skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with all you have written, however I feel its important to reply to:

> for smaller projects with simple and more or less static UIs, and where the tests were all fundamentally scripted, there was almost no advantage to coding the tests later.

How many times in my career have I been asked to meaningfully design tests for basic static sites? Hardly ever.

Complex, multi-tenanted, many user-ed hydras with dynamic client side rendered content? All the time.

The scenario in which that Google presentation suggests it's most effective is the rarest ever, in my experience, especially if site is complex enough to have someone working on the team with browser automation coding experience/ability in the first place.
Seeing through hardware counters: A journey to 3x performance increase
I don't read any of that as Germany "going full coal and oil and gas".
> If we can ever build AR glasses (and that's far from a certainty)

Could you expand on this? It's seems absolutely certain, with products like nreal Air existing: https://www.nreal.ai/air

What unsolved hurdle do you see? Heck, there were even prototypes of laser retinal projection at CES!
Yes, Kagi has that option (it is called non-commercial lens). It also shows number of ads/trackers for search results.
You said >In the future, instead of everyone sharing the same search engine, you’ll have your completely individual, personalized Mike or Julia or Jarvis - the AI.

This is what Google is doing under the hood and they have the upper hand because they collect absolutely everything about the user. Yea there is a lot of noise but their advantage is enormous because theoretically the more they know about you the better search results you will get.

I respect the policy of letting users decide what data they want to hand in(volunteering their data) but I don't see how this can scale in the long term because users most probably don't even know what they know and they don't know what exactly they want.
What tweet was that? Just seeing the news and trying to back track and get the context and leadup.
Actually they explicitly said uncapped re years of service.

Very generous I'd say.
Bitcoin is constantly confiscated by the US government. Can you clarify what you mean?
Yup, this was me. Selling all my coins for $2k each back in 17 felt like I robbed a bank. No regrets, paid for my rent so I could start a company and it worked out very well.
> To be precise, the value of money sinks. The value of bread to everyone involved stays the same.

The value of bread as measured in money rises. I'm just using the terminology from the parent comment.

> And another nitpick: by definition the average/median price rises, not the price of everything (afair).

No, that's wrong. The value of money sinking is exactly the same as the price of everything rising. That is the meaning of "the value of money"; there is not even a theoretical distinction between these concepts. If the value of money falls in half, then all prices, of everything, have increased by 100%.

> Since bitcoin itself is a currency though, I'm not sure how inflation really applies across currencies (since there are "prices" both ways).

There seems to be some kind of conceptual confusion here. Currencies inflate (by losing value), or deflate (by gaining value), or don't (by maintaining the same value; in reality this can't happen).

If one currency inflates more than another one does, then the exchange rate between them will shift. (It will take more of the first currency to buy a constant amount of the second one, or less of the second one to buy a constant amount of the first one.) If two currencies inflate by the same amount, then the exchange rate between them won't shift. What's your question?
If that's really an issue (most code probably sticks to one mode, but I have no data), just translate twice, once in either mode. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Twitter Registers as Payments Biz as Post-Musk Dogecoin Gains Are Erased
Billionaires are that because they have exploited the surplus value of their underlings. To say that they “care” about them is clearly a contradiction.
What do NT and Block mean in this context?
Thanks for sharing. I missed something like that. Docker is too enterprisy to my taste. I'm using VPS with docker right now which works good enough, but no volume mounts is not very nice.
For me, it's because I genuinely dislike the Bitcoin cult. They are detached from reality and have a sense of superiority. Something about that really annoys me and I want them to "lose". I feel the same about investors in GME and to some extent extent TSLA.
I did not until about 18 - 20 and only heard of it as a historical artifact.

Currently 21.
Ouch, it would appear so, though I'm at 1 now.
There were rumors last year that Microstrategy will face a margin call if BTC ever went below 20k. I remember a few months back Michael Saylor refuted those claims, but he also stepped down as CEO back in August. Are these Margin call rumors true?
I bet a tyrannical government can easily confiscate your BTC with enough "enhanced interrogation".
I recommend reading some of the articles he’s written about COVID as well as consider when they were written (like the one in the WSJ from March 2020 entitled “Is the Coronavirus as deadly as they say?”), against the backdrop of uncertainty and medical systems under heavy strain and some cities like NYC unable to cope with the volume of deaths and inability to treat other patients, and then compare that with his proposed strategy of driving towards herd immunity while trying to protect the vulnerable, etc.

From where I sit, his experience isn’t quite one of academic freedom, but rather that he tried to change and influence policy, which backfired.

