skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would have gone EE or CE all the way, because that is my interest, and there is little chance I could uncover anything on my own about electronics without the structure of university

This so much. Programming is accessible, that's great. I learned as a stupid kid and it worked out fine economically.

But if I had to re-do everything, I'd go to school, and select anything but CS. I can always teach myself that. I find myself interested in many things nowadays, but almost never engage them, because I just can't, there's just not much an individual outside of reading.
If you are saying there are weaknesses to measuring GDP, sure, it's kind of a crappy measure. A terrible one. But still a useful one. All models are wrong, etc etc etc. I certainly don't fetishize GDP or assume that people only spend money on positive things for themselves or others.

But in your second scenario, the pollution of the air would have been a big drop in GDP, a ton of negative externalities that were not counted. And improving the air would be of value.

The most convincing flaw about GDP and trade, to me, is about real labor, productive value to society, that has or has not been captured by GDP. For example, child care. Child care by a stay at home parent is not captured by GDP, but child care that is paid for is a massive expense, one that many families can not afford at all. So that is uncompensated labor that should probably be included as part of our GDP. Child care is being produced, but not in exchange with others.

But if we invented magic robots that did everything an individual needed, I don't think that would reduce trade much. We would still be interacting with each other, buying each others' art, trading living locations, etc.
Quite scary to see Americans still thinking like this. Surely this explains the country's many fuckups in this century, e.g., Afghanistan and Iraq.
If you want to share more about your journey and what you know works ping me at joao_at_jdmoreira.me

I'm a huge fan of learning from others experiences so I would love to pick your brain.

Of course you are probably way too busy building your business and focusing on what matters (just like you wrote) and I totally respect your mindset.

But still, worth the try!
Based on my quick read, “Why build Carbon?” section calls out just 1 problem with C++ which is the developer experience. Agreed.

However Carbon seems to do a whole lot more than DevEx. It’s practically a whole new language that can interop with C++. I don’t see the point in that. Would be great if someone pointed out why I should change my mind.
> We know how the demographics of HN skew, and that creates a huge bias in the discussion here.

I hazard to guess there is a huge skew in your social circles and media consumption.

When was the last time you had an earnest discussion with a swing voter who leans pro-life? Note that I'm not talking about someone torn between voting Democrat or voting Green: I'm talking about someone who voted for Obama, then Trump, then was undecided on 2020. I'll hazard to guess you simply haven't: I have.

Simply yelling at them for being white men is ineffective, particularly when they're nonwhite and female. And they're absolutely capable of handling philosophical arguments, and it's deeply condescending to define nonwhites and women as nonagents who would never to think about the philosophical underpinnings of a political position.
Does this resonate with anybody?

Does anybody have any VC horror stories?
It's std::vector that was weirdly named. In plenty of codebases "Vector", particularly gamedev and scientific, will mean the mathematical object with that name.

Other languages don't need to replicate this mistake.
This is really a riff on the fact that if you don't drive a car and eat meat the inflation is not a thing. The NYT personal inflation calculator makes this pretty clear. There is a sharp inflection around perceived inflation related to cars, airplanes, and animal products. If you walk to the ball game this story looks very different.
computer science imo somewhat gets the highest level of scrutiny when it comes to reproducibility simply because so many people can, in theory, reproduce an experiment without any special expertise. this cannot be said for many other sciences. Others require costly equipment, expertise and time, and even then, may fail to correctly reproduce an experiment. Imagine trying to reproduce a CERN finding in your backyard, or a James Webb observation, a social science survey, or medical study. DL isn't bullsh-T it's one of the few democratized enough sciences (similar to math) that has a reasonably low barrier to entry. unfortunately that may be its undoing, because it means the masses want the off the shelf docker container that just does the toy thing the experimenters spent potentially years working out. Could documentation be better? of course, but before declaring a field BS, maybe compare it to some other scientific fields.
cheap x86 hardware + Linux beat Sun.
> That’s not magic or unexplainable. It’s explainable in very easy terms; humans are taking advantage of other humans.

I'd argue that the average employer is less exploitative today, and regardless, exploitation can't account for what happened pre-1970. Did a switch flip somewhere among all employers to make exploitation really strong starting in 1971? That isn't magic thinking?

> Economic theories are just another form of “god spoke to me, and said for every 10 widgets you produce, I own 9 to exploit for myself”.

Sorry, this is nonsense. Someone can have loads of valid complaints about economic theory, but "god spoke to me" is not one of them.

I have a theory: the policy changes since the early 70s have all been about shifting downside risk from a credentialed elite to the masses. When upside risk is decoupled from downside risk, and one group of people get to shift their downside risk to everyone else, then we should expect to see wages uncorrelated with productivity, an increase in inequality and less likelihood of upper middle-class and above to fall into poverty. We have observed all three. This tracks with an increase in the regulatory administrative state (especially decoupled from political accountability), the increase in university credentials as a sorting mechanism (and de facto insurance policy[0]) and the number of practicing attorneys[1].

