skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
De-globalizing certainly helps in all round development of all countries and allows for much more dynamic relationships between countries. It helps build local economies and lets countries make best use of local resources. What Globalization should have been is a butter smooth system to trade goods and services.

Concentrating all manufacturing in China leads to power centralization, as is evident, and forms the basis of creation of another hegemony.

The effectiveness of military power goes only so far. There is no realistic scenario where the US and China go to war. So China has great leverage and will continually nibble its way to global dominance.
That’s a more limited case than what we’re talking about in this thread.

Think about code that is modified without jumping into it, such as stubs that are modified or certain kinds of yield points.
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"After passing the loop ... have the hiring manager tell me they'd be calling me after a week"

That's when you know you're just the backup option. If you passed their hiring loop, and they like you, and they have actual budget + headcount, you're hired. They don't need to wait a week to call you back, and they know that; once they have confirmed good references, they should be sending you an offer immediately, not after an arbitrary amount of time.
Yes NIMBY is a problem and may be more about human nature.

The broken regulatory environment that exacerbates the problem is a consequence of elite competition: government not working for the public is caused by being captured by narrow interests, who work to corrupt its purpose.

The (upper) middle class homeowners who don't want apartments built nearby? They are, for various reasons, better represented by local governments than people who want to do new things. I agree that the concept of "elite" doesn't cover what's going on here, but there are echoes, because power is a spectrum.

That's the point I actually wanted to make.
What resources are you looking for in particular? There are plenty that apply to freelancers/consultants that would apply with a quick Google search.

Ideally, it would be useful to setup a corporation to limit personal liability and keep your finances/accounting organized (I.e. use 1 account for everything, keep track of key dates to file things, keep a log of all finances, schedule time for admin)
Nope.

Have you tried the noprocrast option in user settings?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html (search for noprocrast )
Mine didn't even bother with the shoes, she just licked the pavement directly. She's in college now.
Western countries need to infiltrate their factories and steal their schematics and technologies.
Replace CCP with USA and that reads exactly the same.
Author here. It's titled this way because Docker seems to come up in a lot of discussions around Nix and is often compared with Nix. Partly because of their overlap in functionality but also because people may not understand the difference between the two.
The goal here was to a) highlight the different use-cases between the two tools b) compare the tools in the areas that they overlap and c) show how both tools can be used together.
>I don't believe men's genetics are more "varied" than women's.

That's cool, that's cool. You believe what you want.

Question to anyone reading this: What (if there is any) does the research say?
I-70 is the reason I didn't apply to jobs in Colorado. I don't know how much people carpool, but at least there's some infrastructure for it now. I just wish the state would put some extra tax on the resorts to fund a free ski bus with dedicated lanes where convenient. How sick would that be?
Yes it has been peer reviewed. I can't vouch for the quality of that review, however other studies have reached similar results.

https://vitamin-d-covid.shotwell.ca/
They are getting cancelled, only it's the Chinese government making the call on what's "bad" and pulling the trigger, not braying Twitter mobs.

The net effect is the same though: the targets are deprived of their platform and their income.
Whenever this topic comes up I think of the opening lines to Romance of the Three Kingdoms:

The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity.
This is part of why vinyl is so appealing - storing them is tough but being able to pore over the artwork or using it as a display is the only advantage they have over CDs.

The box sets of CDs make up for that display-ability and the booklets can be fantastic little history lessons.
Gotta love how you can't add the video to "watch later" because it's classified as "YouTube Kids".

YouTube sucks.
> It does not sell the book at all, and I'm not at all surprised that the writing is equally weak.

I think anyone with even a passing familiarity with Kernighan's work would be surprised by an instance of weak writing.
Japan is part of the problem; all the consumer audio companies over there are selling something called "Hi-Res Audio" that's complete snake oil, but meanwhile all their music is still ultra-compressed loudness war mastering.

Maybe the problem is nothing they make can compare to used Stax electrostatics.
Absolutely. You can spot the logical leap when the author goes from "music COULD BE a superstimulus for speech" to "music IS a superstimulus for speech" with absolutely no evidence or argument in between.
The library example is spatial in the sense that results being returned in alphabetical order is spatial. You will intuitively expect "Yellow" to be towards the bottom. But that's not really spatial memory, even though it has superficial similarities.

I mean a real library, not an abstract one. If you work in a real library every day you don’t need to scan the titles or author names alphabetically, you can see and remember spatially where everything is, at a glance. This means you can walk directly to the book you’re looking for without even glancing at the the other titles!

From Bluetooth to Unicode, modern operating systems are devilishly complicated—and we rarely stop to see just how far we've come.

