skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really appreciate the “free up to a cap” and reasonable pricing. Makes me much more likely to try this for a side project unlike competitors who want me to commit to paying right off the bat.

One thing I noticed is that the link to themes (which I was hoping to see a demo at) is broken: https://supertokens.com/docs/emailpassword/common-customizat... under pricing
Actually, how did KiwiFarm's usage stats change after they practically got kicked off the web?
I argue that inflation is an increasing lack of purchasing power. We're off roughly a third of the BTC peak last year, so would that not be 300% inflation looking at BTC alone?
I've slept at work plenty of times. It's fun! Except one time I went outside for a spliff break at 2am and dropped my wallet w/ key badge right as the door shut. I had to hunt down a taxi and promise him I had money at my house! I also didn't have shoes on for some reason.
Yeah. While wholesale downloading when there is a retention policy in place does seem like a policy violation (… although, is it worth losing someone like this over? Corrective action would probably be more productive for everyone involved…) I have been in a layoff and the amount of emails regarding the terms of my layoff (including terms that I'm supposed to honor after departure) that only got sent to my corp inbox … it's ridiculous. If you want your employees to take your policies seriously, make sure your own house is in order first. Stuff as it relates to my employment at the company is, to me, sent to "me the person" not "me the employee" and crosses that threshold to "not corp" email. Next time CC my non-corp professional email.

Also, the "Confidential: do not forward. We just shared on our public blog today … please help us by astroturfing on LinkedIn" emails.
I pay for my access to library books with my taxes.
So Auckland didnt lockdown their entire city after a single case?

That's exactly what China has been repeatedly criticized for doing in Shanghai and Bejing and elsewhere (and is still doing today).

Of course NZ stopped doing it after 5 months, after reviewing the data (I mean I hope they were reviewing data and evaluating the human costs).

From what I can tell the initial order (after a single case) was for 7 days in Aukland and 3 days for all surrounding cities. How long it actually lasted I'm not sure, but this merely is one example of an idea that was promoted globally.

You can pretend an entire city spending 7 days locked in their house, after a single COVID case in a city of 1.6 million, is not much to ask of people. But we might have different value systems.
Make take on Twitter for the last 5+ years is that it grew into its potential, it has value as-is, but there isn't a growth or monetization story beyond what it already has.

The private equity downsize strategy is probably right--you have to get it into a leaner state to start printing money--but the execution is poor, and Musk can too easily fiddle with the wrong knob and drive away uses a la Tumblr.
I am not a Hindu, so my caste radar is fairly weak. I cant tell caste by last name or by religious practices.

Having said that, People ask folks how much they scored in their entrance exam. Then it becomes obvious who were Dalits are - they had the lowest scores. The 2 of them were also fairly underprivileged, so you could guess from their less trendy and not as new clothes too.

50% were payment seats with about the same entrance rank as OBC students. So it was hard to tell the OBCs apart from the payment seat students. India actually has "affirmative action" for the rich in all private universities, which most of Indian H1Bs have graduated from. My parents couldn't afford these seats. The H1B upper castes wont tell you that, and will pretend that rich Dalits are taking over all the seats. No such thing is happening. I have never met a rich Dalit in my life. I am sure they exist, but I have never met them.

Their academic performance improves with time, and some of them are engineering managers at Microsoft now.
Exactly. Any one who has ever worked in SaaS industry realizes how many cogs in a wheel it takes to keep it running. Sure, there are always inefficiencies and redundancies. But, I highly doubt Elon figured out in a week that 50% of employees are not necessary. This looks like the vindictive and impulsive action of a man baby who has never been told that he doesn't always know what's best. Time will surely tell. All the best to those who were laid off, but most importantly, good luck to those who are staying back. They are in for a ride.
It's a valid concern. I'm also working on a similar tool (which I'm not ready to reveal yet) and you're quite right. Only time will tell I guess.
nothing wins the mental gymnastics when people justify how they own something that has no shape or form, namely information and ideas
The totality of the circumstances surrounding SARS-CoV-2 emergence
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I love the people that spent decades railing against intellectual property laws and how you can "steal" knowledge are suddenly Disney-level militants on protecting software copyrights
title should say 2014.

