skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Happy to reply again if the above is unclear

...

> Then they'd refuse to hire me, refuse to address the issues I discussed, and then sometimes one of the interviewers would pass that information to the Russians or Chinese leading to a massive break ala OPM or Solarwinds even after Senator Wyden sent Chris Soghoian or someone of similar skill adjacent to the Omnidynar group to go ask some hard questions.

This paragraph is exceedingly unclear and may hint at the reasons why you are struggling to get hired. This reads as some mix of narcissistic personality disorder / conspiratorial thinking. You write like a native (or near-native) English speaker, but your composition is all over the place.

I don't mean this unkindly, but have you ever spoken with a mental health professional? Many technical folks are neuroatypical and this can sometimes be a barrier to traditional stable employment.
Nice analysis.

For BBC though it's somewhat unfair - outside of the UK you get redirected to BBC.com rather than BBC.co.uk as the BBC in the UK is a public service and funded via the national TV licence so the UK version doesn't have ads (just like the TV channels & radio stations). Would be interesting seeing a comparison using a VPN/proxy of the UK version vs .com/commercial version.
Seems like scant evidence to conclude that you were interviewing a North Korea hacker but I guess many on blockchain twitter are more credulous than I am.

> The "Okay?" is a DEAD FUCKING GIVEAWAY this guy is Korean.

....right.
Yeah, soundtrack is very good. I hope they'll release it somewhere on Bandcamp.
> People in California should not have disproportionate control over people in Wyoming due to their population.

California:

* 1 elector per 721,166 people.

* 1 senator per 19,832,064 people.

Wyoming:

* 1 elector per 194,078 people.

* 1 senator per 291,116 people.

I think you meant people in Wyoming have disproportionate control over people in California.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/electoral-v...
> I would like to suggest to you that Serverless _is_ kind of boring

It's not my kind of boring, although I sort of see what you're saying.

It presents a simple facade, but it's built on complex infrastructure you have no way to have any visibility into. So when things go wrong it's a nightmare.

To me boring tech means super simple, KISS to the extreme. Something I can diagnose fully when necessary without any layers of complexity (let alone proprietary complexity I can't access) standing in the way.
The ones used for plastics, lubricants, fertilizers, etc... wouldn't be returned so quickly.
Great work, very methodical!

In using assembler I find the hardest part is to represent the task at hand into a form of a sequence of elementary operations over the dynamic set of data pieces and their locations.

Perhaps, when the problem scope is on a lower level with a limited sets of data and operations, this maps easier. But when the task is on a macro level, that extra step of mapping the context onto a lower level scope is just too much effort.

In a way, in a higher level scope the programmers create their specific 'assembler' with a different set of registers and opcodes and sequences of operation, and even busses.
Yes, we are on the same page as to what influences affected Tolkien, his limitations, his authorial intentions and goals, and the historical context in which his work was created.

What the geophillic fans wish to hear however is more akin to, "Yes, Tolkien operated within these constraints. It would be great if someone could fanfic or headcannon their way into a reasonable conclusion with the benefit of hindsight and scientific and narrative advances we've made in the meantime." It's a small gesture that opens a door rather than shuts one and provides just a bit more cognitive closure for the people who want it.
It's made to look like the original game.
As someone who has never used serverless functions before..

Netlify functions are based on AWS lambda functions, which spin up a container with say a node.js runtime environment everytime a request (or another event) comes in, then executes the user provided node.js function within the runtime.
I can imagine that handy for something like cronjobs or api requests which happen occasionally.

But using Netlify functions for things like Next.js SSR (or API routes) means, that for every single website request, a new container is setup, the function is run once, and the container is discarded. Am i right in this? Isn't that a huge overhead in contrast to a long running server process?
Probably graphistry.com, as it's linked in their profile. Which themselves have four outside investors (Bloomberg Beta, In-Q-Tel, Nvidia Corporation, Greylock Partners) so not sure why they are in this sub-thread when I specifically talked about jobs at non-VC funded company.
in my team we use JMeter and Artillery (free version). still getting the hang of it but it's been useful.

