skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Endless Afterlife of the Sandman
No, but really: Facebook collects very private data, including personal messages. Google has even more sensitive information. I also don't see why suddenly TikTok is such a concern, except for sinophobia or pure misinformation.
>Aren't reputed firms like YC supposed to look at a 10+ year horizon?

Hard to see a bubble when you're literally inside of it.
IEEE Proposed Amendment to Ensure All Regions Vote on Amendment Proposals
You could also have those big servers in the cloud (I think this is what many are doing; I certainly have). That gives you a lot of the cloud services e.g. for monitoring, but you get to not have to scale horizontally or rebuild for serverless just yet. Works great for Kubernetes workloads, too – have a single super beefy node (i.e. single-node node pool) and target just your resource-heavy workload onto that node.

As far as costs are concerned, however, I've found that for medium+ sized orgs, cloud doesn't actually save money in the HR department, the HR spend just shifts to devops people, who tend to be expensive and you can't really leave those roles empty since then you'll likely get an ungovernable mess of unsecured resources that waste a huge ton of money and may expose you to GDPR fines and all sorts of nasty breaches.

If done right, you get a ton of execution speed. Engineers have a lot of flexibility in terms of the services they use (which they'd otherwise have to buy through processes that tend to be long and tedious), scale as needed when needed, shift work to the cloud provider, while the devops/governance/security people have some pretty neat tools to make sure all that's done in a safe and compliant manner. That tends to be worth it many times over for a lot of orgs, if done effectively with that aim, though it may not do much for companies with relatively stagnant or very simple products. If you want to reduce HR costs, cloud is probably not going to help much.
Customers usually have more time to make a decision. When it comes to spending our own money, we ask around, we do some research by googling for independent reviews etc. before we buy an innovative product.

So yes, I think a 10 minute presentation of any more or less novel/disruptive product is going to be largely a lie. Disruption is a complex process with a ton of important details.

It is why as an entrepreneur you learn to use cacthphrases, all the current buzzwords that can please the investors' ears more than you actually talk about what you are building.
I have also noticed this. Seems like over the past 2 months or so the suggestions got much worse. My front page is 80% garbage with like 800 views that is barely relevant to my interests now. I am logged in. A few months ago every video was a decent suggestion.
Design systems such that eventual completion/consistency is a core tenant.

When it gets too slow, improve only the parts that are currently the slowest.
...that isn't negotiating.
I think you have missed my point: If you build nuclear YOU can't pass the costs on. So YOU will pay them. So YOU will go bankrupt. Then the nuclear power stations will close and the coal guy will expand his plants.

That is how this works.

So you either need everyone to change how it works, globally (good luck with that), or you just have to operate within the system as is.
Fun fact. I used a beautiful image I took of cordoba Spain from the top of the mezquita as the backdrop. Someone on Reddit called me a Brazilian slum lord :(. So I put this San Francisco stock image
Outside of HN bubble 55k€ is a normal/good salary for some regions in Germany (and maybe Austria, idk). Especially if you maybe add 10-30% to that number it should be not a problem to find senior developers. If you want to pay double that and still don't find senior developers then either your company is invisible (maybe start with advertising that kind of salary) or requires too specialized prior knowledge.
> I really don't understand how anything of what you wrote follows from the fact that you're building a web-app. Why do you lose user data when two users do anything at the same time? That has never happened to me with any RDBMS.

> And why would HTTP requests prevent me from using transactional logic? If a user issues a command such as "copy this data (a forum thread, or a Confluence page, or whatever) to a different place" and that copy operation might actually involve a number of different tables, I can use a transaction and make sure that the action either succeeds fully or is rolled back in case of an error; no extra logic required.

Sure, if you can represent what the user wants to do as a "command" like that, that doesn't rely on a particular state of the world, then you're fine. Note that this is also exactly the case that an eventually consistent event-sourcing style system will handle fine.

The case where transactions would actually be useful is the case where a user wants to read something and modify something based on what they read. But you can't possibly do that over the web, because they read the data in one request and write it in another request that may never come. If two people try to edit the same wiki page at the same time, either one of them loses their data, or you implement some kind of "userspace" reconciliation logic - but database transactions can't help you with that. If one user tries to make a new post in a forum thread at the same time as another user deletes that thread, probably they get an error that throws away all their data, because storing it would break referential integrity.
So we shouldn't use TikTok because... Chinese dissidents who live in the US can be harmed?
How raising pricies is unethical? We are talking about somewhat luxury goods here - new cars.
Interesting how our experiences differ. It is true that I always watch videos that aren’t immediately related to what I want in my feed incognito.

Fuck these non-deterministic algorithms and the feeds they fill.
I know one does not simply go async, sure, but I thought it should be noted (especially considering how async-centric this release is) that the repo doesn't immediately allow for async.

