skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I didn't realize how unhappy I was working at startups until I took a corporate job again and my wife made me promise not to do another startup until the kids are grown up.

Same... but in our case the kids haven't come yet. I can't believe how difficult some weeks were for me before landing my current corporate job. My wife says that I seem a lot happier.
I think it will be interesting to see a company get so big that it fails because it can't hire anyone anymore. While, the "market can remain irrational", it certainly isn't impossible that eventually you consume a sufficient portion of the entire hirable population with your bad reputation, that finding the replacement talent for your company size incurs costs that are just too high. What is the model for getting out of this bind?
This is a report on running a business from home, how that has taken off since covid, and some of the red tape that can prevent you from doing that.

Some background.

https://ij.org/report/entrepreneur-from-home-how-home-based-...
Another benefit is that it reduces the heat transferred to the living environment during cooking. Might be useful in a small living space like an RV or tiny house.
First Molecular Electronics Chip Developed
My point is that switching to urbanized infrastructure isn't going to suddenly make the population more willing to fork out more in taxes. It just moves the problem.
By that logic MacOS doesn’t have any third party software at all.
Expecting zero mistakes is unreasonable. The system worked correctly. The person who was not guilty was found not guilty.
Now we just need to scale this by a mere 37,200,000,000,000x and we'll have simulated the entire human body!
Very cool! What are you using to do the Playwright recording?
It’s definitely fun to think about.

If the universe is discrete, how does one voxel communicate to the neighboring voxel what to update without passage through ‘stuff in between’ that doesn’t exist? Heh

It seems physics is going the opposite way with infinite universes and multiple dimensions to smooth out this information transfer problem and make the discrete go away.
> glasses cause myopia in most people

Would you say that glasses cure hyperopia in most people?
verlet list is the standard algo used to reduce the complexity in the number of interatomic calculations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlet_list
> A downside is that although normally you'd want to remove old feature flags that become obsolete, this hasn't been done very often.

We use feature flags a ton and this is something that burns us a little bit too.

The upsides are worth it though. Having that surgical precision in production is essential when you have a complex product that touches many lines of business.
Mnyea, you're probably right and that just flew over my head. No surprise- I remember being told that my sense of humour was removed at birth...
I didn’t accuse you of grifting.

I’m making a prediction of what future grifts will involve.
> I'm in security, and one thing I always try to stress is that if the security software is causing work stoppages, it should be treated with the same importance as an outage. Just as you wouldn't tolerate an internet connection that went down all the time. Outages from security measures are still outages.

Outages/workstop are pretty binary. Otoh its hard to see how much time people spend just waiting for stuff to complete. At my last job, pulling down a copy of the test db for local use was taking 30-40 minutes. But because everything else was slow, it was only after I noticed it being a lot shorter for coworkers that I even bothered investigating what was causing it (version of mysql was old, made it a 5-10 minute process after fixing a config).
I was curious about the implementation, and was surprised to find:

- they’re importing query files, with a .scm extension, in TypeScript

- they’re using esbuild to handle those imports

It’s surprising to me that the Microsoft, who created and maintains TypeScript, is using an alternative TypeScript compiler… in part to query semantic information from TypeScript.
>looks like there's a lot of missing insight into activity

Some of that can be findable ... but usually you're collecting it some other way already

Or it "doesn't matter" because you have shared authentication doing tasks (or being triggered by someother tool using a service account ..which pushes the audit trail further from the SaaS offering)
LSP integration is a real game changer. I've tried different plugins but coc.nvim is the first to work incredibly well and not trash the performance.
-"As for scripting, commit to getting good at Bash."

That advice can cause substantial headache on Ubuntu/Debian, where the Almquist shell is /bin/sh. This does not implement much of bash and will fail spectacularly on the simplest of scripts. This is also an issue on systems using Busybox.

A useful approach to scripting is to grasp the POSIX shell first, then facets of bash and Korn as they are needed.

-"As a practical goal, you should be able to recreate your host with a single Bash script."

This already exists as a portable package:

https://relax-and-recover.org/

-"For my default database, I picked MySQL."

SQLite appears to have a better SQL implementation, and is far easer in quickly creating a schema (set of tables and indexes).
If this is true, there must be some species at some level of simulation who's not being simulated.

I'm not sure if you're being real or not, but if you are, do you think the species running who made our simulation are also being simulated?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward

> Not to be confused with Cultural Revolution.

apparently it's a comon problem.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUvvj5lwue7PspotMDjk5UA

Seems like a money YouTuber, I've never watched him myself.
I dunno, I wonder what Laplace would have made of the argument over the meaning of wavefunction collapse. It took me a very long time to come to terms with the idea of a non-deterministic universe.
Hey, it looks great, I love it!

