skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're not FAANG or JPMorgan, but he's not the CEO of Elon's Cheese Emporium on Main either. SpaceX has a market cap of $100B, Tesla $700B. That's bigger than any company I'm CEO of.

Actually, due to the downturn Netflix's market cap is only $125B, and Meta is $250B. So although they aren't all monstrously huge, I'd say Elon's companies are pretty big and require work to keep running.
> against a known, never to have consumed population, from a Muslim country?

Or, a population with a greater incentive to lie about past consumption?..
> But what really gets on my nerves is when websites don't even offer better 2FA options like software tokens and hardware tokens to power users.

The number of users on most B2C businesses who want this and would use this as a differentiator when choosing a product would be minuscule.

How do you recover your account if you lose the 2FA device? If the service offers email or SMS recovery then it’s not any better than SMS 2FA.

As a regular “power user” consumer all you should need to do is use a randomised password generator and password manager, not reuse passwords and use 2FA if a available.
From your source: "By far, the biggest category of discretionary spending is spending on the Pentagon and military. In most years, this accounts for more than half of the discretionary budget."
It's basically a SEPA transfer as they already exist, except instant. I'm not sure how Poland would fit into this exactly as the press release specifically mentions payments in euro, not zloty.

Dutch banks have supported instant payments for a couple of years now, and the way person to person payments are most often done is through something called a "Tikkie" which involves sending someone a payment URL (via any messaging platform or a QR code) which then opens their own banking app on their phone.
Facebook also uses PHP. The fact that somebody made a huge service work with a specific tool doesn't automatically imply it's the best tool, or even a good tool.
The amount of effort being expended even on a niche forum like this one to police the narrative and carry out a sort of rearguard action while "the science" around covid and covid-related pharma products and interventions continues to evolve towards what some conspiracy theorists have claimed all along is fascinating to behold.
That's funny - my experience is digital is much clearer than an old analog line.
Pantone is what the printers use. If you want to get the most accurate representation of your colors, you use Pantone. Pantone doesn't need to get you addicted; its target market already needs them.

You can care less about your colors, but for some categories of graphic designers, that's not an option.
I am sorry, but you sound like you know for a fact that functional programming is better, but you have trouble making others recognize that fact.

Imho, FP has many tangible weaknesses, just a few off the top of my head:

- Immutability is non-intuitive: If I were to ask someone to make an algorithm that lists all the occurrences of a word on a page, they wouldn't intuitively come up with an algorithm that takes a slice of text and a list of occurrences, then returns an extended list, and an linked list with one more occurrence.

- Immutability can cause more problems than solve: If I were to create a graph of friendships between people, chances are that if I were to add a link between A and B, then not only A and B would need to be updated, but everyone who transitively knows A and B (which, since no man is an island would probably mean, everyone). This is highly complex, and probably just as bad as living with mutability.

- FP is not performant: FP code tends to be full of pointers and non-performant data structures like linked lists that have very little memory locality. It also makes optimizations such as updating things in a certain order to avoid recalculation impossible.

- FP has to deal with side effects: The real world has side effects, and your FP code is probably a bit of business logic that responds to a HTTP request, and fires of some other request in turn. These things have unavoidable side effects.
"That didn't happen in England."

That is precisely what happened. No market buyers for GILTS because tax cut play jeopardized future debt obligations by the government.
Nextdoor is literally this. It’s twitter/Reddit but for geographically isolated groups.
Semi-untethered permasigned jailbreak for iOS 15
> Hybridization of object-oriented and functional approaches seems like a decent approach to theses problems.

