skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hiring developers is rarely considered as well.

I can hire a top-notch PHP engineer for half of what a mid-level JS engineer would be asking.

It's not that PHP engineers are less qualified than JS. I think bootcamps shifted the market for JS developers and now really good engineers cost an arm and a leg while good junior engineers start around the $100k mark. The whole JS salary market is insane and as a startup, I can't afford it right now.
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25
There's an interesting comment/quote on an Hacker News post about Perl's "Laziness Impatience Hubris" mantra that I think of when people talk about developer speed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23826828
The problem with supply exceeding demand isn't unsold inventory/capacity, it's that your profit margin gets slim enough that you can no longer fund the R&D and fab construction necessary to remain on the leading edge. This is especially apparent for memory chips that are more commoditized than processors. Boom and bust cycles frequently result in at least one major bankruptcy, merger or pivot away from leading-edge processes. Qimonda, Elpida, Winbond all had their heyday as major DRAM manufacturers. For logic fabs, casualties include Chartered, GloFo, UMC, Motorola/Freescale—all of whom were once able to manufacture competitive processors.
>The assertions that I read into your post which I was replying to were:
1. Walmart is making a 3% profit and
2. Amazon has not taken investor money since 1996, so everything since then must have come from the consumer

No, my intention was to refute Retric's claims that Amazon dumped product at a loss to "burn everyone else out of the market" with VC money, which is obviously disproven by the fact that many competitors exist, and the fact that Amazon took extremely little VC money, and did so 26 years ago.

And also to refute Retric's claims that Amazon's retail operations are "making money hand over fist", which is obviously disproven by the fact that no retail business makes money hand over fist. So unless Amazon was selling goods at a much higher price (which it does not), or it discovered a secret technology that let them vastly reduce their COGS (they have not), then it has similarly low margins.

>It may be that this business model will work, but amazon doesn't prove it... yet

I do not understand how it has not been proven yet? They developed AWS, which ushered in a new paradigm of computing. They are profiting, as shown in their 10-K reports, and have for years. And investors are continuing to bet on Amazon. Investors are not willing to pay as much for Walmart shares because investors do not believe Walmart's team will be able to execute something like Amazon's team.

Walmart buying back its shares rather than investing in the business means they do not think they can do anything better with the money. Amazon bet that they could, by building AWS and more logistics infrastructure and a media business, and they did accomplish that, and now they have a great new revenue stream. This is seen in Amazon's market cap of $1.8T versus Walmart's market cap of $400B. Amazon did something more valuable than Walmart, and hence Amazon's owners were rewarded far more.
> That the Earth hasn’t recently been hit by a solar flare as powerful as the 1859 Carrington event

Is anyone thinking about what to do? It's only a matter of time before we have another flare 2X or 3X the magnitude of the Carrington event.
It is sad sometimes that we have to choose between alien and predator
Not all bike locks are created equal. If you’re going to be securing even a moderately expensive bike in a theft prone area then get something like this: https://www.uscargocontrol.com/products/9-32-x-2-pewag-secur...

The lock can be picked. And a battery powered angle grinder can cut through the chain. But both will take a much longer time than any u-lock. Meaning your average thief, who’s looking to work as quickly as possible, will move on to a different target.
It struck me that NFT's in the context of art are basically autographs. People will pay far more than the standard value of a hardback for a hardback autographed by the author and even more for a first edition of a hardback autographed by the author than a second edition.

It only becomes "special" because the author signed it. NFT's are basically digital autographs on something that's even cheaper (free) to copy than a book.
I am thankful for this site, and the awesome comments from users. I'm really thankful for comments with sources and that a lot of users follow the guidelines [1]. It makes for interesting reading. Thanks for a place I can read something new on every day.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please forget "Extract Method" as an example. It's simply far too trivial. Imaging extracting a new superclass or interface from a class with 100 methods and you need to pick the set of methods to extract. You can't do that with 100 y/n choices.
The value of JIT is that you do not need to pay any attention to it and it takes no effort to set up. It is still good to know it is there -- a lot of developers I work with did not understand why a Java application is slow for a bit before it becomes faster. They just take it as a fact of life. (Of course JIT is just a part of this, you also have classes loaded, various mechanisms implementing lazy initialization getting initialized the first time it is used, etc.)
It's interesting to see the pretzels you twist yourself into in order to pretend that this is the intended way to use Youtube's tagging system. Whether you are doing it to hack the recommended videos section or whether you are doing it to benefit from some other means of discovery doesn't matter: you are engaging in deception.

People watching your customers' competitors are not yours to target through their brands, but you can target them through keywords that describe the content, not to use the names of your competitors.

The fact that you are still arguing this is proof positive to me that you are an unethical operator and that this is not just an innocent mistake.

