skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The company that scraped Craigslist and made “every” home in my favorite local places a speculative opportunity for out of state investors (and funds), moving the workforce into their inventory to create a competitive hiring advantage against other tech companies by letting me work at my (or any) kitchen table. Sounds like this won’t be sustainable. Should it become an acquisition target and the remote workforce is an impediment to their valuation, it will cost very little to send email demanding a return to the office.

The only way to pull off the whole, employee independence thing is to not concentrate resources in the hands of so few. You can work from your home, sure, but the CEO and board, for their risk receives outsized compensation and offers little control. It works because we a technologist breathing entrepreneurial air feel, one day I too will have millions in reserve so I won’t begrudge the few who are now.

I think a better response it to coordinate and not show up in the office or on zoom until…(I don’t know I am a contractor and have been working from home the past 12 years and really don’t have workplace complaints)
Notably Bill Gates's mom got to know the board of IBM & helped connect & land her son's contract for a disk operating system[1] at a time when the DoJ used to have active anti-trust deparments, and was hounding IBM for vertically owning the market.

[1] https://www.biography.com/video/bill-gates-help-from-mom-208...
Late reply, but I live in Missouri. Many of these places could likely be reported but I'm not sure the information is widely spread enough and if it is they still fear losing their main source of income to fight it.
To put this in perspective here are some job stats from Indeed.co.uk for London and the UK (excluding London):

London: Rails 237, Django 383, Laravel 149

UK (excl. London): Rails 230, Django 406, Laravel 1001

So, yes, there are less Rails jobs overall but considering there are less than twice as many jobs as with Django, which is powered one of the most popular languages, Rails is clearly still very active in the marketplace.
In my previous life I was the ultimate creator: there was nothing I couldn't do, no problem I couldn't solve, no goal I couldn't accomplish. I had everything you could possibly imagine. Power, influence, money. But, like with all things, after a while I got bored.

While contemplating my life and sad existence, a genie appeared and granted me one wish. "Everything that can be done, has been done. There's nothing for me to create." I said.

The genie replied "You need a challenge".

"I've met all challenges and conquered them. I don't think that will help".

"Well, then. I'll give you the ultimate challenge" the genie pronounced.

With renewed excitement, I accepted it as my wish.

The genie clapped their hands and I found myself in my new life.

This new life is the one I've always known and remembered. My old life is just a dream, barely a memory.

My new life is much more exciting. There are an infinite number of challenges waiting for me.
this is not how this community works, please review the faq https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Birthing Furniture: An Illustrated History
> The first is pension funds which are paid into by current workers to pay out for past workers. Pension funds inherently depend on population growth to avoid shortfalls.

This is fundamentally a demographic problem, rather than a problem with the pensions system.

If pension funds worked by people saving their own money for themselves, it wouldn't actually be all that different. At any point in time, there's the productive part of the population, and the unproductive. If the productive part is too small to support the unproductive, there is going to be a worsening of the situation, probably especially so for the unproductive.
I think it is the dumbing down that makes it easier for mud-rakers. People know it's complicated anyway, and the average person can grasp complicated things as well as you.
Roadmaps and human skills: Infinite Education
MS isn't a serious hardware company. They're a software and services company, and they make money when people use their software. Putting software on more devices is in their interest.
Let's not clutch our pearls and act surprised. Florida politics has been a cesspool of graft, with a veneer of tan and teeth whitener, for decades.
How is Spring Boot not Java? Spring Boot is a simple Java library.
So much Go hate and arguments over language design details. Meh. Back to producing fast, well-organized, maintainable, bullet proof code in Go for real-world problems.
>The master branch of the linux kernel has a little bit over 1 million commits (measured with git log --format=oneline | wc -l).

The master branch is irrelevant - github links to commits don't include the branch (and the way git works, commits don't really have "a branch"):

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ac632c504d0b881d7cf...

>With "git log --format=oneline | cut -b 1-4 | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -n30" you can verify that it has 25 prefix collisions with a 4 character prefix. With 5 it's still 4 collisions, with 6 there are none.

