skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. The modem was the transport mechanism of the BBS and it did shape the experience. With that said, just as we are still seeing great new games being produced with 8-bit style graphics in a world where the hardware can do fully immersive VR, I believe that the experience of the BBS is still just as relevant today over IP, especially in the context of this original post.
This just isn't true at all. The amount of time it takes to download, parse, and execute modern JavaScript payloads is usually longer than a page's TTFB. Then there is also the parsing of HTML and CSS and actually painting the page. For "most websites" if cached appropriately then server CPU time is minimal in most cases
We listen to podcasts. Ologies is fun to listen to.
I think it's also useful to see how difficult is to make this stuff. For example this video by Skallagrim: "Flintknapping: The First Arrow Points I've Made" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxgwpXivSIM In particular it's important to notice that they didn't just add sharp edges to whatever stone they found, they shaped the stone first.
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Many real world systems are "nearly trustless". Of course you still need some sort of court system if someone decides to break bad. But in the 99%+ of times you're in the happy path, economic transactions occur based on autonomous rules encoded in software.

The analogy I like to use is what's harder to buy a $1 million house or $1 million of Microsoft stock? The former process takes weeks, and dozens of man hours from lawyers, realtors, escrow agents, bankers, county property registrars, etc. Whereas a buy order to execute Microsoft shares happens in microseconds. That's because we've built a highly streamlined autonomous system for executing stock transactions. Yes of course, there's a trusted layer built on courts and fiat law at the bottom. And occasionally for a corner case, real lawyers have to get involved. But the vast majority of the time, this layer is completely abstracted away and trading stocks are just bits flipped on a computer.

When somebody says something like "let's put houses on the blockchain", the idea isn't to get rid of the fiat law system completely. At the end of the day, you still need courts and sheriffs to enforce property rights. But the idea is that we can wrap the house in an LLC, whose bylaws state that it's governed by on-chain contracts. (Which Delaware Chancery courts will absolutely recognize and enforce.)

Now instead of directly transacting at the very low-tech county property registrar we can transact using an on-chain NFT that grants the equivalent of ownership rights to the house. (This is very analogous to how Cede & Co technically owns almost all the stock shares in America, and holds them under your name for you.)

That NFT is way more powerful and efficient to transact with than the county property record. It lives on a credibly neutral level that already has billions in native capital and liquidity and exposes a fully Turing complete smart contract system. You can sell your house atomically and instantly to anyone in the world with no lawyers or escrow agents. You can pledge it as collateral and borrow against it. You can fractionalize it and sell a portion. Or roll it into a larger portfolio and slice into tranches. All with no more than few dozen lines of code. Without blockchains all of those operations would take hundreds of pages of legal documents and weeks of back and forth.
And then #1060FF for logoff.
Funny thing is, a "perfect and noiseless" analog computer is actually more powerful than a digital quantum computer. It is just that you can not make a noiseless analog computer -- we know how to perform "error correction" only on digital computers. Basically, in our history we have:

- real noisy analog computers which are easiest to build, fast for their restricted small problems, but they are not programmable and they are not scalable (because the moment they become "big", the noise becomes too problematic and swamps the results)

- error-corrected digital computers that are programmable and scalable

- today we have small, noisy, quantum hardware that is halfway between a quantum analog computer (i.e. a fun physics experiment) and some actual digital quantum computing machine. Great engineering achievement, but not yet what was promised by the field

- hopefully, soon enough we will have scalable error-corrected "digital" quantum computers. They will be programmable and error-corrected which is the big distinction between them and a fun single-purpose physics experiment
Mincraft Server port: "25565"

Even after the log4j disaster, security of minecraft seems weak.. just searched by open source intelligence(criminalip.io) there were over 50 vulnerable mincraft servers, It seems possible to penetrate from outside to inside. They need attentions.
Coincidentally, NANOG 85 just wrapped up!
Let me rephrase that for you:

“We haven’t figured out how to prosecute criminal theft in the open on the internet where we choose to allow ad networks and hosts to blatantly flout the laws our societies are built on”

And I’m the one making an argument with a lack of imagination?
And he clearly had the wisdom not to apply it to his fiction writing.
I can visualize it too, but ironically I got lost in the words of the setup. I found it easier to just subtract one from x and add one to y. (Move left, move up)
6,000 tweets per second is a lot of tweets for a team of humans to analyze. Twitter employs dozens of people to analyze flagged tweets, and they can only handle (relatively) small samples of each day's data.

It's not something Musk can do algorithmically or through brute force data analysis, because that sort of superficial analysis would be very inferior to Twitter's very involved process, and Musk would have to demonstrate that the algorithm that he or his team came up with on short notice is more accurate than the process Twitter has been using for several years. Which isn't going to happen. See: pretty much every Musk "first principles" claim ever.

