skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair point. I'm an extremely light skinned person. That's the main reason I don't live outside of the climate zone in which my direct ancestors lived.
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By default returns the latest posts.
Add ?top=true to make it return top posts.
Also supports &page=3.

Edit: the page redirects you automatically to the YT playlist. I see HN automatically overwrote the url in the post to the one redirected to.

Here is the link the the actual service: https://hackernewstv.herokuapp.com/?top=true&page=15
How Ticketmaster came to dominate live events
That makes sense, as "pdfquery" uses pdfminer.six as a dep: https://github.com/jcushman/pdfquery/blob/master/requirement...
I don't think it's a joke. I think it's made to assist scalpers in buying limited-supply items from web sites and circumventing order limits -- that'd explain some of the weirder features mentioned on the home page, like per-tab proxies and "queue statistics".

I am disappointed to discover that this is a thing, but also completely unsurprised to find that someone else is trying to make money off of it. Where there's a niche, there's a way.
Sad loss. One might wonder how much faster technology’s state of the art would have progressed if we had more people like Fred Brooks working in the field.
Actually… and here’s the really fun part… the wealth was always a social construct. It doesn’t exist physically, only in ideas. It is whatever we collectively say it is. When we think something is worth $20, it is! When we decide it’s worth $10, it is! Things are worth what people will pay for them. The money is all paper anyway.
IIRC there’s more than one mod but dang is the most visible. sctb used to be another mod but it looks like he left in 2019.
It’s interesting, but if the discussion isn’t interesting it doesn’t work here and is better culled.
so even if he personally spent $1million on getting lobbyists to convince gov't to say no, that would still only have been $1.1b vs the ~$44 or whatever the price in the window was.
> I would have had a hard time imagining a way he could behave that would affect my feelings about a Tesla

It was the blatant market manipulation for me. This is a nice dose of karma.
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I mean the dumpster fire will burn out eventually but someone threw a Tesla battery in this one so it’s the most spectacular one in a while.
If one register gmail address from Russia traffic is routed to Ireland DC most likely (sometimes Belgium).
Aren't Google operate outside USA as a separate business? Would Google Ireland transfer data on USA citizens to Ireland if warrant from the local police.
i figure it's terrible for people and the planet, so will stick around way too long.

as for crpyto, as long as it helps oligarchs and less successful criminals to continue criming, it will stick around.

i watched this video earlier and thought it was too generous to web3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGsllEF7w_g

i rarely agree with libertarians, but this one article i read yesterday sounded reasonable -- in short, the super-high growth era of high tech is over:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33581828

it reminds a bit of what some physics-knowledgeable people are saying -- modern day physics is basically at a natural human limit of sorts -- progress is going to be very slow from here on out.

i think there are all sorts of fun and awesome tech things we can do, but for various reasons - state capitalism/war/US hegemony, and others - we choose not to do them. instead, we do war tech, and the VCs are left to figure out which publicly-developed technologies they can most effectively privatize for profit - thus, largely useless, at best, tech like 'web3'.
Yes, it is frustrating because it also won't allow these 'stuck' orders to be cancelled. Not even customer service can cancel the items. They show as being 'In Stock' but take up to a month to ship. Customer service's suggestion is to reject the delivery when the shipping company arrives, which is an unreasonable suggestion. If these were listed as fulfilled by a third party, I could maybe see why this would be their suggestion, but since it is "Fulfilled by Amazon", it appears Amazon is outright lying both about the item's in stock status and about the order being unable to be cancelled due to it being prepared to ship.
Because he appears to be pragmatic and understands the benefits of open standards.
With patients paying a staggering toll as a result.

Maybe we should work pilots like that... It'd certainly make flying more "fun"
> CSP exists and is going down in price rapidly.

Quite the contrary, CSP fell out of favor because PVs outcompeted it. What is making CSP better? Did mirrors suddenly improve?

> 1kg of Uranium from inkai or husab uses 50-100kg of sulfuric acid. And this is high grade compared to the 600,000 tonnes per year you are proposing using. Doubling world sulfuric acid production is about the right magnitude.

