skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zawinski's Law. [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski.27s_La...
> In America, tax cuts lead to inflation

I would find this surprising. Do you have charts for this, and which historical timeframes?
>For instance, if your peers are more interested in advancing politics at work or exploiting perks, it will create tension with those that just want to do meaningful work.

It is funny how people always consider their own politics as neutral. This is an inherently political statement as it sets up "advancing politics" as opposition to "meaningful work".

For some people the "meaningful work" they "just want to do" is to make the world a better place and that often isn't possible without "advancing politics". Maybe the "interesting product space" is to get one of the world's largest companies to reduce carbon emissions. People like that might view building adtech as the chore they endure for the opportunity to do "meaningful work" of fighting climate change.
Libraries, same reason we subsidize libraries.
Pandemic not-withstanding or are you accounting for that?
one book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ
I often use this one https://osintframework.com/

For which the source is there https://github.com/lockfale/osint-framework
> The reprehensible exploitation of sex workers does not make sex work inherently bad.

Yes, let's avoid slippery slopes, please make things clear. What defines "bad" or "good" here? How much money porneia makes for those profiteering from it? How much pleasure the consumers get? What the health expert of the day prescribes? All I can gather so far is that you have better reasons to say porneia production isn't bad because your friends willingly do it.

I'm glad you mentioned the producers of porneia, because my comment was focused on the consumers, and I keep forgetting about the harm that comes to people who profit from the industry.
Love the domain name. Gave me a chuckle.
I wonder what the difference is between a CTO's relationship with the company they are building the tech for, and a civil engineer/architect/foreman's relationship with the company they are constructing a building for...

Maybe the CTO never stops building? Is that enough of a difference for why the average CTO has stock options and (I presume) the architect/civil engineer/foreman etc doesn't have stock in the company that hired them?

Both involve organizing massive amounts of human labour and resources over years and building something the company is dependant upon to succeed and function.
You're saying to record ads you see about it on TV or something? (Just to eliminate the "My computer is secretly recording me" angle)
“Durable Computronics”
Even reading the whole article, it still doesn’t really make sense… the plan was just to put up hotspots in random parts of the world then..?
France sets minimum book delivery fee in anti-Amazon struggle
It had stiff competition.

Sony's Minidisc was similar in quality at launch and improved later on. By 2000 or so they introduced "Net MD" which lets you transfer music from your computer to MD over a USB player the same way you transfer music to a flash player with track titles and all. Sony's "Sonic Stage" software was terrible and DRM-infected but now there is great open source software for it.

People in the US probably thought Minidisc was a flop but it was big in Japan and many other countries and has a hobby scene today because used hardware is still affordable.

I remember analog cassette tapes as having terrible hiss in the 1980s, but Dolby S noise reduction hit the market around the same time as DCC. A Dolby S deck had to have a high quality transport and electronics to calibrate recording for a particular tape. If you use a metal tape on a Dolby S deck the quality is very close to a CD. I think a Dolby S deck cost more than a DCC deck back in the day but now you can get an S deck for about $200 on Ebay and a DCC deck is more like $1000.

Metal tapes though are outrageously expensive in 2022. This Youtuber got me interested in retro audio

https://www.youtube.com/c/techmoan

I had some nostalgia for cassettes and thought about getting an S deck but decided to get into minidisc instead because I could get both a portable and home recorders for minidiscs for about what a Dolby S deck costs.

My understanding is that the DCC tapes were basically Type II ("chrome") cassettes that had some notches cut in the shell to identify them as DCC tapes.

In 1993 CD-R recorders cost around $10,000, nobody believed that CD-R would be affordable by the late 1990s.
No, just having to match how Matlab did the calculation (development of an index) to implementing the same thing in C++ (necessitating showing the calculation returned same significant digits for the precision we expected). I've seen a Heisenbug and that was really weird. Happened during uni so I didn't have to start tracing down compiler bugs. Not even sure if I could, happened with Java.
It is not practical to constrain what happens in the case of undefined behavior, even if you discard the potential of the compiler to optimize assuming undefined behavior can't happen.

For example, what memory has and hasn't been written when a trap occurs isn't. Hell, on some architectures (hi Alpha!), an unknown amount of code will continue executing after the trapping instruction before the trap handler gets around to being invoked. Similar insanity is also in play when data races are involved (if data races are undefined, you can pretend that all code is sequentially consistent and there is a nice, simple, global total order of memory accesses. Data races cause memory accesses to not even be a consistent partial order.)

