skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Also, there is the midpoint between monolith and micro service, and this is called Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), you could have:

- a DAL (Data Abstraction Layer) service
- a Business Logic service (talking to the DAL)
- an API (talking to the Business Logic service)
- a Frontend (talking to the API)"

For me what you describled is just a common monolith.

I've been developing for 8+ years and have seen this model at every company where I've worked. I really thought this was just the "standard" way that everybody used to develop. I've also worked on a couple of CQRS architectures but the "layering" is still very similar to what you described.

I'm curious now, how do other monolith architectures look like if not like this?
There’s already more legitimate content on the platform than anyone could watch even if they spent their every waking hour on it, so I doubt boosting viewership is the goal.

Deliberately shaping public opinion in unpopular directions therefore seems like the most likely motivation.

The other, slightly less nefarious possibility is that they don’t actually want us to watch videos and drive up bandwidth costs. Good engagement means people just sit and watch the video instead of clicking something else and be served another ad. When people clicked a video and saw that it was overwhelmingly disliked, they would leave immediately, but now they are forced to sit through the whole ad to see what the video is about.

It’s also possible that people with good taste are more likely to be using ad blockers, so a content connoisseur is really just a parasite in the eyes of Google.
In my country a law saying "you don't have to work, but you still get 10k eur from the government" would win by a huge margin... how this would actually work, noone cares...

Sadly, an average person is stupid, and half are even stupider.
This is incorrect, well, partially. The main issue holding back electric aircraft is volumetric efficiency (space), not weight.
> To be clear, I do quite a bit better than that... I'm not complaining. But using 120k as an example...a person went from making 4x the typical full time salary to 2x the typical full time salary in a very short period.

This is what I will never understand about most established tech people, they see all the widespread misery and poverty in SV and they still have the capacity to feel sorry for themselves for not making X times more than 'that other guy.'

It's always about what they don't have rather than see that they live in an insulated bubble existence that they could never really navigate if it weren't for that wealth disparity because they have such a narrow limited set of skills. aWant an experiment turn off the wifi, see how quickly these people lose their minds.

I'm not mad at you for it, for all I know you are self-taught guy that beat out a bunch Stanford grads by grinding since HS and making it on your own, but it's this never-ending need to beat that guy.

Its like that scene in American Psycho with those business cards, where for some odd reason people seem to have a need to over-embellish their existence's value with triviality that re-enforces the 'yeah, but I have more than that guy' narrative which is completely lost on me.

I hate to tell you but you will never have more than a Bezos or a Musk, either. Not to mention the Nation-state level despots of the World who don't have their net-worth listed on the Forbes 500.

Just enjoy what you have, while you have it, because I can assure those very same tech companies are pouring tons of money to render you obsolete as soon as possible.
I have a Porsche Taycan, and while it can charge 250kw/h, it only last for a few minutes. On average fast charging from 20% to 80% takes 30-45 minutes. This is with a heated battery and on Ionity network.
Bellingcat: Snscrape – A social networking service scraper in Python
16" MacBook Pro M1 Max 10coreGPU, 32coreGPU, 64GB RAM, 1TB SSD.

I can't even find this model on apple.com, it costs close to €4.000.

I use it to SSH, and log in to a VNC session.

At least it's heavy.
At first, this reads like the usual method that drop-shippers use.
And that is not just keep up with jones syndrome: getting services
done like building work, cleaning, etc. gets more expensive. I am all for equality of that nature if everyone is joining in!
Elon Musk Is Wrong. Managers in Software Don’t Have to Be Great Coders
https://nitter.net/libsoftiktok/status/1524080238333898752#m

In case people don’t use/hate the twitter client.
Many distros, including Debian & Ubuntu, have merged /bin and /usr/bin, with symlinks for backwards compatibility: /bin -> /usr/bin (and similarly for /usr/lib etc).

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseFor...
But what is "Effective Altruism"? Is it a charity? A movement? Both?

The link https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/fd3iQRkmCKCCL289u/... circles back to itself, with no simple explanation.