In the past I used BlazeMeter SaaS, which rocks
> So you're saying that if more pregnancies ended in miscarriage abortion would be moral?

Not saying that at all. Just like last time, we are still just discussing how bad your analogies were.

> If your curious ~60% of embryos do not make it to a live birth,

I'm well aware of this, and although most of this is accounted for very early on, it's still pretty high. And of course in many cases the embryos were not viable.

> Why does the number or miscarriages matter at all?

I haven't discussed this, it was you that brought it up. With acorns, only 1 out of 10000 becomes a tree, so killing an acorn is substantially different from cutting down a tree. Not even taking into account that these are different forms, an acorn is not a small tree.

You speak as if the issue was black and white, clearly it isn't. Even you think that killing an 8 month old foetus, which has a heartbeat, can dream and even recognises its father's voice, is fundamentally different from taking a morning after pill and stopping a 4 cell cluster from turning into a human.

From a religious point of view, it's entirely reasonable to believe that anything after conception is sacred, since it's the beginning of a specific human being, but even progressive atheists realise that an 8 month foetus most definitely is a complete human.
Sure, but not all databases have equal impact. Also, the relationship between an individual and the government is fundamentally different than that of a business relationship. I expect much more of my government, especially when considering if such a database is even needed.

To the parents post, litigation and firearms training are two things the NRA does well, which includes suing California over privacy issues such as this.
Yes, the first generation of SPARC and MIPS processors also lacked multiply and divide. Processors are still made without multiply and divide.

I think we should look at the culture of programming around architectures like SPARC and MIPS and what kind of assumptions the designers had about how people would program them. Even though you could find compilers for 6502, and you could write assembly for MIPS and SPARC, assembly programming was de rigueur for 6502 and it was not for MIPS and SPARC. 6502 systems are typically cheap and have small amounts of memory, and the architecture is a bit weird if your targeting a C compiler (inconvenient 256 byte stack, for example). MIPS and SPARC systems didn't appear until the late 1980s, they tended to have much larger amounts of memory, and it was assumed that you would use C (or something else).

SPARC and MIPS may have also omitted the multiply instruction in an attempt to make it so the processor could execute one operation per cycle for nearly every instruction.
Ultraschall: The podcasting extensions for the Reaper DAW
I'm pretty sure "important documents" in the average person's home safe have very little value to thieves.
There's quite a few chrome books that run android apps. I think it's even default these days...
I haven't read it, but I have heard good things about "Proofs from THE BOOK":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proofs_from_THE_BOOK

Also, to get you into the right mood, I highly recommend "Fermats Last Theorem", which is light on mathemtics but quite interesting nontheless:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem_(book)

and this article:

http://projectwordsworth.com/the-paradox-of-the-proof/
Lufthansa is bringing back the A380 superjumbo
yes, but I'd argue the "buy vs. build" balance is shifted too far to the build side right now when you build all your backend services (or most of them) with Haskell. In the Haskell ecosystem there's a good deal of solutionism, but this can be solved with diligent decision making and good technical leadership, the greater issue, IMO, is that Haskell lacks the breadth and depth of libraries that allow Haskell to be a low risk language choice that allows you to build a project, see how things go, then restart with a different team/assumptions if need be.

I want Haskell to win and solve these problems: I've invested years of my life learning the ecosystem and actively maintain open sources libraries, but after years of using the language and running into problems, I've lived through the situations when Haskell is less than stellar as a software engineering tool and it's quite disappointing to see.
The vast majority of us are quite shy about our guns. The stats are obvious.

About half of households in the US have guns. Do half of cars have NRA stickers? A quarter? One in ten?

Gun owners are shy. Thats why we prefer concealed carry instead of open carry.
Yes, the idea is that if solar energy is "free" (it's not, but set that aside for sake of argument) then it doesn't matter how inefficient the process is.

