skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CEO Interview: Costco's Jim Sinegal (2008)
> No null/undefined nonsense; nil replaces both

Fuck nil, maybe is much better
Many of the Odroid boards have pretty good upstream support. I'm running 5.10.something on my Odroid C4 with Armbian.
If I didn’t know better I would think this is a parody of morally bankrupt technologists. But it’s not a parody, it’s an obscene reality.

- They have constructed a (rather impressive) mass deception machine, and put it to work.

- They have convinced themselves that the mass deception is worthwhile because their clients can’t lose money.

- When challenged, they seem to believe that the ends justifies the means, and that it is just marketing.

The only constructive thing I can think of is that those of us who have the ability to build these kinds of things should take this as another case study of what not to do, and how not to respond to criticism.
Like most things in the world there needs to be a middle ground/balance between allowing the government and corps to invade your privacy and allowing individuals to share child porn/etc with one another. I do not believe it is either or.
Hmmm the customizer hardcodes certain selections. It's not possible to get no dedicated gpu if you want more than 8G ram and 256G harddrive.

The laptop mentioned has the 8-core cpu which comes with nvidia geforce rtx 3060.

So they just disabled the dgpu in the bios? Not explicitly mentioned.
Further clarification: deputy prime minister is not a position that exists as a matter of constitution in the UK. The position was created for Clegg as the junior partner in a coalition government. I think it has existed before and no doubt will again, but you don't need to have a deputy PM.

He also reneged so hard on a campaign promises as part of the 2010 coalition his Liberal Democrat party was wiped out in the 2015 election and is now a non-entity in British politics. They went from 57 seats to 8.

I'm British. I used to be able to name the leader of the lib dems in the same way I knew the leaders of labour and the conservatives. I now no longer know who they are and I don't think anyone else cares either.

So yeah the guy that brought that about is earning 4MM/yr.
How about ugly people? Certainly they don’t like to be limited in their opportunities to attract attractive people. Should the government pass laws to compensate them for this shortcoming? I stutter. Most of you people made fun of me or made me feel inadequate. The government didn’t do anything for me. Should some law be passed to compensate me for years of humiliation. How about women discarding me as a potential mate? Should I start a “Stutters Lives Matters” movement? What other human shortcomings that nature bestows upon us would you like the government to fix?
I'm now at a startup, so no (director == founding exec until you reach a certain size). But yes, for some definition of "lead" which involves managing a bunch of people as well, and director, which involves managing a bunch of managers, that's something that happens.

Small team tech-only leads who are not managing people will not typically be promoted to director levels at most big companies, but if you're actually managing people and your skip-manager loves you, it's totally possible even if your team is small.
If you remember the name of this I would love to see it.
Manager => director has a lot of the same pitfalls as IC => manager/lead. I was trying to imply that this is a recursive problem.
IPNS is so slow that using it for anything just makes for a very unpleasant experience
Other confounders will be that other contact can also spread some diseases. Such that they didn't get things from sex, but still spread.

Though, again, my question is of how much it helps. I cede and expect that it helps. Some or a lot, though? And, in either case, what gets it to contained?

And I fully acknowledge that my opening "maybe" wasn't as clear on that as it could have been. My intent was to push back on forgone conclusions without hard data.
I got the J&J back in early April which was all I could get my hands on back then(no side effects aside from a sore arm). After seeing its efficacy (specially against the delta variant) I went and got a Pfizer shot in early July which hit me like a truck. Since I was already "fully vaccinated" I delayed the second dose of my Pfizer shot till now (~10 weeks) to maximize the induced immunity. I gotta say the second dose of Pfizer only give me mild side effects for half a day.
If anyone here needs ideas for legitimate apps, read the reviews for HotSchedules which is where managers post minimum wage workers’ schedules and each worker is forced to pay $3 for a terrible, terrible app.
I imagine a quieter jet also helps marginally improve its war fighting capability by making the enemy less aware of its presence, although

More importantly, as the article mentions it would also help protect the hearing of sailors, airmen, and marines that help operate those airframes.
No, I've meant exactly what I've meant. There is an experience of seeing some links, and there's a conclusion that the network is mainly used by pedophiles. Even if all the data was 100% child porn (which is technically impossible, but whatever), I still can't see how the former transforms into the latter.

Or maybe it was just parroting the “common knowledge”. Another kind of common knowledge is that law enforcement from multiple countries has been arresting people for about ten years now because Freenet is far from perfect pedophile heaven. I guess there is common knowledge one prefers to use, and the common knowledge one prefers to overlook.

To put it bluntly, there is a lot of thought put into Freenet, and a lot of work, and a lot of discussions of how things should work, and a lot of uncommon practical solutions invented for truly serverless communication, and some general ideas why it is needed at all. When a casual idler shows interest in none of these, but hurries to find child porn, and with deep satisfaction proclaims “Eww, the whole place is dirty!”, it is OK to point out that there is zero understanding in that.

