skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make some very good points (echoing Conway's Law: software will reflect the org chart). Smart companies are constantly seeking better ways to structure teams and processes to mitigate the downsides at either extreme (horizontal layers : vertical stacks).

IMHO, over-emphasis on efficiency is a common trap; efficiency and agility are at the poles, and it's the latter that often matters more.

So, how to strike a pragmatic balance? I've been part of successful experiments with a small, free-roaming, multidisciplinary "red team" or "green team" that crossed org boundaries to solve gnarly problems, free up log jams, and facilitate step-function improvements in standard teams' capabilities.

> "Architects are expensive, so they're long gone before the first character of the code is ever written."

As a hands-on architect, I don't consider my work complete until there's been meaningful collaboration with dev leads and in-depth review of working code. It's a dynamic and iterative process. Immutable, ivory tower boxes-and-arrows -- divorced from the realities of actual software development at any kind of scale -- are insufficient. A prescribed, linear, waterfall process of biz req -> architecture -> implementation is bound to fail. Success requires embracing the rich interplay between various forms of software design (requirements, IX/UX, architecture, and implementation) and stepping in and out of them where and when appropriate.
People are so quick to dismiss advertisements as "always bad", but they are part of a legitimate ecosystem that IS BENEFICIAL TO YOU.

Sales people, recruiters, advertisements, marketing departments - they all help me understand what is being sold so I can buy things that I GENUINELY want or need

It is true that there are garbage advertisements out there, and they should be pruned. But if YOU write really awesome code at work and you want people to use it, ask yourself, how do other people know they should use it?

You tell them. You talk, you email, you set up Confluence pages with documentation. All of this is a part of the advertising ecosystem - and it helps the creator AND the consumer
Math formulae are not trivial to check formally using a computer. Mathematical software is in its infancy relative to the sophistication of mathematical objects defined in the literature.
Why do you say Facebook threw it away? Talk to most consumers and Oculus is almost a synonym for VR like a "Xerox machine." I wont weigh on on the tech merits vs competitors but the brand is strong.
Raph Koster: Real Talk about a Real Metaverse
My biggest worry is donationg == ties you to the messaging platform, granted that your telecom/isp and most likely operating system on phone knows you have it installed via the play/app stores is more indicative of something sinister.

then they link this paper - https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1416.pdf which, on one level is great - they're open about the account credential scheme they wish to do.

On the other level, it's a level of complexity.

Yes, "nothing to fear, nothing to hide" and it's on your phone daily - and eh.

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360057625692-In...

Then with this in app payment - the only supported crypto is mobilecoin. https://www.mobilecoin.com/

Granted, I don't know much about it, and I do understand the on-ramp for bitcoin/monero/eth/ltc is not as easy and probably as much tracable.

So, after all this banter, it just comes down to being anonymous is a bit hard indeed. :)

Not against paying, not against supporting signal, it's just it is a tricky problem all around.
>I unfollow everyone on facebook, I found it gives me peace of mind that I can still message them, but very little incentive to use facebook since I see no news feed.

You might be interested to know that you can actually deactivate your Facebook account while still retaining an active Messenger account if the ability to message is all that's keeping you around.
That’s partly why I donate. If they get direct funds they’re hopefully less likely to turn to these scammy cryptocoins to keep the lights on
I'd say the answer is still straightforward, at least in the example you gave. To me as a customer it doesn't matter if it's the store owner who is stocking the stands or if they rent them out. I walked in to your store, handed you my money and received the item from you. If you're not vetting the producers that's on you.
WhatsApp used to cost 99 cents per year https://www.siliconvalley.com/2016/01/18/whatsapp-drops-99-c... I can't remember ever paying.
I'm in a third world country and even I would contribute $10 a year. I already contribute to Wikipedia on occasion. Making it monthly feels like too much of an obligation.
I’ve found some very relevant services based on host read advertising on podcasts.
Please remember that any resistance to the loss of your privacy might lose people money. Let's not also forget to use basic manipulation and reference poor little small businesses in our example to make people sympathetic.

