skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How random do you think outcomes are?

Is a minority from a ghetto just lucky if they get admitted to Harvard? When we see a stereotypical white guy get admitted to Harvard, we would assume they are privileged. Are the people who break out of overty doing it on their own, ala boot straps style, or are they the product of an unlikely serious of events which gave them the edge they needed?
> He seemed earnest and genuine, but everything he’s saying is the exact opposite of reality.

Con man is short for “confidence” man for a reason. What they’re good at is gaining the unmerited confidence of others. You got played by his charisma. Remember this for next time.
Most of Africa has more robust money transferring systems than the US. You can literally text someone currency, and this has been around longer than bitcoin.
I think you'd have to make yet another new connector if you wanted a really good global standard, which makes it even less worth attempting.
That's asking people to put their money where their mouth is. I don't know if he's ever seen twitterers
Wow awesome, this is exactly what i have been looking for! Will check it out and do a writeup/tutorial if it works for me.
I buy this. Even from a pure equipment allocation standpoint it would be more difficult for a particular state or region to spin up a job, let alone somewhere that has literally no existing rail infra to speak of.

In the article, they mention that Italy has something like a SWAT team of rail planning and designing consultants at the national level that swoop in on local projects and offer guidance. That’s just not something you get to unless you have a preponderance of rail projects under your belt.
There's someone on Reddit who says they had their entire net worth in USDC on FTX.[1]

At least they're at the head of the line in bankruptcy. Custodial funds come ahead of debts.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/yq6y5d/all_...
really? this is what makes you sympathetic? Not all excessive violence and completely unchecked abuse of power?
He calls it cpp2 or Syntax 2: https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront
That's exactly the point - money is just numbers on screens. there is no money to loan out. the act of lending creates the money.

- Bank starts with $0 capitalisation or deposits
- Customer goes to bank and asks for $1 loan
- Bank believes customer is creditworthy and says yep
- Bank creates two accounts for customer, loan account and deposit account. Loan account is -$1 and deposit account is $1
- customer transfers $1 from their deposit account to someone else's account at a different bank in exchange for goods/services
- customer account at the bank is now loan account -$1 and deposit account $0
- Customer eventually needs a way to get $1 back from somewhere else to pay the loan back, else face bankruptcy proceedings etc etc

Commercial banks all agree with each other that they accept each other's demand deposit accounts as a form of money.
Link to original paper is dead. Working link:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/32.935855 (15 pages without appendices)
Unions in France and Germany are much more powerful than in the US.
Something about this story is screwy, the laptop determines its location based on wifi, which means I wouldn't trust it to be very accurate (Find My shows me currently in the middle of the street next to my house).

I'm with the cops on this one.
Yes, The Tech Rich people aren't the right people to work for Twitter / Elon Musk anyway. Now, it's mostly self-selecting people of believing in the mission/elon and people looking for hungry or success.

Every industry works like this. It's only out-of-touch techies who enjoyed unprecedented rewards/hard-work ratio that need to adjust their lifestyle and expectations
Indeed, this situation has clearly been mishandled from the viewpoint of the Macbook's rightful owner, and if we are to take the story as written it seems that the officers involved are not technophiles. This raises the question of whether we are asking too much of them. If so, surely there must be someone on the local force who can be consulted so that technological logjams like this can be quickly broken.
This exists, it is called tax increment financing.
Yep, this is too little too late. In my opinion it's like Apple making lightning open. Sure the form might be slightly more attractive, but there's limitations that just can't be overcome.
Do you recommend citric acid over vinegar just because of the smell?

I use vinegar all the time, put in something like 50 ml to the remaining hot water just after making a tea. After a few minutes you can just rinse it and let it evaporate, 5 more mins and the smell is totally gone.
It's just a fun way of saying naive.
An informative article with many illustrative examples.

There's a typo: you use the word "derivative" to describe "use client", but it's called a "directive".

https://beta.nextjs.org/docs/rendering/server-and-client-com...
> but some people are a bit melodramatic.
:D many people are absurdly melodramatic.*
I mean kind of, depending a bit what the mob get enraged over and they will do whatever to make the issue goes away ASAP.

More importantly I guess your main point is multi-billion dollar company mostly cares about money. To which I would say sure, what else is new? But maybe this is news to some people.
This discussion might help ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27393854
I would be more understanding if this were an Airtag, which you can't prove is attached to any particular thing. You could have put it in someone else's backpack!

But this is a laptop, which is linked to the user's account and which Apple is reporting is in a particular location. That seems like a pretty clear-cut case.

