skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Don't we always celebrate and idolize ability, beauty etc?

It's a complex terrain to navigate, I think. The German term "schadenfreude" comes to mind, specifically, in direct contrast to that. For example, would you say the Kardashian family is celebrated or despised?
I feel like these types of businesses can stay alive by just enduring until they are the last one left. For example the one the other day about the only person still selling floppy disks. When you become the only game in town you become a de facto monopoly.
The best equipped to do this are Google/MS/Apple because they actually control the source code of relevant contemporary browsers.
If it was actually used this way I'll:

1. Eat my hat.

2. Go out and protest.

It would have been quite the new low, even for the current establishment.
Haha, I can imagine Steve is quite pleased with this comment. You should look up the meaning of the (Swedish) word lagom.
That's why I've been really impressed with their strategic execution: they seem to have a pretty laser focus on "Given what we already have now, and how much it costs to operate, what can we do that Amazon/Google/Microsoft can't easily duplicate at a competitive price point?"

With a healthy dash of "What are people actually trying to accomplish?"

The weakness at hyperscale is that all products feel like some mistranslation of the generalized form of an HR request: almost for everyone, but perfect for no one. Probably because nothing less than a TAM of "everyone" moves their revenue needle.
I have this conversation often with my Russian friends. Usually it goes like this:

- Ukrainians provoked this war because they were shelling Donbas for 8 years killing many people!

- You realize they wouldn't shell anyone if Putin hadn't started the war in 2014, right?

Sometimes they also argue that after the Euromaidan the Russian population felt "threatened" (which is not true BTW). To which I reply that most of these people are either refugees or dead now.

Sometimes they even use the official argument made by Putin that he had to start the war otherwise Ukraine would join NATO. Which is one of the most absurd arguments as Ukraine was repeatedly refused NATO membership and even joining the EU was considered a very delicate affair. Even now, when the cards are on the table, nobody is treating Ukarine's membership in NATO seriously - Zelenski realizes the future of his nation will be Israel-like, focused on external and internal security backed up by Western allies.
No evidence? What do you think Biden meant when he replied "I promise you, we will be able to do it" [1] when asked about stopping NS2 just before the war this year?

Also note the recent pro-NS2 protests in Germany, whose energy costs have skyrocketed before winter.

[1] - https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/07/biden-says-nord-stream-2-won...
> The Siberian pipeline was also sabotaged by the US https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_pipeline_sabotage

I'm skeptical of that claim. It is sourced entirely from an autobiography, and there's no corroborating evidence of the explosion from any other source.

> Russia has been pressuring Germany to re-open NordStrom 2 for weeks now.

Maybe, but Germany hasn't been close to yielding to that pressure.
No context? I might be agreeing with you.

But Putin led off with “Ukrainians aren’t a real people”. Signaling counts for a lot in war and diplomacy.
That lists “officer, director, employee, or agent” which makes it clear the aim is in terms of business not say a student on vacation bribing their way out of a traffic ticket.

“It shall be unlawful for any issuer which has a class of securities registered pursuant to section 78l of this title or which is required to file reports under section 78o(d) of this title, or for any officer, director, employee, or agent of such issuer or any stockholder thereof acting on behalf of such issuer, to make use of the mails or any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce corruptly in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment of any money, or offer, gift, promise to give, or authorization of the giving of anything of value to--“ https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/criminal-fraud/l...

That said, I am not a lawyer so I could be missing something.
What lies beneath: Mossdale caving disaster
Last year, I was asked to interview a man who was procured through a remote-staffing firm.

He was based in Southeast Asia, and on his resume it looked like he met all of the competencies we needed -- including English proficiency.

But on the call, I noticed that whenever I asked him a question, he would turn off his camera, pause for 10-20 seconds, answer the question, then turn his video back on.

It turned out that the man was using a translator and really didn't speak any English whatsoever.

I have no idea how he expected to be able to do the job if he had been hired, but I guess he thought it was worth a shot.

In talking with the remote staffing firm, they were extremely apologetic. He had apparently pulled the same trick with them, but they didn't do video interviews, so it was harder to pick up on.
The most plain explanation is that this was simply a warning message from Russia.

These two pipelines have no longer any value to them, nor to EU. However, what does have value are the numerous pipelines from Norway and other countries to EU. And this is where the real treat is. Russia has now shown it is willing to blow up infrastructure outside Ukraine.

Russia is known to have carefully mapped out the gas pipelines from Norway to UK. Remember how Russian oligark luxury ships carefully navigated close to gas pipelines, while the cover was that the oligark was attending Molde jazzfestival? Similar activity observed by Russian fishing ships.
I'm speaking about nowadays, did you notice?

