skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bingo. I’ve always thought it was the NSA, CIA, or maybe UK or Israel but I doubt the latter two. Especially since Satoshi’s wallet is so large and hasn’t moved.

Bitcoin has to make it much easier for 3 letter type agencies to follow money.
I just think there are easier ways to debug your code than including logging statements between your lines. And in some environments I have never felt the need to do so.

I use the browser debuggers as well but I never saw a JS stack trace approaching readability of a C# stack trace, and there are also other things that make the entire debugging experience more troublesome. Maybe that's just because I have very little front-end experience (and no workflows and IDEs properly set up to work with particular frameworks). Or maybe it's because of the JS ecosystem. Threads like this one make me lean towards the latter.
Almost all new houses are built with heat pumps where I live because it's kind of a no-brainer in those situations. And I see one old house after the other being wrapped in new thick isolation.

But heat pumps in old homes just aren't a thing because it's expensive and a lot of work to adapt the house's existing heating. People do understand it, they just don't want to bother with that.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/201...

https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/34400/how-... -- Potentially 60 miles, if you consider The Florida Everglades to be a slow moving river.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Average-water-depth-m-an... This site lists 30m as "average" for river width. No clue what rivers they were measuring.

https://opb.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/buac35-sci-riverwi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River

It seems there is no readily available canned answer for average river width and I've already grown bored with this rabbit hole. Note to self: Vernacular measures unwelcome on HN.
> but you can generally buy things with as low as 3.5% down

no way. It is so competitive here that buyers are inundated with all cash offers.
Go ahead, post them. I think there are _some_ and I think crypto is really, bigger than most people give it credit. But there is a lot of crap and hype out there.

But just posting them instead of threatening would lead to better discussion overall.
> When I look at that list, Jeff Bezos is #1. The first woman on the list is at #10 and inherited her wealth. Are you looking at a different list?

I think the comment does refer to Jeff Bezos. Here is the relevant section from Wikipedia:

"At the time of his birth, his mother was a 17-year-old high school student and his father was 19.[17] After completing high school despite challenging conditions, Jacklyn attended night school while bringing baby Jeff along.[18]"

IMO a 17 year old attending night school is pretty low in terms of economic status.

Also I am sure there are other cases but I know about #17 (Mukesh Ambani) and his father was a petrol bunk attendant - pretty low down even by Indian standards.
There is a lot of tax revenue to be had - but we still can't excuse the elephant in the room which is that tech companies avoid taxes like nobodies business since the tax code still isn't well suited to actually evaluating how they earn money.
I think what you’re missing here is the NVLink part. The fact that you can get a small cluster of these linked up like that for 400k, all wrapped in a box, makes HPC quite a bit more accessible. Even 5 years ago, if you wanted to run a regional sized weather model at reasonable resolution, you needed to have some serious funding (say, nation states or oil / insurance companies). Nowadays you could do it with some angel investment and get one of these Nvidia boxes and just program them like they’re one GPU.
> Using console.log() for JavaScript debugging is the most common practice among developers. But, there is more…

Cut your debugging time, knowledge of console.log, and mental churn in half and set up your tooling to use a `debugger` statement. The console.log method may be used heavily but it’s actually a bad practice and often leaves code littered with log statements. Even for the purpose of logging itself you should use a logging library for serious development.

You should use a debugger in every language you can for development.

Neat tricks though.
Stock based compensation goes to zero in bankruptcy.
This all sounds incredibly nefarious
Early return can get into trouble if you're talking about a function that has a fair bit of state to unwind in the event of an error. Open filehandles, allocated memory, general cleanup stuff.

That said, I much prefer early return whenever it makes sense. In functions that do have a lot to unwind and many possible points of failure I'll pull out the old villain 'goto' and have the unwind code at the bottom of the function.

Strictly sticking to only one approach is usually a mistake. One that is repeated a lot in computer science. There are schools of thought that if everything is the same it will be easier to understand, but what happens is problems that don't exactly fit the mold end up being solved in awkward and inefficient ways. Or development gets slowed because you have to refactor your problem around the tools instead of the other way around.
I don't have the time right now to respond, but I appreciate the depth of your response and you have given me a lot to think about. Cheers.
Wow, that is impressive, thanks. I confirmed this with godbolt.org at -O2.
I suspect that was in reference to Jeff Bezos.
The problem with this position is its naivety. Are you going to say with a straight face that all potential founders are equally likely to be funded by investors purely on their probability of success, and not via false signals and stereotyping if not straight up bigotry? That there aren't credentials that can be effectively bought to gain access to that?

