skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bingo. Water flows downhill, systems tend toward entropy, and businesses do whatever makes the most money. If those actions (like child labor) are unacceptable to society, laws have to be made to restrain them, or they will keep happening.

In general this reads like a sickening melange of half-true diagnoses (yes, of course lack of competition is a problem) and naive appeals to the nanny state that don't understand what they're inviting. To whit:

"Renée Diresta, research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory, said policy should also differentiate between free speech and free reach. The right to free speech doesn’t extend to a right to have that speech amplified by algorithms."

Yes citizen, you can say whatever you want. You just have to say it in this sealed, soundproof room with no windows! This is almost literally the author saying "You have the right to speak, you just don't have the right for anyone to hear you", which is nonsensical. Free speech is meaningless if you can't actually reach anyone with it. The right to yell your deepest beliefs in the middle of the Sahara desert isn't free speech.

But of course, this ability to silence "misinformation" is fine, because it will only be used against the bad people! Surely it will never be used to silence people like the author, because they're good and right! Never mind that this is already happening (Youtube is famous for silencing certain LGBT and sex-positive figures, as well as any number of left-wing activists, for example).
The same people that want a Unix based operating system can't manage to install Linux?

I was 14 years old in 2005 and knew nothing about programming, but was able to get Linux installed in a few minutes.

There is a real reason, but the part of the brain that makes the decision is different than the speech part of the brain.
Ha, that had never occurred to me but I actually do enjoy Nim. Feels sort of joyful in a way some of the other recent systems languages aren’t, perhaps it’s my nostalgia.
Studies say social media makes people unhappy. Isn't the cure to make us happy pretty simple?
> i can’t see any reason to stick with the Ubuntu desktop

Then don't. Linux has hundreds of alternative desktops that you can install and try out in minutes. KDE, i3, Awesome, bspwm, Openbox and many many more are all at your fingertips.
Declaring/Designating and protecting personal IP when joining BigTechCo is standard practice.

As long as you are not using tools and internal IP on your project and it is not a competing product it is typically fine.

This idea that BigTech is hostile to side projects is misplaced. They would actually like it if you succeed because its a PR and branding win for their engineers.
there was a discussion about experiments on rats here recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27491498 :)
If copilot produces a verbatim copy or just small changes, like changing the names of variables, for a long enough piece of code, this is definitely copyright infringement if they don't obey the license terms of the code that copilot "learned" from.
Are you sure? Isn't it UB to modify a const object? It will probably end up in a non-writable memory page.

EDIT: gcc seems to agree with me: you can see the optimized version here[1] and the unoptimzed version if you remove "const".

[1] https://godbolt.org/z/KWrW45rK8
Sounds lovely. My favourite suburbs are streetcar suburbs - South Park in San Diego for instance. Narrow streets, shorter setbacks, rowhouses, and just nicer places to exist.
I don't mean to put those people down - it is what it is. I'm privileged to be able to live frugally without sacrifice. I do object however at calling your parents' utility costs essential or mandatory. I hope some good counterexamples can help them/others see it's not impossible to spend less if they invest their energy in making changes.
I've had fiber into an apartment and into my current home. I don't think it is that unusual.
> you should be prepared for them to simply do nothing unless/until there's an attorney involved.

your answer is illogic masquerading advice. Why would you expect them to do nothing if you file a DMCA? yeah, that's right, all your analysis dodged the DMCA that you put a question mark next to for no reason.
A removable SSD does ensure that my laptop doesn't become trash after I use it long enough. For many people (myself included) no computer can truly feel "perfect" unless it can be run in relative perpetuity.
That's also not how fair use works.
Why don't they generate the key from the payload if it has to be unique and request specific?
Yes, the common usage of the quote is more lyrical than Franklin's usage. I didn't quote him specifically because it's sort of a misquote used in his sense.
It is not that cut and dry. A lot of times even working for others, you are building skills for yourself that you could utilize in the future. If you are entry level programmer and you work weekends to finish a project for your employer while learning a lot, it is still something that will help YOU in the future. You are just doing it faster than others who are working the bare minimum. It really matters how you look at things. You can say "why should I work for my employer on weekends" or you can say "I am going to do this on the weekend to learn faster and get things for my employer as well". It is all about how you look at things.

To get ahead in life, the important thing is to constantly learn things and early on in your career, you can do that working for others as well. Not everyone can start a side project or business at 22. Those who can, power to them of course.
It's not worrying at all because the rate is low, linear and predictable.

Can you elaborate on why would the rate increase?

Or are you saying that simply was the most alarming thing you could come up with in the context of this discussion, and the rate is just as likely to remain the same or decrease?
Wikipedia is wholly unreliable for information outside the scope of leftism or contemporary media.
Yeah, it's more about there being no side effects after the first time than asserting anything about the actual response
Thanks for pointing that out. I wasn't aware of it.
> Writing and copying an inverse square root is fine, doesn't matter if it's human, computer or alien.

