skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So maybe we need the opposite, a completely authoritarian and centralized way of handling internet services. Imagine if there was a single mail service, provider and client, handling all possible uses cases, a single web browser, etc.

Its like the complete opposite end, instead of using a standard protocol to implement your use case, simply improve on _the_ service.

[Edit]: Oh, and by 'centralized' I don't mean BigCo is in charge of it and manage the servers for it. What I mean is Public Organization 'owns' the service, but this service could very well be self-hosted by users, decentralized, etc. It's just that it is 'forbidden' that any other organization works or develops a similar service.
If you interview often enough, you'll see a similar pattern. Here's my list:

"What's your product development attitude?"

"How did you know about this position?"

"How did you learn about Technology X?"

"Tell me about your latest role"

"Why are you switching jobs?"

"What would you change at current role?"

"Tell me about another project, it can be a side project."

"What do you plan on being in 5 years?"

"Why aren't you at senior/manager level yet?"

"I see you did tech X here, and then Y. Why the career shift?"

"What excites you?" (This is a surprisingly common question that throws me off. The first one I got it, I answered "productivity". Which was true, but it sounded like a bullshit answer and lost me that interview. I've learned to talk about AI or cooking or exponential growth and relate that to incremental games. This question is often a bullshit detector)

"What advice would you have for younger you?"

"What is something you've had trouble with recently?"

"How would you change that?"

"What's the worst mistake you've ever made?"

"Why haven't you joined FAANG?"

"Tell me how did you handle disagreements at work"

"What's your growth plan? What do you want?"

"What's your favourite design pattern?"

"How do you manage tech debt?"
The People's Tramp
The "dream" of web3 sounds horrifying--monetizing absolutely everything--even without 95+% of it being a scam.
If 99% of Bitcoin users/hash power switched over to a different set of rules, the 1% wouldn't matter, the 99% would ignore them. They could whinge and cry all they wanted.

I'm not sure the analogy even works, but in the case of driving, if 99% decided to switch how the roads were to be used, I assure you that literal resistance would not be tolerated. There might be some incidents, but there wouldn't be very many before the 1% were the ones getting pushed around.
That's quite the non-sequitor. An exploration of how broken "the market" is would be an entirely separate discussion. If you wanted to have that discussion, we could start by analyzing the massive subsidies enjoyed by fossil fuels, not to mention the complete lack of accounting for its toxic byproducts which are dumped into the atmosphere (while nuclear power is legally required to track and safely store every molecule).

Or we could just keep building gas peaker plants and ignore the mass die-offs, because "the market" can't possibly be wrong, right? /s
This is some great nugget of knowledge, thanks for sharing. it's too bad all my programming enthusiasm is going into a 9-5
It’s not just the feature that’s unsafe, it’s the feature plus the marketing.

If the other manufacturers start throwing “full self-driving” around to describe their cruise control/lane keeping/automatic breaking, and people start crashing because they rely on that, then yes. I expect there would be some regulatory activity.
By the way, this blog (Construction Physics) is about why construction in general (not nuclear power construction in particular) is expensive. One big part is that construction is done on site, and site-to-site variation hurts standardization and economies of scale.

Finished airplanes can transport itself by flying. This advantage is particular to aircraft industry and probably can't be copied by other industries. Finished buildings can't transport itself.
Outline the topics you expect everyone on your team to be familiar with. If they start describing something on the list, reestablish thay everyone knows. If you tire of hearing something, add it to the list.

Expectations. It's super super hard to guess where people are & what they get. A lot of people stay stuck in first gear because there's colleagues who never tune in, & being explanatory is a courtesy to keep reminding folks of basic shit. Raise the expectation & be explicit about what's known already.
That doesn't really show anything because it's such a huge mixture and the vast majority is random toxic chemicals, not plain old spent fuel.
> and then reuse of the same inverters outside normal solar generation hours to discharge the batteries.

