skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've gone through things like digital photo collections with mine and sent whatever they wanted (mostly pictures from their childhoods etc). They seem to prefer storing it all in their phones (w. cloud backup), but I have it all available through a NAS if they ever want it. I suspect that when the missus and I are gone, the physical digital stuff like drives and computers will simply be sent to recycling.
The general public was flying en masse by the 1960s, though the pace picked up greatly through that decade.

Gordon's point is that the best commercial-grade service ... didn't move much in the seventy-eight years* from 1936--2014. It's been nearly another decade and that story's largely the same.

In a world which obsesses over Moore's Law and doubling improvements every 1.5 -- 3 years, no appreciable movement in 8 decades* is something to take note of.

Put another way, the 1936 experience was in a DC-3 (or similar) aircraft. The 2014 experience is in a turbofan-powered plane. It turns out that approaching the speed of sound is a pretty hard limit for most aviation --- commercial aircraft tend to max out at about Mach 0.85 or so. The laws of aeronautical engineering aren't going to move that much, at least not for reasonable quantities of fuel (hence: cost) and noise (externalities).

There's also the fact that other factors, call them "frictions", begin to appear: airport and air traffic congestion, security requirements, etc.

Even private-charter aircraft might find themselves further curtailed if they are utilised in, say, future terrorist attacks. Or find themselves vulnerable to attacks themselves in ways commercial aircraft are not. (This resembles a plot point in Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future.)
I stop writing code.
And to bring the analogy into the realm of computing, I feel like progress isn't lightning fast here either.

I just watched this video of Office 3.0 from 1992:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsTydF09hbg

This looks and feels like the Office I use everyday.

Likewise, I feel like the changes in the realm of software development, a purportedly fast moving, tech and investment heavy industry, have been a mix of sidegrades, new paradigms enabled by faster hardware, and just stuff as it ever was before.

If a 2005 programmer, who knew C++,JavaScript,Java,HTML,C#,Python,Bash etc. would have been frozen and thawed yesterday, would be able to be brought up to speed on modern iterations of technology and tooling.

Growing up in the 2000s, I hung out on internet forums instead of Reddit, chatted with people on IRC instead of Discord, and used MSN messenger instead of Whatsapp, but these programs almost served the same social purpose.

Considering video games, a canary in the coal mine for the bleeding edge in software and hardware (at least it used to be that way), one could be forgiven for mistaking Crysis, a 2007 game for one that came out yesterday. Halo Infinite released just last year, with almost identical gameplay to the original 2001 Halo.

I feel like the pace of improvement has slowed considerably starting with the 2000s, and I'd be hard pressed to point out anything life-changing that came out in the last decade.
I think this is a risky side to take. Consider that your argument isn't all that far from a kid wondering why they should learn math. After all if they ever needed to use it, they could just use a calculator, like the one they bought from the clerk who whipped our her trusty calculator to determine how much change to give for the 120 coin calculator that was paid for with 200 coins.

Navigational skills are likely not only improving our mind in ways we might not otherwise appreciate, but also serves a countless practical scenarios. Something as simple as getting around at a large market or mall often comes down to the exact same skills as reading a map. In fact that is what you're often literally doing as you find a floor map to locate the location you'd like to go to.

There are also examples on the other side. Read this [1] warning from the national parks service about GPS and Death Valley. Multiple people blindly following GPS there have lost their lives because of it, and countless other similar locations that are quite remote and where what your GPS tells you, and what reality tells you may often contradict.

Finally, if we ever enter into a war against another major power - on day one of the war, all GPS is going to cease to exist for the foreseeable future (with the internet not far behind). Those satellites are sitting ducks and are going to be high priority targets. This shouldn't even be an argument, but this scenario is looking increasingly likely with every passing day.

[1] - https://www.nps.gov/deva/planyourvisit/directions.htm
The outcome was a $18.5 settlement with no admission of wrong doing. If there was really shady activity, would NYAG disclose it?
Reproducing is just a mechanism for adaptation. So the ultimate goal is to adapt now?
And firecracker is a fork of crosvm, created by Google to run the Android app and Debian dev layers in ChromeOS, of all things.

