skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at this project where a very smart developer started working on a certain very important product. He fixed bugs, added features, etc, but he was kind of a pain to deal with, so over time the previous developers left him alone handling everything. Eventually other people joined to try to help the efforts, but they all always ended up being 'slaves' to this developer: they needed him in order to understand the code, anything they implemented had to follow this dev's desires, otherwise he block them on code review. That product became his baby, everything was bound to his will.

Over time, the codebase started getting more and more bizarre (to his taste) and eventually people stopped trying to help him: he was too much of an asshole and the codebase was too impossible to understand. We got to a point where we needed very significant changes to that product do be done in 1-2 years, and as technically brilliant as this person was, he would never be able to do it alone. We tried to put people to help, but they had no chance: the new features were full of bugs and deadlocks. Our projects got super late and we delivered some very shitty products to our customers.

Then a team of people started working on a replacement for this product behind this developer's (and his manager's) back. Everybody except he, his 'slaves' and his manager got super excited for it. We're still building it and recently announced it to him and his group. We're going to spend 10-20 man-years to replace this product. Management expects this developer to keep maintaining the legacy product, nobody wants him to join the replacement project.

Yet, management still doesn't even consider the possibility of firing him!!

PS: I hope nobody gets offended by the term 'slave' here.
I still have my MSI Wind. Great little machine. It runs Emacs and a compiler comfortably, so it's still useful. I prototyped a game on it over a series of subway trips to/from work.

One time a pretty girl at a bar saw it with its little retro Window Maker desktop, and told me I should buy Apple products because they're "more digital".

I guess netbooks are considered "retro" computing devices now, huh. Damn, I'm old.
Yes, loads of strip clubs and full nudity is allowed. There are gay strip clubs, vegan strip clubs, and a whole range beyond that.
My vote for best quote from the book

“Abbot Zerchi smiled thinly. ‘You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.'”
2 periods of negative growth == recession. Fed just raised rates again. Anyone paying attention knows what's up lol.

Stop lying and just announce it
Related:

A Brief History of ClarisWorks (2003) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24184697 - Aug 2020 (40 comments)

A Brief History of ClarisWorks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1361363 - May 2010 (1 comment)
Roundup of Events for Bootstrappers in August 2022
Actually no, OP is basically correct. Their description is skipping a bunch of steps (eg bankruptcy), using a strong definition of "withdrawal" that implies a bearer instrument, and "illegal" doesn't necessarily carry a criminal penalty. But they're not wrong about the overall dynamic. Once money is in the financial system, it's legible to and thus controlled by the system. Of course once money is out of the financial system, then the system is suspicious of it when it does discover it (either by depositing it, getting it stolen via civil forfeiture, etc).
> Whatever I do that I know is temporary, will go to /tmp and I know it will be deleted after I reboot.

Only problem with that is that if I remember correctly, on some distributions, the /tmp folder is actually held in-memory. This means that, the more stuff is in there, the more RAM is going to be used up.

There's also /run/user/1000 which is more of a systemd thing, and that's definitely mapped to memory (at least it is on Fedora).
How exactly would you expect someone to ask questions when you don't include a way for them to see what you're talking about?

My first question to your original post would be: "where's the link so I can see what you built?"
Those aren't all windows specific. Nothing like adding untrusted ppa repositories or pasting magic commands from a random blog into the terminal because it fixed someone's problem once, or piping wget into the shell, or being free with the sudo. I think bad habits are cross platform.
That was true in 2010. In 2020 things are getting worse.

Is it a blip? Maybe. But the first measured decline in life expectancy was measured in 2015, and there have been declines in half the years since then.
I lived in Tijuana and Ensenada for a few years and although there may be somewhat more color in Mexico, it is not much, and overall I felt the design fashion to be fairly similar to San Diego where I grew up.
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I borrowed a friend's Acer Aspire for quite a while when I was unemployed during the Great Recession. My 1st gen MacBook Air had a bad battery, but the Aspire was a lifesaver and not a bad little machine at all.
Thanks! I think most people dread working with complicated SQL queries, especially experienced DBAs :)
More integrated services for the home. HomeKit was supposed to be this big thing and it seems to have been silently forgotten. Same with improving the developer experience for building things on Apple platforms: the docs suck, the APIs are arcane (sign all your things, read this spec to figure out how!). IMO, aside from the swift fanboys, no one I've met enjoys developing for Apple.
The worker shortage is at least partly bc of people leaving the workforce, not just bc of creation of new jobs (compared to pre-Covid 2020).
> love water cooler talk

That was Steve’s mantra. He redesigned Pixar and Apple campuses around that thought itself.

