skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assumed sarcasm/trolling because board members were singled out as a protected group, but with Californians (hi there friends, I'm obviously not talking about anyone of you reasonable ones who suffer under it) being Californians and not having seen CCCP referenced in a long time I overlooked that.

That was one of the more brilliant ones :-D
>Bank runs like from the movie "Its a wonderful life" - they don't happen anymore.

I've witnessed and been (indirectly) affected by a bank run in the last decade[0].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seizure_of_Bulgaria%27s_Corpba...
Firefox Wayland Development in 2021
In my game design I've imagined two parallels to invention; discovery and identification. All three are learning about the world, but in slightly different ways.

Invention: I created that.

Discovery: I found that lying around.

Identification: I conceptualized a definition for that.
That blog post is not scholarly work. It's one guy's opinion - rather, one guy's internet rant. Rants are no good sources of information and I wish I didn't have to explain why, but they are primarily aimed at emotions rather than the intellect.

If you want to read modern analysis, then read scholarly works, not blog posts on the internet. And it doesn't matter who the author is, a rant on the internets is a rant on the internets, not a source of knowledge.
Wow. Awesome to see you post here. I skim Your blog from time to time, and I really enjoy your writing.

I'm considering even getting your books.

How do you come up with so many new ideas/topics to write about?
Similar notation is standard in linguistics (and probably other fields too): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinship_terminology#Abbreviati.... e.g. ‘Maternal grandmother's son's daughter’ would be MMSD.
I’ve been working in this problem space for awhile now and I sort of agree with the GP poster. I really like native software; and I want native software which can work simply in a distributed, collaborative context. As an example, I have a note taking app on my laptop. I want to be able to read and edit all my notes on all my other devices. And I want that to work in a way that doesn’t depend on some random startup keeping their servers on the other side of the planet running. Right now every software company which wants to build something like this needs to invent their own data stack, network protocols and storage systems. And the prize at the end is with software that can only talk to itself via closed protocols. It’s infeasible, and inefficient.

We have an opportunity right now to do an awful lot better. When we do, I want to service both native and web apps. If we do it right, from the network level the distinction should just boil away anyway.
> any article that references Fowler should be looked at with just a little bit of suspicion

Indeed. I don't doubt he's a very clever guy, but all of my most miserable gigs involved phalanxes of architecture astronauts endlessly bike-shedding every design session with the platitudes of Fowler et al.
So many people I know resigned because they were disgusted with the racism and medical tyranny.

I don’t think 4% of medical professionals left from burn out, when the pandemic was at a lull. Similarly for tech people.

Once a company makes it clear they will require you to have a gene therapy, some people will leave. Once a company broadcasts they’ll promote based on race, some people are going to leave. Once it becomes clear the office you went to will not reopen, people move to be more free.

It’s why Texas, Florida, Tennessee, etc are growing. While places like Illinois, California and New York are shuttering businesses.

It’s amazing to drive from Illinois to Tennessee (I travel between both states regularly). In Illinois there are just empty malls, entire streets with 40-60% shuttered businesses. In Tennessee, every storefront is open, construction everywhere.

The resignations are really people saying “I’m done”. Why senior devs? Because they have families and they’ll do what’s best for their kids.

It’s very much a “who is John Galt?” Moment.
You don't compete with Roblox by creating another Roblox. You will fail.

You compete with Roblox by creating another game the users will want to spend time on.

Apple won the competition with PC and Microsoft when they discovered a new paradigm. Macs lose the battle but iPhone won.

Create new markets, create new needs.
Interesting I think was straight up using just text or whatever is the default. Though I was using the Dexie wrapper which is nice.

To be clear I don't know if the bug was from IndexedDB it was something about length exceeded.

I did try to use small images too eg. some 150px by 150px but going to base64 usually multiplies the size by 1.3

For anyone interested [1] not a phenomenal app but one I poured idk 2-300+hrs into (was working on an RN version too) and went nowhere sucks. I was contributing to one of those codefor# deals.

[1] https://github.com/codeforkansascity/tagging-tracker-alt-app...
Not really? I mean if I went to the farmer's market and decided that instead of buying vegetables, I wanted to make a bunch of money buying and selling vegetables, and I ended up losing all my money, I'd be hard-pressed to call the market a scam either, even if some of the farmers do have inside information on the upcoming radish harvest.
Speaking of 'you stepped on my toe', that is a classic schoolyard bully line.
Currency is a contract, it's inherently intangible.

Bitcoin is not a currency, and it's not used for anything, so it's a really just a number, that someone may speculatively want to pay money for, due to the fact a small number of other people will pay for it, but unless there's a more broad acceptance of it, the implied value will also fade.

