skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem of course is that Purism markets the phone for security conscious people.

Not hackers who have the skills and impulse to mess around with binary blobs and microcode.

That’s dishonest.

Go take a look at the Purism’s website about the Libre yourself: “Security”, “peace of mind”, “digital privacy”.

You’re openly marketing the phone to regular people and businesses who care about privacy.

Nowhere on the site does it say: “BTW: We’re selling you a crippled phone because we wanted to get a fanatics approval. But if you study computer science you can fix that yourself!”
It's the nature of future earnings vs current earnings and how inflation changes that.

Let's say you have two companies: 'Established' that makes $100 million/year, and 'Growth' that will make $200 million / year in 10 years, but $0 / year today.

Let's say both of these facts are 100% certain and that all market participants agree. Finally, we assume all market participants work off of a 20 year investment cycle just to keep things simple.

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With 0% inflation, both companies are equal over the 20 year lifecycle.

However, with 5%/year inflation, the established company comes out far ahead.

The $200 million made in year 10 by Growth is only with $122 million (year 1 dollars).

So you can see, future money is less valuable in an inflationary environment. In contrast, the $100 million made by Established is worth $160 million in year 10.

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Once we account for inflation, the growth strategy fails. Alternatively, growth strategy only works in low inflation environments.

In high inflation environments, established sources of money and established real estate / factories is better. The growth company promises to buy a factory in the future, but we all know inflation is making that factory more and more expensive, and it's future promise of future money is getting less valuable.
Well in my experience - I would HIGHLY recommended PostMark ! - Great bunch of clever guys.

I would also HIGHLY NOT RECOMMEND Sendgrid.com - Used to use them for 5 years and suddenly closed my production account over a weekend when I wanted to move to paid service for better analytics.

No I wasn't sending spam or against their terms of service. Mostly password-resets and ticket-notifications. More importantly if you look at discussion below seems I'm not the only one !

Previous comments + discussion.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29297229
I am currently in the process of moving things over from hosted services to Hugo / Netlify.

For the last month I've been messing around with various ssg's and jamstack solutions. I spent a week tinkering with 11ty and loved a lot of my time with it and would love to explore it more, but after a few days it ended up being far too complex, since my goal is to focus on publishing work over personal website development. Sometime I always struggle to find a balance with and why services/social media probably won out for me for so many years. Hugo has just been a more straight forward approach.

Like the author, I've been thinking a lot about my work and where it's published/owned/controlled by and determined that I want to port all my relevant social post over the years back to my website for archival purposes. Maybe a Posts/Feed type website, more like tumblr, that is self contained and relatively simple to move/manage and maintain.
> Do you think it's also within your rights as a business owner to allow unmasked and unvaccinated patrons, or to ban masks?

Yes

> If so, then are you upset that these civil liberties have been violated?

No, because on the balance there is a legitimate government interest in violating them, and there aren't any less-intrusive ways to accomplish the governments legitimate goals.

In other words, I'm about as upset by this as by laws that prevent me from banning black people from my store.
The author tries to derive a dilemma for utilitarism:

> If you don’t accept ethical intuition as a source of justified belief, then you have no reason for thinking that enjoyment is better than suffering, that satisfying desires is better than frustrating them, that we should produce more good rather than less, or that we should care about anyone other than ourselves.

We have to take the author's word for this, because he does not offer any support for his claim. I wonder whether he believes that his personal ethical intuition can/may/should be generalised. The structural similarity to "whosoever does not believe in (my) god has no base for ethics" should serve as a warning.

> If you do accept ethical intuition, then at least prima facie, you should accept each of the above examples as counter-examples to utilitarianism. Since there are so many counter-examples, and the intuitions about these examples are strong and widespread, it’s hard to see how utilitarianism could be justified overall.

The auther is willfully ignorant about utilitarism and should make amends.
If python gets some kind of JIT that kind of loop will fly. Tight loops and unboxed maths is a thing that JITs do really well at.
Is Old Music Killing New Music?
The Samsung DigiMax V4 camera did it right in 2003. Comes with a high capacity custom rechargeable battery, but no need to find another one if it ever starts to wear out - you can use two rechargeable AA batteries instead in the same battery compartment.
I'm a staff SWE at Google, and while there are tons of resources and community for managers of all levels, there isn't really much of a community for senior+ ICs and TLs who don't manage.

I think this is a great development in terms of building norms and community around this very common and crucial role. I've been fairly insulated from a lot of the politics, but I'm starting to realize I need to learn a few more skills in that area.
For every comment like this, there is someone who would say the opposite. Why would I write in a language with the semantics of javascript when I could use python?

