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13 years after the first Bitcoin post on HN. Which got no upvotes and no comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=463793

Looks like this was the first ever comment on Bitcoin on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599936

i'm having trouble wrapping my head
around the logistics of this..."

Haha. If it only stayed as simple as it was back then. Nowadays, if you look into crypto, you are confronted with merkle trees, zero knowledge proofs, zk-Snarks, optimistic and pessimistic rollups ...
Yes, of course it's irrational. People are not machinelike optimizers of information accuracy. If that's your mental model of people, you're going to have a bad time.
There are more significant changes of climate in recorded history that predate the Industrial Revolution. If I learned anything in the many science classes I took to get my physics degree, any prediction based on a single controlling variable is usually wrong.
But its also hecause they don’t get too much of it that makes their life more balanced.
Those who don't have the equity to buy excavation equipment can also rent it on a per-job basis. That's not really an option with semi trucks?
This sounds like the interface in a slightly older (late 00's, I think?) Audi I once drove. The infotainment system was controlled from a scroll wheel akin to an ipod's, it also functioned as a directional pad for panning around the map. It was just about perfect.
I thought this was implicit: you find a problem you deal with on a daily basis.

This is probably why there are so many more startups pitching development tools than, for instance, something to make the lives of truckers a little easier.

If you work as a regular engineer, you must come across dozens of daily problems any of which are not properly solved by your current tools. Even simple things like following up consistently, or checking to see if someone responded to an email to a third party etc

Addendum:
In response to many comments, I should add that this method is not supposed to guarantee you a good idea, but is a source for ideas to filter, refine, develop or abandon.
You definitely cannot compare a benchmark result you got on your machine vs. one in (what I believe is) a CI environment.
Domestically, there is a limited supply of very smart technically minded people.

It's sometimes possible to game the system by doing hundreds of LC, but it's still hard to beat people for whom it just clicks.
I once tried to move "forward" through old EU city streets, and instead managed to move in a circle and come back to the starting point, because I got confused about which way "forward" is, due to non-right angles between streets and lack of known to me landmarks.
You can specify what gets backed up by using rclone.
It’s too encrusted for me to tell, but in modern times we’ve ended up classifying western medieval swords by their “Oakeshott Type”. The issue is that most sword names are relatively new; for most of history swords have just been called swords, with various sub-names only cropping up where two major types of sword overlap, and even then not always. So we’ve created a modern classification system to make talking about these things possible.

For example, the famous late medieval long sword, which I trained with years ago, was typically just called a two handed sword in most languages; the term “long sword” really only crops up after it fell out of favor. This is particularly problematic because “Zweihander” (two hander) was the historically correct name for a very different sword.

https://www.albion-swords.com/articles/oakeshott-typology.ht...
> One thing that does amaze me though, is his unbelievable capacity for intuition.

If you partially submerge a stick into water, it appears as if the stick is broken. When a physicist first sees this phenomenon, their reaction is: space must be warped/contracted/broken! It's a strange kind of intuition.
Well I really picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue!
The lack of judgement in both the articles content and publishing the article itself is horrifying.
He did manage to sell his company later to Microsoft for twice the price, so in this case, Pinky finally won.
I once ran a query on a live production web site thinking I was doing a SELECT but somehow ran an UPDATE which set all the millions of users' gender to 'M', regardless of their selection.

Restoring from backups would have been a nightmare. And telling my supervisor would have been a nightmare.

So I used everyone's selected title (Mr, Ms, Mrs etc) to reset their gender setting, and then put the keyboard down and went to bed.
You should probably learn the rules yourself before trying to scare people with 'fines and jail time'. This isn't complicated. Reporting requirements are easy to follow and are pretty much the same as they've always been -
https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/freq...
Maybe it's just me, but multiplication tables are one of the few useful things I got out of primary school. To this day I use this often, almost daily. I mean to call them USELESS is pretty severe mischaracterization of them.
Those goalposts though...
> However, nesting is difficult to read when it becomes deep: the flow of execution moves right to left, rather than the left-to-right reading of normal code.

Laughs in LISP.
Or we can just put one driver in the front of a truck with a bunch of trucks behind it, and put it on a "self driving road" made of iron rails and call the front truck a locomotive ...
Remote learning that was "online first" reflected the erroneous idea that most American homes have internet access. We taught in a county where 50% of families don't have internet, and 20% don't even have a land line in 2020-2021.

