skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why did you buy the SPACs? Was it because of the charisma of Chamath?

As for me, when Richard Brandson, a brave and crazy man had the idea of making money from space tourism for example, the whole thing just didn’t make sense: if I go to space, I want the spaceship done by an engineer who doesn’t risk his life, but prefers to automate everything first (SpaceX). I like the idea of perfecting rockets using cargo as a business and only _then_ using them for tourism. With that SPAC I got sceptical of all of them.
Using base58 here strikes me as simply unnecessary. You could just use the base58 alphabet and directly generate random strings in that alphabet, easily and cheaply. The only thing you loose is the ability to decode into a bit shorter binary string for storage - almost certainly not worth it.
Similar idea to my https://remoteindex.co/remote-companies (shameless plug). On RI I focus more on "remote work quality". I will need to research how they found tech stack, it's really interesting. Besides that, well executed idea. I like it, gives me a lot of inspiration.
Those would also be quite uncommon, but I have seen them. Usually for Oracle or someone I wouldnt want to go with. Most tech lead roles I've seen topped out at £90k.
Interesting. Can you give a concrete example for how to "how to identify success/failure"? Interested to learn how to apply this for myself.
The first thing I thought of was that MacOS text editor that was popular around 2010 or so. Turns out it has changed its name! (https://panic.com/coda/). I wonder if anyone still uses it.
> Who is buying iPhones just to show off?

It used to be a big status symbol, but they've become more mainstream now. People will still look down on people using Android phones though.

related: Beats headphones are / were a status symbol, as are airpods. The kids want airpods. People want to be seen wearing airpods. People want to be seen.
Good. I think working for big corporations is death for talented people. Unless you have some boss that lets you work out your own vision without having to deal with other people or company procedures. But that's unlikely.
Do not wait for Rust generators
That was my takeaway as well. Telling gambling addicts 'no don't go, I've been there and suicide is not the answer. There is more gambling to be done!' is pretty strange. It might be helpful for some people to hear, but it's certainly not healthy.
New Zealand? Hell, Australia is more screwed than any country. When the housing bubble bursts, it’s going to destroy the economy.
> The question remains, how and when do you decide that your product just doesn't have enough value to anyone you might pitch it to?

I feel investors and traders can answer this to some extent. The framework I'd have as a trader, and to a lesser extent as an investor, is simply an expected value calculation.

I put x amount of time in with milestone a, b, c and d. I expect on average to make y amount of money, which means that I need to make p revenue on milestone a, q revenue on b and so on.

Obviously this is a super rough outline and one could do without the milestone idea and simply look at it as a 1000 hour investment hoping to make $20000 + growth potential, for example. If you didn't hit you target you quit.

I already hear some people say: but what if it took 1001 hours to hit the motherlode? Well, sure, but you can always ask the same with trading as well. What if the price would've gone up even more? Shouldn't you have hold your stocks/options? No you shouldn't. In general, that'll be an unstable psychological basis to operate from and the biggest mistake to make in trading/investing is to not stick to your initial strategy.

Anyway, there are probably more perspectives, but I think the trading/investing perspective has a framework of answering this question. For me personally, it answers it in a satisfactory way.

My only issue with it is that it's purely from a monetary perspective and it doesn't answer anything related to the emotions of a founder and how it deals with stopping after a 1000 hours when it turns out not enough revenue has been made. So the perspective does need to be augmented with a perspective that has a grasp of the emotional side of entrepreneurship.

Moreover, entrepreneurship offers following your own personal mission while solving problems in a way you want to solve them. It's the ultimate sandbox game in the "adult people world" when it comes to "having a job". So some entrepreneurs might even argue that it's not about money at all. In that case the trading/investment perspective offers little value, especially if you can fund your own endeavour.
Vim ships with a tutorial, https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/runtime/doc/vimtutor....

‘Vimtutor’ on *nix or in windows land it should be a bat file somewhere in install directory.
As a solo dev working on my SaaS, I can second this. My time and attention are scarce, so I ditched my earlier attempts to also have a monthly paying plan, for example. I also don't do coupons and sales. It was tempting to offer these things, but it wasn't grounded in reality. Choosing for the most dirt simple setup saves me a lot of time and it keeps the complexity at bay.
but then I am forced to use the Apple Music app, which is sadly moving away from library management to streaming. It's still a good advice for the many people with old iphones in their drawers.
>Locking the player out of all online games as a consequence of their actions seems fine.

...No? This is a terrible idea on all levels. I never understood this "say bad word" -> "completely banished" pipeline either. To me this just sounds like a power trip from people who want to enforce their ideals on the rest of us.

Disable chat/voip for some time (as CSGO already does if you don't opt out) if someone gets reported too much.