I'm sorry to say, your script doesn't work. You need to `sort` before `uniq` as that only counts adjacent duplicates.

The linux kernel as of 5.12-rc1 had 25 prefix collisions for the prefix "ffeb" alone (and 33 for "e3f2"). Here are the full shas:

ffeb03cfe2b49b73da7b325a31714003761fc6d5
ffebecd9d49542046c5ecbb410af01e016636e19
ffeb1e9e897b8d36b197275592d121c96d3bdb95
ffebbecaaa86f7cde4a6a813bed14f9d56e7c373
ffeb595d84811dde16a28b33d8a7cf26d51d51b3
ffebbaedc8616cffe648202e364dce6a045d65a2
ffebe74b7c95a41d2d0ac70a44d410e0efa37ad8
ffebc8c0344934db710afc76e3bfda11a823bb3d
ffebb83b34f843aadcbd3e03c4e449da14d0870d
ffeb6437f018f072a330ad5911036fd020b35ac3
ffeb883e5662e94b14948078e85812261277ad67
ffebf5f391dfa9da3e086abad3eef7d3e5300249
ffebfc364dcaa5dea1a589d42207834b028df789
ffeb13aab68e2d0082cbb147dc765beb092f83f4
ffebeb46dd34736c90ffbca1ccb0bef8f4827c44
ffeb40515971c9860ff671bb074689db15e18831
ffebad7948ee0e9c619ae6e87d99437d907fc7e3
ffeb501c6cba803eefc46b570feccffe61a6d883
ffeb33d20c6217bb8f0ab46d3f1396021c00c24f
ffeb80fc30acbf6bd51cb47a1815f621a9d017dc
ffeb414a59291d5891f09727beb793c109f19f08
ffebedb7ab3f7964a70a1771547b26af38a189d2
ffebabe0bf0de9ee500d4605d6acb71e1ee3b79f
ffeb9ec72e18e16d0b0835d959cdf01650758638
ffeb874b2b893aea7d10b0b088e06a7b1ded2a3e

with 5 characters there are 8 for b91e1.

With 6 characters there are 5 for 120bda:

120bdafaece72056e48d97809c5abe172824a7f6
120bdac7376a36418eb1d55e0161dc0e660a45c3
120bdaa47cdd1ca37ce938c888bb08e33e6181a8
120bda35ff8514c937dac6d4e5c7dc6c01c699ac
120bda20c6f64b32e8bfbdd7b34feafaa5f5332e

and a total of 28606 colliding 6-digit prefixes.

There are 9 colliding 9-digit prefixes and no 10-digit prefix.

(found with `git rev-list --all --no-abbrev-commit | sort | cut -b 1-4 | uniq -c` and variations on that theme)
> Isn't it some core legal principle that legislature can't do that, and always has the power to reverse itself?

The problem with having supreme power to break any contract without consequences is that nobody will make contracts with you any more. For this reason, many states have (e.g.) clauses in their constitutions saying they won't.

Of course, the legislature usually has the power to amend the constitution.
I think there's a bit of the Copernican fallacy at play here; the assumption that things are getting worse is pretty dramatic but it's not clear that it's supported in any real way.

We point to the riots last summer, and while there are debates about how severe they are, we willfully ignore that there have been riots in the past, even much more pervasive and deadly ones, even with a significantly lower population and population density than we have now.

There's political divisiveness, but students aren't getting shot at Kent State, and the Weather Underground isn't blowing up bombs in Manhattan, and there are no open wars being fought between private armies, militias, and government forces in West Virginia. Maybe once upon a time people were as passionate about George McGovern as people are now about Hillary Clinton, but passions fade and people forget.

There will be implications for the direction of history based on social networks and open information exchange, but likely we won't recognize them until far in the future. I'm sure there were dozens of upstart anti-Catholic movements that preceded Martin Luther and had the advantage of the printing press but fizzled out into nothing are are forgotten to history before the circumstances led to his success, but we can't see the invisible failures, only the visible successes, so we try to take lessons there.
On one level, sure, I'm definitely with you. The term "woke" is vague, subject to toxic stereotyping, and it'd be nice if people didn't use it.

