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Ask HN: Boring technologies and long-term reliability?
There is a post trending on HN asking a question "What will happen to React after Facebook layoffs".

At present I am evaluating tech stack for my project. And that got me thinking, what are the components of software stack that are not hinged to few companies and have long-term survival possibility. Some of the things that come to mind are Postgres, Python, Linux Kernel, BSDs, LLVM, GCC, C++, C, JavaScript, jQuery, GTK, KDE.

What else?
Sure, but the point is that if Binance were ever in a position to where they needed to start liquidating the SAFU, its reasonable to assume that the market for BNB would be in a very poor state; either because of whatever caused them to need to liquidate the SAFU, or because of the liquidation itself. BNB's typical 24h volume is only around 8x the total amount of BNB in the SAFU.

More broadly, the existence of the SAFU should raise eyebrows. If they're acting as a depository trust, in other words maintaining a 100% reserve ratio, then why does the SAFU need to exist? Maybe just marketing? Giving cryptobros something to point at to say "Binance is safe"? I guess that's fine. I don't know; just weird.

Its like, imagine if JP Morgan only dabbled in 0% interest checking accounts, literally just took your money and put it in a box, then said "we've got a billion dollars here to pay out in case we go bankrupt. Half of it is in JP Morgan Stock, that should be fine right?". The situation doesn't make much sense to me, but I may be missing something.
Quite possibly the first decent thing to ever come out of the CIA. Chapeau.
Got invited this summer and was a bit skeptic at first (been trying different browsers on and off for the last couple of years). I knew nothing about the browser and had no real expectations. I have to say I was a bit impressed by the onboarding, the UX, and the attention to detail. (Perhaps because I work in UX)

Thought I'd try it for a week before eventually switching back to Chrome because of some missing feature or functionality – in reality it has been the opposite. I dread using Chrome again, and whenever I'm forced to, it feels like going back in time, but not even in a nostalgic way. Just a sense of "this is what we used before?"

Anyway, I have 5 invites if anyone wants to try it out.
> if it works currently why would it break?

Because they are planning much more rapid iteration with relatively little planning on core product features with a butchered staff and quite likely not prioritizing maintaining API stability for third-party tools while doing it and, its very overtly a “move fast and break things” mindset.

Plus, the new high priority Blue-with-verification rollout has been quite visibly broken on the web and first party apps, with people getting inconsistent reeults about availability when trying to upgrade to it and having inconsistent results as to whether (and to whom, and in what contexts) the checks display after they do.

Do you think keeping the API working for third-party integrations has a higher priority?
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I still find them mostly a gimmick. They're a very good identifier for yuppie-like people, though, which one could say that it adds to the "stupid-looking" thing.
I assume it would be much like it currently is where we have a lower class subsisting on a low barely livable wage because that’s how they prefer to exist while the rest of us work and the payment for our extra work to them is that we don’t have to deal with them in day to day society. This sounds a lot like SSI for some of the people on it. Unfortunately I don’t think people actually work like that and instead you get shiftless youth.
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I sometimes have an iPad next to my MacBook when working.

I laugh at myself when I start swiping on the MacBook with my Apple Pencil.

Not sure if that means anything but that is my experience :-)
Right so they didn’t invest customer assets, they just loaned them to themselves in exchange for their own token so that they could invest the customer assets.
I dunno I actually really like bowling and never thought it was boring but in Japan it was like the holes were too small for my fat fingers or something.

ボウリング - bōringu, this is the word they have for it, so yeah
> Kanye West made some observations recently about some basic facts and statistics that some people seem preternaturally inclined to avert their eyes from

Can you elaborate on these facts? I haven’t really paid attention to Kanye since 808s and Heartbreak (a fantastic album)
It was a great soundtrack, perfect for doom. but that talk left me confused.

what I got out of it. he did not want your normal heavy metal soundtrack so he deconstructed music down to it's core, created a bunch of noise, layered it up to make the songs... but it sounded bad, so he had to add the heavy metal back in.

At the end I am like... so your whole process... was for nothing?
Thanks for pointing this out, I've never heard about this model before. Sounds quite reasonable to me. The only problem I see is if they treat all requests equally. I'd be concerned if security related PR get cancelled because the submitter is not subscribed. From my understanding they do pre-screen submissions before cancelling so that shouldn't be the case (at the price of creating some overhead for them).
What's an addy?
If having a nice history isn't important, and if PRs are a better unit than commits, why squash?
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I am 100% on Mick’s side here, but so much about this situation screams naivete and poor contracts/legal advice on his part.

