skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't think of Quibi as trying to be a "social" media. The goal seemed to be to create a new channel for commercial media.

There's a valid argument for "conventional media is not ideal for consumption on your phone." The content isn't really mixed or targeted for the device. You can make a strong case for developing media specifically for the format-- like how TV eventually begat the sitcom and 60-minute cop drama.

This, however, has to be an iterative process. They blew straight past MVP and went full "here's a finished complete product that we just know people will pay $10 per month for without adequately explaining it to them."

They could probably have survived if they had started a lot smaller, and probably went to a different monetization model. For something like this, you almost have to give the store away for a year or two, just to get real user feedback and develop buzz. Maybe when you instrument up users, you find out that 10 minutes is the wrong timeslice, and 6 or 16 flies better. Maybe some content proves to be more suited to the form. Once you have a base of people actually discussing your content, maybe a price plan akin to old Crunchyroll, where the back catalog was ad-supported, and you had to pay to see new content in a timely fashion. You can't expect to sell people on 10 bucks a month when you haven't established your content credentials.

I also suspect Covid did a number on some of their key target markets; the idea of "I have 10 minutes to kill and my phone is the only screen choice" dovetails very well with public transport and office lunch breaks, both of which were mysteriously flattened in the spring of 2020. If you're going to be locked down, you may as well be locked down around the 40-inch TV and watch full movies.
Are the immigrants receiving ubi?

If so how?

If not, how are they cheaper than somebody who only wants to work for fun?
"Buddhists" represents many sects, and many more individuals who aren't beholden to anyone. The majority of these assuredly don't believe anyone can fly, enlightened or not.

Scientology is a rigidly hierarchical, authoritarian cult that speaks with a single voice: that of a handful of leaders.

There is a slight difference between these two things.
Those quotes are great.

It kinda seems like they are lamenting that THEY THEMSELVES "do not want to work anymore" on some kind of work, try to hire someone to do the work THEY THEMSELVES don't want to do, and then they go around slandering other people that never wanted to work on it in the first place.

It isn't that others don't want to work ANYMORE it is that others never wanted to work on it AT ALL.

That's a different problem. Maybe people saying this just need to be honest about it?

Try saying "I DON'T WANT TO WORK ANYMORE on this shitty work, but how about you give it a try?" See what happens?
Hosting on a Raspberry Pi in My Living Room
Every bike I've ever owned was stolen in the end - the only exception being my current bike, and that's a matter of time. That's across four cities on two continents. Bike theft seems universal.

Presumably, if you buy a second hand bike, it was almost certainly stolen. How to get no one to buy a second hand bike though?
Erm.. yes it can? What exactly
Do you think a “generation” is?
Yeah. I do. Come hang out in Southeast Portland for a few days and you'll gather what I'm referring to. Seriously, just talk to anyone under 25 here who's living in a van or shooting heroin on the street and they'll explain to you in collegiate level prose why there's no point getting a job.
Maybe France is a good place to work because workers actively stand up for their rights.
Low qualified workers don't pay any taxes though?
Even then, Good on you that you actually love your job, most aren’t that lucky
Exactly! The US is great for the top few percent, but for the rest of the population they’d have a much better life in any Western European country.
I assume bowsamic's point is that people can be wrong about some things and right about others.
And drafting random people not incined for service somehow doesn't?
You can do both.

Soft delete immediately when requested. Hard delete (if still soft deleted) when GDPR requires it.

Besides it's not like all data is the same. Use what's appropriate when it's appropriate. Nobody's saying "you must always soft delete, and then immediately tweet the audit trail, print that tweet, put that printout onto a rocket, and launch it to the moon for later retrieval. with a blockchain for extra GDPR hate".
Since when is GUI part of language?
IIRC they extended the warranty on the keyboard up to 4 years. For people who didn't buy AppleCare, that's an extension of 3 years from the standard warranty (at least in the US). For people who did buy AppleCare, it's just 1 extra year.