It's too complex and loses a lot:

> Contemporary imperative languages could continue the ongoing trend, embrace closures, and try to limit mutation and other side effects. Unfortunately, just as "mostly secure" does not work, "mostly functional" does not work either. Instead, developers should seriously consider a completely fundamentalist option as well: embrace pure lazy functional programming with all effects explicitly surfaced in the type system using monads.

https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/6/175179-the-curse-of-...
Unfortunately, politicians in the US lack the foresight and willpower to enact any of those changes because that would necessitate foregoing short term gains. Even if we pulled another $31 trillion out of thin air, none of these problems are getting fixed. Anything that takes longer than four years has a hugely diminished chance of getting traction and that is not going to change in the foreseeable future.
Why doesn’t the open source community organize around projects that are just as far? Chrome and Safari were based on open source projects like Konqueror, Webkit, Chromium and Blink. They do 90% of the heavy lifting.

Want an open source facebook / twitter? Here you go: https://qbix.com/platform
Anything is a lot of money if you offer no basis for comparison. A million dollars seems like a lot until you say that it's what you paid to build a downtown skyscraper.
Build data pipelines in no-code (best open-source tools under the hood)
Or I'll see a street name I'm looking for, zoom in directly on that name, and it disappears.
Ledger Investing (YC W17) is hiring
The most common are the Pantone formula guide or bridge books, and those are closer to $300

It's still quite a bit, but even the FHI chip books are under $1k. You have to be doing something a bit nuts like getting the full plastic chip carousels to get up into the thousands.
> CGI can be automated

Having worked in CG for several decades, this is a pretty misleading summary. CG takes a lot of manual work, and there are other reasons and benefits to using CG than how much manual work it takes. It’s often less work than practical but not always. There are certain kinds of things that can be automated (with a lot of manual setup work!) but most of what you see in movies also involves lots and lots of manual work for every single shot. It’s not unlike how machines get used to automate certain parts of practical effects work, using for example, compressors, electrical rigging, vehicles, pneumatics & hydraulics, gas & explosives, etc..

> We already see people getting $MODELLING_PROGRAM proficient in a few weeks.

This is similar to saying we already see people getting C++ proficient in a few weeks. Some people can write very useful & interesting programs within a few weeks, but nobody understands all of it by then, and nobody’s getting a high paid career on just a few weeks of noodling. It takes a long time to understand all the ins and outs, and independently it takes a long time to understand complementary computer science fundamentals. Same is true for Maya, Blender, Houdini, etc.. Someone might have something cool to show after a few weeks, but nobody is ready to make a CG movie by then, and nobody is landing the good jobs in CG. (By “nobody” I’m talking about statistical relevance, not that it has never happened.)

Another reason a few weeks is insufficient for landing good jobs is that the CG industry is highly competitive; you have to be better than the guy who’s gone to art school and played in Blender for a few years if you want that job.
The programming world peaked with structured and modular styles. Everything else is random noise.

Keep your programs nicely structured and easy to follow. No code "architecture" nonsense, please.
This thread is about his ability to be a CEO. Which can also utilize smoke and mirrors.
I wouldn't lose to much sleep over it. It's going to feel like only $25 Trillion in debt in a few years, thanks to inflation. ;-)
No, it would ignite the liquid.
> [Edited to explicitly indicate that this was a satirical post]

Nobody would be able to tell in our era.
Mastodon has a nice feature where you can prove ownership of a link in your profile by setting a backlink on it (implying you at least control the content of that page).

So, if you don't want to set up your own Mastodon instance under your domain, you can instead link your Mastodon account to your homepage running on a domain of your choice. It's not something I bother to do, because I'm nobody important, but if I was e.g. Taylor Swift or something, I could show that my Mastodon account was affiliated with www.taylorswift.com, and thus give you a pretty good idea that I'm actually the real deal.

From the Edit Profile page on Mastodon (v3.5.3):

> You can verify yourself as the owner of the links in your profile metadata. For that, the linked website must contain a link back to your Mastodon profile. The link back must have a rel="me" attribute. The text content of the link does not matter.
> these use-cases were not sufficiently covered in the past.

