skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But in your example if you never cheated on a partner you could easily sy "I've never cheated on someone". So if you're saying stripe has had so many interactions with companies they don't know if they "cheated" in this specific case, that implies they had least cheated in some cases, because otherwise they could simply deny that they ever cheated.

Because the accusation was more specific than "I felt taken advantage of" it was they engage engage in acquisition talks with the intent to gather confidential information, not the intent to acquire.
> continuity staff to make sure his plot lines aren’t full of holes

I'd assume for books of his scale authors use specialized software to keep track of plot lines and characters.
You're probably right to a large degree, but this page has people saying the file is distinguishable with multiple different audio formats even:

https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=120193.0
We did that in the 1980’s and the 1990’s on the Commodore 64 and the Amiga, only then the debugger was called a monitor and it was quickly discovered that programming in them was slow and error prone because they lacked the ability to recompute. That is how assemblers were invented: Turbo Assembler on the Commodore 64 and ASM-One, TRASH’M-One, Seka and MasterSeka on the Amiga. ASM-One and TRASH’M-One include an excellent debugger built natively into the integrated development environment, and stepping through the code after assembling it is a joy.
You TWO could be the same person? Just a wild guess...
> By that logic, couldn't you just undermine the credibility of all temp accounts by creating your own temp accounts to enthusiastically agree with them?

False-flag sock-puppetry seems like an interesting combination. I'll have to remember that one.
Probably what parent is referring to: https://nitter.net/isosteph/status/1171236137932771328
https://nitter.net/isosteph/status/1459566899151396867
> moving closer to the heat death of the universe

So… you're saying your laptop is super cool? Because the heat death of the universe is when thermodynamic energy is equally distributed everywhere, which, given the large space of the universe, means really cold.
Twitter is funding an open and decentralized standard for social media (2019)
Miners have to sell.
> Higher bitrates are better than “OK”. 320kbps MP3s are indistinguishable (by human ears) from CD quality audio (FLAC/ALAC/PCM/WAV).

It depends on what you are listening to. High dinamic range (classical music for example) is hit hard by the mp3 compressor.
Many find Postgraphile great but difficult, does a managed back end make sense?
Obviously it’s pretty tricky to define but I’d say anything that doesn’t have an already established or rapidly growing customer base/revenue is a startup. If you can shutdown all r&d and it’s still going to be viable business for a while then it’s not a startup
So what happened to this? Any more recent news?
Exactly this. Also, AFAIK most large content sponsorship deals take place off the platform between independent business entities. Most sponsored content on YouTube works like this, and YouTube doesn't get a single cent from most of those deals, only a share of video ads revenue. How Twitter can do any better here remains to be seen, and ceding control of the client certainly won't make it any easier.
Nothing stops you from going to your manager (or, during your probably-annual comp discussion) and saying, "Based on {a conversation with my coworker, Levels.fyi, a competing offer}, I believe I'm being underpaid."

Obviously this discussion has varying credibility depending on how serious you are about switching jobs, so a competing offer helps--but it also helps to know your manager's range of options.

My general advice is to try to understand the range of options first. For example, you can ask your manager, "Can you tell me where I stand in the comp range for my level?" That will let you know how much base salary growth you can likely expect or negotiate for without a promo. Similarly, "If I have a competing offer, do you have leeway to make a retention RSU grant?" would be good to know.

The key point is a) this isn't your manager's money, so they shouldn't be too personally invested in it, but b) they also don't have a huge amount of discretion and there's a lot of formula behind it, so understanding how the formula relates to you is a good start.
I honestly do not see your participation in this thread as good faith. You apologized to the candidate in public—- good start, now do something of consequence in private. But any further involvement from you (especially trying to out the OP) is simply fanning the flamewar. Even HN moderation is helping fan the flames by adding stats and other commentary. This is why I find YC so utterly untrustworthy.
It’s not hard: one just needs to be aware. Writing portable software is easy when the programmer is aware and thoughtful, but reaching that state will be very hard if staying on the PC-bucket. PC-bucket is a toxic computing platform, always has been.
Abstraction is at the core of programming... complaining about people not "properly managing mutable state" is like complaining about choosing Java over C because they're not "properly" managing memory and instead using a garbage collector. Maximizing hardware performance is, truth be told, largely irrelevant for the vast majority of applications. If they can meet their goals/deadlines/whatever, you can call them lazy, but I think most would call them efficient.

Though I must admit, every time my browser lags when viewing what SHOULD be a static site, I do die a little inside.
Maybe an apt comparison is git.

It's just as easy to make a mistake with git today as it was however many years ago; git hasn't fundamentally changed in ways that make it easier. Git still more/less requires you to have a good understanding of what's going on in order to be comfortable using it.

But, since use of git is now widespread, it's less of an issue. And the git CLI has seen some UX improvements.

