skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>I think two people searching for the same terms should see the same results

>I agree, but that's not the point being stated.

I mostly agree, but I can see where being located in completely different locales might lead to slightly different results without nefarious intent.
What if it's like The Social Network except more wholesome and he gets the girl at the end.

"I wanted her, so I decided to make the next big thing"
Unlike wages, capital gains can be negative. And generally IRS doesn't compensate for losses, except for minuscule amount. Otherwise imagine Treasury having to refund trillions to Bitcoin bag holders. So lower rate reflects higher risk.
not as much as lawyers and accountants imo. they're a necessary relationship but its toxic. the systems in place for software are mostly open whereas the same cannot be said for a lot of legal and financial systems. they're not beginner friendly, and have a big barrier to entry from my experience.
is this a trick question. of course u have to be a genius to make interesting, original research. it was that way 200 years, why would it be different now.
> as creators are ever more dependent on ever-more-centralized services.

as creators decided to make themselves ever more dependent on ever-more-centralized services.
Nothing. This is why you don't negotiate with these kinds of people.
Un-paywall: https://archive.ph/3TSFb
"This isn't even my final form"
>These companies are not good faith actors. It is time to stop treating them as such.

I thought I made it super clear, but to make it even more super duper clear; I agree. What we have now isn't working.

However, I don't think common carrier status is the appropriate or effective way to go about making changes. And I think the articles I posted are a good (mainly, they are convenient and the first two are timely) introduction to why I believe that.
Violence, plagues, wars, disasters, etc. are as old as humans. The only difference is that news travels at the speed of light now, and it's a huge business that fights for your attention the same as everything else nowadays.

As many have already advised you in this thread, quit (or ration) the news and social media. At least be selective of what you choose to read/hear. You'll feel better.
This is only partially true. Yes, USD is sort of backed by the fact there are people with guns extorting taxes from you in USD. Except, if you earn no USD, you shall pay no USD. And if "fools" stop believing anybody will sell you any food for USD tomorrow (because there is a civil war and USA is no more for all practivcal purposes) then USD is worth pretty much nothing, whether you are still required (legally) to pay taxes or not. Reality is stronger than the government laws, always.

So, nope. All this "backed by USA economy" bullshit is just fancy way of saying "backed by nothing". If people don't believe USD is worth anything, it is worth nothing. If people believe BTC is worth a ton of bananas on Marrakech market, it costs approximately as much as whatever a ton of bananas costs in any other currency. Now why people believe that — because there are people with guns extorting the taxes, or for some other reason — is another story.

I.e., all money exists only because people believe it exists and works as supposed.

Anyway, as I've said already, this isn't the point. Everything I've said above I had to say in order to reply, but I don't want to discuss that, it's irrelevant. Stablecoins aren't supposed to be something you believe in or not. They are supposed to just work reliably as long as people believe some other non-fiat currency works. At least, they are promised to do that (and we are discussing if this promise may be any true). I.e., DAI will obviously be worth nothing if ETH is completely forbidden (and that is enforced), so it stops being exchanged anywhere, so then ETH is worth nothing, and DAI is also worth nothing. This is ok, that isn't something stablecoins are promised to magically counter. They are promised, however, to magically maintain their peg, and if that promise is any true is what we are discussing (at least, that's the premise of Buterin's post).

So, to reiterate once more, the question being discussed isn't whether you believe in BTC/ETH/LUNA/DAI/UST/USD/gold. The question is whether if DAI/UST can maintain its peg to 1 USD under the assumption ETH/LUNA isn't totally worthless. This is the only thing that matters for the discussion. The rest is completely irrelevant.

(To be completely fair, it still can end up with the conclusion that you don't believe in the currency on which a stablecoin is based. For me, the mere fact that the whole LUNA's existence was basically justified by UST should've raised some questions about its sustainability. But it's still about "what must happen in order for UST to lose its peg", and not some quasi-philosophical discussions on whether money — be it BTC or USD or even gold — is real.)
I’ve been content with the error handling the language offers, but maybe there are scenarios where it isn’t sufficient that I haven’t encountered.
Probably cheaper too.
for maintenance or incremental work i'd offer a retainer.

i did that with one client. i started hourly and eventually once we had a good working relationship suggested to switch to a retainer. i actually let the client pick the fee. he picked the same amount that he had paid in hourly rates before. i figured that if there was more work then i'd renegotiate. but what happened was that my work went down, yet the retainer stayed.

that's the big advantage of a retainer.
with hourly you get more if you work more and less if the work is reduced.

