skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good to see that those misguided schoolyard buddies have survived to old age as well!
> The data model is more important than the user space.

For those interested in the different perspectives on how to weigh those priorities, I recommend starting here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
In the US, of course.

> a stigma that poses a barrier to them participating in the nation's labor force.

No, it poses a barrier to them participating in elections. That's the idea behind their racist politics-police-court system.
+many. There are plenty good Enterprise software with bad rep. You can spend a lot of engineering talent to rebuild what is already solved or just buy boring tech. Splunk by definition is boring and with Twitter scale makes sense. Twitter is not too big, its decently sized.
"Drug possession" is also not monolithic to me.

I'd be *much* more leery of hiring someone convicted of possession of addictive drugs than someone convicted of possession of recreational drugs. Recreational use can be done only in appropriate situations. Addictive use likely means they come to work impaired.
But there's no evidence I'm aware of suggesting that minimum wages were the cause of deindustrialization in the US. I suspect most of those factory jobs were far above the minimum wage.

And people often wave the automation threat around - but why hasn't it happened yet? In concrete studies of minimum wage increases that actually occurred, we do not find job losses.
>how should people get to their jobs at the farms? Or the mines? Or the oil fields? Or the factories? Or the mills

Or how do astronauts get to the ISS? Checkmate. Transportation infrastructure bad.
Fossil is ideologically different, it wants to preserve every artifact, no rebasing allowed.
PCM – Computers Are Bad
Because this is hacker news, not user news.
That link is broken for me, but this works: https://twitter.com/pgl/status/1405614755000295427
A weird example of false equivalency, as no one would in their right mind compare helping a human being (who may be busy studying or have trouble walking) get their food on time with helping a robot assist in increasing profit margins for <insert random corporation>.
yes, market-based reform, not capitalism per se. capitalism has no monopoly on markets, as markets predate all the -isms by many centuries. so that's not an argument for capitalism (for which capital is a central concern) but for decentralized, market-based systems, the fairer the better.
>the government didn't put German-Americans in concentration camps so racism seems to have played a part too.

This is factually incorrect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_America...
Every desktop browser can drop you into a full-blown, highly interactive IDE at the press of a button. It's far more capable than any 8-bitter ROM BASIC but just as accessible.
Sorry.

But no.

https://considertheconsumer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/I...

CTO or not, that which is described here is nothing but predatory, and if you think there is anything ethical about it, or that the ends justified the means, you're not looking far enough down the road.

You have violated so many long standing regulations, that I am struck dead at my own ability to put myself in shoes that would be able to converge on justifying and managing that business unit knowing what I was doing.

You do not embrace deceptive practices.
You do not usurp and defraud users by accessing their data in excess of what you immediately need to do just what you told them you'd be doing.
You do not commit crimes and hide them long enough, counting on getting "too big to be held to account for it".

You traded your integrity the moment you signed on and okayed that without resistance. You betrayed an implicit mandate to do fair and non-deceptive business in every jurisdiction in the United States. Maybe you're surrounded by people who aren't grounded enough to call a spade a spade, but consider yourself notified by someone who is.

Ya done goofed. Willfully or not I don't have the evidence to support, but ya did. It is my personal hope that Plaid's settlement is rejected, because people deserve to have the character of this group brought into the light of day. Whether Plaid comes out squeaky clean, or the rest of the industry gets indicted for their refusal to integrate, necessitating the measure, I don't care. People need to know though.

What is detailed in the impending settlement is not at all acceptable.
Maybe they don’t trust themselves?
Here's an internal ABI doc which escaped Redmond at one point:
http://www.openrce.org/articles/files/jangrayhood.pdf
I believe there were other ABI docs but the official version of that was what I was given.
I'm not sure your "we" is the same as my "we". I live in an European "socialist" country with a well functioning healthcare and welfare system. I have lots of sympathy for people who are experiencing some downtime in their life. I understand that might not have been obvious from my comment.

I'm not sure I understand you when you say there is no reason to believe people are sitting at home waiting for the system to pay them. Considering we are talking about people who are unable to find a job and not willing to do the jobs that are available, who are healthy and not at home because of some condition - who exactly are we talking about?

Your last paragraph sounds very worrisome but not something I feel my "we" are experiencing. We do a lot of socialism for the poor and we tax our rich quite heavily. Not saying it couldn't be better, but I feel you're approaching this from a very US-centric point of view.
I genuinely think that this post was written by something like opengpt-3.
Not the OP. Though I have been part of a sale process as a founder (with a reasonably complex deal structure) and have had friends sell companies in the past and different friends who are in ongoing acquisitions. Let me see if I can provide some details without violating any NDAs!

