skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting to me that you bring up the profit that Microsoft made because I have not. There are things to talk about vis-a-vie Microsoft-the-company and why they were so profitable, but I was only talking about a particular Microsoft employee.

> Would you admit in this case that the founder earned a substantial fraction of the $500 billion?

Oh, would I admit it - huh? I do want to say that your account of this company is at odds with the history of Microsoft, which was famously profitable for ruthless business practices more than innovation.

This founder sounds like they have done well. Certainly, they should be the highest paid person at the company. However, consider how disconnected their actions are from their financial reward. Someone could run a nonprofit just as well, generate $500bn in benefit, and get just their salary. The fact that this person can capture as much value as they can has very little to do with the merit of their work.

What I am saying is that Gates did very well at his job, but the reason he was rewarded so highly for that high performance has more to do with choice and imbalanced value-capture than merit. Every Microsoft employee, down to the janitors, has an equal (if proportional) claim on the basis of "this company is successful so they should get value." If Gates deserves his money because the company was doing well and he contributed x% to the company, the same is true for everyone.

I am not arguing here that Microsoft should have had less total compensation to award to employees, I am arguing that Gates has captured too much of its total compensation. I think we, as members of the tech industry, have very immediate incentives (as well as well-founded philosophical ones) to point out this inefficient distribution and advocate for a better one.
The number input is the worst input
That will help but it's not "all" we need. It's only "part" of the solution.
It sort of was in the sense of Taft, Roosevelt’s successor, being much more aggressive and effective in actually bringing anti-trust lawsuits to fruition.
> "Just look at the picture: You have a Commission president who personally makes a deal with a Big Pharma CEO and who then later refuses to disclose the texts leading up to that negotiation."

> It wasn’t the first time that the Commission president had gotten in trouble over "disappearing" text messages. During her time as German defense minister, a parliamentary inquiry into well-paid deals with external consultants heard that a subordinate had accidentally erased text messages from her official phone and von der Leyen had herself deleted messages from her own device.
Hate to break it to you, but Facebook is the biggest public square in the world.
GPT-3 codex has a limit of 8k tokens, which is roughly 32k characters - so you are limited to that much context at a maximum.

With the time it takes to return results with that much context, I wouldn't be suprised if they generally limit context to less than that though.
The FTC and other regulatory bodies could still move to block this, it’s not final in any way.
We haven't set the birthday date to 2014 :)
We have a system for this already. You vote using money.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32844338 :)
I would be way too h*rd to be focused on chess.
Losing my gmail account would have way more effect on my "real life" than if I had suddenly no letter box.

Why can't it be regulated? Phone is and it's provided by private companies. The law even allows me to port my number between them.
Those taxi companies that are their “for the poor” routinely wouldn’t go into “poor” neighborhoods or pick minorities up.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/07/23/...

If a company could bootstrap their company and grow organically, they wouldn’t need VC funding. By definition any company that is using VC funding is pricing their product less than it takes to make it - ie “price dumping”.

There are already laws about zoning that should keep AirBnB in check. I’m doing the digital nomad thing starting next year. I am specifically avoiding AirBnbs and staying in hotels - mostly mid range extended stays.
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Also, lots of kids really resist sleep and can take quite a while at it. That's where check-ins come in.
There is also Greenfoot[0], created by the authors of BlueJ, that focuses on building 2 dimensional simulations and games. I think Greenfoot is derived from the same source as BlueJ.

[0] https://www.greenfoot.org/
I have one question: Why THE HELL isn't this a part of all browsers already? Why does it have to be some obscure 3rd party extension? And I don't mean just Chrome, I mean all of them. All browsers should have this option: "I don't care about gdpr cookies". Set a window object window.dontcare and done. Sites can check this and automatically comfirm or don't even show gdpr banners if window.dontcare is set. This cookie bullcrap has been a forced on all of us from the bureaucrat bastards in the EU, and now everyone has to click on what are essentially popup banners of the 2000s every time they visit a new site (or even the same site a bit later!). Fuck that. No, let me say it again: FUCK THAT.

Implementing this into a browser would be the biggest QOL improvement any web browser could possibly do at this point.
If you want a majority of people using your thing, perception is important.

- Governments were pretty late to the party with regulations/law enforcement because they understandably didn't know if it was serious. This meant your average person who lost in a scam probably had no justice.

- The volume of scams made it seem that all of this was normal - best case was you did some research that found out before you put money in. This is partly because of governments but also there's no central authority from the crypto side to say what is safe and what isn't. "Buyer beware" with an every day currency/payment system doesn't really do you any favors in terms of adoption.

- People lost substantial real money to complicated technical issues on top of the scams

- All of this meant you had to do your research to fundamentally use the thing safely, which turned it more into an investing chore than payment convenience.

