skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aptitude is more important than both. People can have a lot of knowledge but without aptitude they can be unflexible and not learn new things. If you have aptitude, you can gain knowledge quickly.

Attitude to me is complex because it is general manners and politeness, which to me are mandatory, but it is also attitude to culture and people don't always fit. If you are wired to move fast and break things, you won't have the right "attitude" to work somewhere with high compliance requirements.
Yes, essentially communication is a tool and any tool in a multiplayer game will be abused. Without playing any multiplayer Hearthstone, I can guarantee that some people would use "Well Played" after a mistake to insult players. Just like how in Rocket League people spam "What a save!" after an embarrassing miss.

I totally agree that it removes the richness. You lose out on any meaningful, even if small or quaint, connections, and might as well be interacting with an AI that triggers a "Well played!" at the end of the game.

There's no right answer here, it's an intractable problem since the beginning of the internet.

It reminds me of the Aesop's fable of the scorpion and the frog a bit. The problem is human nature projected into the internet.

> A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across. The frog hesitates, afraid that the scorpion might sting it, but the scorpion promises not to, pointing out that it would drown if it killed the frog in the middle of the river. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog anyway, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: "It is in my nature."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
Matrix and some forks of Signal are also cool.

But, yes, largely correct.
But in many cases, movie piracy is faster, more convenient and more agreeable than consuming through locked down ad funnels like Netflix or Disney+ which don't let me outright own the content or the viewing experience, or Blu-rays which enforce DRM and specific region-locked devices.
It was sort of acceptable before the sellers in the Bazaar did a mind-melt that made them all effectively the same person.
> So what's the strategy moving forward? The operation clearly hasn't permanently solved crime, the next generation of organized crime bosses won't trust any apps to handle their secrets, so I guess their communication just moves offline again? Or maybe each develops their own methods in house that they know they can trust (such as shooting holes in a wall on call of duty)?

Maybe the strategy is just "get the win now, and tomorrow's another day." A lot of people seem to think it's a bad idea to use some technique that will motivate a counter-technique , like that counter-technique can be prevented by not using the technique (it comes up a lot when sanctions are discussed). However that's flawed assumption. Sometimes sitting on a technique will mean it becomes obsolete before you can realize advantage from it, and it's actually smarter to try capture that advantage while you still can.

Also, if organized crime stops trusting apps and goes back offline for communication, it could become far less efficient/effective, which would be a win for law enforcement.

Also, a sucker is born every minute. Maybe the Mob will shy away from encrypted apps due to institutional memory, but some upstart criminal orgs without that memory may still adopt "FBI 'Encrypted' Messenger 2.0."
Sorry but ain't no way 10 year is going to 5-6%... I'd wager it's very likely peaked at 3.5% and it won't break that again (for this cycle).

Valuation multiples are (relatively) crushed, and I don't think we'll see much more of a multiple compression. What we will see, in both private and public markets, is when businesses adjust their earnings forecasts for the (very likely) impending recession. If you look at Wall Street numbers companies are still forecasting growth pretty every quarter through 2023. Now, that doesn't seem very likely to me.

The deal is, the public markets will overreact as always and sell off harder, but private equity will stay more fairly valued because of it's inherent lack of liquidity (two wrongs make a right).
OK, so Microsoft did the same thing to Linux that they did to Nokia...
Lacuna is in proper English too though
but it's not the same picture for physics of chemistry, where we get our fair share of nobel prizes. It's somehow different for math.
"Everyone forgets how you won, what matters is winning" (paraphrased) - Valeriy Lobanovskyi.
Connections with big academia and their custom syncing thing are red flags, if only that.
8th Amendment.
It shows incredibly poor judgment on the part of the company that they’d put anybody who shares porn online in charge of children.

Lots of people consume porn, very few see fit to share it on social media.
Disney Toontown solved this problem 20 years ago. You give people a pre-populated list of things they can say, and that's it. There's literally no other way to protect kids on these services.
"Real startups," as you use the term, are solving problems that are subsets of problem spaces. The vision of the company should always be focused on the problem spaces. The ability to bridge between the one thing your product does, better than anyone else, and the larger problem space, is really hard. If you can make the leap, you've gone beyond being just a feature.
There’s an important difference between technically consenting and informed consent.

Given what I know about the bot problem on Instagram, I would imagine many people have been tricked into sharing their private profiles with scraping bots. Many bots are copying real people’s profiles and then spamming their friends with follow requests. It’s highly effective and gives these bots access to private profiles.

