skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having a long last name and long company domain name, my work address weighs in at 31 characters, not fun to spell over the phone. I just use a different address if I have to spell it over the phone.
> just give me an api over network/bus that someone can create an app for it

Be careful what you ask for…

I got a _very_ stern talking to by legal a long time back (~2013), when I demonstrated to my boss that using the Toyota telematics and some knowledge of specific vehicles, I could locate 2 of the fleet Prius we used. I’m reasonably sure I could have popped the door locks on them too with a little more work.

I was just “playing” with some api docs I found in the company wiki.

Legal and the CTO made it very clear to me that I’d never found those docs, I’d never written any code to use those APIs, I’d never connected to any Toyota never mind one I didn’t own personally, I’d certainly never tried exploiting those APIs, and I knew _nothing_.

I hope (perhaps in vain) that things are better than they were 7-8 years ago (and that 7-8 years and the company who’s NDA I was covered by company going into receivership is long enough to tell some of the story…)
The E2E testing one is driving me nuts. I've told people time and time again that we'll never be able to have hundreds (or even a dozen) of them working reliably. Yet people still try and to date we've lost even more hours in trying to make them reliable. The idea is seductive but in my experience an exercise in futility. At the same time I've proposed alternatives such as semantic monitoring but people typically recoil in horror when they learn what it means.
I know of the concept but nothing specific. Is this related to your comment?
PDF with embedded Javascript -- bad idea!

Text with embedded Scheme -- good idea?
This lines up with the "hyperbitcoinization" narrative. It is pretty interesting to consider from a game theory perspective what sequence of events might cause this outcome to occur.
> I think it’s hard to make the argument against allocating somewhere on the order of 1% of your portfolio to crypto.

crypto, especially bitcoin, is an intentional environmental disaster. I don't want to invest 1% of my money into an intentional environmental disaster.
Is there a "Chinese currency control evasion for Solana"? That's generally the most viable use case for most cryptocurrency systems.
Nifty framework for tolerating partial partitions
People are not atomic units at work. They are part of teams and part of a larger organization. The question is not where you work best, but where the teams and larger organization work best.

Silicon Valley leaders, such as Google, have long invested significant resources in incentivizing people to stay at the office - great food, massages, ping pong, lectures, etc. The value of being at the office hasn't changed, and Silicon Valley already experimented with mostly remote work and rejected it, years ago. I remember Yahoo (IIRC) abruptly canceling their experiment and bringing people back to the office.

I'm surprised to see some SV companies now planning for WFH. Nothing has changed in that regard, especially for them - it's not like their employees didn't understand how to use Zoom and were forced to do it by the pandemic, like people in less tech-savvy industries.
Crazy traffic source you wouldn’t believe is for free
Its creator has a bunch of details on their Twitter (https://twitter.com/OskSta, although digging through long Twitter history is of course a pain) and given some talks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bcZb-SsnrA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hqt8JkYRdI
One of the reasons I moved from California to Mexico a few years ago. Much more affordable and can live on outsourcing wages while working from home.
https://github.com/JuliaGPU/AMDGPU.jl

https://github.com/JuliaGPU/oneAPI.jl

These are both less mature than CUDA.jl, but are in active development.

> Edit: the site has one project per GPU type, shame there isn't one interface that works with every GPU type instead.

That would be https://juliagpu.github.io/KernelAbstractions.jl
You're using a very specific complaint about science formalism not about numbers but about recruitment and randomisation. My comment went to numbers, not recruitment. If your problem is outsider science, please be more specific.

You could (for instance) cite PLOS one reports on Ivermectin instead of random domains with an axe to grind:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
> I have Bitcoin, and I will likely never sell it

Curious, why did you buy it if you will never sell it?
New parent here.

If you're a working couple, find out waitlist time for daycare.

Other than that, don't worry too much. You'll make a fine parent. You'll figure it out when the time comes.
Ah. Good point. It is not a penalty, it is just the tax all at once that you would normally pay over the life of the distribution. Unless that tax isn't capital gains and pushes you into a higher tax bracket, as opposed to a lower tax bracket if you had withdrawn over time in smaller quantities. I don't know if IRA dispursions are taxed as capital gains or income tax.
I think that changes with Taproot though, otherwise native mutisig would not work. I suppose the mitigation would be to keep high value wallets on hashed public key addresses.
> I’d estimate the price of BTC would likely increase by two orders of magnitude

I broadly agree that there's no great reason not to allocate 1-5% (I'd go higher on the range, depending on personal context) to crypto.

However there's no scenario where Bitcoin can increase in value by two orders of magnitude. Literally, there is no scenario that can actually occur that will get it there. You're talking about ~$75-$100 trillion in value depending on where Bitcoin is at in a given week or month.

