skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And what if everyone in Europe is broke? The government can magically cook up money from thin air right? Those taxes will pay for themselves right?

In India, around 3% of the population pays income tax because the rest are under the tax bracket. Yet somehow the government manages to have public schools and hospitals. During covid, when students and children in the UK were starving, India was feeding 200 million people out of the government's pockets.

Its funny seeing people who have the faintest idea of Indian ground realities make sweeping generalizations about a country of 1.5b people.
If it was a young child where parental guidance is effective, then they probably would not be old enough to be investing in a scam. If they are old enough to be investing in a scam and discussed it with me as their parent, I would have 100% advised against the investment. If they said "shut it boomer, you just don't understand tech", then I'd naturally laugh and let them enjoy the reaping of what they sowed. If there are grandkids involved, then they can come stay with me while their deadbeat parent deals with their shit. At some point, the kid has to become an adult.
Commit messages should describe the change, not the code. This explains why the code was changed from whatever it was before, but not what the code does.

This can be important information e.g. when troubleshooting bugs, since it could explain the developer's thinking. Like in Chesterton's Fence; why on earth would you do something like this?
> I was working on a masters' degree, working ~full time, had two little kids, and also had several side projects going.

That's impressive. Probably deserves a blog post of itself on how you managed to squeeze in extra 4 hours in a day.
> I sometimes wonder if Zuck has ever read a novel or watched a movie because one way he is tone deaf is not understanding the possibilities of fiction.

He loves Ready Player One and has referenced it in interviews regarding the metaverse, but he's basically basing his business model after the main bad guy/group in the story.

Not really an answer to your second bit, but "Moss" is a lovely little game in VR that you play from third person (fixed camera). I wish more VR games did 3rd person, aside from Moss it seems exclusive to strategy games.
This is also not declarative vs imperative. It is declarative with a functionalty vs imperative without it. A shell script could also check which parts are missing or outdated and do incremental build. I’m not any good at shell scripting so here is a similar pseudocode:

import cc, ld, glob, make

// make defined as:
fn make(to, from, how) {
if (exists(to) && mtime(from) <= mtime(to) {
return
}
how(to, from)
}

make("foo.o", "foo.c", cc)
…
make("a.out", glob("*.o"), ld)

It’s basically the same as Makefile, except that out “make script” doesn’t know about goals anymore, only steps to take. Do we need that goal-knowledge in a declarative format is an open question, because you can wrap these make() calls in a function named aout() and that becomes your declarative goal. However declarative your config/data is, you still pass it to some evaluator like `make` at the end of the day.
I dont think VR ever takes off. AR will once you can wear a headset that looks like sunglasses.
my program's main purpose is not running benchmarks)
There are no ways to hint the branch predictor on some common CPUs. I think Intel says it's fully dynamic and has no static predictions.

If you want to cause a pipeline stall, there's usually serializing instructions like cpuid/eieio.
And then what? Wouldn’t you need the crypto bros and shady investors to return at some point for your rewards to be of appreciable value? What are the rewards?
git undo -f
If your hardware is designed to allow very lightweight profiling and tracing, then static + LTO w/ PGO can still be improved by runtime re-optimization. If designed properly, the runtime overhead can be brought arbitrarily low by increasing the sampling period.
not op but -

I do not think crypto itself is a ponzi - I think long term it has uses, but not this stupid "get rich quick" bs.

But I was laughed at for saying "don't buy crypto to make money". NFTs can genuinely be useful - but if you're using them with the goal of making money then you're using them wrong. This stupid art stuff and other general stupid "get rich schemes" have obfuscated it's actual usefulness, leaving it overvalued as all heck, and everyone scammed.

The very volatile price caused by this stupid "get rich quick" hype makes it even more difficult to actually use it.

The bad outcome I was warning about was the 80%+ drop. Even advising people to keep coins in their own wallet is commonly dismissed with "yeah but [exchange] does x differently and is too big to fail".
They can collect more information in the background than they can when you're not running them.
Jesus. No.

