skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I've got many systems I've written that are just straight-up accidentally soft-real-time in practice simply because running them on even a moderately-powerful modern PC is a hundred times more power than they really need, and they're already 10-50 times faster than they "need" to be even before optimizing them, so barring pathological network performance that would trash any system, they're essentially soft real time already.

But the categorization of real-time depends on the requirements of the problem, not how difficult it is to meet them. If your problem tolerates a few missed deadlines every now and then and your hardware is such that a naive implementation misses deadlines so frequently that it's useless, and so you need to optimize it thoroughly to get the misses under control, it's still soft real-time. It doesn't become soft real-time when technology advances enough that even an inefficient implementation will tolerably a deadline only occasionally.
Nice! This is the model that I personally love. Will check out the book.
That would be hell for small companies and heaven for Disney. They could buy everything.
The CEO of Alameda said "we tend not to have stop losses... I'm trying to think of a good example of a trade where I've lost a ton of money... I probably don't want to go into specifics with that"

https://twitter.com/ApeDurden/status/1590912098871435265

Now how did this place end up managing billions of dollars and SBF the darling of politicians?

The picture is starting to come into focus. SBF used customer funds to become one of the top political donors. He donated $40M and was planning up to $1B. His parents are Stanford Professors who are well connected in the political world.

Caroline, Alameda's CEO, also said "My advice for college is that classes don't matter that much and friends and networking are really important. Probably the most valuable thing you can do in college is find the coolest people you can and spend lots of time hanging out with them". Apparently so.

Her dad is the Department Head of Economics at MIT. Prior to getting appointed to the SEC, Gary Gensler was a Professor for the Practice of Global Economics & Management at MIT.

The CEO of GoldmanSachs met with SBF to help FTX get regulatory approval.

From a congressman yesterday, "Gary Gensler runs to the media while reports to my office allege he was helping SBF and FTX work on legal loopholes to obtain a regulatory monopoly. We're looking into this." https://twitter.com/RepTomEmmer/status/1590717374801809409

Senators are still going forward with an SBF-backed bill https://www.theblock.co/post/185746/senators-moving-forward-...

It looks like Enron or Theranos 2.0. The kids of the elite were being elevated into positions way outside their ability and supported at high levels with no scrutiny. The fallout from this is going to be astronomical.
Unfortunately, it's unlikely that I could create a job which reliably pays me in the same neighborhood of what working for someone else does.
If the changes "conflict" it might be best to use a "smart" editor that can somewhat figure out changes on a higher level.
You can, if you like, install the 'vundo' package, which gives you a tree-based overview of your undo history, making it easy to switch between branches and go backward and forward. It's basically like the undo-tree view for the default undo mechanism.
Author of Start Small, Stay Small here. Thanks for the mention, and I'm glad the book was helpful for you. It sounds like you've built a great business that does exactly what you want it to (support your lifestyle), which IMO is one of the main points of bootstrapping.
Go is an awesome language and I'm very happy I chose it as the main language for my personal projects. However, I have implemented some quirky Lisp in Go to have some more dynamic experience, too, so now my applications are becoming hybrid.
This is the wrong framing: there are different companies and business interests that listen to different advisories. A government advisory bears different weight for government contractors, for example.
Despite recent stories making this claim, no, not exactly. The 4,100 jobs that were cut in 1997 -- 2,700 full-time and the rest contract and part-time -- came while Gil Amelio was still CEO, and there's a bit of revisionism in attributing it just to Steve Jobs having been brought on as an advisor. Apple had already laid off 2,800 people in 1996 and the cuts in 1997 were widely expected by analysts. They were made with Apple's existing executive team intact and were executed in a considered, directed fashion. I do not think anyone can make a credible claim that Musk's approach so far could be described as considered and directed.
That was Netflix (and Amy Schumer). I wonder if this contributed in any meaningful way to Nexflix's decline.
It's exceptionally sad because the companies leasing out these buildings just want to lease; they'll throw up walls and do other renovations if you ask.

I was with a company that moved from a larger space into a smaller one and they were perfectly happy to throw up some walls to make offices and take down a pair of walls to make a copier space - "for free".
Hey look, the paranoid style in American politics.

So rare these days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paranoid_Style_in_American...
Meanwhile current Indian government repealed 100s of Laws / Acts.

https://www.indiatoday.in/mail-today/story/narendra-modi-law...
Weed out the weak.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/blockfi-halts-withdrawals-cit...
Embattled Crypto Exchange FTX Files for Bankruptcy
Tbf, fracking does have proven issues with geological stability and soil contamination. But it would be very hypocritical of the UAE to go on an anti-nuclear tirade, since they themselves use nuclear energy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barakah_nuclear_power_plant
It depends on your mortgage rate and opportunity costs of other investments.