None of this explanation comes "from god," but rather from data.

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/10/education/study-shows-col...

[1]https://associatesmind.com/2013/08/19/historical-growth-rate...
Wood extraction in the Amazon is a crime. It's aggravated crime if done in indigenous lands. It's aggravated even more if done for illegal mining activities. The state police (civil and military) from the various Brazilian states that compose the Amazon forest has the legal obligation to investigate and arrest criminals within the region. The problem is the region is just too big. But let's assume that somehow all those criminals lose their ability to profit on the product of their crimes altogether, within a 5 to 10 years time span, all the vegetation would be naturally restored. The Amazon forest is unstoppable.

I live in the state of São Paulo, far from the Amazon forest, and the vegetation here requires a lot of work to be tamed. If you leave an empty allotment 2 or 3 months without any care, you will get knee height grass and all sorts of "exotic" plants coming out of the ground. The Amazon is orders of magnitude more aggressive than this one.

So once you stop the illegal activity, the forest will come back. The problem is not the forest, but the people -- indigenous or not -- affected by the illegal activities. Recently we saw headlines about the murder of two people in the region, an activist and a journalist. So many others have died when they crossed paths with criminals. This is a humanitarian problem before an ecological problem.
This tool addresses one aspect of my job really well, looking at how a dev implemented my figma design, and showing them exactly which little tweaks need to be made to fix it up. Of course inspector works too, but it's just like buying [Cleanshot](https://cleanshot.com/) instead of using the built in macOS screenshot tools. Providing a more refined experience for something I need as part of my regular job.

It's expensive for what it is, yes. But as a self-employed consultant, these (non-subscription) business expenses for software are my favorite.
Really? It seems like it was one of the least compelling RISC instruction set outside of the fact that it was less proprietary.
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This post is kinda Bullsh-T.
Basically all claims are unfounded, prior work is missing, and it is filled with filler content (i.e., boilerplate? I'm not sure how to call it) instead of providing value.
> Even though a lot of data collection was done without warrants in the USA, there's been a lot of blowback...

Was there? Who went to jail for it? Did anyone even get fired?

James Clapper lied to Congress[1] about data collection, the only reason we even know is a leaker who can never return to the US for his "crimes". Meanwhile Clapper served out the rest of Obama's presidency and now has a cushy job at CNN[2].

If this "blowback", accountability is dead.

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/2013/07/02/james-clapper-admits-he-...

[2] https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/23/cnn-msnbc-15-spooks-mccab...
I don't fully understand why they need to use a separate domain for this at all. There is infinite URL space available on drive.google.com, even if Google just used a proxy behind the scenes to route those requests to whatever load balancer normally services googleusercontent.com, and that would solve the issue with third party cookies entirely... as well as several other issues, like potentially confusing users with their own files coming from a domain that isn't drive.google.com.
But in the spirit of what the OP is saying, most people have never been to something like the State Fair, let alone Disney. Disney is for the rich. The State Fair is amazing from the perspective of those who have been to neither.
Optimizing profit since 1800. Didn't Napoleon sold Louisiana because of the consequences of Anglo-German bankers speculation on European economy?
Yeah I have heard this before actually. The next few tracks that I make will be in a Major key, which should help!
Sounds like the Magic Bullet in Worms II.
Nutanix distributes their AHV hypervisor to clients so the GPL would apply, I think.
The alternative to "not enrich the country" will be "make it even poorer and unequal than it already is".
I'm a Padres fan, and I regularly see folks bring in Jimmy John sandwiches and candy. It's not a secret, but rarely publicized either.
There are different ways to do this. This is where the initial idea of pivoting came in.

As long as you pick a profitable & big industry and stick to it 1-2 years, you can most of the time can find a way to make money.

The startup mindset is focusing on "ideas" but probably easier to be successful if you think in terms of industries.

Then there are the variables of costs, scalability, competition, etc. but this is the game.

So if you are not heavy funded the best is to keep costs low as long as possible.

If startups are really innovative there is a difference, but most companies are hardly innovative.
By wanting to weaken Russia and China, the US managed to hurt the EU badly (maybe sacrificed is the better word), that's unfortunate, hopefully the Ukranian war will be enough for EU leaders to finally wake up, unite and look forward without making policies that favors US tech and China industry

As many said, the EU expanded too big and too fast, creating unnecessary oppositions within itself
Still a better delivery service than Hermes.
> The trend over the last 50 years is clearly away from car dependence.

It’s just…not. I don’t know how else to state it. Maybe it is for you. Maybe it is for the Bay Area. But nationwide it’s just simply not.
The impact of not having local apprenticeships available cannot be overstated.