Markets are just markets, not oracles of unbiased merit. Making whatever the market does morally normative as you're doing is frankly, evil. They're useful tools, but that is all. They should not be a religion.
"Make the world as comfortable for your generation as older generations did for themselves."

Make the world as comfortable to the early adopters
FreeBSD SmartmonTools QuickSetup
https://web.archive.org/web/20210410184412/https://www.spect...
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Yes? No? Yes?

Bitwarden has the advantage of being both self-hostable and being available hosted, and I found it to be similar enough to 1password to not substantially interrupt my workflow. In fact I was missing the URL matching feature in 1password (and their ages-old version of the public suffix list too).
They said GitLab integration is coming, but until then there's only GH, unfortunately.
Legally, you can run macOS anywhere you want. Apple cannot and has not stopped anyone from doing that. There is no court of law anywhere which will prevent an end-user from doing what they want with macOS.

However, you most certainly are paying for the OS whenever you buy Apple's overpriced hardware. Perhaps the receipt does not state this fact, but we all know that the only way anyone will get macOS is if someone gives Apple money. So, the people giving Apple money are all paying for macOS... And if you're one of those people, you've paid for macOS.

Saying that you're not paying for the OS is like saying that you're not paying for solar panels when you sign a 15 year deal with some energy company middle-man. It's like saying that you're not paying the full price of a smartphone when you buy it subsidized from the phone carrier. You actually end up paying more for the solar panels and the smart phone in those cases. In this case, you're most likely paying more for the OS as well.

If you want to play games with semantics, anything you want can be true.
Personal experience. But, my experience is merely anecdata. Does it hold true in general?

It seems to. Suppose your company consists of ten people, and its valuation rises to $10M. The value must have come from those ten people. If they weren't at the company, the company would not be worth $10M.

It would be easy to dismiss that example too. After all, I made it up. But that kind of example happens all the time in startups. It's such a striking correlation that you'd now have to explain away many hundreds of examples as coincidences, or claim they're due to other factors like the founders' connections, upbringing, being in the right place at the right time, etc. Those things do matter -- in fact, you'd be hard-pressed to start a successful startup without at least one of those -- but you can't bullshit your way through a startup. Either you've made something people want, or you haven't. And if you haven't, your upbringing and personal connections won't change the fact that your startup is doomed.

So it seems the simplest explanation is probably true: a small group of smart, dedicated people can do enormously valuable work, given the right conditions. And pg's paragraph seems to explain those conditions pretty well -- at least in my experience.
> Hm? That paragraph is accurate.

No, the assumptions in it are ridiculous in context:

1) "You could probably work twice as many hours as a corporate employee": Okay, maybe you can "work" 80 hours a week, as in "be in the office 80 hours per week".

2) "if you focus you can probably get three times as much done in an hour": No. You can't stay focused for 11.5 hours a day, especially not 7 days in a row, especially especially not week after week after week.

3) "You should get another multiple of two, at least, by eliminating the drag of the pointy-haired middle manager who would be your boss in a big company": No. First, that's already covered by "being focused" in point 2. Second, there will be other aspects that will drag down your raw coding output, like clients, employees, legal matters, or organizational issues. They can be worse than your boss.

4) "Then there is one more multiple: how much smarter are you than your job description expects you to be? Suppose another multiple of three": No. At 80 hours per week, you're not three times smarter/more productive per unit of time than an average employee at 40 hours per week.

Look, I'm not saying that an equivalent compensation of $3M per year for a founder is wrong. I'm saying that those numbers are bullshit. Everyone can make up figures, multiply them, and arrive at any conclusion they want. That doesn't mean there's any truth in them.
While I agree that there can be pitfalls to parsing, most of the time it isn't as bad as this. The "test" or "[" program has a unique challenge in that it never gets to see the quotation marks or variable references, because the shell already expanded them.

So when test sees that one of its arguments is the string "-f", it has no way to know whether that string came from a variable like $var, a quoted string literal like "-f", or just the text -f. Most of the time if you're writing a parser for your own DSL you don't have this problem. You can tell the difference between the string literal "+" and the operator +.
Apple throws a lot of transistors at their 4 performance cores in the M1 to get the performance they do - its not clear that approach would realistically scale to a workstation CPU with 16, 32, or more cores (at least not with current fab capabilities).
Every other industry in the country being an instruction manual.

If you ever thought this was going to be about a multi-decade long organic merchant adoption story, you were gullible af.
If you're already a UNIXy kind of person, you might want to check out https://www.passwordstore.org/.

If you're comfortable in the UNIX world, it's easy to migrate from all the big players, it's trivial to host the encrypted passwords on gitlab.com or git@tunnel-to-your-lan.com.

