skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's a company that advertises jobs on HN at least once a month.

Flexport? I had the same experience.
I looked into JS as an alternative, given that ES6 cleaned up a lot of the things that had previously been bugging me about JS. I thought JS must be well-suited for embedding usecases, and the vastly larger language community, compared to Lua, must be an advantage of some sort.

But I ended up concluding that I still don't want to go anywhere near JS.

It's like browser-based use of JS and node-based use of JS are sucking the air away from JS's potential as a language for embedding.

e.g. Nashorn was part of the Java standard API in Java 8 but then got dropped. There's project Detroit to try to replace it, but it doesn't seem to be going anywhere. Most people interested in embedding JS in Java will presumably want node compatibility, even though node is not a great architecture for embedding, so that's what GraalJS is doing, but it comes at the cost of a loss of portability to non-Graal Java environments. A widely-used way of embedding JS in C# is by actually invoking the system browser through WebView in some weird and convoluted way. ...it's things like that which make me recoil in horror. Meanwhile Lua for Java and Lua for C# is just quietly and humbly in existence and using a sane architecture.

...and then JS libraries are full of this async-stuff with promises and whatnot, and I'm reluctant to go anywhere near that if I'm positively certain that it serves absolutely no purpose in the applications I actually intend to build and comes at the price of making code so much more complicated and unreadable.
> A better firefox would be a better Chrome that copies optimization technique from firefox. Because "better" means improving the one that 65% of users are already using .. if it's fixable.

I don’t want an internet dominated by only one web browser’s rendering engine. Not ever again thank you.
Russell Hoban "the mouse and his child"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_and_His_Child
Oh, there’s definitely those moments where you see the interviewers face fall, their eyebrow raise, or repeat the same question multiple times. But that doesn’t necessarily mean your answer was wrong, just that the interviewer thought it was.

I dunno, my current employer is happy with me, and all employers have always been happy with me for going on 14 years now. I’m rather inclined to think I’m more likely to be correct than the little snot interviewing me and asking me dumb JS doc questions.
Minor nitpick: on my mobile view there is a linebreak between base and exponent, that's a bit irritating.

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Ironically R inside is still much of a Lisp.

> The truth is that the stampede began while R was still in a rough state, people were so eager to get away from Lisp.

That's not a big surprise.

The syntax is/was an important reason. Most users of statistics / maths software prefer a more math-like notation. Even the bigger Lisp applications in the maths area provide that always: Macsyma/Maxima, Reduce, Axiom, Derive, ..

One could have written that on top of Lisp, but it was much more convenient to develop a specialized language/runtime using C. C + Lisp + R would have been more complex than C + R.
Details I didn't include but should have (I wasn't sure I'd have any replies at all... I should have had more faith, sorry)

It's a bit of a ramble, sorry about that.

MSTOICAL[0] is a fork of an old C based Forth variant, it took some help from the HN community[1] to get it to compile in a modern 64 bit environment, for which I am very thankful. However, it uses AutoConf to configure, build, install, etc... and I can't for the life of me figure out how to remove all of that logic. (C isn't my primary language, I'm willing to learn that, but adding AutoConf on top of it was too much)

I was hoping to strip out Autoconf and pack it all into one HUGE C source file, and be done with everything but a single shell script and/or windows batch file to compile it, so it could be cross-platform.

In order to start work on that, I was willing to switch to Linux (Ubuntu)... I got everything up and running for the most part, but then I couldn't access WikidPad[2], my local Wiki with my appointments, etc. I missed a doctors appointment because of that, so went back to Windows.

WikidPad is written in Python, so you would think cross-platform would be a slam dunk. The issue is that the wxWindows library it uses, for reasons I'm sure they think are sufficient, changed the names and nature of variables in some calls. Because you have to build from source, that means someone has to update it to fix those breaking references. I don't have the skill to do so. The community seems to have moved on from WikidPad despite it's once wide popularity.

