skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I'm saying if you don't need concurrency, don't trade off simplicity. For REST APIs and websites, probably not needed.
Self dealing
Surprise! That's when he last ran a software company.
Could have been sold for up to 300k or more on the black market.
Renewables can provide about 30% of world electricity with no storage. Cheap storage like thermal (so the cheapest sand) and concentrating solar (even better EROI, comes with 12hr storage and is getting close to the price of gas) can make it provide another 20% of electricity and the 20-30% of primary energy that is low grade heat.

PWRs can provide about 30% of world electricity and that same low grade heat and then you run out of Uranium. It also requires overprovision or storage for fluctuating demand and planned downtime and has correlated failures on the order of weeks or months. A capacity factor of <50% of the french fleet this yeae with unplanned correlated outages of 3 months during winter is far worse than new offshore wind with 65% forecastable output that fluctuates daily.

Even with current storage technologies the nuclear option costs more than adding enough storage to cover the next 30% with renewables.

Also your initial conceit was putting a solar panel on a 1 week battery to suppliment its input by a few miles a day. The constraint here is efficiency, daily mileage, travel velocity and area. You're welcome to keep bringing up boring predictable reactionary lies (I'm guessing something about density while ignoring the difference between fertile and fissile is next, then MOX, then breeders, then sea mining, then lies about mining), but this point has been fully addressed.
Modern carriers are migrating to VoLTE, and LineageOS is unable to implement this outside of a few devices, meaning that many phones have been dropped from the latest release.

As [w]cdma is shut down in preference for 5g and LTE, Pixels (model 3 and above) will be more desirable for users who wish to run Android without Google on modern cellular networks.

I am one such user.

Supposedly, two different implementations of VoLTE exist in AOSP, neither of wich are used outside Pixels (if I understood previous discussions correctly).
> "every cryptocurrency system is a fraud at its heart."

I'm not sure I agree with you on that part.

Fraud is defined as "wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain." Encryption-based currency by itself does not meet that definition.

Can people use crypto to commit fraud? Yes, just the same as they could use fiat or anything else that has perceived value.

imho the main value of crypto as a technology is that it is A) decentralized, and B) removes many intermediaries & inefficiencies involved in handling + distributing money. </$0.02>
With three hours notice? A policy change that takes place that very morning delivered at 2am?

I'm happy to judge the critiques of that as "fair", and the changes themselves as "irresponsibly implemented".

Ending remote work? Whatever. I disagree, but it's his business.

Ending remote work with 3 hours notice? He's an asshole.
Get an ML(I)S degree, do a relevant internship, then apply... 20 years ago.
Well... not really right? Cause lots of people are rich through inheriance. And lots through the lottery.

SBY appears to have gotten very rich through a simple arbitrage trade. Props to him for exploring the space and making the moves... but it doesn't take a genius to see that if you can buy something for cheap in one place and sell it in another for more that you can make a bunch of money if you do it over and over.
1) There's no way she doesn't have straight up criminal inside info or otherwise advantageous positions that are literally a crime for anyone else to utilize
2) The lottery has winners too, doesn't make it a smart bet.
So my understanding is that alameda needed more capital to fund its operations that had a track record of success, so sbf created ftx and gave customer assets to alameda to invest. So the business thesis here isn’t “use new user money to pay old users” it’s “steal all the users money to invest and hope the investments continue to be profitable.” I guess they started ponzi-ing once alameda went bust but that wasn’t the original plan, although that’s probably true for most ponzi’s.
> You can quote Oscar Wild and say "When I am gone, I hope it will be said: that my sins were scarlet, but my books were read"
Reminds me of how my daughter can unlock my Asus phone. My code is 8 digits long, policy set by work, and a fingerprint reader in the screen. She definitely doesn't know my code but somehow can still get into my phone if I leave it on the couch.
It's fine for new management to have new business philosophies and want to implement them. But the way they are implemented matters as well.
The picture isn't complete unless you also compare it with Toyota.
I mean he seems totally fine with it, Tesla engineers are working at Twitter at Tesla investors' expense.
Google it a few more times, google will start feeding it back to people who will also google it in disbelief; two years from now they're using it in NYT headlines.
> Fediverse is literally built of, by, and for people who hate this kind of corporate bullshit.

