skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked for and with some of the companies that Mochary mentions in his podcast interview with Lenny.

https://www.lennyspodcast.com/how-to-fire-people-with-grace-...

They work nothing like he says. It makes me doubt all his other advice. I used to like to read Mochary. Now I think he is selling a line of bull that tech people like to read.

Mostly because he's too high-level and he doesn't have enough windows into the company. "Amazon is good at innovation"... Really? People don't need equity to get motivated? Really?

Amazon employs more than one million people and I guarantee you that many of its teams suck at innovation. Many are full of bozos led by the blind. That's why they buy so many little startups. They failed to build it themselves.

People don't need equity to be motivated? Well, cheap hiring managers want to believe that. Good luck hiring that crucial engineer...

Mochary's experience as an operator is out of date, and his updated opinions depend on news reports and self-reporting.

He fails the Cedric Chin test:

https://commoncog.com/verifying-believability/

Definite guru vibes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GgHaFvmY3s
>> he really didn't understand what's most valuable part and took it for granted.

This is particularly surprising to me also, for a different reason. Since Musk was a key player at PayPal, he should have learned that although the vast majority of users are well-intentioned and harmless, there are a small group of scammers and criminal who MUST be dealt with or they will rapidly bankrupt you.

On Twitter, we must add to the list of scammers & criminals the additional bots, trolls, and pranksters, all of whom can rapidly destroy trust in a community (online or off).

Why he didn't carry that lesson forward to this platform is baffling (unless he's in a contest with Kanye and the FTX crypto guy to see who can create the largest and most rapid-burning money bonfire).
It's probably more complicated than that.

When you compare US costs to countries like the UK, France, Germany, Japan, and similar it is indeed true that US is significantly more expensive.

It is also true that over time US costs are rising significantly.

However, the ratio of US costs to the costs of other countries has stayed roughly the same over time.

In other words, the rest of them are having the same problem of rising costs that the US is, and their costs are rising at roughly the same rate. We pay a lot more than they do now because we paid a lot more than them a long time ago.

This is worrisome, because it suggests that even if we can lower our health care costs to be in line with the rest of the developed world we are still heading for unaffordable healthcare--all we'd be doing is making so we reach that when the rest of the world does instead of a few years before they do.

Here's some comments from earlier discussions with numbers and a link to the data [1] [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32744920

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29768484
I consider tens of milliseconds to be a long pause time (P99 should be <10ms), which is what I understand to be the ballpark for G1 (I haven't tested 17+). No doubt JVM is a fine piece of engineering, but I prefer Go's approach of just not allocating as much to begin with (Java's cheap allocations require a moving GC, which introduces challenges with respect to rewriting pointers and so on, which in turn introduces constraints for FFI and makes the whole system more complex). I wish it went further and made allocations more explicit.
TSMC's 3dFabric alliance to accelerate advanced packaging development
Good point, Singapore has great, inexpensive food. Housing is where you spend the big $$$. Singapore is probably at the top of the list for the low tax countries. The big breaker for me is the lack of four distinct seasons, but all the other low tax countries have bigger negatives.

A few other low tax places to consider that I don't know much about: Belize, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia.
> 4. People over estimate their qualifications. Their abilities may be good, but they write over the top accomplishments in their resumes that are hard to believe, at least without proof, and they are the first ones to get rejected,

You would never get to the next round otherwise.
Ok for those a little younger who don’t remember webrings- remember stumbleupon?
Musk was a visionary, but a visionary without funding is nothing. His funding for Tesla came from the US taxpayers in the amount of $451 million.

This turns out to have been a good investment for the US and Tesla and arguably the world in general, because it proved the capability of electric cars (as well as their market desirability).

But make no mistake, without that investment and the success of Tesla, Musk would not have a fraction of the "success" he appears to have now.

SpaceX is something to appreciate as well, but as they say - it takes money to make money. Building a space company is even more crazy than an electric car company. So to do that, you need a TON of money or a lot of powerful investors (or both).

