skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Separation Church & State

Tesla cars are burning slate

Crackdowns on encrypted talk

Britain shock

We don't want the MONKEYPOX!
I am sure they see Coinbase as being part of a gigantic racketeering operation where the whales game government and finance to facilitate black markets.
There certainly is a genetic basis for intelligence. It's not even something that's up for debate academically, there's a mountain of evidence for it. We even have identified specific genes that play roles in intelligence. Almost every human trait is partially heritable, and it would be very surprising if intelligence were an exception (considering there's considerable variation in intelligence and it's very important for fitness.)

More information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ
For those not familiar with the jargon, can you expand what PI and IC means? Private Investors and Individual Contributors?
Show HN: Steddy – Robinhood for Exercise
After talking to a lot of people about their exercise habits, we realized that one of the most popular apps for tracking workouts is actually the Notes app.

Because most people’s interests and hobbies change, it’s very hard for a single type of exercise app (running, lifting, CrossFit, etc.) to remain useful to people over the long run.

So we built Steddy: an exercise app with no videos, fitness models, or made up weight loss projections.

Instead, planning and check-in is as simple as a well-designed todo app. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible to “deposit” your exercise each time you get active and watch your fitness compound over time.

Would love any suggestions, feedback, or advice; and happy to answer any questions!
Ah, Paul Krugman, the guy who said "the fed needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble" in 2002. Nobody else short of Joel Osmond has made such a career of being spectacularly wrong.
Thanks a lot for your comment. I think you’re right that I have fallen into habits out of line with what I really value (doing good work) and fixing those is very useful advice. I can write a lot of words whining about how it’s hard for me to find motivation but if my problem is that I don’t feel like I’m doing good work then the solution can only be to actually do good work.

WRT imposter syndrome, I understand it’s very common but I don’t think it’s my current problem. Earlier in my career I did have this imposter feeling like “I don’t belong to be here with these people much smarter and more capable than me.” Now I feel like I have proven myself and I do deserve to be here, but I feel like I can’t motivate myself to live up to the potential I have. I.e. I want to do better work, and I feel like if I could motivate myself then I could, but I struggle to motivate myself. Maybe if I think more about why it is that I want to do better work then that will become a more powerful motivator for me.
Then you can pay for more data, seems fair no?
Apple's App Tracking Transparency policy blew up the digital ads ecosystem
“Why successful founders never get their groceries delivered”
Except this isn't currency. This is property (a definition given by the SEC) which has a completely different legal standard. There is no excuse of ignorance for receiving and selling stolen property or property used in service of a crime. It's an open secret that crypto is being used for illegal activity because it is not being enforced currently.
I have looked at Metabase in the past. In addition to the technology, I like their use of the AGPL license. I think that Metabase can be used as is as a standalone service and I don’t see how the AGPL license hurts any company that wants to run it as-is for their employees or customers.
Keeper Tax (YC W19) Is Hiring a PM to Distrupt TurboTax
Have a look at a book called "Bugs in Writing" by Lyn
Dupre'. Technical writers at Google recommend it. It's organized into
more than a hundred short pleasantly readable chapters with each one
focused on troubleshooting a specific issue. There's more to good
writing than that, but at least you can get the small stuff resolved
systematically. Disclaimer: I don't take everything in it as gospel
but one has to start somewhere.
Gas and food prices would likely drop like a stone if we are facing another 2008-like crisis.

A handful of people made a big bet that during the credit crunch we’d see massive inflation and took big bets against the dollar and cheap oil and lost their shirt
What about racist bridges?

If you invent low-height bridges to keep black people out of select neighborhoods (because they tend to take the bus, and busses can't cross the bridge / tunnel), would you just be "someone else would have created something similar eventually??".

As an engineer, you are responsible for your inventions. That's always been true. Ideally, you create things for people who are trustworthy.

If you don't care about ethics, then don't be surprised if those ethics come to bite you in the ass later. Is it "just a low height bridge", or is it a "racist bridge"? As an engineer, its your job to make the thing (or decide to not make the thing).
A book (and author) referenced in this very piece!
> I'm less concerned about the current state of the code, and far more concerned with how easily I can change the state of the code without incident.

