skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can do amazing things, 10x better, 100x better than anyone else. It doesn't matter. Nobody will acknowledge it.

Likely someone around will notice and appreciate - but it'd be just a bitter consolation prize.

> but one connection can make all the difference... You just don't have the right parents at the end of the day.

I think it goes much deeper. It's the mindset that matters, not a single connection.

> lucky enough to be born in the right place and right time and with the right friends

Pure randomness does play a big role both at macro and micro levels. At micro level (e.g. team, boss, mentors) I have seen how two ex-classmates in very comparable circumstances ended up with unbelievably different careers (a huge success vs layoff and a career shift to an adjacent field). In their case it's impossible that these differences were due to skills or work ethic.

The effects of macro shifts (e.g. machine learning / data science boom) are also blatantly obvious to me. Catching a huge wave can be effectively be a massive boost to one's skills (the one that people in a stable or stagnating market/industry don't get). One can of course change fields to get in a wave (and many people do) - but some are just literally taken by it.
I agree with asking hard questions, but I think there's a limit to how much one can really expect an individual job applicant to determine the financial state of the company.

For one, the people that are answering their questions are by pre-condition already drinking the company kool-aid.
I’ve always liked the way Apple does it. For iCloud, the ‘Forgot Password’ page requires a first and last name. I imagine you could do something similar for registration: if the user email already exists and the first and last name is the same, tell them definitively if the account exists.
Change UseTabs to True by Default
> Americans are always the first to cry foul

Perhaps an unjust over-generalisation?
> Personally I think whether something is state controlled or not matters less and less the larger corporations get.

Except in China where the CCP (the only party that can control the government) has seats on the governance boards of every large company or outright owns others. Companies only exist there with the approval of the CCP (the government). There's no court in China that can overrule the CCP's leadership so effectively the CCP is the final arbiter of what is legal or not.

The US government doesn't sit on the board of Apple or Google. If Apple sued the government over something they could actually win their case and the government would be bound by the court's decision and both parties could appeal that decision.

I'm not saying the system in the US or EU is perfect but it is a very far cry from the system in China. Large companies are literally state controlled no matter how big they are.
2-factor-authentication is the biggest hurdle. I need the smartphone to do anything bank related and work related
Exactly. When the audience needs to observe the trick by proxy, because it's not practical to have everybody touching the object, standing on stage, or being in the TV studio, that proxy must be honest.

If I can't trust that to be the case, I'd only be interested in a trick if I can be the one on stage touching the object. No more global audience for you, cheating magician.
Whoosh. Thanks.
I didn't advocate for storing your session in local storage. I posed it as a question.
My first hack was opening a simcity save, find the amount of money translated in hex, replace it by ffff ... and wonder why now I had -1$ ? Then I learned...
so, do you think Ottomans should have waited and sit back ? As you said, It was not under normal conditions as Greeks tried to setup their own state. Blood was shed and they won.
> If your entire website can be dropped into a ZIP file and served anywhere, you have a greater chance in it surviving, especially if the internet archive got a copy at some point.

Well, your entire website can be a zip: https://redbean.dev/
Good to know.

Las Vegas: Why do you think they call it "Lost Wages"?
When bitcoin and bitcoin split. Technically bitcoin cash should be considered classic bitcoin and the commodity.

The "managers" were basically able to create a new crypto and give it the bitcoin name.
Clearly whoever titled the article thought it would have more impact. There's a lot of juicy ambiguity behind 14%. A percentage of what? A layman isn't going to know that it's only a 90 person company. They do know that 14% layoffs at a big company is something to get up in arms about.

Definitely psychological in my opinion.
> Why do we even have linear physical and virtual addresses in the first place, when pretty much everything today is object-oriented?

Well, GPU code is certainly not object-oriented, and I hope it never becomes that. SIMD code won't be able to jump between objects like typical CPU-oriented OOP does (unless all objects within a warp/workgroup jump to the same function pointers?)

GPU code is common in video games. DirectX needs to lay out its memory very specifically as you write out the triangles and other vertex/pixel data for the GPU to later process. This memory layout is then memcopy'd over to PCIe using the linear address space mechanism, and GPUs are now cohesive with this space (thanks to Shared Virtual Memory).

So today, thanks to shared virtual memory and advanced atomics, we can have atomic compare-and-swap coordinate CPU and GPU code operating over the same data (and copies of that data can be cached in CPU-ram or GPU-VRAM and transferred over automatically with PCIe memory barriers and whatnot).

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Similarly, shared linear address spaces operate over rDMA (remote direct memory access), a protocol built on top of Ethernet. This means that your linear memory space is mmap'd on your CPU, but then asks for access to someone else's RAM over the network. The mmap then causes this whole "inefficient pointer-traversals" to then get turned into Ethernet packets to share RAM between CPUs.

