skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's kinda impolite of me to give advice when I know so little but... oh well. It's Saturday and I'm too sleep deprived to do anything but haunt forums.

My particular solution to your dilemma was to find a better circle of friends. An anime club, of all things, some 20 years ago. The specific hobby doesn't matter, but having compatible people around helped a lot. I'm almost equally uncomfortable in the classic "party" scenario as I was at 18, but in my current lifestyle that happens maybe once a decade. The rest is filled with socializing, my way.

As for putting honesty and other people before yourself... hehe. That's classic lack of social skills and reading cues. Did that - god, that used to do a number on my dating experiences. Sometimes you have to NOT say the first thing that comes to your head. That's the first skill to learn. Second you'll find a small voice inside your head that'll start telling you when you're about to say the wrong thing - start cultivating it. But first of all you need the commitment to actually listen to it, and squash any trace of "but than I won't be the authentic me" excuse.
I believe the effect of Tiktok will be unprecedented
Just my opinion/suspicion:

Google doesn’t want to give up its current model of operation. Google as a corporation likes being able to surveil the Earth. Google likes being able to control information. Google likes being (essentially) part of the US state department.
Consciousness clearly preceded life because it is apparent that life is the result of intelligent design. You just have to snap out of your naturalistic, materialistic framework. For a lot of people a naturalistic starting point leads them to a naturalistic conclusion, which obviously begs the question and is merely a different kind of faith — one that can no longer withstand empirical inquiry.
My story of joining the Great Resignation
If a ‘Type III’ civilization is meaningful it could be one that uses a quasar the way we use a star.
Since my kids were born, I feel dumber. I do not think it is just due to aging. Maybe caused from years of lack of sleep.
You mean like one of these [0]? It has GPIO pins, Bluetooth LE, a nice case, a screen, a few buttons, a bunch of common radio chips, and apparently a virtual dolphin for some reason.

[0] https://flipperzero.one/
The core product (not data) was so mired in tech debt, scaling challenges, and operational burden post-Cedar that we didn’t ship any major new features for ~18mo.

Finally shipping something major (the Europe region) was a massive effort with a lot of internal political struggles, as was performance dynos. That was why I left, because the writing was on the wall that an organization which had atrophied its ability & urgency to ship new product was not one that could continue to innovate in a meaningful way. Not to mention that headcount was already being starved at this point, so you couldn’t throw people at the problems.

I don’t think most people realize just how small the headcount working on the core platform product was, like 8-15 people for the whole time after acquisition.

There were a handful of additional big successes like private spaces, compliance certifications, metrics, etc driven by the few remaining people with the burning will to really push stuff forward. But eventually those people moved on, and by that point the company had already lost SFDC’s interest even though revenue growth and profitability had finally come around.

Forever thankful for the core group of amazing people like you that I was fortunate to spend a few years living the dream with. I’m glad I appreciated how special it was at the time!
Probably not since single threaded improvement has barely advanced over the last 8 years, and JS/V8 are still in a single threaded world that stopped existing a decade ago.
How does my math seem sketchy? If anything I was generous in my estimation of how many living organisms have ever existed.
> The core premise of these cryptocurrency haters is that they feel that their subjective value preferences are more valid than those of the market.

That is simply not true.

As an early bitcoin supporter, my sentiment shifted against cryptocurrency as I worked with more and more companies that have been targeted by ransomware. I kept waiting to be able to pay for real things and instead I saw wave after wave of fraud, grift and extortion but no progress on being a usable currency.

> It is the heavy regulation of all things financial which has burdened online transactions.

Really? Online "non-cryptocurrency" transactions have outpaced cryptocurrency transactions by a massive amount.

Cryptocurrency was a neat idea that failed to realize it's potential due to the complexity of operations in the real world. Instead it has become a cesspit of fraud, theft and self-deluding grifters that lie repeatedly to try to bring in more and more greater fools. There are still se cryptocurrency idealists out there, but it gets harder and harder to tell them from the grifters.
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By iteration. I don't think the problem is solved, we still don't exactly know how to architect our software and the current mainstream of "OO-design" is flawed IMHO. There is no one size fits all architecture for software.

