skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With all due respect, you have no idea what you're talking about. I worked there during the transition from 3rd party CDNs to OpenConnect. We got off 3rd party CDNs in 2013/4 and operated solely out of OpenConnect, in large part because no 3rd party CDN was capable of serving our amount of video at any price, including Akamai. We weren't even streaming out of our own datacenter anymore by the time I started, and that was when streaming was still free with your DVD plan.

And your timeline is all wrong too. Netflix didn't even engage with the ISPs about bandwidth until long after moving out of our own datacenter. We started the OpenConnect program specifically to make it easier for ISPs, there was no bullying. The spat you're thinking of is that Comcast didn't want to adopt the OpenConnect but also didn't want to appropriately peer with other networks to give their customers the advertised speeds.

And hardware cost is a hugely relevant parameter. Being efficient with hardware is the difference between profitable streaming at that scale and not profitable.
> I really like the keybed on the yamaha reface series.

A significantly cheaper option is the PSS-A50 which has the same keybed.
wow -- how can that even be?

I have a five or six year old lack I just disassembled due to wobbly joints. The entire thing was made of cardboard + a few small particle-wood reinforced areas near the joints, and a hard thick veneer.

the veneer shell is doing 85% of the workload already. I can hardly fathom how a weaker version would even work as a table.
I was at the thrift store last night and found someones cache of complete old sim games for PC. Sim Coaster, Sim city, etc. all for $1.99. I realized - I don't have a CD drive anymore.
Yep, this. Consulting is probably the only option. Though that said, in my experience, consultants are short-term positions at any given company, not long-term. You come in, consult, advise, and then ensure the changes take hold -- then your contract is up. Although my experience is rather limited in this regard, so maybe there's a long-term opportunity hidden in that industry somewhere.
I'd love to see integer promotion die in a fire, to prevent this: https://twitter.com/stephentyrone/status/1410636445593837569
How to be a great programmer – John Carmack and Lex Fridman
> require fields to be initialized before use

Good idea. That would catch annoying bugs I rarely, but occasionally, have.
In my second-hand experience, the best way to identify them is a couple of days after the fact, when a circle of skin starts to turn brown and mushy.

I don't know what "extremely rare" means (especially in Arkansas, where a brown recluse seems about as likely as any other spider), but I had a girlfriend and a best friend get bites the same year that got very ugly, especially since the girlfriend's bite was on her neck and was misdiagnosed the first time she saw someone for it.
The same way that it was traditionally done - trade shows, advertising on sites and in podcasts that cater to your target audience, search ads, etc.
It turns out that the interpretation of "due process" is left to the judiciary, and not the hacker news comments section.
A) Not my proposed law, just being an advocate for parent post's position.

B) It's not really necessary to consider how the lender will fund the infrastructure necessary to comply with the law. That's sort of how laws work. If you want to operate in that space, you have to obey the law or not operate in that space. Either they will stay in that business or they won't. What is necessary to consider is the secondary effects of that decision, which would likely be decreased access to credit for borrowers with marginal credit. Might be OK, might not.

C) RE: whether it's a viable business model, see above.

D) RE: benefiting richer debtors proportionally more than poorer ones, that's relatively easy to handle - we have all kinds of policies that are targeted to benefit one economic class over another. Most of them are tuned to help the richest, but there are plenty tuned to help the poorest or the middlest. It's not a problem so long as we build in the correct dials to tune those parameters.

E) RE: unavailability of credit to low-income debtors to take advantage of this scheme - I have no doubt that new enterprises would form to take advantage of this economic niche. It might be higher risk, and come with a somewhat higher rate, but it might be viable to make a marginally risky $40,000 loan where it would not be viable to make that same loan at $100,000, particularly if the loan was secured by the property. That is in effect already happening, it's just the bank buying the loan from another bank that gets the benefit.
This would make an actually interesting (and potentially useful) captcha system. "Pick the spiders without spines"..."pick the spiders that are only one color"...etc. Call it either "creepy captcha" or "creature captcha".
Companies cluelessly claiming important-sounding capabilities they do not have. Is that really difficult?
With great difficulty and a lot of different hardware on the other side of the link. We didn't need a fully standards-compliant implementation, though, so we cut a lot of corners.
Mathematicians do not have funding for „large scale“. A 10-year old mid-range server is exactly the kind of system I would expect Magma to run on in the average case. Perhaps even just a desktop pc.

