skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These days, there is no excuse to have a non-technical manager (unless you are a technical manager yourself). Software is eating the world; it is professional negligence to put someone in charge that doesn't have a detailed understanding of the technology that impacts everything about the modern workplace.

It isn't like there is a shortage of technical managers right now.

I've never had a non-technical manager, even when I worked in sales, and I've been doing this for over 20 years.
> the reason the Russians are committing war crimes in Libya is because the Libyan army was annihilated around 2011

Is it? I don't see the causality there. I mean, Canada isn't comitting war crimes in Libya. Germany isn't. Australia isn't. They could, but they don't. Russia does, so there is some cause you're not accounting for in the above comment. What motivates Russia to do that and not the other countries? It isn't the NATO action in 2011.
> There's no 'objective' better.

Maybe look up 'efficiency'. If we can achieve the same outcome at different costs, then the method that achieves said outcome incurring the least cost is objectively better than the others.
The very first picture (next to "The Heart of the Community" reminds me a lot of one of those neo-primitive settlements the Enterprise would visit in a Star Trek: TNG episode. Captain Picard would have some kind of intense relationship with a local lady and everyone would learn something about the value of the simple life.

But more seriously, won't this be like living in a vacation resort? Fine for a week or two, but a bit grating after that. One restaurant, one grocery store...

The car-freeness is amazing but it seems a little small to be really livable. I am glad that someone is trying and paving a trail - we need things like this.
If the alternative is doing nothing, then maybe we need to change the legal framework to make businesses like Facebook unsustainable.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28142675
If designed properly, climate impact should be far less than a normal home, that's one of the main points (aside from the long-term climate impact). Locally sourcing the materials is a big part. Many try to get super-hippy-dippy and rely on manual wall construction with heavy emphasis on rammed earth, I think this is great from an impact perspective, but not really scalable or appealing to a wider audience. But if concrete can be augmented with local dirt (I.e. concrete cavities filled with earth as a thermal mass), this is an excellent compromise. The tire/bottle walls are really dumb, people need to stop using them (unless you like the aesthetic I guess, or have way more time than money, or feel like financing a lot of medium-skill laborers).

Earthships as imagined by Michael Reynolds are super specific to New Mexico. The design works well there, but if you try those techniques in basically any other part of the country, you are gonna have a bad time.

I think the biggest takeaway from the philosophy is "actually think about design and construction based on the location, rather than what is common/easy." Stick-in-place construction is widely common in USA, even when that design is an antipattern in a climate (such as the southwest).

See: why the standard Earthship (tm) (yes it's a trademark, anything else is just Sparkling Sustainable Architecture) designs are a bad choice for cold climates.

https://www.ecohome.net/guides/1161/do-earthships-work-in-co...

tl;dr - they are a design stuck in the 70's in NM. Eco architecture has advanced significantly since then.
To be fair, I remember HN being initially pretty positive on Bitcoin and blockchains. That’s when crypto discussions were mostly centered around the potential of the tech. But once Bitcoin became a speculative trading darling, the distance between the hype (remember when everyone wanted to use blockchain for everything?) and the reality of what the tech could do grew bigger and bigger. I think that’s when opinions soured and you started seeing more skepticism on HN.

So yes, the HN crowd as a group aren’t cheerleaders for crypto, but IMHO it’s for good reason.
Exactly! People tell me that Smalltalk should have a renaissance, but APL deserves it even more.
This is my experience with Twitter. There isn't enough space to write out something in a way that minimizes the chances of misunderstandings. However, I think a big part of the problem is that those explanations are needed in the first place. Why do we so easily jump to awful interpretations? That's how you end up with rage that quickly spreads and even worsens as context for what the person said is lost or the quote isn't repeated at all but instead just the bad-faith interpretation is passed around.

