skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The vast majority is for (unreached) scalability reasons. Also monolithic app/db tend to have far higher productivity, and better security as well.
Probably the broker added the price incorrectly, or the public county data was keyed incorrectly.
No, it’s still 125k for 7%, with an option for an additional 375k on an uncapped safe.

Source: https://www.ycombinator.com/deal/
Haha, this is great.

anyways, there is not data to conclude that it IS BASIC. There are many structured languages that can use line numbers. Also the way to make comments in BASIC is with the command REM. The screenshot use the quote character (').
I commented because part of me hoped for a study on why hipsters shoplift at excessive rates, despite having no economic incentive to do so. ;)
Effective altruism suffers from a number of issues, the biggest being the inability of current frameworks to quantify the effects of externalities via systems modeling. In short: if your job contributes to the climate issue (and finance certainly does), you probably won't counteract that effect by donating even the entirety of your disposable income.
Years ago when I was at Chase Manhattan (shudder) they were at the other end of the extreme where there were multiple teams within the bank that did the exact same thing, and they would have to undercut one another to get business from other internal teams. Somehow everyone got enough business that the teams didn’t ever merge which is good, because rivalries between the teams became so fierce that none of them could work with someone who had been on a competing team. Managers loved it because if you had dollars to spend you would have a lot of people kissing up to win your favor - you could get a lot of free lunches and end of year your office would be full of gift baskets.
My sense was that MicroStrategy was essentially a failed business anyway, so BTC trading is their business now. Is that wrong? Would they be thriving even without Saylor's incessant boosterism?
You can't do both unless you are one in your team.

The more people, the less code you'll do.

Software engineering goals is to solve human problems, you can't escape human relation, which eventually means facilitating stuff.
> Having used to work at Capital One within Shared Tech, I worked with a lot of really brilliant engineers who could easily have been working at FAANG.

I don't doubt this - but my guess is that a lot of these top engineers are working at CapitalOne for relatively low salaries compared to FAANG explicitly because they're tethered to the company by an H1B or L1 or similar visa and can't easily jump ship.

The headquarters of Capital One is smack-dab in the middle of the US defense and IC contracting hub in Tysons Corner in Northern Virginia. They're competing for talent now with hundreds (thousands?) of small software contractors and also the big defense players like Northrop, Lockheed, etc. And on top of that, the big tech companies like Amazon and Microsoft have expanded heavily in the area and are now gobbling up all the talent as they pay way more than DOD and gov't contract work.

Yet Capital One still doesn't offer competitive salaries that even match the defense contractors, never-mind AWS and Microsoft. I know half a dozen talented engineers who got tired of the $175K defense industry salary "ceiling" and jump ship to Amazon. I know of zero who've moved to Capital One, though they probably employ more engineers in the area than any other company.

And from what I've seen, it's because their engineering departments are 90% Indians on H1B (again - some very talented). Most US citizens won't want to work there.
Warner Bros. Shelves ‘Batgirl’ with No Plans to Release Theatrically or HBO Max
… and competition comes screaming into their short-lived dominance and leaves them reeling with a mountain of debt and no profits. Barriers to entry are quite small for tech companies, so it always amazes me when analysts and dreamy investors rave about how their favorite “unicorn” tech company will dominate or is “disruptive”. Their disruption and dominance is likely to be short.
in the last decade I don't know when compilation has ever been something I've ever thought about, all modern frameworks for any language just hot code reload for you.