He should have come down on them like a ton of bricks as soon as they announced an OST with his name on it, but that hadn’t been contracted (which both parties admit, so it’s definitely not he-said she-said).
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I’d like to try it. Signed myself up, but I’m still waiting for the invite to arrive.
I think copyright itself might be on its way out. What meaning does a copyright have when I can click "Variations" on anything and get 4 suggestions in 10 seconds? Imagine how good they will be by 2030.
It’s an experimental process. You can just try out all things people do for their purpose in life. You will intuitively know whether it’s working or not, when to move on, and what to try next. There’s no other way.
Well not really. A couple of aircraft have flown with nuclear reactors onboard, but the reactors weren't used to generate power.
The first thing that comes to my mind is the whole Snowden series of events. Spying every citizen, is wrong. Also, I'm seeing the effects of something similar in my country, where this sort of spying is used to curb free speech, dissent, and completely kill the very essence of democracy.

It is wrong, and there has to be better ways. I don't remember the exact procedure, but NSA didn't need much clearance to spy on any American citizen.
I was thinking about this earlier this year and Cal Newports work helped me completely reframe the question. He discusses it in this video.
https://youtu.be/sjiP6sDyN-E

This in addition to some Stoic concepts (take care of things you can control, etc.) really helped me.
Strong green tea made from high quality loose leaves gives me just as much of a kick as coffee.
Google and Twitter veteran maps out a Twitter alternative
Why does a gambling den shutting down make so much noise? New ones will crop up in no time, probably from the same people.
> It's not 20 years ago where I'd read a shampoo bottle out of boredom.

I totally forgot about this, but damn I did that regularly as well.
Well of course it's as good as a rebase -- it is a rebase.
I highly don’t recommend the 2020 film by Pixar: Soul.

Are you excited to get to know all about an aspiring jazz pianist who is trying to make it in nyc?! Well tough luck, that’s not what this film is about. Instead, after getting hooked on a character and his goals, you are instead treated to a 30m-1h sequence of “lessons” (similar to a video game tutorial that’s overstayed its welcome) about how this meta afterlife world works. Everything is explained. But the explanations suck. But I’m not even here to start taking notes on the mechanisms of this after life world (which end up being broken anyway). It’s very… boring.

The best parts of the movie are in the real world. Who is this guy? What’s his life like? What are his dreams, how does he fall short? Those are also the shortest parts of the movie.

The movie is mainly the main guy running and bouncing around trying to get back to the actual interesting part of the film.

The after life world characters are bland. They are mechanical (on purpose), which makes them difficult to connect to. I had no sympathy for their goals and struggles.

Overall Soul is a big miss for Pixar. And I love Pixar. I can see what they were going for, they wanted to make a movie about life, death, purpose, etc. This movie is not that. It’s a weird adaptation of intangible concepts personified but not done well. It’s also way too much like Inside Out, which was better (but also not anything amazing).

If you need your Pixar fix, I recommend:
- Ratatouille
- Coco
- WallE
I was just making a joke about how deep we can all get into configuring every little thing on a PC - no offense or point intended, I spend as much time configuring my boxes as using them if I'm being honest.
No, FTX was making bank in fees. They just got greedy and loaned customer funds the SBF’s hedge fund to gamble with. Hedge fund went bust and now the loans default and the collateral which was just funny money to begin with is worthless.
I’m using cypress now and finally grokked the queue notion. But cypress is still flaky: very frequently the first character typed into an input element is lost (Firefox). Switched from Chrome to Firefox because Chrome would run out of memory after too many tests.

Both of these issues are well documented in git issues with hundreds of replies and work arounds that just don’t always work.

I’m ready to throw in the towel and rewrite everything in playwright. Maybe b I’ll have different issues there…
> Gone are the days of just a shell and vim. Now it's all yaml, dockerfiles, scrum meetings, ERDs ,et cetera. It kinda feels like too many weasels got their hands in the pot.

Oh no, I'm in my twenties and already begin to feel like that. I still like working on code and business problems, but there seems to be too much unnecessary stuff around it.

I like it when things are lean and agile: Build the Monolith, rsync/git deploy to server, restart with Systemd.

Now it's all Scrum + Microservices in Docker and everything takes ages.
Notably the Cirklon. "Tighter than a gnat's ass."

https://www.sequentix.com/shop/cirklon-hardware-sequencer
I dont agree that "culture" is defined to include having cameras on (or off for that matter). The general concept of "working" involves not staring at somebodys face (unless youre editing pictures?) - but coding; not needed. In a meeting where the idea is to present either data (sharing screen) I would also say very not needed. Somebody mentioned needed 1:1's - and I also disagree, it is a want. I've had plenty of 1:1's over the ol cell phone, same effect; video not needed. I typically base small daily meetings based on who is asking questions, and engaging in said issues. And even if engagement is forced (IE calling on somebody to get their attention) video is not needed, I do not need to see them. Somebody's face is not the topic of discussion - maybe for onlyfans but not currently where I am at.
The ugly truth is that DMCA claims are mainly a weapon against smaller creators, you can't realistically use it against big companies in reality.
There will never be a BlackBerry with an MP3 player or camera
What the paper you linked to is doing is an interesting statistical analysis of the behavior of random Turing machines for a given time limit.