The effects of that go beyond just the awful emotional impact. People get fired for that kind of controversy. (I hesitate to call it "cancel culture" because of the implications in that term of who's canceling who).
Do you think they’d be happy to maintain a transpiled COBOL code?
This is how most non-tech Fortune 1000 companies run.
Happened to me, too. I found out that my whole team hated me, actually. I didn't notice and thought I would just reasonably argue my position(s). I have to add that I was working in Zürich in Switzerland (as a German) and my reputation got destroyed, so I had a problem finding a new job until I found one, where they did not check my past employer (as described in the article). This was unintentional and it can happen quicker than you think. The last rule of the Old Hacker "to stop insisting you are right after 2 attempts, even if you are sure you are" hints into the direction that this is a general problem for software engineers rather than just/only a personal flaw - But ofc I will work on and watch out for my "Leumund" much better and more carefully in the future. Also that he was affected: Excluded from decision making meetings. I am not sure, if he knows/understand how bad it might have been for(against) him.

It all still bites you/yourself.

Good luck in your job search!
I've had a lot of interesting debates in the comment section and I fully agree with the OP. He's calling it skeptical, but I'd say HN is an order of magnitude more skeptical about blockchain than any other topic. I'd pick a much harsher word.

As a blockchain / crypto enthusiast I'm actually unable to have a meaningful discussion on HN. It's gotten to the point where I can't even bother to share my views in the comments as it's not worth it. People are so dismissive and set that blockchain is a scam, that every debate becomes so heated with people reiterating the same position over and over.

So I fully agree with OP - a HN-like community, where people can discuss the non-price aspect of crypto and BC would be nice. I hate reddit and twitter as most of discussions seem price driven.
People taking an overseas vacation use energy. Whether it's an energy waste is your subjective judgement that that activity lacks sufficient utility to justify that energy usage. The people taking those trips probably beg to differ on that point.
> They can use their internal render engine. What they can't use is their Javascript framework because a modern JIT requires taking compiled javascript code in memory and marking it as executable

> You can even ship a custom Javascript engine on iOS if you disable JIT, it will just be slow.

Wouldn't this mean that Mozilla could theoretically ship "real" Firefox (Gecko/XUL/SpiderMonkey) on iOS after the SpiderMonkey wasm port[0][1] lands?

> Instead of working directly on the machine’s memory, the JS engine puts everything—from bytecode to the GCed objects that the bytecode is manipulating—in the Wasm module’s linear memory.[2]

[0]: https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2021/07/19/newsletter-firefox-...

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1701197

[2]: https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/making-javascript-run-...
I made the mistake of starting to read this before going to sleep last night. Terrifying.
Maybe, but I'm not learning about STARKs or other interesting proof tech on HN, nor am I seeing anything around protocol design or incentive systems... All interesting topics related to cryptocurrency.

The bias HN has here is fine if that's what the community wants, but don't pretend there aren't valuable discussions that aren't better had elsewhere.
Even if they are not that deadly extreme heat waves could crash power grids (which is very costly due to lost productivity), kill crops and livestock, damage infrastructure, cause extreme increases in energy demand, and generally cost a shitload of money.

A higher frequency of extreme cold in winter in areas that are not accustomed to it, like what recently happened in Texas, may also occur with similar consequences.

I don't think climate change will be a catastrophe movie directed by JJ Abrams. I think it will be a gradual process in which we pay back the "loan" of fossil fuel use with interest.

We put our civilization on a credit card without knowing the interest rate.

We could have really slowed down our running up the balance in the 1970s and 1980s with nuclear power, but we didn't. We could still be doing that plus deploying a lot of renewable and storage tech that was not mature back then, but we're doing far too little of that. We are still adding to the card balance and we still don't know the interest or the repayment terms.

If there are feedback loops in the climate system that we trigger, the loan could be an ARM with unscheduled interest rate increases and balloon payments.

Our children get to inherit most of this bill.
It's a good point. I started that way. I still have friends who are. I'm still surprised by the ways they splash out sometimes, particularly given my knowledge of their base circumstances.