Nix is very weird. I'm sure there are some ways its UX could be nicer; but to some extent, doing things in a strict/pure way is always going to have friction if the tools/environments don't easily support that.
FastAPI Feature Flags
I remember when my wannabe hacker buddies would call you up and you'd join our phone conferences and obliquely call us stupid the entire time.
I hadn’t seen that before but it perfectly sums up my approach to tech. I’m going to share this the next time someone questions why I take a pragmatic approach rather than jumping on the next new tech stack

Thanks for sharing
Laser and Photonics Reviews is an excellent journal
Recursion Got into Programming
Oh that's pretty neat, didn't know about that.
It's not that surprising there are many founders lurking on HN. Many people who are famous in the tech world comment here once in a while. It's not a stretch to imagine that a lot of people from that demographic are active but silent users/consumers.
OpenCL seems to be kind of dying (eg Blender abandoned it), I wonder what is going to replace it.
Along my life, i have worked with a lot of build systems, but I find Nix syntax and commands to be completely awful!

I see that it could be useful, but it completely turns me down immediately.
Work on leads, networking, and sales as much as you can to learn the ropes and then figure out how to offload, automate, or optimize those things as best you can to create sustainability.

Talking to the decision makers and having friends or intros to help with that will by far be more effective than cold emails or random RFPs as a new company.
VPU? With network processors being called NPU these days...
I like it! Thank you! I think it would be very useful at least for newcomers.
Many, many writers-- including those published by major publishers-- are supported by friends and family who provide beta-reading and coarse proofreading help.

Buddies get the book free and before everyone else; they're not expected to fully, deeply edit the book, but just give feedback about the most glaring things. This can be a reasonable deal for all involved-- I'd gladly substitute in a book from a buddy for my nightly reading and highlight it and give him feedback.

Of course, I also help my friends with minor professional questions gratis, too.
probably not dangerous, but I do remember reading an article maybe 20 years ago where some lady playing a villain in a soap opera complained about being accosted at the supermarket and yelled at for their onscreen shenanigans.
2 is such an obvious thing for a tech company to do. How can a candidate know the exact best team for them to apply to? This is the purpose of the recruiting team.
That's the only Holy way to run.
Yes, but you have to distinguish what it is supposed to do, and what it can actually do.

With directional antennas, practical NFC relays have been done, <a href="https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01632735/document">this paper</a> cites distances of up to 100 metres.
Was/would it be hard to switch back to traditional containers or was there some kind of lock-in effect? Or was the consensus just pro-Nix?
Actually doing anything of consequence
It's a much bigger deal for the other party tough. The employee is typically more dependent on having a job than the employer is dependent on having an engineer. Granted a staff level engineer is not quite the same, especially for a small firm.

What's lamentable is that ghosting has become part of our culture. People think it's the done thing, so they do it. Just as with dating, how hard is it really to keep track of who you owe a response and send them a short piece saying you're no longer interested? It's especially grating in your situation where you know there's no reason why they don't just tell you they have a better offer.

I think that's the key actually. People don't like the icky feeling of negotiating, where you often keep cards to yourself. When game ends and you get your desired outcome, you continue to feel bad about it. And you certainly don't want to be called out and have to defend yourself, even if picking a better offer is perfectly fair.
AGP was extremely new when the Voodoo 2 was released, and hence the cards used PCI. According to Wikipedia, the first model to support AGP was the Banshee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo2#Models
Lots of people seem to be building containers with non-Dockerfile based things though, especially in the JVM world.
Eh, founders of coin base and lambda school both posted, people legit post around midnight, even founders of $xb startups.
I still feel Winamp had a better UI than all these modern players, particularly the streaming ones like Spotify. For some reason, even though Spotify has a massive engineering organization, the end product is utterly terrible in its design and usability. I get the feeling no one working there actually likes music or uses their product. And why do none of these players have visualizations? Winamp had such a rich community around things like skins and visualizations that I sorely miss.
My Little Crony
You seem to have an axe to grind.

Performance isn’t black and white. Optimizing your memory usage isn’t going to do you a whit of good if you’re constrained by your database queries. Optimizing your DB queries isn’t going to do you any good if you’re constrained by a chatty microservice architecture. Optimizing your UI response time isn’t going to do you any good if you’re already below the threshold of perceived speed. Etc.

GC performance on short-lived objects is quite good in enough situations to matter, such that optimizing for it, rather than your application architecture, is likely foolish outside of performance sensitive loops.

Time is always limited. Spending your optimization budget on micro-optimizations is short-sighted.
The latter. As a (bad) analogy: it’s a bit like learning Haskell. If you’ve only ever worked in strictly-evaluated, imperative languages, it’s not gonna be easy to learn. Nevertheless, Haskell predates e.g. Go by two decades.