Would it be feasible to support unicode variables? Having to spell the greek letters seems a bit clunky. If I type them directly it gives a parsing error. Notice that in modern LaTeX (say, xetex or luatex) you can do that. No need to type \'e to get é like we did in the nineties.
"“We understand that our charging decisions deeply impact people’s lives,” said Rachael Rollins"

Understand my a$$. They do not give a fuck about what they do to people. If they were directly responsible and punished in cases where they've improperly ruined people's lives then they might understand.
Can't google afford a native speaker to proof read their text output?
>Time for the DoD to commission their own OS.

I am shocked that governments are not investing mega-bucks into getting a microkernel OS built that could be run on internet routers, tanks, power plants, aircraft, water treatment facilities etc. Even if microkerenel design has some impossible to overcome performance limitations, for utmost security, it would be a small price to pay knowing that hacking the OS was nearly impossible.
I've never seen that, would love a link
I've gone through this at multiple jobs too. It's hard. You want the company to succeed (especially if you have a stake) but the work itself becomes less enjoyable. I very much understand why some companies choose to stay small even if it means they're limiting their potential.
Splintering off the toxic division as a subsidiary.

For example, Google, the "be evil" toxic advertising-tracking company, is now a splintered subsidiary of Alphabet.

But Amazon and Facebook don't seem much interested in doing the subsidiary thing, at least not to Alphabet scale, so I'm not sure what they'll do instead.
you are right in practice, but my argument is not about what is de facto the case, but what should be the case.

> government restrictions on speech

Well this obviously should not generally be the case. If you are, say a high ranking general at the pentagon -- which is a position directly paid by the government, so arguably way more "protected" by the constitution than a subcontractor awardee of a grant, which could be considered to "create a legal veil", then can you claim "first amendment" if you pass military secrets on to an adversarial government? Of course not.
Here "lifestyle" means population. We're doomed.
That's by design
> Nothing about superdeterminism says you can't find ways out of suffering

Actually it does.

Your movie is going to play out the way it plays out, regardless of whatever you do. Throw your feet up in the recliner or struggle for that next promotion, doesn't matter. Brain cancer.

I just find this rubbish.
As a musician, the first thing that comes to mind is "Marshall Stack". In 1965, British guitar amplifier designer Jim Marshall created the Marshall Stack, consisting of a 50 or 100 watt tube amp head on two 4x12" speaker cabinets. The bottom cabinet is straight-front, and the angled top cabinet aims the top 2 speakers at the player's ears. The Who, Cream, and Jimi Hendrix (among others) helped make the Marshall Stack as iconic as musical instruments like the Fender Stratocaster and Gibson Les Paul guitars.
https://marshall.com/live-for-music/history/the-story-behind...
I don't think a whole lot of people are writing new software in Python 2, but I think a lot of people are still running old software via Python 2. Software they didn't write themselves and wouldn't know how to modify.

And that's not to say those users won't have to find something new eventually (or migrate the software to a contained environment). It just shouldn't happen in an automatically installed update.
If someone does that, I hope they find a newer version of bash. The old (3.27?) GPL2 bash should give a warning like that.
OTOH, doing dumb (but consistent/logical) things with players' input could enhance a metalesson about how computers often misunderstand intent, or common overflow/format/etc bugs. With such a simple core game, figuring-out-the-underspecified-rules-of-the-game can be part of the true metagame.

Or as an easter egg, maybe you can enter binary & others - but precisely, as a programmer must, as `0b00000000` (etc).
yeah, really depends on the coordinate system you use but to me it's like a square-rigged ship with the sunshade as the hull, the tower as mast, and the main mirror as sail.

And it's consistent with the terminology used to describe parts of the sunshade during deployment -- fore/aft sunshield pallets, port/starboard sunshield booms..
That doesn't surprise me at all as Google's products seems to be left abandoned.
I don't know about heroism, but Sam Harris has my utmost respect.
For me, it's more what's philosophically right about an innocent person enduring suffering or punishment through no fault of their own. To me, that appears to be a great (maybe even the greatest) injustice.
So, I know the meme that the European middle ages were some time of great civilizational downfall ("dark ages") is itself pretty much debunked by now.

But there must have been some kind of change between antiquity and middle ages that caused so much knowledge and international exchange to simply vanish.

I really wonder what exactly went on there.
Yes, pretty much. Once can paramotor on a flat field with no features on a clear windless day. Plus there's no need for altitude loss procedures which carry some risk, no aerobatics, the wing is almost always properly loaded because you carry a 30 kg motor on your back and you don't need all the wing area that you normally need for paragliding, so the risk for wing collapse is smaller. There are simply other risks involved.
Sure, but you’re twisting words. Wind is pretty much always used to refer to horizontal air movement.
If your problem is with human rights and the rule of law, you should stop US violations first, because the US the most powerful country. The American military continues its aggression on human rights around the world.
The walls aren't for keeping anyone out, they are for keeping you in, always has been.
> I have a Logi keyboard and Mouse with that 3 device button option, and a monitor with a few inputs, so I just turn on the ol' Linux box, press a few buttons, and I'm there.