In my finding we need a combination of compassionate, supportive policies combined with individual responsibility and prudence. I observe that we have combinations of neither in higher than desirable concentrations.
The point of moderation is not to make everyone happy. It’s to maximize profit, which is a second order effect of the size and engagement of the user base. If assholes are being toxic on your platform, that might be good for a while — until people start leaving and the media starts reporting on it.

If someone is being an asshole to other patrons in a bar, they get thrown out. No one worries about whether they’re happy with the decision. No one says “actually their comments are only subjectively asshole-ish.” We make these judgments constantly, in basically every arena in life. Why do we start wringing our hands when it comes to online platforms?
Use a textbox. If you want to show a histogram of prices, do that separately.

If you’re a professional, you shouldn’t be thinking “everyone’s unique.” That’s handwaving. Have a reason for what you do. You should be thinking 99% of my user demographic is looking for a car under $90,000 and trying to make the experience the best you can for the majority.

You have lots of data you can look through to help make that decision, but generally avoid just copying the larger car sites, their experience isn’t something to aim for.

I can say with great certainty your users aren’t looking for Porsche 911 GT3s, they’re looking for F-150s, Foresters, and Camrys if they’re American.

There’s the DuPont Registry for people who care about such cars.
Sounds like land clearing for building.
You can also have a look at Zimbabwe as a further example of this. Even though society there was absolutely breaking down, including the ability to get food/water/electricity/police-protection, but people were still hunkering down and doing their best to maintain normalcy. People still sent their kids to school, they still dated, they still went to work, figured out ways to get a "salary" in whatever form they could, made adhoc businesses, had cellphones, internet, traveled if they could, and newspapers were printed, reporters roamed and reported, etc.

It didn't devolve into a end of the world apocalypse scenario that you'd imagine. Humans are incredibly resilient and they really just want to get on with their lives and be left alone. I guess they do so by compartmentalizing and rationalizing away things happening outside of their immediate view. It's the "easy" aspect of being able to tell politicians to "meddle" with other people and spend "other" people's money that gets them enthusiastic because it requires very little effort.
"much"? I'll fix it but I have to know what word I am missing. :D

Edit: I added "much".
The problem with letting fires just burn is they don't obey the demarcation of "zones". They generate super heated gases that can cause adjacent areas to spontaneously combust even if no embers land there. A fire break that works in no/low wind is completely ineffective in high winds which can be generated by the fire.

Managing fires is very complex and takes a lot of resources but importantly political will. There's groups that don't want to spend federal money on infrastructure even though the federal government is responsible for significant amounts of infrastructure.
Swiss ask Chinese media to remove quotes from ‘fake’ citizen
I think this article makes the "sum" and "product" terms out to be very complicated, when in fact it's quite simple. If we have two enums

enum Bool {
True,
False
}

enum Status {
Waiting,
Successful,
Failed
}

We can combine them into a product type, like a tuple, or a sum type, like a union.

type Product = (Bool, Status)
type Sum = Bool | Status

Now, we ask ourselves, what are the valid values of type Product?

(True, Waiting)
(True, Successful)
(True, Failed)
(False, Waiting)
(False, Successful)
(False, Failed)

There are two Bool values, and three Status values, so there are 2×3=6 values for the product of Bool and Status. Now, what about the Sum type?

True
False
Waiting
Successful
Failed

We have 2+3=5 total values for the sum of Bool and Product.

Now, obviously, this math doesn't quite work out for types with infinite values, like strings or bigints or arrays, but that's where the analogy comes from.

If you extend this further, you can even figure out what an exponential type would be: the exponential type Bool^Status is a function that takes a Status as its argument and returns a Bool.
I just posted a video. You react with a lot of minimal information. Heed my earlier comment about all the pieces. (I am guilty of this behaviour too).