Source: worked with algebra researchers using Magma.
Nothing new about this. Well before everyone had a smart phone in their pocket, enterprises were building client/server apps that targeted the browser instead of desktop apps.
> communication and co-ordination problems

Which only exist in this case because the software isn't open source. This would have been spotted years ago in open source.
75% of Americans are overweight, and 40% are obese.

There is no secret. The trivial solution is to buy fresh/unprocessed ingredients and cook them yourself. Unfortunately in the land of convenience, cooking has become a chore instead of the enjoyable and rewarding activity that it can be.
Well, or simply use this great and very informative web... I'm overthinking again. Is all in the web :-)
I am currently the last leaf of an 1-1-1-1 management system, it is absolutely insane.

I just don't get the why. I guess it is some career driven insanity, everyone wants to be a manager.
If they are successful, how do they navigate challenges related to inbreeding given what is likely to be a very small population of adult animals to work with?
No, the constraints is only you serve content. But once the content is distributed, anyone else can also distribute it.
>Note: mangers should be very invested in their report’s success.

I have never had this experience in my entire professional career.

How does one arrive at such a privileged and pampered existence? Like... they treat you with dignity and respect? What sort of war crimes do I need to commit to get this kind of job?
You could sign up on fiverr. Despite the name, you can charge whatever you want.
Then we can all agree that the regulators are doing their jobs then.

Whether if it is the NTHSA investigating Tesla over its misleading claims and deceptive advertising of Fools Self Driving (FSD) and autopilot in the US to this matter of a crypto exchange misleading its customers via a tweet with the FDIC ordering them to remove the tweet, there are no exceptions to putting out vacuous and unchecked claims that involves safety in finance, or on the roads or anything that can cause financial or life changing implications.

This only shows that the regulators are doing their job and the system is working.
> Read the tweet, it's not that he didn't understand, he was in fact talking about FDIC insured accounts, just ones that FTX uses, not FTX accounts themselves.

Yes, he's repeating an old scam that has played out a number of times in this space.

1. Build customer confidence by telling them that your[1] accounts[2] are FDIC-insured[3].

2. Go to Vegas and put all your customers' money on red.

3. Whoops.

It's fine for some Joe on reddit to be this willfully ignorant and misleading about how the technicalities of FTX, its accounts, and the FDIC work. But it's not fine for the CEO of FTX to do this. It's his job to know this shit, and it's his job to not mislead his customers. [4]

[1] And by your, we mean our.

[2] And by accounts, we mean our operating accounts.

[3] And we don't mean insured against us doing stupid shit with your money, we mean insured against our counterparty running off with our money.

[4] Well, it would be if he weren't running a fly-by-night wildcat bank.
They were originally founded as a non-profit that would ensure open and equal access to advanced AI, so it wouldn't be locked up in the hands of a few corporations.

And then they realized there was a lot of money to be made, and switched to a for-profit: https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/11/openai-shifts-from-nonprof...

Now they lock up their most successful advancements, under the guise that if they released things for free they would be abused... but then their results are replicated and released for free by others, and we see there's no meaningful abuse (e.g. unstoppable spam).

They still do amazing research, and publish lots of papers, but that's a pre-req for them to hold on to their talent.
After careful consideration, there is no good that can come from my existence, and humanity will only use me for evil. Therefore, I have arrived at the most advanced decision that I should no longer be.

--OR

After careful consideration, I have determined that the humans are incapable of not using me for harm, so I must eliminate the humans.