This is very myopic because there's a big difference between "memorizing an algorithm" and "memorizing an implementation of an algorithm".

> There's a difficult question of what constitutes original copyrightable work, a trivial well defined algorithm isn't

I don't think copyright law agrees with this sentiment in the US. Even the spacing, variable names, and comments are non-functional attributes of this code. And, this also goes further, because the machine code it produces is also data that has copy rights. There's layers and layers of complexity here that is difficult to enumerate with forum posts.
A restaurant exists explicitly to serve food first. If you're still there an hour after paying your bill, they'll start asking polite questions.

A café, in most places, is a place for hanging out that makes money on the assumption that people will like refreshments, snacks or even small meals while doing so. They're typically not going to ask you to leave just because you haven't gotten anything in an hour or two (unless they're full). The exception appears to be some places where coffeehouses think they're a theme park ride.
Gates of Hell
I watched this documentary when young, the computer thought it was all a game?
I know the facts are the facts, but this is depressing. If this holds, it seems our politics are doomed to tribalism and paternalism in the long run.
Surely a far harder target for success than Mars.

It's a bit of a mixed bag and if you pop a level up on the linked site and go through the various probe pages, you'll find discussion of many of the issues. One mildly counter-intuitive difference is that the atmosphere on Venus is so thick you can parachute/freefall probes onto the surface, landings on Mars are 'harder' in a very literal sense that's waylaid many Mars missions.
I personally use mocks or stubs only in unit tests. Everything else should be live test or recorded network responses but always run through live code. Unless the service really depends on it, I do not reccommend setting up local swarm of services. This breaks down if you shift to distributed micro services and has little benefit for a single service app (ex crud + database app, no reason to test the database in the app tests).
> I want my firewall to inspect what the software is sending over the network and delete, randomize or nullify all data that isn't strictly necessary for it to perform the desired function. Like uBlock Origin but for the network stack.

You'll have to TLS man-in-the-middle yourself for this to be viable.
A discord community with 1000 SaaS founders. Share what you build
This is why any system that can cause physical harm should have hardware interlocks. A computer error can be bypassed with a physical switch.

For something like nuclear missile launch control you have redundant systems and hardware interlocks that require human intervention to launch.
Kinda depends on what you mean by work. Early on in my career I'd read books on the weekend, and after work. Relevant books like "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" and that genre. I wouldn't say it was work, but it definitely helped with work. Likewise, coding things on the weekend helped develop some skills that were useful for my work as well.

The thing is, it didn't feel like a struggle, in the way that writing an assigned essay might feel. It was just a number of work related things that added a bit of context to what I was doing, giving my work meaning. It also provides the links to all the adjacent topics in a field, giving you the keywords/hooks for further learning.

There are of course jobs where you literally are working, doing the same things that you do during the week, in the same office. That kid of thing leads to burnout, and if you're thinking about that perhaps gather some more experiences before you decide.
Worked as hard as I could, for 20+ years, until I couldn't anymore. No attempt at balance at all; life was arranged to make the job easier; I was doing just what I wanted and that was great. then not so great but nothing lasts forever. People honestly thought I didn't sleep most of that time.

Now I've had 15 years and running of family life and being the home maker and that's great too. I wish I had some of the physical fortitude I spent earlier but I'm sure that'd be the case regardless.

Have I achieved "work-life balance"? I didn't get rich when I was working, but I got to do things that made me happy and I can argue made the world better, in some small way. Since then, pretty much the same.
The Home Storage Crisis
It's more complex. Are you laundering 5 lines of code? Probably fair use. Are you laundering Windows? Clearly not okay. Are you trying to launder, or is it unintentional? Etc.

There's a line somewhere, but it's somewhere, not at either edge, and it's a complex, odd-shaped line we haven't yet defined. I don't know where it is. However, it's not where you're putting it, and there isn't a slippery slope to "IP is over." If you use five lines of my code in a different system, IP hasn't ended.
They are clearly talking about their personal experience and mostly parroting a cliche at any rate.
Could we bring that back, please?
Not hundreds. There are currently 52 root CA operators trusted by Mozilla (and thus Firefox, but also most Linux systems and lots of other stuff) a few more are trusted only by Microsoft or Apple, but not hundreds.

But also, in this context we aren't talking about the CAs anyway, but the Log operators, and so for them reliability is about staying qualified, as otherwise their service is pointless. There are far fewer of those, about half-a-dozen total. Cloudflare, Google, Digicert, Sectigo, ISRG (Let's Encrypt), and Trust Asia.

