skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cars can't get any smaller because they are constrained by a much more fundamental size limit than computers: the size to fit the driver and the passenger(s) and still have an engine. Formula 1 cars are as small as it gets.

They didn't get any faster than 1960s-1970s limits because of efficiency and safety considerations, as well as the fact that a faster car means absolutely nothing on a jammed road, and traffic jams happen for reasons entirely unrelated to the speed of the cars involved. They didn't fly because of a complex mix of challenging engineering, tricky economics and the naivety of cultural expectation.

Computers are different. They are mainly limited by the size of the UI and other IO, the actual "computer" is inconceivably, inhumanly, unimaginably small. Most of our devices is just places for your fingers to touch and your eyes to see. We can keep shrinking until we get to the point where computers are things we put inside our brains cells and inject in our bloodstream, and perhaps even more.

They can absolutely get faster and more efficient than they are today. The brain that made them makes do with 100W and makes a mockery of GPT3 and CNNs. Yes it's a specialized architecture, that's the whole point. The easy money of moore's law and Dennard scaling blinded us to a whole landscape of possible computer architecture and programming paradigms, we haven't made a dent in that mine yet.
I do understand all of that, still it feels weird to me. If I'm looking up a staging domain I'm not trying to broadcast that to the world, for example

You know the Qualsys SSL Tester tool? That has a checkbox about making the result public or not and that is because by default people wouldn't expect the domain to be leaked (even though it's already public information that doesn't really matter)
Brrr.money
Pretty sure the colleges have already been paid. This would go to the people who can't pay off the mountain of debt they were given while they were still children.
CDC to Relax Mask Guidance
Management talent, I would push, is largely a myth. I'm sure it matters more than I'd give it credit, but so does a lot of capital cost in infrastructure and support that are invisible in your numbers.

And again, industry largely fails and goes bankrupt. Education and townships are not things I would feel comfortable pushing that outcome for.

Also... Offshore movements were pushed not by shrewd management, but by shopping around for cheaper labor. Not sure how that is relevant here?
It helps to focus on accomplishments and achievements that are relevant to the company you are applying to. I've always tried to show initiative, competence, and skill/career growth. Early on, it's good to show the responsibilities you were trusted with. As your career progresses, it's more about what you brought to the table. I've always assumed that the reader is spending less than two minutes scanning my resume. I evaluate every sentence by asking why the reader would care about these details. I can always fill in more at the interview if asked.
The comment that confused you is largely wrong and confusing, so don't fret about it.

But the 5+5=9 part is correct. It's a weird artifact of note-counting. C D E F G is 5 letters. C to G is called "a fifth" (which is a horrendous use of language, but it's a perversion of saying "we got to the fifth letter"). G to D is also "a fifth". Stacking them means C to G and G to D, and you don't count the G twice, that's why 5+5=9 instead of 5+5=10. But if we had actually counted the steps through the letters instead of counting the starting note, it would be 4+4=8, and that's logical and correct, but you can't say that to musicians because that's not how music jargon works.
Ask HN: Don't you think DuckDuckGo's name should change?
Every time I want to try DDG, I find it inconvenient to type its name and press Enter. Try it yourself; the word is not easy to type because of two reasons: (1) It's rather long for a search engine, (2) The letters are located on keys that don't allow for a smooth typing experience.

Call me old fashioned, but I think there have been times that I resorted back to Google just because it's easier to type than DuckDuckGo (Bing is even easier).

For all the hate Google receives, I think at least their search engine "name" is not as poor of a choice as DuckDuckGo.

Edit 1: I know you can add DDG as a search engine in your browser, and I know that you can assign shortcuts to it. But I'm afraid, that's not what 99% of people would do. The name is just weird, hard to type, and long.

Edit 2: If you Google DDG, it'll show the American rapper instead of DuckDuckGo. They could've come up with a name that's not already popular.
>Babbage and consorts were not alone in making that mistake;

I wouldn't call it a mistake. Maybe there were not alone in taking that tact or direction, but there seems to be a touch of hubris calling it a mistake.