Or take pointer provenance. Writing to an unknown memory location may cause printf in another thread to instead call system("rm -rf /").

How the hell is one supposed to document the potential behavior of undefined behavior when undefined behavior is so inherently unconstrainable, and "undefined behavior can do anything" is considered unacceptable documentation?
Astronomers Find a Sun-Like Star Orbiting a Nearby Black Hole – Universe Today
All of those are niche features that will not hold back the tide of Chrome
Yes.

Unless you were raised in an environment very different than the world you are in today. e.g. your youth was in a hostile environment and now you are in a safe environment. Or your youth was in a safe environment and now you are in a hostile environment. In that case, I am not sure how you unfuck yourself. The former case seems to lead to the most difficult to correct instincts.

It's easier to become harder and more mortified than to become softer, more pliable, and more trusting.
Remind me of Hegel (https://hegel.js.org/) but with typescript compatibility. It's a pity Hegel develompent stopped because war in Ukraine (https://github.com/JSMonk/hegel/issues/363). Looks really cool but in my opinion would better to concetrate on type checking living other things (vdom, ssr) out or in optional plugins
anyone else think it's really strange this is "Ezno" and not "Enzo"?
"it's illegal in Europe to pay interns nothing"

There are articles as recent as February 2022, reporting on calls to make unpaid internships illegal in the EU. Has something happened since then to make that a reality? (I didn't find anything.)
Those submarines are going to be pretty sweet.
The Number of Ants Worldwide Reaches into the Quadrillions
I think it depends a lot on where the library is in its lifecycle.

A new library should iterate rapidly and be very clear about that. Big warnings, obvious version numbering, and good communications. You look for an audience of actual users that can keep up with that. That's how you figure out what the right library is, both in terms of the big abstractions and the small details.

But then once you hit a 1.0 release, things change. You're shifting from an audience of fellow explorers to an audience who wants stability. You can still do exploratory work, but it has to be additive in the 1.x series, and eventually you need to start a 2.x series as you learn more about what needs to change. So the iteration still happens, it just happens away from the people who just want the basic thing you got right via the initial burst of iteration.
People believe it is impossible even when the evidence is right in front of them in the form of others walking and cycling. It most definitely is an issue of social will more than anything.
Is this speculation or has there actually been an analysis of how many ads are unblockable?

I’ve used a declarative ad blocker on iOS for years and haven’t seen ads in a long time, especially not on big websites like Youtube

Just sounds like a bunch of speculative hysteria tbh.
>Then again, there's probably people who thought the same about 32 bit addresses when we moved from 16bit to 32bit addresses.

There's a fun "quote" about 384k being all anyone would ever need, so clearly everyone just needs to settle down and figure out how to refactor their code.
If it’s true that these are interstellar and were very abnormally strong, a non-mundane hypothesis would be ablative shells around probes.

The actual probe could be small. It lands in the ocean from which it can observe simple microbial life without even needing locomotion of its own.
Wen didn't have liquid nitrogen, but a overnight in a freezer worked too. I just did that last year for a friend's external drive.
U.S. Military Bought Mass Monitoring Tool for Internet Browsing, Email Data
Just always use memcpy, you should always know the size of your buffers and if you don’t you will get a buffer overflow at some point.
Unfortunately for them it isn't a product they can control with the legislation they are choosing.

There will be significant problems with CA power infrastructure in the near future.
shipping container = 40x8x8ft

microsd card = 15x11x1mm, 0.5g

fits 437,503,976 cards = 379 EiB, costs $43.7B

219 metric tons

8 EiB ~ 10,000,000 TB = fills the shipping container 2.2% high or 56mm or 2 inches, 5 metric tons, costs $1B

shipping containers are rated for up to 24 metric tons, so ~40 EiB $5B 10 inches of cards etc
I was looking for a solution to the problem posed but found none.
They probably have the key, but decrypting takes server time and why bother? They are the ones who encrypt it and decrypt it. Just scan the plain text. Which they must do in order to encrypt the message.
Of course, it is far more efficient system-wide to charge electric cars around noon, where photovoltaic energy produces a surplus of energy with zero marginal economic value.

It is an elegant way of solving at least part of the storage problem and the mismatch between peak power and demand times.
Ah thanks, I didn't know that was possible. It did have email.

If it's integrated into such activities, it might actually be a good explanation for all the other similar scenarios blamed on WhatsApp.
I wonder if there's any correlation between times someone travels 400 miles and times when they are not home... we probably need a study or something to figure it out.
Just this morning listened to an episode of David Roberts’ Volt podcast that gave me some great ideas - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/volts/id1548554104?i=1...