Nix (and Haskell) has its warts, and undoubtedly a new system would avoid them (compatibility needs make some changes very challenging), but the fundamental difficulty remains because it is fundamentally different and solving a truly difficult problem set.
Of course it's bad, and of course it's good. The question is too simple.

Smartphones are democratizing access to information, so they enable potential empowerment.

Smartphones also nudge users towards stupid, irrational, emotional, impulse decisions that harm them (microtransactions, subscriptions, mindless consumption). They also make it hard to do meaningful empowering work, such as reading up contracts, laws and education-related information (i.e. cannot read a PDF on a smartphone). [1]

A simplistic model would be that smartphones help those wo are worst off, but harm those in the middle. Highly privileged people are in an entirely other world of course.

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/205015791770832...
> The consequences for SpaceX if we can not get enough reliable Raptors made is that we then can’t fly Starship, which means we then can’t fly Starlink Satellite V2 (Falcon has neither the volume nor the mass to orbit needed for satellite V2). Satellite V1, by itself, is financially weak, while V2 is strong.

> The consequences for SpaceX if we can not get enough reliable Raptors made is that we then can’t fly Starship, which means we then can’t fly Starlink Satellite V2 (Falcon has neither the volume nor the mass to orbit needed for satellite V2). Satellite V1, by itself, is financially weak, while V2 is strong.

> In addition, we are spooling up terminal production to several million units per year, which will consume massive capital, assuming that satellite V2 will be on orbit to handle the bandwidth demand. These terminals will be useless otherwise.

> What it comes down to, is that we face a genuine risk of bankruptcy if we can’t achieve a Starship flight rate of at least once every two weeks next year.

----

so they need cheaper and more Raptors, so that they can have more Starships, so they can launch more Starlink sats, which will fund creation of even more Starships, so they can launch to Mars...

Quite the pickle there, Mr. Musk.
New – Amazon EC2 G5g Instances Powered by AWS Graviton2 and Nvidia T4G GPUs
FTC orders Walmart, Amazon, Kroger to submit info on empty shelves, high prices
Not an answer to you're question, but do you feel safe doing (https://github.com/jchilders/dotfiles/blob/main/Makefile#L34)

> sudo curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/in... | /bin/bash

piping the output of a curl command to sh without first checking the sha256 of the file you just got?

In a similar situation I would not be comfortable without at least getting a specific version of the tool I'm downloading and then hardcoding an hash of its content I computed after manually downloading and inspecting its content.
Seriously. This would be a tragedy, and I'm really hoping this is just a questionable motivation tactic.
Stegano, a pure Python Steganography module
There has to be something wrong with your Quake config. One of the first things I set up on the original, single core Raspberry Pi was Quake III Arena, and it ran well enough to play (so much so that I kept it hooked up to an old monitor for a few weeks).
Xenobots: replicating living robots made from frog cells
I'm using sandman2[0] as a wrapper for psql and mysql databases. how is it different or any feature/differentiating factor I should consider for my future wrappers?

[0] - https://github.com/jeffknupp/sandman2
The fact that you have a gif asking (and showing?!) people to star your project is so infuriating.

Also, this is being posted quite too often to HN. Not sure if same people or different people.
Our new product - The Inditer Pro - uses state of the art machine learning to crawl the web and identify travelers coming into your country as criminals! You will be able to proactively lock up potential threats and keep the population safe, all thanks to the expertise of the Inditer Pro.

All the world's bad guys under your thumb! (Rolling Stones 'Under my thumb' starts playing as a border guard presses Inditer Pro search button - identifying tourist as BIKE THIEF!)

on edit: yes, it should be Indicter, but ours is a web 4.0 company.
That’s a different thing though? That’s contracting. There are even such contracts day rates on job sites so no need to bait/switch.
Recumbents are great for all body types.
market cap or "valuation" company, x is a place holder so $1,2 or 3 billion
I only make a small dent from my self-published book (Deployment from Scratch), but at least I get to keep it. If I write a story one day, I would love to do it with a good publisher and be in the book stores, but for technical content I'll stick to self-publishing (not that I have any energy left to do more titles hah).

I also see some people distributing self-published physical books themselves. Would love to know the hows and economy of it.
I have some small idea of what I’m doing
No. This is normal corporate speech to signal that only the board and some high level managers will get bonuses this year.
It sounds like this is a big issue because Starlink’s next generation depends on it. I didn’t realize STarlink played such a large role in SpaceX’s future financials. I personally would love to see more of Starlink and other such providers to compete against traditional broadband providers, especially when so many companies have shady practices like altering content, or censoring content, or throttling, or charging hidden fees, or whatever else. If they were truly on the brink, I would think they would rush to an IPO and rely on their large public following to generate the capital they need to continue forward.
Flow matters as much as the content. Some people can just talk about X in a far more enjoyable manner than others.

Isaacson is really good - his Jobs' biography, the Innovators, the Code Breaker - all are firmly footed in facts, but very easy and interesting to read.