Ultimately, when you start dealing with high-speed data-sharing between "external" compute units (ie: a GPU, or a ethernet-connected far-away CPU), rather than "just" a NUMA-node or other nearby CPU, the linear address space seems ideal.

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Even the most basic laptop, or even Cell Phone, these days, is a distributed system consisting of a CPU + GPU. Apple chips even have a DSP and a few other elements. Passing data between all of these things makes sense in a distributed linear address space (albeit really wonky with PCIe, mmaps, base address pointers and all sorts of complications... but they are figured out, and it does work every day)

I/O devices working directly in memory is going to only become more common. 100Gbps network connections exist in supercomputer labs, 10Gbps Ethernet is around the corner for consumers. NVMe drives are pushing I/O to such high bandwidths that'd make DDR2 RAM blush. GPUs are growing more complicated and are rumored to start turning into distributed chiplets soon. USB3.0 and beyond are high-speed links that directly drop off data into linear address spaces (or so I've been told). Etc. etc.
You're just layering folk theory upon folk theory with baseless, utter confidence. This is not the sort of problem we can just bluff our way through with gut feelings. We need to consider the options in a comprehensive, systematic, thoughtful, scientific fashion.
I recall driving a borrowed Mercedes in early 2020, the car was maybe two years old, two door coupe, nice but not super sporty, automatic. As is my habit, one of the first things I did was put it in to manually shifted mode. I found with acceleration and braking, coupled with the inertia of the gear knob, gears could be shifted inadvertently. Insult to injury, that inadvertent shift could be enough to trigger a second shift, resulting in some extremely unpredictable vehicle dynamics. A stronger set of centring springs would have been all that was required to easily filter the noise from driver intent.
>while vast majority of Chinese think they do

What anonymous public opinion polls are EVER permitted in China? Where are polls on the popularity of various state leaders? On the Shanghai covid lockdown? On the investigation of the imprisoned Anhui woman? On continual WeChat censorship? Etc.
depending on the tone, “mate” can be way more aggressive than “cunt”.
A new carbon capture plant will pull 36k tons of CO2 from the air each year
CoinFlex probably won't resume withdrawals Thursday as planned, CEO says
I met some lifelong friends through a skiing forum attached to a ski media company that is still going, though probably not quite as strong as it was in its heyday. Reddit's great but it's just not the same as a good vbulletin forum.
TIL I've wanted to retire since I was 22.
I recall when wifi was first a thing, TV news people would drive around with "hackers" who would "war drive" and find networks, and egads! Connect! Nothing is safe online!

Now this.
Well, at least China didn't ban MySpace
It's neat ~ could have used checks in-between to ensure e.g. `$(go env GOBIN)` is not empty.

For something more comprehensive (of course with a larger install size) and the possibility of handling not just Go, I have had good experiences with asdf [1].

[1] https://asdf-vm.com/
There's a free ebook by a different author, Dr. Stefan Salewski, "Computer Programming with the Nim Programming Language": https://ssalewski.de/nimprogramming.html
WiFi could have a couple of things that may be going for it on this front (the so-called Industry 4.0).

First, no band license required. Sure, private 5G network would be deployed by the telco, who’d provide the licensing umbrella, but it’s a cost item.

Second, architectural simplicity. None of that complexity of the whole core/RAN business of the 5G.

Third, ecosystem. Effectively, for 5G we’re only talking about a few vendors here: Ericsson, Samsung, and possibly Nokia (?). For the indifferent, add Huawei to the list. All of them will want to sell you the whole package.

What may tilt the scales is the business side of getting the tech out there: telcos can put a lot of weight behind the 5G push in this space. Here it’s likely going to be the Deutsche Telekoms of the world (with all the help of their respective Ericssons) selling this to the Siemenses of the world.

Who’s going to be the big-ticket champion for WiFi solutions? Most likely, it’s going to be smaller/medium vendors selling to their small/medium clients.
In this scenario, Substack is Spotify. They look at who was doing well on the RSS circuit (the top 1% of bloggers), pay them to abandon RSS and have them post within the confines of your walled garden.
Substack is close to an amazing business model, but literally one or two engineers can make this.

What's their to scale ?
It feels like a really over engineered solution to a basic problem.
Yes, that's why I said "the basics are really easy"? This was not meant to imply 10 lines of code handle the complete user experience workflow around auth. In saying that I have implemented oauth for multiple providers in not too much more lines of code. Maybe like 100.
At you.com we think it's important you can choose your news sources so our news section and apps let you that via you.com/apps
eg
https://you.com/search?q=news&fromExtension=true
Without knowing more than the details you've just provided, I would suggest giving the various options a second look and weighing the pros/cons.

