skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the problem with async is it makes easy things much more complex if you don't need the performance. granted it should be easy for library/API designers to provide sync versions of all async calls, but I don't know if this happens.
Removing Friction Isn't Always Good
> we can let the "well armed militia" take up a lot of the slack

The 2nd amendment talks about a "well regulated militia" not a well armed one
I have always felt that Nintendo consoles and games were way too expensive compared to their quality, because of that I have never owned anything Nintendo. With this piracy case my feelings are justified: Nintendo just wants your money, no matter how. This makes me actually despise Nintendo and anything they stand for.
Is the Tesla stock drop having a significant impact?

The whole tech field, including Tesla and Twitter has seen stock prices drop.

Yes Musk can leverage less money, but he also has to spend less to buy Twitter.
Nginx, Neovim and Linux 2.6 were written from scratch to start over from Apache, Vim and Linux 2.4. The rewrite isn't the issue.

The tech debt amassed between the rewrites and then rewriting not to learn from past mistakes but to repeat them, is the issue.
as a former woodworker and former many other things, I dont need spinning blades or load noises or things to clean up or mess up that cant be a easily refactored, thanks. the only trade I am still using is cooking
Anyone here switched careers from software to joinery/carpentry?
GTA Online player count statistics indicate 2.5 million GTA Online players every month. A reduction in total waiting time for all the players of 18.5 years every month.
> availability of "secured" goods

What do you mean by that? Backing?
The Constitution is a great document. We no longer live in a world where the spirit of the document matters. It’s a shibboleth, a proxy for the actual political discourse. It’s referred to when there’s a need to call on a talisman, in service of whatever opinion one has. Ultimately meaningless. So the question stands. If one is to legislate morals, whose will win? This is the real question of the last 4 decades of American politics (at least).
Is there any proof this was even created by Coinbase employees? It seems completely anonymous.
On your site, I misread "uitstekend acteerwerk" as "uitstekend achterwerk" and chuckled. (Sorry for being a bit off-tone on HN.)
That no one on the team maintaining the game looked into it likely means they don’t play the live game themselves. Developers and managers on up the chain.

Understandable given the heavy crunch it sounds like Rock Star works in. If you’re a developer spending 60+ hours a week working on it, you’re not going to play that in the few personal hours left over.
It's simple. The CEO is the founder and built the company from the ground up and has the most skin in the game. Execs keeps jumping between the companies for better resume and compensation and don't generally care about long term results.
> I think FB, Goog, etc. could lay off thousands with no adverse effects and in fact an increase in velocity, quality, and quantity of new features/products.

You can add Airbnb,Netflix,Uber they often attend conference to describe their architectures.It’s obvious most of these people have no idea what they are doing have no clear direction. They are just havin’ fun will trying to navigate corporates politics. Even the stuff that is published online it’s scary to see their is no technical leadership what so ever.

To be fair I’ve worked in fortunes 500 as well, 60% of the workforce can be replaced with automation.

Since it’s cheaper and less risky they just keep hiring people for repetitive tasks , it compensate the technical debt.
I think "Black Mirror S03E01 - Nosedive" gives a good perspective on how such a system can go wrong, but on a country level. I think that the same would apply in a company though: it would exacerbate the misalignment of incentives instead of improving the situation.
I hate that change in command center, too. The worst thing is it's not even disabled, just 'disconnected'.
So you never owned anything by Nintendo but you “feel” it’s not good quality.

They make some of the best games that exist.
360 feedback usually happens a few times a year while Dot Collector feedback seems like it's for every meeting [0][1]. This reminds me of the Black Mirror episode "Nosedive" where everyone is rating everyone for every social interaction (e.g. saying "hi" or paying a cashier).

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/coinbase-asking-staff-rate-e...

[1] https://qz.com/1071749/bridgewater-associates-ceo-ray-dalio-...
What you are talking about has been resolved since there is a system with interrupts and an OS with a scheduler. It's nothing new. Async Rust (or whatever async) is just an autogenerated state machine that for years has been being implemented by hand.

> you usually implement things in terms of polling

Like a busy loop? If so, this approach is the worst, IMO. When done in an OS you keep your application thread always alive. In an embedded system it drains your battery.

The most common model is that in which an application should be sleeping all the time, and processing external stimulus when required.

> Interrupts and their analogs are far too slow at scale (switching async tasks is in the nanoseconds, these days).

Are you saying that whatever async system (like async Rust) is faster than a HW interrupt?

HW interrupts is what makes your system responsive as it is now. Stopping and jumping to an interrupt handler is hardwired in the silicon. What is faster than that?
That’s a bad faith analogy.
My mastodon pitch is it’s «ad-free, community-run and features a chronological feed (no algorithms)».

