skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very good point and you are not alone seeing the deja vu

Remember beanie babies? We call them NFTs today.

Remember HYIP and e-gold? We call them cryptocurrencies now.

The point is that crowd behavior, especially markets driven by envy & greed, lead to the same outcome. every. single. time.

this is why guys like Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger keep making money.
How can you hope it isn't bad? 1/3 adults will get heart disease, 2/5 will get cancer at some point of their adult life..
I literally can't make an account on Twitter. Attempting causes it to throw an error. Probably for the best.
Reminds me of how in 2019 the New York Times demonstrated that Russia was intentionally bombing civilian hospitals in Syria, partly through intercepted radio transmissions:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/reader-center/russia-syri...
sorry, maybe bad and good we're the wrong words. What I meant was kids who are easy and plesent to be with vs kids who whine and make trouble constantly. kids who are cooperative vs kids who resist every small thing. kids who can volunteerly put down the screen and interact with people and the present situation/activity vs those that can't
> If that’s how a person without kids feels, isn’t having kids just creating another person who has to have kids to find meaning in their life (and on and on and on)?

OK, so the meaning of our lives is to perpetuate the species. Not too bad; if it's good enough for (the other) animals, why not for us too?

Ya want anything beyond that, it would logically have to be to make mankind of the future a better species than right now. Which of course you do by making your kids better persons than you are. So then you're back to them again.
Bottom living standards were a lot lower back then: people could live in shacks without plumbing, flop houses were plentiful. These days none of that is legally allowed, so people would have fallen into that housing 50-80 years ago are homeless today. That being said, poverty reductions between then and now are real, it’s only that our standards keep getting higher (as they should).
https://twitter.com/davidwengrow/status/1116786595351470080 the content of their paper is how I'd answer that. you can find the full paper easily and decide for yourself. there is more work published since this paper as well.
Wait, how? Via the launcher?
IIRC, the culprit was latency in their GPU connections
How digital evidence of war crime in Ukraine is collected verified and preserved
> (i.e. the tweets of anybody who has blocked me)

Would you rather have them invade every bit of privacy you have to track you when you are signed out?
But didn't Bolt succeed (order of magnitudes more revenue) by taking those enterprise customers while Fast was only getting SMBs?

I'm currently at a seed-stage startup with a few Fortune 500 companies as users. We're lucky to have a great sales team that can bring that business in. If we're solving a problem for them, they're willing to use us regardless of our size, though they do care about some small particular issues around size.
It's those different procedures that I'm trying to avoid. It's not that I couldn't do those things or learn to do them, it's that my time is best spent building and improving our applications, not keeping servers running, secured, and up to date.

At some point we hope to get to the scale where it makes sense to pay a human to do that, but at this point the additional cost incurred by an ECS instance over an equivalent server is negligible.
Oof, as someone who had a similar perspective:

Don't use scoop. The community and developer aren't sufficiently active. Use choco. Chocolatey should ship with the os.

Otherwise, have at it. Yes, Windows Terminal is great and should ship with the OS.
No you're right china gets a free pass to strip mine for batteries and solar cells with slave/prison labour... then we all sing that solar in the west is great...
Sometimes a project does not need innovation, and pushes to monetize only breaks what people liked. If it is even mildly profitable, better in my mind to not shoot yourself in the foot by changing what people like.
Not gonna watch a movie with a star with such a pro-genocide background.
Well the general argument here is not "masks are perfectly safe", it's "masks are far less likely to kill you than what they protect you from". Hospital workers wear them for hours and hours every day. Even if we pretend that covid doesn't cause death or long term complications, masks also protect you from the flu and the flu kills people every year too.

It's probably possible to create masks that don't shed particles, but they're much more expensive and that means we wouldn't be able to protect most people.
I also rarely click videos. Even less often, I include video links in my own comments. But the next time I do, I am going to include a timestamp for the relevant part.

And if this isn't possible (because all 40mins of talk are 'relevant') - then I don't wanna post it anymore.

And of course I wish everyone would do like that, but then, it's internet.
Are public stocks and bonds bought and sold with blind bidding?
Google One is $10 a month or $99 a year, includes live support and 2TB of storage.

OneDrive works with rclone, which supports mounting and now bisyncing, and there are third party clients that work just like the official client.
It's promising validation for fans of there being alternatives to capitalist realism. You also can't deny there's piles of shit discourse built on top of the number, there's a good amount to unwind there.
Could there be a more perfect storm than the confluence of advertising and medicine in the United States of America?

Medicine in this country has been characterized as a "confuseopoly" where the consumer is "enabled" to choose, but not on price or quality. Banks are much the same. Does this have some bearing on the abdication of basic services and constant churn of add-ons?
but feels says nuclear bad...
Arrests of a Yakuza Leader and Affiliates for Narcotics and Weapons Trafficking
Warning: Mocking-JS plug

Meanwhile, I just created a JavaScript-free website.

