skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't wait to tell all my friends on Allo, Chat, Duo, Hangouts, Spaces, Messenger, Voice and Wave. Pretty sure I'm missing a few.
> Engineers who don't appreciate the role of the product/marketing/management layers don't seem to understand that if they had to take on those responsibilities it would leave them with no time left over to write any code. If nobody takes on those responsibilities

Spending on marketing is like building and maintaining a nuclear arsenal in this respect: It is to everyone's detriment (yes, everyone) but if the competition does it, you must also.
Would love to be part of the 0.01% of people who consider possibly getting a job so they can mesh their "powers with the resisting gears of the world." Lol, this article sucks. Try harder "true conservatives!"
In case they are update, currently listed as:

13% Asian,
3% Black,
6% Hispanic or Latino,
5% Middle Eastern or North African,
8% Multiracial,
15% South Asian,
29% White

— which adds up to be 79% — not 100%.
Or Champagne, which are different kinds of sparkling wine made in Russia:

https://www.foodandwine.com/news/russia-champagne-law-sparkl...

(I see myself out now.)
There are several reasons why it is more accessible than before. One is internet gambling. Another is that SCOTUS struck down a federal law banning sports betting in 2018. So gambling used to be a "big thing" involving a trip to Vegas (or Atlantic City or whatever). Now it's something comparable to scrolling Facebook.

Many of the laws around gambling are still quasi-religious morality rules from the Prohibition era, focusing on Games of Chance. Regulation has not caught up to the current understanding of gambling as an addiction.
It can't be a 43 times increase. There is no way that money is not just going to the Admin and Endowment.
That's pretty much the anti-use-case for SQLite?
To name two which have formed oligopolies:

- cellphone carriers in the US

- airlines in the US
It would be interesting to see whether it's possible to reconstruct the rules by comparing the negotiated prices to a baseline like Medicare price, and doing classification into discount buckets to recover the categories insurers negotiated.
That article doesn't seem to be about customer support.

But anyway, Google does have customer support people. Make an adsense account, buy a small amount of ads and stop, and you will get plenty of contact with them.
Ask HN: Anecdotes on the most revealing hints of an upcoming recession?
There was a comment on HN a while back that mentioned how Stripe's exceptionally good view on the state of the economy coupled with the company's de-risking showed robust warning signs of a recession- the core principle makes sense, as the opportunity to see the direction of the economy by looking at the actions of organizations/individuals with unique knowledge is high.

I was wondering if any of you had anecdotes or ideas you felt weren't really being talked about that provide substantial evidence as to the direction of the economy, whether with recent VC attitudes, behavior of established fintech CEOs, etc.
The wiki does mention false flags:

> "In its release, WikiLeaks described the primary purpose of "Marble" as to insert foreign language text into the malware to mask viruses, trojans and hacking attacks, making it more difficult for them to be tracked to the CIA and to cause forensic investigators to falsely attribute code to the wrong nation."
Apache 2.0 is a permissive license, so if you contributed to the project under the Apache license you gave them permission to use your code in closed-source projects (as long as they follow the terms of the license, such as giving you credit).

Of course, they can't un-license code that they've already released, but they can re-release the old code under a new license, and ship all new code under that new license going forward.
This would requite a major refactor of the legal system. Probably would take a couple thousand man-years to implement. Suggested workaround: just put those bastards in jail for a few days.
>When I tell the recruiter ...

You are anyway talking to the "wrong" people.

A recruiter is generally an external consultant that has nothing to do with the actual company, he/she is tasked to find candidates for a role (and nothing else, and they are paid for providing these candidates only).

And they won't give you a contact to the company, let alone to the people inside the company that can overrule a taken decision "let's hire someone to do this" with an alternative.

If you manage to get to know the company they are recruiting for AND you manage to speak to its CTO (or whomever takes this kind of decisions) then you might have a chance to propose the alternative of just buying the code.
According to their pricing page there is a 680GB minimum, which is ~$120/year.
Yea I cant see that happening. 20% productivity doesn't mean cutting 20% of heads.
It’s probably pretty easy to tell with experience.
Sony should have mandated one per person. The fact that scalpers can scalp is bullshit in this day and age.
That sounds like "accidental radicalness."
Zoom does realtime too
I'm not sure about the assumption that this encourages consumerism or decreases friction overall. In some ways, it should increase friction.

Right now, if you visit Amazon (as untold millions do), clicking Amazon's buy button is extremely low friction[1].

This browser extension would add buy-local alternatives, each of which typically will be higher friction[2]. And there's a compelling motivation (supporting smaller, local businesses) to actually choose those higher-friction alternatives.

And it also increases friction in a second way: it adds an extra step to the process. You have to make a decision whether to buy through Amazon or through some local retailer. Decisions can be very high friction.