On Windows, you just download an old EXE installer and you're good to go.

So finally... I'm back in Windows 10, and decided to try to craft together a twitter clone in Python with a bunch of weird ideas that I tossed out at 3:30 am in a twitter thread, and put into a more coherent manifesto.[3]

There are a ton of Python libraries that seemed like they'd be trivial to hook together, but when I tried to use Flask, the build system issues broke things, so again, faced with the same issues... I wrote the above "Ask HN"

[0] https://github.com/mikewarot/mstoical

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30957273

[2] https://github.com/WikidPad/WikidPad

[3] https://github.com/mikewarot/iceberg/blob/main/MANIFESTO.md
I too immediately pictured a middle-aged TV celebrity uplit by a crystal ball as I read this prophecy. Thank you for the chuckle.
Nominal price growth below inflation rate. So prices drop in real terms. If your assets/income grows above inflation rate you win...
There is no evidence that a bypass occurred related to iOS or Android app review

An analysis of the app update showed it disabling user features like account transfers. That makes sense for their bankruptcy steps.
A whole week later, turns out you were dead wrong and the article was spot on.
> In the course of 2-3 days last week, SBF’s estimated net worth went from ~$15 billion to a negative number, possibly the fastest evaporation of such a vast personal fortune in all human history.

No.

His net worth was never $15B. His net worth might have been negative - less than that homeless living in a tent under the bridge.

He was a fraud, a con man.

There's no reason to assume his entire Effective Altruism interest was authentic. It could easily been a way of connecting to important people like Tony Blair and Bill Clinton.
Well as michael burry said, its ludicrous to think asset bubbles cant be predicted. One of leading indicators is an increase in the frequency and complexity of fraud within the sector.
Is it me or does the first graph in that article look a bit wonky? The "forecast" shading starts at the beginning of 2022, and today's date on the X axis would have just about already hit the bottom of the big trough (which isn't what I gather they intend to convey).
Whilst the title is verbatim it may be worth adding something to note this to do with the mold linker.
Jellyfin is just a dumb server, as in you can do the routing to it in any way you like. (Wireguard VPN, Tailscale, etc)

Offline playback is rather rare still. I know of Finamp and S2 [1] for music that support offline playback. You can download media in the official app, but you'll need a different player for playback.
If you do offline playback, I don't think the reading position is synced to the server when you go online later.
is that the sole respurce you use? is that where you found your current employer? please suggest others if you do use others.
ports usually don't happen just so. If there wasn't one, I would interpret it such that there was little demand at that time.

SBCL later was forked from CMUCL to have a simpler implementation and build system. Recently the port to M1 Macs went smooth. The person(s) doing the port did an excellent job.
I think your understanding is a bit off. Sure, central banks can “print” money by buying stuff. But they still have a balance sheet. If the stuff they buy falls in value and they sell it for less then they incur a loss. If they lose more money than the equity on their balance sheet then they will have negative equity. Theoretically a central bank can keep operating with negative equity, but it doesn’t look good. The Swedish central bank probably won’t. It will ask for a tax payer bailout instead.
How fast does this get updated when Mozilla releases a 0day patch?
Retail housing investors are getting a rough lesson in risk correlation.

Get a variable rate (or short term fixed) loan to leverage the purchase on an asset whose main price driver is interest rates and things can go south quickly.
It's OK to say "being remembered doesn't matter", I was only pointing out that the alternatives are "being remembered" or "being forgotten" - and both are fine. There is no third option, though, "not vanishing".
This is true. The VNA can only provide repeatability and precision, and it's the calibration kit's job to provide accuracy.
This is not true. You should edit it. Reuters has it that SBF is still in Nassau.
The Wikipedia page is a list of people who have lived in airports in general, not only those who have been forced to.
Most likely to get around clever UB optimizations when checking for values beyond max sizes.
> This is one of the things that bothers me about hard-line atheists: just because gods are not falsifiable, it doesn't mean that they don't exist.

