skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We know from observing reality that even buggy software is better than no software – a software so buggy it adds negative value is a rare exception.

Whom observing which reality?

I have made no scientific study - I am not stating any sort of strong opinion, just an uneasy feeling - that about 90% of the software and uses of computers subtract from humane well being and welfare, not contribute to it.

Looking at you Javascript frameworks.

Looking at you databases and tracking.

Looking at you spyware and advertising bots.

Looking at you killer robots (yes they exist - mostly thinking of the horrific USA military drone assassination programme)

So many examples to choose from. I should not complain, I make my living from computers and the uses I facilitate are no shining examples of improving people's lives
Seems more humane than factory farming (shruggy emoji).
maybe you could show solidarity with them in a way that doesn't reinforce a dichotomy between them and people who read books

for example, by emphasizing the praiseworthy attributes you have in common rather than the misfortunes that have befallen you and the self-destructive choices which, in cases like this one, perpetuate those misfortunes

i mean it might be useful to read a book from time to time, or at least a 25-page article, and that's less likely if you turn it into an identity threat

we're all born profoundly ignorant but we don't have to stay that way

if you're the most intelligent person in the room maybe you're in the wrong room. this can easily be reversed to provide a plan of action if being the most intelligent person in the room is what you value most. beware, though, some people are smarter than they look
The meaning of life is absurd
I read one of Eisenhower’s biographies and he actually had some problems with the press especially thanks to Montgomery. At the same time, he was also one of the first US presidents to recognise that news can be leveraged to spread your message. Unlike earlier presidents, Eisenhower actually cooperated with the press and gave them news directly. That together with him winning a major war for America makes me suspect that his reputation would have also stood up with the media scrutiny of today. Assuming that there even is more scrutiny today? Maybe because there are more journalists nowadays so yes it could be
communists get things done but the shoddy quality and architecture is more costly than you think, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/53-dead-china-building-co...
> "leverage" is the slightly affirmative, slightly pejorative term for a phenomena that could also be labeled 'fractional reserve banking'

Leverage is deeper and more pervasive than fractional-reserve banking. Leveraged merchants going bust was commonplace in the days of hard money.
If you keep doing it over and over like Tucker Carlson, then it's clear it's wrong. He keeps asking questions as a way to push people to certain views. He's alarmist in these 'questions'. He asks them that way as a rhetorical strategy for things that are pretty controversial if he just said them.

If you did it rarely but it was combined with observations and facts (not happening w Mr Carlson that much) there is a difference.
Nitpick: There is no such thing as Summa Cum Laude at MIT. Rankings and GPAs are not published, so he just graduated with a physics degree, period.
What do you mean? I am considering it from both sides.

TypeScript already allows this, i.e. you can build the backend and frontend in one language (TypeScript). Same for most languages that compile to WASM.

My point is that with TypeScript this killer feature is already realised and in a way that is far more familiar to the many thousands of developers that already know JavaScript.
The Metaverse Nightclub–Loving Audit Firm That Presided over FTX’s Financials
Remove the spike and the little fan bubbles glom onto on another. Very cool. You can just wave the bubble wand around too…

This is very fun.
Why are they looking at heavy rail? Wouldn't light rail to connect with the other light rail in the area make more sense?

I agree the monorail is stupid.
Depends on your definition of bad. Urine smells, homeless people, and knowledge that muggings typically happen around that area?

I’d call that bad. I’m with you - we need more public transit in the bay. But there’s a huge swath of people where that Bart experience just isn’t going to work.
Agree that a lot of it has to do with rate of growth. Compare emacs or postgres codebases with some of the horror shows that are the codebases at VC-hyper-growth startups.
I suspect that only code bases of a certain quality can achieve larger sizes.
There was. It was called Vine. Twitter bought it before it launched, ran it into the ground (despite huge cultural influence), and recently decided to revive it under Musk.

Vine was very likely the inspiration behind TikTok, and TikTok is definitely filling the void that it left.
I'm sure Target called up Meta this summer and asked if they were going to lease the shelf space in the fall and Meta said nah.
thanks for the pointers

why not just without the part up to the comma? as in

"here are two..."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
As of yesterday the “pay to be verified” feature was probably the funniest and most interesting thing on Twitter.

As of now the “pay to be verified” feature is suspended.
Right but Coinbase doesn't have a renegade holding company based in the Caribbean.
Haha indeed, I forgot this existed! What a long and winding trail our languages are!

