skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Do I need to spend my time thinking for americans? " Only if makes sense, and unfortunately, I don't think it does in this case.

Which is the point: TikTok can't really be TikTok with those laws in place.

There's no way to make any US or European privacy laws gel with CCP policy and there's no realistic way to 'segregate the data'.

The only 'solution' would be to have a complete and total separation of the app in almost every way, essentially meaning TT as an operating entity would be an American/Western company, which happens to be 'owned' by a company in China, but that's it. Literally everything else, except for maybe some code-sharing, would be completely different.
>Then you don't know the US system. As evidenced by the fact that you say:

I've been in it, stipends in my department were ~$18,000 per year with medical insurance and some funding for conference travel. No Vacation days, no sick days, nothing else.

>I'm at one of these places. In terms of benefits, we far outstrip the EU. The flexibility we have to spend money on travel, equipment, perks, is incomparable.

Columbia: No paid time off, no sick days:
https://studentbenefits.provost.columbia.edu/content/compens...

Find me Stanford's list of benefits showing they offer paid vacation.

>But let's take a step back. You started by saying that this problem is solved in the EU and now you backtracked to arguing about +/-10% salary. Big deal.

I didn't backtrack at all. You're the one ignoring the fact that Amsterdam is the same cost as Chapel Hill but offers up to 15k more in salary and much better benefits and there's an even bigger delta in cheaper Dutch cities.

So you can make up numbers all you want and pretend that conference travel is somehow better than Bonuses, PTO, Sick days and Pension plans but no one buys that.
In the 1930s there was no real reason to keep it secret. Tattoos:

https://minarchist.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/social-security-...
What kind of freakish tabular data do you have with a million columns??
Wait, I thought the cert was the CA's signature of the public key.
Just wanted to clarify that singling out Boeing and Intel specifically was not my intention: I really meant commercial aircraft and semiconductors industries as a whole, using those two companies as a syndoche, because of the massive investment and large time delays between the commitment of money and the result in the market. Those two in particular seem to require regular, hugely expensive (10+ billion dollar) efforts of 5-10 years in duration to keep up the pace of technical development, so picking the wrong horse is catastrophic for a long while.

(Obviously the A380 never killed anyone like the 737Max did, but it definitely was a massive, 25 billion dollar sinkhole for the company- some estimates are that Airbus never even turned a profit on the flyaway cost of the airplane, excluding development costs! If Boeing hadn't simultaneously had the 737Max actual disaster, it would have been much worse for Airbus. Intel has seen TSMC power ahead, which has made their problems more obvious.)
I would assume TikTok and the (unfortunate, IMHO) societal trend away from medium-to-long-form video plays a role. Sure, they're trying to compete with YouTube Shorts (to my chagrin), but I think it's a strenuous competition at the moment. Not to mention things like Adpocalypse and stricter decisions about what content is monetizable, and the knock-on effects of influencer decisions that both of those created.
If we assume intelligence is a normal distribution, then we can say half of the population is below average. I think it's fair to categorize half as most.
News Corp launches product comparison site gaming 100m consumer finance searches
I mentioned it in the post, but yeah, also not trivial.

Polling /events solves some problems but introduces others. A mix of push (webhooks) and pull (/events) can also work, which is what I was referring to with the "thin clients", though it's not a great experience for many use-cases and it requires state (many webhooks recipients are stateless - e.g Zapier or Slack).
In the late 1990s, after watching the movie WarGames (1983), I saw a scene where Matthew Broderick's character is researching the computer scientist Stephen Falken to try to guess his password. There was a brief glimpse of a Scientific American magazine cover[1] titled "Falken's maze: Teaching a machine to learn". That sounded fascinating and I went to the university library to find that issue of Scientific American in bound periodicals. As you have likely already guessed, it turned out that the cover had been faked for the movie and that the actual cover was something completely different. But someone had handwritten on the cover page: "I bet you were looking for Falken's maze!"