Of course, you can look at this at an individual level (changes that an individual might make) or a societal level (how the existence of this extension would change things for the entire populace), and the conclusions might be different for each of those.

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[1] By design, of course. They've spent decades collecting everyone's payment methods, getting people subscribed to Prime, and building the largest and most sophisticated fulfillment network the world has ever seen.

[2] You may have to create an account. They may not have your payment method or shipping address on file. The ordering process is probably less familiar. You may have to go in person since many local stores aren't set up for fast, affordable shipping.
Which anecdotally is what I've noted playing poker against phenomenal losers (and also in a few poker blogs) - it's all about the moment where their "life" hangs in the balance and the final cards haven't been dealt yet. The results don't matter, wins are celebrated just because they allow to play longer.
How Many Errorrs Are in This Essay?
Classic. I've been using similar methods for measurements of transmission delays in the research on different human-controlled variables (though, I've found difference equations more intuitive and easier to represent in code than Laplace transforms). It looks like different controlled variables have different transmission delays, where, eg. the spinal loops are very fast, brainstem-spinal longer, and cortico-spinal even longer, as if the nervous system was split into discrete layers.
Buffering, filtering, and mapping information has value. If that consumes a full day, every day, it can no longer be broadcast to every engineer.

It’s a nuanced thing. An EM should share accurate context, filter distractions, and deliver it in the most effective way for that team.

There’s also the shielding aspects in dysfunctional organizations which is a whole other thing.
A house that's 2x the size would have to be more than 2x efficient for it to be better. I doubt that new houses would be that much more efficient than an older house with some insulation and efficiency updates.
The thing about CEOs on HN is they have to say the right thing to be appealing. CEO on HN saying the wrong thing can really nail down the impression that a company is doing something awful and it’s not just the fault of the marketing intern or some misguided but well intentioned employee. If you hear the same crap from the top in a supposedly personal comment, there’s not much room left for assuming the best.
As a power user, a data hoarder and a child of the 90's who grew up with a computer all of my own to learn holistically, I hear you. I still run Windows 7 on my own PC. We're a minority, though, that's all I'm saying. When computers were new, people like us got to set the tone as we were early adopters, but now that computers are ubiquitous, we've been flooded out with the computer illiterate masses, and it seems Microsoft and Apple find it easier to cater to them as the bottom line.
Doing the bare minimum means we don't advance. We don't improve. progress is stopped and maybe we regress.
> so he drives to the Google parking lot on a weekend and finds no one there. Obviously Google+ wasn't a serious enough concern to Google that would require weekend hours so the author concluded (correctly) that its not the existential threat that Facebook thought it was.

This line of reasoning was viscerally distressing for me to read. Both for what it implies the FB guy thinks about what productivity/seriousness looks like, and for the brittleness of the reasoning used to draw his conclusion.
Depends what you mean by “this.” This exact project is, I think, not ready for prime time, as I said in my post.
If by “this” you mean “ways to make more of our own stuff on a smaller scale,” I am currently in my fourth month of waiting for a proprietary part for my tractor, when if I had an economical and legal way to either machine the part myself, or have it machined by a competent neighbor, then I wouldn’t have this problem.
In a time when we are experiencing the consequences of over-specialized, over-connected, over-optimized supply chains, I think that a more fractal, scale-invariant, redundant approach to production has real value.

(It also, in general, makes humans feel good to make and then use something).
Are you just venting here?
There is more than one way to forage. At best, the army can pay the local inhabitants, maybe even a fair value, particularly if the area is nominally friendly. Even if the army "commandeers" supplies, it would want to keep the criminal activity to a minimum, if only because it is bad for discipline.

The Thirty Years' War is an extreme case, in large part because the armies were made up of mercenaries that were not getting paid regularly.
Oooh, interesting. Thanks! I think the few litrpg that I've enjoyed could also somewhat fall into the progression fantasy category. At least, the parts that I really enjoyed about them do.
does Genode/Sculpt provide some level of security against infra-Os threats (ex: hardware firmware vulnerabilities or corruption in processor/socs/graphics card/ USB/Bluetooth , BIOS/UEFI ) ?
31,000-year-old skeleton with leg amputation earliest known evidence of surgery
Pink jeeps, like pink jeeps from the desert in WW2?
I'd also like to hear an elaboration, but here's what is driving me right now:

My father taught me that when you see work that needs to be done (before anyone else sees it), it becomes your responsibility to see it done.

Think of all the people who will benefit from your work. If you were to let them down, could you live with it?
Not necessarily, some very well paid people do the bare minimum, not just entry level workers, as you imply.
To me, fast food is fast food.

Your comment about your preferred deep fried bird eatery being better than another commenter's preferred deep fried bird eatery just came off as bizarre.

My poison is better than your poison.
Is this only compatible with FAT32, or is it also compatible with FAT12/16? It would be very cool if this would support floppy disks.