These are foundational technologies that definitely make life better for users but there is no reason this needs to be reflected in dramatically greater interface complexity and reduced usability. Most of this complexity can and should be made invisible to the user. The fact that we haven’t succeeded at that is a reflection of the tradeoffs required to compete in the modern industry. But that is not to say we couldn’t do a whole lot better. I think modern operating systems have left whole classes of users behind due to their obtuseness.
Has everyone forgotten Winamp was open source? Winamp3 was released as Wasabi.player, source code was free:

https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=16613.0

https://web.archive.org/web/20031210093403/http://www.wasabi...

Seems nobody cared at the time. Never heard of a community springing up around it, and you can hardly find it now. Got it in my archives somewhere.
My thought about this is that patterns are something I recognize in the completed code, not something I bake into my code. A useful tool for refactoring at best. But re-factoring, not factoring. :)
What a boring takeaway from this. Beyond the fact that the immutable data structures proposed by Clojure/script tend to perform very well in a lot of "normal" cases (and in a lot of normal web-app workflows your stuff is immutable, like "query then display the result from an API"), at least to me it feels like asciinema is a very good example of a case where you have tougher-than-average performance requirements.

Not to say that we shouldn't have "everything be performant" but drawing a bunch of stuff to screens is _the classic_ performance question. Whereas most "business apps" people here work on to a day-to-day have different performance issues.

Rewriting your CRUD frontend in Rust isn't going to make your DB queries faster
> Can you cite a single instance where short-selling has destroyed a legitimate business, ever?

What kind of short-selling? For naked short selling I quickly found evidence: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=273488 That's the predecessor of a paper cited from 2003 SEC testimony of Robert J. Shapiro published at https://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/s72303/rshapiro122403.htm..., which in turn may have been a related source for the Shapiro citation in a 2008 Time magazine article at https://web.archive.org/web/20080424032340/http://www.time.c..., which I found via the Wikipedia article on naked short selling at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_short_selling#Claimed_ef...

That first paper describes a scheme whereby investors bought convertible warrants, used naked short selling to drive the stock price down, then covered by exercising their warrants. And apparently in many cases, as documented by the paper, this resulted in a delisting or even bankruptcy of the targeted firms.
Aren't most of the big tech companies in the Bay Area located in the suburbs?
Why do you need reproducible builds for Docker? The whole point is that you build it once and then you use that container on as many servers as you want.
craigslist.org?
> Canada at least is an extremely risk averse place.

That also seems to be the case for investments.

Everything seems to be centered around "safe" businesses with proven track record or just real estate. There's no VC putting money on a crazy idea (and they getting a home run one time out of 10).
No, it really doesn't: plenty of tech titans and influencers scrapped with the US government and lived to tell the tale. Dorsey kicked Trump off Twitter, how long do you think Weibo would last if they tried the same with Xi?
Italy Fines Apple and Google over Consumer Data Usage
it’s not just ignorance. many people find the idea that ‘exposure to a little viral load trains the immune system without overloading it’ to be a very dangerous one worthy of suppression, even though it’s common and natural, because it throws into question the rhetoric buttressing current mandates. it’s never even whispered by democrats or their sympathetic media, for example. folks highly supportive of mandates, evidenced by voting/moderation patterns here and on social media, as another.
Heck of a library, and its creator, Ryan Carniato, is a very smart engineer who works on both Marko[0] and solidjs. He's really patient and answers my random questions on Twitter pretty reliably, I have to say I appreciate it!

The performance that SolidJS eeks out of the DOM is really next level.

I think it could use a small augment in the docs about migrating from React to SolidJS, but all around the project is very approachable and fantastic, and its fast

[0]: https://markojs.com/
Interesting timing for me. I just happened to finish reading this book for the first time. I often wondered while reading what Cliff might be up to these days. Guess he's posting on HN!
Clearly not the case. You think Musk's bizarre Tweets including violations of his SEC agreement and mocking of major US politicians would fly in China? He would have been "Jack Ma'ed" long ago in China.
https://archive.ph/FNvvK
Hugh Howey self-published his Wool series and has written some good stuff about the process of self-publishing (and the publishing industry in general):
<https://hughhowey.com/?s=self-publishing>
I was thinking about this as well. I figured as long as your eyes are fixated on the cursor, your brain can easily adjust with how you are holding the mouse.
And then made it's own domestic supercomputing cluster that topped the charts when it came online.
Starting a company in Australia and targeting a completely different timezone and not staff support at 3am when traffic is heaviest seems like gambling.
Why bother "de-googling" if you're still eating from Google's hand anyway? You get to support the Chromium/Blink hegemony _and_ the warm fuzzies that you're not sharing your data with Google (because you're technically adept enough to search this out, while supporting the propagation of a technology which disenfranchises non-technical users' privacy).
> Otherwise they could just go through a publishing house.

