skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not that I don't believe you, but can you name this mythical state?
don't be obtuse, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
This is true.. 20 years ago getting hired without a degree was difficult and excluded you from many jobs.. getting a java or c/c++ job was difficult. Now it's more open.
This is such bullshit. One pillar was to remove bots. This is all a smokescreen to get out of the deal.
The only way I found to get over this is to interview more and get successes. Interviewing without success is draining but interviewing with success is draining and rewarding.

I’ve done over 500 technical interviews. I only started interviewing more seriously in 2015. (I had done less than 10 before then) It took me years to get more comfortable with interviewing. It’s all about knowing the gauntlet and what you’re getting into. The mental warfare of interviewing is almost all in prep and once you’re in the interview - it should practically be autopilot.

This takes hundreds of hours of prep (usually outside of work hours) and a lot of dedication. This is the industry now for many of the more competitive positions. (FAANG-etc, more known startups, anything in SFBA)

Get on leetcode. Solve 20-30 easy problems to get your confidence up and familiar with it. Start doing the problem sets that are targeted at special types of problems (binary search, dfs, graph traversal, dp, backtracking, etc.) Do mock interviews once you’ve solved 40 mediums without looking at the solution and at least 15 hards. (Might be helpful to just look at solutions of a lot of hards to get some pattern recognition going) Use whatever service you want for that - they’re usually free.

Interview with companies you don’t care about. Get offers. Figure out what you’re doing wrong. Practice more. Start interviews with companies you want to work at and some others that will give an offer you can leverage in talks. Schedule onsites - get offers. Don’t schedule more than 3 onsites a week unless you have endurance. I’ve done 6-7 in a week - wouldn’t recommend. This was when they were in person too. Driving from one office immediately to another to grind was intense. Wouldn’t recommend - tbh.

Get your target offers. Get them to compete for another. Maybe pay for advice as to get salary band info and what you can do. Accept whichever you want - don’t burn any bridges here. Let them know you’ll keep in touch if things don’t work out - if things at new place suck - go to other places.

Repeat until you’re FI. Probably RE because this toxic grind set is unbelievably taxing.
Better.com CEO Vishal Garg says he is personally liable for $750M SoftBank loan
Belt drives are very appealing on a pure maintenance basis. They seem worse on almost other dimension except possibly lower risk of a chainring tattoo (though perhaps I'm missing something).
The employee has to pay a ton of social security contributions and insurance in Germany, which in many other countries are paid by the employer, making the net salary most likely about half of the gross salary.
What would the area between the edge of the atmosphere and lunar orbit be called then?
The biggest challenge for decentralization is cost - who pays for the machines that run the code, irrespective of what the code is written in.

The reason we got centralized was simply who pays to power the chips!
It’s that it’s too central to everything we do. Because I am a people pleaser anytime a channel lights up I think: “I bet I can help that person or answer that question”. It’s not slack per se, just the whole thing of being constantly available.

I do run it in the browser and it hogs a ton of resources. A better client experience would be nice. If it wasn’t electron in app form I’d like that.
"Defensive" is a great managerial term. It implies that the lower status person argues against the great managerial deliberations in a helpless and futile manner.

It turns any discussion automatically into a status contest, with a first mover advantage. I've never seen an intelligent person use it.
In my opinion age is not an issue, but lack of experience in the field is. If you want to get a good compensation in a different field, you need to gain experience there. This means either developing something in your spare time, or finding a job that is willing to let you learn on the spot (probably the pay will not be that great at first).
The ad was dumb but when did we stop taking responsibility for our own dumb choices? It's not like they tricked people into investing in crypto.
The question isn't "can the ship support continuous telemetry" but "does it generate more value than it costs". And I'm not sure it does.