I guess if unethical behavior is used persistently enough, it'll be normalized and we can start talking about how important it is to keep doing it (and oh yeah the little guy, think about the little guy--especially over any general societal goals)
I live in Maryland and keep a boat at a marina in Annapolis. By chance I meet students from the Naval Academy now and then. Every time I meet one the advice I share with them is I greatly hope no one will have to call them to action and get them or their fellow soldiers killed as a result of more stupid military adventurism.

And every single time there's been a look of revelation, if just a brief glimmer, as they realize the point I'm making.

Will it matter? Maybe. At some point one of them might be in a position to make better decisions about their fate and that of their subordinates. I do hope some random old guy saying "I hope they don't get you killed" certainly matters lot more than empty "thank you for your service" nonsense.
Sound maybe being in a big corp that moves slowly would be a great fit?
Web3 and the 4th industrial revolution are just marketing phrases.

Web3 is just web2 with a different focus. it's not decentralised, it runs on web2 stacks, it does none of the thing it purports.

Just like the lack of any real revolution in this supposed 4th iteration
Check on Etsy.
Awesome concept, do you plan on releasing a firefox version?
I think you may be confused as to the context. Or else I am, let me check.

Ok, so this is a check done after the car has been used for 3 years.

So, it's not QC before the car leaves the factory, it's fixing things before the government checks them and puts them into the public stats for test "failures".
Reminder that Signal server source code is not fully released and the app is heavily dependent on google services to operate. Signal also takes measures against third party or unofficial apps.
Whatever you say about privacy Signal is not an ally of user freedom.
Re-tooled in the sense of adapting their organizations to pursue commercial development opportunities more so than residential development (e.g. hiring more people with networks and experience in that market).

The 2007-2008 crash wiped out a lot of over-leveraged residential developers, and individuals building single homes. From conversations I've had with people in that industry, their sense is that we learned next to nothing and that a repeat of that experience is inevitable. So commercial development became seen as more desirable and less risky.

Now that I think about it though, I haven't had any conversations since COVID! I wonder if the rise of remote work will have enough impact on commercial development to flip that calculus again.
The only other concern I might have other than an hard drive would be the fans. Any moving pieces could have issues caused by vibrations, but fans are much more resilient than hard drives and I wouldn't personally worry about it.

> Have you found any solution to minimize the bouncing?

Any quality laptop bag/backpack has straps to keep the machine stationary and wearing it securely on your pack should reduce nearly all risk of damage short of a lot of moisture (rain) or impact damage (falling over onto your laptop or dropping it)

If it were me, I would go for it! Really low risk, IMO.
Obviously if Bezos didn't know it's not his fault. Then it's only the city's fault. That's a pretty strange retort, if that's what it is.
In which case you are connecting to a web server that connects to a database, you are not connecting to a database.
Pretty irritating that it doesn't tell you the word after the game is over.
Susan Haack
>But unless you’re trying to create a cryptocurrency, buy drugs or blackmail a company using ransomware there aren’t really any sensible use cases for a blockchain

God bless this fella.

I bought tesla stock futures in a country that wouldn't allow it via blockchain. I reduced a portion of my ecommerce store checkout fees to <1% by using a crypto payment processor > stripe's highway robbery of 3% per sale.

Ps: [should i redact the word 'stripe' on here to avoid shadowbanning?]

etc.
The article reads as some sort of pub conversation rant rather than anything serious. The guy claims that Bitcoin is "playing Numberwang", for christ's sake.

Then there are some hilarious misgivings.

> Blocks in the blockchain are for all intents and purposes completely fixed. This means that a transaction that happened erroneously or illegally can never be changed. Or bad data can never be changed. Imagine if you move house and the gas company says: “There is literally no way to change your address in our database".