Even when "just" is a problem, it's not... this.
Why Mark Zuckerberg had to announce 11,000 job cuts at Meta
Your 'study' by fossil fuel interest using flawed statistics and outdated data that triple and quadruple counts costs that don't even show up until renewable penetration is 3x the current amounts and are already being internalised by hybrid and internal storage programs means nothing.

It does make for a pretty good demonstration of the type of shilling Shellenberger does though, so props on that part.
Man, reading comprehension is a funny old bugger. You can be intelligent and literate and educated and genuinely whip-smart and Muphry's Law will still fuck you the second you look away.
They do this. Basically everything runs straight through wechat, as if the facebook appstore hadn't lost relevance. Wechat is the api in most cases. You can even go to court on it.
They’re worth something today because people want them today. If they don’t have any real-world yield, that doesn’t make them worth anything tomorrow. As FTT just demonstrated, like so many have before.
I'm not an expert, but the reason this keeps happening is the financials of these firms are opaque. No one really knows how much they have, how much they have leveraged various investments to make new investments with loans on them. They are not audited. They all claim they are in excellent financial health and then boom they are gone because there are too many withdrawals and they can't pay back all their customers. Of course normal supposedly well-regulated companies also fail like ltcm. But that's systemically limited from regulation mandated from previous problems (like us 1930s).

I'm curious about why was he buying out all those other failing crypto firms? Did he not understand his own situation? Was it binance's triggering via the sale of ftx that triggered customers pulling their money out? Who knows about binance now. Any external investments they had went down in value, their crypto holdings went down. There's not particular reason to worry about binance. I've never bought into these inexplainable crypto giants anyway. How many more are left to fail?
Quest/Quest 2 specifically? Rift S? Rift CV1? Or the original Rift? I ask because the software and hardware has improved drastically. I'd be pretty surprised if you get sick from a Quest.
"Stupid" and "normal" is something that changes over time, sometimes very rapidly.

My bet is that it'll be the little apple logo on AR gadgets that'll normalize them.
> Consequently, we should divert money away from the welfare of people living today and towards efforts that maximize the likelihood of a galaxy filled with colonized planets. If that sounds ridiculous, it's because it is.

It sounds ridiculous to you because you framed it in an uncharitable way. Another way of saying "maximize the likelihood of a galaxy filled with colonized planets", so far as contemporary people are concerned, is "minimize the likelihood of civilizational collapse". Even a marginal reduction in the risk of nuclear war, for instance, would be a very good thing.
Well, you can be a curmudgeon and not enjoy someone's recommendation for a decent bit of entertainment, or you can say just politely carry on and be a grouch in the living room of your trashcan, or you could maybe try something new and actually consider watching something you haven't seen yet.

edit: softened the tone oh so slightly
> I've had some acquaintances working in various Ubisoft locations say it's not bad.

Hate to break it to you: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53391689

Activision, Blizzard, Ubisoft, and now Zenimax, Bethesda, and id are on my "do not buy or play" list for games.
Swift and Objective-C have collections that change implementation as needed, but they can do it because they're well abstracted (enough) and usually immutable so there's less chance of making a bad assumption.

Most other languages only have mutable collections, and name collection types after their implementation details instead of what the user actually wants from them.
The Z8 is a great machine. I still use mine even thought I also have an M1 and the latest Intel. That thing is stuffed full of SSDs. It has 2 PCIe x8 slots above the CPUs, without rear panel cutouts, that accept riser boards for m.2 SSDs. The C622 chipset has 2x 10gb ethernet controllers built-in, so while the 10gb ports are optional, they don't take up a PCIe slot. The internal air duct and all the cabling are well designed. Compared to my whitebox PC that I built myself, it's incredibly clean and integrated.
This incident shows why CT is a poor model to recognize one-off attacks against persons of interest. A better model was the 2010-era Perspectives Project[1], which requires browsers to report the certificate fingerprints and CA to a notary server, which can then issue an alert if the certificate hasn't been widely seen.