Also, since the crew survived, why are they so concerned to get the voice recorder? Is it just because of the recorded alarm information, and if so why keep referring to it as a voice recorder and not a black box.
They’ll never do that. They should bank that money and invest in homes to help the housing crisis. But they can’t. Cuz of all the NIMBYism.
Is the goal a clean and safe city at all costs no matter what the cost? Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

The Singapore way is easier, no doubt. But I don't think it's that ludicrous to believe we could have a free AND a socialist society.
To be fair, this person openly admits they don't understand the security proposition here. Pluton is certainly daunting and brings concerns to mind, but I'm going to take this person's thoughts with a grain of salt considering they extend that same suspicion to the TPM -- a piece of hardware that arguably provides great security value to the user. That it's difficult to explain to the lay person (which I disagree with, personally) doesn't mean that it's bad, and while they acknowledge this, I think the answer is to try to dig in and understand better, not throw around suspicion out of some sense of intuition.

When you dig into this, Pluton is generally going to be shipped in one of three configurations:

1. Pluton presents itself as a TPM

2. Pluton doesn't emulate a TPM, can run other code (usually platform resiliency features, so think enterprise systems)

3. Pluton is disabled

Essentially, this is a standardization of the "firmware TPM" tech you can find in modern Intel/AMD processors, and they even mention that part of the driving reason behind this is that the current TPM status quo often incorporates a discrete TPM chip, which is vulnerable to attacks that intercept communication on the bus used by the TPM (thus allowing someone to steal encryption keys). This essentially moves to having a firmware TPM as a standard, as well as providing a more standardized API/update mechanism.

I have qualms with Microsoft spearheading the effort alone, but at face value, I don't think this is something bad. I think that hardening hardware against all forms of attack -- even physical -- is good. Just because it's not something you have to worry about (re: evil maid) doesn't mean someone else doesn't!

(For reference, this article covers a lot of what I'm referring to: https://noise.getoto.net/2022/01/09/pluton-is-not-currently-...)
> Some of the worst economic crises in history, including the great depression, were marked by significant deflation.

But literally "the worst economic crisis in history" happened on the watch of an inflationary central bank.

Moreover, during the greatest worldwide deflationary period ever the united states went from literally a war ravaged country that had just decimated (lost 10%) of its population to "world power" in 50 years, while also enjoying decreasing economic inequality and increasing quality of life across the board not to mention managing to manumit a huge chunk of its population.
At least where I'm from, "space" is just a short-form for "outer space". But it sounds like your understanding is that "space" refers to the area within the atmosphere? Is that the really case?
Why is language focused bad? Isn’t everything related to consciousness depended upon language?
Thank you and everyone else for what was built. You all helped change the world.
I was a user of a defi dapp that ran on the LUNA blockchain and allowed me to go short or long on various stocks. The LUNA price didn't matter to me, but their blockchain and the dapp was useful. Not wasting time to go through KYC/AML in order to go long or short on a stock is a good thing.
Especially with Starlink allowing roaming mode these days, though I wouldn’t expect them to pick up on that tech by now.

Also hello I think I rode your self balancing scooter at robo games in 2005. Or maybe you just showed it to me. Your web pages with details of your scooter projects were great inspiration to me as I went through college in anticipation of my future career in robotics (which is now going great).

I’ve actually got a clip of that 2005 Robo Games on my YouTube channel if you want a bit of nostalgia. I’m the blonde kid talking about the art bots!

https://youtu.be/J2R-TlBomnQ
> Practically useless. The government only allows each person to buy $10k of I-bonds.

$10K is way more than what most people can save in a year, so it's effectively unlimited for more households.
I believe we reached peak earth in the last two years. It's not just sand or food but also the logistics - people say it's the pandemic stupid or it's obviously the war - but these are all just catalysts.

Too many people just want too much shit. 7 billion people are really not that many - but 7 billion people who wants to live like Westerners that's a big problem.

All the while we are still living in the age of exploitation. We can build marvelous things now but our recycling is still stuck somewhere in the medieval ages...

