skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those unaware, the great capacitor plague of the 2000s has an interesting backstory: it is believed to be the result of corporate espionage gone wrong. Somewhere in the chain of theft, then transfer, then use by a competitor, a misappropriated formula for capacitor electrolyte was altered. Faulty capacitors ended up in all sorts of electronics, including the particular Abit VP6 motherboard which failed and led to the creation of badcaps.net.
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It was 115F or 46 C here in the noon today.
Serious question, isn't that just a while/for/do loop? If people want TCO then... just write a loop, surely? I must be missing something.
Show HN: A CRUD Endpoints Generator and Flexible Cookiecutter for Django
We worked on this tool that helps us generate crud endpoints for the models we define as well as start our project with things like auth, auto-generated docs, pre-commit hooks, and docker already set up.

Check it out: https://dev.to/nyior/dr-cli-a-flexible-cookie-cutter-and-crud-endpoints-generator-for-django-2nlb

We'd like to hear your thoughts on this xD
If you're doing any fundamental analysis, you're going to end up doing one form or another of a DCF model. The expected rate of growth has a very big influence on your final estimated valuation, and it's normal for companies with a higher expected rate of growth to be valued at higher multiples.

Whether the rate of growth will be as high as expected, that is the real question, and it is not a simple one or one you can easily wave off.
Let's not forget about belt drives as well which are becoming more popular due to no need for maintenance while still having great efficiency.
You've only made an income of $20, so you're only taxed on that.
> https://simonwillison.net/tags/annotatedreleasenotes/

Those are amazing. Well done.
I totally agree, and that's the very definition of short-term thinking: doing what's best for today at tomorrow's expense.
I'm expecting brutal, decimating, RIF across the industry at the end of Q2.
That’s because the market calculates a high probability of an Intel implosion
Rosetta doesn’t support VMs. I think QEMU does support x86 vms, but it will not be fast.
I'm from a place that (I'm told) has similar weather, and it's common for people from colder climates to complain about lack of insulation. The quick answer is, here you don't have winters that are as cold, therefore developers can get away with shoddy construction without killing its inhabitants... so they do. If you built something like this in Toronto, people would literally freeze to death inside, so it can't be done.

Also, take into account that spring/summer is warmer, and construction practices also have to take this into account.
I think the calculation was actually that the Ukrainians wouldn't be fighting and just fold. Just as they did in 2014 and the Afghan army just did. So there wouldn't be any ratios to be obtained, no shortcomings to be revealed.

Tough luck, I guess.
People said this was the "best time ever to get funding" for a startup. I disagree. In my view, it was the best time ever if you played a particular game and had the right connections.

I pitched an idea to a VC, which I had a prototype for, looking for $100k. He liked it but wouldn't fund because I didn't have a solid business plan. Fair enough, I need to find a business partner. But then he told me something about how I have to imagine that it's $100k of my money. I need to respect it properly and ask myself: would I give someone this money so easily? Meanwhile he had his hands in various bullshit crypto (not hating on crypto, just the projects) defi startups.

I thought it was absurd, of course I don't respect your money: VC firms throw $250k+ around like candy to people who happen to give a specific quasi-Silicon Valley impression or are in crypto. You're telling me you can't spare $100k? Also, I haven't seen a single "promising" startup actually be profitable, except those ones made without major funding.

This has all been some kind of weird ass circus for years, I'm glad the bubbles are bursting.
The Intergalactic Squid arrived in 2014; they've been gathering the reigns of power and preparing for their public advent since then. The destruction of trust in human authorities and institutions is part of the plan; everybody wants to be welcomed as liberators instead of invaders.

Expect the silly shit to keep ratcheting up until "enough people" are ready to embrace the Squid as their new rulers.
While I've only encountered his ideas in secondary sources, my understanding is that part of Max Weber's work was interested in how organizations form around a mission or a set of values, how bureaucracies emerge and how they change the mission or values of the organization.

I think the main idea was that you start with a mission, add people, add organization to coordinate the efforts, and pretty soon you have specialized roles and people's individual objectives become disembodied from the organization's original mission. This can have the cumulative effect of changing an organization's priorities and values over time.
Here’s a chart of the historical average: https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-pe-ratio
Buying up the properties with senior water rights seems a lot cheaper than building new reservoirs, dams, etc. What's the value of these types of properties? How much cash flow can the owners possibly be making? The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
I thought the algae themselves might have been performing the computation
Tech? like technology? What does it mean? Because surely companies that apply scientific knowledge for practical purposes aren't 'bursting' all over the place, right? Does it refer to specifically these huge companies quoted on the article?
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Bitcoin Nodes are often simple computers. You can run your own node on cheap commodity hardware and they are not particularly resource intensive. The main concern with these machines is drive space.