[1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~perspectives/firefox_help.html
Honestly, I think this is even more perverse than the "normal" hedonic trap of the ends justifying the means: this particular branch of EA expects us to make world-altering decisions based on what mostly comes off as speculative science fiction.

I would understand it more if it was purely hedonic: at least I could then argue about whether the ends actually do justify the means! But instead it's this sort of unfalsifiable, "but what if" reasoning that's actively diverting money away from worthwhile causes.
>"I remember years ago when Java adjacent research was all the rage, ..."

What is meant by "Java adjacent research"? I'm not familiar with what that was.
Woah that WSJ article is troubling. It seems like a US government financed scheme to track muslims in the Middle East, behind the cover of a "defense contractor." And they were using muslim prayer apps to do so! A foreign super power targeting foreign citizens belonging to a specific religious group with a massive surveillance operation is OK when the US does it I guess.

But yeah, not surprising then that they had the means to run a CA, too.
It's always shocking to me how inefficient hemoglobin is. Less than 1/500th the mass of oxygenated hemoglobin is oxygen.
Again. I don’t know how to say this enough times or clearly enough.

If people were buying goods and services with crypto then I would agree with you but they are not.

Right now it’s circular and moving in the wrong direction. People buy coins with fiat to pay stakers to buy other currency. That’s the only use case. And a big part of that is because what ETH does is actually one of the theoretically worst ways to buy goods/services imaginable.

That is why it’s a ponzi scheme no matter how similar it seems to non ponzi businesses.

Let’s put it this way, Lu Lu roe (or whatever that mlm scam was called) looks a lot like lululemon, except in one people bought the leggings because they liked them and in the other they bought the leggings to get rich.

Only one of those two was a ponzi, even if they both sold leggings.
In Feb 13, exactly one year before Whatsapp sold to Facebook for 19 billion dollars, they had about 200 million active users and only 50 staff members.

Firing half of the 7500 Twitter employees (most at $100k+ comp', lots at $300k+ comp') does not seem that erratic to me.
I know you're not defending this take, but I'm having trouble seeing how scam coins benefit future people.
Fuck that guy - glad he's gone
Does this mean that we should expect to see a bias in the content that Twitter allows, to favor Saudi interests or to paint the kingdom in a more favorable way, in the future?

I'm... not sure how effective it would be. The American political class has shown bipartisan support for the U.S.-Saudi relationship for a long time. That has begun to change in the last few years, and especially since the btutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi. There is now a non-insignificant group of national level Democratic politicians who vocally argue for a reassessment of the relationship between the two countries. The Democratic Party being in power approximately half the time, it would be in the kingdom's interest to sway some of these Democrats back to the traditional consensus. But there are few potential avenues for Saudi Arabia to do that, and I hardly see Twitter being one of them. Twitter is ingraining itself in the public consciousness as a toxic cesspool of right-wing users now that Elon Musk has taken charge. A public pressure campaign waged on Twitter won't sway leftist Democrats.

Really, more effectively could the House of Saud ingratiate itself with the American voter by using its influence in OPEC to apply downward pressure on oil prices, and otherwise staying out of the news.
Immersion. I know it doesn't sound like much, but the hindbrain doesn't care.

There's an unofficial third-party mod for GTA 5 that adapts it into a VR game. Even though you still use keyboard and mouse to actually move around, and so gameplay-wise it's the same game, it feels much more intense. Oh, and the ability to actually aim down sights in a way that no screen can simulate is awesome (and I'm looking forward to games like Arma pushing this even further by accounting for focus distance etc).
At least with AliExpress you kind of know what you are getting!
Battery life is terrible from what I've read, only a few hours of use?
That's one of the most Vonnegut things I've ever read. Delightful.
Keeping an API stable is a surprisingly large amount of work. I've never worked with a codebase as large as Twitter's, but I have seen that even with testing in place it is easy for seemingly unrelated changes to break the API. If Twitter has reduced engineering staff, API functionality would be one of the first things to suffer in my estimation.

