skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nowwhere in the GP comment is the word “outraged”. That’s your word.

So, what, you wanted to be aghast or something and misrepresented the tone of the original comment with a selective quote and addition of the word “outrage”?

Shit HN says. Sheesh.

(This comment was a copy of the one above before it was edited)
Recommended charity investigating high real estate prices:
https://www.sightline.org/

I'm sure I heard about it here, so thanks, hacker news.
My suspicion: these CEOs are trying to scope out the cost of adopting OpenShift, so that, when they're negotiating prices with VMWare, they can show how much money they would save with OpenShift in the long term. This may be essentially just an attempt to gain some negotiating leverage in the face of potential VMWare price hikes.
Some very good points made in this article but also so many cringey takes. The author is an engineer but compares the user to server ratio at Twitter to Netflix. Those services are so very different and have such vastly different hardware, software, and network requirements I don't even know where to begin.

They dismiss Mudge's comments on lack of disk encryption by saying that anything less than end-to-end encryption is pointless anyways. Again, I don't even really know where to begin. Those features address completely different risks. Not every service can reasonably implement end-to-end encryption while still providing the functionality and support their users want. That doesn't mean they should just ignore encryption altogether. There are other threats out there that are mitigated by encryption at rest. And I think the core of Mudge's complaint here is that too many people have access to private DMs. There are all kinds of security controls to mitigate that threat that it sounds like Twitter isn't using.

> Cybersecurity has the wrong belief that “security” is their highest ethical duty, to the point where they thing it’s good to lie to people for their own good, as long as doing so achieves better security.

Wait, what? I've worked in the industry as long as Mudge has and I've never come to this conclusion. There are many, many security engineers, managers, and execs out there that work hard to earn a great reputation in their field by measuring security against business needs and finding a welcome compromise.

I say this as someone who pointed out when this story first broke that Mudge's background really didn't appear to be well suited to managing security at a huge tech company. I also share the concerns about how equipped he was to deal with executives and board members. But yikes.
I self identify as a communist, and I would say my views are fairly typical for communist folk.

I don't think your comment is an accurate assessment. I know it's meant to be a joke, but ending a post with "your typical XYZ" is pretty condescending. What if someone posted about, "your typical tech bro, your typical Christian, your typical Republican, etc"?

I'm disappointed to see such strong disinterest in actual substantive discussion here on HN of all places.
It sounds like you want to do adaptive bitrate streaming. This [1] blogpost probably does better justice than I could do.

I think it kind of sounds similar to what you were mentioning, but it sounds like the lowest possible latency solution is to stream multiple streams of different bit rates at the same time and then WebRTC picks up the best one it can.

[1] https://bloggeek.me/webrtc-simulcast-and-abr-two-sides-of-th...
So, Big Head is running Twitter?
Personally, I'd have picked it the other way. "I am wrong" tends to go "the computer did exactly what I told it to, so I must have told it to do the wrong thing", whereas "computer is wrong" tends to have less recourse about what to do next. I guess, in my mind, the framing is around the locus of control.
Does anyone know if they have freezed hiring in general? I'm literally in an interview loop process for senior engineer with them right now. Lmao.
Thanks for pointing me towards this fantastic book. About the review, it says nothing about Bach (once only) or Escher (just the figures), so how does it capture clearly or comprehensively the book?
Well, I'd say that Microsoft has been making Windows harder to use since then. But yeah, some people have shown me that they no longer have the capability to use a Windows computer safely, but modern life without a web browser is pretty difficult. And filling out forms on a phone is better than paper, but a browser on a computer shaped device is much better.
Thanks for the recommendation. Indeed, the rates are reasonable. I'll check it out.
And, completely irrelevant but still - a Croatian former colleague blushed like hell when being introduced to another colleague of ours, named Peder.

Turned out in Croatian, a 'Peder' was someone with an unhealthy interest in kids.

Poor Peder immediately got ruled out as dating material - no way she'd be able to bring a guy back to her parents and introduce him as, well, a pederast.

(My name, too, is somewhat unfortunate in the anglo world - first name being 'Odd'. Oh well. There's a couple of Norwegians having it even worse. One of them is actually named just that. Even Worse. (Not to mention the brother of another former colleague, named Odd Male.)
Okay, you have to admit them tagging all the classes with a W3- prefix is kind of funny. Looks like their SEO spam approach leaked out to their framework also.

But I agree with most people, this site will never recover from its poor reputation. And that’s also their business model.

We can only hope Google will eventually tone down how much their site appears in search queries for topics they provide no in-depth information for.
I tried this service for a bit. It ran very smoothly and it was fun to use. Thanks for the giving us a chance to use it.

