skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Googlers are like toddlers with all the toys in the world: they quickly get bored and move on.

Wrong. Googlers are just like other normal humans and they respond to incentives presented to them. I worked at Google and observed their promo / bonus / compensation practices closely. The safest way to get big bucks was to launch something, invest some metric to measure something and make sure there is a lot of movement on that metric, repeat that N times in your promo packet and get your peers to do the same in their peer reviews, get promoted and immediately jump to the next sexy project.

Maintaining an existing service wasn't considered important early on. Then it started getting lip service. After a few years, it started getting some token awards every quarter or so. Finally, some smart VPs even started promoting 1-2 maintainers just to make a statement and have those counter-examples in their arsenal in case someone brought up the incentives for maintaining existing products. But the vast majority of promotions still went to launches.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1

M1 Money supply graph.

As your purchasing power gets eroded away ("stolen" by central banks), we each decide for ourselves how much we want to participate in the propping up a broken system.
I'd be happy if lessons from the '60s-'70s(ish?) could be applied. Despite Mythical Man Month being 'required reading', I still sit in planning meetings where management discusses how they'll make a baby in 1 month because they're putting 9 "resources" on it.
I can't speak about the ISO as a whole for engineering fields, but the ISO standardization process has worked out horribly for the C++ community. Not only for the issues Tim Sweeney points out, but the entire C++ standardization process is defacto a closed-off and secretive process where participation is limited to those who can physically travel from place to place and it's painfully obvious that the quality of features in C++ are much lower than what they could have been otherwise.

A common claim made by the ISO C++ committee regarding criticism of the language is that these guys are volunteers working in a mostly unpaid capacity on the language, and often have to hit tight deadlines to have any shot at getting a feature into the standard, and that's true exactly because of how arcane the ISO standardization process is. It's this pseudo-antagonistic process where maybe one or two individuals are tasked to "champion" a paper in front of their peers and then everyone is supposed to pretend that there's no politics involved and that the paper gets approved entirely on its technical merit.

C++ would have been much better served from ditching that and doing what Java, Python, and Rust do, have broad community feedback and input. It's hard to imagine what beneficial features are in C++ that would not still be there had there been involvement from the broader community of game developers, embedded device developers, desktop software developers and a host of people who use the language regularly, but it's clear many clumsy and awkward features would have been eliminated, including the now 50 ways of initializing variables, broken standard library features like std::variant, the now unusable std::regex, the minefield that is std::random, the upcoming bloated and error prone std::ranges, it's no wonder many C++ development teams are skeptical of the utility of the standard library and just roll their own alternatives.

I hope no other language goes down the road of using ISO to standardize its language.
Since the memory of [this] man runneth not to the contrary.

The Washington Post has for many years been well thought of. Back in the 1960s, Ben Bagdikian said that the problem with The Washington Post is that nobody edited it. Benjamin Bradlee hired him to do so, but he left after a couple of years. By the time I started reading the Post a few years later, I constantly ran into sloppy, badly edited writing.
If you both have full node bitcoin wallets it's possible, just like how it worked in the first place. But having a full node on your computer takes up >350GB of space now, so I doubt there's too many people that still do that.
What is missing in this article is that most developers that want to properly get paid in the Netherlands switch to freelancing. There are a lot of freelance positions where they work a couple of years for 75-95 euros per hour and achieve the 130-200k yearly income (still not as high as silicon valley).
Disclaimer: I work for GM - this is solely my own opinion.

Whenever I hear people in the automotive industry boast about the complexity and lines of code in vehicles I weep and shake my head.
Gates is the biggest farmer in the US (I know it sounds crazy but he is!). I wonder if he'll do something good with all that land and not be part of the problem he normally seems to advocate against. That could be interesting.

Edit: Downvoted in less than 30 seconds. That must be my new record!
> and they don't envision LEO launches using only the first stage.

The bragging rights of being the first to achieve SSTO seem too tempting for Musk to ignore.
The only reason satoshi hasn't been found is exactly because he/she/they haven't spent any of those bitcoins.

(Also, the slightest movement in those coins would likely cause a massive drop in the value of bitcoin, as rational people realized a huge cache of previously assumed out of play coins might start being sold and everyone using it as an investment rushed to exit ASAP to avoid beat that).
I don't think most enum-to-function mappings are distinct sets of concepts.