although if you're talking about your deploy process being dragging and dropping files onto an ftp server, not only is that horrifying but it doesn't win out on automating it with any one click deployment tool out there
How do you define validate? These models aren't formally proven to work in all cases or anything. They're just tested on a load of data, and if it's found that they work pretty well, then they get released.
JS is famously backward compatible, what stuff are you referring to?
How to Get a Job in Cloud
Some tips on how to get a job in cloud
Any company that are not allowed to share code with third parties either by internal or customer policy. This should be a lot of companies.
Sometimes I wonder if people actually care about the climate at all, or if nuclear is just a political wedge issue used to distract from real solutions right now.
Getting Tensil to run ResNet at 300 FPS on ZCU104
Our first daughter was born in a hospital while they were being acquired by another hospital. Then they shut down the maternity ward soon after. They then called us two years later claiming insurance hadn’t gone through. My wife said that was their problem. The bill magically disappeared. We never paid a dime. We just sort of fell through the cracks.
> laying off anyone

Laying off 23% of staff is _literally_ how he will make the stock go up enough to get a good % of his compensation, if not 100%.
Thanks. Typos are wildly interesting to HN readers, and clearly more important than what the post was actually about. Who needs information when you can derail it with pedantry?
You have the luxury of patience when it's your own money. YC has been raising outside capital for several years (a decade?) now. As soon as you're investing other people's money you're at the mercy of other people's willingness to invest.
One major selling point against One Big Server: VCs and enterprise customers prefer (sometimes demand) Cloud.

For better or for worse. (Worse, IMO)
man I finally got a 3080 and. ow you're telling me I need a second?!

haha seriously though, I'm kinda sad the model size is 2GB then straight to 13GB.
there's still thousands of low quality entry level devs that will always be there to drag down the salary range for you, don't you worry that
That's a TV show
It’s code for “actually the program isn’t as scalable as we thought and a high % of a cohort not getting interest from traditional VCs is probably not a good look”

Remember that something like 25%+ of all YC companies ever are In the post-pandemic cohorts (due to said mega scaling).
TinyTeX – lightweight, cross-platform, portable, and easy-to-maintain LaTeX
Yeah for sure, but Google wasn't doing it.
What downturn ? SPY is going up and up :)
> Having said that php has one really very big thing going for it - people who use it are simply addicted to getting things done.

does that mean every other language the people don't get anything done?
Try to find a tech job at an organization working on:

1. Passive solar design

2. Construction financing, especially intended to foster mixed-use, walkable neighborhoods

3. Funding or building smaller scale housing in walkable neighborhoods and infill development.

4. Cycling infrastructure so it's possible to start walking back out car-centric American lifestyle.

5. Buy local movements.

6. Anything similar to the above that promotes decentralization, local markets supported by online tech solutions, walkable development etc.
Actually the reason it struck me so strongly is it represents how little attention the author put into their article about his death. It made me feel like they cared less about him and I wanted to highlight that. The secondary fact that the editorial process failed to catch this just doubles down on the lack of care or attention his death received by this particular publication.
Sure you can, just like people selling street food have to take care no one gets food poison.
Sorry, should have been specific. It's not used as a _wire_ serialization format.
It's hard to focus on this video when you're staring at a Firefox start screen, the audio isn't very good, and it's out of sync with the video
This makes me want to get rid of my Capital One card. I knew they'd wasted millions on a giant engineering department that does jack for their business (worked with many of their ex-engs), and this is proof that they never had anything useful to do. CTO must be trying to save his bonus by making up a new irrelevant business to justify their unnecessarily large engineering org and lack of purpose.
job security in software development isn't a problem especially since the pandemic started, if you're working on crappy code its because you're choosing to at this point
Lua? You’re kidding right?
Lua is so full of gotchas that using it is an exercise in frustration. Tack on LuaJIT, and you’ve got yourself a twelve gauge footgun.

Lua is JavaScript-level stupid, minus the useful ecosystem.
Gas is cheap because it substantially reduces the number of heat exchangers.

Transferring heat across a solid/fluid interface is kind of expensive. The more of that you have to do, the more expensive your power plant will be.

A simple cycle combustion turbine involves no heat exchangers at all. Heat is generated in the compressed air by combustion; the waste heat is carried away in the air + combustion products exiting the turbine. A combined cycle plant does have a boiler and a condenser for the steam section, but that part is only producing 1/3rd the power.