IMO they should have indefinitely extended the warranty on keyboard-related issues on those machines. It was a design flaw, and they should be required to fix it. The cost would dwindle as people stop using the machines, but it would have made it much more likely that people could find buyers for the used machines. I honestly wouldn't feel right selling mine, knowing how much it would cost to fix in the (likely) event that dust/crumbs/etc. get under a key.
You say “information I am getting”—are you not US-based? I can tell you the two parties are pretty much the same in their approach (other than some minor differences in organizational structure). It’s professionalized and data-driven. They are just trying to win elections.
>In a software engineer. My cousin is an electrical engineer working at a large power distribution firm.
>For all intents and purposes his job is absolutely critical to society. I basically fumble around and do a few projects for my clients.
>I get paid several times more than him.

If your cousin and all his fellow power EEs quit for software jobs, how would this affect the pay for these EE positions?
Your own mappings are available in the console and on the API. So definitely still possible to tell
Unneccessary $() fork, unnecessary cat, and at best a bit thoughtless to expand the file's contents onto a commandline just to squirt it. Sorry buddy, but, do not be proud of this.

[edit I should not simply say that without showing what is supposedly the better way]

no large cmdline, allow cat

while : ;do { printf 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\n\n' ;cat index.html ; } | nc -N -l $PORT ;done

no cat, allow large cmdline

while : ;do IFS= read -d '' -r x < index.html ;printf 'HTTP/1.1 200
OK\n\n%s' "$x" | nc -N -l $PORT ;done

no cat, no large cmdline (though not strictly enforced)

while : ;do { printf 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\n\n' ;while read -r x ;do printf '%s' "$x" ;done <index.html ; } | nc -N -l $PORT ;done

There are several versions of nc, mine uses -N to exit on eof.

From here it's only a little more to read -n 4096 to read in 4k chunks instead of in lines, since a valid html document could actually be all on one line of arbitrary unlimited length, and the final version above would be no different from the "allow large cmdline" version.
The way academics and VCs handle the stochastic nature of research and innovation (eg only a small fraction of ideas end up working) is to hire many people ready to devote all their energy to one or two projects. That way you have multiple projects, each with a dedicated and talented person leading it.

Then the seeds that grow into mighty oak trees survive, weeds are trimmed out and forgotten.

Note the Einstein was not that productive after he moved to Princeton. All his seeds became weeds after a certain age.
10 hours a week at unknown hours determined 20min before start time is the new standard.

Agile/JIT labour, the kinda stuff techies have been arguing for for decades
6-12 months into any job I have had you see it is political, and as a developer you I am the pawn in the game.

The developer is default assumed naive regardless if decades of experience.

Mansplained, cut short, restricted freedom and the constant ticking of some clock that is measuring how fast you can pump out the puzzle solutions.

So I am over it. I avoid burnout by having a simple goal: to be paid every month by someone. I have lost the enthusiasm for the work. I do the work. But I don’t have ideas in the shower anymore.

There are just too few people-oriented leaders in the space and those that are are hamstring by the next level up anyway.

The good thing is it is continuously motivation to build a side business.
I have watched a small number of videos about this topic. All of the videos make it seem like this is something easy to do:

* create account

* find victim

* make claim

* earn money

I watched this one and thought to myself that it almost seemed like an ad for recruiting trolls.

One of these content creators should create a second account and file claims against themselves, and perhaps other willing victims. Then produce a video about how easy it was to show the flaw in the system.
Bingo! Why aren’t more people complaining about the _schedule_ part of fulltime employment!? Work would be so much more tolerable if there wasn’t damn standup at 930 every morning
Many in the US look at socialist ideals as though they are evil and will destroy everything. Just as many seem to confuse them with communism.