This post was flagged because it is low value, unethical and ultimately an attempt to do to HN what you are already doing to youtube. You will find that HN has considerably more effective anti-bodies against SEO 'specialists' (I use the term liberally) hijacking the audience than youtube has.
You get better at it the more you do. A tip is also to actually change a mathematical exposition into a form you better understand (e.g. by writing it in a different notation and/or expanding it out in words to make the existing notation less dense). Basically convert the presentation into the way you would personally like to see it.

If you do this enough, the process becomes easier and the original notation becomes easier to understand. But it takes a lot of time and patience (as I'm sure it took for you understand undocumented code did as well).
2 out of 10 tasks regex-redux and pidigits accept third-party libraries, the other 8 out of 10 tasks do not.
TLA is a TLA. Only slightly less popular are FLAs.
Yes, unintentional side effect. I'm sure it crossed the minds of some the executives that they might be screwing their competition by buying out all the chips.

Apple is obviously not going to buy less so their competition can have more when Apple needed the supply.
IEC 60906-1 is great, obviously the best of them all (considering all the legacy). I see that India uses a similar standard as the old South Africa plug. Why doesn't India do the same and migrate to IEC 60906-1? If I were Indian, I'd start campaigning for that.
Quick question, from the context and how the wikipedia article was written I assumed TSL was fairly new, however looking at the dates of the published papers it all seems be late 90's early 2000's. Is this still in use somehow? I've never heard of it before, even though I've dabbled a bit in image processing from time to time in my line of work.
A new self-healing glass-like supramolecular polymer networks
You can order parts today that you'll need in four, eight, twelve, sixteen months. You can do that even though both you and the competition plan to release new models in a few months, if you're willing to decide on the storage capacity of your next product already.

So how much you need is a forecast, or more precisely, a range of forecasts that depend on what you and your competitors will sell. Your order will say "I commit to buying x and want an option on y more" and a larger x gets you a lower unit price for the first x you buy.

If the vendor's production capacity is within your forecasts, or near it, why shouldn't you just commit to order everything and get a nice low unit price? You'll lose if your forecasts are very wrong, but then that's true whatever you do. It sucks for your competitors, who did not order according to their own forecasts.
It is worth emphasizing an aspect of your point when you mention "compliance regions"- this does not necessarily mean geographic regions or different countries.

This setup is how every company I have worked for that has had government clients handles them- a dedicated 'footprint' isolated from your commercial footprint, even if it remains on the same cloud provider. AWS even has GovCloud regions specifically for this scenario.
Once they were selling a large enough quantity to begin with they can gamble their profits on overstock for future production, wiping out future supplies for competitors... at which point it's more of a guarantee, if there are multiple viable products and you remove all but one, consumers have no choice.

These are separate things (getting to the point of large scale production and blocking your competitors), e.g they could have played fair with the same initial success without excessive overstocking, allowing their competitors to continue competing and letting market forces decide, and letting suppliers gradually match current demand.

In short, there is no advantage to overstocking to such an excess other than to block your competitors. But you can only do so once you have a foot in the door and enough money to do so.
The equivalent of that (or more) is needed for a good VR experience.
Sort of... ultimately you can't provide access to nature and destroy nature. However, policy in most developed countries is exactly this. I am advocating a balanced approach where people have access to nature in a way that is less damaging.

e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/nov/14/tourists-car...
IIRC it doesn't actually send the content, just a hash of it that can be checked against popular channels or on-demand content. So text contained within a screen wouldn't be identifiable.
> 48-channel ambisonic sound spatialization

Now I am jealous! I toyed around during my time at university, but never really got further than my crappy 4.0 setup at home :-)
"and manufacturing explosives for personal use is perfectly legal. "

But you probably should check your local legislation, as there are a lot of (most?) places where messing with explosives is indeed very illegal.
Nice article. I have to admit living in the dark ages, Clojure wise. I don’t even use Protocols, just simple functions and I love the simple built in data structures. I was comparing my Clojure and Common Lisp libraries for using OpenAI’s GPT3 APIs last night. I usually use CL, but I notice how much cleaner the Clojure version looked (I should refactor the CL version).

Clojure is such a practical language.
> Actually I would put the blame squarely on AMD and Qualcomm for making themselves dependent on TSMC - especially AMD who have turned themselves into a "fabless manufacturer" and are now experiencing the consequences...

The consequences being if you don't like what your fab is up to, you can switch fabs. Doesn't sound too bad. GlobalFoundries, the former AMD fab, has all but given up on smaller nodes at this point, but AMD switched to TSMC for CPUs and a mix of TSMC and Samsung for GPUs. On the other hand, Intel had problems with their fab for several years, and is only now starting to consider using other fabs, when their process seems to be starting to work.