This is great, it’s the most concise definition of clean code I can think of: how easily can I change the code in ways that the system as a whole changes only in ways I intended.
not sure why you're getting downvoted. maybe the scope of what you're saying ('plenty of "production grade" crates unwrap [when they shouldn't]') calls for a reference? Or maybe because you're singling out Rust developers while the issue is certainly observed in all languages with similar mechanisms (see unchecked exceptions abuse in java, or aborting asserts abuse in C)

Anyway i wouldn't say "plenty", but i did came across crates (parsers :/) that would unwrap on malformed input. the workaround is to encapsulate their use in a catch_unwind.

for the record, i had a similar issue in a c++ lib where the author elected to abort on the unsupported input, so i'm somewhat thankful that the idiomatic mechanism is panic (which is recoverable if needs be) in Rust
I find it is helpful to have a baby step. For me, that’s: open my laptop and read my notes from where I left off. It takes almost no effort and nearly always gets me into the swing of things. When it doesn’t work, I just take time off (a perk of working for myself).
> There's either I/O errors - or there's logic errors. A failure with logic should nuke due to the app being in an inconsistent state; trust is lost.

nah. in GUI apps for instance you want the failure in the logic of a sub-sub-function to just tell the error "wops" when the button that triggered the action was clicked, not nuke the app (unless you hate your users). e.g. imagine a 3D software which allows to do mesh operations - user clicks on the "Smooth the mesh" button somewhere. Programmer forgot to handle a division by zero in some degenerate case of the smoothing computation which ends up leading to an exception: a value becomes zero, someone used unsigned integers for n in an "n - 1" computation which ends up in a call to array_of_floats.resize(0xffffffffffffffff) (and a likely std::bad_alloc being thrown if you're in c++).

The original mesh is unchanged as the operation waits until the computation is complete to replace the old mesh with the new.

If you ever decide to crash in this situation I am sure you will have great reviews on 3D modeling software comparisons.
Do you have a source for this? I vaguely remember GitHub starting to offer private repos when GitLab started getting popular.
I understand the points you're raising; I'm saying that gRPC enveloping solves them. Once messages are enveloped, you _do_ have a length field for the entire message.

The article is, IMO, somewhat misleading - it discusses the issue without mentioning gRPC envelopes at all, and it seems pretty clear that envelopes were designed (in part) to address this exact issue.
I just finished reading "Billion Dollar Whale", about Jho Low and 1MDB scam. In a nutshell, enabled by corrupt politicians and bankers, one guy and his entourage embezzled multiple billions (not a typo) from Malaysian budget, effectively stealing from Malaysian people.

They get eventually caught, and substantial assets are recovered - real estate, jewelry, art, luxury yachts. Not all. But in a world of fully anonymous crypto, these guys would either never get caught, or would vanish into thin air with their Ledgers, and that's that.

I used to think, haha, crypto, buy some drugs with it, but this really scared me. I'm not anti crypto, and I quite like the technology, but this kind of "mine and no one else's business" attitude terrifies me.
I've listened to one at a IKEA shop and think its quality is mostly okay (speakers placement can change everything), but if I needed one I would certainly build it myself for much less money using cheap easily available ready made modules to convert to wireless normal amplified speakers.

This is a field in which DIY is still viable; the other day I posted a link to a data sheet of a set of modules promising quite serious performance (digital uncompressed audio with sub-millisecond latency), but sadly can't find any seller from whom I could purchase a few for testing.

http://www.vastera.com.tw/1/PDF/DIO-S003B.pdf
My guess is Amazon could easily figure out the information a roomba could provide without it (sq ft, etc) which makes me think the title of this article is false.
Me too! Amos' and Xe's blogs are often fun to read because of the dialogues between the characters and the writer.
I'll make my comment more clear. I was agreeing with this commenter.
I don’t understand this.

> No one could have predicted computers would be so small nor so light on power usage for their relative processing power.

He’s predicting the future but assured that technical progress won’t occur in an 8 year timeframe, after watching us go from mainframes to PCs over the previous 30 years.

This is a case of abject stupidity on the part of Krugman.
Gitlab didn't even have retention policies until sometime in 2020. I have a six year old project that's consuming something like 4TB of space in their container registry.
It's not even 100% clear that it's really "Kalashnikov's Rifle".

It appears to share its pedigree with a number of German firearms from the WW2 era, the designers of which just so happened to "immigrate" to the Soviet Union in 1945.

The Soviets wouldn't have found it very palatable to field a weapon designed by Germans, and the story of a common soldier designing one of the great battle rifles of the 20th Century and being elevated to a Hero of the Soviet Union as a result is great propaganda.

I'm not asserting that the man had nothing to do with it, don't get me wrong. It's just very obviously not the work of one individual's mind, and given the context of the era we should probably take a critical view of the official story.
Or at least use CDKTF which allows you to code around problems, rather than bash your head against TF's awfulness. https://www.terraform.io/cdktf
Sounds like good news!
How to build GUI apps for iOS and macOS with Rust ?

Can this notarize apps made with other programming languages?
I am a genius! I have invented the agile-waterfall method. Bring on the release train choo-choo!
The "only I can truly help you" pattern is a very common one for selling hokum, so yeah I would agree this is probably a way to peel readers from other self-help gurus.
>Your home layout and size speaks about how much is your income

aren't Credit Reporting companies already selling that data?
Running your own is pointless, unless a bunch of other people also use it.
Panda Express and Taco Bell might be different, but that article makes it sound like the trial concluded as planned:

> At the pilot’s onset, McDonald’s indicated the McPlant would be available as part of the pilot for a limited time while supplies last. The company confirmed to Food & Beverage Insider in August the test run concluded as planned.

