skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They failed to establish jurisdiction over their intended targets.
It really only matters if you are thinking of investing in his company.

There are dozens of others working toward the same or similar goals.
If his company does not succeed, another will.
As an outsider looking in, this looks like a tantrum
I think dating sites are particularly tricky because you rely much more on active users than simply user generated content.

Think of twitter, although active users are very much important, once a tweet is there it's there and it's available for everyone so the website gets a little more valuable with every tweet that is posted. But a dating site? Someone that makes a profile adds nothing if they abandon it after a couple days!

So although I agree with you that getting users is indeed one of the biggest challenges; I think your experience was particularly bad :)
Right but no configuration system can do this. Puppet straight up tends to lie about what it can do with operations named things like "ensure" which play with language to make it feel like there's not actually a procedural, stateful system there (at least based on the number of people who have gushed at me about puppet while not using it).

It's akin to "unsafe" in Rust and ansible does warn you it's a bad idea unless you really need it.
To quote from Paul Graham's essay Beating the Averages:

> "As long as our hypothetical Blub programmer is looking down the power continuum, he knows he's looking down. Languages less powerful than Blub are obviously less powerful, because they're missing some feature he's used to. But when our hypothetical Blub programmer looks in the other direction, up the power continuum, he doesn't realize he's looking up. What he sees are merely weird languages. He probably considers them about equivalent in power to Blub, but with all this other hairy stuff thrown in as well. Blub is good enough for him, because he thinks in Blub."

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

I have a theory that this applies to progressivism or moral frameworks or whatever you want to call it. Let's suppose we were to re-write the above quote to apply to morality.

> "As long as our hypothetical practitioner of the Blub moral framework is looking down the moral continuum, he knows he's looking down. Moral frameworks less advanced than Blub are obviously less just, because they're missing some assumptions about people's rights and obligations that he's used to. (Don't they know that slavery is wrong? And obviously lying and stealing are right out under most circumstances.) But when our hypothetical Blub practitioner looks in the other direction, up the moral continuum, he doesn't realize he's looking up. What he sees are merely weird rules. He probably considers them about morally equivalent to Blub, but with all this other hairy stuff thrown in as well. (Intersectionality? Critical race theory? And people keep adding extra letters at the end of LGBT? Is this all a bunch of made-up nonsense, posturing, and virtue signalling?) Blub is good enough for him, because he thinks in Blub and lives in a world where Blub applies to situations that correspond to his real-life personal experience."

This isn't to say that critics of complicated moral frameworks are always wrong. Sometimes people really do get caught up in virtue signalling and posturing. But I think these complicated moral frameworks are usually a reaction to real injustices, and sometimes it's worth standing up to oppose an injustice. Knowing when or how to do that can be complicated though. Moral crusades can themselves cause tribalistic behavior, exclusion, and intolerance of honestly held opinions, which can also be another kind of injustice.
Precisely.

You could replace the entire thing with "shorter feedback loops" and it would be significantly more meaningful.
> It's a bit awkward since "poisonous" refers to things you eat

poisonous (adj.)

[...]

2. (figuratively) Negative, harmful.

Synonym: toxic
I believe the scheduling planner is written in Common Lisp also.

edit: It's derived from the one written for Hubble,

https://franz.com/success/customer_apps/scheduling/sti.lhtml ("Spike: Hubble Telescope Scheduling System")
Could you elaborate further on this? I originally read your response as meaning something bad specifically based on the OP stating that they are Russian, and I am hoping that isn't actually the case.
This is endemic of the problem of the current tech ecosystem. Emphasizing “growth” over “profitability”. Why is it surprising that a company that has loss money over the past five quarters is seeing its stock tank?
It's both the liability issue, but also how safety incentives are set at the highest level. It is not uncommon for senior exec to get bonuses tied to lost time incidents, hazard reporting and other safety metrics, which get cascaded down through the org (In Australia at least).

