skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I write, purely for my own pleasure, as as you say, it’s absolutely no way to make a living. I’ve hundreds of shorts, a few dozen novellas, and a couple of novels - with which I have precisely zero interest in doing anything. Writing them was the point.

This, unfortunately, has been the case practically for as long as literature has existed - very, very few authors make anything more than a pittance from their work in their lifetimes, and historically a majority of authors were the scions of wealthy or at least comfortably middle class families.

Now, thankfully, the publishing landscape is substantially more democratic, however the financial hurdles to being an author remain very real - it’s a side job, out of necessity, until you get published - and then it’s still probably a side job.

So, yes, it’s a labour of love. I don’t think anyone goes into writing to make bank, but rather because they have an insatiable urge to write, or to convey an idea, or whatever it may be - but financial success doesn’t weigh into it - in fact, for most, it’s an expensive hobby, insofar as it’s rather time consuming. Me, I just write whilst babysitting my telescope through the nights. Keeps the fingers warm.
Well, that was one impulse purchase.

I live in Wales and in a rural community at least.
(2019) but afaik no changes since.

Worth noting, the laws apply not just to businesses but also citizens, as in, if an Australian citizen works at your company, they may be compelled by the Australian government to backdoor your company's systems without the knowledge of others.

As an Australian, please don't hire us.
Ask HN: What are your favorite Essays/Longform blogposts
What are your favorite Essays/Longform blogposts you find yourself coming back to over and over again?

Does not have to be entrepreneurship related!

Heading out for a longer vacation and wanna stack up that Kindle
I'm mad that as an Italian (where Nutella was created) this is the first time I'm hearing about this +Cocoa version. Apparently it's not even marketed/sold in Italy at all! It's for the US market only.
I think you’d correctly say he bought the company but has not settled, so he does not yet own the company.
Firewall bypass. Terrible performances when using Docker while accessing files stored on a Windows folder.
- https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/

- http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
We just made the pricing for the StartUp and SMB tiers more transparent now. On the yearly subscription: We've seen many companies trying to implement something similar with Terraform, which quite often takes them a lot of time for the initial implementation and ongoing maintenance (eg provider updates, new features, bug fixes). Instead of doing it yourself, we're going to maintain it for you.
Twitter almost certainly will win the lawsuit, Musk has very little chance...
> HST might have done that if its instruments had been of different pixel size or imaging array size / focal length

HST is already imaging at diffraction-limited resolution (with proper post-processing). It would need a bigger mirror to get there.
"mistakes"
Yep, or viceversa it could be a good test, my comment on the other, old, thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21871249
What is NGG and shader culling on AMD RDNA GPUs?
They can’t buy “all” the housing and make money off that. You can simply defeat them by building more housing.

Same reason car companies sell you cars instead of keeping them for themselves. They naturally depreciate, except we intervene in the market to help boomers’ retirements.
If the bike has been cared for, I don’t think age should be a problem. At the Eroica mentioned elsewhere in this thread, people have taken part with bikes a hundred years old[1].

[1] https://eroica.cc/en/eroica-cc/ethos
Of course, hence "nonces and stuff", but that's nothing out of the ordinary compared to what we use every day.

I am surprised these things contains no receiver. Receiving is the easy part in a transducer, and there commercial off-the-shelf solutions to this for about a dollar. But that would explain it.
fyi, the 0PS/2 Model 030 was always 0junk, it really only existed as discipline and punishment from 0IBM's 0enterprise 0sales.
Oh yeah lots of Hollywood scriptwriters have studied Campbell, it is part of the reason all movies look alike today.

I'm just saying it is bullshit that historical myths and folklore follow such a template. But blockbuster movies definitely does these days.
You’re welcome! The documentation needs some work, it isn’t par with the latest CryptPad version. It’s entirely possible this information is missing!
I presume Musk would consider paying 0 an "absolute win". I kind of doubt he'll achieve that though.
Exactly.