I think size matters, tools matter, technologies matter along with the domain. Our architects are usually too formal, too idealist and we really have difficulty in priorities. We know it requires experience to apply programming languages to problems, this is also true for patterns. In order to apply them, we need experience.
The disaster has already occurred, it just hasn't been felt yet. The disaster of 2000 was not the crash of the tech stocks, it was the previous year of pouring people's savings into a fire pit. What would it have meant for the economy to keep all those companies inflated? Surely only a bigger disaster.
High omega 6 does not imply high omega 3 (see https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/optimize-omega-6-omega-... )
Of course there is a genetic factor to cognitive abilities.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_cognition
Matt Damon Under Fire Again for ‘Fortune Favors the Brave’ Crypto Ad
If softbank believes in Better, but not necessarily in Garg, then having him personally guarantee the loan against his own shares is an easy way to push him out cleanly if things go south.
This is correct but if you use it at home you can place it on the roof or on a terrace or stick it to a pole. I didn't research the subject, maybe there are better turbines for that use case.
co2 levels is also getting higher which have negative impacts on learning and concentration.
When I was a kid I was really afraid that particle colliders would create a black hole that would sink to the center of the earth and eventually eat us all, so I find this article quite soothing.
By the way, I remember a similar case in Russia. A telco company published a heat map created from GSM location data that reflected where in the city yound people spend their time. One of the "hot" spots on the map was in a remote forest area with nobody living around. Most probably it was a military object.
> We hope that all this innovation is for the user, but often it isn’t. Modern websites seem to be as large, slow, and buggy as they’ve ever been. Our computers are barely getting faster and our internet connection speeds are stagnating (don’t even try to mention 5G). Webpage size growth is outpacing it all.

The author makes a good start at fleshing out this argument, but stops short. He goes on to talk about a gizmo that was added to his own work to track use of a feature, which then was abused by others in the company.

The problem is that the same motivation and tools that are used by developers to figure out how to make their products better are the same motivations and tools used by advertisers to sell crap and snoop on users. Exactly the same tools, very different outcomes. One improves the experience while the other degrades it.

It's not clear how to separate the two, allowing only the "good" uses of tracking technologies while preventing the "bad." For its part, the essay doesn't really provide an answer so much as start talking about technologies.

But if you really want to improve the Web, it makes a lot of sense to really drill down into what makes the Web bad today. It is really technological complexity, leading to rendering engine monoculture? Or is it something more sociological in nature?
The complex features of ARM64 were not newly designed by and large, they were mostly carried over from ARM32 - mostly to take advantage of shared ARM32/ARM64 implementation. Much of the actual design work involved in ARM64 was simplification and things like adding a zero register to the ISA, which is pretty comparable to MIPS.
Thanks. Not sure if I wasn't aware or if I had forgotten, but you provided just the answer I was looking for.
> with all the extensive shorting of crypto this amazing early insight must have allowed you to execute.

Those who have these insights usually also know the aphorism "markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent".
How do you get from Monero to cash without leaving some kind of paper trail?
This. I cannot understand why people seem to think that IQ test results are an objective measure of anything. Of course we all make mistakes sometimes or have bad days or brain fog for whatever reason. Even the time of day affects cognition. How would any kind of test compensate for this? A particularly good or bad score can very well be just a fluke.

I have never seen anyone I would consider really smart who took these tests seriously.
It's because the highest IQ people of the previous generation were almost all hired to find out ways to capture everyone's attention as much as possible.

Not surprising that they succeeded doing that.
People decide on a narrative ("crypto is bad and a scam" in this case) and they will see the world in a distorted fashion in order to fullfil their narrative.

So they see a significant drop in price, but completely within the bounds of previous drops, and they see it as full meltdown and the ponzi scheme popping, because that fits their narrative.
That sort of observation isn't neutral, merely couched so.

The amount of attention given to a FaceTime call is not a measure of importance, thus the observation is unsupported.
Find a niche community (ie. some social network group), built an app for it, promote in that community, add an affiliate network to monetize it.
This shows that people generally don't understand client-server architecture and think that the app stores data on their phone and not somewhere in cloud.
> I have no idea how to interview anymore;

Same. Anytime someone says the market is hot, I get irrationally angry.

It's probably hot for kids in their 20s with ex FAANG experience. Not so much for the rest of us.
Because they ignored essentially everything we learned after 1990 if not 1980.
The strange detention of EU diplomats returning from Tehran
The entire question is regarding “abiogenesis” — you can’t appeal to abiogenesis to explain abiogenesis. I know it is difficult for a lot of people to countenance the fact that science has proven the existence of God, but that is where we are.
Ask HN: What are examples of startups that died by the hands of Big Tech?
It's commonplace to mock Big Tech for being slow-moving and lacking an innovation ability with several examples of startups that competed with, and defeated products from Big Tech. There are tons of examples of this (YouTube Vs Google Video as one). What are examples of the reverse? Like Pebble (smartwatches) losing to Apple Watch, Clubhouse (Kindda pending) losing to Twitter Spaces, Slack (??? had to sell to Big Tech) losing to bundled Big Tech 'Work'.

Sure, there are also examples where the startups did not exactly die Dropbox/Box Vs Big Tech storage.
US prepares to release US$45B for nationwide high-speed internet
The equation for escape velocity is: v = √(2GM/R)

R = distance (radius, really)
M = Mass of the body
G = Universal gravitation constant

We can modify this equation to find for the distance at which you can escape:

r = 2GM/v^2

The answer is largely: it depends on how fast you can go, at the speed of light you can escape from further away, since the pull will increase the closer your are to the "event horizon".