Never have to worry about broken NPM, cookies, trackings, API, or JS-based malware.

And I use my iPhone/Android to edit/create web pages in Markdown, then my CI will build it and post it for me.

Look at the snazzy 3-D CSS, also JS-free.

Did I mention that I have a no-nonsense Privacy Policy?

3-D web page. https://egbert.net/blog/index.html
It's frustrating that N95/KN95 reuse wasn't a more common thing. There are ways to prep them for reuse (iirc there is a way using a conventional oven if you configure it just right) but I never saw much encouragement to do it, and I'm not about to try and DIY it without lots of confirmation that I'm doing it right.
I thought you'd left the off the 'e' at the end goats, but no, you weren't that vicious, which is probably a good thing.
Is this like a- preemptive vulture fund?
Small Townhouses aren’t really enough though , you need to go 4-5 stories at least in part. I’ve seen zoning fights about even duplexes, let alone anything bigger - not sure if Vancouver is more accepting of that than other places .

Is it the case there that people are ok/happy with mid rise places along busy corridors only , but want to maintain SFD on all the side streets? That really doesn’t work either , it’s just people making a noise etc. barrier on “their” neighborhood…
>EBISAWA, JULLANAN, and RUKRASARANEE conspired to broker the purchase from UC-1 of United States-made surface-to-air missiles (“SAMs”), as well as other heavy-duty weaponry, for multiple ethnic armed groups in Burma, and to accept large quantities of heroin and methamphetamine for distribution as partial payment for the weapons. EBISAWA, JULLANAN, and RUKRASARANEE understood the weapons to have been manufactured in the United States and taken from United States military bases in Afghanistan and planned for the narcotics to be distributed in the New York market.
> …I could have just logged into with root privileges if I wanted

He did say it, though indirectly :)

[edit: And then I got downvoted. Oh humans. Lol.]
Am I crazy, or is the answer "Nothing"? The product was built, they just couldn't sell it fast enough. Engineering culture had nothing to do with this failure.

And if they had landed one of those big clients, they would be kicking ass. You never know how it is going to go. Sometimes you go after the small sales and die. Sometimes you go after the big ones and live.
Reads exactly like the stories I remember from the dot-com bust of 2000.

Back then, it created a chain reaction. Even relatively established companies like Yahoo turned out to be dependent on startups for much of their revenue. As public companies they had to announce large misses from revenue targets. And that scared investors, which chilled the capital flows to startups, which led to even more startup deaths.

Personally I wouldn't invest in recent software IPOs that sell to startups. Nasty revenue surprises may be on the way.
Walmart truckers to start at $95k a year
Perspective on W boson mass measurement deviation
Snow Crash is funny and short. I didn't like it at first but after forcing through the first 30 pages the anarcho-libertarianism ad absurdum took hold and I was laughing my socks off. I have yet to read another Stephenson novel. Neuromancer is more intense and some of the passages are hard to follow, but I enjoyed it pretty much from the get-go. Different books. I wish there was less apparent competition between them.

Also I wish the sense of humor of Snow Crash was better understood. It really is a laugh-out-loud read and otherwise reads like a comic book (in a good way). I think some of the Americanisms irk British and Euro readers. I'm not usually one for audio books but I have heard the Snow Crash audio book carries the tone perfectly.
> This is the precise argument in favor of diversity: that we have, for centuries now, been discriminating on the basis of race and selecting inferior performers over better choices because they were white, or male.

If people who believed this could actually present a shred of evidence that it is true, then a lot of people would be a lot more receptive to these ideas.
If you saw Colorado sprawl, you'd say it's nigh impossible to increase the density, but that's an American problem in general.

More problematic is we are all out of water. Water rights and laws here means you might own the land but not the water (nor anything else under the shitty topsoil), if there even is water. Lots of land for sale with no mention of water.
That story is told by an extrovert.
Reading academic computer science papers
Yeah I’ve worked places where the product was clearly superior to competitors in every possible way, including price, but selling to anyone beyond a small business was still VERY tough for multitude of reasons.

You would have companies where you have existing relationships, they love what you offer, and really want to work with you, but the deal just gets delayed by some other priority or reality of their business.
The solution they already have is good enough (even if it’s barely good enough), and sticking with it is not actively putting them out of business for the time being.

It’s just reality… just like VC investing, selling into 100 small companies and growing along with some of them is waaaaay more likely to pay off than landing one whale
I read somewhere, recently - from a developer at Rare; who stated that the government was actually concerned as to why this company would have, effectively - a huge cluster of supercomputers, and wanted to make sure they weren’t using them for military stuff, etc.

