skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So much the same old historical nonsense still being propagated by people.

> Oh yeah, super good idea. We had fantastic experience with humiliated nations before. It worked so well for Germany after WW1 /s

Germany was not humiliated. The terms imposed on Germany were not actually as bad, the idea that these were some horrible terms come from a few British intellectuals and German Foreign office.

Germany was treated with gloves of silk compared to how Germany treated France and Russia. But the fragile German ego couldn't handle it.

And of those terms imposed at Versailles Germany never even remotely payed any of it. I fact Germany took in more foreign loans then they ever paid back.

In the 20s Germany basically managed to negotiate all those debts away and before they even paid the little they had left, they stopped paying.

What was done to Germany after WW1 was NOT HARSH ENOUGH, and even what was agree on, was not enforced.

> Putin came to power because the West didnt help the former Soviet republics

Ask Estonia about how that.

> If Russia is left alone humiliated again then we will have the next anti-western system in 10 years.

They had an anti-western system for the waste majority of the last 300 years. If paying for their crimes with the London flats of of Russian oil millionaires then they will have to live with it.
Good morning, HN! It's Jason (the founder). My wife (co-founder and co-conspirator) just woke me up to alert me to a sudden spike in demo requests, so I'm a little blurry-eyed at the moment (was up late last night trying my best to get the marketing site functional), but I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have.
Tell HN: Birth of the “HN Tangent”
Sourced from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32850176

The HN Tangent (HNT) is: "a comment on HN that causes whiplash to the brain as the discussion veers off in directions undreamt of"

This is so succinct and accurate. Birth of a new meme?
... and I used to like Scotchgard so much.
Yeah, I posted my comment and realized I had blanked on one of the more unique aspects of digital gambling.

Provably fair is standard in the popular casinos. Any casino that lets you give them a "client seed" is doing this. Example: https://stake.com/provably-fair/overview and https://www.bustabit.com/help/provable-fairness

Doesn't this address part of your main argument?
Considering that `volatile register _Atomic int x;` is a totally legal statement, and two [1] of those keywords have semantics that are only relevant for memory operations, I'd say that the "register" keyword isn't sufficient to distinguish register from memory.

[1] Okay, the official semantics of "volatile" strictly speaking are completely orthogonal to memory, but the practical effect that everyone agrees on (don't optimize this memory access) is inherently oriented towards memory, and the fact that the semantics are so vague about what it actually does is partially a reflection of the fact the semantics themselves don't distinguish between register and memory.
Oh the irony! Isn't BT's core business telecommunication -- as in connecting people who are separated by distance and enabling them to communicate?
Tesla is borrowing Autopilot team for Optimus humanoid robot project
White coat syndrome as others have mentioned. I have this problem too (inherited from both sides of my family) and not a single doctor that I've seen pays attention when I tell them. Every year or so I spend a day or two testing myself at home and get normal readings but to them all that matters is the high systolic reading in the office. For some reason they find it inconceivable that an injured person who's in a building full of sick and dying people would exhibit an obvious symptom of stress like transient elevation of blood pressure ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You wont see crypto influencers on Tiktok if you don't engage with the videos. A couple "not interested"s and I haven't seen one in months.
Please don’t make such a parody of reality. I struggle as is.
But… that doesn’t prevent censorship when it’s still reliant on the same core payment processors.

As best as I can tell this is basically security through obscurity.
Paywall / regwall / dark patterns: <https://archive.ph/zami8>
Maybe the spammers learned about adversarial networks?
Right but you dont actually have to rewrite it, correct? The updates dont break the old code. It's just not best practice anymore.
> Fortunately, for me at least, I think a found a path that works even if most people don’t want to climb on board.

Would love for you to share this with me.

I am doing my own thing as well. A friend and I have been talking about how to raise others consciousness about all of this if it is possible and the only conclusion we come to is to push the Overton window so far that it jolts peoples mental system.

So we are striving to live a life like Franciscans, Buddhists, and Daoists. What do we really need to be content? How do we cope with our deconditioning from all the material wants?

I almost stopped reading that article because of the beginning paragraphs. Glad I did not.
When fear-stoking is on the main page instead of technical details or documentation, it's obvious what they're selling isn't a technical service.
From the LinkedIn Post:

Unfortunately, my engineering offer with Meta was rescinded yesterday due to the current poor economic environment.

As someone coming from a non-traditional tech background and just getting started in my software engineering career, this was a dream job and dream opportunity for me that I worked extremely hard to get.

What makes this extra difficult is my life is currently packed up in boxes waiting to be shipped to London, as my flight is booked for next week. I not only need to find a new job, but also figure out where I’ll be living.