Importantly, socialist and communist societies are different, and there is no successful nation that is purely one or the other. Successful nations with high standards of living and overall higher than average levels of life satisfaction have socialised elements, such as healthcare.
A simple one is being able to write multiple messages (subject and body), e.g.

git commit -m "subject" -m "a longer body"

or just running 'git commit' and using your text editor (subject first line, body after).

I've worked on too many repos with messages like "fixed the thing" where a few more sentences of context would've prevented headaches when trying to debug or change something.
Facebook Shifts Resources from News to Creator Economy
It doesn’t really matter. It’s more money chasing the exact same number of resources as existed before hand. The very definition of inflation.

It’s just bread and circuses.
It's actually the same thing just on a smaller scale (apart from the fact that people in France are rarely "obsessed" about work at all) - the jobs people don't want to work are the, relatively speaking, shitty ones. Nobody wants to work weird hours at the airport with a long commute, or police emotional/drunk people at a stadium, or run around serving food for hours at a time for comparatively little pay. Those jobs are much better than the equivalents in the US, healthcare/time off/etc.-wise, but they're still shitty jobs compared to the rest of the job pool.
Have you tried to nap when the temperature outside is 41c and you have no air conditioning? I have. It is not possible.

Where I live, we hit 46c last year. I brought a portable AC to my mom, it was 32c in her 2nd story bedroom after sunset. Yeah of course those temps are not unheard of in some regions. But I am north of the 45th parallel. It isn’t normal and a “siesta” won’t make it so.

We fucked up, the planet is getting hotter. We need to adapt. Where I live, electricity is mainly generated through hydroelectric dams. Yeah, it fucks up the fish, but it is better than coal or methane. And yes, I will unabashedly run my AC to make my home habitable. It isn’t accepting defeat, it is allowing us to live.

I wonder, as you wrote this reply, what was the temperature inside your home? I am sure you will tell us with the same zeal that was behind your original reply. If not, kindly keep your “customs” to yourself while people die of heat sickness in their homes.
> Carbon is not trying to be 100% interoperable with C++ It's trying for some fuzzy notion of "good enough"

No, it's clearly not a "fuzzy" notion of interop even in the most uncharitable interpretation. Your assertion is mis-information.

"Seamless, bidirectional interoperability with C++, such that a library anywhere in an existing C++ stack can adopt Carbon without porting the rest."

Support mixing Carbon and C++ toolchains

Compatibility with the C++ memory model

Minimize bridge code

Unsurprising mappings between C++ and Carbon types

Allow C++ bridge code in Carbon files

Carbon inheritance from C++ types

Support use of advanced C++ features

Support basic C interoperability
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32160909.
Apple fanboy pillgrimage.
We’re also just under a month from the summer solstice (in N. Hemisphere: June 21). London is at 51 degrees North, so the day is pretty long at 16 hours right now.

IE: less of that relieving overnight low.
Anxiety-driven work at funded startups
BK wasn't in mass production until 1986, Agat until 1985.
In 1986 very few schools had any computers, that's why USSR started to buy MSX computers - there were a lot of problems with local mass production.
I read this post when it came out, nodded to myself and assumed it was correct because there seemed to have been no progress in quantum computing in my lifetime.

Turns out he is wrong: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03213-z

I'd invite you to read the blog of that other HN favorite (Scott Aaronson) on the topic:

For me, though, the broader point is that neither party here—certainly not IBM—denies that the top-supercomputers-on-the-planet-level difficulty of classically simulating Google’s 53-qubit programmable chip really is coming from the exponential character of the quantum states in that chip, and nothing else.

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=4372

And later when Jianwei Pan and Chao-Yang Lu, got BosonSampling working on a quantum computer:

While directly verifying the results of n-photon BosonSampling takes ~2n time for any known classical algorithm, I said, surely it should be possible with existing computers to go up to n=40 or n=50? A couple weeks later, the authors responded, saying that they’d now verified their results up to n=40, but it burned $400,000 worth of supercomputer time so they decided to stop there. This was by far the most expensive referee report I ever wrote!