I wouldn't (and won't) drop full price on a modern multiplayer knowing some trigger happy biorobot could ban me for a word or two with no recourse or refund. And I very rarely get worked up about a game enough to swear.
And why would you think that? HN has been around since before the BTC whitepaper, and there has been healthy discussion of the space over the years. Not sure what you think the right venue is, honestly, but I'd love to find out.
This page is very nicely presented and was a pleasure to read.

"Automatic differentiation, on the other hand, is a solution to the problem of calculating derivatives without the downfalls of symbolic differentiation and finite differences. The key idea behind AD is to decompose calculations into elementary steps that form an evaluation trace, and combine each step’s derivative together through the chain rule."
Nice work! May I inquire as to the design decision behind storing a hash of the long token server-side for verification of the long token, versus digitally signing the short token plus a nonce and including this signature in the API key (instead of a long token), as some other API key schemes do?

Both are valid approaches of course, I'm just interested to hear your thoughts on the relative tradeoffs.
The opposite of “sherlocking”
There was a good "scales of wealth" post I read some time ago, it wasn't so much about hard figures but about what financial decisions you need to think about before doing; it starts with the basics like groceries, if you don't need to think about what to buy, what brands, or what your weekly budget is for groceries, you're up one level.

That scale went up from that, to vacations, to cars or houses, then up to really expensive things like private yachts and airplanes.

It's all relative to income; for whoever they were, a 10K purchase might represent about as much as their monthly income as a six pack of beer would be for me.

And their wealth was probably still only a fraction of what the super rich have.
Google I/O 2022 Pinball game
This guy bags.
Update: It's now 1$ per 1M Api calls :) Thanks again for the feedback.
Project is open source and can be found on GitHub [0]

[0]:https://github.com/flutter/pinball
If you want to learn how to build autodiff from scratch in python, see autodidax: https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/autodidax.html

It's light on math and heavy on simplicity. I've been studying it for about 9 months and I still learn new things.
sounds like the beginnings of either burnout, depression or both. I'm in a job that's not quite demanding enough at the moment and it caused me to fall into a depression. It's good to catch it in time to do something about it.
all stablecoins are 100% scam... they dont have the reserve they wont pay the money they are not backed...
I wrote Evaluatory [1] for this, which started mainly as an axe-core wrapper (which is what Lighthouse uses as well) with a visual results page. Now it contains more tools and checks as well.

[1] https://darekkay.com/evaluatory/
Please have an upvote for this clarity. I prefer the FreeBSD approach personally.
The future of what? Gambling?
Fports Club
No idea. Best guess is "convinience", but that fades away pretty quickly after being scared by a stranger taking over your speeakers.
I chuckled audibly at this xD Saving that comment for later
But "sounds like" and "reads like" are bad methods if they outcome in erroneous early stopping.
I would the bottom that it was an impulse purchase. Luggage - of amount - isn't really something you buy without thought. It is likely the family had been considering various styles and price points for a while, and just now decided to pull the trigger.
As an example, I would say Microsoft is a regular business. Sure, at this point they're one of the largest companies in the world, but the way they operate is still largely the same as it has been. It ticks all the boxes you described as well.
Modal-modes are beneficial. But Emacs differences are mostly just different, not beneficial. And it's not as if vim and it's forks are not being modernized...
Nah, just in the context of that website. It’s not BBC or NY Times. Plus it’s properly italicized there. On HN it’s out of context and could use clarification despite HN’s no editing headlines by default policy.
In the context of video gaming, which is that site's focus, it definitely is.
Here, $UST's justification was a 20% interest for holding. Thus, in theory, just by owning $UST, you make more than you would holding dollar bills (emphasis on "in theory"). Broadly speaking, the raison d'etre of stablecoins is liquidity. Interfacing between fiat and crypto is difficult for banking reasons and taxing reasons, but interfacing between crypto coins is easy. Thus, stablecoins are seen as a useful tool for both accounting, as well as being coins that are hedged against collapses (again, in theory).
I assume this is a reply to my comment. What you're saying here is right, but I have no idea why you're saying it as I really don't care about being special, at all. Never crossed my mind until now, and nobody ever told me so (except for the other meaning of "special", and that has a lot of truth to it).

And then, even if I thought I was special (I don't), I would still be fully capable of feeling concerned for other less fortunate people while feeling concerned about making less than X times the average.

Anyways, the demand for software engineers increased extremely significantly (multiples of open positions, rates doubled) when Covid started and all remaining companies hopped on the digital transformation trend; and that continues to today.