Install Barrier on both Mac and Linux, get an extra monitor, and then you can seamlessly work on both system at once as if it's a single computer with multiple monitors. Don't even need to press that switch button on your keyboard and mouse.

https://github.com/debauchee/barrier
You did, indeed, lose your first playthrough - but none of your guesses were marked wrongly.
And you lose the 2x bandwidth increase you get from using two sticks of RAM. Oof.
> double-digit percentage more for housing

I'm skeptical. The most expensive housing in my city is in the urban core. Houses a few miles out are much cheaper, even if currently overpriced. Everything about living in the city is more expensive, too. Friend of mine has a 40 year old condo downtown and he pays more than a thousand bucks a month in building fees.

You might argue that this is just a sign that the suburbs are being subsidized, but I'd argue that it really just shows that the budget problem is real, we're not correctly budgeting for future expenses. If each homeowner also had to drop another 10K+ a year in maintenance, suburbia can be maintained indefinitely.
It would be utterly shocking to me if VSCode isn’t using several worker threads for LSP, extensions, etc.
Sounds great thanks for the insight :)
I'm not sure it's as black and white as you make it out to be. Many things are cheaper from various other countries, yet we are encouraged to "buy American" because it's generally understood that keeping that money in the country is better for everyone in than long run than sending it to some 3rd world country where labor goes for pennies. We are also often encouraged to "buy local" rather than go out of State, town, etc for similar reasons.

The idea that keeping that money in the community might benefit the community, including the purchaser, more in the long run than saving a few bucks doesn't seem that crazy to me.
If "requests a lot of permissions" was sufficient to get apps taken off the Play store then we'd see way more "Help, Google took down my app and I'm mad" posts on HN, even if you did is based on comparisons to other same-category apps.

The permission model is messy but made much worse by the volume of SDK code that is actually in most apps today. SDKs ship as big blobs with their own manifests and if you build in the SDK then you are collecting their permissions even if you aren't using the code that needs it. And given that virtually zero consumers choose apps based on permissions, there is little incentive to pare down the list to the minimum needed.

android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED is really the only thing suspicious in that list since this is used for a few more old school malicious behaviors. Complaining about android.permission.INTERNET is frankly hilarious since that permission no longer does anything (every app has access to the internet).
Interesting comparison to Carl Sagan, because no matter how little I know about a topic, Carl can put it in terms I can understand even in my sleep.
> That advice can cause substantial headache on Ubuntu/Debian, where the Almquist shell is /bin/sh. This does not implement much of bash and will fail spectacularly on the simplest of scripts. This is also an issue on systems using Busybox.

At least for Debian and Ubuntu, that's why we start bash scripts with #!/bin/bash, of course.

Your point is valid for Busybox, though.
No you can’t just triple the estimated flu deaths just because. Come on. The claim as stated is false.
When I have to install a CLI tool and it's in python I sigh loudly. Happy that many CLIs have moved or are moving to golang
Buy now, pay later scammers are sharing their exploits and secrets on Telegram
Haha, I just (as in 20 min ago) helpled a friend get their computer to work and they had 3 antiviruses running. It's a pretty common problem actually, helped a few people with it the last 20 years.
> That advice can cause substantial headache on Ubuntu/Debian, where the Almquist shell is /bin/sh. This does not implement much of bash and will fail spectacularly on the simplest of scripts.

That's not really a problem as long as you use #!/bin/bash shebang, and there is nothing wrong in doing that.
Having a big enemy to fight is good for those in power. Always has been, probably always will be.
Manage your version. Trust your APK source.
Were the indigenous Americans the source of the ideas, or did the mere existence of indigenous Americans foster these ideas? The discovery of people, any people, outside the existing understanding of european/asian culture would bring forward new ideas. Were they the source, or were they simply the canvas onto which European thinkers painted stories?
I just pulled it (and switched to dockerd as default container runtime to use 'docker') - it seems to work as a great swap for docker desktop on mac. I like that volumes work well vs podman. Nice that you an trivy scan an image, etc.

Have you hit any sharp edges yet? I imagine there might be a few. Anything you can share would be great
It’s a lot easier for a king to become a pirate than for a pirate to become a king
When the market dries up it's the weakest, marginal companies that fail. Maybe Circuit City could have survived with better service, but that would have doomed someone else.
It means that a lot happened in 10 years, so when comparing a single event to the whole thing, obviously it can only match up to part of it, not the whole thing.
They're happily killing people or sponsor killings in the rest of the world. There are countries that can attest to that.
Yes. But you don't need a SaaS service for this: it's just a field in a table and a bit of code to parse the values you store there.
Israel becomes 15th nation to join Artemis Accords
Chinese people: we can build so fast

Americans: Well, that’s because you don’t build it to not fall down. That’s why we build slowly.

