skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, my wife has a 10 minute commute by bike. I make her change her job, so I can be nearer to mine.

No, sorry, it’s great where I live. Great nature around the corner, everything walkable, still a town with restaurants, but there aren’t that many interesting full stack dev and devops jobs and they didn’t pay as good. So, I’ll stay remote as long as I can.
Wise announces plans to go public via direct listing
Yeah. My it'll-never-happen dream is that Congress adopts the rule that no member can vote for a bill that they haven't personally read in its entirety. My second it'll-never-happen dream is that the president starts vetoing every bill longer than, say, 100 pages (except perhaps budgets) simply because they are too long.

Oddly enough, computers are enabling this. You couldn't get bills thousands of pages long with typewriters, because they get that long with a series of changes. It just wasn't physically possible to re-type it time after time, and then run it through Xerox machines to produce copies for everyone who needed them.
Isn’t the point that you use this without an amp though
> This is just a play to nudge apple to reduce prices by trying a new anchor

Not really, this is just them copying Apple and Google. This fee reduction only applies to developers making less than $1 million per year in revenue, which IIRC is the same thing the others are doing. (although to be fair, there probably aren't a ton of devs making more than $1m per year on their store lol)

I think this is most likely a ploy to stave off regulation. In other words, they're doing the exact same thing Apple/Google are doing for the exact same reasons.
Seems like a good solution to me if that was the only major issue.

If the underlying cause becomes an issue again, then maybe look at longer term solutions.

I’ve always had an issue with leaving light switches on. So I installed a bunch of home automation stuff. Now my light bulbs turn themselves off when I leave the house and a few turn on when I return. It’s a lot easier than trying to fix the problem of forgetting to flip switches before leaving.
It's important to note that Egypt is also run by an autocratic regime which is fearful of the influence of hamas and other revolutionary parties like Muslim brotherhood.
I think Israel for all their supposed military intelligence is thinking extremely short sighted, ultimately it's best for them that they make peace with the people around them by giving them equal rights and not provoking them by stealing their land.
In the decades to come, the political situation can change dramatically in the middle East and Israel may find itself among Arab countries that are no longer monarchies and won't ignore the Palestinian situation
BPF is going to change so many things... At the moment I'm having lots of trouble with the tooling but hey, let's just write BPF bytecode by hand or with a macro-asm. Reduce the ambitions...
Soon we'll be able to do the equivalent of the C++

typedef shared_ptr<Foo> Foo STAR_EMOJI;

EDIT: My star emoji doesn't seem to be showing up in HN posts so image that STAR_EMOJI is actually https://emojipedia.org/star/
I will never not talk about my depression
Oh, trust me… that Go issue is top of mind for me. I have the fifth comment on that issue, along with several other comments in there, and I’d love to implement it… I’m just not familiar enough with working on Go runtime internals, and motivation for volunteer work is sometimes hard to come by for the past couple of years.

Maybe someday I’ll get it done :)
I see. I haven’t used Aurora, but have had experience running write heavy workloads on RDS. EBS failures would regularly (like monthly) cause our write latency to spike up 3-5x. If Aurora’s storage layer architecture is more resilient to those types of problems, that seems like a huge win.
> A Ponzi scheme without anyone running it isn't a Ponzi scheme.

Citation please.

> Do you know the difference between, say, a pyramid scheme and a Ponzi scheme?

A pyramid scheme can make money for all participants but makes much more money for people high on the pyramid. Rising up the pyramid depends more on recruiting skill than time of entry.

A ponzi scheme doesn't actually make any money but merely redistrubtes money from later investors to earlier investors.
Is profit not normally extracted from the public? Rideshare costs are definitely increasing as they move towards profitability, this seems to be the expected and reasonable path towards that.
I do do something about it. I block them.
Our IronBank (lending), IronSwap (pegged assets-focused swap) have been developed already and will be live for
testing soon. Iron stablecoin v2 will come later.

https://ironfinance.medium.com/iron-finance-post-mortem-17-j...
On the off-chance this isn't a joke:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Doom
They sell a ton of kindle fires. Their app store doesn't have the selection of iOS or Android, but it's got a significant # of apps that average consumers might consider deal-breakers. In particular, as a cheap iPad alternative for kids, they have plenty of games.
It took me multiple passes to read even though I already understood what it was trying to say.
Of Defenders and Explorers [pdf]
Good and Bad Ways of Collecting User Feedback in 2021
> people are not very careful when they buy a chocolate bar

Ok..sure, but I think it's sort of pedantic to bring up a class of contract that, obviously, nobody in this thread is talking about. It's a bad example anyway; even if you are being pretty careful it's simply not a risky transaction and therefor out of scope for complicated enforcement mechanisms like smart contracts.