with a retainer you don't work more than the limit of the retainer allows, but the less you work, the more you make for the time worked.
I love Tim Harford and both of his podcasts (listed on the site) are brilliant and well worth listening to -- but a lawyer's approach to hourly billing is not the only way to look at it. Take an Engineering firm who bid $100,000 for a scope of work and internally allocates 1000 hours to complete the job drawing from a shared resource pool of 100 full time staff. The PM in that case will need to closely balance productivity as a function of time vs completed scope which is very different from the pay-as-you go perspective of a lawyer. You jealously guard every fraction of those hours and fill them as much as is humanly possible. Not as easy to make the comparison with the Farmer I suppose which was his point in the article, but since this HN discussion is considering the overall concept of billable hours in general this needs to be said.
The way ifunc (well, actually language-level FMV) works in GCC and clang is that the input source code, not the command-line switches, specifies what ISA extensions to build for on a candidate function. This naturally means that packagers and other vendors are not using it as much as you hope: they would need to have a separate patch to add these attributes for each architecture and that’s just not maintainable.

Even Intel’s Clear Linux does not bother to patch individual libraries. They just use the glibc library multi-versioning feature to load from different directories depending on the cpuid.

In my opinion, GCC and Clang could make the whole thing more ergonomic. Ideally you declare a function as "interesting for multi-versioning" in the source using an attribute, then in the command line define what -march's to actually clone for. Kinda like ICC’s /Qax. (On second thought preprocessor defs are sufficient, duh.)
You may need a break from the news. That helped me awhile. A lot of society's ills as you've identified them require legal and political solutions, not technological. A startup may address a subset of the issues, but most of the issues can mostly only be addressed in a timely manner by governments. Despite Paul Graham's and his ilk's proselytizing, startups aren't a silver bullet to the ills of the world. I'm afraid as far as climate change is concerned we're a bit late to the party. I'm not saying nothing can be done, but it's here. We should brace for impact.
Omg that was Kevin Kelly! Cool story. Lots of places still have very few outsiders, but are in a global world.
Financial transactions are private communications.
Defaulting to four subdivisions? Is that an American thing or a CompSci thing?

Surely a decimal-compatible subdivision is more usual as a default? A nice subtle 5/10 thin thick variation would be great.
This "far more likely" is a form of pseudo-logic: you find a common trait (gun ownership, hair color, anything), discover a correlation and proudly declare that hair color has something to do with odds of being shot. If the US declared Somalia its 51st state today, our odds of getting shot by AK-47 would supposedly increase.

And the stats, if only you bothered to look it up without prejudice, would show that self defense cases are counted by millions, while murders are under 20 thousand (and hardly more than 5 if you subtract inter-gang disputes).
It feels like that? How many support requests does Google have right now do you think? They're cutting
There might be a bit of observational bias here (better technical term?). HN is overwhelmingly about the tech industry, but most US companies are started outside of SF/California.
> Except, if you earn no USD, you shall pay no USD.

I thought that you do have to pay taxes in USD even if your earnings were in something else.
A lower rate for the same amount of income in capital gains compared to salary makes sense. But why is the top rate for capital gains only 20% when it's 38% for income? (plus whatever the state adds on top). Why aren't there more brackets that go higher for capital gains as well?
I have a simpler thought experiment. Every time you own a tether, you buy it for a dollar. That dollar goes into a large room. Now each tether is backed by a literal dollar. What’s the problem? I can’t wrap my head around what’s so hard about this.
Almost every hard thing people have been doing for 200 years is easier now than it was 200 years ago.
you have to wonder how much of that content is actually retained by the jurors. I always make a good faith effort to pay attention when I am selected, but I have a hard time remembering exactly what was said after a mere three days, let alone six weeks. in a criminal case, I suppose that works in favor of the defense (at least ideally). I have no idea what it does in a civil case.
Steven Pinker’s take:

https://www.menshealth.com/health/a26487546/steven-pinker-wo...
I was able to max level maybe a dozen weapons for funsies without any grinding involved. Later in the game, Hero's Runes and similar are laying around like candy.
This is why I never gave them my number. Same goes for linkedin.
More positively framed: this is essentially charging for value added, not time spent. A contractor who saved/made the company a lot of $$$ can overcharge, knowing that his rate pales in comparison with savings/profits he made, so no one cares. However if he does not deliver enough value add, that sort of behaviour won't fly and he most likely will under-charge to avoid embarrassment.
> Guns aren't the root problem but their accessibility is an enabler -- a multiplying force for opportunistic carnage.

That still doesn't justify taking away guns from people who aren't going to commit opportunistic carnage. The root problem is the people, not the guns.

> Average, every-day people convince themselves that their loved one / friend will get over whatever they're dealing with.

I get that this happens. But the average, every-day people still have to understand that, if there is a gun in the house, "convincing yourself" is not enough. Unless you are sure, i.e., sure enough to bet your own life on it (because you are) that the person is not going to misuse the gun, you cannot allow them access to it. That is perfectly compatible with still believing that they will get over it in time.