This doesn't manifest as someone purposely breaking the API, but incidental changes breaking it. For example, a minor change in something like time display code that does the "posted X minutes ago" could easily end up silently corrupting API calls in odd ways. And if the engineering staff is reduced, fixing the API that broke a 3rd party vendors product will likely be a very low priority.
I find the 75% of respondents claiming to use frontend unit tests surprising, in many cases where I could find the time to actually write tests for frontend it was almost exclusively for design system components and those projects are rare
Honest question: are you autistic?
The problem is that it's reductionist. A CTO's productivity on a side project could be enabled by good on-call engineers, a CEO and board who don't demand 80 hours a week of work, a home situation that's stable and supportive, or a lot of other things. Transfer Evan Wallace to a company that doesn't fit him, give him some really dumb KPIs, and his productivity would drop (briefly, until he quit). Fix the personal and professional environment of the employee who can't do for loops and their productivity might rise.

The idea of a 0.1x developer, 1x developer, and 10x developer sitting frozen in amber beside each other, ungrowing and unchanging, never responding to their work environment, always at fault or worthy of praise for any differences in personal productivity, is ridiculous.
In the business of building a fascist echo chamber? Parler and Gab already failed, though
How does giving your money to crypto businesses improve the future?
This item had even weirder reviews - the reviews are about some locks, pillow cases, etc. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BKJRFZQ8/ref=cm_sw_r_api_i_58ZZZ...

What is the trick here? How do they get these reviews?
OP is complaining about SBF coming into ea and using his crypto money to donate huge amounts to speculative and sometimes even harmful causes such as ai safety and that Oregon house seat instead of meat and potatos ea causes of global health/poverty and animal rights
Nope. Absolutely hate it and I've been doing it for a decade and a half. I love messing around with computers and technology but getting myself in the mindset to be writing code for my job feels like pulling teeth. I'd rather be looking at music stuff, home improvement stuff, beer/brewing, etc.
> Even a marginal reduction in the risk of nuclear war, for instance, would be a very good thing.

Nobody disagrees with this. But since you brought it up, I think it's worth asking: what precisely has the EA movement done to reduce, even marginally, the risk of a nuclear war?
In Poland you'd be usually talking post-tax per month but I converted for American standards, so pre-tax per year. You can get more, mind you, that was just the average.
I'm really surprised I haven't heard this more often, because it seems like a given. AR glasses should be trying to offload as much work as they can to the supercomputers we carry around in our pockets. They have a much larger form factor that can support more compute, more battery, a better antenna, etc.

edit To be clear, I don't think we're anywhere near having cheap AR glasses that can just delegate all the work - rather I think there's so much compute that's necessary, we need the combination of what we can fit onboard the glasses and in our phones to make a compelling product.
Quest is just hardware though. I use mine almost exclusively to play SteamVR games. If they want to own the platform they need to be the VR marketplace.
If I used to trust my friend, and I gave him key to my house, and later I decide that I don't trust him anymore, I change the locks: a technology solution to a trust problem.

If people want to revoke trust in the bank or the law or AWS, they're probably going to need technology to shore up the gaps made by the loss of trust.

I'm not assuming that you can derive trust from technology alone, but I do think that you can use it to get more out of whatever trust you have.
Hiw do you access browser contents programmatically in your custom solution?
I believe intel used to always predict forward branches not taken and backward branches always taken if it didn’t have any history.

Regardless, you can at least lay out code in a way that heavily favors one branch over the other, and potentially optimize for one branch (I.e. give one branch very expensive prelude/exit to make another branch very cheap). The last thing I’ve seen compilers greatly struggle with though…
I think Reddit is probably the local town square, but it depends on your bubble.