The "intro" from the front page has 2800+ words and isn't clear either: https://www.effectivealtruism.org/articles/introduction-to-e...

That intro is itself prefaced with a paragraph in italics that recommends a whole "handbook" for a "more thorough introduction". I'm afraid to click on that for fear it leads to a whole library of volumes discussing general ideas about life, freedom, religion and other minor and trivial concepts.

Why can't organizations' blogs have a simple, clear and easily accessible "about us" link that describes what they do in one sentence.
Eh, luxury bags are about conspicuous consumption. Not too different from NFTs or art.
>But then, just to make life more confusing still, any existing work that would have it's copyright shortened to May 1, 2032 or sooner has an extra change: anybody who bought a license to such a work loses half the length of the license.

I think it's kind of the other way around. If the the law would cause copyright to expire while their license is still active, the copyright is extended for a bit, so that the person holding the license gets to keep the value of that license for a bit longer.
That sounds like bullshit.

There is nothing stable about stablecoins - it works until it doesn’t.
One tank of gas amounts to around 700km.
After 5 years it would amount to ~175.000km. This car will most likely not live for 20 years without mayor replacements and repairs.
Ask HN: Why are your mobile app sizes so huge?
It seems iPhone 64GB storage is not ideal anymore. Twitter app size is 168.7 MB, I’m a mobile app programmer too and my largest app size I remember is barely only 10 MB and that includes SDKs for error monitoring and analytics. LinkedIn size is almost 300 MB. What the hell? I kept digging all the different engineering blogs and I can’t seem to find any company addressing this mobile app size issue? Your users are not all in Silicon Valley, majority are in Asia. Have some respect. At least give us an option to delete cache.
Oh no, I'm not blaming kids at all. I'm blaming the biological need of sharing them with a completely independent adult that I thought was a solid partnership and now often decides to use them, in ways I never dared to imagine, to achieve the desired goals.
Several unchecked assumptions and fallacies here.

> I have created a list of the 61 richest Americans. Their combined net worth is $2.3T. Last year the feds spent $6.8T against revenue of $3.8T and a deficit of $3.0T. If the feds had successfully taken every penny from them they would still have run a deficit last year.

Why cut-off at the 61 richest, and not the 10,000 richest? It's also ridiculous to assume we either have to cover the entire deficit, or not tax them at all. This fallacy pops up throughout other parts as well, like here:

> These fortunes took decades to build and will take decades to replenish. So what happens if you tap it slowly with a 5% wealth tax? You raise 115B. This is not even 4% of the deficit.

115B is a ton of money. If directly distributed to the poorest 10 million Americans, that would more than double their income [1]. Comparing it to a huge figure like the deficit (which is artificially high due to war and COVID) is disingenious.

[1] https://dqydj.com/average-median-top-household-income-percen...

> Finally—I would like to point out that we already have a wealth tax. It is paid by most, not just the rich. And in many states and municipalities it does indeed approach Elizabeth Warren’s proposed 2%. It represents 12% of the taxes raised. We call it “property tax”.

This is precisely the problem. Property tax is not enough, and it is not progressive.

To be clear, taxing the rich is both an economic and a moral necessity. If we "deplete" the wealth of billionaires after a few years, then so be it. Only fools and billionaires should think this outcome is something to worry about.
With remote work and easier access to the global talent pool, these salaries are bound to normalize across the board. Enjoy the ride while you can, my friends! :)
> TerraUSD (UST) is pegged to the price of a dollar and is secured by Terra (LUNA). LUNA is an asset reserve that ensures the stability and security of the UST through the seigniorage process (income received from an emission of money).

Sounds like the peg was more-or-less a perpetual motion device that relied on a strong wind
> [...] probably even more now given the rising levels of wealth inequality [...]

Huh? Global wealth inequality has dropped dramatically in the last few decades.

What's important for luxury sales is not the gap between rich and poor, but that the rich are richer.
Your argument I visualize as the floor falling from the room, the lowest paid have fallen, tech workers are “safe for now”
but they are concerned and are
trying to move to safer ground, and Bezos is in a spaceship above it all.