You know what compares well to that? All the public stock holdings on planet Earth, which is just under that line.

Bitcoin is going to be worth more than every publicly traded company in existence, from the US to China and everything inbetween. Not a chance that can ever happen. The odds are zero.
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In the EU, what you are claiming you do is illegal under the GDPR, you would be required to give prior notice at the very least.

See the "notice" section starting at bottom 3 of this for the lay persons summary on the notice requirement (or read the whole thing to see what laws around this look like in Germany) https://www.bakermckenzie.com/-/media/files/people/lutz-holg...
Yes, but gold was an awful reserve, which is why we got rid of it. Replacing it, now, with the benefit of hindsight, with a digital version of an awful reserve isn't a game plan.
"nor are the skills of writing good documentation even vaguely similar to those for writing good code". I disagree. Vehemently.
>I could sign on to us all being one consciousness re-living until we experience them all, or just multiple consciousnesses that somehow floated through space and got attached to this earth...

Why did they need to exist before they were generated here? Firefox didn't float through space before people invented computers and wrote it up in 2002.

By the anthropic principle, we happened to start here, of all possible places, in our heads, of all possible heads, and will end here. What's beautiful, I think, is being okay with that, and overcoming ego enough to realize how petty and small our differences from each other are -- you from me, us from Ancient Romans 2000 years ago, and us from the uncountable consciousnesses 2000 years from now, which will be witness to wonders we can only dream about. The local tragedy of death is a momentary drop of sorrow in an global ocean of adventure and beauty, experienced by people whose difference from ourselves and each other is a different sensory feed and a lonely, selfish conceit of the self. :p

You only need an afterlife insofar as you can't overcome the ego to empathize with those who come after you as much as you do with yourself.
But will they be good enough to let me play T. C. Vilabier's 26th String-Specific Sonata For An Instrument Yet To Be Invented?
I think it really depends on the type of lsd/shroom.

Myself and some friends recently came into a new batch of acid. I don't usually have major visuals but with this batch I really do, and so does everyone else who takes it. Eyes open and the whole room has turned into a beautiful shifting geometric fractal pattern. When I closed my eyes it was even more intense, incredibly colorful, beautiful, sexual, shifting fractal geometries. It really felt like I had stepped into one of those AI art generators except far more coherent and personally meaningful.

Also I had the opportunity to try DMT a few months ago and that really did take me to another reality (not literally of course). Incredible, beautiful multi-sensory experience that I won't try to explain here, however the visual and auditory components were extremely intense.
maybe the next level of leetcode will be to write code in this IDE using only the spray can tool, and if you don't get it done in less than 1 minute, they will pass on you. of course, everyone will happily go along with it.
> The mantra of "trust the science" can only hold when the scientific method is allowed to function.

Do you have any evidence that the scientific method is currently not allowed to function in communities of expertise?

Because even if ALL contrarian ideas were aggressively crushed in venues like YouTube or USA Today (not actually happening, plenty of contrarianism available on YouTube), it seems like the biological sciences might have their own venues for robust discussion.
I had a little play with Solana to see if it would be appropriate for a game I'm building, to use as an (after)marketplace for players to trade in-game items. It's quite easy to install the Solana command line tools, create a wallet and create your own fungible or non fungible tokens with a few simple commands (and some Sol). The reason I was looking at Solana was because the transaction costs are extremely low (and if the marketing is to be believed, should stay that low even if Solana had the market cap of bitcoin).

However you can't add any metadata to non fungible tokens at present (some dev told me on discord that this feature was coming very soon), which limits its usefulness. Also a reliable and user friendly marketplace for Solana tokens is still lacking (startup opportunity for someone?)
Managers are getting a pretty bad rap in these threads, and maybe (or maybe not) in BigCo’s that’s reasonable, but I run a tiny shop and I’ve asked my team to come to the office as often as possible, despite the fact that half of us have been working together for years - and we get on just fine online.

The reason is that the other half of the team haven’t got this experience; they are young and relatively inexperienced, and I want them to see how we work, how we solve problems, how their peers communicate and how we think about different aspects of the business. I want to be able to jump on the whiteboard at a moments notice and maybe pull in a couple of others, while other people in the office can also listen in. This is every bit as important to the professional growth of our juniors as it is to my new business. If the sales guy and I are having a discussion and the junior front end developer hears us, he gets a sense of how we work that he’ll never get if the meeting is held in PMs on Slack or Discord.

I have no problem with WFH in principle, but my position is, if you are able to come in, then come in. If you have kids or other commitments then fine, work from home a couple of days a week. But by default, it’s better for everyone if you’re in the office.