[Edited, I counted a column header, 53 rows minus 1 header = 52]
Very likely Musk hasn't given a thought to this prospect. Like refuel Starship in earth orbit. Then refuel again in Mars orbit. Go grab an asteroid and refine it back on Mars. Send 20 tons of gold back to earth on Starship. The Mars economy could be sustained this way. Pie in the sky really.
The tactic was highly successful on SA, but it can only do so much. Having a cover charge keeps out lazy spammers, children, and casual vandals/trolls pretty well. Unfortunately, it doesn't do anything to keep out those who are determined to be disruptive and have anything resembling real income. Even with 5 bans a month, $50 is trivial to any adult with a job if they really, really want to stay and cause havoc.
You might have two identical requests, say for two identical credit card purchases, or you might have faulty retry on the same request.
i can say that i've felt the urge and i've never smoked before. i think the urge is your brain/body trying to tell you that you're nearing a breaking point. i try to force myself to go for a short walk but its difficult as i know there will still be work to do and that if i skip lunch, stay an hour later, that i might somehow catch up. problem is that i'm well paid in tech and the feeling falling behind weighs on me so i forgo my personal well being to try and maintain and do more
Talk about aged like milk, $3k for healthcare has doubled since 2013.

If not even higher..
Deck chairs on the Titanic.
The CT program was spearheaded by Google and the discussion in question is on a list owned by the Chromium project.
Terrible programming features from the past
Reading Back What You Wrote in Rust
Benjaman Kyle
Here's a problem I'm having with these discussions: first of all, none of the people involved - like you - are qualified to make a judgement one way or another.

What we're left with is just straight up following the rules of scientific inquiry.

So, just going at it from that perspective: you're clearly in the wrong. Anyone who might have information that helps solve a problem should be able to come forward. Anyone who wants to stop that is a problem.

As for your skepticism - disparaging credentialed scientists as conspiracy theorists - you also have that ass-backwards. In any scientific discussion, it's the people who have vested interests (financial, institutional, personal) who you most need to be skeptical of. Satoshi Omura has nothing to gain from this, but the pharmaceutical companies definitely do.

So what are you trying to do here?
When I paid with a semi-broken machine recently, I actually had to sign a slip. I think the machine just read my IBAN as if the chip was a magnet strip. The offline credit limits are more of an optimization.
I've generally had a little bit more success with mocking when I'm hiding that dependency behind my own interface. So for example in Java, instead of trying to mock the AWS provided class, I write my own class (like a facade or repository pattern) which has a very simple interface of a success case and maybe a couple of relevant failure cases. It's calling the AWS library within it. But my mocks are at the level of my facade class which I find easier. The drawback is I'm not sure if there's a good general strategy to test the implementation of that facade. Most of the times the implementation is simple enough that I can do some simple integration tests for the most relevant cases, but there's always a risk that I am missing out some weird edge cases and I don't know how to properly deal with that.
> I'm not sure what that gains us over just having a habitat in orbit though.

Critically, it gains us raw materials. Space is empty. The upper atmosphere of Venus is full of elements we can use to sustain life.
I'm okay with where it stands.

Where it stands: We have a new technology. We don't really understand it. There aren't well-defined ethical or legal bounds. We're figuring them out, blumbering along as we go. People are trying things, and are making all sorts of arguments, some of which will stand the test of time, and some of which won't.

I'm more concerned when we do this with weapons, medicine, or social science, but an autocomplete tool seems like a relatively benign place to start figuring this out.
I’ve seen people with nasty yellow wax visible on/in their ears. I don’t think that’s sound advice for everyone.
Wow, that sounds obnoxious
I feel like Apple's approach to hardware made their job much easier -- they just ensured that every retina Mac had a display with exactly 2x the pixels as its pre-retina equivalent, so they never had to deal with fractional scaling like Windows often does.
The industry doesn't appreciated that blender can mesh edit and sculpt? What can it do that their existing software can't?
Sometimes reality is hard :) One source of CPU throttling which you appear to be ignoring is temperature. Another is platform power delivery. Both are not always knowable by the CPU in advance. The CPU obviously doesn't "decide on a number" by itself. Sometimes it asks for a certain voltage but because of Tau it gets a lower one. Sometime it starts to boost because of demand only to immediately thermal throttle and run slower.

You cannot deterministically know what max frequency the CPU could be running at in some future demand/power/temp state.
Be careful with averages.

Sure FAANG engineers can commonly make $200-600k. But the last equivalent tech co I worked at had 3 per 1,000 applicant acceptance rate (sure they probably also had a lot of people applying without a prayer) I wonder what the median is?