Apple is not alone when it comes to buying buildings for return to office. Google just yesterday bought a huge building in Chicago downtown
That's not how rubber hose cryptanalysis works though. You think they would just go "oh ok cool, have a nice day" after your rehearsed lie?
It seems like AI truck driving, at least hub-to-hub, is already pretty well solved. Here's a test example (in Germany) that incorporates electric trucks which only need enough onboard energy to deliver "the last mile" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3P_S7pL7Yg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chrome_Dome

Crazy times. 1960 - 1968 The United States flew nuclear armed bombers to the borders of the USSR 24 hours a day.

Imagine if 'insert country name' flew armed bombers to the border of 'insert western country name' every day in 2022.
I'm still not really sold; obviously not good to be overly dogmatic, but MVC taught us the value in putting business (M) in a separate module to the view (V) and hooking them up via a controller (C). Why does all this knowledge suddenly get throw out the window?
I find it interesting how much Cthaeh, the Simurgh from the web serial “Worm” and Prometheus - the god of foresight - from Scott Alexander’s short story “A Modern Myth” (https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/27/a-modern-myth/) are basically incarnations of the same concept.
This would be great. I'm a big fan of Hasura and not having to write crud apis. But would prefer having more or less the same query language on all clients.
It seems like it is a dark pattern to encourage you to order more items. It is extremely irritating when you just want to order one item.
Thank you very much.

There were so many competing design notions to consider, and while I eventually went heavy on adding things, it was partly due to the seeming bare minimum already being too much, so why not see how far I could reasonably push it.

Unfortunately I admit that the chart is less impactful than hoped because of it… but hopefully it is also a little fun, and maybe someone picks up something from it (like IMDb below!).

On the positive, I agree that being able to eyeball the “comparison of products in each area” is the one element that works nicely, once you pick up on it.
California and Germany are both rich and relatively successful. The reasons for it have nothing to do with their respective stance on nudity. It makes no sense to compare metrics here, they are useless, because there is no causation. You just have to look at poorer states from both the US and EU with the same ideas about nudity but wildly different economic outcomes to see that.

Their success is based on cars, an engineering tradition, the US dollar, the biggest local market, DARPA, the protestant religion, competing nation states next door and a hundred other things.

What I personally think the handling and censorship of nudity might actually influence is democratic discourse, mechanisms of what shocks, what should be censored, what works for populism, what is seen as freedom and what ultimately gets elected.
Lots of great ideas here around how to augment the Congressional voting system to counter influence of dark, corporate money, but as a few have pointed out, not voting at all seems to be preferred on most potential legislation. I think that's because super PACs and corporate lobbyists are fighting for overall influence, not legislative outcomes --that is, how existing law is regulated/interpreted, how Congresspersons posture on various issues that are far away from a vote (esp. when affecting economic outcomes), and most importantly how Congresspersons wield the threat of their powers (e.g. initiating an inquiry or whatever the formality is into their corporate patron's rival).
chuckling because there was a point when I had an iPhone but could barely afford to eat (and couldn’t afford to live in a house). But yeah it was not the latest iPhone
Key facts about housing affordability in the U.S.
They feel like distinctly different markets. People who want a general purpose computer don’t get a iPad.
If you want traefik-like config from container labels, simply use: https://github.com/lucaslorentz/caddy-docker-proxy
The whole better off trope has been popularized by people like Hans Rosling in books like Factfulness. You can read reviews from experts to figure out what's wrong with it. But I've often seen these arguments in the context of 'everything is going great, there's nothing to worry about' with arguments such as 'we had the most people lifted out of poverty ever in history'. In my view that's just capitalist koolaid to keep the middle class workers content, optimistic and most importantly, compacent. 'Don't look up' style.

All these arguments explicitly ignore the many elephants in the room, like the global fucking pandemic we've been mishandling for the past two years or the climate disaster which is already making itself felt by westerners.

The outcome is actually pretty grim if you read between the lines. You don't have to monitor the news or social media to figure out that we're not in the best place right now when it comes to a lot of global metrics. We can pick and chose a couple and make ourselves feel good and go about our business being productive little bees in the capitalist machine, but we're just fooling ourselves.