I know this doesn’t work for all companies, but its not like this policy is poorly considered or arbitrary. I guess my company is going to attract people who prefer this mode of operation, and I know other companies are WFH first. But there are reasons for why we do what we do.
I think computing is following industry. I’d argue that most companies are younger and dumber than they were when I entered the professional world about 20 years ago.

A few months ago, i engaged to help fix a troubled system. The thing was built around kubernetes and the architecture was basically aligned with how a bunch of contractors were hired. Nobody really understood how it worked and it performed poorly. So poorly in fact that I reimplemented a core component in a shell script, mostly to quickly understand how it worked, and to my surprise, the thing ran faster on my laptop at moderate load than the actual system!

Sounds like a bad IT project, but to be honest whole companies run this way, saving pennies while setting dollars on fire.
Yeah I have a strong suspicion that an ML model mistakenly flagged me in some form. I believe that reasonably any bans/blocks/other important decisions should only be augmented by ML and always, in 100% of the cases, need human review. You're going to have false positives, and that's okay, no model is perfect – but that needs to be taken into account when making decisions based on its output.

I read about a case here on Hacker News a while ago – I can't seem to find the link again – where the police arrested a guy for committing a crime because they had ran a face detection model over drivers license pictures and CCTV footage and it flagged the guy. Problem was – he didn't look like the perpetrator at all, it was clearly just a fluke. But since the police was not trained to scrutinize the face detection results, they arrested him and had him in custody for a good while.

Another thing that gets more and more common is that when traveling in a foreign country and using a foreign credit card, transactions at tourist-heavy businesses like restaurants or rental car companies go through smoothly. But try to order a T-shirt online? Oh no, that must be fraud! It's constantly blocked, and always on the merchant side, my bank knows about my traveling. Turns out, many fraudulent transactions are made with stolen, foreign cards, and so a primitively trained model might look successful enough if it simlply blocks all transactions with foreign cards.

But of course it could have also been some other mistake that lead to this. ML is a good possibility though.
> But aren't the ad prices derived by live auction? It's not as if Facebook is pricing above market equilibrium to extract monopoly rents.

There is a peculiar dynamic as the market centralizes toward fewer marketplaces (for example two-sided ones like AdWords) such that buyers have to go there to find sellers and vice-versa, that results in sellers getting stuck in a race to the bottom, while buyers are stuck in a race to the top. It's like the dark mirror of the network effect. The market maker gets to siphon off the growing gap as fees of various sorts. Voila, monopoly rents.

FB isn't a two sided marketplace, but buyers are definitely stuck bidding against each other which causes the market equilibrium to rise. And even if you broaden the definition of the market fairly generously such that FB doesn't have a monopoly per-se, you've still got an oligopoly at best.
Hope its not too late, but due warning: programming will mostly likely not give you "purpose". Its alright, the work is nice sometimes and you can learn a bit, but amongst my friends group and peers I have yet to find anyone who got "purpose" with programming.

About the actual programming language: trust me, it just doesn't matter that much. Just choose Java or Python and you can't go wrong. Pick up an algorithm's course/book and try and solve some problems. Becoming hire-able is a whole other ball game where you need to play with your social networks, make own projects or use your college credentials.
2 reasons:

1.) as collateral. I’ve already taken out and paid off a loan using my BTC as collateral.

2.) to pass on to my children. I see Bitcoin as a generational asset. If we continue on the path we’ve been on the last 10 years, a single Bitcoin could be worth millions in 30 years.
Common Hindu nationalist trope to associate everything they don't like with colonialism.

As a Hindu, it deeply saddens me these people have been making temples the issue of forefront while ignoring every duty Dharma assigns to them.
Large fires that result in great cultural loss still happen...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Universal_Studios_fire
> If they just stop committing crimes, then there's no fancy press release saying how great the DA is or whatever.

That's an interesting observation on how people respond to their incentives.

If I'm a DA, my job description is probably not to reduce crime. It is to successfully prosecute crimes that have already been committed.

Of course, as a thoughtful and honorable person, I will naturally want to see if I can also reduce crime, not just prosecute it. But that is not the direct incentive I'm given.

As a software developer on various mid-size teams, I've often found that I don't get much of a boost in my performance reviews when I find a way to make the entire team more productive, e.g. by solving a nagging problem that is affecting everyone.

Instead, I get more highly rated by just making sure I knock out all of my own Jira tickets for the current sprint, and ignore those more global problems.
Why would I use this and not Pandoc?
I worked on a project in the early 90s to figure out a way to distribute updated docs along with software updates. At the time, the software updates were shipped on CD, etc. We could ship the docs in WordPerfect AND Word formats. But that wasn't very palatable. We talked with WordPerfect about this portable document format thing they were working on (Envoy?). And we talked to Adobe about some sort of similar thing they had in mind. We could ship the document reader for Mac and Windows on the CD with the docs.

