skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They been trying to transform programming into blu collar work since the first developer demanded more than minimum wage for their labour, with 4g languages and anyone can code movements and whatnot.

Thank gods while they're right - anyone can indeed write code - the valuable part of our labor is problem solving - and no amount of better tooling will change that.

Ultimately we are business people, we are accountants, we are tour operators and much more: our labor value is in the ability to transform these jobs into requirements and solutions, coding is how we describe our understanding of the domain, and it's production inconsequential once all the hard questions get resolved.

To bad today that gets a stench from the so called agile crowd, which would prefer us to tackle problem with aggressive randomness in the hope that infinite monkeys can be as cost effective as a single thinker.
It's proprietary software. There's no way to know what it's doing. Better to assume the worst.
I personally don't know anyone who voted for Trump. Who you know is not a representative sample. There are lots of vaccine deniers and they occasionally cause problems.
No law is on the books blocking encryption. Apple needs to nut up and ship full E2EE, daring the politicians to do anything about it. Let's see how big they talk when it's their political careers on the line.
People look for an enemy to direct their frustration about the Problem of Evil, chaos, impersonal viruses etc. Classic scapegoat behaviour. the pattern has been repeated throughout history. Usually the scapegoats become at least oppressed.

It's also clear that the authorities are not pushing this meme more than the people. Which is also a characteristic and one where some in charge are capitalising on.

Interestingly its also fear and worry at the root of this is the same as the "antis" and their scapegoat is those above us. Others capitalise on this too.
I don't just mean with your current org, I mean with your wider network of people who understand the issues. With outsiders you get people who aren't invested in the same way, yet have done similar work.
I think we probably have a difference of opinion of what problem we should solve.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but this sounds like the problem you want to solve: drug users and homeless people make you feel unsafe, and you want to feel more safe.

I don’t personally feel unsafe in SF, at all. The problem I’d like to solve is this: how can we get help to people who need it? Be that unhoused people, people struggling with mental health issues, people who are addicted to drugs.

I don’t know if more social services will help solve my problem, you’re right that we spend a lot of money on it and it doesn’t seem to work all that well. But I do know that more policing will absolutely not solve my problem, it will only make it worse. It might solve yours though, as there won’t be as much drug use and theft with increased police presence.

I’m not saying either problem is objectively the right or wrong one. I don’t think there is an objective answer. Just want to show you why people like myself are not looking for an increase in SFPD funding.

Edited for clarity.
There are multiple strains of hiv. One of the papers I linked to is a detailed study investigating a less lethal, more infectious strain. Sars-cov1 also evolved a few strains that were more infectious and less lethal. Both effects, by the way, are usually associated with separate individual mutations. It's rare that a single change in DNA results in both effects.
It was meant to be 6×10^6 -- as a quick soundness check, the sun's radius is significantly more than 75 km (636 / 8.5) -- though I agree it would probably have been more reasonable to just write "6 million km"
not sure what's your point..

A wholeful lot of working people need a computer, a phone is not enough.

A laptop that has top notch battery performance and can handle heavy work at the same time, being also very lightweight, has a lot of pluses.

The fact that it is well built and that it is battery efficient is, that alone, sort of an insurance policy. I can see many occasions arising in a timespan of some years where a professional could lose a lot of money if its main work device proves to be unreliable at a wrong moment. It might be more than those 1500 euros depending on the field.
If you can do long stretches of solitary work without needing to ask questions of anyone else, do that!

But, I often work on features that require the knowledge and input of many people. I lose a lot of time getting blocked on simple things by not knowing what I don't know, figuring out what I'm missing, figuring what to ask, waiting for an answer, trying to implement something based on a brief reply, etc...

The few times I've managed to gather a grop to do something approximating mob programming were incredibly productive. The whole time it was 3 people discussing the main thread of code and 1 person off on their own "fixing up some detail". Who was off on their own changed frequently. We were using VSCode Live Share and Live Share Audio.
Out of curiosity, why are you still coding as the Chief Technology Officer?

I knew some CTO's that wrote the initial code (ergo, code quality totally sucked), or would write a 1-off extension (where the code quality didn't matter much). Once the company achieved some size (>5 developers) they just didn't do it anymore / it wasn't a quality use of their time.

As they matured, they tended to focus on the data schema and the soa architecture, and less on the bits and bytes of functions and frameworks.