[1] https://www.mscroggs.co.uk/blog/tags/books (halfway down has a photo of the Scientific American issue)
My favorite: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FDoH15ylAeo
I think klelatti is doubting whether AMD could trust Intel to pursue AMD's best interest.
To be fair, in modern GL versions they fixed some of these things. In GLES 3.1 which I used a lot on Pi4 https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/ GPU vertex buffers and shaders worked fine, GLSL compiler in the drivers worked fine too.

However, others issues are still present. There’s no shaders bytecode, they have an extension to grab compiled shaders from GPU driver to cache on disk, but it doesn’t work. The only way to create shaders is separate compile and link API calls. Texture loading and binding API is still less than ideal.
I think people who stick with it tend to be people who see it as a hobby. If you're just looking to get stuff done VS Code or JetBrains will get you up and running way faster than Emacs, with similar productivity. I stick with Emacs because it's so configurable it can be exactly the way I want it, which I haven't found in other editors.
They can't. The money is in ads, and advertisers won't touch anything that isn't family-friendly.

A startup might be able to do a decent job, but they would get booted off the app store faster than you can say a four-letter word.

Too bad there's no good way for users to write and run arbitrary code on their devices.
According to Noether's theorem, law of conservation of energy is same as symmetry of laws (equations) of physics with respect to time.
Using different tools for different types of work / programming is an option.

I started using emacs almost 3 years ago for org mode; a few months later I started programming in Common Lisp. Emacs works very well for those 2 use cases, and I feel like I've adapted well-enough. I still use Visual Studio for C#, and everything else is either vim or vim key-bindings.
"They" likely being "the other party" that got into power during that election.

> You clearly don't work in a sector that requires clearance. By nature those fields tend to be more quiet publicly, but the cold rage against those who break security protocols knows no party.

Does the POTUS count as working in a sector that requires clearance?

"Trump downplays impact of massive hacking, questions Russia involvement" - https://www.reuters.com/article/cyber-breach/trump-downplays...

"Trump revealed intelligence secrets to Russians in Oval Office: officials" - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia/trump-re...

"National Archives: Trump took classified items to Mar-a-Lago" - https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-national-...

"Trump White House granted about 25 people security clearances over officials' objections, whistleblower says" - https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/01/trump-white-house-granted-25...

"Trump Ordered Officials to Give Jared Kushner a Security Clearance" - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/us/politics/jared-kushner...

"Background check chief has ‘never seen’ mistakes and omissions at level of Jared Kushner forms" - https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/12/politics/jared-kushner-backgr...

It goes on and on...

Here's one from today:

"Justice department urged to investigate deletion of January 6 texts by Pentagon" - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/03/jan-6-pentag...
Small businesses are taxed at 21% on a federal level + state taxes, so this law does not affect them.

It’s about the big fish who hire tax optimization firms to cook their books on a global scale.
A hot topic receipt and a boarding pass, together.
I guess the question is in which way dangerous?
It might lead for crash for sure, but is that crash controlled? If it is, then it is just a crash. Stability vs. minimal attack surface

But I agree, this is just bandaid for lazy bois. Better use Bazel etc. for distroless builds
oDroid units have been OK for me.
New pick ups are pretty expensive, at least from my perspective. A baseline F150 starts at 40k-ish. A decked out one could run you near double that I believe.

Compare to a baseline Civic at around 23k.
rqlite creator here, happy to answer any questions about it.
They go through some pretty extreme lengths to get you to waste money on buying books from them. The English classes my university published a new "reader textbook" ever quarter. It was just a crappy bounded letter paper book with section from various novels that they change up every quarter so you couldn't use an old one. The on campus copy center and nearby kinkos/staples/officemax/officedepot wouldn't photocopy it but a half hour drive out would reach stores that didn't care. A photocopy costed about 1/5 of the price the university was selling it at.
Our experience is the following:

- the product was initially developed chaotically, it was a big ball of mud without any architecture, it was hard to maintain

- the first step was consulting with a senior dev from another team (who happened to teach system architecture at a college), he gave directions what books to read, etc.

