skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My own experience convinces me there are many extra benefits to having written a book. My first book has been out for 4.5 years now. I know many people on Hacker News have read it and I'm grateful to all of you.I've enjoyed getting emails about it. Especially regarding "badly managed startups" and "abusive bosses" many of you have reached out to share similar stories. Maybe at some point I'll do a blog post that collects some of those email stories. Some people thought I was destroying my career by revealing the dark side of startups, but some entrepreneurs appreciate my realism and practicality, so I've gotten three very lucrative consulting jobs, thanks to that first book. And, surprisingly, the book has gotten more and more popular. It sold more this last year than it sold during its first two years. I assume that at some point the book will seem dated and obsolete, but at least for now it still strikes people as current, so the benefits of writing that book continue to pay dividends.
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I am using sqlite where a simple persistence layer is needed, both as the sole in the project or along with a full-fledged database. There are many such projects, once you realize that a database is just an abstraction; for example, for caching in a larger project, or to store results for a subsection of the project. But of course also for smaller, standalone projects.

Also, take a look at ws4sqlite (https://germ.gitbook.io/ws4sqlite/) for a middle ground between SQLite (embedded) and rqlite/dqlite: it's "normal" sqlite addressable via web services. May be useful in some scenarios.
FYI:

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The compile time in zig and nim is breath of fresh air, while rust seems similar spaghetti mess as c++
> How would they prevent the market from devaluing the stock as more is printed?

The important way to think about it is not price-per-share but price-per-percent. The share price on the market likely would fluctuate. It would be diluted as you pointed out, but if the attacker really wanted to own it, they're going to have to be the highest bidder on the market for a majority of the shares. They already have to over-value those shares, since that share that brings them >50% is WAY more valuable to them than every share leading up to it.

If Elon owned 15% and wanted to reach 50%, he has to buy 35% of the shares to reach control (50%). If you double the number of shares of existing shareholders but not Elon, then Elon would own 7.5%. Now he has to buy 42.5% of the company. Assuming the absolute value of the company didn't change, Elon will have had to buy 15%+42.5%=57.5 of the company just to buy what was 50% yesterday. This effectively adds a 7.5% premium to buy a controlling amount, and that premium is divided up among shareholders who sold out post poison pill.

Oh, and along the way, the demand to buy all those shares means that the attacker has to be the highest bidder. And that kind of demand would create a massive shift in the market. If enough of shareholders thought the price was too low, (or realistically a small fraction of them, since companies like index funds managers don't actively trade shares), they wouldn't sell to the attacker and the attack wouldn't be possible - so an attack has a huge upwards pressure on the price. every share gets more expensive than the last.

> it seems unlikely that a failed takeover would change the stock price for longer than a news cycle. All the fundamentals are unchanged, so it's more likely the price would return to what it was before.

Elon is basically a meme, just look at this tweets affect on the markets for things like crypto. Elon being associated with something makes it more valuable. When Elon announced he was getting involved and buying shares, they went up in price double-digit percents. If he said "jk i don't think twitter is valuable" AND dumped a huge load onto the market at once, the price would certainly crater for a while, even if, yes, one day it may return to "normal". But few investors would be happy to stomach that crash, especially since the board is judged in part on share price.

* technically you need >50%, but the math is way rounder and easy to rationalize to use 50 not 51.

* also, I don't know the details about the specific poison pill for twitter, but I'm just picking nice numbers for the math purposes

* this is also a big critique of passively managed funds economically - they limit the market dynamic and force buying/holding of companies that "the market" otherwise doesn't value
That case is a lesser form of anonymity since the platform knows your identity. With laws like the EU just recently voted for, this can become a problem.

Sure, they may log your IP and your ISP could connect the dots, but it still provides privacy.
Web browsers are the most complex codebases in existence. Firefox contains more lines of code than Linux. It would require probably 100 developers just to keep up with new features being added. Then going back and catching up on the already existing components is virtually impossible.

Mozilla had a project called Servo which aimed at replacing just a small slither of Firefox and the project ran for years with a huge monetary investment and eventually was canceled.
No one brought up the Clintons. Provide a source that proves your accusation about corruption with the Biden's
Agreed, running your own node gives you true ownership of your data. Those that can, should. For those that can't, community servers.
> humans are "just statistical models spitting out sequences of words"

I think a lot of research would suggest that this is actually how the brain works.
I downvoted because your posts are vague complaints containing little details, and when people engage in good faith you respond with scorn because those poor idiots haven't understood you properly. I'd argue this is because you haven't explained your point very well. And this kind of attitude is specifically the type of thing that's not appreciated on HN.
That definition is just one of the many possible definitions. And one of the obscurer ones tbh. :)

It’s an abstract concept that you can implement in many different ways.
> My favorite Mastodon feature is the ability to subscribe to hashtags [1]

You need to enable "advanced web interface", search for a hashtag, click the top right icon and then pin it, right? I had no idea I could do that. Thanks!

