skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like your projects resonate with people, and more important, you are capable of putting them in front of many eyes. Which is even harder than writing code.
For that reason, don't seek the validation of VCs and figure out a business around it. Let your customers be your VCs.

Congratulations on your work :)
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A minor nit: Facebook is already heavily censored, including private messages.
I thought this article was gonna be a joke, seeing how the mov instruction in x86 is Turing complete: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7EEoWg6Ekk
It would be easier even than that, observe what happened in 2017. Bitfinex said they would allocate the BTC ticker to the present BTC chain no matter what the hash power indicated was the actual canonical chain and that was the end of it.

Contrary to popular belief, miners aren't choosing anything when it comes to BTC. They're rubber stamping the decisions of the BTC core developers, who are blessed by the exchanges such as Bitfinex, and they are collecting fees on that rubber stamp.
This is just a thought experiment, but if we replaced each of the "big names" with a collection of smaller companies would we be able to get the same level of innovation?

I think so. I believe it's being good at something that makes a company grow, not the other way around.

Just looking for an answer to all those comments asking if the problem is tractable.
Wow... and you really believe that? It's just like with Microsoft. Once they've got enough money and market share they destroyed their competition through various monopolistic tactics: i.e acquisitions, dumping, lockin etc
Very cool! It would be nice if we stayed on the same page when we fail instead of being redirected to the choice of setups...?
Solo founder means bus factor is high. You don’t even have to die. Having a co-founder increases the chances of you being in it for the long run.
But having a co-founder can pose a whole set of problems itself…
Yes they’re incentivized not to, but when push comes to shove, they can basically choose their own form of “truth” and ignore/disrupt/revert transactions and others would need to fork the chain. It’s not a given which would succeed.

This has happened before
In this context it's "Their first attempt at rocket building was the Challenger, which blew up less than two minutes after launch."

The companies merged in the summer of 1982, right? The first Shuttle launch after the merger was STS-5, when Columbia launched in November 1982. Doesn't that count as Morton-Thiokol's first attempt?

(FWIW, Tiokol's first attempts were in the 1940s. And of course MTI had many successful attempts before the Challenger explosion.)
critical reason why we should oppose central bank digital currencies (CBDC's), once they get rolled out, governments will be able to track every transaction
Regarding the section about whether it is or isn't a true HEPA filter, the Wirecutter is a US based website targeting mostly US based consumers so maybe we should look at the major US standard regarding HEPA filters which is DOE-STD-3020-2015. This standard was originally developed to cover HEPA filters supplied by DOE contractors in nuclear facilities.

How does it define a HEPA filter? "High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) Filter: A throwaway, extended-medium, dry type filter with a rigid casing enclosing the full depth of the pleats. The filter shall exhibit a minimum efficiency of 99.97% when tested with an aerosol of 0.3 micrometer diameter."

So according to the standard in the target market for the review the IKEA air purifier does not use a true HEPA filter and the recommended unit does.

Edit: I looked closer at the European specification used in the article. By that specification the filter in the IKEA unit also is not a true HEPA filter but an EPA filter. The Exx designations mean it is a EPA filter and the Hxx designations mean a HEPA filter.
What's the market like for embedded engineers working on cutting-edge hardware?

Is asm still relevant as an employable skill?

How much of your work requires heavy EE knowledge?

Assuming that you're at Qualcomm/Samsung/Mediatek, do you do any microcoding or is that handled by other teams?
I can tell you that a lot of other tools before Jira that I have had to use were really quite good at mirroring that structure in a much worse way ;) Most of those tools from my experience were not usable in a good way.

You and other people are obviously entitled to the opinion that Jira made it worse.

In my book, that's like saying it's the Swiss Army knife's fault that someone was killed with it.
Always jarring to hear the claim

> Technology is fundamentally neutral

It is in the same way guns are fundamentally neutral. You can't view it without context. Include that and it is clear that tech (or guns) isn't neutral at all.
Name me a stable system that does not become destroyed when an overwhelming amount of energy is applied to it. Is a tortoise with a stick of dynamite attached on a random timer chaotic or not? Seems yes. So what are the limits that define chaos?