Musk should have sat quietly with his successes in Tesla and SpaceX, but instead it seems he has bighead syndrome. He believes his wealth and success means that he is an expert in everything.
> driving tourism

I see what you did there
Twitter just turned off SMS 2FA without warning
Lineage OS can often do WiFi only on old Androids.

But unless I'm mistaken, if a device only has 3G, and you want to travel with it away from WiFi, you can't even get 3G data on the device, as they shut off the 3G networks in the USA. Best you're gonna find in some rural areas may be 2G or 2.5G.
FWIW, I have been using ProtonMail for about four years for my personal email, and I haven't had any issues with communicating with folks from Gmail or Outlook.

Regardless, I don't think it's contradictory that people flock towards a somewhat-centralized system like Gmail; the point is that it still supports an open protocol. The fact that Protonmail "just works" when emailing Gmail is a testament to the fact that federation can work in practice, even if it does start becoming more centralized.
Well 200k is not very much.

The German vaccine watchdog issue a warning letter because there were roughly 300 cases in total reported for the approx. 200m doses administered until May 2021 in the entire EU.

Myocarditis/pericarditis are very rare and the effects for young people were mild.
Tracking yachts owned by politicians to hold them accountable
Yachts owned by politicians and world leaders, tracking navigation data using AIS network to calculate carbon footprint.
That's actually an interesting datapoint, it means Safari is crashing so hard it flushes the tab storage; normally "killing" (especially a background kill) Safari won't do that.
I spot-checked some of the companies you listed. Problem is that they're a mix of not remote, have complex applications requiring logins which I assume are big time sinks into black holes, the software jobs aren't in the U.S., they use enterprise technology which is fine but just not my skillset, all that sort of thing. Also I'm assuming, maybe wrongly, that big enterprises have a hiring cycle of several months which is just too long for me at the moment.

If you know of any big companies that have startup-like departments than I can apply to separately, that would be great. Otherwise these aren't really a good fit for me, personally. Maybe other people though!

Also, other people have suggested contracting jobs but I'm not really sure what that means, see my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33598270. If you know of a place that is actually always hiring, meaning they will almost certainly hire you if you have skills and are who you say you are, I'd really appreciate some examples, because I don't know what that looks like.
Hmm, that appears to be true. Then why does my tax person still require me to submit the paper that shows I had insurance for the whole year?
> He has also found other ways to occupy his time in recent days, playing the video game Storybook Brawl, though less than he usually does, he said. “It helps me unwind a bit,” he said. “It clears my mind.”

> Shortly before the interview, Mr. Bankman-Fried had posted a cryptic tweet: the word “What.” Then he had tweeted the letter H. Asked to explain, Mr. Bankman-Fried said he planned to post the letter A and then the letter P. “It’s going to be more than one word,” he said. “I’m making it up as I go.”

> So he was planning a series of cryptic tweets? “Something like that.”

> But why? “I don’t know,” he said. “I’m improvising. I think it’s time.”

I’m in disbelief that he not only gave an interview but that he told the interviewer this.
The reason that it's not covered is that insurance plans don't cover damages caused by experimental procedures that the insured chose to participate in.
Recall that the vaccine is not FDA approved for children (only adults), it only has an emergency use authorization for children.
Wide enough to hit the vast majority of ages, races, health statuses [pregnancy, cancer, other medications/medical conditions] to which the vaccine will be deployed and in numbers sufficient that 1 in 10K [or even 1 in 1K] frequency adverse reactions would be reasonably sure to have shown up. (1 in 10K across an 8B population is 800K adverse reactions; 1 in 1K is 8 million people...).

Are you trying to say that we learn everything about this subject from clinical trials?
> murder implies intent

Depraved heart murder is still murder, so no. It involves malice, not necessarily intent.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221114231053/https://www.compu...
I ran online discussion forums for a few years. I fear that community-led, “best intentions” type platforms like Mastodon will have the same problems I had.