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=5122
> "it was a little abstract, but we believed in it enough to recite it with pride"

I have worked for companies that had a mission I believed in, although from my position I was far from moving the needle in any direction.

Maybe that gave me an extra kick at times; maybe I stayed up late a few times without complaining because it was necessary to finish off some crucial work.

But rest assured that I have never proudly recited a shared mission statement written by someone (the "company"-- its executives and vice presidents and so on) who would have no hesitation to let me go--with great sadness--because there are hard times coming. "But," they would say, "it has been great working with you, we wish you the very best."
> I would love to work

Nope. You (we) would love to follow a passion. There’s a ton of under-staffed and under-payed restaurants and factories. Do you still want to work?
What's the need to work so much? Productivity is supposedly off the charts, but isn't making people wealthier
Can you articulate how your brain allowed you to escape from that trap? Did K affect you on some low-level inarticulable level? Sincerely curious. Nihilism is a struggle for me!
Publishers vs. Internet Archive: why it is in court over digital book lending
Of course people form judgments about you. But it is very easy to exaggerate how consequential these judgments are. In the end, people are remarkably tolerant. They may think e.g. that you are an inconsiderate lout but that is perfectly ok with them as long as this does not hamper them in their own pursuits. Call it constructive disinterest.
A quick google says traditional bunker fuel would be about $3.3m

https://www.morethanshipping.com/fuel-costs-ocean-shipping/

So 38x more expensive to build and 5x more expensive to fuel. And the big hitch with that is getting a power supply large enough to charge a ship in a couple of day turn around.
Salaries are terrible in France - a senior dev earns maybe 60k euros (~60k USD).
I see this from the business side. The reason is that growth continues to outpace supply. Software and technology are high growth industries and there aren't enough experienced workers to fill all the new positions opening.
Or committing large binaries frequently, but yes. Totally agreed.

GC manually unless you're dealing with scale where you know precisely how much it helps you. Otherwise it's safer and easier to not do it, and the disk space is utterly inconsequential (and trivial to find and `git gc` if it proves otherwise). You can afford a few more megabytes every year or so.
> The key is that, what kind of ACID properties you need in your business.

> RDBMS puts a lot of effort to support a wide range of ACID properties. However which also make it very difficult to be used as cluster.

Note that while common, ACID is actually not a requirement for RDBMSes -- there are NoSQL datastores that provide acid guarantees, like FoundationDB[0].

> So if your bussiness data is too large to be hold by a single instance of database, you will need a database cluster. And maybe someday, you want to get better performance, then you change your schema to remove some data constraints. Like removing FK, use application logic instead of storage procedure, etc.

I agree with the point, but I want to note that the vast majority of apps do not have data too large to be held by a single instance, especially with the eye-watering density of hardware these days.

Some proof for my essentially wild conjecture:

- Reddit started with just postgres[1]

- LetsEncrypt (the reason most of the internet will have TLS in the future if not already) supports over 235MM sites with just one MySQL box[2]

Now it's not that you can't mis-use RDBMS (Postgres), or that it's always the right tool for the job, but I just want to note that it's very possible to get very far with application size without scaling out horizontally. Scaling out horizontally & compromising your data model should be the last options you pursue, IMO.

Also, that said, Citus for postgres is now fully open source[3], TimescaleDB has been open source and only got open-er[4] (they have a clustering mechanism) so this diminishes the use case for NoSQL going forward. This means that the specific use case for NoSQL is eroding somewhat.

> If OLTP is not the key part of your business, and it is expected to store a large amount of data in future. Then it would be better to carefully design your data schema so you can use NoSql database instead of a traditional RDBMS.

I'd argue that you should default to OLTP and only deviate when you need the extra power, but we'd probably agree to disagree there :)

[EDIT] Highscalability.com has a great writeup on this from 2010 (!) that as I skim through still looks mostly relevant:

http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/12/6/what-the-heck-are-...

