skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Familiarize yourself with the tools for measuring performance on whatever platform you want to optimize for. Then you can just start messing around and seeing what kinds of things make the number go down.
>Somehow after 25 years of coding I've never seen issues with using exceptions

Here is a link to Google's C++ style guide, which discourages exceptions with pros & cons:

https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html#Exceptions

It's your 25 years of coding, vs the several thousand man-months of Google's C++ codebase. That said, I don't deny that some people use exceptions with little mental overhead. I've been told about very high performance and readable trading software that made use of exceptions. My main gripe is that it they require discipline to use correctly, almost everyone uses them differently, and they make code harder to reason about. I would prefer a language that doesn't need an IDE to locally reason about some piece of code.
That just worked! Thanks!
AWS elastic beanstalk is good if you have some AWS skill, if not, Heroku is a great place to start.
I'm struggling to understand what you mean. Finally being able to communicate strikes you as "only marginally" improved? You really don't think that being able to talk to family, say that you're in pain, ask for an audiobook, helps much at all?

And then you mention life expectancy, which is quantity of life.
Just the modding and retro communities? YouTube has done that to practically every other community, as was to be expected whenever you suddenly introduce the dangling carrot of money.

I really hate the type of guy who is lurking around enthusiast forums looking for topics to "cover" on his next YouTube stream. Yes, these guys exist and yes they do that.

It's not really an improvement in quality, but it is a degradation in wasted time and also in cooperation, since communication becomes mostly one-sided again.
You're assuming that crime is reported with the same reliability.
Someone on HN once said, if you want to build a reputation and a brand, do interesting things and talk about it. This is the perfect example. No, this will not make him money because there is not a large market for superior Mario 64 performance, but you sure as hell know who he is now, don't you?

And I will say his youtube skills are top notch. The video is very entertaining and informative. I just cannot imagine this person will have trouble making money in the future.

EDIT: Added a missing word
The only reason that income tax is the primary source of revenue is because of the cap on payroll taxes that allows the rich to avoid paying as much as the middle class.
>Yes! I would love a search engine that is limited to high-quality sources.

I'm pretty certain Google ranks pages higher if they are viewed as authorities.

Also, I think quroa does this
From what I understand (as I didn't start writing code until the mid-2000s), loop unrolling was a very highly regarded optimisation of the early 90s.

And it was a very long time before programmers (and compilers) realised just how bad of an idea loop unrolling was once we entered the era of superscalar processors with instruction caches and half-decent branch prediction.
For those just clicking to hear the recording and not the backstory note the initial clip at the top is no the correct version, the one at the end is.
Yeah it's hard to remember the time before you could get 2 near-perfect C/C++ compilers on the 5-ish most popular architectures.

And the architectures have consolidated since then.
In many places hospitals suspended non-emergency care and the fear of catching Covid would have made people reluctant to seek medical attention. If someone dies from a condition that would be diagnosed and treated in normal times, they would show up in the excess mortality figures. That still doesn't mean they died from Covid.
As someone with an interest in procedural generation in general and working on a game using dungeon generators specifically, I'd love to read it when you do.
My point is that a lot of people don't need all those things. As the article points out, a managed dedicated server offers most of those benefits and the redundancy plus "easy scaling" of AWS is not even necessary if your goal is just to avoid debugging hardware issues.

It's easy to setup a home raspberry pi. It's easy to go one step up and setup a colocated raspberry pi. It's easy to setup a managed dedicated server. Auto scaling virtually provisioned hardware is great for a big company like Netflix with actual daily fluctuating demand. Most people don't need such advanced scaling features.

I previously had Sonic.net, which was one of the best fiber offerings for consumers available. 1 gbps up and down, unmetered, and was pretty much never down during the period I had it.
The Federal government CAN be a force for good and should be strengthened, but it also suffers from corruption and outsized influence from the rich.

Por que no los dos?
Yet some in America decry participation trophies and say it is the source of all the problems.

I agree that kids should just be kids and focus on self improvement. It’s why I’ve always liked golf.
New capacity actually doesn't decrease traffic it increases it. It's called induced demand. [1] A sustainable future depends not on private cars in tiny tunnels, but subways and trains.

Research by Kent Hymel of California State University of Northridge found that adding one percent more road capacity produces the exact same increase in the amount of vehicle miles traveled.

Burying the road isn't going to change that.

[1] https://archive.curbed.com/2020/3/6/21166655/highway-traffic...
* it already does parse to an AST and caches the AST generated from an expression, so for a given expression the parsing is only done once, but that's just within Javascript. I would like to extract that out and have DTL libraries in multiple languages... but that whole 'day job' thing makes that a ways off, I expect. :D
You are exercising options that haven’t vested yet. But because strike and FMV are the same you have no tax liability. So when they beat they become stock and long term capital gains if they become liquid one day.

