skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought tptacek was looking for something simpler than systemd-resolved. I was just pointing out the simplicity of /etc/resolver/<domain> on macOS that's been available since, I think, the first version of macOS. It's a nice feature.

In any case, on macOS, you use scutil to adjust resolvers when you change networking state as when bringing up a VPN.
Great response. . . I have some friends (let's call them A and B) who worked together years ago, both solid engineers. One of them (A) is perhaps not a 10x engineer (I kind of have a problem with that term and the way it's tossed around) but pretty damn close.

B told me one day that when A left, the company foolishly failed to offer him a counter offer to stay. The way B put it was "they literally could have paid A one million dollars per year and dumped the rest of the team but they couldn't wrap their heads around that and of course didn't. When A left, the team went right down the toilet and they closed that whole branch of their product line"

A bit of an extreme example, but yes as you pointed out, not one that "the suits" can really grok, or HR for that matter.
Lots of people still need to learn that the primary objective is for the colony to be successful and even if you personally get a high score you lose the game if the colony fails. Also, Wumpus hunting is underrated.
It is still improved. The actually also want to add this kind of check-in (almost done) but it might be blocked by apple/google as the terms of use of the contact tracing API forbids use of additional data.
I haven't logged into Goodreads in ages, but their e-mail updates keep me updated on what my few friends on the platform are or want to be reading. I engage with those e-mails, and have conservations that they ignite.
This article focuses on "better" in the sense of being a successful business, rather than "better" in the sense of being a resource for book lovers. That's a really gross way to think, but he is correct in a sense, and it's why I always preferred Librarything with its wonky, book-nerd centric interface to Goodreads and its growth loops.
I believe a better GoodReads can only be a a non-profit. Maybe something federated. Financial possibilities are almost done for. GR is too big. Event LibraryThing has Amazon money in it.

There was this reco.com (now shutdown) which was more like "recos by famous people". I didn't like that idea but I had anyway checked it out hoping it might become something better. It didn't.

Jinni kind of permanently dissuaded me from building a profile on recommendation sites feeding their recommendation engines only to see a shuttered gate after a while. Though it's actually better in cinema space right now. There are some academic options (or were; not sure what is something like Movie Lens right now)
Then bitcoin miners will buy the old coal plants and we are back to square one
...oh, yeah, I saw "now uses MemorySSA" and immediately thought of the memcpy optimization pass, without carefully reading the entire comment - my bad.
> Aren't some contracts designed to not be readable with long drawn out passages?

From the oleaginous Francis Urquhart in the wonderful original (British) version of House of Cards: "You might think that. I couldn't possibly comment." [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJFiByfiRTA
As an avid reader who has been using Goodreads for years, my reason for not switching to an alternative has almost nothing to do with any of what the author mentions. That reason is purely the promise of stability provided by a site that's been around for longer (not to mention the big-name ownership) - the faith that Goodreads will stay running for years and years into the future.

When it comes to the list of books I've read, I want to set it and forget it - and with a small upstart, there's always the worry that the maintainer will run out of money (or interest) and shut the service down. Sure, most of these book sites have import/export functionality, but why bother with that when Goodreads will likely be around for a long time?
Agree with everything, except for the point about taxes. Income tax for employees, state officials („Beamte“) and self employed people in Germany is exactly the same regarding the tax rates. The difference is social insurance, especially pensions and health insurance.
Without tracking-fed ads, the internet would work like a super powered version of the directory style setup like we had before Google suborned the very idea of 'the web'.

I'd love to see an internet of individual directory sites, some of which could be 'pay for placement', some of which would be hand curated, others could be algorithmically built...

So much better than Web == Google homepage == "What's a search? I type in where I want to go and click on the first thing I see"
In the immortal words of a Hong Kong protestor: "Don't trust china, china asshole".
> You know we got rid of a few of those aircraft carriers we could probably eliminate childhood poverty within 5 years or so

Care to share your detailed plan?
Can I download your non-PHP app, copy and paste into a folder, and get it running after 5 clicks? More important, are the majority of apps of non PHP langs like this?

Most PHP apps out there are dump easy to use. That's not the case even for Python.
Since you call them "spam", I assume you do not want the emails you're getting, rather than saying you want the communication but they're lower quality than you want. If that's the case, I've been a GR member for years and only get emails from them when a particular author does something I've asked GR to notify me about. Implies to me that merely unsubscribing and managing your preferences seems to work.
I disagree, I have cat mint at my house and my cat would sleeps under the shade of the plant while at least a hundred bumble bees collect nector and pollen from the bright purple flowers. My cat eats insects like grasshoppers and moths but was not scared of the bees, or tried to catch any, and many landed on her. Sometimes nature is stranger than reality, cat mint has similar to properties to catnip.

