skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are other aspects that you need to take into consideration: bureaucracy, the enforced-by-law company values(last year I got an offer which seemed really appealing until I saw the contract and some of those clauses), the endless "open a jira ticket" for every little thing such as rebooting a development server or whatever(which ends up being a 2 day task with hours of explanations as opposed to ssh; sudo rebbot), the endless and pointless meetings which are filled with "we should" coming from people who love taking credit when something is going right but will toss the blame to anyone they can when they aren't. Not to mention absurd expenses for "business trips" which are pointless in the vast majority of cases. I've been to several of these and they were all a waste of money and time: seriously, fly 20 people across the world just so they can listen to 3 days of "we should" lectures, there goes a ton of money which could have been spent on something useful like training or even a few small bonuses for the people that have worked their asses off. I've worked in such environments for many many years and the idea of ending up in such a place again terrifies me(I certainly started appreciating the absence of all that crap, though I never really knew how much all that truly bothered me until I ran away from it).

My point is, if you decide to go with a FAANG, you will get the quirky benefits and traits but at the expense of having to throttle yourself much below your capacity and dealing with a ton of frustration coming from the corporate side of things.
The status quo isn't perfect, but I think you are severely exaggerating how bad things are. The fact that nearly all scientific publishing is done by people who are paid to do research (grad students, research scientists, professors, etc.) isn't evidence of gatekeeping. It just means that most people aren't able/willing to work for free.

It also isn't any sort of conspiracy that government grants are given out to people with a proven history of doing good research, as evaluated by their peers.
Here is a direct quote from the NY plant owner’s SEC filing [1]:

> No direct competitor currently owns and operates its own power plant for the purpose of Bitcoin mining.

[1] https://corporate.support.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Gre...
The Fed mostly wants to decrease unemployment via 2% inflation. The conventional wisdom is that supply side stimulus will create companies that hire workers. So handing out loans should do the trick. Yeah, except building housing which is one of the easiest ways to employ people is illegal.
Every grammar rule is a convention by definition.
I’d not heard of ‘Ikigai’ - what a lovely concept to have one word for - thanks for that! …for anyone else similarly ignorant:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai
I understand Baltimore has insanely cheap housing for its size, but I’ve always imagined it as a Detroit like situation, where yeah the housing is often cheap, but not areas you want to live. It may not actually be as bad as I think though.
Maybe not vengeance, but there is passionate cruelty in drowning an ant if you had a vision of the world where the ant was no longer dangerous. What's wrong with indefinite imprisonment over death? Now you can figure out if you accidentally killed people, at least; you don't need abuse to accidentally put people to death.

And on the matter of death penalty, does one lead with an attitude of "Why should we help unless we owe you?" Is that the right moral motivation for death penalty? I mean, that's the attitude of big business in commerce.
While human preference is probably not the most important consideration and is debatable, it does count as one possible benefit.
Relatively, they're correct. Compared to other app stores like Apple where the fee is $100/year, which personally I'd consider huge. To get on Steam, the fee is a one-time $100 with the ability to get it back after $1000 in sales. It's even low compared to Google's other marketplace, the Play Store, which has a $25 one-time fee.

While $5 can be a lot for certain people, relative to the market it doesn't deserve the title of being "huge".
At the bottom of that link: “It's worth noting that Andreessen Horowitz has come out in strong favor of the 90 day window. If you feel strongly about extended exercise windows, it might be worth considering whether a16z portfolio companies are a good fit for you.” with a link to https://a16z.com/2016/06/23/options-timing/

The a16z link is astonishingly self-serving. Their top line solution was: “One existing solution to the ‘dead equity’ problem has been — and still can be — to make exceptions where appropriate for certain exiting employees. In fact, employers make exceptions all the time for certain employees, depending on their contribution to the company, critical skill set, and so on.” Riiiiiiight - asking nicely for a handout when you are quitting is a great strategy!!