I'd also argue that syntax-wise they are virtually the same language and not worth really comparing. It's not like either is ML.
This is really cool. I have 7 tabs of quirky barely known websites open after maybe less than 5 minutes of interacting with Marginalia. This is so much fun!
This is a very interesting topic, but very weakly explored by the article.

Ok, so there are anecdotes of bored retirees who would prefer to be working. I completely get that. Both my grandfathers worked well into their 70s (one is still working) for that reason. My other grandfather would probably take work if he could find something flexible and part time in his field (does mostly volunteering now).

But why aren’t these other ones working?

There is a bit on how benefits have financed it, but the number that remain on benefits in no way accounts for all the missing people.

The article is filled with interesting ideas that it should explore further, but immediately moves on.

It concludes with a proposal for stigmatizing being idle.
What Sounds Do a Million Random Digits Make?
So in your opinion the US are a more violent society than most around the developed world?
What? Of course borrowers can be made to repay the debt in traditional finance. Get a loan from your bank, and refuse to pay it back. See what happens. If don't understand the basic mechanisms behind a loan agreement, there's no point in continuing this conversation.
Well ה (the) and ב (in/at) might be comparable "words" too, so more like 6 words become 5.
> a system built to funnel money from people with disposable income to artists

If you think NFTs are such a syste, you're mistaken.
For me, "tech bubble crashing" indicators would come from level of investment into new ideas. Right now, SPACs purchase newly incorporated startups. That's going to stop. VC capital is going to get more expensive, which means that the conditions are going to become much stricter before investment. The revenue multiples for future rounds will become much lower.

The FAANG behemoths on the other hand have ad based revenue that isn't going to dip - at least from this aspect of the macroeconomic environment. Other things will crater that, if those things are successful on the public policy side.

FAANG traders likely will take lower price:equity ratios so the shares will trade lower.
Every month or so I look around to see if there's a monolithic web framework in languages I'm interested that are effectively equivalents of Django, Rails, Laravel, etc. I've done a lot of non-webapp stuff with Go, for example, and would like to build full fledged webapps with a Django-like framework in Go. But nothing like that truly exists. I've found projects like Buffalo [0] that promise this monolithic experience, but they're still very much works in progress. Even Node lacks such a true monolithic web framework from what I can tell.

[0]: https://github.com/gobuffalo/buffalo
Ask HN: What if submitting a story cost 1 karma?
Could this have the desired effect of reducing low-quality posts that the poster considers as such when posting? My habit is already only to post something that I personally want others to hear about, rather than 'maybe this will get a vote'.

It could potentially reverse the problem of so many stories being posted that so many don't even get to be seen and voted upon. It would also be great if some focus was brought back, tech is so much a part of everyday life that the intersection of tech and X is largely a general news feed.
> 1) do mechanical switches with zero bounce really exist?

You just use a switch with 2 outputs: for on, and off position. Triggering 2 at the same time is impossible.

> 2) are they cost effective enough to be used in consumer keyboards?

Surely less than a percentage of a cent in extra cost.
Can you summarize the various "pots" and what makes the best sense for ICs?
Ask HN: How to get started in amateur astronomy?
What kind of gear? How do you know where to look? What kind of things can you look for? Is it possible for amateur astronomers to find things that the pros haven’t already found?Interested in all input from all experience levels, budgets, particular interests, etc. Thanks!
Well they do have 5 million members, so I don't think it's necessarily accurate to call it a "trade group of gun companies". They may be a significant part of the organization but there are a significant number of individuals who are part of it.
Sounds pretty straightforward to get great speedups where no modules are used, and just make module calls slow (ie. you reconstruct the data structures the module will need on any entry to the module).

Then release a new 'fast' module API, and all the performance critical modules will soon move over.
Assuming there are a lot of cheap broken electron microscopes floating around.
You misunderstand how tech works.

- Normally distributed endeavors: look at averages, ignore outliers.

- Power law distributed endeavors: ignore averages, focus only on outliers.

In tech, a few companies generate all of the returns. And it's fractal all the way down. E.g. there have recently been 900 U.S. unicorns minted in the past few years (IIRC), accounting for roughly $1T in total market cap. Yet 4 out of the 5 companies on this list are worth more than all of these new unicorns combined.

If you take the attitude "I don't have any chance of investing in one of these outliers", you'll only invest in "safe" things and go broke over time.
oooh fun, this one is mine :) I've had this happen.... three times? In my nine years writing Rust. It exists, but you aren't forced to even use things like this; this is because this particular library is trying to stretch the type system as far as it can go.
The company I worked for used some Oracle tech and I was trying to get some high level information about a product but their website kept requesting my e-mail just to show me some documentation.