It annoys me that people are discussing the benefits, when the cost isn't even remotely acceptable.
It wouldn't be the first time Big Pharma did something harmful to society in order to protect its profit margins. You don't seriously think there is a moral stance that leads one to conclude Big Pharma is benevolent and always looking out for humanity?
A Remote Possibility of Failure
more I think about it, it would actually be a great idea. Same goes for journalists. Or actually maybe there is a way to score folks who have amplified voices, perhaps there could be some levelling
>there is no valid public interest in that

and how is a valid public interest defined? To me I would consider it to mean a piece of information that a person may be curious about or may want in order to make a decision. If someone is making an underwear recommendation system then I can see how they can be interested in collecting the color of everyone in order to offer this service.

>opening up all personal information is a very dystopian thought

I don't think it needs to be like that. Freedom of information will allow things to be made more efficient and for better decisions to be made and their impact measured. Anything you are curious about you are able to find out.
0.25 kg without the wiring per seat, adds up to 5 seats * 0.25kg + tons of coper wiring.
It doesn’t. It just refutes the claim that nothing matters.
Human cells take in less protein from a plant-based meat than from chicken
Interesting post! I’ve been thinking about trying Linux with a rolling distrib. They mention NixOS, do people here have an opinion on that one?
There's nothing "conspiratorial" about assuming fundamental principles of human behavior, even baked into neoclassical economics (which you might also subscribe to) and any realist political theory. Not only that but real conspiracies at this level happen almost constantly[1], John Bolton just admitted being involved in some yesterday on CNN[2]. Don't be dismissive and condescending, especially when it's quite possible you're wrong.

1. https://github.com/binka/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md

2. https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/154695519704541593...
From The Atlantic's article, the feasibility study for the Sri Lanka port came from Canada. The Chinese didn't "trap" them into something unproductive, a western study said it's feasible.
Not mentioned here: Cooling option + actuators - we are only talking about the basic setup, although that is dishonest, as in the subscription car all options are included.
The old Tornado jet engines can run, basically, everything. For a while that is, the need serious overhaul after running on Diesel for example after low singel diggit flight hours. The reasoning back the, at the hight of the cold war, was to be able to move the squadrons quickly to dort strips an roads and out of harms way, and back to an airfield, in case nuclear strikes and stuff. For that purpose using Diesel is helpful I guess. It was never done, exept for trials as far as I know.
Facebook will be ‘turning up the heat’ to weed out underperformers
You and the other person don't understand.

All data structures have types. EVEN lists of records that each contain further records. A type or a data structure is an orthogonal concept to FP, because types exist in imperative programming and data structures also exist in FP.
Open source = no strings attached. I don’t get the shaming of big users of open source.

(And if we really want to get there: chrome, android, angular, etc.)
I'm not aware of any public tooling, but I see Google has a version discussed in https://research.google/pubs/pub50130/ .
Hive to pull the plug on smart home gadgets
zsh `setopt correct` is pretty helpful with these kinds of typos.
I think there are websites that publish trustworthiness scores for news outlets, but after all, the big questions is always who defines what truth is.
Is that you, Mickens?
If you could profitably get higher prices like that, wouldn't farmers have already done it?
Those conditions are negotiable. Countries can say "no" to "using Chinese companies". If countries say "we want local companies" then Chinese negotiators say "okay let's do that".

Furthermore, a major reason why Chinese companies did the work was due to a lack of skilled workforce in the country. Some countries chose for a hybrid model, where they ask for Chinese companies to train local workers.