I just don’t agree that this can be fairly summarized as “estimating Kolmogorov complexity”.

Kolmogorov complexity isn’t a statistical measure — it doesn’t matter how unlikely the machine that produces the output string is. And the time limit they have to impose to actually run those machines is crucial; some of the machines they have to abort would eventually produce an output and halt.
I don’t want to cite Dunning-Kruger, but Coinbase’s core business model (if you looked at their balance sheet as I suggested) leads to them segregating customer assets from everything else (there’s a special line with a footnote and everything). Those assets line up exactly with the liability line for deposits.

If you’re even a little bit familiar with bankruptcy law, you know that those depositors are the top of the stack (by a mile) and part of the reason Coinbase scores so low on those tests you cite is because the customer deposits get ignored (since they legally can’t touch them).

This is different from A) FTX which lent out those customer deposits irresponsibly and B) Thinking they are a good business whose corporate debt I want to buy.

Like I said in my original comment, that’s a stupid/weird business model that no one else follows because it’s so stupid and weird!

It’s also based on a Ponzi scheme!

But anyway…
> Selenium just couldn't parse the over-engineered Javascript framework we had, and I had to pile on hacks on hacks.

Excuse me, but isn't selenium actually a browser robot and not a javascript parser? I assume this is just that DOM is mutating so much that they could or could not find that element or always have to wait for it and comes with unreliability and such.

I haven't used alternatives, but using selenium feels like solid "Engine" to make abstractions on.
Yes, it finds it. It ranks quite well for most keywords I tried. It even got #1 spot for one of the keywords I tried. I also noticed some other related open source projects show up (by other people) which I hadn't heard about for several years.

Google search only shows paid SaaS platforms in the first page of results.
This reminds me of how Reddit changed basically overnight years ago to be all about politics.
Perhaps Z-Library would benefit by incorporating censotrship-resistant running via Rosen, which someone submitted here not long ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33541351
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Thanks for the feedback :)

I was part of a team responsible for design and verification of DSP (digital signal processing) chips. ASIC part of the username refers to both "application-specific integrated circuit" and my college friend circle.
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Of all the famous people whose lives I've overlapped, Vonnegut is the one I've wished I could've met in person.

He was formative. In our school's ostensible computer programming class in the 1980s, our great teacher not only taught us Pascal (UCSD p-System on the Apple IIe), but also computer history (e.g., Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace), and most memorably... reading and group discussion of Vonnegut's "Player Piano". This influence has caused me no end of trouble.
Around ~2005 I had a Sony Ericsson K300, and my main method was to send pictures to the computer via infrared (yes I had to buy an infrared USB dongle) and then posting them on skyblog.com

The phone could even tether its GPRS connection via infrared! That always amazed me!
The syntax is simple, but more importantly they have left out a lot of things other languages take for granted: inheritance, exceptions (panic is not oft used) and of course till recently generics.

Yes the std library is larger but I’d say that is a good thing and is not the language but the ecosystem.
Clearly, the medium is the massage; there are also those who massage the medium
>> Consider a program in which an array was accessed based on the index provided by some user input -- how could this ever be proven to never go out of bounds?

> It's a type constraint on the index

Consider a program in which the index type is provided by some user input -- how could this ever be proven to never go out of bounds?

You can move the problem elsewhere (and indeed often should!), but eventually it becomes a condition check and error handling behavior appropriate to the scenario. The default error handling behavior is to halt the program.
Because of the power you have over other people? Why else would one become a moderator on an Internet forum.
> since you often aren't allowed to rewrite history on the remote

For dev branches it's easy, `git reset --hard` on local then `git push -f` again. This command combination is not that intuitive for beginners.

I agree this action is sometimes hard to recover e.g. on protected branch, so a warning must be given to the user.
They stopped in 2020.

Like I said, the model is sort of stupid and weird but it’s less stupid than FTX’s at the moment!
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You'll know it when you see it.

In the meantime, have fun, take care of those you care about, and try to leave your corner of the world better than the way you found it. Cultivate a skill you enjoy. Touch grass and talk to people without a technological intermediary. That's not a presumptuous insult to your lifestyle, we all have to keep that in mind.
I do! A lot every day.

Not long ago I picked up an Asus VivoBook 13". Its not my primary computer, I needed something for travel. When not traveling I use it around the house for watching TV and a bit of lite web surfing.

In the browser particularly, I like resting my hand next to the screen and using my thumb to scroll the page as I read. It much smoother and more responsive than the track pad. Navigating all the new windows UI such as the settings is much easier using the touch screen than the track pad.

Both the touch screen and the 360 degree hinge I now consider essential. I would not want to go back to a traditional laptop.

