skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'll need a super computer and a research institute atm. Too many feedback loops to compute - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=inVZoI1AkC8
The Cathedral and the Bazaar [pdf] (2000)
While I do think there's something of value in the idea here, boy do I find that quote unconvincing (:

The second sentence essentially says "This is due to the fact that that's how it is." I'm sure Jung has a larger context and basis for these claims, but this quote just struck me as super hand-wavy.
Are you saying I should be giving them revenue for not being terribly open about the fact that they only review products which can earn them a commission, and that furthermore, they deserve revenue from me for recommending products I spent about $500 or more in total for, only for them all to have significant flaws?
What other goodies will they find during discovery?

Hopefully the public can get snippets like in Epic Games v. Apple.
FWIW that is supported by many zsh themes like pure, p9k, p10k, ... (and often enabled by default).

Also:

REPORTTIME
If nonnegative, commands whose combined user and system execution times (measured in seconds) are greater than this value have timing statistics printed for them.

which is slightly different but generally useful, and built-in.
The segue from Henry Ford's chain casting into buying stocks with a high P/E ratio seems sort of intentionally irrational; it would have made as much sense to tout perpetual motion machines. They laughed at continental drift! They laughed at Fulton!

The underlying value of a stock is the net present value of its future paid-out earnings. This is just a fact of the financial system, as fundamental to it as the conservation of energy is to the physical universe. It should have been mentioned in the article.

The reason P/E ratios vary is that companies' earnings change over time and companies go bankrupt. If you buy a stock with a P/E ratio of 20 years and then the company's earnings stay the same forever, eventually those earnings will find their way into dividends or buybacks, and your return on investment will be 5% per year, forever. If the P/E ratio is 10 years, 10%. If the P/E ratio is 50 years, 2%.

(If the company invests the earnings in assets, it doesn't pay them out in dividends or buybacks that year. But then the depreciation of those assets is deducted from its earnings in following years, so to maintain the same earnings, it would need to have higher earnings-plus-depreciation. So ultimately it all balances out.)

So when people rationally buy a stock with a P/E ratio of over 20 years, either:

1. They're expecting the company's earnings to go up by enough to put it back below 20; or:

2. They're expecting less than 5% per year return on investment, which probably means they're treating the company as a very-low-risk investment like commercial paper rather than like an ordinary stock; or:

3. They're hoping to find a bigger fool to unload the stock on before its price returns to what its earnings can rationally justify.

If you buy and hold a stock whose P/E ratio is 350 years, like Tesla today, and those earnings never change, you're getting an 0.3% annual return, forever.

Which, and forgive me because I'm not an expert here, sucks.

(Apologies for including the correct units on P/E ratios. I'm not the kind of person who thinks "vega" is a letter of the Greek alphabet.)
The "Never Trumpers" in the GOP also include all of the remaining people on planet earth who still, to this day, think the Iraq war was a good idea. Not exactly convincing spokesmen.
Yeah, those damned early 2000s when back/forward buttons worked perfectly and we didn't lose the entire rich client state upon page refresh or wireless internet hiccup. Thank god we have a lot of JavaScript libraries and ambitious programmers to save us from those trivial things :)
Microsoft Shareholder Resolutions – Facial Recognition, Pay Equity, and More
On the other hand I don't miss self-hosted lobbies "that" much. I used to play a lot of Dota, the original WC3 mod, and I don't weep for it. The host always had an enormous advantage, there was no penalty if someone left etc. But the community self-moderation was really strong, so leavers and such were weeded out after a time. But today? You just make a new account if you got banned or suspended, penalties are meaningless.
I like how many frameworks end up cloning what Rails is doing (Stimulus / Turbolinks etc).
Aren't we close to an abundance of energy and thus a huge expansion of the economy?

There will be much more resources that can be bought with money, so money will be worth more, compensating for any bubble that is created right now.
Yup. It's that the formats are less transparent and less familiar. Binary data doesn't play well with the traditional unix tools.
Also Pratchett, and mathematically probably more accurate (decreasing rather than increasing with the more people added) - "the IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters"
'Stop making fucking excuses for PMF' and 6 other lessons learnt
Yeah, the fact that co/contravariant type constructors aren't (or aren't always?) annotated has always felt a bit awkward to me. Ah, well, it works :)
Exactly right. Just like the US should get rid of all coins < $0.25.
Where did they sue NSO group? If it's a US suit, I don't see that meaning much. Why wouldn't NSO just ignore it in that case?
> Covid might not have come out of a medical research lab

It most likely did, though.
Not sure about sinister, but it does sound more than a little dodgy. Like anything else, avoid it if you're unsure.
Along these line why is the US still minting pennies? At some point we could just start rounding to the nearest nickel (or dime).

