skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bit of a wildcard suggestion, but I wonder if it's "fatalism".

The pandemic triggered a real split between people keen to take more precautions and people rejecting the concept of precautions altogether. If you're embracing your freedom not to wear a mask, why not embrace your freedom not to wear a seatbelt?

> 42,915 people killed in crashes

That's about an eighth of the number of people killed by COVID.
Hedge Fund Hell: How the Tech Crash Is Clobbering the Tiger Cubs
This makes no sense. You make it sound like Google has no financial incentive to fix this problem, which is patently false. Google isn't selling the organic search results, which is what this article talks about.

The problem is that Google is engaged in a war with SEO optimizers, and losing (or at least, barely breaking even). No business model will fix that. It's a hard problem that any successful search engine will struggle with.
Seconding this advice, I was an early FB employee and we were instructed in 10b5-1 plans for this very reason.

Also, get an attorney. TODAY! Don't even log into your broker until you do. (Joking, but not really.) This is the aspect of your professional life most likely to ruin you and send you to prison if you mess it up. Pleading ignorance to the judge will not save you.

There are also tax-favorable trades you can do, e.g. if you want to donate some of your wealth to charity there are better ways than cash (for both parties). An attorney can advise you and possibly save you many times their fee.
NBCUniversal new ad formats tap into metaverse, sequential storytelling
If interest rates go up and inflation stays high then real returns stay low.

I don’t see VC/PE investment dropping as a percent of investments since it’s a unique high risk/high return investment than 5% bonds can’t match.
are there tools that can automatically assess visual contrast and readability?
One thing I would have loved to read about is more about how they did market validation for these ideas. For a micro-bet strategy knowing which one (outside of really interesting projects that would trend on HN), it feels like market validation chops would be crucial.

The author seems to be batting an insanely high average for just building things and having them actually get some traction, and be exit-able.

> When I started this mission, I had a big list of project ideas that I'd built up in my phone. Maybe you have one of those lists too.

> Two years later, I've realised a lot of these initial ideas were pretty terrible.

> It's a paradox, but I've found that my best ideas now come from building other ideas.

Funnily enough, I went the other way and started sharing my large list of ideas with others (I send 3 non-terrible ones to subscribers every week[0]). Of course, running a mailing list and sharing the ideas was one of the ideas...

At this point market validation (and practice validating ideas) is starting to seem like the most important thing. Knowing you should take the month to build before you do, but reading the post it feels like maybe bounding initial development time sometimes can work in lieu of validating the market.

[EDIT] - please see previous discussion about the mailing list as well![1] -- it's released every sunday night.

[EDIT2] - is anyone having trouble sending email to the author? I'm using protonmail and wanted to get in touch but I can't -- email looks to be no bueno for proton mail. I guess I'll either try thunderbird or twitter.

[EDIT3] - Looks like proton mail does not like emoji email addresses currently... Thunderbird happily sent.

[EDIT4] - Nope, nvm I'm getting a mail lookup error (hn strips the emoji)...

> Delivery to tinyprojects@.gg failed with error: MX lookup error

[0]: https://unvalidated-ideas.vadosware.io

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31388399
Highlights blog post here: https://www.erlang.org/blog/my-otp-25-highlights/
Why I don't own Bitcoin anymore
In terms of tradeoffs, shutting down an energy-parasitic cryptocurrency operation seems like a good move compared to shutting down a lot of other things that have, thus far, greatly benefited our society. I don't think this needs a [citation needed], as it's a pretty objective thing at this point that we've had to exchange some of the planet's resources to say, visit people on another continent or power an entire country or whatever.

I think the misalignment here is that the bitcoin mining operation and what one person can do are not at all comparable, and what you're proposing we do would not really do much as the larger scale operations far exceed what even the entire community of HN would be able to accomplish.
He was also a major contributor to KHTML, which was adopted by WebKit, and subsequently Blink. It's the roots of both Safari and Chromium.

His influence is monumental.
Total Commander forced to stop letting you install APKs
Netflix customers canceling service increasingly includes long-term subscribers
Then what's the problem? Why does parent want to pay for a feature they already have?
> I wonder how Fedora started using btrfs as the default for their desktop version when RedHat had deprecated it years ago.

Because the Fedora community wanted to, basically. They're not obligated to go along with whatever Red Hat wants to do, although there is naturally some alignment there. Plus having a different default filesystem really isn't that big of a deal.

disclosure: I work for Red Hat.
If you've not already encountered them I'd definitely encourage you to check out these Free/Open Source projects too:

* Larynx: https://github.com/rhasspy/larynx/

* OpenTTS: https://github.com/synesthesiam/opentts

* Likely Mimic3 in the near future: https://mycroft.ai/blog/mimic-3-preview/

Larynx in particular has a focus on "faster than real-time" while OpenTTS is an attempt to package & provide common REST API to all Free/Open Source Text To Speech systems so the FLOSS ecosystem can build on previous work supported by short-lived business interests, rather than start from scratch every time.

