skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ardour uses XML (and thus so does Mixbus and the now defunct-but-available Waves Tracks Live).
Russia unexpectedly poor at cyberwar, say European military heads
I think there's a larger point around the general notion of "spread of competency".

the competency is not allowed to spread. there's a thick shroud of secrecy around how all this sophisticated technology comes about.

This is also why semiconductors are so difficult.

Back in the early 20th century the nuclear stuff was secret so the nazis and then the russians would not get it.

Now semiconductors are also closely related to national security stuff (china and taiwan). I find it quite suggestive that most of the tech used to make the semiconductors is owned european companies.

Finally, I have a sensation that in the 18-19th century it was the chemical sciences that were similarly shrouded in secrecy of this sort.

There was a topic here on HN the other day about how there's so little popularization of chemistry... IMO, this is why, the legacy of secrecy so to guarantee competitive industrial advantages still casts its shadow.
I can boil this incompetence you describe down even further: employers and their employees don’t want to spend time making their own interview challenges.

It’s actually pretty hard and time consuming to come up with a mock scenario and evaluate it, especially when you also have your regular work to do.

Leetcode is seen as good enough and all the effort is on the interviewee. The current employees don’t see the pain and suckage. They already have a job and it’s not their problem.
It's hard to describe just how much of software engineering & it's enjoyability comes from attaining perspective, from reaching a point where you see & understand how a big pile of stuff works.

> One thing working in complexity’s favor, though, is that engineers like complexity. Admit it: as much as we complain about other people’s complexity, we love our own. We love sitting around and dreaming up new architectural diagrams that can comfortably sit inside our own heads

It's harder to acquire a sense of mastery & possession, of real understanding, when there's been multiple iterations of teams hacking on a piece of software, when it's many layered & has lost cohesion & concerted intentionality.

Trying to describe how relishable, how enjoyable it can be to explore, to search & quest for meaning, to push designs that hopefully make sense, that hopefully grow, that hopefully wrangle: it's an under-sung & hard to tell story. It's interesting to me having such a big part of the world running off of a knowledge-working that is so under-described, so hard to communicate personally about.
Even simpler to use `futures::executor::block_on`. No need to create a runtime, you can just call the function.

https://docs.rs/futures/latest/futures/executor/fn.block_on....
SyncThing comes with a built-in feature to keep the last n versions of files around[1], for added peace of mind.

https://docs.syncthing.net/users/versioning.html
That small co is not small enough for you to learn as much as you think you will. Take amazon.

Small to me means 4-5 people where you are forced to do a lot more than your job calls you to. In this case, a 300 size company will have annoying growing pains at that size (organizationally), whereas amazon will be more stable, be a better launchpad for your career, and if you find a small team in there, probably has startup vibes anyway.
Don't worry about the 'obscure' aspect. That's part of the aesthetic imo.
Just install it, boot up a comment and go to this group:

~bitbet-bolbel/urbit-community

Justin Murphy also has a pretty cool guide here:
https://imperceptible.computer/

You could boot a comet and message me (~piclyx-docsun) there with your HN name and I'll link you cool groups I'm in.

What I find weird about Urbit is that it isn't mainstream, but most groups I'm in are pretty active. The UI also adds to the experience, it is soothing.

Would be happy to show you more stuff.

Edit:

To answer the status, you could check the blog (https://urbit.org/blog) or you could join the network and follow the beginner groups (i.e. ~bitbet-bolbel/urbit-community).
TFA was not about using HTTP, but about the development of applications that run "in the browser".
Dropbox ghosted me a while back, I guess they don't need advice on matters like this, so I'll just show up in the comments.

Shouldn't the files remain on the hard drive even if Dropbox deleted their end?

I switched to Spider oak for a while, but more because I wanted encryption at rest, I didn't have an issue with them beyond not adding that feature.