Here’s the best part - if the company is worth < 50m at the time then you are granted and exercise them, when you sell those stocks one day, you will owe 0 income tax as it’s a “qualified small business stock” - on your first 10m of profit. Wowza’s!
I fail to see how an Instacart driver driving a car is any more eco friendly than me driving a car. (Operationally… maybe less cars means less resource usage, but that’s not the biggest contribution to climate change… and there are other positives of owning your own car, e.g. trips)
While I generally agree ...

> Most crime is limited to a few states, and really just a few cities in those states, and even more so specific areas within those cities (pareto is fractal in this way).

What is that based on? Some tangential data leans in the other direction: The most recent FBI/DoJ report (that I'm aware of) said recent increases in gun crime were spread pretty evenly, urban and rural, across the country - though that's just one kind of crime, and only the increases. Another report said crime is worse in 'red states' than 'blue states', and the latter tend to have larger cities (I think). Hardly conclusive data, I know, and I'd love to see some.
As opposed to indefinite periodic lockdowns, the period of severe damage of non-zero COVID is finite. Population-wide immunity increases with every wave, until there is some steady state like seen with influenza, where the threat is limited to the small virality edge that new variants provide before the population develops immunity to them. It is very likely, given the history of other coronavirus, that eventually the damage from COVID-19 will be comparable to other cold viruses (four of the major cold viruses are coronaviruses, and some evidence suggests they started as extremely deadly, and through mutation and/or growing-immunity, became milder).

Novel viruses are exceptionally dangerous, so the severity of COVID-19 infections is not an unusual situation. Influenza, when novel, caused the immensely deadly Spanish flu. We also know how viruses evolve, and how populations adapt to them, and based on that knowledge, we can safely assume that COVID-19 will not remain exceptionally dangerous once it becomes endemic.
Depends on how much power you need and your access to sun. I'm in the Bay Area, installed solar panels about 18 months ago. Break even for the panels is estimated to be about 6 years at current market rates. Now I also had to do a new roof, which roughly doubles the break even time, ignoring the fact that I'd have needed a new roof anyways.

Currently I'm not taking into consideration decreased efficiency because the panels are warrantied for 90.08%+ at 25 years. Also something not taken into account on breakeven/cash positive is the fact that PG&E rates are always on the rise. As of March of this year rates went up 9%. The more rates go up, the faster I break even.
Lookup how kids die.

Here is a hint: it’s cars.
Series A isn't "early" these days and 10k options reflects that. (100k is only 1% given 10M authorized, 10M being reasonably common for initial authorization and 1% being around market for an early engineer.)

That said, the strike price for common should still be reasonable at Series A - not $0.0001, but not $10 either, so 5-10k options can be around $10k. (Yes, a company can raise at $100M valuation even though the 10M common have a strike price of $1. The $100M is preferred.)

And, there's no law saying that 803(b) is all or nothing.
That blog post is cited in the paper the article discusses.
Ignoring Russia for a moment....

This is 500k net new subscribers globally. But Netflix doesn't break down into how many were new customers and how many existing customers they lost. If you could see these on a graph, you would likely see that their loss of existing customers has been climbing and their new incoming customers has been falling. Forecast this outwards, and the curves will cross resulting in a net loss of subscribers.

This is why they are introducing the advertising-subsidized tier. To stop the bleeding of customers and return to growth.
> As someone with kids and living in the Midwest, I just don't even have the words to describe my reaction to this. Wow.

I'm not sure what you mean: Do you live in a large Midwestern city, like Chicago, and have different experiences? Do you live in a suburban or rural environment and are surprised to hear it?

Personally I spend lots of time in cities and I'm not surprised. If you don't have experience there, realize that the horror stories fit a long-term political campaign to denigrate cities in 'blue states' (note that you don't hear anything about crime in Miami, Houston, etc.), which are a political power base of a one party.
Otherwise, we would have about a hundred trillion people infected with Covid by now.
are routes, huh?
You appear to have a very limited understanding of what the article is actually about. I suggest you read the article.

Surely you're aware "freak mutations" occur in nature already? The world isn't a comic book.
>>I suspect universal N95 masks might be enough.

We have no idea the damage that constant mask-wearing could do. This would be a very dangerous experiment, that interferes with basic the human functionality that we are adapted to.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-child-lan...
Worldle Unlimited
Parachute demo at Nats Park causes brief Capitol evacuation
Should be significantly more efficient to have 1 truck load up and provide groceries and packages to everyone on a road than say 50 cars right?

Further you don't need to own a car to go on trips, car shares solve that! Just rent a car for the weekend when you want to leave town, or take a train.
Istanbul is a beautiful city. It's full of colors, tastes, contrasts, different experiences. But it takes time to feel like you belong somewhere. With this belonging, we start to become much more critical. You get more concerned and more affected by day-to-day aspects of life that you don't pay much attention at first (or you don't even have to pay attention to those at first).