I get the point of the thread, and there are some nice points in it, but hey, Babbage was born in 1791!
Haha no but I like the idea! I have thought about adding several buttons to search multiple sites. What other sites would you like to search?
> lots of country guesses raise an error saying it doesn't exist. Such as "brasil"

In English it's spelled with a "z", and they're probably using an English dictionary?
This site was created as a quick tool to search Reddit using Google. I've been typing this manually for years but this post motivated me to throw together a site to make it a little easier. https://dkb.io/post/google-search-is-dying
You say that but a lot of people just can't get over the sigils.
I use MongoDB, Cloudflare, Snowflake, and Datadog and I love them all because they are all great and easy to use products that get the job done and make it easy for other developers to collaborate as well. People will mock me mercilessly for not using free OSS, but guess what, I don't want to deal with the headache of setup and maintenance! These products all have their parallels at big companies (such as Borgmon and Bigtable), but they're much better in practical use cases in non gigantic companies.
Unfortunately a lot of companies right now. Although the smart ones have already done the switch and are now trying to switch off.

I've seen a lot of suspect technologies in my career but GraphQL is definitely the worst
Four including clicking and dragging a widget
While it is a fair comment , just how realistic is it for a n 18 year old to drop their birth citizenship and pick the citizenship of another country?
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Might have updated it preemptively.
Stephen King in On Writing :

The Grapes of Wrath is, of course, a fine novel. I believe that Blood Meridian is another, although there are great whacks of it that I don't fully understand. What of that? I can't decipher the words to many of the popular songs I love, either.
They probably changed the name to avoid their growing negative image.

It's just a name, like Pepsi. They can abandon the metaverse and still be ok.
Hmm, it seems twitter:image and og:image are now https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a4d16d_faa91d4b4ee54bb5ba... , but Twitter aggressively caches (saves?) that preview image.
Translation:

Instead of being more reasonable about the worker/investor value split, we're going to double down on trying to figure out how to make money without hiring people.

Never mind no amount of automation is going to pull anybody out of a labor shortfall.
ceo is getting paid so what do they care? i'm sure there are some other c levels pillaging the coffers as well
Looked to me a bit like Steve Jobs.
You will find many economists that have some programming ability, just like in any other field nowadays: It's too useful an analytical skill. What they will do, however, is work on, say, a Jupyter notebook, which is as easier to fiddle with as a spreadsheet once you have basics of programming down, while getting rid of almost every disadvantage the spreadsheet has. You will find this in industry too: The researcher building the model is using the notebook, and then there's no need for an excel to code translation: The important bits can just be copied over directly.
> Bitcoin does not have a single defining feature that would make it more resilient to dedicated government intervention than any other crypto

It does have one: it's the only cryptocurrency where everyone's vote counts regardless of how much they have, even zero-balance wallets as long as they are online, they have an equal stake on the network as anyone else.

I will concede that when Ethereum has Proof of Stake, which would make it cheap in terms of electricity to run, and can distribute power in an equal manner, will be a big contender for Bitcoin as store of value, and even then as a currency but they gotta fix theyr chokehold problems.

This is why Ethereum is the 2nd biggest, because this is priced in.

Some people say PoS will centralize power, but who knows so everyone buy just in case they do it right.

Value goes up.

Because if they do it right, they could replace Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is the only one that gives you, today, equal voice just like anyone else.

> whole thing is so incredibly volatile mostly because of the massive (over)use of leverage by speculators.

Yes! Because cryptocurrencies has brought MILLIONS of people worldwide into trading.

Whereas they couldn't do anything like that before, Americans are lucky they get easy access to the US stock exchange, in most other countries trading is just not a profitable position.

Cryptocurrencies allowed these million of people to actually be traders in a sizeable market: Almost $1 trillion as of now, that's biggest than a lot of GDPs, for example Colombia's GDP is less than $271b, US's GDP is $21t for comparison.