Moderation when budget-constrained gets harder and harder.

Initially I had volunteers to help, but I couldn’t pay them (the site didn’t make enough money) and eventually the mods got tired of the constant drama on the site and tired of having to remain neutral and professional. The kudos of having privileges on the site tends to fade - or tends to attract the wrong type of individual to the role.

In my experience, running online discussion forums eventually becomes a living hell for the owner.

On my local community forums in South London, some users developed chips on their shoulder against me, either due to (guidelines-based) moderation interventions from me and my team, or due to me being in a different political tribe to them. Those disgruntled people rabble-roused. They deliberately “activated” one or two people with unstable personalities. They linked up with the admins of other “competing” local community sites whose traffic was hurt when my sites became popular. Between them they unleashed a tsunami against me: hundreds of social media posts spreading hate and conspiracy theories about me; loads of trolling on my forums; I even received a threatening email containing photos of the exterior of my home, photos of my extended family members, and an implied threat on my wife. I went to the police about it but they only gave a caution to the woman involved.

In the end I moved out of London - partly due to the horrendous and coordinated abuse I was receiving.

At the time I spoke to one or two other sympathetic local community admins and they’d also suffered some pretty horrible abuse too.

It’s for this reason I don’t think community-led, low budget social media sites are viable, sadly. You need an army of paid moderators. You need a legal team. A PR team. As the owner, you may even need a personal security detail (seriously!). There are some weird and very hateful people out there.

Apologies for the very long post but it felt quite cathartic to let it all out. I’m still incredibly frustrated about the whole situation, years later.
Telegram also appears to be down, possibly related?
Not sure what the deal is with the Israeli study, but other, larger studies have found a huge effect consistent with my comment eg https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA....
When I was a kid, I got a Tandy CoCo 3, and with time made simple graphic games in BASIC. They were laughably slow, and much later I learned why: other home computers had dedicated sound and sprite hardware.

Maybe because of this experience, I think software-rendered sprites still count as sprites, they're just slower.
https://github.com/search?q=picolibc&p=1

For me it was discoverable via the fourth and tenth results.

picolibc

1. 005 https://github.com/mtottenh/picolibc
2. 005 https://github.com/litex-hub/pythondata-software-picolibc
3. 005 https://github.com/AshlingMicrosystems/picolibc
4. 005 https://github.com/ft/zephyr-picolibc
5. 005 https://github.com/keith-packard/picolibc-ci
6. 005 https://github.com/modm-ext/picolibc-partial
7. 005 https://github.com/philpem/picolibc-docker-arm
8. 005 https://github.com/antmicro/pythondata-software-picolibc
9. 005 https://github.com/likewise/riscv-picolibc-docker
10. 005 https://github.com/picolibc/pico-hello
11. 005 https://github.com/libhal/gcc-arm-none-eabi-picolibc
12. 005 https://github.com/keith-packard/simple-mps
13. 005 https://github.com/picolibc/simple-mps
14. 005 https://github.com/swiftgeek/stm32f103-demo

I search Github from the command line, with no Javascript or cookies. To understand relationships between projects that are returned as results, I always go up a level to the user pages from the project pages, e.g., I looked at https://github.com/ft?tab=repositories&type=source and https://github.com/picolisp?tab=repositories&type=source
For multiple years now I've been trying to figure out how the magic trick worked, and I think you just nailed it.
Tooljet IMO is the most promising of the open-source Retool competitors. It has a great UI, is easy to use, plugs into everything, and is super flexible. If you haven't checked out out lately, I highly recommend it.
> What was or wasn't covered, and what your out-of-pocket costs were, have nothing to do with ACA.

This isn’t true at all, the ACA did a lot of mandating what insurance companies must cover, what maximum deductibles were, etc.
Saving lives is not always about saving your life. You don't live in a vacuum, your decisions affect other people around you.