By that you could say all is chaotic. We lack a suitable definition here.
I can use my Oculus Go apps (like my beloved 'Race for the Galaxy') on the Oculus Quest (and perhaps there's a way to run it on the Quest2).
I can still use my Google Daydream VR set, but there is no real use case for it (except, like with samsung gearVR underwater VR with a watertight phone). Most if not all apps of these early mobile VR systems have been ported to the Oculus Go, which has superior hardware compared to GearVR (and weighs less then the Quest). There are probably useful apps or good games on Go that haven't been backported to Samsung GearVR, but seriously - the Go is much more comfortable to wear then the bulky GearVR. 250 euro is a lot, but I gladly paid it for a bit more comfort. Why still use Daydream or GearVR?
SteamVR apps can still be run on Windows11 and streamed to Oculus Quest.
What do you mean with
The overclocking FAQ page is so over the top I have a hard time telling if it is satire.
Software like Jira and Fauxgile processes like Scrum feed off and mutually reinforce each other.
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You aren't the Third, or the Steve, Reich.
But on the PC, Steam exists, and they don't have this clamped down DRM jail that other systems have. They also don't build the box, they don't give you the technical advancements that owning the whole stack enables.

Yet Steam takes the same 30% cut. So far others with money, like Epic have been unable to break Steam's stranglehold, even though they take a much lesser pay cut of the earnings.

Every dev ever who has posted about game sales says that non-Steam merchants are a rounding error in terms of revenue.

In practice, the PC being an open platform has only allowed giants like EA and Epic's Fortine to get around having to pay the 30% to Valve.

I feel like this situation would be similar with Facebook and Apple - if they manage to break Apple's monopoly, still nobody would use a 3rd party app store, save for people forced by giants like Facebook.
Would you mind sharing which device you're using? I'm still working on making the first compilation faster!
Apple gets along very well with the FBI. That whole "we won't unlock the phone" thing was simple marketing, which you (and many others) fell for. Apple preserves a backdoor in the end to end encryption of iMessage at the FBI's behest.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
I guess because of sanity and simplicity in its architecture?

I once wrote a software in Rust, a simple API, one binary in one DigitalOcean instance started by systemd, and nothing else. The things has been working nonstop for years making it the most stable piece of long running software I’ve ever written, and I think it all comes from it being simple without any extra/unnecessary complexity added.

I’m not bragging btw, I actually had to contact the user years after I wrote that because I couldn’t believe that the thing was still working but I hadn’t heard from them in years!
That sounds like the right thing to do?

Why would the hash power decide what is called BTC? If Dogecoin some day attracts more hashing power than Bitcoin, then Bitfinex is supposed to assign the BTC ticker to Dogecoin?
I'm pleased to say I managed to invent a system so crazy that it actually caused a planet to reverse direction and go counter-clockwise around the sun before slingshotting wildly out of the solar system. Very fun to see what craziness can be invented.
Once I was impressed with Java.

Then I started Ruby and was carried away by amazing devx even though missed static typing sometimes.

Then I discovered Typescript.

Typescript has found the perfect balance between flexibility and type checking.

Now i feel literally pain when I have to deal with static languages. It’s like im thrown to jail.

Not to mention terrible devx of the most of them.
Which is why those acquisitions should not have been allowed. We would have a much more competitive space right now if Facebook wasn't allowed to just buy their competitors.
No need to fork the chain. Miners can just switch pools.
Wow in Chrome 102.0.5005.115 (Official Build) (arm64) it gives me 3.273s which proves that point even more
Thanks, that clarifies things. The number makes sense as a rough average (which would make sense for the taxes), calling it a 'minimum' was what confused me a little.
maybe not even true, but he writes a decent article
Making great products isn’t incompatible with being a monopolist, is it? For example, Google isn’t the default search provider for Firefox just because it’s a great product. They pay Mozilla more than any new competitor could afford.

By the way: I’m not an economist, so I read this article to see if my claim makes sense: https://stats.oecd.org/glossary/detail.asp?ID=3262
How to balance a business with full-time job
For the moment, would you personally recommend building a web-server C#/.NET stack or would it be better to look elsewhere?
One of the things I like about Facebook are the ads. Remember TV? Where all the ads are just targeted at extremely broad demographics and most of them have nothing to do with you? Apple says we should go back to that. I actually like finding out about niche products that have to do with my hobby from some small company with a limited advertising budget that was able to hypertarget me. The golden era of the 2010s for Consumer Packaged Goods was glorious. You had literally thousands of little brands chipping market share away from Proctor and Gamble and the big conglomerates. Apple's privacy changes made it much harder for those little guys to compete.
Is the configuration stupid, or, is it somehow imperative that work is distributed over 200 local engineers + over 70MB of externalities?
I am not sure of a practicality of JS Engine on those tiny microcontrollers. But I absolutely salute the author for squeezing so much features in so little space. This requires some very serious programming skills.
For years, Facebook - and the surveillance advertising industry - have insisted that people actually like targeted ads, because all that surveillance produces ads that are “relevant” and “interesting.”

Enough said...

"Facebook says x is too powerful"...get out of my face, if FB could've been they would have been the most powerful, unethical company imaginable.