I then moved to just backing up locally and alternating between two USB hard drives, one of which was stored in a safe deposit box at my credit union, because a one time fee for a hard drive or three encrypted using Veracrypt (then Truecrypt? Memory is fuzzy) plus a safe deposit box is simpler and cheaper.

I like to keep things offline, and it was interesting when a bank I talked to about opening one in my new city was... oddly obstructionist about that ask.

(Has anyone else told a bank you're an aspiring journalist, would like to purchase a small safe deposit box to hold your birth certificate, passport, and a backup of your files, then tried to have a will drawn up to designate someone who would receive the contents of the box in the event of your death, then had someone break into your apartment and very obviously look into your notebooks?

I still don't have a good answer for that fundemental problem that devices can be hacked, but physical security is hard.

Anyways, sorry to go on a tangent, but it doesn't surprise me that maybe Justin did something very bad, and they just want to end the relationship and not interact anymore, but I won't get specific in a public forum.

Dropbox itself was kind of buggy for me, sometimes it'd fail at whatever their implementation of rsync did, and start filling my hard drive with multiple copies of my Dropbox folder, at best filling it up -- I suspect their shit code is one reason I kept having to have Applecare to keep replacing my hard drive.

That or the assholes who kept blasting me with malware... I suspect it was the same set of people who were skimming credit cards from Mother Bear's and uploading them to the dark web, if any of the feds who cyberstalk me are bored this morning ;-)
And mobile apps.
> I don't believe 'signatures change' is reasonable or valid. By the time someone reaches adulthood and has an ID, their mark is likely to be quite distinct. Check your grandmother's signature sometime.

I have my own signature that I can check and I KNOW it has changed significantly over time. Why? Because I don't sign a lot of things! Hell, I hardly write anything down.

There are many, MANY, reasons a signature can change, for example, injury. But beyond that, there's just general drift in the way people write things. [1]

> The comparison can be done trivially by image processing.

No, it can't, because the signature is not exact, even in the best of cases. The software HAS to make allowances in differences and once that happens, we are in the territory of "what is this actually proving?"

Further, signature forgery is a thing. There's a reason banks and CCs no longer even check the signature. It's a relic that proves nothing.

But beyond all this conversation, the current process for states doing signature validation isn't to reach out to the person that cast the vote to verify their ballot, no, instead they mark the ballot as invalid and move on. [2]

Indeed, if the concern was voter fraud, why WOULDN'T you want to reach out to the absentee ballot caster to find out if they actually cast the ballot? Why would "throw it away" ever be the right move?

[1] https://www.thecut.com/2016/09/why-your-handwriting-keeps-ch...

[2] https://electionlab.mit.edu/sites/default/files/2021-07/swif...
> I prefer this over other more popular blockers because Privacy Badger doesn't directly go after ads. It just blocks the tracking aspect

This is the exact reason why I use DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials instead of an ad-blocker. Whenever I mention that I don’t block ads out of principle, I get down-voted a lot :-D
Go to the underlying virtualization layer and peek up.
“Some surprising findings call for further study, according to the researchers. For example, they found that fairness-case justifications for diversity may also induce some social identity threat among members of underrepresented groups—though only about half as much as business-case justifications do. "We have more research to do here, but the possibility that no justification is the best justification for diversity is incredibly interesting," Rattan says.”

This is interesting
Digital Foundry measured a 20.2-second boot load time for GTA V single player on the PS5 and 28.9-second boot load time on a PC. Not even the PS4 takes 3-4 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5QHInJShQw
I'm waiting for the day that AWS collapses under its own weight. Heard horror stories from backend engineers working on the infrastructure/dashboard code there.
From late 1990 until around 1997 I had a full feed via UUNET and ran cnews locally on my pc with cnews and trn for reading. It wasn't long before I had to scale back and drop all the binary groups and eventually others. IIRC a full feed when I started was about 3MB a day (still tough to do at 12/2400 bps)
Having moved services from on prem servers to EC2 to OCP to EKS, I don't think these decrease complexity.
> When I visited I was greeted by an attractive, kind of gothy/emo young lady who had visible self-harm marks.