Also, "4.1 only landed a few hours ago" isn't the perfect argument in my books since support for ASGI and async views in general was added back in 3.0 and 3.1:

* https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/releases/3.0/#asgi-sup...
* https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/releases/3.1/#asynchro...
Project Habakkuk: Britain’s WW2 Ship Made of Ice
Developers do not just ship code. If you think developers only code you are naive and unfamiliar with developers' work.

Developers solve problems and then ship implementations of those solutions.

You can ship completely technically correct implementation to a wrong problem or wrong solution of a problem and it will look perfectly fine for an untrained eye.

My O(n^3) solution that has 1000 lines of code would be 5 times more valuable than 200 lines of code of O(log(n)) solution that I was able to write because I just fucking know what I am doing. The algorithm using lines of code as proxy for productivity will say the junior jackass did 5 times more work than me in the same amount of time.

And then you get the graybeard who changes a tiny bit in the data structure and makes entire problem go away. Find heuristics for that!

Only a person that delves in and spends a moment figures out that that half million lines of code is completely unnecessary because of Y.

The problem with measuring value of a knowledge worker is that you can't enumerate all possible outcomes to be able to tell with certainty that there is a better outcome, because you don't have the knowledge -- they have it. A person with knowledge has better library of possible solutions and better chance of finding it.

The value of knowledge worker in this case is being able to find better solution (because they have the knowledge you do not). The implementation, at least in case of developers, is usually the simple part of the problem.

Imagine you are in an unfamiliar city. You order a taxi and then spend 1h driving from A to B. The taxi is comfortable and the driver is perfect gentleman. You pay your fare and hop off at B.

Only after the fact you will or will not realise that actually, B was just one block from A and the driver essentially screwed you.

In this situation a map or instructions from somebody could tell you this, but with no map or instructions you are at the mercy of the driver who may or may not be doing good job and you will be unable to tell until after some time you got some more knowledge (got familiar with the city and got the Aha! moment).
In Fighting the Technology Status Quo, Lina Khan Unwittingly Calcifies It
Guilt is not a binary.

When one group is actively trying to absolve its sins of the past, and the other doesn’t even recognize them while doubling-down, the claim that “everyone has sins” an abdication of the idea that behavior matters.
This is almost boringly textbook late-stage "monopoly in practice" playing out. Start with an "edge". Get big because edge. Use "big" to sharpen edge further. Use big (and/or edge) to consolidate market. Once sufficiently consolidated and/or controlled, raise costs.

This is what costs getting raised looks like in a monopoly market. Who's gonna stop them.
> Can you think of another way to implement it that wouldn't be just as obnoxious though?

A link to a page where visitors can opt-in would work just fine and not be obnoxious. The banners are obnoxious not because it's impossible, but because the very idea of consent goes against the business' goals. Or their just lazy: You don't need PII to track marketing performance, and if you aren't unnecessarily collecting PII, you don't need to ask.

> I feel like EU regulators should have worked with web standards committees to add a technical means and requirement to classify cookies.

Hardly anyone would use it, because most companies aren't seriously interested in getting consent. They are interested in data, and consent is merely a hoop to jump through.
Wait, is there an effort to run android on the Pi?

https://konstakang.com/devices/rpi4/LineageOS18/
Or when accidentally some blocking database driver is used, even when django's ORM is async, a query with mongodb's driver is not async. Or just the filesystem... This harms performance badly, especially if the idea was to run only a few threads.

Other than that, it has benefits too! :-)
Is it me, or is CSS getting exponentially better over these last couple of months/years?
Python build/package management tooling is a joke, but Python the language is very consistent and usable.
Related to think t the children, I recently read a few comments from women in Romania that told that since around 12-13 years old they got on the Facebook page ads promoting those girls to work as cam girls. Facebook and their ad network should also be analyzed IMO, would make more sense to put all social media under the same standards.

Also dudes working in ad industry, tell us why should we not install ad blockers when you put this kind of ads in front of children? FB knows 100% the user account age so is it stupidity? is it "we don't care", "a innocent bug"?
How many of the YC batch are first money in? These were the original target audience ($500K is a great deal for these people).

I keep reading these YC stories, but if you dig in, many of them had significant pre-seed funding and product history.
Count yourself lucky. FWIW these are still a thing in older crowds.
You don't need a "narrative" to describe western nations as corrupt.