One office worker spraining an ankle on the stairs and missing a day of work muddies up the KPI's. Reinforcing the safety culture across the whole organisation between the high risk field work and office drones keeps the kpi's green, but its also an easier message to deliver to staff - everyone must play by the same rules.
Mondragon cooperative is a special case that is semi-autonomous collective that also does agriculture with about 81000 people.
28x sales doesn’t seem so bad to me for a young highly innovative company with a huge fan base and real revenue streams that aren’t simply ads.
Can you explain? A wider spread means less efficient markets which means fewer transactions which means lower revenue, no?
A shell and a programming language accomplish very different things - i.e. there's a reason pure Python makes for an annoying shell but is the next step up once you get even a little complicated.
I'm not sure they care too much how much their bikes earn on resale as long as they get new owners, even if people give them away for free they earn money when those new Peloton owners subscribe at $40/month.
Should have bought a 5.56 mm, now that cheap Russian ammo is no more.
>We are in an era of mythologizing that old white men are at the root of all problems, so thinkpieces like this have to mention old white men as a matter of course.

That we've gotten to this point must also be old white men's fault.
Thanks! Visual programming tools are a big inspiration.

For art browser, I assume you're referring to the JavaScript example https://natto.dev/example/f33b7f5924634fb687a90d85ed03f289
I’m gonna argue both sides.

Writing HTML does not suck, and it would benefit many things about the web if more devs knew how to write it. Instead, cluttered, almost unreadable HTML is generated by frameworks (yes, even non no-code ones like Angular).

Writing pure HTML sucks, especially for the modern web, because it is inherently flawed and made more awful by CSS, which is why frameworks like Foundation, Bootstrap, and the like have risen up to do the heavy lifting of responsive design and layouts. Being able to compose a clean layout with clean markup with tools like 12-column grids is so much easier and more reliable than hand-coding breakpoints.

Neither solution is perfect, but the latter is the lesser of two evils.
Is this really what people strive for in the USA. To avoid contributing anything back to the country that helped them achieve everything they've ever wanted?
He and munger have been saying that almost every year now.
If you like esp32 you will be blown away by the work of one developer who wrote all of FabGL: https://github.com/fdivitto/FabGL

It does VGA in software, composite NTSC and PAL in software, emulates IBM PC, CP/M, various 8 bit machines, VT100 terminal and more stuff than can be mentioned here.

All on a microcontroller.

Here is the developers YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/user/fdivitto/videos
A senior engineer is someone you can point in the general direction of a business problem. They rarely get requirements, and never fleshed out. Their job is to understand the problem in consultation with stakeholders, guide a team through execution, and maybe but not always write or debug some critical parts.

As a senior engineer, if I told my manager in a performance review that I mostly worked alone on tickets with well defined requirements, I’d be on PIP immediately and probably fired a month later.
Wonder how many people said that about the online bookstore.
I was thinking somewhere vaguely along the lines of easy credit as something like heroin addiction/withdrawal, that's where poison came from. I guess it is awkward
Trying to understand this:

1. Alice sends message to Bob to attack on Tuesday and 9am

2. Bob sends message to Alice confirming this is fine

3. Alice sends confirmation of confirmation to Bob

4. Bob sends confirmation of confirmation confirmation to Alice

5. Alice sends confirmation of the confirmation of the confirmation confirmation to Bob

But at this point, Bob has realized there is a confirmation. Alice has realized there is a confirmation also. Surely this is sufficient?
Galaxies, i.e. cool nebulosity.

Also, the deeper you look, the more redshifted it is. So eventually, Webb is capable of seeing full visible color spectrum again, if it looks far enough back in time. :)

(Additionally, for the most deepest-field objects, they're actually significantly larger in terms of angular extent than nearer objects of the same physical size due to the fact that the ancient universe was smaller: https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/12/07/ask-...)
Mongodb is also taking quite a beating. Probably doesn't help that sqlite has been all over the front page lately (e.g. right now).
> In the case of this article the reserve funds are seemingly crowdfunded.

