skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Whispernet only 'worked' because of the pricing structure they had with their MDN, the amount of books they were selling with it, and trying to break into the market and willing to eat some cost to do so. Also notice they retired it. That means it was not working pricewise.

3G Whispernet couldn't outlast the carriers getting rid of the hardware to support those frequencies. So yes, that means "forever" didn't work price-wise, in that Amazon didn't feel it was worthwhile to build their own outdated-tech cell network just to continue it, but it was still a reasonable "for most of the life of the device" offer - note that newer devices have 4g and still will work.
It’s just a goto with state…
>>I've brought my frayed MagSafe charger, which has degraded to the point that it's been staining everything blue

How. I have a 12 years old magsafe charger and it's in perfect condition. Never frayed any cables, not the old 30-pin ones, not the lightning ones, not the new USB-C ones. I just don't get what people are doing with their apple cables to make them fray like this.
Another, far less ridiculous angle would be "here's a tiny group of wealthy people with weirdly contradictory viewpoints"

The article is quite clear that is criticizing an idea (This is a dangerous ideas). For any idea, if you at the people subscribing to it, you'll see they follow the idea in a somewhat contradictory fashion. But should hold back from looking at the idea itself 'cause otherwise one's ability to analyze is complete hobbled.
"An employee testified to having seen company security guards open the mailbox."

Ignore the "testified" part -- even if this was just a rumor that somebody started, imagine the impact it would have.
There's plenty of good additions in C and bad additions in C++. (Also I object to the assertion that VLAs are bad! They are an improvement to function signatures.)
The problem is that his view has cost him millions of dollars. Not job hopping is a multi million dollar error his the part of them and their colleagues.
Why not just say that two situations where there is one more person that came into existence in one situation than the other, but everyone else’s “time in which they are alive” and “how happy/satisfied/whatever they are” are the same, are morally incomparable?

So, that way, there is neither an obligation to try to make it so there will be more people if they would be happy, nor an obligation to not do so if they wouldn’t be, but there is an obligation to, if you do make a person, to endeavor to make situations good for them?

So then, future people’s well-being matters, conditional on them existing, but without an obligation to try to influence whether they exist or in what numbers (beyond how this influences people who already do exist or who will exist regardless ).
Can we just be honest and say that Amazon - it's leadership, especially Bezos - is greedy/sociopathic and frankly detrimental to long term human survival (based on the zero-sum approach to success), but that it's so convenient that we privileged people will still buy stuff off Amazon?

As with factory farming, if people could see the conditions which their "food" (living beings) were subjected to, they would make different decisions... we would probably make different buying decisions if we had friends or family who worked in the worst jobs for Amazon.

I used to love bacon...
To clarify my point, even if leeching off companies is like stealing a grain of rice from each person, it is still wrong.

My point was that ransomware is wrong even in an idealized abstract scenario where it only targets non-critical companies.

Thanks for providing your experience. It drive home that in practice it is much more like beating and robbing many people than it is like stealing just a single grain of rice from them.
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> So you're essentially saying that if you look at any high-profile success of Tesla or SpaceX, you'll see a result that could have been accomplished by others working in the field for substantially less money?

No. You're the one saying that.

What I said was what I said in my above post. Elon Musk is incredibly good at raising money, and leverages this skill to the max in his companies. No one else in the world seems to compare against Elon Musk at generating hype and extracting money from bonds, secondary offerings, and other maneuvers in the modern stock market.

Feel free to disagree with me on this issue, but I have the numbers. The amount that public companies raise from bonds and/or stock offerings is public. I don't feel like digging them up right now, but I'm confident that I can procure the numbers if you push me on that subject.
Agreed. Partially completed might be nice if you're tracking someone else's work (subordinates) but for my own, I would need at least one more item saying where I left off or why I didn't finish in one sitting.

I'm sure this works for Adam making god knows what at ILM though.. its just not for me in a software dev environment.
Google shows enough I guess but things like [0] and [1] but there are quite a few books describing it all in more detail and he has talked about it himself [2] (not only here).

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/peop...

[1] https://www.ceotodaymagazine.com/2021/01/leadership-styles-a...

[2] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/bill-ga...
If you follow through with the entire fastai course/book, then you will learn how to build an ML framework (the fastai library) from scratch. Yes, it starts out by saying "you can do deep learning with 4 lines of code" but it goes through all the inner workings, and talks about some pretty advanced stuff. Of course, no book can cover everything, but it also functions quite well as a jumping off point for more advanced self-study.
We often assume non-human animals are totally focused on the logical business of survival. But we aren't, and I don't see why they would be any different
Doesn’t fix wow and esports addiction
It predates half the people on HN. It's a weird kind of "these guys did this bad thing that one time 40 years ago and that's the last thing I need to know".