Musk will need to hire a lot of people to do this job, but he can't just drag in SpaceX and Tesla employees to do this for him, since he would be (rightfully) sued by the other shareholders of these companies for abusing/misuing company resources. Also, Musk is pretty well known as a horrible boss that likes to badmouth his employees. It's going to be very difficult for him to assemble a team of qualified people to handle this task for him, especially in the time frame he has.

You got downvoted for doing the programmer thing of thinking that a very difficult problem can be trivially solved with some light programming, and completely ignoring that people who actually deal with this sort of thing for a living think that this is a very large and difficult task that will take a great deal of effort by a great many people.
> The physical work itself is then completely different to software engineering.

It’s funny, but I often think how similar they are after doing a project. Maybe I haven’t written enough software for it to feel routine, but I often enjoy the unique and unexpected challenges in each that require creative thinking to solve.

One interesting woodworking tip I carried over was “Know your tolerance”, i.e. does it need to be accurate to within an inch, an eighth, etc. I often apply that when working on software now (i.e. how “perfect” and bug free does this component really need to be?)

People often say that “code is malleable” and you can change anything, whereas working with wood and tools is unforgiving. I actually think they’re comparable again, in that your time is what costs the most, and you can fix anything with minor materials cost compared to the time cost. Throwing away a piece of wood I worked on for a while and messed up isn’t much different than deleting a working branch that didn’t pan out. (Working with a contractor makes this more apparent. They’ll happily change almost anything after they’ve done it if you’re willing to pay for it).
If anyone else wants more detail, this is the FCC's page on the notice:

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-fine-interrupting-...

This appears to be the agency's statement:

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-22-43A1.pdf
Ok, tell me what other types of interviews do they do other than system design, leetcode, and behaviorial for engineering?
I got the gist of the article with a quick speed-read. I have kinda used this unknowingly for a very long time. I have also helped a lot of people make buying decisions, especially when they find the upfront cost high.

My view is -- start from the cost of your use and buy it even if it is on the costlier side upfront. This is also akin to buying smaller number but of high quality item so they last longer and thus the life-time cost to usage is way beneficial than buying cheap that you need to repeat frequently.

Breaking down the cost down to the number of hours use per day, and thus if a Laptop lasts 3+ years, how much is the actual cost for each hour. Now, will it "spark joy" buying a better but costlier Laptop that will last years.
This is a very cool comment. I agree with you. We've made operating systems extremely simple from a UI standpoint then we host web frameworks on top of those operating systems. And then we make clusters on top of those frameworks and then we make datacenters out of cluster, etc.

All still manageable by humans but at continually higher and higher levels of complexity.
How is prothletising a free tool an MLM scheme?
This is a valid domain name (remove www)
There's no way she didn't want to be fired, especially after doing the exact opposite of what her boss's memo said to do. I hope the severance was worth it, because I imagine nobody is gonna want to hire her after this public meltdown.
Agree, to a point. This was how I justified purchasing a relatively nice stereo setup 13 years ago.

Today, I look at the math, on a cost-per-day or cost-per-use angle, and I'm so happy that I went for something nice that I enjoy.

I do feel like cost-per-day amortized is probably more interesting for a lot of decision making.

We probably over-estimate how often we'll use a product or service.
Most ads are shown to users viewing tweets but don't tweet themselves. So the firehouse data is useless for finding bot among monetizable users.
What of those odd stories where somewhere else in the code another dev realized the segment of code was doing strange things and create a work around that now breaks because of the cowboy anything goes attitude changes? Usually with comments talking about it "being very weird to do this, but it works"
> I think the industry over-uses throwing exceptions and it's basically turned into the new GOTO

This is a misunderstanding of what's bad about GOTO versus jumping to a label. eg Functions are labels you GOTO. The difference between a GOTO instruction and a Function call, for the purposes of differentiating the methodology of code routing, is that a Function is part of a stack that returns in a serial fashion. ie Each element of the stack returns to the parent before disappearing, which can be though of as "unwinding". An exception unwinds a Function stack without restriction (eg no consideration of signatures like args/returns), until it is caught in that stack, making them conceptually and practically different from GOTOs.
Well all said and done things just did not go the way Musk had predicted and though it is too early to say if twitter current CEO Parag Agarwal have outsmarted Musk or not , there is no doubt Musk has proved he is not as smart as he projects himself to be.
Nah, we start with market value when new, a representative rate or method of depreciation, and a residual value. You can take a straight line of depreciation, double declining, etc. Residual value is usually a ballpark figure with the actual closing disposal value representing a loss or gain upon disposal. You're overcomplicating it taking in too many parameters to be a useful rule of thumb or guideline for those concerned with the numbers. As you're pointing out however, the relevant parameters do vary from person to person. Anywho, personal finance isn't really bookkeeping for a business.
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Your argument is flawed, and you need to take a moment to appreciate this.