The TL;DR is show up at the local places where policy is being decided (state and local public comment meetings) and be the potentially one voice in the room with any comment at all.
I recall my HP laptop with nvidia gpu getting painfully hot to the touch while raiding in WoW:TBC, probably could have cooked an egg on that sucker. It eventually gave up the ghost and I have to assume it was due to the heat.
So, you joined, found out that you can do this, now you have CTO of a small company on your resume. Which does mean something.

It sounds like you've gotten out of this employment what you originally wanted. I think this is the point where you need a transparent conversation with the owners about your role, and your future. Make sure to structure it in a non-adversial way, and make it something along the lines of how you see all these possibilities of improvement that could yield great results for the company, and that you'd really like to work on it more than just the 9to5 to make it happen, but not having skin in the game to reap the full benefits of your work when it will inevitably bring in a lot of money is a mental drag that you'd like to get rid of.

Be prepared to talk numbers. Have an idea in your mind of what you're going after. Be prepared to have it negotiated as an options agreement. E.g., that you buy it with your money at some valuation. Be prepared that their offer may be insulting to you. Be prepared to move on in case it doesn't work out. This is really in a lot of ways about what kind of a relationship you have with the owner(s).
For the small amount I consume, tiny potential savings are not worth the mental hassles. I switched a residence to flat rate to avoid these mental games.
A Raymond Chen post about the function pointer craziness: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150731-00/?p=90...
CA Legislature Passes Salary Transparency Law
Ah, the boiling frog strategy. Effective but definitely evil.

Is "don't be evil" still part of the Google's official ethos?
And what's the productivity measure for such bosses who are pearl clutching?

Butts in seats policy and employee monitoring software are not good methods for measuring productivity. Measure actual output, then bitch
Factorio is the best game I've ever played. It's so good.
That movie showed ip addresses with fields greater than 255!
Science used to be based on theology.

Both Oppenheimer and Whitehead, in their respective histories of science, say that it grew out of a Christian world view - that God created the universe. And not just any God, but a reasonable God, and therefore there was (theological) ground for expecting that the universe could be understood by reason.

This was the difference between the start of western science and, say, the Greeks. The Greeks had most of the facts that western science had at 1600. But the Greek gods did random stuff to the universe for random reasons, and within that world view, there was no point systematically and rationally investigating the universe.

But that was then. Science now is not built on that world view. Science now is built on the track record of science delivering for the last 400 years. Many (most?) people today believe the scientific method without believing the Christian world view. It remains to be seen whether that 400-year record of success is a sufficient epistemological base for science to continue, but it's certainly more than "pure gut".
Fly made infrastructure really hard for me because their hypervisors cpuid emulation broke my program.

Yes, fly employees, I will file a bug somewhere - or email me.
Always thought it was suspicious that all documentation, videos, discussion was around mining Helium tokens, not around how to use the network for something real
Grand Theft Auto 6 Hacker Reportedly Arrested
What you're talking about is "implementation defined" behavior, which is a distinct concept from "undefined behavior".
If I am being compensated a premium $/kwh for each kwh drawn then we have no problem. Otherwise I'll just not offer my battery by disconnecting it when not charging.
Unless the brownies are falling from about 20 meters up, your indecision is wasted.
Show HN: Magellan VHDL Monitor
Monitor registers through TCL commands (via JTAG to AXI module) and/or display on Basys 3 board
Was the 2014 Euromaidan revolution a “coup” by the U.S. and Ukrainian Nazis: No
For some reason some people just really hate the idea that intelligence is something that can be measured with some accuracy. You're just repeating their discredited arguments that have been reliably debunked for decades now.

In reality, intelligence is the single most selected for human trait and it correlates with, to a greater or lesser extent, being better at basically everything. In other words, it has many phenotypic consequences. That includes some pretty surprising things, like semen quality[1] and height[2]. And then there's the obvious stuff like higher IQ correlating with better performance in school and work[3]. It also correlates with higher income and lower criminality, but those effect sizes are smaller.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222683944_Intellige...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3617178/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Social_c...
Because you live in a society that you benefit from people contributing towards, and it's good for that society
There was also this from the other day.

LibRedirect: Redirect YouTube, Twitter, Instagram to privacy friendly services

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32916318
Of course! No one is forcing you to, these programs are voluntary.
SPAC Boom Comes to End as Chamath Palihapitiya Folds
It just happened right here on HN... clearly HN is spying on your conversations /s
>Even better would be to plug the car in at all times when parked either at work or home and it just charges when the rate is cheapest.