If you dig deeper, there are(/were?) other video sources that had the union leader saying things along the lines of "this guys not with us, we don't know who he is, take of your mask and protest peacefully like the rest of us". The Canadian police got caught out trying to incite things presumably for political grandstanding.

Trust in authority is broken for those of us aware enough of it.

The students have the most 'potential future value' to lose, that's why they fight the most. They're fighting for the possibility to be the smartest rather than have it denied and have their freedoms conformed by the powers that are attempting to dictate.
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I have not had the same experience. You admit that you don't read them anymore, maybe they have changed?
Proportionality does matter.

If it were merely a matter of 'a few points more' and you get 'this benefit' ... I think the argument would make sense.

But taxes in Sweden are something to almost choke on, they are extremely high. Not just high ... and I'm not quite sure that the benefits reflect quite how high taxes are.

The payroll taxes are enormous (almost as much as income tax) - and with elevated base + VAT it really makes a difference.

At 'higher income levels' - say at more than $150K USD equivalent, you're going to be paying over 60% in 'total taxes' - though much of that is 'hidden' in payroll taxes. And what you take home, you pay a further 25% on almost anything you consume.

So at upper income, but not necessarily 'rich' - you're approaching $30 in your pocket for every $100 earned, which is quite egregious.

Despite the obvious systematic benefits of many social programs, I don't think it's fair that we can assume some arbitrary levels of efficiency in that taxation. I really do feel the bulk of it boils down to redistribution for almost arbitrary public sector work.

I wish there was a happy place in between Texas and Stocholm on that, but I'm not sure what the answer is.
Here's a graph of cumulative COVID deaths per 100k for the top 10 states (with New York highlighted), Texas, Florida, and Washington [1] that illustrates that.

New York is high today (#2) because they got a large number of deaths in the first 100 days. After 100 days of COVID it was (all numbers are per 100k):

164 New York
17 Washington
16 Florida
8 Texas

Where it stands now is:

276 New York
186 Texas
185 Florida
81 Washington

That's a growth over the last 400 days of:

112 New York
178 Texas
168 Florida
73 Washington

New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts curves are similar to New York's.

[1] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-...
I joined and poked around a bit. No offense, but I wouldn't call that a group of startup founders. It's a group of people who want to be startup founders. That's the problem I've seen with these groups.
That seems pretty reasonable? It just means, the reserves held by the bank are insured, but if your wallet gets hacked you're not covered.
IMHO a more realistic idea is to treat the COBOL code as the "idea" or "essence" of the shrine which eternally remains the same, and only rebuild the "physical presence" of the shrine, which would be the environment the COBOL code runs in (e.g. modernize the hardware, the operating system, the debugging/development tools and virtual environment (== emulator) the COBOL code runs in, but don't rewrite the COBOL code itself).
Cipherleaks: Breaking Constant-Time Cryptography on AMD SEV
GitHub adds ability to search issues by label using logical OR
Crypto appreciation is based on the idea that it is the future of finance. Even though its only use is to buy other crypto coins.

A digital dollar would be spent on actual goods and services, and would leave crypto coins in an "emperor with no clothes" situation.
Please add the job ad to https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring (see 'Can I post a job ad' in the FAQ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)
Disclosure: I used to work on Google Cloud.

I see a lot of similarities between Kafka and Confluent. You're looking to spin out a tool that worked well for you, and offer it commercially.

I'd suggest planning more around operating TiloDB as a managed service. You happen to just need lambda, s3, and dynamo today, but the "capturable" value for many customers will be if you also manage it all for them (especially upgrades). You can still offer the open core and let folks run their own, but it sounds like a lot of the goodness comes from the way you run it.

Having said that, licensing is currently fraught in this space. Each major "database" vendor (Elastic, Redis Labs, Confluent) is basically trying to find a way to figure out how to avoid AWS (and other clouds) from just taking their code and operating it as a service.

