skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a dumb idea to conect the social system to the economie…. But still a social system has a lots of benefits that are apparent if you once lives in the us and europe. What would be your solution for schooling, housing etc… just keep dumb people dying on the street because somehow the market will regulate it??

Edit: because even if the economie goes bad there are humans living there that need a certain baseline of living. In the capitalist world there is only taking more debt , cuttings and hope … if that doesnt work.. what then??
Adorno once said that one cant do right in the wrong world. Right can only be done in a right world.
Its hard to sustain socialism if its bound to capitalism
That's pretty much https://reddit.com

You're also welcome to use the Lobsters code: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
There is an argument to be made that there could be a phase transition when it comes to the ability of understanding things.

When you manage to write down your thoughts so future generations can build on prior work, and when you manage to formalize problems by abstract notation (math), and when you gain the capability of breaking down complex problems into small solvable chunks, then maybe, and I want to stress maybe, there is no limit to understanding things.

On the other hand, there also may be problems with irreducible complexity, so it really could be either way.
Yes, because a bank will happily give someone on a 60k salary a 1 million dollar mortgage.
Yes. Drawings and notebooks.

As a recovering graphic designer I have a penchant for drawing and sketchbooks.

But I’m working a project, it’s always hole punched letter size paper and Uni-ball Micro pens in black ink. Sometimes color is added or thicker black marker for complex diagrams or hierarchy. This way I can scan these pages when the project is over, and throw away the original sketches.

Sometimes a sketch becomes critical and I make a digital version.

For me, the process of sketching and digitizing notes makes the project indelible.
There is huge tension. We've forced ourselves into a situation where it is difficult to fix things because housing is such a huge portion of many people's wealth. Policies that improve things for the poor and lower middle class in meaningful ways will crush the upper middle class, who have a lot of local political influence because they've got enough money to have free time but there are still a lot of them. Somebody with a mortgage 4x their gross annual income is going to fight hard to prevent their house from tanking in price, even if that means promoting anti-social policies.

It is a mess.
Yeah they use GCP for most of their stuff.

Not sure if their POP ingest servers are on it though.
This seems a fairly easy thing to fix except for the politics. (Similar to climate change)

Anyone got a good solution including the politics angle?

You'd need to give people an off ramp from their house investments and give them confidence that they'd get a share of the economic goods that they currently receive by holding a house plus a bonus from the bounty unleashed by the sane housing market.
Mine defaults to German and states "Vibrators" (in German).
Britain to give new tech regulator statutory powers
It's likely burnout. I have experienced this for a solid year now. Just sit at my desk for 8 hours a day unable to get any real work done. Have probably 30 minutes of real productivity a day. Started after working insane hours for months and months on end. I refuse to work more than 40 now. Funny thing is I get great reviews because I just decided to hijack a team lead role that was missing and just run the team. No one knows how absolutely fried I am. My opinion is that humans are not meant to just sit in front of a desk producing useless widgets that do no real societal good besides making money for our employers. We have no sense of purpose. We just make dumb shiny things. I am still struggling with it. Starting a new job soon in an official management position, optimally I am happier there.
Looks like it just leaches off of other services like PaperPanda.

If you type in search terms that return no result, it just presents a blank page with no message. You can’t re-use your search, but have to type it anew if you want to modify it.
I'm having the same issues...

Although I'm not a full time developer, I do some small coding and I'm also sort of responsible for the dev team. I rarely use a debugger. I do most of debugging through logging. There are 2 advantages that I see:

- it forces me to add the logs where they are needed to understand the flow of the application
- it forces me to make those logs actually usable, readable and understandable

Developer's first response on a bug report is - give me logs. But I don't have them, because they were not coded. Or they are unusable because they are not logging the actual problem. Developer then insists the problem is fine because he can't replicate it in his debug environment instead of figuring out the issue from the logs. Making logs during development also forces developers to make a conscious effort of finding a balance of what and when to log something, create proper debug levels not to overwhelm the logs, while still providing some useful information...
If I could upvote your comment twice, I would. Measurement has become the be all and end all, and it's useful of course. But it's easy to make the mistake that you've captured the whole of something on your graph, or spreadsheet, and usually that is far from the case. The spirit of a thing is not easily captured.
I envy your energy to even spend time tracking all those things. Just reading and imagining keeping them as a routine sounds exhausting.
We should enforce this with the law. Right now, landlords raise rents anyway. I've never once heard of a landlord lowering the rent once they finish paying their mortgage, even though their expenses are now far lower.
Error handling was terrible in VB, evidenced by the number of production VB apps that panic when clicking the wrong button or typing the wrong letters. Going from knowing enough to prototype to professional quality development was very hard.