Americans: our shit falls down anyway
Fun that the first opportunity they had to make a difference they choose censorship over openness.
You provided a perfect example without realizing it, it just wasn't contained in the links you provided.
Why exactly did they ban Gab?
Yep, we had the misfortune to have both Mcaffee and Tanium installed. And then after they got ransomwared, they added even more endpoint crap onto every endpoint.

From the time Windows started, my laptop fans would spin like an aircraft taking off. Utterly ludicrous amount of wasted CPU time and energy.

To be clear, I think AV and EDR are valuable tools - but Mcaffee is just shit, and Tanium has really high CPU usage.

Aside from the above, all the security crapware made actually doing work difficult. Want to install software? Nah, nobody gets admin rights, instead submit a request on our shitty help desk, and if you're lucky and very perceivent, you'll get it in a month. Need to run something elevated? Nope!

And the worst of it was that Mcaffee, Tanium, PAM etc was all just glitter on a turd - general, more mundane stuff was a security joke. For example, at least 10 internal spam emails would be sent each day, to let you know about boring and irrelevant shit going on around the company - and every one looked like an actual spam email! Full of spelling errors, silly subject lines, and often the whole body was text rendered as an image. Internal web apps were hacked together by shit devs, and stuffed with security vulnerabilities. The general theme was "more shit on endpoints". Bah.
I'm not buying that. Sure there might be some unknown metabolic factors at play, but it seems disingenuous to overlook the ratio of calories consumed to calories expended.
Society has concluded that the expected return to it from your raising a child is much higher than working on your pet project.

I don't/won't have kids either but it doesn't seem all that unreasonable to me?
I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)
Cloaking is real but is itself a fun signal. Most apps (outside of the chinese market) don't use cloaking so observing behavior that seems like cloaking can be strong signal that an app is malicious even if you cannot determine what the behavior actually is.
The pittsburgh metro area is larger than the city itself, area wise the city is only about 50 square miles vs hamburgs 200+
Tree-sitter is interesting. I see that it is used by the Github Copilot extension for VS-Code, which is the slowest on my machine because it somehow contains megabytes of minified javascript and webassembly to call a remote API.
Anyone else started down the leadership principles interview prep path and couldn’t shake the feeling that this was similar to getting ready to join the crazy / brainwashed masses in Waco, Jonestown, heavens gate etc?

Recruiter recently was throwing out $420,000+ but I still had to say no thanks. Joining the team that runs Jeff Bezos petabyte scale billing tracking is not on my dream job list. Especially considering the turnover that team seems to have.
Pretty sure I'd rather get $400k/yr and only 6 months leave, than €60k/yr and 1-2 years leave.
My point is that Apple is not subsidizing lower end models by selling overpriced ram, if they were fine with the margins other laptop manufacturers have, they could sell their products much cheaper (they could still cut their prices significantly and have considerably higher margins than others) but they don't, because they don't have to (their products are good, there is a huge demand for them and they don't have as much competition as PC makers).

Obviously I don't Apple's exact margins, they are probably lower than 50% but not by much however: "But there's no way they could keep their entry level prices as low if they charged a fair price for upgrades." is simply just not true, they obviously could do that if any of the conditions I mentioned changed, they just don't because as any other company Apple seeks to maximize it's profits.

Dell XPS, Thinkpad X1, Razer Blade and Surface Laptop lines have pretty decent build quality, of course they all have inferior CPUs which use more power and generate way more heat compared to the Mac (I didn't say you can get one for 1300€, just that that other manufacturers try to price their premium laptop lines at similar level as Apple but usually end up having to sell them at significant discounts)
Look up "globohomo art style", originally developed for Facebook as "Alegria". It's the same one with distorted people and all that. The point is they purposely make them representative of nobody to avoid this problem.
Thanks for the thorough reply.

> it will be done in parallel by a large number of soldiers personally grinding small amounts of grain each, not by a mill

I'd had it in my head for some reason that a mill stone was the only reasonable way to turn grain into flour. This was the main factor I wasn't considering. The weight/effort to handle a portable mill certainly wouldn't beat hand tools. Even if to just help keep soldiers busy.

EDIT: I expect that if one were to analyze an army's flour requirement as some form of equipment weight + work-hours / grain-throughput * army size there would be a point at which it made sense to haul a portable mill. But it definitely would not make sense to power it with steam engine compared to having soldiers turn it by hand. I would also expect that a force large enough to utilize that efficiency would be unheard of in roman times.
My organization decided to hold off on purchasing M1 MacBooks for developers until they're better supported by third party software. Too much stuff just crashes or doesn't work well, even with QEMU and Rosetta.