And I would love to know how they come to this conclusion “In our model, we estimate that moving from the current 90-day window to a 10-year window will cost the average remaining employee as much as 80% in incremental dilution.” - just, wow.
Years and years ago I worked at a store where the official policy was don't confront shoplifters or try to stop them - they'd rather lose to merchandise than risk someone getting hurt plus it's a liability issue.
It doesn't make any sense to talk about "losing" progress. Either you're progressing or you're not. What you're potentially losing here is "speed of progress" which may or may not turn out to be beneficial to this planet's inhabitants over the long run.
> In three years' time, Rust could very well not be so hot, and a new new thing might take over its social role. Zig could conceivably be that thing.

Zig is totally different from Rust. For starters, it does not have a safe subset of the language that prevents an entire class of bugs. It's slightly nicer C. There are plenty of languages like that.
Edited my comment. The $1M is essentially on top of whatever you’d normally be able to save. If that is a lot more than $0 then most people would be in a pretty good position to take a lower paying job for as long as they want then retire comfortably.
If you’re interested in recent enthusiastic (nearly effusive) discussion of Postgres and more specifically it’s potential as a basis for a data warehouse, you might enjoy this episode of Data Engineering Podcast with Thomas Richter and Joshua Drake:

Episode website: https://www.dataengineeringpodcast.com/postgresql-data-wareh...

Direct: (apple)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/data-engineering-podca...
Using a ConfigMap as an OCI Image Cache
Reminds me of the time a native French speaker asked me if I had ever tried ... and here he said a word that I'll transcribe as "balling"; the first syllable was quite short and the vowel only slightly rounded. Anyway, I didn't recognize it. After a little back-and-forth I finally got what he was talking about, and said, "Oh, BOWLing."
There are many important parameters that are not reflected in this scheme: cache sizes, supported memory timings, TDP, core revisions adding minor features and fixing problems, etc. Not every combination of them makes sense, too.

So I suppose some kind of opaque numbering, like "I7400" is shortest. I wish they adopted some position-coded scheme which would be easier to decipher, though. Something like architecture-revision-cores-sockets-cache-RAM-frequently-TDP kind, one letter each. Some Intel KCG2MDTM which would be hard to pronounce, but easy to look up, and easy to compare.
So I actually do have a version of my API that doesn't require any sign up at all for the users that prefer this!

You can see it here: https://www.exchangerate-api.com/docs/free

That said, as much as some users want an open endpoint with zero authentication there are many others who want an actual account, commercial support, high availability, more features etc. These users are also the ones that pay for development, infrastructure etc. so my service has to be 95% built around the flow that includes signup.
This is cool, and it would be fun to see top stories by year, and top Show HNs by year.

I posted a Show HN [1] when I was new-ish here, and I didn't realize how unusually successful it had been until I saw we were getting web traffic from a site (now defunct) that listed the top 10 Show HN posts of all time.

I've periodically used the HN search function to see what the top HN posts have been, but with the point inflation it's become difficult to make meaningful comparisons across time.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6335784
To be fair, Rust has been a one man passion project for a long time as well.
I like to say that "Postgres is a great default". It's generally very good, and also very adaptable to special purposes, so it covers a wide range of use cases.

But saying "so much better" is too strong.
It's not entirely wrong though. Coming from a poor family, and still not being wealthy, I learned that there are two types of poor people. The first ones are genuine poor, because they simple don't earn enough money to get a stable ground to act on.

The other ones are getting enough money to live from it comfortable enough, but are stupid in managing it, and make themself poor by they own inability. Knowing how to handle your money is an important skill for not being poor. But it's something that in the wasteful societys is not educated at all. Similar being a bit frugal and investing your money longterm is something especially the older generations seems to lack understanding for.