Because default index sites have always been filtered — and I can vouch for that, — to see something outrageous one had to actively look for something outrageous. Keep it in mind when reading all those comments.
Remembering accurately. Maintaining the accuracy over decades.

Extrapolating non-linear behavior outside of our range of experience.

Rejecting a lie that we really want to be true.
To be clear, there will be strong nil-checks just like there are in TypeScript and other modern languages. Commonly nil will be used in a union type:

func foo(): number|nil => ...

const x = foo()
const y = x + 2 // compile error
const z = if (x != nil) { x + 2 } else { nil }

At that point the difference compared with maybe is mostly superficial
It's pretty spread out across 50+ countries but on the top three is US and UK
The idea people get spoonfed is that shareholders wouldnt really care if corporation taxes were jacked up because prices would somehow go up to "compensate" for the tax on their profits. It's "the little guy who gets hurt instead".

Even though increasing corporation tax doesnt decrease supply or increase demand.
If you ever gone to mcdonalds in switzerland you’d know that minimum bill is like $50 (that was still basically at least 50% cheaper than the next inexpensive place I found in Zurich) so I’m not sure that statement about the price is correct.
Not true. Lots of people “not in the labor force” are still looking for a job.
Associate network connections with NUMA nodes
● Allocate local memory to back media files when
they are DMA’ed from disk
● Allocate local memory for TLS crypto destination
buffers & do SW crypto locally
● Run kTLS workers, RACK / BBR TCP pacers with
domain affinity
● Choose local lagg(4) egress port
All of this is upstream!

This sounds like some alien language
Most cop-tech is just plausible-deniability for jury who are not tech-aware. Dogs, polygraphs, informational pre-crime tools.
I dunno about you, but when I was in "dire economic situations" I too saved my pennies. The difference is that I had to use those pennies to buy food, or gas to go to doctor appointments, or gas to go to work.

It's unfortunate how many people have disposable income and still think they were in "dire economic situations".
Seems to be working well for Walmart. A major problem with central planning is timely flow of accurate information. Although this is still a problem, it has become much easier to do so than in the past.
Where? I still remember that $60 that google gave me for food was barely enough for one meal in zurich ~10 years ago
A fourth-grader can see the flaw in your math. 61.5/61.2 is much more than "2.4 points" different than 10.0/12.4. It's much more than "10 points" too.
Lottery is far from lacking flaws either, if you're worried about lobbying, think about what happens when your representatives are all untrained...
You mean like the early 2000's 4chan random board?

Sarcasm aside, that experience sounds similar to what I've seen when trying out freenet way back.

On the other hand my I2P experience was quite pleasant (by just following the planet.i2p stream, basically an announcement site for new "registered" domains and torrents), with easy discovery of downloadable leaks, anarchist and conspiracy theorist blogs. Really felt like my 90s internet experience where I could find new and edgy content everywhere.
Where looping is concerned, you can either externalise the cost of looping by requiring some other entity with more resources to perform your computation for you, or you can pay upfront and commit satoshis to your computation.
Regardless, you're still looping.

All that is moot in my opinion though. The issue was settled a long time ago before Bitcoin's founding.

“If a language L is accepted by a Turing Machine, then L is accepted by a two-stack machine” - Theorem (8.13) - Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation - Hopcroft, Motwani & Ullman.

Bitcoin's Script Interpreter is an implementation of 2-PDA (two-stack pushdown automata).

What often happens in these debates is that folks conflate the Program, Language and Machine. Teasing these out to their discrete parts where Program is what sCrypt produces, Language is Bitcoin Script, and Machine is the Bitcoin Script Interpreter leads to more precise discussions.

My position is that as per the Minsky Theorem, Bitcoin's Script Interpreter is Turing Equivalent. Memory and resource-constraints aside.

Anyone who thinks that resource-constraints precludes a Machine from being "Turing Complete" should read papers like these: (Turing machines with restricted memory access)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001999586...

If you want to dig deeper, then you can solve Bitcoin's State Transition function yourself. Here's a good worked example, but it requires that you have knowledge of Automata Theory: https://www.chegg.com/homework-help/questions-and-answers/ma...
No I talk about neonazi stuff. Not books that nowadays are more part of history than anything else.
Thanks for this comment, I had
no idea!

Interestingly enough, the Wiki article states there is good reason to think the wolf is Etruscan but Romulus and Remus are medieval.