The US government and military do plenty of things badly, and plenty of things well, and practically none of the people discussing them have any idea what either category actually contains.
Yeah, even with the Apple Magsafe wallet I found I had to be fairly disciplined when I took it off the phone at home or to magnetically mount on the car so I didn't have to frantically search for it. Though I like it overall vs. having a conventional sleeve because the car mounting and wireless charging in bedroom works well.

But individual cards are really easy to lose. Probably a mini front pocket wallet would be a reasonable option but fewer items is still better in general.
For historical context:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-i...

(Google has since added encryption to its internal entworks.)
Been working on codifying my investment strategy:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tBrZEMFK9XNWxiqOxE8o...

You can read more here:
https://playingfordoubles.substack.com/p/invest-like-a-vc-in...
Yep, your scenario works and it's completely possible and plausible.

Messages are extremely small and efficient OTA (highly optimized and compressed).

The API is JSON and messages are your own unconstrained JSON object, but they're transmitted as compressed binary. (You can also have a binary payload 'attachment' to a JSON message if you so choose.)

Although everything works fine if the messages are individually in the KB's, that's not the design center because of how we manage memory on our (STM32L4R5) MCU.

Things work most efficiently when the app uses lots of small messages. We buffer them in flash, and power-on the modem at user-settable intervals (or conditions) for upload.
I would like to see some analysis of addictiveness of gotcha games vs games pre games as a service. I knew many people hooked to counterstrike in PRC internet cafes in the late 90s, but those titles seem like something one grows out of. These new games feel qualitatively different in terms of addiction, even though I think most people aren't susceptible to allow modern games get in the way of life, even if they are always in the pocket and engineered for addiction. But it would be interesting to see some numbers on population scale being affected by "electronic drugs". I do remember the one time I got into mobile games was Simpsons Tap Out on vacation and I ended up making spread sheets, setting timers to optimize farming. There wasn't even gambly loot boxes involved.
Love the level of detail that Fly's articles usually go into.

We have a distributed CDN-like feature in the hosted version of our open source search engine [1] - we call it our "Search Delivery Network". It works on the same principles, with the added nuance of also needing to replicate data over high-latency networks between data centers as far apart as Sao Paulo and Mumbai for eg. Brings with it another fun set of challenges to deal with! Hoping to write about it when bandwidth allows.

[1] https://cloud.typesense.org
I think the thing is, as you go up the list from the UK, you can come up with lots of extenuating circumstances. Italy had it first, so had less warning. Eastern european countries and Belgium are poorer. If you compare the UK to the countries you normally compare it to: France, Germany, maybe Holland, the UK is the worst.

It's average for eastern europe. It's not average for nations with its GDP in europe, let alone the rest of the world.

I'm not sure what you're referring to in regards with tradeoffs. Surely you're supposed to gain something in a tradeoff? What have the UK concretely gained? Honestly, Boris Johnson is just not the man for thoughtful, reasoned strategy. Dominic Cummings has been posting his 'insider's view' of the catastrophe as it unfolded, and frankly, it fits the figures. It fits the personalities involved. It fits the death toll. Why would you expect a really smart strategy from these people, and why would you believe there was a really smart strategy 'behind the scenes', as it were, with these results?

EDIT: PS: check out the scatter chart for deaths per 100,000, you can clearly see that the UK is leading the pack for nations with a similar population.
Once again, I suggest that you search what each of those HOCs is doing.

These functions are not part of what would be a controller or model layer in MVC. This code is not dealing with routing, fetching, managing state or rendering. They are merely gluing complex data coming from these other parts of the system into what is the view layer here. The logical separation still exists!

Sure OP could reimplement all of them by hand, but ultimately it doesn't matter: the code is still properly separated in the way you're mentioning. Libraries like those are free to have functions operating in multiple concerns, as long as the logical separation still exists, which it does.
Building a single sign-on for government: What we’ve learnt so far
Well, expert organizations like the IPCC produce reports on the expected impact of climate change, which don't include human extinction as even a worst-case possibility. I'm the last person who'd claim the experts are always right, but it's gotta be at least debatable.
Even if your worldview doesn't accommodate different ethical frameworks (i.e. I stand behind my own ethical principles, and believe that anyone who disagrees with me is unethical), surely you have to admit that some people will disagree with that stance, will hold their own views that are incompatible with yours, and will call themselves ethical until the cows come home, right?

We're not arguing about whether that's ethical, we're simply pointing out that people like that exist.