This whole party can only last if the recycling of an iPhone becomes as financially sexy as building one...
Monero appears to have succeeded at creating private and anonymous cryptocurrency. That's extremely valuable, it should be the default for all transactions everywhere.
Pioneer Rediscovered: The Woman Who Brought Female Representation to Games
Like twitter, being dominant is no measurement of success for an established network.

Is there any innovation apart from the increase in advertising? Tiktok offers a new suggestion algorithm. Why has something like that not been invented at Youtube? Why does Youtube try to copy Tiktok a bit but does not generalize and does not offer more ways to access videos?

At their position, they could turn Youtube into a platform and let others do the innovation. Instead, they lock it down and double down on their limited user experience.

In 30 years, when something else has been established, Youtube can ask itself why it was not them. But it will take time for a competitor to establish itself and overcome the network effect.
So if $100m is backed by $1 then it’s backed? Give me a break!
Nice! A few notes:
- sometimes i like to go to the link/other times straight to the comments
- settings was very hard to find
- the top bar padding feels off
- i like to click on comment to collapse it, if i don't care about its replies
- Back button should work for changing categories
- maybe flutter 3?
> Then you don't want to live in a society, you want to live in the Soviet Union

I think that there are many in between states for society, between the two extreme points of "allow ponzi scheme investments to be sold to uninformed investors" and "Communist dictatorship".

Instead of either of those two extremes, we could choose a middle ground of "Liberal democracy, where people running ponzi schemes are prosecuted".

> There is no all-seeing, all-knowing bureaucrat that can detect Ponzi schemes

Nothing is perfect. But it doesn't have to be. The government can just go after the obvious ones, at a very minimum, and get it mostly correct.
I wish Peter Welch would take on the challenge of demystifying code, he's already written a fun diatribe on (against?) programming that even non-programmers can enjoy. See here: http://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
Seems that it’s treated as “personal asset” in Germany just like a car, thus not capital gains at all like stocks, which would always be taxed at 25%.
This is indeed very promising, but not necessarily a breakthrough yet. There's still the issue of operating temperature. The researcher said the next step is to try to get this to work with fancier superconductors that operate at 77K, which would "only" require liquid nitrogen cooling. If that is achieved, then I see this having real applications, but niche ones. More revolutionary applications would require room temperature, normal pressure superconductors, which AFAIK haven't yet been found, and might be possible at all(it's an open question). Even if they were found, there's of course also the question of whether the cost of those materials can be brought down enough to be worth the gains in efficiency etc.
Saving in a period of high inflation doesn't work if your interest rate is lower than the inflation level. Irrespective of that, inflation definitely has an effect at the extreme ends. If the price of bread increases every hour, you'd better get in line at the shop first thing in the morning. If inflation is zero or negative, then you might consider skipping meals so you can save today's bread money, which will be worth more in the future.
They're providing background, which they have more than enough relevant expertise to provide. I found it a useful perspective; in particular an un-connected party can often speak more freely about issues.

What exactly did you identify as FUD in this article?
One way Heroku could have countered the “Unfair markup prices” effect would be to make it possible to bypass their modules. When I was in Heroku:

- Impossible to add HTTPS (with your own domain) unless you pay for the LetsEncrypt plugin,

- Impossible to add monitoring unless you paid the monitoring plugin,

- etc. for all the load balancer, the DB…

It means, as a guy founding a startup (now with 1m$ ARR), the initial dyno was $35-70/month, but I was afraid the upselling for all the 12 factors would represent 10x, 50x the pricing of the basic dyno. And that price expectation was unaffordable.

Think about this alternative:

- Sure you can use your own domain if you program the LetsEncrypt thingy in your dyno… OR use your $5 addon.

- Sure you can build monitoring in your dyno… OR use our $10 New Relic addon.

You may think I’m stupid, because in the end I’ll always use the paid solution, but at least I can run with extremely low expenditure at the beginning.

