skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but opendoor just competes against other companies of scale.

The issue is that individuals who wish to purchase and live in homes cannot compete with companies of scale at all.

So it’s not about anticompetitive practices, because it’s now two corporate incumbents competing, but a corporate incumbent competing against an individual, who stands no chance against that scale of cheap money.

Competitive effects do not always lead to desired outcomes even if they create healthier markets.
Here you go for a concrete example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33493276
There's way, way more software that exists. All that boring enterprise Java and Spring stuff HN loves to ridicule represents the dark matter of the software engineering universe. There's tons of money in it and armies of developers working away without the praise or adulation of their Bay Area betters, but they're making good money and putting food on the table.
Fascinating analysis and I cannot immediately see the flaws. I don't see any specific good counter-arguments in this thread.

One thing I would contradict is his idea that it is suspicious that excess deaths taper just as vaccinations do. Wouldn't we expect that if the vaccines worked well? Presumably vaccines taper as the vulnerable population is saturated with vaccine. Some time after that you would expect deaths to slow
git add .; and git commit --amend --no-edit; git push origin --force

Rarely, I have to do pipeline work on repositories. You'd normally see twenty "Fix Jankins Issue" commits on the main branch because of some nonsense that only happens when you deploy UAT or whatever. Once I learned this little gem, this is also how I manage my feature branches mostly. But also my employer's fleet of laptops has been aging and I've had to do 3 swap outs this year, so I like to keep my in progress work pushed up just in case.
That sort of request works a bit better before the country gets invaded, first piecemeal, and then - here's the really important bit - in it's entirety.
Theoretically: Absolutely - If Norwich has the same type of electrification as the Great Western Main Line. The Class 345 trains that run in the Elizabeth Line, have the signalling for the Great Western Main Line, Crossrail Core & Great Eastern Main Line.

In practice, no - different train companies operate all 3 lines
I've seen several people say "OK I get it now" and sign up for an account, so it's been successful at least by that criteria.
Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 when NATO membership was nowhere on the actual agenda.
iPhone Folding Phone
Small clarification, but believe it’s Blackstone, not Blackrock that’s doing the SFH purchases.

Though BX did spin off from BLK
> I remember this fiasco. And then shortly after that, rumors started popping up that Apple was working on porting OSX to x86.

Article concerns the last half of 1999. It turns out Mac OS X development on PPC was shadowed on Intel (after all, since 1995 NeXTSTEP ran on Intel), but the rumor didn't appear until nearly 3 years later in Spring 2002, and it didn't really have any traction and quickly subsided long before Jobs' announcement confirming the rumor another 3 years after that in Summer 2005.[1] No one still expected it by then, but at the same time, no one was all that surprised. Business as usual that Apple kept a secret for 3 years, but it's pretty crazy how they somehow suppressed a true rumor for 3 years after it was published.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS#PowerPC–Intel_transition
I used Photoshop and Illustrator for years and years (going back to 1990's) and switched to Affinity about 2 years ago. There's a lot of little details that are different--say, when you grab a resize handle, does aspect ratio stay locked or do you have to hold down shift?--but I found that it wasn't tough to retrain. Most things are where you'd expect. It's certainly not like Gimp or Inkscape, where absolutely everything is different and it feels impossible to get anything done.
Some background, I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was 5, moved in and out of schools through elementry/middleschool, ultimatly dropped out of highschool, I'm familiar with ADHD ;)

If you have any suggestions/feature-requests., or maybe have some ADHD experiences to share. this is for sure the place.
I'm trying to decide if you're just being silly. There's no way installing and maintaining plywood is more expensive than solar panels.
Bisect will let you find the big squash commit that caused the regression, but lots of the information about why the change happened was lost during the squash. Often it's sufficient to just know the broad feature that the change was in aid of, but you're out of luck if you're diagnosing anything subtle. Bisect works better with smaller commits.
> It doesn't matter if the types are annotated explicitly or inferred. The amount of information is 100% the same.