But I don't think we can overlook the pressures that push people towards it. The problem is that a lot of movements that get grouped under "woke" self-identify with vacuously positive labels that can't be negated. If I go around telling people "anti-racism is bad", they're going to think I mean "racism is good", and they're not going to believe me when I clarify that I'm referring to specific policy ideas promoted in books such as Ibram X. Kendi's famous How to Be an Antiracist. Unless you're talking to people who are so politically engaged you can name-drop specific authors to start with, I'm not sure what term other than "woke" you could use.
Somehow we are simultaneously doomed because of both too little and too much population growth
Its like people dont understand their car will slow down enough by just removing their foot from the gas.

USA driving requirements are insanely inadequate. I studied for like a week on the written part of the test and it ended up being only ~10 simple questions followed by a drive around the block.
I think everyone is getting this wrong. This is all posturing. The Florida legislature knows perfectly well that it can never unwind Reedy Creek. But if they can make a good show of trying, then that will earn points with their base, and when the courts shut them down they can blame "activist liberal judges" for their failure, despite the fact that it was a foregone conclusion. But the perception will be that they tried to fight the good fight against an evil overreaching corporation which was trying to corrupt Florida's innocent youth.

All of the liberals celebrating Disney's imminent "victory" are completely missing this bigger picture.
Yeah it's definitely possible. There are more than 400 pet-friendly airlines you can book tickets from on avvinue.com. While you can't book a separate seat for them, you can have them fly in cabin with you if they meet the criteria. So it's definitely possible -- that's why we launched Avvinue for this.
Great thread on five of the top earth observation SPAC companies
Even simple examples can come to light - someone who lives next door for 3 months is unlikely to be able to perpetually party every single night; but an AirBNB on the coast could see a party each night.

Another huge thing is people learn to live with consistent annoyances; if your neighbor runs a leaf blower at 8 AM every Saturday, you may hate it but you learn to live around it. If instead, he were to run a leaf blower randomly at different times it would get really annoying.
I've seen far more inflammatory commentary/criticism in the tech community over the years. This post is honestly pretty mild if you look at it objectively.

The fact that a small subset of the Go community is triggered by this post and can't behave in a civil manner isn't a reason to flag it.
I don’t think the elimination of the Reedy Creek district is meant to ever actually occur. The point is twofold. To send a message that dissent from the business community will not be tolerated. And, to keep stoking the fires of the culture wars. When they get their people denouncing the opposition as “groomers”, they are achieving their objective.
Mostly, I'm surprised that Google isn't the one leading the charge here. Although it's kind of cool from an ecosystem perspective to see somebody else moving things forward.
Agreed. Also, calling conservatives a minority is misleading since I'd hardly call like 47% a minority. It's technically true, but it's awfully close to even.
No doubt Bill Gates had massive privilege (in the traditional sense the word). He came from an upper class family with particularly powerful connections. The same is true of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk to a possibly lesser extent.

But almost every person with even greater levels of privilege manages to do so much less than them. Which proves that one can't rightly attribute their great success to privilege alone. If one wants to be correct (and not just feel good) one has to admit that they did some amazing things based in large part on merit.

And that's the rub. Merit alone is often not enough. Privilege alone is often not enough. And luck always plays a role in determining the magnitude of anyone's success.

It takes extraordinary merit to be a John Carmack, Palmer Luckey, Larry Ellison, or Steve Jobs. People who had no privilege (in the traditional sense) and yet their merit (and luck) was so great that they did big things despite the fact.

Many people use the privilege argument to try to dismiss what people like Elon Musk have done. As if they could have done just as well had they been privileged. Envy is clearly clouding their thinking and confusing them. It's totally understandable for people to feel this way but ultimately and obviously incorrect in most cases.