Regarding the format, once you convert it, does the target device need to have a driver to support the format? It mentions that this would allow for > 4GB files for TVs, but these are typically non-updated very out of date OSes.

I think MS missed a trick by not making the boot sector also contain a simplistic driver, although it would have been a push to keep it all down at 512 bytes.
This is even more attractive if you have some way of not wasting your summer over production.
Not clear whether it's disabled or the UI is simply hidden...
But, once sufficiently populated, how do you prevent Mars from becoming a human problem just like Earth? This is one area I'm cynical around: I don't think we have the means to adjust human psychology at the rate we can adjust technology.

As the below comment alludes to, maybe the answer is keeping a sufficiently bottlenecked society to force that psychological change. But then you're not really recreating the parts of society that people are worried about losing. You might as well start a self sufficient commune here on Earth.
Not everyone is doing only web development for millions of concurrent users.

SQLite has been deployed on billions of devices, so "academic" is an odd term here.
> It's a lot of work to get somebody promoted, even if that person is a well-known high performer

Is it? Why? Sounds like a problem created by managers to me.

> Networking with other managers, product managers, finance, IT... building influence with other parts of the company, this pays huge dividends for your team.

I sincerely hope no engineering manager acts or thinks this way, or they will soon be just another MBA manager who doesn't know anything, other than how to navigate among other MBAs who also, don't know anything.

Do you not get the problem with people who don't know anything besides politics being in charge of delivering real world products and services?
The NaNoWriMo folk were really good at this 10 years ago, but I haven't visited that group in a while.

There's also a really good erotica forum which I won't link in public here, but they have a complex application process. The people who get through are mostly respectful, incredibly intelligent and creative, and have quite a bit of ambition. They motivated me to start learning proper writing techniques like outlining and rhe whole Aristotle stuff.

Also I find that screenwriting groups are very mature. The novelist groups tends to want fame and something else, but screenwriters are more interested in what makes a truly good story.
XKCD's opinion:

https://xkcd.com/1987/
You have to remember a lot of people on this site are young people without families that prioritize social lives. They haven't related yet that people with kids and careers, etc. are simply not interested in what cities have to offer and that the quality of life in a city is terrible if you have a family compared to what you can get outside of a city in a nice town. Unless you're really rich and can get a huge apartment or condo and can afford to pay for parking or have a driver, etc.

Just look at NYC to find the typical pattern: Young person lives with multiple people in an area like the Lower East Side or Williamsburg (yay social life!), then begins to settle down in a place like Park Slope (just married!) and has a kid (dedicated to urban living) and then another kid comes along and/or the reality of urban living (the schools are awful, it's cramped and expensive, the city offers you nearly nothing since you don't go out like you used to) and the brownstone is sold for a tidy profit and they're off to the NYC suburbs to get more space and a better quality of life to raise a family in. The city is a short commute away still.
I'm curious what difference you see between a "manager" and a "lead engineer".
> Monopolies only form in a free market when the government enforces them.

This is incorrect. There are many industries that lead to natural monopolies in the absence of government breaking them up. Anything with incredibly high fixed entry costs, few substitute opportunities and low variable costs tend toward monopolies (at least regionally).
> ’ve yet to formalize a way of measuring how effective a developer is or isn’t.

This is generally not true. Although there's no etalon SWE in Paris Chamber, it is extremely easy to measure relative performance of engineers in one team.

Saying that, the article itself is off the point and very click-baity. It's a pity to see links like that on HN's first page.
This is a good framing of it.

Can we keep the benefits of automatic dependency resolution while adding some other, artificial deterrent? What if NPM hosted packages for free if they have less than five (or whatever number) of transitive dependencies, but above that charged some number per additional one? Even if it were a small amount, this might put significant downward pressure on the size of dependency trees.
I wish there is some package manager in middle of conda and pip. Conda is too strict and often get stuck in SAT solving. pip doesn't even ask when reinstalling a version currently being used.

Edit: Typo: reinstalling a version of package currently being used
"In any market" is too strong a statement. In markets with high barriers to entry or other factors that make it less competitive, sure, and we call them natural monopolies. But you're claiming that every market is a natural monopoly.
SpiderOak's CLI has been pretty stable for me across Windows, Linux, and now Mac (M1). The GUI is definitely buggy and tends to freeze for long periods of time, though.

Does anyone have an inside knowledge of the company wrt their plan for SpiderOak One? I'm grandfathered into the old unlimited plan and I'd rather not have to migrate any time soon.
My A/C is 10kw running, with 18kw tankless water heater. You oversize generators when drawing lots of current from switch mode power supplies as harmonics confuse the AVR. Aka tankless water heater.

I have a home lab, full rack. Around 4kw including a dedicated A/C.

I have excess power and will run an extension cord to neighbors if needed.

