skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, I think the BSG analogy is a good sci-fi warning about the outcomes of moving away from heterogenous systems.

Environments engineered with multiple failsafes, defense in depth, avoidance of SPOFs (including hardware models, manufacturers, chipsets, OSes, web servers, etc.) will be very difficult to fully penetrate and should be able to survive attacks.

Of course none of the above is cheap or fast to do, so it usually doesn't get done.
I really like the idea of what notion is trying to do, but their "databases" drive me nuts. They force a default column that's useless for relationships... and I never know if they want to be database like or excel like. Notion needs a good roadmap, and also start acknowledging user feedback, besides the "we got your feedback".
No, all the major mirrorless lines use phase detection now (though they may well make use of contrast information too).
The US may be huge. But regions within the US are not huge. There are at least a half-dozen regions in which high speed trains would make as much, if not more sense than they do in Europe if judged by population density and distances.
Nobody in their right mind will consider a lot of attention by three letter agencies a reward or help. They may, and can, do a lot more damage than 0.4% of revenue, and can do a lot of damage to the individuals making the decisions as well.

Even if they help out, it will alert everyone and everything in 5 governments to all details about their firm.

Three letter agencies have used (and destroyed) companies for unrelated reasons and then left everyone without any recourse. With smaller companies, this happens regularly.

Those governments will have representatives from their lenders, from their investors, from their large clients and so on in them, who will get a lot of details they wouldn't normally get access to.

This is not happening.
Hey, I accept pieces of paper (and now bits in a computer) for my valuable work, and bought a valuable home, car, and computer with those papers and bits.

Money works purely on belief. If we all suddenly disbelieved in the dollar, the value would be zero.

Curiously, most cycles of hyperinflation come more from loss of faith than from money printing. When people lose faith in a currency, they sell it off as a value store.

Elon Musk's net worth is $28B. His faith in a crypocurrency as a value store counts for a lot.
Unicode reflects a reality about human writing systems. They are very complicated. This is more or less guaranteed to result in Unicode being contentious.

After all, it's obvious features my native language has are important and need to be first class APIs in the standard library, while any features that language doesn't use has aren't important and the standard library shouldn't be clogged up with anything so useless. Also things that are easy to do for my preferred writing system must be supported, if the easy way to implement them doesn't work for some other widely used languages, just ignore that, those people don't matter anyway.
CDC says vaccinated Americans now may go without masks in most places
Clearly Musk didn't just realize realize the problem this week, but his SNL appearance kicked off a round of criticism (eg: 'Some More News' https://youtu.be/5pNL7MlUpmI) and the Tesla announcement is probably an attempt to get ahead of it.
Unsurprising, but still disappointing. Actually I'm glad someone is trying to hold them accountable. It seems silly tho that we need to pass a law to uphold what's already written into the constitution. It highlights that the constitution only has teeth in some legal contexts, primarily where a court case is being heard on a citizen being prosecuted. Conditionality seems to not have any bearing on preventing agencies from violating the constitution or stopping them when they're found out, nor punishing those responsible for the violation.
If you're referring to their comment "the major losses in this crash were Bitcoin, Doge and Shiba", they are most likely picking that list by market cap (though I did not try to crosscheck).
Coinbase is no longer allowing new hires to negotiate their salaries
> If HN had its way, every product and service on the planet would be devoid of marketing, sales or design and the only way you could buy it was via the command line.

... Unironically, that would be amazing. Maybe an optional page for pictures/screenshots, but otherwise I don't see a problem with that if your audience is compatible. I mean, I don't expect everyone to go that way, but if I never had to leave my terminal I'd count it an improvement.
Inflation figures are a leading indicator of US monetary policy. All other things being equal, higher inflation readings now means relatively tighter US monetary policy later on.

Yes, the Fed has committed to allowing some >2% inflation to make up for past <2% inflation, but it's still the case that policy might tighten one day, and higher inflation now still brings that day closer than it would have been with lower inflation.
In our team, every time there was a bug in Safari, it was something awfully wrong in our code that just happened to work on Chrome/FF for mysterious reasons. I never had a problem on Safari with standard quality code.
In the US there is J1772 that works on everything and it works with 120v - 240v up to 80 amps (though typically 40 max).

The US has settled on CCS type 1 for fast DC charging, most new cars support it.

There is CHAdeMO a Japanese standard but that connector is on its way out in the US.

And then Tesla does it's own thing but there are adapters available.

I think it is a solved problem, if you don't want a Tesla a modern EV will have a CCS plug that fits both CCS and J1772. And if you want a Tesla you either get adapters or use Tesla's chargers.
Quite right. The alt-coin market is notoriously volatile even by crypto market standards, and not something i follow close enough to give a strong analysis on.