I used to open with the fact that it's federated, but it's a much harder concept to sell initially. People do appreciate it later on though, when they find out they can follow and interact with a bunch of other social networks and communities.
On the other hand, you can discuss with your friends whether Makita or Bosch is the better language^H^H^H^H brand.
I’m fascinated by the idea that, once a company reaches a certain size – let’s say 100 – then it is, by definition, average. Any claims to be above average may be summarily dismissed.

This exhibits most clearly in large IT integrators. I know, I work for one. The marketing spiel makes me feel sick.

If I were ever to start a company – I probably don’t want the stress – I’d want to keep it small.

It is for this reason that I find Apple fascinating. They have their issues but if there is a company that seems to have somehow escaped this jinx, they are it. (I know, I know, YMMV. Please don’t turn this in to an Apple thread.)
> What claims “turned out false”?

Here is a small subset: https://elonsbrokenpromises.com/
another principle applicable I think is knowing what may or may not change in the future. being able to switch from legs to wheels is useful, so maybe put an interface in between. being able to change a table into a bed - not useful and will sink your project.
There are robot vacuums with better self driving capabilities than teslas.
You can be social remotely, even in groups, just start a chat or a Zoom. Google used to have video places which were always open and connected and anyone that joined them could interact with anyone else there. That could be a meeting, but also a coffee room place, a hallway place, a smoke outside place, etc. If "crucial social groups" are what determines whether your job is at risk and not your actual work, then you can spend lots of time on Zoom not doing work and interacting with your crucial social groups.

I spent many years telecommuting and got creative at it. I helped people troubleshoot electronics remotely, had them point their camera at circuit boards, shared screens to examine code, logged into a common remote server so we could both edit, compile, and debug the same code, and a lot more. The one thing I found difficult to do remotely was to reset hardware, I would often ask someone to reboot a computer or flip a physical switch. But that can be automated also, with a dedicated device or maybe it would be a good use case for a simple robot. You could even hire a lower wage worker to go around the office flipping switches when asked to. With good technology, interaction between people can be the same as being there in person (unless you want to create a baby). The only reason to be somewhere in person is if something physical needs to be done, or you just want the personal experience (traveling to a foreign country). This vague "value of being in the same room as the person I'm talking to" benefit CEO's talk about seems to be entirely bogus, except for specific situations (e.g., a musician in a band who needs to be able to see the other players to stay in sync.) What exactly is it the managers are learning from our body language? Next time someone talks about this benefit try asking them to quantify it in a spreadsheet or even define it in sociological or psychiatric terms. If they are forcing people to come back to work ask to see the productivity numbers, did they go down when people physically came back to the office? I think it's basically a distrust of other people ("you'll slack off if you are not here physically") and if they don't trust you, don't trust them; they are likely projecting their own inclinations.

My guess is that managers don't like remote interaction because _it_can_be_and_is_recorded_. Once everything is documented then sleazy decisions are also documented and can be trotted out when trouble ensues. Being held responsible is what managers fear, they want their dictums to go undocumented so they have deniability and so they don't look as foolish when they make mistakes. They don't want to be held to the same standard they hold their employees.

"Cost reduction" basically means the managers screwed up and haven't protected their people in case of unforeseen circumstances and have to shrink their personal empire.
> hydrogen is contributing just 5.9 euro/MWh

I'm afraid I don't trust those numbers, or rather, the calculations. For instance, if I select only Wind + Battery, and keep raising the storage cost for battery, the battery cost of the calculations go down, and are replaced by 100% wind plant costs. (Battery capacity is only enough for 1 hour of storage in such a scenario.)

On the other hand, if I drop the cost of battery to almost zero, the battery fraction of production goes to about 30-40%, and storage capacity is about 20 days.

In other words, it seems that the model is optimizing for an extreme overprovisioning of windmills when storage capacity is expensive, compared to when storage is cheap. (Basically, it "constructs" 10x or more windmills than what is needed from a pure energy production perspective.) I suspect that there are some issues with doing that is not taken into account by the model, such as available space at that level of density, risk calculations for completely dead winds, etc.

> Nuclear will do best in more northerly places that are away from coasts. Poland, for example.

Solar in dry, sunny places will likely be able to fully replace fossil fuels way before wind will be, since you do get some sunlight every day, while the wind may be gone for a week at a time. (And you have to plan for the worst case, in terms of available storage.)
Buy now, pay later firms were in trouble. Apple added more things to worry about
> HN is topic-focused, rather than subject-focused.

What does this mean? topic is literally a synonym for subject
Expectations matter. Even if the exact same thing would be sold under different names, calling it autopilot/self-driving is the one that should be called out.
Put a bunch of 20-30 somethings in a room. Preferably with at least one attractive representative from each mutually compatible gender.