Explicit offers the opportunity for narrowing, comments, and sometimes choice of names. Otherwise, yes.
Good analysis, I agree. Zeihan is good at creating confident-sounding narratives that seem reasonable on the surface, but often missing deeper, important considerations like this.

The main generator of innovation is how many clever people you have hacking and tinkering with new ideas and trying to reify them. It's primarily a weighted numbers game, with education, cultural work ethic, and poltical-economic system adding some weight to more favorable outcomes.

As you observe, much of the coming population culling in China will be people less able to contribute to that dynamic. What's left will be a smaller but still immense population of people, ~3x the US and ~2x Europe, a greater proportion of which are able to contribute as innovation generators.
It does. GitHub has been soft-deprecating HTTP for years now.
Speculation, but consider that plausible scenario that SBF went nuclear and then CZ retaliated in what will turn into crypto mutually assured destruction.
What about my extended version of the analogy: "Mastodon is just blogs and Google Reader, skinned to look like Twitter"?
This is my habit and I advocate for it on new teams. It's so simple and effective. Why make it complicated?
What's wrong with sociology? (1994) [pdf]
Binance is reconsidering its takeover of FTX after due diligence
> I wonder if he still does that at least some of the time for his more recent books?

Don't think so however I have heard he proof-reads and adjusts the English translations after someone else translates them.
> they probably don't know about -a

How are you going to keep them from learning about -a?
This was the same logic used by bulls in the GFC.

Turns out “cash on the sidelines” disappears quite fast when assets broadly devalue.

Housing is correcting faster than GFC, though it remains to be seen if it ends up deeper. But when it falls at this pace, people start to get cold feet
I think a more astute argument would be that Backus-Naur Form is the Maxwells Equations, since that's what the definition of LISP is written in on the 1/2 page screenshot that starts the OP's thesis.
I think the timeline of financial loss with a running total makes it pretty clear what the site is about (complete with flames).

Someone needs to keep a tally on the DAILY grifts, frauds, and scams in crypto because on the other end of the spectrum you have fraudsters with significant financial incentives to keep bringing in new money however they possibly can.

This site is one sided but relative to the relentless hype beasts of crypto it’s essentially the equivalent of a lone person in a huge crowd saying to themselves: “is anyone else seeing this shit or is it just me?”
Putin has invaded Ukraine in 2014. The war was ongoing since then.
I've also a good and old one:
Russia has lost 15000 troops, 6 generals, 500 tanks, 3 ships, 100 planes and 1000 trucks. NATO hasn't arrived yet
I hope so. A fashion mindset coupled with huge numbers of average programmers led to an adoption of this massively bloated framework.
Kickstarter launch – OpenCV AI robot
I would distribute a gadget that is integrated with POS/card-reader terminals, since those are already being sent to stores/businesses that probably have a way to give a dollar to whoever shows up.

Instead of a regular card-reader that scans a card, this scans as many items of personally identifiable material as feasible (at least 10 fingerprints and/or a retinal scan, maybe a pulse check), stores a hash of the above in a central db to prevent abuse, and only authorizes the vendor to dispense a dollar for unique metrics captured. The physical 'dollar' actually comes from the store/business till using the local currency, and the business then invoices you seperately for every dollar they gave out.

The cost of the terminals would probably come from the millions that you wouldn't be able to send a dollar to anyway, like you said terrorism or other concerns.
i jumped out of TSLA earlier this year because i was tired of the volatility cause by nothing more than public comments elon would make. it was very frustrating.
The generalist view is that nobody is using Erlang for modern telco workloads anymore.

(yes, there are exceptions. Bear with me)

I learned Erlang when we were programming Ericsson voice switches some twenty years ago, and even though Nokia also adopted OTP and did some pretty amazing things with it (including a Hadoop analogue that used Erlang to coordinate Python workers across nodes), I have only come across Erlang when looking at legacy workloads that needed to be moved to the cloud.

