skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the same result, within the same accepted parameters, the 'inferior' method is really identical, with no tradeoffs. By measuring the result rather than the design, you see the true value rather than the theoretical value.

If you only need to move a 60lbs bag of sod across the yard, carrying it yourself, using a wheelbarrow, and using an F-150 Lightning all have exactly the same result and none is inferior. They can all be done in the same time by the same person with no real difference. It's only when the parameters change, like moving 400 bags of sod, that the first two require tradeoffs.
Isn't this the main reason why social media pushes their apps over their (once) perfectly functional websites?

Better analytics = better product*.

* for the true customers, i.e. marketing & communication firms, governments, etc.
In Minneapolis there is a local fiber provider which charges about the same for the same level of fiber connectivity. I think it's pretty sustainable.

It looks like his revenue is going to be $50k/mo in not so long and that's more than enough to have a couple of people willing to work on an as-needed hourly rate and to cover whatever issues come up.
Can it be run on Apple M1/M2, if they have 16+ GB of RAM?
> There is no “natural consumption of meat”.

Yes. As you point out the consumption of meat varies greatly across cultures.
> passive aggressive

I think I know what that means; it's kind of pretending to be non-aggressive, while aggressing. I hope that, in a technical discussion, my adversary won't hold back. If they're angry, it's best for me if they tell me. Same if they're strongly opposed to my view.

I don't want to have to guess where my adversary is coming from. We're not talking about dating, or getting on with the mother-in-law; it's about technical discussions. There's no reason you shouldn't be aggressive when presenting your view, and then get on fine with your adversary after the discussion's over.
Would you say that software engineering and architecture aren’t core job functions because they require skills and experience to do? It’s not effortless but these people are being paid top salaries so it doesn’t seem unreasonable to expect them to have at least a rough idea of what the people who report to them are doing.

This goes double for the other concerns you mentioned: if you’ve created an incentive system where people commonly BS their way into promotions, that’s a major management failure.
That seems to be entirely explained by labor force participation. Note the skyrocketing amounts of people with more than one job
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30545352
Sound like adjusting/packaging message to the platform/audience.

Exactly what good marketing is about.

Keep up the good work, and thanks for the nice words!
Absolutely, all your points are spot on, I just call it 10x engineering because it's way easier than having to articulate the whole:

"Developer who is fortunate enough to be competent, in a structure with minimal comms overhead, high autonomy and no dead weight"

...and it tends to kickstart some good discussion on the topic as a whole.
Interesting. This is a risk vector I never considered regarding allowing third parties to provide a browser on a mobile device.
Amazon made epub the default delivery format for publishers more than a year ago, so there was not much technical reason they couldn't do this.
People are typically ranked by influence at companies as well. If you want to increase your influence, hire more people beneath you. Amazon managers specifically will be looked at for how good they are at hiring and how many people are beneath them to see if they're ready for the next level. At least this is what an Amazon EM told me.
FblQ00Ho

That was my first ISP password assigned to me from San Jose based ix.netcom.com (Also the city I was grounded a month for running a $926 long distance bill calling into BBSs to play trade wars and the pit)

But the best ISP I ever had was a 56K dial-up in Seattle. To play Diablo.

I am looking to build an ISP.
You can run database on local volume and not deal with network at all if you don't like it. You can dedicate node for your postrgres instance. Or you can start simple until you hit performance wall and then gradually implement those things. Kubernetes is pretty flexible in that regard.
I believe it. Every single day I get emails from various Amazon recruiters. Often it's for positions I'm barely qualified for. As much as I think AWS is a great service, I'd be terrified to learn what lies beneath given how low their recruitment standards are.
> 284 lines of c++

> includes the entirety of tensorflow as a submodule
Including the installation fee and $30/mo subsidy (I am assuming this means the price he receives is $30 higher than the one customers pay), my quick math shows it would take a bit over 71 months (almost 6 years) to hit $2.6M in total revenue. However, that assumes literally every customer chooses the $55/month plan, if everyone chose the $79/mo plan, it would take almost 51 months, or a bit over 4 years (obviously the number will be somewhere in between that).

Also, this math assumes no growth whatsoever in homes served or other revenue lines. I assume adding another home will be far cheaper than building out the core network, and the article itself notes other lines of business. To be honest, this doesn't seem like a terrible investment to me. There are certainly better ones in a pure ROI point of view, but for government investments? More of these please!
Do you take an uber/taxi/etc? I always assumed that you'd need to buy in bulk quantities to make costco worth it here, which would require a car
MakerDAO can burn the emergency shutdown administrative capabilities.
Yeah that’s my point, inflation rates don’t really influence unemployment rates except at the margin
It depends on control and automation. If you can easily migrate things between servers, a hash ring makes more sense. If you are a scrappy startup who has too much traffic/data, you are doing everything manually, including rebalancing and babysitting servers.
Dark matter isn't just a made-up number. It's an observed phenomenon that MOND and other modified-gravity theories cannot explain.