I don't think smart contracts are very well suited to unsecured lending, at least not with available software. There would be no incentive to pay it back without some mechanism to force collections. Collateralized loans, however, is a great use case that exists already.

This is early stage tech, the scope is pretty small. I don't think anybody is arguing the contrary.
The supervision trees require a few features of the VM that are hard to replicate in other runtimes. Links and process isolation being the main ones.

Robustness aside the BEAM has other nice properties such as the concurrency model, the concurrent and predictably low latency GC, and it's distributed and parallel computing features.
Yep, I don't exactly love AWS either but at least it generally works in a sane and predictable manner.
Check your state Board of Elections website. It's all on there.
> It was also made available on BB10 when they added Android compatibility near the end.

BB10 launched with Android compatibility, IIRC. I know that the first phone they released with it (BB Z10) had it.
That kind of smile outside, seething inside is the kind of thing that I assume would lead to very violent outbursts.

Imagine never being able to express yourself in a negative way.... Until one day, all that negativity finds outlet.
>That’s because the vast majority of things have a clear correct answer.

No, they don't. What is correct for rich western liberals often means further poverty, suffering, and death for those who don't belong to that class.

The sheer arrogance to even say that is boggling to me.
How to launch my first startup on Hacker News
Hi guys! I and my team (of 3) are building an application to make online lesson more fun and engaging. We're recruiting our first users for the MVP expected to be launched at the end of this month.
I have heard about many starups successfully launch their product in Hackernews but I don't really know what makes the difference (besides the quality of the product itself).
This is my very startup, I'm absolutely open to learn and any advices are really appreciated!
Thank you so much :)
My parents were park rangers at Yosemite when this happened.

They said for the next 5-6 months, the trail clearing crews - who first came across the spilled cargo - were continuously in a verrrry good mood.
Washington state law has recently been changed (rather, is in the process of changing) to explicitly allow municipal broadband. In the case of the Senate bill, we see all but one Republican opposing it, and all but 3 Democrats supporting it.
How is this different from REST API? Serious question. Why get downvoted?
Gleam is already pretty close to ocaml.
I would be interested in seeing a list of studies you have read on the topic.

Please and thank you.
There are so many people, and some of us have cats and dogs. Cats kill a lot of birds (and mice and rats—-maybe a good reason to have a cat on a farm) and don’t give much back to the ecosystem. Cat and dog poop adds pollution to land and waterways if not picked up (some is okay, but it doesn’t scale well).
I love our dog and feel this non-human person is family. I’m also sad for him not being free to roam and track down deer, elk, bears, coyotes, and potentially end up injured or dead. We run with him often, set boundaries, share affection, and I’m not sure I want to subject another animal to this captivity after he dies. I’d like to switch to helping the land I’m on be more diverse and robust, with healthier soil, more insects, more birds, more mammals (with measures taken to keep rodents out of the house), and to spend time observing this as a way to get me outside.
Change Data Capture with Kedro and Dolt
32-bit samples is a lot for an SDR though!
El Salvador Plans on Harnessing Volcanic Energy to Mine Bitcoin
I don't think it was sarcastic.

When BlackBerry was adding incentives to get developers to build for their new platform, their app store got flooded with minimum-qualifying-effort crap. I'd expect something similar here, if people think it'll pay off.
almost like having competition drives innovation up and prices down.

too bad most ISPs have literal monopolies over entire regions of people.
Trump won the state by 8 points in 2020. It's mostly due to voting, and partly to gerrymandering.
Did the Democrats make it illegal for your city to offer it, though? I think not.
this is the real reason I use Notion. Keeps that Dock looking nice and minty.
Fair enough. For my part, I didn't include that comment as just an obligatory remark, though. I did so because it occurs to me that, for instance, the only tech community I'm involved in where I have regularly met people who identify as non-binary gender is Haskell. I don't think that's entirely a coincidence, and I do think it's related to the strong role played by non-industry Haskell programmers in the community. So I said so.
Sure, but it’s almost certainly going to be exchangeable for a very small portion of its face value.
Sorry, for some reason I’m still having a hard time understanding. If a developer with less than $1 million in revenue sells an app on Amazon’s app store for $100 Amazon would get $30 and the developer would get $70 from each sale but now Amazon will get $20 and the developer will get $80 plus $10 in AWS credit from each sale. Am I understanding that correctly?
In my mind the limit is, if I paid for it, there should not be ads. I can understand using ads to fund a free service, but when I already paid, why am I paying a second time by watching ads? I mean pi hole sorts many of these problems out, but still.

Also, cars? You get ads in your own car? Wow.
I like it! Ping me if you want help. Draw the contrast between the popular policies and the reps that only pay lip service to them. Open API that might be a good place to start:

https://openstates.org/tx/bills/?query=&session=87&classific...
Combining rule-engines and machine learning
> to ask whether a future change in the logic to one would imply that a change should also made to the other.