Thanks, your pedantry is greatly appreciated, it makes HN fun and educational
> Chromium has 63,438 open bugs in its bug tracker so the theory remains true

How many of those bugs affect you on a day-to-day basis? For me, the answer is 0. In fact, I can only think of one time ever when I was affected by a browser bug as a developer. I think that most of the reason Chrome has so many bugs is probably just because a staggering amount of people use Chrome, meaning they can inspect every nook and cranny.

For a somewhat contrived example, imagine I write a program to add two numbers together. I write a single line of code: `var foo = bar + baz;` in JavaScript. If I ship it to no one, I can claim it has no bugs. But if I ship it to a million people, then I might start getting bug reports from people running it under extremely precise circumstances and running into issues. For instance, maybe I'd get a bug where two numbers sum to be negative because the user ran into integer overflow when bar and baz are very close to INT_MAX. I might also get reports of lack of precision when bar is extremely large and baz is not (e.g. sometimes foo + 1 === foo in JS if a is huge). I suspect most bugs in Chrome are of this variety, or, more likely, they are even more obscure.

It seems to me that it's not a strict 1:1 correlation between size and quality - there's also a factor where more popular software has a lot more people looking for bugs.
I've heard the opposite. Recruiters working with them told me that they drink their own kool-aid harder than Amazon does!
plenty of projects that use either of the following on a regular basis:

- https://www.aosabook.org/en/posa/warp.html

- https://morpheusgraphql.com/

- https://higherkindness.io/mu-haskell/

- https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine

- https://postgrest.org/en/stable/

- https://www.shellcheck.net/

- https://dhall-lang.org/

- https://haskell-miso.org/

- https://github.com/jgm/gitit

- https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/

- https://github.com/IHaskell/IHaskell

- https://tweag.github.io/HaskellR/ (https://idontgetoutmuch.wordpress.com/2018/05/19/cartography...)

The list can go on, it really depends on what level of "real-worldness" you consider to be real.
And electricity consumers, since prices usually trend gas prices.

And anyone buys exports manufactured in Europe...
Write python and transpile to Go.
How Sam Bankman-Fried seduced blue chip investors
I'll be the LVT guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
Rent control generally only controls increases, not absolute prices, and is relaxed for newer constructions, so developers care less. At the same time, it may reduce the cost of land zoned for high density housing if locative uses are judged to be less profitable, thereby reaching and equilibrium. It also often lowers market rent for everyone, when implemented correctly.

We can measure this reluctance by looking at construction rates and general supply in similar groups of cities or neighborhoods with or without rent control, of course controlling for other variables. This has been done in multiple studies, which are listed in the link I provided.
It honestly varies so much depending on what type of software engineer. For a regular full stack developer with 7+ years, they can be looking at around $110,000. But take this with a huge grain of salt, as I'm not qualified to answer this question.

You can search on indeed and seek, and it'll give you a more accurate estimate.
I’d never even heard of him. But as a meteorologist, that main character of his sure sounds fun.
Is Twitter going ad-free, then?
This is so sad to see.
I hope they unlock the bootloader. The portal+ was quite a little machine
This is so wildly inaccurate. I know L3s making that much.
Doesn’t seem to have hurt Tom Cruise
It's a couple dozen rps and that's with a page that's actively begging to be reloaded. It's not nothing but as traffic spigots go, it's not that much even for a small single-person-hosting-a-thing kind of project.

If you look at things that get overwhelmed by HN, more often than not they get fixed pretty quickly as the authors figure out they've missed something relatively straightforward that's response-murdering.
It’s quite an old feature. Check whether you have disabled or changed the shortcut under System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts > All Applications > Show Help Menu.

The default shortcut might also differ between keyboard layouts.

As the sibling comment said you can also use the text box in the Help menu by clicking it.
Lol let's hear what Satoshi nakamoto has to say about this! (Bip39 phrases)
Really? I'm only reading about VCs [0] and big institutional investors [1] losing money.

[0] - https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/10/daily-crunch-sequoia-capit...

[1] - https://www.otpp.com/en-ca/about-us/news-and-insights/2022/o...
> There are no Ukrainian military forces in Crimea

The attacks on multiple Russian bases in Crimea, including the most recent Sevastopol attack and the Crimean Bridge attack, suggests otherwise.

Ukrainian commandos are doing something in Crimea, and they probably want communications. They can't rely on Starlink for that however.
> competitive programmings, mainly marathon-styled ones

What kind of competitions is this referring to?
> less than 0.05 per cent of the plan’s total net assets

Non-story
I'm not sure how someone would approach that situation. But I can say that if someone comes to my door and accuses me of being a thief, that interaction is not starting off well.
(I am on the older side on here probably)
Having come from a difficult background, worked some really
Shitty jobs and served in the army before I got a degree
and started in tech I have been a bit shocked and a bit amused
at the endless stream of less than average developers
running around demanding to be treated like kings.