A goal for modern societies should be to give everyone the kinds of opportunities that only the privileged historically had. But this won't prevent some people from doing much more with new opportunities than others. Merit will come to dominate outcomes instead of privilege. This will make the world much richer but won't solve everything.
2009 marked the last year of good Operating System releases with both Windows 7 and Snow Leopard shipping that summer. After this point, bloat became good, non-flat design became bad, and existing system apps started to be replaced with buggy alternatives.
This is such a tired canard. Biological sex is an imprecise and discriminatory proxy for physical performance, and we can do better. Professional boxing already includes an additional objective measure—weight class—to improve match fairness. So not only is it possible to find a better discriminator, there is already one proven approach that can be used as a starting point today.

Furthermore, using biological sex as the discriminator in sport doesn’t just create unnecessary conflict for intersex and trans players, it also excludes cis-gendered people who are talented, love sport, but just didn’t win the genetic lottery. Dividing leagues by metrics other than gender gives everybody more opportunity to participate. Again, going back to boxing, if the only metric were gender, most or all of the people outside heavyweight class wouldn’t be participating at all.

Finally, I would also argue that team sport is more interesting when greater varieties of people with different strengths and weaknesses can play together. If we designed video games the way we run most sport leagues, matches would be split up into tanks vs tanks, dps vs dps, support vs support. Congratulations, you’ve made things “more even” by separating everyone using superficial physical traits, and lost most of the interesting dynamics of pitting different strengths against different weaknesses.
Would be curious if you'd be open to talking about some of the history in terms of user growth, revenue and costs. Just curious about how these types of projects go.
The command 'w' on a Linux box shows uptime, load, and who's logged in.
To clarify I'm not asking about HN itself but articles linked from HN.

As you said the HN api is great and there are at least 2 existing published crawls of it that help a lot.
Sometimes I feel that society forces us to be economically successful in all aspects of life.
I'm in the first steps of my career, and even though I just want to learn new things and do exciting projects, the first thought that come to my mind when I have an idea to develop is: "How could this be profitable?"

> One thing I'm really excited about open-source is I no longer have to deal with any of the business or deployment stuff. I can focus on being a project manager.

I think that having this feeling it's the best achievement you can get from this.
No, it doesn't show that. You are a partisan trying to make a partisan point.
This is one of the most factually incorrect things I see repeated over and over. I know it is quite a long read but it's explained pretty well here https://acoup.blog/category/collections/the-fremen-mirage/
And then they sell two devices.
This coincides will my belief is the rise of self-degrading memes running rampant on every social platform I use. Every "funny" slogan, has a negative connotation, or self-degrading message attached to it. "When you only have $4.20 in your bank account", "How I look in the mirror vs tagged photo", etc.
"M1 class" means the performance class. There is a lot more to performance than just the node generation as has been proven time and time again, just look at Bulldozer vs Sandy Bridge as both were 32 nm. It'd also make no sense to acquire Nuvia if all they needed was 5nm production as Nuvia is not a fab.
I'd argue that virtue is a strong survival trait, and vice is a sign of weakness. But we may be considering different things, different aspects of life.
I think that all stimulants and depressants that alter the mind are not good for us and even if they are great in short term (like caffeine) it's not a good idea to create dependancy on a particular chemical.
Thanks! That's cool to know.

I did my error calculations by brute forcing the whole 16-bit range, basically:

for i in (i16::MIN..=i16::MAX) {
let a = (i as f32).sin() as i16;
let b = lut_sin(i);
let diff = abs_diff(a, b);
}

Which found the largest difference to be 4, and I got 0.012% from (4/32768).
I'm not sure why choice of programming language is such a heated topic. "Want to use Java? Over my dead body", said a ex-Uber employee. "Let's rewrite Kafka in Rust to avoid using Java in our team", said an employee in a $10B+ unicorn. "Go is a plague. Let's use Rust", said an employee in another $5B+ unicorn. Doesn't language itself contribute just a small portion to our productivity? The platforms and ecosystems of programming languages usually matter more? And it's simply childish to argue that GC sucks when your services handle merely 100s of QPS (even if millions of QPS, so what? It really depends on what you try to achieve), or to argue that language X sucks because it does not have feature Y. I hate to break the news to language fanatics: your program is slow most likely because you didn't choose the right data structures or algorithms instead of using the wrong language. You productivity sucks most likely because you didn't write simple, correct, or operable software.
Hacker News is a positive counterexample. The people, the community, the platform.