And if the neighbor is saying they don't have the laptop, then they should have no problem with the laptop's owner coming in and triggering a sound. Basically, it seems like there's probably cause here, and it would be minimally intrusive to put this to rest.
What about the non-tenants who now cannot find a place to rent, because it's less profitable to build more apartments?
No this is what happens when you develop your culture's ideology to be "Helping other people is communism, and they deserve to suffer"
> Musk repeated his top priorities, directing staff to envision a Twitter that works more like a financial institution, where digital payments are sent as easily as direct messages, creators can get paid more than they would on platforms like YouTube, and average users can generate higher interest on payments accounts held right there on Twitter.

> “That’s definitely a direction we’re going to go in, enabling people on Twitter to be able to send money anywhere in the world instantly and in real time,” Musk confirmed, detailing plans to link debit cards to Twitter accounts and even issue checks to users so they can pay rent from their Twitter accounts.

> “It sounds like more of a bank,” one employee noted. “Do you also foresee us loaning?”

> Musk—who in the past two weeks has conducted business by riling key advertisers, threatening to diminish reach of Twitter’s top users' posts, and firing key staff in charge of key money-generating products—responded, “Well, if you want to provide a comprehensive service to people, then you can’t be missing key elements.”
Meta observation: At least on Mobile Safari, this page breaks the back button. I had to spam press the back button like 10x in order to come back to HN. I absolutely despise websites that do this, and immediately feel a bias against whatever the site is selling or trying to convince me to believe.

RE: the article itself

I’ve been on projects where we eventually shipped the most poorly written code (variables with ambiguous naming, methods that are several hundreds of lines, classes with 5-10k lines, little or no test coverage). This code was baked into a consumer device, and we shipped over 16 million units over almost the span of a decade.

I’ve also been on projects where the code was practically a work of art. By the time we were “done”, the market had changed from under our feet. What we were doing wasn’t so interesting or novel anymore. We never shipped.

It doesn’t surprise me that more code == more bugs (or an increasing probability), but it’s good to keep in mind that value is what we care to produce. Everything else is a cost, and spending too much on any particular cost can take the whole enterprise down the ravine, regardless of good intentions.
The article is lacking in numerous details; however something glaring to me is that they don't talk about how / when the laptop went missing and / or the relationship between the victim and the neighbor. Was there an opportunity for the neighbor to take the laptop?

Also, and this could just be me: I found it odd that the neighbor was fine with calling the police as well as speaking to the author of the article. I wouldn't have thought that the perpetrator of a crime such as theft would _want_ the police / attention put on them.
I've heard this before, but have been unable to make it work in practice, for VsCode.
I think use/time of the code needs to be factored in as the more the code is used, the more bugs are exposed and fixed, such that old actively managed code can be far less buggy (if all goes well and the architecture is good). Less code that does the same job is always better.
Only with a third party LSP plugin right? My experience with LSP in Sublime has been bad. I'm not planning to try it again until LSP support is built in.
(FTX sponsored the chess tournament where Hans Niemann said "the chess speaks for itself" after winning the first game of his match against Magnus - and before promptly losing the remaining three)
It's an apt comparison, and obviously there has been movement (eg the EU) to push them onto usb, but I think cars are a slightly different context than laptops/phones where there us much more of a social incentive to standardize early, given the high cost, low turnover, lower availability of fuel/energy during transport with competing plugs, etc.
Finding more ways to spend even more doesn't solve the problem of why it costs so much.
You're asking for a very specific citation there.

But it doesn't matter, they could give everyone who asks a 20 year license for $1.

Also courts aren't stupid.
Not sure what point you're trying to make. I'm pro-crypto, anti-SBF and what he did here.
Defi can help. There are still issues with contract vulnerabilities, but I don't think you can get away with the same level of fraud as you can on a CEX, where there's far less transparency.
Police, particularly in big cities, seem weirdly disinterested in doing their jobs. More recently I’ve seen people blame this on polarizing issues like protests or progressive DAs, but it’s been going on for longer than that. I honestly don’t know what the causes or solutions are.
Hometown: A light weight fork of Mastodon
I didn't say it was a problem. OP was suggesting we make less people, and we already are.
For a bit more color, as stop makes sense for you since you’re not there 24/7 making decisions.

But if you are, there’s no reason to just auto trade a position away. The decision of “what to do when price hits X” is a function of many things instead of price, and you’re better off dynamically deciding.