An extreme example of demanded privilege.

There has been royalty for IT and slavery for the rest.
Look at how Amazon treats their factory / wearhouse workers.
They dont treat the IT staff better because they are such great people.
Once developers become easy to replace (should that happen) then
the whip will make much more of an impression on the deposed royalty.

Or we just have some layoffs, and we have a lot of comapnies hiring still and it just continues just a little less fluffing I
It is worth noting that the HK model only works because of artificially high land prices. Virtually all land in Hong Kong is leasehold and the government uses lease revenues to keep taxes low.

Hong Kong’s projects are also not immune to cost issues. Per km they have the same cost issues described in the article. Recent projects have had massive cost blowouts, and even before then scope was dropped from projects to save money. The recent Sha Tin to Central Link dropped a station in Central to save money, and the new stations were only built to handle 9 cars instead of the rest of the line’s 12 cars to save money.
Well worth a read, if you're seriously interested:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Fitzgerald#Maintenance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Fitzgerald#Structural_f...

Huge waves (running down the ship's length) obviously put extreme stresses on the hull of a long, thin, heavily-loaded ship. And the Fitzgerald's wreck is broken into two pieces, right in the middle.
I have to have Cheatsheet and Shortcat installed on every Mac I use.
Idk, maybe they would just call it Spotlight like they do currently?
Keys are still safe in your phone. It’s an encrypted backup. Random Apple employees can’t get to the private key.

I’m not interested in goalkeeping both sides of the convenience-security spectrum. Bury your keys in a tin can if you want, or custody at an insured exchange if that’s your preference. I think installing say Rainbow Wallet is a fine choice.
This is why I only code in APL :P
Hell hath no fury like a customer scorned
If you move your mouse really really fast, you can get through the bubbles without popping them.
the case against BART expansion is that the urban core is underserved, as a direct result of BART hoovering up all transit funding and available ROWs

what you're describing is a you problem. SF residents who are well served by transit overwhelming favor transit expansion, it's the residents who are underserved (sunset, outer richmond) who oppose
This app offers several display options for the main window which can be useful for big screen or setup with multiples screens.
Hot keys can be bookmarked. Bookmarked hot keys are always displayed on the top of the hot keys list.
There is filter options on menu item title and/or pressed keys.

The app has some other features like custom hot keys, hot keys database (all showed hot keys are saved in a database), cheat sheet print and on screen hot key display while typing.

This application is not perfect and will be improved over time.
Why not just take B12 produced with microbes (= most supplements)? Those are considered vegan. Trying to get B12 from algae sounds unnecessarily complicated, considering our B12 has in all of our history been of microbial origin.

But I also wouldn’t shun algae just because they occupy some B12 transporters. There’s all kinds of metabolic tradeoffs with every kind of food, and we are designed to tolerate that. Most metabolic pathways are 4-5x redundant IIRC.
Not sure what country you're in, but here in the UK, a non-zero amount of our news coverage is built on the twitter house of cards. And if you're in the US, it seems a significant part of your politics is affected by twitter too.
While there is value to distribution, having only 3 plugs where any number could be full or non-functional upon arrival easily ruins a whole trip.
Yes because we all know the only way to raise money is via shitcoins.

I learned that by watching Cool Runnings.
Presumably the world in general. Just like the sooner cigarettes are gone the better.
-- they talk a lot about hackathons in their tweets =) --

eg: https://atcoder.jp/contests/ahc016
Semi-related is dungeonfs [0], a game masquerading as a FUSE filesystem.