Websockets to me don't seem like the ideal approach here, since the communication is just from the server to the client (an update of a data payload once an event occurs in the backend system).

Websockets have quite a bit of technical complexity requiring significant architectural effort to ensure reliability of a service. Ably is a company that offers websockets as a service and has some good blog articles to start you out if you're sure about this path.

What I would recommend with the details provided so far is to either use SSE or long-polling. The "downsides" are often over-exaggerated, and there are lots of businesses that one would assume use websockets that really are just using SSEs because operationally and architecturally it is vastly simpler to reason about.

I can almost guarantee that the complexity of adding another API endpoint will be drastically less than standing up a reliable websocket infrastructure.
Why This Crypto Crash Is Different
I've not exhaustively characterized it, but RedHat has this comparison [1]. It is not enough for the scope/scale of my needs. I do still run bare metal workloads though.

That said, I have had operational issues in migrating to Docker, which is another sort of performance impact! I reference some of my core isolation issues in that Redis gist and this GitHub issue [2].

[1] https://www.redhat.com/cms/managed-files/201504-onload_conta...
[2] https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/31086#issuecomment-30374...
The only time I think it’s okay is with PKCE.
> I don't really see how you'd be able to improve this situation, either

I have to assume they could model some projections based on your current usage, and give you that? Predicting the future is hard, of course, but if their algorithm is simple & basic enough to understand, it'd surely be quite helpful, no?
You would probably be better served by fixing your damaged relationship with the techology rather than declaring it to be the wrong answer a priori. Perhaps a middle ground, like Thunderbird or Vivaldi's RSS readers, would suit you. Don't use the clients for mail, just try it out as a feed reader only, to avoid the negative expectations.

One of the big advantage of the mail-style presentation is the client indexes the content and gives you full-text search of the stories you've read. Once you get used to that it's hard to go back.
As I mentioned when Coinbase did this, it's a huge dick move and it suggests a level of panic on the behalf of the company that makes them willing to risk the reputational damage.

At least, that's what it'd ordinarily suggest - with Tesla, which like all his companies is operated as Elon Musk's personal punching bag, it could just be he's feeling grumpy about the economy and decided to pass the grump along.

Either way, choosing to go to work at Tesla is no more a good idea than buying one of their cars, despite how awesome their technology is. They're not reliable and won't be so long as Musk and his people are in charge.
Curious what people think the consequences would be if the US was the only western country locked out of TikTok. Is it a big enough market that the app would lose its influence? Or is the app so popular globally that US entertainers would lose out on the opportunity to build their careers (thinking of the various TikTok “celebs” who have built businesses of varying sizes around the app)?
I think people with authority struggle with applying a policy or norm which in general supports a more egalitarian working style vs deviating in the specific cases where they want a particular outcome. And if managers/execs/whomever diverges from those policies or norms even occasionally, it can break the trust which allows people around them to believe that stated polices are real.

Consider:

A manager wants to run open discussions in which all opinions are equally welcome, but in just one session cuts off an team member who seems to be voicing a real concern which might actually affect team morale meaningfully? Later, through glass conference room walls, that team member is seen on the receiving side of what seems to be a stern one-sided conversation. In all future discussions, who should trust that discussions are actually "open"? How long must that manager go without stifling an uncomfortable view before they're again credible in saying that all views are welcome?

A director wants to empower teams by saying they "own" projects, can make decisions autonomously, etc. If that director sweeps in to override a team just once, when they feel a team is making the "wrong" choice on some matter, from that point forward how do those team members trust that they actually can make decisions on their own? Should we feel surprised if they start asking for permission for more things, and inviting the director to more fine-grained meetings?

An engineering department has a stated policy about who must approve various kinds of changes, which is not oriented around hierarchy but about domain expertise. The CTO unexpectedly chimes in on an occasional PR unsolicited, with detailed question about the project of which the PR is one part. What has to be true for a junior IC to feel comfortable merging?

I've never been in the military, but I would have to guess (a) it probably doesn't always work as well as described in the article and (b) when it does work, the parties involved must have both a high degree of trust backed by a consistent record of living up to their stated practices.
I live in the EU aswell, and in my country, the burden of proof for tax cases is reversed. The tax department can just invent their version of reality, and if I cannot disprove it, it sticks.
Long, involving story of the evolution of Darwin's ideas (and revisions needed to account for 1-1/2 centuries of evidence). Ideal for those of us who don't know enough to have a stake in the outcome of today's 'culture war' ... or whether a 'grand theory' is even needed.
Slight nit pick - but CCA is more akin to TDX than SGX.
> I disagree.