The decline in learning was astonishing. Many of these children simply did not do any reading at all for a whole year.
In the UK it definitely would be, however in the USA there is an appeal to the 'open roads' that might make up for some of the career's shortcomings.
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I’m a native speaker, and I think the wording could be improved. Furthermore, I don’t agree that this common phrase is normally used this way. The phrase “present day” is most often used to refer to now, not to refer to a time in the past. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Present_day

I agree with the meaning of your example, but I don’t think your example illustrates the issue with the title. The title has “People in present day Austria” which implies these people are alive now, then goes on to say the same people ate something 2700 years ago.

Context does clarify the title, despite the confusing wording. Rewordings that would help: “Ancestors of modern day Austrians consumed blue cheese and beer 2700 years ago”, or “People who lived in what is now present-day Austria drank beer and ate blue cheese 2700 years ago.”
More about his team’s work: https://www.chromium.org/teams/rendering
The classic "Seinfeld isn't funny" effect
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> When asked why they universally point the finger at phones

Teachers universally believe all sorts of things that turn out (or long ago turned out) to be false or detrimental. They may be right about phones or they may be wrong, but I'd guess their professional intuition on stuff like this is no better than random chance.
Why do you assume the users own the phones? There are plenty of business models where the company owns the phones and the user gets to use it by paying a monthly fee. One of the services being provided may well be the use of the phone itself.
PM at AWS, writing on my own personal behalf.

Sorry to hear that you had a bad experience. That's definitely not the culture that I'm experiencing every day or that we hold ourselves to. Our goal is to deliver a ton of value to customers. If we are not delivering value then it would not be in line with how we operate to want to charge you for that.

Out of curiosity, did you try contacting AWS support? Almost all customers I speak to love our support and the fact they can speak to an actual human. Of course I can't speak to the actual case as I'm just providing my personal opinion here, but I would not be surprised if support could fix this for you quickly and zero out any small balances that you accrued because you weren't able to access/use your account.
Were swords not an every-day object back then? I would imagine almost anyone with a position of authority back then would own a sword.
Now we can imagine the toxic working conditions in AMZ.

"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat” --Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
No, I actually ran it on Arch, but I don't exclude some variation caused by the kernel configuration.
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Ah nice
That's not important right now.
> Basic maths should tell you that the probability of matching some real phone number is actually quite high.

Yeah well, the thing about pressure (of the sort the author has describing) is that you make mistakes - the kind where some times 3+3 = 9.

Source: I queued jobs to nuke the whole production database (relax, we had automated backups+verification so we recovered fast enough; and then added some gating so make this more difficult in the future)
If I were on a 5 stop tour and my choice was between "hand-delivered by a Backblaze employee" and "left to fate with multiple countries' postal and customs services," I would choose the hand delivery every time. The nearest data center to Kazakhstan is in Amsterdam.
It's lacking context on exactly what "this" is, or who she is, which presumably were revealed in the program before this audio clip.
Lessons learned after 20 yrs of developing, managing and selling a SW product
Fyi- here's last year's result : https://uxtools.co/survey-2020
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Not defending him, but he does state that unlike the other mobile providers he's worked with, this K-Pop company's backend system would lock _any_ phone number, not just the ones they're responsible for. Perhaps he didn't know this. I bet normally he'd generate random numbers not associated with the provider, check they show up as "locked" in the database, under the assumption that the backend actually doing the locking signal would reject the numbers due to them being under control of another operator.

It's similar to our networking lab where we generate bogus traffic using random src/dst IP addresses under the assumption that our null routes and firewall will block them from the real Internet. In this case, the provider just decided no firewall was needed. We can't use "fake" IP addresses (yes there are IP ranges for internal use but that doesn't work for certain testing scenarios.)
Yeah, we definitely need to resolve this and it sounds like a fun project! If you or someone else has the time for this I (and I'm sure the rest of the community too) would love to help lead you in the right direction :)
The humanity that lives in Siberia is very much looking forward to the climate change you fear so don’t act like you speak for the entire world. Rising oceans might make Central Africa look more like North America. My original point is that this problem (if real) has already been solved by Tesla, and that the progressives who still think it is a problem are suddenly more concerned with supporting the unionized competitors of Tesla than acknowledging the supremacy of solar + batteries + EV transport.
In a way that is the same point, just in your case you have already existing customers.
But if you don't have a look at what other companies customer are doing and optimize for a segment of those can certainly be a good approach IMHO
The truck driver shortage reminds me on the fossil fuel situation.

Generally, we hear that truck drivers won't be needed in the future: Trucks will drive themselves. But now we have less truck drivers than we need, and the future with self driving trucks hasn't quite arrived yet

Similarly, we hear that fossil fuels should be out phased. And now we have an energy crisis with not enough oil and gas. The future of renewable energy isn't quite there yet.
The motors that connect to the Build HAT are servo motors with integral absolute encoders. Encoder resolution is one degree. Power is 7V DC ish.
I think this is probably spot-on.