All you need to do is look at wealth inequality over time:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Wealth_i...
If you need low power? If you don't care about power consumption, being fanless, small, then yeah, you will find better bang for buck.
Absolutely, Vulkan is still nevertheless an abstraction that currently happens to fit well on today’s commodity GPUs. Maybe 20 years later we might have some changes in the hardware design space such that Vulkan might not be fit for efficient real-time rendering anymore, who knows? (I think recent advances in things like CUDA, mesh shaders, and RTX already show this and point towards a departure from “conventional” graphics pipelines…)
Does it work with natural language to sql?
To get good at tennis you have to start young. If you start playing late in life progress will be slow and you will never really master it (or so I've heard). With pickleball and paddle tennis you can pick up a racket and play and have fun really quick.
Put more broadly, control the media and you'll control people's beliefs, at least to a certain extent.

(I assume this is why US Gov has been going after TikTok -- it's the only major social site not more or less under their control.)
Agreed, a few times I've found myself in the unfortunate position of needing to push changes to production just to be able to diagnose an error, because it was being completely swallowed by a try-catch block with some generic "something went wrong" message.
"Getting back to the sci-fi, I realized that the crystal swapping could just be the high level interface to all the complex code below. "

Personally I find it a bit hilarious when I think about it too much. We can fit a terabyte on something that fits on our thumbnail comfortably, and we can provide enough computation power to run most any plausible control system comfortably in a phone form factor, but the superadvanced aliens way smarter than us and millennia if not more beyond us need massive crystals.

I suppose we can hypothesize that some variant of "hyperspace" requires vast computational powers to work at all, and maybe some of the other advanced stuff does (e.g. one imagines the holodeck or anything even resembling it would possibly require more computing power than our entire world has), but it's hard to imagine "life support" requires some massive crystal to run.

Science fiction has always had a complicated relationship with computers. The exponential power increases of so many decades is just hard to deal with. Even if you understand that exponential power increases are occurring, that doesn't mean you can correctly understand what that means in practice.

(In the alien's defense, one thing they may legitimately have on us, and for which unspecified "crystals" clearly made out of a very hard and durable substance may even make some sense, is longevity. A crystal that "merely" stored a few gigabytes and had the computation power of a modern cell phone, but that could be accidentally left behind in someone's grave for 20,000 years and work just as well as the day it was made would have a lot of legitimate uses, even if they had the capability of making things with a lot more power that wouldn't last as long. But even then I don't see swapping these things around like they're a fancy puzzle from Rubiks or you're trying to solve an ancient Sudoku as being a likely use case.)
Just because a minister can't make the perfect policies for climate, doesn't mean that putting Trump on that chair wouldn't have a different outcome. Having people there with an understanding of the problem we face and how to fix it, or advising such people, or providing better data to those advisors, or building the satellites to collect that data... Yeah it's hard to say what will ultimately have been the best possible use of your time, but please don't fall into indecision just because no option seemed perfect :)

That said, I'd be curious if a climate-aware person working at a fossil fuel company would still be negative compared to them working for Greenpeace or something. Probably if you have no impact (like a fuel truck driver) then your time would have been better spent at Greenpeace, but if you're part of meetings where something is decided then you'd have an impact already. Maybe what we need is to look for roles with either some decision making capacity, or no such capacity but at a company that's already working to help everyone reduce emissions?
The check size stayed the same, but now they offer a second check for a MFN uncapped SAFE.

Regarding inflation, though, I’d posit that being a seed stage startup is cheaper than ever in spite of inflation, unless you’re super dependent on labor that the founders can’t provide. There is so much competition between service providers that a lot of things are free or heavily discounted in the seed stage, from banking to cloud services to legal. Plus a lot more automation and standardization around back-office stuff than there used to be (e.g. Stripe Atlas, Clerky)
They'll take longer over deciding to say yes.

But if you're incoherent and awkward in your first ten minutes they'll probably have no issue saying no and walking away.
The algorithm is optimized for $$$, not quality.
I started using a bookmark service because of this.

And after I wrote that sentence I found the original video I was thinking about with a google search. Welp.
Stability is a bit of an illusion, as even profitable companies will do layoffs from time-to-time for a variety of reasons.
When choosing where to work, I tend to look more at: Is this a reasonable business? Does management have a plan that makes sense? Do these people seem to have their priorities in order? Do I trust these people?
Those questions hardly guarantee stability, but the right answers leave me comfortable that they've got a fair shot at it.
Keep old love letters
Very true, I don't disagree that its not 100% pure and 'good', but I think space technology has a very important value in our society to explore, and is _especially_ important in solving problems for humanity down the line. As for Climate, without a healthy space industry, our climate observation tools would be set back decades. The first step to dealing with a problem is to become aware of it.
Wordpress is elegant with its hook system. It is easily customisable. Virtually in each and every step you can modify the wordpress software via plugins.
Thank you so much for that link. I have been wondering for a long time why OpenGL was relegated to the graveyard, and that post has painted the picture for me.
Yeah, exactly. Now explain to somebody they need to come up with a measurements for all the things I have very efficiently declined to do... saving everybody time, effort and helping the really important task get the bandwidth it needed.
Visidata† and Datasette†† are both excellent for rapid exploration. Both are available via Python pip.