Once I provided them with my e-mail, I started receiving "You must take us to your leader" messages in a tone as if I was their employee and they were commanding me to take them to my CEO. I can't imagine myself chasing the CEO in the building because some sales people in Oracle told me to do so :)

To be fair, after being in meetings with theirs sales engineers(who wore the best shirts I've ever seen) a few times I grew to respect their stubbornness and the way they structured their corporate machine. It's a valuable lesson to have an exposure to corporate dealings I believe, before that I used to do freelance stuff and had no idea how a simple webpage can cost millions and why a large corporation won't buy that easily from a small company with similar or better product at the fraction of the cost.
> Maybe a federated comment section?

I’d love to see this. For a long time I’ve been wishing for some sort of social overlay on top of the web - why can’t I comment with my community on existing articles? Make in-line annotations and share them? See my friends’ annotations as I read articles? Etc.

This could be a browser plug-in or perhaps an iframe over the original content. It could even be implemented as a protocol that browsers support (“go to your configured overlay server(s) and load content for the page you are on”) if it were successful enough. This sort of feature gets better the more streamlined and “baked in” it is.
The vaccines clearly do protect people by a significant degree, and as we’ve seen they’ve also been highly effective against strains which arose after the initial development. That makes it quite reasonable to expect that vaccinated people will fare better against future variants, and even if you’re a complete sociopath who doesn’t care about the human cost, that means society will be better off with fewer disruptions due to illness and less stress on the medical system.
I spent quite a while looking for a link from which to git-clone and never found one.

It is advertised as We’ve created a crowd-sourced, open-source standard NDA that companies can adopt as their own.

The desire to trademark the name makes sense, so that "oneNDA" can mean something, but to reap the true benefit of the crowd, CC-BY-SA would be a much better fit than the present CC-BY-ND, no?
It's related without a doubt. We're talking here really about the magnitude of the effect. First, I do think there's a strong correlation between volcanic activity and atmosphere temperature variances. Historically, supervolcanoes did change earth atmosphere. That's a fact.

So, now you're mentioning that reducing the amount of polar ice, rising sea level do not present more pressure on the inner layers of Earth? I highly doubt it.
Shopify got to huge scale first and then started sponsoring TruffleRuby and YJIT as research projects.
AI do have measures of confidence. It’s just most use cases have them throw out a guess anyway.
Clearly this isn't intended as a serious way of "ranking" languages, but I wish there was a way to measure the "efficiency" of languages from the same geographic setup (and, preferably, family) but in different time periods, e.g. Akkadian vs. Babylonian vs. early Hebrew vs. early Arabic.

One would expect the efficiency to improve over time, but maybe this is not true.

Is there anything in this topic that one can read?
The gun factor makes it so much easier to wound and kill multiple people with outcomes that are order(s) of magnitude worse that just that alone overshadows any "people kill people" fundaments in the equation.

If you're not allowed (or it's made legally risky enough) to shoot lethal projectiles around, near instantly, and to targets who are merely within a line of sight or just close by then your ability to harm and kill multiple people are heavily bounded by your ability to physically chase and catch individuals. It takes time to exert violence so even if you manage to attack one person the others will use the time for fleeing away. You really have to be busy if you try to implement even a fraction of a mass shooting with a knife.

Similarly, knives, fists, batons, and axes keep the damage very local. Even if the astrophysicist's neighbour had stabbed some poor soul thirty times in an adjacent apartment the tragedy would have been mostly contained in the crime scene. Bullets fly far and they fly through, expanding the potential crime scene like what just happened there.

Guns turn any situation into a whole another level of danger which is the reason most sane countries have regulated gun accessibility, penalised gun usage, and implemented emergency and judicial response to the point where most criminals don't want to use or carry guns because doing so turns minor risks into show-stopping ones. It could be argued that criminals might often be stupid but even criminals aren't that stupid.
Yes, definitely. Python is much much more dynamic than Javascript -- the jump in dynamicness of Javascript to Python is about equivalent to Java to Javascript, and similarly requires a different set of techniques.

The single example I typically give is that in Python you can inspect stack frames after they've exited! This has concrete implications on your VM design.

Another example is that the multiple dispatch protocol for binary operations (such as addition) is sufficiently complicated that you generally cannot encode it into your compiler. We have been able to have a simplified version of that by building a tracing JIT for C, which is able to understand the dispatch protocol, but it is not always applicable.