You could always tell a VB app. Controls don't line up, windows either prevent resizing or do so badly, lots of redraw flicker, varying visual styles, and crashes on seemingly benign user input.

Database operations are often performed with no expectation of failure, the network is assumed to never have a problem, security policy is inconsistent, etc.

Perhaps some blame can be laid at the learning materials that emphasize the happy path and treat errors as a separate subject.

I hated VB and am so glad it is almost gone.
Pardon my ignorance but how on earth does it need 15+ containers?

Is that just a scaling thing for your company? Or are their 15 discrete services under the hood to drive it?
Afaik Telegram just uses Google Translate for that feature. Could you maybe try copying a message where that happens into Google Translate?
Git Commit History Should Read Like a History Book. Here’s How
When you consider the mainstream alternatives back then

What were the mainstream alternatives?

Folks always seemed to rave about Delphi. That seemed like the "grown up", "better" version of VB, though I never used it.
You have to be willing to walk away to get a good deal. If you’re not willing or can’t take the risk then these strategies aren’t going to be in your interest
Sounds like early stages of Burnout as others have said. Nip this in the bud, OP. I'm recovering years later still because I let it go unchecked.
Is avoiding "skyline is ugly" really worth the enormous cost to society when so many people can barely afford housing? Is that belief system not worth criticism?
When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple, I am "misguided"
I'd upvote this multiple times if it were possible.
A Solution to the Halting Problem
Algol is so interesting that the vast majority of developers are absolutely repelled from languages that don't resemble it. Algol is ultimately why javascript looks like it looks rather than looking like other languages that it's more like, or why Erlang terrified people but Elixir soothes people.
Sometimes you have to debug distributed solutions, and like you say you may have to do it in an optimized environment. You may also have to do it in an environment for which you have no other access than console output. I've been working in these kinds of environments for so long I've practically forgotten how to use a debugger!
In the dark about my fear of darkness
iirc the CMB clues he’s talking about to justify the CCC have been ruled out.
In its place comes cosmic trypophobia
> You could always tell a VB app. Controls don't line up, windows either prevent resizing or do so badly, lots of redraw flicker, varying visual styles, and crashes on seemingly benign user input.

You are describing 1998 VB as much as 2022 html+javascript
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> Error handling was terrible in VB

Really? All you need is On Error Resume Next . Dead simple.
> As I remember, we had at least one Borg cluster to ourselves for indexing. Our quota was a cluster.

> Also, the indexing system's quota is huge.

Well, it might no longer be the case, but for a number of years the indexing cluster was the largest in the entire fleet, especially when it came to memory. I don't know if you were around in the days of yl-i (I think), but it was edifying to rank it against the Top500...

Was the datacenter engineer Peter P?
Anecdata: I bid 90% of asking price on a house a month ago. Owner got offended (as I was told by my agent) and didn't counter. He then lowered the asking price to 93% of the original. Still didn't counter even though his new asking price wasn't far from what I had offered initially. House is now pending.
thats great but i was thinking something more like

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=7M6Tgf5Nsik&t=9s
Approaches to Monetize OSS
> 15 decays per second from one banana work out to a couple of picowatts of power, roughly the power consumption of a single human cell. Even if you captured that decay energy with perfect efficiency, powering a house would require about 300 quadrillion[6] bananas

> [6] Fine, I looked it up this time.

I think that's out by a factor of 1000.

Potassium-40 decays 89.28% of the time to calcium-40, releasing 1.31 MeV, and 10.72% of the time to argon-40 releasing 1.46 MeV [1]. That's .8928*1.31+.1072*1.46 = 1.32608 MeV per decay on average, which is about 2.1246e-13 Joules [2] per decay on average. 15 decays per second is 15*2.1246e-13 ≈ 3.1869e-12 Watts = 3.1869 picowatts per banana. I think Randall is using 1000 Watts as the average power usage of a house. 1000/3.1869e-12 ≈ 3.1378e14 ≈ 300,000,000,000,000 = 300 trillion bananas. Maybe he looked it up wrong?

Can anyone confirm this?

I can't find the packing density of bananas, but if it was 1000 kg/m^3, a medium banana is ~118 g [3], so 1000/.118 ≈ 8475 bananas / cubic metre, so 300e14/8475 ≈ 3.54e12 cubic metres of bananas. The New York metro area is about 12000 km^2 = 12e9 m^2 [4], so the depth of the banana pile is on average 3.54e12/12e9 ≈ 295 metres, which is indeed taller than most of the buildings, so that bit seems right.

