skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are correct but it is one in year or decade. Right... rest of the time all is good. people will opt for convenience.
Tracetest: Trace-based testing. End-to-end tests using OpenTelemetry Traces
Crypto has unique qualities that enable new applications.

For example, you can issue loans to yourself using MakerDAO:

https://oasis.app/borrow

The process is permissionless, meaning, among other things, that it can be automated, and it carries almost zero fees (only the Ethereum gas fee for EVM instructions).

To take another example, the world's leading decentralized exchange, Uniswap, has now overtaken centralized exchanges in market depth for some major trading pairs:

https://uniswap.org/blog/uniswap-v3-dominance

This is a credibly neutral value exchange protocol that major centralized exchanges are coalescing around as a source of liquidity. The market depth is truly impressive. For example, you can sell hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of ETH in one trade with almost zero slippage.

So crypto is not just another iteration of Wall Street.

And to the point of past iterations of Wall Street: the 19th century banking system was not rife with scams as the caricature suggests:

https://www.cato.org/blog/fable-cats
Unfortunately we don't like to hire contractors much, and when we do it's only for a 6 month period, has to be reviewed and reapproved every months. So I could lose someone just as they're starting to learn the intricacies of our system, because a lot aren't renewed as they're only supposed to be short term. I've got catch 22's all around me.
No, it's the 18th century.

I think people genuinely get confused that the century that has dates like 19XX was the 20th century, so they say "1900s" to cover for it. But that has an established meaning, namely 1900-1909.
I didn't even know such a thing like literate programming existed. I wonder if IPython notebooks count as literate programming?
It has its rough eges though. The one that pisses me off is psremote. Complex to set up, takes forever to come online after a reboot, runs in a network context which isn't allowed to interact with certain windows APIs, not the least windows update. How you create a remote shell that cannot do something as simple as updating the OS is beyond my comprehension.
they're not wrong. it's a very reddit way of communicating. people criticize then get right to story time. when youre in this situation, you couldnt give a fuck less about someones tangential testimonial.
Predictions are always hard. I bought my house during the last housing 'crash'. It was my first house so I didn't have one to sell, so it was easier. But, I was being told by friends and online that things could drop more, wait, etc... At the end of the day, I needed a place to live, I could afford it, and my job was reasonably secure.

Now people ask how I timed it perfectly and the fact is I didn't. I simply made personal financial decisions based on my situation at the time.
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9 months is a typical amount of time it takes to network your way into a company.

The key is patience, persistence, keeping multiple options open, flexibility, and understanding the needs of your future colleagues. When it works it looks lucky, but you can't rush "luck" of this type. :)
Totally agree with your points.

On the other extreme, (and due to my personal interest in practicing knife sharpening), I ended up using a pocket knife and a couple quality sharpening stones as my “razor”. Too lazy to calculate whether the long term cost is worth it, but the setup will probably last me a lifetime. If avoiding waste is really the highest priority (over convenience) then I would argue that sharpening your own razor blade is the only rational way to shave.
This is what dictionaries are for, seriously. Instead of bending backwards to serve some supposedly alienated learners, we can look the word up. When I learn something for the first time I try to be humble and put in some effort. English is not my first language, but if we start avoiding "complex" words soon we will be communicating in grunts.
I did it for a while. But I am super bad at narrating what I do in real time. I couldn't stream myself doing my job so I thought I should do puzzles and stuff, which is also something I am horrible at. So, I thought let's try learning and exploring new programming stuff (vim, jupyter notebook, de/da, stats, github projects) and stream that but guess what I am bad demoing stuff too.

But I do enjoy filming myself on a webcam and seeing the emotional ride I go through on a routinely basis in my attempts to solve problems.
> It is much harder to gain tacit knowledge (The important stuff) when you're remote. I read a lot, and it's no match for picking a skilled person's brain for even just 30min-1hr.

I have the exact opposite experience. During discussions, people are less informed with facts and speak conceptually. In a book or documentation, there's both. Thus is easier to get more reliable information. It is easier to follow logical chains constructed people but the constituents of said chain could potentially be fraught with approximations, thus obfuscating the entire story.

I've discussed topics with really smart people (experts in their field) for hours with many potential ideas but no conclusion. But I only had to read documentation/code for 30min to understand exactly what the real gist of the field was about.
> in the absence of Bourne-like shells

I never had "Oh I would really liked to have *sh on this Win machine". Some GNU tools, like grep (just because findstr has it's own arcaneties) or sed - but neither of them is the part the shell itself.