[0]: https://www.foundationdb.org/

[1]: http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/8/26/reddit-lessons-lea...

[2]: https://letsencrypt.org/2021/01/21/next-gen-database-servers...

[3]: https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2022/06/17/citus-11-goes-full...

[4]: https://www.timescale.com
> they prescribe both boosters, and inhibitors, to treat the same symptoms

So here's the interesting thing - there's evidence that 5-HT2a receptors are way too dense in people with depression. Antagonists obviously have a blocking effect, but increasing serotonin at the synapse counterintuitively has a similar effect - your body responds to it by paradoxically downregulating 5-HT2a receptors. Two totally opposite approaches with a similar outcome.
Came here to say this. Each update almost subtracts value. Updates should only contain information that has changed.

Very frustrating when you're anxiously awaiting new information, and you have to do a word-by-word mental diff.
Why not both? We always seem to try to dichotomize and categorize incredibly complex systems for some reason. Surely there are many components to the symptom clusters of depression and anxiety. Life circumstances can matter, exercise can matter, neurological dispositions can matter. All at once.
Google doesn't really have a concept of datacenters internally. In simplified terms everything runs on a borg cell, which usually but not always exists in a single building. Within a region one of your GCP services could be running on one cell, with another service running on another in a different building. If a failure happens or maintenance needs to be done, a cell could be drained to another one in the same region.
Tech ethics: If cookie consent prompts were honest
Why would you link to discussions in subs filled with financially illiterate cultists? Why would that be interesting for anyone sane?
The only other option is to shrug though.
Few weeks ago my bank force me to use password and SMS code for transactions because of EU regulations. But if I would use app (which I won't), I don't have to use any passwords.

Which EU regulation tell banks to use SMS and password to make transactions without app?
This can be true, and the part quoted by the OP ("Flash forward to today, and the race is on to build fault-tolerant quantum computers and discover new algorithms to apply them in useful ways.") can also be true.

The reason we don't have "a quantum computer that can solve a problem that anybody cares about" is because of that lack of fault tolerance, not because we don't have some experimental quantum computers that work in laboratory tests.
Oldest generations first or the “young’ins” will make the 6-70s look sedate.
Amazon does provide a way to map to the real availability zone: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ram/latest/userguide/working-wit...

It's also not appropriate in all cases to spread out, for example the nearest zones to London are around ~7ms away in mainland Europe.
What's OVH? Don't they use LBRY? And it's honestly hard to avoid cryptocurrency for a decentralized platform. There needs to be incentive to host
> Unfortunately, the pop-culture misunderstandings about "low serotonin" can mislead a lot of people into thinking that research like this debunks SSRIs. It doesn't. As I said above, we've known for decades that something else is going on. This isn't actually a surprise to anyone in the field.

The article itself quotes one of the authors of the study, who is attending medical school in psychiatry, as starting that his training explicitly made this claim, that his textbooks make this claim, and that he himself was later passing it down to other students.

Other sources quoted by the news article are similar to your own claims. Overall, it sounds like there are camps in psychiatry that have indeed long abandoned this theory, but others who still hold onto it.

Furthermore, the meta analysis being talked about in the article does make the additional claim that SSRIs are perhaps not necessary for the treatment of depression. I don't believe they are right, but it's also misleading to suggest that theur research is entirely in line with psychiatric orthodoxy.
People thought that cars were overhyped. Napoleon mocked steamships. It’s not a new phenomenon.
We can get in touch with non-profit organizations in our area offering food relief to the poor and generously donate to charity online We can form a community of like-minded people eager to contribute and help the needy and then with their support conduct fund raising activities and collect charity donations for organizing food distribution drives in the locality.
Just raise the minimum wage to $50 an hour, problem solved.
I thought the current inflation is primarily driven by high energy prices and disrupted supply chains and those are primarily driven by war and the pandemic?