While you're at it, why not speak of Petain and collaboration with Nazis? What is holding you back?

Why are you speaking of different times with a different government? And times when there was not at all the sense of climate crisis we have now?

The Macron government has been elected in the light of the AGW emergency (even if Macron is still trying to save the growth "en meme temps", but oh well).

The whole population, the mainstream politicians, and the media, have a total different mindset than at the time of the greenpeace ship bombing.
Because people these days tend to have the attention span of squirrels.
Rant: when companies outsource to dodgy subcontractors it's fine, but when the common man does it suddenly it's no good?

This is just companies getting back the same treatment they've been subjecting their customers to for over a decade.

In business this is called "business process outsourcing", aka send off sensitive data & permissions to sweatshops in third-world countries.

While it's a shame that it happened to what I assume is a legitimate small/medium business that doesn't do the aforementioned practice, I have absolutely zero sympathy for any big company that does the above and suddenly ends up at the receiving end of it.

The market has reacted, and as more and more things go remote it allows the "little guys" to take a stab at it with varying degrees of success.

(to be clear, I do not condone this behavior despite being approached several times to be a "front" for foreign developers - however, I totally understand the market dynamics that push them to do this)
6gu.nz Demo
I really hope I am wrong, but this looks like a "false flag" operation.
WebAssembly and the Road to Ubiquity
> He asked us why we can't "build the website on wix".

This strikes me as a very effective question.

Even if the answer is "because wix can't do asset fingerprinting, etc", then the CTO now knows the limitations of wix.

And, it also leads to the question: "why are responsive images, asset fingerprinting, etc _absolutely essential_ to solving the business use case", i.e. Could we build a valuable product even without those technical details.
I've been vegetarian for most of my adult life now and have no clue where this myth comes from. If you eat the same amount of calories on a vegetarian diet you will almost surely hit your iron requirements, even if you are physically active. Lentils, tofu, chickpeas, spinach, beans all have more iron than beef on a gram-for-gram basis.

You have to switch it up sometimes to get all of the amino acids humans can't synthesize, but it's not exactly hard. Rice and beans (a staple in huge parts of the world) contains all of the essential amino acids you need and is a "complete" protein. There are many such examples.

There's nothing special about cows or pigs or chickens. Our bodies are so similar that we mostly use bacteria to digest meat, which is why you lose the ability to stomach it if you stop regularly eating flesh. It's also why we're looking at pigs for organ transplants.

The main supplements for vegans/vegetarians are omega-3s and B12. Both are available from plant sources, and the latter is given as a supplement in feed since animals only synthesize it on a grass-fed diet.
This argument is dumb because Estonia and Latvia are already on their border.

There's nothing NATO can do with Ukraine they couldn't already do with the Baltics.
Sharding is when you store your tables, or parts of tables, on other machines, so that queries are executed by the resources of those remote machines.

Read-only replication stores a copy of the whole database on other machines, so that any query which doesn't write can be handled by asking the remote machine. Writes are bottlenecked through the primary machine, which then sends changes to the remotes.
Thank you! But for the record there are at least 56 people who contributed to this code and they all deserve credit. :)

https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd/commit/a265d5c22bf2a6b...
The latest iPhone reversed course on the disposability piece a little bit, making it arguably the most repairable iPhone ever.
Snippet Praxis
> JavaScript interpreter you can run outside the browser.

You're moving the fencepost.

This thread is about how to render composable HTML components. Why do you need to run a JavaScript interpreter to do that? You just need an HTML interpreter. We do have JavaScript and that interpreter is the web browser.

By your logic that the interpreter should be in the same language as the stuff being interpretted, why are we using JavaScript to interpret HTML?

My original criticism was also about the dependency hell/culture around the Node ecosystem, moreso than Node’s capabilities as an interpreter.
If you robbed from a store at 12 and again at 16, I wouldn't blame that store for banning you for life. If they want to give you some lenience and allow you in only if you agree to a patdown and search of your bags, then they're being more forgiving than I would be.

> No one is searched when they leave stores.

In fact there are stores which will ask to search your bags and check your receipts as you walk out the door, and may ban you if you refuse. You probably realize this and are feigning ignorance.

Anyway, what's really insane is the way you're bouncing around this thread giving so many people such low quality replies, like the one directly above where you try to gaslight karamanolev by falsely claiming their comment was unintelligible. It really seems like you have some undisclosed stake in this matter, because you're not being fair or civil to many of those you respond to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32989622

>> You should perhaps actually engage with criticism and disagreement if you want to post here.

> Make me.