Finally, if something does go wrong, then The Atlantic's article says that Chinese lenders are often willing to restructure the loan.
The key word here is "substantiation" aka "evidence".
Great post. It could be 'care', I call that 'Berufsstolz' in German. Like professional pride. Not everyone has it, but those that do, they sure are more successful inside and outside the company and are (in general) a pleasure to work with.
Kudos to you. Why was this not explained in iOS...
This is true for your codebase and your dependencies as well.
Aside from being able to prove that the solution halts, you mean? You get a lot of side benefits as well with a halting program, such as provable limits in time and space for the totality of the program instead of just the functional core bits.
PaaS ran on AWS anyway, so it wouldn't be Amazon (I would guess? Unless they think they can charge more/upsell by departments procuring directly from them). Perhaps Google or MS were upset that by PaaS running atop AWS, AWS became the de facto 'official' cloud service for government?
Switch to Arch for God's sake
2018, 127 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17540401

I made this back then! It’s what taught me to use gloves with chili. The capsaicin managed to permeate my skin, and for around 3 days my hands would start burning if they only got slightly warm. I had to sleep with my hands slightly raised, so they wouldn’t touch either the mattress or the covers (or my own skin).
Nowadays, I always have nitrile gloves for any kind of hot chili recipes ;)

I think it was great, I guess I’ll make it again this year.
It's like listening to a flat earth advocate.
Sorry for the outages, friends. We're actively working on getting it able to handle higher load but we knew that if we hit HN we'd be swamped no matter what we did. We're spinning up more workers and fixing obvious perf issues as we see them, but if it's not available when you try it make sure to check back later!
I wasn't recommending Tolstoy or Shakespeare for a reason...

Why does "making money" have anything to do with producing art or working on a craft you love? Virtually every fine artist we now regard as a genius didn't make real money in their lifetime. The people selling their art retroactively make the money.
No it doesn't unless you've never ran bare metal Linux and are happy with VM overhead.
> people are willing to change jobs often

People are willing to changes jobs often because companies aren't offering meaningful paths for advancement. People aren't going to wait around forever, and will write their own promotion if it comes to that. I did, after watching people half as qualified as me interview for "Senior Software Engineer" with alleged years of experience as such.

I've watched corporations make blindingly obvious $100M mistakes, and then layoff the rank & file — the "talent" — who had no say, and if anything, disapproved of the decisions that led to their ultimate layoff. You can't get attached to a company, as the winds will shift tomorrow.

> almost all of the companies we studied are starting to take nontraditional approaches to recruiting

And yet there doesn't appear to be a recruiter out there that can put a competently written email into my inbox. Of the jobs I've held, I've self-applied to two, my own network for one, and the last was a recruiter.

> We don’t have a retention problem! In a sense, they’re right. At the senior level, the attrition rates at these companies are often quite low – 4% or 5% a year.

… 4%–5% attrition YoY would be low, IMO. My experience is closer to 30–50% YoY.

> They have good ideas, they have money – they just don’t have enough talented people to pursue those ideas. They are “talent-constrained.”

If you have the money, and you're "talent constrained", it is either because you don't have the money, or you're not willing to loose the purse-strings enough to get the talent.

> What do talented people get at startups? For one thing, the opportunity to make a lot of money.

Please. Lottery tickets similarly offer the opportunity to make a lot of money, but I suppose this is 1998 and the bubble hasn't imploded just quite yet.

> “Does your company make improving its talent pool one of its top three priorities?” In many companies, only 10% or 20% of corporate officers said yes.

And the truth comes out. "Talent, talent, talent" as a marketing message, but … it isn't an actual priority.

Mid-way through this alleged war for talent, Adobe, Apple, Google. Intel, Intuit, eBay and others would be sued for antitrust violations around suppressing wages by non-poaching agreements. They would later settle at various points for a collective $435M. Still, "[one of the plaintiffs] said the [earlier, slightly smaller settlement] represents only one-tenth of the $3 billion in compensation the 64,000 workers could have made if the defendants had not colluded".
“Proper tail calls”, i.e. tail calls as specified for ES6
Apple ends Johny Ive cooperation
> Any level headed person, forget a politician, would want to experiment first, see the results, gauge and then expand selectively. That is common sense.

Are you kidding me? The complete religious level consensus on the "save the planet" or "climate change" side of the discussion is everything should go back to being organic and sustainable, and unquestionably right now, with no testing.

