skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
these folks, fwiw, claim there's a $5T opportunity by 2030: https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/growth-marketing-and-s...

tldr: all the $$ still comes from commoditizing community building by subjecting them to ads and counting conversion.

Conversion is always a tricky beast to count, even in our intense tracking of individuals and attempt/successes at tracking users across time, applications, sessions and devices and I'm just honestly not sure how much more humans can handle being advertised to or even spend as things get tighter and tighter. At some point cool new [insert object here] doesn't matter when you are calculating the gas needed to warm your home and thinking about using your hot bathwater to do so.
I can only guess the author isn't thinking systematically about this issue. They know their own motivations, their own coding skills, their own reasons for doing everything, and they know they are submitting well intentioned, beautiful, useful code.

But how do the maintainers know that? They have to review and accept patches from hundreds or thousands of people. Maybe everything would be perfectly fine if they just blindly ack'd the patch from this particular author. But that is certainly not what they should just generally do.
I wish Apple docs would include examples. I'm not an Apple developer but I've played around with SwiftUI and they have fantastic examples.
Isn't this another version of Chesterton's fence - lots of people may seem like they serve no apparent role, until they are gone. This is not to say there aren't some that in fact do serve no role, but careful consideration is required to determine who is who imho.
Agreed. Bikes and e-scooters move at around the same speed, if we had a useful network of protected lanes where I am then both would be attractive options.
The DHS has a mission to fight this. It’s in the law that created the DHS. If people don’t want an open project they’re gonna get a closed one.
To me the Fermi paradox is easily explained by the speed of light being a hard limit on how fast something can go and the fact that space is absolutely enormous. Every expectation of multi planet civilizations simply hand waves away physics. How would they move between stars? "You know, alien stuff. They'll figure it out."

There are also unstated economic assumptions that don't make a lot of sense. Why would they leave their planet anyway? A civilization wealthy and advanced enough to consider traveling to other planets probably does not have a population big enough to support the kind of large scale emigration needed to set up big colonies. Wealthy societies have fewer children. Then of course there is the question of why would you ever leave a planet with such advanced technology and apparent wealth? I would much rather live in any city on earth than a colony on the moon or Mars. How long would it take for those colonies to be as attractive a living space as the place we have right now?
Oxford, Metaverse: a virtual-reality space in which users can interact with a computer-generated environment and other users.
> It mostly puts the risk and consequences on the elderly, disabled, and impoverished.

Citation please?

I looked for 10 minutes, but couldn't find anything that backed your assertion. I did find:

* "People over the age of 65 made up 19 percent of all pedestrian fatalities in 2015." compared with 15% of population over 65.

* twice as many males die as females

* "In 34 percent of these accidents, the pedestrian registered a blood alcohol concentration of at least 0.08"

https://pennygeeks.com/legal-resources/statistics/pedestrian...
So what?

Lately it seems like there are so many accusations of over-promising, but no one explains why this is harmful. Misleading investors? Doesn’t HN hate big money anyway?

In so many cases it seems like someone promises 5x and delivers 3x… I’ll take it, over 0. Then I’ll remember and apply an adjustment factor to future promises.
> former WeWork executive Ted Stedem as Chief Financial Officer

WeWork.
CFO.

This does not inspire the confidence they seem to think it does.
With no pms you dealt directly with the boss and you managed your own tasks so you had a hard deadline and showed demos and once it was done support/training. It was waterfall so not finishing on time meant removing features or finishing early meant added additional features if you had time . Everything was prod. You needed to fix showstopper bugs/crashed but bugs could be harmless (spelling fr example) or situational and complex or show shoppers. You lived with them because bugs were part of the OS or programming language or memory driver experience at the time.
Lots of people are productive WFH, but loads are taking it easy. Often in my team Fridays people barely dial in, maybe are connected a few hours max. Thursday afternoons now are dead as people get ready for the weekend... Job market is still strong so no one really cares that much as we know we're difficult to replace.
> This is mainly media workers exploiting current events for traffic

This is basically what news is. The media "exploits" (reports on) current events, gets traffic and then pays its employees
> Are the scooters powerful enough to take you up Queen Anne hill?

No, but the 2 or 13 are and then a scooter can go where we want if that's not close enough or if it's a particularly bad walking day.

> Much could be done to "fix" the scooter issue by working with the city rather than antagonistically against it

I completely agree! However...

> for example, on streets with parking (almost all of them) the first parking space on each block

...this is astoundingly difficult to pull off in Seattle because people who drive cars have a very high fear of loss, as a general rule, and vehemently oppose efforts to turn car storage areas over to areas for other vehicle types. It's why we've wound up with painted-off areas that get used for refuse bins instead (blocking off where the scooters should go).