I would consider one of those machines where the keyboard detaches, but I couldn't find one I liked.

I've had a Surface Pro in the past, but the battery swelled and cracked the screen two weeks after the warranty expired. I wont buy Microsoft again.
Most of their cost comes from API accesses to other services (e.g., Bing), so unless they can replace those API calls the price cannot go down very much.
I feel like the fact that we have these incessant conversations about how to use git just show that the interface is inherently broken. New programmers always struggle with git. The naming of the commands is bizarre and confusing. The docs are overbearing and a lot of the time the fact that it's powerful in weird edge cases is seen to trump all of its flaws. That said I haven't seen anything better or even close to its usefulness.

Lack of any real competition may be an issue there.
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The person above you is saying something anti-semitic and should probably be flagged into oblivion
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That's the Treasury.

The Fed loans you money. If you confuse someone lending you money with them giving you money you have a problem.
Most Java configuration files are a series of method calls laid out in XML or YAML. These are clearly imperative, the bun-and-patty imperative.
There’s a movie directed by Wim Wenders called “Until the End of the World” with tech similar to this. It’s a Pay phones actually, where you’d flip the arm with the screen up attached up to make a call and down to end a call.

The movie is really an alternate universe where tech like this is ubiquitous. There’s something about the late 90s / early 00s vision for tech future I have an increasingly difficult time grasping today.
Because custodially held crypto assets may be considered to be the property of a bankruptcy estate, in the event of a bankruptcy, the crypto assets we hold in custody on behalf of our customers could be subject to bankruptcy proceedings and such customers could be treated as our general unsecured creditors

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/coinbase-warns-customers-coul...
Web frameworks are big enough that even if the API is successful, the UI may be wrong. It’s extremely useful to have good enough UI tests that the dev himself can see what is failing.

See that another way: You, as a human, can’t scale for a team of 50. e2e tests can.
Yes I agree, I have been following Twitter’s API for years and the progress is just so slow. I even followed their Postman API.
Isn't it Open Collective that was on the front page recently being used by casinos for money laundering or some other weird scam?

re: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33529742

(Had not heard of OpenCollective before yesterday so intrigued to see it come up twice)
FTX made a boatload of money. They just threw it all away at the casino.
I’m seeing this narrative pushed a lot by politicians who would like to shift the blame to anyone other than themselves.
Nice! That guy is clearly an artist in more ways than one…
Been talking to a lot of people about how hybrid working seems to really tricky to get right at organisational levels. Teams seem to be able to adapt and continue to get shit done but culture/belonging/etc seem to be struggling at group and company levels.

Trying to collect some data on this so have started a survey. Please take a look and submit if it’s something you’re interested in.
Some people deliver 10x more code. Good, solid code… more of it and often simply better.

This concept often hurts people’s egos, who search for some counterbalance.
It's pretty much always been like this. It doesn't resemble at all what tops the Trending charts in America.

I've been checking Twitter Trends here in Japan for the last ~3 months, prior to the Musk acquisition, and I've always thought it was fascinating how there's very little political discussion. I don't think this was related to the curation team being axed at all.
FTX fucked up big time, but if they didn’t allow alemeda to siphon all the customer funds away they’d still be chugging along just fine. The issue is Sam used it as his hedge funds piggy bank.
> Pretty simple, folks are trying to get shit done. Not screw around with tools.

I'm trying to get stuff done, not screw around with the Github UI. `git pull --rebase main` beats clicking around in a browser.
This simply ends advertising, and publishing generally. I’m not saying that gross negligence is okay, but I don’t think verifying every claim is a reasonable standard (it would be impossible).
out of curiosity, would anybody else cease to have an issue copilot if it was an open source model?

i'm not paying for copilot right now because i'm waiting for this to shake out. but i'd be happy to pay (even their current asking price) if i knew the model was also open source and could be self hosted.

maybe this is the wrong way to ask the question, but hopefully it makes sense
Tons of unnecessary code overhead for doing very simple operations.

For simple forms, redux buys you nothing, but it is easily 3x the code.
Warp just re-release Artificial Intelligence 30th Anniversary on vinyl if you are so predisposed.

See https://warp.net/us/artificial-intelligence
Amazing! Is it just me though, the rhyme scheme detection seems poor? I've been using the examples from their updates page, and even then it seems to miss internal rhymes?
Strong Support for Snap and Ubuntu Core as Canonical Meet IRL
Which OS do you use?
Now I see why that coffee cup icon is on the "generate images" button... fingers burning after a few images.

Haha, awesome app!
You won't like learning where Guido's been working for many years now...
Oh. Well that’s ridiculous
> My concern is how much funding FTX and SBF in particular were giving to EA/AGI Safety research labs and charities.

Did a malicious AI orchestrate this downfall?
coughGITHUBcough

I'm terribly sorry, I could not resist.