Bitcoin miners are the big energy consumers. Nodes help validate the network but they do not perform the intensive proof of work calculations.
The claim that "You are line if your role makes up the largest fraction of the org chart" has a counter example: the number of pilots in the Air Force is relatively small compared to the number of non-pilot positions, yet the pilot is the only line role in the Air Force.
The issue is that when tech companies look reasonable, everyone and their mother buys in until they look unreasonable.

There is nothing else to believe in. We have one growth industry in this world and it’s tech. It’s not a bubble, it’s the economy running on one lung. You can deflate it and hold your breath, but once you need oxygen, you are going to fill it up rapidly from holding your breath that long.

The same is true for housing. We need other viable industries.
Bike drivetrains can require a fair amount of maintenance. Also a normal chain derailler system requires at least four sprockets, two in the derailler, one in the wheel, and one in the bottom bracket. Anything less is likely to be less reliable.

You can expect to change the chain every 5000km. In theory a fully electric drivetrain could last forever.
Yep. I've see this happen. People who are good at coding may actually want to code, not write "tech specs" and have review meetings all day.
> "Being polite" is emotional labor,

And "going to bathroom and not pissing on the floor" is physical labor. Even more so if you are on crutches.

I completely disagree with your artificial distinction between "being respectful to others" and "politeness". Politeness is defined as being respectful to others

We all benefit from a more polite interaction. To refuse to be polite because it requires effort is just taking advantage of the system without paying it back.
Some of the technology choices are driven by: 1) Regulatory distinctions between bikes and motorcycles (and scooters, etc.), how they are licensed, where they can be used. 2) Providing the experience of low intensity exercise.

Don't remember where I read it, but e-bikes are becoming prevalent enough in some parts of Europe, that there is a bit of a regulatory backlash going on, for instance requiring a bike to get at least 1/2 of its power from the rider.
It's nice functionality but not completely new. Pretty much every existing email service vendor (AWS SES, SendGrid, Postmark, etc) already has inbound processing with various routing and functions support.
Yes, "demand destruction" is another option but I think less than ideal.
There are a slew of new digital services firms that are trying to build exactly this.

Government has a workforce challenge -- it is aging out, being starved of resources, and technology isn't core to agency mission(s). For decades they have outsourced to the same set of big companies that often failed to deliver. 18F and USDS are more than small departments -- they are bootcamps for the people who go through and then impact the the agencies and firms they move on to after. They were really inspired by the failure, then success, of healthcare.gov.

10 years ago upwards of 80% of government IT projects failed. This is improving.
When we are actually have cars that sufficiently close to what humans can do in terms of range of condition, I suspect the level 5 definition will be updated to be more like:

Can drive in approximately the same set of conditions as a human (professional driver?), possibly being unwilling to drive in certain (seldom encountered) conditions where most humans would, but offset by being willing to drive in conditions few people would.

Importantly, the car must avoid completely giving up on driving mid trip (as opposed to deciding "too dangerous, turn around and go back at next opportunity"), unless conditions are comparable to those in which a human would give up mid trip (which are pretty limited, as humans seldom just stop and give up on the road unless the car is broken down, or fully stuck. At worst, in some really bad conditions, humans may pull other to wait for the storm/extreme-fog/etc to blow over.)
Bought Flipper Zero for the entire security team for R&D. Good investment and also fun!
http://fuckedcompany.com/

https://www.amazon.com/Fd-Companies-Spectacular-Dot-Com-Flam...
The movement to denigrate voting as useless has been so unbelievably harmful. I don't know what to do about it, though. Cynicism is cheap and easy.
Most of the times it’s a company policy. As a hiring manager i never knew the salary of the open positions i was filling, only hr snd c-levels did.

Since my last job, asking the salary range is my first question in recruiter dms and generic emails. My current company was super open to reveal salary range on the first email, and i really appreciated it and eventually accepted the offer. People should demand transparrency.
Namespaces let you create isolated views of the file system, isolated views of processes (ex: if you are in a new pid namespace and run 'ps' you only see yourself), users, network interfaces, etc.

I'm not sure what Firefox does, I believe they use the Chromium sandbox, and I'm way out of date on that. It used to do some filesystem setup like hardened chroots, but I would assume that's been supplanted by fs namespacing.
Show HN: Character-Based Git Conflict Resolution
Hello HN!

I was always annoyed by conflicts that can be solved automatically, but still need human intervention. E.g. two people changing the same line, but at different, non-conflicting positions. So I searched for a character based patching library and found this nice article https://neil.fraser.name/writing/patch/ and its corresponding library https://github.com/google/diff-match-patch.