To give a bit more color, the LOI usually is just the basic financial terms of the deal. It's an outline. But it usually *doesn't have space to cover many of the key details of what may make an acquisition "successful" for both parties.

KEY NOTE: NONE of the ideas below are from any one deal. Rather, it's an 'off the head' list of things I've seen matter across multiple deals.

1. Organizationally: Guidance on independence, integration(?), reporting structure?, approval structure, IT arrangements, WFH or vacation policies. Do you integrate with the buyers payroll and HR systems? Often these details matter intensely to your employees quality of life. I've seen these details go "good" or go "bad" with predictable outcomes. E.g. Try taking telling a team that's used to getting paid via Gusto that they're now going to be onboarded to a legacy ADP payroll system - it's unfun :)

2. Various financial Deal terms: Deal bonuses?. Pay changes?. Are you resetting vesting and or new equity? How might that work? Were you underpaying your team as a 'startup employees' - if so how does that change? Level matching? 401k matches - big companies are usually better here. Also, what about key employees/leaders you need to retain either to the deal close or +18 months?

Are they getting guaranteed severance for certain conditions? If so, what are those conditions? When deals get announced there can instantly be a lot of hurt/confused/angry people - so getting key ducks in a row before hand is essential. And trying to negotiate this after the fact will leave you constantly behind the "eight-ball" and with no leverage. Every deal I've seen has had some level of 'hurt feelings' by great people who felt valued and appreciated by the old org. now feel ignored and unimportant by the new org. The time to advocate for them is in this phase.

3. Team. Most members of the acquired team will leave within 2 years. I've heard figures by people who've done 100+ acquisitions that as high as 90% of employees will be gone. Obviously varies in every case. So how do you start planning for this natural turn over? How do you insure that the 'team' can stay strong even if the individuals change? Will the acquisition have the previous freedoms in hiring that allowed them to build a high velocity team in the first place?

There's a gazillion more things. In general, the more clarity that exists at the beginning, the better. And there's no way the LOI can contain (or should contain) even a fraction of that. But you certainly want it agreed to in writing.
More worried about write contention than storage.
This is not true for me. I think I buy more games than I watch movies at this point. Movies of the games are under ten dollars because I pick them up on sale, then I spend a couple hours on them and feel fine with it, because it wasn't very expensive. Based on the front page of Steam, I don't think I'm the only one. I have a couple I keep going back to, but probably on average, I spend about ten hours on each game I purchase, and I would guess I'm not the I only one.
Wondered if this is happening/to what scale in the U.S. as well, found this (answer seems like a “yes but not as much” but obviously it varies by location): https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2022/hou...
I remember that one too! Damn it was long time ago, but another example of "let's redesign maybe things gets better".
At least this would allow a transparent download your files option which is a work around for safari on both mobile and desktop, since a user can prompt to download files in Safari (particularly useful on mobile).

However it still relies on the user knowing about this or the application having to somehow prompt it from the user, rather than transparently writing to the file system directly or mounting it as a drive.

Step in the right direction for sure, still way too much hassle though. This singles to me they just made sure not to provide a first class file handing option for web developers that would potentially compete with native apps, especially on iOS
This is just incorrect. The beauty of Rust is even bad programmers end up writing memory safe code because the compiler enforces it. The ONLY rule an organization needs to enforce on their crappy programmers is not allowing use of unsafe. And there are already available tools for enforcing this in CI, including scanning dependencies.
Could not agree with you more. That's what bothered me the most about the article. I consider myself a leftist as well and power dynamics are one of the main things that makes me so. I have a big dislike for most traditional power systems, especially where "power" is inherited (as wealth, but also just connected names that make you a celebrity just for being born). But if the "solution" to leveling out this power is exercising your own to force everyone to conform, the solution is worth than the disease (and in my opinion not necessary as there are better more democratic options out there).
Since you have a very negative view of sf, Perhaps you should move out. You seem to dislike the city so much and also criticize housing prices which are sky high due to more people living here than there is housing. You could help solve that issue and at the same time stop living a place you dislike by moving if you haven’t yet.

As the negative views expressed are your opinions, I’m not going to correct some disjoint logic.
Would it make sense to always write to a transactional queue first and then write to the database by reading sequentially from the queue?
You are right, I work for a FAANG on one such system and it’s hard.
Try using git worktrees: https://geekmonkey.org/rethink-your-git-workflow-with-git-wo...
That's the diplomatic way of calling NFTs for what they are: a scam
Pedestrians are fine, cyclists have to admit they are doing it for their own personal pleasure at the time and expense of everyone else 99% of the time. I commuted by bicycle for many years because I lived somewhere that it was convenient and appropriate. I didn't impede traffic and delay other people.

Cheap motorbikes need to be more widely available and utilized by any one who is cycling out of necessity in areas not intended for it.

