skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a software engineer not a military expert with access to secret information.

My country also takes part in blocking north Korea and I life in a democracy.

It's my duty to not work against it.
>the free decisions of the collective

... the collective of an elite group of for-profit corporations that in no way reflects the will of a significant group of people.
Right, or they could offer refunds and it wouldn't be so bad.

This days after Nintendo letting us know they 'are unable (read- unwilling) to offer refunds.

We need consumer protection laws that do something, because since the 1990s businesses have made anti-consumer practices their bread and butter.

They don't fear us, the laws, or government in general. Businesses fucking lie cheat and steal every single day.
Except for when it breaks on FreeBSD or macOS. The most portable utility nowadays for desktop systems is ex, actually (because some Linux distros don’t include ed).
Why not the UK?
Thanks for reading all of that and for an interesting analysis of post.

I was compelled to reread what I had written so that I could decide how your analysis fits with what I wrote.

When I mentioned smart I was trying to say that humans have the capacity to solve problems by identifying their causes and designing workable solutions. Resilient in this context was intended to mean that even when we fail to understand a problem to the extent that we can design a solution we manage to stumble into a situation where we are able to survive even if that means we ignore the problem and just move to more hospitable environs.

I agree that choosing resilience can mean always taking the easy way without ever addressing a problem or trying to understand why you had to change and that it does have serious downstream consequences for society and civilization. We have to accept the challenge of solving hard problems by working together or we will inevitably continue to load all the bad consequences on those groups least equipped to deal with them.
Do you really think it's okay for a kids game to promote an artist that openly admits to being pedophile?
I'm a big proponent for the "rule of [at least] three" for building DRY abstractions: once is YAGNI (you aren't going to need it), twice is coincidence, three is finally a pattern emerging.
Did you actually use Linux audio before pulse audio?

It sure was great only using sound from one application at once.
See also https://github.com/webonnx/wonnx, which runs ONNX models through WebGPU. It is written in Rust and can be used natively on Windows, macOS and Linux (through wgpu which uses either DX12, Vulkan or Metal) or on the web (it has a JS API that uses WASM under the hood, which calls into the browser’s WebGPU API). There is a Python module as well.
I think the engineering know-how isn't there as much. When you haven't actually built a plant in 30 years and all the experienced building and designer engineers have moved on, you don't actually know how to build one any more. I feel the delays on the new projects are mostly caused by lack of experience, lack of clarity on actual risks, a lot of second system syndrome (we're doing it right this time, say the maintainer of the previous systems...) and also more regulatory oversight (which is IMO a gold thing). Let's see how these plants built with far more oversight age better than the old ones.
Notably, this already starts dry.

A less dry one would look like

def make_hawaiian_pizza():
payload = {
hwaiianCrust: "thin",
redSauce: "tomato",
cheese: "regular",
ham: true,
pineapple: true,
toppings: ["ham"]
}
requests.post(PIZZA_URL, payload)

def make_pepperoni_pizza():
payload = {
pepperoniCrust: "thin",
crust: "thick",
sauce: "tomato",
cheese: "regular",
toppings: ["pepperoni"]
}
requests.post(PIZZA_URL, payload)
> Jeff Bezos got richer by making his employees poorer, for instance.

How did he make them poorer? He took money from them?
Meta Accounts: A New Login for VR
What is the equivalent of doing this in a car?

Just driving around aimlessly, thinking and observing.
> CPU base GHz (lower is better)

Ehh.. Seems like an odd inclusion when every OS will downclock and put cores into idle..
Calling TikTok the town square lunatic is not an apt analogy. The town square lunatic is isolated, can’t reach a lot of people and doesn’t have peoples attention for very long. There are legions of crazies online that have banded together to really push terrible propaganda that very few adults, let alone kids would be able to resist.
Inversion Space (YC S21) Is Hiring for Embedded Software
So, the plan was to build a non-seismically protected nuclear power plant in a seismically active area? Do you have a source for that?
> Really pray on the vulnerable don't they.

Yup. Even in cases where they don't use "clinic" specifically, it's still something deliberately misleading. I used to live near a "Pregnancy Crisis Center" that was styled very much to look like a walk-in clinic; it was no such thing.
Shop Is Now Open
> Well the purpose of anti-trust law, and pro competition laws

Well, ordinary people don’t give a shot about this:- they just care about user experience. That’s the point, I think, you’re missing. User experience trumps any conversation about profits, market share and money. Im not suggesting that Apple is the vanguard of user experience and that govts don’t care about users at all. I am suggesting that given the precedent of the web & windows era of computing, no govt agency has thought of policing 3p devs in favor of user experience the way Apple has.

You keep complaining that I’m not providing any solutions: I’m not here to do the Govts job. I am here to vocalize my problem so that the Govts and our community can recognize a perspective. Apple’s policing of 3p devs should not be loosened up: that WILL create problems.