If you have a mortgage below the rate of inflation, that’s almost free money. Your fiat could potentially do better invested in assets with greater return potential. Paying your mortgage down is like a bond with a guaranteed rate of return, and the piece of mind you have from owning the house unencumbered might be worth the opportunity cost of missed returns depending on your risk tolerance, how well you sleep at night, and your desire to have a lower burn rate to enable more daily freedom (versus working a job you don’t care for to pay for bondholder returns on your note).

Less risk = pay the mortgage down or off. More risk = invest spare cash in investments.

(not investing advice)
"Natural selection" presumes that there are already options to select from. So nature will "select" a bird that has functioning wings over a bird born with deformed and malfunctioning wings. But where did the wings come from in the first place? That is the real question. That word "variation" does not answer that question and nor do the words "random mutation" because the question is HOW it happened, not WHETHER it happened. "There was a variation that got selected" is obviously true, but what made that variation? How did it happen? Why did it happen? To say "it just happened randomly" is to suggest something even less intelligible than to say "God created it". So far no one has suggested any MECHANISM to shed any light on evolution.
Since Classical Chinese is ancestral to kanji, you might be interested in https://wy-lang.org/
It looks like it? At least from a cursory reading of the press release...which goes against everything that has been said up to this point. The hilarity continues.
I think these people have shown they have no problem lying about everything, so I wouldn't take what they say as a data point.
How stdbuf works
> Workspaces make it easy to work on multiple modules simultaneously, which is most helpful when you are maintaining a set of related modules with module dependencies between them.

It's a somewhat uneasy feeling to see how the "solution/projects" (in Visual Studio terms) hierarchy keeps getting reinvented in every. single. bloody. ecosystem, even in non-PL ones. Surely there must be a better way to organize things?
> Pinboard has been rock solid for me?

Do you pay for archiving? Have you tested that it’s working?
Most probably yes. If it was an actual viable fix you can be almost guaranteed that it would have been implemented long ago. Engineers would love to have their cake and eat it too.
Tell me how nuclear can be more than 2% of the solution? Where does the Uranium come from?
Knowledge != skill. With the skill you can acquire the knowledge given the right conditions and motivation. I would say the vast majority of engineers I work with have never had the need or opportunity to invest the time or experiential opportunities to acquire the knowledge required - but they COULD. I actually find that quite sad, and hence my depression I noted. Nowadays this is extending all the way through school. Machine architecture and low level machine microcode etc isn’t universally taught in CS programs any more.

I’ve worked in all the industries, including a long time in yours. We probably even overlapped or maybe worked together!
So anything except Holy C?
If you read the interviews, you'll find some of the founders are actually 'repeatedly profitable'!
I have been diagnosed with ADHD but don’t like to take meds. If I’m feeling this way I put on movies or a TV show. I got through college watching season after season of TV shows in the computer lab while I did my work. Music or podcasts help too. But generally I like programming and it doesn’t take much for me to sit there for hours doing it. Another tip try not eating anything. I get laser focused when I’m borderline starving and working on a hard problem.
Advertising only makes money for the platforms if we don't have non-ad options. So, now that the pandora's box of ad-driven internet has been opened, good luck putting it away. At this point, you will have to kill all social media.

checks economy

Well, it looks like we've got a running start if we want to give it a go.
All of FTX Group, including FTX US and 130 additonal companies are covered by the statement. https://ftx.us/ doesn't mention anything though.
I think industries that are overwhelmingly dependent on energy often are like that now. Energy prices vary throughout the day and some industries (aluminum?) are very price sensitive.
It's not much, but I do a couple of things:

- NextDNS configured to block ads, trackers and unnecessary domains (including all Facebook domains) across my home network and mobile devices

- Use multiple browsers on desktop and mobile, all configured with privacy settings, to keep Google-related tasks separate, i.e. use Chrome only for Google stuff, Bromite/Vivaldi/Firefox for everything else.

- Use uBlock Origin on all my desktop browsers.

- Sticking with Windows 10 for the time being. But highly configured to turn off telemetry and remove Microsoft's general crap they include in Windows.

- Been learning how to self-host stuff and slowly migrate apps and things to my server where possible.
It's interesting the changes in tone in that article. Félicette was killed, but the other 11 cats were "euthanized".
YouTube truncates the History to last 2000 items, however. I need to be able to see my full, uncut history for audit and word-of-mouth purposes.
Nexo has zero exposure to FTX according to their CEO.
You have it backwards, it's the only language the CIA truly doesn't want you to program in.
Here it is: https://twitter.com/whatcd/status/923941782253121539

site code: https://github.com/WhatCD/
"Risk management? You mean that's a thing people actually do?"
Last decade? Leveraged buyouts were a big thing in the 80s/90s, so this has been going on for over 30 years. This research showed that about 20% of LBOs resulted in bankruptcy: https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1gfygl4r8661f....
> Right now wind and solar have dropped so much in price that they represent a serious threat to fossil fuels on a short time frame.