Fooling people is fraudulent, period.
Yep, it’s a general gripe with thought-pieces; advice is context dependent.

Or, put differently, my HN motto: don’t give uni-directional advice when optimizing a U-shaped error function.
At our first start up, we always used to say "RY before you DRY", so: you have to repeat yourself first, consciously, before you can start with abstractions, because bad abstractions are worse than no abstraction
That was a $2200 mistake.
It's time to make that indie C# game in Godot
Now, that's probably true. However, in the days of feature phones compilers auto optimization were still inferior to a person unrolling a loop in ASM.
Lemmatization Approaches with Examples in Python
What in the world. They already pay probably more than 10x this to fly there.
Yes, it's very different for two reasons: 1) many ideas in science are highly non trivial compared to all sorts of crap that gets patented and 2) as scientists all we usually care about is getting some credit for our ideas. We want them to be known and used by everyone though.

Quite a huge contrast to companies that want their ideas for their own so only they can profit from them.
> Typically they cut a bunch of expensive overhead, like employees, which juices the books to make it look much more profitable, then sell to someone else left holding the bag of a dead shell of a company. Cut long term viability for short term gains.

This really only exists in large cap deals. Most middle market deals are actually about long term viability...mainly because they have to sell to other PEs or strategics that will underwrite the long term viability during diligence when they go to buy. Large cap on the other hand will typically try to IPO it where the public investor might be left holding the bag (or creditors, or employees).
Hopefully it's not u/spez again messing with the databases directly like he has in the past:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/11/reddit-chief-adm...
This is true, but it also has to be "enough."

Enough to solve the whole problem.
Enough to make people want to try it.
Enough to be worth the effort of learning.
Enough to overcome, "Meh."
And so on.
No, it's not satire! I use a separate chrome profile for my personal life, and I keep my personal files in google drive. I'm not sure what the fuss is about?
I agree. To me, its simpler to understand. Suppose x is a bool, reading the code, I say to myself "if not true..." or "if not false..." and my ape brain gets confused on what happens if its not true or not false.

Reading "if true == false" or "if false == false", it becomes much clearer what we're testing here and I understand it instantly.
And they are still paying the price for it. https://k1project.columbia.edu/news/hiroshima-and-nagasaki

They were "lucky", btw: "since the bombs were detonated so far above the ground, there was very little contamination—especially in contrast to nuclear test sites such as those in Nevada"
yea it was a silly question. It does allow S3 anyway so we are good.
>See also the first snobby, then underhanded, then petulant behavior

This just corporate open source as a whole. I don't know what else he expected. You don't participate in open source with the big boys if you expect a quick response or you expect to get any kind of non-trivial credit for something. It is not you who is paying the bills. No reason to be skeptical about it, this is how the game is played.
this looks really great! i had recently been thinking “boy it’d be really great if there were a ‘supabase but sqlite’ available” and here you are! now i just need a clever project as an excuse to use this.

1 question: are the docs in a repo anywhere? i don’t see them in the main repo (i might just be missing them somehow) or anywhere in the org. if they are public somewhere would you be open to a docs polishing PR?
lol right..

"Some men, like activist Santiago Mayer, have begun to sign up for accounts themselves in an attempt to distort the data."

Santiago is reported as having three periods a month. A new normal some may ask?
I'm not sure you know what Strawman means. Are you a researcher? Have you published research papers?

>> The options are: cite him, slight him, or prove him wrong.

Again, are you a researcher? These are not the options. Also what even is "slight him" or "prove him wrong"? My comments above are about citation practices not this one researcher in particular.

>> I think he's made it clear that he won't accepts slights without a fight, so one can either show him where he's wrong, cite him as he plainly makes clear one should, or admit that he's being shut out for unscientific reasons.

There is nothing to fight about nor nothing to "prove". There are many reasons to cite an author and being the first to publish a paper many years ago about a topic does not automatically deem citation. That's not how science works. It's how (unfortunately) the academic churn of paper writing works at times.

FYI: it's not "unscientific" to not cite a paper. It's almost impossible to cite all relevant works, so the author of a paper selects the most relevant. Obviously this is biased and can become political (e.g., Schmidhuber), but flamming online about not being cited doesn't mean you must cite an author.
Archaeologists Begin Excavation of Tomb Linked to King Arthur
Well, I think nuclear waste is a problem. It's highly toxic, and there's no process for detoxifying it. It has to be "got rid of", somehow, or put somewhere that humans can't accidentally encounter it. And it remains dangerous roughly forever, in terms of the span of a human civilisation.