Open source is so cool when it works.
At least I hear USPS really cares about weight. In Canada... not so much.
https://github.com/hfaran/slack-export-viewer
This is the point around adoption, and we need to find a way for Linux machines to support this without a usb token. If we always have the option for TOTP, people will fall back to it, instead of finding ways to move forward with Webauthn.

If we keep allowing the use of inferior options, Webauthn won’t gain traction.
IMO we should use external libraries, and should invest engineering time on the library rather than just take a library. Not using good third party library means you need to invest at least a few engineer-month in it to get the same result, and you will need to invest a lot more to do better than third party library. Instead, you can take the library and invest a few engineer month to improve the opensource library.
Smack uses an XML pull parser and non-blocking I/O. It does so by splitting the XMPP stream top-level elements first and only feeding complete elements to the pull parser.
It just seems like typical British humour to me. Obviously it wasn't meant to air (like the crazy weather report messages that came along with it). But it's pretty much apropos.
Gorillas lays off 300 employees at HQ; Klarna to let go 10 per cent employees
I've seen the guy from "my self reliance" (Youtube) use manual hand drill in the building of his remote cabin. No power for electric drill. A battery operated drill would probably fail rather quickly boring through a log with a large drill head. If I remember correctly, proper wood working chisel sets are still very highly priced. And the antique ones can be of higher quality.
You know electric cars aren't a new invention, right? First ones came about in the 1880s, and they were quite common in the early 20th century.

Sure, not common in 1950, but the user experience difference between an ICE car and electric is, to a 1950s or 1910s person, basically noise. The ICE car is noisy, electric not. The acceleration, ride comfort, features - all are similar enough to be interchangeable to someone far removed from this time.
A chart of the landslide: https://stablecoins.wtf/
My loose understanding here in the EU is that they do, it just doesn’t make the headlines because it’s boring routine bureaucracy.
I keep an old hand brace in my toolbox and it's amazing. It doesn't need a cord or a battery and you can get a lot of torque out of it.
If you‘re looking for a Swiss provider with block storage: cloudscale.ch uses Ceph as a storage layer.
I’ll give you the same advice my father gave me when I was graduating. Be persistent. Don’t give up after one rejection. I’ll also add my mixin - be smart about how you network. That’s how I landed my first job, rather than blindly applying, though I did that too.

Being on the other side of the interviewing table, we really want to give you the job. Don’t give us a reason not to. I’m willing to let some syntactical things slide when doing the code interview if a candidate is a good behavioral fit (communicate!).

One thing you have to realize is that rising interest rates has led to a decrease in liquidity, especially when it comes to fundraising. So look for companies that have an ample runway, and ideally are profitable. Worst case grind out the leetcode and look for a FAGMAN job, a lot of teams are still hiring, but don’t bank on it.
Ahh, maybe you're right for other big tech companies. It was rare at Google. The only cases I remember involved "remote offices" (i.e. not Mountain View). In a couple cases, they closed whole offices (Atlanta) and folks had to relocate or leave. Similarly, sometimes offices gave up whole projects ("defragging"), so folks had to find a new project or leave.

(btw, it would have been easier to meet diversity goals if they'd kept the Atlanta office open, but that's a whole other thread.)
That would have been around the time when they should have launched a successor to the N800, which launched in 2007. As I recall, the n8 was originally designed to be that.

Meego/maemo had several UI redesigns. The issue was that Nokia just kept ripping it apart instead of just fixing it. The reason for the pen was resistive screens. Bigger buttons would have been an OK solution. The later n900 had the same issue. Ultimately, they bought QT to fix Symbian and then made the Meego team switch to that. They wasted years on the UI. Jolla emerged out of the ashes of that and is still around. Samsung's Bada is another descendant.
> You are not addressing the substance of my comment, namely that many investments are finite, and this is why infinite riskless investments don't work.