People who think techies are well paid probably haven’t tried raising a family yet.
As a firm they seem to be pretty interested in hearing stuff from the market. It was the only bank I worked with where they wanted some nugget off you each time we went out for dinner. The same people when moved to other banks would behave differently, so I guess it's part of the firm's culture: get some piece of info from each client.

Doesn't have to be nefarious though, if it doesn't make money for them they leave. Someone somewhere else in the business will find some other thing.
Mermaid – Sequence Diagram
> I'm also really curious about HN's view of Effective Altruism

I have never heard of it but judging from the comments it's well known? Now I feel like the perfect ignoramus.
I'm pretty sure in the UK and Germany that you can't claim tax relief on mortgage interest of your own home.
In this case it seems to have been much more complex than that. There was UST, which was supposed to be stable, and a linked coin Luna which was a form of balancing token, with smart contracts allowing conversion between the two, with the Luna exchange rate supplied by an oracle.

If UST starts to lose value, buy pressure is created because someone could buy 100 of them at (say) $39 and immediately convert to $100 of Luna. If it starts to rise, say to $1.10, you use Luna to convert to UST at a discount and then sell it to turn a profit. There were multiple other mechanisms to this, including one that involved staking your UST for interest and getting Anchor tokens, so that others could take loans. Anchor would give a 20% interest rate(!) and then there was something about loan defaults and buying collateral at a discount and ...

Massively complex, and one of those things that works fine, until one day it doesn't.
it's my understanding that most distros by now have moved to have their stuff in /usr, though there might still be backwards compatibility symlinks of course.
Discovered from here -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31336535
Would it be more straightforward to think about this in terms of standard e-commerce terms? Product, product variation.. ?
Automated Transport Gliders: Have a blended Wing with Containers, a few of them Batterys, they circle up, fly toward their destination, Land, Replace with Recharged and Go back. Slow, but nearly no downtime and thus interesting.
Sufficient for certain markets and applications, but less weight and volume is always better.

Less energy to accelerate, and smaller motors, lower powered drive electronics, and less demand on the battery (and the less current you draw from a battery, the lower the internal resistance losses, so weight really does matter.)

It's better for roads, for one; heavier vehicles, with higher ground pressure, chew up roads faster. More weight means longer stopping distances and less handling capability for the same amount of tire (and you can't just slap bigger, stickier tires on. Efficiency plummets) so this relates to safety. And mass mattes in a crash, too. Drivers are stunningly good at crashing into all manner of stationary objects. I suspect as EVs get more popular we're going to see much more serious car vs building crashes, for example.

The market for an EV eighteen wheeler explodes once you surpass the range a driver can legally drive in one day (you need more because otherwise there's a huge efficiency loss if the driver has to stop early in order to get a charge before running out of range, even if he's got the time logbook-wise. Ideally he's charging the rig while sleeping, though.)

Work trucks like the Sierra HD or F250/F350/F450's, etc. can't yet be replaced because giving them the equivalent battery capacity would result in a truck with a fraction of its normal cargo and towing capacity.

The livery industry can't really use EVs because charging stations are too far apart and too unreliable and too unavailable; while the range might be relatively close to a typical towncar's for a single tank of gas, obviously a towncar can be refilled in under 5 minutes from a fuel source almost anywhere along where it needs to go, with little wait for a free pump.

Performance car segment - right now EVs are only seen in GT class cars and sedans. Lots of people like lightweight, responsive vehicles (Miata, BR-Z, "hot hatches", etc) and you can't do that with current battery tech.

In vehicles made on platforms not fully committed to an EV powertrain, the battery ends up eating up passenger compartment space, cargo space, or ground clearance. Handling is more stable due to lower Cg, but less capable due to a pretty massive increase in weight. So: minivans, cargo vans, passenger cars...
I've now seen this story reported is so many places. My wife says she's also seen it on her social media. So either the entire world suddenly cares about knock off handbags or someone is spending a lot on PR.

Is Hermes behind this? Its a clever idea. You know your brand is going to be copied so you might as well be the one doing it.
Exact dates depend on country.