Heck, if you want a solution, heck, just codify the laws of the developer program into constitutional legislation. I know, that sounds ridiculous. But that’s my point. 3p devs have to be disincentivized from anti-user, criminal behavior. Not just Apple. Don’t hate on Apple just because they’re able to police them better than anyone else.
The hard values in the readme may be confusing. The real model is

union {
struct {
char* data;
size_t len;
size_t off:8*sizeof(size_t)-TAGBITS, tag:TAGBITS;
} ptr;

struct {
char data[sizeof(BuffetPtr)-2];
uint8_t refcnt;
uint8_t len:8-TAGBITS, tag:TAGBITS;
} sso;
}

where the tag falls into place. I tried an older version on 32 bit and it worked ok.
You missed another step - after cutting the employees, they make the rest work two or three times more. Instant profit.
This is spot on. If you want to build cheap anything, you need a whole cluster of organizations in close competition, with a lot of collective muscle memory and experience, doing that thing again and again and getting better and better at it. That's how any industry develops. It's that collective experience and network effects that you want to develop. Doing things infrequently as one-off projects by a company with no competition means that each one is going to be crazy expensive.

Honestly this is something I worry about with respect to outsourcing- people seem to not understand that once an industry leaves, it's not just a matter of bringing the capital back, it's that collective human skill that is the biggest thing you lose. The generation that used to do those jobs passes away and it's gone forever.
There is concern and precedent around “conspiracy to commit abortion” being implemented, so that if you live in Alabama and plan a vacation for Denver specifically to get an abortion you can be tried.
When there is a federal law about it sure, plenty of precedence, but that's a very different case. Here there is no federal law one way or the other about the situation and it's unlikely the current congress would be able to pass such a law. This lack of federal stance is where the impact of the judicial ruling changing comes from.
Uplink OST has bene a go-to for me for a while: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QliQ0livbeQ

I particularly like "Blue Valley": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUn9SYdPF4A

YouTube sometimes recommends "Velocity 2x" and "Hacknet" OSTs after this.
There is a good book that I recommend

Precision
Statistical and Mathematical Methods in Horse Racing

the book will set you in the right path at least and I learnt some good mental models from it
Is the answer _definitively and future-safe_ "Yes"?

It is not.

Thus, no.
So, good news?

I hope this means more will go to underdeveloped countries now. The African continent averages at 40 doses per 100 people while the rest of the world is at 154

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1245573/covid-19-vaccina...

The NYT’s visualization makes this painfully clear: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccina...
Knowledge can come quicker with attitude. Because you're curious and want to try new things, learn how things work under the hood, you gain knowledge faster compared to someone who only learns it because a particular task at the job requires it.
Equity and debt. In 2000, 2008 and Covid, bonds all heavily rallied while stocks were selling off. That's the reason the 60/40 stocks/bonds portfolio is the cornerstone of modern portfolio management. Historically one tends to hedge the other, cushioning pain on the way down.

2022 is unique in that both stocks and bonds have simultaneously nosedived in a synchronized a fall. We've had worse equity selloffs. We've had worse treasury selloffs. But together, this year has been historically unprecedented bad performance for the 60/40 portfolio.
Vercel not granting publish access to arg AUTHOR
> Bezos got richer by making his employees poorer, for instance. He could have chosen to make his employees richer at the expense of making himself poorer.

No, they both got richer. Maybe Bezos had a chance to make his employees slightly more rich and himself less so, but ultimately no-one got poorer here.
This is a very good (and long) article looking at the history of nuclear energy in Germany in a broader context. https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/06/20/germany-nuclear-power-e...
NPR's extensive coverage of Trump voters after the '16 election came up with quite a few cases of heavily religion-oriented voters who were like "yeah, he's obviously a huge piece of shit, but I 'prayed on it' and voted for him anyway" (purely because of abortion, clearly)

These voters have been vindicated as doing exactly the right thing, according to their views, now that his court appointments have lead to the loss of Roe.
The article is not about pedophilia or child porn specifically but about all the different "Issues at Roblox"

I'd say it's not exactly ideal for a company aimed at kids to have their public figures, supposed people of trust, sharing porn of themselves openly.