Replace Fediverse with email. And it would still stand.

Then realize where email is today. Two-three email providers and hosting your own email server grows less and less plausible each day.
I'd disagree with that analysis because I write a lot of little servers that use asyncio and websockets. The last thing I need is to block all request processing to access the database.
Executives at tech companies tend to live very different lives from the people doing the work. Exceptionalism is typically baked into their understanding of the world.
The article seems to miss a very important factor of the Unix philosophy and that is "Make every program a filter" which means you also have to "Write programs to work together". Having a program that can do one thing well without left-pad is a worthwhile endeavor but if you can't leverage it for more than its original intended purpose has it truly reached its full potential?
I also think your comment is pretty insightful. Most scientists seem stuck here:

> We can’t make confident predictions about the outcomes of experiments, but instead have to rely only on fuzzy probabilities. There are fundamental limits to what we can know.

...on the fact that we live in a probabilistic universe, not a deterministic one. One of the many things I don't understand is why it causes so much more trouble with QM than Relativity, doesn't it say largely the same thing? That eventually you reach a singularity where we have not the unknown, but the unknowable, because all of physics stops working?
That's a link to nowhere, not a 'potential discussion'. On HN it's better to keep the discussion of closely related things in one place otherwise it just gets repetitive. The splits, when they happen, are just more work for the moderators who end up having to merge this this stuff.
Easy to move it back if I do want to convert back to fiat at a later date?
Correct. The future of sustainable transportation is the electric trolley, the electric train, the electric bus, the electric scooter, and the electric bicycle.

It is not a largely-single-occupant two-and-a-half-ton electric sedan.
One mouse study found that vaccine injection without aspiration did significantly increase the risk of adverse cardiac events. That research hasn't been reproduced in humans but this area deserves further investigation. At least early in the pandemic, US healthcare providers weren't routinely aspirating.

https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciab941

https://doi.org/10.1007/s43440-022-00361-4

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/postgradmedj-2021-141119
And yet, if he hadn't put USB on the first iMac, how many more years would we as a species have had to wait for widespread adoption of USB by peripheral makers? PC makers were perfectly happy to keep putting parallel port and serial port connectors on motherboards for like 10 more years. In fact my 2019 AM3 board can still plug in a mouse from 1992.
No, carbon capture powered by fossil fuels releases less carbon than it captures. For direct air capture, it takes somewhere around 2,000 kWh to capture a ton of CO2 [1]. You can generate those 2,000 kWh using natural gas and release about 0.4 tons of CO2 (about 0.8 if you use coal). [2] You can be even more efficient by burning natural gas in the sorbent re-generator (avoiding inefficiencies of power generation and transmission).

[1]: https://www.wri.org/insights/direct-air-capture-resource-con...

[2]: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/carbon-dioxide-emissions-...
Oh good, now they're easily visually distinguished from Raytheon [1], Frost Bank [2], and the other turbofan logo companies.

[1] https://www.rtx.com/

[2] https://www.frostbank.com/
That's my impression, also. It doesn't compromise their primary job because if they're actually needed at a fire they can roll from the hospital rather than the station.

I've seen plenty of fire/paramedic/ambulance crews doing various things while awaiting a call. So long as they're ready to jump on the truck and roll quickly dispatch simply needs to know where they are so as to determine what unit is closest.
It's still killing hundreds of people every day.
Software engineer Ian Kirwan's murder trial shown attackers 'handling knives'
It’s not that simple. Aerodynamic drag is made up of surface drag and induced drag. Given the same coefficient of drag, drag goes up as S-wet goes up (which is what you’re referencing). Induced drag is a consequence of how much structure is required to create a flying vehicle. IF (and it’s a big if) the BWB turns out to be more structurally efficient, then the total drag for the plane might be less than for a conventional design.