Every contract I interviewed for since it began, they literally begged me to work for them (previously it felt like we're equals, they were able to say no without fear of not finding anyone else). They don't even ask programming questions anymore, they just try to make their company look like the best place while apologizing profusely for their limited budget. Your characterization of the programmers market seems totally out of loop.
I had that experience last year in Scotland when thundersnow happened. It was the loudest thing I've ever heard.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-5... (the audio doesn't do it justice)
These days a static-linked copy of busybox on the root partition is usually enough; assuming you have the space for that. A 'full' initramfs can also help in case you need to bring over a USB drive of tools from another system or have changed hardware.
Practical Compiler Construction
What a bizzare and combatative comment. Chill out.

You seem to be arguing against something the GP didnt actually say.
Can the title be amended to "FIFA (video game series) will be rebranded as EA Sports FC in 2023" to clarify that it's not referring to the actual football governing body?
Thank you for your honest answers. For what it's worth, I don't think you're a bad person for voting the way you did.

> the EU didn't embody the principles it claimed to stand for (and of which I approved).

But is it possible that you were holding it to a higher standard than you hold your own country to?

> Moderating the atavistic instincts of other countries isn't a good reason for being in a political union.

Turning that around, though: reducing the moderation on those atavistic instincts is not a good way to further the principles you claim to support. In any case, there are other, more positive, reasons to be an international trade and peace agreement than just a duty to look out for your neighbours.

> I have half a chance of voting them out. It's not possible to vote Hungary and Poland off the EU Commission.

But the problem isn't the nationality of the commissioners, because you're not a racist, right? The Council of Ministers only nominates the various members of the Commission, in agreement with the nominated President, and the 27 members as a team are then subject to a vote of approval by the European Parliament.[0] So you had more chance of voting out an atavistic Hungarian or Polish commissioner (through your MEP, and President) than you had of determining the composition of Boris Johnson's cabinet (especially considering the more proportional voting system used by the EU).

> Greece acceded despite not meeting the financial requirements for membership; it was then financially crushed by Germany (more specifically, German bankers)

If Greece did not meet the financial requirements, it is because of fraud carried out by Greece itself, without the EU's knowledge[1]. Greece abusing its position in the Eurozone to leverage itself into an unsustainable economic position is not something you need to be ashamed of, no matter the nationality of the bankers who were Greece's creditors.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Commission

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Greece#Eurozone_ent...
Yeah, arguably showing the letters FIFA so often while gaming and having fun was actually massive advertisement for FIFA the org. Perhaps the org should have paid for getting all the ad space.
You can read the Event Viewer.
In the UK, many football clubs actually have "FC" in their full names, although it's almost always removed in common usage. E.g. "Manchester United F.C."
Tracking libraries
> Weirdly, there are a lot of similarities between encryption and abortion. Encryption is a standard cybersecurity measure, just like abortion is a standard medical procedure.

Not for the baby.
I use pbzip2 with gusto because the original bzip2 is single-threaded. I heartily recommend it to all I meet, even those in the street!
> For more than a decade homeowners benefited from ultra-low interest rates.

Homeowners benefit from higher prices? How does that work?

Low interest rates increase demand. Increased demand increases price. Higher prices mean a larger initial payment (i.e., 20% down). Higher prices typically mean higher assessed value (i.e., higher property taxes). These benefit homeowners how?

Ultimately, it's about the total cost of the mortgage. That is the price of the home. The closing price is an illusion.

Finally, a higher interest rate can always be refinanced in the future. The higher rate gives you a lower closing price. The re-fi lowers the total cost of the mortage.
> One thing to take into account is inflation. Rich people don't contribute to everyday inflation as much. Distribute money from rich to poor and you have the price of jets and basketball teams going down but the price of cheeseburgers going up.

It's not that clear. For example, the vast majority of money supply during the COVID crisis went straight into the financial system. The relationship to inflation is diffuse, but it's still there, as now huge companies can borrow at close to zero interest and depending on supply, this will create inflation. Also, in Europe the progressive taxation basically does what I just told you, there is enormous support for the poorest and they have a functional society with manageable inflation.

Regardless, my main point was that 115B per year going to the poorest, be it directly or indirectly (healthcare, social services, etc.) is a significant amount of money.
Does it make sense given that the book is freely available already?
This is maybe why I gravitate towards NixOS now. It is already in its inception such a departure from tradition that the conservative crowd will probably not even attempt to use it, which in turn will make innovation more likely.
This conjures up the image of someone maintaining a bonsai tree, meticulously clipping of every errant leaf with a tiny scissors and refusing to use any other tools or fertilizer.

Much like a bonsai tree though, the code you write in this way will remain tiny and mostly useful as a talking piece. You might be able to write some tiny useful applications this way but good luck scaling it up to a team of people working on the code, or any kind of larger application.

And that's fine! There's a place for bonsai trees, and there's a place for meticulously hand written code, and both are as ornaments.