You get a lot of newbies and beginner traders that use leverage and stuff like this happens.

Doesn't need to be centralized because it's totally transparent (with some caveats, will improve in the future).

> The whole point of a reserve currency is to be stable and bitcoin is anything but.

Some say when you look at its fundamentals (Market Cap, Volume) and its properties (non-printable, fixed cap) you can deduce it will not go down in the long-term, it will only go up.

Whether this is factually accurate I don't know, Economics is hard.

Unless they banned it, and they could, that's a whole other can of worms but it might push 1st world capital into the likes of Russia etc. El Salvador does its thing because it wants to attract this capital.

There's lots of people that LOVE saving in Bitcoin, even if you don't "get it", this is what some people like, they like saving in crypto, and that's a sizable market for buy/sell pairing (aka trading).
Agreed, KDE is great. I like Kubuntu and KDE Neon. A little bit frustrated when I have to use a Gtk application; it's sometimes not working well in a KDE environment.
Not only do few people want to build a 900sqft freestanding home, if they did it today with that Sears kit, it would break nearly every building code in the book.

Lots of people want to build 900 sqft homes. It's just that with land costing 100s of ks and utility hookups etc at 100k, it make no sense to build a 900 sqft house.

Basically, areas with high house prices have created a situation building a little house on a bit of land is between very cost ineffective and simply impossible and then said "no one want to do this".
We've been using SQLite for 100% of our data persistence needs for the last ~5-6 years now. Our largest single environment is probably getting close to 500gb total size. Hundreds of concurrent users are no problem for us, even without these enhancements (we use WAL currently).

The biggest single trick I learned was to use 1 sqlite connection instance for the entire lifetime of the application. You can add orders of magnitude more throughput with this path. SQLite serializes writers by default so dont duplicate the effort. You can even use the RETURNING keyword to grab insert keys without needing to lock over LastInsertRowId.

We also are close to 100% of business logic being executed via SQL queries as well.
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I think you're underestimating the support for labelling it "non-hallucinogenic". From the paper:

> Pioneering structure-activity relationship (SAR) studies conducted by Glennon and co-workers demonstrated that, unlike 5-MeO-DMT and other known hallucinogens, 6-MeO-DMT did not substitute for the hallucinogen 2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine (DOM) at any dose in rodents trained to discriminate DOM from saline.
The acquisitions editor for the publisher of my first book cold emailed me. It was quite the shock and I almost thought it was a joke. Good thing I replied.
To SSG or Not to SSG
Not to counter the research in the paper, but growing up in Brooklyn we used "נו" or "מה" ("nu" or "mah"). Sometimes today I'll say that to in California to people who don't understand -- and reply with "huh!?"
"Dual-boot is unsupported by both Windows and Ubuntu"... what? I have dual-booted almost every machine I've ever owned, including my Mac boxes. It is one of the standard options offered during installation. How does that "break lots of assumptions"?

I have the expertise to get around the various roadblocks (features?) but it costs a lot of very unproductive time. I skipped over the saga of trying to get WSL2 working, another source of frustration and loss of time.

I also left out the part that Windows will force updates unless you pay for their upgraded version. When I develop code I have a lot of "state" in open windows, an editor, browser tabs, and test runs. Microsoft just decides that the machine is "idle" and decides to reboot it, losing my work. Is it an "unrealistic assumption" that my work is of some value to me?
Safe to assume middle of the lower 48
Try simply duck.com

https://duck.com
I mean the consensus about the visual/UX style like we have on Windows or Android.

It's not that hard, I believe.
I can see my house from here.
Who cares about the accuracy of your excel calculations.

It’s the modeling assumptions that drive the results, and this is what people rightfully focus on.
My understanding is that industrial management only works for certain employments, mainly non-knowledge employment. Learning/education is 100% knowledge, which has performed poorly when offshored for cheaper, at least in my knowledge-based field. You get into knowledge debt, which then needs to be paid down, which costs more than actually having bought good talent in the first place...