† _ https://www.visidata.org/

†† _ https://datasette.io/
Yes, they basically collect everything.
It would be much more like banning a Dilbert cartoon if there was a box drawn around his posts and a subheading "Doug Wanoy by Greg Doe".

This isn't that. As John Scalzi said, "The failure mode of clever is asshole."
Where did you roam? What was the best place to be a digital nomad? How sustainable is that lifestyle?
> Earlier folks / seed funds have more than enough money and even if they take hits on marks the reality is that they invest at such low prices they are still 'good', but (a) they don't know exactly what to buy because they don't know what the later-stage folks are in the market for and (b) they really don't know what prices the later-stage folks will pay for things (which directly impacts what they are willing to pay)... — https://twitter.com/lessin/status/1528750068932788225

VC is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest

As a founder, you aren't paying the VC, the VC is paying you; you are the product and this meta-market is the actual real game you are playing. See: "Series A Exit Clause" – it's baked into your capitalization structure
That is a stupid decision. Loading a page / resource from the web by itself should not be a gdpr violation.
Are you talking about Unison?

https://www.unison-lang.org/learn/the-big-idea/
The code you're writing right now, is a legacy codebase soon enough, if it's good and valuable enough and to survive a few years.
It's not just the new cars.

On Saturday, my friend traded in his 2017 GMC Canyon with 86k miles on it for $19k.

He had paid $25k for it new in 2017. The dealership now has it listed for used sale for $28,995.

If they're turning a $10k profit on a 5yo car driven pretty hard for 5 years and selling it above what it cost when it was new, I have no doubt they're marking up the new ones even higher!
Thanks for the report. I found the problem . Look here https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/14-Eton-Way-Mill-Valley-C...

If you scroll down you’ll see they made an error listing the property at 389million instead of 3.89 million. I’ll have to use some upper /lower limits in the graph to bump out outliers like this . It’s hard to pick a number, some distress sale properties get sold for very low prices
Convictional (YC W19) is hiring engineers to build the future of B2B trade Remote
But you're opting into them having more control over you. If you're an employee they can set your hours. They can't as a student. You're opting into a HR-managed vacation system instead of managing your own time.

Health insurance, behaviours, retirement, etc I guess so.
No. https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/31/website_fine_google_f...

The inclusion of third party components on your website is your choice as a website owner. You have the responsibility not to leak data to Google.

Your consent workaround works if you do not collect any kind of personal data before the user clicks OK. As long as you get consent before enabling processing (i.e. you include Google Fonts or any other kind of GDPR incompatible third party) you're probably fine unless you do something particularly egregious.

"By visiting this site you agree to the terms" is useless though, unless you somehow show those terms before the site gets loaded.
Add it to a playlist (or bookmark it). I don't trust the videos to still be up when I might be interested in them so I've become a little bit of a data hoarder.
Is the Apple key unchangeable or a one time key? Because if the former then it's still a problem once know publicly.
A story about open-source, the Bulgarian Government, and the war in Ukraine
From the linked article:

> unauthorized access to private users' names, emails, addresses, occupations, genders and ages.

Dislaimer: I work in Google, but don't know anything about the breach that isn't in the linked article.
The fact that many paying chess.com like the product mostly suggests it's a good product.
It has been one year since I can't find interesting stuff in the recommended section anymore. I also thought about building my own recommendation system using YouTube's RSS feed for each individual channel, Telegram for notifications and some simple logic written in Rust and SQLite (of course) and always running on my VPS, where I manually add and remove the channels I like and I also give them a score to have a priority system. Will probably do this next week, when I'm at sea with my family.

EDIT: grammar
As I mentioned in the post, this was a truly special moment for the team here at budibase. Open source can have its challenges, but moments like this make it so worthwhile. I'm more than happy to answer any questions anyone has.
I find disk io to be a primary reason to go with bare metal. The vm abstractions just kill io performance. In a single server you can fill up the PCI lanes with flash and hit some ridiculous throughput numbers.
JetBrains is working on new CI/CD called TeamCity Pipelines
> These bare-knuckle tactics, long commonplace in the world of politics, have become increasingly noticeable within a tech industry

Has WaPo every managed a similar article on Hollywood catalyzing attacks on tech? Or maybe that's the commonplace politics... Still, nice to see mention of press coverage artifice.
Great thinking, we will certain consider this as a future product feature. Thanks for idea!
There’s a wikipedia article that covers it better than I could in a post, but censorship of books, movies, games and the Internet is common there.