I see this within regions of the US in regards to software. If you grow up in a tech hub(even just your local state one) it can seem like it was "easy" to get into computers and mod games. But the farmers son's who are technical near me where I live now go and tinker with cars and diesel engines the way I did with my dad's old 286.
Where do you think an organ transport helicopter would need to land? In a larger hospital or next to your local butcher?

Almost every hospital, at least everyone that does transplants, will have a landing pad.
Or someone with their keys
If you want a subscription that you pay monthly, and you can go during the week, and forget about going at popular/busy times or to seasonal attractions.
But it does give you enough to start doing more searching to understand the greater context, no?
> “Many people spend as much time at work as they do with family and friends. For those who build strong personal relationships with colleagues, it can make a huge impact on how they view their job and how likely they are to stay in it.”

Except that you don't choose your work colleagues. You may find nice people but it's mostly random and you are stuck with what you get until you quit.

Also, is Bloomberg having a conflict of interest to report on these issues since they get ads from Fortune 500 companies that resented the great resignation?
I'm recent former Microsoft and this story is totally believable.

Most of the people working on Azure (at Microsoft), in my opinion, don't know Microsoft isn't a technology leader.
sorry about the wording, i've edited that out
I teach Computer Support for a living so I need to hear about tech trends from a support and development point of view. I also need to like the style of the presenter if I am going to spend time listening to them for months or years.
In no particular order.

Richard Campbell Runas Radio (https://runasradio.com) [Selected Episodes]
and Dotnet Rocks (dotnetrocks.com) [Selected Episodes]

Greg Faro Packet Pushers (packetpushers.net) various podcasts [Selected Episodes]

Ed Horley, Scott Hogg, and Tom Coffeen (packetpushers.net/series/ipv6-buzz/

Steve Gibson - Security Now. twit.tv/sn

I have a non work side interest in embedded systems programming.

Elecia & Christopher White(embedded.fm)

Dave Jones and Chris Gammell (theamphour.com)

I also watch several Youtube channels that relate to the same topics but not as much as the time spent on the podcast.
Most of my podcast time is driving, washing dishes or other house hold chores.
> IF your family lives somewhere that is also served by that transit

Well, that's not the fault of the baseball team.

> Most of the stadiums listed are not served by transit that is reasonably accessible to where families tend to live.

This is definitely the fault of the baseball team. Look at Atlanta, for example. They moved from reasonably close to downtown to way out in the middle of nowhere, just to get away from the city. What about the other sports teams in Atlanta? Oh, a brand new dome right next to the train station? Hmm...
> Whereas 75% are happy about it.

Sounds like a major success actually
Timber and beef are not the significant chunks of the world's economy that they once were. There are alternatives now for consumers and for economic planners.

Alternatives that don't lead to future death of entire ecosystems and the impoverishment of large sections of the world's population.
Unless the USD is no longer the reference, the current geopolitical climate might indicate that it is the case.. we'll see

I can see either EU standing up as a 3rd block, in the middle of USD / BRICS, or USD/EUR merging together
Instagram account takeover via React debug.keystore
SpaceX is now launching 10 rockets for every one by its main competitor
> bored moron target practice

With what? Remember this is the UK.
They didn't include the costs of COVID testing, masks, or probabilistically amortized costs for lost work, paxlovid, etc.

The costs of these activities has truly never been higher.
Now-a-days, I agree, grain is more of an aesthetic choice and for modern films. And, in fact, I generally don't enable de-noise when it's fairly clear that's what's happening.

However, for a lot of film shot pre-2010, grain is an artifact that's not there by choice or artistically. Other than perhaps the film 300.

It just so happens that most of my personal media fits in that box of being pre-2010 which is why I generally denoise.

Something like 30 rock, or The Office, for example, don't have film grain because of some artistic choice.

Interestingly, though, "That 70s' show" does in a few cases even though it's somewhat noisy be default. That's a more tough call.
Once you learn the basics of pip/venv that should mostly work for everything.

Make a new venv for everything and don’t pollute the global environment and it should be fine.
Your "State Fair vs Disney" really struck a nerve with some people! But I agree with your point. I took your comment to generally mean: Things like Baseball games and Disney used to be economical and within reach to the common-everyday family with a tight budget, whereas now they're out of reach for many people. Part of that is because the attractions themselves are on an elevated level compared to days of yore. These same attractions used to be shittier than they are today! Shittier made them cheaper, and more accessible to the masses. If the common-everyday family on a tight budget is willing to settle for a little less-than-the-best experience, there are still plenty of options available in the form of State Fairs, State Parks, etc... Edit: Spelling.
Ditto. My smaller purchases go through Stripe, but all of our large-revenue transactions are ACH or check.
>Hypersonics beat the defense by flying faster.