For nuclear to get cheap we'd need something like an open air Brayton cycle, but that would involve running air either through the reactor or through a high temperature heat exchanger made of silicon carbide.

It's interesting (well, to me) to consider how much easier that sort of open cycle system would be on Titan, where one could use 90K N2 rather than 300K air as the input fluid. Titan may be the best place in the solar system for nuclear power.
Yes, clearly I'm aware of that.

In the context of computer science, it is not proven.
Exactly what I did, experiment works out.
we are all the greatest internet pickleball player on this blessed day
That's actually used in some variants as well. Notably VisualBasic and I'm sure I've seen it in some older flavors as well.
That’s… that’s fiction, right? Because if so, bravo, that was hilarious. If not… Please Lord, tell me it’s not true.
Speeding Up a SaaS Platform by 5x in a Day Without Changing the Code
Ask HN: Learning Functional Programming in 2022?
My gateway drug was Grokking Simplicity by Eric Normand. I'd love to know where to go next. A little bit about myself:

- 5 years of OOP in TypeScript

- Enjoyed React's shift towards functional paradigm

- Enjoyed RxJS

- Looked into Haskell and lisp, but can't find good places to use them: I tried Xmonad, and Emacs, but sorry, I didn't have a use case for neither of them.

- Had shallow experience in C/C#/Java/Python

- Enjoy programming as a creative activity; willing to spent lots of time honing my skills.
ah perhaps, but doesnt seem that bad when compared to all the plane flights familys are taking for leisure, google hit https://www.inverse.com/innovation/are-rockets-environmental...

> Current rocket launches have a negligible effect on total carbon emissions — Everyday Astronaut found they accounted for 0.0000059 percent of global carbon emissions in 2018, while the airline industry produced 2.4 percent the same year.

> But the long-term effect is less clear, especially as companies like SpaceX move from hosting 26 launches in a year to 1,000 launches per rocket in a year.

> “I think we can guess that rockets won't be a huge impact on the environment, and they probably won't stand out as a sole source of new problems,” Darin Toohey, professor at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences, tells Inverse. “But they will add to the growing list of activities that have negative impacts on the environment.”
I don't know if it's really game over. I expect it to be like farming. Tractors and other machines took over lots of farming jobs, but still not everyone has the ability to be a farmer.

The key would be knowing the context of a situation. AI took over chess first, because chess always has limited context. Logo design on the other hand, needs understanding of the product, the target market, the feeling of the brand, and so on. So it'll probably be a mix between photography and management.
Lots of people using Athena have probably never heard of Presto, let alone Trino.
Keeping with the HN spirit, that would actually be a great other post. You aren't wrong -- it is everywhere these days. And in a bygone era, it would have gotten a writer and the editor reprimanded or fired. But why hijack an informative post just to wave that unrelated flag?
I am quite sure that until the early 2000's it was configured by default in many UNIX deployments, and I did use many flavours of it, starting with Xenix in 1992.
I'm not sure that Markups seems relevant only, or even chiefly, because of the state of the economy. To me, admittedly as an outsider in the UK, the US car dealership model just feels wrong and monopolistic, regardless of prevailing circumstances - an exemplar of rentier capitalism supported by robust, deep-pocketed lobbying [1].

I suspect that Markups will remain relevant for as long as the situation vis-à-vis car dealerships and how they operate persists in the US. Markups may even prove to be instrumental in successfully rallying and focusing consumer support sufficiently to overcome the status quo, and so eventually have no further reason to exist. But the word "eventually" in the previous sentence is key.

[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/lobbying.php?ind=T230...
They have attacks for different programming languages and environments. So not just a single target (e.g. npm) attack.
Loved everything about this. Excellent read.

Anyone have a suggestion on a good resource for making my first PHP backend?