EDIT: I'm having a hard time adding tags like "#matrix", it insists on me using autocomplete and propose #matrixdotorg.
that's the last example listed on the page.

Or, at least, dice in general.
Impressive.

Not exactly the same thing but I have been thinking about the idea of 3D construction of cloth/jeans you want to purchase onto your own body, so that you have better idea before placing order, which could be really useful for online shopping.

I was thinking in game graphic way (bottom-up), such as building 3D model of myself, shopping website providing 3D models of their clothes, and then it would be a "fitting" problem to properly place clothes onto the body.

From this paper it seems that it is not necessary to have low-level data to achieve the objective.
Jack Dorsey says ‘Elon is the singular solution I trust’ for Twitter’s future
I think the OP meant to understand the motivation behind writing such blogs. Of course anyone can choose to ignore it. Point is that probably the OP read it and has questions.
How do you find interesting, valuable, non-toxic small groups?
How does one “tilt heavily woke”?
She was at Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. It's -the- most elite intellectual society. The top 1% of the 1% academics have to compete for admission. If that doesn't wash away illformed biases, I don't know what can! What she accomplished is no joke!! Huge respect tbh.
When he did this is basically when I decided to no longer watch his videos, and I don't regret this decision.
Ardor.
OK so the book is not bad. But since it touches so many subjects, I'd say most have been treated a bit superficially. Mind you, I don't think it's bad. You have most important concept explained in an accessible way, without the math getting in the way, and I'd say accurately enough. But if you want to go deeper into any of the many subjects presented in the book, you'll do much better buying a separate book (and there's no way around math). All in, I think many people would benefit from it, especially most beginners who have no idea how things work. I'm not sure about the HN crowd.
I see a movie coming on this saga. Please have David Fincher direct it.
I tried to use the release before and it was a mixed bag. While the default desktop is quite OK and everything seems to work, as you install another desktop environment like eg XFCE everything breaks. This is of course a very bad example of a Linux distro, such a thing does not happen with Ubuntu. In fact it seems to me that besides the very narrow focus on their preferred desktop they do not seem to care about all the other packages.

This again leads to the conclusion that they did not understand what a distro is about. Of course you want to support all the packages / desktops that come with a distro, not just your preferred set of packages. In fact they are actively destroying other parts of the distro with that.

Instead they should just offer a PPA repo with their modifications / addons - but much better would be if they just fed their changes to upstream instead of pretending to release a whole distro when in fact they just release some packages and maintaining the whole thing is way too much for them.

That leaves a bad taste. It is not clear why they need to release their additions and modifications in such a way, but for me as a new Linux user it was one of the most interesting revelations that I could (un-) install several desktop environments without any problems, this was a huge learning motivation.

So unfortunately this POPOS thing must be declared as a "false" attempt on how to distribute software for Linux. I still would recommend Ubuntu for newcomers, but teach them that several problems that might come up still exist - that is the price for software freedom you have to pay. Still snaps are not a real problem for many users and I understand why they exist, but personally find them horrible, too.
Been using fediverse with mastodon for months now. People are often much nicer, there are actual discussions and trolls are easy to block. Can recommend.
True, where were rumours Thoma Bravo were trying to put together a deal but that seems to have gone quiet.
So you want to write functions in SQL?
With SQLite you can define your own functions which can be called in your queries, but they do need to be written in your application language.
Russian rouble hits near 2-year high vs. euro
Unless you know someone very well, you'll be missing context when interpreting body language. Even then, sociopaths and con artists can seem extremely well known to you and you won't have a clue that everything you think you know is a lie.

Actors train to control this. You have to wonder if so many Hollywood marriages fail because neither partner can trust that the other isn't just really good at putting on a persona.
part of the productive use of heuristics is understanding their limits

by your logic no heuristic should ever be used?
Maybe you want to buy someone a gift, maybe you never buy books but know someone that loves books and for their birthday you want to gift them a book series, same with CDs, even if that person does not have a CD player I think they can appreciate a CD/DVD with all artwork and stuff that comes with that.
Customer service already acknowledged it's an error and should be fixed soon. This thread has huge amounts of speculation on why Amazon did this, when the likely answer is "oops crap I need to rollback that change"
They have legendary status but they aren’t very good books. In some cases they are quite misleading. Unfortunately I don’t think there’s anything better out there yet at that level. I remember having to unlearn stuff when I progressed past the very limited explanations.