Coinbase's weekly losses chart[0] captures some of what i hoped to express in my parent comment. Bitcoin is interesting because in a way, it hasn't so much lost value lately as not risen with the market the last couple of weeks.

0: https://www.coinbase.com/price/s/top-losers?resolution=week
Wow, great catch with the Safari font issue; we've just fixed it. Thanks for finding that!
Ask HN: How does your team prevent “gotchas” during implementation?
Estimating is an art - there will always be unforeseen obstacles when working on projects.

There's a wide attack surface for this problem, from "keep your codebase clean in the first place" to "allocate time for investigation" to "get better at rolling with the punches."

What's your team's strategy and why does it work?
Why would they buy bitcoin because they are planning to accept it from customers, which would increase their position?

Announcing the acceptance was probably just advertising for the pump and dump they did.
"not wittingly"

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEh-l_G1Gcs
HN posters tend to be extremely trigger-happy to attack the media, without doing any diligence on timing.

Unfortunately, these overly confident posters never learn, never stop spewing bullshit, and never become worthwhile contributors to society.
Mindwalk (base on Fritjof Capras Turning Point, and I think it was made by his brother?) is one of the best physics “movies” I have seen. It is truly about systems thinking, and not offering answers, particularly to the social issues, but the conversation on atomic sizes is worth the ticket of admission alone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindwalk
There was a massive spike downward literally the minute Musk sent the tweet.

When the price is stable for hours then collapses after an event, you can pretty safely infer the correlation.
"There are over 20,000 prescription drug products approved for marketing."

https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-basics/fact-sheet-fda-glan...
At least in the samples I was presented, the more comprehensible articles were consistently the fake ones.
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The Country Gentleman of Physics
Maybe people are selling it to buy cheap stocks.
I thought we where talking about hydrogen which is 2800 wh/kg not methanol which will produce CO2 when used.

Now your fuel cell needs 100% conversion to get that energy density in electrical form.

Goal post moved, got it.
I do. Right now it feels like a carnival full of carnies.
Definitely. Understanding the problem space and formulating the requirements is often overlooked when people claim "AI will take over programming".

Although off the shelf products will be able to do more and more tasks, I believe the demand for complicated solutions constantly will stay ahead of these.

This is exactly what we're seeing with Automation threatening the easy jobs, but as a whole, more specialized people are needed for the cases when that isn't enough.
I don't. I believe that such immoral strategies are in fact easier to pull off than legitimate ones, that's why I called it "exact opposite of smart". It seems to me that it's you who's confusing "smart" with "successful".
I've been reading her since her book "Twitter and Teargas" and I don't think there's a journalist alive today who synthesizes information across such a broad range and with such clarity and attention nuance as Zeynep.
Dataflow, a self-hosted Observable notebook editor
Antitrust law is weird, so I can't comment on this definitively. That said, in the EU-Adwords case, the focus was on "abuses," primarily in the contract with search partners. Adwords is their buyer, rather than seller. Technically, Google is the monopoly, adwords is the monopsony.

In any case, prosecutors needed to prove harm/abuse affected search partners, and the fine was presumably based around that.

There is a problem defining the market sometimes, but that wasn't a problem here. It's a "crack for economists" type of problem, with a lot more theory than needed for practical purposes.

The problem is/was that these courts aren't a tool that can do the job. Courts can keep monopolies from doing certain things, with varying degrees of effectiveness. They can't prevent a monopoly from being a monopoly.
Very perplexing behavior from Musk, I must say. Bitcoin's energy consumption has been front-and-center for a few years now and even more so when the bull market got hot. How does Musk decide to throw $1.5 billion worth of Tesla's cash into BTC without acknowledging this? I was expecting a little bit more due-diligence from him, but he's been absolutely consumed by crypto markets in general.
Even on hard, if you understand the terminology, the fake ones are mostly gibberish.
that is exactly my point. it has everything. elegance, vision, practicality... it doesn't treat programmers like drones.
Can you fill me in about why a .so domain was a mistake? Because DNS providers/ firewalls sometimes block foreign TLDs, or was there something else?
new tool for backlink profile
Also on trusting binaries from external organizations.
The Fed goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I knew before even reading that the senator would be Ron Wyden. He's a treasure and the most tech-literate politician I know of. Oregon is lucky to have him, and we could use a lot more like him.
Key Travel at 1.5mm is still bearable.

Somehow Apple think 0.7mm was good, and then went to 1mm after the butterfly fiasco.