NFV and CNF efforts (i.e., virtualized and containerized network functions) I've come across over the past few years seem to be mostly Go or C++. Jaeger is a common tool. I see a lot of Postgres. I also see really weird CNI approaches (check out multus, because telcos still can't get over having dedicated network interfaces for things even though it's all just a virtualization sandwich and they really should just learn to use network policies).

The technicalities run deeper than web apps (because some thing are very, very finely tuned), but the key point is that the telco "bleeding edge" landscape is now indistinguishable from "web scale" K8s discussions, except that telco workloads demand fixed resource allocations nd we still rely _a lot_ on CPU pinning of specific functions due to latency/jitter sensitive workloads.

It's almost like you took low-latency, pseudo-real-time stuff from embedded systems and shoved it into K8s. No, wait, it's _exactly_ like that.

Source: I work in Azure for Operators and have been in the telco industry since the mid-90s.
I think the idea is to start by destroying the fiat banking system...
The city is likely filled with mines, so chasing won’t be fast. Russia had good time to dig in.
- Abuses building code for a non-safety purpose

- Net reduction in quality of housing stock

- Reduces capital investment in housing during a shortage

A+ 10/10 no notes
> because in truth those worker endured much more violent management, there is little space to spin it in a funny way.

what? no one got beat over flair, and having worked in a lot of serving jobs, the level of violence serving drinks was roughly on par with the number of fights I've seen in the data center.
The problem is that if you have e.g.

let x: u64|i32 = ...

It's impossible for the compiler to do anything with x without adding some kind of runtime type tag. The representations of those types are different.

But with something like OCaml's polymorphic variants, you could do e.g.

let x: Big(u64)|Small(i32) = ...

and then switch on the tag (Big or Small) to determine what to do with the values.
The GameCube/Wii vector ISA instruction was not Altivec, and not very similar. It used 64-bit vectors (packed as two 32 bit floats usually), so half the size of Altivec, NEON, and most of its contemporaries. These packed vector instructions shared the register file with the floating point unit (that is, an FP register could contain either a 64-bit float acted on by a normal floating point instruction or two 32-bit floats acted on by a vector instruction), rather than having a dedicated separate register file like Altivec. And most of the fun instructions had no equivalent.
I agree, you should get the best EV ever, Porsche Taycan. They only had, checks notes, 10 recalls so far in 2022 for things like suspension three times, brakes, lights, full power loss, dead console, no cameras, flickering cameras, dead seat controls, seat belts twice!
It has been extremely smooth sailing. I moved my own mac over to it about a year ago, swapping a beefed up MPB for a budget friendly M1 Air (which has massively smashed it out the park performance wise, far better than I was expecting). Didn't have a single issue.

My work mac was upgraded to a MBP M1 Pro and again, very smooth. I had one minor issue with a docker container not being happy (it was an x86 instance) but one minor tweak to the docker compose file and I was done.

It does still amaze me how good these new machines are. Its almost enough to redeem apple for the total pile of overheating, underperforming crap that came directly before the transition (aka any mac with a touchbar).
nofollow links are not entirely worthless
Why would they want that? Mitch McConnell has been calling for sending weapons that Biden has denied. And in any event, new congress isn't seated until January.
The Mash called it years ago: https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/northern-powerho...
Culture seeps into toys, and firearms culture is back in a big way in America. I blame the federal assault weapon ban and 9/11 for popularizing the modern tactical firearm community.
It was quite literal and not an insult or intended as one. When I hear people who consider their words, that is the kind of phrase I hear in foodservice circles. If you were insulted, perhaps it only implies you think you are not thoughtful? When I insult someone, it isn't ambiguous.
Where did you get this talking point from? I'm serious, I'd like to know what informed you that this is what's actually happening.
No. It's being fixed as if every car off the line had been shipped with a defective serpentine belt from day zero. I have no bone to pick with Tesla but let's not confuse normal wear and tear with sloppy engineering.
- George Carlin

For those who don't know, and a very pithy quote.
They are preparing to flood it, just waiting for Ukrainian army to enter the trap.
Good news - `jc` supports JSONLines output for many commands and file-types, too!
Layoffs or no layoffs it is extremely unlikely React will be used as much as it is now 5-10 years from now. It will probably be legacy no one wants to touch anymore. That's the nature of front end development unfortunately.