Lots of people can't afford to play the startup game. I was one, you were probably one.

But those who can, once they enter the game, it's a type of "Hunger Games". It's very psychologically taxing. It's definitely not "throwing darts". The super-successful CEO of Zappos very likely committed suicide [1]. The supper-successful author of the "Four hour work week", Timothy Ferris, almost did the same [2]. Very few people just "throw the dart", miss, and throw again.

The idea that success is all luck is very disrespectful. I personally did not venture and did not gain. But I don't go around happy go lucky telling everyone that I could be just as good as Musk or Bezos or Zuckerberg, but I just did not have the right parents.

There are results, and there are excuses. I don't have the results to show, I'm not going to show excuses. Or rather, I have results commensurate with my efforts and my risk appetite. I'm not Zuckerberg or Musk, I'm not even Paul Graham, but I'm not destitute either. Lots of middle class Americans are just like me. They have put a lot of hard work to get where they are, and they are happy with what they have accomplished in life; they would have liked to have achieved more, and hope to achieve more between now and the moment they retire.

The problem with the darts argument is that it negates all they (and I) did in life. That argument is not just about Musk and Zuckerberg, is about all hard working middle class people in America. "Yes, you got where you are, but you were just throwing darts. I would have gotten there just as easily as you, but I had to wash dirty dishes behind the counter". Well no, I was one of the guys washing dishes too. I'm not a trust fund baby. I come from a middle class family who helped me as much as they could, but just in terms of general parental support, not in terms of money.

The darts argument is not just nullifying what Musk and Zuck did. It's nullifying what I did in my life, and what other people like me did. That's why I find it toxic. That's why lots of people like me find it toxic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hsieh#Death

[2] https://tim.blog/2015/05/06/how-to-commit-suicide/
Funny, I started woodworking partially because I was doing less development (more on the management side).

Woodworking scratches that "build something" itch.

Plus, it has a high SAF (spouse approval factor). If I spend a Saturday writing a software tool, my wife is wondering why the lawn wasn't mowed. If I spend it building a coffee table, she's delighted :D
I imagine there are less disruptive communication channels available to get relevant information to firefighters?
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> Opera Mail was awesome.

Among other killer features, the automatic sorting into mailing lists was huge for me: no more filtering, no more clutter. Opera mail was really a great client.
I'm not sure I was just responding to a claim about a CPU's performance per watt.
>Imagine having to stop work every few hours to hone the edge on an IDE that’s gone blunt.

I had instant flashbacks of memory leaks in eclipse.
That is what Matt Levine has hypothesized for several weeks.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-06-09/elon-w...

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-06-06/elon-h...

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-17/elon-m...

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-13/elon-m...
That’s a completely delusional viewpoint. Russia can claim to need anything it wishes to, but that doesn’t entitle it or a resistance-free conquest. Russia invaded another sovereign country, which is obviously the thing that is costing all of those lives. The idea that you can invade your neighbor and then hyperventilate about them fighting back is childish and naive. It’s comical to rain artillery fire on another country and then blame America for proving the ammunition to shoot back. Again, your frame only makes sense if you think Russia has some special, magical right to invade its neighbors and kill their citizens, which practically no one outside of Russia believes.

Yes, it’s killing lots of Ukrainians, causing an energy crisis, and enhancing China’s relative position. Those are the horrifying consequences of Russia’s invasion, not of the fight against it. There’s no world in which you get to invade another country and then shame them for fighting back, at least without the derision of the rest of to world. What did you think would happen? “Ah, Russians think they ‘need’ to do this, better lay down and die”,

Of course the US is funding and arming Ukraine. It would be foolish not to. But what game are Ukrainians a pawn in? The fight for their own survival? If Russia doesn’t want to be “depleted” it need merely leave. The decision has always been in Putin’a hands.

Russia has the same degree of agency as any other country, but you are acting like it’s the pawn in its own foolish war. Perhaps Russia is a nation of children who think they are merely blown about by the wind, unable to take responsibility for even their most explicit actions?

Putin repeatedly kicked a massive tiger and then acted hurt, full of righteous indignation, when the tiger’s claws came out. No amount of mental gymnastics is going to change that.
How long did it take you to finally get approved?