Parsing git conflicts, applying patches and showing some useful diffs in the UI helps me to solve 80% of my conflicts automatically. I hope it can help you too.

Happy Hacking!
I have the compact OED as well. I will never give it up. The wonderful magnifying glass included with the set is still in perfect condition after thirty years of ownership.

You can still find these in used bookstores. If you're very lucky.
It completely depends on the expected rate of growth of the company. Even 100x can be fair for a very high growth company. For companies that don't have such great prospects, <5 may even be appropriate.

"PE should be close to X or between A and B" was always an extremely rough and imprecise heuristic, and it is no substitute for a real analysis with a DCF model.
So, it’s better to produce less agriculture and drive up prices (affecting mostly those least able to afford it) than just desalinate?

My understanding is that proposed desalination plants in CA were shut down because of NIMBYism. Better for people to starve, I guess.

We could have practically limitless energy with solar fields and nuclear plants, build canals, aqueducts and pipelines to transport and restore all the watersheds in the west while reducing sea levels, fix deforestation, and grow abundant food for everyone, but it just requires us to stop saying “NO” to _actual_ progress.
Scheduled maintenance is done with semi slave labor in the 3rd world. Routine is more expense local labor but the routine stuff can’t be deferred anyway
You can run Linux VMs on Apple Silicon Macs, yes, using a kernel hypervisor framework built and supported by Apple.

I’d feel remiss to not also mention Asahi Linux, which runs on bare metal. It’s not quite ready for prime time yet, but I’d be surprised if it wasn’t within a year, at most. But, I also wouldn’t make a purchase based on that.
The problem I have with the Economist these days - they've changed a lot recently as has the Financial Times - is that they are one of the big cheerleaders for creating bubbles out of tech they clearly don't understand. This starves the startups that have compelling and reachable business models and goals because the funding goes to (quite possibly financially scammy) moonshots with vague goals somewhere over the horizon.

Uber is a good example of this:

https://www.gobankingrates.com/money/business/famous-compani....

But because the scam worked and they managed to get publicly listed (how did that happen?! Publications like the Economist should have provided more cautions...) the gravy train rolls on.

The sooner we get back to a 'Web 2.0' era like 2008> on the sooner genuine innovation will be funded again.
If that was the case, people would make money arbitraging by doing just that. Fortunately, we don't have to speculate here! One case where you can see how the results play out here are leveraged buyouts by private equity firms.

In this case, the PE firm is incentivized to cut costs in order to magnify the returns on their leverage. Obviously, the largest line item in OpEx is generally compensation, and executive compensation the largest line item there. If PE firms could cut costs here without issue, they would, because they'd make a LOT of money doing it.

But...they don't. Why?
Indeed, the chain+derailleur system is incredibly lightweight, efficient, simple, and also fairly reliable. It's one of the most elegant solutions in mechanical engineering, imo.
RIF?
Come to Bangalore, temperate weather with tropical climate. You can't find it anywhere else ;)
Thanks Abhishek! It's a pleasant surprise to see you again and remember about needgap.
James Phillips not joining Stripe
This is the UK.

This is not a "house" - if it were a house, it would be a six-bedroom mini-mansion. There are separate houses on this estate, and two larger blocks of flats. The larger blocks have entry-phones and so on. This is the only block with as few as three flats.

They are nice flats, luxury even, in an amazing location. Unfortunately the developer (early 80s) went broke, and so there are some loose ends that were never properly dealt with, especially the handling of rubbish, and the whole matter of investment properties, empty properties, and ultra-short lets. There are no children.

As I say, it would all be fine if my neighbours were neighbours. Even if I didn't like them, we'd have a shared interest in making things work. I don't have to like my neighbours; I just need to be able to find them, so I can talk to them about issues. The landlord of this AirBnB property lives 600 miles away, in a foreign country, and has never lived here.
I live in Michigan. We might not get quite as much precipitation as the mountains, but I assure you, I'm no stranger to snow.
Correct. Hasn't been near 30C in Toronto this week (source: me, Toronto resident). This person could solve a lot of his problems with Toronto weather by moving close to the lake. It's generally a few degrees cooler in the summer, and warmer in the winter. Having four distinct seasons is nice, although fall (the best season, IMO) is way too short and winter is a bit too long.
> So you’ll have to provide additional information about who the funds come from to the receiving exchange yourself.

It's your wallet, so the funds come from you. You may need to sign a message to prove that. The exchange already has your information as the account holder.
> to everything being hacked constantly

What do you do personally to avoid getting hacked? I know for me I take many measures, not going into them here, there are other places for detailing that. But if everyone done all the best practices and defense in depth we wouldn't be in a shitstorm!
> an updated edition was published in 2021

Good stuff. I wonder if the author has recorded new lectures. Probably not, since the website still links to 1ed...
> Today I made a painful decision to forego joining Stripe running their financial services business. Though I remain exceedingly bullish on the company and its prospects, I've concluded it's just not the right move for me and my family at this point in time. Stripe is an incredible company and I know they will continue to thrive!
> You're telling me you can't spare $100k?