You and the parent commenter are no longer arguing about what is and isn't ethical (as you've stated, you both seem to agree), but instead on what to do about the practical reality that society in Russia does see this as ethical, and doesn't give a flying fuck what you or I think.

Now the question becomes, what should we do about that.
You're describing a firewall? How could it be more "UNIX-like"?
Think of them as a defence-in-depth that protect from accidental misconfiguration, software bugs, local exploits, etc.
Didi’s IPO Illustrates Why Uber’s Business Model Was Always Hopeless
Quite a lot of job postings in the valley have ‘Maximizing engagement’, or some variant, in their description…
I usually just say “Bernoulli’s principle” with a hand-wave. It’s an ignorant dismissal accompanied by a practical demonstration. Works great at parties inside wind tunnels.
Luckily, never had to go through an audit yet. But spot checking a subset of transactions isn’t actually workable. Because of the wash sale rule, the adjusted basis on any single transaction is path dependent on both the previous and future trades in that symbol.
'Nakamoto's innovation is real,' says SEC Chair Gary Gensler
But not available in the lovely iMac colours? That's a bummer.
It is strange that you put a Time duration in front of CDN ( content delivery network ), because given all the recent incident with Fastly, Akamai and Bunny, I read it as 5 hours Centralised Downtime Network.
Yes, liquid comp (salary+bonus) exceeds my total Google comp (salary+bonus+equity). I should qualify this by saying I left Google as an L4 SWE and I'm starting at this company as an engineering manager, so that factors in. But FWIW I got an offer for a tech lead position at another all-remote company, and it matched my Google total comp with just salary+bonus as well.
"The whole problem of “Friendly AI” is trying to design a superintelligent being that genuinely wants to help us, such that it will choose to do so even without a cage"

This "genuine" desire to help us is a cage by definition, because it limits the AI's actions.
Why do you say they don't focus on site UI? This is one of the fastest, most focused sites I've used, and certainly the fastest I use regularly.
> Executives fake understanding how to manage this stuff. Most don't, but they do a good job of convincing boards that they do.

Makes me curious about if you have thoughts about how to find people who are good at that stuff for real (not just faking)
I'm still waiting to get a cut of those millions I keep saving the company with these projects lol
Yes? I am asserting that you are overestimating the value of the programmer, which is one axis of the correlation I suggest.
Are you short the stock?
I hadn’t looked at it this way before, this is a good lens, thanks.
Connectivity isn't a clique, it is constant degree, so this is a bit optimistic. It would be interesting to see power+partial sybil eclipse or bifurcation.
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No. Are you long the stock? Kind of an odd question to ask.
You're right, thanks for the nuanced view. I guess my impression here is that modern Korea, with its own cultural identity: dress, food, language, literature, history ... would not have been if the US hadn't entered WWII. I don't mean to create indebtors, it's an observation on how a country+culture could survive or disappear on a turn. And given what tenuous a beginning it had, it's amazing that South Korea is the entity it is now.
We are getting pretty crazy with our use of Excel documents these days. With a little bit of OpenXML magic, you can read/write these things from code. I'm not talking about CSV either. I am talking about full-blown XLSX files, where you can control font/color/size/worksheets/et.al. with a few lines of logic.

Once you are able to read & write excel documents with a piece of software, you can do some pretty fucking incredible things.

Imagine being able to click a single button and download a total configuration output for a customer's environment (maybe 20-30 worksheets auto-generated in seconds). You can then email this human readable document to the customer for modifications. You then feed this back into the system to load their adjusted values (there is a diff/check-in report to confirm first).

The reason we and our customers like this approach is because there is a lot of configuration where we need to compare lists of things and slice parts of one thing into another. It makes replicating success absolutely trivial. Being able to style the document is a much bigger benefit than you would probably think at first. CSV is trivial to employ, but it is very constrained on this front. For a developer who is familiar, color & layout doesn't move the needle much. For a customer who has no clue how the back-end works, these things make all the difference in the universe. Things you can't edit are grey background, things you can are green, etc.
That blog is talking about refactoring a method, not a function.

In Clojure, I'm talking about renaming a function, which can be done without types.

See the difference is that with a method:

x.f()

You have to know the type of `x` to find the right `f`, but with a function in Clojure:

(ns foo
(:require [a :refer [f]]))

(f x)

The location of `f` is not dependent on the type of `x`, you known statically that this `f` is inside the namespace `a`, because of the require clause that says that in `foo`, `f` refers to the `f` inside of `a`.

And this is unambiguous in Clojure because there cannot be more than one `f` inside `a`.