To me, the key differentiating feature, that made it better than bitwarden + co, is that it implements nothing on its own, it's just a wrapper around git, gnupg, etc. This also means that, 10 years from now, if you want to migrate to a hosted solution, you can (since everything is plaintext at the deepest level, migration-out should be easy).

It has mobile clients / multiple-device-sync, too. And it's easy to manage, because it's just git under the hood.

I hadn't heard of them before doing some deep searching in this space recently. It's a product with zero marketing budget, but a good-sized community, so you wouldn't hear of it unless you were googling search terms in the space.
For reference, the people mentioned are #1 Jeff Bezos, #7 Larry Ellison, #9 Sergey Brin, #13 Mukesh Ambani, and #18 Zhong Shanshan.

And
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhong_Shanshan "He dropped out of elementary school during the Cultural Revolution and found work in construction."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Jiayin "Xu Jiayin was born to a rural family in Jutaigang Village, ... His father is a retired soldier who participated in the Second Sino-Japanese War in the 1930s and 1940s. After the establishment of the Communist State, he became a warehouseman in his home-village. Xu's mother died of sepsis when he was 8 months old. He was raised by his paternal grandmother. After high school, he worked in a cement product factory for a few days and then worked for two years at home."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Yinglin "Qin was born in 1965 in Hexi Village... He grew up in poverty.

In 1982, when Qin was in high school, his father saved up money and bought 20 pigs, but all but one died. This motivated Qin to study pig farming at university, so that he could help people in his village earn money raising pigs."

I'm not sure billionaires like Eric Yuan ("collected construction scraps to recycle copper for cash"), Jay Chaudhry ("Chaudhry was born in Panoh, a Himalayan village without running water"), Jan Koum ("When he was living on welfare, Jan Koum's family collected food stamps a couple of blocks"), Isaac Perlmutter ("He emigrated to America, arriving in New York City with only $250"), and Romesh Wadhwani ("He contracted polio at age of 2") count as "super rich in your own country" that would thus "have a lot of opportunity".
Well, no, the main issue usually is that people are not using percentiles. Yes, you can find rare cases by doing this. But you will get false positives I guess.
If you ever get the chance to see "Spotswood", a real niche Indie movie starring Anthony Hopkins as a man with a cold heart who discovers his own humanity through the power of slot car racing (yes way), take it.
Some people deserve to be canceled.
Just because I don’t think most people should be “canceled” doesn’t mean I think nobody should be.

RMS is a monster.

From the horses mouth:
"I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing."
I'm a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and rape. I routinely speak on such topics in order to educate people and try to advocate for survivors, among other things.

I am routinely accused of being "a rape apologist."

I have no idea if Twitter is really a bastion of online free speech or not. But I do know that if you do anything meaningful in this world, people will drag you for it and one of the most common attacks is to claim you are doing the exact opposite of your intentions, whether that is true or not.
From the FAQ “the LICENSE file is 54.3 KB (compressed)” - that is pretty large amount of uncompressed text! I couldn’t find the full licence file (presumably containing all the licences of library dependencies).
Because 20K is a smaller number than 100K.

Taxes work with the basic assumption that people need some money to live, there is a humanitarian aspect to it if you see the govt positively or you can say, people in govt dont like thier head too far away from their bodies..
JavaScript Systems Music (2016)
Yes. I don't see that a person is being treated more fairly working in a 1,000 employee company where the CEO earns $1m than working in a 10,000 employee company where the CEO earns $10m. The arithmetic says there's no difference - the "CEO tax" is the same for workers in each.

The average size of companies in the US has increased dramatically and there has always been a very strong correlation between CEO compensation and the size of the company they lead. By ignoring this obvious confounding variable, the article undermines - maybe deliberately - the reader's ability to interpret the data. But then I believe the author's purpose is to generate heat/outrage rather than light.

I mean it seems to me that an obvious question raised by this trend is why are companies getting bigger on average? And why are companies bigger in developed economies than developing ones[1]?

Is there a natural limit to this growth in average company size? Or are we heading towards the entire economy being dominated by a few super-massive corporations?

[1] https://markus-poschke.research.mcgill.ca/papers/mposchke_sk...
That Twitter thread is only including pure bandwidth. What about all the highly redundant networking equipment ( firewalls, routers, switches, Nitro offloading, DDoS protection, attack detection), software for all those abstractions you get ( VPCs, subnets, security groups, vpc peerings, Elastic IPs etc. ) and engineers? None of what i listed you pay for directly, and bandwidth seems to be the most reasonable product to lump it all in.