I recommend sitting down and calculating the input cost for solar / wind. It's being subsidized substantially.

There aren't even enough materials currently mined to support the US switching to mostly (>50%) solar / wind. Silver/gold/copper/nickle prices would go up an order of magnitude, for instance.

I'm for cheap energy - period. It's directly correlated with improvements in life. If solar / wind get us there, great. If nuclear improves it, let's do it. Right now natural gas is also very cheap, should be drilling as much as we can. The more we maximize growth and cheap energy now, the quicker we advance technology, innovation and automation.
> Of course, on paper it's a terrible idea to pay off a mortgage early (assuming a reasonably low interest rate).

Why? The longer my mortgage lasts, the more interests I'm paying (no matter how low they are). If I could pay the entirely of my mortgage now, I would because it will be cheaper.

I don't think rich people (the really rich ones) pay their houses valued in 1 million, via mortgages. They pay them upfront (because they have the money). Why on earth would they apply for a mortage that lasts 10-20 years? They would end up paying 1 million + interests.
I guess the way it works is before they blow up people go "clearly they're doing great, they know something we don't. You think they need stop losses, but that's because you just don't get it. Stop asking questions".

That's how.
How do they plan to avoid violence when there are betrayals of trust?
Why is it that these projects dedicated to de-Googling, either exclusively or in vast majority, support Google devices?

I'd love to run one of them but I bought a Motorola explicitly because it wasn't a Google device.
Hah, I had no idea, I don't know anything about Ruby except it also suffers from a Gil?

Maybe they're using the other golden rule: All languages starting with a P are old, crusty and should be avoided.
Don’t be so sure. I found Go to be frustrating and difficult, but Rust has been a pleasure.
I have not visited the homepage other than by accident in many years, FYI. I am talking about results being omitted from the sub feed. This is related to the whole "notification bell" thing. Unless you turn on notifications - manually - for every channel, their uploads may be omitted in the feed. Unless something has changed at some point that I missed.
I have the following in my .bash_profile for this purpose.

pman() { man -t $@ | open -fa Preview.app; }
It's almost like he didn't want to buy it after all, but now he's kind of stuck with it...
There are still dialog boxes that date back to Windows 3.1 that show up in Windows 10 and 11.
It is, but they also have a competing mission to compromise the security of non-American businesses, communications, and infrastructure. Since for the most part, the same software is used by both, these missions often contradict each other. e.g. documents from Snowden revealed that the NSA had broken encryption recommended by NIST. It's difficult to know if NSA recommends something because it makes their defensive mandate easier, or their offensive mandate easier.

For this reason, experts like Schneier [1] have long advocated that the NSA be broken up so that these two missions do not fall under the same agency.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/02/breaking_up_t...
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/02/facebook-says-apple-ios-priv...
A lot of IDEs (I know Eclipse and VSCode both do this) will create a copy of the file you're working on each time you hit save. You can then navigate back through the local history of the file.

I'm conditioned to hit Ctrl+S with almost every change, so this gives me a very detailed history of my revisions.
Vim also has an undo tree, although you need a plugin to work with it easily (called "Undotree").
Which makes it safe from CIA involvement, aka CIA Safe
There is a sidebar widget. But it starts merged in the File Explorer view, and you need to drag it over from there to the sidebar to make it independent - https://stackoverflow.com/a/71522634

The widget is called "Timeline".

> The cool thing with IntelliJ is if you accidentally deleted a file you can just touch a blank version of the file and the history comes back. Not sure if VS Code does that yet.

VS Code does keep the history after file deletion, but I'm not sure how to access it from inside.

I had to manually rummage through the storage directory to find a file I accidentally deleted, but it was an file which was never saved (think Untitled), so it didn't had a path that I could try creating a blank file at.
Who told you it would hurt the economy to not pollute groundwater or clear cut old-growth forests?

And what have those same people been saying about our ability to transition to lower-emissions energy sources, which you think is possible?

Presumably along the lines of "we don't need to do that, it's fine", "actually we do need to do that, but it's impossible", "okay it is possible but it would cost too much", "okay, it would actually be cheaper but it'll put all the poor groundwater-polluters and clear-cutters out of a job, why do you hate poor people" and finally "It's a conspiracy by the gays and the jews and the authoritarian left to control you by passing laws to not let you pollute groundwater, not that I want to pollute groundwater, but I'll defend to the death your right to do so etc."
Some month ago they removed the Speed Up option when watching YT on TV.
This basically costs me hours of my life as I normally watch videos on 1.5 speed...
Well, except the friend part the money supply has never shrunk so far.
That's all of them, at this point (at least the big ones).
Do you have a source?