Marketplace is there, Messenger, but I haven't used FB for anything else in years.
Agreed, Isolation is one of my favorite games of all time. It's sad to see what the suits have done to the developers of that game, instead of a sequel we're now getting some shitty co-op shooter that nobody asked for.
This is hilarious because to sign up as a seller on Amazon, they do this onerous process where amongst other things:

1. You need to upload photo ID and address details that have a funky AI auto-check (which often fails) to ensure what you've entered is what is on the ID docs.

2. They mail (snail mail) you a physical postcard with a printed One-Time Token to enter into your pending seller account.

3. You need to do a video call with one of their staff members to verify your identity, which also involves the pantomime of putting your passport or other ID document next to your face in the webcam so they can "check".

Yet listing re-use, with "Ships from Amazon" and the nice Prime checkmark, for something totally fraudulent, is still trivial to do.

I used to buy everything online from Amazon, and now it's much more of a judicious process which can cause family strife - I had a huge argument about not using a generic China-sold electronic in our kitchen because I was worried about the safety mark validity.

This, like the Twitter bot problem, seems solvable, but it's strange why this doesn't appear to be a focus for them.
Your hypothetical conversation is not improved very much by removing the word "just".
I mean, MIT, Harvard, LSE, Chicago and others have Econ course lectures on YT. You can watch lectures from lecturers that students at these institutions have trouble getting access to.

Don’t be so sure that you can’t learn from the absolute best on YT.
It is utter hubris to put the lives of fictional future people, mere characters in a story you've invented, over the lives of real people alive today.

It can justify virtually any action. The future is unknowable, so we can spin a new yarn every time we want to justify a new ethical compromise.
There is a good chance that Amazon does care and the fraudsters are able to occasionally get past the countermeasures.

Amazon ships a remarkable number of products. If only 10^-4 of them are fraudulent, there will still be quite a few bad products . We'll generally hear about the bad ones with outsized volume.
Yeah I've been meaning to check out this series. I plan to try out the remake once it comes out next year.
You think there should be order and rule following in society?
And laws and regulations should be enforced?

Looks like we’ve got ourselves a white supremacist over here.
There are infinite-x programmers and engineers.

There are people who can attack new problems or develop completely novel solutions, and those who are capable of solving problems that that might not technically be new, but they require deep knowledge of several disciplines.

And there are people who are simply incapable of doing those things. They might be adequate programmers, able to work productively on existing projects and variations of solved problems, fine tune them, solve difficult bugs, make them work real nice. But it's not the same thing, and it's easy to see when you have worked with the former types.
> It's only on an entry-level account

So far. I imagine they will be expanding it over time.
It's alright. After doing it for more than a decade, I can't think of doing anything else. Although, the spark is gone and now it's more of a chore sometimes.

Reason to keep going is the good pay. Earlier it was all good, but now it feels like doing CRUD in one way or another. Not to mention, the work hours are always atrocious. The thing I hate most about is the middle management or leadership who always over promise things and have quite a myopic view of technical aspects of software.

Another thing is the constant bombardment of new tech that one has to keep up with. It's as if there's no downtime and you can't just switch off and get back to your daily life after putting in your regular hours.
I’m assuming $1.89B doesn’t give them much though, if any power to influence
None of the opinions described in this thread can fix the problem of ultimately having too many or too few commits, whatever norms are enforced. Squashing errs toward too few, not squashing errs toward too many. Probably the ideal is that a PR has meaningful, thoughtful commits which each contain a coherent, self-contained increment of functionality.
Ask HN: Replacement for Google News?
I begrudgingly use Google news as my news page. Long ago I could remove sections. Not anymore. I would have dismissed the Covid news header long ago too. It seems like it is stuck on a user unfriendly minimal feature set. Ideas?
he was expecting nobody to check his BS
Hubzilla: Powerful tool for a decentralized nomadic identity
You sell a cheap and boring legitimate item, get some easy good reviews, then update the product listing to be something else entirely.