Launching a startup is extremely hard. You need to squeeze prices and make do with barebone services. I used DigitalOcean precisely for this reason, with Ansible deployment. I spent $5 a month for 2 years. I tried Heroku several times but it had limits everywhere (specifically background processes, while DO doesn’t have this limitation). Then money came and I went to AWS because it was cheaper and less limited than Heroku. Now the money is flooding.
I realise this is a highly subjective claim, but what frustrates me to no end is not that tech is getting money, but the choices that are being made around capital allocation.

Its understandable that tech is currently seen as a bubble. There's a lot of dubious products sucking up funding. But there are legitimate tech advances right now that do not receive enough funding and labour to be efficiently produced, and they do not receive that funding IN PART because other company pitches do.

Here is a list of tech initiatives which I believe should be funded or supported MUCH more aggressively. It is non exhaustive.

Tech / business side:
- Low power CMOS alternatives
- Linux and other core FOSS maintenance
- Organising a stable ABI for rust
- molten salt battery tech
- Nationalising more key infrastructure
- Nationalising food production
- Machine learning for chemistry, mining, and metallurgy to improve efficiency and reduce emissions

Consumer/citizen side:
- tools to visualise and manage data privacy
- better data privacy laws
- improved government website UI
- a non google browser

While again, I am just a single data point, I suspect there are many others who are fatigued by the detachment that some of the tech sphere has to material effects in their community.
What would be really strange would be if the Germans never did this.
They say not securing the cars properly can cause impacts that cause fire. But these cars are impact tested for passenger safety. The only vulnerability for the battery pack will be a bottom impact which should not occur on Roll on-Roll Off Carrier.

Ships do need to adapt their firefighting process for Lithium-Ion batteries. But I'm not convinced about impacts causing fire.
> Yeah any day now I’m sure.

Today they set into motion the first public testnet PoS migration, Ropsten, which will occur at a specific TTD within the next three weeks or so. This is the first time a long-lived Ethereum network will be migrated to PoS. There are only a handful of public testnets, after that the only thing left to do will be to merge mainnet using the exact same process.

If you don't follow the development process, it's easy to say "any day now I'm sure." But for people who choose to run the software and personally participate in the merge rehearsals, the proof is very much in the pudding.

> Also, PoS doesn’t solve resource shortage pressure - it reduces some power consumption, but it still puts artificial pressure on chips and drives.

PoS doesn't really use more resources than any other typical data center application. Without resource-intensive PoW miners, a blockchain is just a piece of software like any other, really. A copy of the entirety of Ethereum fits on a single consumer drive.
If everyone was like you, then noone would care if crypto "loses" against fiat currency, because 1 BTC still equals 1 BTC.

Honestly, if that were the case (as it used to be, back in the early days), I would have zero problem with crypto. The tech isn't the problem per se, it's all the greedy leeches who are looking for a get-rich-quick-scheme.
Given that the CEO is probably worth nowhere near $750MM absent his founders stock, isn't this just him just leaning into a binary outcome? Either Better.com can pay off the loan in 5 years or it's gone broke by the and he gives up his share in bankruptcy. I mean, it cuts out the "just squeaking by" option as him having to give up all his equity in something that was worth hundreds of millions is a big kick in the teeth, but what are the odds Better.com defaults and the stock is worth anything?
Can they ship them without batteries?
Works fine in LibreWolf, which is Firefox with half its features patched out for security reasons...
The only reason you can dig through the data now is because the browser gives you tools to do that. The primitive view source or the more advanced dev tools. A web where everything is rendered to canvas would still need to get some data and there is no reason why the browser would not give you the tools to inspect that data.
I've made a Forth dialect and uses it for somewhat specific stuff. I have a program that works for me 24/7 and that I have tweaked and adapted to the evolution of my needs for a decade.

It would be a PITA to strip it from its business-related stuff in order to publish it, so you will probably never see it online. I guess it's the same for other "serious" users.

