skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Apple is the biggest company on earth and out of the FAANG companies"

A pointless metric given that over the last 5+ years, Google/Apple/Amazon have had and lost that spot back and forth. It's a vanity metric and in terms of the actual business, is an abstraction.

"they are the most prestigious place to work."

By what criteria? If you are talking about by patents and research filed, it would be IBM (which is also the longest running firm at over a century), if its hardware one might be more impressed by SpaceX, if....etc. "Prestige" is another vanity abstraction, and isn't even prone to a metric.

"Their market cap is on it's way to 10 Trillion. There's very little incentive for people to jeopardize this job and give up their stock in the company."

If that were as true as you state, people wouldn't leave for startups at the rate that they do. Startups wouldn't be as common in general if these big 'prestige' firms were such a thing, but the valley only in the last dozen years or so has fallen to that as 'common wisdom' when the actual habits are a lot more mundane -- NDAs and it's a small valley so people who can't keep a secret don't get hired elsewhere. That was the case in the 90s when the big players were HP, IBM, MSFT, Sun, SGI,and folks bounced from firm to firm, it was the case a decade later when folks started moving into what became the dotcom wave........
Yes, they might have all gotten "great filtered" first.

Wouldn't it be interesting if all the intelligent species in the galaxy got filtered, except humanity b/c we're relative latecomers to evolution and development.

Assume on most or all other habitable planets in the galaxy, the first species to develop was intelligent and capable of technology. But, all hit the Great Filter at the roughly same time and got wiped out. There was no chance for any of them to learn from the mistakes of the others, because they all got wiped out before they were able to detect and observe each other.

But on Earth, the dinosaurs came first, and roamed the planet for millions of years while all these other species were developing and then getting great filtered.

Then the dinosaurs went extinct, and humanity eventually evolves into a technological civilization, and is able to detect, study, and learn from the ancient ruins of the other civilizations. We get curious about why they went extinct, and then discover evidence of the Great Filter from their ruins, and thus avoid it ourselves.
For most of the people cryptos are a way to make money or a way to use money for illegal purposes. Outside of that, you'll only find preachers of this tech.

Cryptos now have a lot more control in China, and the European Union is going to force the identification of those who interchange Euros or other currency to/from cryptos, so I don't know how much is going to last the bubble of earning money with that.
> If you put Twitter in the category of "mature industries that should run at a loss" then you might have an argument.

I do not. I was reacting to the “socialism is EVIL” part of the OP. I won’t argue that Twitter needs to be nationalised, it can DIAF as far as I am concerned.
I hope Elon allows reader view to work with Twitter if he buys it
I think reader view should be able to work on any site. I think there are some apps where you can select what to show with reader view that's great. But I don't think that's included in Firefox or Safari.
yes, we have only soft launched in the UK and South Africa, US folks wanting a preview can email me dom@birda.org for a beta invite
Also, the chunking done because of limited character space actually helps the brain avoid cognitive overload. May be not in all the cases but it certainly helps in lot.
Usually say people that don't do anything serious besides plotting some basic graphs :)
> Please enlighten us with your wisdom

Such rudeness doesn't deserve a reply, so consider this reply for the larger HN community.

My original post was something like this

> Offer a training on how to raise capital (2.5K course dev, 5K marketing, 2.5K admin maintenance).

and then I changed course because there are nearly infinite paths to turn 10K into 1MM.

Another example is to trade derivatives. There are other examples, but my point is not in the infinitude but that increasing capital is not as simple as having an idea.

Most routes to increase capital significantly are labor and time intensive.
allowing the restoration of your property to the state of functionality that was present when you agreed to pay for the product. in other words level the playing field and prevent, the prevention or reversal of a property owners right to maintain thier property

to wit: manufacturers should be restricted from circumventing repair or configuration
Toward Optoelectronic Chips That Mimic the Human Brain
Chicken and egg problem: there aren't enough people with EVs yet for it to become a problem. What scares me is the physical limitation of the highway stop area. The _gas_ stations there are already way past capacity on a few strategic days of the year. French people don't like waiting 20m to get gas on August 15th, but at least once they're done, filling up is 5m.

I don't think any TV is going to resist filming infuriated would-be-holliday-goers burning under the sun while they wait an hour or two to fill their batteries. The first summer it arrives will be _very_ hard for the EV industry.