If there's a really obvious answer to that question, then great. But often the answer is "sometimes" or even "most of the time". We train most developers beginning even in intro-level programming classes to err on the side of deduplication and over-abstracting in these cases, but the longer I've been working as a developer the more I have come to think it's better to err on the side of allowing some duplication except in the most clear cut of cases.
It's quite beautiful, but put so simply it does look nightmarish.

"Then, the otters would decide which part of the river to put the message in"

I'd imagine a child looking at this going like "why are they doing this to the river". Why are they are throwing things into the river. :D
Amazon would pay their employees in store credit if they thought they could get away with it.
Also wondering whether we should rethink language runtimes for this. Like write everything in SPARK (so all specs are checked), target bpf bytecode through gnatllvm. OK you've written the equivalent of a cuda kernel or tbb::flow block. Now for the chaining y'all have this toolbox of task-chainers (barriers, priority queues, routers...) and you'll never even enter userland? I'm thinking /many/ programs could be described as such.
By far the most exciting thing about this announcement is this feature: "Detailed information on what a recruiter did with your application."

I've been wishing for something like this for years. Especially for early-career engineers or people from non-traditional backgrounds, this is insanely valuable because it helps you to know avoid wasting time on applications that will never go anywhere; avoid typing in your resume, line by line, into another form after already submitting your pdf. Avoid writing a cover letter to a job that's already been filled. Avoid applying to a posting that's really just out there for a company to "gauge" interest, not for filling a real role.

If an application is rejected, fine. But getting a follow-up request 7 months after submitting a resume into a black hole is ridiculous, and I think any system that decreases the information asymmetry between the applicant and the employer that allows people to intelligently approach their career search is going to be tapping into something truly valuable.
I have not either in the past, which is why I think this account must be flagged.
> How did you disambiguate ‘developer revenue cut’ to be Amazon’s cut not the developer’s? Since it says ‘developer’ not ‘Amazon’.

To me it's because in my mind "Amazon" is the person taking a "cut".

We never say "developers take 70% cut of the app store revenue", because developers don't "take a cut", they sell, and amazon takes a cut of their sale.

Still, I agree, the title is ambiguous.
> In the end you are comparing who had vaccine/placebo on a group of O(100) people.

I guess this is what people were saying about Absolute vs Relative risk reduction. If that is so, your explanation makes it much more clear.
While reading, I was thinking about telling her to get rid of the hairdryer, but bringing it with you is way smarter. If there was no hairdryer to worry about the mind would likely search for something new to obsess over.
Not especially, no. It likes trees, or things that can easily and naturally be represented as trees, best, as far as I've ever been able to tell. Granted, I suppose, that's a kind of graph.
This is a great story. I know its not related but I can't help but feel a sort of analogy to engineering work: the tension between idealism and pragmatism.

At a previous company our build times for a game client were around 5 minutes or so. Our tools team had planned some work to get this down but it kept getting pushed out. The tools weren't part of the client so I'm not sure they know how bad this was. Anyways, one of the tools engineers rigged up a solution in a day or so that got this down to a minute. Unfortunately it wasn't the nice, perfect, planned solution that kept getting pushed out so they were reprimanded by some manager. Fortunately, more were on the side of the engineer than the manager. To my knowledge they never did end up implementing the planned solution.
I agree with all of this advice, and would just add that if you find yourself turning in PRs that then need some changes before they can be merged, a strategy that worked for me early in my career was reviewing my own code as if I was reviewing another person's pull request. If you have turned in a few PRs that needed work then you already have a few examples of the kind of thing that your colleagues are looking for, and you can look at your own code with those things in mind. If you can, I would try to put a little time between writing the code and reviewing it so your mind can reset a bit. For me that meant wrapping up the code in the evening and then reviewing it first thing in the morning.
Ethereum apps are typically written in Solidity before being compiled to EVM bytecode. The EVM bytecode must be public, but one could keep the (more readable) Solidity code private, like distributing an executable without the source. I think it would be unusual though.
> By 2025, graph technologies will be used in 80% of data and analytics innovations, up from 10% in 2021, facilitating rapid decision making across the enterprise.”