I signed the offer letter back in June, so months later being told the offer was getting pulled right before I was due to fly out feels a bit harsh. I decided to stop interviewing for other roles altogether back in June, so I have been out of work for quite some time as I was already not working. (In hindsight this was a poor choice on my part, however, after being reassured by my recruiter, I decided why not just use this as some personal time before starting the new job and moving countries)

Feeling a tad bit crushed, as the last few months have been filled with preparation for moving my life to the UK - between getting my UK work visa, working with all the teams on the relocation company, packing and working with the movers, tying up loose ends here in the US, getting my UK tax number and bank account process started, getting accommodation sorted in London, all the research for moving to a new city/country etc etc.. it’s been a lot of work and a lot of excitement.

Anyways not trying to make this a feel bad post, but I am looking to get back into interviewing and was hoping this network might be able to help. I am still new in my Software Engineering career and will need a couple of weeks to get back on the Leetcode/interview prep grind as I feel quite out of touch with it all, but I am open to any and all opportunities you might have or know of!

If you know of any early career or entry-level Software Engineering roles, please reach out! I’m open to any company, large or small.

#meta #softwareengineering #opportunities

EDIT: Wow!!! Thank you so much for the overwhelming support, it has been really nice receiving all your messages and comments and it means a lot to me, more than I can explain. I will respond to all of you! It just might take me a little bit as there are hundreds of messages I need to parse through.

Many people have asked if I have been compensated for all the lost time, missed wages, life impact, etc... On the phone call with my recruiter, he mentioned a support package. He had no further information and said I’d receive an email in the coming days. I’d much rather have a job honestly, so hopefully that’s the support, but I’m in a rather tight spot now so any support of any kind would be much appreciated. I will update when I hear back.
It's a complete fantasy from someone who is lucky to have never needed to call the Police. Unfortunately someone's gotta take out the trash. The real problem is we need police to be accountable, but that's easier than it sounds, apparently.
People who aren’t cops also harbor plenty of unusual conceptions of justice, which is why we have attempted to formalize and codify essential aspects of justice in the law. The cops are supposed to be informed of, enforce, and of course abide by the law. Lawfare now featuring prominently in the US suggests that in practice we have now reached far higher levels of abstract guile and malfeasance than what is indicated here.
I mean that isn't a terrible theory. Love and hate is often forged in an initial "I hate this." TBC I hated the borrow checker once too! My fear are the people who make these love/hate decisions based on vibes instead of experience. I'm perfectly okay with someone who tries Rust/Java/OCaml and says "Never for me. Not again." I'm less okay with these technical disagreements becoming more tribal. I think C vs. C++ is often tribal. Because I like Rust, I really hate the idea Rust opinions might be tribal too.
From the creators of the burnoutindex, this survey explores the root causes of psychological safety at work, inspired by the work of Amy Edmonson, 2003.
Nice! Thanks for the feedback, it's really helpful :)

Where do you get this idea from, are you a recruiter?
The Linux Kernel Documentation
If you had to do continuing education to renew your license every X years then it may add to safety. But as it exists today it seems to be more of a form of ID than anything to do with a vehicle. When someone gets hired at a new job (USA) a drivers license can be used as a part to show citizenship, which has nothing to do with driving.
Books that are actually banned aren't in school libraries, reading lists, and Amazon won't carry them [1]. But the temptation to feel like a rebel for buying a "banned book", prominently advertised in a large corporate chain bookstore, is just too great.

That is when they're not accusing free speech of being a white supremacist value.

[1] https://truthout.org/articles/after-activist-pressure-amazon...
RE: Boomerang, Amazon changed the policy recently. If you return within one year at the same level, you get the same comp you left at. A comp increase requires a new level and a full loop. The upshot is that you have to have proof of impact for that new level for boomerang to be worth it.
Address by the President of the Russian Federation
Are you serious? Really, are you?
40x deposits of $9,990 will set off more suspicious activity alerts than one deposit of of $393k.

The gift of a foreigner (challenge: prove that it is a foreigner) has reporting requirements described in https://www.irs.gov/businesses/gifts-from-foreign-person

As this came from a sanctioned entity (Tornado Cash), then https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/office-of-foreign-as... may be interested in it. https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/... covers more on what to do.

Trying to avoid this is likely to get someone in more trouble later.
Slightly OT, but someone should set-up an (anonymous enough) wiki somewhere with all of this big IT company jargon, would make for interesting reading. Threads like this one, coupled with that Google comic written by an employee that was full of those jargons would make for a good start.
Yes, that's what the site says. But they're presumably not running a settlement network from top to bottom, so it's perfectly reasonable to ask what they're doing different from every single other payment processor (or middleman, or reseller, or...).

In other words: is the "censorship resistance" here just the pinky promise of someone who unironically writes a page like this[1]?

