skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Knowing what I know about the people who have left (so far) they are very much going to miss the people who have left. I don't know all of them as I left 5 years ago, but the ones I do know are all incredibly competent at what they do, including the ehtire iOS team.
> What prevents China from deciding to eliminate the Bitcoin threat to its control by taking over the Chinese miners and launching a 51% attack?

China isn’t stupid.

If they 51% attacked Bitcoin (completely contrary to their self interest), everyone would switch to a different hash algorithm and now China has burned tens of billions of capital, hurt their reputation, and achieved nothing.
> That they’d regret later

You can’t regret stuff when you’re dead
There are actually a number of countries (and US states) that now have euthanasia laws. We got there first, but that also means we didn't get to learn from anyone. There are certainly problems with the Dutch laws, but there is no political will to change it, because it works 'well enough'.

I've extensively studied the Dutch euthanasia law and practice and think I know the right things to say to convince the doctor, but it really shouldn't have to be that hard.
> they may take a rash decision that they’d regret later

Sorry to be that guy, but: "how?"

Our inacceptance of suicide and related concepts is entirely based what it does to others
That's a good question but for the wrong audience. Take it with the US Congress who has adopted so lopsided copyright law under the heavy lobbying of the music and movie industry in the wake of Napster.
I know we’re basically in agreement, but I’m just curious whether the multiple comments asserting that misgendering people is the “neutral” position have affected your opinion on how politics bans can be weaponized.
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People are mad at google for _automatic_ takedowns, as they enable bad actors and are arguably not in the spirit of the law.

In this case here, github does not employ an overzealous automated system. This is a manual DMCA claim and the issuer is the single actor here, who could be to blame.
Is that a pun, because this was done by Pearson?
I used to use Arch with i3-gaps and then switched to mac. I also have an M1 air. Mac OS is way better to use than linux. Everything just works, security is built in, and it has commercial support.

I strongly recommend it especially if you have other apple devices because the ecosystem _just works_
> For my money we’d end up going toward many-core with loads of simple in-order cores on a die.

That helps with multitasking and parallel-friendly workloads, but lots of stuff isn't easy to make multithreaded.
It could be like you said, but poor choice of word if that is the case.

But are you even able to see that someone had a seizure from looking at an EEG after it happened? I was under the impression that it sort of have to be happening while you're measuring.

I've been through multiple rounds of both MRI and EEG, mostly to be able to rule out things like brain damage as a precaution. I'm a little fuzzy on the details as this was done so long ago.
Parody is a fair use defense, so you have to go through a lawsuit to be able to assert it.
There's no indication that anything like that alternative would have happened.
> A solid store of value should not fluctuate in value by 5%, 10%, 15% on a fairly regular basis.

What do you think it should look like when an asset monetizes from nothing to one of the world’s largest assets in under 15 years? A nice smooth geometric curve?
Brazil is one of my favorite films of all time, which is unsurprising given how much I enjoy Terry Gilliam's other work as well. The first time I saw it I was in high school and my drummer lent me the DVD. It was aesthetically compelling and fantastical in a way that films simply don't seem to be anymore. When I revisited it as an adult the heavier thematic elements resonated with me much more, i.e. the havoc that nightmarish bureaucracies and technology can wreak on our lives and interpersonal relationships.

In the age of surveillance capitalism Brazil is more essential than ever; if you haven't seen it then you owe it to yourself to watch it.
> All consumer and business customers in the UK, EEA, New Zealand, Australia and Singapore are eligible.

This is a very interesting move for the UK market. Dominant challenger bank Monzo has positioned virtual cards as a key feature of its paid accounts [1] with a cap of 5 cards per customer.

Edit: Per the post, looks like there's a cap of 3 virtual cards per Wise account.

[1] https://monzo.com/help/monzo-plus/virtual-cards-how
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Going beyond technical skills:

Good soft skills are always valuable. A developer with average coding skills but great communication, time
management, and relationship-building skills is more valuable to a company than someone with great technical skills who requires constant manager attention to get anything done.

Basic design skills and awareness are helpful. This doesn’t mean you need to be able to design the final app, but you should be able to create visually pleasing prototypes before the designers are done with the designs.
Difference is that Github follows DMCA practices, while YouTube has their homemade system that bans you without a fair way of appealing.
What I find difficult is the lack of communication. Programming UI changes is hard work, and when a developer isn’t convinced of the benefit to users, it makes it seem like the change is being made for the ego of the UX designer.
Microprofile or Quarkus world be my votes. Java is still the performance king, and Java 17 in the fall is going to further cement that position.
Sometimes you hire the wrong person, Basecamp has done it before.

Having to replace (currently) 30%+ of your org increases that risk, in addition to the initial costs of hiring all those people and getting them up to speed.
I think the question was polarizing on purpose with "if you accept the premise that we should try to minimise the avoidable suffering of animals."