200 years is sorta manageable, I suppose, if you have the resources and longevity of a nation state. You can bury it under a mountain, and set a battalion of armed orcs to guard it. But nation states can change their minds; whether the cost of hiring those orcs is money well-spent is a political decision, and the politicians responsible may not have "the long view" in mind.

I think nuclear power can be done safely; but I don't think that's possible as long as the task is overseen by profit-making corporations or short-termist governments. And I don't see who else can do it.
When I went to Victoria Falls national park on Zimbabwe, the fees were based on which country’s passport you were presenting. Richer country passport holders had to pay more, poorer country passport holders paid less.
Came here to say that; I feel a little guilty about how much I love that spectrum analyzer.
Webb’s Fine Guidance Sensor Provides a Preview – James Webb Space Telescope
> What this means is that Microsoft is expecting 720p with a resolution of 1280 x 720 and 1:1 aspect ratio.

Looking at the chart below that, some important information was left out that dramatically changes the meaning of that sentence.
Love this, and I'm glad the conclusion made exactly the point I was about to bring up in my comment:

> If Rust had guaranteed that the memory layout of an enum is always a tag followed by a union then it wouldn’t be possible to make this optimization without breaking somebody’s code. Instead, the compiler retains the freedom to optimize the layout of your types, and your code will automatically be more memory efficient, simply by updating to a newer version of the compiler.

Having things be lower-level/more-explicit/more-exposed-details is often seen as a win for optimization at the cost of ergonomics. But it's not even always a win for optimization. What it really means is putting more things in the hands of developers, instead of the compiler/runtime, which may be good or it may be bad.

One of the most brilliant things about Rust is exactly where it's chosen to draw the contours of that delicate line between explicitness and opaqueness
> The article states: [...] Not that the daughter came away from school misunderstanding the lesson.

How is a parent supposed to know exactly what was taught in a particular lesson other than by hearing about it second-hand through their child? From the parent's point of view, it may appear like that is exactly what was taught even if it wasn't.

It would be best for them to verify with the school before writing about it, but this is a rant in a substack blog post. Details like that are not specified.

> Sex ed shouldn't start after puberty has started.

I never said it should.
I still find Ansible compelling when I don't want to go full blown K8S. For example it's much easier to run a linux instance and use Ansible to move files and restart systemd hosting my web-app.
I'm not sure I follow... Can you provide an example? (junior dev here)

If I understand some of it correctly, I was contemplating this when I started writing functions for "single functional concepts" like, "check for X; return true or false", then called each of those functions sequentially in a single "run" function. Is that what you mean?

I found that approach much easier to test the functions and catch bugs, but your comment seems to go against that.
This is not an accurate description/metaphor.

The best way to describe PE is as a means of exploiting principal/agent issues:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal–agent_problem

People take over organizations and loot them for personal gain. It's the simplest business model imaginable.

In fairness that's not the only PE model. The other model is to buy up competing businesses, engage in anti-competitive practices, and extract monopoly rents from a sector.
Should locals or tourists pay for all the infrastructure to support the tourists? I think the tourists should pay for it
Assuming this question is made in good faith: air pollution as generated from coal and methane ("natural gas") is really bad and much worse than previously realized: https://patrickcollison.com/pollution.

The literature on it is credible: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/12/wh...

Nuclear produces no air pollution. It produces no direct greenhouse gases. The actual amount of centuries-long waste is tiny: https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-c..., particularly compared to other industrial activities.

People have some kind of aesthetic / disproportionate fear-based response to nuclear and ignore the deaths that occur due to combusting coal and methane. Most people can't or won't think numerically but we should also try to do better.
The mobile site needs some work. Why is the hero present on every page, not just the lander? On mobile firefox the flex box in the hero is not wrapping like it should. In terms of marketing and communication, you need to specify up front what lib is being used for the gpu accelerated parts. Can I do everything with this as I could with, say, pytorch, except in js?
I finally had an occasion to write a .sed script a few weeks ago and it was one of the highlights of my career.
Superblocks – Programmable internal tooling platform for developers
This isn’t some low level SWE with an unusual hobby, it’s the person whom this company is putting out as the reason parents should trust the product. It’s absolutely idiotic on a number of levels.
That stuff can bring the best of Apple's Macbook lineup to its knees.
Yeah, I messed up the date as well. drop down would be perfect :)
WT.Social does not need more money.