What drives you to keep being the primary coder?
Hi, Michael Altfield here (Founder of the BusKill project and holder of the PGP Key for signing canaries)

No, you should not be concerned. The latest canary #002 literally says:

Period: 2021-06-01 to 2021-12-31
Expiry: 2022-01-31

Source: https://www.buskill.in/canary-002/

What matters is what's cryptographically signed. Did I make a mistake somewhere else?

The next canary will be posted before 2022-01-31.
SoftBank to Back EzCater at $1.6B Value in Funding Round
Am I reading this right? Google engineers are fixing apple software?
Really not trying to mislead/annoy - Plasmic's client libraries are open source and on GitHub, but not the visual editor currently. Will add clarification to the repo, but any other suggestions are welcome.
My first impressions on the landing page:

1) I don't like 100% width pages, they are very hard to read on a large monitor.

2) There should be a a "Pricing" link the header.

3) What stops be from simply copy-pasting the Notion page and sending it directly in the email client?
I'm in the same position. 12 years software dev. 5 years CTO. Company grew double each year. I had teams under me.

I found that I had lost my developer experience over the years and I didn't feel like a good CTO. I figured I was burnt out and started to not care about the work but couldn't bring myself to give myself a rest or sort it out. I quit last week.
Reminded of a friend's scrappier project: https://newscience.org/

Similar but distinct thesis: "We should not be surprised then that the majority of even the most talented and passionate about science young scientists are not supported by the current structures and do not see their future in academia."
Being a CTO and doing dev creates a ton of cognitive dissonance that takes a lot of mental energy to process. I would look for mentors who can talk you down off the ledge when needed, and help you establish habbits and rituals to better separate the areas of concern in your day to day life.

Also appreciate that most thoughtful engineers are their own worst enemy. Its a sign that you're good that you even care. Find a way to taper back your own self-criticisms because after a certain point they are inaccurate and not helpful.
Sure you can, HPV is infectious and causes cervical cancer.
Google - churn and obsolescence as a service.
I think the point here is that we've worked ourselves into a corner with web technologies. The web is very reliant on GPU rendering, but when building an app with DOM + CSS, you don't have direct access to all that power. You have to be very careful to construct your application in such a way that it can be efficiently rendered, and actually use that GPU power.

Basically, they're getting rid of the middleman: the web. Think about most modern web frameworks (React, Angular, etc.), they're basically immediate mode GUI frameworks, but we do "virtual diffing" in order to translate our immediate-mode-like code into DOM (a retained mode UI framework), then the web renderers the DOM via immediate-mode-like patterns again. Pretty strange if you think about it.

Our stacks of technology are getting in the way of creating good software. So yeah, it's on old idea, but in light of the state of the art in IDEs and Text Editors today, this is an interesting approach.

Note, this is a problem in the first place because of how good the web is. The web has so much tooling, cross-platform support, and documentation / learning resources that it's being overused in places where it's very inefficient, simply due to momentum and mindshare. When you have a hammer...

Now, one of the biggest reasons for the success of the web is cross-platform support, but it's not just cross-platform support. It's the only write once run anywhere platform, truly. Most other cross-platform frameworks require you to think about the native environment at some point, but it's very rare on the web because of the robust standard library including Media access, Networking and even more rarely used APIs like WebMIDI. Not to mention that web design culture allows you to ignore the ui patterns of the native OS you're targeting, allowing more cross-platform savings.

If we can somehow manage to throw away the DOM + CSS (except, perhaps, for decoration) and replace them with immediate mode frameworks, combine that with WebAPIs for interfacing with hardware, and decouple those from JS (maybe via WebAssembly), then we have a competitor to the web for complex cross-platform software that is actually interesting. Perhaps Zed and their Rust-based GUI framework could help push us in that direction.

Edit:

Another aside, the performance of immediate mode GUI. You could argue that retained mode UI can be made to have better performance than immediate mode, but I think the right combination of caching and framework-level optimizations to allow for partial updates are the solution.

You might say "that's not immediate mode though?", and sure, but what we care about here is fast applications that are easy to build. We've discovered that writing code via declarative patterns has huge benefits over "object-soup", so our goal should be to make those patterns as fast as possible. I think the DOM and retained-mode GUI is a just a result of the Java style of Object Oriented obsession.
The moral of the story is “don’t mix units”. It would have been the same problem if the units were inches and feet or meters and kilometers as it is with feet and meters.
Artificial intelligence has enabled five women who were murdered to warn others
If you're "CTO of a company that is growing like crazy" then you shouldn't be writing code anymore. You need to develop your management skills. If you can't do that, then it's time to step aside.
Sadly, those "thousands of years" (more like four hundred, really) have been wasted by basing all of it on false assumptions.
easy. Build something.
Does the elephant-in-the-room of C++ do it? I thought it does.