Two centuries ago Britain was already well through its Industrial Revolution. Its mass production went hand in hand with mass consumption.

What you describe was probably closer to true for eg Russia.
Might be pilots or lawyers but generally they are not overpaid but just paid decent.
Then clouds/a thunderstorm hits and all your tanks die due to lack of power
CompuServe of course used the XXXXX,XXXX octal usernames, and you could append @compuserve.com for a valid email address, but later we could choose a vanity email (first come, first served), e.g., something@compuserve.com. Then later they offered @csi.com addresses. POP3 access to your CS mailbox was eventually an option, as well.

For a long time (maybe still?) you could access a terminal version of the CS interface over telnet. Basically all the same features as the GUI application, just in text.

There was also the original Microsoft Network (later shortened to MSN), which included a bunch of communities and boards. It was a Windows 95 application, and went through a semi-public beta then eventual release in parallel with the OS. You could connect through dial up or over the Internet, if I recall. I remember being impressed I could open two boards at the same time, unlike CS.
If you don't need wired Ethernet, take a look at Kingston's Nucleum.
The webpage adds some unnecessary confusion by

1) using colored shapes instead of variable names.

2) (initially) presenting combinators as having 3 arguments, where they only need 1 or 2. So instead of the usual M x = x x, you see M x y z = x x y z.

One (improper) bird I find very interesting is the Starling's cousin S* x y z = x z (y (K z)), from which all other birds can be reconstructed.
I had always thought that the reflections of the willows were little waterfalls - the whole painting takes on a completely different feel now that I know
Disclaimer: this is my commercial service...

The other middle ground, between self hosting and streaming if you will, is to connect your music library to a streaming service like https://asti.ga/ .

I guess this is effectively outsourcing the self hosting bit. You can connect to locally stored music files via WebDAV or just upload your collection to any of the big cloud storage providers.
> I'm not sure investing in glorified ponzi schemes qualifies as doing more interesting things in with their money.

I'd say it's interesting. Though perhaps not wise.
So.. s/anyone/& with enough cash/ ?
In Geneva, there is whole range of shops no locals are buying anything, ever. I mean no local swiss bankers, Procter&Gamble global managers, UN high bureaucrats, nobody. Its just that ridiculous.

But every summer (apart from recent covid ones), whole planes come from Arabian gulf. Planes full of ferraris and lambos, so you suddenly see (and hear) a lot of arab plated cars in central europe. These people shop as you describe - come to ie Versace or Piguet shop because its just by the lake, spend ridiculous amount and go to next shop.

Basically these few weeks enable those shops to survive for rest of the year since rentals are crazy.
> Article clarifies that the reason is that they have a budget shortfall (caused due to the ransomware attack). The ransomware attack has been fully resolved.

Oh wow, my Black Mirror fan art plot has come true, I started to write this in 2015 mind you!
Just a bit of feedback:
The first job I saw on the page proclaimed "48 tech stacks" which immediately horrified me. That is, until I clicked on it and realized it's 48 different pieces of tech used at the company; including Microsoft Excel, GitHub, Git (listed separately), Zoom, among others.

I feel like there's probably a simpler and less intimidating way to organize and represent this up-front.
Don't forget his Epstein connection. Hence he got dumped like rock by his (ex) wife.

I despise the fascination with billionaires. Especially outside of their domain that made them wealthy. Gates with public health and Elon with politics. Jog on!
Can you recommend an IC and development tools?
A miniscule fraction of global GDP going into preventing misaligned AI would always seem like neglect if you thought the end of the world was at stake.
You're implying that this is a mislabeled long exposure photograph. The fact that you can see distinct ripples at all shows the exposure time was less than a second. I think it's fair to call three lightning strikes within a second of each other "simultaneous".
People don't modify their cars to save money.
It's enough of a possibility that there are start-ups working on the concept

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98mlJ1N50DU
> Furthermore, the specific aspect of it you reference (that it is binary instead of textual) has almost nothing to do with the problems

GP most likely means REG_BINARY littered over the place which usually means the application in question is dumping some struct into the registry.
> I would be surprised to hear that indeed all the current offerings require wall power, that none can operate off laptop/uplink- I think you are wrong. But perhaps.