> We also know that many of these mass killers are sociopaths and have no difficulties in acting normal and hiding their motives.

If you are not sure that someone is not a sociopath, then don't allow them access to your gun.

I simply don't see any of these things as valid reasons to take away guns from people who are responsible adults. If your definition of "responsible adult" actually does not include making judgments like the above, and being able to separate your emotional desire for a loved one to "heal" from your rational, practical need to not give them access to guns until you're sure they are healed, then your definition of "responsible adult" is wrong. And if our society has deteriorated to the point where the definition of "responsible adult" I am giving--which to a person of, say, my parents' generation would have seemed so obvious as to not even be worth stating--is something "average, every-day people" do not think they can live up to, then we have a much, much bigger problem with our society than gun violence. Our society has adult problems that require adult solutions. That requires adult citizens. If we don't have adult citizens, our society is doomed.
I think this is the point the article actually makes, but I went into it expecting to see how it's been hard to extract business value from all this data, and then expected it to explain how the demand these easy-to-scale DBs induced resulted in even less value, but it didn't really touch on that.
Work on ASP.net core servers on Mac(Arm/M1) + Linux

.Net itself:

Everything builds and runs no problem, on linux I occasionally have to self install the latest SDK but that's a well known problem with many languages/platforms.

This is with the preface that I work on web servers, desktop right now is a no go with things like System.Drawing, printing etc. not being cross platform.

Tooling:

VS code is in a superposition of being an excellent free editor and a complete joke, it works but it's a long way from a great experience. Funnily enough this is a spot where F# support is better than C#.

Rider on the other hand has a great, near identical experience across all 3 systems.

Other notes:

I'm on Azure so I can't comment on the state of AWS SDK's (I would not be remotely surprised if they were better) and I find the emulator support lacking in general and especially on an M1 mac. This is an Azure problem rather than .Net but one i felt worth mentioning for other .Net developers.

To answer the start of your question: I think the bulk of .Net development going on is still on windows but that's definitely changing.
yep, LWN is a great resource, highly recommend for any developer (even/especially those who aren't linux people, they have lots of articles regarding other programming language development and the like).

I used to complain that they didn't have recurring subscriptions, but I believe they have fixed that! Just sign up yearly, at the worst you are a patron to good journalism that is not really happening elsewhere.

Just reading an article or two a week will give you loads of insight into what is going on in the tools you have everyday
(2019), I would wager more than half of points in that article are moot today.
As a creator you've got to meet the audience where they are. The problem is the monopoly position of those services, and the anticompetitive practices they're able to follow as a result (e.g. banning creators from broadcasting the same content through multiple channels).
SpaceX eventually hopes to have as many as 42,000 satellites in orbit. How will hard kill work once all the satellites are deployed? Not only that, there are other companies that are in the planning stage of deploying just as many satellites.

China's response is likely to launch just as many satellites and have its own system in place. Hard kill is very unlikely to work. Specially now that SpaceX knows about the threat and can work towards minimizing it.
I think you may be misinterpreting what OP meant (or perhaps I am, that's a real possibility). I read that as "There are only 2-3 specific people whose skills and contributions were so essential to the orgs success that the org would have failed without them specifically." Where you might have a front end developer who is technically "responsible" for facilitating millions of online transaction, there are likely thousands of other devs who could have done the same work. Among the 2-3 OP was referencing, there are very few who could have done what they did.
It's hardly a "full meltdown" if it's happening every other month, is it? At this stage, it's an expected range of volatility.
Oceans are big, and there's no barriers to diffusion. Why would the extra salt be concentrated enough to cause a problem?
databricks is not only database. spark is not only for analytics.

spark is distributed and fast runtime for applications. it can be a platform powering the entire company/startup and its backend data pipeline.

rdbms like postgres cannot compete, because sql is about storage and querying (you need application code to do complex processing) and sql is hard to scale (unless you want to shard your db into million pieces and have ways to manipulate millions of db shards).
also - how good luck shuffling data between thousands of rdbms shards, if you believe rdbms can replace spark.

the problem with databricks is that their offering is not differentiated enough from opensource spark. So their only value add is "we will manage your managed spark cluster, pls pay us, instead of your Ops/IT team?"
I think this is super narrow view of the world that applies to a lot of things but not everything. Any data use that involves reactionary decision making will benefit from real time streaming data. Financial services is replete with this, but so are monitoring applications, traffic analytics, advertising, etc. A lot of my career has been turning batch into real time and the commercials were there.
Yeah, I don't think that he technically did what he said he did since he took a train. I could walk up and down the aisles of a BART train and "walk" underground from Oakland to San Francisco.
Ray Liotta Dead at 67
If rule #1 is don't break userspace, we might need a rule #0, which would be don't support insecure behaviour. In the end, people might need to balance competing concerns...
For anyone lost, CentOS has become a rolling RHEL preview, and Alma is a CentOS fork to bring back stable releases.
It's kinda like a DoS amplification attack, but amplifying authority instead of bandwidth.
I think a lot of people overuse deodorants and anti-perspirants. But now I wonder how many people don't shower every day and thus do really need to use them.
Yep, me too. I have Thunderbird running in the background essentially as an email backup, but I wind up using the web version more. However Thunderbird and Bridge work extremely well that I forget they're running in parallel.