Add a necessity for distraction free periods to build mental maps of software. Add a modern HR policy. Add an open floor plan to facilitate glances around.

Invent a device to turn sexual tension into electricity. Power the office for free!
> No one has offered any plausible suggestion for how to contain corruption costs for nuke construction, ...

standardization. transparency. enough market participants to have meaningful competition. (even if not for the top level project, but for parts)

order 100+ plants, get economies of scale.

sure, political feasibility is ludicrously close to zero, hence the US is stuck with short term workarounds and incremental changes based on fanatics/startups/lobbying or other regional perturbations.
One of things where Western modern education systems fail, is basic Financial Management education. It should be a mandatory discipline from high school like Mathematics, Foreign Languages or Biology and others.

You can be a University graduate and do not know how a mortgage works.
fair point. but it truly is progress, because running windows apps on a linux system results in a more stable desktop experience. for one, i don't have to reboot to recover from a windows app that somehow locks the system.

i see a potential future where microsoft will port windows to run on top of a unix kernel. small chance, but not impossible.

those studios won't bother with native linux support until a sizeable amount of users play their games on wine. and that numer is growing. which is the point.
Which is absolutely fine, but there are (or should be, I'm not a radio guy) channels they can do that on / with that do not interfere with the people on the ground needing to coordinate.
But you can always change CDN provider in a few minutes, an hour or a day.

You cannot move from Twitter to SomeOtherUnknownPlatform.com or from the App Store to UnknownAppStore.com if those platforms decide they don't want you there. Well you can, but no one will ever see you again. You cannot even move to a well known platform in case your followers are not there (or don't use that OS). At least, it will take years to move them over.
It is easy to be “reliable” on a motorway in clear conditions. Yet they manage to hit a goddamn concrete block head on, or steer into the wrong lane.

Let’s say that people are not good at determining a black-box system’s reliability (as it is hard enough to do so with even statistics and hard data)
old.Reddit.com along with RES and only having handpicked subreddits on your front page (ie none of the default dumpster fire ones) makes Reddit halfway decent.
>the average of false or spam accounts during the fourth quarter of 2021 continued to represent fewer than 5% of our mDAU

Not a native English speaker so maybe I'm just not understanding it correctly.
Since mDAU are a subset of DAU, probably a tiny subset of it, wouldn't that statement mean that way way less than 5% of DAU would be bots?
It’s funny as soon as I read the ice cream but I knew where he was going with it.

The interesting thing is that his modelling concludes that raising interest rates is inflationary which is what Warren Mosler also says.

Anyone interested in what to do about inflation would enjoy the recent Macro n Cheese podcast episode featuring Randall Wray
Netflix for many years was an outlier because of the stupidly high bar they kept for engineering hires. Obviously that all fell apart a few years ago and have since diluted their talent pool into mediocrity but I still think it's a counter-point for the argument that you can't maintain a high quality team into the ~200 engineers range.
Seems the problem is that these massive companies hit a threshold in size and then everything is about self-perpetuation by creating large moats, even ones that don't make sense, hence you have teams and entire departments engaged in boondoggles that are wastes of time and resources.

Imagine Facebook pouring untold manpower and money into developing original content such as cloning HQ Trivia, for its also-ran streaming content that no one watches. Or even Facebook Reel, which mostly just reposts TikTok and Instagram material. Or the entire hopeless arena that is cloud gaming, where all of these tech companies are involved in with no service that has really taken off yet.

I suppose if the regulatory environment was to correctly deter these companies from staying so big and content and engaged in wasteful behavior, there would be actually more companies, and all of those people in the companies you mention would be distributed across smaller, nimbler, more customer-focused firms, with more competition and thus better choices for consumers. That's the theory, anyhow.
I mean if it was helpful, it would count in his favor and might reduce the fine, but he still broke the FCC rules for his licenses which is unacceptable. Wasn't there another channel he could communicate on outside of the reserved frequencies?
Every land owner has granted reciprocal easement to every other land owner in the town to use what looks like roads through the subdivisions but are actually part of each lot. We don't need government to do this because we use what works like contracts on property - reciprocal easements. In fact, if the town disbanded there would be no questions about who owns what.

Oh, maybe you don't know how easements work?
I'm not talking about the reasonableness of the fine. Does my post need a disclaimer?
> What is a "good outcome?" A good outcome for whom? A great outcome for most species, and most h.sapiens, would be an outright ban, because of the risk spread.

This only logically follows if literally all cryptocurrencies are proof-of-work (let alone proof-of-work using a hashing algorithm as energy-intensive as SHA256). This is patently false, and therefore the assertion that an outright ban on the very concept of a cryptocurrency is somehow a net benefit to global society requires more of a supporting argument than "Bitcoin exists and is currently dominant". By your metric, banning only proof-of-work cryptocurrencies would be more than sufficient, assuming that such a ban could be enforced...