(Source: I have an aerospace engineering degree from Embry-Riddle)
I think to think we threaded the needle quite well at patterns.app --- letting the user be fully expressive with code, whilst giving the visual flow programming guide
I don't feel much from that one. But I will drop some of my favorites here in case anyone wants to discover them.

CHO-DARI- - Hatsune Miku https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU1HjAPvHG8

Mum / 雄之助 feat. flower https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjAcngUNiZ8

Hana to Nare / Yunosuke feat. KAFU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqKbuEDvaf8

IA - Conqueror https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3E5fb39xcs
And the Chief Compliance Officer, Marianne Fogarty

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/two-twitter-executive...

And the chief privacy officer apparently, can't find the name.

And Yoel Roth, head of trust and safety:
https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1590820944125513728
The Lost Art of Cross-Platform Transfer
The job climate is such, with lots of SV layoffs, that this requirement will probably work now where it wouldn't have worked six months ago (engs would have jumped from Twitter to another SV co)
It's linked from the article under discussion:

https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/westernarchives/vol11/iss1/3/
It's fun to read about this stuff in the news and comment on it here and on Twitter but the reality couldn't be more different. If you're qualified enough to be in the running to work at Twitter, you likely have many options available to you (employment wise). None of those people are trying to go work at Twitter because there's just too much BS flying around over there.

If this keeps up the only way Twitter is going to be able to attract talent IMO is by offering massive comp packages, because that's the only way you're going to get people that aren't die hard Twitter/Elon Musk fans to want to come there.
On WhatsApp, your "post" can be seen by everyone you've exchanged phone numbers with. On Twitter, your "post" can be seen by the entire world.
I think blindly firing employees with low code counts is an objectively bad decision that ignores a lot of nuance and likely lost a lot of great engineers to companies that will respect them.
Unfortunately for your cousin, he's the bag holder that the people getting rich quick are going to take for a ride.

As far as I can tell.
My undergrad university went with too much minimalism. It replaced an stylized crest (anachronistic for a university founded in 1965) with a "red brick". Note that The Concrete University has no bricks to which this might be a reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Fraser_University
You misquoted me; I said "almost every cryptocurrency system" for a reason.

A thread where we're discussing a guy using $10B of $16B of cryptocurrency customer deposits to finance his private hedge fund gambling is not a good place to try to make your argument.
This is told a lot, because people keep missing the point that Apple has their own form of it, they don't use raw LLVM bitcode.

See WWDC talk about watchOS migration to 64 bits.
Yeah, basically. (But she never had the internship — and it was 25 years ago, ha ha.)
So is mine. Which company?
Is tiktok not social media?
Well we let the previous generations murder any possible way of building yourself a better future for like 4 decades, what did we expect? Turns out optimizing for grandma's continued wealth increase is harmful to basically everyone else.

You want something to protect you in the future? Vote.
This kinda thing is great for the "remote work at all hours" is the erzats demon keeping software companies alive. If it is, we'll likely see some downtime, lots of typical E company results (burned out software folks, higher turnover than is industry standard, and much lower pay since Elon doesn't negotiate at silicon valley salary expectations at any of his companies...

If in 2 years Twitter isn't significantly smaller (think 1500 people) and significantly cheaper to run I'd be surprised.

If in 2 years twitter isn't the worst place to work in the valley I'd also be surprised.
Here's a cool and perhaps unforeseen hypothetical turn-of-events: 100% of Twitter's staff give their resignation letter on Friday, and don't show up to work. Leadership wakes up to a collapsing platform, a 44 billion USD bill to pay, with no one to keep the lights on or answer the PagerDuty alerts. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes?