Yes, if we are talking about hours of capacity then batteries can be very cost competitive to fossil fuels. That is exactly what the financial advisor stated in their report.

In areas where solar + batteries can reliable handle all year round demands for energy, those technologies should just replace fossil fuels. There will likely be some natural gas plants that get subsidies to exist as reserve in case there is a sudden weather change, but nuclear wouldn't be a great option in such places.
seL4 is great in theory, and formal verification is awesome, but I read some of their code recently the implementation leaves something to be desired.
What evidence? I haven't seen anything relevant.
Regarding the writing itself, see Larry McEnerney’s lecture The Craft of Writing Effectively:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM
The manufacturer is Northrop Grumman. I have no idea who you are or what your finances are like, but I am willing to bet that you cannot afford to buy it.
What did you do with that failing refactoring project?
Lessons from the golden age of the mall walkers
Mastodon is not built for a single community comprising "hundreds of millions of users". Individual users and communities will interact on a far smaller scale, much as they might with email.
> At some point a national payment rail makes sense though it offends my capitalistic sensibilities though currency violates that too.

It’s not at all clear to me why anyone thinks that it’s “anti-capitalistic” for a tax-collecting democratic government to provide a digital API to transact with their sovereign fiat currency. Why should that be a rent-seeking competitive business left to the private sector?

Could you or someone clarify?
> If the DVD was taking up shelf space

I think in 2022, that's true of most DVDs.
I had the same thought. I’ve seen some booking sites default to “OSLALL” when you select Oslo, which will show results for both OSL and TRF. Probably “OSLALL” is not a real IATA. Either way, to me OSL should mean Gardermoen and nothing else. And search results I am finding on Google seem to indicate the same. After all, it’d be pretty silly if you were traveling to Gardermoen and your luggage was tagged “OSL” but then your luggage somehow ended up on TRF instead.

So referring to OSL as “all airports around Oslo, Norway” is IMO a mistake on the part of the OpenBSD developers indeed. In spite of the point made by the sibling comment about ambiguity. Because the context is airports, I think OpenBSD should list OSL as “Oslo Gardermoen Airport, Norway” in their airports file.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Airport,_Gardermoen which says:

> Oslo Airport (Norwegian: Oslo lufthavn; IATA: OSL, ICAO: ENGM), alternatively referred to as Oslo Gardermoen Airport or simply Gardermoen
This seems like it was more or less just a straight-up scam. They told customers that they were investing their funds in a diversified set of stablecoins. They promised the customers they could not lose money because the stablecoins were all backed. They then put all of the money into Terra, an algorithmic stablecoin, which is not backed by anything.

Terra gave yields near 20%, but Stablegains gave 15%, so they were basically just skimming 5% off the top. I wonder if it will be possible to sue or even prosecute.
Camera Mortis: How photographs of the dead helped me mourn
Because all of them are Americans and deserve protection under our common laws. All states are in the union with the understanding that the union will protect everyone, including unionists in a state with significant support for secession. It's not my idea of justice, it's our idea of justice, all of ours. Turning our back on them by letting a state leave illegally would be betraying that trust.

Also consider that before the U.S. civil war the southern states voted against Lincoln, the northern candidate, in fact he was not even on the ballot in many of them. If the enslaved people in those states had been able to vote things would have gone differently. So we have a unique and terrible history of states seceding based on a minority's wishes.
Performance cost is a legitimate concern but one that should be considered in relative terms.

e.g. yes there are more allocations, but in what context is the code being used? Are we building gigabyte-scale real-time systems? no? ok then let's maybe not worry about performance right now and instead optimize for intuition, maintainability and readability. Obviously while at the same time monitoring CPU and memory consumption of our applications to help us determine when we might want to look to optimize our code.
"Bottom of the ocean" here doesn't mean on the continental shelf.
As always with any of these kind of computational speed related posts, I just want to know what it means for audio related applications and latency
Can confirm this works almost always even with fresh eggs. Caveat: 5 minutes of pressure cooking also means a few minutes to heat up/pressurize, the 5 minutes of cook time, and 5+ minutes of natural depressurization, so don't time everything else around the 5 minute thing. I have yet to try forced depressurization, so YMMV.
I agree that we are going to need more power generation as electricity replaces other forms of energy.