If NFT's implied ownership of the Baseball card itself, I think this would be another thing altogether.
That's the whole point of CoCs: divide and conquer. As a result people "Just walk away". Assets paid by Microsoft, IBM, Salesforce and Google are pushing this.
People got worked up over the question "are birds dinosaurs?". That event happened millions of years ago - 2,000 years ago is a blink.

So, you have a bias against moralizing ancient peoples - got it. (Though, when do you think it's okay to moralize about history?)

I assume also we shouldn't take knowledge of history from HN commenters.
It's more complicated than that. The GameStop saga notably didn't occur with other brokers, such as Vanguard, where shares were "in-stock" if you'll pardon the pun and available for purchase or sale. The volatility of $GME caused issues with the settlement system. That doesn't make "the stock market" a scam.

> A stock has no business being shorted over 100% in a market that is not a scam.

I'm not sure this is a strong argument for a scam, but is a strong intuitive argument for correcting a problem with how the stock market functions.
So, it seems like you'd still need to use metamask (or similar) to store your keys and sign transactions. Then metamask (or similar) could call cloudflare to publish the transaction.

Metamask is a giant pain for new users. I was hoping this would somehow get rid of it. Perhaps the browsers could integate this functionality.
Isn't that what cloudflare always does?
It isn't even Americans. These "universally accepted corporate values" are only universally accepted in a very small sliver of the US. Most Americans' cultures and views are also ignored in these discussions.
Yale’s Newest Social Club: The Council of Davids
I mean SpaceX isn't in the business of joy rides either. But from what I can tell Blue Origin/Virgin Galactic intend to make it their primary business (at least initially?).
Since farming and animal husbandry are only about 10000 years old, I’d say probably not.

Being out in nature, possibly. It certainly feels good for a lot of people.
At some point the pyramid has to reach a bottom.

There is no infinite grown in this universe. Especially not exponential growth.

Even if you assume that we'll reach space at some point and infinitely expand into the universe. Resources available to that civilisation will grow at most cubically (based on the fact that our universe has 3 dimensions).

That growth is not caused by magic, the reason why you'd still get a return of investment is because that growth has been fuelled in an unsustainable way with externalised costs.

So for the "small long term investor" the pyramid ends at enslaved children in Bangladesh sewing shirts and shoes, overfished oceans, pollution, and climate-change.

Pensioners and small investors get scammed by the rich and powerful above them, the kid in Bangladesh, the Somalian fisherman, the person dying during a hurricane, flood, or heatwave, got scammed by everybody else above them.

Somebody gets scammed when there is a continuous indefinite return from a single investment.
The reason public transport safety is concerning to the people you are slandering is because they have children.
You're right, not all knowledge comes from ancient authors. But I don't agree that there is enough information in epigrams and so on, to figure anything out with the context provided by long-form prose by authors who were sometimes even contemporary with the events they describe. I guess that's opinion though.
> Huawei is a global tool for Chinese espionage.

The only problem is there's no evidence of this at all. The entire claim is hypothetical.

> Either you don't understand that difference, or you are so hopelessly partisan in the matter you'll argue the cultural revolution was fake news.

I just regard the proven, illegal mass surveillance of Americans by the US government as more concerning than the completely hypothetical spying by the Chinese government on Americans. I also think that if the Chinese government were carrying out anything approaching the level of surveillance of Americans that the US government conducts, it would have come out by now.

> Yes it was a giant scandal and they have since stopped.

We really have no idea if they've stopped, and I rather doubt it. The first time around, in 2005, Bush's warrantless wiretapping program was retroactively legalized by Congress, and the telecom companies that had participated in the illegal domestic spying program were shielded from liability. I'm sure that this time around, the NSA has made some sort of superficial changes to formally avoid some of the illegality they were previously engaged in, but I very much doubt that they've given up on mass surveillance of Americans (not to mention their surveillance of the rest of the world).

> Just a story wouldn't even be a story in China, and such actions continue today, legally.

I very much admire the rights to privacy and confidentiality set out in the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution. Those are certainly important rights, which people in China do not have. I just wish that the US government would not blatantly violate those rights (and in secret).

> You never answered my previous question btw, does your work involve Chinese state industry in anyway?

You should know that insinuations that people are shills are a violation of HN's commenting guidelines.
Cloudflare's vision, especially about decentralization, smells a lot.
There is a relevant comic for this https://img.memecdn.com/scroll-wheel_o_903702.jpg and as someone who has worked level 1 helpdesk, it's very true. People find a way to use the system that ends up working for them even if it's convoluted.
They would certainly have an easier time than startups because the userbase is already there.
> why am I paying for bandwidth on AWS?

Because when you signed up for services on AWS, you agreed to pay for egress and ingress bandwidth delivered at very high speeds.

When I signed up for my ISP, I agreed to pay for a rate of speed that was sold to me as "unlimited" with some restrictions, but none that even came close to resembling "don't download video too much".

