ios and android, not mobile and web.
My only potential line of argument is that he might be an alien.
Seems legit. I'd usually prefer documentation to reflect best practices, and sarcastic or satirical stuff would only add some layer of uncertainty or misunderstanding (as per the maintainer's own commit message). While potentially fun or culturally valuable, I'd prefer such stuff would be external to official documentation.

Edit: this twitter thread appears to be the backstory for what led to maintainer deciding to remove it (cw for foul language heh) https://twitter.com/LiaSae/status/1367071124383797256

After reading through the discussions I do have to agree such "fun" is not really contributing to the documentation and just leads to misunderstandings or confusion (such as this very instance). Just didn't really need a bunch of outrage to reach that conclusion IMO :P
Cbonsai: Grow bonsai trees in your terminal
I might imagine that Google Inc could sell a product to Mozilla Inc which they could embed in their Firefox browser, enabling them to sell FLoC data to Google. For example.
You have it precisely backwards.

If the price goes up then it becomes more profitable to mine, so it becomes viable to use more power.

There is no mechanism by which the cost of mining affects the price.
I don't really mind the ads on search engine as long as they aren't tracked and are based on the search. This is the way startpage does it.
KABOOM!

"That. Was. AWESOME!"
- NASA Spaceflight guy
I'm a huge, long time fan of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, and I've found inspiration in some of the things that Elon Musk has shared over the years.

> greatest man alive today

I don't think that's a characterization that can be sustained or not with any level of objectivity.

What I am sure of is that for various reasons, good and bad, Elon Musk is a very polarizing figure, and his missions are best served by studiously avoiding anything akin to lionization or hero worship.
Prepping for 3+ months is definitely not the baseline. I'd really need some convincing that you're getting any real incremental benefit past a week of interview prep. There's not that much ground to really cover and at some point you're just solving different versions of the same problems over and over again.
Someone would filibuster it. There’s really no hope.
Can you perfectly calculate 1/6? sqrt(2) has a similar exact representation as a periodic "sequence"; its continued fraction is [1;2,2,2,2,2,...].

That's of limited use if you're trying to measure something, but in that case, conceptual representations are out (where the symbol √ and a picture of a square are equally valid), and you're choosing between a geometric approach where your accuracy is limited by the quality of your tools, or a symbolic approach where your accuracy is limited by how much accuracy you want.
> Wonder who buys them next

Cisco or Salesforce
You think the Hitler imagery is obvious? I would have never seen it.
From a business perspective, this highlights the relative unimportance of logos.

Startup founders often obsess over things like logos.

A logo should not be offensive (which this logo apparently was to some).

Otherwise, no sane customer will choose or abandon your company because of its logo.

I didn't even know this specific Amazon logo existed until this kerfuffle happened. And I'm sure I'm far from the only one of their millions of customers who didn't even know this logo.
Eh, they did the work to change it, the diff is pretty inconsequential and it seems like enough people empathize/sympathize.
"Editing is a rewording activity." - Epigram on Programming 110 (https://cpsc.yale.edu/epigrams-programming)

I'm curious why this post has survived so long, it's the first time I've seen shitposting reach the frontpage here.
SpaceX seems to have mastered the belly flop. Landing is getting there.
Unlike a zero day, there still remain a number of important factors (haha) to actually break a large number. But crypto systems are special because they rely on trust. The mere sign of weakness is sufficient to kill that trust. A sufficiently resourced state actor may even be ahead.. we don’t know
and too lazy to give a shit
Every day people have innocuous conversations such as "Ohhh, look at how cute that Border Collie is. I heard they're herding dogs and are very intelligent. I wish my Lab was half as intelligent as those Border Collies..."

When it comes to humans, it's just "purely socioeconomic factors" causing intelligence differences between races. The alternative is simply too morbid for our "nice" liberal society to accept.

I would argue denial of reality always causes more suffering than it purportedly "prevents."
I think it will be this for electronics, and hopefully telsa will be able to provide this for cars. If I cant own it fully, atleast make the subscription service completely hassle free and worth it.
This is a form of "programmer humor", something you're probably familiar with if you're a grumpy old programmer. I think it's a good sign that a new generation of devs also have a decent sense of humor, but I guess it's all subjective.
Greater population, increased competition for fewer resources/jobs, more stress about the future/less hope, more people living in dense/anonymous cities, more mobility, more distractions, less community, less IRL communication and socialization in general, worse social skills, overworked parents didn't teach them how to interact with others properly, extended adolescence, and more Hikikomori.

People don't have sex when they're depressed, overweight, never go outside, and play video games all day.
Libalsa is there in FreeBSD ports, but it's only for backward compatibility with Linux, and it's only userspace parts. The kernel implements OSS API.
I blame the capitalist oligarchy. Some context would be nice though.
Does anyone use AWS or other cloud providers to mine crypto? Can't imagine it's profitable today, but wondering if there was anybody leveraging that in the early days to mine without buying a bunch of equipment.
Ideally there would be a "tax dashboard" on the IRS site where you could log in and see your (YTD):
- Income reported
- Taxes paid
- Tax credits and deductions
- Expected balance (+/-)

Then at the end of the year, you'd log in and click one button to verify the numbers and either pay or get a check.
FTU does at least direct you to the correct forms for your situation, tell you what to do with deductions etc.
Yes, it's the biggest lie of the 21st century. Every scientist that does not agree with the "consensus" on the genetic-IQ link is almost always fired and ostracized from academia.

Even James Watson saw the same fate.
the uk joining the eu common market in 1993 is what triggered the removal of immigration and customs checks on the ireland border. the gfa in 1998 led to the end of military checkpoints
Maybe with more unions the US would be richer? Maybe it's not the cold weather that makes Norway rich...
> It did fly again...

One last time.