skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Three squares, a roof, and jobs for all the police, judges, guards, and lawyers involved. Oh, and a criminal record to ensure that future employment will be even harder upon their eventual release. And another jail with at least 5,000 beds. Taxes gotta go somewhere, I guess...
> the recent outage of Solana

Do you mean [1]? It sounds like the consensus issues there were related to Solana's unusual PoH model. Validators being "unable to process all the proposed forks" would never happen in a BFT PoS model, like Tendermint etc, since forks cannot occur (under a 2/3 honesty assumption).

> Ultimately it was a bug in the PoS logic that enabled it.

To state the obvious, PoW chains can have bugs too. It sounds like you were just looking at a niche project that didn't have high standards for engineering and audits.

> PoS advocates like to gloss over all the real world failures.

PoS and PoW chains have both had plenty of incidents, but you haven't really pointed out any PoS incidents that were caused by weaknesses inherent in the PoS security model.

> Bitcoin worked pretty much as expected

Bitcoin has been around the longest, has a relatively small feature set, and rarely changes. One would expect such a chain to be very stable regardless of PoW/PoS.

> The other metric to observe is how many chain reorg's occur due to PoS.

Reorgs can't occur in BFT PoS chains (under a 2/3 honesty assumption).

[1] https://solana.com/news/9-14-network-outage-initial-overview
Yeah, also when raining - I generally just try to avoid painted lines to bike on.

It's even worse here in SF with our metal thingies in the road.
I think that's the debug allocator, but I don't know if that's even implemented yet.
Seattle adjusts the speed limit on one of their highways down to 45 or 35 during rush hour which increases the throughput as the cars can be closer together. Not sure if that has been picked up by other cities.
Spoken like a true technocrat
Thank you!

I've seen the current state analysis before, but imo, it's hard to tell how many unvaccinated 20-30 year olds (with/without comorbidities) were affected (slide 11 combines ages 18-49).

The article mentions that "it’s now commonplace for previously healthy, younger adults with decades of life expectancy on the line to be among the sickest of the sick" but shows no data.
Are you suggesting that jail (aka expensive housing funded by the public) is the most effective solution to these crimes/behaviors? For example, do you think the population of people who defecate in public are going to be deterred due to the threat of imprisonment?
If you're looking for remote work (UK/EU) I can highly recommend my employer, Prolific. A business run with compassion as a fundamental. I've never enjoyed my work more. Drop me a message if you'd like to talk more.
Romantic friendship: deep and lasting connection comes in many forms
> stop guns from out of state from entering the city

Stop letting them use gun control to ignore the underlying issues in the community.

ME: Chicago has strict gun control but high gun violence.

Gun Control: They get guns from states with loose gun control.

ME: But those states don't have the same gun violence

Gun Control: Places in Chicago are poor & neglected so there's more violence.

ME: BINGO, it's a socioeconomic issue not a gun issue!

Last I checked on July 13, Chicago has 25.8% of shootings despite having 0.8% of the population.

Mexico has extremely restrictive laws regarding gun possession. There is only one gun store in the entire country, and it takes months of paperwork to have a chance at purchasing one legally.

Similar in India. Making guns illegal doesn't stop any of that. In India, underground criminals make the guns out of everyday stuff. And now a days, 3D printing had made this process even easier.
I work at a small API doc company called ReadMe, we're ~40 people currently and I've been here since we were 5 people. It's been incredible to see the company grow over the years. We hire excellent people who tend to stick around. We treat people with respect and give them the tools to succeed.

We interview a little differently than most other startups (https://blog.readme.com/designing-a-candidate-focused-interv... ); we've always had very flexible working arrangements (even pre-Covid) and we have a modern codebase (Node.js + React) with high test coverage.