Anything that ends up in a commit should be recoverable (on the same local git repository, that is), no? The main things that can forever clobber your work afaik is git checkout -- <path>, which will perhaps a little unintuitively just clobber over whatever is not committed.
What law are you referring to? I'm pretty sure no such law exists. The US government can't request any data as they please. EU governments can and do request data as well since US companies operate in EU countries.
I'm a little confused. There are some studies that show wearing a mask on public transit helps:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7976046/
https://npli.sph.harvard.edu/resources-2/aviation-public-hea...

And I'll grant there's some other studies that show individual mask wearing makes no difference on modern airplanes. But a lot of modern life is conducted in environments more similar to buses than to 767s that have HEPA filters and engineered airflows through the cabin.

This suggests that there are other things complicating the situation, doesn't it?
I can give an anecdotal answer to this. One thing I despise is pushing people into "boxes" but for this answer I will have to do that. My older brother and I throughout our lives have always gotten into many fights (as children do) and one thing that I noticed as that he never apologizes, and never feels bad for me after our fight is over. I on the other hand immediately feel horrible, and apologize immediately. Similarly this has translated throughout much of my life. Whenever it comes to having tough conversations, by brother would always be able to and not feel sympathy and in the end get what he wants. Me on the other hand, always ends up compromising for the goal of the other person being happy.

Throughout my life the thing that I have learned, is that you have to be able to either feel that the thing you are saying will help the other person hence the need for no sympathy, or embrace the fact that you are difficult at being unsympathetic and cultivate an environment around you that appreciates sympathy, but also understands the requirement for understanding.
Trumpet seems to be the only musical instrument that's used as a pejorative. Why not "assclarinet" or "drumtwat"? Is it because the trumpet kinda sounds like a fart [full disclosure: trumpet player], and if so why not trombone or tuba, which sound much more like farts to my ear. "Ass-tuba".

On a related note, there was a short-lived punk band in the 1980s called the Butt Trumpets.
Eastern Europeans have some of the best insults, too. Hungarian has "A horse's dick in your ass." (Lófasz a seggedbe.)

I believe it is the Serbs who use "May the Pope fuck your 18th-great-grandmother." (How the Pope shall choose which one of the insultee's 524,288 candidate ancestors, that's not clear.)

The famous "Go fuck yourself" directed at the Russian warship by the Ukrainians translates, literally, even better: иди нахуй (idi nahui) = "go to dick".
I had savings from my vested RSUs which I received working for a rising company. Then I turned into an angel investor and made some good money which should last me for a while. I still can't retire but I will deal with it a bit later. To retire I would need 39_600_000 dollars.
Much like a non-liquid stock, stop all the trading and the company valuation will (on paper) be computed using the last trade’s price.
Fast raised $100m in January 2021 and went bust a year later, they burned $10m per month and their revenues were like $300k
Fuckfuck is a brainfuck-inspired esolang.

I don't know what shitshit is, although Y Combinator probably funded it if the founders were young enough and seemed to know how to talk to rich people.
> it was explicitly said that it would be ignored in the announcement

Can you elaborate or give references to how Bitfinex controls the Bitcoin blockchain in such a way that the gridlock between miners and core devs isn't what keeps Bitcoin conservative?

How is the network rigged in such a way that node operators have nothing to say? You're not referring to miner centralisation?
I didn't add the qualifier "passively." You did. I think it's great if people are contributing to the region's wealth via their work, but it doesn't affect my argument. The fact is that the locality of Atherton is full of people whose home values are high because of their homes' proximity of the tech industry (this includes Marc Andreesen), and they're not willing to liberalize their zoning ordinances because, as a housing cartel, town landowners benefit from restricted supply. You were acting like the reason there's high demand for housing in Atherton is that it has low density, but what distinguishes Atherton from a random, low-cost town like Muskeegon, Michigan is its location smack-dab in the center of Silicon Valley. You could replace all the mansions in Atherton with high-density condos and they'd get snapped up by tech workers in a short period of time. You'd end up with way more property taxes paid to the state, way more people housed, way more economic growth for the region, and way less pollution as people lived closer to their place of work. Not to mention, the locality wouldn't be suing the caltrain to prevent electrification, because its residents would actually depend on public transport.
And when US companies attempt to obey Chinese law and are banned anyway? Nice to know that Apple was given "equal legal consideration" in China in 2016 when its iBooks store and iTunes movie store were suddenly ordered shut after six months of operation. Oh, wait. . . they weren't given any legal recourse at all and the Obama administration did nothing about it while Silicon Valley grandees kept conspicuously silent.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/technology/apple-no-longe...
The more I research Singularity, the more I like it. I deep dived into all the design docs years ago and the amount of rethinking existing OS infrastructure is astounding.

Joe Duffy has some great blog posts on Midori (OS based on Singularity) here: http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/03/blogging-about-midori/
... by copying chinese style government-led appstore censorship.
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