Search results have felt a little messy / all over the place in the past...
Great Q&A here. Good luck, OP.
Ghost in the Shell is set some time around 2030, it's not really that far in the future at this point. Unless there is a major catastrophe, computers will be running binaries compiled from C for centuries at least.
It's a much bigger project. FreeRTOS is, to my understanding just a scheduler. RTEMS provides POSIX APIs, a shell, networking stack, etc.
Any sense on whether there has been a decline in startup interest among potential founders? Startup founding seems a lot more risky if you cannot trivially go out and find a dev job if it fails.

I know a lot of people who ended their startups when the pandemic hit and ducked into government jobs to wait it out.
Not sure which of the two papers you’re referring to. The Anthropic paper [1] clearly shows an example where not deduping leads to serious quality degradation.

However it’s not clear if training for more than one epoch on deduped and well balanced data would help. I personally think it should and the reason people don’t do it might be because it’s too expensive.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.06499.pdf
I've seen this too. I guess 50% of query load were jobs that got deprecated in the next quarterly baseline.

It felt a system was needed to allocate query resource to teams, some kind of tradeable tokens that were scarce maybe, to incentivise more care and consciousness of the resource from the many users.

What we did was have a few levels of priority managed by a central org. It resulted in a lot of churn and hectares of indiscriminately killed query jobs every week, many that had business importance mixed in with the zombies.
This isn't "proprietary nonsense," it's a new open standard that is also be implemented by Google, Microsoft, and more: https://fidoalliance.org
In my experience, it varies highly between teams. I've personally worked at 3 FAANG companies and the culture was meaningfully different between them. There were times we were doing 12+ hour days, and times where you could get by working an hour or less. They all pay competitively, so it's really up to the individual to decide how hard they want to work and whether to focus on something of interest.
Ask HN: Help, I'm Drowning in JavaScript
I've had a rough day yesterday. I'm a web dev, but read that as in "I learnt HTML in the 90s and worked on small projects maintaining websites". Hence the username. On my current job I'm working with a proprietary software, which uses VanillaJS to modify XML/JSON files to make the data useable for our company. I'm not the dumbest person on the planet, or so I believe, I understand what coding is, I understand the fundamentals.

Yesterday I spent 4 hours regexing out HTML data from not so well maintained data sources and screamed at my computer, because I was not able to find patterns. I know, please don't ask. This is not high level programming. We're talking .replace and .match, with the occaisonal if/else over hundreds of sets. My colleague calmed me down and took the time to help me. Bless him. This colleague has multiple projects within the company, because, to me, he is a modern web dev: Building scrapers from scratch with Node, uses multiple frameworks, you get the jist.

My path in this company should have been: Learning the code he writes, so I can help him maintaining the software and be on standby, if something breaks. This won't be happening in the forseeable future.

My problem: I do not understand his code. Or anyone elses. While I basically use if/else, he uses ternary operators. I write functions by hand, the uses arrow functions and symbols I can hardly understand. Multiple generations of Javascript foundation changes and yearly new crazes are lying between us. We do not have the time to code review his projects. Also, he should not be my teacher. But: I want to be able to help him and not be a burden.

I tried $learnToCode websites, YouTube tutorials, bought "Master Classes" from the usual suspects. But I'm literally drowning in the market of javascript. There is no clean line learning "This is the 2000s" to "Welcome to the year 2022" javascript.

For example, I do not get Typescript; I do not understand, how big projects can use Node, with it's thousands of dependencies, while nobody cares, that 20 to 100 of them are deprecated, or in short: I do not understand, how this whole eco system works. But I want to. Do you have any suggestions on how to unclutter this mess, which absolutely overwhelms me?
How would code like this make it into so many repos? People accepting pull requests and not properly reviewing them? Or is there something even worse about this attack?
This advice is meant to guard against poor - but legitimate - decisions. Getting hacked due to a software defect doesn't apply here.

This is like "don't put any money in the bank you're not willing to lose!" since banks can get hacked.