Referring to any code not written this way as "pollution" , though, comes off as extremely arrogant and turns this into another "my way is better than your way" bs article. Very disappointing.
As another solo dev running a SaaS (7 years), I mostly agree. I stopped doing sales and coupons, it's a lot of effort for little practical gain (in a B2B SaaS you really care about the long-term, not hooking customers based on quick promos and coupons).

But complexity will catch up with you eventually. There is just no way around this. I read the article and I agree with most things there — my system is somewhat simpler, but I do have "features" and feature overlays, which let me override entitlements in specific cases. This gets a lot of use. And right now I'm working on plan overlays, so that I can offer custom plans when needed — and believe me, it's not because I have too much time on my hands, it's because I started to really need them.

Obviously don't do all this when you start.
Even in the context of HN, a) we're more likely to be talking about video games than real-life sport b) it's a fairly safe assumption that an international governing body is less likely to rebrand in this way than a video game series.
Yes! And defence/defense. Honestly I've forgotten which of those is which.
New Zealand. Housing market disaster. Didn’t read the article but upset enough about it
I fear your amusing sarcasm may be lost on some readers.
NIST Finds Wireless Performance Consistent Across 5G Millimeter-Wave Bands
This is why I always present using a bare PDF with no animations. Anything else is too risky imo. A talk is already scary enough without having to worry about tech issues
I think a big part of it is compliance with local employment laws. There are great companies like remote.com and letsdeel.com that are making it easier to hire people internationally though! :)
I guess the usual child abuser doesn't think along the line that they do it for potential 10 years but not for 25 years in prison.

While I believe that the schedule of kids is vastly overstuffed with senseless crap, more eyes on the target probably helps identifying cases of abuse. That means funding child care and schools. But that is more expensive and doesn't have positive side effects like a law for content control. UvdL is known to have had and probably still has many private gatherings to discuss policy in a privileged group. Maybe we should ask her what her secrecy was about and where the chat protocol is from these meetings. I suspect more criminal behavior than in the average internet chat.
I disagree personally. As a "young" male from Europe every time I've talked about FIFA with friends we were talking about the game (although we always liked PES more as teenagers as it felt more arcade-like...)
I think you've confused /usr/bin with /usr/local/bin. I'm pretty sure a default FreeBSD install has plenty if stuff in /usr/bin.
A much better separation is achieved in a few Linux distributions where every package is installed in a separate directory.

All the files that might be expected by others to be in certain standard locations are sym-linked to those locations, e.g. the executables to /usr/bin,/usr/sbin,/bin or /sbin, in order to appear in PATH.

In this case you no longer need any kind of database to know which files may be safely nuked to delete any package.

Moreover, in FreeBSD there is no such separation between the "base OS packages" and "3rd party packages", implemented as a difference between root and /usr. You might have misremembered /usr/local, which is indeed a place for "3rd party packages" in all UNIX-derived operating systems.

There are many "base OS packages" that are installed in /usr/bin or in /usr/sbin.

In any FreeBSD system, you can see their source files in /usr/src/usr.bin and in /usr/src/usr.sbin.

I have been using FreeBSD for a quarter of century, since FreeBSD 2.0, and there has never been such a separation between root and /usr.

The separation between /bin and /usr/bin and the other similar pairs was made only to allow /usr to be unmounted, when it is on another device than the root device, but still have in the root file system the minimal set of tools needed for diagnosing and repairing any broken file system or network connection.

In ancient FreeBSD installations it was always recommended to have a separate small root partition, e.g. of a few hundred megabytes, and some large partitions for usr and var.

This original use has become completely obsolete, because now, for diagnosing and repairing problems, it is preferable to boot from an USB stick or from the network (using a ramdisk as root file system), and then run diagnostics or repair programs without touching even the root file system unless modifying it is intentional.

In FreBSD it might still be possible to put /usr on a different partition or device and then unmount /usr, but in many Linux distributions this traditional usage is broken, because some of the programs installed in the root directories need components installed in /usr, so when /usr is unmounted they stop working.
Some of us have no choice in the matter. For example, there is no payment provider that can correctly handle my invoicing requirements (EU, Poland).
We manage the cloud hosting of our open-source software (cg-wire.com)
So where are the BTC addresses? Something I always find annoying about articles reporting huge coffers: site the source, link the wallets!
Europe (incl. the UK) doesn't need these social payment apps because we have free instant bank transfers between personal accounts. In the US if you want to send your friend money electronically then you need a 3rd party app.
> Synthetic stablecoins are the most important technology of our time and a very large step for our species to organize ourselves.

What do you mean by this?
From TFA: "Tesla is fixing the problem with online software updates"

So, one would wonder why they name it a "recall", since tesla cars get updates all the time, fixing and improving random things.

"This months update contains changes" perhaps doesn't gather clicks?
How are they different? In core workings they look very much the same to me.