Electronics as a subject is one of those things that’s really difficult to explain without a basic understanding of maths and he skirts well around that where possible.

If you know how to juggle numbers, probably better to start with The Art of Electronics.
For all the belly aching in the other thread about "The Algorithm^TM" being immune to open source, here is an example of a fully open-sourced system as an alternative.
It's a bug. There is no ulterior motive.
The nicest thing is that you can block (as a normal user) entire instances.

Which is very handy since shitty people tend to accumulate on certain instances.

Blocking because of bad behaviour is the path to sanity.
Mastodon became popular in Japan after Twitter banned lolicon and Pixiv[1] decided to start its own Mastodon instance named Pawoo[2]. It had a mobile app and all[3]. Last year, Pixiv stopped supporting the mobile app and transferred the instance to Russel[4]. I haven't followed recently but it seems to be still quite active (Japanese speaking mostly).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixiv

[2] https://pawoo.net/about

[3] https://archive.ph/H6lz3

[4] http://www.russel.co.jp/newsrelease/newsrelease_pawoo.pdf
People shouldn't be doxxing anyone if they don't want to be financially and mentally ruined, that's very simple.

Doxxing is typically done from public sources, only very unusually it's some kind of uncovered private information (e.g. by hacking). Most of doxxing is piercing together public information and spreading it among the masses.
A catch phrase that I have heard and use for all projects - “Always ask the who before the what before the how”
The .NET RX Observable streams where designed by Erik Meijer the author of this paper. The GOF book came up with the "Observer" pattern, but failed to spot and exploit the duality with iterators. RX and LINQ both take ideas from functional programming.
Considering the US managed to vote in a guy called Trump I don’t think there’ll be a problem.
And then allows you to lose access to your entire collection of Wolverine meat shredders the day you cancel your subscription (or the service goes out of business). Or silently and suddenly lose access to some of them because of some contract issue between the right holder of these shredders and the service provider.

Or prevents you from using your shredders if you lose your internet connection.

> on any device

I still have a table that won't accept DRM-encumbered Wolverine meat shredders and I would rather not put anything DRM-encumbered on those which could anyway. I also have some tables that are not so widespread but accept standard stuff, but the services won't use the standards.

That's why I go out of my way avoiding any subscription-based Wolverine meat shredder providers.
Take both notices together and you can see that they’re clearly using the wrong sense of the word deprecate. From the January notice:

> Existing URLs will continue to be accessible, but we encourage using one of the many URL shortening services that are available, instead of git.io, as we will be deprecating the tool in the future.

Semantically, that was clearly a deprecation of the service: it keeps working, but they discourage its use as it will be discontinued in the future. (It was also notice of shutdown of the write parts of the service.)

It is not reasonable to consider today’s notice to be a deprecation (interpreting that as a change in status).

> There is no requirement a deprecated service still works.

This is flatly wrong. The agreed meaning of the word “deprecate” requires that it still works. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecation for a good overview of the term’s proper usage and accepted meaning.
Well, if we overanalyze everything, the same could be said about the neediness of tweeting birds to get the attention of a possible partner [1].

[1] https://i.imgur.com/Ks17qEJ.png
Imagine the reverse situation, where the board could not decide on the price everyone got per share but did let someone get a controlling stake. I could by 51% of a company for $10 per share and then use my controlling interest to pay myself a consulting fee that was the profits of the company. I could offer the rest of the shareholders $1 for their shares, knowing that I would never let them make any money off of them. When someone takes control you have to try and make sure that at the moment they take control every everyone is paid equally. It doesn't always work like that, but I hope this helps you understand the fairness of setting a price for the remaining shares when someone is in a position to take control of a company.
Yes, just like you can pump other for-profit services and products on HN, you can pump for-profit books too.
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A great and hilarious example of that is this heavily cited paper titled "A mathematical model for the determination of total area under glucose tolerance and other metabolic curves."[0]

The title of this paper is not misleading at all. They basically just reinvented Riemann sum in 1994.

0. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8137688/
It seems to me that for some it is enough that you don't block what they block or even ask someone why someone is blocked and voila, you are blocked too.

I absolutely see the value of blocking and there are things I am happy to block, but I have never seen the need to block anyone based on who they don't block.