Wow! that is an absolutely EPIC rant. cannot believe I hadn't seen this until now. I'm not sure I agree with everything Barry said, but it does push a lot of buttons that ring true for me.

And since 2014, systemd gained skills to control everything from home directories to secure boot, containers, privilege escalation, and (apparently) mind control, time, dns, and temporary files. It also automatically re-installs pulseaudio and reports you directly to the council of Lennart if you "accidentally" delete or turn any of it off out of frustration.

I also never knew Poettering was behind (er. responsible for) avahi discovery. I must remember to properly thank him for this someday.

So yes, given the benefit of six(edit) *eight years of hindsight, I think we all should've listen a bit more to Barry and perhaps slowed down and found some simplistic-er options.
A chemistry textbook of mine was 600 USD- brand new because the version published that year was required.

That really stung.
They're working on that 'edit' button.
I still use Robinhood and VOO is the bulk of what I buy. I doubt I'm that unusual.
plus you could blow past your monthly cap in a heartbeat at the data rates these days
It’s almost like for-profit healthcare created incentives to perform unnecessary high-risk operations.
> are just neurotic

His claim was that women on average score higher in neuroticism of the Big Five personality traits. Very different from "just neurotic".

> suspect evidence

The psychometric stuff seems pretty solid to me. Are you a science denier?
That's rank and file, but Tesla hires people like Andrej Karpathy and Jim Keller, are they paid low too? I bet not...
Similar is the case from people who can't afford. They are not asking you to give it for free.
What they want is that the information accessible at affordable prices. The current situation is an ABC book either cost $10-$20-$30 or they can get it pirated. there is no middle ground.

People move to piracy due to lack of affordability and options.
This is more or less how I play incremental games. Play until
I realize how much time I’m wasting, then switch over to figuring out how to hack the game.

There is always a way :)
Since 2021. During the 2020 thread posted above, he worked at Microsoft.

Other MS contributors to LKML: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/?q=microsoft.com
I think this is instinctive. So it is good to get the logical perspective to kick in: you are on a scientific path to make yourself healthier and reach your goals in your time. Think of the gym as individuals taking their prescribed medicine rather than a comp. You wouldn’t get ego about someone else
being on a higher dose of paracetamol!
At least once in your life you will be given a meaningful option of between "stand up to power" and "submit to power".

Choosing the former you will always lose, that's the entire point of power.

But this is the exact point of choosing to stand up to power. It's knowing that you'll lose and asserting that perhaps there is another power that stands above the person standing over you.

I've been in this position, stood up and lost. But I can assure you that there is something you do take away from this that stays with you far longer than anything you might gain by submitting.
I wouldn’t hire anyone from SF, no. I would be very wary of the culture they come from and it’s intolerance to anything outside of that bubble.

As for Trump followers, or conservatives in general, not being ‘politically oppressed’, why do you think Gab, Truth Social, Parler, Gettr et al were created?
More likely "see if this helps" than "just for giggles".
Everyone said the same thing in 2008.
I know it's a challenge, but, please, add deletion! Thanks!
An IDE for Test Automation
Where did you socialize during Covid?
> We're off roughly a third of the BTC peak last year, so would that not be 300% inflation looking at BTC alone?

Yes. I was trying to be generous.
Ha, it would be a total disaster. There are already a dozen or so startups doing some variant of “dating on a blockchain” and they're all doomed to failure, because 99% of the people who think that's a good idea are nerdy (read: unattractive) heterosexual men.

All the gay dudes are on Tinder instead, and all the heterosexual women that like nerdy men have a gazillion options already, so any blockchain-based or open-source dating protocol would be a total sausage party.
Last time I used it, Twitter devolved into ridiculousness.