Er, no, you just submit a correction to the address. Exactly the same as issuing an SQL UPDATE, it's just that at the lower level the SQL transaction of the UPDATE is stored, rather than the updated final result.
Low coupling and high cohesion were the terms that I was thinking of, too.
Maybe eastern half of Montana compares to Romania.
Yes: https://etherscan.io/address/0x3ee18b2214aff97000d974cf647e7...
Well, I guess they're not HN readers. And I don't suppose they're the ones reading the article.
What you don't realise is that they will keep your donation AND their crypto.
Apple is giving the user the choice to be tracked. How will the argument work in court for FB to say that users shouldn’t be given the choice?
> The housing crisis is a meme basically centered around 15 locales in the states.

Yes, because that's where the people are. The housing crisis heatmap is pretty much the US population heatmap ( https://xkcd.com/1138/ ). Houses are cheap in the vast emptiness of the rural US. The EU doesn't really have similar unpopulated areas.
Return it, or if in the US talk to your states Attorney General's office and explain the scam they are running and how something which had the features on the box has misled you and taken them away after the return period.
Same thing in Georgia (punitive taxes on any residential property beyond your primary home), and Atlanta is still one of the hottest housing markets in the nation.

Just pass those costs on to your tenants.
These are not requirements for most messaging app users. I just want secure messaging. I don’t care if it’s open or interoperable. WhatsApp if it was run by a non profit.
It is not plausible that a fixed-term alternative would be the smaller of the two numbers.

Discrimination is a serious issue, but orthogonal to this mode of sentencing. The possibility of parole is generally regarded as a progressive measure, and abolishing it would not help with the discrimination problem.
No, that's on you. There's no standard store operational model. Some are whole chains, others are just endpoints. The onus is on you to check your assumptions if they contain something important (like what you're expecting)
I want nice things, so I’m going to donate.

All those times when I’ve thought I would pay for service X if it meant not dealing with shitty dark pattern Y. Signal has kept their side of the deal, so now’s the time to pony up the dough.

This and stack exchange would top the list of things I’m willing to pay for.
Exactly! And it’s also true that someone with a CS degree might not be able to explain Big O notation.

CS degrees are a shorthand for a knowledge set that you really ought to know, since you were explicitly guided to acquire it, but can’t really guarantee knowledge or skills. Obviously, the inverse is also true.
Well yes, they all complain about being a landlord. However as you say, they never discuss the money side of things--just the hassle. Most landlords in a very bad year will break even, but in an average year will be in the positive. And of course you shouldn't even be looking at rental income in the short term--you should be looking at it as an asset that someone else pays for entirely and maybe slops a little extra cash to you in the short term and THEN when you're older and they've paid for your asset as a revenue generator. I've been looking at buying a rental even though the prices are insane right now simply as a source of reoccurring revenue when my wife and I are older and the loan has been paid off.
List of AI Mishaps
> erivative works are typically fine as long as source is disclosed, credit is given,

That's not how it works, at all.
Gopher is an hilariously simple protocol, So I can see why initially it seems like a good idea. Being able to use any random gopher browser to poke at redis is pretty powerful.

Of course it turns out no one uses it, so there's no real reason to keep it in.
WSL runs on a lightweight VM:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/compare-version...
The key issue we have is that there are somewhat accurate-ish tests to check for acute and past alcohol usage, as well as defined impairment levels, but for THC we have neither breathalyzer-style tests nor impairment level standards. FWIW it's not even clear if blood should be tested for active THC, for byproducts or waste products.

That makes dealing with MJ impairment a bit of troublesome for companies... I agree that there should be no mandatory drug testing for a lot of employers that currently require one, but everything involving machinery should be allowed to have stricter standards.
I think that most of the overhead is due to how ansible communicates with clients. A faster language would not change that.

chezmoi has a much simpler approach so I don't think it's a good comparison.

