skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not ageism, it's amount of experience. Age simply provides a cap on how much experience you could possibly have. Or do you believe that managers and leaders gain nothing from practicing their craft longer and in a wider variety of situations?
They’re taking people’s money and promising a service they don’t yet know they will even be able to provide (e.g. if they don’t receive the license). That’s dishonest. It’s not a preorder in this case - more of a kickstarter.
> The value of the foreign assets seized by Venezuela far exceeds the value of Venezuelan foreign holdings seized in response.

This sounds wrong. Do you have a source?
> Only through working through those unpleasant experiences do I value the end-result of my work seriously.

I don't want to take work or the unpleasant experiences or the good feelings away from you, but this sounds like a post-hoc rationalization; and what Russell argues against in the first part. It should not be the suffering itself that makes our professional life feel whole, but providing something useful to society (even if the entire workday is filled with bliss).

But as you also allude to, there's a good kind of discomfort (e.g. a hard workout or a mind-blowing problem at work) and bad discomfort (drudgery, pointless meetings, annoying software, bad office layout, etc.). There's way too much of the latter at work, hence the (faux) praises of work/life balance.
Ask HN: Trying to explain NFTs to family on Thanksgiving – am I wrong?
I tried to explain NFTs and crypto to family on Thanksgiving, but I don't think I was able to get it across across. I should have mentioned that many years before NFTs you could buy land on the Moon and get a certificate of ownership. There is no legal framework for owning land on the Moon, but that doesn't have to stop you from setting up a market for Moon land with your friends and trading your Moon acres for goods and services. As long as a group of people decided to use Moon land as money, they can use it as a way of enabling transactions. Like Monopoly money, it's essentially a way of keeping score of who owns what. Like casino chips, you might even be able to exchange them for dollars if the market owner (the casino) finds it profitable to maintain the illusion that they are real money. Just don't try to buy groceries with casino chips.

The operative phrase is "There is no legal framework," so if the Chinese decide to build a moon base on your land you're out of luck because you never really owned any land on the Moon.

Any day now someone will try to sell an NFT of the Brooklyn Bridge. In other words, NFTs are just another vehicle to extract money from suckers.
You can't garauntee your (bid/ask) resting orders are executed against in the same epsilonic time window, nor would you want to. No market making practioners would think in these terms.
I'm 42 and have stopped paying attention to titles and all the traditional organizational paradigms that are losing relevance.

I feel like the ability to work from home in my sweats on simple problems as a senior engineer and receive a 75th percentile income relative to my neighbors in one of the best neighborhoods in my new home state is the most societal progress I will ever experience in my lifetime. I'm a lifelong bachelor by choice. Why bother striving for anything career wise when I am on track to retire comfortably to focus on my mostly free hobbies no later than the age of 50? For a house with a 3rd bedroom I don't need?

No, best to appreciate what I have and leave the striving for the next generation of engineers.
Your comment reminds me of Scott Alexander's review of On the Road:

> Even more interesting than their ease of transportation to me was their ease at getting jobs. This is so obvious to them it is left unspoken. Whenever their money runs out, be they in Truckee or Texas or Toledo, they just hop over to the nearest farm or factory or whatever, say “Job, please!” and are earning back their depleted savings in no time. This is really the crux of their way of life. They don’t feel bound to any one place, because traveling isn’t really a risk. Be it for a week or six months, there’s always going to be work waiting for them when they need it. It doesn’t matter that Dean has no college degree, or a criminal history a mile long, or is only going to be in town a couple of weeks. This just seems to be a background assumption.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/02/book-review-on-the-roa...
Right. I used to love reading Lenin. Until I realized that the first thing Lenin did upon assuming power was destroying the power of the Soviets and assuming full control of the entire state, thus removing almost all of the democratic elements from the revolution.
Ethics is what we decide it is. How about not condemning practically everybody as some kind of sinner, the way you are? That's a counterproductive view that reeks of Christianity.
I'm very upset that upgrading to an M1 macbook will mean losing about 5 parallels VM's running x86, old versions of windows and linux.

I used it to run old versions of 3d, graphics, and embedded engineering tools.