In other words: they ran a trial, and it finished. That itself isn't evidence for either success or failure, any more than taking a scheduled blood test is/isn't evidence for a blood disease.
Stop making them daily. I see the author sticks to the dogma of a daily meeting of some sort. We have a 30 minute biz meeting followed by a 30 minute dev meeting weekly. We communicate by phone/teams/email when we need to.
I think education does not have much to do with it.

Rather, it's creativity and curiosity.

Sci-fi authors could have imagined much more.

People who think "it's just a fad" can't think much beyond what it's being shown there and see what's really going on behind and how this can grow.

In a way, they were not criticizing "the internet". They were criticizing mIRC, or some site best viewed with Netscape 1.0 and thinking that's where it ended. But of course that's where it begins
I think I'm supposed to feel insulted, but clear communication is very important, so thank you for suggesting that I communicate clearly.

I suggest you also pursue clear communication, in which words are used to communicate what they mean.
> The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in "Metcalfe's law"--which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants--becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other!

It's not that he was wrong, per se, he just appears to have underestimated the human appetite for saying meaningless things to nobody in particular. :P
This is an old idea.

If you believe the pool of qualified candidates is much bigger than the student body for a school like this (pretty easily supportable, imo) then this is also obviously a good idea - if the primary purpose of the school is to provide a great education to any qualified individuals who exist.

I don't think any reading of the history of the ivy's and similar schools can really support the latter.
Well, if you want a definitive answer, it's "it depends". Those errors are not all alike.
I can imagine that he reversed his opinion as the dotcom bubble inflated until about 2000, only to reverse it again after the bubble popped, only to reverse it again...
Rough self-talk from Marcus Aurelius in this passage. Not a big fan of this kind of approach personally. I've found that if I need to do this kind of self-motivation, I should be thinking much higher-level for the causes -- why do I not want to get out of bed? Perhaps I'm not working on the right thing, and need to change careers? Or perhaps I'm not dealing with something emotionally that is preventing me from doing my best work. In my experience, especially if this apathy is persisting over weeks+, it's been something much deeper than "oh I'm lazy and I just need to get up"
> I don't think it's worth spending much time getting into these arguments because the people arguing against Excel clearly don't know modern Excel very well.

That's not it at all. Excel has been in active development for over 30 years by a multi-trillion dollar development powerhouse with billions of sales, everybody is aware it's a perfectly competent product.

The dispute is the objective claim that it can do something that alternatives cannot, not the subjective claim that Excel is "neater", or more beautiful, or more user friendly. After 30 years of active development I would hope that Excel has some shortcuts, polish and syntax improvements to streamline common operations. That is not the same as not being able to do something.

I question the claim that it can do something unique, and want to hear an example. When pushed for an example I'm told that only Excel has a Solver, or only Excel has Pivot Tables. That is objectively false.

I don't want to hear about "Power Query" unless it's an example query that cannot be done in SQL. It's a proprietary query language, of course alternatives don't have it. I'm glad you're happy about it, but others might call that "Vendor Lock-in".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in
Sir Tim Berners-Lee Said I Stifled Innovation on the Internet. Ouch (2019)
No.

Take your salary, convert to hourly assuming 40h work weeks, multiply by 2/3.

That's the pay rate per hour oncall outside of normal working hours.
I've been looking for this too. Not just for cars, but also lawnmowers, snow blowers, chain saws ...
There is! It's not supported by very many models though.

https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo
I haven't previously read the Lello paper [1] that review is citing, but a quick skim makes me skeptical.

Particulary the legend for figure 5:

> Activated SNPs are distributed roughly uniformly throughout the genome.

If the authors were actually identifying a genetic component to a heritable trait, I'd expect them to observe some linkage disequilibrium. And without any analysis of the SNPs (are they coding/noncoding? which genes are they associated with?) it's hard to believe that they're uncovering actual biology and not just chance correlates with external/socioeconomic factors.

I also find it difficult to trust studies when the lead author fails to disclose a conflict of interest. [2]

[1] https://academic.oup.com/genetics/article/210/2/477/5931053

[2] https://academic.oup.com/genetics/article/214/1/231/5930514
This article misses the point completely. Fundamentally the question is, if some technology has made us twice as productive, why don't we work half as much? This will never happen because capitalism and economics are completely psychological. You could look at any period of history and see some invention that caused a 2x increase in productivity. Inventions like farminng, the electric or gas powered motor, etc. Humans will always fill the void left by their extra productivity with more work.