Enjoy Istanbul! It's a beautiful time of the year, too. I wish you best of luck in your future adventures.
You shouldn't have the free speech to talk about sex with kids in kindergarten or third grade.

Public schools should be for everyone. You can talk about that with your own kids, but not in public schools. Kids shouldn't be forced to hear your speech about sex.
I haven't used meld for a long time; the website says its three-way merge is still in development, while kdiff3 has had that for more than twenty years and it's (for me) the main reason I use it. The three-pane display with the merge result in a fourth pane at the bottom is just so easy to use. (The second reason I use it is that it allows you to mark lines that should align with each other.)
It seems like the only sane way to make use of refuse mixed plastic is to incinerate it for energy. Perhaps as peaker plants that can be brought online when there isn't sufficient renewable energy to meet demand.

Burning plastic is clearly dirty, but with sufficient heat and airborne pollutant scrubbers I doubt it's any worse than coal.
As was Hacks, which really could have been a proper HBO show instead of a Max Original.
This is why we have product software engineers, and UI designers. The UI is a social problem and the purpose/goal of the product usually is. The guts that make that UI and achieve that purpose are very rarely social.
I agree - it has become far more common the last 5 or so years for startups to open their books to new hires. I’ve seen quite a few places even breaking out the expected return at different valuations and dilutions after further funding rounds.
If this concept takes off it could be an interesting leveler (and level-up) for productivity, especially with people working at home.

I'm sure there are loads of people out there working off a single laptop screen, maybe with an extra monitor if their employer has funded one and they have the space and technical ability to set that up correctly [0]. They're spending all day switching their tiny screen betwen Excel and Word and a browser and email and chat, and it's just killing productivity.

If all it takes is a single piece of equipment, with one or two cables, to give any person an enormous virtual workspace - that could be a huge change. Everyone gets a laptop and a VR headset, so everyone is on the same level for that resource. Everyone has space for VR, so it's not lucky me with the full home office against unlucky you who works at their dining room table or on the couch.

[0] Don't underestimate how complex this stuff is for many people - if they're even aware that it's possible!
Yes.

Normally I hate passing the buck like this, but this is something you need to configure in your HTTP server (not Minisleep).

Minisleep does not handle auth itself, instead HTTP_AUTHENTICATION is handled by your HTTP webserver. Minisleep's scripts do not even get run until authentication succeeds, so they have no way of noticing brute force attacks.

I did have code once where minisleep itself handled auth checks (instead of your HTTP server), but I realised this was probably making things worse. You would have to trust my auth checking code AND my rate limiting code AND it would be easier to DDOS. My rate limiting was also a bit naive, blacklisting by IP, which probably isn't enough when facing modern IPv4 botnets or IPv6 in general.

My personal website (https://halestrom.net/) has a commenting system which does do some simplistic rate-limiting in CGI scripts. It's a bit easier there, because one of the rate limits is site-wide, and there is no auth to check, so I'm a lot more comfortable with it.

Thankyou for bringing this up, I need to add some docs about server ratelimiting configs (and add them to the pre-made example server configs I ship with Minisleep). I'm so used to using ridiculously complicated passwords that I have forgotten about brute forcing practicality.
Unless we also had progress in energy technology that could overcome this, which unfortunately we haven't.
REminiscence – rewrite of the engine used in Flashback from Delphine Software
Can you make it so it doesn't let you type out a detailed question and then clear it and tell you it's rate limited?
>Common Lisp implementations allowed you to change your program's code while debugging decades ago. Microsoft added bare minimum of similar functionality like fifteen years ago or so, if I remember correctly.

Fair enough. I did say "some of the best debuggers I've used". I've never used Common Lisp. I have no idea what the debugging experience is like on it.

Incidentally, I don't find edit & continue to be a terribly useful feature.

>I'm not even sure they've caught up on class redefinition and instance upgrade at runtime yet, which has been supported in CL since the 1980s.

That has nothing to do with the tooling, though. C++ just doesn't support those features. You also say "caught up" as if committee members had been trying to add those features to C++ but just hadn't been able to. It's much more likely that there hasn't been enough (or any) interest to add them.
I actually think we would see Disney remaking some of their old IP more often if copyright was only 20 years, or at least the popular ones.

If they released remakes at 20 year mark, anyone trying to take advantage of the now expired copyrights would have to compete with the new "official" versions of the IP.
Milpitas really is not walkable, although you can somewhat decently navigate it with a bike. Walkability mostly is a function of density, which you can just glean by eye from a satellite picture. Unfortunately, many otherwise pedestrian-friendly places in the Bay Area have homeless camps set up on them, which might be a deterrent.