Given that SD is open source, I think it's only a matter time before AWS, and such, provide SD as a service. It's relatively easy to implement and the software is free. It's a no brainer to sell it as a service for them.
No, the human brain is not Turing complete. In fact, computers aren't Turing complete either. Turing completeness is the ability to simulate any Turing machine, and Turing machines have infinite memory. The brain has only finite memory, therefore, it cannot simulate a general Turing machine.

If you mean "Turing complete" in the sense of "able to run the operations of some Turing complete abstract computation system", the answer is yes. If you can comprehend the instructions of a standard programming language, then by definition you are able to "execute" them in your mind, so you can "run" programs as long as they don't exceed your memory limits – just like any physical computer. The "human brain interface technologies" required already exist: Books that teach you how programming languages work.
The biggest problem with our sustainability is we literally piss massive amounts of nitrogen into the ocean and replace it with the Haber-Bosch process. You had farmers in Asia farm the same land for 40 centuries all powered by "night soil" or humanure or the various other euphemism for it.
This whole thing is becoming rather unbecoming of most of the commentators.

At this stage it would be best to just wait until things are settled before drawing conclusions.
You don't need to imagine what would happen. Path of Exile was designed by hardcore Diablo 2 fans.

If you really don't like content past the main story it does still have a great regular first playthrough campaign.

It even replaces the Diablo 2 "play through the same 5 acts 3 times on increasingly higher difficulties" thing with a single 10 act long campaign, although the second half is revisiting altered versions of the same areas from the first half with different plot.

But they also weave a bunch of cool lore into the postgame in a way that Diablo 2 didn't really do[0], and make it much more interesting than just killing the same handful of endgame bosses over and over again for loot.

[0] At one point the main postgame big bads were canonically characters that used to be the good guys in there fighting the old bad guys, but got driven insane in what was basically a giant meta reference to hardcore players that spend thousands of hours in the postgame.
In the sense that computer peeps use the term, yes we are already - because we can construct and run Turing machines in the real world with paper and pencils. No the brain interface you were going for, but that's my answer.
Would this qualify as the world's first digital color telefacsimile?
So the writer is mad that mudge takes his job seriously and isn't an obvious corpo shill trying to bend all rules for profit?

Based on what? According to the writer, mudge's long experience of growing up before everyone became money obsessed apparently.

Flip it the other way round the writer demands all execs to be short term profit driven cucks or not worthy of a seat.

Can't tell if the writer is just an idiot or a gigabrain mudge supporter.
Thank you for being so helpful! That sounds good :) no I wasn't fishing for super detailed help or contribs but thanks for considering.
1 million 1 dollar payments to who? arent your recipients also KYC'd so whats the problem?

i mean i am talking from an indian POV where every banking customer is KYC approved from the get-go. you send someone money or receive money, there is a proper trail to their identities.
percentages duh
It works well enough that the unvaccinated are grossly over-represented in the ICUs and in the death stats. You have to be particularly math illiterate to not recognize that the vaccine does, in fact, work.
Actually, Youtube is the last service I like because I pretty ruthlessly go through my watch history and delete anything that might mess it up. As a result my recommendations tend to be pretty decent. Not perfect, but acceptable.
Perhaps they are not merely commentators.
Back in 2016 or so, I was in need of a more capable build system to replace a combination of disorganized cmake and XML IAR project files. Having come from Google, I briefly considered bazel, but it just didn't seem mature enough to build on top of. I went with SCons, and built a bazel-like abstraction layer on top of it. My goal was to abstract away SCons in 90% of use cases. It's still in use 6 years later, and the company's engineering team has grown by at least a factor of 10. People love to complain about build infrastructure, but it's held up pretty well.
Finley (YC W21) is hiring across all teams to build fintech infrastructure
Non-rando people indeed can choose to have communication strategies, still I am not saying this is the case.
Okay. I’ve edited my comment for tone and to stick to the facts. I still think the comment I replied to misrepresents the original piece by quoting very selectively and adding the word “dirty”.
Perhaps not an explanation per se, but examples --

If you have two rulers and and compress one, then you when you lay them together there will be one point which is exactly at the same point.

Likewise, if you have two paper chessboards, and scrunch one up, there will be at least one square* which is exactly over the top of the intact one.

This also gives an intuition for the difficulty of actually finding the fixed point, even though you know there is one.