We have the technology _today_ for the average work week to be about 5 hours we just choose not to do this as a society.
You don't follow them out of the mixer, you trace back from where they went into the mixer.
I compare MiniRust and Ferrocene at https://github.com/RalfJung/minirust#what-about-the-ferrocen.... :) TL;DR they re quite different in style, precision, and scope.
It's a question of scale. Laundering a small amount of money via a business entity that accepts cash isn't hard, but people get caught when they get greedy and start trying to launder implausible amounts.

TC clones can probably fly under the radar with a small transaction volume, but any attempt to launder large sums would get caught pretty quickly (with standard forensic accounting techniques used to trace the beneficiaries).
Been using metabase for 2-3 years now. It's a lifesaver.
One of the best resource and text about procrastination that I have read. Life-saving!
I think Apple's official code signing tool is also open source? https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/security_systemkeychain...

xar is another tool for codesigning Mac installer packages, which runs on Linux. I've used it successfully in the past.

https://users.wfu.edu/cottrell/productsign/productsign_linux...
No that's called moving the goal posts. It's a logical fallacy
The people have voted that they would rather have KYC than criminal organizations operating at scale and foreign governments stealing from Americans. You may disagree, but your position is against that of society at large. You are perfectly free to exit society and transact only outside it.
I've been using shairport-sync to receive audio from my iPad while working. It has proven a really convenient means to turn my iPad into a 2nd display for watching videos. I've been wanting to use this on Windows as well but had no luck getting sound to work with WSL last time I tried.

This new app looks like a promising cross-platform replacement.
> As an engineer, you are responsible for your inventions.

Disagree. Feel free to design whatever you want. The person actually building and putting it to use would be the one at fault.
who wants to be "the brains" behind something which is not of his own?

Only your own cause and goal can generate the willpower and stamina necessary to ultimately create something great.

As Nietzsche said: "He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living things."
I gave examples covering this area in the post. How would you rewrite the code in this section[1], for example, to conform to your views? (Assume this code is in a library.)

[1]: https://blog.burntsushi.net/unwrap/#what-about-when-invarian...
Think, "If you love your job, you'll never work a day in your life", it's not "work" if it's fun, even if it is "work"
There’s a reason Krugman sells his advice to the NYT rather than trying to capitalize on it.
My 2010 BMW has a cell phone holder in the center armrest. It was designed for the phones of the time. So when the iPhone 5 came out it became impossible to use because BMW never anticipated a phone being that large.

The built-in infotainment system is still lightyears beyond anything on a cell phone. On a road trip if the car gets to 1/8 of a tank of gas it will offer to set a destination to the nearest gas station. This requires one button press to accept. If there’s a navigation destination it will insert a stop to get gas.
Sort of. At my company, if we removed retries from our services, our reliability would drop precipitously. Something like 99.99% of retries succeed on the second try, if there's not a hard service outage. If there is a hard outage, well, not much to do about that.
Very nice post. Http2 did not solve the TCP HOL problems though. Not sure about the WS statement. On the other hand. Vanilla WS has never ended up in prod on any of my projects even if it has been implemented several times.
Not in every case but many times it really is a valid approach. Perspective matters a lot for our mental well being. There are definitely people that get “addicted” to being chronically unhappy.
Ah yes, the rigorous study of economics
Again straw man, another logical fallacy
Very interesting. No one talks about news startups, but there's endless talk about SaaS startups doing glorified log parsing.

Another one to watch is Semafor.
Microsoft Edge disables JIT by default for “less visited sites”
"With this option, Microsoft Edge will apply added security protection to the less visited sites. This feature preserves the user experience for the most popular sites on the web."
This is insightful and rings true for me as well. A good blend of theory and practical knowledge is important to get the most out of any education. Do you have any recommendations for learning math this way?
On my xs when i think i long press i can get Two different results… and they seem random to me.
The Revolut app is a hot mess though.

Monzo have kept theirs clean l, focus and and useful.
> Height is a univariate trait that does not change after the age of ~20. If you show me someone who can take a genome and predict adult height within a centimeter, then I’ll believe they have a snowball’s chance of predicting something as nuanced and varied as “attractiveness” or “intelligence”.

I don't know why that would be the standard, since the amount of variation in height that's attributable to environmental factors might make that fundamentally impossible. But we can get quite close to that standard nonetheless.

And even if it's not possible yet, do you think that in 20 years we'll have no ability to predict height or intelligence
from a genome? It seems very plausible to me, especially with how cheap genome sequencing is now.
I dunno about that Bill Ackerman has predicted 113 of the last 3 recessions.
Show HN: Debuglater – Serialize Python traceback for later debugging
What exactly was the change in definitions and is it possible to account for the change or is information missing?