I hope to be proven wrong btw ...its about time we have a FE framework surviving more than 10 years.
I can’t identify one monolithic hyper-normative “correct” credo in mass media. In my lifetime I have seen the variety of speech (US based tho I understand it is a global change) conveyed thru mass media explode in variety. From three TV stations and the newspaper to hundreds of channels, espousing everything from Yoga being salvific to Yoga being demonic to the science of infrared absorption being simple to elaborate theories about how climate science is a plot to control the citizens, from Elvis music to Public Enemy in the grocery stores’ Muzak.

People write a lot about how they can’t express their beliefs anymore, but you can be a flat earther and be on YouTube and have conventions. There might be, in the US, less people willing to listen to the racist, sexist, and homophobic views that were so popular in the past without protest, but that response is because that is speech directed against people, not for an idea.

https://ifunny.co/picture/conservative-i-have-been-censored-...
What the image of the Milky Way’s black hole shows
A calling is something you hear. If you can't hear it, it isn't calling. You may never hear it. It might come tomorrow. You can't find it. It will find you.
Out of shame?
Jesus Christ.

I feel sorry for anyone who ever has to work or deal with Marty Stratton or Bethesda.
What are these acts of terrorism then? Sources please. Not denying there must be some for you to believe this, just stating that I am unaware of them.
That's really not the case, if you're in Microsoft or Linux's position you can't really change the OS architecture or driver models for any particular vendor.

That generality and general knowledge separation between different stacks leaves quite a lot of efficiency on the table.
11000 people lose their jobs -- "let's make more shows about it!"

to quote an old guy: "first as tragedy, then as farce"
Ah, got it, thank you!
Russia is too busy to waste its artillery ammo on civilian targets.

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/russias-t...
This is the problem I have with Erlang developers. They only want to work on Erlang. Pragmatism be damned. It is never about the product or the company. It is only about which of the remaining 20 Erlang expert personalities in the world do they get to work alongside with. If there needs to be a special library, all other existing ones are garbage unless written by one of the 20 above, so they will just write their own. I hate to stereotype here, but I would never ever (again) bet my company on Erlang. It is insanely difficult to recruit for. They are truly some of the best developers in the world, but lack pragmatism for problems and every one problem can only be solved with functional programming using Erlang. In my experience, Erlang developers are Zealots for the language and nothing else. If your company decides to pivot away from Erlang to another more accessible language, say Go, you are likely to lose them all.
If that's the case they should be called to task just the same.
What? It wasn't for "expressing too much empathy", it's for being obviously staged. Like, who gets their hot-take emotional reaction on video and then uploads it? /r/whyweretheyfilming vibes.
Forms should be postable without JavaScript
In 2014 the Democrats were in charge, and he made no advances or significant additional aggression from 2016-2020.
Rosetta 1 and the PPC -> x86 move wasn't anywhere near as smooth, I recall countless problems with that switch. Rosetta 2 is a totally different experience, and so much better in every way.
The marginal utility of money is a real thing, but it applies to purchase of life basics, like goods, services, and security.

The marginal utility of money for power and influence in our societies seems to start a few orders of magnitude above the upper middle class, and so far doesn't seem to bend down very much as money increases.
Sigh. We are. We are driving climate change. All of us. We stop driving, flying, wasting, polluting, over consuming etc, and the problem starts to reduce. As it did during the pandemic. Simples.
It works, but it works better when you have the original 10000 commits. You can tell exactly what the committer was attempting when the bug was introduced. It may have been as a fix to something else, it may have been a typo when linting, it may even have been been intentional and the bug report is wrong.