> The guy gave her a look, and her reaction was something that stank of domestic violence situations. There was something abusive and creepy going on that really threw me off balance.

That's probably someone who based her whole self-worth around impressing people making the games she loved.
It’s a coding social network; these features keep people happy with the GitHub brand and they increase the amount of features any potential competitor must implement if they want to be competitive against GH.
It will probably handle that workflow really well. The fanless design isn’t as good for sustained performance (gaming, video exporting, etc) but for edit/compile/debug cycles it’s great.

Keep in mind the M2 machines still have a limitation of one external display. To have two monitors you need at least an M1 Pro 14”
Storing data for almost 10% of the human population. That's impressive.
The jury is still very much out on Twitter's usefulness. Primary engagement is from those who want to be seen and heard. Not sure anyone's listening.
For their specific job, Dropbox is still the best. Which is really sad considering what they do. They are the only one delivering a sane client, working well on multiple platforms, without any quirks like filename-hiccups and such. Though, my requirement is also to work on linux, so I might be a bit special. Though, OneDrive seems to now be pretty good on Windows and mostly on pair with Dropbox featurewise.

But on the other side, it's easier to lose your account with google or microsoft, so this might be another reason people preferred dropbox, till now.
I think the discrepancy is not all the thermal output is converted to electricity:

> A1B reactors likely produce enough steam to generate 125 megawatts (168,000 hp) of electricity, plus 350,000 shaft horsepower (260 MW) to power the four propeller shafts.
For those who are curious about SPARC and CFS (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), this lecture by Dr. Whyte covers the salient points:

> Small, modular & economically attractive fusion enabled by high-field superconductors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY6U4wB-oYM
Note that solar and wind power are NOT alternatives to the predictable base load of nuclear, hydro, or fuel burning power generation.
You actually do, what Tulsi generates is an XCode project that has shell script build steps that call out to bazel. Bazel underneath the covers will end up calling the clang that comes with XCode.
That's why they promote memory pressure as a metric. Generally bad things start to happen once the graph goes into the red.
Judging by the price, it already has.
Just looked it up and the first machines that shipped with M1 were released on November 10th so you might be right considering they never said 2 years from WWDC 2020 specifically.
I came from the BBS era before Usenet and I think that would be an interesting experiment in social networking today.

Allow regular people to set up a BBS that other people could connect to. Once there they can read/post on public message boards, they can send direct messages to other users on the same BBS, they can exchange files between them, they can play multiplayer online games with their friends, engage in group chat, etc.

A small percentage of people like running things like this. Right now they're probably starting up a Facebook group that has draconian content restrictions and extremely limited functionality. Make it easy for them to start a BBS - either on a SaaS platform or literally hosted on their own device, they might just switch to it.
I thought the Arctic vault and Mars badges were pretty cool, but these new ones are really cringe. Unfortunately they can only be disabled together.
The "Catalonian rebellion" I was mentioned was the Reaper's War, which was hugely expensive for Spain and the payments for which involved what would become a long series of currency devaluations.

The war of Spanish Succession was between the countries you mentioned, as well as Catalonia as a part of both Spain and France. One important event in that war was the formation of an army of Habsburg loyalists by Catalonia to dispute the treaties of Utrecht. This in turn led to the Nueva Planta decrees and the end of Catalonia as an autonomous principality within Spain.

If you have any more questions about imperial Spain (particularly the colonies) or you'd like me to go into more depth, feel free to ask.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reapers%27_War
This is undoubtedly true, but south korea has now been building nuclear plants for decades, and their costs haven't really dropped at all.
It feels like the kind of thing that would be a side project. I've never worked at GitHub or MS and have no inside info on this, but I worked at Google years ago and any similar launch from them during (or before) my time there could easily have been a 20% project. Badges on Google's internal company directory proliferated and were widely enjoyed.
One of the achievements is 'YOLO': 'merged without a review'.