Consider that you could already implement a stop as a 24/7 trading firm anyways
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milkshake_Duck
“I’m not so much interested in the return ON my money as I am in the return OF my money.”
— Will Rogers
maybe watching the show "dexter" can help?
I am weak to some blood stuff, I fainted once just talking about it. However, donating blood or watching dexter was ok.
I used to go to offices, with my boss, for 20 years.

It never felt like a hostage situation. It felt like going to work.
I swear by zsh and bash, but fish shell may be your thing: https://fishshell.com/

There's also PowerShell for all the OSes. PowerShell is object-oriented, well-dcumented, and quite different from POSIX shells: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/insta...
Siri launched in 2011 with a live demo of untrained speech recognition which was unheard of at the time.

Alexa launched in 2014 and Google Assistant in 2016.

Siri has not always been ‘not as good as Alexa or Google’, it existed way before either of them were released.
I don't blame them for this one... What's to stop someone having the same evidence or some mock of the "find my laptop" application to use police resources to search a house?

Can always then argue that some laptop was reset so they don't know the password and then require serial numbers etc to be known.

If I were relaxing at home and had police search my house because someone said their Lenovo app was indicating their laptop was in my house - I'd be rather put out by it.
Here is a more interesting graph https://www.rba.gov.au/education/images/explainers/trends-in... from [1] which shows Australia’s resource exports increasing drastically by percentage over the years, and the percentage for the other export sectors declining (agricultural, services, manufacturing, other). That graph seems to show services have dropped to ~12% of exports which is stunning.

Whether that graph says anything about Australia and the resource curse is graduate level analysis - I don’t have any opinion either way.

I felt your reply was a strawman, or putting words in my mouth? I only pointed out a figure with no implication of analysis, because your figure of internal services was completely irrelevant. Note even countries with the resource curse still internally have cafes, and concerts, and mining support crews.

PS: NZ probably isn’t doing much better. Service exports seem lowish, and half of our service exports is tourism: https://oec.world/en/profile/country/nzl#trade-services

[1] https://www.rba.gov.au/education/resources/explainers/trends...
True, for Java and Kotlin I use the debugger in IntelliJ like a REPL all the time.
You can even evaluate arbitrary expressions, connect to running applications even applications running on another machine.

It's not as powerful as a proper lisp repl as you cannot redefine functions or classes, but it is still very useful.
Rail is particularly expensive to build in the US because of the lack of living experience and economies of scale, but all construction projects from roads to housing are more expensive in the US than in other comparable nations.
Drawbacks of adding 'Interfaces with static abstract members' in F#
I never said you couldn't go somewhere else, that's actually the advice to follow when you reached your ceiling wherever you are (and you have an offer ofc).
The US used to work like this, developers would build streetcars to connect suburbs of cities and make it profitable to sell lots to build houses on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcar_suburb

I live in one but unfortunately there’s no streetcar anymore.
I have followed Tesla closely over the years and this is par for the course of how he operates(similar things have happened at SpaceX but I know more Tesla specifics).

The issue is that in the case of Tesla, automakers have tried a lot of stupid things Musk have done and failed beforehand. Musk ignores those prior learnings and repeats all the mistakes that incumbents made decades ago.

What has saved his butt time and time again is the fact that he has been able to conjure up enough financial runway to re-learn the mistakes and recover and the fact that sometimes mistakes made by others in the past are no longer mistakes given today's environment and end up becoming competitive advantages. So he wins some and he loses some.

One example of him losing is when he attempted to automate all the assembly in the factory in 2017. He messed up and hired the wrong people to design the body of the Model 3 and it ended up too expensive to manufacture. In response he attempted to use robots in assembly to cut costs. The technology for what he wanted to do was still not ready just like it was not ready in the 70s when GM tried to do the same thing. Robots are Blind, one armed, and stupid. They cannot handle finesse when dealing with a noisy real world.

On the other hand, GM and others were adamant to design their cooling systems with multiple loops because that was the way things were done and it was a reliable way to accomplish the task. As a result this thinking was ingrained in all the OEMs. They have cooling departments that defend their approaches and it causes stagnation. Musk's approach of repeating all the things that OEMs already did led to him discarding beliefs that no longer are the best way of doing things and led a much better and cheaper design using one cooling loop and adjusting between heat/cold using software. When every penny counts as it does in automotive this was a competitive advantage that now competitors are copying.

As long as he has enough runway I wouldn't count him out as he seems to running the same playbook as Tesla and SpaceX.
I feel like SF residents' aversion to new transit projects is unfortunate but totally reasonable... walk anywhere in SF near a BART (subway) stop and you face open drug use, trash, and other problems nobody wants in the neighborhood they call home. It's not like these are intractable problems - other major cities manage to keep their subway stops and surrounding areas clean & pleasant to use.