- then our senior devs completed an online architecture course by a former CTO/turned consultant (I don't know who recommended him, but he's pretty respected in the field, it seems), the class had like 20-30 students with live discussions and practical homework

- then they invited that consultant to audit our code/our processes, he highlighted the problems and suggested changes in our processes

- then we made it obligatory to always have architecture reviews before greenlighting new features, i.e. devs discuss code changes in 1-2 hour sessions, everyone learns in the process (including juniors)

- every year we started sending devs to thematic conferences/meetups where they can talk to other devs and learn how other companies design their products

- we host our own meetups sometimes; there's also thematic Telegram channels both created by us and others

- some devs are good at networking so they can arrange meetings/calls with acquantainces from other companies (in the same field as us) and discuss design problems in person
Is the material itself blue, or is it structural color?

I ask because I’m aware (as far as I believe) that hydrogen gas is colorless, and the solid hydrogens I’ve seen certainly aren’t blue.

Though structural color is a rabbit hole I’ve had to go down recently for an application (where the component materials have no color), so it wouldn’t surprise me that some materials at ridiculous levels of purity get interpreted as certain colors only because of the interference of light through the material.
I had to re-read this a few times. I think you should go 100% full effort with double negatives and rewrite the last part:

> There is no noise here, just socially acceptable noise.
I've never been a Bat-person fan -- in fact, I'm far more entertained and intrigued by Harley Quinn than the heroes of Gotham, though Ruby Rose did a decent job as Batwoman before she split -- but with that disclaimer out of the way, the only Batgirl movie I'd watch is one with Marisha Ray as the star. Her mini fan series was actually interesting, and with a real budget and DCEU support behind it, she'd make a good Official™ Batgirl.
It's a good thing he got his fifteen minutes of fame before an AI was created to do exactly the same thing.
Yeah my take is not that he's hypocritical but that like most people he's not an actual libertarian. To be libertarian is to know there are things that government intervention can do that will benefit you but still know to forgo those things because their costs are higher to society as a whole. What he is is just a republican.
> How much would you pay for something that has X% (where X > 0) risk, and 0% growth?

Surely at least book value, in case that risk is not infinite?

> a company that doesn't grow is fairly worthless to most investors other than for some other strategic logic, because they usually have other, better places to put their money.

A company is a money making machine. If it doesnt work it produces each year the same amount of money. How can that be worthless?
I didn't look too much, but I found T-Mobile does. https://www.t-mobile.com/customers/scam-shield
TLDW: the guy says it's pronounced Jason and not J-sohn.

However I will keep saying it as J-sohn because there's no ambiguity between that pronunciation and my coworker named Jason.
Fortran? Hell no!
But reading the comments has made my day, some zingers and great references to other resources of genuine comedic value I hadn't seen before.
> Every single person on this planet has intrinsic worth that has nothing to do with what they do or how they think

What is it, then? It feels really contrived to say "you're worth something" but then not say what that thing is.
Iceland also had the first magma powered electric generator back in 2009. Was an accidental result of a research drilling project though. Scishow made a video about it back in 2014 [0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jARDdWuFpK8
I wouldn't rely on any companies logs or audit trail.
eisenhower matrix and cynefin framework
> In this day and age, mobile apps are _almost_ a must so REST is everywhere.

This really isn't true. Mobile apps are far more expensive to develop (everything is doubled, you're dealing with periodic forced updates outside of your development schedule, etc.) and there are a ton of apps which don't need anything you can't do in a browser.

One of the earliest things to do on a project is agreeing on what level of complexity makes sense for you. If your project doesn't have a known hard requirement for mobile apps and correspondingly large team sizes, a classic Django app is likely to let you iterate an order of magnitude faster at lower cost overall.
> unless you put LOT OF TIME configuring it

I don't think this is true. What is true is that by putting a lot of time into fine tuning your own Emacs you learn to master Emacs.