I lead the engineering team now (but still write and review code regularly). We're hiring for a bunch of different roles across the stack (and a management position): https://readme.com/careers. My (personal) email is in my profile if you wanna have a chat!
it and unison are both really exciting!
I'd say that the best project managers I have encountered were non technical. They were able to defer to technical people when needed but always kind of kept an arms length from it and it worked well.
Show me someone who is for healthcare, unions, college, but also doesn't want to take a black marker to the second amendment, I'll wait. Until the left stops going after guns, single issue voters will keep voting the way they do.
You are correct, but less correct than you might think.

Per https://fas.org/blogs/security/2006/11/new_article_where_the..., about 15 years ago the only country to put its nuclear weapons in other countries was the USA. That said, US nuclear missiles are in many EU countries thanks to NATO.
> It is pretty cool that this isn't true. But the idea that Microsoft organizationally having control over the .NET open source project is somehow bad for open source is just incomprehensible to me, who grew up on .NET not being open source at all.

It's not about open-source: it's more that major organizations and industries won't use a programming platform that is entirely at the whims of a company they have no real control over and without independent means to ensure it keeps on working, so a compromise position that Microsoft took is to make .NET open-source, so that in the event Microsoft disappears overnight (say, Mt. Rainier erupting and wiping out the Seattle metro area) people have something they can keep on using and build and maintain themselves. We saw the opposite with VB6: the VB6 platform was never open and shared and now all the companies that invested in VBA and VB6 in the 1990s is rightfully annoyed because VB6 is a complete dead-end with no feasible upgrade-path to .NET (VB.NET is not compatible with VB6).

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While my SaaS (and my current job) is a .NET shop because it originated with some "Classic" ASP 3.0 VBScripts that my boss put together himself in the late 1990s that was slowly transitioned through .NET WebForms (ew) and ASP.NET MVC, we still use it for new greenfield projects because .NET is a nice platform overall that scales really well from one-off prototype projects that can be easily transitioned to high-performance distributed applications without any major rewrites (the only thing I've had to "rewrite" was the conversion from .aspx (as an MVC View, not WebForms) to Razor .cshtml, everything else has been refactored through the years. The tooling and integration between MS products and services does save a lot of trouble otherwise (that's where the value is).

My experience from other shops, and the problems I've seen there is not that other "stacks" (I hate that word) like MySQL+PHP, Postgres+Python, Anything+NodeJS are somehow less capable (excepting PHP, it's often the opposite, actually) but that you end up with dozens of projects all with their own separate stacks and build environments, all with their own tedious onboarding processes (e.g. having one Angular project that absolutely requires Node 12, not Node 14, to run) while another project's server-side NodeJS code absolutely requires Node 16 and Python and Tomcat somewhere.

So I'm more than happy to pay the thousands of USD per year for my MSDN Subscription because it gives me a platform that saves me the trouble and headaches of a highly heterogenous environment especially given the fact we're a small shop.
They should call it glassdoor.
No one is forced to vote early with mail in ballots.
I'm not sure if there's much research in evolution about species that have gone extinct versus extant species, or at least I haven't encountered it.

The human genome carries around a massive amount of spandrels, in the form of what is called "selfish DNA." About 15% of the human genome consists of repeats of a single sequence: the Alu gene, which seems to primarily exist to replicate itself in the genome. This is part of a class of genes called transposable elements:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposable_element

And when discovered in corn, accounted for 85% of the genome. Barbara McClintock, their discoverer, hypothesized that they serve as a growth bed for evolution. And over the years it has indeed been found that individual transposable elements can serve as the seeds for new control sequences that coordinate when to turn genes on and off. The major forces of evolution in vertebrates are not big changes in proteins, but rather changes in when and how various proteins get activated, and transposable elements serve a big function in allowing that sort of evolutionary change in genomic sequences.

Does most repetitive DNA in the genome seem to be useless, in that its deletion or replacement have little effect on the genome? Probably! But all that fluff also facilitates more easy rearrangement of the genome, because if every part of the genome was essential, randomly moving a chunk of DNA into a new spot would likely kill off some useful stuff. But if there's a bunch of stuff that is useless, randomly copying some stuff into a random spot is less likely to disrupt something. If the genome is a hard drive, there's no "free list" or file system for the genome, so random writes are less likely to be disastrous if there's nothing of importance on most of the drive.