No time for silly "knowledge transfers", or "onboarding new team members". You just wake up to learn everybody left and you're left with nothing.
It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who has been swimming naked.

Warren Buffett
With 5000 to 10000 tweets being sent per second (~500 million per day), 200 employees for abuse/moderation seems low.
I'm not sure this tracks, I think turbulence powerful enough to cause passenger discomfort is usually so big that it affects the whole plane pretty uniformly. I think it's exceedingly unlikely that you'll spend enough time on a shear line to induce a large roll.

At least it's never happened to me, but I am only a passenger.
To give you some background on why your original post might've been considered inflammatory - the author of the blog you shared has openly said "V is something that should be ignored until it dies into obscurity":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27442724

I wouldn't call the author an objective reviewer of the language.

Also even in this thread there were people spreading lies about the language:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33544205

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33544576

who have a history of spreading lies about V that goes back years:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20765490

My advice is - check out the language and make up your own mind. In the end this is a tool, not a football club.
I love Python and fully agree with you. :(
I did not know how the FDIC was backed, thank you.

However, yes the treasury is an actual printing press, but the money supply is controlled by The Fed. They tell the treasury how much to print, they can provide unlimited liquidity to banks, and they are the largest backer of govt debt.
I also am a fan of showing the other cheek but have to admit this does get me down from time to time .. makes me feel like a vending machine with no coin slots. Only hope is regulation of gate keepers at this point
If curing cancer for the rest of humanity now and forever required knowingly experimenting on and absolutely killing a certain number of people now, how many people could you justify with an Effective-Altruism ethical framework?
Even in the analog world, I've heard of things like adding reverb to a track by playing it in a bathroom and recording it again.
Initially, he did invest their money, he just didn't get the (I believe it was) +/- 10% that he promised investors (and was getting like clockwork) before the 08 crash.

Once he started not being able to make those returns did thing start to unravel. His own kids were in denial right up until the end - almost nobody, even inside Bernie's firm, knew it was fraudulent.
My take is probably a bit more hot and less to do with anything provable. I think the real reason for "return to work" is to justify high salaries. If everyone dispersed across the United States then people in the highest markets would get significant drops in pay. It's no secret that subsidizing extremely high housing costs has the benefit of earning those people more than the average worker doing the same work over the same period of time.

Productivity is just corporate speak for, "do what I say when I say it".
Anecdotally, I don’t mind the Es, I like some sort of organic flow in them.

Lower serifs on the Ts though, those I dislike very much.
You really think a total of 200 moderators could come even close?

Thats 1.7M tweets a day per moderator. A bit over 3500 per minute.

And thats assuming they work 7 days a week, never get sick, never take vacation.
Related tech staffing thoughts of someone now directly involved:

https://sacks.substack.com/p/the-saas-org-chart
The lack of transparency in financial services - banks - was the whole reason Satoshi created Bitcoin. The people who choose to use FTX over a blockchain are either ignorant, not understanding their coins are insecure, or willing to take on additional risk to save a few dollars and trade a little faster. They are probably regretting it now that FTX is blowing up.

And speed and costs are already a solved problem - see L2 rollups.
I'd wager most of us can imagine alternatives because we lived alternatives. We've figured out a method that works better for us and don't want to go back to losing hours a week for what we expect will have negative value (lower productivity, happiness, etc).

Further, this edict is coming from someone that is presumable working remote now (for at least one company) and will continue to do so indefinitely. It's only natural to push back on that.
I wouldn't say they ignore it, but rather they categorically have decided that is an unethical justification. E.g. it doesn't matter if experimenting on patients without their consent saves more lives in the future, it is still wrong. Perhaps you might argue that this is an absolute position they can't really hold to for everything. But I think people prefer to find other ways to justify such cases.
Time value of money is not the same. It’s actually simple and elegant and flexible, and to your point, you want to see the borrower have a plan, so to speak. Or cash flows. Or collateral. Or all of the above. And still, you can lose. But the concept of the price of money is separate from that.
The entire point of FTX is that Americans were barred from using it. Now Americans certainly ignored that rule by using vpn’s, but I’m not sure that gives the sec jurisdiction. The Americans using the exchange were explicitly breaking the TOS
Let me rephrase, why aren’t nurses quitting en masse to become traveling nurses?