Where your decisions don't affect people around you, you're absolutely correct. But infectious diseases are not one of those cases.
I've always felt that there is some kind of hidden agenda with wokespeak that is bigger than what the wokish people are letting on to. And if you question it, they switch back and forth between different meanings of the same word.

Too bad someone can't think of new words and definitions that can combat the woke langauge, like "Open" means "freedom of speech." "Why can't everyone be open?"

"Strong" means "individualism" instead to counteract "intersectionality." "We need strong people."
This is genius, I strive to reason this well.

I am endlessly fascinated by thinking about thinking, and thinking about thinking about thinking. I have observed my brain’s ability to think recursively about its own thoughts many times before and it’s such a cool phenomenon.

This strikes me as very similar, the regex expression is a useful way of explaining his point.
I could agree with the need for corporate transparency, but the initial proposal seemed excessively strict. Unfortunately, people managed to arrange complicated empires of corporations even back in the days when it took an act of the legislature to create a corporation (and therefore shell companies as we know them were impossible to create)[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_(business)
Just the same old greed that clouded peoples minds. They saw BTC/ETH/etc. get pumped time and time again.

Some investors must have known it was a massive scam, but thought - hey, what if I successfully exit before the bagholders? What if I am the ONE that makes a fortune off this deal?

But alas, the thing with many of these crypto startups is that they crash and burn so fast. One minute they're worth billions, the next minute the founders have vanished or in custody.

Regulations are coming, no mater how much the crypto fundies hate it. Regulations don't conjure out of thin air, they are almost always reactionary measures. So maybe that's one good thing to come out of it all - these companies will be forced to be more transparent, as well as facing hard jail-time if/when they play with client money.
It is also listed in W-2 box 12 code DD. And many employers include the employer contribution on paystubs.
My impression is that grade inflation is definitely a thing, I am not so sure that it is for the reasons you suggest (pissing off parents/donors/people paying for degree).

What grade inflation really means is that for many, if not all, majors at a school like Harvard, you can take a path of classes that will end up with you completing your major and having a high GPA.

That said, there are certainly classes that will be much less nice to you when grading and have a self-selected group of students. My guess is that if JS has enough people from, say, Harvard, they will know the difference between a student who took hard upper level courses to complete their major vs. just the simple basics.

In terms of why this grade inflation is so prevalent, one reason I think is that faculty want to have students in their courses/run a "superstar" course, and students select classes with the easiest grading policy. Schools like MIT (and Princeton as well) specifically combat this and so are known for grade deflation.
Google says the median salary for a dev in the UK is 45,000 GBP/year. I'm hesitant to believe any government services are sufficient to make up the compensation gap, even at the median level.

At the upper percentiles the gap widens significantly. Though global salaries may normalize somewhat along with broader adoption of remote work
Rik Mayalls acceptance speech at Exeter University when he was awarded a honorary Doctorate is a reminder of what genuinely beautiful human being he was. https://youtu.be/1jjFEFyI8FU
Right, but this was before the fraud was exposed; at the time the recipients had no way of knowing it was fraud. Obviously nobody would accept money from SBF now that the fraud has been exposed.

So I don't think the journalists did anything particularly wrong here. (Unless you think crypto is so sketchy that they should have treated _anyone_ connected to crypto as presumably fraudulent -- in which case, fair, I guess.)
About Safe-Blowing
It's easier for Apple to do because they make both the hardware and the OS. Say you are Sony and make an Android phone. You take some version of Android and port it to your hardware (with patches for your hardware e.g. in Linux, etc). Your Android system is now effectively a fork.

Now say you want to get updates from upstream regularly. Every time, you may have conflicts with your patches, and you have to fix them. That's costly, so why would you do that for old phones people already paid years ago?

Long story short, I believe it's easier for Apple to not break compatibility with old iPhones than for an Android OEM to stay up-to-date with upstream.
> At any rate, a country that isn't very dependent on crypto mining would be a good place to start the bans.