Also beware of survivor bias. At successful, public TechCos equity compensation typically grows over time due to the rise in stock price (if it doesnt the pay quickly becomes more average and/or the company goes bust) You can easily have an L4 engineer making L6/7 money because their start date and RSU pricing was lucky. Absolutely nothing to do with their skill…
Please upload the scans to the Internet Archive.

https://www.archive.org/
Hi Dave,
How is the work about mars going on
Maybe because the client should define what is the payload he wants to treat as idempotent. A request with the same message might have the same payload hash but it is sent on purpose twice.
Balance is extremely important, and can usually only be appreciated with hindsight which makes it hard to judge when you're in the moment.

I'm in the same boat as the author as far as working too hard, but I've never done it on my salaried work, only on my own projects. Most of them went nowhere and a few gave something useful, but in the end I learned a lot. And it's easy to just drop whatever you're working on when it's just for you.

I can't say if it's out of principe or out of spite, but I actually despise the very idea of doing unpaid work for my employer. If they want more work they can pay me for it, or more likely hire someone else to soak the extra efforts. I work as hard as anyone else during my work hours, and I stay up to date so what more do they want of me. I've actually had managers, who were good managers otherwise, subtly told me I was not doing much (unpaid) overtime compared to other people during my annual review. Funny how things work out, I found another job right after that paid me 50% more and didn't care about my after hours work.
No, I haven't watched this movie.
Hi Dave,
How is the work about mars going on ?
Two very different groups hate social media for two very different reasons.

Ordinary internet users hate it because it represents a serious loss of autonomy for them, and a degradation of service. It makes the internet less free than it used to be.

The wealthy and powerful (and those who love brown-nosing them) hate social media because it's STILL TOO FREE. There's way, way too much information there that threatens their vice-grip on the world, and it has to go. NOW.
Looks per se nice although there is not really much explanation of how it works... Also FYI the 'transparency' link is broken.
LOL dude, the only reason it's "dark" is because the government has created a "black" market.

I sold cocaine for many years, and now I'm a vegan who travels everywhere by walking or bicycle. In fact I live by a code of not destroying anything that isn't destructive to other ordered (and especially living) matter. You wouldn't know me, because for my own safety I avoid associating with anyone that thinks like you! There are plenty of awful people right here on this website and it's evident from their posts, so you have it wrong if you think drug dealers, some of whom are professional about what is an entirely consensual transaction, are any worse than the typical American slob or FAANG parasite.
Microbes in cow stomachs may help our plastic problem
Bad coding practices that make other developers hate your code
> Land is hardly a major category of economic value

1. Real estate market is by far the largest market out there. 99% of people worldwide are involved in it with 10x leverage over their net worth or up to 50% of their paycheck.

Real estate is THE market where excess money ends up. It is the sink in the graph of money flows.

2. Real estate values are not created by buildings but by land values.

- as brokers say, the value of property depends on 3 things: location, location, location
- the actual price of buildings goes down to zero over a generation or so, or even below zero accounting for demolition costs for the next parcel tenant. See Japan
- the inflation of real estate over last 2 decades has been 100s of percent, while inflation of labor has been at most in 1s or 10s of percent
- a building can cost as much as 10x in a metropolis compared to the same building in a small town. Construction labor (imported from out of the country typically) and materials are extremely mobile, so the actual building doesn't explain the price difference. It is determined by land purely.

So no, land has always been and still is the largest market out there, the largest monopoly existing and the classical economists were right to include it as a factor of production alongside labor and capital, and modern neoclassical economics is completely wrong for ignoring the largest market in the world by a huge margin.
Didi app pulled from app stores in China after suspension order
Twitterāgō dēlenda est
I'd honestly argue the hype already settled. Elixir peaked in hype and mind
share near 2016, where everyone was calling it the Rails killer. There were articles about it every day and the language burst into the scene with incredible force.

Since then, the community has matured, many have either moved out or settled with it. It's gaining momentum but the strong and steady kind, not the overhype kind. There isn't this infatuation over it anymore as we used to see those days.

Elixir is now in the strong, mature community stage. It's not hype anymore, it's the period of subdued stability and steady growth.
You've never heard someone say "my CPU is running hot all the time, I need to upgrade"?
>Rather, better defaults in web and SQL frameworks, even in a dynamic language, would get you most of the way there.

We’ve had 20+ years of building websites, and either we have sane defaults by now but they’re not enough, or we still don’t have sane defaults in our web frameworks.

Either way, that this problem persists given the damage it’s enabling, suggests we haven’t addressed the root cause yet. Web development is still a tarpit, which strong type systems can mitigate in unique ways.
Yet that too works very well.
"Indicrat" is certainly one of those "YouTube weirdos" referenced above. The lecture audience seen in that clip were old white women, not young white children. If those women hadn't heard about racism before then they should have.

Also, obviously the woman in the form-fitting attire was using intentionally provocative language. She doesn't really believe in demons. She was even giggling during part of the clip. There is nothing wrong with provocative language, unless one is a cancel-culture moron with easily hurt feelings.