I can't bet on what Java and JavaScript JITs make of map / forEach / filter / reduce, but I suspect that they can be pretty efficient, given the clear delineation and the repeated patterns.
A continent wide grid is easier said than done.
You aren’t reading it right :)

Although there’s clearly bugs in the open source JBIG2 impl so someone probably made fixes there as well?
I never said anything about top private companies. Abuse happens at every level of organizations. There is a difference between admitting someone on the basis of how well that person can compete in a high performing environment and admitting someone based on how willing that person is to take sexual abuse and all the other nefarious practices that some organizations develop during their culture building phase.
The way it is promoted is a bunch of people in a room. But, I've done something similar using VSCode Live Share and Live Share Audio and it worked well.
Cheap durable paper also helps.

Fun fact: printing rates increased from about 120 sheets/hour to over 1 million over the course of the 19th century. Those began with wooden screw presses that differed little from Gutenberg's to cast iron, rotary, steam and later electric powered, and web (continuous paper feed) presses, and from matrix plates (with individual type set in blocks) to offset Linotype (in which the entire print block was cast as a single sheet through multiple stages from the original matrix characters).

Thought just occurs: the falling characters of the iconic Matrix screen somewhat resemble the individual type elements flowing and falling through a Linotype machine. I don't know if that is a deliberate or incidental reference, but it's an interesting one.
Yeah as a non-Java user I have to say I'm very surprised. I wouldn't recommend just using print(), but a library needs to do very little (format like printf, filter by level (maybe depending on source file), output to text or JSON).

I don't understand how people would use a library as massive as log4j and not bother looking at what's in the box, and what they need to enable/disable. Blaming it on the opensource product seems weird when you grabbed it for free and didn't even read what's written on the box.
Maybe we should use some machine learning solution that recognizes phrases that look too much like titles.
There should be an exponentially increasing delay for such a system, so that the phone would make you wait hours (or days) before letting you make your 10th guess. That would require the 5 year old to not get bored of the useless phone, and the owner to not find the phone (and enter the correct code) for those days too.

Also, it would make sense to include a simple proof-of-intentionality system, like the old Nokia keypad unlock feature to prevent pocket dials. The phone could prompt you to type a displayed 4 digit code before typing your actual PIN attempt, for example.
Everyone seems to be commenting "cancer vaccine" but the article is talking about a treatment
Does it require negative _mass_ or negative space-time compression?

We know gravity waves exist, so space time can oscillate between 0 and N where N is positive right? Are we so sure there is not a -N < 0 < N?

Not even close to an expert in this stuff.
The Story of Xbox
Thanks!

How would I go about DM'ing you? Also, do you require apps to be created using your tools or do you support apps developed independently?
pick a single platform to build expertise in. start coding. don't change the platform.
It's certainly the case in Christianity; see all kinds of morally-repulsive rules (discrimination against LGBT, abortion bans) enforced on non-believers by Church-sponsored state laws.
There is a huge difference in the stereo image and brightness of the modeled vs the real reverb to my ear. I wonder what it would take to improve the fidelity.
There is no such thing as building something yourself. When you make something, you use tools, materials and methods made by other people.

The most important part of building something that isn't crap is being able to recognize the crap in what you are considering for use. Then deciding if you can contain the crap, or find a less crappy alternative.
>squeeze out the last 20% of the juice.

Do you mean to tell me that Juicero wasn't a great idea?
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Lots to digest, but that's a good thing.

The thing that jumped out the most to me that you said is dedicating myself service. I have been thinking that I should spend time helping others rather than focusing on myself so much. Not only does it help them it helps you appreciate what you have I would imagine.

I've also been considering a sabbatical to get myself back into a good mental state. I'm lucky enough where that could be an option so maybe I need to consider that more as I transition out of the CTO role.

Thanks again!
Taking badges out of the cloud reduces points of failure by several orders of magnitude.

Cloud-based badges make sense if you have locations with small staffs and no HR people or managers. Like if you're controlling access to a microwave tower on the top of a mountain.

But badges-in-the-cloud for an office building full of people who are being supervised by supposedly trusted managers, and all of whom has been vetted for security and by HR, is just being cheap.

Like the 1980's AT&T commercials used to say: "You get what you pay for."
An expensive, hard, long and unreliable thing.
I had to use Okta at a company once. I asked myself the very same question you posed, every single day.
Right? I was using VM as a short hand - it is after all a virtual just more virtual than usual :)
This has happened, it was just that no technical gizmo would have saved the guy. I cannot imagine how.