Sure, before 2012 if you wanted a little more flow control than provided by cmd you had not really many options (and if you needed portability you would need to use VB/Jscript, not a 3rd party tool), but since then you have PS3 at worst (on 2012/R2), or at least PS5.1 everywhere else, including client SKUs.

And writing even not a complex script with a bunch of if..else is way, way easier in PS, be it for a Win or a *nix machine.
It occurs to me that part of this debate could be expressed in more modern terms as Declarative vs Imperitive programming.

In firstclass languages a complex problem can be solved by chaining together functions and can be written in a single statement (this depends on the implmentation of functions and types that are returned). Somtime 2 or three statements.

Versus using core language statements and packages to implement conditional logic, control structures, and operations. Relying less on packages that extend the launguage. Having full control over the implementation.

Personally I prefer declarative and wrapping it with verbose inline documentation.

One downside to this is maintaining the build environment. Packages are versioned and fucntions change overtime (deprecated in favor of new implmentations that replace the old function). Somtimes Declaritive implementations must be refactored to support newer version of packages.

Impertive implementations tend to be more durable and have fewer dependencies.
Personal opinion but I think the old RAD approach in tools like Delphi where the components are laid out visually using the IDE but having the option of generating the components programmatically during runtime including attaching/detaching event handlers etc with state handled application-wide or within the context of the "form" is a much faster way to develop than to use the declarative approach in tools like Flutter where state management is really complex.

Also, one could develop custom components very easily in Delphi with custom draw events which would draw just the component.
I'm in my upper 30s and I can relate to the post. Am by no means lonely or alone (I have a wife, family, and friends all around). But for me some times it is nice just to know someone out there is doing the same thing as you. Whether it is studying a book or any solo activity I find it inspiring/motivating. It's not a matter of having a weak will either as I have learned plenty of things on my own (in fact I tend to learn the best through self study). But all I can explain it with is that it is motivating and comforting.
The fact that somebody found a way to misuse a tool (system design interview) doesn't mean that there's something wrong with the tool itself.
This. Tax laws are very complicated and the 6 months rule is more a rule of thumb than a "hard" rule. In practice, the tax authorities have a set of tests they perform, where the time spend in a country is just one item among many - and these rules vary from country to country.
i assumed it was a founder looking to promote in a way that didnt make themselves feel overtly spammy, but there was an air of thirst.
I recently found lq (logseq-query), it lets you run and manage queries against your logseq graph. Built using nbb (Clojure for Node.js)

https://github.com/cldwalker/logseq-query

https://github.com/babashka/nbb
You live in Berlin? By an apartment and rent it out! But given the prices nowadays in Berlin this is probably unrealistic for you. You might want to have a look at Magdeburg though. Intel is going to build a huge factory there and probably 10000 employees will soon search for some place to live there: https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/sachsen-anhalt/magdeburg/magd...
It's obviously true that convergent evolution, that produces similar traits across distantly related species, occurs. So your assertion makes no sense to me.
PowerPoint is also avoided with practically religious fervor. Kinda like a hipster refusing to ever set foot in a Starbucks.
"....if they meet the identification requirements set out in the Bank Act."

Not sure I see a difference?
I found the title of the speaker sort of ironic. Doesn't bode well for someone trying to create a culture of innovation.

"Head of Innovation Office and Strategic Projects at SAP Business Process Intelligence"
The Bart machine is horrible as well
> Or “do kids have such a weak will that they cannot study by themselves?”

For what it's worth, people have been heading to libraries and coffee shops for the communal-work environment for ages, this is just the parasocial analogue to that practice.

Set and setting, not just for drugs!
It's a nice idea in theory, but only in theory.

So the idea as I understand it is that tickets as NFTs would allow you to prove your ownership of the ticket. With tickets being increasingly electronically-issued, there's currently no way to prove you've been sold a genuine ticket, or the only copy of a genuine ticket - until you get to the gate, they read your barcode, and turn you away.

So we have a second-hand market that runs through ticketmaster currently, which solves this trust issue by interacting with the issuer directly. Tickets via NFTs would help remove this dependency on ticketmaster, so we could have a healthy, trustworthy second-hand market that doesn't just feel like ticketmaster encouraging bots so they can sell the same ticket twice.

So the question is - does this benefit ticketmaster in the slightest? What problems does this solve for them? Because without them issuing the tickets as NFTs in the first place, and recognising them at the gates - it simply doesn't happen. As you say - from the issuer's POV, "why bother?"

As far as I can tell, everyone hates the current system - except the people that control it. The solution to this isn't some wonderful modern technology, it's plain and simple competition.