"Kitchen Confidentials", "Blind Man's Bluff" and "Seizing the Enigma" are really good in the same sense.

Level down there are "Skunk Works" and "The Soul of a New Machine" - interesting, but dense and sluggish.

At the bottom, to me at least, there's "Unix" and "Most Secret War" - very difficult to get through with all joy lost to being buried in facts and no connective tissue.
Come here to say this, here’s a link to flyway if anyone is curious - https://github.com/flyway/flyway. Many ORMs come with migration systems. For example, SQLAlchemy’s migration tool is Alembic - https://github.com/sqlalchemy/alembic.
Or it was created in a lab. Quoting:

"It doesn't seem to have emerged from a normal evolutionary process," Prof Lessells told The Telegraph. "There's been an evolutionary jump. This hasn't evolved from the delta variant."

This is what you would see from a lab grown evolution as well.
The funny thing is most working people will look at the spending levels required to achieve FIRE and decide they don't want to make the sacrifice. They are in a prison of their own making.

Of course it's easy to see how they arrived in this situation. There is a constant stream of propaganda telling us we need to spend in order to become successful. Without that SUV you aren't a good parent, without the big house you can't be a good partner, without the expensive holidays you must be a loser. Thank Bernays[1] for all of this.

Not many people can resist that and take a different path which is why we don't need to worry about "what if everybody does it".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
...yes, that's why I mention that the only way it works is by kicking at the lock.
Indeed once you understand that the moderators are helping people with brand management and suggestions at the very least, and the extent to which this occurs is hidden, they lose the ability to claim neutrality and open themselves up to lots of questions about what else they're doing

That's a result of actions taken not some kind of theoretical argument.
Maybe not. The agent should get a percentage of your income and should be trying to get you the best income possible (well a mix of bess possible / low vacancy rate)

But the employee gets let’s say $150k/y and f you are hired out for $5k a day you still get your same salary regardless.
Is it though? It takes the capability of adversarial action for copyright to work. There is no such mechanism on Web3. If you copy no one is stopping you.
Can I just say I am blown away that archive.org crawls github I mean wow
CUDA is what ended up replacing it, or rather, OpenCL had always failed to make a dent over the long term.

(with AMD ROCm being a CUDA API clone, without the PTX layer)
It's invite only, in case anybody was up to give it a spin (like me).
You may be under-appreciating just how fancy this thing is.
I'm guessing we might be in different sectors, but FWIW I've never seen this in my >20 years in the UK. To me the situation you're describing would ring all sorts of alarm bells.

P.S. Not doubting your experience, just comparing it with mine.
There is evidence*, a new trove just emerged recently [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/29/leaked-papers-...

(edit: *genocide is a significant label, whether China's mistreatment qualifies as that is probably to be determined, but evidence of mistreatment exists)
dang offered me to do the same thing for my, now closed, start-up.
FKK is a fairly recent invention born out of the health movements popular in the early 20th century.
Posted link is dead (503 error), but here is the actual PDF: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20150019662/downloads/20...
Strange it didn’t paywall me…yes that was it, thank you.
Maybe they would have apreciated more a salary increase.
Gawker did come back FWIW.

Not that I've heard a peep from them since they re-launched.
Nice with those status bars, making my Linux looking even better. :)
That perception of the DOM/VDOM situation is and always was false. React was always slower at runtime than a carefully-engineered system designed for performance.

As Dan Abramov said a couple of years later <https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/youre-missing-the-point-of-r...>, people were missing the point of React: it was never about VDOM; rather, that was a cost that at the time they reckoned had to be paid in order to write reliable code in an immediate mode style, because if you tried doing that without DOM reconciliation the result would be atrociously bad. VDOM came about because the alternative (the consistently faster alternative, I may add) entailed things like explicit DOM mutation that was far too easy to make mistakes with, and reactive data flow was generally even buggier. It was a carefully-chosen trade-off: shedding some performance, for greater robustness and ease of use.

“DOM is slow, VDOM is fast” was a straw man comparison that entered the public perception but which the React team mostly stayed well clear of: almost no serious systems have ever used the DOM directly in the immediate mode style, because it has obvious and serious problems in both performance and transient UI state like scroll and caret positions and element focus (… and transient state things are problems for all immediate mode interfaces, not just DOM ones: escape hatches are fundamentally required).

Was VDOM worth the cost at the time, compared with the other options then available? For most people, probably. And even for the rest, React presented useful food for thought that led to other options improving too. Is VDOM worth the cost now? Well, I’m with Rich Harris that VDOM is pure overhead <https://svelte.dev/blog/virtual-dom-is-pure-overhead> and that we have more efficient ways of doing things now.
Is every job posting you look at is for a company that runs a version of lamp stack and 90% of workforce is sales? Then, sure