The money went elsewhere rather than backing the coin. They took the money out of the fund and assumed $LUNA would be able to back it forever. Jokes on them. amiright?
Yeah that could be true.
>Is there a context from which Emacs' defaults are bad, other than "Windows did it differently!" ?

There are dozens of low hanging fruit.

Off the top of my head:

- dispensing with the absurd references to Alt as Meta that haven't been relevant for 35 years

- bringing the terminology in the documentation into the 2000s by fixing what's called window, a pane, etc.

- including CUA mode as default for ease of onboarding windows users

- including per-pixel/smooth scrolling which AFAICT is only available via the emacs-mac port

- updating the graphical interface to make it look modern and sophisticated instead of the current look which can best be described as "abandonware chic"

- improving handling of large files with long lines so the editor doesn't choke

- setting the gc threshold to a much higher value

- the yes/no vs y/n thing that literally everyone rebinds

- make middle click insert at the cursor instead of where the mouse is

I'm certain there are dozens of others.
Maybe the author confused 2012 with 2002.
When modern countries try to maintain a currency peg, like the BoE example above, they are also not really ‘backed’ in the sense I think you mean.
It took 15 years for Nasdaq to recover from the dot com bust. The S&P 500 was flat from 2000-2010.
Nuclear waste also comes from plutonium production. And it could be used to generate power, but this leads to fuel reprocessing, which runs afoul of nonproliferation treaties, as it produces weapons-grade fissile material.
They aren’t a good company if they can’t survive the macro.
It's an interesting solution - could you elaborate more on the benefits, or even on the impetus to use websockets in an e-commerce project?
I love that phrase "drag in X". It's closer to how we interact with objects in the real world. Coding should feel more like that!
Every one of those stock sales has a buyer too.
That would then make more sense with his claims.
It’s time to buy: https://edition.cnn.com/markets/fear-and-greed
https://alternative.me/crypto/fear-and-greed-index/
haha it's funny how that works, supply and demand

semi tangent, YT I was against it for a bit, but it's hard to beat their user engagement

against because of the ads being applied to videos even if you didn't want them there, but I also realized I don't pay for their service and their bandwidth/processing happily gulps down my GBs of files.
> If changing was some big expensive process

This is the main fear in every org I have seen the debate play out.

Going to every single script and tool that touches git, check and update it isn’t free, nor completely devoid of risk. Even when everyone is one the same page about the right thing to do, it’s tough to prioritize over other actual production issues.
> The coming tightening of hiring will also inevitably mean the tightening of infrastructure budgets.

What indicates a coming tightening of hiring soon?
Care to share which ones?
HBO never had the low good content/crap ratio that Netflix has.
Agree - much easier than the stovetop. Put it on, dings when done and then switches to warm mode rather than boil over or burn. Plus the ability to steam at the top, again without fuss. Also, they're not necessarily expensive. Anyone lazy or remotely busy is crazy for not having one.
Obviously, but why?
Like I said, my main concern would be the fluoride. I actually really like the water here in NYC tastes great and seems good for baking, brewing beer, and coffee. Though I've never tried RO coffee.
> Or even "toxic sandbox".

The Caddyshack Baby Ruth scene seems apropos.

Fed Floaters. Everybody out! Pool's closed.
Bogatin's Practical Guide to Prototype Breadboard and PCB Design
Is there a good DB admin GUI that supports both SQLite and Postgres?
What I think interesting is that people write articles about technology architectures without even bothering trying to use the said architecture. I would be very interested in reading from someone who actually used sqlite in a large scale application in the way he described, and then tell what worked or not in this setup. Until then, this article is nothing more than a proposal, another kind of vaporware.
Ask HN: How could a data scientist/engineer/analyst help society?
Is it possible to a professional of the data universe to help society/earth/environment somehow? I love my craft but I'm sick of my job, so I'd like to do something better than making rich people richer.
People who work for companies are not company property.
Also a Ponzi Scheme.
Paris suspends Bolloré electric buses after two catch fire
Yeah seems broken. New tab. Though I expected better than a 5meg png
Hertz is adding a mystery Ford Mustang rental car to the fleet
If bitcoin/crypto is chopping sideways GUARANTEED Coinbase will be chopping sideways as well
Risk parity isn't the issue here. The issue is that is yield isn't coming from investing the funds in productive endeavors, it's being printed out of thin air, which is unsustainable.
they might have rejected my application a few years ago.
Ten years from now your first AV1 video might be finished encoding. /s but not really.
IMHO boot camps are for coding like going to the gym is for exercise.