I still dont understand why the whole industry is moving their keyboard to literally no key travel distance.
I thought SHIB was dead because Vitalik gave it the rugpull?
Probably, tesla already sold all of crypto holdings, may be they will buy it latter at around 36k, again.
historically apple's docs were and are pretty awful... apple's docs are going through a transition period right now and it looks like they are breaking backwards compatibility perhaps
It really irks me when the pricing page for any product has any tier that requires contacting "Sales". If you don't want to include pricing for a tier, exclude it from the pricing list or add a "need something else" or "we also offer enterprise plans" after the table. Maybe just a me thing, because I'm guessing it obviously works based on how often I've come across it.
Currently I'm using Rust in a project without RAII. RAII is neither necessary nor sufficient to prevent use-after-free. In Rust use-after-free is prevented by the borrow-checker. In C++ with RAII use-after-free is still possible, because normal references aren't tracked with regard to the lifetime of pointees.
They're similarly priced to Thinkpads, and they have similar specs. I'd agree that the price seems fine. The warranty seems pretty limited (1 year!), businesses won't be happy about that. Hell, EU mandates a minimum of 2 year warranty for consumer goods.

I'm overall very impressed with their offering and the progress they've made, but I hope it will be refined in the future.
Effective Code Review [pdf]
And even if you don't think that's right, we already have the large-surface area systems programing language experiment in Rust. Aren't we better off with Rust and Zig exploring clearly different paths for a C replacement than both of them trying the same things?
Re. your last point, I generally agree with the idea that performance testing should be automated, not on an ad-hoc local machine basis.

But I also do think developers live in bit of a "CPU bubble", and we need to break out of it. Most people don't have pricey hardware, and no matter what your reasoning (environmental / e-waste, user experience, simple love of the craft, etc), it is important to write performant software. In using old hardware I've discovered many, many apps are so incredibly frustrating to use for average users --- borderline unusable --- and I suspect their developers aren't even aware.

So, I don't know what the issue is, if it's tech management trends (eg "sales-driven" development), or it's a lack of automated performance testing, or beefy dev boxes, or what. But IMO it's downright embarrassing to the entire industry how bad software has gotten on average.
Wiped off its market cap denominated in US dollars. It didn't lose value if you measure its value against some other crypto assets. Everything is relative, but it's not surprising the USD is the root metric considering there isn't much of any real economy that produces anything or pays wages in crypto. Anyway, these articles are generally silly.
Indeed it did. I saw the tweet within a minute of it being posted and watched the crash happen live on TradingView.
Haven't really seen it in the wild, but I see it every day in a very large proprietary codebase I work in.
yeah that's a sad point about Ben's character. I'm going on about 35 years of memory since i last saw it and then just looked up a few quotes on rotten tomatoes. I like the dilemma facing engineers working on military weapons. Then also the theme around AI and those implications.
This wouldn't be able to compete with online stores then.
Agree strongly with all of this, especially the part about requirements not being connected in any way with the actual needs of boots on the ground.

My biggest frustration as a defense/intelligence contractor, and what seems like a great failure of government contracting at all as it pertains to technical project management, is the fact that we cannot legally interact with our end-users. It makes the push for "Agile" development fundamentally impossible as Agile development requires constant user feedback. But instead, we only get to interact with an acquisition office. Our customers are not the same as our users, and we develop to the needs of the customer, who may be well-meaning people with some experience and connection the ultimate end users of the systems, or may just be politically driven careerists trying like hell to paint their pet projects as a success to get a promotion.

My wife was running QA for a data center provisioner, and at least some of the application provider tenants were people on the same floor of the same building, and they legally couldn't talk to each other. Could only interact via their respective acquisition offices. Everything is a time-delayed game of telephone, hoping your comments are even relayed accurately, if at all.

AI hype is just a tiny, tiny slice of this problem. The fundamental problem is the technology we develop may or may not be what the actual users want or need, and the users have no means of directly buying and the developers have no means of directly selling, or of even jointly deciding on requirements and testing.
If the market of crypto was less of a bull run, I’d be inclined to agree, but a lot of the people in it right now are driven entirely by pumpers/peddlers (Anthony Pompliano, Michael Saylor, David Gokhshtein, etc.), Elon Musk tweets, and speculation/wanting to strike it rich. I think when the market is this speculative, it’s fair to blame a downturn on one event (with a pretty close timestamped correlation - you can see BTC tumble after Elon’s tweet and DOGE after he called it a “hustle” on SNL).
Letting other people handle Auth and Notifications is a great way to get the rug pulled out from under you.
> along with the idea that you can just "tax his wealth" like it's some kind of liquid holdings

If I own a house, it's not liquid wealth either. Should I not have to pay property taxes on it?
HN comment section been toxic
Elon just learned that BTC is bad for the environment? Should have googled it before he bought $1.5 billion of it! Honest mistake I suppose.
> Capital gains are not cash income, and to treat them the same is to fundamentally misunderstand money.