But then, once you master it, you can use it almost vanilla, and still be as efficient and productive.

I've spent years customizing my init.el file and even wrote minor and major modes and a few custom packages. At some point my Emacs was loading almost a thousand lines of personal elisp code.

Then I decided to try to slim down my config and started fresh. I used M-x customize for a few things (I did everything manually before) and have a small — maybe 20 lines? — init.el file and that's it.

It still rocks and I'm still very proficient with it.

Now I'm trying to go further and switching to Kate. It's a fun ride but a bit hard at time and has lead be to become a small contributor to the project to improve both Kate and the underlying KTextEditor :). I'm kind of rediscovering the fun I had configuring my Emacs 15 years back ^^.
Wow. People are really paying $80k for an F-150?

Every time I think I can't get any more cynical, life throws a curveball like that.
iPadOS 16 might be delayed to ensure Stage Manager multitasking works
If you’re Ukrainian he’s a National hero.
How to Get Meetings with Investors and Raise Money (2018)
I really enjoyed this overview by YC's Aaron Harris and felt like it was one of the most pragmatic approaches to fundraising that I'd come across.

A few additional comments:

- If you're not trying to build the next billion dollar company but still want to raise a little money to get your company off the ground, TinySeed (founded by the well-known blogger Rob Walling) is an interesting option these days.

- Aaron recommends seeking out local angels, but doesn't go into many details on how to find them. I've had good success looking up local startups on AngelList and seeing who their listed angel investors are. Definitely not comprehensive, but it gets a few names on your list.
Yeah, Vegas is a particular offender. You can end up paying almost as much in resort fees as you would for a discount casino hotel room itself.
Absolutely! Handing over your detailed product specifications and product plans to a direct competitor is inconceivable.

I’m 100% convinced now that an Intel split into foundry and CPU vendor is inevitable.

It’s a political if not a commercial necessity if Intel is to provide a viable alternative to TSMC.
> It's not people setting the tone of journalism and media in China, it's the media that is doing that.

Except in China it's not the media itself setting the tone, it's the authorities who give it commands that it has no choice but to obey.

Who gives the American media its commands? Its customers, the people. But it's different because the media also has the choice not to obey, which spreads the responsibility for the outcome between both groups, instead of concentrating it in one or the other.
Or it is working exactly as intended. We forget sometimes that we have misaligned incentives: We want the most interesting content and Google wants the most ad $$$.
Don't miss the Observable notebook which includes interactive demos of the new functions: https://observablehq.com/@asg017/introducing-sqlite-html
I don't think google wants to do anything about that cause it's pretty good for revenue.
Hi mate, I will be very happy to have a chat with you, just drop me an email. Cheers!
Kind of begs the question of the current state being a recession. If it turns out to be, probably this will be worse, but I don't think it will turn out to be. (That is, I think not a recession is the most likely current state, but I think recession that turns out to be more severe than 2001 is still more likely than recession that turns out to be less severe than 2001.)

But the whole economic context is fairly unusual, and I wouldn't make any predictions with high confidence.
The tunnels have been structurally stable for a long time, sealing them seems much easier and more reliable than boring a new tunnel, sealing it, and hoping it remains stable.

What kind of control do you think you'd have that would make the 'artificial' tunnel better?
> Most of the competition, at this point, is doing it: SHIFT, Purism, Framework, MNT Research, and Raspberry Pi are moving towards more openness, not less, as time passes.

I'm happy to consider that Pine should be doing better, but in what world is Raspberry Pi doing any better? AFAIK they still require closed blobs to boot, and it was my understanding that the company doesn't even consider this something to fix.
It does, but it has no autocomplete, or suggestions. You have to type everything completely and perfectly for it to work.