* more precisely not only a square, but an exact, dimensionless point. (afaik)
Yet labeling a user called anon as a QAnon conspirationist is not an emotional and illogical conclusion?
It’s not per say about the importation in France. It’s just than Kevin, Dylan and Steven were made popular by foreign TV shows and pop stars and were thus mostly given by parents coming from the lower class. It is purely classist in France too.
Celsius Network Internal All Hands Meeting: September 8, 2022 [audio]
This library is really inspiring to me in many aspects. WebGPU is interesting, declarative programming on WebGPU is fantastic.
Oh yes, some years ago I got the opportunity to migrate a vb.net into c#.
The average reader might think "it's the dotnet eco system, so what" but please read on.
The code was maintained by a single guy over the last 10 years for a niche market. Spanning from winform code over silverlight, asp.net and background workers, having the business code right below the buttons, with no sense for coding styles.
They didn't share a common codebase yet "some" parts were kind of the same (copied over at some point in time) but evolved into different directions.
The first thing I did was searching for a way to convert the vb.net code into c#.
90% of this huge codebase was converted to compiling code, 10% was handmade.
Now with a compiling code I started forming a shared base, introduce abstractions to support the different derivates of services, introduce dependency injection (> 70% was static code), introduce unit testing, introduce command pattern to share business code throughout the code.
Over the span of two years we migrated bit by bit to the new architecture while running our business.
Starting with framework 4.6 and single server hosted services we're now on dotnet 6 and kubernetes in azure and deploy with azure devops pipelinee.
The benefits of this migration are so huge, we're now able to deliver features and fixes in a reasonable time and we can sleep well.

Always remember: Legacy code is legendary code because it pays your bills. Honor it and you'll be fine.
I think there's a healthy discussion to be had about, for instance Cuba. Yes, poverty is still high but sanctions are still oppressive. They have higher literacy rates than Canada or the US, they have solid medical care, and they've started from a much, much worse position. Similar story with Vietnam. There's a discussion to be had about where they started, where they are now, and what happened in the interim.

To be clear, I'm not saying these countries have done no wrong. They aren't shining beacons, but it is worth examining them in a thoughtful way. It's not like the US (where I live) is a shining beacon either.

Also, I'd argue there are degrees and varieties of both socialism and communism. Is Mondragon socialist? Is Sweden? Is France? What about small council communism and Anarcho communism?
What happened was that Twitter hired a famous name to run their security for the clout, then it turns out that was a big misfire
> Chomsky passionately defending the Khmer Rouge

The US began arming the Khmer Rouge in 1979 into the 1980s because the US wanted the Khmer Rouge to take over Cambodia again (well they didn't take over in 1975, the prince who the CIA ousted took over again technically).
Do either of these allegations pass the smell test? They seem pretty wild.
> Shit HN says. Sheesh

Indeed. I read the article, then I read these three comments. The first one reiterates points that the article made but seemingly doesn’t recognize the article made them. The second does recognize that but with a combative tone. The third is just combative.

Y’all can carry on as usual but none of that conflict was actually warranted.
Yeah this seems odd for a Fortune 500 company’s CEO asking specifically for Linux VMs.

There’s not enough hours in the day where these CEOs would be so far down in the weeds of the business that they’re making VM flavor decisions.
> I, and many Polish people are thankful for his hardline stance he took against our occupiers, meaningfully contributing to crashing their economy

I think this is bordering on masochism. To me, hurting people (even economically) in order to make them "free" (which Reagan didn't, in fact) is just morally reprehensible, patronizing and authoritarian.

I also think that you don't know much about Reagan. He supported policies that were explicitly against education of the middle class (trying to made universities into a pay model) and pro-segregation (like hard stance on drug war). He almost started a 3rd world war. This is all on record.

That's the thing with authoritarians - they have many faces. They can be perceived very differently by different groups. That's why you cannot just to simplify it as you did.

I am very skeptical when somebody says, we need to sacrifice lives of X people today in order for Y people (Y>X) have better lives in the future. I don't know of an example where there isn't a solution (although possibly slower) without the sacrifice, and often you can have both. Human live is precious and therefore we should value human lives now more than some kind of vague improvement in the future. We can always change society, but we cannot resurrect a dead person.
Facebook is making very similar claims. Seems like Big Tech has decided the way to deal with data privacy complaints is to pretend that they don't even know what data they are storing and where.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvmke/facebook-doesnt-know-...

I wonder if ordinary citizens can make that same claim when it comes to their stuff - "No, officer, I don't even know whether there are any drugs in my possession because I don't even know what is in my house and where"
Cost of sales include wage and salary for the storefront.
This is as close as possible because all the stuff that's not included in COGS also has marginal cost.
Again, a recession is not at all the same thing as a financial crisis. This is the thing I was commenting on. There is no consensus that we are even in one. Recessions are always backward looking.

It's pretty spectacular though that not only have been able to declare that were in one but you are also able to comment with confidence on how bad it's going to be be.
>Well, I'd say that Microsoft has been making Windows harder to use since then.

Sadly, yes. I hope the trend to make everything look shiny (and hard to use) reverses one day. Agreeing on the rest - lack of features is a feature in this case.
Steam In-Home Streaming Client Application
From readme file:

> IHSplay is an SDL2 based Steam Link Client, primarily targeting webOS TV and Raspberry Pi.