AIUI the developer of the first two projects now works for Mycroft AI & is involved in the development of Mimic3 which seems very promising given how much of an impact on quality his solo work has had in just the past couple of years or so.
I noted in another comment I needed eight x4 NVMe across two x16 slots in a very dense chassis. I was pleasantly surprised at the temperatures.

The hardware is in a colocation facility and I like to have plenty of buffer with standard operating temperatures in case of a cooling failure, etc. Is maintaining 40C necessary under normal conditions? Nope, but it's definitely a nice to have regardless.
The overall problem -- and this is not specific to Google -- is that managers at all levels are incentivized to grow head counts.

Google has at least 10x as many employees as it needs. That's based on decades of revenue being decoupled from costs, and from monopoly profits. It's the double-whammy of being in tech (where costs and revenues don't couple since incremental costs are close to zero), and having a super-profitable monopoly.

You can't fire 90% of the workforce; even morale and culture problems aside, at this point, the organization is structured to need too many people. On the other hand, organizing over 100k employees turns into this superorganism problem.

At >100k employees, the influence of anyone -- up to and including the CEO -- is very, very limited. Dynamics take over.

I've been bearish on Google for a long time, but I haven't shorted the stock. Market irrationality can last a lot longer than my wallet. Fundamentally, though, one could muscle through building a new, better Google for much less than the valuation of Google.

Google could also be worth a lot more with a breakup. There is negative synergy between, for example, advertising, Google Workspace, Android, hosting, etc. If those were independent businesses, with partnerships around things like data sharing, the total value could be much higher. Alphabet was a move in the right direction, but the move should have been much deeper. Right now, Alphabet is Google + a bunch of tiny startups.
> Contrary to your perspective, why should a business be forced to carry speech it doesn't agree with?

A business choose to offer 'carrying speech' service to public, so it should offer that service in impartial and fair manner. That is pretty basic consumer protection approach (at least in Europe, i have an impression that US has lower standards).

> Should a newspaper allow anybody to have a say in its op ed section

That is completely different / incomparable case. Social networks publicly offer service to anybody, while op-ed sections are individually offered on newspaper discretion.

I am ok with social networks to use their discretion on which messages they promote/recommend (as that is in principle discretion-based decision), but not for mechanistic functionality like 'distribute message to followers'.

> Are there any exceptions to your rule of not moderating, such as illegal content or violence against specific people?

It is acceptable if a service has rules and enforce them, but then it should also be acceptable to sue a service that does arbitrary moderation (either excessive outside of its own rules, or doing selective enforcement of rules).

Also, there is an argument that such rules should not be discriminatory.
If you believe they are neither vices as well, then I can see your point — they just are.

Perhaps this is the point you are making: if one is data-driven and engineering-oriented without regard to the consequences, that could be seen as a vice.

Despite the amazing engineering/science, it is hard to come to peace with von Braun or Teller (just to pick two examples).
If managers are spending their days watching the color of the circles next to their team member's names, maybe the managers need more work to do in order to "stay engaged" at work.

Of all the bad heuristics for trying to determine whether someone is being productive, this has to be near the bottom of the list. It's the digital equivalent of measuring engineer productivity by looking around the room and seeing who is at their desk. Except that it can be trivially gamed by a simple mouse jiggler script.
Every time I've seen it tried (over and over again in the span of a 30-year career), the "goals" are based on whatever the priority/flavor-of-the month happens to be when goal-setting is announced. I've never seen those priorities last an entire year, but I have been called to account for why I didn't personally meet the goals that I was pressured into setting "for myself" even though the priorities shifted over the course of the year.
But then you would have to pay those farmers for their water rights.
Who handles the banking for USDC again?
There's absolutely no reason you should forgo the optionality inherent in a driver's license so long as you continue to pass the test.