Take a look at the greens in germany, who are still getting the last 3 nuclear plants shut down RIGHT NOW. I mean what the fuck.

And this isn't politicians. Politicians just reflect what their voting base want. There is an insane dogma now that anything artificial is basically evil, for many many of the public.
Decompiler space probably has a few tens of millions in revenue yearly, yet writing a good decompiler is quite a lot of engineering effort, and you are not going to spend tons of money and effort to capture a measly 10m market, you'll rather be the next uber type thing that targets a much bigger market.

Hence HexRay can get away with not doing much and just collecting license fees from existing customers yearly, as there isn't a better alternative anyway.
Brodega Mindset
Competition with Amazon and soon to be google was real however.
Don't bother, everytime it is the same argument from people who don't bother even looking at Wikipedia (not talking about opening an history book).
Yeah, sorry about that. We're working on getting it up again but no promises. I'm on vacation in Europe while the rest of the team is about to head to sleep so might be a bit before we have it more stable.
It doesn't refute anything. The point is rather; what matters to you is part of your personal journey. Ultimately it still doesn't matter in the grander scheme, but that isn't the point of enjoying your adventure while you're around.

Does the cosmos care if I give my Mother a birthday present or not? Unlikely it does. Do I? Yes, I send one every year. Does it matter then? Not really, but I like doing it because I like being nice to my Mother.
I wonder how simple I could make a business card with a microcontroller on it that only had a serial UART with copper pads to solder wires to, or some kind of pins.

People will be paranoid about inserting a USB device into their PC, but maybe a business card thing clearly labeled like "I am a 96008N1 RS232 terminal" would encourage people to wire it up and take a look.
Full support to the truckers!
I often wondered what the term / production technique was, and "dynamic compression" it is.

Makes me think of Oasis records from the early 90s that were mastered to be the loudest sounding songs on the pub jukebox, and they were, then.
Yes I have kept those as well.
What about the nitrogen issue in places like Belgium or the Netherlands?
I hope you never have to work retail, they often have the same approved songs on repeat all day.

I worked at a gym, and to this day, there are songs I don't even like that pop up in my head. 3 years of hearing them every day just about drove me spare.
I liked Von Neumann's analysis of the problem as relating to the size of the effects available to us. As technology progresses, the effect size increases, as the effect size increases, the danger of mistakes gets larger. Unfortunately "The most hopeful answer is that the human species has been subjected to similar tests before and seems to have a congenital ability to come through, after varying amounts of trouble" is not actually a hopeful answer (although it might have been the most hopeful answer available to him at the time). It's not hopeful because any amount of trouble can be catastrophic when the effect size is larger than the size of the ecosystem that supports survival.

The only approach that seems to me to have a chance of a modicum of success in the long run is to rapidly expand the size of the survival ecosystem. We need to develop the technology and political will to send out multiple, significant sized, independent generation ships or colonies with such a variety of governance systems and cultures that dangerous memes would be unlikely to spread easily between them. Physical and information communication between them and back to Earth would need to be infrequent and treated carefully, but with appropriate safeguards, the risk/reward would probably still work out that they could help each other and Earth.

I don't believe any other approach to existential risk is likely to work. At best we'll resolve the existential risks relating to our current technology, but effect sizes won't stop with those, they'll continue increasing, and to survive long term, humanity needs outposts continually beyond that increasing bubble of effect size.
I think so, given a healthy market. Sometimes fiat decisions or policies can discourage or outright prevent local supply from developing. The key is balance.
>I love pure functions, but in the end, I think it is just a tool. A solution to a set of problems,

I'm tired of seeing this analogy everywhere. Everyone knows it, there's nothing new here. When we talk about things like FP or OOP, the real opinions live at the extremes. Where one tool is definitively better than another tool or where some tools are complete garbage.