Many systems do not have those use cases. Everybody needs an init system, so that's where systemd could have been the fix to the deficiencies of sysvinit (as marketed). Instead, it merely kind of works as init, sometimes with random errors and disrespecting the keyboard input when things go wrong. And then instead of fixing and polishing that experience, developers expanded into million other directions, including DNS, container management and what not. Systemd is becoming a bad OS like Windows is.

> User session are also now handled in systemd - one less component to be developed by the "Desktops" - yay!

But systemd is used on servers too, and the user sessions and broken behaviour it introduces are a needless pain best to be disabled there. User sessions and related is really something Desktops should be handling, since it only makes sense on Desktops.
This article doesn't really have anything to do with the Washington Post, and it's not any more about WaPo than any other twitterer. It's an opinion piece that happens to be by one of the Washington Post's stable of writers, but she has no more say over their policy than you do.
There has been this kind of rhetoric around Elon things a lot. "Wheres the reusuable booster?" "Where is the model 3?" "Haha the model 3 is in a tent".

Meanwhile the model 3 and Y dominate world EV sales, and the reusable boosters have become a boring part of weekly life.

I'm not sure I would interpret Elons aspirational predictions as lack of involvement. It isn't unusual to publicly push for the impossible in the hopes you get close to it. Coaches and managers all do this.
Meta has become a creepy metaphor for facebook: briefly the new cool kid on the block, but now awkwardly shows up at high school parties with their letter jacket on, talking about the time they almost made it to State.
I guess this is mostly for generating localhost certs, that was not what I thought you needed this for. I was listing stuff that is a problem with running your own CA, so mainly if you are unlucky enough to be behind a enterprise proxy. I.e. how to import trusted certs everywhere.

I can not remember how and where you need to install these certs, but it just about finding where different applications store their trust stores. Lots of them have their own solutions.

Npm has an option in the config that allow you to choose your own ca location.
C/C++ is just 1 in the limit, right?
I feel like I'm in another universe from this writer. 9.9 times out of 10 my AirPods connect immediately when I pop them them before answering and if they take a second longer we are in <10 seconds before everything is good to go. The caller shouldn't have any of these issue (if they do they are a moron, connect your headphones, if you want to use them, before you make a call) and the callee doesn't have any issues if it's a scheduled call. It takes some nerve to call someone without texting/emailing about it ahead of time if it's not an emergency and if they need a second to get headphones in then that's all on you.

Not to mention headphones aren't a necessity. Sure they are nice but if someone calls me and I think it's going to be quick I just answer and hold the phone up, it's not the end of the world.
That just proves the original poster's point, that the potential for future original work will be erased.

How often are we seeing innovative advancements in the field of horseback couriers, blacksmithing and thatching nowadays?
You have to pay to receive a service? Good heavens!
Google owns Waze
Google maps used to work much better, IMHO, in speed and directions. Their insertion of POI and advertisements into the applications and the website slowed down the chrome a lot.
> Contemporary imperative languages could continue the ongoing trend, embrace closures, and try to limit mutation and other side effects. Unfortunately, just as "mostly secure" does not work, "mostly functional" does not work either.

https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/6/175179-the-curse-of-...
Can you elaborate? What you wrote seems to contradict this source:

"Roughly one-quarter of the Department of Defense’s budget is for military personnel."

https://www.cbo.gov/topics/defense-and-national-security/mil...
And discretionary spending is a quarter of the total budget.
My bank wanted me to verbally give them a new password (with various constaints like uppercase, lowercase, symbols, at least 12 characters) over the phone, having already identified with a dozen or so personal bits of information.

Apparently it was perfectly secure because to use it I also need an SMS
In terms of Modular design, Webkit is pretty much it.

The thing with modern browser is that we cant even Render an interactive HTML5 CRUD apps at 120fps at low latency with zero drop frames and jitter. Something many Simple Native Apps could do.
It is inconvenience, but necessary one.