Did you just pick these figures out of thin air? Reduction of uranium in sulfuric acid is nowhere near 100 : 1 ratio. Unless you're talking about 600,000 tons after enrichment, in which case your figure for uranium consumption is off by an order of magnitude. A 1 GW reactor requires 27 tons of uranium per year [1]. The world uses an average of 2,500 GW of electricity meaning we'd need 68,000 tons of uranium fuel per year. The world produces 231 million tons of sulfuric acid annually [2], so even if we run with your un-sourced numbers this only requires an increase of 2-3%.

> At ~3g/kg the uranium only has about 10x as much energy as you'd get by burning the polymer or 5x in the current nuclear fleet (wonder how much it takes to make?). There goes the much vaunted EROI unless you get quite a few reuses (hint: you only get a few).

Except unlike solar power, the nuclear fleet doesn't require vast amounts of energy storage. It produces the amount amount of electricity regardless of sunlight or wind speed.

Here's the future of renewables: We keep building it opportunistically to displace natural gas. But once they saturate markets during peak production, they become far less effective at displacing carbon emissions because most of their energy is wasted.. After some time scratching our heads struggling to build energy storage at anywhere near relevant scales, we realize that dispatchable energy is necessary and we build it the only ways we know how: hydroelectricity where geography permits, and nuclear power. Or we can jump straight to the the last part and skip building a bunch of intermittent generation that will be made redundant in the end anyway.

1. https://world-nuclear.org/nuclear-essentials/how-is-uranium-...

2. https://www.essentialchemicalindustry.org/chemicals/sulfuric...
If you can believe what's on twitter. The whole payroll dept has resigned. So that's a setback.
There’s a big feedback cycle here. A pounding heart certainly won’t improve your mental state.
I hope all the employees whose lives he's glibly and unnecessarily upended while having the audacity to meme about it are having half as much fun!
Yeah, I can relate. I found I performed much better after taking a hit of weed. Got myself into a new career, increased my salary 30%.

Something about being high made me listen more carefully. I could actually pay attention, block anxiety, and think properly.

Just don’t slip into dependency. It’s a very slippery slope…
One of the things I do to ground myself in situations where I'm facing a death march, or find myself working at a company that does a pivot is listen to the song "Road to Nowhere" by the Talking Heads. If the intro lyrics cut too deep, I start looking.

Well, we know where we're goin'

But we don't know where we've been

And we know what we're knowin'

But we can't say what we've seen

And we're not little children

And we know what we want

And the future is certain

Give us time to work it out

https://genius.com/Talking-heads-road-to-nowhere-lyrics
why do I need a tailnet to self host?

can't the CEO just use the Tailscale network to access it privately?

I just don't personally see a use case -- if I need someone to access the content, the box it is on is already easy to publicly access. if it's not, the only people who need to see it are on the Tailscale network

edit: I think I'm starting to see it. it's not for long term installations. I just feel like, why not just open the box to the internet at that point.

it makes more sense for the edge case(s) that might address friction with adoption. interim solutions, or temporary connections

edit2: I can also see how this might be useful for people living under an oppressive government
Your username justifies this take lol
ActivityPub has been around since 2018, Mastodon 2016.

If you mean something else, how would it differ?
Yeah I've definitely had friends and been around people like that in my youth. "Party 'til you Puke!!"
Just dropping a comment here because this is so interesting to me: I am the absolute opposite. I am extremely calm in interviews. For whatever reason when I am under pressure my brain just "turns on" and I'm immediately at my best. This has served me extremely well for interviewing and test taking. I've always felt bad for people that describe having nerves for important things like tests and interviews. Sounds like it honestly really sucks.

If I'm not stressed though, I am basically a complete fucking mess mentally. I can only really function at a high level if the stakes are high. This is why I graduated with a 2.9 GPA, but scored in the 94th percentile in my exit exams. I guess nobody gets it all, lmao
It's a very stressful hazing thing companies do. It's pretty annoying.

I have a different philosophy. I assume I will NOT get the job so therefore I'm not very stressed.