Also, those "highway areas" are owned by... gas companies. So will they put their best will into making sure the EV-holliday experience is top-notch (maybe ramping up charging capacity with portable batteries during the summer ?) Or will they let the experience be hellish, look at the number of EV stagnating, and lobby like hell to move the ICE bans further to the future ?
I bought 30 Lenovo and Dell laptops for new starters at our business and have definitely found that, over the last two years, both present more issues than I would have expected from either. We've stopped buying Lenovo because of the problems our users were having, sticking with Dell and trying to weather the issues.
Facebook Engineering Process with Kent Beck
Bias is learned behavior, so it seems that "learning models" is precisely the right name for it despite whether we considered the ramifications of learning
Oh that's a great example, actually.
Having watched a few Big Clive amd AvE teardown videos of various doodads, my impression is that manufacturers have different opinions about circuit optimization.

https://www.youtube.com/c/bigclive

https://www.youtube.com/c/arduinoversusevil2025
Humbled and uttering to find the right words, I happily accepted the invitation to attend an exhibition of art involving the Snake game I created (Snake 97).

It strikes me what a cultural impact a simple game like Snake has: one can only wonder how museums of the future will reflect on our age.

I love to share it with you because it is easy to forget about the intangible value art has.
It became Lambda: The Ultimate Noop.
It's really good.

I don't have any links or docs but I've used it quite a bit. With a recent of MATLAB, the codegen is good enough that my workflow has become "prototype in MATLAB" -> codegen -> profile then hand optimize. That is, for things which lend themselves well to MATLAB.
It's not even view points any more. It is facts detrimental to Democrats which get people deplatformed.
Nexe has been around for a really long time. There have been several approaches to bundling Node apps into single executables. Native Addons always presented a problem. Same with dynamic imports. With better bundlers like weppack, improvements by Electron in cross platform code signing, and Vercel’s approach to executable bundling, I think Nexe has mostly become a second tier tool, right?
I've personally used `nexe` before and ended up swapping it out for Vercel's `pkg`[1]. `pkg` worked better with building ARM binaries and with less gotchas with multiplatform builds, in my experience.

[1]: https://github.com/vercel/pkg
Still fond memories of landing in O'hare airport at dusk with the dim orange light illuminating the dashboard with looping jet sounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIhey40rjks&t=1787s
I am not a fan of Atlassian for several reasons, but they are a smart bunch, and I am pretty sure they will learn from this.

There will be some well scared engineers who have learned some good lessons. It’s good to have people around who “have seen things”. Mistakes happen, but not learning from a mistake would be the tragedy.

(If you use Jira you are already used to pain and frustration - you’ll be fine.)
In the past, I did it because I wanted to contribute to knowledge. Over the many years, I found I find knowledge more so than creating. I actually enjoy writing so I thought to keep it up beginning this year and like to point it towards a certain direction.
Not sure what you’re trying to imply other than you being some form of self righteous something in a world around you full of varying degrees of very successful people that use drugs.
I don't get it — there is a market for a high quality robust laptop — and yet it does not exist.

Why our choice is an ancient refurbished pre-shit ThinkPad or Mac? You can't throw a rock without hitting a random developer — but they all type on self-destructing shittops… And they type emails to customer support instead of coding.
Substitute DIDww for Google Voice, then.
> So both you and the original poster are somewhat correct but you both are trying to manipulate the data to only support the cause you want.

How so? Their point was that nationalisation was intrinsically totalitarian and bad. My point is that there are several counter-examples that show that it does not follow. I never said it was a panacea.
Compared to other FAANG. They will match high offers, but will not go out of their way to set particularly high comps.
Their competitor TaxAct is being more brash as well. I've been filing the same forms for the last 5 years and the filing cost with them has risen gradually from $60 in 2017 to $130 this year.
I see many learjets on sale, do you think its safe to purchase a jet made in the late 90s, early 00s? seems to be selling at huge discounts.
DatenLord: Application-orientated, cloud-native distributed storage system
Wouldn't you consider getting rid of them based on trust everyone else is doing the same playing with fire as well?
Washington Post literally had an article today titled:

"It’s time to give the elites a bigger say in choosing the president"
Nice!

One pedantic note, hopefully helpful: "this let's you move further" should be "this lets you move further" -- there is no apostrophe in "lets" unless it's a contraction of "let us".
Because for a lot of people, it's either the job or starving on the streets.

These jobs aren't great. 16 hour work days and company provided boarding makes them into borderline slaves.

I'm not saying stopping the demand for electronics is going to fix that, but promoting that is far from a "holy mission".

Unless you care more about plastic gadgets than the people making them for you.
Ok you're right I was using "always" loosely to mean "for years before V4". I fixed my comment.
I don’t think this decision has anything to do with the CEO — this is strictly a matter for the board of which Dorsey is still a member.
In the U.K. if you’ve overpaid in a given year (usually only a few pounds) you get the option to either roll it over to the next year, or a direct bank transfer to the account you give.