> However, a recent study by John Osborne at the British School at Rome concluded that the radiocarbon and thermoluminescence dates were totally inconsistent. He pointed out that metal from which the wolf is made is of the Etruscan type using copper from Sardinia and that there is no sign of the adulteration common in mediaeval times, and that on the balance of probabilities, the wolf should be considered to be Etruscan.
Spoken like a true tech elite. Most of the country would kill to get a “100k a year dead end job”.
How do you feel about = (assignment and equality check)? Or > which can be used for markup or less than or part of a function arrow? Or {} which can be used as a block or as an object? Or : which can be used for...so many things! Even the humble . can be used to dereference or as a decimal point. My point is that if "a symbol having multiple meanings" is a problem, then basically all languages have a problem.
You're right, saving a high percentage of your income is pretty simple. For those with disposable income to save.
While we do have larger problems in San Francisco it would still be nice if the fighter jets buzzing by weren’t quite so loud.
do you have a link that describes the process? i didn't see that in the resource i found.
Overriding default browser shortcuts with JavaScript (2015)
Every time any thread comes up on HN about finances, it's full of people who haven't been poor a day in their life saying "I did it so you can too". It's actually pretty depressing.
I don’t follow. I use git for real work all the time.
There's something amazing in the complexity of this document and the engineering described but also incredibly depressing when you start to think that people so smart they can achieve this are working on increasing computer bandwidth for entertainment and yet we still haven't solved our own environmental footprint.
> Even weirder, the conspiracists don't cite the true events as support of their theories.

There's so much bad stuff going on, everywhere, why do people feel compelled to make stuff up?
The only way in which IPv4 is better than IPv6 is that many people understand one and not the other.
On my front page right near the top, right now, is a video that looks EXACTLY like a SpaceX live stream, it's "Live Now", the channel name is "Space X", the thumbnail is the exact same one they use for their livestreams, and the title is "SpaceX's all-civilian Inspration4 mission!" and it has thousands of viewers right now.

The only way to tell it's fake is by hovering over the channel name and the URL isn't /c/SpaceX it's /channel/<randomcharacters>

I've seen these on the front page every single day for weeks now, always with different URLs. I tried to report a few but quickly found out from other comments here that it does nothing so I gave up and just ignore them now.
Really impressive and fun to build I'm sure. I bought an Axidraw last year to play around with making fake signatures of fake people and as well we were getting a ton of Etsy orders and we always write a hand written note, but we couldn't keep up at Christmas time and my wife's wrist was breaking, so it saved our bacon when we had to write like 600 notes in 6 weeks.

The fact that you have to keep replacing the sheet and realigning is definitely a drag, but we made a system that worked well enough for us. Making the SVG letters is a pain and we are working on designing our own font from my wife's handwriting, but you can at least SVGize a picture of your writing and then touch it up in an editor.

Gives a good excuse to buy lots of different fun pens and paper, but yeah it's annoying when a pen stops writing half a letter and I'm not sure if it's just an ink thing or a pressure thing.

We've gotten positive reviews that mention our handwritten notes at least and lots of comments on great service and such, so we think it makes a difference.
Not bribing to unlock, bribing to install malware on an AT&T machine. That ain’t good.
How to leave comments on Bill Gates' LinkedIn?
The problem these companies face – they are competing against SpaceX Starship which is a complete solution capable of transporting over 100 tonnes of payload from the Earth to the lunar surface, with a likely passenger capacity of at least a dozen people (maybe even multiple dozens), expected to be available within the next five years. How will they scale from 300 kg to 100 tonnes? How long will that take them? And where will SpaceX be by the time they get there?

SpaceX came into a market dominated by lethargic legacy space firms, and disrupted it by demonstrating a capacity for speed, innovation and cost-effectiveness which those firms are still struggling to match. These new upcoming firms have to compete, not against lethargic legacy space firms, but rather against SpaceX. Some may well succeed, but most will not. And I think many of these smaller CLPS firms, if they survive, it is most likely to be through ceding the core transportation business to others and focusing instead on value-added payloads.
No, we used an entirely different architecture/paradigm not possible with tf, and had capabilities tf doesn't attempt to provide (such as coordinating migrations with both cloud and application APIs, or managing capacity while upgrading 10000s of CPU cores worth of compute).
I think it's more library authors that are to blame than the language author. He merely opens the gate for that kind of overloading, maybe too liberally.
The HN title said “math” but the actual term used was “numeracy”, and the example shows the level tested for.
I tend to agree. The choice to label this as narrative is a mind trick. A when a procedurally generated level spits out something completely bizarre and game breaking, you have a laugh at the developer and maybe file a bug report. When generated narrative is completely bizarre and game breaking, you engage with the unique experience and see where it leads. When a game has a poor story, you wish they bothered to employ a writer and not just graphics programmers. When a game has so little story it forces you to make it up yourself, you have to replace it with your imagination.

