skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct - I was trying to be succinct.

The idea of "sovereign debt credit ratings" is of course how it's done internationally - a nation may be unable to actually render itself unable to default, but if it's got a 350-year history of not defaulting, that can serve as a substitute.

But many organisations need loans before they've established a 350-year history, and a constitutional clause can give investors greater confidence.
> and their market size means everyone must cater to Gmail.

Would be nice to have an page detailing how the spam algorithm of google is a blackbox and might put legit email to the spam folder... This page could be added to email signatures to reverse the trend... Why am I in spam? ask google/your email provider.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75XKGVwGEt4
hatters gonna hate hate hate

folks just can’t cope with others doing well

it sucks to not live up to one’s own dreams but that’s the human condition
I think the climate emergency[1] compares and is only going to get worse.
Also, it is already partially responsible for warfare[2] (though not global, yet).

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

[2]: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/150302-sy...
Look up Rivos Labs
I don't believe NY is being "italianized", Italians have been there for so long that the idea if Italians in NY it's almost a meme nowadays, even in Italy we mock them.

Anyway, it's not about where people come from, but how.

Italians didn't go to NY through Airbnb, profiting of their much higher salaries.

They went there to work and lived at "the bottom of the ladder" level (my grand-grand father is one of them, he left Italy soon after the first World war).

NY is also the most no-one-true-identity city I've ever lived in.

First time I wenr there more than 20 years ago my biggest cultural shock was going to visit the Brooklyn zoo, catching a bus and being the only white person on the bus (well almost, I look more like a Northern African, but still).

But I'm sure many in NY too aren't happy of the process that's going on.
At tech companies, this is starting to change. They'll have an IC path and a management path.

But at a non-tech company that happens to have engineering roles (Bank, healthcare, etc.), yeah that's not happening. If you want to write code, you might end up being promoted to "Senior Software Engineer", but you'll stall there and your compensation will fall even farther behind the curve than it already is. You might cap at 150K/year if you're lucky.
If this stuff (typography, punctuation, etc.) interests you, definitely check out Butterick’s Practical Typography [1]. Great resource and easy to follow.

[1] https://practicaltypography.com/
buying the domain isn't the hard thing it's configuring it that non-technical people have the most issues with.
"I completely underestimated how much work it takes to build a business. There's so much overhead. I'm always figuring out why a build failed, taxes, how to triage issues, responding to support, designing UIs, responding to Apple's complaints, and more. There's so much that goes on behind the scenes. There's no way a single person can possible do this alone, especially as a side project."

This is the part that resonates a lot with me even though I have been able to build a small business that is reasonably successful with a small team but it takes a toll. It is a frikin slog and there are days when you feel like jumping off a cliff. Also the cost of doing something so small can add up when you can have a cushy tech job making 200K relatively easy. To do your own thing requires a very different mindset and incredibly hard.

There is a HUGE difference between building a quick side project for fun VS turning it into a real business (no matter how small). I have full sympathy for the owner and totally understand where they are coming from. No judgement and I wish them all the best.
When hiring, print out all the resumes and place in a pile on your desk. Take the top half and throw them away. You don't want to hire people that are unlucky!!!
Thanks. I’ll need to read that a few times because I struggle with this constantly.
> writing that Go wasn't designed, but happened by accident is however [impolite]

That's one of the most mild and inoffensive criticisms I've ever read on the internet. You can't seriously be indignant about that.
Lmao, Chelsea Manning living rent free in his head.
Don't forget about those deep ocean Methane Clathrates !
> punish a private enterprise for not donating to him

That's a pretty big claim that I've yet to see evidence for. Is this conjecture?
If you're getting into the outdoors and want a challenging (but very fun hike) check out Devils pass in the Catskills :)
Maybe that's why you have an insanely distorted view of what's going on in the US?
What makes a reaction knee jerk? Is it just not liking it?
> it says sexual education to kids should not happen before a certain grade

And it does not define what "sexual education" is.

> and be age appropriate

And it does not define what "age appropriate" is or specify what legislative body is reponsible for creating and maintaining that definition.

> unless you have some weird notion that a 7 year old needs to be taught about sex.

A chasm I see between people who have differing views of this legislation is around what "sex" means. Conservatives seem to focus very heavily on the idea that this is about teachers talking about sexual intercourse. The physical acts that adults engage in. Liberals interpret the term much more broadly to cover all of the ways that human sexuality affects society and families.

From the conservative perspective, it makes a lot of intuitive sense to prevent teachers from discussing things like foreplay, BDSM, lubrication, fellatio, etc. to small children.