If you are going to be miserable at work, at least be miserable and well paid.

Why is there a need to relocate or commute as a traveling nurse?

If there is a national nurse shortage, why cannot you be a traveling nurse locally?
Extended Twin Operations.
Idea for improvement: show the webpage creation interface without needing signup. I want to see what it's like to use without making an account. I won't bother with sites which immediately ask for login. This doesn't have to be an interactive demo, just screenshots are fine.

I suspect I'm not the target audience anyway. I'd rather write a custom Jekyll theme and use git to publish with the GitHub Pages push hook. This sounds like it's much simpler, maybe something like the Blogger interface.
The original scheme by Ponzi himself was based around profiting from arbitrage from postage stamps. He promised 50% returns within 90 days and couldn't keep up with his claims in a legitimate manner.
I've long wished to be just writing (ideally) Python to define and run CI/CD pipelines. YAML is simply hell, `if` keys in such data description languages are cruel jokes.

Round-trip times for GitHub Actions are too high: sometimes you're waiting for 10 minutes just to run into a dumb typo, empty string-evaluated variable or other mishap. There's zero IDE support for almost anything beyond getting the YAML syntax itself right.

We have containerization for write-once-run-anywhere and languages like Python for highly productive (without footguns as bash has them), imperative descriptions of what to do. The main downside I see is it getting messy and cowboy-ish. That's where frameworks can step in. If the Dagger SDK were widely adopted, it'd be as exchangeable and widely understood/supported as, say, GitHub Actions themselves.

We currently have quite inefficient GHA pipelines (repeated actions etc.) simply because the provided YAML possibilities aren't descriptive enough. (Are Turing-complete languages a bad choice for pipelines?)

What's unclear to me from the article and video is how this can replace e.g. GitHub Actions. Their integration with e.g. PR status checks and the like is a must, of course. Would Dagger just run on top of a `ubuntu-latest` GHA runner?
0.4% is 0.004, so 1.004^12 = 1.049... or 4.9%
As always, it's interesting to read any dissent to what sounds like "obviously a good thing": https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/P221202Section5...

There is also an interesting bit of back-and-forth between the dissent and one of the supporting statements: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/Section5PolicyS...

I'm still inclined to think it's a good thing. I'm not educated enough on this topic to agree or disagree with any of the commissioners' opinions, but the FTC is clearly interested in sending a signal to the public.

I'm moderately optimistic, although it will be interesting to see what happens after the next presidential election. It's possible that the commissioners are concerned about it, and are trying to make some kind of mark and set precedent before they're all fired and replaced if a Republican (Trump?) takes office in 2024.
I recognize that I should've been more clear but the person who pulled me aside was a random customer waiting in line who pulled me aside when I told the T-Mobile guy that I was planning on getting a Pixel, which they didn't have in stock. I did ask a fair number of questions about what it was that he did to determine that it wasn't someone older who was just messing with me. Granted, this was some number of months ago, but if I recall correctly he was trying to figure out why people wanted Pixels because on his team, people would use iPhones because their family members used iPhones, or because it was easier from an enterprise security standpoint with BYOD. I'm not sure if I remember specifics beyond that.

It's kind of a post-hoc realization that I should've used his admission to me as a reason to second guess a purchase on a device which I've come to discover: has a stock messenger application that fails to sync message receipt times, that gets very hot to the touch, drops cell phone tower connections until rebooted. And, as the article we're replying to points out, had a lock screen bypass bug that wasn't fixed for months.
Bytecode and the Busicom
That video was recorded while being at the office. If anything, it's evidence against the supposed effectiveness of forbidding remote work.