In my own code, I have used the enum name to map to a set of functions related to that enum value. The association is implicit in the name of the enum value and the name of the functions. No way to mess that up like this.

If it was:

case: KIND_BOX: return parseObjectOfKindBox();

It's no difference. Still repeating "Box".
Perhaps it will be beneficial in the discussion to add examples of other orgs e.g. IETF, Unicode. Unicode spec is fully available[1] and their funding comes from a membership-model rather than a pay-model[2].

ISO's argument is compelling but we see other standards organizations taking different approaches and more or less still finding success.

[1] http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode13.0.0/
[2] https://home.unicode.org/membership/why-join/
The old "all or nothing" fallacy: this thing that is happening is bad, so screw it, i guess we just do all the bad things now.
Do it once, provide a "Don't remind me again" check box and save that for eternity.

The dark pattern is in repeatedly nagging me about this fact.
And which of them are used? None. I can make a facebook clone in my basement and its not worth anything. Thats how network effects function.
I would say no, but I also was very skeptical about them launching and landing SN9 with SN10 just a stone's throw away, so what do I know.
> before finding any evidence for it

Did you see the screenshot with the Amazon ad popup obscuring Google ads?
Seems a bit dramatic.
been using this app for months... my favorite email app in this current market.
I find with excel it takes just as much time to set up a spreadsheet to do what I want as it takes for me to do the same in R, usually a lot more time with Excel. Both pieces of software have learning curves, just to me R is the better tool for the job for working with tabular data. Excel forces you to hardcode your fomulas and ultimately adds a lot of cruft and time wasted, compared to R which is much more modular. That "min(A4, B1+C5)" is liable to break if your spreadsheet changes. R functions on the other hand are pretty well documented, and you could do anything you want in R after following a tutorial for a couple hours. Instead of having to hard code a position, you can refer to it relatively or by some unique identifier, so your calculations still work no matter how your underlying spreadsheet changes or is shuffled around (and familiar formulae like sum and min and max are there by the same names). It's way easier to do statistical tests and plot data consistently in R as well. Oh, and you can export to .csv or .xlsx from R if you'd like of course.
Yes. When the government is too weak, or is government in name only, or is infected with "free market" true believers, it becomes the plaything of the great moneybags. Policy shifts towards "freedom" - i.e. the freedom to use the brute force of capital for personal benefit, disregarding the larger and the longer term outcomes and the greater good.
When I was promoted to mid-level developer at Booking in 2017/2018, the salary range for the position started at around 60k. These days, it's probably in the low 70s.
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Your shock at 600k is understandable, but note that the people pulling those numbers mostly don’t need to exist at smaller or less tech oriented companies.

It’s primarily either senior engineers who consistently have outsized business impact (for instance identifying and building systems that generate tens of millions of new recurring revenue for the company each year), or are significantly beyond senior, such that they’re having a similar business impact as would be expected of the C-suite of a 10-100 million/year company.

When you have a tech company with 10 billion/yr revenue, you need hundreds of people that fit into the above scopes. It’s definitely not most employees, but a career path into those positions becomes possible. Whereas in a smaller or less tech focused business there wouldn’t be enough scope for those people to justify their outsized pay.
> I think we can improve eachother's lives quite a bit if we just kick out the assholes from power.

What other species creates scalable, global solutions to large scale problems? Example (not real, but realistic) - a group of scientists in India create a vaccine that a company in Germany manufactures, so that people in the US can avoid a deadly virus.

Only one I can potentially think of is Fungi, as they appear to have large scale symbiotic relationships, but nothing is comparable to humans.
The interesting part for me, per the nondisclosure and federal law, is that there can be classified information "out there" but that doesn't declassify it! It isn't like technology NDAs where, if you have signed one, you can talk about the secret sauce if it gets disclosed through no fault of your own. Not so with the US Government!

For example, even if "everyone" knows how fast an SR-71 can fly, that number is still classified. And if you have a clearance you can't talk about it because it is classified and you know its classified. So it is illegal for you to talk about its top speed. This is another good reason to avoid getting a government clearance if it can be avoided.
Tangential to this: I started uploading videos to YouTube recently. I was amazed by the fact some trivial things are not possible.

For example: I uploaded videos to my account, and then wanted to transfer the videos to another account. This is not possible. I have to download the already uploaded videos, then upload them again to the new account.