Anyone who has taught introductory CS courses at an average public college/university (so, not a huge R1 state flagship) can tell you that getting into programming is not easy. Plenty of students who I would describe as "smart enough" have an incredibly hard time learning how to program.

The bar is a lot higher than most people here seem to believe.
the whole point of apple is that they choose for you
Hasn't been an issue for us but I agree. It's painful to pay them $20+ just for the sake of fine-granular metrics though.
Are you arguing that there is no real hate speech?
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That's a basic citizen database.

The only non-obvious information is the labor identification code. Except for that, it's just "who exists and how do we call them?"
failing forward
Yes, right now I run it on an old MacBook Pro, that is otherwise sitting idle. It is very reliable. The only issue I have is HEIC attachments not being displayed on the Element desktop client (due to a lack of support in either Electron or Chromium, I forget what piece was ultimately to blame there.)
There's a nobel prize awarded in 02 for the guys who figured out that people are irrational
Can you opt out of that and ask for a paper contract via snail mail then?
As a front end developer, I am really happy to see resources like this.

Developing for the browser is a real challenge. I think working with html / css /js has been a neglected skill for a long time - most software engineers look down on that type of work and its rarely covered in comp sci course work.

Still, its good to see a lot of progress has been made, this book included.

My only critique - why use python instead of node.js?
The role of attention in our ability to test well shouldn't be underestimated.

I bet the same children could produce great results with a complete gamified test that used various tricks to pull their attention back to it.
Legally shmegally. Just download one of the many troves of hacked databases. I'm sure you'll find the data you need somewhere. Or hire a 3rd party that does stuff on your behalf. Now you have plausible deniability in that you're the one not doing it.
they closed my retail amazon.com account because I (thought so at least) closed my AWS account and never received another bill. One day I just lost access to shop on amazon. It was an ordeal to get it back - I would have just written it off but I have TV and Movie purchases I didn't want to throw away.

Scummy company
This is for a supercomputer, right? Do AMD have something for Intel to compete against here?
> Sweet gig if you can get it.

Did you also start a business from the ground up and run it to the size that generates $50M in revenue? What exactly about Backblaze is a "sweet gig if you can get it"...achieving this is not trivial...
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That's a solvable problem, searching images is one of the things ML is already pretty good at.

I understand if giving Google your photos is a nonstarter, but have you tried putting them in Google Photos? You can search by face and by objects in the photo.
There is absolutely no labor shortage in america, it's 100% a fair wage shortage. Truck drivers are a bit like boot campers in a way, you can go and take like a 6-month course and become one. So the market flooded with these folks, and while let's just say a fair wage for a truck driver would be around 100K a year, most are only making 60 to 70.

I bet if the trucking companies decide it to start all of their employees at 110k they'd have no shortage of people willing to drive.
There’s an endless supply of truck drivers, just a shortage of those willing to be underpaid and abused.
It's ironic that Yuval Noah Harari is criticized in the article despite Sapiens being more up to date on Göbekli Tepe (and maybe on others).
Practically speaking, it’s almost impossible to miss braces. If you’re copying and pasting, you can place your cursor anywhere inside the desired pair of braces, paste, and the autoformatter will figure it out.

Ideally an autoformatter would also add braces around a one-line if statement as well.
> I too hear this quip often on HN and I see no foundation for it at all.

Strange, I see large quantities of it on HN on a very regular basis - what could explain this apparent paradox? Is it that you haven't read any of the same threads as me, and all the threads you've read are completely devoid of instances of the phenomenon, or might there be something else going on?

> Part of being educated and having an ability to think critically is to question your own assumptions and be willing to change them.

This is certainly reasonable advice, but I suspect it is much(!) harder than people who advise this approach think.

> To look at evidence and reevaluate, to experiment and test. It's the process science uses to dig through the unknown and uncertainty to find nuggets of truth and separate the mistakes and lies. It's slow and in the absence of analysis you shouldn't rush to conclusions.

Science (the scientific process) is excellent, but I regularly encounter people people who sincerely perceive themselves to be Scientific Thinkers who are....not very good at the process they hold in such high regard. I sometimes wonder if the current fashion of ~worshipping science and scientists might be causing some harm in addition to the good that (I presume) it is doing.

> An often tell tale sign of misinformation/disinformation at play is pushing a false sense of urgency to persuade people to make decisions without thinking and often simply lean or what's being projected as an authoritative answer.

I agree, but this is also a fairly common talking point that you can find in conspiracy forums, do you believe those people are righteous in using this methodology?

> I'm not speaking about those who think they're informed and ready to combat persuasion but are just entrenched in their own perhaps false viewpoints, say the antivaxers of recent times.