That's not how it works. You're not the only person asking this VC for $100k. A thousand other people are, too. A policy where he spares it for (what he considers) a bad investment like yours means sparing it for all the other bad investments, too. That would cost a lot more than just one check.
SpaceX built on existing engineering, and by some accounts isn't that much cheaper than Ariane 5 launches. It is bloody impressive so because it is a new company. Selling SpaceX as the saviours of space exploration and rocketry is a bit much so. It hirts to have Musks business, and other, attics overshadow that success.
Thanks, I will probably disable sleep.
SW Colorado -- same :/
> Meanwhile he had his hands in various bullshit crypto (not hating on crypto, just the projects) defi startups.

Your confusion is assuming that "bullshit" means "unprofitable". Plenty of projects turn profit for their owners.
Elon Musk called a guy a pedophile. He deserves to be insulted.
See https://bootstrapping.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

> This wiki is about bootstrapping, i.e., building up compilers and interpreters and tools from nothing.
On the contrary, if the OED were available as an app for any reasonable price, or even a somewhat-unreasonable price, I would download it instantly for my phone and tablet.

600MB or even 900MB of storage would be well-spent.
Headphones are mainly inductive charges. A short cable won't have enough capacitance to change that. (maybe in audiophile crazy-land, that is).

> amplifier might need to adjust compensation

You're pushing audio, not a cable TV signal...

> For resistance you will need to limit the output voltage to ensure you’re not going over the over current limit, or you can get hurt on dynamic range for high resistance loads.

What crappy device are you plugging into a headphone jack that's even an issue? Short protection is common in most ICs.

Or, you know, use a regular headphone with an impedance between 32 an 100 ohms and that should be fine.

> crazy 3.5mm jacks there are it is inefficient to make a product that fits all

What's so crazy about it? Yes, stereo and mic inputs might be unpredictable, but for usual stereo audio it's pretty predictable

People are saying that like if most USB headphone vendor is not going to plug the cheapest DAC they could find and push whatever to the headphone.
I agree. I've had a couple of stints as a manager, now as a CTO for a small startup, and it's giving me so much insight into thinking about engineering from a business perspective. As an IC it's hard to get that birds eye view, but it's possible.
Reduction in Force == layoffs
Yeah, or sometimes by abusing the fuck out of templates, though that wasn't a possibility yet in the early 01990s. Emacs uses the same approach (adding an embedded dynamic scripting language), and I think PTC CAD does too, and in these cases the "embedded dynamic scripting language" is a Lisp. (AutoCAD, too, but I don't think they wrote significant parts of AutoCAD in AutoLisp.) It's a good approach that avoids paying the cost of flexibility except where you need it.
The cyclone is also bringing a 20C May this time. The past few days were pretty damp and cold.
This week was expected to be the hottest on record for bengaluru but rain saved us :)
It seems like the average p/e shifted higher in the last 30 years, so maybe 15 is no longer the "correct" baseline to compare to.
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I don't know why this happens. But I'm sad about Slashdot.
Single speed transportation bicycles are extremely common where there aren't significant hills. Internal gear hubs have regained significant popularity, too - ranging from 2 to 11 speeds.

Not sure why you're "trashing your gears" so regularly. Older cassettes/chains didn't like being shifted under significant power but anything made in the last 20+ years by SRAM or Shimano or Campagnolo really shouldn't have a problem being shifted while full-on sprinting.
I think the issue with it is that finance get to dictate how a company's strategy goes, which may not work well in any industry that's hard to understand (e.g. tech).
As for crypto I have three words: "The System Worked"
Google has been around for 20 years so we can see what happened to advertising revenue during the last recession.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/266249/advertising-reven...
What is the objection to this hypothesis? It's not even a conspiracy theory, it's that the board has misrepresented the DAU, and in turn, the value of the company.

To adapt an adage - Musk has already established what the company is, now he's just negotiating the price.
The value of internet forums and discussions is roughly the value of the advertisements hosted on those platforms.

The value of ads drops during a recession, and things are looking more-and-more bearish this year.
I'm saying that he was already neck deep in bad investments, which he happily funded. That's the main point I'm talking about. I'm not saying my idea deserved investment, just that this whole industry has been full of bullshit for years.
With an engineer on the helm, rehiring big names in the field, opening more fabs, and having access to TSMC's newest node over AMD[1].. it seems unlikely.

[1] https://www.extremetech.com/computing/334897-amd-might-have-...