I'd pay $100 a year for a tool that provided good emulated guest drivers (3d,audio,network,mouse) for win 9x, XP, 7, Linux on an m1.
Nice. What exactly are you using the blockchain for? Which blockchain are you using?
More recent: folding iphone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X7OmGvgVXg
Also: don’t confuse the actions of Swedes with the inaction of their officials.
Lazy Loading Integrations in Python
Not org mode per se, however I have written a small tool which converts some markdown front matter in markdown into entries in todoist so that I can match notes with actionables, thats show my workflow has developed as a full time student.
Python Nosql API
I'd have to agree. If you've followed Stephen for some time you just begin to think he hates everything. Put the tweeter down S. Diehl.
Starlink provides access to geographically diverse customers but doesn’t work well for dense population clusters. And what promises have been made around censorship? Do we have any reason to believe that Starlink will avoid large swathes of the world in the name of censorship-free services?
PCem is great for this; it's been made to emulate a wide range of old PC hardware.
I'm writing another post about my home lab. Currently it sounds complex and over-engineered, but I think that's because of how I'm describing it. I'm working through some of the details so that it - on paper - it sounds as simple as it is. I'll post back to HN when it's finished. Stay tuned.
Companies can’t be competitive, nor reach sales goals when prices are artificially high. Similarly they also lose sales to neighbouring countries - making price consistency important.

Despite it not fitting the evil megacorp narrative, good business requires prices to follow the currency changes - but not super tightly as that’s also harmful to business and consumers alike. Each company establishes their product margin and excess to that is not desirable - lost sales are invariably more costly than a small % gain in margin.

The other issue is that currencies usually drop quickly but recover slowly, it takes time to undo the instability in the currency and then attract investment to strengthen the currency. In the case of Turkey it’s due to their recent decisions to lower interest rates despite soaring inflation (the opposite of good fiscal policy). This will absolutely prevent any kind of bounce happening and psychological barriers to the currency have already been passed - meaning the currency (and with that the population) is likely to suffer further.
The TCP/IP Checksum (2012)
This does have the effect though of filtering out candidates who were lukewarm on the position to begin with (eg they were just throwing applications around en masse) because now, yes, there is that investment to be made in proceeding with the application. And the coding test tends to become the focus of the rest of the interview process, assuming the company goes forward with it. And good companies will give fairly comprehensive feedback on your submission, so there's that.
The current inflation run is similar to other episodes in history
I'm close to a 35+ yo engineer and have been with my current employer for over six years, mostly based in Europe. There are multiple ICs, myself included, in positions like the ones you seem to be looking for, and we are hiring. I know you're asking for advice and not for leads, but maybe the data point that I consider these reasonable goals is advice enough and perhaps you'd like to chat about the company behind it. Reach out at tobias@cockroachlabs.com if you're interested.
I’m in a similar boat albeit different age and life trajectory.

I think the easiest thing to do (if money isn’t #1 priority) is joining a startup. Gives you the most breadth and ability to impact and learn.
I made that same point about rates in my post, before also pointing out the absolute number disparity. (So what’s the point in repeating it as if it were a refutation, or new contribution?)

Vaccinations only cutting infections by half is pretty lackluster. (It's nice the still reduce severity, but leaving half the vaxed with transmissable infections is far from enough for ‘herd immunity’.)

And, at population level, the absolute number disparity is still relevant - & I’d even say of paramount importance - in refuting those who think we can ‘eradicate’ COVID with vaccinations. Even with 100% vaccination, there would be, in absolute terms, enough continuing transmission to keep COVID endemic indefinitely. Large absolute numbers of vaxed breakthroughs guarantee that, no matter the reduction in severity risk.
No, a paradox is a contradiction in itself, like the famous "this sentence is false": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox
I never use the knowledge graph, I don't think anyone who uses obsidian daily does either. Other than it looking pretty it doesn't have a practical use for me.

Obsidian's back links are pretty great and holding alt over them will give you a Wikipedia-style snapshot of the note, or you can control click to open it in a new window.

I use it as a knowledge IDE for college and work, and as such it lacks the simplicity that Typora has; I think they're aiming for two different markets
One man's debt is another's asset. If the banks don't collect their mortgages they might collapse. Will I trust a bank to save my money if I knew their balance sheet is negative?
> But everyone connected to the company Asterisk server could phone with eachother for free, all around the world.

How does this work?!
The frenzy is caused by the erosion of previous barriers to entry for investing (the same thing is happening on the traditional stock market), as well as the slow collapse of the middle class, leading people to taking risks and hoping for miracles. That rich people have noticed this and are taking advantage is no mystery. These problems have been caused by the current system, yes.

I don't blame the cryptobros for doing it, the same way I understand people drowning in rivers while searching for gold, and it's a problem that did not originate with the push for decentralization. Exchanges and financial institutions have created an environment that reinforces the worst aspects of modern capitalism, and crypto as a technology is the scapegoat that has been gleefully jumped on by the existing ruling class.
It's basically like bump firing but for controllers instead of guns. World-class revolver shooters also use this kind of method.
If we all obeyed a dictum to "avoid selling things until you can provide those things", Silicon Valley would dry up overnight.
New Covid Variant Discovered in South Africa
> Smoking a turkey with node.js, Electron, and Hello World

Run your 4673-dependency "webscale" Electron app for a few seconds until your computer overheats, and then use it to cook your turkey.
Sweden didn't do nothing. Most of the streets were empty for all of 2020. Everyone that could work from home started doing so. People avoided social contact and travel. It imposed entry bans, and 68% of its population are now fully vaccinated, 80% ages 16 and up.