It's half past midnight here, so I'm well into "Someone is wrong on the internet" [5] territory....

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium-40

[2] https://www.unitjuggler.com/convert-energy-from-MeV-to-J.htm...

[3] https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/bananas-calories-carbs

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area

[5] https://xkcd.com/386/
No. The problem is "space is being used inefficiently." The reason to get rid of enormous surface parking lots is to build more efficiently, not to kill cars.
I have writing about this quite extensively recently. Obviously nothing has changed in 4 years so I am surprised to see Bruce writing about this.

What is super interesting is something Bruce never touched:

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/0...

I raised once again our very serious concerns about growing cyber-threats to American companies and American citizens. I indicated that it has to stop. The United States government does not engage in cyber economic espionage for commercial gain. And today, I can announce that our two countries have reached a common understanding on the way forward. We’ve agreed that neither the U.S. or the Chinese government will conduct or knowingly support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property, including trade secrets or other confidential business information for commercial advantage. In addition, we’ll work together, and with other nations, to promote international rules of the road for appropriate conduct in cyberspace.

Read that more than once. Obama literally says "The United States government does not engage in cyber economic espionage for commercial gain."

This is revealing. This does not deny that they are engaging in cyber espionage. It's just they aren't doing it commercial gain.

How do you get the world governments to agree to the digital geneva conventions when they are all guilty of breaching whatever would be in the digital geneva convention?
If I replace incandescent bulbs with LEDs, I use less energy (yes, even with elasticity of demand) yet I'm better off, not poorer. The notion that any reduction in energy use is bad is wrong.
>> If you and I are both estimating the value of a good, if our estimates are close it's one thing

Yeah, if I say €193,345 and they say €1 million, that last five euro would look a little stupid. This is a scenario where already being close to knowing their closing figure is everything.

The proper analysis here would be: What's the chance you get your <1% edge versus losing a deal by being stuck on a number too early?
I get your point, but as long as someone can act the way you demand, why does it matter whether they would have acted that way on their own. The public interface is what matters, not private thoughts, not cultural or personal influences. You're interviewing for a professional job, not a personal relationship.
I’ve never really looked at at Mutual Fund data, since personally I use ETFs, and professionally I never had to work with Mutual Funds.

I have no idea if MarketQA has that data. I imagine Bloomberg does, but I couldn’t be sure since I never looked.

Stockevents is an iOS app I saw in HN that from a quick glance at seems to have MF data. I wonder where they source it from.
> it's nothing close to "quant"

This is accurate.

For public companies, the quant part has been calculated by the market. Everything that remains is, almost by definition, in the realm of the irrational, unknowable and/or political (usually at the Board level, though government factors could also be involved).
There will be multiple press events around the world (Germany, Mexico, Chile, China, Taiwan, Japan, US):

https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/event-horizon-telesco...
Chef's Table is mostly just food porn overlaid with chefs potentially musing about freshness of ingredients. It has nothing insightful to say about running a restaurant, about making food, or anything else. Which is a shame, because I think a more naturalistic, less pretentious view into the daily workings of restaurants could make for a nice show.
> Alves Reis had amassed more than 600,000 escudos (worth roughly $500,000 adjusted for US dollars in 2022). … Alves Reis bought a brand new Nash automobile, moved into a lavish 12-room apartment, and hired a staff of house servants

I don't doubt this "adjustment for US dollars in 2022" was done according to best practices and inflation charts.

Doesn't make it any less ridiculous when juxtaposed with the actual purchase power like this.
> There are online crypto exchanges where you can sell your cryptocurrency for real money

Maybe slightly change a wording? How about old fashioned money instead of "real"?

> It means that they need to confirm your identity. You have to submit your ID so they can confirm your identity. The objective of KYC is to prevent banks from being used, by criminal elements for money laundering activities.

Every word of this is just wrong. Try my version (do not promise about correct grammar):

It means that they want you to confirm some identity. You ought to submit somebody's ID so they can confirm what they has been forced to be confirmed. The objective of KYC is to demonstrate to citizens that strength or US government has not decreased as well as strength of money system since Bitcoin has appeared.
Or to just not have crappy autozoom on input elements in the first place.
Another day, another hairball graph.
Their self-hosted version works well with the caveat that the upgrade process can be a pain and can be buggy. I used their docker-compose open source version which involved downtime to spin down the stack, then spin up the new stack. Considering that there's no enterprise support for on-prem, its nice that it works so well. If you're using their apm/observability you will need to keep an eye out on disk space and memory/cpu after turning it on, we ran into resources issues due to the amount of data we started sending. Otherwise it's rock solid and cost-efficient, we were paying 500ish bucks a month for infra and 1-2 days of dev time for something sentry.io quoted 50,000K/month for. I imagine the kubernetes installer is much less hands on in terms of upgrades. Would use again without any hesitation.
They seem to want to "evolve" the language (there's a mention of wanting to add things like try... catch while maintaining compatibility).