Personally, I think most emergent narratives are poor narratives. They lack the pacing and dynamics of one crafted by a story teller. I think Rimworld tackled this, with the different 'storyteller' options selecting certain types of events, levels of difficulty etc., trying to improve the sense of drama. But it is still stuck with poor choices making poor narratives. "So I made my pickaxe and tunnelled through the wall the noises were coming from and was eaten. The end.'
> Honestly that does not sound like a culture/ecosystem it is pleasurable to work within.

I agree. Of course I’ve heard people criticizing and making fun of java over the years, but I didn’t realize the (very helpful and thoughtful) answers to my question would be so depressing.
a shitty diet can f-up your brain chemistry
This comment Gets It.
"git help -a" specifically performs that same discovery process and lists what it finds (including aliases!), so one need not reinvent that wheel
I remember reading that you can plug any continuation model into the suspense mechanism?
Does this work on Windows?

For me, the version manager that provides the nicest experience cross-platform is Cargo from Rust.

It can specify and pin specific versions. It is super easy to give to a fellow developer and have them reproduce the build. In addition, because Rust is suitable for low-level, high performance work, many times all the libraries you actually need are written in Rust and everything works very seemlessly (for example, there is no need to have libxml like the Ruby xml library needed, because you can probably write an XML parser in Rust that will be on par or better performance wise with libxml).
It appears to be a server which generates combinatorial objects and provides useful descriptions of the same.
Or just:

vim -d file1 file2
:%!sort | uniq -c
:wincmd l
:%!sort | uniq -c
Exactly: there's no one true way, there's just the acceptable tradeoffs.

Which is the proposal I tend to write the most when businesses send a requirement my way: "X is important. Ensure X." - whatever X is, you can usually then pretty quickly outline how to do X perfectly, and how much X will cost, and suddenly there's an acceptable degree of X (which is usually outlandishly far below the implied standard of the original request) because as it turns out, they simply didn't think X had any real cost associated with it.
I've never had a person tell me they stayed at a job because of healthcare.
I do subscribe to channels and my feed is also flooded with these scams. (Though usually it is not this bad -- it got much worse starting on the day of SpaceX's Inspiration 4 launch.)

I'm assuming the algorithm is showing them to me because I watch lots of SpaceX and other space videos. The descriptions in these videos are even ripped directly from legit videos that I actually watched!
Heh, I thought only the artists and creative types would survive AI.
Looks like they are the first to go.
Whenever I use Discord, I use it reluctantly.

- no native clients, you have to run the official client either in a browser or as an electron app and using either of them consume too much resources and make my laptop run much hotter than it normally does

- conversations are locked inside discord, you can't search them outside of Discord, imagine if all StackExchange websites including StackOverflow just became another Discord server and the disaster that would be for people everywhere

So yeah, if a project or community I care about uses Discord, I guess I will use it, but reluctantly and with displeasure.
> A major renovation (requiring a permit) will result in a re-assessment.

Doesn't this just incentivize people to not pull permits on major work? In California contractors often try to talk you out of getting a permit because it's more of a hassle for them, so clearly the contractors aren't liable for doing unpermitted work...
That wouldn't be such a dumb idea, feeding in-game events through GPT-3 to generate unique voice-overs. Or even just an epilogue scroll.
optional braces if you are into that sort of thing.
https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/reference/other-new-featu...
I guess AT&T makes about $106 USD for every locked phone they sell?

$201,497,430.94 (USD) / 1,900,033 (phones) = $106.049 (USD per phone)

I used the numbers from this link:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/fraudster-sentenced-prison-lo...
> Netflix rents 300,000 CPUs on AWS just for video encoding.

I'm finding this hard to believe, and back of the envelope calculations don't make it look any more plausible. (Netflix gets maybe 20 hours of content per day, can smooth out any spikes over very long periods of time, and shouldn't need more than maybe a dozen different versions. There's just no way I can see how you'd need 300k cores for that amount of transcoding). Do you happen to have a source?
This is a pretty under-appreciated thought IMO. Self-hosting is mostly about holding onto the emails you receive by yourself and not having them be scanned for ads/other purposes. Hosting your own MX and using an outgoing SMTP works just fine for those purposes.
The World Bank and the IMF have led to flawed outcomes in some places, but they’ve also led to phenomenal outcomes (e.g. the Four Asian Tigers, post-war Europe, and Greece recently). Their failures are largely the fault of elite preconceptions rather than open malice
Guidelines for how human raters manually deranked people that looked old, overweight, facially asymmetric, scarred, physically disabled, impoverished, etc: https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-us...

For automatic promoting/demoting of users based on their attractiveness, Tiktok probably uses something like SCUT-FBP5500 but because it's part of their proprietary secret sauce this hasn't been confirmed.