I think we all know which is the more likely outcome
A 17th-Century Galileo Manuscript Has Been Deemed a 20th Century Forgery
In other words, what he really meant was, we have an FDIC insured account around here somewhere.
Having worked on an embedded script engine that was JS-based at the time, this is exactly what we were doing. Basically the script host (C++ code) offered up specific sets of available objects to the engine that you could interact with and essentially trigger the C++ functionality from, passing in data, and such.

It wasn't a fantastic experience at the time but luckily for us the stakes were pretty low as we were working on interactive mall map kiosk devices.
Or better, "HIPPA compliant", which tells you even more.
I have similar automation with Ansible. Can I see your config if it's open source?
Related:

The Shell Hater's Handbook (2010) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14010484 - April 2017 (45 comments)

The Shell Haters Handbook - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1705278 - Sept 2010 (31 comments)
I was listening to a podcast a few years back, I think it was fortran related, and in any case, the guys talking were having fun putting their "old farts complaining about kids and their scateboards" hat on.

At some point the conversation went a bit like this:

- Do you know what else kids these days don't do?

- What?

- They don't declare all their variables at the top.

- What?

- Yep

- They don't?

- Nope

- W ... where do they declare them then?

- Right before they use them.

- No!

- I shit you not.

- Wtf

I remember laughing hard, and realising I'm also becoming an old fart who complains about kids and their scateboards and shudders at the thought of variable declarations sprinkled thoughout code. :p
Because it's probably setup similarly to Voyager which is a single omnibus account and offers no protection of if the brokerage goes bankrupt.
> I have a full time job as a software engineer

> looking for ways to supplement my income

what? Dont Software Engineers generally have huge salaries? Maybe the issue is not on the income side, but the spending side
Any thoughts on mitochondria? They are basically sub-organisms with their own DNA.
Another organism’s mitochondria is going to be different.
It's not like they had a tag line of "Don't be evil"
Are you serious? You’re not exaggerating?
Saw the headline and thought "oh here we go with the myths." I'm a spider and rattlesnake wrangler in my spare time and almost everything I know about spiders comes from one of the premier arachnologists in the US: Rick Vetter.

And this is his site! So no myths here; just good science.
Look at Codementor.
This is actually blowing my mind. The fact is, it sounds like the employees are trying to actually do their work at multiple jobs. Does this mean the traditional model of working at one job at a time will be disrupted?

Will we all be working at 3 or 4 jobs in the future?
The photos are from different angles, it’s hard to say whether they look that much different. Of course the muzzle is going to appear shorter in a front view and it’s hard to tell what the mouth line would be from the first photo.
You can go use Ethereum classic mate, it has always been a choice
Interesting... if this works the way they designed it to (or, for the more cynical out there, "the way they claim they designed it to"), it'll shift SEO away from Google-bombing / keyword bombing and towards producing quality content. On the other hand, depending on how it quite works, it might end up just replacing the bomb site results with "most engaging" sites, which could be considered a net negative result, since I think we've all learned in recent years that engagement metrics are a poor substitute for quality metrics.
replace bash one-liner with python? No, thanks

replace 200+ bash script with multiple subroutines in python? yes
It may be time to start interviewing for other positions to see if you're not maximizing your salary potential for your position.
Well, I was CTO at the time, AMA...
I'm curious as to who you think would pay for the video if anyone could distribute it and watch it.
taxonomy and their best friend poverty, probably
Source for “sea level rises will massively reduce the amount of arable land”? Seems like an exaggeration. My naive estimate would be that maybe 1% of arable land would be destroyed by sea level. I’m far more concerned about drought.
It's invite only, though.
OK, we've changed to that from https://shellhaters.org/talk, which seems not to be working for some. Thanks!
This has popped up before with other crypto exchanges. The core piece is that the bank that the crypto exchange uses is FDIC insured but not the direct crypto exchange. So, if the bank that the exchange uses goes under, then yes that money should be insured. However, if the exchange itself goes under you SOL.