It is probably a mistake for me to respond to you at all.
Auto-hide/reveal is worse. It's a dead zone where you can't have interactive elements, because it's too hard to get the pointer on top without triggering the bar.
Seeing how boring Carplay has been so far I’d have my doubts about skunkworks. That said it makes sense they might be working on exclusive operating system of sorts. The way car systems (100s of suppliers and their implementation) work nowadays is insane.
bit late with this, pipelines have likely been sabotaged in the past 24 hours, so gas is definitely off. Debate ongoing as to who or what was responsible
This is the end of the international internet? 20-25% of internet users have been behind behind a firewall for decades that cuts them off from huge parts of the internet.

The internationality of the internet has always been inversely proportional to its accessibility to the masses.
Ever read Bradbury's "The Veldt"?

Makes you wonder if Bradbury wasn't a real life John Titor.
Suitably applies to both.
> I asked him a question, he would turn off his camera, pause for 10-20 seconds, answer the question

Even without the camera, I'm not sure how he expected this to fly? Someone who claims to be proficient in English should not always pause for 10-20 seconds before answering a question.
I think that this is the case (right now) because of Apple's stranglehold on the browser on iOS and the complex relationship between Google/Apple.

If FB could launch a browser on iOS that was in their walled garden, not only would it quickly receive wide adoption but it might become people's primary browser.

Not that I necessarily think that's a good thing, mind you.
Anything can happen so these could also be wildly successful items in our future

<fun>A phone from Mercedes</fun>

<fun>A CPU from Ferrari</fun>
My wife is very good at asking questions. She likes to ask nicely about discounts when shopping and frequently either gets a discount or gets good advice about one - eg "We don't have one now, but usually in June we have a good sale, come back in a month".

When people ask my business for a discount I always offer one to people who ask nicely.
Curious - what did/will you guys do? Fire him day 1? Are there any repercussions to this...ie do you have to pay him for time worked on day 1? I read it's common, but how in the world do you handle something like this?
> workerd is not just another way to run JavaScript and Wasm. Our runtime is uniquely designed in a number of ways.

How many non-javascript folks use this? What's better than using fly.io?
You can't stop bribes without making legislative votes secret again. There's always a way to thread kickbacks to skirt any law. The only solution is to remove the feedback mechanism.
Here is Niemann's statement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJZuT-_kij0&t=921s

In my opinion, it's more probable that Magnus is not just a chess player anymore. He is a chess tycoon that has a huge stake in chess business and a huge fanbase. And he is using that power frivolously.
How would you feel if I traveled to other countries a few times a year to molest children openly and proudly, then came back? Do you think charging me with a crime would be imperialism? Would I be denying the agency of the countries that rely on child sex tourism to provide more jewels for the King's Holy Garments?

Does the word imperialism mean controlling or replacing the governments of other countries in order to extract value for the mother country anymore, or is it always going to be an insulting incoherent woke metaphor about telling women how short their skirts can be and how they deserved it from now on?

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Child labor for me and not for thee, maybe: if I punish a US businessman for their open preference for importing products produced with child labor, am I imposing my values on the sources?

If a US businessman opens factories in other countries that employ actual slaves, should the businessman be commended for his cultural sensitivity and openness (and contribution) to the labor practices of other cultures?

Should the US government itself operate by different rules outside its borders? Is a US citizen only deserving of due process until they step over the border, where they can be summarily executed?

There are a lot of obvious questions that can be asked about your position. My curiosity is about whether you allow yourself to ask them, or if you just stop asking questions when you reach the conclusion you prefer.
That would not sell.

I didn't buy a macbook because it had Apple logo on it, I bought it because of the M1 chip that was 1 generation ahead of anybody else. Similarly, I bought an iPhone mini because its form factor worked very well for me.

If Apple introduced a VR headset I can already tell you that I won't buy it. If their car is inferior to others on the market then I won't buy it. I think most Apple consumer falls in the same camp as me.
Do you have a source for this claim? Sounds incredible.
"completely ethical if one abides by the license and terms." They aren't.
Maybe not typically, but room temp superconductivity is a nobel prize level claim, and it seems that the experiment is not fully specified without the raw data.
I mentioned Facebook. The problem was about storing product reviews and I literally used to work at Yelp, which exclusively uses MySQL for the primary database. My current job also includes product reviews and I am very familiar with how low traffic review systems are. MySQL can definitely handle 10qps writes.
There's an interesting variant: older Christian denominations emphasize communion, which means you can go off into the wilderness ("the green martyrdom"), but there's also pressure to be close enough to a priest to celebrate Mass at some interval. This led to the buck-wild phenomenon of the anchoritic life, where you would get a tiny little prison cell built onto the side of a church with a little window in the church wall so you could take communion, and then... live there. Julian of Norwich is my favorite (everyone's favorite?) if you want to look anything up; people from the town would go talk to her at a window on the outside side and she'd give counsel and pray for people and such. https://julianofnorwich.org/pages/who-is-julian-of-norwich
> A WebSocket being connected to the Durable Object counts as the Object being active.