There is a project called mitogen that implements a faster communication method. Don't know if it works with newer versions of ansible tho
I wrote this extension years ago when Delicious was still around. Whenever you searched for something on Google, it also did a search on Delicious and displayed the matching bookmarks on top of Google's search results.

It worked extremely well for me.

https://github.com/soheilpro/deligle
Oh cool I didn’t know that ALE was so flexible, thanks!

And yeah rust-analyzer is definitely the happy path, but if you were trying to get by without a language server (not going to lie on a very large rust project rust-analyzer’s RAM usage can get up there), I think that `cargo check` output properly parsed and displayed in your linter would probably get you a huge portion of what you need. Between that and rustfmt, I think the only thing you’d be missing would be go to definition and that kind of thing (but you can set that up with a ctags-style thing or just replace with fuzzy grep).

In fact, before I figured out how to get rust-analyzer working in emacs, I used a setup where `cargo check` ran on save, and the output showed up in flycheck. From what you said about ALE, it sounds like you could set it up the same way. The main thing would be making sure there’s a way to get the FULL output of `cargo check`, probably not inline because there tends to be a lot of it. But e.g. with emacs I get error underlines that show the first part of the error, and then I can expand that in a popup window, or run cargo check, which opens cargo check in another buffer, with the output parsed so that if I press enter on an error, it brings me to the location in the code.

All of which is to say that it is doable! Maybe it would just take some extra ALE configuration, since the defaults are probably oriented towards people who are using rust-analyzer.
I can't believe they would charge that amount for data. I was was pulling solar data in the past as well - pretty straightforward. To be fair it probably took you more time to set up but now that the work is done and maintenance is probably pretty low it should pay off after a couple of years.

What other projects did you look into?
Well fortunately because of the
Epic case, now we have a real judge that says that is not the case.
Sounds like another reason to avoid Chrome.
Can you share the SSD model and it's dimensions that you are using with Omnia? I am trying to find one that actually can fit and have enough capacity for mine.
Ask HN: What job did you have before you worked in tech?
> Let's not also forget to use basic manipulation and reference poor little small businesses...

It's the corporate version of "think of the children". Often cited by big predators (from Amazon to Walmart, Exxon to Utilities) for cover.
> No doubt others will say their own favourite blockchain is more efficient and is the future of Web3. But all blockchains are much more inefficient than literally any alternative. For example, ethereum...

Please attack and critique the 'alleged' state of the art blockchains of today that don't use PoW.

Once again, only attacking the easiest examples in the blockchain industry (which use PoW). Everyone knows that Bitcoin, and Ethereum are both destroying the planet. Not all cryptocurrencies are the same as those two and many do not use PoW today.

It's very easy to criticise the environmental impacts of the first commercial petrol car and use that as an argument to say that all cars should not be used or that cars will not change the world, since petrol cars are more hostile to the environment.

The author is doing the same thing, but generalising and bundling all cryptocurrencies having the same environmental negatives as PoW cryptocurrencies (Including Bitcoin, and Ethereum).
Philadelphia has done this recently, to some extent: https://billypenn.com/2022/01/24/philadelphia-marijuana-empl...
Ah yes you're right, I was going by the Linux 5.6 release notes, which gave 2.32 as version. I personally fully expect TIME_BITS to default to 64 soon, but looking at the 2.35 fixed bugs, they were right in not immediately switching it over. I see at least 2 bugs related to it.
What’s worse is that even ‘See All’ does not list all episodes, e.g. am seeing it go back only as far as episode, say, 48. And the UI does not have affordances for navigating easily in that scenario either.
The people who invited me into facebook do not have a degree. I have not posted anything in probably 5 years. From the activity feed spam FB sends me it looks like they both post quite a decent amount. I have have not logged in, in probably a year. When I got on there it was sort of fun reconnecting with people I had not seen in years. But after a while I remembered why we had drifted apart...
LMGTFY: As part of Google Play services update in late 2021, the advertising ID will be removed when a user opts out of personalization using advertising ID in Android Settings. Any attempts to access the identifier will receive a string of zeros instead of the identifier.