That's why I started with opposite premise: "if everyone would be vegan, why keep those animals alive", to get the conversation going.
The irony being... isn't euthanasia the ultimate freedom? If it is our body, and we have full autonomy as long as we aren't causing direct harm, the "American Way" should be to allow the freedom of choice as to what happens to said body.
Google have their own system for copyright claims which people get mad about. GitHub follows the DMCA laws which they have to follow. I put it to you that your implied claim that these situations are basically the same is false.
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I’m not going to say this doesn’t sound manic or hypomanic, but “just being burned out” is not an actual explanation.

Being burned out like he’s describing is a physical phenomenon, like many neuropsychological problems. It’d be nice if we advanced the state of our knowledge about these things beyond “just being burned out.” I’m skeptical as well about “burned the glucose out of my brain” being a good physical explanation, but there’s a physical thing going on.

We often treat burnout as an idea thing. (And this somewhat makes sense as ideas are incredibly powerful.) Having more insight into the physical (ie chemical and/or mechanical) mechanism of burnout would be interesting and probably very helpful.
Yup, especially when you get to higher levels of government. If the solution was easy, it wouldn't reach the presidential level for instance. A low level manager at a department would have fixed it without notice or media attention. When shit reaches that level, its because both sides have big disadvantages and they need someone to make the hard choice of who to hurt.
The disadvantaged class is poor people. Poor kids will have to work and will make less money while doing it than they should. So not only do these kids have to waste valuable time at low-wage jobs (rather than studying, being kids), but they get even less money while doing it. Wealthy people's kids won't work.
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Ask HN: How Long Is Your CI Process?
I've seen a couple of projects using CI to build the project and run their test suite.

All of them have been interpreted languages like PHP, Python and Ruby. Their builds and tests took between 30-45 minutes. As far as project size and complexity, these were projects that were built and maintained by four person teams over the course of 3-5 years, so it's not like they were massive services with hundreds of developers.

I'm still kind of new, I worked at a couple internships and I've been working full time for a year so I might be totally wrong but I feel like these CI pipelines could be optimized to run faster.
I think it’s a culture change on the developer side. I was exposed to UI UX about fifteen years ago and worked with a number of terrific designers who put users first. The problem is as devs the job can feel overwhelming enough and then when you get to a point you feel is done, now you have someone telling you you need to redo it. It’s an egoless thing one has to develop and we don’t necessarily encourage that. I think the number of people who get to Beginners Mind as devs is as much Survivorship Bias as anything else.
I don't know if you're being serious or not, but this is actually a profound point that a lot of people don't seem to grasp (maybe because they don't really believe in death being final).

If you take this point seriously then it follows that there is only one important thing to do before you choose to die: Make sure your friends and family understand your choice and can live with it.
It's a logical extension of the rule that you have to adjust for bias in every facet of employment compensation. You just don't like where the conversation is going because it sounds like a policy most would reject, so you don't want to talk about it. The person they were responding to later agreed that any policy that doesn't fix bias is biased in itself, so what's wrong with applying this any part compensation? There's clearly a pay gap here so isn't paying certain groups more not fixing this bias?
I'm a bit of Web Browsing Enthusiast myself.
> the 1967 census when Aboriginals were given the right to vote

I've just been reading about this—it seems that's not what it was at all.

The referendum question was this: "Do you approve the proposed law for the alteration of the Constitution entitled— "An Act to alter the Constitution so as to omit certain words relating to the People of the Aboriginal Race in any State and so that Aboriginals are to be counted in reckoning the Population"?"

"Voters were asked to approve, together, changes to two provisions in the Constitution section". One was to delete the phrase in italics from the constitution:

"The people of any race, other than the aboriginal race in any State, for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws"

From Nicholls's wiki page: "The movement took 30 years to coalesce and achieve anything like its stated goal, but it soon made its focus the Constitution of Australia which, in its original form, prevented the Commonwealth from making any law that would benefit the Aboriginal people." Unbelievable!

The other was to delete from the constitution the sentence "In reckoning the numbers of the people of the Commonwealth, or of a State or other part of the Commonwealth, aboriginal natives shall not be counted."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Australian_referendum_(Ab...
No it’s not solely based off that. It’s also based off our knowledge of people who feel suicidal who later go on to lead happy and productive lives.

Assisting every person who feels suicidal is likely to assist in the death of plenty of people who would later have happy lives.
musescore.com has some dark patterns in the their pricing, too. Just 2 weeks ago, when I couldn't find out how much it costs, I asked my friend circle. They pointed me to some indirect references to how much it costs, but it's not out there in front. You also have to make an account in order to see the price.