If you had two `f` this would be the code in Clojure:

(ns a)
(defn f [] "I'm in a")

(ns b)
(defn f [] "I'm in b")

(ns foo
(:require [a :refer [f]]
[b :refer [f]
:rename {f bf}]))

(f x)
(bf x)

You're forced to rename the other f, and now it's clear statically again that `bf` is the `f` from `b` and `f` is the one from `a`, no need to know the type of `x` for it.
> if you want to fix racism in the US you need to address the very real and still very powerful and connected [] racists.

Yes, exactly. And assuming all white/male/heterosexual/whatever people can and should be lumped together helps said racists, as might be expected from their being the ones who originally did so.
It's a bit more complicated than than. The front-end framework that the PlayCanvas Editor is built on (PCUI) is also open source:
https://github.com/playcanvas/pcui
Other open source tools like the glTF viewer are also built on it:
https://github.com/playcanvas/playcanvas-viewer
The rest of the Editor code is unminified and unobfuscated. The is done deliberately so devs can write extensions, report bugs and generally understand how it works. More of the Editor codebase will be open sourced over time.
This click-bait and switch post is a nonsensical rant. Invest or waste your time elsewhere.
Are you familiar with at-will employment?

If I'm the owner of company and employee talks to be about Harry Potter in the break room. Later that day, or on the spot, I can terminate that employee, without cause or reason.

Sure they the employee can sue me for wrongful termination, but the laws are stacked against the employee. (I have been on both side of the argument.)

Please reference a law to support your claim.

You might want to study up on your law, history and economics.
Personally these stories are just as likely to be hit pieces orchestrated by competitors that want to slow musk down. If he was really as you suggest he would have a hard time recruiting world class talent such as Jim Keller.
Ingratitude? How grateful am I supposed to be for the fact that they get some product here faster than competitors? I'll take a slightly slower world with fewer assholes, thank you very much. The world is still going to change without them.
that was the issue in the solar winds hack: https://www.npr.org/2021/04/16/985439655/a-worst-nightmare-c...
> there are zero memes

I vouched your dead comment so I could reply. (Am I allowed to do this? I don't know!)

Maybe you don't know that the word meme predates image macros and even the internet, but it does. The phrases "it became a meme" and "people make memes" are not talking about the same manifestation. Memes are ideas that take root, not funny pictures with words on them.

My assumption is that anyone who reads "became a meme" as "people made memes about" must be very young, but that's my own bias showing. A person who has no memories of a world before philosoraptors and shy penguins or whatever image macros kids are making these days might not realize the difference, but there it is.

Also...

> phone chargers

I actually did say laptops, and the reason I said laptops is because people have been complaining about Apple's power cables tearing/fraying for longer than Apple has been making phones. The problem applies equally well to their phone charging cables, of course, but standard micro USB cables are also usually complete shit whereas standard laptop power cables are not except for Apple's.
This is interesting. I think markets are pretty efficient, so the main selling point IMO is exclusion. I used to wrk in portfolio construction and clients regularly asked for exclusions like "sin" companies (e.g. alcohol), big oil, biotech (when stem cell research was controversial), etc. Clients also wanted a chunk of the portfolio dedicated to cash (say 10%) and to understand how the cash position affected overall returns. They also wanted to know what was the min number of holdings they could use to approximately replicate index returns (mainly to harvest losses and have a large bullpen of replacement equities). In any case, cool idea. I wonder how it stacks up against Wealthfront's exclusion selectors (which I've used for years). Anyway. Cool.
> Low skilled immigration is a win win win for the USA.

Mediocre, bad, unlucky or badly located, geographically, citizen workers lose out. And then they vote for Trump :-)
It's a fair question and certainly is possible to have firewalls on a per-server basis. We do that for incoming traffic primarily. The catch is if that server itself gets compromised then you can't count on those rules still being enforced.

Having dedicated network appliances acting as firewalls means from a security perspective you need to compromise the local machine and then also compromise a dedicated, hardened external system as well. It vastly ups the difficulty barrier.
There is a 'null' as the last item of the category filter dropdown
Author has a great sense of humor. I love it!
Firewalls does a lot more than block ports and services.
If you think of it as "promoting" then it feels like selling. If you find value in the things you read there, other people will probably find value in the things you're doing too. It's a conversation, not a sale. Unless of course you are just trying to sell. Then yeah, probably does feel cold.
This wouldn't really "cleanup" the CapEx though, would it?

You still need bare metal on the client end. Your licence costs just go from ~£90-100 for a key (no idea what MS gives you on bulk rates) to £20/month...

Unless they are doing hourly/per second billing and you have some well tuned scripts that won't screw over Jenkins in accounting when he's working on the big report one evening, I just don't see the cost savings.