So for the second group of people your relatives comment makes sense.
Absurd? Definitely not. Go ask the militant fake news fighters if alternate news sources should be banned and you’ll get a resounding yes.
I don't think any consumer of a public API would appreciate the churn of a private API. Either that or your web team is going to suffocate without the ability to make breaking changes.
I appreciated the read.
One of the best things that docker has done for the development world is make the "Time To 200" pretty short. We essentially just need to run `docker-compose up -d --build` and you can run a huge array of applications. You just go to http://fontend.localhost and get routed to the right container. It's magic.
It's not just being able to demonstrate the benefits empirically, but the combination of that with constantly loudly touting them.

When someone thinks their hashmap is faster in theory they get asked to benchmark it... it often isn't in practice.

But when someone decides that some norm in whitespace, use of parenthesis, or use favored control-flow concepts will result in a lower defect rate or reduced maintenance costs we somehow are expected to accept these conclusions without clear evidence.

Even though everywhere is in computer science where we can easily measure results there are countless examples of theoretically better stuff that works less well in practice. Why should we expect our intuition on human interactions to be any better than our intuitions over which data structures are faster?
There's truth in the fact that freenode (the current network under new management) is in an unfavourable position due to sponsors packing their bags—sponsors who hosted critical infra for spam management and mail service. I think the situation could have been handled better but I don't know who to fault for this situation.
Part of it is probably that these people get tested very often.

The "95% protection rate" doesn't really mean people don't get infected. Vaccinated people get in contact with as much virus as others.

What it means is their immune system defeats 95% of the infections before you notice you're sick.

But if you get a test while your body is in the middle of crushing such a small infection, you'll test positive.
For who you may ask? Only to the elite few, the rest are left with scraps.
> All this Bitcoin energy usage nonsense is FUD to keep people oppressed and using a currency that the politicians can inflate at will.

There is some serious cognitive dissonance if losing 1-4% to inflation a year is unacceptable but a billionaire's tweet costing you 30-40% is completely fine.
Hard deletes are also awful from the perspective of data preservation. For example, when youtube removes a video they also delete all the metadata or any indication that it ever existed. Countless people have lost what they thought was a secure record of at least the title of songs or videos they saved to a playlist.

There is also a more sinister side, which is that the ability to hard delete something forever means that bad actors can fabricate old "deleted" documents and accuse someone of having created and then deleted them.
Codea: Make Games and Simulations on Your iPad
Depends on location and probably not true in most of the world by area. There's lots of land in the world you can have for cheap. Or even free, e.g. Russia is happy to hand out 1ha in the far east to any citizen with only one string attached - go and do something with it within 5 years, then it's yours. Somehow, not many takers.
https://redditsearch.io may help a bit with these types of queries. Bummer that there is no native way to do so.
Not to nitpick, but wouldn’t some of the same arguments against virtual functions apply to function pointers in C? The kernel uses a lot of “obj->obj_ops->foo(obj, arg)” calls which are similarly dependent on the precise type of obj. In the case of these calls, the general assumption is that one can infer roughly what they _should_ be doing based on the type of obj. For example, if it was fd->fops->read(fd, buf, len) you would expect it to put some data in buf even if you had no idea what fd’s runtime type was.

Your post also mentions operator overloading, which is a bit nastier since the calls aren’t explicit. But Rust also has operator overloading, so similar complaints would probably apply? In practice I’d expect the kernel to be fairly strict about limiting operator overloading (which would apply for both C++ hypothetically as well as Rust).
This, to the extent that after 13-14 years in the industry, I have no clue what differentiates any of these titles in theory, let alone in practice at individual organizations.
pretty much. This what happened with 7 cold viruses and 2* flu viruses. I don't think it's realistic to destroy the virus reservoirs.

*not sure if these are the exact number I remember from the lecture.
How can I use displayplacer to enabke hidpi?
Same exact scenario happened with me! I'm pretty content with my engineering career though.
That appears to be one person publishing their music under CC-BY. That's nice of them, but not similar to Freesound's massive collection.