I’m open to being wrong though.
I appreciate unsolicited feedback. I don't know why people are so anti it...
Good thing I read today!
Because it's a fucking scam, that's why. Aside the technology behind it, the coin itself offers no value whatsoever. Not to mention all the resources used to mine it.
Context threads in a rapidly evolving development:

Binance to acquire FTX (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33520585) (Yesterday's main discussion here)

Binance acquires FTX (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33520624)

"We will not pursue the potential acquisition of FTX" / Binance (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33537821)
> But the one belief I've come to is that we do ourselves a disservice when we fall pray to the idea that the universe has some purpose for us.

I spent my 20's agonizing over whether or not I was working toward a purpose. While there is value in introspection, I regret that I devoted so much time to this question. I was not living in the moment, I was not enjoying my life. I'd constantly question whether I was on the wrong path, if I could have been more impactful if I had only taken that job at the risky climate-focused start-up, gone back to school for a PhD, quit everything and traveled the world, etc.

Do not fall into this trap. We cannot know our purpose of our life until it is over. Like many others in this thread, I highly recommend "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl. It's probably the only book on this topic that I actually found helpful.
Could in-memory compression used to bring down the RAM requirements?

There are some performance compressors like Blosch tuned for this:

https://www.blosc.org/pages/blosc-in-depth/

“Faster than memcpy” is the slogan.
No. We just printed positive GDP growth after 2 quarters of slightly negative growth. More importantly, we’ve added many jobs and unemployment is low.

However, we have been in a sector correction for nearly a year now with it beginning to affect high growth cloud tech a year ago and moving into tech generally since. In general growth has done poorly as yields have risen and people have moved into other assets. Many over-leveraged investors have had to liquidate to stay solvent (due to not only falling asset prices but the cost for margin has rising extensively) further driving down prices.
>I feel as if I am looking at an alien civilization's attempt at emulating entrepreneurship, or a bizarre GPT-3 social experiment.

This same crowd will also preach product-market fit like it's religion. It's literally a race to throw crap at the wall, hype it, and see what sticks. A similar pattern also plays out a little differently and to a lesser degree among startups in respectable accelerators with VC backing.

I think it serves a very useful purpose, though: hypercompetition. Any space that shows promise these days is quickly oversaturated with products such that there can be no clear winner. This is actually a really good thing depending on how you look at it, because it raises standards required to win to a very high level. That in turn filters out virtually everything, including products that we would've previously considered good enough to win the space.
There's been a bunch of posts about how much Meta's stock has fallen that have hit the front page.
All LTS versions are using 20.10.12. That's less than one year old. I don't see how horribly out of date this is.
I think if you can assume some level of trust in your search provider (i.e. through payment - let's get to that in a minute), without which you should probably be looking for a new search engine, then you can trust the search engine to not optimise results for you. If they tell you they don't, then do, then you likely have deeper-rooted issues with the search engine you use.

On the point about payments, there are some potential approaches to handling this, but they tend to be a bit complex and technical. I"m not sur ethis is really a technical problem though (or at least one where a technical solution is what's needed).

A challenge of taking traditional payments is that the identity of the payer is inherently "linked" (to some extent) to the transaction. You could maybe use a privacy.com type intermediary or similar.

What you could do however, is buy a "kagi voucher" or similar, which would be an RSA-blind-signed token that you generated client-side in JS. You'd send it to the server during the payment transaction, and be given back a signed version of the token, which you unblind client-side, then give a backup copy to the user to save, and set it as a cookie to authenticate payment has been made.

That should, in theory, at least un-link the payment from the user. Ultimately though, a bad actor can still trivially correlate your searches (and payment, if you used same IP or browser fingerprint), and all your searches are linked by a common cookie.

So you decide to create some kind of token fountain, which you can auth to with a blind-signed token, and get 50 "search passes" from. Those could be unique per-search, and just be "bearer tokens" you can use. You'd have to trust that this token fountain doesn't record which search passes were issued to which "blind token".

Ultimately, it feels like this problem then becomes "do you trust your search engine?" - I'm not sure this is a problem that technology needs to solve, as ultimately your search provider is seeing your queries and IP, and most users won't realistically change this. A provider that isn't incentized to act against your interests (i.e. something like Kagi which isn't advertising to you or selling data) seems to address this for most user scenarios.
What happened to Puppeteer? I barely see it mentioned anywhere now.
say the gamer word at someone with a checkmark
I agree. If losing code with Git is even a remote possibility, then you're "holding it wrong" indeed.
It does warn you on startup about the download if you're not on wifi.
Lying to people in order for them to send you money is fraud.