What is behind the thought that graph databases are going to grow so much in the next few years? To me they've always had a niche use... Are they really going to be ubiquitous (like this funding seems to assume?)
Indeed and it doesn't even have any shielding cans on it in the design they show on crowdsupply.
I don't know if it offers any practical benefits for sequential/socket IO. But AFAIK it's the way to go if you want to do async random-access/file IO.
I live in a smaller metropolitan area in the southeast and 400 down/20 up is $95 a month because I don’t bundle it with other services. Fast.com maxes at 200 down so I think they are throttling certain things. I get 400 when using their Speedtest. I want to do some automated testing/logging throughout the day for a good month to have some good data to share with them but not having any broadband alternatives means they ultimately don’t care. I had the faster service for a year when it was randomly set back to the base speed. Calling and complaining about it and it gets fixed but no compensation as I couldn’t tell them exactly when it was changed and they had ‘no clue’. This was after arguing over a $99 upgrade fee initially when I increased speed. She said it was required for the tech to ensure my service was working properly. But wouldn’t have to send a tech to my home. I got that fee waived eventually after explaining I was trying to pay them extra every month and I knew for a fact a tech wasn’t doing anything specific to my account to ensure it worked as I used to work at charter and knew the provisioning process. Oh yah... they were just as scummy of a company to work for. I can only imagine things will get worse with Spectrum after their ‘no caps’ agreement expires from the Time Warner merger.
> although to be fair, there probably aren't a ton of devs making more than $1m per year on their store lol

Why would you assume that? I don't know if there are or not.

If you have, oh, 5 or 10 developers working for a company, it better have $1 million/year in revenue to pay them all.

I don't know how many entities selling apps in an app store have more than 5 developers, or otherwise how many have more than $1 million in revenue.
OmniSci vs. Tableau and Snowflake: A Tale of the Tape
I think the main takeaway for the majority of participants was that I'm old and don't know how to talk on the Internet.
I wonder if this is the way Apple and Google will eventually retreat from their 30%* cut, by using their app store chokepoint to nudge developers to their platform. Seems like a worse monopolistic practice than the 30% cut to me.

For Google, that'd obviously be GCP discount. For Apple, less obvious. Pushing iCloud storage? Apple Music? They've already forced every app to support Apple Pay and Sign In with Apple, so they likely don't even need the carrot.

*yes I know its not 30% anymore for some/most usecases.
Absolutely unrelated. You can think of GraphQL as a standardized glorified RPC that calls arbitrary functions that return some data. Whether the source of data is an RDBMS, a bunch of REST microservices, DynamoDB, redis, SQLite, a flat JSON file, Neo4j, or a D12 dice doesn't really matter.

The "graph" part is if your arbitrary data is actually somehow related, you can traverse those relationships in one request instead of having to do many calls in a waterfall.
We could abolish states. Gigantic unilaterally-voting political bodies are a bad design. Accepting legislation purely because some group is in the majority is a bad design.

Say you have two very large groups of junior developers and a handful of senior devs. Both groups of juniors propose conflicting pull requests using diametrically opposed designs. Then everyone votes on a PR. The group with more juniors ends up getting their PR merged. Even though both designs might be total crap, and in fact the groups might intentionally avoid good code just because it looks like the other group's code.

The solution is to disband the two gigantic groups and either A) create one mega-group, or B) create small "two-pizza" groups. Enable peer review, and empower the seniors to provide the necessary guidance and control to prevent a group of incompetents from merging shitty code just because they didn't like some other group's code. Oh, and mandate validation testing, and metrics to show whether the code should be kept or reverted.
(I'm a PM at Triplebyte working on this overall direction, joining Ammon for this thread.)

To be clear, we still have quizzes and the ability to show your performance on them to companies. The fact that they’re not completely mandatory to use Triplebyte doesn’t mean that they’re not important or that we won’t build further features around them.

Right now, companies can offer an expedited process as part of their reach-out. We’re working on ways to productize this a little bit better. We didn’t announce the feature in this post because it isn’t done yet, but one thing we’re looking at is allowing companies to set individual score thresholds for various types of expedited process (e.g. “if you scored a 3 on algos and a 4 on back-end, we’ll definitely get on the phone with you” or “if you have a 5 on python we’ll skip tech screens for you”). We certainly recognize that FastTrack was valuable to a subset of engineers, and we want to recreate the value it offered in a way that is a little bit more sensitive to the specific company and specific engineer in question. We imagine, for example, that less-prestigious companies (who are more concerned about attracting applicants) will probably set lower thresholds than the Apples of the world. Under the old system, we had to set a single threshold, which would necessarily either be too low for prestige companies or too high for everybody else.

And just to lean a little bit back into the pitch we’re trying to make here: if you’re concerned about interviewing process, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to search companies by how their interview process works? That’s not an axis on which companies meaningfully compete right now, but with the right incentives, companies will cut a lot of the annoying hassle that they currently have no reason to get rid of.
UK investing company Nutmeg bought by JP Morgan
Deal worth a rumoured $700m according to the Financial Times
Another way I look at this is that wealth has accumulated so disproportionately at the top that the small number of individuals/firms flush with wealth need to find ways to spend the money. So why not dump hundreds of millions on another company? Since there isn't any actual force coming in to take and redistribute it, might as well spend it.
Also, if the price of TITAN is 0, then you really can't pay out 25 cents worth of it... It does seem correct that the contract should handle such a case differently than just trying to pay you out UNDEFINED DIVIDE BY ZERO ERROR count of TITAN