So it's actually pretty reasonable if someone has this impression
This is weird because I work at FAANG and one of the things that everyone acknowledges is that we all studied to get past the damn interview loop. Yes it is covered in classes, there is nothing new but at the very least you need to brush up.
My income has definitely not been stagnant for the past decade, but I'm a freelancer. Last year I briefly was an employee, and I was appalled at what that meant for my income. It was not $120k-$160k, it was more like €70k.
It feels like all that extra work/stress to hide the deception would cancel out any benefit from being in any remote location, even considering the monetary/payroll arbitrage.
Cash is still best for illicit activities
Why Airbnb Regulations Matter
Of course.

My point is that it's typically not a cloak and dagger situation described above, with an employee going to great technical lengths to hide their whereabouts.

Generally speaking, the immediate manager is aware and is pursuing a policy of willful ignorance. Often when rumors percolate to HR, HR will very quietly say that they don't want to know and to clean it up so they don't ever have to.

I don't know of any companies attempting to actively document this kind of thing. They don't want to know, and they'll only respond if they are forced to acknowledge the situation.
It works in some places. This intersection is way, way better to walk and cycle through since the traffic lights (and all signs!) were removed, and I have never seen cars stuck or delayed:

https://bikecity.amsterdam.nl/en/inspiration/experiment-traf...
Permanent red on all lanes until traffic arrives may be better. It allows you to safely switch to green faster on whatever lane traffic arrives from.
Neuron count is strongly correlated with body size, and does not necessarily correspond to what we like to call “intelligence”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4244864
No this is just lore, there is a great deal of pseudo science around this. They are slightly different chemically so it's not impossible but there is no evidence to that effect.

Note also that Sucrose is 50% fructose, so saying sucrose isn't processed like fructose is very unlikely.

There is lots of speculation even in the mainstream, but our best understanding now is that they are similar.
> late at night I would drive by there would sometimes be people inside scurrying about

Sounds like the cleaners.
I respect your view and can see your point.

May I counter that Discord effectively proprietarised the open standard that is IRC and then put all the bells and whistles such as shared screen streaming, voice chat etc on top? Similar to how WhatsApp proprietarised XMPP.

Even the niche Discord servers have managed to replicate the community feel of the early to mid 1990's IRC channels.

That's how I see it. You are welcome to disagree.
> Some RDBMS have mitigations, e.g. Oracle's optimizer plan stability allows you to make the plan unchangeable. It's a 2-sided knife of course: It won't get better if the data has a chance for it, but it won't get worse either.

That's simply not true, it's just less noticeable. Because even if your query plan is not changing, your data is. There will always be some point where your data grows and a reasonable planner (whether you or your database) has to adapt to that as it grows. For example, if a small lookup table grows enough, it stops being faster to do a full table scan on that table, and it becomes reasonable to do an index lookup. If your plan never changes, your performance gets worse. You may argue that fixed query plans are more predictable, but they are not objectively better.
Maybe this is just a sign that income taxes are an outdated way to have people that use your local services pay for them? Sales tax at least has shipping destination to go on.
You can make local software with collaboration support. It is possible to make Figma so that you can do your design locally even if your Internet is kaput.
Guess smart scripts just doesn’t roll off the tongue the same way.
What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?
What is "golf car pedal mode"?
Don't they have to deal with those forgotten PIN calls anyway? Don't you need a PIN to get cash out of an ATM?

My debit card and its PIN are used for a few different things - in-store payments, using the ATM, and authenticating when in-person at a bank. The last one is interesting - each desk at the bank, both the tellers and the offices where you talk to someone, has a terminal and every interaction starts with putting in your debit card and entering your PIN.

Extending this to credit card is no big deal - my main bank syncs the PIN between the debit and credit cards. I only have a credit card with the other bank that I use and I haven't set foot in one of their branches in 20 years, so I have no idea whether they sync the PINs or use their cards for in-person authentication.
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I agree -- instead of opening with the scornful "False.", he should have opened with "Here are some interesting details about how that transaction is represented in the underlying data structures"
No, we still need land, materials, etc.

Accomplishing things becomes a problem of cooperation instead of acquisition. Instead of "Can I buy the things and pay people to do work" we have "Can we agree to allocate resources and work together".

You're assuming that one lone visionary is essential to success, and that a level of coercion is necessary so he can make people do the work. We're software people here. We should know to reject "visionaries". They're just idea guys, the same guys we laugh at when they say "Here's my app idea, you build it and we can split the profits 50/50".
An SEC Enforcement Program for Policing Web3
So this URL just jumped to me opened by the extension. I instantly uninstalled it, and reported it to Mozilla.