The case against BART expansion is made by the experience & externalities of existing BART.
I get that this isn't 100% proof it's in there, but how intrusive is it to have a cop knock on the door, step inside (even with eyes closed, so as not to intrude on the occupant's privacy), and have the owner of the laptop trigger the sound? If it's a modest sized home you'd only have to do that from one room, and if it's larger maybe you'd trigger a sound with someone listening from a couple locations.

The absence of certain guilt doesn't mean there's not enough evidence for any investigation whatsoever. That's what probably cause and search warrants (or even less, in this case) are for.
"By "light weight" I don't mean more efficient; I mean this fork is 99.999% identical to Mastodon with a few key tweaks. This project is based on the principle of: minimum code change for maximum user experience change. This makes it easy for the basically-one-person who runs the project to keep it up to date. By our best understanding, our major changes are not wanted by the Mastodon project, hence maintaining this fork instead of trying to commit the changes to Mastodon."

I've been looking at setting up a Mastodon instance (not due to Elon) and may try this out this weekend.
Is the Brightline also high speed rail?
Which scholars are you basing this on? I'd recommend checking out Lawrence D. Cress's “Citizens in Arms” and Saul Cornell's “A Well-Regulated Militia”. It's nowhere near as simple as the unrestricted gun activists tend to portray it.
There are also two dimensions to code size, one being source code size and another is executable size/number of instructions executed. This path of thinking brings up the connection between optimization and correctness.

In particular if adding source lines describe the program more specifically and accurately then that should enable compiler to produce more compact/efficient code and I'd imagine also contribute to correctness.
Shouldn’t you use a postgres connection pooler like pgbounce for such a scenario? AFAIK it can be switched to transaction mode, which allows to have way more connections from clients to pgbounce than available postgres connections.
Number of bugs can grow super-linearly while their impact might be decreasing preserving the overall usability increases. Basically as your software grows there's more corner cases that will get tested very rarely if ever.

Number of possible states grows almost exponentially with code size, so it would be very weird if the number of bugs grew sub-linearly.
I made a comment on that video elsewhere. It’s pretty clear they were way out of their league in more ways than one.

They’re the type of people that are too smart for their own good where they can’t even see how idiotic they’re being. Or maybe they’re just spoiled. Or maybe they just think they’re smart. It’s interesting to me that Jane Street prides themselves on their hiring process, but they apparently hire folks like this.

Other than people losing money, I am super glad these reality checks are happening. But I wish they’d happen to more as well, e.g., Musk and Trump.
Oh we've noticed that as well. Our interconnects to Germany and UK certainly contributed to the high prices in the south this year.

But better internal interconnects between south and north would certainly have contributed to averaging out the prices across the country, avoiding the extremes we saw this year.

After all, there were hydro plants in the north which halted production due to the low prices at the same time as we had prices >10x normal in the south.
This is just as reductionist as saying that all computers or programming languages are the same.

Sure it's true at some level but not a useful distinction if you're a customer or vendor.
Yeah it's not like it's video and we need a hardware decoder.

I doubt device vendors are thoroughly testing every image and video format that the software on the device can render.

Smells to me like BS
25, with 5 years of other vi editors previous to that. Vim is pretty great.
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An unconfirmed tweet about Freeport LNG is upending gas markets
Cash has serial numbers for traceability, and is emitted by a central bank. That's a big chunk of a financial institution right there. Additionally, if you pay for $50, the state won't give a damn, because it's $50. Pay a company $10k in cash and every alarm will go off and the transaction will have to be notified to a financial institution. Tracfin in Europe for example, etc.

So, no, cash isn't entirely separated from financial institutions.
I believe BlockFi had all their assets on FTX
In California this is broken -- property taxes are assessed using the price when last sold, plus a 2% annual increase. Any property in California that hasn't changed hands recently is likely very under-taxed. Basically it amounts to a subsidy for sitting on property and not developing it.
Technically, I would have been far more injury prone running during my cycling days because of the terrible imbalances due to "mono sporting" as a cyclist. And I am not a musclebound gym rat now either. I spend more of my exercise time walking than anything else these days.

Not trying to sidestep your point here though and I understand and agree with what you are getting at re: over focus on lifting.
A bit more electrics based but Big Clive also tears down the most random pieces of technology. It's quite fun to watch him take a dollar store toy apart and see how it ticks.