The downside of this process seems to be that it doesn't extract atmospheric CO2 to make methanol, it converts CO2 from concentrated industrial waste streams. It's perhaps "better than nothing" but the methanol will probably end up as CO2 again later (if it's used as fuel, for example) so it really isn't as great as it might sound.
Parents have an obligation to the care and development of their children. There are plenty of parents who are found guilty of negligence. That is more appropriate than the donor concept.
Disney board votes to extend CEO Bob Chapek’s contract by 3 years
If their iphone has that, by virtue of icloud sync, their macbook if they have one has that same sensitive info as well. So is apple saying then, if you want to be the most secure, don't buy our macbook and don't sync it up with your iphone?
It’s illegal (federal) to fill out the purchase form and run a background check on your name if you are buying it for someone else.
I've used https://loader.io and https://www.artillery.io for performance testing. Both are pretty good.
Beats: An Open-Source, High-Precision, Multi-Channel EEG Acquisition Tool System
Bitcoin's original goals and a ponzi scheme both require collective belief in a fiction, but they are distinct fictions.

Bitcoin requires its users collectively believe it has value and others will accept it for some value - this is necessary in order for mining to be profitable thus hashing power be dedicated to protect the blockchain.

A ponzi scheme requires that more people will be buying in at increasingly higher prices.

Notice the former does not assume anything about constantly rising prices. The original vision of Bitcoin actually works better if the price itself remains stable (not rising).
CDC report under Obama demonstrated those with guns at home have much less physical injury during home invasion than those without guns.

>People with guns at home kill themselves at triple the rate of normal people.

Those studies are widely known to have serious statistical problems since those with suicidal tendencies also may purchase a gun, completely breaking the independent variable requirement to make such a claim. [1] for example at least addresses that these are real issues.

Also, Japan's suicide rate, without guns, is larger than the US suicide and homicide rates combined.

I think you're pushing as true things that are not demonstrated, and may well be untrue.

[1] https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/essays/fir...
> pay a larger premium for it

yeah, premium is very large if I want to do a lot of data crunching (lots of iops, cores and ram is needed), plus latency/throughput to those services will be much higher than to my local disk through PCIE bus.
Women have abortions at a much higher rate than men. That is the logic you just used.
But, I am in Canada. Trade you for a double double. Eh?
Of course they aren’t all stolen. Why would that absolute be implied or necessary?

The question is if any guns are stolen and the effect of publishing this list on the number of stolen guns.

I’m not sure how that is controversial. There can be other sources of guns. That doesn’t make this less bad.
Not everyone has to be affected for recruitment to suffer. And information from the internet seeps into the "real world" - FOX News is already reporting on "wokeness" in the military.
I like Vercel but if you have more than 10 devs on your team you have to be upgraded to enterprise which when my company asked for a quote we received an increase for 15 devs from what pro would have been. It was from $300 to $3000 a month!

We just wanted to use vercel for hosting and previews but after the quote we ended up going with aws amplify.
You should add https://dallasnews.com to that list just for laughs. Last time I checked on Page Speed Insights, an article scored a 0.
Ligers, Tigons, and Hybrids
In my experience, burnout is cured not by vacation, time away, switching teams, or switching companies. These are (attempted) implementations of the real cure: change of perspective.

Time away only helps if burnout is project related (not existential). Switching teams/companies only helps until you find the same situation has arisen in a separate company or context. The problem wasn't them: it was you.

The cure? Figure out what actually matters to you, and learn to treat everything that's not that as a means to that end and no more.

This is far easier said than done. Therapy works wonders. Perhaps even psychedelics. The point is to try new things and be active in your own decisions. The burnout is your brain telling you that whatever it is you're currently doing isn't a sustainable solution for happiness.