Let's apply the methods that have made this work so well also elsewhere.

A few ideas. Professional moderation. Crowd moderation with downvoting and flagging. Guidelines. Culture of restraint.
Every country has different rules, and so does each airline. So there are some that allow pets in cabin, but then won't allow pets in cabin in a certain country. There are many variables to flying with a pet, but we've reduced the stress in finding those nuances out on Avvinue. You should check it out.
>> If you look at life expectancy in the America, it has been flat to reversing.

>> Multiple major issues with scientific and economic root causes are simply being ignored as stability and promises of improved prosperity provided by civilization is going backwards.

How much of this can be explained by the fact that one third of adults in the US are obese as opposed to major scientific and economic issues?
Alex Jones spits on people and tells them it's raining.
The biggest issue with social security funding is there is a cap on it. Once you put in so much a year, you don't have to put in anymore. It's essentially a regressive system. A guy who makes a million bucks a year only has to pay social security as if he made $147K. For example, in 2022, everyone only pays social security tax on their first $147K.

https://www.ssa.gov/benefits/retirement/planner/maxtax.html
On Terminals and Sessions
Willing to bet you didn't read what the actual bill says or does. It does not say "don't say gay", it says sexual education to kids should not happen before a certain grade (3rd grade IIRC) and be age appropriate, which should be non controversial unless you have some weird notion that a 7 year old needs to be taught about sex.
Okay, I haven’t worked with Go enough yet to need inheritance so I stupidly overlooked that :) even though ive used it extensively in java.

i can definitely see how that is wacky. i wonder what the upsides of being able to do that is.

really appreciate the explanation! thank you
They might be worried that it would fragment their app store, as plenty of apps use native ARM code
On one hand that’s a bit late (hopefully Apple will have something better than the M1 by then). On the other hand it’ll take them a couple of iterations and not all of them will be stellar, as mistakes are made and the architecture is adjusted. I am afraid their next couple of designs will be disappointing.

It took Apple a decade and a couple of near-perfect iterations to go where they are, building on the people from Intrinsity and PA-Semi (amongst many other smaller acquisitions). Surely, Qualcomm can benefit from some of that experience through Nuvia, but that won’t be everything.
Hey folks, I was working with Kyle Kingsbury on this report from the Redpanda side and I'm happy to help if you have questions
> We can sometimes keep somebody alive in a totally nonviable state for an extended amount of time after heart and/or lung failure, but if there's zero chance for recovery it just doesn't make sense from an ethical or practical standpoint.

There are people on ECMO who have permanent heat and/or lung failure but are conscious, comfortable, and do not wish to have care withdrawn. In this case, it can absolutely make sense to continue to support them even if they have no hope of getting off the machine. The non-trivial ethical question is what to do if the cost is extremely high.

> Given finite medical resources (doctors, nurses, beds, ECMO machines) we would like to make sure we're employing this only for patients who have a hope of recovering afterward.

Outside the short-term, we can always hire more nurses and docs, and build more machines and hospital rooms. We should not pretend that the amount of these are fixed in order to justify withdrawing expensive but beneficial care (other than in emergency situations). If we are going to withdraw care because we just don't want to pay for it given the size of the benefits, we should acknowledge this explicitly.
SA has (and has had) one of the greatest incidences of violent crime in the world, especially in its urban areas.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/violent-c...
A lot of "undesirable" markets have become desirable. The remaining ones, the market has decided has too many external cost to make such low prices worth it.
Free mobility of labor is being hindered by these outdated laws. Either the state should harmonize taxation and figure this out between themselves or companies who do WFH to people living in other states should be considered as hiring independent contractors always.

That the federal government can’t or won’t step in and help people in the USA out of this morass is shameful. That’s my value judgment.