WT.Social needs a soul.

WT.Social is like if you remove the absolute worst and all that is best from Twitter. The result is "soulless meh." It's just a half-hearted effort to publish some content. I have checked it once a week for a long time and it's not even bad.

One thing Facebook did right was that they knew how to start social media platform. It was closed invite only platform. You need to moderate or be selective and discriminating at first. Mediocrity comes later naturally. WT.Social was just opened and it started without any attitude, soul or direction whatsoever.
The fourth amendment is pretty broad. It is not at all an unreasonable reading of it to say Americans have an enumerated rate to privacy.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Combine that with the fact that the precedent up until very recently took that reading, and it's not at all incorrect to argue that Americans have a constitutional right to privacy. What is digital surveillance, but a search of one's papers? It's not a police search, but the constitution predates modern policing, lending credence to the most general reading possible.
>Sorry but ain't no way 10 year is going to 5-6%

People like to say this because of how negative the consequences would be, but that is not a reason why it won't happen.

FWIW, given that it would only affect the US Gov't's new issuances, it's not impossible for them to let it happen.
Yup. If you disagree with the distribution method, then you don't get the media.

There is no right that grants you the ability to take the product of another's time and effort because you didn't like their terms. In fact, there's a corresponding negative right - you have the right to possess the product of your work and prevent others from taking it away from you unless you transact it away on your own terms.

Piracy is theft, and even if you could make arguments that it's "justified" theft in the case of taking something like insulin to save your life, there is no justification whatsoever for works of entertainment.
Done and done! That's another part of that plan, I floss and then brush.
Show HN: PATR- A simple,powerful alternative to Heroku that scales AFFORDABLY
Patr is a code deployment platform that helps you deploy AND SCALE your applications with a simple, intuitive interface.

I started building this platform as a side project because of the huge number of deployments I had to make at my startup everyday. I quickly realised that this work could be easily automated.

I tried using other platforms like Heroku, AWS Beanstalk, Render, Fly.io etc; but most of them seemed either too complex to use, too expensive, or simply did not give me enough control over my infrastructure. I was looking for something that allows me to automate my infrastructure without tying my hands down in terms of flexibility.

Patr is my take on what a Platform as a service could be.

Disclaimer: It's still in a VERY early stage, and might break here and there. I would love for you to try it out and share what you think about the direction that we're heading in. If you have suggestions on how we can build this better, I'd LOVE to hear from you.

I am personally providing instant support to anyone using the platform.
Some of the problems are solved by modest ticketing. As mentioned if you have 5 million visitors a year and 50 euro tickets you make 250 million in revenue. For the city proper being down to 50,000 people that’s $5,000 less in property tax per year if each person has one property. Given multiple people per property you could probably lower property taxes to zero and offset the higher cost that comes from tourist prices with reduced taxation.
Just keep it in your head. ed must have been a decent upgrade from punched cards.
More Linux Developers Joining Microsoft, Systemd Creator Adds to the List
Uploaded files and your database are stored outside of the binary.
To answer your actual question about success, it is simple to define and hard to action for many people.

"Sell something that people want" is how Paul Graham puts it but with a bit more flesh, I would say that being successful in business is about being able to evaluate all moving parts of a company, see what isn't working and fix it.

If you are not getting leads in the door, there is an issue with marketing, that you should understand might relate to the person in the role or the lack of resource etc. even without understanding much about marketing.

If you are not making money, the product is not valuable enough to people or you are not selling it for enough money. How can I find out what it is worth? How can I evaluate whether this product is worthwhile? You only need to see the questions and work out where to get answers, you don't always have answers yourself.

Lastly, any business is about people and you need to be self-aware and confidant enough to not take things personally, to confront things that need confronting, to evaluate candidates effectively and to sometimes tell people to p*ss off.

Most successful business people I have met are fairly tough to the point of seeming uncaring so that probably says something about the reality of running a business!
I didn't know that the numbers of grandmothers are rapidly increasing.
Nope, not joking. I use a separate chrome profile for my personal life, and I keep my personal files in google drive. Even if your employer is monitoring you (which I doubt), what are you doing that you think will be so interesting to them?
*Except if you happen to work for the government, then it's totally ok.