(Armchair psychologist here says the author needs to start his own lab. Again: easier said than done.)
Works pretty well for me
one of the many reasons why Firefox is unusable on mobile

Kiwi Browser FTW
https://kiwibrowser.com/
How TikTok is changing marketing in the music industry and beyond
You are not actually saying that she regretted having you, only that at the time she would have killed you if she could. It's obviously a horrible thing to say, to even feel, but it's different from what we are discussing.
Jane Street's been doing this for most of their existence. I interned there a decade ago when they had 300 people and maybe 100 engineers and they had already built up an impressive internal infrastructure—including lots of in-house tools (eg a code review system) that were custom because they got value from building them in-house, not because of OCaml. At that point, they had been on this trajectory for a decade already, certainly well before they had a massive team of developers. I forget the exact details, but they started using OCaml in the early 2000s when the entire company had a single-digit or maybe low-double-digit employee count.

Building internal tools, libraries and expertise was clearly a massive net gain in productivity for them—it did not "take away from feature development" in anything but the most superficial and short-sighted accounting. Most recently I worked at Target and the contrast was pretty extreme: on a lot of fronts, Jane Street had better in-house systems than Target had with thousands of tech employees pushed to use mainstream technologies and existing open source systems. It's obviously not a 1:1 comparison, but seeing how productive a relatively small organization like Jane Street could be despite (or, really, thanks to) building a ton of things in house really got me to question the traditional wisdom here.

Of course, everything you've said is a real obstacle when that's how managers or other teams think, regardless of whether it's accurate! Dealing with perception and legibility is definitely one of the difficulties in trying to have a Haskell team in a big company. "Nobody got fired for IBM" isn't so much a cute aphorism as corporate gospel—even if they probably should have been.
Going that route has some promising aspects if you look at a larger picture. If you can get clean methan via hydrogen powered by solar, wind, or water you don't have to replace huge amounts of machinery right now. Replacing millions and millions of natural gas heaters all over Europe will also emit huge amounts CO₂ in the atmosphere. If we could continue to use them until their normal end of life with CO₂ neutral fuel, that could be a real benefit. And the life span of heating units is often measured in decades.

Your rant also neglected that storing electricity directly is hardly a solved problem at scale. Whereas transporting and storing methan has a huge existing infrastructure.
In 2010 I served a peak a million users per hour with an $80 dedicated server managed at my pleasure with Plesk and my PHP framework.

I can respond up to 20k requests per second.

Scaling is for worldwide TOP 250 webs or webs designed according to the stupid contemporary fashions.
Why are you coming at me with strawman arguments.

Did I say we should stop using databases altogether? No. I said this is a reason to dislike them.

Did I say we should go back to using paper recordkeeping for everything? No. Again, that was never argued.

Have you considered that maybe there's a middle-ground between collecting, trading, and analyzing every possible scrap of data we can squeeze out of people... and the Butlerian Jihad?
Interesting, acrylic applied in multiple layers. I can see how this would be superior to glass from a manufacturing standpoint (easy to cast and layer), but my experience with acrylics is they scratch and aren't very durable. Perhaps that's another benefit - customers coming back more often for replacements.
> I'd rather spend a week at the beginning of the project and set things up the way I want them with minimal dependencies.

Me too. I don't use create-react-app or anything else to set up my Node.js/React/TypeScript/SWC projects. I install each package I need manually, and configure each item precisely how I want it (tsconfig.json, webpack.config.ts, .swcrc, even .eslintrc.json). Makes for a nice, lean project every time.
> whereas building solar panels only prevents future CO2 emissions

That's a little simplistic. The biological systems on the earth are a carbon sink. Not adding CO2 causes a reduction in CO2, many orders of magnitude more than humans could hope to accomplish by pulling it out of the air with non-biological contraptions.
https://archive.ph/VgNKR
“Normal people”? Your bias is showing. 42% of US households have at least one gun.
> "Stolen guns account for only about 10% to 15% of guns used in crimes,"

Sounds like a BS statistic: what about all the crimes people got away with committing? How do they know the status of the guns used in those?