Personally, I think this is doing it wrong. Rather than constantly amuse ourselves beating up on strawman caricatures of the (often virtual) members of our outgroups, I think it would be better to focus our critical eyes on those who actually are relatively(!) "informed and ready to combat persuasion", and realize how rare it is even among the best of the best to find thinking that is completely without flaw....maybe then we would learn something new about the true complexity of thinking and perception, and perhaps then have the ability to develop some educational countermeasures to the tricky cognitive phenomenon that plagues each one of us.

> Being truly educated in this domain is understanding that you might actually be wrong or are susceptible for persuasion, acknowledging what you do and don't know, figuring out what the information is saying and potential motives of it, and be willing to check to see if you are wrong and change your views if so.

These are fine ideas, but there is much more to it than this.
True, but this doesn't apply to the article:

> The latest release comes from NAEP’s 2020 assessment of long-term trends, which was administered by the National Center for Education Statistics to nine- and 13-year-olds before COVID-19 first shuttered schools last spring.
With all due respect, it has nothing to do with culture and more to do with business processes having rough edges. At AWS' scale, any rough edge is more than a rare edge case, since rarity flies out the window.

Spending more to provide better customer service (explicitly or implicitly through bugfixes) is not generally how this type of need is. Folks shouldn't need to post their grievances to a very public site to be heard, and that it needs to happen to get traction on an issue should be taken as a clear gap in customer service provision.
Doesn't the mainstream view do the same? You don't think the status quo has a built-in confirmation bias as well? Why would the mainstream appear passionate when their take is already accepted as "common sense"?

Compare Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
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Nothing is free. Resource sharing comes with the noisy & problematic neighbour issue. An ALB consumes 16.43 USD per month. You need to decide if it's worth the risk, blast radius would be larger in case of incidents. I've seen ALBs timing out because the ALB itself did not scale fast enough, so in a shared environment with 100 different applications, this might be amplified.
We registered this domain in 2010 back when there was actually something called the "exact match bonus" in SEO. Basically if your domain exactly matched the searched keywords Google just automatically gave your site a massive boost in that SERP!

I can see why they did this since there were only a few TLD's back then compared to now and thus owning the .com for a specific keyword was a legitimate signal. I can't remember exactly when this got deprecated as a ranking factor but it was very useful for the first few years!

Over the years I've accumulated the domains of failed competitors that had more punchy names and toyed with the idea of rebranding but don't think it's worth it. The SEO risk of a rebrand is substantial concern.
The product was for phones that had not been paid off-- if you get a phone on a 2 year contract, you dont "own" the phone until it is paid off
I own both a MBP (2019) and an Asus Zephyrus G14 (2020). While the latter is good value for the money (I use it for gaming), chassis, screen, sound, touchpad, fingerprint sensor, and reliability are much inferior. If you want to compare the new MBP to PC laptops, at least compare apples to apples (ROG Strix, Legion 7, etc.). Otherwise you're just arguing that a high-end laptop isn't worth the money to you, which is fine but has nothing to do with Mac vs. PC.
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There's mountains of paper, or proprietary software used for these tests. And that's before we pay for graders and monitors(and many schools need a few extra hands to do the test according to standard due to crowding).
This is a symptom of the decline of union labor in trucking and deregulation causing a race to the bottom. I'm unsure we should be happy high schoolers are being pulled in, versus making trucking jobs more secure and paying a living wage.

There is no lack of workers, only workers willing to tolerate poor working conditions and pay.

"This paper examines the forces that have reduced truck drivers' earnings. First, using 1973-91 Current Population Survey data, the authors find that deregulation accounted for one-third of the decline in drivers' wages, with a larger negative effect on non-union workers than on organized workers. Second, using unique survey data gathered in 1997, they explore the effects of three specific factors frequently cited as sources of blue-collar wage decline. This analysis indicates that only one new technology, satellite communication systems, had important effects on drivers' earnings, increasing them through improved efficiency and work intensification; education had no important influence; and union membership increased earnings by between 18% and 21%. They conclude that the two dominant and intertwined sources of wage decline and increased wage inequality among truck drivers have been deregulation and de-unionization. (Author's abstract.)"

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5119434_The_Effects...

(can get the paper from SciHub, a family member is a truck driver)
I wonder how many A/B tests take into account the people who get so pissed off that they immediately leave the platform.

(This is how I stopped using YouTube)
We're talking unreleased songs on that drive and high value assets surrounding the act. Both the sensitive nature of the data as well as the speed of delivery are better handled by having a person fly them in personally.

If it wasn't for the content and that they needed it ASAP I think regular air cargo would've sufficed.