Also, why is gas always ab extra 9/10 of a penny? Reminds me of paying 3123 RON for a Big Mac in Romania -- that last digit is just noise at the consumer level.
ChuckNorris89 > This really DOESN'T whip the llamma's ass.

Came to say this.

Also, Username checks out.
Yes, but you did buy the device knowing full well its limitations and obviously felt it was worth it in the end.
So the reason HashMap isn't as fast as it could be is because it converts buckets with linked lists to red-black trees when it reaches some threshold. The reason it does that is because in any hashing scheme, specifically crafted input can cause O(n) lookup times. It is reasonably trivial to take advantage of this to launch DOS attacks. Your web server parses HTTP headers with a hash table? Might very well be exploitable. Same thing with parsing JSON objects using hash tables. I posit that in practice there are very few scenarios in which the extra performance of an "optimized" hash table outweighs the benefits of having one that is not vulnerable to hash-flooding attacks.
I like this article, nice to see this type of advice without all the usual fluff
Just to contradict myself and add more fog to the thoroughly befuddled mass of theories on this incident, I will offer another.

Say some folks of mischievous "hacker" bent, having stumbled upon a forgotten "home video" grade tape containing moments of such transcendent perfection as these, decided they were obligated to share
them with the world. (This theory shares the same "intoxicants may have been involved" bit as the previous one i posted)

The principle of "a clipboard and a confident manner will get you anywhere" might well have gotten someone into two different rooms on that evening where they might have had a moment to sit down with a VCR and some vulnerable interconnect cables, before packing their big duffel bag back up and leaving quietly.
Man, I hear a lot of horror stories about working at Walgreens and the like on Reddit, even among pharmacists

I guess that just going there part time as part of a bigger plan will be a lot lower-stress than trying to make a living off it, but that still sounds like a bad idea

You might be better off working as an engineer for a year and then saving 3-4 years' worth of minimum wage money instead

I had a friend who really regretted using his savings to try and bootstrap businesses though, since he was still working at Amazon in his 60s
ReactOS was audited, it doesn’t matter if they agreed to it. The fact is that an engineer claimed it had copied windows code and it had an assembly function believed to be taken directly from windows. The reason I mention it is that this thread has been claiming it’s illegal to study and rewrite disassembled code but that isn’t the case. It’s illegal to copy it but clean room implementations depend on disassembling code and documenting it allowing for another person to then do the implementation.

Im definitely not taking shots at ReactOS here, I’m on their side and am fascinated with the project. You’re right I should have been clear that they shut down and has themselves audited instead of risking a court battle but I don’t think the difference matters much, either way they were gonna have a code audit to disprove these allegations. But in regards to them, there’s a lot of wrong information floating around this thread.

> claim was made on 17 January 2006 by developer Hartmut Birr on the ReactOS developers mailing list (ros-dev) that ReactOS contained code derived from disassembling Microsoft Windows.[25] The code that Birr disputed involved the function BadStack in syscall.S,[26] as well as other unspecified items.[27] Comparing this function to disassembled binaries from Windows XP, Birr argued that the BadStack function was simply copy-pasted from Windows XP, given that they were identical. Alex Ionescu, the author of the code, asserted that while the Windows XP binary in question was indeed disassembled and studied, the code was not merely copy-pasted, but reimplemented; the reason why the functions were identical, Ionescu claimed, was because there was only one possible way to implement the function

https://marc.info/?l=ros-dev&m=118775346131654&w=2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS#Internal_audit
OK but again, that is a statement totally contrary to the article. The article is claiming two things: that it is easier in Go to avoid the heap while Java is utterly dependent on allocating everything on the heap - which is not consistent with the experience of actual Java and Go programmers - and that Java has a "preference for high throughput and high latency" which it doesn't.
So, Winamp with SoundCloud in an <iframe>!
This is funnier than it should be.
Imagine making a phone-call and talking with your friend about some hot political topic and then an AT&T operator bursts in and says that this call is now blocked because you're engaging in hate-speech that might theoretically cause harm. Is this where we want society to go?

As far as real world harm when it comes to permitting or not permitting speech goes, I'd put the danger of effective societal censorship creating authoritarianism that harms masses of people as so far beyond the level of harm created by some random insane person who sees some negative comments about some group on social media that it's not even on the same planet of harm.

In and of themselves, words cannot cause anybody harm.

As far as your concern about people being actively harmed, that's a big topic that's certainly debatable, both in terms of whether anybody is being harmed to a discussion of who is being harmed. I'm not sure if this is the best venue for this kind of debate because there's a lot that cannot be spoken about in a forum like this.