Facebook is winging because they're losing, good.

People choose to buy iPhones, they generally don't choose to be tracked and targeted in a predatory manner online. If people want different app stores (I've almost never heard anyone say they do), they can buy another phone from another vendor.
“True” Damascus steel is not a “lost art”
Linux Foundation thinks it can get you interested in smartNICs
Yes I agree, these points are worth reflecting upon. I agree with some of them but I disagree with others, here is my opinion in short, point by point:

1. Debatable. It is nice it it costs less, but if it has added or improved functionalities then each person should evaluate if for their use case the added/improved functionality is worth the extra cost or not.

2. Debatable, for the same reason as point 1: each person should evaluate this by themself.

3. I agree

4. Not sure for the same reason as points 1 and 2, but since we're in an environmental crisis this point is becoming more and more relevant.

5. I strongly agree due to environmental concerns. But also note that a device doesn't necessarily need to be designed to use solar energy: it could just end up using it because the power grid switched to a more sustainable energy mix

6. I agree, at least for consumer devices.

7. Also this could be good, although it is not granted that a private person going with his own car to a nearby shop pollutes less than a big shipping company that tries to optimize shipments as much as possible. It could be the opposite.

8. Not necessarily, also a big franchise of shops works, as long as they actually take care of repairing the devices instead of inventing excuses to not do so (look at what Louis Rossman has to say about Apple Sores for an example, but of course it is not just Apple)

9. I agree but with a catch: we need to better define what this "anything good" is. Because a new technology that replaces an old one is disrupting that old technology. Maybe the old technology was already good, but if the new one is better in some form then it's woth considering disrupting the old one. Indeed we should keep in mind potential side effects of a new technology that could harm society.

Edit: formatting
Modern phoenix: The bird brought back from extinction in Japan
Google and Bing have got using state psychological warfare on their users with the results they deliver and the adverts that get delivered on various websites including Youtube.

Its a legal form of harassment and intimidation imo, but I think some people already know this because of the big emphasis on mental health being pushed out by the media and various govts.
Exactly, it's the same with C++. You can do great stuff with it as long as every single developer on the project is extremely disciplined and knowledgeable about its pitfalls.

As organizations and projects grow you or someone else will at some point hire incompetent people that mess up this delicate balance.

Better to have guardrails.
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There are some environments where making sure your transaction is secure on non volatile storage is critically important. And then there is storing comments on a news aggregation site.

Hell, this is one environment where I bet you could get away with a full async mount.
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So it really is not practical to just create your own money out of electrons? Wow, who knew!

I think most people intuitatively suspected as much but their judgment got overwhelmed by the hype.

If crypto was really functional money, everybody and his brother would just quit their jobs and start making the stuff. There is nothing to stop them. "Making money" (literally) would be the only business plan anyone would ever need.

Sorry crypto bros, life just ain't that simple.
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Furthermore, even when a county is the division below the state but above the city/town, its significance can vary a lot. In some states, county-level government can be relatively important/powerful. But somewhere like Massachusetts, it's significant for some legal things: courts, property transactions, etc. but day to day, counties are pretty much irrelevant.
Has anyone ever done experiments on alternative URL input fields? We continue to treat URLs as arbitrary strings, although they are composed of very well defined components, say for `https://foo:bar@news.ycombinator.com/item?id= 31820149#31821636`:

- Transfer protocol (https://)
- Optional credentials (foo@ or foo:bar@)
- Mandatory hostname (news.ycombinator.com)
- Optional path name (/item)
- Optional parameters as key-value pairs (id=31820149)
- Optional document anchor (#31821636)

This is easily imaginable as a form, even if that would obviously by inconvenient. It feels to me like there is a middle ground between "enter every URL part into a separate input box" and "let users handle an arbitrary serialisation format completely on their own".
Sure they can. I mean, HomeDepot uses blockchain for inventory with multiple parties involved. I don’t know if they ever went through with it but Chipotle was heavily investing into blockchain for food supply chains and the tech is 100% coming to specific food items that have higher chance of food born illness (think listeria vs. E. Coli —- foods that may contain listeria is heavily monitored. For example, you can tell a lot more about Feta cheese from their barcode than Mozz because feta is susceptible to listeria).

Real world example:
- I worked for a hospitality chain and we have an order management system for our locations.

- we had many different vendors, different SKUs, and vendors went in/out based on annual contracts.

- when a vendor was switched, someone had to update the entire database and propagate it to stores.

- all vendors, stores, etc. had different databases and there were times were wrong items are sent, items never sent, or damaged/bad items. It takes an hour, on average, to check in an order.