We also explored the idea of perhaps putting the docs as postscript files on an internet server with a ghostscript app and some instructions on how to ftp the files or something. That all seemed so close to right, but not quite feasible.

We weren't even considering the internet for software distribution. It was all an idea to provide our customers the latest and greatest documentation. But the internet was not established enough to let us refer customers there for practical use. And ghostscript was some hokey concept from people in some GNU movement or something and wasn't close to production quality.

Three years later we lived in a completely different world.
This is one of the best comments I've seen on this website about an economic topic.

I agree with you completely; minimum wage is almost a political stunt. Rents will follow the increase, and the gov't gets to collect more payroll taxes. Win win for the ruling class.

The tax structure will have to change for real income to rise. The people who own capitol will have to be tax incentivized to put it to productive uses and have real, long term growth for everyone (capitol owners, workers, society, etc.).
I'm not even old, 29. But I feel jaded to go out into that bustle and do that stuff lol. Although hopping around the EV and such bar scene is kinda exciting, the people you will meet and the hot girls.
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It doesn’t really matter whether any of these companies are monopolies in the Sherman Act sense. That act was passed about 130 years ago and could never have possibly envisioned the challenges presented by tech companies today.

What does matter is that these companies are very much engaged in the behaviors these bills would regulate. The point of the legislature is not to sit around and observe why a century-old law doesn’t technically apply to a modern problem, it’s to make a new law that does apply.

I don’t have an opinion on whether these bills are a good idea or not (although I definitely think big tech need some reining in). But whether or not these companies are technically monopolies has nothing to do with it beyond a bit of political rhetoric.
OK, intergenerational transfers are a thing, especially of assets whose value is somewhat independent of the state.
I wish more attention would be towards open source alternatives for CUDA, such as AMD's ROCm[1][2] and Julia framework using it - AMDGPU.jl[3]. It's sad to see so many people praise NVIDIA which is the enemy of open source, openly hostile to anything except their oversized proprietary binary blobs.

[1] https://rocmdocs.amd.com/en/latest/index.html

[2] https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm

[3] https://github.com/JuliaGPU/AMDGPU.jl
Exactly the reason I don't invest. My risk appetite is more than enough to take on Bitcoin/Ethereum investment, but the environmental impact relative to its utility outside of speculative investment is insane.

Did you mean to say "international environmental disaster"? I don't know in which way it's intentional that Bitcoin destroys the environment. The damage seems incidental.
We have had several discussions on Julia here, including a recent one where many people offered their feedback on aspects that need be addressed [1].

This is a good opportunity to communicate such feedback directly to the Julia community.

If you are a Julia user, as I am, please make your voice heard.

(From today's Julia Computing newsletter.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27280174
Not to be facetious but the juxtaposition of the romantic description of the value of personal time you made against the last line link to some kind of walk-sharing social media app did give me a laugh.
Completely agreed on every word though.
I seriously doubt it. You have to work hard in order for your creativity to be useful. You cannot have "information at your fingertips at all times" if you want to be creative. This is especially the case with social media, where you are in a filter bubble with other like-minded individuals being fed the same information. This is profoundly harmful for fostering creativity.

This is coming from somebody who consistently scores at the 99th percentile for openness to experience (including for multiple individual subscales within this specific domain of the Big 5 personality traits) which is quite established for being well correlated with creativity.

Also, I use my creativity every day as a graduate electrical engineering student. Unless you are already creative (or are actively working on becoming creative, especially with help through coaching or better--education) then AI is not going to get you anywhere useful.
I just want to give a giant explicit +1 to this sentiment and understanding of how humans learn, and then add a bit from there to connect it back to the problem highlighted in the first comment.

IMO, there's a few ways to try and take a pragmatic approach to the problem above:

1. Make simple ways to do complex things. A library, a language, a framework, they all go after the same thing when designed well: batteries included complex functionality that the end user can't shoot themselves in the foot with. It seems like in this domain (microservices), we are still early and need better support for small companies to spin this up. I've found my current company runs microservices pretty well, but I know it took a TON of infrastructure, support, and education to get it to that point. Few companies can afford to have that.

The danger with this approach is that people who understand the internals become rare, and surface level only knowledge can lead to issues when you get to edge cases. I'll still take it, but wanted to call it out. The linux kernel is a great example of what that looks like down the line.

2. Make as many places as possible for developers in training to fail and make those 5 years of mistakes with low stakes consequences. In some ways, the way the industry hires already does this, but I'm sure there are better ways we can come up with versus the current sandboxes. If your frustration boils over, this is a place to channel it positively.