[1]: https://www.paralleleconomy.com/acta/
I don't think this kind of technology will ever create the kind of beans particle physics use. There is a hard limitation, because once the particles move fast enough, the only known source of the "light" needed to accelerate them further is particle accelerators.

Instead, it looks like something laser focused on materials science and engineering. Think about what you can make with a $10k tabletop cyclotron light source.
There’s no elaboration to be had. They just say we should have no cops because it’s the twitter-correct thing to say and move on.
provably fair bitcoin casinos have been a thing for more than a decade now.

"Satoshi Dice" was probably the biggest one, back in the day. Looks like it's still running
I see this from a different perspective. The developer using the API or tool has a valid expectation that their software should continue to work as-is for years even as outside changes are made to the underlying tools, libraries and features. The flaw here is instead, in my opinion, a willingness on the providers of these tools and libraries to pull the rug out quite frequently on their end users.

If there is a security risk, you can mitigate that by redirecting your users who still use the feature to what I'll call a "diversion" along with a warning that they will no longer receive updates and to consider the feature obsolete. Perhaps with a popup or console blurb that warns the user of the problem, this way the end user developers eventually do have to fix it because users will bother them about the issue.

I understand it creates clutter that maintainers would like to avoid, but the alternative is constant rug pulling that undermines productivity and the usefulness of your tool or library. You created your software or tool to help others whether for financial gain, altruism or ego boosting. I think you forget that when you decide to throw your hands in the air and rug pull. It is irresponsible and lazy. You are shirking your duties onto others.

We need a new system, process or design pattern to help alleviate this issue in our industry. Because end user developers and system or library developers are constantly butting heads over this. There is a strong smell here that needs to be resolved. It is a problem in search of a solution. I think we can potentially engineer our way out of this.

For example, if you developed software for the first Google Android phone, it no longer works on the latest phone. It should. Why wouldn't it? I wrote a piano app that no longer works, it would require a full rewrite and recompile. And, this isn't just between an ancient version and a new version of the phone. Just one SDK update and they've suddenly changed all of the interface names, function arguments, etc. Just because they thought a name sounded cooler or clearer. This is irresponsible design.

Microsoft does a great job with their APIs being backwards compatible as much as possible. But, the cost is having to carry a massive history of APIs and tools they can never truly sunset. If you develop something for the first DirectX SDK it still works on the latest release. Because, they number their interface names. I'm not saying this is the ultimate solution, but it is one way to address the problem. But, it has problems of its own.

I'd like to see a large effort to address this, we keep avoiding it as an industry.
> neoliberal policies were attrocious

They were not. The reality is that if you put all post-sovit countries on a graph and look at those that actually did neoliberal policies correctly, those are now the nations that are by far the most successful.

Its not the fault of the West that the Russian elites were totally an completely corrupt and had no interest in real reform. Russia actually resisted many reforms and the elites simply put themselves in a position to take advantage. To just blame all of that on the West is nonsense.
NASA’s deep space telescope is having instrument trouble
Why would a mere depiction of gay characters be inappropriate for young children?
Don't worry. If it's truly the start of a world war, chances are you can die on your home soil.
I don't know if they are trying to grab porn money while pretending to grab right-wing money or something else is going on. But I do know that there is nothing on their site that implies they do anything NEW or DIFFERENT. So not sure how they plan to get around visa/mastercard banning them.
Pretty sure Starlink long ago adopted a policy of following the laws of each country they operate in.
These alternatives are not very popular, and once they try to scale they face the same problems their popular brethren does. PayPal sucks, but it's also somewhat works for half a billion people.
Their about page (https://www.paralleleconomy.com/about/) explicitly mentions Parler:

We are starting with payment processing. And keep building. We took on big tech and it was us who made Parler the most downloaded app in the world. Unfortunately we did not control Parler. We took on big tech and the success we had was unprecedented. We are back and we continue to take on all entities that want to abridge your freedoms.

It is pretty easy to assume that the "freedoms" they want to protect here is freedom to be a right-wing racist Q-nut.
And you think capitalism is not a cult?
Can you enlighten why this is the case?

Especially for non-for-profits I don't think this should be a problem, as they can merely just save the money.

On the contrary I see that quite some non-profits run on an endowment model, where these money would basically just grow the endowment.
Yes, I think the two party commit example really illustrates the capabilities of the system.

Two-Party Commit: Using DataLayer offer files and proofs of inclusion, two people can coordinate a simultaneous (“atomic”) update of their respective data:

- Alice proposes an update, creating an offer file that includes proofs of inclusion of the added and changed rows she proposes to make in her own DataLayer tables and the rows she requests that Bob add or change in his tables.

- She saves the offer file and sends it to Bob.

- Bob opens the offer file and reviews the proposed changes to Alice’s DataLayer tables and the changes she requests of his DataLayer tables.