99% of people have a fixed rate 24/7/365. I live in NYC and I'm not even sure if it's possible for me to pay time of use rates. The time of day that electricity is cheapest is... all the time.

I sincerely doubt there is any public or political will to change this engrained billing method. People will not willingly change their habits, and any politician proposing reducing quality of life will just get thrown out
A zero-trust model is appropriate for estimating information quality on the internets, as the notion of a 'reliably reputable source' no longer makes much sense (if it ever did).

What this means is that statements from individuals and organizations about real-world events can't really be trusted unless they include links to the data their claims are based on, and are also transparent about how that data was analyzed and interpreted.
Music videos and live performances are about 99% of my YouTube consumption, so it's been a great MTV replacement for me.
"I remembered the time I was in my fraternity house at MIT when the idea came into my head completely out of the blue that my grandmother was dead. Right after that, there was a telephone call, just like that. It was for Pete Bernays--my grandmother wasn't dead. So I remembered that, just in case somebody told me a story that ended the other way." -- Richard Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman"
> if MSFT made IE a necessary component to upgrade the operating system,

> then insisting the OS

Arguing that a change that had no technical merit made IE necessary, when you are under scrunity for abusing your market position to push IE, seems kinda counterproductive.

> I said it vindicating their decision- not that IE was a good foundation to build a presentation layer on.

Then how does chrome OS vindicate them? You obviously agree that IE was not fit for that purpose.
Are you trying to say that FB was never caught on privacy scandals before? Did it blow their reputation?
You have to ask yourself, if titles weren't involved, what is your role at the company. Are you really steering the direction of the company? Do you have actual monetary investment into the company?

-OR- are you really just a manager of an IT department?

Small companies are notorious for over inflated job titles. I suspect you're not as much CTO as you are manager of the IT department.

I don't see you getting any sort of equity unless you are bringing something important to the table, like cash or an existing product.

The company is compensating you for your work and ideas. Only you can decide if their compensation is fair. If you don't feel that it is, which it's plain to see that you do not, then negotiate with them or leave for better pay.
But the cooling....

Seriously, that was great math you did there, and a neat way to think about volume. That's a standard shipping container [0], which is less than I thought it would be.

[0] - https://www.mobilemodularcontainers.com/products/storage-con...
How I Journal with the Apple Notes and Shortcuts Apps
Navigating the Pain of Your First Bear Market
I would be okay with a "give me at least x range by tomorrow" button, so that the car can also feed back to the grid if I happen to have more in the tank than I need.
I don’t know about that, I was never particularly stressed at college or school. I’m way, way more effected by stress at work where failure to deliver has massive consequences on the state of my startup or the lives of the people that work there.
It's easy to say productivity relating any metrics convenient for me so productivity matches my expectations. Why don't they share their metrics. And even when they do, as I see Microsoft's vision is so opinionated, I would doubtedly believe on their methods for collection and accuracy.
Being realistic, whenever you work from home you are more responsible of what you do, so if you finish what you do in fewer hours but the "manager" gives you extra work because of his expectations from "work from home" where higher from the beginning, thus manager's expectations will always be higher than what is possible in reality
Whenever you post a link in Whatsapp, the app tries to create a card from the metadata available in the link. The procedure to make the card presumably goes through fb servers and is outside the e2e. Could they be using that?

Another hypothesis is that you are taking other steps such as searching for that topic so that you can send something to your wife those extra steps might be enabling tracking.
I've heard this advice before, and the problem with this advice is that people who just use memcpy in practice often write code with bugs in it. So the advice is bad advice. Good advice will result in code that has fewer bugs, or bugs with lower severity.
I think we already have enough regulations to hold companies liable for creating a dangerous product, we simply need to use them to hold corporations accountable.

None of this 'oh, our owners manual says you should only charge in these special conditions or we can't be held responsible'. Nope. You make a product and it hurts people or destroys property? You better make your peace with punitive damages that'll make you wish you properly tested before shipping to customers.
People aren't paid the revenue they create. In fact the revenue you create is nothing but an upper limit to how much you can be paid. You get paid what your company believes your replacement cost is. Google believes the market is cooling and therefore replacement cost is decreasing, so pay goes down.
The same issue applies to almost every country's baseload generation infrastructure, with a small exception of hydro (that has some small degree of dispatchability), it is not exclusive to nuclear power generation. Traditional thermo-electric plants also can't ramp up and down their power levels instantaneously.
Software I’m thankful for (2021)