I don't like crypto much either, but it's a weird take to say this is somehow the victims' faults.
I'd love to hear more about your experiences!
> What about Dev leads who mentor/architect stuff instead of writing code day to day.

Those are precisely the negative-impact people I want to get rid of!
Whatever, management will keep looking into it when doing hiring decisions.
Silicon is the second most abundant element in the Earth's crust. Pick up a random rock and it will average 26% silicon. There is absolutely not ever going to be a shortage of the element silicon.
Amazing compensation for Spain! Best of luck with the company, maybe one day I can apply :)
How much of that was due to inflation?
People could just be trying to get rid of cash.

I had a bunch of excess cash due to falling behind on D.C.A.-ing, and I accelerated that (which was not a good idea in the short term, but that's what D.C.A.-ing is all about - wish I hadn't fallen behind on it over the years!) and bought a bunch of under-par bonds and utilities for the yield, sold a lot of now-expired SPY puts and stock calls too ;) More trading than I've done in my life, mostly because of inflation, not stimulus.
Winamp releases new version after four years in development
The solution shouldn't be worse than the problem it's solving. The default position should be "do nothing."
What if every time you use it someone dies?
> With PHP code written 15 years ago still works.

If you never upgrade, sure. PHP 7 and each minor version in it have deprecated and removed plenty of stuff that was legal in 5.6. PHP 8 is on track to do more of the same. I think the backwards incompatible changes are pretty much all good for the language, but claiming backwards compatibility in PHP is completely wrong.

If you aren't on PHP 8, you aren't supported, and if you're on anything earlier than 7.4, you aren't getting security releases. And the new versions released yearly all have breaking changes, and get three years of security support. It's not 2015 anymore.
You back up the entire grid with combined cycle plants burning hydrogen. Even if you hardly ever use them, that's affordable compared to running nuclear power plants.

Or you use some even cheaper (but more complex) combination of various storage solutions, transmission, and demand dispatch.
If it’s so risky, why do CEO’s end up making 350x the typical employee? Those poor CEO’s taking all that risk to be compensated at a rate equivalent to 351 employees.

https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-in-2020/
> Well, he must have used some low-level methods too to operate the hardware of #16. Thus the programming of #16 must also contain (lots of) assembly

I got into computers just as BASIC computers went obsolete so I could be wrong, but couldn't it just have been a heck of a lot of PEEK and POKE statements?
Sounds kind of like the singularity.
In WA if you trade in to a dealer you pay tax on cars difference. When you sell privately, buyer pays full 10% tax on used car.
Most of them don't seem to come from pull requests, I wonder if it's paired with a bunch of compromised github accounts?
I hear a lot of people in technical (predominantly US) forums make this distinction. Where does the perception that Republic or democracy are conflicting concepts come from?

Republic and democracy are orthogonal concepts. A republic is a form of government where the head of state is elected. So it is in conflict with a monarchy, where the head of state is passed by inheritance. In democracies decisions are made by the people through various means, like elections. In fact many (most?) republics are democracies, where the head of state is elected by the people. The US is one of them, the "the original" one Athens was as well.

However there are republics where the head of state is e.g. elected by a clique of oligarchs or the military. They are undemocratic republics.
No, it's even more bind bending: the observation influences the observer!
Monetisation: what about automated appraisal?
Go is a good candidate too for bridging productivity benefits of Python with performance benefits 'C# / Java / Rust'.
Many of the repos I found were clones of valid projects with same names under new orgs and new users.
For instance, this projects is valid: https://github.com/scala-network/GUI-miner
and it's infected clone: https://github.com/stellitecoin/gui-miner

GPG signed commits by the legitimate users do not contain the malware
Glad to see this getting traction. Marlin was getting long in the tooth, and Klipper is a nice upgrade for every non-Prusa printer I've got. We're even starting to see it supplied by the manufacturer in some cases, e.g. the FLSUN V400.