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
I think that the parent comment is actually supporting your point. It does not need to be Turing Complete to be extremely useful. Conversely, a model of computation (CSS) could be Turing Complete (with infinite memory, etc.) and lack arbitrary access the host filesystem (e.g., it only allows to read specific read-only files), thus being useless.
... this link is to the open-source version?
If you only use your PC one day a month then yes, you may have to wait sometimes for updates. If you use your PC a few hours every week, nope. If you only use your Quest 2 once a month you've demonstrated my point: there is a barrier to using it.

Windows updates don't prompt anymore. They download automatically and apply at the next reboot. Steam starts at boot and updates every thing in the background. Never had an Nvidia popup, don't use anything else than a driver for my GPU. As soon as you put on the headset and turn on the controllers it wakes up, starts SteamVR and you can play.
I don't care how long you've been a PC gamer in the past. The time that gaming on Windows was a chore is long gone. Stuff just works on Windows now.
enlyth's mother did say she rolled the stop sign, so unless she's lying, it's clearly a justified fine.

I wouldn't hesitate to break traffic rules at 4 o'clock in the morning if there was zero risk of harm - especially while bicycling I'm very flexible, but I also wouldn't complain if I got fined breaking the law. The law must be upheld even at night.
Opera used to do this and I can confirm it was awesome, haven't used Opera since v12 so I don't know anymore. Made the switch back in the day because chrome's process isolation and js engine made it overall faster and more stable.
> pick-and-place system

Most likely not, but bio/chemical experiments yes.
> The idea that I would use a single browser is crazy

Honestly, and as someone who uses >1 browser, you are an outlier.

For the vast majority, you click the "beachball" or the "red fox" and that's how you internet.

And among those that use >1 browser, I don't want bookmarks or other stuff interoped/shared. I'm specifically using seperate browsers to keep things seperate.

I don't know how well Firefox Pocket works, but Google seems to have no issue keeping bookmarks between phone and desktops synced just fine.
It's already changing the world.

Here's a much more even-handed view of what is(and isn't!) interesting in the nascent "web3" space:

https://www.psl.com/feed-posts/web3-engineer-take
There's a YouTuber named Stephen Hawes[1] whose made his own pick and place machine.

[1] https://youtu.be/6Sa9jNhaRbg
>Housing is already very cheap in places no one wants to live in.

But this isn't a solution, it's a tautology. If people started moving there, they'd become expensive, too. The population level interpretation is that inflows should equal outflows everywhere, which is statistically impossible unless the government decides where you can live. Who wants that?
I'm not convinced. In fact I believe young people today are much more skeptical and competent about media use than the older generations. My anecdotal data points are mainly the fact that almost all conspiracy believers I know are >40 years.
The two-question test I use is:

1) Do your parents own their home?
2) Could people with similar jobs/savings/backgrounds get a similar house today?

Usually the answer to 1 is yes, and the answer to 2 is no. 95% of homes are priced like the top 5% of homes. A million-dollar mansion used to be, well, a mansion. Now a million-dollar house is "a detached house within a 45 minutes driving distance to downtown".
It couldn’t possibly be because they create products that people wanted?
the Sri demo shows 2d motion. pcbs make it pretty straightforward to have an X and a Y array, but for some reason it doesn't seem to me like you can just easily drive both axes independently. could you really tune a 'step' to be on an arbitrary slope?
The chip shortage/pandemic has stunted what would have been a massive scale up in vr production in the last 2 years.

This has been a brake to economies of scale applied across the industry, so the existing players can put their logistic efforts in to keeping up their supply of existing products at the same price as they launched, which is enough to start competitive. Without the shortage, I expect we would have seen many more and cheaper Oculus Quests being sold.

For a point of reference, see purchasing the Valve Index, which last I saw if you buy from valve has a lead time of at least a month, despite launching in 2019.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001682074987.html