So, same thing- if you need to catch up you need to pay more...

This makes about as much logic to me as saying you can hire a junior engineer and expect the quality of a senior engineer if you have a senior manager.
Yes because before I can heat up my pizza leftovers I need to understand the theoretic underpinnings of electromagnetism :)
I know this is besides the point but even if we didn't have the materials, just knowing what materials we lack and that they are possible is monumental and would be worth tens of billions of dollars.
You don’t have to use those systems. Fundamental systems are still valid and solid. Don’t be afraid to reinvent a wheel which suits your case perfectly.
> the overall user experience is very good if you stick to a pure GNOME desktop. KDE and Xfce are also pretty good.

Yes, exactly users have to stick to one single environment. But when you want to use Gtk application on KDE, then ...
No, the first three months of any job is a two way street as far fit goes as long as you're professional it's fine. Before you do though, have a conversation with the CTO and let them know what's going on and if you're then not satisfied with their response feel free to resign.
Coffee, banana, Ben's Mexican brown rice with balsamic vinegar added.

Most mornings.
IME most small software companies could be run off SQLite, a $5 linux VPS, vanilla JS, and a single line deploy script. (Pieter Levels seems like the master at this)

I'd never bother suggesting it though:

- no one likes being told they're small when they think they're big

- it's bad for devs careers (Resume-Driven Development)

- as TFA points out - it's not what FAANG are doing so I'd lack legitimacy
Not surprised they're mistreating the creators based on the way they treat customers. The way they delete any unused credits upon canceling a subscription is egregious.

https://help.audible.com/s/article/do-i-keep-my-credits-if-i...
Hey thanks! I've been excited lately by building up a skillset for (hopefully) an entry-level graphics programming job because I figure it'll have a high intellectual ceiling. I almost read this article.
Famous 'cyberterrorist' goes on TikTok to take credit for GiveSendGo hack
Search Google for obscure substances. You'll find discussions in strange places eventually
From the linked post:

“If you’ve ever looked at the Audible ACX contract, you’ve seen the complicated sales earnings math (another future post). For now, let’s focus only on the result: the amount of money which ends up in our bank”

I personally feel like I need to see the math in order to understand what is actually going on
I absolutely agree with your comment and I’m sad that it’s being downvoted.

Thing is, I see all the times web frameworks that would be used in those cases, but improve in many directions almost irrelevant for it. Performance? Ability to do same webapps in yet another boring scripting language? Very specific and rigid abstractions and fancy tools that provide for very little flexibility? Fancy reactive approaches that manage to turn the codebase inside out, create hard and undebuggable problems out of the easy ones, and sometimes provide random subset of guarantees of various degrees of usefulness (I’m actually a fan of FRP, just not the misuse of it)?

Somehow Django, with its clear admin system and other out-of-the-box QoL modules remains as close to the most practical and useful approach as one can imagine. (Still even people who use it manage to reimplement its parts for no reason. Every sufficiently big webapp contains a bad, buggy, incoherent implementation of 90% of Django)

There are incredible amounts of money and effort and time to be solved by creating frameworks and abstractions that help with the glorious use-case of “huge, annoying, evolving in all the wrong directions essentially CRUD app”. Yet we’re not even stuck with Django - I see webdev regressing into horrifying piles of JS…
Right. There's some question as to whether that was seen as a scaling operation or just as part of multiply or divide.[1]

If you can scale into a reasonable range for each data type, you don't need 50 digits. But that's an abstraction which came decades after Babbage.

[1] https://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/cards.html
That’s great to hear.