So it mostly exists as an example of why you'd want to be able to prove ownership of a unique token. Everyone can see the problem if I print my ticket 10 times and sell it to 10 people, it's easy to explain. The telling question is why we don't have a good example of an implementation.
> the moment you go enterprise, more is needed.

If you're employed, working at scale and need to do the complicated stuff, you're not a beginner web developer anymore. At that point, you should already understand the fundamentals and start extending on top of that.
Why not Node? Or Typescript if you really have to have types?
Or even plain old PHP/Ruby (for people that just use Go to build web backends) - doesn't Kubernetes kinda solve scaling?
It's for folks wanting to learn the basics of frontend development. And that means HTML, CSS and JS.

Frameworks are optional since web does not mean only single page apps. And even you want a single page app, you can do it without a framework.

So learning a framework comes after learning the basics.
Aside from echo, the commands taught weren't builtins. If you want to be nitpicky, you could call them ‘coreutils commands’.
Yeah, well aware. It's not the inputs, it's the algorithm, it seems.
Yes, they do. They are not literate programming the way Knuth's CWEB does it (weaving mostly disjoint things together), but they are a good tool for LP.
The first line in the link says it’s for anyone residing legally in the EU. Not just citizens.
A lot of it is wash trading though and a lot of the market cap is paper gains too.

I still think it should be regulated and we would be better without the crypto market, but I doubt a crypto crash would have much of an impact on the economy in general.
How would programmers even keep themselves busy (I was going to type ‘get promoted’) if they stopped reinventing things badly?
The chart gives an impression that most of these happened in Q1-2 of 2020 and everything has more or less settled since then. Or am I missing something?
Ford did what Tesla won’t
Because blockchain solutions to anything are almost always awful. (And I'm unsure about needing the word "almost".)
Vasa is the 7 year old's name :)
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That anecdote only means the interviewer was bad
you wouldn’t buy an S&P509 ETF until at least how much of a pullback, 30%?
NPV?
"equate photoreceptivity to consciousness" - is this any more than one or two nutters?

"chemical exchanges between roots to full fledged "communication"" - without context it may have been a perfectly reasonable supposition.

"open ended musing about the gaia hypothesis" - hard to tell if it's a few or endemic without examples
theres a fantastic study on over forestation and the effects on the climate model. generally mass disruption either way has significant impacts. Plant X get Y is a incredibly reductive model for conceptualizing forestation.
In my experience people often want something on 'in the background' basically at all times. Music, a TV show, sports, a podcast, or a livestream of some sort.

I'm guessing most of this guy's viewers aren't actively just watching him study, but rather have his stream open on their phone or a second screen while studying "with" the guy. Sounds like a great idea and something like this may have helped me back in the day.

This[1] other comment mentions "body doubling" which sounds about right.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31303234
What should one replace it with?
nope, this is a tried and true method i use to change my ip on non static service. I change the router mac address, flip the modem, and voila new IP
It's the other way around. JS is just a helper and optional technology when creating web frontends.
> Second, I am not going to take it the wrong way, but your comment makes it seem like you have some insight into a complete stranger's life without any information to go off of.

I mean it was just a hunch, but looking at your comment history definitely implies it too.

For instance, while your response states that you are comfortable getting lunch your post history says this:

> Feel like a social failure during lunch and forced to sit passively as a couple douchebag workers on adderall dominate the conversation? [I] Feel like a bitch for a few hours.

Which implies the opposite.

> Attractive coworker or someone I want to impress within sight? I can’t concentrate on actual productivity and try to overcompensate by typing more and acting zoned in.

> I find that I get more emotionally jerked around working in person and can insulate myself from it working from home.

I mean all this seems to follow the same idea. It’s totally cool, each to their own and it’s fine, but to me this matches the trend that some people working from home don’t seem to have the same ease at forming relationships in work in real life.
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An essay on the history of mathematical typography (2017)
The speed tests appear to include the startup time of the virtual machine. We all know Java is slow to start up and Go is fast in this respect. That's not useful information.

Rather than bias the results this way, much more interesting would be to test what the speeds are (1) after the VMs have launched, and also (2) when the VMs are hot, that is, Java has compiled your Lisp classes.
It's not reasonable to expect a candidate to give up their secure job / salary for a two week trial. It gets more complicated as within the first weeks you're probably mostly ramping up and not very productive yet, so it's both a cost-sink for the company and difficult to judge anyhow.

For fresh graduates this might be more viable, but internships are already a thing.
> As a rule of thumb for bidding purposes, we assumed that classifying a project doubled the cost.