Duped users are victims of fraud.
Yeah, I'm in the same boat as you. It's embarrassing that we as tech people didn't see it and missed out. Now it's payback time.

The good thing if it would just be replaced is that you and me get a new opportunity to actually get on early, redeem ourselves and avoid being the laughing stock we currently are.
> To the oblivious observer it would appear cryptocurrency lives rent free in many heads in this space. If you don't care for it why pay attention to it?

Because it affects people. A lot of people needed graphics cards for not just gaming, but for 3d animation, video making, and video games during and after lockdown.

Ethereum was responsible for very large price increases and scarcity of graphics cards. The collapse of Ethereum eventually brought supply back to graphics cards-but we still have these inflated prices. Early in this recent crypto boom it was impossible to buy a mainstream card ($250-$400) while the top end cards were available because mining profitability on the mainstream ones was much higher.

This is before you consider that the high demand also attracted scalpers and the environmental issues.
Finally, a much needed redesign for Thunderbird.
I cant wait to switch from Geary
As Matt Levine mentioned in his article today, no responsible bank would allow you to borrow money and give them shares of their own stock as collateral. In some cases it's illegal to do so, but even when it's legal, banks would not want the risk.

FTX, on the other hand, pretty much did just that.

Does that make FTX a scam? No. But when they told their customers they don't gamble with customer deposits, that was at least incomplete and misleading, and may have crossed the line into being intentionally deceptive.

Of course, even if people knew about this, they probably would have used FTX anyway because people do crazy things in a bubble market.
If you find this an interesting topic, you might enjoy this book: The Facemaker by Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris: https://drlindseyfitzharris.com/the-facemaker/

From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. The war caused carnage on an industrial scale, and the nature of trench warfare meant that thousands sustained facial injuries. In The Facemaker, award-winning historian Lindsey Fitzharris tells the true story of the pioneering plastic surgeon Harold Gillies, who dedicated himself to restoring the faces of a brutalized generation.

Gillies, a Cambridge-educated New Zealander, established one of the world’s first hospitals dedicated entirely to facial reconstruction. At a time when losing a limb made a soldier a hero but losing a face made him a monster to a society largely intolerant of facial differences, Gillies restored not just faces, but identities and spirits.

The Facemaker places Gillies’s ingenious surgical innovations alongside the dramatic stories of soldiers whose lives were wrecked and repaired. The result is a vivid account of how medicine and art can merge, and of what courage and imagination can accomplish in the presence of relentless horror.
Hey! For GQL we currently count each distinct query string your service receives as an endpoint. We understand that may not be ideal for some use cases (i.e. if you have customers sending arbitrary queries to your backend). We're still working on what that would look like...
The sole intent of NDEBUG in the Standard is to suppress assert(). There's a reasonable argument to be made here that it's poorly named (although I suspect that ANSI simply standardized existing practice here, as they did with much of the standard).
Jerome Powell Should 'Get It,' but Maybe I'm Being Obtuse
Going public is a qualified event for a SAFE to convert -- it is a financing -- but curious about the dividends

SAFEs are often capped, so taking awhile doesn't matter so much, except maybe interest calcs
> 1. Can you point any company in recent history that went through bankruptcy/auction to pay is retail investor their money back...

Hertz: https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/01/business/hertz-bankruptcy-car...
Have you considered that you may be wrong?
Having worked across three very different companies over the pandemic (tech start-up, boring mid-range company, large conglomerate), and what you've described is about what I've seen.

In general, stand-ups and presentation meetings had camera off, team meetings and 1on1s were camera on.

At the tech start-up, more cameras were on, even during large team meetings and intradepartmental presentations. But people could and did go off camera, and managers were widely recommending to normalize people being off camera.

At boring mid-range company, managers were the most likely to insist on cameras being on, and were off-put if they weren't. I'm willing to chalk this up to discomfort with being remote, which was fairly rampant.
there’s a market for this, even if it’s not you. the bulk of my daily travel happens by bike. i keep a car around for visiting friends/family in the nearby suburbs on the weekends. a typical week would have me driving it between 20-40mi. at that point, i can have an EV without having to upgrade any wiring in my home, or having to fight the roommates over our one off-street parking space where i could even plug an EV in.

the reason i wouldn’t buy this (yet)? i’m too cheap. since i spend so little time in a car already i can’t imagine ever paying more than $10k for one. by the time this model hits the used market i assume the solar efficiency and battery capacity will be about half what it is new, which might be too limiting for me. maybe future revisions will improve enough to counter that... or maybe the initial market is too small that they won’t be able to overcome that initial hurdle and build out.

but the product idea has some merit: i still wouldn’t write it off entirely the way a lot of people here are.
Given that medical tests for influenza have existed for a long time, and are and have been routinely given for hospital admissions, I think we can discard the misclassification of everything to covid theory.
Everyone (including you) knows what he means.
With other payment methods there are many methods to reverse transactions in response to fraud, which includes a person willingly sending money after being deceived. There’s no reason that an electronic payment method can’t provide that kind of protection, financial institutions have the responsibility to know who their customers are and to not facilitate fraud. They should be on the hook to be able to reverse a transaction.