Indeed, there are products that don't require wall power. I got a Chinese model [0] off Amazon that does Ethernet + 4K@60 over DP/HDMI (alt-mode, not DisplayLink) and can even drive an external spinning drive, all from the USB connection from the PC. The catch is that it comes with a dual-port cable, meaning it requires two (adjacent!) ports to work. I haven't tried it with a regular cable, so I don't know whether that's a hard requirement. It's also able to do PD pass-through if you connect it to a wall.

One downside is that I've sometimes had the screen go dark for a second, and other people have complained about this on the Amazon page. So it's not clear how reliable this will be in the long run.

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[0] https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B09MTTZ36K
“Working in IT” is pretty broad, but a senior JS dev in London can reasonably ask for 70-90k these days, sometimes more.
Sounds to me like those founders don't really have the work ethic required to start a company if they immediately set out a red line that they won't work for less than $250k/yr. Who the hell makes that kind of money anyway? Only a very very few do.
Booking.com, Google Encashing on Goodwill of MakeMyTrip: Indian Court
The Legend of the Tsar’s Finger
Well, it still is an extremely easy concept. The examples you gave about businesses and magazines is that they can decide to not adhere to freedom of speech and they aren't obliged to do so legally. If they ban content the dislike they are not practicing freedom of speech. Still simple.
If valve did that I would legitimately never buy from them again. Stores are not meant to be behavior police. The second they start doing that it will be yet again used to target and ban people whom have done nothing wrong. Or whom are disagreed with. Twitter users prove that those powers cannot be used justly.
Stable coins don't have to be backed by dollars, e.g. Dai and MIM are over-collaterized with cryptos. Dai survived the fall from ~$2k Ether to ~$50 Ether, and never lost its peg.
Yep, I agree - we might not even need to include the count - it's not super useful information. Appreciate the feedback! We'll take it on!
I get that and appreciate you calling it out, I'm not blind to how whiny it sounds. FWIW, I don't live in SV or make an SV salary.

I've always tried to stay at 2x the prevailing local wage, so that my wife can stay home and take care of the house and kid with no worry. That's really my only motivation. When you're doing more than 2x, you feel ahead of the curve. When 2x comes at you fast, you start to sweat a little.

But it's not lost on me that I'm lucky to be able to have such an existence.
Companies would be smart to chuck in 10% bonus after a year, 20 after 2 etc. to 50 after 5 and lock that in at hiring time. Like you say: domain knowledge. You would end up with smaller more productive and happy teams. In addition pay increases to market.

Asking too much? “Waaah! It is really hard to find good developers” is a stuck record on loop since 2016 at least
This is weird - I use it here in the UK and don't recognise this description at all. Social? Coupons? I just tap my phone to pay for stuff. It's the equivalent of Apple Pay, except that everyone's heard of Apple Pay and shops just conflate the two.
thanks for trying it out! adding “make timeouts configurable” to the todo list.

you’re right on that YAML-as-JSON thing. If everything is quoted as JSON, those type conversions shouldn’t kick in. Otherwise there’s room for surprises - perhaps we can do something to make those cases more obvious.
Podman v4.1.0 Released
Much of those Bitcoin reserves have already been sold, causing most of the BTC price decrease.
I've seen some remote architech/tech lead roles offering up to £125k, but this is a very recent development.
PyTorch's experimental C++ feature aims to embed multiple CPython interpreters
I think Windows is even more permeated with legacy

Off the top of my head:

Nobody questions why main drive is C:, remnant of [an] early computer having two floppy (not sure) drives on A: and B:

Or more recent - C:/Windows/System32 holds 64 bit executables; 32 bit exectuables live in C:/Windows/SysWOW64
The OS he is describing is an Android phone,and in my opinion this is a nightmare.

Like for exemple having to rebuild everything just to tweak (or fix) something.
This is the path to throwable not easily hackable computers...