But I think your preferred social media network of choice isn't the proper avenue for this task. Society has developed a police and criminal justice system over thousands of years to prevent and punish actual criminal acts (violations of life, liberty, and property) while at the same time taking great care to protect the rights of the accused. It's imperfect in many ways, yes of course, but at the moment it's the system that's actually credible. The idea that society is expecting people like Mark Zuckerberg to effectively become the society-shaping, crime-prevention czar seems insane to me.
i don't understand why the so-called "lab leak theory" of origin for sars-cov2 is treated as some sort of conspiracy theory. it is completely plausible, and things like this have happened in the past (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak), not due to malice but due to incompetence.
Isn't NSO Group an Israeli firm with close ties to government? I strongly doubt anything will come of this.
> Both are technically possible in Java, but I've never seen them used commonly (though in fairness I've never written performance critical Java.)

I don't know about the Java world, but in C#—especially in games written in Unity—object pooling is very common.
"but the day to day life of an average North Korean residing in a large city is not very different than any of us here."

Sure thing, I had to sneak out into the woods as well, to set my black pirated satellite internet connection up.

"Internet access is not generally available in North Korea. Only some high-level officials are allowed to access the global internet.[47] In most universities, a small number of strictly monitored computers are provided.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_North_Korea#Inte..."
People actually used to save stories that were interesting or cut them out of the paper, or go to the library and read a book on the subject. Fastforward to today, with the world at their fingertips, and who even saves anything anymore? It's all transient information on the web today. That interactive nyt article you might have bookmarked a few years ago has probably link rotted by now. If it wasn't for wikipedia cataloging information in a central, stable place, we'd be in a new dark age.
I always thought stuff like this happened to OTHER founders, but would never happen to me. But my board fired me six months after closing our series A.

The advice in this article is 100% spot on. I didn't know any of this. I was totally focused on building my company. But if you raise money you can't do that anymore. 50% of your time will always be occupied with working on your next round of funding or managing your board of directors.

I noticed super early that VCs were not "helpful" at all like they had claimed during the fundraising process.

So I got fired, and I thought, "well, at least I still have my founders stock!"

Then a year after I got fired the series A investor led the next round of funding and decided to value the company at $0, so I got diluted by 99.99%. Sounds illegal, right? Well, it probably was, but what am I going to do about it? They have billions of dollars and I had no money.

I just let it go and started something new - bootstrapping of course. On the bright side, the new CEO ran the company into the ground. Meanwhile my new company is doing well and I love my job.

Anyway, do what this guy says to manage your board and just plan on being fired at some point if you raise VC money.
> humans survive without artificial hearts

Any human will die at some point without artificial hearts, meaning all humans are slowly dying due to non availibility of artificial hearts, further meaning that all humans are slowly failing to survive without artificial hearts.
I think Wirecutter drives a lot of sales, so a manufacturer could just cut corners and nerf their product's quality after they're recommended by Wirecutter in order to cash in. It seems like Wirecutter only re-evaluates their top recs after a couple years have gone by.
ZRT Face Trainer – Real-time controlled CGI puppets in Unreal Engine 5
One of my favourite books as a kid wa ‘The Usbourne Book of the Future’, which outlined the next 5000 years of human development and featured a lot of these illustrations.

I’m still bitterly disappointed that the timeline it proposed was not accurate.

Check out the amazing cassette futurism illustrations:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=usborne+book+of+the+future&t=iphon...
My summary of the advice on this page:

#1 Just do it - You are going to die. Life is short. Regret comes from the things you didn't try so just go, do the thing, climb the wall, do the hard thing, don't be comfortable. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

#2 Seek novelty and your own curiosity - Interesting and unfashionable is where the real fun is.

Seems to be an argument between whether you want to double down on strengths or be decent in a lot of areas. I think Scott Adams advice is best here I think you want to combine two or three things you are top 10% at into one thing you are the best at.

Some interesting one liners:

- people are not internally consistent look for revealed perferences by what people actually do

- Finishing is a skill (per Derek Yu).

- I am probably overreacting or missing something. (I'd call this Hanlons Razor)

- "All things are ready, if our minds be so." - Shakespeare

- Praise in public, criticise in private

- Practice Observe, Orient, Decide, Act (OODA Loop)

- Quantity first eventually results in higher quality.
Doug Demuro famously pointed out that the Lamborghini Jalpa had fully removable vanity mirrors in the 1980s
Sounds like a good argument to severely cut millitary spending, not science spending. Also, pure science is the part of eventually getting useful qol improvements that absolutely cannot be done through simple short sighted private research, but proves time and time again to be invaluable.
Sure you get more downtime, that's why I have 2x fibers with my 100% read uptime database between them, that way both fibers have to go down at the same time for existing customers to be unable to login.

I noticed DNS was a bit slow on first lookup, it's not a big deal for my product and well worth the extra control.

I looked up anycast, and it's unclear how you enable that if you have your own DNS servers, I have 3, one in each continent but I'm pretty sure the DNS provider I use does not use the DNS in the right region!

Is that something you tell the root DNS servers about through your domainname registrar?