> Then modify the app to charge you a $10 "you're a dick" fee

The two apps we use require that you take a picture of where you left the thing when you park it and both of us in the past few months have gotten an email, one apiece, saying "you parked wrong, next time it's $25." (They were right, we didn't leave enough space, we've gotten more diligent.)
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms does not support your point of view

...you mean the encyclopedia that anyone can edit? The one which has been edited to support a viewpoint whose sole source is Keffals herself? That one?

I'm not impressed.

There is no evidence that Keffals was ever contacted by anybody other than her own assertion. Meanwhile, however, there is plenty of evidence that Keffals was part of a group that tried to get troubled teens access to hormones without the knowledge of their parents or physicians. That's all documented at KF. [1]

> Sorrenti later fled the country after her location was identified again

...conveniently omitting the fact that she was raided by the RCMP who seized evidence. It was after that raid she fled the country.

Honestly, you should never cite Wikipedia for anything.

[1] TOR link to Keffals' KiwiFarms thread - http://kiwifarmsaaf4t2h7gc3dfc5ojhmqruw2nit3uejrpiagrxeuxiyx...
The interesting thing about doing mathematics — in a research sense — is that often there is no intuition. Instead, there's a projection from one domain into another, where that projection might have an intuitive proof yet is itself completely unintuitive; and then there are people using that domain-mapping equivalence to prove things in one domain using completely unintuitive statements about them that can only be made in the other domain.

I might liken it to what LLVM's IR optimizer passes do. You put in source code (intuitive), get out object code (also intuitive, for those who know the processor) — but in between, the code passes through various projective and derived forms that are not clean representations of either the source or target form, but instead are just models amenable to certain static analyses — i.e. proofs! — that then allow/deny certain rewrites to happen.

A mathematician is someone who has to do what those IR optimization passes do, in their head. They know that they can derive a projective model, that they can then poke at symbolically, to derive more lemmas that will be able to be mapped back into lemmas about the model outside the projection. That doesn't mean that they intuitively understand what those within-projection steps mean in terms of the outer model. (If they did, they wouldn't need the projected model; they'd just make their deductions in terms of the outer model!) Instead, they just know how the inner model works as a model — how to poke it to make it do things, etc — and they know general rules of math and logic that allow them to prove things within that model, and to transform and map proofs between models. But, in "feeling grounded" terms, they're mostly working blind.
This would probably drive increased base compensation and decreased variable compensation in order to stand out on job boards. I’m among the people who would like that !
Show HN: API that validates tax ID numbers for over 100 countries
Did the headline make anyone else think we were going to see system extensions again?
I'm not an expert on the details of the protocol, so I can't give you a good answer to that. I believe it's just a matter of Mastodon not accepting messages that it knows it won't be able to display correctly. But other "microblog"-oriented Fediverse instances can exchange messages with Mastodon instances just fine.
> As you say we took it too seriously.

The real problem is that many people didn't actually read the book or, if they did, they only took part of it seriously.

Each pattern chapter has a pretty long section that details when you should and should not use the pattern. The authors are very clear about understanding the context and not mis-applying patterns.

But once it became popular (which happened because these patterns are quite useful), it got cargo culted and people started over-applying them because it sent a social signal that, "Hey, I must be a good developer because I know all these patterns."

The software engineering world is a much better one today because of that book now that the pendulum has swung back some from the overshoot.
I've never ever heard this myth before.
Meh, being laughed at by people who couldn't have gotten hired to work at twitter short of buying the company is really easy to dismiss.
If you read HN long enough, there’s also only a dozen or so different types of HN submissions.
They may have a small market share, but they are still the largest and thus have the biggest budgets with few exceptions.
Announcing GUAC, a great pairing with SLSA (and SBOM)
In general, pricing transparency increases market efficiency (and vice versa).
Then they should say that and frame their arguments around that. That's my entire point. Do you see any mention of public transportation improvements in the comment I originally replied to? No, you don't.

The movement has no hope if the movement is simply trying to get rid of cars. "Fuck cars" as they say.
Are you rewarding them for the five-millionth book report on Anne of Green Gables? Or are you rewarding them for the learning process they went through that (almost incidentally) resulted in five-millionth book report on AoGG?
I've always thought that those people are the ones who must have made out like bandits when TSLA was in the upswing. There used to be stories about TSLA millionaires. Those people still exist somewhere. I assume many are thinking Musk can do no wrong given he changed their lives.
I assume the parents and staff at my daycare just have a collective unspoken agreement to not test for covid.

The remaining Covid policies are stupidly inconsistent anyway.

RSV is far more dangerous to children, but that is allowed to go unchecked. Hell, you have to pay $250+ just to get tested for it. Rhinovirus/influenza/norovirus/rotavirus/other coronaviruses are all OK, with kids leaking from both nostrils in the classroom.