Would you mind sharing how you implement/use 1 connection?
Just to compare, https://nodemailer.com had 194k pageviews (42k “active users” as reported by Google Analytics, whatever that means) in January and the BuySellAds payout was $156.45
Thanks. This is definitely not the same “wave a pen and forgive all debt” demands I see from the very progressive left, but it’s certainly a lot more progressive on loan forgiveness than the current policies.
How is that different from Github requiring two-factor authentication?
Lightning will bring lots of improvements, heck it's in Cashapp now and it works very well in there, they bet on it, and you won't?
The video in question: https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1494024855745753089?...
Tangential. The claim about the $0.15 / MB delivery fee on Kindle ebooks makes AWS egress charges look cheap.
And then in 20 years there will be a beyondcorp^2 because people will lean on their border gateway in exactly the same way they relied on their VPN. “Oh whatever it’s behind the proxy.”

a) You just mandate that people be logged into the VPN always — “the office network” is just as untrusted as a coffee shop.

b) That’s the address of the service.

c) That’s the address of the client. Also apps that care what user you are basically all implement auth again against probably LDAP if it’s a corp network.

I still think it’s a win because VPNs are clunky as hell but I think the security benefits are more to do with the political “rewrite” than the technical details. You can store your policy bits anywhere.
Ubuntu Bug 255161: Openoffice can’t print on Tuesdays (launchpad.net)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8171956
I think this thread is excessively vague and potentially taking advantage of ignorance on how precisely audible is shady. It seems to assume the royalty statements should come out of list price, but in actuality audible has multiple list prices- is it cash or credit? is it regular or premium subscription? These all are quite different and pay out differently. If it is such that audible is paying 40% less than it should based on its own price tiers though that's a whole other story and worth massive lawsuit money.
"Lock-in" usually doesn't mean that something must be sold through a store that's tied to a specific platform, in order to sell for that platform. It usually means that you aren't free to make cross-platform apps.
The feature exists on mobile, there's a "Related items" section that has a list of file names with a ">" caret next to each one. If you tap on an entry it opens in a new page where you can tap "View document" to see its contents. You can also see when it was created and updated, share it, add tags to it, add it your favorites, and more.

It works perfectly fine, with no missing features. I use it to store private keys and recovery codes, mainly.
Impossible, there's already enough demand for them that it's just not possible, they might take a nosedive but not go to complete 0.
> They didn't care if total production went down.

They didn't care if millions of people died slowly and horribly of starvation.

Phrasing it as "Production went down" is a rather extreme euphemism.
> I find it inconvenient to type its name and press Enter

In Chrome settings I set DDG as the default search engine and it's just _there_. Don't have to type anything. In Firefox settings just set your homepage to DDG.
You are providing zero evidence that there is any value to your experience about reading a clever comment comparing Brownian motion and the stock market. Not even qualitatively. You are already an incredibly rare person who would equate such things, so I think it's very odd that you think this concept could apply to the general population.

The cherry on top is you haven't even read the book or looked at the spreadsheet, which is precisely the authors point. You are one of the many people who heard something about the book, made assumptions about it, and then decided the book must be ignorant. Bravo!
Anyone in a privileged position is not going to be incurring tens to hundreds of thousands of student loan debt because they don't have to. The people disproportionately affected by student loans and are borrowing huge chunks of money to pay for school, don't have it. How do you see that as privilege?
It's (Still) Not Rocket Science
Yes -- we actively work w/ DB/compute companies supporting Flight w/ ~ad-hoc APIs and are thinking through integration. But seen 0 with Flight SQL (and saw a ~20% lift with Turbodc vs ODBC). So curious about either Flight (ad-hoc) or Flight SQL. The blogpost made it sound like at least 2-3 WIP for Flight SQL, which would be great to learn about & track :)

For Graphistry, we 'simply' expose Arrow-over-REST APIs for streaming/batch upload+download, so no Flight needed, and that's why we didn't build Flight into the original JS Arrow lib. But as we're getting into bigger graphs / multi GPU and wanting parallel IO for DB connectors, been watching...
> They cost like 3x what a newbuild does, this "but building codes" stuff doesnt stand up to scruitiny.

I don't think that's a fair comparison. There is a fixed supply by definition of those old buildings, so their price will be pushed up by demand with little relation to their cost to build since they can't be built anymore.

A better comparison would be to look at the cost of new houses in developing places like SE Asia where there are little to no building codes.