I don't even have a contact with the background people, I filled out information on the third party site, and they finished report within a day or two. But they couldn't reach the companies, and didn't ask me about any proof, just wrote a report that they couldn't reach them.
It's cheaper than 1 year of dropbox.
Very true. I read the comment a few times and still can't tell if it's sarcasm or real (not that I have a problem with either).
Git commits can be signed with SSH keys now:

https://twitter.com/damienmiller/status/1531502392457723905 (thread)
I wish the iPhone would not re-enable Bluetooth automatically the next day when it is manually disabled.
No company exists just to make products. They exist to produce products that will convince someone to give them money. They have every reason to run a “technology company”. All the technology in the world is worthless if no one is willing to spend money on it.
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Karpathy is on sabbatical and rumored to be interviewing elsewhere.
This happens regardless of the peripherals. I usually have a wired keyboard and a wireless (with a usb dongle) mouse connected through a Caldigit TB4 hub.
It is possible it might be some weird macOS/chrome/zoom bug and not necessarily an issue with the CPU itself though.
Files with one function vs files with 5000 lines are not the only two options.
How accurate is "enough within the ballpark" though? This isn't something where an order-of-magnitude estimate or even a factor of (say) 2 error is negligible. Can you really predict the future to within like 10% accuracy? How accurate do you think you need to be?

Let's do something resembling reality. Say your subway transportation costs around $13/weekday. (I just looked up a random round-trip BART ticket for the Bay Area, in case that makes it easier for people here to relate.) Probably more like $20/weekday if you add bus and parking.

Now say the drive for that is around 30mi. At $4/gal gas (pre-2022) and 30 mi/gal the driving cost might cost you $4/day just for gas (probably optimistic). Say you buy a $35k car and plan to keep it 8 years, then sell it for $5k. That'd cost you roughly $14.50/weekday in depreciation. Add that to the gas price and it's around $19.50/day.

I haven't even accounted for maintenance yet (on the car side), nor for non-work rides (on the public transportation side), but so now you have ~$20/day vs. ~$20/day. How in the world do you decide?

Now consider gas prices shot up > 50% in a year. And we have a recession coming and you might lose your job (less gas usage, I guess?) and so decide to keep your car longer. And we have inflation. And your car might get totaled in between... or not. And you might have random stuff come up that increase costs on each side... or not. Exactly how do you do the math here to figure out which one is more beneficial?!

I'm not saying you can't do the math, but as I see it, every factor adds in such a huge margin of error into both the numerator and the denominator that the result of the computation easily becomes pretty useless. And this is before even accounting for convenience/QoL improvements that you can't put into numbers... what's the value of being able to get your kids their favorite meal, or show your friends around town, or...
Seems like something the compiler should take care of.
I do have it installed, but it usually isn't running. I'll uninstall it and see if that helps though. Thanks!
> If I ever needed to know how tribal our society has become

At what point of history have humans not been tribal?
Unless they changed this, kill it in Settings and it should stay off.
Bitcoin solves the problem of frozen fx reserves and seized assets. It's a neutral store of value.

the TAM is 400+ trillion.

Payments are low margin, low value business. Often even subsidized by the systemic banks.

Do you really think it costs zero to secure the entire GDP, and the entire wealth, of an entire economy? zero cost SEPA transactions don't secure the EU economy. The US military and their nuclear weapons do, and they don't cost zero, like a SEPA transactions for a coffee.

What's the cost to secure 10 trillion? 100 trillion?
Oh, and another similarity: I start lots of projects that interest me, but the ones that get finished are the ones my boss (the wife in this case) keeps hassling me about ;-)
Professional classical musician here.

Have you considered learning to play an instrument and taking some basic music lessons on that instrument? This could give you the kind of practice at recognizing musical structures that you need to become more proficient in hearing them at speed. Since you'd learn musical notation as part of this, you'd also have a new visual/mental framework that might connect up the wires in your brain a bit better for performance in other contexts, too, like dancing.
I was wondering where the side of "what if we reduce pollution for nothing???" would move the goalposts. I have no idea what would convince these folks to reduce pollution.
Why would you assume ignorance instead of malice when a very smart person advised by smart people with domain knowledge makes an obviously nonsensical claim, while billions are on the line?
of course it's not possible to come up with an ironclad set of rules on how best to spend money, especially not in the space of a single blog post. but that doesn't mean it isn't worth trying. if nothing else, it helps to become more intentional about how you spend your money, which most people would probably benefit from.

I personally don't find the concept described in this blog post very useful. I prefer to think in terms of annualized/amortized costs, especially within the perspective of money-stress-time tradeoffs. I could see others finding it helpful though.
Even if you remove www it works, i.e. http://ai/
The point of calling it a nitpick was to indicate precisely that my comment wasn't meant to be taken harshly.
I hate working with wood, you can't weld it.

I really like this article though, and relate completely. I do metalworking and fabrication (building race cars) as a side hobby because having a tactile, physical thing to tinker with helps cool off from the daily software work.
>Todd Howard was the mind behind TES and Fallout 3/4

He was one of the mindS behind TES, and probably the dumbest of the bunch. Since companies exist for profit, and the most profit exists in the lowest common denominator, he was eventually the only one left, which is how you get modern Bethesda.