We really shouldn't be encouraging this.
I've helped some students that are struggling in secondary math.

They tend to have a surprisingly good handle on the specific topic being studied that they're failing. I can have them tell me what to do on a problem on the whiteboard, and do all the arithmetic and simpler things for them, and they're flawless.

They also tend to have problems in arithmetic and in getting confused on simpler concepts. Context switching is expensive and they lose working memory of the higher order task, and then make silly mistakes.

Most outside tutors work to try and solidify the higher level topic even further, by drilling the heck out of it... this conceals the problem for it to reappear on next unit. (And, it ossifies the new knowledge in a way that compounds the problem for next year).

I don't like the whole "layer cake" model of teaching math that "builds" upon other math in the way we do in the US. But to some extent, it is justified in places. If you struggle with basic arithmetic and integers, algebra is much, much harder.
My Intel MacBook Pro skips music and drops bluetooth packets during heavy workloads.
Can we please stop turning everything into a social media experience? Why the constant need for personal validation / ego gratification?

It seems like almost every tool or platform these days needs a friends feature, bragging badges or other form of social validation.
> as a lone inventor genius a la Tesla

The de-facto deification is pervasive.
Cadoo - great bite sized workouts
Sometime ago I was comparing go, python and Rust to do some GET request asynchronous.

At first, I noticed that the go version was actually faster than the Rust one, and then I saw that in `reqwest`, they recommend you if you're doing multiple GET request, to create a `Client` and then use that to get better performance[1]. After changing my code, the Rust version was effectively a bit faster (not by much, to be honest, which was a bit disappointing considering go's version was way easier to write, and I say this as a generally rust shill).

Hopefully this comment is somewhat helpful :)

[1] https://docs.rs/reqwest/latest/reqwest/#making-a-get-request
Exactly. I honestly think no one is entitled more than software developers. Not even that chick from Mean Girls. Hell which other similarly paying field can you double compensation in like three or four months. Six months if you are slow or have a demanding life. Lawyers? Hahahaha. Doctor? Hahahaha. At least with LC there is an end goal. Those 75 questions. Or well I think 150 questions.
I hate LC personally but also am able to recognize that it is a silver platter handed to me. The article above mentions all the negatives. Ya bro who didn't know them?
The "made" part matters a lot. They heavily rely on TSMC's process being so good.
I'm pretty sure that most of the benefit of FAANG-type interviews is narrowing the candidate pool to almost exclusively people who'd be OK to hire. IOW they could just hire randomly from the pool with no leetcoding at all, and likely do about as well.

The trouble is, they actually can't do that because then the pool would change, quickly.
Before I was using my teeth, then one day I randomly tried using my hands. It surprisingly worked much better and I'm shocked more people don't do it this way.

Kidding =]. I actually don't have a better way of opening jars, it was more an example to show the triviality of the type of problems this kind of trial and error can work for. Maybe a better example is figuring out a repeatable way to get a stubborn door to shut. Things like that.

EDIT: Actually, you probably already know this, but if you turn a jar upside down and hit it on a counter top, it can knock the lid loose enough to twist off. I didn't mention it because I didn't figure that one out on my own, but if you're looking for jar-opening tips, that's a good one.
tl;dr premise = society is complex, software is complex; complex societies collapse... therefore complex software collapses, question mark, waggling eyebrows, surely makes you think etc etc.

> ...Opinions expressed in this blog are mine *and frequently wrong*.

Emphasis added.

Equating the complexities of software with the complexities of societies (the premise of this post) is a fun and provactive blog post. Which is all this is. I was really hoping for a serious treatment that meaningfully dug into this, but that's my problem.
Can’t wait for more ppl making random bullsh*t PR just to earn these badges lol
Because an IDE doesn't always (or even usually) avoid those things, and I don't consider learning time to be unproductive if it means in the future I'm more productive.