I’ve had payments pretty much instant (maybe next day) of repayments that are 4 figures, and ones that are just a few pennies.
I ask myself how he pays for his servers. Does it count if another person does it? Apparently, he connects to the internet over an other person.
I think that's a real issue. If you have enough power that other persons do the stuff for you, it doesn't mean it's a way in which other persons can do it as well.
I understand where you’re coming from, but isn’t it possible it’s not really a conscious decision being made? I mean do you think that people are actively choosing colors over people? I just think it may be more likely users of Apple devices are generally manipulated to associate interacting with Apple devices as a more enjoyable experience than with non-Apple devices. You say you are being more fair than “they” would be, but purposeful lack of understanding doesn’t seem very fair to me, it seems like you’re maybe trying to retaliate against an invented perception. I don’t think it’d hurt anyone to consider opposing actions in a realistic light.
This is like bundling the Python interpreter with a Python script into a single executable file that runs without needing Python locally installed.
> I paid intermediaries $10k to transfer a house title to me. Took a few weeks and many contracts.

I'm pretty sure you didn't pay that for the transfer of the house title. Most of that was for other stuff that happened around the same time, like getting a mortgage and having your lender make sure they're not going to be left holding the bag.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/mortgages/closing-costs-m...
This is exactly the answer and nobody should downvote it.

The myopia among people is abysmal.

Just a tiny hint of cynicism will lead you down the obvious paths, it's not that hard.

AT&T has more influence over governance than the other way around, that's a bit of the 'American character'.

It has some advantages in that innovation abounds, but comes along with lack of regulatory apparatus.

A Russian on YouTube today was trying to explain to Westerners how Russians are default trapped in a kind of despair and it's all they know, they have never known another way of living, there's no hope for change etc..

Europe is far from perfect but if every America lived 3 months in Europe there'd be a revolution instantly.

FYI the opposite would be a bit true as well. Some 'things happen' in America at a pace Europe cannot match.
To what address would Google send such a postcard? What do you do about the problem of estranged spouses and the like triggering recovery to break into their partners or ex-partners account? It's a mess. All the options are.

Remember, this is the most valuable account most people possess.
In Denmark, so not the same as who you reply to.

Yes, if you pay too much in tax and their calculations reveal that, then, yes, you get money back on your bank account.

They don’t calculate commute deductibles for you, but mortgages, pension is something which is calculated for you based upon reports from the respective institutes.
To do that in software is one thing. To pull that off in Cars is quite crazy.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1302.0606.pdf
XPS is prosumer grade at best. You need a Precision or Latitude product (preferably a Latitude 7xxx) to get a quality product.
iMessage on Android, or Resurrecting an Old Mac
I believe it's because of burst technology and other QoS. It helps to have a burst of data ready for queue, but will throttle down over a sustained time. I believe this also helps overall network so that you do not continue sending in repeated same, say, from requested again over and over when the internet is slow / does not work adding to congestion.
Managed services. S3 instead of building a process to store and replicate files on a file system that you manage. DynamoDB or RDS instead of managing your own DB.

Libraries instead of cutting your own code for everything.

Effective searching for projects who have already done the thing you’re about to do.

Sometimes: it’s as simple as taking a day or few days to think the problem through to ensure you really understand it.

Finding a way to deliver the needed functionality in Excel/Sheets instead of a custom application.
> but the river is gone too.

The Sumerians were well known to forcibly reposition the local rivers of which there were many in the flood plain. There are probably plenty of areas with long lost boats, areas today that wouldn't appear to having been a river, ever.

There's a whole back story here of the Persian gulf which receded something like 100 miles around the time Sumer disappeared[0]. My theory for this is that population growth in the south created caused an expansion of irrigation/agriculture- and as kings became more willing and able to reposition rivers, they unintentionally created the first major human environmental catastrophe. This is why the Akkadians, to the north of the Mesopotamian flood plain, were the inheritors of Sumerian culture. Cities like Uruk would have much been closer to the coast than they are today, giving southern Sumer (in its heyday) a very similar environment to the Nile river delta pouring into the Mediterranean, with all those cities parked right in the middle of the delta.

We know too that southern Sumer was trading heavily with many neighbors, including India, so we can easily imagine they were active in the Persian gulf... and naturally I'd imagine there are plenty of boats stuck in sand deep underground, undisturbed, and loaded with artifacts of trade.