> The application will be providing a TV remote / gamepad friendly UI, and low latency video / audio output, as well as generic mouse / keyboard / gamepad support.

edit: add source
Ever since I read the "Out of the Tar Pit" paper[1], I've been designing my data structures in a more relational form.

[1]: https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master...
Health insurance is usually done by the month.
The underlying banks are Blue Ridge Bank and First Internet Bank terms. Blue ridge is popular for powering BAAS companies like Unit. Not sure of First Internet Bank, but both of these are legit, and the fact that they got two banks to start with is a great accomplishment.
I'd say Amazon L6 is a good bar of what senior used to mean. Many newer (or older) companies lowered the bar to try and make people join them because dumb young people sometimes want the ego of a title rather than purely looking at the company's trajectory and compensation packages. In a way either intentionally or unintentionally there tends to be more tiers in the lower ranges of companies now, which can be a good thing for progress?

A lot of intermediates used to be stuck in this limbo zone, but some companies entry level "senior" now is basically what high-band intermediate used to mean. Worst case - paid the same, more ego. Best case - the pay band start to cross over to higher realms without going that far into the "hardcore senior" zone.
Those "Turing machines" are really finite state machines, because any machine so constructed has finite memory, unlike Turing machines which have infinite memory.

But you are correct in the sense that software engineering has adopted an alternative definition of "Turing machine", where any computation system with (in principle) arbitrarily large memory counts as a TM.
My father was a headmaster of schools (6 to 20 years olds). Not that he wouldn’t take Gregorys and Kevins, but he’d always open their file and find behavioral issues noted by previous teachers, confirmed through a discussion with the parents on what educative principle they used, ending up in justifying not taking the kid.

Yes it was a bias, but it’s also strange how this bias developed by itself too.
Why would you not wait a week and bundle these layoffs together? Unless the security decision came from a mid-level manager who didn't know this was coming.
I thought Seinfeld was corny at the time and remains unchanged.
Opinions, everyone has one...
I would counter that by saying that despots have existed all through human history, and have always cloaked themselves in claims of their power coming from god, or them being actual gods, or something like that, so if the batch of despots that cropped up after ww2 used communism as their justification it’s hardly surprising- that was the set ideas floating around at the time that could be used to make them appear virtuous. And of course, by doing so they could get Soviet funding.

Of course, in places like Cambodia, atrocities did take place that were really inspired by some demented but sincere interpretations of communism.

I would say, 20th century communism’s great failure is that it attempts to abolish politics itself by trying to create a utopia where nobody ever disagrees with one another. This is impossible, and totalitarian by definition.
One of the example possibilities mentioned in one of his essays or interviews was, what if with some poorly-understood tweaks to neural network training, it started working much better at scale? At the time I thought he was really reaching with that one.
Jean-Louis Gassée got his start as a bartender for PCF cadre at a casino in Deauville.
fwiw, bnk.dev was a dope name, I think it has more virility :). Congrats on the launch.
> If this seems shocking, consider that the COGS of software as a service products are much lower by comparison. Doesn’t matter, though, because you have to pay all of those expensive salaries to make it happen.

By definition, in a successful business, a significant amount of that markup goes to profit, not anything that's actually productive like salary.
The Route 66 Primer
This. They're just "virtual accounts" under a single partner to the bank. If the service groups your payments with some other parties, in some weird mining strategy, then you might have risk. But if your parties grouped together on transactions appear to be cartel money launderers, you can definitely expect some calls from the bank. And the FBI. And your transactions related to that party in any way not to go through. It's a big part of compliance. Neobanks typically take their licenses from very well established banks who trust them and their partners to not expose tons of risk. It's a burgeoning market. They face competitive and regulatory pressures forcing them to strategize on this very well.
The Vietnamese, who were no angels, when it came to in-country human rights, were so appalled by what the Red Khmer were doing, they decided enough was enough and invaded their ideological kin-spirit to rid it of that vile and disgusting regime.
And the US has the worst emissions per capita, without even accounting for imports.
Sounds like you had a teacher with an overactive imagination. That, or mine was hiding The Truth :-)

(I can think of a handful of other factors that contribute to the US's weird capital city distribution, like real estate cost and the fact that many capitals were established after the telegram, making colocation in the largest city of each state less necessary.)
That usually happens when the political dynamic is contested between the big commercial city and other state interests.

New York is a great example. The state is large, historically rich but with very different interests. Albany is sort of a middle ground.

Massachusetts is different. The politics are such that Boston was always dominant.

Nationally, the slave states were agricultural dominated by manor like real estate barons. They were afraid of the northeast states and their traders and manufacturers and felt a capital closer to them would be less hostile to their interests.
> There are all kinds of security controls to mitigate that threat that it sounds like Twitter isn't using.

I mean.. they created a "God mode" for their service. It pretty much tells you where their entire approach to security of user data sits.