The phrase "tar and feather" was deemed instaban-worthy.

Apparently, there is an entire secret forbidden phrase list.

It's not moderation, it's lazyness.
I thought Twitter was mostly on AWS?
The internet 'hates copyright', it wants to link everything up. Search hates copyright, can't work unless everything is open to indexing. Now the AI hates it even more, gobbling up everything ever written or imaged and creating derivatives at the click of a button.

I don't think copyright has a future, the general trend is against it. Graphical artists have already realised it only takes a second to imitate any style or content. What's the point of copyrighting a book when anyone can generate any text just for their own use, when it's so cheap and fast we throw away the result after one use?
> Flying birds of necessity optimize heavily for weight. This implies their bird-brains must be remarkably efficient for their size.

The first sentence is true. The second is a meaningless non sequitur.

You could equally claim that bird bones must be remarkably efficient for their size. That is true, but only in terms of mass used to prevent a given amount of bird from degenerating into a puddle. In terms of physical robustness, which is a primary purpose of all bones including bird bones, bird bones are straightforwardly worse than normal bones.

You can't just "be efficient". You have to be efficient in terms of a metric. And optimization for weight does not imply that you're efficient in terms of computational power, whether that be computation produced per unit of sugar consumed, computational capacity per unit of structural mass[1], or any other computation-related metric.

[1] "But it's optimized for weight!" Yes, but that just means it uses (ideally) the minimum weight necessary to support however much computation it wants to do. Using more of a denser material might produce much higher capacity-per-gram figures, but it would also weigh more.

And an important part of optimizing for weight is to reduce the needs that your massy infrastructure must satisfy; by this line of reasoning, you would expect birds to be exceptionally stupid, not smart.
> Late last Thursday, following many months of hesitations, attempted reneging, and last-ditch negotiations, Elon Musk closed a forty-four-billion-dollar deal on his acquisition of Twitter.

I know this is journalism but any analysis that doesn't assume Elon was merely gambling ~$10+ million on lawyer fees in hopes of saving $100-500 million on the deal he already commited to buying is lying to themselves.

He obviously always wanted Twitter. He was just using the legal avenues every person is provided (especially wealthy people) to save a few bucks in the process. And he lost badly.

Would any high paid lawyer tell Elon they should simply accept the deal a week after the price of the stocks tanks? Should you then accept the deal to save face?

(Not to rain on the parade of weeks of breathless reporting that pretended otherwise)
Open Source Summit Europe 2022
Here's story for you

A team of 30 works at zerodha for serving 6.2 million users. They are largest trading broker in India.

There story is worth a read https://zerodha.tech/blog/hello-world/

Edit: Apparently they have 1200 employees for operations and everything else. Thanks to child comment for pointing that out.
It is absolutely not literally violence to say or call someone the N word, no matter how repugnant or socially unacceptable it is. It is not illegal in the US to call people horrible names, nor is it illegal to be racist, homophobic, transphobic, etc.

This isn’t to say I advocate for people being any of those things, it’s just somehow become generally accepted that these things are somehow inherently breaking the law or some kind of hate crime. Even on the rare instance someone displays some racist material in public, the news is quick to say police are investigating…investigating what, exactly? “Hate speech” is not a crime in the US.
I remember the original Ruby on Rails Twitter going down a lot. And their error page said something like "Reason: Too many whales".
Apple is super good at supporting the ipads. Around 7 years support for the iPad Air 2.
Twitter has been a toxic bubble for over a decade. They’re not in the habit of hiring people who don’t fit in with that culture. Same thing happened to Reddit. There are consequences to such negative environments, one being that better run companies will avoid these former employees.
Concurrency: a single library book with a wait list would drive further sales, unbounded digital downloads would not.
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Wow, all these ppl on HN making excuses for shtty workplaces. It's like they think the default toxic corporate environment must* be some kind of natural law, and anyone who works at a company that treats its employees with respect is some sheltered little baby who isn't "living in the real world".