I think http://www.ccmixter.org/ would be a more likely candidate, or SoundCloud's search restricted to CC licenses. There are also lots of musicians publishing CC music on Bandcamp, but the site doesn't allow filtering by license. The best approximation I've found is searching "some rights reserved" site:bandcamp.com with DDG and then checking which license the link points to.
> An equivalent question is: Would you give up being a rich person in 2021, to become a poor person in 2200?

That's only an equivalent question if it is being asked in 2200.

From a 2021 vantage point, there are too many unknowns, as many of the plausible scenarios for 2200 could be summed up as variants of a Grim Meathook Future, even without considering extreme scenarios like nuclear winter, asteroid strikes, high mortality pandemics, grey goo, Curious Yellow, alien invasions, robot uprisings, and so on.

Sticking just to business-as-usual extrapolation, life could get very unpleasant for the poor within the next 80 years (or shortly thereafter:
2200 could be pretty decent but if things go to hell in 2202, you've still lost the gamble).
A bit of an ad hominem, but Zed Shaw’s rants tend to not be the pinnacle of reasoning.
I was just working on a similar project and didn't think you could do decode without sending weights, amazing!
I’ve worked with both.
A lifetime ago I worked on this project:

https://cfr.pub/forthcoming/chang-li-2018.pdf

The experience ucompletely unraveled my faith in academia.
Why do women live longer than men? (2018)
Does your employer have a separate software architect track? We have basically 3 tracks... developer, architect, and engineer. Developers write application code and the principals end up in that "hub" role mentioned up-thread. It's a good role, if you enjoy it. Architects drive corporate-wide tech direction, build new products from scratch (alongside developers), and some spend a lot of time working on standards and processes. And engineers are the DevOps/CloudOps guys - they code, but it's more scripting things and wiring systems together (vs building business apps) and they're on call. But, between the 3 general roles, there's pretty much a job for everybody.

I'm in an SRE role now, big change from a UX developer/manager (did that for 15+ years), but also fun and challenging, just in different ways.

Edit - All three tracks end up in some variety of "hub" role. Senior architects end up in meetings with VPs and other senior leaders. And writing documentation and diagrams. Engineers end up with lots of customer-facing time, which can be stressful if you don't thrive under pressure. Kind of comes with seniority. If you don't "play well with others" there's nothing wrong with staying in a true IC role - but you need to have the self-awareness and communication skills to make it known. And it definitely caps out a lower compensation level (ignoring some very niche skills).
not really. thats how you isolate a variable. people are postulating the reason for the gap is sexism. so you isolate all the variables until the only difference is sex. and then you see if theres a difference. its basic statistical methodology. in fact alot of people are mistakenly under the impression that women make less for the same role/experience level, which my statistic shows isnt true.

if you dont adjust for something then its just an idiotic comparison. like i said, non-adjusted asian women make more than white men. (so do nigerians) But you arent crying about asian women supremacy. or the the system is racist/sexist against white men.

now of course you can argue "sexism of the gaps". that the reason women choose jobs that make less is sexism itself. but youd have to prove that assertion, and not simply that hey prefer jobs that tend to make less like social work and teaching.

and youd have to explain why the so called wage gap is bigger in the most gender-equal countries like norway and denmark whereas its the smallest in the least equal countries like in the middle east.
If a healthy person is a person who is totally free of disease, then we do not have the ability to determine whether or not a person is healthy. That has nothing to do with developing drugs for and treating the subset of diseases that we know about because they present with obvious and intuitive symptoms relatively speaking.

I disagree about LDL. It’s not as simple as LDL. There are different kinds of LDL and some are worse than others as is pointed out in that link, I think. Medications that reduce LDL do other things too and it’s not clear that their effect on LDL is the real vector for their efficacy. And people with elevated LDL sometimes don’t develop the diseases that high LDL supposedly causes. It’s a broken model based on an overly intuitive interpretation of legitimate data.