You say that like most people who self-publish could get their work past a publisher's slush pile.
I don't have a big success story [0] but I'm really grateful to have an option of self-publishing ebooks. It pays my bills and these days I'm even consistently adding to my savings.

As mentioned in the article by Alex, having a following/email list helps a lot. I've also had good experience creating bundles with fellow indie creators, since it helps to reach a wider audience.

[0] https://learnbyexample.github.io/my-book-writing-experience/
Startup Discount Finder
Hopefully Systemd eventually does.
Yes, high-quality free products tend to try to find ways to fund themselves that involve appeals to their users. It's beyond ludicrous to find this a "sad state of affairs".
Oscilloscope View of Renesas M16C Timing Attack
Some of my friends make it a priority to switch jobs every 2-3 years, they think that's the fastest way to get ahead. I don't necessarily agree or disagree with that, but if that's one's priority, one would practice interviewing so one can ace the "real" interviews when it's time.
I'm waiting for his book on 'self publishing'!
there were rulers on mechanical typewriters.

(https://www.lostandfoundprops.com/product/vintage-smith-coro...)
except it's not cancel culture. it's not cancelling people for being bad.

What makes you think the CPP isn't "canceling" because those people are being "bad"?

It's actually the same. It's silencing people who don't adhere to an ideology.
Writing to an address would invalidate all JIT code associated with it, not just code that starts at that address. Lookup is done on the indirect branch, not on write, so if a new entry would be generated once execution runs through it.
That depends on how you define AGI. You'd probably want to give it a few more senses, so it can have unwritten qualia, or at least so you can show it pictures.

More importantly, current ML models can't decide to think about things, because they always spend the same processing time on everything. GPT is recurrent and you do sort of feed its output through it, but there isn't a global context it uses for the whole document.
Apple says it will notify users whose iPhones were hacked by spyware
There a number of guides on disabling this. That being said you still need to bring the SD card to doctor every 6 months for review. This is a good thing. The doctor is trying to help you. I know someone that died because they went on a trip and forgot their CPAP and just stopped breathing in the middle of the night and did not wake up. It happens. When you get a CPAP there is a reason. Take it seriously.

If you are having issues because of physically fixable issues there are surgeries that can help (I had 2 things fixed). Most of the time however its just being fat and physical. Loosing the weight helps and the effect can be tracked in the data the CPAP collects. The doctor can then use the data to adjust then pressure down.

I am speaking from experience. My pressure setting has dropped as I took off the beer gut. This time next year I will likely be able to be done with it.
Lol, you joke, but it's not like we're above that if push comes to shove. The trouble with a black art though is that it's hard to get the gist of what's going on just from what's written down.
Went to https://asciinema.org/ and clicked the demo video. I'm a bit confused because it looks like future lines are being rendered after the cursor while lines are being typed. Is that...correct? It looks like either a blatant bug in their product (that they're displaying on their homescreen demo!) or on purpose for some reason I can't find.
Scientists don't get tenure by publishing research with negative results.
Stop using noargsconstructors and setters (and builders)
I can transfer thousands through zelle for free. Anything more then pennies I would consider expensive
The use of "cancel culture" in this context is not only just wrong, it's also bizarre, seems like some kind of ideological keyword stuffing.
My Homelab NAS on NixOS
Browser Extension Brings Back Dislike Count to YouTube Videos
Yeah it's one of its problems. It creates a ton of shitty posts, not citing sources, not explaining standpoints ("threads" are horrible). It encourages low quality sensational posts. Or funny jokes. That's been my experience at least.
I've found that autoencoder and VAE predictions tend to converge. This might be a similar thing. If anyone has advice on preventing that let me know.. All I can think of is add some random noise into the input or making it more GAN like... hey that's an idea.
The great resignation marches on.
That doesn't seem right. The comrades can just call a point of personal privilege.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPLQNUVmq3o
I think it doesn't really seem like that's the equilibrium. Instead it seems like it causes long commutes. In the bay area huge numbers of people commute into sf from huge distances. It does seem like the situation being different would be better.
Charles Koch and Rupert Murdoch are the ones destroying our environment? Can you explain or justify why you single out those two? Because from where I sit, that claim seems to be completely divorced from reality.
I think it makes more sense than the author expects. Bike thefts probably are not frequently caught with a high wuality camera, still pose, proper lighting, photogenically bland clothing choice, etc. such that it seems like a stock photo for bike theft. Only another purposeful photo of bike theft that is similarly or moreso staged should outdo it, but for general purpose image use (like a powerpoint or something) the photo kind of makes sense as a popular choice.
As a father, I would be mildly concerned about this notoriety, especially as a traveler. Airport authorities are not known for the subtlety of their understanding, and it is entirely plausible that this man might be arrested and jailed on the basis of not only being photographed committing a crime, but now admitting to it, calling himself a thief.