My personal assessment is that the effects of climate change will zero out a lot of those measures for which we're doing better than our forefathers.
Technically (by the original definition anyway) it's not an acronym unless you can pronounce it as a word. Most of what we call acronyms these days are "initialisms". Some of them are almost never used in speech anyway (I don't think I've ever heard anyone say 'FWIW', for instance - it's more 4 syllables than what it stands for!).
Half of GenZ hasn't even reached adulthood so the numbers for GenZ living at home is likely much higher. This was a survey of a subset of GenZ. Those 18 - 25. How does that 1/3rd number compare to other surveys over the years. A large percentage of that population is going to be attending college or just entering the workforce so expected to be living at home especially if those living in dorms or parttime at college apartments are counted as living at home.
Is it possible it's designed around the average order, so the app effectively punishes you for using it? Like Gilbert Daniels discovered in his work for the US Air Force.

"In the early 2020s, McDonalds customers had a serious problem: the McDonald's app made it a royal PITA to buy a single Diet Coke."

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-... ;-)
Amazing how most of the people in this thread are denying that trends exist or that they are influenced by them.

The thing about fashion though is that it's subconscious. You would not know it affected you unless you are very meta-cognizant in this particular way. ( Which people should educate and train themselves about subtle cognitive biases.)
Turns out exaggeration works by stating things that aren't strictly true. Who would've thought people could be so devious...
That’s a conclusion, not an elaboration. Perhaps you can start at the beginning, and describe what steps must be taken to complete an order for a diet coke?
> who are you to judge them for how they like to work

Generally speaking, publishing a deliberate, intricately staged (like a doll's tea party), museum exhibit-like workspace, which looks more like a Jony Ive wet dream rather than where actual humans produce, in a public venue, is a tacit invitation to criticism.

This attitude is how we ended up with things like the MacBook butterfly keyboard.
Gainfully employed is probably not the type of employment you mean. Smart phones and stuff typically come with a payment plan so they’re rarely bought with a lump sum
If such a law were passed (and I agree, it's extremely unlikely), I expect that litigation would be filed as to it's constitutionality. Which would put the ball back in the Supreme Court's court, so to speak.
yeah....no.....not a psychopath
When I look up many of these bad numbers you mention, they do not seem very bad. Life expectancy is up and to the right (https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/life...), homocide has recently had an uptick but on a longer time scale is good (https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/murd...), and the suicide rate is about the same as it was 30-40 years ago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_the_United_States).

I agree it depend on where you are, but if you look at the globe in its entirety, things look even better than if you restrict your view to the US.
"Comparing the fourth quarter of 2021 to the same quarter in 2020, that same firm increased the price of beef so much—by more than 35%—that they made record profits while actually selling less beef than before."
Some could be. I don't really think most are though. They can tell you what they're looking at to make determinations, and they certainly seem consistent and reasonable.

Trying to cheat would be interesting though. Figuring out the ways people _can_ cheat, so they can be recognized and protected against, is important for communities like that.
"Ancestor sauce" works fine for that and is less pointlessly gendered.
PR people claiming endorsements/appearances by public figures before the contract is agreed happens pretty often.

A friend recently found they were listed as a speaker at some event they had rejected a speaking gig at twice. The event people keep offering them increasingly large sums of money to show - they don't want to lose face. My guy is still saying nope.
Never mind cars, I’d love to see Apple revolutionise bikes.
Breakthrough Starshot aims to do all that acceleration in 10 minutes.

It’s an ambitious project.
Didn't realize you made this tool. It's super useful.

Some unsolicited feedback, if you're still actively developing:

- You should consider some of the lesser known cloud providers (e.g. Coreweave/Lambda Labs/TensorDock).

- Add information about whether the servers support NVLink/NVswitch. For example, A100s come in 3 flavors: PCIe without NVLink bridges, PCIe with NVLink bridges, and SXM with NVlink/NVSwitch fabric.
"IRS, LGBT, DMV, MLB, NYC, etc."

IRS & DMV are very US-specific (I do happen to know what they mean, but I'd venture many non-Americans wouldn't). I have no idea what MLB means...

(looked it up - if it's referring to baseball, well then, again, somewhat US-centric. Though I am surprised I've never heard it called that, vs, say, NBA, which long ago gained international recognition.)
Exactly. I couldn't think of a worse business model. Families' valuable heirlooms, hard metals, etc. If anything bad happens there is going to be legal battles. The government will always be hounding you with court orders and divorce paper work. You are pulling in what? $15 per month per box? for this service. I would rather make someone a burrito instead.
Has there ever been a benefit to all these new elements which are just divs with another name? Yes I know there was that aim to make the web entirely machine understandable but at this point it would be much easier to just use ML to view the page like a human than to convince every website maintainer to switch to specific elements.
But what if he is though? Can’t prove that he isn’t, you just have to have faith.
Well, we don't reward engineers who find a way to increase sales or decrease overhead by half a million either. Maybe both teams could copy some habits from the other and delete a few.
What would you use for a field called "stage" that could be set to 'dev' or 'stage' or 'prod'? Or other enum-type things?