Is there any country that's dependent on crypto mining? I think you may have meant the inverse--a country that crypto mining isn't dependent on (like it was on China... until China banned it a few years ago).
I made around 11000 km with a belt on a cargo bike before selling it and the belt on the current one is at ~6000km. Belts are amazing, especially when it comes to maintenance.

But I would still avoid going with a belt on a tour anywhere that’s remote - not because the belt itself might break, but the hub (as for this guy), or a sprocket or anything that is uncommon, but required when riding a belt.
Yeah, I really love Tooljet. Super extendable and easy to use. I really hope they take off.
Bloomberg terminal is the ultimate device for making information not available to people, so traders can front-run customers, collude, do backroom deals, and other nefarious stuff. I am surprised sheeple don't consider that a crime.

I don't think it's the terminal that we are missing, it's transparency.

But hey, why not!
Yeah, I never cared for that. Specifically, I'd prefer that everything was just "struct", but structs could implement interfaces, which is essentially the Go/Rust model.
Ask HN: How do you network as a developer?
I'm returning to the workforce after a sabbatical, and I'm realizing that my professional network is very thin. Former colleagues mostly work at FAANGs where they don't have any pull, or they washed out of the profession and went off the grid.

What I've tried:

- online meetups: no opportunity to interact meaningfully with others

- a local hacker space: very few software engineers hang out there, it's mostly semi-retired former manager types not-really-working on impossible unfunded startup ideas

- Rust (IRL, on Reddit, on Discord): very shallow community of mostly students and sycophants, actual Rust devs seem to work in isolation or only communicate on Twitter

What else should I try?
Indeed. My mother actually said that only fresh blood keeps the thoughts of war at bay. She wasn't wrong. I really hate this about our culture.
You're talking about scifi. I'm talking about the next 8 years.

You're also completely failing to distinguish between fertile and fissile.

So realistically, at the same scale of ore extraction as coal mining. How much power is available?
I don't understand not considering tweaking your resume for each application. I could write a novel on what I've done in the last year - how do I narrow that down for a resume? I can't buy into the idea that I could write 5ish bullet points today and think it would be the best way for me to represent myself to every position I might apply for.

I don't know what proof you need this is useful - you're selling yourself, so make sure to sell what they're trying to buy.
I dunno—another if-anything-even-more-right-wing economist seems to be the poster's point of comparison, so I too am curious what rubbed them the wrong way about Sowell. I certainly get a right-wing tone from the preface and first few pages of this book—I'm hoping later chapters will moderate the "if you're not maximizing economic utility you're definitely screwing up and must just be too stupid to realize it because there can't possibly be a good reason" subtext, and it just seems so strong at the beginning because he's trying to present the very-basics without nuance at this point, but I can't see that striking a Hazlitt fan as anything but a point in its favor.
> I can know what I need to do and have the willpower to do it, but the door to the cupboard where the willpower resides is locked, unlocks randomly, and nobody knows where the key is.

Best description of this situation that I have ever seen, many thanks.
Jailed in China: A VIP room for detainees
It's working for me in Manhattan as of 6:16 EST.
> They might emit disproportionately higher co2 than the median citizen, but that's canceled out by the fact that they're so few of them.

No it's not. They set a bad example. We can clearly see they put their own pride before environmental conservation.

How can you expect common people to make sacrifices that the elites are not making?
>But he was right. Do you really think tether/iFinex/Bitfinex/Deltec are nice persons playing it fair?

Whether he's "right" or "tether/iFinex/Bitfinex/Deltec are nice persons playing it fair" is besides the point. I even plainly admit that he was right in my original comment. My point is that the tweets coming out of the account has zero signal because he calls everything a scam, in the same way a permabear analyst is always predicting a recession in 6 months.
> Nobody I know is getting boosters or is worried about it anymore

Your San Francisco social circles are different from mine. Most people I talk to about this got the bivalent booster and got the old booster last year.

But people do not seem super worried at this phase. The booster is something routine like a flu shot.