People have very strong opinions on this topic, ranging from "open-source isn't a business plan" to "AWS is violating the spirit of the OSS community" and many more. My personal advice would be to assess more clearly why you want to be open source (you mentioned community and applications you couldn't imagine) and whether you think open source better achieves those goals than say a free tier or distributing a core binary / container image for free.

What, more specifically, do you want to get out of being open source? Contributions to the core? Contributions to the operational part? More users and feedback?
The Art of PostgreSQL (https://theartofpostgresql.com) by Dimitri Fontaine, also the author of PGLoader (https://github.com/dimitri/pgloader)
The central bank that issues dollars also issuing a different currency pegged to the dollar doesn't make any sense. If you're just talking about abolishing cash and only issuing digital dollars, I feel like they've been considering this for a long time. The losers are digitally-disconnected people like hermits living voluntarily in the woods, homeless, extremely privacy fanatics, and criminals who use cash for anonymous illegal transactions.

There are plenty of other countries that peg their currency to the dollar, by the way. That is very different from making your currency digital-only.
You keep imagining that all the population will be on your side in this exchange. It'll just be so obvious you should be fighting the government, everyone will join!
Thanks for the links, my German is basic at best, so I used the Google translate version in English and, AFAIK, minors receiving it in a class chat or from other people not knowing it are liable of owning CP

> Twenty years ago it was assumed that no one would inadvertently own child pornography.

> As soon as a 13-year-old sends a pornographic medium of herself and it ends up in a class chat in some form, every member of this chat can be liable to prosecution.

Unless I am missing something, It doesn't refer to two minors sending each other pictures, even though I agree that the scale the phenomenon has assumed in the past 20 years is somewhat scary.
My app of choice for non-Uber/Lyft is the phone app. Usually works fine for me.
In the past, I used to flip into classical literature, almost anything, Icelandic sagas, the Greek classics, brontes (still doing that), and recently I’ve been into Mick Herron’s books, but they may be an acquired (UK) taste ! Oh yes, possibly still sci fi in some classifications, Neil Gaimans works and the the disc world novels are great diversions.
My lesson on corporate survival: do what the business needs.

I was hired by Travelocity 1 OCT 2007 as a designer. After a couple of months of doing no work I was involuntarily reassigned to a developer position. I had to learn to program. I had to figure it out from nothing. It turns out designers and Java developers were a dime a dozen, but the business couldn't hire competent front-end developers to save their lives.

I finished 2008 with a negative annual review. My manager had to intervene to raise from review to a higher level than catastrophic failure. Keep in mind I was learning to program from nothing on the front-end of a billion dollar website. Some areas of that website had limited or no safety controls to prevent you from blowing things up at the click of a button.

In 2009 there were massive layoffs. Despite my abysmal annual review my job was safe. I mean super guaranteed safe in a special HR bucket labeled CRITICAL, DO NOT TOUCH. There were people with tremendous tenure and even directors and vice presidents that were being laid off. Some of these people walking out the door were rising stars in the company but every team was impacted, for fairness, using quotas.

At the end of the day it was clear performance was only a minor factor in whether you kept your job. More important was critical need. The didn't layoff the very few database people that worked there. They didn't layoff the front-end developers. They didn't layoff the people who monitored critical infrastructure. In each of those critical roles there were only a tiny hand full of people (count them on one hand) keeping the lights on. Travelocity's primary business is a website and you need those few people who maintain that billion dollar website.
True, but in this case the new spacecraft is being marketed as a safe alternative to the 747, while still having a higher risk of failure.
I remember reading somewhere, that the Aztecs built small windows in a specific way, on the top of the walls, in order to cool their houses. Does anyone have further info on that?
If I understand your comment correctly, I think we're agreeing (that there is a wide range [high variance] of value delivered across the population: think of a bell curve that's "smooshed" down to be short and wide).
Obsolete hardware? Mainframes are still a thing.