But for any given level of electricity generation, doing it in a cheaper way is still better than doing it in a more expensive way. For one thing, it allows capacity to be increased for the same cost.
Src: https://github.com/sigstore/gitsign

> Keyless Git signing with Sigstore!

> This is heavily inspired by [github/smimesign], but uses keyless Sigstore to sign Git commits with your own GitHub / OIDC identity
Gets hired because he has 4k YOLO badges. Agile.
Look on university websites. I don’t know if there is a meta search. Lots of universities have online course offerings. The courses are typically designed by university professors and staff and then they hire people who actually work in the field to oversee sections of the course. Typically they require you to have a masters degree.
Assessing Germany’s venture capital potential in climate tech until 2030 [pdf]
Reality: a nurse relays the inmate's concerns to a doctor overwhelmed with patients who is not familiar with this particular inmate's medical background, unless that inmate is already a regular in the infirmary.

Prison doctors are actually doctors. But like most doctors these days, they're usually too overwhelmed with patients and too underwhelmed with resources to do much more than triage.
People looking to break out some nostalgia for the original while they wait can use the excellent engine rewrite reminiscence¹.

The author also has a really cool JS implementation for the cutscenes² linked at the bottom of the main page.

¹ http://cyxdown.free.fr/reminiscence/

² https://cyxx.github.io/dpoly_js/
Nice article - Leet code style interviews give minimal signal. The fact that we use the word Leetcode makes me think the company is hiring for the masses and it's going to be a boring job. I call such a company a Dinosaur.

I think companies should offer a choice to interviewers if they prefer to give code samples , an at home problem solving or an in-person exercise. This addresses careful thinkers, adapts for anxiety during an interview.

I do appreciate when companies ask relevant questions that they have come across rather than mundane Sudoku questions.

I have interviewed with a few companies, and Stripe's interview style stands out. Coding questions are relevant day to day style questions.

I would say Google, Amazon and Facebook set this trend and have spoiled it for all.

Unfortunately, some companies cannot think on their feet to set a different approach. Maybe it's in your best interest to avoid these places.
Nuclear pore complex by integrative cryo-EM and AlphaFold
Agreed. It's a sad state of affairs.
Yeah, it was bad enough that I gave up on my quest to use Linux for media production and switched back to macOS. Never had the occasion to try it again.
> Defeating CoVID was too a national priority. Did they manage to build a single new mask manufacturing line?

I don't think this is a fair representation of what happened. US capacity existed and some additional came online, but then largely failed because of overseas product still coming in below their cost. Semiconductors after a shooting war with China would be a different picture: an imminent return to normalcy wouldn't be in everyone's economic calculations.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/05/business/dealbook/america...

> that they can't even get a single part in the blowing machine to be made in the US.

Not even a single part? Now you're in hyperbole-land.
> Are you saying that these large instances would refuse to interoperate with each other?

Likely. It's the same thing that happened to the big XMPP instances.

There are other ways that open systems turn closed. I'm not sure which one would happen to the Fediverse, but given how often it has happened, and the variety of proximate causes and exact end-states, I'm betting my money on the Fediverse turning closed somehow.

* The XMPP path where the biggest instances just decide they aren't going to federate with anyone else any more.

* The SMTP path where the big instances gradually accumulate anti-abuse mechanisms that make the barrier to entry too high for anyone who requires reliable delivery and isn't one of them.

* The IRC path where the network fractures into centrally-controlled coalitions that federate with each other but not with anyone outside the coalition.