> If 100 Durable Objects each had 100 WebSocket connections established to each of them which sent approximately one message a minute for a month, the estimated cost in a month would be, if the messages overlapped so that the Objects were actually active for half the month:

I remember looking at that page before and finding these two lines confusing. Based on the first line, it seems that the objects would be considered active for the entire month, whereas the second one raises the possibility that a websocket can be connected to a durable object without it being considered active.
I'm so dumb that this question didn't even occur to me :-)
Does anyone really think Apple is building a car? I don't and I never did. It makes no sense. It's not an industry one can just "switch into." The capital requirements for owning a car factory are ridiculous and it's not something you can outsource. There is zero crossover between consumer entertainment devices and the car business, as evidenced by the poor state of tech in cars! This is not something Apple can fix by making cars.
I'd love to know more about

> Calls uses anycast for every connection, so every packet is always routed to the closest Cloudflare location.

Is this true for the UDP media (and data channels) traffic, or just for the initial signaling and connection setup?

If the UDP traffic is all anycast, that's truly impressive engineering work. Bravo!
Accusing a ‘science fiction’ story of strawmanning is pretty weird.

Moreover, ‘Harrison Bergeron’ can easily be paralleled to Bulgakov's ‘Heart of a Dog’, which is a direct jab at the early Soviet Union. However, idk if Vonnegut was interested in that or read Bulgakov.
Do you have any sources to back up your claims?
How's that different than one person showing for an on-site interview and then another person on the first day at the job?
It's a fun thought experiment, I'm wondering though, what problem would that solve?
No one is forcing anyone to use slowstart. You can also disable things like Nagles to improve latency on small packets.

> Even on an infinite bandwidth link, sending a small blob of JSON -- say 200 kilobytes -- will take pretty much the same time as it would on a 1 Gbps link!

Technically that’s incorrect- that will take rtt+200kb/rate assuming your window is over 200kb. So depending on how large rtt is bw component may or may not be significant
Happened with my partner, and have heard of this from a lot of friends. This is a real issue. It hurts 'real' candidates and everyone that takes time to be apart of the hiring process.

HR dept's are simply unable/ill-equipped to handle this new reality. Honestly, at larger org's this is really an upper management issue first and foremost, as HR dept's are sort of benefiting from these frauds. ( Before you go off on that last sentence, I did say 'sort of' - and I personally believe in 'you get what you incentivize'...so)
My theory is that Putin ordered it. He recently made two major escalations, mobilization and annexation, that greatly decrease the odds of a peaceful settlement and increase the odds of him being overthrown internally. This move undercuts the leverage a new leader would have after a coup, since it will be harder to get gas flowing again following a truce.

Putin seems to be staking his entire regime on this war and likely feels that upping the stakes is to his benefit. His odds of winning a conventional military victory are looking more and more slim, but ratcheting up the risk might get the West to back down, at least in his mind.
Need art be productive?
I’ve never seen it be close to any job I’ve ever had access to data for
Fit and finish has absolutely collapsed in recent Apple software. Glitches and bugs all over the place. It's almost enough to tempt one to see if this really is, finally, the year of Linux of the desktop. Almost.

I would disagree about Apple making products to be disposable, though! I've found Apple hardware to be incredibly long lasting. Their phones, ipads, and iphones all last years and years and years in my experience.
> pay off the whole $240 billion USD debt owed by the Philippines.

Why do this?
This is not corruption as that is a legal term that doesn’t apply. I assume you’re left leaning: as usual your worried more about how bad you’re deluded into thinking we are, all at the expense of actual suffering people (the Iranian population.)

Your worldview is sick and petty. There are people out there living under actual evil regimes stop conspiracy theorizing about how shit you don’t even understand.
Can't parse if satiric, or not, distracted ATM. But if satiric, why would that be a bad thing, to be able to point to a generalized concept, the essence, which otherwise requires much more words to describe? Like 'Gell-Mann-Amnesia' f.i.?
The SEC isn't accusing anyone in the US of bribery. Their concern is that Oracle had inadequate documentation requirements for certain kinds of spending and discounts, allowing subsidiaries in other countries to falsely claim their bribes as legitimate business spending. If there were evidence that anyone in the US told people to pay these bribes, that would be a much bigger deal, and in similar cases people have definitely gone to jail for that.
The difference between Pythagorean and equal temperament is as much as almost 1/3rd of a half step. You don't need to be a musician to hear that.