Yes, this would be preposterous, wrong, and I might go so far as to call it evil. Certainly stupid. But can you really say it can't happen? Would it surprise you if it happened in the US, or that rather than apologize and reverse the injustice that it would be ignored or worse, jumped on by conspiracy theorists and an even harsher penalty applied?

To live in a post-evidence world is to live in a world of chaos and terror where light-hearted online banter can and will be used against you. You laugh now, and say it couldn't possibly happen? Well, wait.
> We make a fairly significant number of acquisitions and have never heard this directly before.

Isn't the comment about things you (purportedly) did personally? Have you "reached out about an acquisition, mined them for information playing along and then ghosted", or no? You clearly don't deny it but you object that you hadn't "heard" about bad things they claim... you did? For things you're the subject of, shouldn't it be easy to confirm or deny them just based on your own memory? It's not only a bizarre defense on its own, but it's an especially poor one when the claim is that you ghost people, and your reply is that they never tried to talk to you about it! Wouldn't it make more sense to just reject it and say you did not ghost people during acquisition talks, or fish for information under the guise of an acquisition, etc.?

Also:

> I don’t think some of the claims in this comment are true or in good faith.

"Some" leaves a lot to the reader's imagination. Which ones are the ones that are true?
Never is the simple answer. Otherwise all copyright would have pretty much been eliminated by the pirate bay.

Enforcement and collection of the damages is a totally different issue.
Xfinity requires login. It is not open.
This is totally fine and I like it, my worry is scope creep once it’s in. Nix repl to experiment with new languages is really cool. Reversing updates to my OS is amazing. If I could have a rule that that is the limit - personal dev environments - but with additional support for docker then I’d be very happy.
The Ideal Mathematician
It's off an SSD. I have an SSD for my OS, which is where /var/tmp is on my machine.
> try out some common web tropes on the emac docs

If common web tropes are what some folks are used to learning with, all the better then!
When its inertia has reached a point where it can continue to succeed not because of its actions, but in spite of them.
Generally, no matter how amicable the relationship, if the terms aren’t in writing, then they are subject to change. Figured this out after a friend of mine who was renting a room in my apartment ghosted me for 3 months of rent heh.
The first world uses their living conditions and high pay for that instead mostly - just give the right people worker visas. Most of the actual nationally conducted industrial espionage involved export controlled military industrial complex linked bits.

Business intelligence meanwhile is more about reverse engineering and observation while not crossing the red line into illegality.
Things like deducing the state of thejr competitors by the number of cars in their lots at what time of day - "more cars at odd hours and weekends may hint at a frenzied rush and that they may be running behind schedule".
Stripe is a YC company. If Stripe becomes a shit show, YC may lose money. How is it a conspiracy theory to suggest that both YC and Stripe might want to exert some control over bad PR?

Let's not forget that HN's primary function is to attract people with ideas for YC to turn into companies whose equity generates money for YC. And we're not talking chump change like a couple million. More like billions. What's a little push back on negative comments to save a couple billion dollars?
That’s a very risky shot.
It isn't "cancel culture"; we have an entirely separate lexicon for when a state uses its authority to silence and outright disappear people. Framing the PRC's actions with a cutesy Twitter phrase feels more like a cheap and not-very-interesting "gotcha" than an accurate account of what's going on.
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> In a traditional publishing context failure is an option. Many books don’t get published. If the pitch is not good enough, it gets dropped. If the first few chapters is not good enough it gets dropped. If they can’t polish it to satisfaction with an editor the work gets dropped. I’m not saying that quality is the only rubric the publishers use to judge when to drop a book vs when to publish, but it is heavily judged at every step of the way at multiple gates.

Maybe I come from a different writing "culture", but most of the books I see being self-published are restructurings of works previously published online in serial format (if nonfiction, as blog posts; if fiction, as several-times-weekly mini-chapter serial fiction), where the popularity of the output is effectively pre-determined, as the creation and publication of a standalone purchasable book is entirely being driven by demand for such by the existing audience of the source material.

Further, those serial publications are often, these days, being sponsored via Patreon, or published via apps that charge to unlock chapters and give some of that money to the author, and so forth — so the author already has an income stream from their work, that they can reinvest into their work (through editing) to multiply the amount they're making from their work.

In that sense, "editing" for their books becomes exactly the same as "editing" for e.g. a YouTube channel: something where there's a direct proven correlation between "production values" and "attach rate", where that and a steady existing revenue stream will be enough to get you a business loan from any sensible bank.