Yes, you can do it all by yourself, in your house, alone. But being alone is depressing for many people, so they decide to pay whatever sum of money just to be in the same room with people in the same page, and a tutor to correct their mistakes.

And I totally agree. I'm following a course in Udemy to learn modern Front End (I'm a Back End developer) and it's boring as hell. Also, I can totally just quit studying with zero consequences.
I did read about a more general idea where excess power plant capacity would be funneled into asic crypto mining. I think this makes a lot of sense if you are thinking about power sources that take a long time to ramp up. For these plants, I imagine it could be necessary to quickly bleed power to reduce capacity in order to balance the grid.
Now you know that most most countries barely use any power! A single dam could power them! This is why the "crypto uses more power than X country" is a meaningless talking point.
No one was saying the internet was a fad. Home broadband was still growing.
“The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in ‘Metcalfe’s law' becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s”
-Some dude who writes for The New York Times...
This is good stuff. One really cool use of sheaf theory is being able to predict race conditions between 2 states in switching electrical circuits by showing H_1 ("line-like", if H_0 is "point-like") cohomology isomorphic (? not sure if that's the right term) to Z_2: https://www.drmichaelrobinson.net/sheaftutorial/20150826_tut... (slide 29)
Fwiw, Tailscale has done this, and written about it:

https://tailscale.com/blog/database-for-2022/
I’m not sure what you’re implying. In terms of investing, you should not wait until it recovers, you want to invest near the bottom and on the way up.

The money you have in now should be held.
Electronics and clothes still work when the company is bankrupt.
I think the idea is more that the waste heat pouring off the CPUs (crypto processing units ;-) ) could be used to help heat up a living space
I've got a build working on Windows, would love to have you give it a try. Hit me up at jimmy@artdiario.com
I'd argue that UST / Anchor is more transparent tbh. Anyone can read the source code, or (more accessibly) the docs and get a pretty good understanding of how it works.

For example: UST [0] - anyone can mint UST by burning $1 worth of LUNA, or mint LUNA by burning $1 worth of UST. With a bit of deductive reasoning, it's pretty clear that in a "race for the exits" scenario, infinite LUNA will be minted, driving the price of UST to zero.

[0] https://docs.terra.money/docs/learn/protocol.html
> The upcoming release of Litestream will let you live-replicate SQLite directly between databases, which means you can set up a write-leader database with distributed read replicas. Read replicas can catch writes and redirect them to the leader; most applications are read-heavy, and this setup gives those applications a globally scalable database.

Would this make lightstream a possible fit to sync a mobile device to a users own silo of data on 'server'? Would need a port of lightstream to Dart.
+1 to the struct thing and very interested in your thoughts! I've personally taken to using protobufs instead with the excellent https://github.com/elixir-protobuf/protobuf library. They work beautifully but are obviously a lot more heavy weight. It would be nice to have more ergonomic native structs.
Even if you somehow are pro-IP, implying that archival shouldn't use patented codecs makes no sense since they are going to expire sometime in the future anyway (and especially for archival, the timescales for patent expiry seem very soon --- 20 years at most, basically.)
Like half of NASDAQ has lost ~50%, a quarter have lost ~75% and 5% have lost ~90% of their value from their highs. Coinbase is not an outlier, basically everything growth and risk on is getting dragged out behind the shed right now.
Personally, I'm all in on exactly the Vanguard funds I was all in on last month.

I did sell my crypto, which would've been a better story if I had more than $1000 of it.
I’m implying that it wasn’t “2-3 years” as the parent poster alluded to.
Branding.