I read a biochemistry textbook. The same one you guys read. The only time it mentioned ketosis, it was a brief footnote in effect saying “ketosis is a dangerous abnormality and results in diabetic ketoacidosis.” It was literally a sentence or two for the whole metabolic phenomenon of ketosis. A widespread textbook printed in the last 5 years if I recall. That’s when my eyes were opened to the possibility that the doctors have been making oversights. How could you blame a doctor for believing his textbook?
Should Google just become a VC fund?
Getting a persistent shell on a 747 IFE
Really cool idea. If someone is interested further in the general concept it is called ”moving target defense.”
KeepFlying's idea together with this point is a great suggestion, I'm going to see if I can prototype something along these lines.

Basically hand out tons of short lived credentials right from a widget on the main landing page, together with each API response giving a link to a signup form that can convert the key into a fully fledged account.

Thanks for the suggestion!
I thought dual booting would be a pain but what actually happened is that migrating was mostly pain free these days and I haven’t booted the Windows install for any reason.
I suspect immigrants already had those skills before they came to the US. Natives might never have learned them.
That’s a super cool concept, but doesn’t this fall a bit under “security by obscurity”?
The debt in the current world economy is unheard of, and the cost of housing is getting out of reach of first home buyers. Something has to give at some point.

If interest rates rise in the next 10 years then I suspect many will be left with mortgage payments they can't afford.
Reminds me of the PIE adage: promotion depends 10% on Performance, 30% on Image, and 60% on Exposure
You can't control everything. The west already scrutinizes many commodities it imports: diamonds, gold, shoes, phones. There's no reason to suggest bitcoin mining sources can't be discriminated against.

So at scale, damage is mitigated.

In the long run, renewable energy from wind and solar are already the cheapest forms of energy anyway.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/energyinnovation/2020/01/21/ren...

https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth
The difficulty goes down as a direct result of less mining being done. Long term, blocks will be generated at the same rate, but each block would have less work behind it.
You'd think this is the kind of issue reddit could solve instead of figuring out how to spam you with emails faster or creating snoo avatars.
Using a pretrained model is a little bit cheating, you would have to include the size of the weights in the ratio
Speaking of python, how do you pronounce "import"? I pronounce it as IM-port. According to the rule that makes it a noun, but shouldn't it be a verb? I wonder if I'm pronouncing it correctly.
I have been whooshed so hard. Never in my entire life have I heard or even dreamed of people in supermarket discussing things like that. I think it is time to start a new trend.

Next time I am out grocering, I will be sure to mention that Carthage must perish ( and how Rome fell, because of communism -- gotta lure people in somehow )!
Trump’s Cyber Ninjas Audit Arizona’s Carnival Recount
A bunch of so-called #CyberNinjas are counting Maricopa County’s last Nov 6th Presidential ballots… Yeah, Ninjas!

#KarenFann #StopTheSteal #MaricopaCountyAudit #ArizonaAudit #QAnon #Satire
There is small but non-zero chance that any given paper on climate change is wrong or fraudulent, but it is absurd to go from that to claiming that we should disregard literally all scientific research that has ever been done. At a certain point you have to accept basic truths like that 2+2=4, or that the earth revolves around the sun, or that the composition of the atmosphere impacts our climate
Battery management in a modern EV requires more compute than an ICE vehicle, for starters.
I think the time aspect makes it OK, otherwise TOTP itself should be abandoned due to the same principle. (SSH still has password)
As someone who has participated on 4chan in the past, I personally have learned to take comments at face value and not place much weight in the names. It's true that anyone can claim anything, and I don't think there is much benefit to seeing an identity tied to the user's posts.

I've seen mobbing in general against both sides of this ordeal, and I would be unsurprised to see astroturfing efforts as well. It upsets me that people tend to stoop that low, but I'm attempting to gather all info I can from both sides in order to come to my own conclusion.
Supersonic Jet Dream Dies as Aerion Folds