Plus musescore.com has numerous shenanigans with payment, ending subscriptions, etc [0]

It leads me to wonder, what is the other side of this deal? Will muscore.com repeat what they did with the free musescore software and utilize it to ensnare a large number of community resources? What kind of deal are the Audacity devs getting offered? I hope tantacrul doesn't become the face of a dumpsterfire.

[0] https://www.trustpilot.com/review/musescore.com
Get a good analogue pedal, reverse engineer a schematic (these are not copyrightable), create your own PCB, order a BOM, enclosures, some nice knobs, give the pedal some crazy name and paint some whacky stuff on the enclosure. Open an online store, then give it away to some pedal influencers. Wait for those sweet sweet sales.
People are always in need of a new pedal even if it is the same that 100 they already have.
Just give it a good back story, e.g. the transistors you used were with you on a trip into a jungle or were worn as earrings by your 100 year old grandma for one month.
I would also recommend Emotional Design by the same author. It's a follow-up book that has been very useful for me to understand that great design isn't just usable and accessible, but should also be beautiful, and should respect that what people build using software are not just files on a storage system but often their most personally meaningful things.
Well isn't that convenient: make your own mistakes against social propriety and have your "come to Jesus" moment, then apply your normal code only going forward, despite people losing their careers over 10 plus year old tweets? Doesn't work that way when you are not the king. If they cannot find a moral code that seeks a common denominator when other moral agents disagree, then they should not complain about being hoisted by their own petard. Maybe a little more nuance and forgiveness is in order here, and if they are not capable of that, then shutting down controversial political talk makes a lot of sense.
This is the benefit of using managed providers, which don't expect you to have any experience with the Kubernetes control plane. If you don't modify the underlying infrastructure that Porter creates, the chances of a malfunction are quite low (we haven't actually come across a cluster-level issue that wasn't easily resolvable, although I'm sure it'll happen at some point).

Also, if a Kubernetes deployment malfunctions (or any other Kubernetes resource is added incorrectly) and you created it through Porter, it's a bug on our end, and would be dealt with by pushing a fix and requesting that you upgrade that application to the latest version. Along with this, if a Kubernetes deployment fails due to expected behavior (e.g. your worker machines are out of resources), it is our responsibility to propagate that error to the user and give you an easy way to fix it.

Again, there are likely some edge cases for more complicated use-cases, but this has been our experience so far.
I only upgraded from a OnePlus 3T to a 6T because the former got stolen. I hope LineageOS becomes stable enough on the 6T so that I can keep using an Android OS with recent security patches, but like most phones, the battery will probably be the first thing to give up.

Many of my earlier smartphones had batteries that were easily replaced. The 6T requires special tools, among them a heat gun to soften the glue on the back cover. And ifixit says that's "moderate difficulty".
When I was an undergrad student, we had an algorithms and data structures lecture based on the Java version of the book. We also got an archive with the samples to work with that was IIRC GPL licensed.

Did this repo contain the code or the entire book as well?

In the former case, if I remember correctly, this DMCA claim would clearly be bogus. Yet another case where sending out DMCA claims having penalties for the sender if they are fraudulent, but putting a burden on the recipient who might suffer if they don't immediately act.
The many ways in which AI ideas help to understand how organizations work
There is much discussion about how to effectively organize AI projects (and programming work in general), but surprisingly little recognition that AI ideas have close ties to theories of organizing and organizational design. Here's a new paper that points to ways of going beyond management fads and developing first principles for organizing based on seminal AI ideas.
If you look at Google’s (Alphabet’s) margins you will know why. We are allowing these monopoly tech companies to extract value without bare min investments. Google is one of the biggest violators. I think all SV companies are at fault to some degree. Some still operate with “startup” budget for support. I know Paypal does this for example. There’s gotta be a wake up moment where if you are going to be in the consumer facing business you have to invest in minimal support infrastructure or face fines.
What do you all use for quick one-command (non gui) new vm bringup?

I haven't had much luck with terraform with libvirt, and I miss Vagrant but don't want to lock myself into its syntax. Maybe I should just start using it again but I feel like there has got to be a good libvirt-based way.

Provisioning new test vms with userdata embedded into an kickstart-or-whatever iso that is provided to libvirt also seems clunky. docker-machine is no longer maintained so I can't use it as a vagrant replacement to just bring up sshable hosts. Multipass?

Curious as to how others have solved this.
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Right now a non-trivial chunk of compute power, storage and engineering effort is spent on advertising and marketing. I'd rather take crypto, at least it's easier to ignore.
One thing I don't understand is the move to monochrome icons. I'm really bloody good at recognizing shape+color combinations; the old icons were ugly, but I was able to find the tool I wanted in an instant. After the redesign of the icon pack, I always find myself slowly iterating through every icon in the toolbox to try to find the particular abstract monochrome shape I want.