Second: in the Contents view of Studio, there's no way to know if the videos are in a channel, so I selected videos and added them to a channel. Result? The operation is not idempotent. The channel now contains several references to the same video.

This is unfucking believable, as the product has existed for ages and there's no way I'm the only one to have this problem. The worst thing is that, the documentation and all the guids on the internet casually tell you to re-download the videos, and then upload them to the channel. How on earth this flow seemed acceptable is beyond me.

Now, the next step obviously was to sort the videos in the channel by duration or name so I could quickly find the copies and remove them, right? Wrong. You can't sort videos by name or duration, only by upload date or publication date. What in the name of fuck.

If I had time, I'd make a service to do just that. Based on the tutorials and questions and answers on reddit that find it totally normal to re-download videos that are already uploaded in order to upload them again, this is insane.
Maybe I'm not getting it but.... why not Elixir/BEAM/OTP? it already does everything.
They don't. It's frequently been alleged, but is not true. https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/12/28/18158968/facebook-m...
Your example seems perfectly cromulent to me. Obviously an uncharitable reader could interpret it differently, but human language is inherently ambiguous and readers are used to determining how to read lists in context.
Its the other way around. Money is just a made up thing to reduce friction in the economy. Think of an economy where people would still need to "buy" stuff with other stuff. That would waste a lot more energy and straight out would make our economy impossible.
You would be interested in Sabermetrics, which is the use of statistics to quantify the contribution of baseball players to the outcomes of the games they play in. Yacht racing is also a competitive team activity and you could define the productivity of a racer in terms of how much that person's efforts contributed to the position or time their yacht finished a race in. It's a relative measure and would have to be defined relative to other racers or to a fictive 'standard' racer.
Renewables aren't infinite; they are constrained, just as you said, by our manufacturing and natural resources to build vehicles to collect them.

Unless BTC somehow manufactures more solar panels or provides more natural resources, then any resources consumed by BTC are resources that aren't used for other purposes.

Ultimately, we are always limited in how much we can accomplish, and devoting resources to BTC necessarily takes away resources from other uses. The only question, then, is if BTC is a better use for those resources than other things.
The feral child was the concrete example and it's the only one I'm aware of. All evidence points that you have to live with humans as a child to learn how to be human.

And yes, I agree on your assessment of them.
Sometimes Elon time is spot on even if it is very optimistic. There was an interview with him in 2008 saying he thought Tesla could deliver 500,000 vehicles a year by 2020 and they basically made that even with the pandemic.

My hot take was that they skydiver maneuver and landing flip would be the hardest part for starship. They've actually done that part perfectly three times now, but haven't fully nailed the landing bit.
The "electricity per transaction" idea they have in mind is so flawed, I don't even know where to begin. I just don't understand this burning hatred towards something like bitcoin.

People attribute "greed" to the rise of bitcoin's usage, is that supposed to be a moral high road they're taking by avoiding "greed"? People love woke-shaming people into not doing something. Isn't this problem of "greed" going to be present in every system that needs to be bootstrapped from the scratch?
> The difference is important because as Bitcoin adoption increases the number of transactions will increase

No, the maximum number of transactions per block is fixed (actually, the maximum size of a block is fixed, but there's a limit to how small each transaction can be).

> and the cost-per-transaction will fall dramatically.

No, because of the limit on the number of transactions, the cost per transaction will increase (users have to pay a higher per-transaction fee to increase the chance of it being included in a block, and miners are incentivized to use the extra income from transaction fees to buy more power).
The magic of 3rd party anti-DDOS providers is rarely the software/methods: it's just about having bigger pipes. Everyone can figure out how to block volumetric attacks with iptables or whatever, the problem is if you have a 1 gig pipe from your transit provider, it's going to get saturated even before you can do any blocking. The 3rd parties can afford to have multiple 100g pipes with 10gbps commits in multiple DCs -- you share this cost with other customers for when you get attacked. That's kinda the entire point of 3rd party anti-DDOS providers, and not much else.
R would like a word. 45 years of workflows and still going.
During the Windows 7 era it required Enterprise or Server, during the Windows 10 era it requires Pro, Enterprise, or Server (or that Pro for Workstations version you mention). Remember you have to actually enable it though, it's not configured by default.