I hate that I have to, but I have to.
I have desire to defend twitter exec's track record. Of course what I said is narrow because the subject is specific in this thread. I don't get how people like you insult your own intelligence by insinuating that for twitter's CEO to be correct on one matter means everything they do is acceptable.

Is this an age and maturity thing? I can see how someone under early twenties can be this immature where either you hate twitter execs or you are completely in love with them. Be rational and reasonable, if you would like to disagree or counter any of my points feel free but I have no interest in paricipating in a "cancel" fight.
Network Driven Investing
As much as possible, I've done this, but then it's Discord server after server for every single new thing of interest.

I'm a budding programmer and I maintain(ed) the DarkPlaces engine. In August 2020, I created a Discord server for it with LadyHavoc's blessing, creating a community that brought together professional developers making commercial games using the engine.

...only for me to not be able to participate unless I can poke someone to make time to set up a bridge. Even then, if I'm banned from Discord, who is to say they won't see me talking through a bridge as ban evasion and wipe the bridge, or even the whole server out?

I certainly have my regrets.
I grew up near Skelmersdale which is a ‘new town’ built in the 60’s without traffic lights, all roundabouts. Traffic is segregated from pedestrians using underpasses and footpaths don’t follow roads generally.
Some aspects of it work well. It’s pleasing and efficient not to have to stop much when you’re getting places.
The underpasses have become magnets for anti social behaviour though.
My brother gave me some great meta-parenting advice;

"You're going to get a lot of parenting advice, but keep one thing in mind. Those folks aren't telling you how to raise your kid. They're telling you how to raise _their_ kid. But you're not raising their kids, you're raising you're kids. So take all that advice with a grain of salt."
Only somewhat related, but it reminds me how Alacritty actually has its green color set as yellow because the creator thinks it looks nicer: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/1561

It's really hard for a terminal developer to trust that what it looks like on your system looks much at all like it will for your users.

Also, I see with the new Windows colors that black has a glow now? Does anyone have any more screenshots of that or is that just something the author added? I ask because it is 100% solid black everywhere for me still.
Heck! Because we were poor!
Project managing all the tools that we use to get our job done seems very distracting.
Slightly exaggerated, but I agree with the sentiment.
"A crucial issue in the dispute is a points-based attendance policy adopted by some of the largest carriers earlier this year. Those policies penalize workers, up to termination, for going to routine doctor’s visits or attending to family emergencies. Conductors and engineers say that they can be on call for 14 consecutive days without a break and that they do not receive a single sick day, paid or unpaid.

“All we’re asking is folks to be able to go to routine doctor’s visits without pay, but they have refused to accept our proposals,” Dennis Pierce, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) said before the deal was struck. “The average American would not know that we get fired for going to the doctor. This one thing has our members most enraged. We have guys who were punished for taking time off for a heart attack and covid. It’s inhumane.”"

Yes go be that instead of a SWE.
Why Do Hipsters Steal Stuff
It has nothing to do with: 'missing culture of venture capital'

It has something to do with US companies purchasing them, competing with them in an unfriendly way, and lobbying governments to push theirs instead

Jitsi for example, could have been the perfect alternative to zoom, instead it was purchased by an american company, and the EU opted massively for Teams by MS

The problem is the US who is acting like a raptor, and that strategy works for them, but not for the EU

Once the EU managed to solidify their economy and promote their own companies, things will improve
I know it's an unpopular opinion around here, but it's worth considering if forming tech unions could help. Tech companies are making huge profits per employee but holding wages down.

We can build unions based on our democratic interests - what do we care about? Salary, benefits, paid oncall, IP restrictions, open source, etc.

We don't have to sign up with one of the giant calcified corrupt US unions, there are plenty of shops out there that are more modern and give local groups much more autonomy.
Messaging and information on actual greenhouse gas emissions and impact have long been god awful, often to the point of borderline misinformation. It's a source of tremendous frustration, in part because spending enormous political capital solving the wrong problems is actively counter-productive
FYI, we just updated that section of the results to hopefully be clearer and, when it comes to the total lifetime savings including equipment costs, a bit more conservative.
Ok, I see the point you wanted to make.

You ask "is consciousness a property of certain physical systems which isn't present even in extremely faithful computer simulations of those systems, or consciousness something else?" and later say "if you _had_ such a model, and could run it forward, people would still be divided as to whether it was actually conscious or not".

It seems to me that you thereby answer your first question with "no", as it seems that for you, by the last sentence, consciousness is a metaphysical property...

Which I would be fine with: I think we will only know more once we have an entity that looks and acts humanly (so there is reason to suppose consciousness might exist in it) and then try to understand its formal, inner workings and compare it to the human brain. No matter the outcome, it will be very interesting.
Thank you for saying that and thank you for building DataTables!