I think a redesign of the icons was necessary, because the old ones don't look amazing. But you can make tasteful icons which are also colorful and recognizable.

(And I know you can switch icon themes, but when we're talking about UX, we're largely talking about the out-of-the-box experience. 99.9% of users are going to stick with the default icon pack.)
Thanks for the link. Didn’t know. Btw, this is why they lobby for state mandates. A single teacher cannot make an exception

Situation in private school is not better. A prominent private high school in Bay Area, made me run around like a crazy man scavenging used books from all over the place because the recommended books were out of stock. They won’t publish the exact book name until after classes begin in August and apparently varies by teacher by year. This is after paying $$$ fees equivalent to buying a new car. Next year I pulled my kid out of it.
The M1 Air might be the best hardware I've ever purchased. It not only matches the hype, it exceeds it.

I also switched permanently from Ubuntu on an X1 Carbon - docked into a 4k screen.

Unit tests and builds run faster, VS Code for both client and server dev is very responsive (3-4 react / python projects open at once with the language servers running), battery life is out of this world - I don't even pack my charger when I'm out on the road all day.

The machine just feels very snappy - even with 20+ apps open, videos playing, 50 or so browser tabs, watchdog running for dev (css, uvicorn). I feel like I spend a lot less time waiting on the machine. No fan spinning and barely any heat.

I really enjoy switching back now to using Microsoft Office and the Adobe Suite instead of the OSS alternatives.

I don't think RAM is like-for-like comparable in terms of capacity, because I see a lot less memory pressure on the 8GB air (I didn't want to wait the 2 weeks for the 16GB delivery) than on my 16GB i7 X1.

The disadvantages come down to architecture compatibility (problems building cryptography and numpy from pypi which was resolved). I offset this by also running a dev server environment on my HP Micro (with ESXi and a bunch of docker machines) over the LAN.

I've since switched my primary desktop to an M1 Mini (16GB) driving 2x 4k screens, and will use the Air for on-the-road work and personal browsing.

I still have the X1 Carbon sitting on my desk - but find myself using it less and less.

The only other disadvantages are number of USB-C ports on the Air - you'll probably want a hub with power pass-through. The display on the air also isn't the brightest - but still comparable to the X1. The pro is better in this regard. Third disadvantage is inability to access high-end GPU if you require one.

There is no real cost argument against the M1 - I don't even know how to spec an equiv X1 Carbon with similar performance, but even customizing the upgrade to a similar WQXGA display and 400 nits takes you to $3k+ (AUD) while the M1 air was $1950 (with 512GB). Leaves you change to get an x86 server to put on the LAN [0].

I'm a huge, huge fan of the M1 and endorse it to everyone I know. It really is a game-changer.

[0] Geekbench for the intel i7 i7-10510U in the X1 shows 992 single core score 3106 multicore, vs 1700 and 7375 for the M1 air. The display is 1440p (vs 1600) and 300 nits vs 400
I use qemu and never really understood the need for any further abstraction such as libvirt over it's cli usage. Can anyone tell me what there is to be gained other than needing further setup, packages and systemd services?
It wasn't supposed to read like that, but I can see how you'd read it like that. It was definitively not meant as a put down to those that suffer from being burned out, whatever the cause might be.
And you are free to commit suicide in the US. From what i understand most laws making suicide and attempted suicide are no longer enforced or were changed.

What’s we don’t do is make it easy for someone else to assist in your death. That opens up an entirely different can of worms and anyone who thinks that’s an easy change to make is delusional. It’s fraught with issues and one needs to tread carefully.
What you learned after having kids that questioned the decision of having kids?
I am looking for Male perspective on this issue because obviously I am man and we have whole different priorities in life. Not same world honestly like women.

What things you learned after having kids that you wish would have known before having kids and would
have made you to change decision of having kids?
Josh Scott is a pedal mfg. and collector, and owner of the Youtube channel, JHS Pedals.

It's one of the best channels I've seen.

https://www.youtube.com/user/jhspedals/videos
Yeah. That's pretty hard for me to understand. Why did they make that offer? Paying people to quit without any kind of bounds on how many may take the offer seems like a crazy business decision. They made a decision. They announced it to their staff. Anyone not on board would have been fired anyway, so where's the need for the payout? IIRC Coinbase made the same offer and it just seems like the kind of weakness that led to their problems in the first place. A company pays employees to do work, not to not do work.
I managed to skip few years of front end development. The last time I was at it, the Go was all rage and express JS.
What would you use today to be valuable on the job market?
Thanks, that's what I was getting at if I was unclear. It predates the Constitution by more than a decade, with an abandoned Articles of Confederation in the middle.

It's historically important, but not legally meaningful when talking about the later US Constitution of 1789.