Other comments I made on another recent git post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33395616

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33392624
Wow I vaguely remember that reddit thread and I think I felt a bit confused about it. Seemed like such an OTT reaction to something that should be handled internally - and then for a public statement you would keep it short, sweet and indirect (i.e. 2 paragraphs where you don't blame anyone except maybe yourself and some section of the company).

Very glad Mick made this thorough post.
Parent comment might seem flip, but it’s actually a real and important point. There are quite a number of people with anti social personality disorder within corporate management structures. Marty has all of the hallmark signs.

I think the real sad part is that Mick wasn’t able to identify Marty’s personality type at the outset, and seemed to keep falling for his lies, gaslighting, and manipulation, and under estimated the degree to which someone like him would throw someone under the bus at a moments notice.

Mental heal of corporate America definitely needs more examination, because with this type of wealth and power, it often ruins lives both big and small.
You didn't mention the fact that the GUI tools often lack functionality that's present in the CLI. Like git notes (looking at you, GitHub, who previously HAD notes support, but dropped it) or worktrees (Sourcetree lets you view worktrees, but provides no interface for interacting with them as worktrees, rather than just another repo). Or they hide basic functionality, like git ammend, or give less useful error handling advice than git itself (Sourcetree, I love your commit graph, but your error messages are worthless).
Survival of the fittest, perhaps?
Grey Check Marks are gone from Twitter after one day
Per last job report in US, there were two positions for every person finding normal jobs. For IT, I would think that ratio is twice. However, the biggest issue that people have to deal with: (1) Meta paid 2X to 4X higher than regular employers so that’s massive pay cuts for the folks, (2) they lost the unvested stock aka their hold out compensation of past 4 years they worked for.

So, this would be huge financial setback for impacted people akin to losing half of their wealth and cutting down their future income as well in half.
I support I feel uncomfortable about it, but maybe such a merger wouldn't raise antitrust flags. CloudFlare has an insane amount centralization. I love their services as a web user, developer, and operator, but WOW do they have a lot of power by nature of their business. I worry about a buyout by a less principled company that could do all manner of wrong with CloudFlare's assets. For example, a Meta Cloudflare could start to delay or block 1.1.1.1 DNS queries to their competition, and do so quietly and selectively. Any service that offers "Protection" ought not be part of a conglomerate.
Psicanálise
Musk has said time and time again he wants Twitter to more emulate WeChat in China. So, this was pretty obvious.
I blame everything but the lawyers. A functional and just legal system depends on both parties having effective legal representation. Our current system falls far short of that ideal but I never feel that lawyers are the issue.

It's the system itself, as well as the Zenimaxes and Martys of the world, that I blame.
> As always with these things, I wonder what taking responsibility actually means in practice.

Remember a few years ago when people were asking "Why can't people just say they made a mistake and own up to it instead of shifting blame?" Now that people are taking responsibility for mistakes publicly the response is "Yes, but what does that mean?"

Taking responsibility means just that. It means saying you fucked up and not blaming others for your failures. It doesn't mean that self immolation follows soon after.

I move on from bad breaks pretty quickly but there are few things that I've held on to. Things that still burn years later and all of them involve refusals to accept responsibility. Hearing someone say: "Yep, it was me. I fucked you and I'm sorry. Here's what I can offer." isn't nothing.

Layoffs suck but the rate of hiring in big companies wasn't sustainable. A correction is here. It's temporary, but, it's real.

If you've tried to hire outside of FAANG over the past decade you'd know one thing: FAANG is hoarding talent. Every developer I've really wanted to hold on to has gone to a big tech company.. I can't blame them. But, here's the thing, so have many of the contractors that I didn't end up hiring for very good reasons.

These layoff messages, down to the structure and content, all sound the same because PR people follow best practices just like everyone else. You wouldn't ask why all Redux or Angular apps use similar patterns.. They're using patterns, that's what patterns are for.