Bicycles should absolute be relegated to specialized infrastructure of which we should build more, but cyclists within regular vehicle traffic is mostly done for enjoyment and only inspires hatred and annoyance at bicycles in general which creates a feedback loop resulting in less support for bicycle infrastructure.

Having to slow down traffic and wait to pass a bicycle only to have them filter back to the front at the next red light and make everyone slow down and pass them again repeatedly is a real contributor to gridlock.
Maybe you have some reading to do
It doesn't surprise me. Your arrogance does though, I didn't expect you to double down on an unreasonable position. How can we possibly know what we don't know yet. Not about how fusion works in theory, but about the limits of the economics of fusion reactors at any point in the future.

What I'm saying is it's too soon to say what's possible with fusion and what isn't. We don't even have a break even reactor yet. We can even say for certain that we ever will.
I'd like to see some of those proxies removed from the picture.

1) Employment history: Ban putting dates on a resume and in general make it a prohibited question. You worked there X years, not from YYYY to ZZZZ. The current approach is obviously looking for whether you were fired, but ends up tainting you if you're ever laid off in a bad market, or even if you simply chose non-employment activity for some reason.

2) Address likewise should be removed. Phone & e-mail is all they need.
Not to be confused with "Where ya to?"
Fuchsia isn't Unix afaik
The reason they can't save is exactly that they're forced to buy a car. It costs several thousand per year for maintenance, insurance and gas. It's the second most expensive thing people spend money on. And all these things should cost even more money, the only reason they don't is government subsidies.
Just started my 2 week trial of GraphJSON a few days ago! I like it so far, kudos. Unrelated question: do you have some kind of notification setup for HN? I feel like I’ve seen you comment on many logging-related posts, so figured I’d ask =)
So always write to a transactional queue first and then write to the database by reading sequentially from the queue?
Favorited (https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=akkartik&comments=...)
Nextcloud doesn't support color profiles in images, so anything not sRGB looks off in their gallery app -> I wouldn't recommend it.
are those real auctions, because i see a price and the option to order it with that price.
for example currently auction has a 64gb ram 500gb ssd and a old quad core xeon with a cpu score of 8000 for 44 eur vs a new amd ryzen with a score of 20000 for 40 eur + 46 eur setup.
the old server does not make sense here.
Regarding the inability to detect red/white, this study is brought up quite a bit and I find it hard to believe it's anything but an anomaly. I blind-tasted wine competitively at a national level, and it is pretty commonplace to identify region/sub-region/year/grape across 10 wines blind with ~80% accuracy. Many tastings go further than this and people are identifying chateau/year from 10 wines from the same region. It's relatively simple to train yourself to do this.

Not saying you couldn't find some reds and whites which, if tasted without seeing the colour, would be challenging to tell apart; but I cannot really see this holding up if reproduced in better settings (perhaps my bias though).

No qualms re people's preferences, which is of course subjective; lots of cheaper wines are may be more enjoyable, which is great. IMO wine flavour profiles are often full of weird signalling about what 'good' is, i.e. "taste x is considered desirable/refined/distinguished, ergo it tastes better", which is nonsense and snobbery.
>many bigger cities will just collapse.

Enough about the pros, are there any cons?
My first computer was a Spectrum 48k. My school bought a ZX81 and a logo turtle - one for the whole school. We went down as a class and got to play with it a group, calling out instructions that the teacher would type in. Other kids seemed to get bored with it quickly, but I was hooked.

At home, I went on and on about this to my parents.

My mother had done punch card work in University so recognized how big of a leap it was to be able to have a computer in the house. A few days later they announced that we would get one.

This was in Asia, and the Spectrum 48k had just been released there. Games rarely made it all that way, but the magazines did, so I spent hours upon hours typing code in, bug fixing, modifying things here and there. Save it to cassette tape. I still have dreams where the sound of software loading from cassette appears - kind of like the sound a modem makes connecting, but longer and somehow softer.

Every few years we'd go on holiday to the UK and I'd save up my pocket money to buy as many games on cassette as I could. Then I'd spend the rest of my holiday reading and re-reading the inserts, trying to imagine what the game would be like when I finally get it home. Titles like Ghostbusters, Dungeon master, The Hobbit, Zzoom, Chess, Horace and the spiders, there was even a 3d maze with skulls and jewels. It wasn't all good through - I waited weeks to play Cookie only to get home and find the cassette didn't load properly!

But the most time I spent was trying to write my own games in Basic. It was amazing - a machine with everything you needed right there, a language, colours, sounds, all built in, ready for a young mind to explore. The keyboard even had the keywords and colours printed on each key and the editor knew when to expect a keyword rather than a letter. The whole of Basic was right there in front of me to explore without having to read through thick manuals.