I've seen pure JS enums like {'dev' : Symbol('dev'), 'prod' : etc} but I never use them because you can't send them over the wire.

You could use a type like {dev:true} | {prod:true} | {stage:true} but you still wind up comparing strings.
see also the deck

https://yale.app.box.com/s/7f6agg5ezscj234kahx35lil04udqgeo
“Before this decade is out …”

It has been 60 years since Kennedy said those words. Getting to the moon in less than 10 years now seems like a miracle in the third decade of the 21st century.

https://www.americaspace.com/2016/05/29/not-because-they-are...
To add to this comment (from someone who used to engineer proteins, and long ago DFT as well): DFT is only really decent at ground state predictions, computational chemists often have to resort to even more expensive methods to capture "chemistry", i.e. correlated electron-pair physics and higher-state details. Simulating catalysis is extremely challenging!
I used to love my https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretch_Armstrong
Are we living on the same planet? "a day"? "$500/hour"?
I spent many hours in 1982 doing yard work to buy Pac-Man for the 2600, and for me not only was it not a reasonable substitute for the arcade version, it was cromulent enough to disabuse me of the notion of working to buy things for a decade or so. I guess I was a grumpy young kid.

Plus, didn't you have 7-11's where you lived?
And a relatively flat population. "Peak baby" was years ago. Most of the developed world is below replacement birth rate.
> "If it happens in Africa it is called corruption. If it happens in the US it is called lobbying".

It's the same here in Europe, we are joking how elites in US legalized corruption and called it lobbying, it's really weird for us (outside of US), that people just go along with this state of things and do nothing about it, like almost whole population would be after some kind of long period of brain washing in US.
Wow, cool! Yes - interruptible can be very cheap... I'll add it to our backlog so we do that instead of idly mining

I was wondering, do you happen to have an API for listing servers? We're launching a marketplace later in August (https://www.tensordock.com/product-marketplace), and we expect pricing to be really really cheap. Like #1 in industry cheap while retaining.

Interruptible, if we add that, would probably be even less than those prices listed.

It'd be really cool if we could auto-update availabilities of GPU servers through an API so that we can list our servers on your tool as well :)
This story just reminds me again how often the best scenario is to be let go in the first round of layoffs.
This seems logical, but you're being naïve if you think politicians aren't going to skirt these regulations. I mean, shit, they're already insider-trading out in the open and nobody events wants to spend 3 seconds looking into it. Keep in mind, that's a swift prison sentence for a mere mortal.

We need people who truly want to make a difference and take pride in the outcomes of their work. I'm thinking of the likes of "founding fathers" who came out of turmoil and persecutions to build something better. They knew they ain't going back to the shit they came from and they carried that forward for several generations. We no longer have that craving to do better. It's been long-lost during decades of enormous prosperity and chill lives. Our problems are miniscule in comparison to what they once were.

So now, we have people who don't give a shit about anything except for their iPhones and daily celeb videos on TikTok. It's this lack of curiosity and any kind of knowledge about the state of things from general population is how you end up with greedy sociopaths running everything in politics. This country needs a decade of actual turmoil to wake everyone up out of their idle stupor. Nothing will change until everyone is fed up and craving for normalcy. In other words - we're kind of doomed.
It doesn't appear to be his core argument, so what is the point of this hypothetical?
Triggers might make it to 3.0, but we'll have to write an RFC and see if it's doable in the timeframe we have for it and given the other higher priority items on the ToDo list. We contemplated mentioning them in the 2.0 blog post but decided not to over-promise :)

Regarding subscriptions -- polling is the current best (and unfortunate) answer. We'll keep researching this area.

> Can you perform raw SQL queries through your client or do apps still need to use a separate PG client for that?

Not yet. We plan to eventually allow read-only SQL queries to go through EdgeDB for plugging existing analytical tools/BI. But the demand from the community for this feature has been so far pretty low.
"spend time with rest of family" and "focus on environmental issues"

Alonso is favored to replace him: https://www.espn.co.uk/f1/story/_/id/34306151/alonso-ricciar...