I'm a recent Google GSuite refugee, so it's hard breaking the habit of web based mail I suppose.
>I mostly agree, but I can see where being located in completely different locales might lead to slightly different results without nefarious intent.

Sure, I can get on board with some niche cases where tailored results are non-nefarious and beneficial to the end user.

And that sort of hammers my point further, as common carrier status would make discrimination based on location a potential lawsuit.
The laser system shown in the top photo is similar in efficiency. And, trust me, the engineers are very aware of it. It's also frighteningly expensive, with a large number of exotic things.

(Source: I work with the guy who designed a big chunk of the receiver circuitry, among other things.)
Isn't the risk of losses supposedly why capital holders make a profit at all? So they shouldn't be paid twice for it.
'Goodfellas' star Ray Liotta dies at 67
Anyone who has watched this trial in its entirety knows that this is a person who has fabricated most, if not all of her claims.

Some parts of her testimony were so meticulously debunked it was hard to watch.

It’s remarkable that JD didn’t commit suicide as a result of what happened to him.
The Montreal underground city connects (in its main section) a total of 7 metro stations via closed (mostly underground) passages. Wikipedia claims “32km” of interconnected tunnels. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_City,_Montreal
Look at his sales in the last years. https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/amzn/insider-a... … he sells a few hundred thousand shares here and there, and frequently receives new shares. That is also a form income.
Not really. What's the worst that can happen to someone taking a cab in a canal?
I don't think it needs to be formalized to this extent, but I would LOVE it if people would make a habit of saying, before they share anything they would like kept private, "Please do not share this with [audience, like "Jane" or "anyone"], at least until [date/other thing that needs to happen first]." I'd be delighted if someone sent me this FriendDA.

I can't tell you how many times I've inadvertently blown a secret just because I didn't know it was a secret. It's to the point where as soon as anyone asks me, "Hey, can I tell you something?" I ask for these details.

People think other people should always be able to tell. Some of us can't. I don't just not read minds. I also don't (usually) read social cues.

There's definitely an audience for this. It just isn't you!
Software dev. One client is a former employer, another is a company in an adjacent industry who would have to pay substantially more for the agency who built their sites to look into things for them. The price is not super high, but on average I probably end up making about $350 an hour when it's all said and done because I get paid on retainer and not hourly.
Presumably finding high paying employers and convincing them to hire you
What happens when a bunch of literal or metaphorical rats eat the dollars?
Who said I have to deal with it? I will leave that to others. Just being honest. You are the second person with a popular post about trying to work at a company that is doing good, I am not knocking that down but this priority amuses me a bit. To me, my responsibility is to take care of myself and those near me first. I have thought of how to solve the big problems in thr world and it almost always boils down to requiring extreme violence and cruelty which I have no appetite for. I am not interested in feeling like something is changing or wasting my time or working for a for-profit company because they virtue signal well enough.
then why do kids still struggle at algebra and other ancient concepts
No, but "Incredibe narcissism" might be what you and the GP suffer from.
If what they’ve done with ECC memory is any indication, this sort of market segmentation would only slow down or even kill adoption of AVX-512 in the consumer sphere. Welp, at least there’s no reliability issue here, so Torvalds is unlikely to get angry anytime soon.
Firefighting is one of those absolutely basic parts of civilization who's importance is obvious to everyone. If people are robbing firefighters then social cohesion is completely dead.
Not really speculation, its mentioned in the article.

Theres not really any free lunch here, vanilla postgres is optimized to perform well within the constraints of a single scale-up host, minimizing storage usage as much as possible.

These Aurora style systems instead take the assumption that storage is relatively cheap in a cloud environment, and likewise with any compute task that can be scaled out instead of up. So move as much as possible out of the scale-up instance to scale-out storage and compute.

Additionally Google is claiming their system is better than Aurora because google has a distributed filesystem, where AWS only has block storage (tied to specific compute) and object storage (much worse performance).
Creators don’t control where the audience is. If there was a credible alternative to the centralized services, then maybe more creators would try that.

Nebula is one example where some of the more education-focused channels have been posting videos. Not sure if it’s been successful though.