After a while the 128k came out, and the new games no longer worked on my lowly 48k machine, and as my cassette tapes started to wear out or worse (where I lived there was one particular insect that liked to make little clay nests in cassette tapes...). Soon I was a teen and more interested in meatspace than the gaming world, but that early programming experience informed so much of my life and career.

Fond memories. Thank you, Sinclair, for opening up a whole world to me.
The terrible irony of this post is that they use a completely wrong definition of expected value. They write down an integral...but then implement something totally different.

You cannot calculate the EV of a random variable X by taking the mean of random samples drawn from the distribution of X (e.g. try it with the Cauchy distribution—see if you get something approaching the actual EV). The only thing they accomplished is building up a very convoluted way of calculating a sample mean—which is already trivial with Numpy or just standard Python. Why do this? I’m perplexed.

This is the issue with software engineers writing scientific code—they often flagrantly misunderstand basic mathematical definitions, and then obfuscate this misunderstanding with their “pure” and “robust” code.

Sorry for the harsh criticism, but I’m tired of seeing this kind of thing.
Feeling kinda sorry for builder.io having such a similar name - i immediately thought of them when i saw the name. The major downsides of a generic name i guess.
What I would like to see:

Utterly ban "have you been arrested".

The highest offense I have been convicted of is: xxxxxx

In special cases I would permit highest offense in certain categories.
Heads up it's heavily Asia centric. Bit biased, but also dangerous because it's not comprehensive.

Good way to learn about TSM nonetheless
From the paper:

> The CNT layer has a nanostructured surface which tends to trap incoming gas molecules. These traps make the air molecules collide with the surface multiple times on average before leaving, resulting in a higher thermal accommodation coefficient for the CNT-air side compared to the mylar-air side. This difference between the surface properties results in a higher departing velocity for the air molecules on the CNT (bottom) side compared to the mylar (top) side. The net momentum transfer from these gas-surface interactions results in an upward recoil force that levitates the sample.

The light heats up the sample and the sample's construction mean the bottom heats air up faster than the top. This generates the lift. I wouldn't say that it's air currents or a difference in temperature between the top and the bottom. They even mention that it still levitates when the light shines from above.
Yep, good luck finding an useful exploit pack on crime forums now. The days of blackhole & co are long past, those people hacked far more people than those discussed in this article ever will.
Sanctions will possible undo that.
I don't understand high density housing in low density neighborhoods with huge empty lawns. Seems an artificial, Le Corbusier style of utopia where the actual inhabitants are forced to conform to the architect's vision of how they should live.

When people want to escape suburbia, the natural higher density option is the 2-3 story terrace, rows of individual homes that share lateral walls and have front access to the street and a back yard. Owning your own personal yard and trees is an immense quality of life factor compared to a cramped apartment and a balcony.

The next, even higher density option I've seen in some european cities is to squeeze the frontal street, remove all parking there and move it in the back yards. A concrete slab covers the back parking and the backyard is effectively elevated one flood into the air.

This produces a dense, walkable urban environment with comfortable individual houses, each with a lot on the order of 150 square meters (1600 sq feet).
In agreement with the last part of the article, achievements count more than the number of hours spent in the office.

That leads to thinking about what is worth achieving, instead of how to pass time until the workday is over.

I wholly disagree that Remote Work will be upgraded to Work. The difference between Remote Work and working from the office is like the difference between 2D and 3D.

When coworkers are displayed on a screen, there just isn't a solid human connection.

But i can acknowledge the desire to maximize the value of the paycheck, by choosing cheap housing.
Personal anecdote: I was raised in a poor single home family (father passed) and had very little going for me when I graduated college with an econ degree and an old Buick. After burning out at a gas station job, I just sold my car and moved to Seattle - telling myself I'd figure it out. 4 years later I'm making as much as my peers who went the CS route, lived in an urban area their whole life, had strong support systems (family), et cetera. I know of people in worse positions than I was, so I won't pretend that I had a bad upbringing: it just had its challenges.

But what made me succeed was when I stopped making excuses and just put in the 6+ hours a day of coding at the cafe while I job searched. That combined with opportunity (someone took my resume), environment (Seattle is a great place to start your career), and a good support network (my girlfriend).

Having a positive mindset is just one part of success, but it's necessary. I know of a lot of college friends from really well off families that work middling data entry jobs because they have zero drive in their career.
This is a straw man. Nobody is saying everyone should be genius Olympian.

The argument is that the janitor, the fast food worker, the cashier deserve a livable wage. They don't deserve to have decades slashed off their life expectancy because they're poor. They shouldn't have to ration insulin because they're poor. They shouldn't have to commute for 2 hours because they're poor.