The cats appear to understand the bumblebees, the bumblebees do not pay much attention to people or cats. The mint has direct relationships with both animals and insects. Unless of course if you start rooting around in their underground nests, at which point the will fly toward your head like a mimi drone and force you to stop with their persistent dive bombs. I've never been stung but they get aggressive when protecting brood.

This was at least a 3 way simbiotic relationship.

My cat passed away November 2019, mice live under the cat mint plant now.

I have kittens planned in preparation fo next year's gardening season.

Video is related (shut off audio, it's poor quality):

https://youtu.be/cLm7nBy7M9g

I can't explain the relationships but yet they still persist and can be witnessed in real time.
re: admittance rate trends.

Low admittance rate is a plus for most college rankings so institutions are incentivized to engage in efforts to increase the size at the top of the funnel.

Disclaimer: Princeton alumnus.
It's also about leverage and options. I'm familiar with the software dev world and the circus world and am a professional in both - and I've been on circus contracts where I do practically the same exact job as someone from the Philippines (on the same exact show) and yet get paid 2-3x as much. It's price discrimination based solely on nationality and your alternative options, and I've seen it in person. In fact - I am a dual citizen, native to both cultures (moved at a very young age); if I applied for a contract using my U.S. passport and my foreign passport, I would get two very different offers in terms of compensation, for doing the exact same job.

The people spouting "it's all about how much value you produce" are so naïve and ignorant of their privileges / market realities that it hurts.

With devs the compensations will match only when the good foreign developers have just as many alternatives as the good U.S. developers (or at least close to parity - exact parity will never happen due to jobs that simply can't be offshored - contracts with government agencies, for example)
Genius. Just imagine.

Honey, it’s going to be -27°C (-16.6°F) tomorrow, can you turn the reflectivity to 0% after brewing the coffee?
In front of a judge, or just on HN?
It's nice to see an article about sex on HN. Took me a second to realise that that's a pretty rare topic on here.
The movie is not a nature documentary, it is a love story. He starts out making a nature documentary, but this is merely the context of his relationship with the octopus.
Artistically, developers could do some trippy dream sequences with GANs, where the glitchyness and training artifacts add to the immersions. Because one can sample GANs or mix in latent dimensions, the experience can be tailored individually based on the characters decisions for instance.
>> and mainly affluent politically connected blacks and latinos

Where in the world do you get that idea? I challenge you to provide a good source for the claim that the AA students are either affluent OR politically connected.
Apologies to the Encore team. A bad comment. /A bitter coder
Oracle suited Google for copying the APIs (not the implementation) of the Java standard APIs. It all started in 2010 [0]

Kotlin was Google's backup if the suit went Oracle's way.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_....
Introduction to Cross-Platform Retro Game Development with TRSE
Well, that same team would have trouble even writing complex python apps as well, without types

(yeah I know it has type hints now)
"That means it's not a fundamental property for stock valuation."

Sorry this is not true let me illustrate:

If there is a 9/10 chance that the profits will be $1, and a 1/10 chance that it will be $0, then we can value those profits in present terms at $0.9 (Edit: assuming no issues with cost of capital, time value of money etc. i.e. constant real dollars)

If we can reasonably calculate the profits and risk, then we can make a valuation.

GameStop was not a valuation, it was a stampede.

Also note that everything is subject to whims of speculation, fads etc. etc..
I think private shelving/tracking is an important feature to have in a product that serves the larger business opportunity of book social networks.
> If money is opaque then it also cannot be taxed or seized by judicial process.

Is this supposed to be bad? Look at what the US government does with civil forfeiture. Can't do that with cryptocurrencies and that's a good thing.
Using Systems Thinking to Understand Personal Finance
I enjoyed his story, it provided background without which it would have been footage of an octopus like every other nature documentary.
"Verbeamtung" which you basically won't have any chance of getting in most German states in a IT related job even if you litterally save their ass.

The only way to do money there is by having a position where you can make decisions and then twist requirements for "external tasks" so that "your" company has a good chance to get it. Worse if you don't twist requirements the job is still most likely going to a partially incompetent scam company due to how stupid the whole process it...
How is it safe when it's so volatile and based on speculation?

As someone from a country which has had its currency's value slashed to half 5 years ago, I genuinely don't see how Bitcoin is safe at all. If anything, gold or real estate are safer.

Sure, if it is somehow guaranteed that I won't wake up tomorrow seeing 1 BTC = $30 000, I could see your argument. But is that guaranteed?

I would also like to add that the swings that BTC takes are unpredictable (at least for the common people who would benefit from it being a safe storage for their wealth).
The sentiment around sex work is so fascinating. What difference does it honestly make if you're having sex because you're attractive or because you paid? Either way both people are incentivized and have consented.