No- ICBMs at re entry are just as fast or faster than current hypersonic weapons. Upwards of Mach 20, depending on how you want to define the Mach number, whereas hypersonic are typically in the range of Mach 5-10.

The "hypersonic" term originally comes from describing the engine type of these weapons, not the vehicle speed. But the term has somewhat evolved over time to describe most any hypersonic (speed) vehicle that's maneuverable throughout its various flight regimes (that don't already fit an existing weapon category, like some air to air missiles).

Which means they don't follow a predictable flight trajectory like ICBM's.

The lack of a predictable flight path is what makes missile defense so much more difficult, not the speed.
Actually, AWS does now support building AMIs and sharing it across an AWS Organization or OU: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/share-am.... If you're using Packer you want ami_org_arns to share with an org or ami_ou_arns to share with OUs https://www.packer.io/plugins/builders/amazon/ebs#ami_org_ar....

You do still need to create separate AMIs per region though
I agree something should be done, but strongly disagree with this specific approach.
translated:
Never complain, proles, just be glad you get some scraps from that ever-growing economy. Even if it's less than your parents.
Thanks for being the demo to my comment.
RPI also includes some housing costs that are left out of CPI.
"Job market has proved more difficult than expected"

What does that even mean?
The Folly of the Martian Back-Up Plan – Science History Institute
stopped reading at 'and the results might surprise you'

if you want 'hackers' to read something, best not start with the same line as every ultra-low-quality invasive clickbait ad
We are, up 2.6% from 1990 to 2010: https://rainforests.mongabay.com/deforestation/2000/United_S...
They have a separate document about difficulties improving C++:
https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/do...
EU countries are banning Google already. Never say never
I've been both, currently a developer. My 2 cents. Designers work in the "What we would love to build" space while developers work in the "What can we build" space. Those worlds are incompatible.

Paraphrased comments I've heard in the past month.

"Yes our small margin is always 8px but it didn't look good in this confirmation modal so I changed it, that's no big deal right?" (a designer that doesn't design based on the design system is a joke)

"Here is a link to the figma file ... no not that one, it's the 5th one from the left after you scroll way to the bottom" (I've never told a designer to start up a dev environment and figure out where the code is for whatever feature they are designing, why do I have to open figma and hunt around?)
You know, people already live in Australia and they don't die from it. We are gonna survive climate change.
No because there are unbreakable physical limits. You cannot turn a finite system into an infinite amount of resources.
So ~2 hours then: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=300+nautical+miles+%2F+...
That's because the media is sensationalist and uses fear mongering to drive up engagement and revenue.

Also, it's a big country. When you have a population of hundreds of millions, a lot of things that are extremely unlikely to ever impact an individual citizen will nonetheless happen on a regular basis somewhere in the country.

"Isn't US a democracy? If majority of the population supports stronger gun control, it should be easy to pass."

If only it were that simple.

"Anyway, I don't mean to put you on the defensive. I understand that you love your country."

I love some things and hate other things. I just think the discussion should be based on facts rather than emotion and hyperbole.

I agree that school shootings are a problem here and would like to see stronger gun control as much as anyone, but it isn't helpful to exaggerate the (very low) level of danger kids face in school.
And yet pro events and Disney consistently sell out or are packed. So there must be additional complicating factors at work here.
I’m pretty sure when the license is revoked, that includes the license for using it as well.

The article doesn’t seem to state if they are redistributing it or not, but I’ll take your word for it. Without being a user of the infringing product, I’m not able to tell whose premises the server they SSH’d into is on.
Oh nice, more condescension. I'll let it pass. Here's a real reply:

This might work in aggregate, but doesn't really help the average Brazilian, nor makes the country become developed. If the economic measures are only favouring the primary sector, the "vast majority of goods made in [my] country" is only making money for an extremely small part of the population. Plus, these measures are causing shrinkage of other sectors that actually would help the population richness grow.

What is happening only favours people in the primary sector (which isn't really employing that much people despite continuous growth) and richer countries buying cheaply for us.

Hypocrites who want Brazil to keep being a giant farm/ranch of the world selling cheap stuff are a problem as big as the country's government. Go away with your colonialism.
It's not immediately obvious from this page and GitHub org, but this is a Google led project. It's led by Chandler and the c++ toolchain team. I have no idea of it's endgoals or how open to non-Google ideas it will be.
Russia fines Google $365 mil over YouTube videos containing “prohibited” content
Using ancient observations to classify stars
It’s software. Most of the time consuming work can be copied after the first time. User accounts, payments, etc.

There is also a fair amount of stories out there in hit based industries (startups, games) where people have documented their 50+ projects. Its hard yes. It can also make a lot of money. Few people are willing to do it or it would be more common.