* The NNTP path where the cost of running a server kept going up, the number of servers kept going down, and now if you want access to the entire network, you have to pay a subscription fee to one of three companies.

* The Git path where a single instance bundles value-adds that lead to most users just using the one central service.
Except in blockchain, the "not scam" doesn't exist. It's all scam.
I think you’re both right.
A team of cryptographers in a Moscow basement is still trying to decipher Charlie Parker.
From your comment you seem to think that Google somehow owns your arse. Perhaps you use them for your email and other functions and fail to see over the top of their walled garden?

There is no doubt that Google largely own Search and several other functions but they really don't own the internet as a whole. Often we see sad articles on HN about how the monster in the room twats someone into oblivion thanks to a stupid "AI" making a judgement call that a human would be embarrassed about. To avoid or perhaps slightly mitigate that fate is well documented hereabouts and elsewhere. For what it is worth (in my experience)
Google is not inimical on an arbitrary basis. They really don't decide anything - it's all algorithms, pixie dust and bollocks. Avoid that and you are golden.

As it turns out, I've been able to run many "local" email systems and even my own little IT company quite happily for over two decades, without giving much thought to Google. We do have a newsletter email that we send out too. Some of my customers fly quite close to the edge of the spam/ham boundary.

I operate in the UK. Bizarrely, I can quite happily run SMTP from a domestic FTTC connection here, with a little care.
Exactly this.

I remember when I upgraded Ubuntu 14 to Ubuntu 16 and the GUI stopped working and was dumped to the command line. Luckily I had a Linux guru around to fix it, because otherwise my only alternative would have been to reinstall it - seeing how many esoteric steps he did to debug and fix it there is no way I could have googled my way out of it.
Having written wifi router firmware in rust, I would disagree
I hate the stupid argument that "white collar crime" is just as bad. No, hurting a company's profits isn't as bad as stabbing someone. These are very different things.
As long as they don't maliciously comply, that would start a renaissance period, in my opinion. Suddenly, they'd be the good guys, instead of the worst offenders.

Everyone who wants to use the pure apple system can, everyone who wants to tinker can. Perfect world.
"What if I made the worlds worst DRM and then sued everyone who bypassed it?"

Any damages would be eaten up by lawyer's fees. The legal fees are (arguably?) worth it to protect a whole system's games from being freely available but the lawsuit itself would not be profitable.
It isn't - we should be (and a lot of larger corps are) encouraging higher standards for workers in those places, and it is significantly better compared to a decade ago. Not to mention as those workers demand better wages and conditions, it suddenly starts to make economic sense to hire locally.

We should not be taking steps backwards and making that sort of behaviour acceptable, because if we do that at home - then places with already lower standards will compete by lowering theirs further.
If we assume that indeed games are art, it really checks out: artists being paid on the free market is an anomaly of the recent times, the norm before was patronages and commissions paid in advance.
For those reading this on mobile, the following uBlock filter lets you actually read the article, instead of a garbage autoplay video taking up 30-40% of the screen and being impossible to dismiss:

kokatu.com##div.autoplay

I really hope at some point we have some way of challenging these arbitrary "lost sales" figures. Just because someone can't pirate something does not 100% guarantee that they'd buy a legit copy.
Perhaps the phrasing "dissolved my startup company" would be more clear.
A more official announcement seems to be at https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/165473835807.573551.15...
Postgres is some awesome engineering imo
Great insight - better than the article.
I think this is a per-person issue. I personally am a “I need to care deeply about what I’m working on” kind of person; I’m not motivated by problem-solving for its own sake. Some people are. I suspect that there are many successful entrepreneurs in both categories, but the kinds of problems they solve and the kinds of companies they build are likely somewhat different.
Except vioxx. One of the biggest mistaken approvals of all time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rofecoxib#Withdrawal
Maybe he was rich maybe not, but this is what Elon has to say:

> “One thing he [Musk's father] claims is he gave us a whole bunch of money to start, my brother and I, to start up our first company [Zip2, which provided online city guides to newspapers]. This is not true,” Musk says. “He was irrelevant. He paid nothing for college. My brother and I paid for college through scholarships, loans and working two jobs simultaneously. The funding we raised for our first company came from a small group of random angel investors in Silicon Valley.” [0]

Errol invested between 20-30k well after Zip2 was on it's way and they closed a huge round weeks after. His father took credit for helping him but the Musk brothers strongly deny it [0], and Elon literally slept in the office and showered in the local YMCA to get off the ground [1]

Even Elon's wiki page misreports this, but the Zip2 wiki page has it right.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20200817165150/https://www.rolli...

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/the-rise-of-elon-musk-2016-7...
It takes a lot to motivate people to leave their family and community behind.
>he'll start answering with something like, "There are four things I would..."

I've been know to start off replies like that. It's usually that the question is really long winded, so as they say it the issues start jumping out. Then you just kind of keep track of the count until they're done talking and give some space to answer. The hardest part is remembering all the points. If I was smarter I'd jot down a word or two to jog my memory.

Generally these are situations where I know a system really well and the other person does not. So they are saying something like, "why don't we try X", and I either already tried X and just need to list off all the ways in which it failed, or I thought about trying X before, but didn't because of all the ways I thought about it failing. Other times all the issues just seem really obvious, to the point that I can't believe they are talking without hearing the pitfalls.

I may have been the one to post that the other day, I know I left that video in a comment. Another Jobs story on this topic... I saw an article recently with someone talking about how to debate/argue with Jobs. Sadly I can't remember who it was, some other CEO I think. He would go into meet with Jobs and bring up and issue and Jobs would do what you mentioned and give 5 reasons why his idea sucked. Because Jobs' mind worked so much faster than his (his words), he just had to take it and leave. He'd spend the next week thinking about it and formulating his reply. He walk in again and Jobs would respond back instantly. The guy would leave and take another week to come up with his reply... it would go back and forth like this. Eventually Jobs would either finally get his point and say, "oh, you're right", or he'd give up and just tell him to do whatever.
Only if you redefine what is usually meant when people say "blockchain" to mean "some kind of linked data structure with checksums", then yes, git is a fantastic use of a linked data structure with checksums.
Any reason to think being creative in general is somehow easier for people than before? Whatever solution you offer should also apply to the base case which is writing a story or a song, both of which are “cheap” in terms of required tools and yet extremely difficult for most people to do well. So maybe we don’t want to discourage the creators just yet?
Sure, as long as the same rules applied to their own works. That's the whole motivation behind copyleft licenses: to turn copyright against itself. Without copyright there would be no need for copyleft, the GPL included.
How about buying a preowned DVD? If we decide that what you're paying for is the entertainment and joy of watching a movie, are we not stealing from the content creators by reselling and purchasing used DVDs?

Edit: I'm making it clear I absolutely despise this argument of course :D Being able to buy/sell used physical media is my favorite reason to buy physical and never buy digital.
Revenge porn is illegal, at least in the UK.
What's a PO in this context?
I love Shotcut but I'm not a professional user. I've used it for personal small projects it is a great piece of software for that as far as I am concerned.
The blockchain ownership may be flawed, just like the current paper one. That's why you'd still need title insurance.

Sellers and buyers don't need agents right now. Thanks to Zillow, the price disparity is moot. I knew more than my past real estate agent when I purchased my current house (it was a corporate move or I wouldn't have used one.)

Wire transfers should be instant and irreversible, that's why scammers use them. Where have you seen one that takes 7 days?
Physical property and intellectual property are fundamentally different legally and philosophically. The terminology causes much confusion, especially among those with classical liberal leanings.

https://c4sif.org/2022/01/natural-rights-scarcity-intellectu...
From this I deduce when you mention who wrote it you get more comments.
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