If prostitution were legal and accepted in the USA, I'd bet it would shoot up to #1 of all the "vices" (e.g. gambling, smoking, drinking) within a year.
Because borrow checking > GC. When you have a GC, you need several times more memory to run the same program with the same performance as without -- and usually, you have to say goodbye to any sort of determinism in execution time, as well.

What Rust brings to the table is guaranteed memory safety without GC, and all memory is released in strictly deterministic time.

So for an OS, it's much better to bring the good bits of Erlang to Rust.
I’m just glad they used ftp over tftp. Maybe someday they’ll use FTPS but I have my doubts it’ll ever catch on with the popularity of SFTP.
As soon as someone does and it achieves network effect it will be bought by a mega-corp and we'll have to do this all again.
To be honest, I didn't read that screed that far down. But his apologies are the same ilk we saw back in 2000's of how the GPL would never take off.... And look where we are now.

The AGPL will also take off, once we achieve critical mass and say no to SaaS crap we can't run locally.
Actually they aren't long gone at all. Go look at Empire Flippers, Flippa, etc. I build, buy, and operate affiliate and display advertising websites. Lots of sites can make $30 per 1000 visitors just on ads depending on the niche. Some affiliate sites make over $700 per 1000 visitors. Again it depends a lot on the niche.

Also the majority of people do not block ads. This also depends on the niche though. Gaming and tech niches are usually low RPM unless you get targeted affiliate traffic (like you show up on Google for "Best Gaming Laptops of 2021")
We can look at general principles and see problematic couplings and incentives. In fact we could do this ten years ago before the problem grew so large, but there was no political will.

For example, by bundling product sales and web UI, what Amazon (et al) are doing is making it so that customers have to use Amazon's software to shop Amazon (and conversely they're prevented from using software of their own choice). Of course Amazon's software hasn't been designed to benefit the user, but has been designed to benefit Amazon - eg "dark patterns". Hence my call to unbundle the two by mandating API access. A public API is straightforwardly in Amazon's capabilities (it's literally just making a version of their website in a predictable format without all the extra crap), and would tie right into your "services to help the rest of the web be more competitive to Amazon".

Facebook et al are doing the same thing with regards to Metcalfe's law, and a similar remedy would be appropriate.

Not that I think any specific legislation will be anything resembling sensible reforms. Hell, we'll be lucky if it doesn't end up being a boon for big tech.
We do not need to find this randomized-admission institution for your analysis. Just take an Ivy and several state universities of different rankings, and pick students with similar high-school backgrounds (top grades, similar family net worth, etc.). Such students of similar capability must exist, unless we think top universities admit all the top students and there is no one left for lower-rank schools.

Then analyze their careers after college -- this should tell you whether the education of that specific university contributed or not to the student's prospects.
Nothing comes close to Windows Phone usability. Not even today. Just turning Do Not Disturb on Android on or off is more frustrating than threading a needle. I wish they'd bring it back.
"rewards for performance is axiomatically wrong"

I do not find that self evident, our society does not resemble a meritocracy.

But lets accept the premice - what plausible way is there for this "very dangerous' to manifest? We've had arranged marriages too, do they cause disaster?
Conversely, you begin to compete even more with individuals in India etc willing to work for much less.
I once had a very similar communication - and what's worse, the (younger) person's idea of "old" was everything older than 3-5 years.
Wouldn't the reflectivity degrade almost immediately, as dust landed on said painted surface?
I like their no-frills home page better. (Reminds me of Slackware's.)
You guys don't know how wrong you are. I analyze affiliate websites for sale every day.
Yes, the last statement that you made is indeed false, that is,

it is not the case that every true proposition is provable in

Dededkind's theory.
Indded it feels like that. It's like you are paying with your data and here is where you choose the plan you want. Oh, you don't want the pro plan but would rather the free plan? It has less features.
> Moreover, consider that these executable files fly around as container images, and/or are copied between VMs in the cloud, thousands of times per day! Every time, 70% of a couple hundred megabytes are copied around for no good reason and someone needs to pay ingress/egress networking costs for these file copies. That is quite some money being burned for no good reason!

Does the author think the Go authors are stupid blubbering idiots who someone missed this huge elephant-sized low-hanging fruit? Binary sizes have been a point of attention for years, and somehow missing 70% wasted space would be staggeringly incompetent.

Reminds me of the time in high school when one of the my classmates ended up with a 17A doorbell in some calculations. I think he used the wrong formula or swapped some numbers. The teacher, quite rightfully, berated him for not actually looking at the result of his calculation and judging if it's roughly in the right ballpark, as 17A is a ludicrous amount of power for a doorbell. Anyone can see that's just widely wrong.