It's a pretty clear cut argument that using an IDE as a crutch will inevitably bite you in the ass, and if you want the best possible understanding of the language you're using and all of its related tools you ought not use an IDE as it obfuscates those very things you're trying to learn about.
Disagree. I’ve interviewed quite a few people who are prepping and are senior. Even for those who have been at FAANG before - it’s common to spend multiple months prepping nights and weekends. Taking a full two months off just to study is uncommon. But if you think just doing an hour a day is sufficient - you’re wrong. Most candidates (even senior ones) fail with that level of studying.

I know because I’ve talked to dozens if not hundreds of people who have tried to get into FAANG with that level of study. It definitely takes more for the average person. Some people get lucky and spend maybe two weeks studying for a couple hours a day. But they’re lucky and shouldn’t be considered the norm.

Also - LC and the whole process is very fungible. You can say they did well if you happen to like the candidate for some other reason and you can knock them down if you don’t like them either. I’ve seen it go both ways where terrible candidates get offers and amazing ones get rejected. Ultimately - LC is still only part of the interview. If you are really handsome and charming - you might get an offer even if you’re not very good at LC.
I think several things are getting confused here. I’m mentioning two factors:

1) tax efficiency
2) actual risk of losing money/extracting value from their holdings.

If an investor wants reliable, regular income, stock buybacks aren’t helpful. Dividends are. Enough to be worth using less tax efficient structures.

However if an investor wants a maximally large portfolio at a indefinite future point, they generally don’t care about dividends. In fact if they want maximum tax efficiency above cash flow (which such investor generally wants), and are comfortable with risk, they want to avoid dividends.

Stock buybacks ARE more tax efficient than dividends, but also higher risk.

In theory (and usually in practice even more so), buying back the $1bln increases the value of ongoing remaining stock holdings by $1bln.

However, unlike a dividend, that doesn’t get converted into cash. It turns cash into increased scarcity for equity ownership in the company.

Depending on expected future earnings multiples (cough inflated P/E) this can swing widely, but also provide ‘leverage’ for a company doing this.

Which increases ongoing dependence on management of the company, market perception of the companies worth, etc. which increases actual risk to the investor going forward.

It is far more tax efficient though.

Which if ‘everything always goes up’ is not a big deal, and often desirable. If someone is making sure they have cash in a bank account every month so they don’t need to be eating cat food, less so.

Does what I’m saying make more sense in that context?

I suspect that the ‘market goes up’ + automation of trades has also made dividends look less necessary. It’s been awhile since we’ve had a good stock market crash.
There have been rumors that the next Mini will be available in M2 and M2 Pro configurations.

This is backed up by Apple still selling Intel Mac Minis at the high end. They seem to think that product niche hasn’t been filled by the M1 mini yet.

If so I would expect the mini to be updated when M2 Pro is announced.
Asteroid Ryugu study informs our understanding of solar system formation
There's a huge lesson in this. Web's layout engine is really bad, but because so many developers have experience in it and it works everywhere, it makes sense to build Electron apps.
Can you share what kind of things these are that give far more signal?
Reminds me of the Stack Overflow profile badges, which themselves were inspired by Xbox achievements.
Yes, you are correct that the NHL sets the price of the content. And if fans were to lose interest or move to piracy, then Newell's argument would absolutely apply.

The problem is that, as it stands, sports fans aren't going to do that. Remember, these are the same kinds of people who shout at city governments to keep subsidizing sports arenas so they don't lose "their team". The NHL has a massive money spigot and they're going to keep it flowing for as long as they can.
Russia did it https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic-industry-and-energy...
In that way it also acts as a legal form of ageism.
>You can read on the toilet, that's what people used to do back in the 90s and before!

That is a bad idea, according to my doctor and my own experience. Ideally for the long term health of your sphincter, you should try to get on, take your dump, and get off the toilet in just a few minutes total. I used to keep a stack of magazines next to my toilet but gave that up years ago and am glad I did.