Would you like your bank to make it convenient for you to get your money if you forgot your ID? It is double edged sword -- convenient for you is also convenient for somebody who might want to steal your money.

So no, I do not object to AWS doing due diligence when I recover my password because I know this hopefully makes me a bit more secure from somebody else doing the same.
There are systems that are designed to shut themselves down before potentially causing damage.

In hardware: overheating CPUs.

In software: BSODs or kernel panics.

The only reason more abstract levels, such as web servers, databases and userspace applications, can solve their problems in the way you describe, is that there is a lower abstraction level that deals with the truly bad failing system states for them.

So then the question becomes, what is the equivalent lower abstraction level system of the human economy? If it doesn't exist, it will have to be shutdown and restarted or redesigned to not reach a failure state, or do the economic equivalent of a BSOD.

At least if the environmentalits' perspective that climate change is an existential threat is true, which of course is not necessarily true. There are many possible scenarios between human extinction, a permanent state of human misery, and successful adaptation which could be possible.
> People are seemingly scared away from the language by a terrible stigma: the notion that it is a legacy program.

My personal experience: Universities (in Germany) simply stopped teaching C++. Most of it is now Python or C#.
>merit (judged by demonstrated academic performance)

That isn't the definition of "merit" that these colleges are looking for. Demonstrated academic performance is a part of it, to be sure, but it's not the ballgame.

e.g. https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/apply/what-we-look
See this earlier discussion on problems that homeless people face re 2FA https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33120534
Can you share the data on the reduction in spread the vaccines offered across different variants to back up your claim? I've never seen the data so I'd be curious to see what you're referring to.

Do note that neither the Pfizer nor Moderna vaccines actually tested risk of infection or transmission. You can download the clinical trial protocols and read what the clinical trials actually measured. Patients in the trial were only tested upon symptoms and the endpoint measured was severity of disease.

I believe it was only the J&J vaccine that actually regularly tested patients to see if there was a difference in protection against acquiring Covid. They did not test protection against transmission.
The point is that 1/3 cents a play isn't a lot. Argue against that claim if you like, but engage with it instead of using weird rhetoric to avoid it.
Agreed. Now's a good opportunity for Twitter users to consider whether or not having Twitter in their life at all is a net positive.
This is really interesting!

Sending some feedback over a mailer.
I've read a lot of praise for India's IMPS. In a digitalized world with widespread usage of mobile devices universal instantaneous intra-bank payments are an obvious step forward. It'd be great if this could in some way remove the dependency on the payment processors duopoly while keeping fees low or non-existent (at the moment, depending on your gateway, instant SEPAs have a few euros fees) and decreasing friction as the proposal says, let alone the security implications. Merchants would also be more willing to adopt these technologies in less developed areas.
Good. If you want to pay with your personal data, use gmail. If you want to keep your personal data, then pay the people who run the service with actual money.
if there's one thing I'm sure of, its that Congress getting involved will do anything but help the situation
Microtubules are Biological Computers: searching for the mind of a cell
You can. You make clones.
Changing banks is not free market just like Changing Insurance Companies. Most banks in US enforce SMS 2FA. I would rather want the choice of not doing SMS 2FA. If you cannot implement better 2FA, dont force me to use SMS 2FA and I assume the risk on my end. That's Free Market.
Tis doesn't give you 1) ease of use and 2) composability.
From what it sounds like from press coverage of this first week of Elon's Twitter, Elon has a team of trusted advisors who all excel at their particular skills. I assume he passes a lot of executive work down to them.
"Nobody cares" and "this is a complicated thing that we've spent a year+ building a replacement for" don't seem very congruent to me. That said, it's a rather awful issue for a service like this to have for that long.
And why shouldn't they? That's like the whole reason to even have a high-bandwidth internet connection.
I bootstrapped and sold my last company. Looking to meeting interesting people who want to build cool stuff. Only interested if you're in NYC. I can do everything, but if I write code it will be a bad use of my time, so a dev co-founder would be ideal. Email in profile.
I've been there. After almost three years of very intense work. I was the technical leader in a team with, at that time, not very experienced people. We had to do a huge migration of one of the most important projects of the company. I had to work very hard: 9:00 to 21:00, weekends, crazy on-calls, refactoring tons of crap by myself, fighting with the management which, at the beginning, had a very authoritative attitude towards anything that wasn't strictly lift and shift the pile of utter garbage we had in the first place as they were not the ones suffering it, arguments and what not. I had success, got promoted, got the respect from everyone, salary raise etc you name it. Covid hit and the state of the world + working from home (which I personally dislike)...I suddenly started to feel like my brain wasn't working. Got stressed and mentally blocked by literally any slight sign of effort. What is happening? I asked myself. Am I getting old? Perhaps I hit many times my head when doing impact sports when I was younger (real thoughts I had BTW). I wrongly assumed it was just due to boredom. I requested a change to a different team that worked in an area I was more interested. Same crap, tons of garbage, even more crazy on calls, some people expecting me to pull the rabbit from my hat again...no freaking way. Then I quit the company and moved to a new one. In the new place, despite I was earning a huge amount of money in comparison, suffered from the same. Apart from that new place being an absolute sad joke, brain blocked, which triggered insecurities, which triggered a feeling of impostor syndrome etc. I left that company, took a month off and started into a different company, this time in an architect role (no on calls, design and planning focussed etc). Still feeling the burn out reminiscences but slightly better.