I agree that "infinite riskless investments don't work" and agree with the "possibility of consistent good rate of return." Many investments are indeed finite on a human scale. An investor will almost always want their money back with some return, no? At some point they'll take their money out of the investment or market and spend it. The particular issue was the claim that the Medallion Fund from Renaissance Technologies was a good example for a consistent rate of return. They may have done that but how would we know? Their data is self reported, and as far as I'm aware there's no publically available audits of their performance. Even if there were, we have evidence of their cheating at taxes through abuse of options. If I were you, I would take their claims with a very large lump of salt. Do you know who else claimed guaranteed double digit rates of return? Bernie Madoff. We might not have found out about his fraud either if it weren't for some whistleblowing and for his admission of wrongdoing.

The Medallion Fund may have returned 30-70% over decades. Do we really know for sure? I think you'd have been better off simply suggesting index funds for consistent returns for the average person or citing Warren Buffett or Bill Gross for generating alpha/consistent returns.
Not everybody. Google notably uses gvisor instead of vms
I am so excited for Litestream! (Adoption blocker for us is Prisma.) Keep up the great work.
I don't really know anything about the Golang GC, but I would not be surprised if the process of scanning for unpinned blocks results in a lot of memory accesses. If too many useful things get evicted from the cache during that process, then I can see why GP is saying it deletes the whole cache.
but the root cause of the problem wasn't solved (next day you will most likely have the same problem), isn't it?
I suspect a surprising amount of stuff put on the street ends up with hoarders.

If I am putting stuff on the street, I try to trickle it out over the day, to spread the love, and hopefully avoid it all going to one person. The best is when it goes to someone who obviously needs it: perhaps a recent refugee immigrant, or a broke-arse single mum.

Picking up “valuable” stuff is a vice, so I try to only collect what is immediately useful to me or friends. It is however surprising the junk that people will take.
So is a Jag, or Ferrari, and a Lamborghini may well actually _be_ a spaceship. The method of propulsion isn't what would make them point and go "spaceship"
Some woodworkers still use manual drills (I own two, along with a brace and bit).

They're useful for very exact/delicate work, quiet drilling, and for getting into awkward places where an electric drill doesn't fit.
The worst is when adding log lines changes timings and hides the race!
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> wanted to switch majors

To what, Art History? Poli Sci?
FWIW: https://render.com/docs/free#free-postgresql-databases

> free databases are deleted [after 90 + 14 days]

> (unless they are upgraded to a paid plan)
Considering how much marketing there is over “decentralised” and “trustlesss”, crypto systems are remarkably based in trust.
Just before ‘08 fuel prices sharply rose because OPEC was fucking around.

Currently, fuel prices sharply rose because Russia is fucking around which is also causing food prices to rise due to fertilizers and a lot of grain not able to make it to market.

I can tell you from the last time when people couldn’t afford to buy gas to get to work and they were interviewing truckers on national news programs on how they will have to park their trucks if fuel prices go any higher things are definitely heading in the wrong direction.

Add in inflationary pressures eating away at peoples’ reserve savings (those lucky enough not to be living paycheck to paycheck) and things are probably not as mild as they seem if you have some cushy job sitting behind a computer screen — just saying to put it in perspective not trying to insult anyone, the “view from the trenches” is vastly different IMHO.
Implementing it in software is theoretically possible, but not recommended as it would be extremely liable to attack
If you assume that the attestation is fabricated, there's really no reason to talk about treasuries - might as well assume they embezzled 50-70B. Personally, I think it's mostly accurate, with discrepancies being around things like marking securities to market. (Just look at VC practices there, for example.) The explicit statements of "X amount of treasuries under Y maturity" are likely to be true, a vague catchall like "other investments" not so much, which puts an upper bound of ~ 15B short.