> Unrelatedly (perhaps) I tried writing some basic software in forth and it was pretty horrific. Even something as simple as representing a variable length array feels like fighting the language

Yeah, don't fight the language, that's the key. And don't do stuff because that's what every other language is doing. "Solve the problem you've got!" Moore said. It could seem dead obvious, but it's actually difficult to prevent yourself from trying to solve problems you think you will have tomorrow, or from solving problems others have.

More specifically don't try to avoid using Forth variables because they are global and you've been taught that globals are absolute evil madness that eat kitties for breakfast. Instead, pick perhaps a couple of values that travel everywhere, causing "stack juggling" in your program, and make them global variables. Maybe hide those global variables behind regular words if you really really really intend to reuse parts of that program.

But really, solve the problem you have now. This also means you should make programs that will actually be useful for you. It can be difficult because this generally involves complicated stuff like connecting to a web server or GUI. Just be pragmatic and use native libraries (or whatever you can find that looks decent, gets the job done, and can be used by the Forth system you're using) to deal with the complicated crap others have been doing for decades. Forth hates complexity, any cheat is fair game.
Ahh the good old Hacker news take on crypto. You must be proud of your originality.
But today I guess it's best practice to just use cloud SAAS for your enterprise . The pc is basically a thin client and does not store anything. You can't exfiltrate without the company knowing about it . This is more barriers for people to switch to Linux . Till date I don't know how secure boot stopped people from doing anything. What threat vector does tpm address and what is the % of that vector in overall threat landscape.
Can you send explain some more?
The recorder contains alarms and other data as well as the conversations on the bridge. As I understand it, they're like an aviation CVR and FDR but combined.

Just like with aircraft accidents, the conversations can provide as much (or sometimes more) value as the data. It gives you insight into decision making, details that may not be recorded in the data ("I was just in area XYZ and I saw sparks coming out of one of the vehicles"), etc.
It’s been ~18 months and nobody’s made much progress on the CTF hidden in the first issue as far as I can tell!
> 40w @ 5V = 8A

> 8A * 1.5hrs = 12,000mAh

This assumes the battery is 5V, but lithium-ion batteries are typically counted as 3.6V.

40W / 3.6V = 11.(1) A

12000mAh / 11.(1)A = 1.08h

Adjust the rest of the calculations accordingly.
I cannot believe that the seemingly decent actor who agreed to star in the worst movie ever made, Downsizing, essentially about consuming less(I think? That or finding sex partners in ghettos), had the nerve to pump crypto. Forget jumping the shark, he pole vaulted over it.
What's your point? Of course the avoidance of a human tragedy is great but the cost of this incident (to the shipping company, automotive manufacturers, insurers, environment) was enormous. It makes perfect sense to try to understand it better.
Sounds like the exact same protocol that Terra had with Luna.
It would not be cost effective and more and more cars do not have removable batteries.
Nah. It’s mentioned in multiple places in this thread that crypto, just like any other personal asset, is tax-free after being held for a year. It has always been so. Not sure on what basis you arrived at the conclusion that “You will need to pay taxes as you are required to mention this in your tax form.”

Also see https://www.toytowngermany.com/forum/topic/370675-taxation-o...
It is a sort of silly objection -- you can avoid property tax by having no property, in the same way that you can avoid income tax by having no income. I guess it is probably easier to evade income tax, than property tax, though.
Sure, but then you'll have to ship the batteries separately and those battery ships will have the same concerns but multiplied due to higher density.
Wouldn't solar make more sense? And they are already on the market today.
Tangentially, I wonder about the environmental impacts of a container full of large Li-ion batteries, such as those found in electric cars, lost in the sea. Cargo ships are known to dump containers* (and oil**, incidentally) into oceans.

* https://therevelator.org/container-ship-accidents/

** https://www.dw.com/en/exclusive-cargo-ships-dumping-oil-into...