Hard line atheists don't exist like this though. This is a "not like the other people" statement. The solid statement "god does not exist" is true enough for any social interpretation of the question. No one who opposes it is ever planning on exploring the edges of that statement - they're waiting to bait and switch in "ah hah! And so therefore God exists and is the Christian god!".

Which is to say, atheism dismisses any specific interpretation of God in the manner rather succinctly put by Ricky Gervais: "You don't believe in 2,999 gods. And I don't in just one more."

[1] https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2017/02/02/ricky-gervais...
Both outcomes are nicer than the alternative (all crypto-bros become billionaire and everyone else staying poor and being enslaved)
This did not turn out to be SBF’s jet.
Yeah in a high inflation environment nominal growth means little.
> That's very true but only because males are behaving more and more like females.

Do you think a post bellyaching about simply having a family makes you sound masculine?
Just kidding! :D
Alpha-Male Crypto ‘Bloodsport’ Sows a Catastrophe at FTX
Clicking the links makes it clearer. Back in 2016 there seems to have been a politics free week on HN. (Hmm… 2016… I wonder why!). Anyway he sort of implies it is our duty to discuss politics on HN to avoid maybe the next Hitler or other such bad things happening.
indigenous is general term used worldwide. Ir is not name, it is descriptor.
I assume you're not arguing that people born into affluent families perform better than those who weren't.

In my view the ideal situation would still be a meritocracy but it would not be predicated on who you know or the old school tie.
The whole thing that is bugging me is that they made big political donations to both D and R. They use the money they conjured out of thin air and backed politicians with it. They probably backed the politicians who were most friendly to them. Those politicians might have won and that dirty money might have done a difference.

Does that sound moral to you? I think it’s absolutely terrifying. Every candidate that received that money should have their relation to Scam Bankman-Fraud investigated. It gets worse when you realize his mother and business partner are either related to certain political parties and the SEC chairman.
This happens to me frequently both in code editing and designing in Adobe suite, needing some of the redo changes after a series of undos. I usually just cut/copy the the parts i want to keep before doing the undos to get to a previous state and paste them back in. Works pretty well.
From the companies that did give me feedback I have learned that I really don’t want them to give me any.

It’s almost invariably “I didn’t like the way you named this variable” kind. I can’t ever let it go when I get a result that is so clearly biased/bullshit.
Weirdly Plex has gotten good at music. Which it used to suck at. But Plexamp and sonic analysis is cool.
Yes. I have about 2.5 TB of music and Swinsian does not break a sweat.
Doubtful. It's not like the housing market will crash but everything else will remain the same. If it happens, it will drag many other sectors down with it.

Okay - great, houses are 50% cheaper than they were in 2021, but now you got laid off your old job and are making only 60% of your previous pay check after 4 months of unemployment, and inflation and interest rates continues to rise
I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility [1]

Also turned into a short machinima on YouTube [2]

[1] https://qntm.org/responsibility
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADHp_mz4vI4
You are very, very confused.
And a week ago you would have included FTX in that KYC "western" list esp since they had so many big "western" investors and Washington's ears including the SEC.

Not to mention Bitcoin and crypto were created out of the failures of the trusted KYC "western" banking standards of 2008.

You are literally repeating blind trust mantra based on region bias that has just failed again this week.

Crypto is about avoiding the need to trust any of these entities, if it still hasn't enabled that maybe it isn't mature yet as an industry.
CeFi or not.
Is linearity a problem in these sorts of devices? I'm not sure where it would come into play. I'm assuming this does IF processing in software and it doesn't have a classical detector where linearity would be a problem.