I used to get upset at the term "junk DNA" but I don't really care one way or the other now. One cell's junk is another's treasure.
I work for a small software consultancy that was acquired by one of its clients. I'm the only engineer. No meetings, no micro-managing, wide variety of tasks, interesting technical challenges, sometimes no work. Bliss.
Why?

Don't truck drivers want money and influence as well, or are they somehow inherently different for reasons that I do not currently understand?
If you think that's bad, try developing native apps.
>yes because we don't care if our software breaks every five minutes and if its clobbered together by people who have no idea what they're doing because 99% of the time it's just consumer gadgets anyway. If you deal with technologies that affect people's health that's not really how things work, or in any other serious engineering discipline.

Yeah, you're not really gonna get away with an "oopsie woopsie!! we made a widdle fucky wucky! our elves are working vewy hard to fix this!" after you kill a few people due to negligence.
And as evidence for that, you use ... an example of Waymo being overly cautious?

I routinely drive and walk near these vehicles, they do not seem in danger of hitting anyone.
I had to clean up another person's poop because they pooped next to my car. I felt pretty angry about it because I hate poop, and I had a hard time understanding why this person left their poop on the ground instead of putting it in a nearby dumpster. Then I remembered they were probably high or had a mental illness. It takes a bit of stoic zen to get un-angry about cleaning up another person's poop.
eBay, reddit, Netflix. But at reddit it was just the four of us and at Netflix we didn't really have product managers except in the UI area, but those folks were all super talented.
http://web.archive.org/web/20211102221548/https://www.newsta...
Maybe NFT folks should launch a media campaign to convince us they are actually a real thing with value:

You wouldn't steal a car... so why would you think it's ok to steal a digital monkey nft?
That word has completely lost all meaning and historical context at this point, hasn't it?
I've had good luck with this too. More diverse work, more free rein to experiment with stuff, less oppressive IT department...you can generally get away with telling 'Joe' to eat your ass if he wants to try to pull you into windows/AD only with no admin or WSL...
I love that article, but I believe that it was a follow-up after Solidarity succeeded.
Ask HN: Favorite Tech Blog Typography?
Working on my blog I inevitably end up toying with typography. I enjoy it but surely I am tailoring it more to my own preferences than my readers. So which tech blogs do you like the typography or style of the best? Subjective preference of people who read a lot of blogs is what I am most curious about. Which do you find easiest to read, least distracting, etc?
It’s not FUD if Microsoft has a history of EEE.

I’m rolling my eyes hard at your claim of VS Code as best in class. If the category is JS-powered code editors then I’ll surely give them that title. However BS Code has many flaws compared to other IDEs. One being that it’s restricted in performance by the language it’s written in. I don’t use those products so I must not be apart of everyone?
Covid-IQ, Are You Intelligent?
You may be interested in my post which concludes, "People are afraid to think. They are frightened to admit they have sold off their right to think intelligently. The population is conditioned and predictable." https://www.mindstrengthbalance.com/2021/11/03/covid-iq-are-you-intelligent/
Question: will their self-driving cars be safe even if the deep-learning part of their code always makes the wrong prediction?
Ok but I'm just not gonna continue the discussion if you make claims, tell me to google, I come back and say "didn't find anything" and you still don't support your claim with links. Feels like i'm being trolled.

ETA: this isn't about "feeling full" or "bulk" this is about how the body processes food, and extracts energy using bacteria, who feed on fiber in our diet. google "fiber gut bacteria" for what I'm talking about
I don’t think it’s malicious intent. Hanlon’s razor: never ascribe to malice what can be explained by incompetence. It’s simply that nobody at any level takes actual responsibility for outcomes. People at the bottom of the system (teachers, parents) can see problems but are usually disempowered and voiceless, and can’t fix them on their own. And people at the top are either ignorant of the real problems or lack real leadership and incentives to fix them. (Or they feel overburdened and overwhelmed).