People need a ride to the hospital all the time, if the state says your vision is up to the task of doing it, why not be available for emergencies? There's no downside.
I'd rather get things done in Go (or Rust). Better standard library, sane package management, dumb easy concurrency & parallelism, easy to distribute, compiles to a binary.
I use the spotify web player with a browser extension that mutes the ads. This works well enough for me.
You are not addressing the fact that their lever deincentivize investment and therefore production, an argument worsening inflation and you are not addressing my point saying that VAT is obviously a direct measure to reduce demand, without impacting investment as directly, finally my VAT locality on the most critically underproducing sector yet non affecting the unaffected companies that produce just fine, is a third argument.
This is pretty basic.
The answer is more likely to be that the U.S never had a VAT and creating one has tragic political inertia and hence the FED use the wrong tool but the one it dispose.
Yes, for you, who needs accurate colors for what you do, I assume.
For the rest of us, it is not such a problem.
This is by design, and not a problem in practice: ignores are declaring unshared files & folders. If ignores change the state or behavior of the project, it means someone didn’t use ignores correctly, didn’t think through what ignore behavior should be shared and what shouldn’t. Sometimes there are folders everyone will have that should be ignored, like a “build/“ folder, and sometimes there are folders you make yourself inside your repo and don’t want them checked in, like test scripts or output images or whatever. The personally ignored artifacts should be different ignore behavior.
Success-based bootcamp Masterschool raises $100M seed round
If you used Docker on your machine, this was a bug in the remount code (they forgot to re-trigger the qgroup scan if it was interrupted when you did an rw-remount) which I fixed several years ago[1]. I don't know what that will do for your confidence in btrfs, but hopefully it'll give you some closure.

[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
By the way, I was interested in Beeper but it seems the airtables link to sign up blocks any ip addresses from Hong Kong. I just get a blank page when I try to sign up.
Just bringing it up, I have noticed quite a few sites have blanket bans on HK ips but it's rather frustrating.
U.S. and Japan Embrace the Open Internet
Check out cookie cutter by Neeva: https://neeva.com/blog/introducing-cookie-cutter-by-neeva-a-...
I remember these from yesterday:

1. Quotes on abstraction
2. How does jpeg represent images

Google gave me bunch of spam, but Kagi gave me sites I could actually learn from.

In case of code.you.com vs. Google:
1. Write a recursive max function for lists in Scala

Not much different from Google, but surely a search dedicated for code only feels better.
I use Safari for everything except front-end web development on MacOS now. I started because it's more energy efficient but I got quite used to the UX and now I'm glad I switched.

I'm hopeful there are a lot of Mac users like me out there.
Good point, although I think it should be doable when describing input and output well enough.
Yes, it supplies about 10% of the region's water. At a 2x cost compared to other methods, but for residential the economics still make sense.
I think the focus has been more on comparing the JIT'd code vs the unJIT'd previous VM approach and looking at the speedups.
I used to have so much anxiety about trying to fill 40 hours days. It led to me getting great performance reviews but feeling like shit and burning out at multiple places.

During the pandemic I work maybe 4 hours a day. I wake up late, go for a walk, review some PRs, and then dig into a task. Meetings in the afternoon, another walk, maybe a bike ride. After dinner if I have something on my mind I'll log back on and do an hour or two to get it done. I'm accessible via Slack on my phone almost all of the time, but I take ~20 minutes to respond.

So far nobody cares. I'm hitting my OKRs, I'm helping junior devs, and I get to enjoy the beautiful summer weather.
Google had a presentation a while back with an AI voice adding "uhm" and breathing pauses in their responses.
> based on nostalgia for the old days (90's and earlier).

Indeed. The internet in general and the beginnings of the web were a very different place back then. I remember about 1996 or so seeing a URL on a Pepsi can and thinking, "oh crap, it's over."
Isn't that the Genius Bar?
Here's my advice on the same topic after living through burnout and "blah" several times:

Make your job the union of what you're interested in and what is valuable to the business.

You have to know what is valuable to the business; that knowledge is challenging to acquire but will _always_ help you in any role. It has to be true and verified with stakeholders, not your gut. There are soft skills involved here.

You also have to know what you're interested in, which is also not easy after building CRUD apps for years.

And you have to sell it — more soft skills.

If you can — you can! — the result is a job description or project that you helped co-create, that you own in the most meaningful sense of the word, and that you're more excited to work on. The add on results is that you are more valuable to that specific company, and you've leveled up soft skills and business thinking that makes you more valuable to any company.

I've done this consciously several times in at least 4 companies of various sizes. I've ended up building a new mobile architecture platform and library, a data warehouse and ETLT pipeline, multiple projects in languages I wanted to learn, new frameworks and libraries for various other industry-specific web dev things, and a few rewrites of legacy software.

I still feel blah a lot of the time, and still think my path through this industry has been... non-optimized to say the least, but I have a path that helps me reengage when I have the energy for internal sales.
Screen Time on macOS is super broken it's insane. The "ask for permission" prompt when visiting a blocked website predates HTML5, and the web restrictions have a tendency to "fail open" after a few hours allowing everything to pass through. If you choose the approved-site-only option for a younger child, you'll get popups galore from the built-in apps phoning home and have to approve them all manually. I gave up fighting it and had to buy a 3rd-party solution because what's the point of a parental control that randomly stops working?