With Smart Contracts, this process would be simplified: order management would require less data entry, loading orders on truck would have higher accuracy (removing errors when entering new item into the system), and there are general savings since order management protocol that all the big players use is proprietary and a pain to use.
When a VC gives you a giant boatload of money, they insist you "scale up" the company overnight. So you go on a massive hiring spree, and get triple-digit team of engineers before having any market traction.

And they're tasked with building a product that can handle Google-levels of demand, though they currently only have two customers, neither of them paying.

It indeed is imperative, but not for technical reasons.
Been There, Done That
Unleashing State Attorneys General Is the Wrong Way to Punish 'Big Tech'
> Human beings looove to look at relative quality of life. And feel much better if everybody is equally poorer rather than higher baseline, but even higher extremes.

Do you have some data to back that up? Or any study?. My hypothesis is that most of those people think the world is mostly a zero-sum game, and they think the best way to improve their lives is to redistribute wealth more uniformly.

> For example my country in Soviet era was piss poor. But people managed to get by and find happiness.

I'm sorry, but that's an euphemism for dying and suffering. And be mindful that you, or your family, have survivorship bias. There are studies that show correlations between happiness and GDP

I am from Venezuela, sadly, my memory is fresher. My dad needlessly died before hand because the government decided that a local pandemic (pre covid, 2017) didn't exist, the pandemic was in conflict to their statistic goals, so they acted as if it didn't existed and let it roll without restrains. And there were more common dramas like family and friends malnourished, and criminals rampaging the city (BTW, one time they entered into my house armed and tied me up while they robbed, and multiple times robbed my family's small businesses with guns). There are 2 main reasons why criminality exploded in the last decade, the economy shrunk more than 50%, and criminals weren't punished, in fact, some were even armed as guerrillas in favor of the ruling party. The line between police and criminal was as blurry as ever, I've never seen a police acting like thugs so shamelessly without any care, they knew there was no punishment whatsoever
Yes actually, I guess I just didnt know how to do it then hah
> At least there's nothing like the Australian laws for forcing and gagging developers.

Actually I'm not so sure that's true. I'm pretty sure similar gag orders have been mentioned in episodes of P1's Gräns. Might want to double check that...
Oh boy, my current project is all very related to this and some other cases that havent been covered. It would be an interesting case study to cover in detail if it weren't for IP confidentiality. My favourite one is of the arch team having not accounted for continental drift, which is leading to massive field issues with bad map updates.

Another fun anecdote regarding addressing. In my childhood my dad moved us to a remote village on a tiny island, no house numbers , no road names. Our mailing address was something like; "Mr Jones, village on the west side of Island, behind Mrs. Smith's convenience store" we weren't really behind the store and there was a half dozen neighbors. I got a nice kick when we got our fancy immigration papers...and that scribbled all over the docs. There were other people that had to reference creeks, trees, or various parts of a mountain
Tough to do when the entire layout is built with nested tables, like it's still 1999.
Sridhar Vembu and The Story of Zoho
> How do you query this data or join or filter across such disparate sources? The only two solutions today are to put ALL data into a warehouse or to write custom scripts. The problem with warehouses are that they are expensive and that the ETL process for every new database is expensive too.

> Tons and tons of companies are trying to solve this. You'll get lost among all the vendors trying to capitalize on the “Modern Data Stack”. They're expensive.

Yes, and Yes. However I see a path for a new kind of warehouse that isn't a "Git for Data" or a Databricks' product.

"Topics" (Kafka terminology) containing versioned datasets could help organise and discover what is available in a given repo. The Data versioning would help ensuring reproducibility of any AI pipeline consuming those, because artefacts would be kept unaltered "forever". And finally, availability would be supported by a simple set of read-only replicas.

Your best alternative today consist of stuffing a blob storage with parquet files, and giving write access to a proxy (or to everyone, if you want to live dangerously). Where are append-only semantics ? Conflict-free artefact creation with concurrent reads ?

There is massive opportunities here, it's almost exciting !

PS : > I'm particularly interested in ending up at a database or analytics company. So if you're a database or analytics company hiring managers or developers, feel free to message me!

I see you in the thread, so does a consulting company with a massive Data Science arm is of any interest to you ? :)
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Your interview process is very one-sided. It is quintessential "we interview them". Even meeting your team is framed as "Presentation of technical assignment to the team". In reality, it should be more like dancing tango. They are also interviewing your company and your team to gauge your culture and how do they fit in. More so with senior candidates.
I wouldn't call a self selected vocal minority the 'true face' of anything.

There have always been 'get off my lawn' types, predating nextdoor. Nextdoor is also not heavily used in every single neighborhood across america.

Even this conversation thread is driven by the selected group of people that participate in the specific social network in question.