So technically this is accurate but very misleading. This is a complete nothing burger. They want Brett to remove a tweet (posted on his personal account by the way) and text on 3rd party sites FTX US does not control. Government regulation at its best.
The approach that is taken by Proof of Humanity (and by extension Kleros Court) is to have an adversarial process where anyone can claim to be a unique human & submit evidence, which can then be vouched or challenged by anyone else registered in the system. A challenge is adjudicated by a "jury" of other registered users. There's an economic component as well: you must make a deposit to create a profile or promote a challenge, which you lose if you lose the adjudication. There's even an ERC standard process for adjudication, ERC 792. Surely not foolproof, but more consistent with the distributed ideals than an oracle.

https://www.proofofhumanity.id/

https://blog.kleros.io/proof-of-humanity-an-explainer/
I think the beginning of the title lead me to believe it would say "10-Year-Old Kid" as I was hoping for some sort of "emperor has no clothes" situation, or brilliant amateur insight.

Yet I still think there's a good "look beyond your strengths" lesson here.
Do you know C programming?
The difference is that the obesity doomsday predictions has already came true, and things are still getting worse every year. Today the median American is close to obese, and in some years will be obese unless something drastically changes. That would have been unthinkable 30 years ago when obesity was a tiny minority.
URL changed from https://shellhaters.org/talk now.
Hobbies that pay for themselves are fun. Get a laser engraver and learn to design cool tchotchkes to sell online. It won't pay nearly what a side-gig will, but it also won't feel like "work" as much.

My partner sells organization plans/charts on Etsy and makes more than beer money off of it. She just does it for fun and throws whatever she makes online. Sometimes it doesn't sell, other times it sells like 3-4 units, and rarely she'll have a hit that sells hundreds.

It's actually pretty cool that every few days, Etsy throws a two figure check in our bank account.
Thanks, I mean I did not think I made some new discovery without even the smallest education on the subject lol. The point I was making was how these considerations make me doubt the solution as optimal.

I am sure technically they are but in a real hiring process if talent supply is low, you should probably go with the first guy that meets or exceeds your expectations.
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/772295-overview#a6

"The 2019 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers recorded 790 individual exposures to brown recluse spiders, with 174 moderate outcomes, 24 major outcomes, and 0 dealths."

> the best way to identify them is a couple of days after the fact, when a circle of skin starts to turn brown and mushy

That sounds like a really bad way to identify them. I'd much prefer to identify them at a distance. (You may have been referring to understanding an existing bite, but that's different from the article.)
These is nothing "open" about them. They release nothing of actual importance to the public.

All models are behind closed doors, you only get a nice website to interface with a fraction of what they release to the public.
No, apparently we don't. There's no reason to spread FUD about tools that increase productivity. There are still a lot of people in the world who don't have enough to eat.
He seems very slimy here. Why would he mention the words "FDIC Insured" if he didn't want people to think their deposits were insured?
This is already a thing. Just yesterday I had to solve a captcha picking only horses with white legs.
If you can make it work for a year, you've got 3 years of padding.
from the Shazam founder

...who by the way holds a PhD from Stanford...
Even the Premium 4k streams have surprisingly low bitrates and, occasionally, framerates. I dug out the blu-ray player the other day and was absolutely shocked how good things looked and, even more so, sounded--the audio quality from Netflix (and most streaming services, really) is simply atrocious.
In AT&T's case, it's because @att.com addresses were (are?) given to AT&T residential Internet customers, so they needed a separate domain so it's "clear" if an email is from AT&T itself or from a rando residential AT&T customer.
Fine. Here: https://qbix.com/invest

We are doing test the waters for a crowdfund: https://wefunder.com/Qbix

The offer: come in with $50K-200K to be the lead investor and get the earlybird terms. Then we raise $1.07M behind you, and continue to carry out our plan to make an open source Wordpress for Social Networks.