It's like going to a restaurant and complaining about the price of steaks because beef should cost a lot less. There's a ton of other things involved, and yes, they probably have a decent margin, but not as much as you initially imply.
I was looking at render as an alternative to heroku the other day and I think that the only thing that made me think that I would definitely stick with heroku for now was the point-in-time restores for heroku postgres, which render seems to lack at present.

A point-in-time restore really saved me once (allowed recovery of important data after an accidental delete), but I am interested to know if other think I am over-blowing their significance in a production system? Are there other strategies which make PIT backups less important?
Are you even a customer if you don't pay Elastic any money ? Your a user, sure, but not a customer.

These other opinions and negative voices you reference come from actual customers who pay Elastic large sums of money, and they feel they don't get good value and service for that money they're forking over.
Evolution of a Chat Widget
> I pay about 10€/mo for Spotify.

Consider not; the majority of that money just goes to Spotify. If, every month, you paid 10€ to a random artist you liked (or split 10€ between all of them), the artists would receive probably more than two orders of magnitude more money. (If I remember correctly, anyway.) Of course, this assumes you can get the music elsewhere.

If Spotify's too convenient to give up, there are several Spotify download tools you can use to get the music onto a device that doesn't support Spotify (e.g. MP3 players). Lots of them seem to actually grab from YouTube, but perhaps if you use the Spotify API, you might be able to do it?
I feel like there's a non-zero chance they named it Grace instead of Hopper so their new architecture doesn't sound like a bug or a frog or something. You could be right, though
OSHWA board member [1] here and developer advocate at Open Robotics (the people who maintain ROS) here.

May I suggest you take a look at microROS[3]?

I am also super excited about OSHWA certified open hardware [4].

[1] https://certification.oshwa.org/
[2] https://www.openrobotics.org/
[3] https://micro.ros.org/
[4] https://certification.oshwa.org/
I've come to appreciate so many old FOSS tools that are incredibly well built and thought of in their design.

Emacs and org-mode (and many things GNU) have started to make more and more sense to me in this day and age.
Scheme did not "look like Java" so was ruled out on that basis (also on others which I have discussed at length in several interviews, most recently with Lex Fridman).
Yes and as you say, you don't need interpretability for those use cases. You need performance, as in most situations. Also, people cannot explain why they heard a sentence, they just heard it.
So explainability doesn't really mean anything in speech recognition. Performance is key, and dragon was used because it was better.
From what I hear, Microsoft has been extremely active in hiring tech and skilled workers in Kenya this year. Really hoping they keep it up!
they have as many people dedicated to the capability as needed. at least the capabilities have owners, which from my experience is not trivial for an organization to achieve.

curious if others have noticed this as well (capabilities without clear owners)? what does this depend on? time? company size? both?
Fork of Google crosvm
It's a selling point if the code is more about being reading material than being a daily driver
So was the secret ingredient... the tiny amount of finely minced fresh onion?

Looking at the final recipe they came up with, that's the only one that seems like you might not guess.

Garlic powder is the only other non-standard ingredient, but I feel like whenever you're looking for the "missing secret ingredient" in a savory dish, garlic powder, onion powder and mustard powder are the first things you'd think of, along with MSG and very occasionally nutmeg or pickles/pickle juice. (While paprika can only be secret in darkly colored dishes, otherwise you can see its specks.)
Correct. Sorry you’re getting downvoted for something I should have made more clear.
"Make the world as comfortable for your generation as older generations did for themselves."

Make the world as comfortable for the early adopters [weighted from latest to earliest, so long as you're not left holding the bag] as the older generation had [before regulatory capture via industrial complexes and automation pooled more and more money to fewer and fewer]; FTFY.
Buy monero on some KYC, move it non-kyc and buy whatever.
Anecdotal. In Africa my observation is that people who grew up poor are more driven than the ones who grew up middle class. Kids of middle class parents often can not tough it out and many tend to be spoilt. Many of my middle class contemporaries live below the standard of living they grew up in. They are less successful than their parents.
Was reading this thinking the biggest pain is being unable to wrap console.log and keep line numbers.

But some Googling [1] shows that this has now been fixed by being able to blackbox your wrapper scripts.

[1] https://gist.github.com/paulirish/c307a5a585ddbcc17242
So, let's take Jeff Bezos. Googling a bit, an article allegedly updated Mar 13 says he has 55.5M shares, which at AMZN's price of $3379 is $187 billion; I'm sure both multiplicands have changed but that's probably not far off from the truth. What bank accounts is the $187 billion sitting in? If he sold all his stock, where would that money come from? If he then spent it all on a fleet of private jets, how would that impact the economy?

And if we split Jeff Bezos into 1000 individuals, each of which had about $200 million, and each of which spent half of it on mansions and yachts and invested the rest... would that be an improvement?