I've heard about DataTables in various contexts over the years, so it's really cool to hear that you've integrated it with Typesense.
Oh yes sorry you're right. When using alphanumeric mode you only get a small amount of binary encoding bloat (3%) with base45.

But even with binary data encoded to baseXX, you still need to decide what the byte stream means. I was mainly looking at how to efficiently encode a hierarchical document containing the most common data types (that anyone can decode and inspect) into a QR code.
> how "x = x + 1" works

In BASIC you can say "LET X = X + 1" which really helped me grasp the assignment operator when I was starting out.

We used BlueJ in my comp sci intro courses, but I had already taught myself BASIC in high school using QBASIC and making extensive use of the built-in documentation. It was helpful to have some programming experience coming into it. I had to unlearn a lot of outdated or unfashionable practices, though. If I had learned how to use subroutines instead of relying on GOTO that probably would've helped understand methods a little better.
Well I agree that tax is an issue, and workers shouldn't just relocate without taking that into account, but your argument seemed mostly concerned that they were "exploiting cost of living arbitrage.".

Yet this is exactly what companies do when they employ foreign workers or manufacture in poorer countries and sell those products/services at full price in their home countries.
Think of it this way: on a purely logical basis, it's better for society if money is in the hands of people who understand its value and hope to do useful things with it. I'm not claiming to be one of those people; I would definitely waste it all myself.

Of course, we can't easily transfer money like this from the frivolous to the useful for a ton a reasons. Life isn't a fairytale. But the next best thing is to have them spend their money so that at least it can power some form of growth.

It's not that these newcomers deserve to be mislead by echo chambers, but rather that if they demonstrate so little regard or respect for their money by failing to do much research or understanding what they're buying in detail, especially if they are buying something extraneous to begin with, that I don't see a moral or ethical problem to keep them spending. If anything, the money should be parted from the well-to-do fool, if only to provide macroeconomic support to the rest of the population.
CGA used 2/3 brightness (#AA) for the primary colors, then added 1/3 gray (#555555) if the intensity bit was set. The exception is that with low intensity, yellow is turned into brown by reducing green to 1/3 (#AA5500).

Unfortunately a lot of terminal emulators get it wrong, the normal colors are too dark and the intensified ones are too saturated!

I also remember blue being easier to see in the past, but that is likely my eyes getting worse.
I've read somewhere that white noise is similar to what they hear while they are inside their Mom, so this puts them into a familiar environment, which makes them calm.
I'm excited to see alternatives to Figma, because using it is like an emotional rollercoaster for me. There are times when I'll open a massive project file with hundreds of frames, each with thousands of graphical nodes. And even then, I can zoom in and out with no friction at all, it's just buttery smooth. I've been a developer for over a decade, and I have no idea at all how they're able to pull that off. It's a technical marvel.

On the other hand, it's far from what I would want for a modern design tool. Managing tokens, or anything from the "design system" world, is an absolute headache. Compared to the efficiency of the dev tools I use, it feels like Figma (and every other design tool) is just light years behind.

Even when I use a tool that's built specifically for that purpose, like Supernova, I still feel pretty underwhelmed. I'm not sure exactly what I'm looking for, but I know that the current landscape doesn't cut it for me.
Have you looked at Datafold?
The Secret Lives of Millionaire Tech Engineers Who 'Rest and Vest' (2017)
Do you have push-to-talk enabled, or a keybind for toggle-mute? That's a super abusable permission and this isn't to say they aren't abusing it, but there is a reason for it to exist.
> So we now have a technical marvel used for financial speculation, conducting illicit transactions, and dodging regulators

You're right, it's an impressive piece technology that's been growing through questionable use cases. But that's not the fault of the underlying technology, but of the actors involved.

As long as blockchains are treated as a second class citizen, governments choose to ostracize it, financial oligopolies lobby against it, things won't change.

But imagine what could be accomplished if governments decided to embrace and properly regulate it, and what it could empower in our society in terms of a more open and acessible socio-economic environment.

Let's not blame the technology.
I wish I could upvote this 100 times.

There is a world of difference between tools for learning how to code and tools for producing code.

Something students don't always realize is that their teacher doesn't need 30 copies of a program that prints "Hello, World". You are not "producing code", you are "demonstrating your understanding" of the content.

Autocomplete, autoformatting, auto-anything is harmful for the learning process. If the computer does it for you, then how do I know you know how to do it?

Once you can demonstrate that you know how to format your code properly, then those auto-tools can help you, rather than being a crutch.

Once you know "I can solve this problem by using a substring" you can use autocomplete to figure out the exact syntax for the substr() method. But if you're just looking through the auto-complete method list and clicking on things until one of them works... that's not "knowing how to program".