An old friend of mine teaches the first year CS curriculum at a local university. By all reports he’s phenomenally good at his job. He truly cares and his students adore him. But he’s making a fraction of the salary he could be making in industry. At some point he’s probably going to quit to do a job he’s not as good at, and doesn’t enjoy as much. Why is he paid many times less than he’s worth? Because the university wants to pay CS lecturers who teach 2000 students the same as they pay people who teach poetry to a class of 5. So my friend can’t get a competitive salary without entire departments revolting. Who’s fault is that? I don’t believe it’s malicious intent. It’s just a boring, systematic failure high up in the org chart leading to bland mediocrity. The only people who can do something about it don’t care about outcomes enough to fix the problem.
"Mess" with them? WDYM?

I live in SF by the way.
While the concerns are true, I am not sure if they are applicable to a society with higher levels of trust like I assume much of the US is in.

At least it is not a problem I know about where I live.
How much labor does it save?

How much trouble shooting does it eliminate?

How much experience does it make unnecessary?

Or to put it another way, at the point where 1500w of 12v source computer power supply makes sense, the price is not unreasonable.
This SNL skit provides one view:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5wfPlgKFh8

Even my mother, a product of an FDR world, who threw shoes at Reagan on TV could not stop laughing about how over the top it was.

I credit Nancy. She saw the ideologues he put in during the first term where driving for a cliff and brought Baker, Deaver and Schultz in to right the ship. It helped to have someone like Tip O’Neil in the House who thought impeaching over Iran Contra would be bad for the country.

Reagan, like W Bush wasn’t incompetent, he was just incurious and easily led the farther he went up. Look at Reagan’s 1964 speeches and W’s Governor debates and it’s like they both fell of a skateboard and cracked their heads open once they ran for President.
Yup LinkedIn and Apple uses it very extensively. So is Yahoo.

Been to many ATS meetups, even worked on atscppapi years ago. Very robust plugin capabilities.
I switched to big Corps after a micromanaging owner and his yes-man CTO.
Surprised to see another Corvallis resident here (though I don't work for HP)
You take guns away and they use knives and cleavers. Look to London for what would happen with guns being banned. The solution is to not ban an object but provide opportunities for people. Jobs, education, paths that pave roads to a career. Nothing drives more people to crime than feeling like they are in a hopeless situation.
Firefox Color? [1]

[1] https://color.firefox.com/
I agree with other comments saying that this is going to depend on what you're looking for and on your personal situation -- there is no job that is right for everyone.

That being said, I recently joined Coda as an SRE, and I have really enjoyed it so far. Company size is in my personal sweet spot: the team is small enough that it still has the startup aspects of having visibility into everything happening in the company and being able to work on anything you feel is important, but it's big enough that things are relatively stable, there are lots of resources, there aren't fires all the time. The team is incredible: everyone I have worked with is extremely capable but also extremely nice and humble. Many people joined from highly unconventional backgrounds but Coda hired them for their passion for their roles. I have also felt that the company prioritizes employees in ways both big and small, from little things (e.g. every interview started with checking in to make sure the time was still okay, nice gesture with the chaos of online/remote interviewing) to big things like comp/equity (instead of stock options, you have the option to receive the equity as a grant, or as a loan if you don't have capital to pay the taxes on a grant, and you have the option to sell some stock in every fundraising round even though we aren't public). Several of the founders had kids while starting the company, so there was a strong culture of work/life balance from the beginning. We have our share of tech debt, but so far I have thought the codebase and tooling have been really high quality too.

Email in my bio if you want to chat.
We’ve got some pretty convincing evidence of corruption and election fraud here.