I’d also want capacity to charge an EV should I get one.

Price between 22kw and 40kw was negligible relative to total project cost. The only downside is I have to turn on everything in the house twice a year to exercise it and avoid wet stacking.

Final note is that in order to use an automatic transfer switch you must have sufficient capacity for connected loads. A smaller generator would have forced me to install a second sub panel for loads I want to run during an emergency.
> NaNoWriMo

Stop giving things name like this.
> Stuxnet was a response to decades of Iranian aggression.

So you would amend the grandparent comment that "countries need to start responding to cyberattacks" with an "...unless those cyberattacks are a response to some other alleged aggression"?
Well, I got a message from a Google HR telling me about different vacances within Google.

I don't know what's their game here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn4L_aJ1rV4&list=PLRZePj70B4...
When are we going to admit that blockchain is just a new type of data store, useful for a limited number of use-cases that require certain sorts of irreversible, immutable guarantees across a worldwide network of computational devices? Crypto is cool, in so far as any other new data storage technology is cool. It is not a new world order
> If you're not a customer, you can't expect support. If you want support, pay $10 and then fill the ticket.

I think the support ticket was only mentioned in the sense that a journalist would: "we contacted the company; they did not respond to the allegations."
Of course. But it’s a common misconception that traveling a distance of N light years will take at least N years subjectively. At something like 70% of light speed the subjective time already drops below the distance number: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/109776/how-long-...
> Our system used a set of handwritten fonts

What betrays handwritten fonts is nobody writes "a" the same way every time. I get that you're addressing this with fuzzing, but that's not enough. The pressure put on a pen also varies, people make mistakes and cross them out, there are ink blotches, etc.
> [...] until their internal bureaucracy strangles them.

I think that standard microeconomics textbooks state empirical efficiency curves tend to have an inverted U shape, so beyond certain size things get more and more inefficient. Bureaucracy, politics and communication play a significant role here.

This is also what I have observed in academic and industrial labs, which scale far less than companies. Beyond certain size, quite small in fact, most managers become rent seekers and the whole thing collapses in slow motion.

I think that this is a significant problem for society, as it leads to a massive waste of resources. There should be better ways to scale up organizations, or to build federated ones. Biological organisms are much better organized than us. We can do better.
Literature review on the benefits of static types
In Ethereum's proof of stake model, validators do not control the rules and cannot force a change in the protocol. People choose to run nodes, these nodes may or may not be validator nodes, and this software is what enforces the protocol rules across the network. A majority of nodes would have to come to consensus on a change for it to be successful - this happened with DAO, EIP-1559, and probably soon the PoS merge.

It is free to run a node, and the market can freely decide to not support a chain. This is how you end up with ETC being relatively worthless even though there was a group of "rich plutocratic elites" that tried to make it succeed.

There are "influencers" like Vitalik, EF, several client teams, and thousands of hobbyists who work on research and development for the protocol, and these people do lead the direction of the technology moreso than the average user. But this is how all open source works: a small number of people make decisions, and a much larger group of people opt-in to those choices, becoming users. This is also how you end up with multiple blockchains: not everybody was happy using Bitcoin, so some people started to develop Ethereum instead.
Some questions about CL I have relating to my interests: Does Common Lisp support operator overloading? What's the situation with support for matrices and linear algebra? Has autodiff been implemented?

[edit] What about Computer Algebra systems? Can I just interface with Sagemath, Maxima or Sympy somehow?
30% of the batch moving to the Bay Area is a pretty low rate.

It’s time to start considering a move to a better location. The Bay Area is no longer in style, and San Francisco is a dump, and somehow way too expensive.
Oh man, I wish it was legal.

Nah, this is defense. Now, it's normal to have this sort of charge structure, but not for everyone in the entire company. That was the canary, I guess, but I lost track of all the various red flags . . alarmingly quickly. It's like the contractor didn't have its own policies, then they got a contract, and just applied whatever was in their first contract as their generic process.

Bargain basement staff, makes it even more absurd that they're tracking six minute increments for everyone. As if the salaried nature of the workforce didn't do that already.

Case studies in "why you don't let customers set business process", because then you have dozens of businesses inside your business.
Would the water have minerals? If not, can you add them? I'm not sure I want to be drinking pure water.
The key is to stop ignoring the externalities. Apply obesity taxes to foods correlated with obesity, or based on some caloric formula.

Individuals can make good decisions, but as a species we continually make bad ones.
Codex https://forums.codexwriters.com/ is very actively moderated. There are interesting quality discussions there.
Sounds like a pretty good argument for 'software engineering is not engineering'.
Experts split on how original antigenic sin will affect the fight against Covid
I should have been more clear that I was referring to external dependencies that are included. I did some research and there’s so much extra stuff included in the go.sum. You’re right that would result in a lot of false positives.