Lastly: a temporary liquidity crisis that drives USDT down far below the peg is something that would be incredibly profitable for the operators. With perfect information, it would be a situation of trading 50 cents for dollars, and could be used to erase a partial deficit overnight.
man way back when we bragged about more than 2k days of uptime as evidence of resilience
How about good ol' recyclable and washable and sterilizable glasswares?
A brace and bit can be really useful if you're working with very soft or delicate woods. Also a bit and brace is fairly cheap, but good bits for them are lot pricier.
> Web frontend isn't even close to what any of those mentioned above are right now. Layouting stuff on the web is a nightmare.

One with more experience with web dev can easily submit the exact opposite comment - web layout and tooling are light years ahead of whatever most recent .NET endeavor.

The web is also already cross-platform, where every platform looks and feels native to itself. This announcement doesn't show off a single native macOS or iOS component. Seeing it's inspired/supported by Xamarin, APIs for look & feel are minimal unless you opt for a platform-specific implementation anyway (e.g., the "common" animations API is a fraction of what one requires for a good experience on iOS).

I'm sure MAUI will be famous in enterprise apps where the latest productivity tool needs to be put together quickly and inflicted on employees for years to come (cough* Teams, Office...).
TypeScript used to be a beautiful language... until it added #private. Not sure why they keep adding directives in comments as well!
Well the right wing isn’t trying to nullify the second amendment, they haven’t caused massive inflation, they haven’t caused a gas crisis, I’m ok with their nutso god and abortion beliefs as it seems like the lesser evil.
Stop thinking things like "this is a code smell" and "this might be totally clear, but it isn't <language>y enough."

Overly critical thinking causes way more mental strain than necessary. Near constant pressure to conform with the latest book will of course cause burnout. Just write the flow you worked out in your head, because you already know it'll work before you even start typing.

Maybe programmers sometimes need to go off on a "not standard" bender once in a while to let their creative juices flow again. I'm pretty sure that's where the best code comes from anyway.
In the context of the question being posted electric cars don’t move the needle for productivity. I spent three glorious days with a Tesla performance M3 in Texas recently. The driving experience is, for me, unparalleled. But it was definitely not more productive by any metric I’d use.
Thanks for the feedback. I like the breakdown of the price incentive for interviewer. One way I was thinking of approaching this problem was to let the interviewer decide their own price packages. We will give them a pre-configured session lengths that they can activate or de-activate and put a price on it as well.

Think of this as Gumroad meets Clarity.fm? :)
Right - presumably those 10 different types of plastic are broken down by different enzymes among those 30,000, which are found in different genes among those 200 million.
On the other hand, this is Dick Cheney we're talking about; an empathetic human response isn't something he's otherwise demonstrated in his business or political dealings.
I was thinking the same thing earlier today! It seems to be becoming a cliche.

Ironically, Wigner's article which kicked the trope off was also unreasonably well-received, considering that its subject (mathematics in the natural sciences) is effective for good reasons -- there is nothing "unreasonable" about it.
It’s not a “with or without” question. Is a “do we want to rely on the behavior of a country like Russia or China, or do we want to assume that these supplies are risky so let’s model and mitigate that risk” question.
I despise LaTeX for two reasons: It's offensively inelegant, and there's no such thing as "LaTeX".

The offensively inelegant point is purely a matter of taste so I won't belabor it. The second point means that every author writes their document with their own particular suite of LaTeX add-ons, and if you don't have all of them you have no hope of compiling the document. There's Joe's LaTeX and Sally's LaTeX and Jennifer's LaTeX but nobody uses "vanilla LaTeX." So even after I download "LaTeX" (which is itself multiple gigabytes in size), I still have very little hope of compiling documentation that comes in LaTeX form. I hate LaTeX with the heat of a thousand suns and I'm embarrassed for my profession when I find it still in use.

The one thing LaTeX does well is math; if I had to write math papers I'd probably force myself to learn it, but fortunately I don't.