Saying that everything is a tool for different things or it's all apples and oranges says nothing about anything.
this has nothing to do with OO, function chaining depends on the output of the previous function regardless
Switzerland's autonomous underground cargo system aims for 2031 debut
DVLA systems seem to be an absolute mess, and many public-facing systems are still using the DirectGov styling (which was replaced by GOV.UK in 2012). A lot of their services are completely unavailable overnight from 7pm-7am. So if you sell a vehicle on the last day of the month and go to register the sale after 7pm, bad luck - you're getting charged another month of vehicle tax.
My first job was at a company where this was installed system wide on all remote linux boxes. Everytime you type sl it would take over the whole terminal for a couple of seconds leaving you unable to do anything. This was before docker & devops era so we used to ssh into machines at lot.

It was the thing that prompted me to learn tmux so I could switch tabs without needing multiple putty windows.

The original use case went away long back, but I use tmux still, so thanks I guess :)
Has anyone rewritten this in Rust yet?
https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/

Mother Earth Mother Board is a great example of storytelling. I was using him as a sidestep from Crichton, given that's where the author is saying he's at.

HG Wells or Margaret Atwood would also be good places to start, when looking for examples of the craft of short-story writing.
>The new thing is observations in the IR,

Not a new thing.

Herschel space observatory operated in same location (L2-point) as JWST and it was IR telescope.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Herschel+space+observatory+i...

Mirror sizes:

Hubble 4.0 m2 (43 sq ft)
Herschel 9.6 m2 (103 sq ft)
JWST 25.4 m2 (273 sq ft)

Hubble had ~40% of the Herschel's collecting area and Herchel had 40% of the JWST's collecting area.
This fails contracts 101.

There has to be consideration. Reading the contract is not consideration.
Then why does anyone get paid government-mandated minimum wage?
> Understood, but in practice how often does that really happen?

In functional code written where general tail call elimination (or special tail call operations) are available, non- or mutually-recursive tail calls are not uncommon.

Heck, non-recursive (potentially fairly nested) tail calls are common in languages without any optimization for it. Anytime you see something like “return f(x)” (or, because operators are implemented via special methods, even “return x+y”) in Python, for instance, you've got a tail call.

If it isn't direct or mutual recursion, it has to be a pretty degenerate case to blow the stack even without elimination, so elimination is must necessary for those cases. But other cases bene for from not having the extra memory usage and reducing pushing stuff onto and popping it off of the stack.
Redshift is indeed a matter of speed. But due to the expansion of the universe, relative speed and distance are directly related (Hubble's law).

So farther away means faster relative speed and thus more redshifted (Doppler effect)
Farther away also means older light (due to the finite speed of light).

Putting that all together means that to observe old light from the start of the universe we have to look in the IR spectrum.
Don't forget to get a really good insurance in case you lose the ability to work in the industry.
Needs year tag: 2016.
Cut taxes? Weren't they more worried about their foreign currency reserves that went to these fertilisers?
Revision 0 was precisely this. Until I realized that literally nobody will never use it then
Legally - yes. Morally.. not exactly. And shaming one of very few ways to tell big users that it'd be damn nice to chip in here and there.
> A lot of my colleagues use Ghidra a lot now and complain about its decompiler regularly.

Are your colleagues decompiling obfuscated code (for example malware)? Publicly available decompilers are not working well for that, but I assume that many specalists have their own little improvements and plugins that they don't share with others because it's their core business.

For non-obfuscated code, Ghidra has served me very well, even for entire applications. Often, it has to be pushed into the right direction (for example, by manually specifying the type of a variable) and it sometimes misses some obvious simplifications especially when arrays are involved, but I think those issues could be solved relatively easily by polishing/extending its heuristics. Nothing where I would say that ML is needed, although it would be possible. At the end, most programs contain the same patterns and an ML-based system could help identifying them.

But yeah, obfuscated code, that's something else. There are some academic publications about the usage of ML for that. No idea what's happening inside the company labs, though.