But one kid or adult gets Covid and things have to close? Covid tests are paid for by government, but testing for all the other viruses costs hundreds of dollars? What a farce.
This is still a good thing because you know the true limit. So instead of thinking "maybe I can get 60k for this job", you can think "maybe I can get 120k for this job".
It is meta-prescriptive.

It doesn't say, "Do this to make your code better." It says, "If you have this specific problem under these constraints, then this can help."
> Jen Easterly, Biden’s appointed director of CISA, swiftly made it clear that she would continue to shift resources in the agency to combat the spread of dangerous forms of information on social media. “One could argue we’re in the business of critical infrastructure, and the most critical infrastructure is our cognitive infrastructure, so building that resilience to misinformation and disinformation, I think, is incredibly important,” said Easterly, speaking at a conference in November 2021.

How can anyone who was rightly against the authoritarian insanity during the War On Terror justify this sort of thinking? "Trump is bad/election deniers are bad/anti-vaxxers are bad" is not enough. This can and will be spun right around and used against you.
I'm with you. Is there a tangible app example?
But think of all the hundreds of jobs we saved :')
I do think there may be something to that, but I'm not sure what the phenomenon actually is, and I'm not sure it indicates high-quality posts*. For example it may be more that the title doesn't trigger reflexive responses.

* Would that it were so easy! I've never found a programmatic indicator that holds up that way. The data is far too noisy.
You are entirely correct.

I found a Pew study[0] that breaks down the political leanings of Millennials, and it tracks very closely to the Harvard numbers:

57% fall into either "Consistently Liberal" or "Mostly Liberal", while only ~12% fall into "Consistently Conservative" or "Mostly Conservative".

[0]https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2018/03/01/the-generati...
Cloudflare acquihired the Linc team a while back
These things always really need a giant flashing neon note that "productivity" doesn't mean how much workers get done but how much money is made off of what workers get done. They're only loosely connected, and most productivity gains have come from workers having to "do less" to "make more".
Elon Musk dissolves Twitter's board of directors
This is valid opinion but it really is a strong negative to just spout something like this as if it's self-evident, and that any disagreement is obviously just so stupid you don't even need to spend the extra 30 seconds or so to justify it.

The biggest and most obvious question is who gets to decide what qualifies as "disinformation" - including what the difference is between disinformation and just being wrong, and how is that protected from changes in the political landscape?
> Productivity kept on climbing and wages stagnated post ~1980

The growth of government sopped up the difference. Nothing the government does comes for free, and then there's all the additional costs of complying with regulations and doing all the paperwork.
> Yes, but it's also not a good thing to be tricked into thinking you're helping people, when you're really being exploited.

Why can't it be both? For you, you probably think that "avoiding being exploited by your employer" is more important than helping people (eg. your users). Which is probably fine if people just left it at that.

In a sense it becomes an ethical problem with the general sentiment that hurting Elon Musk as much as possible is more important than not harming your users, to the extent that some people call out on people who don't subscribe to those views.

Personally, IMHO, if one doesn't like a company they can quit. I don't see how people can claim moral high ground by advocating staying onboard for the purpose of sabotaging the company.
"Suppressing disinformation" is a power battle, nothing more.

Whoever has the right to say their understanding is the correct one and all others should be repressed has power over speech.

Freedom of speech means ALL speech or it means nothing.

If someone defrauds you, prove the fraud and the damage and sue them.

Otherwise, whether you want them to or not, people have a right to tell you what they think, or even to lie to you and tell you something they don't even think.

Otherwise "stopping disinformation" is just "censorship" by another name.
Giving a /32 to anyone who wants one without any questions asked is probably a good example of why "aren't we making the same mistake as ipv4?" isn't an entirely meritless question.

I mean it's probably crazy to imagine a scenario where we have more than 4 billion "local internet registries" in the universe, but it's not so crazy to imagine a scenario where the ability to ask for a /32 maybe needs to get constrained a little more.

In the end, I think the idea of making all subnets /64's may have been a mistake. It's cool that you can put MAC addresses right in the address and thus don't need DHCP any more, but carving out room for 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 devices per broadcast domain is a bit crazy on the face of it. Plus you need all the privacy addresses to hide your MAC address from trackers anyway, which is way more complexity than we really needed. IMO DHCP isn't so bad, it's boring/predictable technology at this point, and I'd be perfectly comfortable with shifting the "provider vs customer" boundary many bits to the right in an address, so that a typical subnet is more like a /104 and ISP's give out /96's, etc. That would give us a lot more headroom than the system we have now where anyone can grab a /32.
New ways to make ZFS/btrfs snapshots Unix-y (again?)
Most won't directly voice this, but I believe the primary objection from many employers is that there kinds of salary transparency laws raise the floor, since you know (roughly) what all of your colleagues are making.