From the liberal perspective, it is entirely impossible to talk about damn near anything related to human family structures and relationships if anything indirectly related to sexuality is off limits. "Why do most families have a mom and a dad?" "Where do babies come from?" "Why do they look like their parents sometimes and not other times?" "What does it mean to be adopted?" "What is the difference between a dad and a stepdad?" According to the literal interpretation of the law, none of these questions can even be hinted at inside a classroom.

So which is right? The text of the law itself is ambiguous, so you have to look at the subtext. I think we could all agree that it would be wrong to ship a live walrus to someone's house without their consent. But, as far as I know, there is no law specifically prohibiting it. Should there be? Probably not.

Legislatures have finite time, so laws are passed at a point in time because those advocating it feel that it solves a particular problem that is more important than other problems that could be solved. Understanding the intent behind those pushing the law is critical to knowing what it means. The text won't give you that. You have to look at the people and their agenda.
There's a saying that the stock market is a voting machine in the short term and a weighing machine in the long term. I think tech is especially vulnerable to big booms. Most of the stuff in the physical world doesn't pay off as well or with the same margins and multiples. So we get a kind of "get rich quick" mentality that attracts money and grifters.

That being said, I would be surprised if anyone knew the name of the CEO of Walmart which makes about 4.5x the revenue of Amazon. (They are different businesses with different models - so it's an apples to cement blocks comparison). I do think there are totally dodgy CEOs out there that do nothing for a company's stock price except soak up money that should go to shareholders. But they're more managerial nothings that keep the ship afloat.

But to look at a-holes like Bezos, Musk, etc. and think that P&G, Walmart, Target, Boeing, Ford, General Motors, Union Pacific, or any of the S&P500 CEOs are falling over themselves to shitpost is ludicrous.

At the end of the day the CEO is supposed to do three things, publicly. The first is cheerlead for the company - meaning to put the best spin on the news to protect the interests of shareholders. Second is to be the top sales person and go gaga over the company's products. Finally, to make sure that everyone believes the company is run by sane, sober, and focused people who want to make sustainable and real gains in profitability.
You have no right to control who comes into your neighborhood. This idea has deep ugly roots (e.g. redlining).
I assume you are being facetious. Tahoe has always been primarily second home owners. 20 years ago you rented through an agency, craigslist, or word of mouth if you were doing short term rentals. AirBnb just means it is easier to fill them so they rent more frequently which makes renting long term financially unattractive.
It's called super linear scaling. If you have a fixed size problem, that doesn't communicate much, and is CPU intensive you can run on a single core and be limited by memory bandwidth or latency. But as you use more cores you can fit in L3, L2, and even L1 as you add more cores.

It's seen sometime even on multinode jobs. But it's definitely the exception to the rule, but it does happen. It's helped by the fact that each level of cache is approximately 10x faster, so fitting in a cache is a huge win. So running in ram on 1 node might be 20x slower than running in cache on 10 nodes.
I get your point, but a lot of Bosnians died in that conflict. I have travelled there, and have talked with a lot of Bosnians. A lot of them are still pretty shook about the past. A lady I talked to had a sniper shoot each stair below her as she walked up a flight of stairs to mess with her. Stuff like that sticks with you.

Most people are still alive and life goes on but it is not a road you want to go down if you can avoid it.
FEATURE REQUEST PLEASE:

As an (ahem) "hoarder" as you so kindly put in the .MD...

Here is a feature I would like: Tag-routing...

I want to create a folder with content tags.

Then, when I go to download something, instead/in addition, I can just put in the tag for the media type and it lands in the right bucket.

So /media/docs vs media/movies media/pdfs etc... When I download a thing - just let me calss tag it as movie and it will be placed in movie. etc...

Make a browser extension that takes on downloading, and allows for more precise downloading, tagging, sorting of content before it ever hits a disk I own...

Like this

https://youtu.be/c0eTHm8NEqE?t=79
I wasn't saying avoid taxes -- mostly just that the "90 day" thing is nonsense, because if you're a remote employee, you're effectively just a really intelligent amoeba on the face of the Earth without a well-defined location.

Pay your taxes, but if you say 153 days in Thailand or wherever you can get a long enough tourist visa, and use a VPN to the US and get your work done, I'm not sure why anyone would, should, or even has a right to care.
I agree there value in the freedom. My point is simply on paper, housing is as expensive as every other asset (well, maybe not art). Of course, the real question is if housing should even be considered an asset in the first place.
Not who you were asking, but I can take a stab at this.

Short Term rentals of homes or condo units can erode a sense of community in an area where that's a common behavior. AirBnB renters aren't going to be around long so they have no incentive to be respectful to common areas, or respectful of noise levels or whatever else.

Imagine buying a condo and all of the units around you are AirBnBs, or otherwise short term rentals. I think you would want to eventually get to know your neighbors a bit, but in this case they are constantly cycling in and out instead.