Source: I've been working on Python optimization for several years as part of the Pyston project.
I guess, but this argument is basically just saying "RPi is basically just a normal computer now so why be conservative with anything?"
It was delayed. Again. https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4345

The URL slug saying "may-2022" while the title says June 2022 really exudes confidence, too.
Do you even 'staff' engineer? :))

I'm also a staff SWE (not at Google) and I find it hard to believe there are no resources for senior+ ICs in a place that's supposedly engineering-driven. I've been bombarded with 'leading without authority' and 'influence'-like trainings since forever in my current workplace...
Just stop paying rent
BSDL, GPL, MIT License.

This has been an argument for at least 25 years that I've been around this stuff.
Temporarily,

until people realize they are a sidechain,

and Loopring does what they do without inherent added security risks.
Surely there's a way to allow for an increase in prosperity of the non-wealthy more effectively by taxing commerce/transfers-of-wealth alone.

I pity the fool who thinks that taxing people, income, or property can allow for any real move toward relief of the non-wealthy.

If it needs to be accomplished to the extreme, then concentrate on extreme commerce.
Do you know of any good, trustworthy ones?
That's what it felt like, yeah. Also that the tech wasn't able to prove itself so they kept it behind a curtain.

Multiple times they'd book a technical meeting to get us on-boarded and when I got on the call it was all sales people trying.
I agree, and definitely don't endorse investing purely off of founder age (I even stated that in my original post).
New drilling machine quickly/economically cuts through hardest rocks in world
This slide deck matches up with this interview from Talk Python with Guido and Mark Shannon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r6bFhl6wR8
‘I’ve already sold my daughters; now, my kidney’: winter in Afghanistan’s slums
It's probably overkill, but not really enough overkill to be worth spending much time on.

E.g. 12 worker nodes and 192 vCores means they've picked 16 core nodes. 1.5TB of memory across 12 nodes means 128GB per node. 24TB of storage is just 2TB per node.

So it's 12 relatively mid sized servers/VMs.

They could certainly do it with much less, and I have no interest in looking up what 12 nodes of that spec would cost on Azure, but at Hetzner it'd cost less than 1500 GBP/month including substantial egress. At most cloud providers the bandwidth bill for this likely swamps the instance cost, and the developer cost to develop this is likely many times the lifetime projected hosting cost even with that much overkill.

If they happen to have someone familiar with query caching and CDNs, I'm sure they could cut it significantly very quickly, and even an entirely average developer could figure out how to trim that significantly over time. But even at (low) UK government contract rates it's not worth much time to try to trim a bill like that much vs. just picking whatever the developers who worked on it preferred.
Revenue won't dip, but as revenue growth slows, P/E multiples drop and with them, stock prices.
Cursorless (2021)
Promising idea.

It's worth noting that, in RStudio + RMarkdown, you can already mix different languages in chunks.

But for those who would rather not work in RStudio, maybe this will be appealing.
When you've done all that you're still left with performance wins you could get that are in the interpreter.

I've worked on a system like that where it was just nothing to optimize really (anymore). It was just lots of code and there was no hot path to optimize.
French Adventurer Dies Attempting to Row Solo Across The Atlantic
I've changed dentists in the last year (due to location) and no new issues identified.

Never had an issue with mouth odor.

I imagine most people don't floss every day.
At this point they're talking about an e-motorcycle that sort of incidentally has an emergency backup pedal drivetrain.

Which is fine—most of the energy efficiency advantages of a bike come from being light and (relatively) slow, not from being human-powered, and their small size helps with lane and parking space.

But at that point you need real safety gear, and definitely shouldn't be sharing infrastructure (at least at those kinds of speeds) with human-powered bikes.

(edit: this is more in reply to the comment the preceding comment replied to. I regret the error)
The Pieces of the Blockchain Lego
To securely deliver the intended content.
This is great, but at the same time 19% is still pretty far from 50%, and there are only ~3 months left until the feature freeze. It will be interesting to see how far they get in this release.
If you don't think it'll happen 2022, I have some Ethereum Classic to sell you.
> Some do, some don’t

None of them do.

> the industry standard ”NFT License” transfers limited rights.

It doesn't. (Also, there's no "industry standard for NFTs")

> but as an example the owners of apes you are calling dumbasses for buying apes and not having ownership, do in fact receive a license to the apes they own.

No, they don't. They receive a hash pointing to a location that may or may not contain that ape, ... and that's it.

> Sure you can copy and “mint” an NFT all you want, no different than any other copyrighted digital work can be copied and reproduced…but you would be violating the law in either case.

And the law has literally nothing to do with NFTs.

> Why do you think copyright protections don’t apply to NFTs and copyrights can’t be enforced when they happen to be NFTs?

Yes, they do. Yes, they can. And they have to do with the actual art being sold, and have nothing to do with NFTs.
I'm not sure if this is a joke/meme but that is also insecure.