> Powerful nations might, say, weave a crypto-ban requirement into multilateral trade agreements, like we already do for intellectual property.

Right, and that totally eliminated (or hell, at least even significantly curtailed) copyright infringement in those jurisdictions, right? If you sincerely believe that, then I've got an NFT of Ecuador to sell you.

The cat's out of Pandora's box. You can't "uninvent" peer-to-peer networking, and you can't "uninvent" decentralized ledgers. Nation-states can impose whatever bans they want; unless they're willing to pull a PRC or DPRK and start committing rampant privacy violations for censorship reasons, those bans are toothless.
This is all it would’ve taken. They got $40m+ deposits in under a year and couldn’t bother to cut some of their 100% profit gains to buy an insurance policy protecting it. Pure greed
Actually, that stock appreciation value IS available to you. You can get a very low interest (sub 1%) loan using your stock as collateral. If you have enough stock (like the very wealthy), you can just keep doing this and paying off the interest with more loans.

Then, when you die, your estate can take advantage of the step up rule. Which means that instead of using the original value of the stock you bought as a basis to calculate your profits, the basis is "stepped up" to the value of your stock on the day you died. After which, your estate can sell the stock and pay no taxes and then pay off the loans you lived off of your whole life.

And that is exactly why companies with founders that own lots of shares are no longer paying out dividends and trying to make a profit. They simply put everything possible back into growing the stock price eternally. Because dividends are taxed. Stock appreciation, if you are rich enough, is not.
Could you demonstrate with an example?
If you haven't looked into it; it's fascinating. An upper middle class person writes a day by day diary for ten years or so. He includes everything, what he eats, what he earns, not to mention his sex life including his many infidelities.

It's long read though. Full text is here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4200

But! If you wait until january first 2023, you can participate in a joint day by day reading here: https://www.pepysdiary.com/about/
They are not. You still have strings attached: the requirement of attribution and the disclaimer. With 3-clause and 4-clause BSD, there are even more strings attached.

You can't just take MIT-licensed code. You have to take the code and the full copyright notice and license grant with disclaimer.
At each extreme:

A source code file with very few lines will mean more cognitive load is required to remember which file (or package) some functionality is, and likely more effort to maintain the code.

Whereas, source code files which are very large mean more cognitive effort to remember where in the file some function is. In many languages, variables can be local to a file, which means use of such variables is riskier, etc.

It may be desirable to combine smaller files into a more coherent whole, or to split up an overly complicated large file into several smaller files.

Sure, without seeing code, I don't think you can come up with a concrete rule which exists in all cases. Rules of thumb can still be useful as an indication of maintenance effort.
You can find notes on the podcast here: https://podcastnotes.org/all-in-podcast/e69-elon-musk-on-twi...
I also think a lot more people than just devs like woodworking. Some time ago, I spoke to a GP (family doctor) who was going to take woodworking classes because of COVID-fatigue. Perhaps there's a baseline that the author needs to take into account.
Hello, World Your First Swift Program
No they signed a contract about the price, and it's fixed at $54 a share. Which is why the current theater...
$title = $title + „for Chrome users“.
That is neither a long time nor uncommon for newly IPO'd companies. Given the macro market environment even less so.

Not saying they shouldn't throw Coinbase management in the trash, just commenting on the reality of IPO stock prices.
Chatbots are software tools created to interact with humans through chat. The first chatbots were able to create simple conversations based on a complex system of rules. Using Flask Python Framework and the Kompose Bot, you will be able to build intelligent chatbots.
Ah, so this is the killer app of zero knowledge proofs, eh? That's pretty cool. But likely pretty disruptive and destabilizing as well.
I think this idea must have been taken from Miaow Miaow Beans https://youtu.be/CI4kiPaKfAE
sorry, could you somehow summarize it?
When I started getting blasted with Medium email digests that were all articles about the war in Ukraine, that was it—-done. I interacted with one email out of morbid curiosity a day or two before. Next digest I paid attention to I received that Saturday. I’m on the toilet, every single article in my email is political commentary. Irritated, I click into one. Two sentences in I realize I’m spending this valuable moment reading a political opinion from what seems like some kid who writes like they are halfway through their second political science class in college. Oh, geopolitics now? Why would any two people connect over a trite written artifact? It’s so obvious it’s all for internet clout. That’s the last article I opened and read since, except for the occasional, mindless zip through to find something relevant in the stack I’m coding in. I’m still irritated and offended as I recall this situation on the throne. Their credibility with me also flushed down the toilet that day! I think I just tolerated it for so long because I tuned out the opinions and some articles about software were decent or at least thought provoking and therefore useful. No trust now.