I think weakening communities is something we're already seeing a lot of. Maybe it's a problem, maybe not, but I think AirBnB could potentially be contributing to this and it is worth considering the impact that might have.
I believe it is implied that the state could buy all those bonds to eliminate the problem. And that it would cost a bit too much to be worth it.
I run a wiki hosting service at https://editthis.info and each wiki that is hosted uses SQLite. This is nice because it is easy to backup the dbs, everyone has there own separate db, and with over 250k wikis, most of them defunct, they don't really have any overhead other than disk space. They aren't part of one large database that you need to filter all queries through to get the data you want. Also, it makes it so if I want to shard the system, I can just take have of the dbs and move them to another server and it is trivial to do from a sysadmin point of view.
The Canvas LMS: https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms
Perfect timing
I saw a better article in my local newspaper[0]. According to that article, Disney already pays property taxes to both Orange and Osceola county for their properties inside the respective counties. Essentially, they are double taxed. This is not unusual because this is how it works if you live in an incorporated city in Florida. You pay taxes to both the city and the county. Disney just runs their own little city.

The problem is that the legislator is basically unincorporating the city that Disney runs. This is a huge problem for the counties' taxpayers. They will have to absorb the budget of this now unincorporated city as well as the $1 billion debt.

[0] https://www.floridatoday.com/story/money/business/2022/04/23...
Well the USSR isn't around anymore and they had quite a few nukes so....
It disconnects whenever the laptop enters sleep mode, it causes the phone to run very hot and consume lots of battery and, yes, it requires manual intervention before it can be used.

I agree that overall these are probably small issues, but built-in mobile network access would have usability benefits
If you can “just” buy a home, sure why not?
Neither of those were free designs.

8051s are heavily cloned, but it's not like there's heavily used HDL floating around for free. Additionally the gate count niche of an 8051 is rather constrained.

MIPS made a big deal about being open, but at the end of the day that seemed to just mean that they put their sales contacts on the main page. 'Open' in that case meant 'open access for our business partners to make RTL changes with the right signed contract'.
At least one major ratings agency has put out a warning to Florida: https://www.fitchratings.com/research/us-public-finance/flor...
Yes, you're right. The system we have now is too sensitive to the other side of this coin - too many laws and regulations.

Is it better to save 1000 lives by regulating something than saving 10000 lives over the long run with new technology?

It's much harder to quantify the negative impacts of regulations in terms of medicines never developed, healthcare never delivered, food innovation never discovered, etc.
If everyone listened to the same amount of music in proportion to the amount they're paying it wouldn't matter which way the royalties were calculated, as the artists would get the same amount either way. Money is fungible, so it doesn't matter whether they get your subscription fee or a much smaller slice of all the subscriptions as long as you listening to their music leads to them getting at least $7.50 extra that month.

The discrepancy is in the fact that those who listen to less music on a flat-rate plan pay more per track, which is not accounted for in the "percentage of worldwide plays" metric. If there are, say, an average of 100 tracks played per subscriber per month, and you play 1000 tracks from your favorite indie artist (even non-exclusively), they're actually doing better with this "worldwide plays" metric than they would otherwise—each play is worth about 7.5¢ ($7.50 for 100 plays), so they'd get $75 based on your activity. You contribute more plays but not more money compared to other subscribers, which means other subscribers are subsidizing your music preferences. However, if you only listen to 10 tracks per month, even if they're all from the same artist, the situation is more like what you described, with most of your subscription going to support artists you don't listen to. In this case they'd only get 75¢ of your $7.50.

So to optimize the royalties to your favorite artists, the real question is: Do you (and other fans of indie music) listen to more music than the average subscriber, or less?
Why is profit bad? Nearly every service I use is administered by someone profiting from it
I think it's important to point out, and I think Jon would agree, that he isn't trained in stats and he uses it as a tool for entertainment and emphasis, rather than rigorous analysis.

I love everything he has ever done. The Breaking Madden series was genuinely inspiring to me and has caused me to pick up football video games and learn more about the game. I nearly stayed up all night watching all 7 hours of their masterpiece on the Atlanta Falcons
Lol they're not gonna deport you on your way out. I'd like to see one example of deportation orders for someone already at the airport to leave the country, purely based on accusation of having worked remotely in Japan.
As a bootstrapped solo founder myself (even though I have somehow built a small team after 7 years), I totally get what you are saying. Be proud of what you did and most don't even get to do what you did. It is so hard to do things alone and especially when you realize it is mostly about Marketing and Sales (and not the product only).
You are in luck I also built a link unshortener :) https://linkunshorten.com/
Another great historical fan-fiction genre I enjoy is the Phantom Time Hypothesis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_hypothesis

It's obviously completely fake, but I still enjoy reading about it.
How many pilots died?
As developers get more and more senior, they have a different perspective on what constitutes a "serious" problem. Also, as developers get more experience with a language, they get better at doing things in ways that are idiomatic for that language - they work with the language instead of against it.