I think people underestimate social awareness, even if there is no official restrictions, people have their own worries and take their own precautions.

This makes it very hard to actually learn anything useful from Sweden's policy in my opinion. Because we're not so much interested with the official policies, more so with the actual behavior of the people and what worked or didn't with regards to that.
"i never really noticed"
I love QMK, but IMO it's not so vital to have it now that there's a good alternative at the OS level: https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad#features
I was also surprised that most American showers only have a temperature control and not pressure, and the toilets waste several litres of water every flush.
Seconded, I had to double check if it was really the euro symbol because I couldn't believe my eyes.
> DAOs will reinvent all sorts of organizations and will make internet native communities self-funded and self-sustainable.

Just like ConstitutionDAO, right? https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/24/22800995/constitutiondao...
Affiliate marketing has destroyed tech journalism
So what you're trying to tell me is that trickle-down economics works in the context of an app?
This is the key insight. Systems like Zillow's model a dozen or so big factors that are easy to collect (square footage, exact location, nearby comps, sales history, etc.) -- and then treat the rest as minor random noise.

Minor? Usually.

Random? Not at all. A minor annoyance like a cracked driveway ($1,500 to fix) is also likely to be associated with older kitchen appliances, faulty water pressure, deteriorating deck; poorly seated windows, etc. And then, buying that house for what the algo tells you -- or even algo minus 3% -- isn't likely to be a happy choice. Its fair market price may be algo minus 10% or worse.

Also worth bearing in mind, the Realtor community is not going to make life easy for Zillow. Once it's known that Zillow is loading up on clunkers, buyers' agents are likely to tell their customers: There's a Zillow house on the market, too. It's probably got problems. I'd demand a full inspection and some indemnities if I were you.

Common flaw of market disruptors. They assume that the existing players will remain neutral and indifferent to their arrival. The real world tends to be much tougher.
On par with what Elon musk does for FSD. American regulators do not care.
Please add a hungover category
Many people equate "evil" and "harmful" implicitly.
The link is just to The Verge's home page because I think it speaks for itself, at least as of posting on the Saturday after Black Friday 2021.
Bitcoin people believe it is a moral good (myself included), and have extremely strong arguments in favor of that view, which are rooted in morality and economics. Thus, when you make a snide anti-bitcoin remark without actual content, you come across as trying to invalidate bitcoin through mere peer pressure, which we all know is juvenile.

It's like Trump voters who criticize "libtards." We all know it's not a valid way to discuss something.

In fact, the expansion of the fiat money supply enriches the wealthy through the Cantillon effect. Then, because the value of money is going down, they pile into assets like housing. For instance, the US is becoming a nation of renters due to this effect. The stock market is similarly distorted. We need bitcoin because we need an objective form of money. That would allow stocks and houses to stop being stores of wealth and reflect their true economic value, which would be a huge boon to everybody.

I'm guessing the energy thing is what you think your anti-bitcoin argument would be. Bitcoin mining is also such an efficient market that in the long run, only the most efficient forms of energy--such as nuclear and geothermal--will be viable for it. Bitcoin is already helping to advance "green" energy. This is abundantly clear to people involved in the mining industry.
template< class Cmp, class Array> class Sorted;// The type of your parameter.

That type achieves nothing. std::sort doesn't return an instance of Sorted, and nothing prevents me from populating an instance of Sorted with an array that is not, in fact, sorted. So, in my opinion the following two pieces of code are perfectly equivalent:

void binary_search(const vector<int> sorted_arr);

void binary_search(const Sorted<Cmp,vector<int>> arr);

Considering these as functions in a program that otherwise uses the mainstream C++ library ecosystem, they are equally likely to be called with an unsorted array.

In Idris or probably even in C++ with significant effort, you could create a type that can't represent an unsorted array, but that is, again, an almost research-level endeavour (and adding more complex constraints it will quickly evolve).
The larger context is that the article is written by an iOS developer working at Microsoft. Comparing his complaints against Microsoft's own practice is fair game even if he's not speaking directly for the company.

> Shittiness can be measured on absolute terms...

Relative shittiness is a much more relevant factor for consumers, who are constrained by what is actually available on the market. Consumers have to either accept the lowest bar as a standard or not participate in the market.

Absolute shittiness as a measurement can provide a good argument for regulating the market.
Ask HN: Tools and techniques to quickly validate startup ideas
Do any of you have any recommendations for tools and techniques to quickly validate startup ideas? Especially the ones that you don't have connections for. I am interested in AI ideas that could potentially help other industries but I have no means to validate how painful the problem is. Some of the approaches that I am considering:

- Post a job posting to recruit some employees and gather information from them (and pay them for their time)
- Create a landing page and advertise it to the right target audience
- Reach out to people through LinkedIn

Any other tools, techniques, recommendations, etc., or even suggestions on how to make effective use of these strategies?