I don't have an issue with porn but I can see how this is an issue for the company and its reputation.
Pray and prey it would seem
> But most places I have worked, these best practices were not overused, but underused

For what it's worth, 90% of the code bases I've worked on overused DRY. Two pieces of code that do the same thing but that shouldn't be coupled should be repeated, otherwise you end up with a million "if" statements for all the separate cases this code will need to handle as it grows, as well as uncertainty about whether changes will have unintended consequences.
>People will always gamble when its other peoples money. And for those who did not find true inflationary shelters

You mean like real property? Some of us tried very hard to purchase real estate and failed.
Maybe we can then also post actual desired speed limits? Current limits at various places I drive by already incorporate speeding and are thus lower than the actual desired limit.
You can't say the same thing about the Bazaar because that's why you went to the Bazaar. The shouts are what's going to be directing your entire journey. That's why ads aren't annoying in a trade magazine, because the ads are probably the reason you bought the trade magazine; the articles are commentary on the ads.
I haven't looked in a minute but 0.3MP (640x480) cameras were quite common just a few years ago on budget laptops. Often webcams can achieve higher FPS at lower resolutions, so specifying 720p @ 15FPS prevents them from shipping a 720p sensor that does say 15FPS but only at 320x240.
Summer decision looms for Facebook’s EU-US data transfers
Good point! The tricky thing is that even desktop apps today tend to have online backends to store data and analytics. So it would be a matter of building/searching for apps that are 100% local.
Matthias Wandel's take:

https://www.sentex.ca/~mwandel/winter/igloo.html

https://www.sentex.ca/~mwandel/winter/igloo2.html
Doom for System Administration
> A straw man (sometimes written as strawman) is a form of argument and an informal fallacy of having the impression of refuting an argument, whereas the real subject of the argument was not addressed or refuted, but instead replaced with a false one.

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

Good day sir.
I think the next step after reading that material is to just get experience in it.

Consider applying to some software companies that are massive in scale. AWS, GCloud, Azure, Netflix. People whose systems need good design.

Once you get into a place like that, go after positions on teams that own huge systems, and get mentorship.
This.. seems like legal science fiction.

Even if police were able to get a warrant and were willing to try taking a drink from the firehose of user data... it's hard to imagine they could glean anything useful that would meet evidence standards? Like how do you differentiate a pregnancy from a few months of inactivity? And how do you tie random usernames to real people?

I get that you can theoretically connect the dots here, but it doesn't seem like a plausible concern.

We do not already see courts filling up with police using app data to crack down on speeding drivers or underage drinking or other illegal activities.
Many successful small internet businesses actually arose from the era before internet advertising.

They simply took their product expertise and brought it online and expanded their reach to more customers through advertising.

As for housewives selling cupcakes - that business is just as not viable offline as it is online. It simply doesn't scale and shipment/delivery will eat your entire profit margin. It might make some beer/fun money, but it's not a business, it's a hobby.
I just want to clarify I never gambled in my life.
But I did have similar thoughts to yours and the book scratched that itch for me.
Also, documentation is almost always written for the beginner, with lots of boiler plate. Which means trying to separate the wheat from the chaffe is quite difficult, and I don't want to read your back ground on "what are containers?" If your software is just like another piece of software, and 18 of the components do the same thing they do in another piece of software, and the 19th is named the same as something else and works completely differently, I'm going to get frustrated if there's no straightforward easy to find explanation.
That's because too many sites use dialogs to show of new features or whatever.

Meanwhile I am trying to keep what I was trying to do in my head long enough to put it into the app. I cannot read the dammed popups or I will forget what I was trying to do.
Is it not malicious to scream "chernobyl!" willfully deceptively or willfully ignorantly confusing what can and cannot happen?

More people die every single year from radiation in coal than have died in the entire history of nuclear power. Replacing all coal with nuclear would save more lives and health than fighting nuclear ever could, even in theory.

And delaying coal to nuclear under the banner of "wind and solar maybe one day can help a bit" has blood on its hands.

Every year coal is still here, instead of nuclear, is 100 years of death. If building powerplants (of any type) were instant, and solar were one year away, then we should STILL replace all coal with nuclear TODAY, to minimize harm. (in a spherical chickens in a vacuum sort of way)

And not only do we not have enough solar, we don't even have a plan for energy storage for solar and wind. We have ideas, not a plan.

So solar&wind replacing coal&nuclear is further away than fusion power, by multiples.
Why would you manage real estate with a shitty cap rate, when you can buy bonds that have less overhead, risk and more liquidity? Real estate funds are a great idea when rents are going up, but it isn't so clear that will keep happening. Or appreciation is expected. That's definitely not happening anymore.
> Reddit has always been a model for what decentralization could look like online

Funny
What works for us when you’re in a city is to pick a restaurant you want to go to, then walk in the general direction there. Allow spontaneous detours in corners you find interesting.

This allows one to flaneur but still have a destination.

On vacation, one can literally eat lunch, then wander about the city until it is tea time, then repeat until dinner. Beautiful way to spend the day and explore the city.
> the optimal way to do things often shifts

My only quibble is how you frame "optimality" as an objective parameter, shifting with the tides of time.

Monopolies are usually optimal for the owner. Similarly, PE rollups are optimal for the owners. You're right, of course, that when you value a company in terms of "fundamental assets" then PE strategies make total sense.