Perhaps you're thinking of the deprecation of the RemoteFX guest vGPU for the Hyper-V role?
That's any fiat currency, though. But if you think not being backed by something tangible is bad, wait until you hear about 51% attacks...

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/1/51-attack.asp

Kinda like you waking up to a brand-new bank account, with proof! The only thing stopping 51% on BitCoin is the cost of mounting one: were it a smaller crypto currency, it would be at risk. (I'm pretty sure I got that right, but I'll be corrected if I didn't!)
Can you expand a little? It's not clear what problem could come from having a standard process for funding, reviewing, and sharing science. I know there are problems, like the replication crisis, but I'm not tapped in enough to know if/how that kind of thing links to the way science is done.
Depends how far back you go. I'm not a historian, but there are obviously local systems of currency; some used gems, feathers, etc.

Rai stones were used by islanders as a ledger and store of value. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones
it's entirely possible to be submissive and literal at the same time. compare "I deserve a bigger raise" with "I do appreciate the raise I was given, but in light of my contributions to XYZ this year, I was expecting a little more. could you please consider increasing it?". the second is still an unmistakable request but is deferential and does not imply that the decision maker was wrong.
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Silly idea maybe, and will disappear in the ocean of other comments here, but hear out my silly idea:

Since the complaint tends to be "A huge amount of energy is wasted for a single transaction", why don't we try to inflate the value of Bitcoin as much as possible, so one Bitcoin is worth $10 million or something like that, then we can fit more USD value in one transaction, and the energy impact is now lower of that transaction, I guess, when compared to the traditional financial system.

Might be a stupid idea, but eager to hear what you all think.
It's a decidable problem to evolve the Game of Life fowrard a fixed number of generations. The undecidable thing is to determine the eventual fate of a pattern, e.g. 'does it ever die out completely?'. Even then you can answer this question for large classes of patterns, just not all of them.
From what I've heard the problem is still the same promo culture.

When people see their peers getting promoted and earning more money by showing "leadership" and "launch"ing some new project vs. optimizing for end user happiness then this will be the outcome.

Changing culture is very hard because all the people who decide on the employees promotion are those who hacked their way up. So it probably will never change
Yup, my first try I made two major blunders due to confusing knights and bishops. Beat it easily on my second try. (When my allergies aren't acting up I'm 1600 on Gameknot.)
Nielson does do this, but only for users who have explicitly opted into one of the panels, which they pay people to be part of.
You have overlooked that some people can get an arousal from violence. Perhaps not a large enough part of the population to worry about.
Bitcoin vs. Ethereum
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Both TFA and the Bloomberg article it references [1] mention the 100MW power throughput of the battery, which is pretty meaningless without also knowing the energy capacity. For reference, the similar 100MW battery installation in Australia has 129MWh capacity [2].

This project is less remarkable when you read "About 2,100 megawatts of battery storage ... are in advanced stages of connecting to Ercot’s grid." [1].

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-03-08/tesla-is-...
2. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/12/tesla-beats-deadline-sw...
Only fresh, they quickly start to smell off.
It should, yes. Hard to confirm given, for instance, this site uses whoisguard to hide it, but agreed, that should also be sent to.
The only bits people actually know are yyyy-mm-dd and pre-92 implicit joins.
Was there really a 5+ year gap since the last thread? We should not let this happen again.
Greed is bad, jealousy is worse, it blinds people from seeing the truth.
This is also known as 'ask culture' and 'guess culture'
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>Certainly not, but I'm pretty sure that, in order to be successfully polyamorous, one would need to be extremely loving and accepting.

If they were that loving, they would have sufficed with less-amorous... It's because they're not that loving to any single person (but instead all about the quick gratification) that they look to expand their variety...
No one held a gun to your head and told you to uninstall perfectly good office 2003
Can you name some that wouldn't have happened if the world ran on Bitcoin?
Banks are what establish what is money, and taking ourselves as individuals, if one doesn't accept that reality, then one gets out of sync with society quickly.

Historically the events that caused this mode of exchange to be locked in were out of the hands of anyone but key economic players - world leaders and top advisors and the like. Some of them are still alive and have vested stake in the continuance of their own power.

The reset away from this depends on the incompetence and failure of institutions that otherwise permeate every aspect of modern civilization. Financial capitalism's fall will be a very big problem in its own right.