The interviewer stated they’d laughed and said ‘no, we’re just making video games’. It gave me a giggle, and demonstrates just how advanced these systems were.
Sure, a default will affect bond lending. But does it affect trade for a large resource rich country like Russia?

It's not like Russia needs bonds with external investors. They just need to be able to trade. How does a default matter in such a case?
All this is true and bad but the Canadian market is primarily driven by supply issues, not red tape. There just aren’t enough houses/condos.

The resulting price boom isn’t a mere 5-10% increase, but hundreds of percent over the course of only 5-10 years.

I’ve seen condo prices double three times in five years in places.
I agree it appears intentional. A reply on Twitter says it looks like they intend a stylized 50s look/feel, and that’s definitely plausible to me.

Granted I don’t watch a lot of movies, but the production quality of TV I watch has improved by leaps and bounds over the last couple decades and continues to do. I don’t know if that automatically extrapolates to movies but I’d be shocked if they’ve had such sharply different trajectories. If anything, I was expecting this to be some kind of an uncanny valley sort of complaint… not a pretty obvious creative choice.

It seems like what keeps getting worse as the technology improves is the pervasive, uncharitable hot takes.
'Big John' provides evidence of triceratops combat injuries
Yeah, the BBC article referenced in that article is titled "Huge fines and a ban on default passwords in new UK law"
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59400762
As an Asian, I agree that embezzled money from China was a big problem, even in the big US metros, though I’m not sure it’s still a problem anymore even before this law passes. Why? China has been preventing capital flight for about two years or more now. I know several millionaires (USD) living in China either as citizens or expats and they all have the problem of not being able to legally get their money transferred out of China.
Translation: "Crimethink is forbidden!"
Blahblahblah mindfulness. Let's get practical in a few points instead:

> in that I really dislike following someone else's structure/rules and don't like being controlled, micromanaged, watched.

Stop. Unless you actively hate the situation you're in, e.g. hate your job, your work, your boss, whatever (in which case you need to get out), take a step back and evaluate whether the structures and rules are really intrinsically bad. If not, stop fighting them, take comfort in them. Obviously it makes you calm and settled once you just accept a particular rule framework.

> I have a strong aversion to discipline, and can never get any productivity/organizational methods to work.

I don't know you, but are you brushing your teeth every day (even just once, say, in the evening)? Do you feel odd if you skip it? If so, you obviously formed an habit there. Habit forming is hard, but it works. Make it a tiny thing at first, i.e. "sort emails every morning" or "check your todo list every morning". Not more.

> I work very slowly, both at home and at work. It takes me longer to do the same tasks compared to others at work, and at home I can only accomplish just a few mundane things that take up most of my day.

At work: Let's put that down as a strength. You are good for tasks that require an extreme level of detail. Find work accordingly. At home, especially with this:

> and/or I'm thinking about stuff.

... I found that my productivity in mundane household work improved by 9000% by listening to podcasts or audiobooks that I enjoy (or watching videos if the task allows). No, not a work-related, self-help, or "weight of the world" investigative podcast. Something fun. Something you really care about, but in a lighthearted hobby way. Like videogames or vintage cars, whatever floats your boat. (Maybe boats?)

I can get so engulfed in what I'm listening to that I'm often actively looking for other mundane, mindless household work so that I can continue listening.

> I just want to sit down and read my books and write my essays but I can't

Well obviously you don't, and also:

> 2) when I get some free time I get anxious about having to use this time wisely and productively and end up not doing anything.

Stop. This is bullshit. You are wrong.

Free time is for staying in bed, binge watching a stupid TV shows, falling back asleep, and waking up at ungodly times. For sitting on the floor with coffee and do nothing.

And then at some point, when your mind and body had enough for that, you will feel the ache to be productive. To continue reading that science text book, to write that essay. It will feel actively boring and bad to consume instead.

Until your mind and body are exhausted again and you start consuming again. Playing videogames, wondering how you could ever be motivated to write an essay. And the cycle continues.

"You have to be productive" in your free time is one of the most infuriating bullshit mindsets I've ever encountered, and it seems to grow. If I felt that I had to be productive during downtime, I'd never be! What an awfully exhausting thought.
It strikes me as a fundamental mistake that HR are not responsible for the consequences of their policies. Failing to hire people leads fairly directly to failing to ship products, yet that doesn't appear to be attributed back to the team that insists they are all asking for above 'market rate'.
Much the same promise is made by VLIW today - it should let you "jack up" core counts and clock rates compared to even RISC, because you don't need to do energy-intensive OOO reordering and speculation so it becomes feasible to avoid thermal and power constraints even with otherwise heavy CPU use. (The clearest issue with it is that it leaks way too much of your μarch choices in the programming model, so every ISA is inherently bespoke.)
A variation on this would be: For each bit of the message take the next bit from the pad. If the bit is 0 then take a second bit from the pad and send it, then take a third bit, XOR it with the message, and send that. If the first bit is 1 then swap the order: take a second bit from the pad, XOR it with the message, and send that, then take a third bit from the pad and send it verbatim. The first bit is not transmitted. For decryption you do the same in reverse, checking that the verbatim pad bits match your copy of the pad.