It is an observable fact that dark matter is a distinct substance from baryonic matter. Modified gravity is thoroughly disproven by the many galaxies that have been discovered that have been separated from their dark matter[1], or seem to have never had any in the first place [2]. A galaxy can't be separated from, or be lacking in, something that doesn't exist.

Any attempt to dismiss dark matter entirely without addressing this highly conclusive evidence is not valid.

1. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Bullet_Cluster

2. https://www.inverse.com/science/dark-matter-in-galaxies
One way or another, tax payers spent $30K on a fiber run to one house. Yes, they spent less on some other ones too. The indirection just increases cost insensitivity.
> Does this break Apple's ToS? I thought Apple required Safari/Webkit for all in-app browsers?

They are still using Safari/Webkit, but just injecting a script into every page.
Any reason why Google Maps wouldn’t* use the same in-app tracking?

Edit: meant why Google wouldn’t do this. I guess what I really mean, is what are the chances they don’t do this?
It probably is still running Webkit underneath with some additional JavaScript to track everything
> PS. I hate in-app browsers. They don't sync with my main browser states such as authenticated sessions.

Seems like that's probably a good thing :)
"when investigating land slated for a housing development" what happens to the owners/developers when this type of thing happens? Are they reimbursed by the state?
> Zuckerberg noticed that it was getting harder to get all the employees to attend a meeting as they were sometimes taking time out in a day for personal work. So the Meta boss said that, in an effort to be “cost-conscious,” he was freezing or reducing staffing for low-priority projects and slashing engineer-hiring plans for the year by 30 per cent, reports added.

As we all know, the most productive hackers prioritize all-hands meetings. I hope this is misattribution from the author.
With the freedom mindset, would you consider a co-working membership where you could use any number of their locations (if there's availability like that near you)?
I still remember the LinkedIn app ripping all my contacts, so no apps for me. I just use the sites.
These odd local anecdotes are so silly - the benefit of having a Federal bureaucracy tracking prices is that they keep detailed records. Here's the nominal price of a gallon of milk over the last 25 years:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000709112

The average in Feb 2020 was $3.19/gallon. Today it's $4.15/gallon. So roughly 30% increase since then. The average cost of a gallon of milk since the mid 1990s has never been below $2.40/gallon so maybe that $1.35 you paid was a result of a panic during the early pandemic?
Could you say a bit more? IANAL, but I only know about warrants in the context of them coming in and taking stuff. I don't know what a warrant could even mean here, especially given that the information isn't physically in Nebraska.

Ok, I just double-checked that, and apparently Facebook has a Nebraska data center. So the information could possibly be there. But I have a hard time imagining Nebraska PD going into a 10-acre data center and just grabbing servers.
Oh! Good catch, sorry.

This is still quibbling about details though. EVs are clearly here to stay.
https://usinternet.com/fiber/plans-pricing/

Come to Minneapolis. 1 Gbps for $70.
Expanding the Cap Tradeoff Frontier at Scale
My fear is that is what I'm doing right now. I've been writing code alone for a while, it's very possible it will be hard for new hires to understand or update. I know there is tech debt but I don't have time to fix it (because I'm alone, natch).

Oh well. Maybe they can spend their time replacing my work.
They can also track anything you do outside their browser, on a website with their tracking pixel.
Apple has been fine doing things that hurt FB, see not giving them special privileges' around the Ad tracking permission changes that were added to iOS.
How can they not agree with you, if all you've done is ask one question (with three more questions left unasked)?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Home_Mortgage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Century_Financial

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Stearns

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndyMac

Is this not an institute that was intertwined into the 2007 crisis?

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When one bank fails, all the banks "connected" to that bank become at risk of failure. A tree that falls in a forest can knock down other trees. It becomes difficult to predict which trees can knock down other trees unless you publicly map out which trees are close to each other.

We didn't know Celsius was connected to 3AC connected to Luna/Terra until after these bankruptcy events. Are there other groups that are connected?
Thanks! Wow that's fascinating.
This is what i completely agree
Looks like it. Though I think md5 is faster, which is maybe what I’m remembering, now that I think about it. This was years ago, funny how memory gets tainted.
'Single family homes are quiet cheap in most of the country, especially McMansions' - Citation needed.

Aside from price per square foot, a single family dwelling has room for a single family. That same space could be built upwards for multiple families, but NIMBYS stop it every single time.

Just like the post about Marc the other day they cry about quality of life and property values.

We have people far more worried about the value of their housing 'investment' than people having homes, then they cry about the homeless people and the problems they bring.