Unfortunately the biggest challenge will be third party components. I work with clients who want to migrate VB6 on a daily basis and I don't remember the last time I saw an application without multiple third party libraries.
Many of these can no longer be installed in new versions of Windows and so clients are stuck on Windows XP/7 (Even though you can have VB6 installed on W11).
At the risk of making a comment which does nothing to further the conversation,

That bird is like New Game + Chicken.
Goes to show once again that burning hydrocarbons produce a great deal of energy.
Microsoft does not develop VB.NET further.
> However, in development environments you would be foolish not to use the (vastly superior) tooling available.

The debugger being vastly superior is highly dependant on what environment you are running in.
Ali does have some kinky stuff though and their terminology/suggestions can get really strange even in English. For example, I tinker with old road bikes. A very handy gadget for changing to modern shifters is a "downtube cable stop" but you'll never find it on Ali under that name. I need to go to my old orders and find it again. Ah yes, "outer stopper assembly" brings it right up. Fairly pricey by Ali standards; I expect these are genuine Shimano parts just not worth producing cheap en masse.
> What is your criteria of failure here? You absolutely love saying “Bitcoin has failed” or “Lightning network has failed”, but at what?

Both rvz and I have been really clear about the failure

rvz:
> Bitcoin has failed for on-chain payments as described in this article, this paper [0] and it's own white-paper.

Me:
> bitcoin really did fail at its core goal of being a currency.

As I went on to say, the failure at being a currency doesn't preclude it finding success at something else (and its price suggests its finding it).
I love that the author calls 31MB for an app (the Godot Editor) 'tiny'.

I guess that's an effect of Electron & co.

The 3D apps we used in the 90s had GUIs of similar complexity, all drawn in app (not using OS widgets).

They were considered 'large' when they approached 5MB.
Why? If we pass a law dictating that chemical companies have to pay for cancer patients that developed the disease because of their use of those company's products, does the state cover the losses of the people who hold stock in those companies? No.

Landlords always say that they should be compensated for the risk of homeownership. If that's true, then some landlords need to lose money.
Because then you apparently end up with two incompatible theories: quantum mechanics and general relativity.

Treating space and time as emergent may be a potential solution.
In Virginia, you need to pay taxes for your car (at least, you used to. Not sure if they still do). This was different from registration, and applied, even if your car is sitting in your driveway without plates.

I think they also used to charge tax for significant-value property, like computers.
yeah, birthday date is a clever trick to add in a number
I'm curious if using Relay (https://docs.sentry.io/product/relay/) would prevent these problems?
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The specific chart I picture was originally in a 2005 article in the NYT, but it is reproduced as the second chart on the Wikipedia page [0] for the Case-Shiller index. Note also that page's section on 'Key events and episodes.'

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case%E2%80%93Shiller_index
And how is that different from a market? All we have to do is tax land appropriately and remove NIMBY regulation that prevents higher density building. Over time the land tax will displace inefficient single family homes, parking spaces, etc where needed. A good way to celebrate the upcoming 150 year anniversary of the release and continued ignorance of the book that pioneered this policy.
We used to run it self hosted, but the architecture is rather complex, so we ended up switching to their SaaS offering. I tried advocating [0] for a leaner architecture for simpler setups + to run integration tests against... but it wasn't met with much enthusiasm.

I imagine 99% of installations (and certainly CI pipelines) would be fine with their wsgi webserver and sqlite instead of Clickhouse, Relay, memcached, nginx, Postgres, Kafka and a host of other services. I wanted to take a stab at this myself, but given the complexity of the system, uncertainty of being able to merge it back, and, last but not least, their license, I decided against it.

[0]: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/issues/32794
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I was able to work around that by putting a breakpoint at the moment of check and changing the flag via console :)
Always suspected the marriage of Ai + Optics would yield some sci-fi type inventions, invisibility cloaks and whatnot, but it appears that future is already here: predicting pedestrian movements from infrared, detecting bovine diseases from spectral analysis of milk, and of course quantum nets ;)