If this story had ended up with 0.7%, sure, I can believe that. 7%? Unlikely and I'd be skeptical, but still possible I suppose. *70%* Yeah nah, that's just as silly as a 17A doorbell.

This huge 70% number should have been a clue to the author themselves too that they've missed something.
The state funding is only mentioned in connection to soldiers, it doesn't seem like an independent focus of the article.
What you're describing wouldn't work because the interactions between the students would influence the things you're measuring. Students don't exist in a vacuum. It would only be possible if the school's students were entirely random.

Not to mention that as you go lower in rank, yes, there are fewer good students. This is pretty much inherently true (not to say that lower ranked schools don't have good students, which is not true at all, but as a percentage yes it will decrease drastically).
What do you think about project-based roadmaps versus outcome-based roadmaps?
caring too much about others proclivities is a poor substitute for the sin of disrupting access to supply (sex) and demand (release).
I wasn’t referring to fiat currency since that is a terrible store of value. It is guaranteed to have less buying power in the future.

What I was referring to was stocks since they have outperformed government bonds and gold the last few years. Take Amazon for instance. I don’t think the share price is equal to total assets minus total liabilities divided by number of shares. Amazon doesn’t issue dividends so why did the shareholders pay so much for the shares?
Not really, they're selling out and making the same amount of money because the crypto-nuts buying and hoarding them are still buying them at list price. And they are not making use of 90% of the features available on the cards.
As a non-US citizen I was always surprised US universities doesn't require any examination test for the admission.
Counterfactual predictions under runtime confounding
In this particular year, the low number is due to the deferrals from last year and (most likely) reduced requirements in the admissions process.

That said, over the long term, the number of Hail Mary applications is most likely the bulk of the gradual increase in applications. There are a very large number of applications to elite schools that effectively zero chance of being accepted,
and that number seems to be increasing over time.

To be fair, I do think that the overall quality of admitted student is increasing as well, but the improvements are largely seen in the marginal admits rather than the core admits.
I think I have heard of them. I would have done more complex things around bias classification if people had asked for it, but surprisingly there weren't many requests. Ultimately though, it becomes a question of who selects the external classifying sources, so the app dev is still in control at the end of the day.
When looking at acceptance rates of Ivies, it's good to remember that the concept of a "reach school" that counselors push on students means that almost every kid is applying to some school they are not really qualified to get into. These disproportionately end up being top schools like Princeton and Harvard. If you're going to reach, why not really reach? Is the chance of getting into Princeton 4%? No, if you're well qualified to get in, the chance is much higher. If you're not qualified to get in, the chance is 0%. Average it out and you get the 4%-8%.

I think PG said something similar with respect to the chance of getting accepted to YC. Or maybe it wasn't PG and I'm thinking of this: https://medium.com/@robhunter/your-chances-of-getting-into-y...
Don't worry, metal and fiberglass too!

At least with materials if one source disappears, it's not a redesign to use another source (just eats into your margin). Not so lucky when it's critical ICs with whose manufacturers you had long-term deals (for continuing production) until their factories burned down and/or got destroyed in natural disasters.
Creating Your Own Digital Fortress of Solitude
(((rich whites)))
Maybe but I would find even that is more confusing.
The problem is most people do not have a rational basis for the differences in the behaviors you outlined. The reasoning generally rests completely on logical fallacies.
The CoC is working as designed.
Google throws support behind bringing Rust to the Linux kernel
Coding Puzzles with Fictional Setups
I expected mixed advice. That's why I wanted to hear more from people.
How many governments have commited to doing something about the irreversible damage being done to the ocean by overfishing?
Everyone here is going crazy about climate change, when it is very well known information that eating fish is the greatest current contributor to climate change. (See Seaspiracy)
So would you mind explaining what Orange man bad has done differently to any other puppet placed on the US throne?
He withdrew from trash agreements that do nothing to actually improve climate change, yes.
Based on your profile I would guess that you are the kind of person preaching to everyone about using plastic straws while eating your poisonous salmon nagiri.
lol yeah. that does make me happy.
I find it hard to contrast this view with the view that healthcare is a human right. If you take both together it can lead to some nasty conclusions.
And the latest Honda Legend beats Tesla to self-driving level 3.

The two models you mention look very nice, indeed.
> Personally, I'm very excited about Rust in the kernel.

Why?
> It literally tries to run away and he stalks it, it's creepy.

shrug other people who dive in that bay would stalk it, catch it, kill it and later that day; cook and serve it with some nice white wine to their family. Is that less creepy?
Its not the listener who we serve with intellectual property, its the creator. Of course the listener loses no value, because they in fact do not own the intellectual property, they possess the ability to benefit from it.

If there is no protection for intellectual property, its not the listener who loses utility, its the owner of the intellectual property who would like to be rewarded for his work.