This requires three times as much pad as regular OTP for the same plaintext, and the ciphertext is also twice as large, but it doesn't depend on any hash functions, all bits remain independent, and an attacker has no way to know which half of the ciphertext makes up the message. Any N-bit change in the ciphertext will have a ((2*N)-1)/(2*N) chance of being detected on the receiving side (50% for one bit, 75% for two bits, …).

Of course, if you are willing to trust message authentication codes something like OTP(pad1, message + MAC(pad2, message)) will be more efficient and has a higher chance of detecting tampering, especially for smaller numbers of bits.
Just when I think I've repressed these memories from back in the day, here we are.
I would say it's the best option so far. Conventional wisdom holds that autocracy is better, if-and-only-if you have a good autocrat. It's said the old women wept when the King of Bhutan decreed Democracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhutanese_democracy
Serverless Functions are now available on DigitalOcean
The problem is now, when you "look it up beforehand", your going to be reading a ton of organic advertising (paid or not). It's just not a flashing banner ad so it flies under your radar.
Voodoo was peak 90’s graphics for me. Loved those cards.
The same thing is happening in video games and even software. Technology is advancing but quality and talent are vanishing.
I feel like Tweetdeck fixes 99% of the UI problems with Twitter, even in a mobile browser. UI clean of suggested tweet garbage, pure chronological feed, just a more compact view, the list goes on and on.
U.S. court reinstates Biden federal employee Covid vaccine mandate
This, 100%. The rules can be whatever they are, but the participant with the most market power will always end up having the upper hand somehow
Of course they were, the idea everyone used to be able to buy a house on a minimum wage salary is an internet fantasy. My parents bought a fixer upper in a crappy neighborhood for $90,000 in 1996.
Birds had a lot longer to optimize for bipedal walking than humans did. If we had stayed bipedal without developing advanced technology it’s likely we would have gotten a lot more efficient at it over 10’s of millions of years.
Hyperbole is not a valid argument.

Why didn't you go all the way and talk about declaring your own country on an asteroid? Because obviously what I suggested was to write nextcloud, in assembly, on a cpu architecture you invent.

No one has to write any software, or design or build any hosting system, those already exist. And they are even effortless common commodities. The land is already zoned and cleared and permitted, and the house is already designed, and even already built.

Popping a copy of already written and packaged software on a vps is some percent more work than creating a Google drive account, but that percent is not a million. Even if it's 500% more work, that is still trivial, 5x a few minutes. And even if you for some reason also need an insane availability garantee, it's hardly any more work to then put that behind a cdn, which are another low-effort commodity.

Without even looking, I garantee that there is a pre-made nextcloud droplet ready to go on DigitalOcean that takes mere seconds to activate, and they are surely not the only service provider with an equivalent app-on-a-stick ready to go in a few clicks like that.

And if their own backup offerings and network backbones aren't good enough already, without even looking I bet there is very little effort required to hook that up to CloudFlare.

And this is all while avoiding the probably even easier one-stop-shopping path of just using aws for everything, just because F Amazon.

Selecting a house built to order from a developer's catalog, or even buying land and hiring an architect, is indeed a perfectly exemplary alternative to buying an existing house from a realtor. Minus the stupid hyperbolic nonsense about rezoning, the example was in fact pretty good support of my point. Thank you!
IMHO, neither. Most teams are typically too small to build up interviewing expertise. In my company (which has in the order of several thousands on SWEs), many teams don't have expertise for the role they're hiring for (e.g. it's quite common for a team full of golang people to be hiring their first JS dev, for example), so they often reach out to my team for JS hiring expertise, since my team is a platform level team with wide exposure to the web stack and extensive interviewing experience.

But the caveat is that my domain is still rather specialized. Whereas many backend teams often rely on more leetcodey interview sessions, the type of pure algorithm sessions that Google uses are widely considered bad interview practice among JS candidates and interviewers alike because they tend to test absolutely nothing of what a JS person will normally encounter.

What I believe works better is some standardization in terms of having a set of people who have expertise on a domain and who can become highly calibrated in relevant interview topics within their domain through repeated interviewing. But not overly broad standardization that tries to use a single global criteria to evaluate for completely disparate domains. What a "domain" is depends on how much specialization is expected of an engineer based on the company size, team structures, employee growth strategy, etc. E.g. "backend" might be a domain, "golang" might be a domain, "infra" might be a domain, "security" might be a domain, and all of these may have overlapping concerns, but different curation of interview topics depending on where you'd expect to see the new hire 5 years down the road.
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