It also ignores the value Netflix provides. My parents chose to buy faster internet service than they otherwise would have purchased because of Netflix. If Netflix was not in the picture, they would have purchased the cheapest plan available. It's not a fairness failure, it's a marketing failure.
Dunno about "oil" either, but pre-70's phone network stuff was weird. Bell was cagey about what could connect and how; i think partially because they had trouble keeping nasty transients off their wires. This transformer very likely didn't connect directly to a phone network; I would guess.

It wouldn't surprise me if this was capable of being connected to nearly any lash up "intercom" type line too, which would be a place to have a robust output.
Sure you can do that right now. But my point was more: physical objects can be traded easily in the far future.

We can hardly rebuild stuff from source after 20years time, so I'm pretty sure you will not be able to revive long dead blockchains as easy as renting a space to trade physical objects of collectible value.
That burden could have been met at a far less aggressive initial cost. It is not like a private company where high level people make sure and pay themselves no matter what...
What is my lazy, poor taste or political opinion? You are attacking my post with no evidence or counter points, a emotional response that isn't based on anything other than hearsay, the first section is a strawman, and the second is how your sample bias should dismiss any other experiences. Is it not hypocritical to dismiss the effect of social media on suicide, such as by cyber bullying?

My experience with social media has been negative, and I have lost friend due to suicide and depression, which is why I am pointing it out. Are you suggesting that it has no effect on mental heath or is proven to be beneficial? I would love to be proven wrong if you have information on it.
https://www.newswise.com/articles/10-year-study-shows-elevat...

>Through annual surveys from 2009 to 2019, researchers tracked the media use patterns and mental health of 500 teens as part of the Flourishing Families Project. They found that while social media use had little effect on boys' suicidality risk, for girls there was a tipping point. Girls who used social media for at least two to three hours per day at the beginning of the study--when they were about 13 years old--and then greatly increased their use over time were at a higher clinical risk for suicide as emerging adults.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3477910/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_and_suicide
A minor nitpick in an otherwise inspiring article: I feel like the argument about ad efficacy also wants to have it both ways - if advertising sucks, why do we believe that it works? Or in other words, if advertisers are good at advertising themselves, why would they be bad at advertising anything else?
How Work Will Rebundle into Decentralized Teams
*Old age is protected.

It’s legally OK to discriminate based on a minimum age, but not a maximum age. No voting, alcohol, tobacco, driving, guns, executing contracts, renting a car etc. until 18/21/25.
The whole Python industrial complex (PSF, PyCon, python-dev) has always been extremely hierarchical. CoCs were introduced to protect the old boys and advance their careers at FAANG.

The most egregious abuse of power occurred in the Python NumFocus space, where a couple of highly paid directors defamed a speaker for basically nothing:

https://www.fast.ai/2020/10/28/code-of-conduct/

I have never seen those directors do anything useful like writing software.

The whole Python ecosystem is a swamp full of parasites who need a rule set to oppress the productive part of the population and justify their existence.
My startup had always been under a second. On a Mac, the command to get the path right is the longest pole. Remains so in native.

That said, I'll play with it some. Still looking for a broader benchmark, though.

Edit: Looks like I lied. Startup is about 2 seconds, but is mainly dominated by a network hit to refresh packages. (So, slower if I'm on a bad network... I should fix that.) Your script, though, is odd, as I can get to the Messages buffer and wait a second before I see that message show up. (Also, you can just eval (emacs-init-time))
Scrum doesn’t have velocity and burn-down charts. Those are add-on Agile extras. Scrum is simple, but it’s so annoying how people make everything so complicated. When I start working on something, we may have an idea of how much effort it is, but often you dig into the code and find gnarly tangles, or the model has more gotchas than people realize and the person doing the work is the one person who has the entire model loaded into their head at the moment. Yes, a manager might need to verify people are actually working, but if the manager is capable it shouldn’t require burn-down charts which can be full of inaccuracies. It often takes actual thinking to get real work done and micromanagers hovering about do not help with producing thoughtful work. Scrum just says to get some help from friends when you need it, communicate about what could make your job better in the next few weeks, and are we breaking things down into bite-size pieces or do people have unrealistic expectations?
The Mystery Man Who Made Amazon an Ad Giant
So did the consultants tell you that you were doing Scrum completely wrong or why did you have to change?
> I don’t think 4% of medical professionals left from burn out, when the pandemic was at a lull.

Taking action based on burnout just after the crunch passes when you are able to reassess is...not at all an unusual pattern.
Its not a scam but a platform on which a lot of scams are taking place. If you are on the right side of the line your scam will be swept under the rug, otherwise you go to prison for running a scam.

The actual buying of shares is hardly a scam but the more complicated and removed from reality investment tools are used the scamyness comes out.