Take Haskell. If I were a Haskell novice, and tried to do everything procedurally with do notation, and then complained that Haskell had all these problems, would that make Haskell a bad language? No. Would it mean that all Haskell programmers were telling themselves lies in order to keep using it? No. It would mean that I was using it badly.

If I were a brand new programmer, and took up Java, I might well complain about "public static void main(String[] args)". But an experienced programmer would brush that off, telling me that that's just syntax - there are real problems with Java, but that isn't one.

So this particular statement, that senior and more experienced devs ignore more and more problems, isn't proof of anything. It's particularly not proof that developers have to keep lying to themselves in order to keep using Go. (They may, but this isn't proof.)
Perfectly acceptable! But, I don't have high standards. My reason for using an M1 MBP is mostly the insane battery life.
Do you have any kind of insurance on anything (health, car, home, etc)?
Could someone elaborate a bit on how RISC-V relates to ARM?

From what I understand the former is a completely open source spec, and ARM is a proprietary one. But both are just specs, right? It’s not as if I can buy a RISC-V CPU from an organization behind it, it’ll have to be from a manufacturer that produces their own RISC CPUs?

Is it also an entirely different instruction set? How does it compare to x86 and ARM in terms of performance?

Last but not least, other than it being free / opensource, what are some of the reasons why anyone would choose RISC? Phrased differently, if they are going to take marketshare in the CPU world in the next decade, what will be the reason?
> This would make gay marriage an illegal act.

Back in the day, noone prevented same-sex partners to marry in Germany in front of a religious congregation which allowed that according to their rules. They just couldn't get the marriage certificate from the State.

As for the illegality: it would make gay marriage an impossible act, because the legal framework to marry two men (or two women) from a legal standpoint (which includes the marriage certificates and the rights and responsibilities associated with it) would not exist. A public official who wrote a marriage certificate for a same-sex couple in 1999 would not have committed a crime, he or she would just have written an invalid form which would have had no legal bearing (and the public official would probably have been reprimanded).

Something you cannot do by definition cannot be illegal.
Rust still adheres to the borrow checker’s rules inside “unsafe” blocks and functions.
Both languages were designed by probably better programmers than most in this thread. For that matter, the vast majority of successful programming languages surely were. I'm utterly lost at how that relates to anything.

One can plainly be a good programmer and yet create a bad language. I'm sure you are well-informed enough to analyse his argument on its merits, even if it were written by a gang of monkeys with typewriters.
There has to be some sort of cognitive bias towards believing that a majority of political decisions are "posturing" or facades. If I'm being honest I fall for this interpretation way more often than I'm comfortable with.
I can install a working Haskell toolchain with my package manager instead of the farcical `curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh`.

If you're an automation-oriented kind of person like it's my job to be, setting up repeatable toolchians based around the above is a total crock of shit.
Object pools are not hard, and I certainly used them a lot in game development. That's just a cost of doing business in low-latency programming.

There's no "tuning of the GC" beyond that, though, unless you count linking in a faster multithreaded malloc library, which is another thing that I've tried.

What's problematic about Java in particular in relation to latency is that Java's libraries can be pointlessly wasteful with regard to allocating garbage. I found that a function that was supposed to call through to a system function that got the system time in milliseconds was somehow allocating an object and discarding it as part of the call. The function returned an integer.

I found this when my Android JNI (C++) app was getting janky because of GC pauses, and I traced the allocation to that function. I wrote a quick JNI function in C++ to call the system and return the integer directly, and the jank went away.

The best GC in the world won't make up for wasteful allocations, and some languages (or their ecosystems?) seem to encourage rampant allocations.
A huge number of in-house corporate developers never needed anything beyond powerbuilder to make the apps their companies needed. Certainly they didn’t give a damn about the hardware. Those apps spend 100% off their time waiting for the user to do something or waiting for the database.
Hm. What if my home office was a van, or a private jet?

Couldn't one just structure it as a consultancy? I mean, if I hire a consultant to do something for me, I could just pay them through PayPal or Venmo or even Ethereum and wouldn't need to know where their office is. Onus is on them to be legally able to work and pay their taxes.
In this case, a systematic error wouldn't change the conclusion as long as the same method was used for all countries.

As for the broader argument about people dying with COVID vs people dying of COVID, the excess mortality rates are consistent with the assumption that the reported death rate from COVID in Western nations is pretty accurate, and may even undercount the true figure (see e.g. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00104-8).
They do, as well as x86 (32-bit); they are targets for emulator system images.