I tend to use org-mode for everything now. I don't use markdown because it has the same problem as LaTeX: There's really no such thing as "markdown" and the vanilla Daring Fireball version isn't facile enough for real work.
We had one frontend engineer in the 80s/90s doing TP and Delphi frontends, and he was also doing some backend work because frontend work was very easy and fast. We now have 10 frontend devs and I don’t find it an improvement. It looks somewhat better sometimes, but it’s slower, more inconsistent (you can jump from 1 of the 100s of applications we did in Delphi to a random other and immediately understand it all if you use Windows) and incredibly costly compared.
hey... thanks for typometer. i tested it on the main "computer" running win10 itself running notepad. that gave me

avg: 16.2 ms
max:18,8
min:14.9
while i set up krdc to use rdp over "wifi" within the same network and i got the result
avg:33.9 ms
max:75.8
min:29

the max and min are a lot but not in the 200 range. i will confirm again by testing it over zerotier today from a remote location but i don't think it would be as bad.
For years I've been engaged in an enormous decluttering project in the house I grew up in. Aside from filling a few huge dumpsters, I went on countless trips to scrap yards to recycle metal stuff, to Best Buy for electronics recycling, to auto parts stores to get rid of old motor oil, to thrift stores to donate useful things, and to a hazardous materials disposal facility where I had to pay nearly $700 to responsibly dispose of fertilizers, antifreeze, old paint, and so on. I also spent entire days digitizing huge amounts of photos and documents. It has been a very time-consuming project. My piece of advice to help prevent this kind of situation is to keep a big "thrift store donation bin" beside your trash and recycling bins.
> wonder what my kids will do with it all.

The good part about digital content is that you don't have to do absolutely anything with it.

Keep documents and photos accessible, forget the rest.

As we approach multi-generational widespread digital content "cloud" services, we'll see more and more companies allowing content to be easily passed over to the next generation — but just for reference.

I don't need my father’s iCloud photos, but it'd be nice to take a scroll in 20 years.
> How a little bit of undervolting can cause a lot of problems

> Modern processors are being pushed to perform faster than ever before - and with this comes increases in heat and power consumption. To manage this, many chip manufacturers allow frequency and voltage to be adjusted as and when needed. But more than that, they offer the user the opportunity to modify the frequency and voltage through priviledged software interfaces. With Plundervolt we showed that these software interfaces can be exploited to undermine the system's security. We were able to corrupt the integrity of Intel SGX on Intel Core processors by controling the voltage when executing enclave computations. This means that even Intel SGX's memory encryption/authentication technology cannot protect against Plundervolt.

I thought this attack vector was pretty well known and thoroughly-explored on many systems by now, but it's always good to get the word out farther and wider
I probably know you, or some of your colleagues. Worked in Mountain View during the late 2000s. I really hated Symbian with a passion, and I was on the Java (and then Qt) side of it. It was embarrassing to try to sell that thing to external developers, but that was part of my job. I was a good soldier though, and ended up writing a few chapters in the worst computer programming book of all time, on how to do JavaME development on Symbian. That does NOT go on my resume.
You don't see too many recumbent bikes around despite their being awesome. Do you have any thoughts on recumbent bikes vs trikes?
If there is more than one child then the house will likely be sold and the proceeds split.
Yeah, I'm just starting out in woodworking as a hobby and a brace and bit is something I'm considering putting on the wishlist.

The useless tools might have been a treasure trove to the right person.
If you're doing, do you have time to overthink?
I was really looking forward to diving deeper into this, having enjoyed, and learnt, a lot from Peter Norvig's blog and writings in the past. I especially enjoyed the succinctness and density of knowledge in his writing.

Disappointingly, to me, this book seems to lack both of those properties. It seems to meander between talking about core data science concepts, and also about privacy, ethics etc. Given the title of the book perhaps this content makes sense, but it was not useful for me personally. Wish the authors the best.
This is a tautological argument. Let's say computers didn't advance in the last 15 years - one could make the case they didn't get faster because they don't fundamentally do anything today they didn't do 15 years ago so we don't need them to be faster.