I'm in a car right now (as a passenger ofc) doing this from my phone so not in a situation where I can put together a model, but you should be able to plug in some numbers and estimate a result, just make sure you convert to SI units so you don't accidentally end up 3 orders of magnitude off.

A black hole with the mass of the earth would have a radius of about 2cm, so things less massive than a planet start to get very small, very fast, and you end up fighting quantum effects which become less intuitive.
I only ever used AOL to SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol) onto the net. You had to do some arcane incantations to get it to work, but their connection was solid.
That's called the event horizon, which is proportional to its mass.
Another major caveat to this benchmark is it doesn't include any significant marshalling costs. For example, passing strings or arrays from Java to C is much, much slower than passing a single integer. Same is going to be true for a lot (all?) of the GC'd languages, and especially true for strings when the language isn't utf8 natively (as in, even though Java can store in utf8 internally, it doesn't expose that publicly so JNI doesn't benefit)
I signed up for a pre-approval letter through them. I was presented with someone else's pre approval letter, names, address, pre-approval amount and all.

They didn't seem to realize the gravity of the situation when I called to inform them of the leak.

My advice is to bail now while you still can.
Because VC funding is by its nature a Ponzi scheme hoping they can throw enough money at a business until it looks like it might be a viable profitable business to the “bigger fool” in the future (“$x is a gazillion dollar market. If we just capture 1% then we can be worth billions”). That “fool” can either be some other tech company that acquires it and let’s it whither (and the founders post a message about “our amazing journey”) or the public markets.

The retail investors don’t have any desire when the stock market is tanking to buy stocks in money losing former unicorns. The investment bankers who organize the IPO also won’t see the initial “pop” that allows them to make a quick profit.

Of course the employees who sacrificed real compensation in cash or RSUs in a public company in lieu of statistically worthless “equity” come out on the short end as the companies repeatedly delay an IPO waiting for the “environment to improve”.

All this to say, if you want to be a founder, go for it. But unless the startup you are thinking about has enough funding to compensate you as an employee at market value in cash, skip it.
Give 100 random HNers a salary for five years and say "start and grow a company"

Amazingly they will all have grit. They will be working full time on starting a company because it's just the day job.

will those 100 companies succeed? who knows depends on markets, products etc.

Founders are no different from early employees, so make them early employees.
> It has enums, but they are C-style enums rather than sum types.

It doesn't. The closest it has is TFA's second example:

type FlagID int
const (
FooBar FlagID = iota
FizzBuzz
)

which is the underlying behaviour of C enums, but not actually that. Crucially it does not at any point hint or imply the set could be in any way closed.

That it doesn't have C-style enums is a point in its favour, I would say. Not much of a point, mind, but still...
it is interesting to draw a parallel to the government's recent response to covid vaccine exports. Balancing the local need with the world's need is a tough line to walk.
Oops I wasn't clear. I meant attach it in a way so that the turbine would catch the air as you ride. Not sure how practical it would be.
Oh come on, you don't know what Rockefeller or Gates would have done if VCs were in vogue at the time of founding their companies. It's entirely possible they would have taken VC money. The advantage of getting a huge boon of cash to grow the company may have seemed worth it for the reduction in risk.

Times have changed from when Rockefeller or Gates founded their companies. It's far riskier and harder today to build successful companies. Competition is fierce due to globalization. Increased standards means a longer road before people will pay you. The population has the same distribution of "entrepreneurial arrogance" by nature, but there's less viable options to exercise it.

Instead, people turn to VCs for a multitude of practical reasons:

- Capital to get the idea off the ground
- Networking
- Guidance of experienced people

Someone who is absolutely sure their jump to conclusions mat company is going to be a hit isn't arrogant, they're just stupid. On the other hand, an arrogant but smart person with an idea on how to design a better wind turbine recognizes the practical problems that building wind turbines is expensive.
You cannot talk to your friends or girlfriend using radio though.
Knowing that something is a scam is very much not the same as wanting to get onboard with the scam.
Yah there is a huge difference in conquering and occupying a land. Insurgent fighters in occupied lands are very difficult to get rid of - as the US learned the hard way in Iraq and the Russians will in Ukraine.
No, they gave us their own money as angel investors.

The criteria isn't awful if you rationalize what the goal is: don't lose the money without a good fight in a good strategy.
Yes, it’s bad. Gas and rent are very high. People are broke and not spending. Everyone in retail, including myself, is feeling it.
Perfectly explainable, you can exchange terra for $1 worth of luna, and after the exchange happens you can sell the luna for approximately $0.1 (because the price would have dropped by this much when you managed to sell it).
One place only shows people. I guess it’s a humanitarian* place.