It is kind of the outrage over Elon Musk buying Twitter: people are outraged not because they are blocked or prohibited from blocking others but because someone else might not be blocked by default.
Nim is an odd language insofar that every time it's pitted against other languages, it performs brilliantly on nearly every level. Yet almost nobody uses it. Really weird juxtaposition.
Most tools in this space are about the efficiency of the development flow, sometimes down to the individual's level. With Echoes we're trying a different angle which is less about the efficiency of the process, and more about the value and the impact of our efforts. We are deliberately staying away from anything that could be interpreted as a proxy for individual performance.

We believe that the bottleneck to most organizations is not engineer's productivity but a lack of clarity & focus, and improving the development process alone is a bandaid rather than a solution. In the end Echoes tells you less about the quality of the engineer's work, and more about the quality of the organizational context.
Yes and no...

Each instance has a local (instance) timeline and a federated timeline in addition to one's own personal timeline. The local timeline only shows posts from accounts on that instance. The federated timeline shows posts from all accounts followed by at least one user on the instance.

So these two timelines can be dramatically different and they're a big factor in account discoverability and the "feel" of an instance.

Of course you can go out and follow ~anyone from ~anywhere, and that's the Fediverse's killer feature, but the more local content matters too.
Or hire private mercenaries to firebomb bot farms. He's got the money. Hire those YouTube hackers who pwn scam call centers to find the bad guys, run all the people out and torch the servers and phones and buildings. Modern society is too polite and civil.
The idea that a superintelligence (by which I mean, something more intelligent than humans in all ways that we might measure) not only wont occur (which seems likely to me that it wont), but is impossible, seems to me, quite odd?

Why would human intelligence be the absolute limit of what is possible?

Seems implausible.

Or maybe you mean something else by superintelligence, like, "more intelligent than humans in a self-improving way, and then FOOM and then it is necessarily more powerful than everything else", in which case, yeah that might be impossible (the upper bound of intelligence could perhaps be, while still higher than human intelligence, not actually all that much larger)
Overly cynical maybe?
"That person seemed really nervous, so clearly they were lying"

Or, you know, that person was really nervous because they might get wrongly deported / jailed / fired / broken up with / etc.

This body language stuff is 50/50 bad cop behaviour and bad relationship advice. See also: lie detectors, which really aren't that accurate.
It's not lying if you think you're telling the truth.
> My own solution was to keep no entity state in memory and translate everything into DB updates immediately

Did you encounter some part of the domain which was difficult to "push down" into SQL?

Also, how would this compare with encoding your domain code in a bunch of stored procedures, largely skipping a "conventional" programming language?
> Arguably network operators have the ultimate authority on what should and shouldn't happen over their networks on their equipment.

I think the point here is you write on their equipment. I was talking about cases where the network owner don't control the endpoints, that is allowing private devices to connect. snooping in that data can be problematic.
I think the question is more to do with how we can have an economic system largely based on shares that can be rug-pulled from under a shareholder at any moment. How come governments don't legislate against it? How come anyone trusts shares enough to buy them?

At a guess I'd say the answers to the two questions are "they do legislate against some behaviours, but blocking hostile takeovers is worse than allowing them" and "the risk of that happening is built into the market price," but I don't actually know.
It’s going to get way way better. Twitter is so bad right now it’s almost too easy to figure out what needs to be fixed.
> Wasn't this because of rating spiking?

Interesting idea, but who the hell buys a used Audio CD due to its Amazon bestseller rank? I sure don't.

I can maybe see SEO spamming (or whatever) for something like USB chargers or HDMI cables or something. A commodity item that people simply want cheap products with good ratings, and otherwise don't care.

But not music. Literally no one buys old used Audio CDs because of the Amazon best seller rank. It's not even on the list of considerations.
Which figures do you think are unlikely?
Ok found a PDF and scanned through it. This appears to be a rehash of older material, going back as far as the 90s, as I recognise some of the graphics and explanations. Newnes seem to make a great effort to retitle and reuse stuff in this capacity. It doesn’t look like a terrible book to be fair but limited in explanation and use. Worthy of the title perhaps.

If I was at ground zero now I’d probably buy that, then do Khan Academy algebra and calculus, then pick up Art of Electronics and then Sedra/Smith.

Art of Electronics is really important as it discusses applied theory rather than just theory. The real world is a lot less ideal and has edge cases and problems galore in it and concerns which don’t even appear in theoretical texts.

I honestly wish I had all this stuff as a kid. Had to put up with local library contents which were full of garbage.