Poor people have been priced out of every single place (you mention cheap houses but hardly the case- many millenials have given up on ever owning a house), so what's the only option left, renting until you cant work anymore?

Something has got to give.
And if you spin very rapidly, centrifugal force applies.
Why do you say “true customers”?

Is anyone under the impression that they are a customer of a service they don’t pay for?

People would readily identify as a “Twitter user” instead of a “Twitter customer”
Dark matter is not just an imaginary number that fills some holes in math. It is a thing that has been observed. Galaxies can have it or not have it. Galaxies can be separated from it in collisions. You can't be separated from something that doesn't exist.
You say this like some people's votes should count less than other people's votes.
If a computer search or errand text resulted in criminal charges,
then there would be an opposing counterforce to that.

Why? You gave no supporting evidence for this statement. You just stated it as if it were indisputable fact.
It's weird seeing Pell's equation discussed as something intractable or unsolved. We have deterministic ways of solving them (you can use convergents, which can be calculated using continuous fractions [0]). But then again, Diophantine equations sometimes show surprising patterns, and in this case the problem is not so much about solving the equation, but about finding cases where it doesn't have a solution. Which can be determined reasonably quickly for any given equation (at least, one with smallish coefficients), but apparently it's difficult to pinpoint an exact pattern of cases where this happens.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continued_fraction#Infinite_co...
Well the US economy has boomed for the last 250 years or so and depends pretty heavily on roads and thirsty humans. Those investments seem to have given more than they took, by a very wide margin.
A systems programming language operates much closer to the machine level than other languages. One could compile source files into .o (object files), call functions implemented in any object file using its calling convention and link them using a linker. This ability to use an established toolchain is useful when components that one writes has to communicate with components that others have written which occurs quite often in the systems programming area.

Sometimes, you need to peel away the abstractions and work with the raw memory layout or when working in real-time/embedded systems you cannot rely on garbage collectors because your code needs to provide runtime guarantees.
The statement "phlogiston doesn't exist", by itself, also doesn't acccount for all observations for which phlogiston adherents require the existence phlogiston.
This view is really interesting to me.

It seems like you are hyper-focused on ends/outcomes. And if an end/outcome of a pursuit isn't completely novel, unpredictable, or result in you being the best at the pursuit, then what's the point? Is that an accurate summary?

I wonder whether there's a higher level view that really prioritizes status seeking, and that a life should be valued based on outcomes/production. And if you can't produce things at the level of the best, what's the point?

If that is the case, I've certainly had those thoughts when I was younger, and I would offer to consider giving yourself a break. Release yourself of expectations of being the best/most novel/etc. Give yourself permission to be a flawed human. Focus on enjoying the little things, focus on the present. Focus on the journey, not the end. We're the self-aware universe, we're so lucky we get to experience things as we do, let's enjoy the ride while we can. And contrary to what you're hinting at, there are an infinite number of possibilities/knowledge to gain. To think us humans have answered all of the questions of conscious experience and the universe (and what may lay beyond) is incredibly naive.
Ask HN: Should I go from CamelCase to snake_case for Python wrappers for C++?
I have a data structure which is used in several places:

1. C++: `struct` with CamelCase fields

2. YAML serialization (our file format): dictionaries with CamelCase keys (derived from C++);

3. Documentation: describes the file format, so the same as YAML;

4. Python wrappers: should I stick with CamelCase or convert field names to snake_case?

5. TypeScript wrappers: should I stick with CamelCase or convert field names to dromedaryCase?

I can easily make the conversion, but I suspect it will make it harder to lookup things in the documentation, which would make Python and TypeScript somewhat second class citizens.

On the other hand, if the wrappers do not conform with common practices of the language they are targeting, they feel somewhat second class citizens too.

What do you think?
Unfortunately for that idea, I would like my phone to actually just function normally, and have support for programs that Android uses. You are making perfect the enemy of good here.
Here are my reasons:

- Solve a problem for myself

- Learn new tech stack that I don't get to at work with hope that it might increase my salary one day

- Make some side income

- Chance of it becoming a real business
What is "unsafe, untenable or hard" about embedding some JSON-LD (which is just some JSON metadata, transformed using a small JS library), like I did here: https://twitter.com/conzept__/status/1552719001826074625

Whether you trust the URIs or the data that was placed there is not a problem for the semantic web. The fact that you _can_ state these things and relate to other resources and concepts on the web is already wonderful and useful in itself. Google is reading this metadata and relating it to their trust/ranking-graph. The semantic web 'community' could do the same later also, in a more decentralized way (blockhain web IDs perhaps?). For now it all works fine.
So do you have applicants write a 4 endpoint API with flask, or do you have them implement an elevator system which you describe as very hard? I've actually given that question in an hour long interview. But guess what? They get to stop at an hour, instead of guessing how much work they need to do to move on. You and I know that someone could probably make a career working on that system.