But if these companies are simply organizations of assets, then why create them? The general purpose of companies is production: to make a profit, yes, but also to provide a value surplus to customers.

People dislike PE not because they're cruel, but because people get that they "optimize" for owner profit over customer surplus.

A necessary tool? Certainly, it often is. But optimal use is important too. With a cost of capital near 0 ... why wouldn't the tool be overused, destroying economic value it was meant to create?
Another similar project: https://reticulum.network/
Exactly like I said a few days ago; funny enough: [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31970488
Ethereum Foundation Research Team AMA, July 7th
Sure communism would help us and actually work this time. And even if it doesn't at least it accelerates the path to heaven for millions of people. It is historically pretty reliable in this regard.
"Under the Radar" by J. Bond & R. Kirshenbaum was a good one on this topic – summary: people develop protective "radar" for ads and it explores ideas how to communicate effectively while taking it under account.
It's funny how Americans (and plenty of other groups) cling on to a thousand year old book written by some goat herders as absolute truth. Things change and even in span of few years what's true becomes a lie
I was talking to a (non-programmer) coworker who has ADHD recently, and she was saying that in order to concentrate she has to have music playing. I asked if that included while doing something that actually requires thinking and focusing like writing an essay and she confirmed that to be the case. She said she'll be singing along to rap music while writing.

I thought that was wild cause I'm so the opposite. Music I listen to while working has to not take my attention away at all, so most stuff with lyrics is off the table, as well as instrumental music that I'm enjoying too much.

My friend's wife has ADHD and she's the same as my coworker. I always thought people were lying about their ability to multitask (I can't even pretend I'm able to do it), but sometimes we'll be watching a TV show and she's scrolling Facebook on her phone, but I'll comment on something happening in the show and she's able to reply with full context of what's been happening. If I want to focus on a TV show/movie, I basically have to throw my phone across the room cause if I start paying attention to it at all, I will miss 100% of what's happening on the screen. I'm also pretty bad at maintaining conversation while driving, unless it's a route I'm very familiar with.
JetBrains/Intelij is increasing their prices
But not the aimless scrolling on HN?
Because many devs just don't want to use a language like Python.
To me, DRY, like Single Responsibility, is practical to a point, after which it doesn't support its weight. It strikes me as being similar to normalization in relational databases and summed up by "Normalize till it hurts, denormalize till it works".
And 2 and 3 and 4 and 5 and ∞ = -1/12
Nuclear power was ended in Germany for political reasons. The public has an incorrect idea of how dangerous nuclear power is and how dangerous nuclear waste is and it was easier for the politicians to go along with it for points than stand it's ground.

If you're making policy based on scientifically inaccurate ideas then you aren't respecting the science.
There’s some active HN users who developed WhatsApp.

I’m sure they have a wealth of knowledge related to scaling since WhatsApp was initially based on ejabberd.
Rooftop solar PV kills about 10x more people than nuclear per terawatt hour, at least according to this 2008 study:

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2008/03/deaths-per-twh-for-all...

There might have been big advances in rooftop safety since then (but I doubt it).

(I think we need more solar, wind, nuclear, hydro, and whatever other carbon neutral renewable energy sources you can think of.)
I feel like Julia will take more of the R people than the Python people, to be honest.
Pico makes capable logic analyzer
There's no state in the United States in which pedophilia, or committing espionage / terrorism is legal.

> but in general Americans who support women's reproductive rights favour more government overreach, not less

Compared to what?
A document that those self same guys said must be changed as the times changed. They felt so strongly about this fact that they went out of their way to write at least ten amendments before the document was even finished.
Prosecutors exclusively decide who is charged. No charges can be "pressed" by a victim.
> “It’s hard to enforce the rule of law” is not a good reason to abandon it entirely.

I didn't?

> We should be both practicing good data hygiene and using legal tools to combat those who abuse data privacy.

That's what I said. The first thing is data hygiene, the second is legal requirements. The difference I think is that the legal requirements should be on the actual creation and retention of the data, not just who owns it, who it can be shared with, etc.

As soon as PII information over a certain age is radioactive and linked to a fine per person, all of a sudden there'll be a lot less giant repositories of PII to worry about.
It's more a server thing than an ansible thing per se I think. People who need to actually manage servers, rather than higher level abstractions like containers or serverless functions I'm sure would still use it, but that number is dropping I think.
But why data engineering here?
It's kind of fun that my first personal computer, the Apple II, used memory-mapped IO (because the 6502 was designed to be cheap, but still). :-)
> Jeff Bezos got richer by making his employees poorer, for instance.

Poorer than what? Than being unemployed? I don't see how you can make someone poorer by employing them unless you forcefully ripped them out of a higher-paying job somehow.