Often, these are the same people that get pissed when a workplace penalizes someone for some racist or sexist behavior. So, don't make comics that make fun of company or its culture, you deserve to get punished you baby, but do celebrate a Mad Men-style environment ala Activision, because people who complain about say, sexist behavior, are just fragile woke babies.

Why should we celebrate asshole bosses? Steve Jobs was an asshole? Ok. But Tim Cook isn't. Sundar Pichai isn't. There's a lot of examples of successful companies with non-asshole CEOs and culture.

We shouldn't tolerate this idea that success is somehow correlated with being an asshole CEO who treats employees with total disrespect and that employees need to be kept in a state of terror that they could lose their job at any second due to a capricious CEO on an off day.

Maybe it'll take Musk losing his $44b investment before fans stop seeing him as some kind of infallible genius.
I think the author's referring to the multiple implementations of persistent maps (i.e. APersistentMap). Clojure's generated docs[1] say there are four implementations (PersistentArrayMap, PersistentHashMap, PersistentStructMap, PersistentTreeMap), and this Stack Overflow answer[2] explains that the latter two are rarely used, and the former two make up the bulk of actual APersistentMap instances, with the language's core functions for persistent maps changing implementation used under the hood as it likes in order to do what it thinks is best for performance (basically, using PersistentArrayMap if the number of keys is small, and using PersistentHashMap otherwise). You can see this, for example, in PersistentArrayMap's implementation of assoc[3], which replaces itself with a PersistentHashMap if the number of keys has grown over the hardcoded threshold of 16.

So like you say, your experience as an "end user" makes it seem like it's just one data structure at least in interface, though in implementation it's actually doing some performance optimization stuff which, I think I'm willing to grudgingly grant to the author, does make performance harder to reason about in principle. Though in my (very unserious) experience, I think I've enjoyed languages that take a possibly incomplete stab at getting performance right over ones that draw a line leaving it entirely out of scope and declare victory.

I'll equivocate a little and share that I have been bitten by these internals before, though the fault was mine: one time, I was unwittingly relying on an implementation detail of PersistentArrayMaps, which is that they preserve insertion order. PersistentHashMaps don't, and my code was mysteriously breaking when number of keys grew beyond 16 until several hours later I learned much of what I've just shared above.

[1]: https://www.javadoc.io/static/org.clojure/clojure/1.10.1/clo...

[2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16516176/what-is-the-dif...

[3]: https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/5ffe3833508495ca7c63...
I smell an origin story movie brewing.
List a reason that it shouldn’t need the currently available OS version? There is no downside as every iPad that supports the pencil has this version available.
Can I ask what you pay per kWh?

Have you put a power meter on that setup? I've always wanted to do something like this but electricity here is AU$0.27/kWh, and my house is poorly oriented for solar panels unfortunately.
Please don't cross into personal attack. It makes everything worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What I’ve passively learned about Disney as an adult over the years has made my opinion of them steadily deteriorate. Just as an example, their destruction of sensible IP expiration. The magic for me has been dead for a while.
If the parks stay crowded despite the high prices, what solution would make people happy? Lower prices with a limited number of tickets? Perhaps with some lottery system? Seems unreasonable to ask a business to forgo profits and not use supply and demand pricing. I don't agree with the point about pricing.

The bad upkeep seems pretty bad given the park's culture and the high prices.
Almost exactly the debt service interest payments, what a surprise.
How is it possible that an injection is the most painful thing you have ever felt? You’ve never fallen off a bicycle, or accidentally cut yourself while cooking, or any number of other minor injuries? That must have either been one seriously painful injection or you are incredibly careful about not getting hurt.
This was a common practice in the early 20th century, as many of the wealthiest in the US owned and traveled by private rail car.
This might be the right developer tool workflow tool for today. Like vs code pulled me out of emacs, this might be the tool that pulls me out of org-mode.