(throwaway because my main account is easily identifiable to work colleagues)
Apart from that of course you can sue anybody for anything (with more or less success); why would that be the case here? I mean isnt if neighbours are annoying a subjective thing? Do you know of any court ruling which implies one has to disclose the state of the neighbours?
It might be to evoke nostalgia for when it was still in development and the press was hyping it up under that name. Even Nintendo used it occasionally (including for a preview feature in Nintendo Power).
> Have you ever met a turkey in real life? Not the wild ones, the domestic breeds. They are so stupid that they will drown in their own water feeder if you don't keep an eye on them.

Another reason to not support the meat industry.
What are the other aspects of their bathroom design that are notable? (Never been but it's top of my wishlist)
Yes, even after extensive renovations cat pee smell can persist and some people are bothered by that smell. Im one of those people but I do like cats and wouldn’t mind having cats if they wondered around the neighborhood rather than be inside only.
Thank you. I deleted that tag for now until I figure out how to set it properly with Jekyll. I'll admit that SEO is not something that I've worked with extensively.
If the VM depends on hardware virtualization support, you can only go one layer deep. If the VM does not depend on hardware support, then sure you should be able to nest multiple layers.

For really old software, you can probably get away with fairly high overhead emulation rather than virtualization, and it would probably be less buggy. I would imagine something like qemu would have no trouble booting up windows 95.
I don’t get it. Wiki only says they failed because of the other institution changing the rules because of them. What’s the analogy to housing or Zillow?

Sure they failed. But the only data we have is that they failed because of something very specific which doesn’t relate to much else.
I suspect neither of us were around then, so we can't really say, on a personal level, whether we would've noticed the 1968 flu pandemic. But the fact is millions of people died, and millions more got sick. Television and news papers were obviously around then, so people would've been talking about it. We are definitely more connected today, but to claim it "would not have been noticed" is an exaggeration.

As for Covid, I personally know at least 5 people who got sick, 1 was out of work for 4 weeks, though none died. How about you?
Wow! This is badass!! Really interesting article, TIL fuzzing :)
* The keyboard is a recreation of classic keyboards from Symbolics that had this layout. [1][2]

* It does support QMK.

1. https://deskthority.net/wiki/Symbolics_364000

2. https://deskthority.net/wiki/Symbolics_365407
The takeover/shutdown is a totally valid concern with traditional companies as well, and happens all the time. See "our incredible journey" blog [0] for recent examples.

However, with traditional companies, we are protected by contract law -- if we are paying a company for service, they should at least refund the money (this is not ideal, see Nest Smart home shutdown, but at least something). And banks/investment firms have even more protection for users' accounts. This is possible because the company owners are operating within the law framework, and this framework, being very old and battle-tested, handles acquisitions properly.

No such things exists for crypto. If someone takes over BTC tomorrow, they can secretly siphon as much money as they can before driving the network to ground.

[0] https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
The other major difference between Xinjiang and Ethiopia is the evidence of a genocide taking place in Xinjiang is lacking and generally produced by western defense companies & entities downstream from them with possible ulterior motives like increased weapon sales.
Not having access to a good R environment at work is one big reason.

At the company I work at there’s a pypi mirror with quite recent packages and it works out of the box - for R there’s only an ancient version and some hacks to get it to work with juptyer notebooks.
Oh, I had never discovered that feature... So I won't miss it yet. Need to think whether that makes it worth to use the extension again. For now I just enabled the manual configuration and have not noted any differences yet.
Cloudflare “Flexible” SSL Misleading
Cloudflare Flexible SSL mode encrypts traffic between the client and Cloudflare but it forwards that data to the origin server unencrypted over the public internet.

Isn't this misleading? The client thinks their traffic is safe, but it ends up being exposed? Doesn't this defeat the purpose of SSL and browser certificate validation?
Every time I see a birthdate.co commercial on TV, I want to punch the TV, the birthdate.co founders, and whoever is funding them (TV advertising is not cheap - at least not at the scale that they're employing)
What makes you think the work is worse in fang vs some average startup? I find the opposite to be true in general case - lots of small companies out there don’t care about actual tech.

> Many young companies like us struggle since a lot of the talent (definitely in the bay area) is locked up in the Faangs where poor fiscal/monetary policy in the US has inflated stock part of the compensation so much, that it makes no sense to leave.

This is just patently not true. Netflix is just one examples and there are many more. You just want top shelf talent at bottom shelf prices. If young companies struggle to hire the reason is they underpay cash or equity and just refuse to accept that simple fact.