Realized capital gains are, in point of fact, cash income.

They aren’t, for most people (though this is less true weighted by dollars of realized gains) part of a stream of regularly recurring income the way salary from a fixed-schedule, fixed-pay job is. And there are fairness implications to not accommodating that in a progressive income tax system. But a lower set of brackets for fains from assets held 366 (or 367) days isn’t a really good way of handling the real differences.

Allowing distributing recognition of income over time (both advance and deferred) is sensible to handle both long-term capital gains and chunky income from other sources (e.g., the typical pattern of royalties vs. work for writing books) fairly, and adjusting the basis value of capital items on which gains are calculated for inflation is sensible as well.

There’s no good reason for a lower general tax rate for long term capital gains instead of those measures; compared to fair treatment, it (among capital gains payers, not even considering the relations to other income) benefits those with large capital holdings and recurring gains, and adversely impacts those whose gains come from occasional sale of really-long-held assets, so that to tune it to a level that feels “fair” for middle-class capital gains it has to be excessively generous to hypercapitalists.

Unrealized gains aren’t cash income, sure, they are just reasonably anticipated future cash income (which is a kind of thing we sometimes require anticipatory payment against expected tax liability on in other contexts.)
A French coronavirus conspiracy video stayed on YouTube and Facebook for months
I think the reason they've come to the conclusion it's a farmer thing is related to the included image of "Mikey Joe O'Shea" - a sheep farmer that went semi-viral for having a very thick accent: https://www.irishpost.com/entertainment/irish-farmers-go-vir...

The funny thing is, while the accent is indeed strong that is not IMO what makes what he says difficult to comprehend. He phrases what he says in a way that might be a bit unusual for folks like me (a Scot) so we don't immediately process what he says:

"Well there's 45 sheep missing, like. And the(re's) lambs and everything with the sheep. That's come out to a nice bit of money, like. Be done about it? Nothing"

Really cool accent though. I couldn't make out what his neighbour said immediately after when he points over to a hill in the distance. I think (hope?) that's gaelic because I couldn't make out a single word. He goes on to talk completely clearly in English about how it's a bit better when you have a good dog to protect the sheep.
AirTag Jailbroken By Turning It Off [video]
Maybe this could work for some. Personally, if I watch more than a few movies in a week I begin to feel like I'm losing my mind. I think variety is key, and not just having a variety of movies. Mix in some books and video games (particularly ones that foster creativity) and I think the odds of success will be much higher.
They also seemed to have taken some profits. Tesla's Q1 reports a profit of $101 million from Bitcoin sales.
See some sibling comments for my specific thoughts on the matter.

Melbourne did everything they could think of, and the sum of it worked. This included a very severe lockdown, contact tracing, masking in the very limited public interactions which were allowed, and starting with a relatively low case count. I'm fairly confident that masks were the least important part of this, and that shutting down basically every part of public life was the most.

I did say that masking early on was indicated, and that WHO and CDC failed us there. I sort of glossed over the part where case counts were low, but it's there, and it's pretty important.

What the US and Europe needed early is what New Zealand and Australia (and Taiwan, Korea, maybe a couple other Southeast Asian countries) actually managed: universal masking, a nearly-complete cessation of public life, widespread testing, contact tracing, and central quarantine for the infected. Instead, we got dithering and "wash your hands".

It was too late for that suite of interventions to be effective by 1st April at the latest. Earlier for Europe, which had the early wave epidemic in Italy.

So of course, that's when masking was adopted, as a totemic symbol that the powers that be were "doing something". But we had crossed the point where it could help, and it was always the least important thing.
> Should I not have to pay property taxes on it?

I don't think you should. You should be charged for your utilities, and the cost of the roads around you should you have access to them, but paying taxes on property which was already taxed in a fair transaction between private persons is nonsensical. Should you pay a "computer tax" yearly for the value of a computer you own?

If you own a landlocked property, which many people do, what exactly do you pay taxes for?
The top never feels like the top for people buying in. That applies to both Bitcoin and Ethereum.
I dont think it's a code. It's more of a guideline.
Along the same lines, the fact that they don’t have any simple inline tables that aren’t “databases” is annoying. Sometimes I don’t want a database or a spreadsheet, just a simple inline table with a few columns.
The Pentagon inches toward letting AI control weapons
in fact i believe templates are the greatest idea in static typing. they look awful because its design and the implementation is awful not the idea. c++ failed because they didn't know and too late to turn back, and rust just looks same, you should see d-templates.
What great examples do you know?