Congratulations on v1 and I look forward to giving this a try.
Indeed—if only.

I'd like to hear your thoughts/experience as well.
Maybe it reduces mental burden when looking at one or a few items, but it sure doesn't help when scanning a list of items.
are you, in fact, a robot?
still a big fan either way
> There will be lessons learned either way

Not necessarily. Musk is such a wildcard that lessons won't be generally applicable.
In eastern europe sometimes it is the lack of legal options to actually access content. Example: star wars shows were unaccessible in any way other, academia papers, lots of books are not translated and published etc.

Not making a moral judgement, just adding color.
>Being able to completely hide your online status is brand new.

Unless new configuration options may appear without an update, it is not "brand new". I just checked and I have that option, and I updated WhatsApp in August 14, when I was forced to do so. My version is 2.22.16.75.
Nobody else seems to have mentioned it, I don't know if this is an unusual opinion or it's just the whole "billionaires and CEOs = bad" mob mentality has clouded opinions or he has a lot of fans here or what it is.

His cartoons and the way he distributes them is really quite distasteful to me.

Many of them criticize the organization he works for which okay is arguably not bad if it is measured and constructive, but I also think it can be destructive for morale and pointless. Everyone bitches and gossips and dramatizes about work, it's part of being in the trenches together, but you don't generally publish that on company-wide or public forums. Which is bad enough.

But actually much worse is his singling out individuals for criticism. Repeatedly. This meets textbook definitions for workplace bullying, and I don't think that's okay. Setting aside the other subjects of his cartoons, I don't think it is okay even to target the CEO this way. He may affect the entire company, but imagine doing a weekly cartoon criticizing your line manager and sharing in among her direct reports. Horrible, and certainly bullying. Parag is a human too, and should not have to be subject to that in his workplace. So is Musk, whatever you think of him, and the other executives in the cartoons for that matter.

Just because you're playing the whacky eccentric artist with hip cartoons that criticize those terrible corporations and hated billionaihs and CEOs and everyone on social media gives you lots of likes and shares... does not absolve you from the effect of your speech on others. And the calculus actually changes radically when you're not just some random comedian commentating on a public figure, but actually a colleague commenting from a position of knowing a lot of private details about these people.

I'm actually amazed this person lasted as long as he did. I feel sorry for colleagues of people like this who are affected by them, because often people are scared to speak out, and often the companies themselves seem to be scared of the backlash from disciplining or terminating them because of their cult followings.
Hadn't heard of LCP before. Based on some skimming of the website… how does it improve on Adobe's DRM other than cost?

It's still limited to applications that explicitly support it. Maybe there will be a wider ecosystem than Adobe's. But my current preferred reader apps all either have built-in storefronts (Kindle, Apple Books) or are open source (Calibre and Google Chrome, so I can use a Japanese dictionary extension). The former category probably won't ever support LCP, and the latter category definitely won't.

And as for longevity… who's to say LCP will still be around in 10 years or 20? At least Adobe has a big brand name.

At the end of the day, I'll keep using de-DRM plugins to get around those problems, but that's a solution that only works for people who are relatively tech savvy, not your average reader. And I'm not sure DRM will always be as ineffective as it is today.
I agree but I don't think malice is the best word for that.
Coo coo, motherfucker. I'm onto you now.
Normally, the stock market is a leading indicator. It is down 20% bit from all time highs but still has a bit to go even to get down to where we were pre-pandemic.

Also, since the recession is being created by rate hikes, there will be plenty of room to cut rates in a recession/deflationary environment. It seems that there could be a natural feedback loop to this.
This is super cool. I took a quick look but couldn't see how it was funded... how was it?
yes, and you can try to send the link to the email first and then download it in the email. It works.
Fair enough. You should be fine if you are doing regular REST/React stuff. But if you want to work on something like WASM, Rust, fine tuning Web Sockets over GraphQL, etc... then suddenly, you need an "above average" developer.