Yes, designing chips to fabricate on different lines is more work, but it's something AMD has intentionally done and it has benefits over running your own fab, especially when your own fab has trouble with node shrinks.
I don't. I have either learned these a long time ago or as a side effect of paying attention to this topic for almost quarter of century.

But I think it should still be possible to find old source code for things like games. Back when I was learning that stuff it was very difficult to get access to real game code, but today there is a lot of titles that have released its source code for everybody to pore over.
It would be really impressive if they were able to manage this while Fulfilled by Amazon.
I really love fish and the philosophy behind it, especially the "configurability is the root of all evil" attitude. Makes for a well though out software that is a true pleasure to use.
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You can get some basic checking, but not type in arrays [1]. Maybe using attributes you could check if it is?

class TFooOptions
{
public function __construct(
public bool $enableFlag,
public array $userIds = [],
) {
}
}

$options = new TFooOptions(
enableflags: true,
userIds: [1,2,3]
);

new Foo('Bob', $options);

Or if just for IDE checking, you could use the @property docblock value on the class.

[1] https://wiki.php.net/rfc/arrayof
I do wonder what “active investigation” meant after even fourth years.
It’s no mystery why. It remains unclear why the ownership rights of a digital signature — which do not also convey the ownership rights to the digital object signed — have any value whatsoever. So everyone not NFT-pilled assumes that the explanation is wrong and fills in the gaps: you must mean the NFT owner owns some portion of that image, right?
Making motherboards high volume that are faster than your competitors is something small businesses could not afford to do. We’re talking about one process that makes the same chips but more valuable.

And AMD and Qualcomm want more access to it than they have so they complain to the press. This is the supply chain folks.
Yep. And sometimes different fiefdoms reuse the same words with slightly different meaning/conventions - consider even what an object is in Java vs smalltalk vs Javascript.

Maybe we need stronger conventions of meaning?
I find this view to be wildly dramatic. As if the right to street photography is the only thing stopping society from sliding into fascism. Give me a break.

Trying to paint me as some kind of jackboot who is ready to trample all over everyones freedom because I happen to disagree with how consent around public photography is handled is nonsense.

Here's an anecdote from my local paper: A woman is on a public bus with her baby. A man starts taking photographs of her baby. She asks him to stop because it makes her uncomfortable. He doesn't stop, insisting that he's perfectly allowed because it's a public space.

He's right of course. But I have a huge problem with that and think it shouldn't be allowed.

I guess that makes me a fascist. Like how dare I think that guy should have to ask permission.

And surely if he wasn't allowed to do that it would mean the absolute end of freedom in the world. Those baby photos are critical to maintain our rights.

Get outta here.
I had this same exact thought the last time i was making bagels. What an absolute miracle it is! And whoever came up with using it to fluff and soften bread through some natural symbiotic reliance of raw nature is just such an incredible step it seems utterly designed from above.

Yes, I’m saying maybe a god exists and loves us because they gave us bread.
NYT: Liberal Hypocrisy Is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How
yeah. When it was summer and I was like 6 or 7, my parents bought me a cheap digital wrist watch with alarm function, otherwise I would have never made it back to dinner in time when I was outside on the playground, biking around with buddies or playing football (soccer). That was the most "tech" parenting I ever experienced while subject to said parenting :P

I later learned from mom that other parents too kinda relied on that thing going off, so their own kids would go home too when they heard my alarm.
I didn't say it wasn't useful, just that it's not representative of mathematics as a whole.
Be extremely aware that you may have picked up lingo and thought patterns in infosec that mean different things and act differently in your new position. Threats now no longer just mean "russian hacker guy", it also means "Tracy from accounts managed to pour her probiotic smoothie over the laptop's keyboard, and that machine has the only copy of this months employees compensation, they need the file in two hours, or noone's getting paid! If it fails, we'll tell them it's the sysadmin's fault", and "Why is it suddenly 70 degrees celsius and rising in the server room?".
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The asmartbear blog post comes across a little min-max-y, what with the concrete numbers and assertion that you can't have a job, spouse, and kids at the same time.
> They don't have to buy TSMC a fab

They don't have to, but buying production equipment for their manufacturing partners (in return for guaranteed pricing and production levels) is the norm at Tim Cook's Apple.
I wrote that very badly. What I wrote came out to be about a diverse customer base which is obviously a good thing. What I meant to talk about was "predictable demand". Being able to know your exact order profile for a lead time of years is very valuable in manufacturing.

That said, Apple probably just invested money in their 3nm in exchange for priority (or similar) and maybe TSMC is being a bit short sighted.
I don't think you understand the scale at which these companies act.