Buying an index fund over long term will not scam you.
You are right. It also depends if you include serfdom in slavery. In any case, just to generalize, the countries that practiced slavery were mostly those that colonized the world the most. Many of those who didn't colonize the world used serfs, like most of Eastern Europe. For these people there is no cultural association between slavery and the present. Also the proportions are different: in most countries the non-serfs were a relatively small minority. So waking up one day and reading that, say, all references to slavery are banned seems somewhat strange in other cultures.
Great info. Many thanks.
This is a great approach. You can see how they're going to change crypto mining through their interview Q&As. I'm just hoping that they will properly execute the plan.
You can play with mining heavyhash (the underlying algorithm for photonic mining discussed in the story) on your cpu/gpu here

https://pool.obtc.me/home
Thanks for the kind words. I spend a LOT of time talking to people, both on (founder) Twitter and in other communities. I listen to people's problems and take notes. I also do some consulting — again, mostly for bootstrapped founders — and often use the issues I help people with there as ideas for my writing.

I have a VERY long list of things to write about, and any work day for me consists of browsing Twitter, chatting with people, and writing articles, outlines, or taking notes. I do that full time, pretty much.
Or, my favorite saying, "All these weeks of coding saved us literally hours of planning".
This is great - now we can have algorithmic production of output from data-driven script bots!
Nobody knows how good, or bad, they have it until they see how someone else lives.

Isn't that explanation enough?

Yes, the change is because of social media, and everything else that's made other peoples lives' more visible.
But this footage is not from within the eye.
> The thing that's most ridiculous about this is that the bandwidth is essentially "free" for SK telecom. They sit a netflix caching server in their network and the traffic never leaves.

Wouldn't that require them to MITM the Netflix traffic, which I would hope is under TLS?
The Post has no free rider problems, and runs on postage.

The service is the public good, and operating it where all are served equally (remember everyone can receive a package at no cost to them) is in the public interest.

No private entity can, or even has a plan to do the same at anywhere close to the low cost and quality of service.
The change indicated in the title[1] was made on foot of trolling by the user @hmdne

It's really a remarkable failure of communication. It doesn't appear anyone read what he was saying carefully. They just looked at the first two lines of his proposal and assumed they understood his intent. And then when encouraged he actually made the change. And they actually merged it.

It's amazing that people who are apparently paying such close attention to textual significance, don't appear to have the ability to read his statements with any care.

[1] https://github.com/ruby/www.ruby-lang.org/pull/2690#issuecom...
If an abuser is using their performance as an excuse to target others, then they aren't enabling a meritocracy, they're acting as a detriment to it.

The idea of a meritocracy itself, is not inherently dehumanising, which was the point that the comment made.
Facebook is global, the fact the suicide rate only grew in the US and not worldwide is a point in its favor. Not to mention the increase in suicide rate is higher for older generations who use social media less, according to the data.
Most, if not all, insiders shouldn't be in a situation where they need that kind of liquidity in their company shares. I'd argue that if they are their incentives aren't aligned with their role as an insider and they should be removed anyway.
Thinking people need babysitters is quite the opposite of Thiel’s position. Much of his philosophy is based on the book, “The Sovereign Individual” which advocates for limited babysitters and more empowerment of the individual via hands-off governance.
This whole thing rings very true for just about any startup business idea. The bit on education was especially fun to revisit, and by fun I mean painful, because I’ve made that mistake of trying to sell software to education. It’s unending amounts of work for no commitments, especially if you are targeting kids or classrooms. I’m now suspecting the only way to sell to education markets reliably is to convince a state legislator or a board member somewhere. Schools just don’t approve or buy their own things no matter how much they like them.

Other mistakes I’ve actually made myself that this article is right about - technically superior, better graphics, quirky features, lower prices. Don’t compete with X, where X is any large entrenched business. It’s more or less guaranteed that you don’t know why that business is successful. If it looks like they have bad graphics or are technically inferior or lacking features, the assumption should be that these things are a competitive advantage. But that never stops most of us from making the wrong assumption, does it?
Your phone has a different operational workflow than your command line. Yes you're not going to "pipe" it, but on my phone I can open an image in my Photos app, click 'share to' and share (open) it either into my Messages app, a file manager app, or an editor, which opens it just fine. Apps can absolutely share data between them. But not in the sense that an output buffer of the program is being injected into another. That really doesn't apply to GUI apps even on your desktop.
I mean, it would do that. But, I also have never just moved the hard drive between machines. I've only owned two machines in the last decade. So, not even something I have had a lot of opportunity to do.

Back to the point, though, I'm assuming that libc dynamically does most of the optimizations that native enables?
How do you use the powder? I've used it when cooking a larger dish but I can't imagine using it like a table condiment.
It's just Ada, not the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) or the American Dodgeball Association or whatever else it is.

Ada is just a name, like Ada Lovelace, its namesake.