The real answer is probably that stolen guns are probably used by more sophisticated criminals (i.e., the ones that elude the police). And straw purchases are used by the people who keep getting caught, hence the need for the straw purchase to begin with.
that's too small a subset
people - you should be looking at it from the angle of 'what are crimi at businesses doing at scale for profit"
Problem is that the automaton-matching itself is pretty cheap compared with event preparation and I/O and so on, so it's hard to benchmark - next comment says smart things on the subject.
I'll remember well UCSD Pascal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCSD_Pascal especially as compiling on a system with one floppy drive required 5-6 changes of the floppy disk even for a 'hello world'.
So one would think twice before starting the compiler only to find a simple syntax error after a minute or two. :)
Reminded me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yAxIdkF2Qo
> But the current behavior is just bonkers.

Don't understand your gripe. Is it just that you don't like things to be this easy for the dev? Dependencies should not just be disfavored but actually hard to use?
That’s silly, SQLite is the single most widely deployed database engine in the world, possibly the most deployed software, period. It’s unit test suite is second to none. It’s reliable enough that SMF, Solaris’ boot and service management (sort of like systemd) depends on it.

That does not mean it is applicable to all databases use-cases, but production-grade it undoubtedly is.
You can't compare the past to today when cities in the past were merely thousands of people and the people were working with primitive technology.
SQLite3 very much supports something like stored procedures though! Only, instead of calling them that it calls them `INSTEAD OF INSERT` triggers.

So, you'd do something like:

CREATE VIEW IF NOT EXISTS things AS ...;
CREATE TRIGGER IF NOT EXISTS create_thing
INSTEAD OF INSERT ON things
FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
...
END;

and to invoke such a "stored procedure" you'd

INSERT INTO things (...)
VALUES (...), ...;

or `INSERT .. SELECT ..;`.

Now, with SQLite3 you don't get reflection via SQL, like you do in PG via the `pg_catalog` schema, but you do get reflection via the API. Also, because it's SQLite3, you don't get strong typing, and you get very few types, so even with reflection via the API, generating type-safe stub functions to invoke the "stored procedure" is not exactly easy or possible.

FYI, SQLite3 is Turing-complete. You can loop via recursive triggers. And you can do conditionals via `WHERE` clauses on the statements in your trigger bodies (and also via `OR IGNORE` and such).

EDIT: I made a post of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31913062
> There is even a theory that Shakespeare was Ben Johnson’s secret identity

Those theories are bullshit. Shakespeare was Shakespeare.

Otherwise I agree with you. Shakespeares plays was meant to be performed by actors on stage.

But for the intendend theatre audience, the language would be much easier to understand than it is for us today. Reading it with annotations might help us understand more of the meaning.
We use Citrix too. Your choice to call it pretty good is interesting…
Is this leak intentional, as in we can anything because we are righteous?
At my wife's company they had a similar issue with a 25k bill. Ouch...
Final Fantasy 16 doesn't have American voice acting because of angry Americans
That's why people get Executive Assistants once they reach a certain level where the demand on their attention becomes larger than they themselves can possibly handle.
Even the old paper databases were a terrible idea.

There was a registration list of every person and what religion they were for tax purposes, everyone was fine with it. Then 1941 happened.
> people won't interact with the issues / or create PRs because they have to create yet another account.

If I understood the idea of the people working on forgefed, this is not true. It's quite possible that issues/discussions and even code reviews to happen over activitypub.

> GitHub probably won't support federation

They still have an usable API, so even if they don't support it federation officially, it will be possible to implement, e.g, a bridge bot that reads/writes from your AP server to the GitHub projects that you need to interact with.
got a link to that cdc report?
> I’m surprised, seems more likely they would buy off the black market.

Reads to me as:

“I’m surprised [criminals steal guns] seems more likely they would buy [stolen guns] off the black market.”

The suggestion guns are sourced from a black market is not a compelling argument against those items being stolen. Invoking the black market itself establishes the incentive to steal.