If only it worked like command+space on mac.
> It will not drive a good screen, it nor run high-resolution flacs or (probably?) support a high-quality, high-bandwidth codec.

What is this drivel? 900KB of RAM is plenty for all of the above and then some, if you know how to use it. An MP3 decoder's runtime footprint can fit into 16KB of RAM, aac needs just a bit more. A ui can be made of constant image pieces that never need to live in RAM, leaving ram only for things like rendering text.

Years ago i made an mp3 player with an OLED screen that properly rendered English, Cyrillic, and accented latin characters in a proportional font, all on a cortex-m3 microcontroller with 64KB flash and 32KB ram.
Senate Bill Classifying Bitcoin as a Digital Commodity to Be Introduced Today
Normally an editor would catch that, but I think they've all departed for the Grey Havens. [1]

1: https://i.imgur.com/pevfen5.png
As a chief engineer, I started to work with my colleagues to build an open source distributed, relational database from scratch 7 years ago. At that time, MySQL Sharding, or NoSQL was the popular solutions for scalability. So the first challenge for us is how to design our system architecture? Followings are something we do:

- Paper. We learned a lot from the paper, like Google Spanner, Google Percolator, Raft Algorithm, etc.
- Learn from the open source projects and Leverage the power of community. E.g, we learned storage engine from RocksDB, ClickHouse, etc. to build our own engine. We also let the community contribute ideas and codes to our product.
- Try to link people as many as you can and learn from them. E.g, when I read a paper, mostly I will try to contract the authors and have a discussion about the paper with them, at the same time, I also ask them to introduce their friends to me for further communication.
- Sharing. The more you go out and share like Meetup, Blog, Webinar, etc., the more you get.
The funniest part about this video is how he gets absolutely nothing done professionally except read two emails. Driving around to flash his expensive (leased) car doesn't count.
I installed Chrome OS Flex in 30 minutes
It’s not a “performance” issue, it’s a protocol issue. One which is largely solved with the synchronisation protocol. Workarounds are needed for older emulators.
Every time I see that scrolling demo my jaw drops. It never gets old.

I've been using terminals for too long and the expectation of what should be possible is engrained deep.

I want tmux to scroll and have hover states like that.
Thanks. Really, turns out, MS is their main investor. And at first I thought it was a Google project :D
This is what I was hinting at but not as coherently
> If the economy really tanks and commercial real estate becomes worthless as projected, there's going to be so much entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship always ramps up during the hard times. People lose their jobs and are forced to get scrappy.

> High prices open the door to competition. Anyone can mix a cocktail for less than $13.

Consumers became desensitized to price increases during the pandemic supply shortages. Right now, there's strong evidence to suggest that many businesses are simply raising prices because they can get away with it. If you're running a business, you have a once in a lifetime opportunity to jack up prices without harming your brand - you can just shrug and blame the abstract specter of "inflation" and your customer base directs their frustration toward some political entity instead of you.

In the short-term it's a no-brainer; especially when everyone around you is doing it. But in the medium-to-long-term, you're 100% correct that it leave you vulnerable to being undercut by new entrants to the market.
"The general direction of the big company you are employed at vs. making sure you are the most beloved and respected person in your department."

Well, that's a completely false dichotomy right there. If you're unhappy with the direction of the company you're employed at, you have the option to leave and look for a job with another company that you think is better. As someone currently taking my first steps towards doing exactly that, it's certainly risky and terrifying, but not impossible or entirely uncontrollable.
I disagree with the premise. I think the things you learn reading that tweet or that medium post can be useful. There were definitely times when I ran into a problem and thought to myself, "Hey I remember reading about this on Hacker News, how did they solve it?" and then going back and finding the post and finding a solution to my problem.

There is also the notion of being able to make better decisions with more "connection material" in your mind. The more you know, the more likely you are to make a novel connection.

I consider reading HN and the like part of building up that library.
This seems cool, thanks for sharing!