You would think this had been built into the root servers ages ago? They can clearely see where my DNS servers are!?
I do hope that python SDK, as discussed in https://github.com/temporalio/proposals/issues/20, is the next one in the list! :)
Also provides super useful commands like skipping commits because some of your colleagues are assholes and commit non-working code.
I agree that the way modern JS (need to?) download half the Internet for a semi-useful app is annoying, wasteful and dangerous.

However, I still remember the hell that was updating the state and keeping the rendering in sync with it when using jQuery. Native JS of course doesn't improve on that, and (judging by the description - no experience with it) Alpine.js doesn't either. For me, the paradigm of rendering from the internal state is what makes React (and Vue,...) useful. Too bad that npm ecosystem sucks and that everyone is inventing new shiny useless new things all the time... But React makes non-trivial single-page apps possible.

Of course, if you need server-side rendering (for example because of SEO) then the equation changes, and maybe using Alpine.js makes sense.
On the wondrous human simulation engine
I was also not blown away (and surprised to see it on the list). I thought the perspectives were good i.e. how a new intelligence would interpret the world, sensory overload, etc., but I don't think it brought anything really new to the table.
Discovery is not Star Trek canon and The Orville is Star Trek canon.

I will defend this hill to the death.
You misunderstand. I am saying that all that effort was spent chasing the long tail of compatibility, which is valuable if compatibility is one of your big selling points.

However, one need not go to such extremes to get a good amount of compatibility, just don't have a policy of breaking ABIs constantly the way Linux Desktop does.
Hey, you can't talk about Max Headroom without talking about The Art of Noise.

The Art of Noise (with Max Headroom) - Paranomia (1986): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6epzmRZk6UU
It is quite uncommon and usually doesn't devolves into a life destroying situation but it exist :

The first published report of caffeinism — essentially an anxiety disorder based on chronic high caffeine consumption — appeared in 1967 and described the case of a woman thought to have an anxiety disorder until it was determined that she was consuming 15 to 18 cups of brewed coffee per day. She showed rapid improvement when her caffeine intake was drastically reduced.

https://www.pharmacologicalsciences.us/caffeine/ccaffeinism....
The pdf was literally right in the link: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/Apple_v_NSO_Complaint_11...

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION
You can always use a cryptographic hash of the key instead of an untrusted key.

Linked list buckets are terrible for cache locality anyway.
"The only case linked to a commercially produced food product in that time was non-fatal, involving a man who ate some hummus that had been left out of the fridge for several weeks and smelt so bad that other members of his family refused to go near it."

Reminds me of a conversation between my brothers after some food fell on the floor:

"You're going to eat that?"

"Yeah, I have an immune system."

"So do I -- and mine includes the part of me that goes 'Ewww, don't stick that in your mouth.'"
Botulism neurotoxins are the most toxic proteins known
“I would like to inform anybody involved in this kinda thing, that there’s a maximum penalty of $100,000, one year in jail, or both,” Phil Bradford, an FCC spokesman, told a reporter the following day.

does anyone ever pay maximum penalty for these cases?
That’s the rise of the web though. 1995 is when operating systems for PC and Mac start shipping with browsers preinstalled.
Nobody should be afraid. Fear is not an emotion to cultivate. Enjoy your life until you meet the grim reaper, regardless of whether that happens tomorrow or in 50 years.
I think we have to accept at this point that pandora's box has been opened with our ability to now directly synthesize genetic material and modify organisms. It wont be long before anarchic hackers can start doing this just to troll the world. There's sort of a parallel with computing, where viruses were never really a problem until everyone had access to the technology. I can see a future where we all need to get regular "security upgrades" installed to our immune systems in the form of an mRNA cocktail tailored to the latest bio threats that have been released.
That's worth at least a penny for your thoughts
If Debian (or whatever org/group/project/initiative that) provides the images has a security policy, they can extend that to the images too.

Users don't run CVE checkers [0], at best they reluctantly click on the update button. Of course the authoritarian evergreen auto-update thing is what actually works in practice.

For example as much as snap's UX sucks it does auto update by default.

[0] Though they could, as files in container images are trivially accessible, after all it's their purpose. Plus there are metadata based approaches: https://github.com/TingPing/flatpak-cve-checker (plus the Flatpak project already spends some energy on ensuring that the base image is chechekd against CVEs https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk/-/jobs/18... ) of course duplicating this effort, and building a parallel world besides packages is not ideal
If you are close to a bigger store, then you have a choice. In lots of the US, the closest grocery and department store could be quite a ways away. They are growing like crazy in these areas. I agree that they are becoming a mix of a grocery store, convenience store and Wal-Mart but I think that is what the rural markets want. If they need something special, that can be saved for a special trip to "town".
Presumably people are being more careful now. Would like to see some sort of news or legislation about this but I’m sure it’s unlikely.
Is firing the entire union protected under labour laws in at will employment states?