Fix it Apple, I beg you.
Let's say it's 70% or even 50% backed. The withdrawals so far are are about 10% of its holdings. Won't we have to wait for another 40-60% draw down to find out if it's not fully backed? Seems like so far, anyone who wanted out, got out.
Why not just join the meeting from your smartphone? ie zoom/teams? What am I missing here?
TigerBeetle's LSM-Forest (HYTRADBOI '22)
Regulators dont want mustard-yellow webpage anymore. They dont want anything they don't Know.
Maybe, read the brief in the link?

> In two of its Forms 10-Q for its fiscal year 2018, NVIDIA reported material growth in revenue within its gaming business. NVIDIA had information, however, that this increase in gaming sales was driven in significant part by cryptomining. Despite this, NVIDIA did not disclose in its Forms 10-Q, as it was required to do, these significant earnings and cash flow fluctuations related to a volatile business for investors to ascertain the likelihood that past performance was indicative of future performance.

The issue isn't the number of GPU sold, noone's saying they lied about how many they sold or their profit. They lied about the market conditions for that quarter, to make the growth seem "stable", not from a volatile market that could dry up in 2 years or 2 months...
Sure, but what would be their argument against it? "Dev X is pushing his features on time, he's a nice college, always learning from him, but... Ah yeah, but he leaves work 1h before everyone else. Please fire him".
It's 2022 and Diffie-Hellman still ain't used for automotive remotes.

And yet my Mazda 3 fails to acknowledge my key fob half the time. Whatever dippy getup they use, treats me like a criminal in my own driver's seat.
It is very much that. The Erlang team have not been too proud to steal good ideas from Elixir. Elixir has been a good source of fresh thinking for the BEAM ecosystem which has helped both the Erlang and Elixir side.
ARM support for the JIT is a great addition for any of us on an M1! I believe on Intel the JIT was improving compile times by 30-50%.
Now that almost all non-tech-applications are web-based, is there any need for IT to admin your system like they used to?
but I want my work to be engaging...

it seems like I want this out of an existencial instict; one which the modern world has completely disregarded.

I want it, but I know (and I agree with your stance) that I will not find it in any "industry" work; academic work, on the other hand, does rely on this kind of self-motivated engagement much more than industry but has other problems.
"Nothing wrong with that, making money is noble"

this right here is why you never make any progress and never fix anything and you never understand why everything sucks, you keep rewarding perverse incentives and greed and then try to work around it as if greed were not the central problem.

making money is not noble, making money does not represent increasing value, it only represents cornering tokens of others' labor time, which you have just observed takes the form of profiteers intentionally seeking ways to waste your time.

improving the world is noble, and whether you make money or not, you get to live in a better world.

linus was awarded a salary because people were EMBARRASSED that they were profiting so much off his free work.

you all should be a lot more ashamed.
In the case of Lars, this may actually be true. Imagine working on the same project since the year 2000. I'd want to try something new too.
I'm sorry but in no way should you limit your results to only those published on .edu websites. There's got to be a better solution to this. Ideas only end up on .edu websites after a long period from the point it was conceived.
A couple of things I've learned:

1) Model the correct behavior when possible.

2) If they do thing x correctly some of the time (the positive opposite of the criticism), catch them at it. Describe, in a matter of fact but appreciative way. Avoid evaluative language. Avoid the word "you." "I got that paper work well in advance today. Thanks."

3) When you need to give negative feedback, again use descriptive language instead of evaluative, give information (only what they reasonably may not know), avoid the word "you," and keep it short and private. "When I don't receive the paperwork by 10 AM, it means that the other team can't process it until the next day."
The only reason I still have a Netflix subscription is that my wife occasionally finds something she wants to watch. Likewise with Disney-. I'm not going to begrudge her the subscription fees for those services since she doesn't begrudge me the time/money I spend playing Final Fantasy XIV.
What a stupid article. It's fairly obvious that

1) He's talking about what they call "bad bots". 80% of the article is saying "yes but there are also good bots, like the ones that run Tesla's factory" - good grief

2) He doesn't really care about bots, he's trying to get the price down because all tech stocks are down
Textual – A TUI framework for Python inspired by modern web development
I’m just annoyed Apple didn’t open source the Lightning spec and push for it as the USC-C standard. They’re on the consortium after all.
OpenZFS is the primary place where ZFS development happens and it's not managed by Oracle.
Do you mean intersection, not union? Union is kind of a fantasy, getting paid to have your own fun.
I'm sorry; but it makes no sense to limit yourself to results form .edu websites. Ideas take way too long from the point they have been conceived to land on .edu websites. We have to find a better solution to Google.
Anecdotally, in the last year it seems I run into a lot more distracted drivers on their phones. Generally when I see someone driving erratically, not maintaining speed, swerving, etc, I later notice they are heads down on a phone, sometimes even watching a video.
I 100% agree with all your issues. Some product manager(s) at Spotify seriously messed up when they designed the queue system. Maybe it's too much to ask for the Next songs to actually play Next?