A 300mm wafer holds 150ish chips, and TSMC makes 13 million wafers a year. Or roughly 2 trillion chips per year.

Now let's say TSMC expands to 2.2 trillion chips/year with a new fab.

If there is no customer for the 200 billion chips / year, you need to keep building newer and newer warehouses constantly. That's just not a number that can be solved with one or two warehouses.
I always wonder about the practically of these subsidies - would it still be considered "successful" if manufactures artificially inflated prices by 30% after the subsidies went live?

I would have assumed that the main goal was to encourage consumers to buy, rather than to inflate manufacture profits, though the latter wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing (since it's rewarding companies for taking a risk and bringing new, more eco-friendly products to market).
On top of it tasting bad, it gives me migraines. The only theory I have for why that is is that I'm allergic.
Yeah everyone need capacity and only one player can get it first.
Indeed. It shows that the pi formulation is actually somewhat ugly because it lacks symmetry.
Well, at least you didn’t think it was about robots who could turn into cars. I spend way too much time watching videos with my son these days.
They're his words not mine. Go fight with him if you think otherwise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of1phFsC4ZI&t=3290s
With same-day delivery to boot!
> more likely we don't know enough to realize that there's sufficient weights on the other side of the balance to counteract the downside of enabling the monopoly on verticals.

Because your angle completely miss capacity and resources planning. As the 30 years old joke goes, most expensive Fab in the world isn't the leading edge Fab, it is the Empty Fab. And then there is the initial capital and order guarantee. As a matter of fact, it is nearly the same across all industry supply chain. Insert Pizza Doll, Sausage Rolls, Paper Towels, or the recent pandemic event Toilet Paper, and your skill set from production line are all the same.

It is not Apple is without risk, so to speak. They will have to fill the Fab orders, even if somehow no one buys any iPhone. It just happens Apple has never had this problem. Compared to Qualcomm, AMD, Nvidia which all have their fair share of flops and market did not react as they expected. Or you could end up like Nvidia where they had three quarter worth of GPU stocks sitting channel during the BitCoin crash.

Getting Apple ( or the largest customer )'s order filled with a price premium is and will always be the simplest and effective way for the business.

And there is a huge market in GPU, HPC, AI, and Cloud Computing along with forever increasing chips in all segment. TSMC isn't really beholden to Apple like Dialog or PowerVR IMG.
As someone trained in mathematics, I can tell you that using single character variables allows one to focus better on the concepts abstractly which is one of the goals of mathematics. That is to say, it is a practice well-suited to mathematics.

It doesn't carry over to programming where explicit variables are better suited. In mathematics one is dealing with relatively few concepts compared to a typical program so assigning a single letter (applied consistently) to each is not a problem. This is not so in programming, except for a few cases like using i and j for loop variables (back when programs had explicit loops).
It was especially bad in quantum mechanics where they made us do it the hard way (using calculus) before showing us the easy way (using noncommutative algebra).
Never loaded for me. Alternate site: https://ibb.co/HHgRSG8
Same, especially since the domain gave me electrical engineering vibes.
It would be a good analogy if the recruiter spam also did not contain experience requirements: they are not just looking for somebody to fix their car, they want somebody with 10 years experience if Pirelli and 5 in Bridgestone and there will be a quiz where you will need to identify tires (there are just about 1500 of those) by patterns, Leet Road.
> The joy this drink gives me sometimes feels like a drug trip.

Caffeine is a drug so saying "it feels like" is rather understating it.
This is my problem as well. I’ve been using fish for quite a long time, and I’m still frustrated by weird posix incompatibility.
What is modern PHP?
High-speed internet could be coming to Antarctica
Indian government set to ban cryptocurrencies
Thanks for that, fzf-tab was the last missing piece in my setup.
I love The Intercept.

The Intercept clearly screwed up, in a catastrophic way.

Glenn Greenwald refused to acknowledge his part in this mess. And that reminds me of his silence during the Marquis-Boire assault allegations. Whatever I appreciated in Greenwald during the Snowden revelations is long gone now.
Umm yes? What law would that be breaking?

Whether it's legal is a low bar to clear though - it could be perfectly legal and you could still be getting crappy service and wasting your subscription money.
I own a Specialized Vado 4.0 SL EQ. I love it but won’t let it out my sight. I’ve yet to ride in bad weather as this thing has to come up six floors in an elevator and on the wall in our spare bedroom. You can imagine the hassle and mess that would make.

I agree the killer features will be along the lines of anti theft but criminals are smart and will always find ways to steal.

I think the killer feature for ebikes is infrastructure. Secure infrastructure and parking as well as cleaning facilities for those coming back into apartment complexes. A small hose and leaf blower would go a long way.