A person should not be able to create an account, commit fraud, and run away with the proceeds. A bank is responsible for flagging suspicious transactions especially for new accounts… making them hold the bag when there is fraud means they will be motivated to accurately judge risk and refuse transactions when it is high.
This makes sense.. any slightly classier / less publicly grotesque+embarrassing options than this?
Which might have been a speculator, or it might have been Netflix doing a buyback with money from their subscription revenue - people paying to watch movies, concrete real-world value.

As far as I can see there's no real equivalent for cryptocurrency - some crypto orgs notionally have revenues, but they always come from speculators or other crypto orgs (and, sure, maybe some drug dealers or capital control evaders, but that's a tiny fraction of the funding). Money goes into the crypto system and nothing of value comes out.
How does the compiler arrange for the CPU to mispredict the branch most of the time? I didn't think there were any knobs for the branch predictor other than static ones (e.g. backwards-jumps statically predicted as taken, or PowerPC branch hint bit).
AMZN, GOOG, META, AMD, etc. did not really hurt ordinary people. When Bitcoin was shooting up it really kind of screwed up humanity by unexpectedly raising electricity demand and electricity costs.
Thank you, Rocket Lab doesn't have any opportunity in Australia.
I'm enjoying the irony that practical crypto could not possibly be less like an decentralised peer-to-peer system for exchanging value if it tried to be.

As you soon as someone creates an exchange - and especially as soon as they start packaging funds into absolutely any kind of financial instrument/service - they've effectively reinvented deregulated banking with no deposit protection and extra risk.
https://archive.ph/mi3dn
>"running nonconsensual psych experiments on humans" is a fundamentally evil thing to do.

If a store owner puts two different candy bars at the register to see which one sells more, is that an evil thing?
I don't think I agree with that. To me, the imperative vs declarative distinction is about the outside interface, not how the instructions are executed internally.

All code is also imperative, eventually, at the machine code level

But such a reduction is not useful. That's the same as stating that all computers are analog at the electrical level, or that the Internet is a series of tubes at the physical level.

Things like a function called give_me_a_temporary_file()

This seems purely imperative to me. A declarative statement would be (exists temporary_file). But that is a bad example anyway, as I struggle to find a good use case for why the end state of an instruction set would be the existence of a temporary file. If your goal is to perform subsequent steps with that temporary file, you're working with an imperative interface regardless of how you write it down.
State-sponsored (mandated) madcap insanity. This is super interesting. I had no idea. Thanks for the submission, submitter, & the write up, writer.

The part about it being illegal to gather geographic data without a very rare license is wild. It feels like a rejection of the Enlightenment universe, a rejection of understandability. No one is allowed to know, by law, what things are. Observation is outlawed.
Love of money, to be specific. Asceticism is a thing.
> Unlike the things you pointed out, Bitcoin will never give dividends or have any assets sold at an auction.

Crypto allowed me to transfer my wealth across border and helped me survive while Visa blocked my cards and local banks harassed me with their KYC/AML requirements and creative nonsense based out of fear of the US and EU sanctions. The utility of that is much higher than any dividends.

> Instead it's a pyramid scheme, easily replaceable by any other shitcoin out there, and the value of it should be close to $1 or less.

Wow, shitcoins sound so much worse than pieces of paper that are propped up by a legal decree, which legitimacy rests solely on the monopoly on violence. Wait, does it actually sound worse?
Truly intelligent machines. Got it.
Dare I say - based.
No AppSheet?
Anecdotal, but the non-techies on my personal circle are, on average, more critical of Google and Facebook than techies are. And they understand that those are monopolies on a very visceral level - because it's so hard to escape from them as a casual user.
MacOS has transparent memory compression. Unclear to me if that's made its way to iPhone, but if it hasn't yet it will sooner or later.
I strive to be a 0.1x Engineer (2016)
You didn’t use the word incorrectly. They are just an asshole.

“Guys” as a collective noun has no sex/gender. It’s as gendered as “y’all”. Words can have different meanings.

Fuck those people.
The Making of Pi