We haven't seen a reduction in space insurance premiums of any particularly large magnitude which I would expect if the costs of launching satellites into space had been substantially reduced.
In addition to the other answers given:

If a name is erroneously omitted from the list then a subsequent incident would presumably re-add the offender.

If a name is incorrectly included on the list (accidentally or maliciously) then there could be a decay function if reports include a timeframe and/or confidence level. For example, if the last report of bad behavior was third-hand and years ago and no one has heard corroborating reports since then then individuals may choose to de-prioritize or drop that name from the lists they transmit.

It may also be the case that the list is not particularly resistant to transmission errors and yet may still be accurate enough to provide value to the people using it.
which is this great project btw: https://github.com/PMunch/ratel

what happened to that cool landing page you had?
Vim stores all deleted text automatically, up to a max of 10, I think.

Probably very possible to extend that with some advanced vimscripting.
It seems like you believe that trusting anyone is stupid.
Hopefully this CEO will finally be the one who is totally honest and above-board.
Well, overall hedonistic adjustments to price are complicated and controversial.

I'm just saying: there's not really any cars like a model T anymore. Not just because of increased technology, but because of improved underlying technology: customers expect more (volume, mass capacity, interior comforts, ancillary features, speed, etc) and that increases cost.

We could probably make something a lot like a model T pretty cheaply still, if there were a big market for it.
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Such as by constantly filling the internet with lies about how the technologies that are eating 1% of your market share per year, and growing by 20-40% per year can't possibly solve the problem and we must divert all funding from it to a technology that costs 3x as much, has consistently gotten more expensive with time, and can't scale?
Wondered if reading such books increases any chances of beeing profitable.
Go is the best documented ecosystem I've seen. Since godoc is so widespread, people write doc comments and examples all the time. Every single public project has a doc page at pkg.go.dev too.

The syntax rules and the reference spec of the language is very concise too.
Would be especially inconvenient in places where you have daylight from 9AM till 4PM and where people rely on electric heating.
There’s another word you should use instead of “medieval”: secure. Electronic voting is an incredibly hard problem to solve with the same level of privacy and integrity as paper ballots, and even harder to do in a way which the general public can trust.
If they have become a citizen of PR and aren't solely there on vacation (I believe the laws that define state citizenship themselves vary state-by-state), yes, they can't vote in federal elections. There are still local and territory-wide elections they can vote in.

This is silly, yes. The answer is making PR a state, but historically they haven't wanted to be one and Washington has been hesitant to make them one. Here is a short video on the matter which coincidentally was published a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk6JrUYLyWw
Yeah, the GOP has been caught a few times saying the quiet part out loud:

Voter ID initiatives are explicitly intended to make it harder to vote for lower-income people, because those people tend to vote for Democrats.
Just noting that the FT article has a statement from its interim CEO:

“The immediate relief of Chapter 11 is appropriate to provide the FTX Group the opportunity to assess its situation and develop a process to maximize recoveries for stakeholders,” [John J] Ray [III] said.
Yes, it explicitly mentions that FTX US is included:

> FTX Trading Ltd. (d.b.a. FTX.com), announced today that it, West Realm Shires Services Inc. (d.b.a. FTX US), Alameda Research Ltd. and approximately 130 additional affiliated companies (together, the "FTX Group"'), have commenced voluntary proceedings under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the District of Delaware in order to begin an orderly process to review and monetize assets for the benefit of all global stakeholders.

Excluded are:

> The following subsidiaries are not included in the Chapter 11 proceedings: LedgerX LIC, FTX Digital Markets Ltd., FTX Australia Pty Ltd. and FTX Express Pay Ltd.
Just like you won't fit standard ISO C into many embeeded scenarios, and have to deal with a crap of vendor specific extensions but it gets called "C", the usual two weights and two measures, when arguing for C.
Arduino, for some God forsaken reason, is trying to appeal to the professional market with the most backward decisions possible. This will be the same thing as the Portenta, which sucks because of the software lockdown (they don't even have an Yocto layer for it and pretty much force you to use Foundries.io).
I highly recommend playing the beer game with different inventory sizes, and looking at the results.

Inventory management is not a simple task, and can not be generalized like this. JIT was adopted because it reduced the number of supply chain disasters, not despite increasing it like you claim. But, of course, that reduction wasn't homogeneous and not every single place saw a gain.
This is severe rose colored glasses. Netscape was always a horrible application and crash prone on every operating system it ran on. There were geek wars back in the day bragging about how well our operating systems handle Netscape crashes - classic MacOS failed miserably.

IE was a much better browser. Especially the Mac version that when it was introduced, was the most CSS compliant browser that existed.

Netscape starting over from scratch was cited as “Things you should never do” in an article written by Joel Spolsky (StackOverflow cofounder) two decades ago.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...