*If vegetarians eat vegetables what do humanitarians eat?
From time series to complex networks: The visibility graph
Reddit and YouTube have tons of great info.
Can the traditional inflation control measures such as increasing/decreasing lending rates continue to work with skyrocketing income-inequality?

While the Nobel laureates keep stressing about wealth inequality, I don't see media-economists even mention inequality as a factor.
Read a lot of code. Write a lot of code.

I read a lot of books too but most were not especially enlightening.

Probably the most influential thing in how I write software was what I learned in English in high school about structuring essays (I.e. classic rhetoric). A lot of analogies there in my opinion.
>Really? Online "non-cryptocurrency" transactions have outpaced cryptocurrency transactions by a massive amount.

Yes, really. Those transactions are heavily regulated. You cannot send a 0.000001 USD Paypal transaction for example. The overhead is too high. There are cryptocurrencies which allow these microtransactions.

Observing that there is a high amount of regulated transactions doesn't account for the demand for unregulated transactions.

Perhaps if regulations were lower, services could provide functionality which would make cryptocurrency irrelevant.

From the interview:

>WEAVER:
I am holding up a Raspberry Pi computer module. This entire computer is like 50 bucks. So for 500 bucks worth of [computing power], I could do the same functionality as Bitcoin, with just 10 named entities. Why don’t I do this? Because those 10 named entities would have to follow money laundering laws. And apart from getting a structure where the named entities don’t follow money laundering laws, there’s no advantage for the cryptocurrencies, despite burning nine orders of magnitude more power.

Even the die-hard cryptocurrency hater featured in the interview admits that is the heavy cost of regulation which created the market demand for cryptocurrency. The question is if he understands the implications of his own statement and the premises from which they derive from.

>I kept waiting to be able to pay for real things...

Perhaps most people don't want to go through the hassle of doing KYC on an exchange just to buy a pizza. Also, Gresham's law and legal tender laws.

>...and instead I saw wave after wave of fraud, grift and extortion but no progress on being a usable currency.

So the remaining users of cryptocurrency are those who use it out of necessity. That could be innovation in microtransactions, online gaming, speculation or the criminal uses you narrowly focus on.

However you want to value it is up to you. Either within the existing framework of regulation or independently. If you don't like it, don't use it. Calling for what other people value to be destroyed, because Weaver doesn't like it is authoritarian. He's a bully. Live and let live.
It's not as good as you remember if you watch it now :'(
I hope you don't take this the wrong way, I mean it in a good way, but I want to point out that reading this comment you come across as someone who is difficult to work with. If you gave me that impression in an interview I'd probably pass on you too, no matter how great your technical skills are. The most important skill for me is how you can work in a team (what education you have isn't at all important). I'm not Google or Facebook, but there's a million people like me
When I ask you to tell me about your experience, I understand that you can't tell me all the details, but even with an NDA you can tell me roughly what you did. Maybe if you worked on a secret project for Apple that hasn't yet launched it would be different - but if you gave that as an answer I'd understand and move onto other questions. If you just said "it's under NDA" I'd assume you are trying to hide something.

Who cares if LinkedIn wants to spam you? The only purpose of it is to help me look attractive to potential employees, so I keep it up to date but don't pay any attention to it. I turned off all email notifications and they don't email me, but if they did I'd just set up a filter. I get hundreds of recruiters spamming me, but that's just what recruiters do. I ignore them and get on with my life.

Interviewing is a skill, and it's something you can learn, so focus on that. Apply for jobs that you don't even care about just for the interview experience, maybe you'll get an offer and decide to take it :-) Skip FAANG or whatever requires you do 7 technical interviews where you reverse red black trees of doubly linked lists, go for smaller companies where the interview is typically just a few informal chats.
How would you go about allowing the user to enter and store data at runtime without knowing the size of the data in advance then? I don’t agree with you at all. A variable amount of data that can change at runtime is universal across all programs. This isn’t something specific to a certain coding style
It’d be cool if we made a black hole type bullet that would suck someone or something in completely on impact and dissolve. Not sure if feasible though.
Sorry for your loss. People cope with loss in strange ways, unfortunately. Hope you and everyone remaining are doing better.
As long as UST is linked to luna in its current way, luna is on hyperinflation and will not stop.

The only way to save luna is to decouple it from UST entirely.
Why do you think that? What kind of nefarious use makes a hundred bucks or more per account and is subtle enough for the ban review to let them keep doing it?
Intelligence gives you a choice. You can choose to walk away from this as best as you can and go about your life on your own terms. You aren't guaranteed or given anything else.

You may also participate, if you choose.

This seems to be a sticking point among high achievers, but you really need to dial back any societal expectations you may have. You’re here for a short time, and you’re given the option of watching the spectacle at your leisure. Enjoy it while it lasts.