Yes, return loss and directivity of the bridges/directional couplers in there is a big factor. It directly corresponds to usable dynamic range after calibration. If your directivity is only 20 dB at 6 GHz, 110 dB of dynamic range at the detector won't do anything for the quality of the final measurement. So an honest way of specifying dynamic range would be for a fully calibrated device. Giving that they say it has 110 dB, I don't think that's the case here.
If the nominal prices stagnate or even go down, but mortgage interest rates go significantly up, there is no positive change in affordability for the average buyer. The monthly mortgage installment will stay high, only the principal/interest balance within it will change.

The sellers are the ones who will get less money, but the buyers, unless they have huge savings, won't benefit much.
> it's still the theranos playbook, it's just a different image projected

You unfairly group all types of fraud together.

Fraud is a creative endeavor, diverse and fascinating.
Effective altruism seems to be a sort of cult that’s way for elites (that is, the upper class) to both make themselves feel better and to give them yet another vector of superiority over people.

In Sam Bankman-Fried’s case, he seems to have let it be a justification for the huge risks and likely criminal actions he took.
Bluetooth iPhone Hack
Think about disabling #bluetooth on your cell phones as a precautionary measure.

This actually happened to me.

Full details at https://www.pdxlocal.net/bluetooth-vulnerability/
As a data point, C23 added explicit wording about overflow handling in calloc():

> The calloc function returns […] a null pointer […] if the mathematical product of nmemb * size is not representable as a value of type size_t.

So apparently the Committee is OK with allocating more than SIZE_MAX/2 (but not more than SIZE_MAX).
> It shows lack of preparation and you can extrapolate that to the rest of the candidates work. If that person thinks the prep is silly, the prep we all know we need to do for a high paying job, and they just don't do it... it doesn't say anything positive.

But that isn’t true. A surgeon isn’t asked to do a quick review of random medical facts before they take an interview.

I refuse to submit to this ridiculous process, and therefore I’m always failing out in the leetcode part. I’d rather spend my time doing something useful or relaxing.
Never writing a commit msg ever again thanks to AI
Sorry miss-spelled. Meant static view of the _code_. Ie. Just a file listing with the option to view the code, like you've always had.

Anyways best of luck to you. It hasn't been an easy year for github with the downtime earlier in the year, and what I would expect to be a nasty migration from a monolith =D
Remembering Terry Davis, 1969-2018.
That is because you are judging it as adult. Your real interest is in whether it is best from your adult perspective and also kids like it.
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.

“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”
i am almost positive i have used it recently when did it get removed?

Edit I am an idiot you said better not removed...
The linearity is shown in the "Example measurements" graphs
Ask HN: What are you most afraid of?
Also, seems like it will also be short-lived so long as food remains scarce.

Last time we had food troubles (2007) we saw the housing market crash as investment dollars started gambling on futures contracts, but it wasn't long before people started paying big bucks for the farmland around settlements to try and profit on the production side, making it more costly to build new housing, thereby impacting housing supply and soon bringing all housing back up in price. We're already starting to see insane farmland offers showing up.

Maybe this time, especially with increased WFH, we'll start to see more growth away from historical settlements built on prime farmland, but with the high cost of fuel and shipping in general that isn't going to be the easiest transition either.
Un-pay-walled: https://archive.is/lthwZ
> you have one person spearheading away through the bushes, while everyone else is getting slapped in the face with the branches snapping back and thorns.

You just described me about 15 years ago. I've learned my lesson and avoid "unsupportable solutions" these days like the plague, but I still get pulled aside occasionally and get told quietly that nobody understands why I'm talking about solutions to problems that haven't even come up yet.
Big companies can be more bureaucratic, disorganised and so on. In feel like big companies are suited to people who can master the interview hoops, gauntlets and summersaults and small companies need someone who can clearly just get the job done.
You’re assuming being born into an affluent family is the cause of the higher pay. Is it possible that the employees from affluent families are higher performing?

I assume there’s significant class bias but I think considering only that factor is a little reductive.
> Why is it important to initialize memory to 0's before we use it?

Because reading from unitialized memory yields an indeterminate value. Operating on such a value can lead to UB. This applies to languages other than Rust too (e.g. C).