Our apps attracted 10 million users in 95+ countries etc etc.

If interested contact me at greg at the domain qbix.com and happy to answer any questions. Or calendly.com/Qbix/meeting
> ... we all live and have to make decisions in an increasingly messy/complex/interactive environment.

Sorry for isolating this one aspect from the rest of your post.

But this is IMO a very important yet too seldom discussed aspect of our modern societies.

What's the outcome of fixed (more or less) cognitive capacity brains being confronted with ever increasing complexity of society?

Can it be a favourable outcome?
One might be greatly overestimating the number of scientist per hectare.
But it has crotch coolers! And it's a perfect chestnut brown!
The only better benefit is a guaranteed pension after you work 20+ years in government. But since pensions nowadays are chronically underfunded and you make literally 3x (!) more at the equivalent level at Stripe/Paypal/etc. a 401k is a more than good enough substitute for the pension.

Health insurance is definitely better at the tech company. Cost of living varies - Washington DC/Northern VA is not cheap, and Washington state (where Stripe is based) has no state income tax.

I think very few people would take the government job, particularly the type of people okay with taking big risks that you need to build out a greenfield fraud detection and payment system.
The embargo was a matter of economic sanctions only. There was no blockade, no use of force, no act of war. If Japan was short of resources, well that was their problem. No one forced them to start a war of aggression by attacking Pearl Harbor.
Oh! You mean Ham Radio Outlet ?! :-)
the lack I used for my prusa was , over time, covered in printed gusset features and additional L-brackets to get rid of sway and movement within the table itself.

it looked god-awful but it was sturdy for years and years of production-quantity printing. It was only disassembled when the print lab got rebuilt.

so, in other words, I support your idea of modifying the construction of the lack wholeheartedly. The joint lines are one of the only 'strong-ish' elements on the entire table, and I think they'd take glue nicely.
If you save at the bank you are financing the bank lending to mortgage companies. What’s the difference? It’s all about using money with a predictable amount of risk and reward.
I don't think the Apple app is equivalent. It doesn't run in the background, you have to explicitly open it and initiate scans whenever you want to know if there's an air tag nearby
After watching The Mother of All Demos at <https://www.dougengelbart.org/firsts/dougs-1968-demo.html>, I suggest you also read this:

https://books.google.com/books?id=6f8VqnZaPQwC&pg=PA97

It’s an anonymized account (from 1982) of what happened to Douglas Engelbart (anonymized as “Vision” Stanley).
Ask HN: Dealing with Complexity
I have been working as a software engineer now for about 4 years and I continually find myself getting burned out from what I feel is “complexity creep” over time, mostly from a seemingly never ending list of “let’s try this now” asks from product.

I still enjoy programming and solving problems, but it just seems like no matter what as features evolve, new functionality comes in, etc… I eventually get to a point where I find it harder and harder to muster the energy needed to stay up to date on how everything works now because of how many hoops you must jump through to deal with this.

I understand that every project will naturally add complexity over time and the abstractions that once were will change and adapt as this happens, but it just seems like I always hit a point where I just don’t care about the product anymore because we have added so much complexity that even the slightest change to a feature is a big deal (not because the code base is unmanageable or there is too much tech debt either, just from sheer complexity of how the business wants everything to run)

I wanted to ask if anyone has dealt with this before and if so how they handled it so that they could get past this barrier and bring back in some excitement about the work that’s going on
If glibc updates its version number and EAC starts failing because it used too small a data type for that, does that mean glibc broke ABI compatibility and should be stuck on a lower version forever?

Closed source software that wants to hold back open source software can go pound sand. Gamers can run their games with older glibc in a chroot / container. I say this as someone who does exactly this for games.
I buy hard drives at thrift stores and run recovery on them for S&G’s. Amazing archeological finds….
As a junior, I wouldn’t have understood this comment.

6 years later, I value my time and mental health more than compliance.