In case of a corrupt government, if they wanted to lock you up, they wouldn't strictly need any evidence at all. Having a gizmo that can potentially destroy evidence is a bonus. Otherwise, they will throw you behind the bars for 18 years for jaywalking. If you had a controversial businessman and his thugs after you, destroying the evidence only means they wouldn't have to destroy it themselves after having killed you.

In any case, if you're working on sensitive stuff and you want to pretend you're writing some innocent poetry, I don't think any kind of jamesbondian device would help you look inconspicuous.
March 2020 for those of you who just had to find out after reading this comment.
You may be interested in https://plasmic.app/casestudies. Note that Plasmic is different from these because it's a full free-form web design tool, so it doesn't restrict you to blocks that also have be authored by developers.
Maybe so, but that's another unsubstantive comment and we ban accounts that do that repeatedly and ignore our moderation requests. You've been doing it repeatedly, and doing it precisely in response to a moderation request doesn't give the impression that you want to use HN as intended. I don't want to ban you, so would you please just stop doing this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I would agree in principle, but notice that health "insurance" has migrated from a risk-management product to a health care financing/service provision mechanism.
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The Tree-sitter team are mostly, or possibly all, also GitHub/Microsoft employees.
Show HN: Thirdweb – Build Web3 apps with low-code
4 GB dedicated VRAM instead of 16 GB shared memory is better/worse depending on workload.

Heat, battery life, fan noise, etc have been discussed to death so I'll gloss over those. Past that, the other huge thing is the screen:

62.5% sRGB coverage is a really garbage color gamut. Supposedly the "G513IM-HQ088R" gets you a DCI-P3 screen but I literally can't find that model available for purchase anywhere to check what it costs.

1920x1080 vs 3024x1964 is about 1/3 the pixel count of the 14" Mac. Or compared to the 16" 3456x2234 it's about 1/4 the pixel count.
Nobody is saying “do nothing” about all the depraved stuff some people do with respect to human trafficking, etc.

What people are asking is to not be treated as if they are human traffickers by Apple. If they deploy CSAM, they are in effect saying, “sorry world, we suspect all of you are trying to traffic humans so we need to scan your images”.

That’s not how law enforcement should work in a free and open society. You should be suspected of illegal activity first, then law enforcement can move in and do their job.

Once CSAM is deployed, then it’s much easier to expand the scope of it to include other forms of content, and Apple will have a much harder time saying “No”.

I was really hoping Apple would take the backlash of CSAM to exert pressure against whoever is asking them to do this. “Sorry <large gov entity>, we can’t do that without destroying the decade of goodwill we built up with our customers. You’ll have to legislate this for us to do it”. That would have the advantage of at least a public debate.
Very similar experience with sailboats.

There's nothing like being at sea, 100+ miles from civilization, reliant on the limited capacity systems on your vessel. You manage your food, you manage your water consumption, fuel, electrical usage, you're closely attuned to the weather, the sea state, the charts. There are no other visible people or people-made objects out to the horizon in all directions. If something breaks, you'd better know how it works and be able to fix it, or go without. It feels very freeing, but also provides a "back to basics" accountability.

Standing under a hot water shower with unlimited water in a spacious home shower afterward feels luxurious.
Nah, dark matter is the real deal. It's got way more evidence for it, and even the alternatives like MOND (which is something closer to a layman would argue as "maybe we understand the theory wrong") do need dark matter to explain some measurements.

Dark energy, on the other hand...
Since when are libertarians leftists? Police privatization is a libertarian thing
wtf I love crypto now
Ah, crap, sorry about that.

I'll try to remember to update the verbiage of that lower line to reference the top line to prevent this from happening again in the future.

Thanks for pointing it out!
longer samples and longer training time
Project Zero is a team of security analysts employed by Google tasked with finding zero-day vulnerabilities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Zero?wprov=sfti1

Don’t think of these folks as “google” employees. Think of them as “really good hackers with corporate sponsorship”. They look for flaws in everything - windows, apple, Linux, and google software. You should read some earlier blog posts, they’re really high quality.
Religion doesn't need a "main theme" to oppress or harm. Only a few verses explicitly oppress women in the Christian scriptures, yet for centuries and still today people propagate the meme that women shouldn't teach men, or speak in assemblies.

As for divine violence all the abrahamic religions have been involved in force land grabs and killing rule breakers or non-believers.