There is a similar statement in the "Skunk Works" book.
I have similar question. I use mainly webapps but I deploy a container image... I'd like to find something similar and free but european if possible?
It's a maximally open question which turns into a guessing game where you are trying to match what the interviewer has on their mind at a given point. Some of them just want you to collect requirements, which makes them feel smart because they didn't go too much into details in a short time, others want you to actually describe how you'd implement that something and you have to come up with an imaginary users, imaginary infrastructure and all the world around it just to ground your concocted solution into it.

Some (big tech) companies tell you to prepare for the test, because they try to standardize the system deaign open ended question. They end up selecting those that dedicated weeks of time learning for their version of the test. For the others it's a psychological game trying to predict what is on the mind of the person asking the questions.
>Anything that Apple manages to ship (in my experience) is in spite of their corporate culture, not because of it.

You can say this about probably every large company out there and yet in the end they deliver. The saying "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" applies to corporate cultures as well imho. Once the target becomes to optimize against the culture then the culture ceases to be a good culture.

In some ways I can see secrecy diluting the usual backstabbing politics of larger corporations since different groups lack as much information with which to wage such politics against each other.
65k fake students enrolled in the California junior college system
Ask HN: Secure Messenger that doesn't Leak Metadata?
My take on it would be using Tor with a service like Twitter where public encrypted messages would be posted to everyone and only the target could decrypt it...

Does something like this exist?
I know others have suggested this too but https://fly.io is great! Very generous free tier, and it feels as magical as Heroku did when I first used it years ago.

I’ve worked as an SRE and do a fair amount of infrastructure work at my job, so I’ve had periods of time where I ran my own k8s cluster for side projects and more recently ran a nomad cluster. The big caveat here is I enjoyed doing this and it helped my career experimenting with infra in my free time before suggesting it internally. I’ve also had bare metal servers and some of the whole classic fabulous monolith thing which is its own beast.

All that said, if you just want some small easy to use compute with little maintenance definitely give Fly a try! (Not affiliated, just a happy new customer)
Indeed. Every country is different. Being a "tax non-resident" doesn't necessarily mean you own no taxes either.

In Singapore, tax non-residents simply pay a different rate. To be exempt from income tax entirely, you need to work in Singapore for fewer than 60 days.

https://www.iras.gov.sg/taxes/individual-income-tax/basics-o...
I disagree with what you say on the intellectual disability issue, but don't have the time or motivation right now to respond in detail. I did want to comment on one thing you said though:

> More surprisingly, (if Thomas is to be believed) the Prisons Board themselves had no objection to abolishing the death penalty!

That's actually not surprising at all. If you look at the experience in most European countries – and also Australia, Canada and New Zealand – often the prison bureaucracy was a strong proponent of abolition. The staff of prisons often find they dislike killing prisoners, it eats at their conscience, and even many who support the death penalty turn into opponents when it becomes their job to play part in implementing it. It is easy to support killing people when they are nameless abstractions such as "murderers" or "terrorists" or "drug traffickers", much harder when they are specific individuals with names and faces and personalities, whom you see and talk to every day. Even if the executives aren't seeing the condemned every day, the perspective of their indirect reports who do often trickles up to them (and some of them will have risen through the ranks from that position). To some extent, part of the reason why the US has kept the death penalty while the UK/Canada/Australia/NZ/Ireland/etc have abolished it, is that in the Commonwealth governments have historically tended to be much more responsive to the demands and wishes of bureaucratic elites than in the US, especially when those demands/wishes conflict with the majority of popular opinion.

The European and Commonwealth model of abolition has generally been that governments need to lead public opinion rather than waiting for it. The former Malaysian government was attempting the same approach, even if it didn't work out quite as well for them – maybe unsurprising given the significant political and cultural differences between Malaysia and those other countries in which it has been quite successful – but I'm not sure if they should be criticised for trying. (Maybe moving too fast on this issue hastened their demise, and they should have waited to act until their position was more secure; but maybe their demise was inevitable no matter what they did on this issue.) If the Singaporean government tried to lead public opinion toward abolition, it is possible they might have much more success than was had in Malaysia – but they do not appear to be interested in trying.
As I mentioned in my own reply to the top-level commenter, this[1] notion of 'body doubling' is interesting to read about. I can definitely relate to it.

Every time I studied "with" a classmate at e.g. the university library I would end up still just studying by myself, though just knowing there are others around doing the same/similar thing had a positive effect on me.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31303234
I feel like you don't get to piss all over the design if you've never built a physical interface that has to be weatherproof on an exposed device that holds money.
credential recovery and account takeover is trivial, most people have automated that process. once the lock is popped, all value can be extracted, verified, and pivoted in moments.
You have a bit of oil under the egg.