- If the changes are acceptable, Bob attaches an update to his DataLayer tables that includes at least the changes requested by Alice, and submits the completed offer to the blockchain.

- Both Alice’s and Bob’s DataLayer tables are simultaneously updated. If Bob had not completed the offer, neither table would be updated. Alice could have canceled the offer by updating her singleton, even if the update did not change the data.
> Either Rust is significantly better than C++ in his view

Do you remember the Paul Graham essay on the Blub programming language? (http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html)

C++ is kind of like the Blub language. If you know C++ well enough, you can do anything you need to do, so something like Rust just seems too esoteric and weird and pretentious.

Fortunately, I spent many years using Rust recently (coming from primarily a C background) and when I'm on a project using C++, it just feels too weird and rudimentary and horribly over-complicated.

To end with a quote from the PG article:

_But when our hypothetical Blub programmer looks in the other direction, up the power continuum, he doesn't realize he's looking up. What he sees are merely weird languages. He probably considers them about equivalent in power to Blub, but with all this other hairy stuff thrown in as well. Blub is good enough for him, because he thinks in Blub._
the default is to block most malicious sites or something which is in their opinion everything outside of regular US and Europe networks. And that's wrong. Many people also do not change defaults.
The site has a pro-science bias. Lots of its articles argue based on scientific principles that positions being advertised as a "scientific consensus" aren't reached using the scientific method. Look at this article from the front page for an example:

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/09/20/status-bias-in-peer-revi...

It reports on some claims (pre-print) that changing the name and title on a paper between a nobody and a Nobel Prize winner radically changes the likelihood of paper acceptance, i.e. scientific journals are relying mostly on reputation and not paper quality in their peer review process. If true that's not scientific and can lead to "consensus" that just reflects the opinions of a tiny handful of people through inertia.

Here's an article by an anonymous academic criticizing a group of scientists who were engaging in political lobbying:

https://dailysceptic.org/archive/when-did-scientists-turn-in...

In general, consider how much COVID science was advertised as a consensus right up until the moment it inverted or was proven false. The lab leak was a disproven conspiracy theory right up until the Biden administration admitted it could be true and should be investigated. Vaccine mandates were required to stop the spread, then it was admitted vaccines didn't stop transmission. In the UK, Omicron had the same IFR as Delta and refusal to lock down over Christmas would create 4000 deaths a day, except that it didn't.

The DS started as a blog for people who scratched the surface of these claims and went looking for the papers. When found they were invariably either missing or pseudo-scientific so there was a need for people to exchange notes and demonstrate their arguments for why this wasn't really science. It's important that such sites exist.
0.05% of your total mass is electrons[0], so you can't do that even if you removed all of them.

Well before you even get that far, your electric field strength exceeds the binding forces of the molecules you're made of, so you explode.

Well before you get to the point of exploding, your net electric charge is too strong for you to eject more electrons, and any electrons in the ambient environment will fly towards you, producing a shower of deadly radiation when they hit your hull.

[0] assuming you're mostly hydrogen; a bit less than half that if you're mostly made of heavier elements like Uranium
When swallowing a pill posture matters
Badiou is a user, not a philosopher of mathematics (he himself would agree). Being and Event —neither volume of the now trilogy— is certainly not about mathematics, nor philosophy of mathematics. Rather, self-avowedly, it is a work in the service of radical politics.
Churn and burn, baby!
Parents already have that. They are now trying to limit it for other children.

Why should I be allowed to deny your children access to books at school?
There are a depressingly large number of people who just don't get static typing. I think a lot of them use very basic editor setups - think Vim or Notepad++ so they don't see half of the benefits.
Consensus – Evidence-Based Answers, Faster
We humans are quite imperfect creatures. To expect a perfect outcome from humanity it's naive at best. I am not saying that your points are incorrect nor I disagree. I just want to state that, considering past history, we should be really grateful and not take things for granted.
We in London should be safe as it's mostly owned by Russian oligarchs ...
D:L is really an excellent concept here for a lot of use cases that a public blockchain can accel at involved especially with transparency and accountability. Pretty interesting.
Zune sucked and it was good for the ecosystem that it disappeared.
Quip: The higher up the rug, the more crap that there's room to sweep under it.

Or: Life can be easier for the kernel team if they're allowed to make breaking changes. Then task the lib team with writing shims / wrappers / etc. to fix all the problems which that causes. Then the manager of the lib team may have a perfect reason to boost his headcount. Then...
Yeah, this – it's easy to forget that infrastructure code (Linux, libc, openssl, ...) really is the tip of the iceberg. Industrial codebases are often at least an order of magnitude bigger; really, that shouldn't surprise us: there are so many problems to be solved, it should be unsurprising that the specific outweighs the general.