[0]: http://people.rses.anu.edu.au/lambeck_k/pdf/171.pdf
The Node world has many tools to solve this problem. The docs for caxa have the best comparison between them I've seen https://github.com/leafac/caxa#prior-art .
Moltes gràcies.
Companies are not alive. The human beings running Intuit are lobbying for the continued existence of an unnecessary and harmful organization. That is unethical/immoral/evil behavior. Accepting their bribes is also evil behavior. There's no need to pick the "real villains", everyone involved is a villain.

It's true that some employees would be hurt if Intuit went out of business, but paying someone doesn't magically make their behavior acceptable. You can't pay someone to harass people on the street and then say "sorry, I can't stop or my harasser will lose their income, the real villains here are the police for letting me do this."
I tried pretty hard to make my iPad Pro a development machine by installing a great ssh/mosh client, then setting up an EC2 instance in the cloud with my favorite terminal tools.

It was always "almost good enough" but the effort required outweighed the benefits. Any time I needed a new tool, I had to try to figure out if the tool was going to be resource-hungry enough to bring down my EC2 instance. This stopped the whole show multiple times.
>Interesting - a difference in outcomes that is not caused by bias, but by different behavior.

How is that interesting? You only have to look at the type of content shared by right vs left to realise that the 'bias' against the right is the result of shitty content.

It's the same argument used by right wing comedians, who fail to realise that they're just not that funny.
Author here - not an original insight, although it's clichéd enough that I can't point you to where I picked it up from.

I also want to emphasize that I do not view bias as a bad thing in the context of supervised models. In some ways, I think it's the whole point of a supervised model (to inherit the judgment of its creators). If the bias helps filter predictions that are useful for your goals, it's a good thing.
> But irrelevant: Things have already taken from others and they want it back.

Who took what, from who, when?

> Agreed, so because violence was used to obtain an UN-equitable position, they want it back.

Again: what, from who, when? There are two answers to this: something that isn't actually violence (agreeing to employment), or something from hundreds of years ago ('stolen land'). Neither are good arguments, in any way.

> People the color of your skin used violence ...

I'm brown. Want to try again? Maybe without criticizing someone's position based on their race?

> If "positive rights" can also be established in response to evil, then I don't see why they cannot be used to correct for equity.

I don't think you read that sentence correctly. Three things:

1) Positive rights should not exist, because:
2) Positive rights cannot exist without violence and slavery
3) Equity, and demands for it, are inherently evil.

> Property-rights are enforced by taxes

No, they aren't. Property rights are _usually_ enforced by the state, because of their monopoly on violence. There is nothing stopping me from defending my property myself.

> on some level, if these are "positive rights" ...

They aren't. As I explained.

> Your parents poison them which makes it more likely for them to be born lame, so I think it's perfectly fair to break your legs if you can't find another way to make that right.

Sins of the father, huh? Maybe we should punish out to 3 generations? Seems like you'd love the DPRK.

> Why do I tell a slave that they do not need to be a slave?

There are more slaves alive now than there have ever been in history. Someone working a minimum wage job in the US is very much not that, and it's patently absurd. Comparing a retail job to chattel slavery is disgusting.

> who does not have that opinion because I'm not a racist asshole.

Are you sure? You supported breaking my legs when you thought I was white. Now that you know I'm not, what now?

I mean, I know the answer: break them anyway, he's probably a counter-revolutionary.

This is exactly what's wrong with your entire philosophy. It's based on violence to get what you want, because you're incapable of achieving it any other way. Try harder.
If you're already a C++ programmer this kind of thing is great since a lot of us already prototype in Python or Matlab so a glidepath to C++ is helpful. Otherwise I agree, prob go with Python.
> I've written more than 2k lines of code in 9 months!

I don't find this astonishing at all. That being said, I work in an industry riddled with red tape and debugging. It wouldn't be a shock to me if you wrote less than 200 lines, maybe even less than 20-50.

> It makes me wonder how often 10x is about circumstance vs programmer skill

Often times it is.
This seems like unjustified speculation; people could look at e.g. people leaving cookies and milk out on Christmas Eve as an example of how modern Americans are poor at abstraction and have to give literal offerings to their god Santa Claus.

AFAWK there has been no significant change in the anatomy of humans in the past 200k years, and similarly nothing to indicate that we’ve had major changes in things like our ability to abstract. The bicameral theory of mind has been thoroughly discredited.
Flat fours and sixes definitely have a balance advantage over V6 engines, but I’m not sure there is much difference to a straight (in-line) four or six. They are also perfectly balanced until some higher order harmonic (something I can’t really remember at the moment). The advantage of flat engines are that they are much shorter, but then they’re heavier and more complicated because they have to have two heads.
(Edited a typo in first sentence)