- [0] https://fossbytes.com/dungeonfs-fuse-filesystem-dungeon-craw...
I'm wondering if you interview for a company in California, if you have the right to request a copy of all internal communication and notes / feedback written about your interview by those interviewing you, and also, if you have the right to demand that they then erase all information from their systems. Any attorneys who can chime in?
^D only does that in cooked input mode. In raw mode ^D send ^D, and it's up to the program to interpret that, or not. This is essential in, eg, telnet, since it wants to be able to open a session on a remote host that behaves exactly like a session on a local host, including its behaviour in response to ^D.
You don’t need a product to get into YC
Not really- more curious what you think the right medium or how you tend to present data / work. Is a slide show the best way? Or a long form document, or a notebook, a website, something else?
GrapheneOS was started in 2014 and was previously known as CopperheadOS. I co-founded the Copperhead company in 2015 and I still own half of the shares today, which gives me 50% control over the company. GrapheneOS (formerly CopperheadOS) remained an open source project under my control and ownership, not the company we founded to sell services and devices based on the project. Unfortunately, my former business partner decided to unilaterally take over the company and manage it in his interests. He tried and failed to take over the open source project. Edward Snowden was one of the CopperheadOS users who helped me defend the project against the takeover attempt and helped to fund the continuation of the project under the Android Hardening and then GrapheneOS brand names. He helped me get a lawyer via the EFF and is the reason I continued the project instead of giving up and moving on. You're spreading talking points from a scammer who chose a Raytheon contract requiring access to the signing keys for GrapheneOS (CopperheadOS) over fulfilling the company's commitments to the open source project it was supporting, and to me as a co-owner of the company with equal voting rights. Again, I still have those shares. I'm speaking as 50% owner of Copperhead and one of the 2 co-founders of the company, which was founded in late 2015, a year after the open source project was started. Note: there was a 3rd co-founder who my former business partner pushed out of the company early on and didn't give shares they were probably entitled to getting, and that person (Daniel McGrady) supports me.

Today, CopperheadOS is used as a brand by that company for a completely closed source fork of legacy GrapheneOS code. They don't develop anything of value and simply take our code months or years later. Anyone who looks into it can see that the Git repositories from 2014/2015 belong to the GrapheneOS organization and are the repositories we're using today. We still have the legacy issue tracker for mid-2018 and earlier too:

https://github.com/AndroidHardeningArchive/legacy_bugtracker

Ask Edward Snowden if he thinks I did the right thing by protecting him and other GrapheneOS (CopperheadOS) users from James Donaldson. The vast majority of users / customers supported me and continued supporting GrapheneOS afterwards. Only a tiny number of people supported Copperhead and most of the people they duped were people who discovered it post-2018 based on them pretending to have made my project and pretending to own the legacy code, which they don't, and they've already lost that battle. Why did the legal battle not go their way if they were in the right? ...
Microsoft brings helicopters, gliders and the Spruce Goose to its Flight SIM
Deep Fried Page
The dozens of places on Indeed or LinkedIn that I still get emailed about multiple times a day because I’m too lazy to log in and unsubscribe from the alerts?
Who gets to determine what that low value is? Where do they get the numbers from?
That's not profitable though. Look at Coinbase.

That's why these companies have to mint their own shitcoins and come up with derivative Ponzi products to make money.
The only one I could imagine having had a chance would be Sony. They had a rather well built out OS on the Playstation 3 with lots of modern online features.
You mean tax evasion. I said legal use cases. Please pay your dues to society.
Disney to Begin Layoffs, Targeted Hiring Freeze and Limiting Travel
I've worked places like that, and the issues are really threefold:

1) There is often a substantial depth of knowledge missing. E.g. it's not that they don't know how chmod works, it's that they don't understand conceptual models of filesystem permissions and the implications of having overly broad permissions.

2) The problem is often pervasive, where it isn't a single person that doesn't understand, it's a substantial (but non-majority) portion of the workforce.

3) Employees often only stay in their role for a year or two, creating a revolving door of people who don't understand X or Y.

> Can they do the job they were hired for?

It often depends on your definition of "doing the job". "chmod -R 777" will fix whatever issue is blocking the code from working, but is bad. And then someone else will use those permissions to build on top of that application, and it can spiral into a situation where it's incredibly hard to fix the bad permissions because of an unclear web of dependencies.

The app works, but the architecture is fubar.
... a type inference system means that typing (of data) need not involve extra typing (with fingers).
I absolutely love this and am curious about the technical details behind simulating soap bubbles like this (it looks like the code isn't available). Does anyone know what algorithm is being used?
Thank you for explaining what I am trying to say. Reading comments on HN on anything medical (or how they can use tech to improve medicine), I just have to continue shaking my head at the ignorant hubris on display, and the confidence with they are said. There's a reason all the big boys in tech who have tried making incursions into health industry have left with their tails tucked despite their considerable talent and money. The tech world attitude and ethos can not work in the medical world.
(1) Knowing how to use crypto safely is hardly "expertise". It's something that can be learned quite quickly from experts.

(2) Having a general idea of many areas in life is important for a functioning society and becoming a healthy human being.

I really dislike this narrative that we must not think for ourselves. Always delegate. Always leave it to the experts. I see the same anti-intellectual sentiment in programming communities.

- Don't write assembly, compilers are smarter than you.

- Don't think about building your own networking stack. It's too complicated.

- Don't write your own OS. Do you think you can outperform Linux? Lol