Anything south of Oakland/SF is mostly strip mall hell, but parts of Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Marin County and San Francisco might be what you're looking for.
I think the parent poster is saying that this tax treatment of options is inconsistent with the way RSUs are taxed, though.

RSUs are taxed at vest time even if you hold the shares, presumably because they can be sold immediately since they have some FMV.

Options are not taxed at vest time, even if they are ITM and have some large positive FMV. And for ISOs, even if you exercise immediately at vest and you don't sell the exercised shares, there is no tax (assuming no AMT).

What is the reason for the different tax treatment?
Montpelier's fight with descendants of the enslaved brings employee firings
This is one of favorites too!

I was recently chatting with a friend who (like me) grew up in the 90s and they were reminiscing on how great walking to school was because “you could do that back in the day.” They then went on to say that they would NEVER allow that for their children “these days”.

I pulled up the Pew study and it blew their minds. That said the news cycle, perception, parental instinct, etc is too powerful and fear (however irrational) is extremely powerful. After the initial shock they thoughtfully considered it and essentially said “Well, whatever. The kids are still never going to just walk around outside.”

Those kids are never going to be out “in the wild” even though it’s substantially safer today than it was in the 90s when we were doing it.
Most companies I know that were using Oracle didn't actually need it, they just didn't trust open source yet. One actually paid me to move their stuff from Postgres to Oracle "because we need enterprise support." This was in the early to mid 2000's.
We need graphs of "minimum password length" versus "number of CPUs in your shared hosting" :D
I use yt-dlp since youtube broke noscript/basic (x)html browser support.
I always permit early exercise, which is specially good at the earliest stages when the common options are worth little, even less than a cent pre funding

That is, you can exercise your options whenever you want, even your first day at your job. What happens is the company can buy them back when you leave, but that ability goes away by the same amount as the regular vesting schedule. So if you leave the company after two years the company buys back half your stock, but there’s no tax impact (and by then you’re in the LTCG regime). Big win, easy to do, so why doesn’t everybody do this?
Yes the $5/month lab setup compared to a globally redundant service.
That's because doing any kind of tooling for C++ is a heroic endeavour. The language just has orders of magnitudes more corner cases than anything except perl.

For example there were some tools Mozilla maintained: Elsa, pork, treehydra etc but (as far as I can quickly find on my phone) it looks like the burden of maintaining them proved too much a while back.
> And the code N64 was particularly unrolled for whatever reason.

My naive assumption is that they performed the majority of testing with debug code (as you would). And, since they had exactly one chance to get things right (being a physical cartridge), they couldn't afford to do all the testing again, with the new/different binaries generated with debug turned off.
Too many cars moving too fast and too much information coming at us from all over. It’s hard to slow down. Everything is coming at us faster than before.. tv, ads, social media.

The negative news cycle, violent tv and movies paint a world that is different than things really are.

Hardly anyone knows their neighbors anymore and everyone is stressed trying to pay the bills.
People live far away from their extended families and even the local babysitters are $$. We want credentialed babysitters etc…

Desirable places to live with job centers are expensively unaffordable and require long commutes.

Then with the internet and cell phones your job never really ever ends. It’s a blessing and a curse that you can work from anywhere at any time.

You can see why France banned emails after work.
I don't think I've ever seen someone be hit by a car. The only people I know who have been hit were riding bicycles in traffic.

But I would make sure my kids know not to just trust the lights.

> It doesn't take too much searching to find examples of horrible accidents:

It doesn't take too much searching to find examples of being hit by lightning or winning the lottery. Anecdotes are meaningless in that context.
Apple adding new fraud prevention features to Apple Pay, Apple Wallet
> that something will need to be built

If renewables (and batteries) are deployed at a scale where they produce enough electricity except during black swan events, then we can just keep the gas power stations around and use them a couple of days a year.

The rest of the year we can run atmospheric carbon capture facilities (or just try to capture the CO2 from the gas power stations).
Potential investors aren't shown trade secrets because anything that you show without an NDA ceases to be a trade secret. "No NDA" disclosure can also block patent protection.

There's a huge difference between pitching and due diligence.

Also, it's reasonably common to show a pitch deck to 100+ potential investors. How many series A companies interview 20 engineers, let alone 100?
If you need to write a sort from scratch it's because you're in some weird restricted environment without a standard library. Not because you need to get a few percent better performance sorting some gargantuan data set.

Being able to put together a sort from compares and swaps (or inserts, or whatever you have available) is at least evidence that you won't either panic or storm off when the tools you have are something less than ideal.
Your analysis is wrong.

The people with connections and serious money do not meaningfully compete against their own class (at least, they ensure that their intra-group competition does not benefit anyone outside their group). The people with skills, knowledge, and work ethic have to compete against the whole world.

It is not a symmetric or fair exchange.