I am still on my way to be fully recovered (assuming one day it will eventually happen). Things I recommend:

1. Find another thing other than work and, I insistently suggest, other than even CS, that you might enjoy. In my case, climbing. It keeps me healthy, focussed and relaxed. It gives me self confidence as I see I accomplish new challenges and I progress. Also, it has helped me to improve my social skills and to appreciate and enjoy interaction with people with different interests other than computers. Computer Science is not everything.

2. Change your area. Nowadays, I simply refuse to fall back again into that "reactive-devops-trenches-wake-up-at-4:00am-and-follow-this-runbook" or "refactor-this-crap-and-fight-the-folklore". Life is short and health goes first.

3. Assume work does not define you. Do your job the best you can but remember, you are not gonna inherit the company. Become cynical but not toxic.

4. Have compassion for yourself. What you feel is completely normal. You are not weak. You simply got wasted by an industry that is mainly, IMHO a utter shitshow in 99% of the cases. Allow yourself to suffer.

Anyways, I wish you the best and really hope you recover.
Looks like C++ developers / holdouts will be commanding 400-600k salaries in the comming decades, like those arcane COBOL wizards still tinkering on banking mainframes.
> that is much higher than the normal published numbers by 10-100x.

$3.65 per thousand is at the low end of what I see elsewhere. For example https://twostorymelody.com/spotify-pay-per-stream/ has $3-$5 per thousand.

> I'm not clear what your point is.

I think the distribution of streaming revenues is generally reasonably fair, and people who say things like "Spotify pays artists nothing" are confused about either (a) how much money there is to divide up or (b) where it is going.
I agree Nestlé should go to jail for child labor. The thing is they're a European company. We can't just lump everything into "western governments". That's like half the world.

The thing is,anybody these IP theft cases are also against Chinese law, they his choose to ignore it when it benefits them.

Corruption is everywhere, it's not an excuse to strive for anything less than right and truth. "Bevause they did it" is not a good reason.
Yeah I saw that. I assumed it was a lie. Maybe I'm giving them too much credit, lol
Cash received in the form of interest payments (income) is sent to the US Treasury.[a]

Cash received in the form of principal payments is "destroyed" (by debiting outstanding assets with corresponding credits to outstanding liabilities in the Fed's balance sheet).

[a] https://www.wsj.com/articles/higher-interest-rates-fuel-loss...