Ralf explains it better than me[1].

[1]: https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2019/07/14/uninit.html
Everyone’s a con-artist is neither accurate nor useful. Some things are clearly a con (the operations listed above in my view), most things are not.
This. We refi’d in 2020 and our monthly payment is just stupendously cheap now, like < 1/7 my monthly take home pay. Even though we sort of need a bigger house at this point, the thought of giving this up makes entering the market again a complete non-starter. I feel bad for anyone trying to buy a house in the US right now, particularly their first.
Sounds like plain old moral hazard to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard

Why people think that such things are limited to any one political party or that progressive liberals are somehow immune from it is beyond me.

Used to be a time, about a decade ago, where these very same folks would lose their collective minds when Mitt Romney said stuff like "corporations are people my friend" and "money is speech".

I guess if you can't beat them, join them. Heck, SBF even donated to Mitt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bankman-Fried#Political_do...

Instead of fighting to get money out of politics they decided they can just play this game better and their ends justify the means with very predictable results.

The only surprising thing is they got caught. Although it remains to be seen whether anybody actually admits fault, goes to jail, or any actual changes are made.
No wonder why these people are having a hard time convincing others to pay for their writing.
SBF literally said he would wager the world for another world with 51% odds.

There's no amount of money that will satisfy someone like that, even if his EA statements were heartfelt. Why would he give a billion dollars to charities, when he could risk it, flip it into $20B, and give it to charity? Why would he give $20B to charity when he could risk it, and flip it into $150B? etc...
I find CDG pretty well run, at least compared to the other airport I know well, EWR.
I always saw it as a rebranding of "trickle down", but for private companies and individuals.
By iterated experimentation, mostly. Social relations are a skill built on give-and-take actions on all levels, from the trivial chit-chat to lifetime friendships.

https://ncase.me/trust/
They stole clients assets and used them to:

1- Gamble with them

2- pay themselves

3- lobby the government

4- bailout other failing crypto companies.

Everything here could have been done with any non-crypto exchange.
Which is a bit surprising cause they let plenty of light in. Roller shutters work much better for this purpose.
GIT - As I understand it: Linus got fed up with the licensing issues and non-technical disputes around BitKeeper and went off to solve the issue once and for all by building an open source replacement.

It's an amazing snapshot engine, that acts like it stores deltas.

Programming in the 1980s wasn't really awful, we were getting newer faster cheaper computers all the time... the only thing that really sucked was making source01.zip, source02.zip, etc on stacks of floppy disks to save our source code. (Hard drives crashed all the time back then)

GIT is like manna from heaven in comparison.
I’ve lived in London long enough to remember the “black snot” you’d get after riding on the Tube (especially the Northern Line!) back in the early 2000s. They’ve done a lot to improve ventilation, and reduce dust from train brakes, in recent years.

The air certainly smells and feels a lot fresher and healthier on the extensively-ventilated Tube compared to on crowded buses with little or no ventilation at all.
I think one of the issues is this, there are so, so many people waiting to buy in the downturn with money saved that it will create its own boom.

I do wonder though, if all this cash in the bank people are hoarding for the downturn will have other effects on the economy, recession ?

I'm in the same boat though, I've saved and invested a shirtload of cash waiting for a downturn.
Right. For decades I thought I had played Space Invaders on the Arcade machine while I discovered later it was Space Invaders Part II (Taito). Also, with a similar color palette, Space Panic.
Plan 9 is mostly useful for research interest, not as production infrastructure.
The earlier version, the V2Plus4, has been compared with professional instruments by many users (linked on the website), so this one being higher end should be at least as good.
Similarly, I don't think it's correct to characterize SBF's background as 'middle class'. Apparently, both of his parents are Profs at Stanford Law School. Most likely, they are wealthy or even rich and SBF could benefit from their network, gaining access to the American elites without too many questions asked.
320k ETH were sent out and 285k ETH came back, not dollars.