When you commit your time and set actual deadlines (such as 1 hour), they don't think they need to write a multi-elevator system with floor input outside the elevator and account for load and time of day or write it in 8 languages and write a 10 page report on the whole thing. They just spend an hour with me and we go through the problem and see how far we get.

You could be spamming that question out to hundreds applicants for all I know. Show you care and spend the time with me. I get several interview requests per day, I'm not wasting my time unless I think a company respects me. I'm in a nice position where I don't need to show I can be exploited by doing a ton of unpaid overtime work.
This is not a valid Show HN. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

I've taken "Show HN" out of the title now.
FlashFloppy. The hardware is a commodity. Software (firmware) is what matters.

https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy
So if you have two gluons, at -1 and +1, and a random gluon appears in between them at x, the graph of the force/pull of the gluon is close to a step function, correct?
There were/are NetApp filers that used shared battery backed up NVRAM in HA pairings for this purpose.
>They don't sync with my main browser states such as authenticated sessions.

Under what circums do you want this?
I'm not a professional physicist, so take this with a grain of salt. But first of all: the same question could be asked about "everyday" electric forces, and the answer is simple: positive and negative particles bond together and neutralize each other; their fields get overlapped. All the remaining force due to small physical distance(?) or quantum jiggle(?) is very small residues. (But it is enough to beget molecular dynamics.)

I think (guess?) that the strong force does the same, in the sense that there is a "neutralizing tendency", anyway, but the mechanism is different. Protons and neutrons, and pions too, are neutral when you watch them from far away. (But not so, when you are trying to explain why atomic nuclei are formed, protons and neutrons _like_ to clump together.)

The difference between a photon field and a gluon field is that gluons are attracted to each others in a way that I, as a non-nuclear-physicist don't quite understand (as the symmetry between them is not something I've actually studied); but as photons form "beams" (you can think of them in a linear algebra sense of vectors, almost!) that propagate in a very geometrically uniform way, gluons, being attracted to each others, form "tubes", which behave, as any self-interacting system would, in a very dynamic way.

Imagine a cellular simulation (like the Game of Life, but more... floating point instead of of integers & squares) where each quark sends gluons but they tend to clump together and form tubes? These tubes can't be super long, because quantum physics and the universe works in a way that energy gets minimized, and anything that could happen to make that happen, tends to happen. That means that if there's enough energy stored in the tube, it becomes "cheaper" for the universe to sever that connection and instead, produce new, separate particles that have their own, internal "tubes". That means that no long "tubes" of gluons are allowed in the universe, and thus, the strong force of the Strong Force is contained.

So the mechanism seems to be really super different from "overlapping +/- fields", in a sense, but the result is the same: no forces (albeit small residues) seen from afar.
The Boss Will See You Now: A turning point in worker surveillance
Show HN: I'm using Midjourney to create reward images for my word game Xordle
I'm using Midjourney to solve a game design issue I had with my Wordle variant, Xordle, where it was fun to have themed puzzles but the themes tended to either be too hard to notice even after the puzzle was completed (missed opportunity for a fun moment for most players), or too easy to notice before the puzzle was completed (giving away the answer). It requires a little effort to generate prompts, but not too much; definitely worth it in this case as I can now do themes that are pretty vague and are revealed by the image, or connect totally un-themed words together to still get the fun moment at the end of the puzzle. This post talks about what lead to this feature and has example output.
Worth noting that most of 538's 'secret sauce' was in combining state by state poll results with national polls to take account of the weird Electoral College system. I'm guessing most of the predictions that people remember as saying Clinton can't lose were basically just predicting the popular vote, which she didn't lose, but even then wasn't really that far outside the margin of error.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationwide_opinion_polling_for...
> and a smart person will realize that will negatively effect food production as local farmers cannot compete with free

Or it'll be seized and hoarded by corrupt governments or militias.
Because the ultimate end goal of your short life on Earth is to be a 'good worker'
I thought both Adobe and Microsoft have publicly stated that they prefer you steal their products rather than using a competitor's.
It's going to be a real bad thing for some people in some of the states. E.g., the last time the Union was split up it was over the "right" to treat people as livestock. Or look at the use of federal civil rights laws in the ending of Jim Crow.
Ask HN: Why don't open app indicators in dock get bright with high energy usage?
In this way, you could close apps when you want the battery to last longer.
This is the same situation as when special relativity was being developed. The equations for the mechanical theory of the aether looked exactly the same as the equations for special relativity. Similarly any modified gravity theory will be identical to a dark matter theory, except for the motivating principles.

So far modified gravity theories can’t explain everything. That and they would have to integrate with general relativity for which evidence is only getting stronger.