BUT, rest assured this is extremely rare and these same people wouldn’t dare tamper with any other kind of election. Nor would this happen anywhere else in the United States. Anyone who asserts an election was subject to fraud is attacking democracy itself. /s
Ask HN: SOE as a Service?
I am a long-in-the-tooth IT professional working at a bank. I have just had yet another issue with our company's SOE (seems to be DNS config related, but of course I have no admin rights to try anything). I understand the need for locked down corporate environments but why-oh-why are most of them built by people who don't actually understand (or test) what they're doing? We regularly get "security" changes pushed through which break various bits of "legit" corporate internet as well as some applications we are permitted to use. I should point out our company uses a third-party to manage our fleet of PCs. My question to all is - has someone come up with a "SOE as a Service"? There's got to be a market for something like this where companies can basically sign up to, where the service is provided by those who actually know what they are doing. I tried searching for this and didn't really find anything turnkey.
I started a startup a few days after I left. Also had a baby a few months before leaving and really liked the schedule flexibility when I was on paternity leave.
This is just east coast cities..

Something that astonished me when I moved to SF was how little people jaywalk here.
Ask HN: Is there a Copilot option for English text writting?
I was initially skeptical about Github Copilot, because I assume that English text would be simpler and I don't know of any tools that do that. Expect to some extent Grammarly. I have to say after trying for a week, Copilot is awesome.
LuaJIT is truly a marvel of engineering. I put it on par with the JVM itself in terms of things that I'm just completely blown away by.
In theory, it’s possible for Texas to split into any number of States. I wouldn’t put money on it.
Waymo claims their cars can detect environment changes and share it with the rest of the fleet in real time, with most of the map update process automated. They've written a blog post on this topic: https://blog.waymo.com/2020/09/the-waymo-driver-handbook-map...

As for traffic cops, here's a video of Waymo obeying hand signals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OopTOjnD3qY. No reason this couldn't be replicated in NYC as well with some improvements.
Also, who shoots hollow points at the range? They're super expensive.
I'll start with some free QA: the Apiture website's favicon is still the WordPress logo on the search engines I checked :p
Yeah, watch out for small companies that are desperately trying to get big but have been small or oscillated between 10-40 people seemingly from the beginning of time.

There's a particular type of person who runs these businesses and that person is extremely common. They cannot delegate and micromanage everything so once they get beyond their ability to manage every facet of operations themselves, their leadership ability breaks down and a bunch of people end up leaving and the cycle repeats. They very often have temper/anger management issues as well.
Career politicians like Bush vs Gore comparison to a truck driver isn't fair.

The "down to earth" doesn't just mean how someone talks. A career truck driver isn't highly likely to get into politics to seek power and money unlike career politicians.
Don't. The hiring company always has a role in those kind of situation. Maybe they picked the lowest bider, maybe they don't have good hiring criteria or just don't review the work being done make sense.

We're in the process of hiring abroad and it's hard. The promise of better salaries does attract more candidates that need to be filtered but we think that if we care while interviewing, we'll get as good candidates that will be part of the team.

Be proud of the work you're doing and don't take OP's anecdote as an absolute. But the situation described does happen.
I think most people, even here on HN where folk are relatively educated, are woefully unawares as to what goes in to governing (diplomacy, financial literacy on a massive scale, legislating, and so forth). Sam Harris summarized the problem well 13 years ago in general terms: “Ask yourself: how has "elitism" become a bad word in American politics? There is simply no other walk of life in which extraordinary talent and rigorous training are denigrated. We want elite pilots to fly our planes, elite troops to undertake our most critical missions, elite athletes to represent us in competition and elite scientists to devote the most productive years of their lives to curing our diseases. And yet, when it comes time to vest people with even greater responsibilities, we consider it a virtue to shun any and all standards of excellence. When it comes to choosing the people whose thoughts and actions will decide the fates of millions, then we suddenly want someone just like us, someone fit to have a beer with, someone down-to-earth—in fact, almost anyone, provided that he or she doesn't seem too intelligent or well educated.”

https://www.newsweek.com/sam-harris-sarah-palin-and-elitism-...