In other words: software (like most other industries) relies in part on employees low-balling themselves (and stigma around sharing salary information), which is harder to do when you know what the actual salary band is.
For our industry, it's effectively already required, right? Because of other jurisdictions that require it?
This is the functionality that enables Live Activities in iOS 16.1. For example showing the score for an ongoing sports game on the Lock Screen.
Very intriguing ideas. Is there a relationship here, with the concept of starting an application by thinking more about the data structures and getting those right, before proceeding with the rest of development? Or are you speaking of more abstract mental models?
They at least decided to go with a sane language instead of C++

Also is it really COM like? it doesn't look like it

EDIT:

https://www.chimehq.com/blog/extensionkit-intro

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33410067
How does remix compare to nextjs?
Eliminate, no, but car infrastructure ensures tens of thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of life-altering injuries every year, bakes in climate change (even EVs are considerably worse than every other option), and it costs more than the alternatives – enough so that many cities and almost all suburbs struggle with maintenance and cuts to other services. The combination of those factors make me more optimistic than I’ve been in the past that we’ll see a shift away from the 20th century “one person, one car, every trip” mentality. We don’t need to eliminate cars, simply not subsidizing them at the expense of everything else would yield huge health, pollution, and quality of life improvements.
I decided to give DHS less shit when they actually court marshaled a general.

(I read about the case on NPR.)
Because they expect that debt to be inflated away as the currency its denominated in goes to zero (and they know they'll get replenished with cash when they need it via the Fed [1][2]).

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/unde...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1xgQeCiu6k
Right, it can be tricky and no method would be perfect.

Sometimes courts when faced with an inherently ambiguous problem use a “reasonableness test”, which is basically taking it on a case by case basis and deferring to the current cultural climate to call BS on suspect claims.
Why are inflation numbers always presented in as confusing a way as possible?

> This proved to be the case once again, with energy costs expected to have had the highest annual rise in October, at 41.9% from 40.7% in September. Food, alcohol and tobacco prices also climbed in the same period, jumping 13.1% from 11.8% in the previous month.

Without knowing the rate of inflation between Sept 2021 and Oct 2021, there is no way to interpret these numbers.

Put another way, we have two equations in four unknowns. If X is prices in Sept 2022, and Y is prices in Oct 2022, then we have:

X = 1.407 * V

Y = 1.419 * Z

There is no way to solve for the ratio of X to Y.
> words matter more than you realize

I could not disagree more. Words are meaningless. They are sounds. They only matter if you choose to give them meaning.

The proof is incredibly simple. I speak multiple languages, one of them is Spanish. However, it is South American Spanish and not any of the dialects spoken in Spain. A common insult in Spain is "gilipollas". It means absolutely nothing to me, even though I know what it means ant that is an insult. Someone could call me gilipollas all day and I would probably die laughing; frankly, it really sounds funny to me.

What if you are insulted in a language you don't understand? Same thing. Meaningless. At that point it really becomes just sounds. And that's the point. The only process that gives words meaning and can attach them to negative emotions is in your brain.

Put a different way: Nobody can force you to interpret words as an insult or something to get emotional about except for yourself.

I got my kids used to not caring about insults by actually insulting them. Things like "You are a moron!" quickly became the subject of jokes at our home, with them being free to call me anything they want in response. At first I had to do this because one of my kids ran into verbal bullies at school. It is amazing to see just how much power one gains by removing meaning from words used to deliver insults. At the limit they become nothing less than a joke.

Verbal insults, at the end of the day, are signs of weakness. The person who has to resort to diminishing someone else verbally in person or --as is often seen-- online, has to resort to such nonsense because, well, to be kind, they have nothing else to offer. Why give someone like that the power to interpret those words as they wish you would interpret them? The best approach is to turn those words into irrelevant noise. To go from that, to have words affect you for life? No, that's a big mistake.
Arrow Flight RPC (and Arrow Flight SQL, a faster alternative to ODBC/JDBC) are based on gRPC and protobufs:
https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/Flight.html:

> Arrow Flight is an RPC framework for high-performance data services based on Arrow data, and is built on top of gRPC and the IPC format.

> Flight is organized around streams of Arrow record batches, being either downloaded from or uploaded to another service. A set of metadata methods offers discovery and introspection of streams, as well as the ability to implement application-specific methods.

> Methods and message wire formats are defined by Protobuf, enabling interoperability with clients that may support gRPC and Arrow separately, but not Flight. However, Flight implementations include further optimizations to avoid overhead in usage of Protobuf (mostly around avoiding excessive memory copies

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