I'm not even joking; everything they do with blockchain can be done cheaper, easier, and just as well without it. They do the minimum they need to to hype themselves up as being "Web3" and that's it.
> And the answer is always "It's never an easy answer. You have to do your homework. And it might change, and it might get uncomfortable. Too bad."

The easy answer is “I really don’t care.”
The water in the photo at the top of the link is fresh (all of it, even the large lake in the background). They can probably find a way to not use treated water for irrigation.

The lakes are shallow, but they are pretty big.
Arguably, perhaps, but nobody actually uses those.
Aren't essential patents essential because they are a standard (or part of one) that makes them essential? Not that they must be obvious?

For example, what good is the perfect communication codec if every operator must each pay top dollar?
"Git" is an insult, but it's not a slur.
That 7 P/E is not real. I took a quick look at yahoo finance and they showed a negative 740 Million tax provision in Q2 of last year and negative 135 Million in Q3 of last year. A negative tax provision means they actually showed profit from taxes. The US government is not in the habit of giving companies hundreds of millions of dollars (almost a billion) in negative taxes so this is likely something not reflective of real profits.

I will not check what it is because I have no intention in investing in coinbase, but from experience from other companies these sharp profits coming from taxes are usually reversals of valuation allowances for tax loss carryforwards. They are non-cash items that do not have much to do with the current operation of the business.

So if you really want to do P/E investing and are using real money, I highly recommend you learn some financial accounting and learn to remove these one time accounting charges/incomes that do not really have much to do with the company's operation.

Furthermore, as it comes to coinbase, I should point out that their source of revenues is highly uncertain, and dependent on uncertain trading of exotic assets. When people talk about P/E there is an unspoken assumption of some business continuity. I am not sure this is present with coinbase, but you may believe differently.
Not exactly. Almere is not walkable but it is bikable. The main issue is whether or not bikability can supplant walkability in terms of providing everything an urban area needs to thrive.

For me, walking > biking > cars and you cannot create the same dynamic urban environment if an area is not walkable.
Yep, getting old sucks.

I just bought a digital caliper with a big LCD display. It will work with Imperial or Metric units, which I really like.

My analog calipers are Imperial. I love them, but run into Metric units a lot. Got those in '88 and they are still calibrating in spec and working great. No battery. Did need light oil and cleaning a decade ago.

I have one Vernier caliper and... it is getting hard to read in some conditions. Bummer. I still prefer these in longer forms, say greater than 12"
Yes. The "privatize gains, socialize losses" thing isn't just an empty meme, it's a legitimate (read: "not strictly illegal") and highly profitable strategy.
Seems notable that just today Uber's CEO sent a letter to everyone that said, among other things, that hiring is tightening. Just one firm, but a big well-known one.
it's not completely free money - you have to invest in qualified funds/businesses, which is located in areas of low economic opportunity that the gov't wants to incentivize businesses to start operating in.

This is effectively a tax incentive to open new businesses in these somewhat remote and low-income areas. I dont think it's a bad thing if it does indeed encourage job creation and economic activity in those areas that otherwise would've stagnated.
They actually have opposite strategies - AWS and the other cloud providers charge a lot for outbound traffic to make it hard to leave them.

I don't know if edge computing really has the advantage Cloudflare wants it to have though; it reminds me of open source projects with a lot of mirrors thinking you'll carefully pick the one in the city nearest you, as if anyone even notices.
Zoom atleast after the 1 year cliff is granting more RSU if your underwater to equal out and at year 2 as well. I am thankful for it....
When Morris Chang Speaks, America Should Listen
I wonder how these do on the rocky trails of California
Moral exists and you can aim for a virtuous life in an Aristotelian way and are free to think people who strive for that should be admired. I am at this point in my life of an opinion opposite to yours. What people do is not neutral and people who abuse system or knowingly profit from harmful systems have a negative impact on our society as a whole and it is legitimate to see their actions as bad.