Let's me feel very free during interviews and I'll say whatever I think. I'll make jokes and I'll even call out the interviewer if they ask something crazy "okay I'll answer but did you just Google that question?".

I once had an interview where the guy said "we only hire the best and brightest here, and you might be a good fit, what do you think about that?"

I said "I don't think this a good fit for me". The guy was bewildered. I said "yeah I want to work with the dumbest and laziest people. I think I'm pretty good but if I'm competing against the best it's going to be harder to stand out. I'd rather work with the worst"

He was really floored and laughed and told me he really respected my view though. Idk, if I had worried about doing a good job I wouldn't have said that.

I'm not sure what my point is but I guess it's just that if you don't worry about getting it you won't be as nervous.
That’s somebody’s funeral I would like to attend, to pay my respects.
This is really wonderful, thank you! It's great to see someone focusing on the internal structure of PDF files (the "Syntax" chapter of the spec), and doing things with a focus on browsing the internal structure etc. (I had a similar idea and did something in Rust/WASM back in May; let me see if I can dust it off and put it on GitHub. Edit: not very usable, but here FWIW: https://github.com/shreevatsa/pdf-explorer)

In particular, there are so many PDF libraries/tools that simply hide all the structure and try to provide an easy interface to the user, but they are always limited in various ways. Something like your project that focuses on parsing and browsing is really needed IMO.
Ah -- if you're logged in and have requested to download your data, it produces a PDF with a bunch of private account info, looks vaguely like that's publicly exposed, but it's probably not.

Might have given someone a fright, until they realized what was happening, and that it was dynamic content, of course.
The expectation is that you talk with the person who did the review and discuss the best place to put things. Those discussions are good for code health, and it is much easier to have them when you have new code in front of people so they can see what it looks like.

If you can't have those discussions in a code review then your code review process is too slow, and you ought to fix it so that it is easy to have these discussions there.
In lisp there are symbols and lists. The symbols could be pointers to content addressable hashes, or in-lined content. So in the namespace you could require the library by its content addressable hash, and give it a symbol definition, or just refer to the hash itself.
QPDF is a good C++ library for "content preserving" PDF transformations, and is used by the Python PikePDF library.
> He's more like a chairman with an interest in engineering than a CEO.

This strikes me as a very apt description. Still though, he basically has free rein at those companies and there is always a chance he decides to get more involved. Maybe Tesla or SpaceX hits a rough patch next year and he decides to get more hands on and "fix" the situation. That fear is probably a lot more relevent in potential customer's minds these days.
And not only that, but after a band member died (the album name was chosen before this though).

And on the topic of music, besides Depeche Mode, this made me think of the song 4th of July by Sufjan Stevens and the chorus line he sings as her mother: “Tell me what did you learn from the Tillamook burn or the Fourth of July? We’re all gonna die”.
You are still allowed (as far as I know) to make websites with plain HTML, CSS and (optionally) normal JavaScript. I do it. People do use my web applications regularly (although not a lot by HN standards). Have not been put in jail yet.
Maybe some of you don't actually know how bad will it be if 996 spreads, the 996 things don't only ruin your life and break the WLB but the most worse thing is it's the start of the vicious circle.
For the developer self, you have to push your self working more hours because the other co-worker are working more hours
For the company, the company will prefer who worked more hours because most of the management just simply thinks more hours represent more output
For this industry, well because a lot of developers work more hours this means normally a task you could do it in two days back in WLB instead it will be done in one day now, and this will eventually become the company needs 100 developers back days, now they only need 50 developers. and this will become the start of involution
I wouldn't click it. Why would anyone click it? He fired your friends, probably eroded your earnings significantly, and is now demanding that you work absurd hours.
It's about 40% possible with IPv6: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
I don’t like Open Props on technical grounds: it’s pointlessly inefficient, largely an abuse of Custom Properties, to my mind, shipping a completely superfluous layer of indirection to every client, rather than flattening almost all of the properties at compile time as could and should be done. If you’re using something like Sass, you’d use variables for this sort of thing except where you do want to change values dynamically (e.g. different values in light/dark mode). Using Custom Properties for everything is just wasteful if you’re not going to have anything subsequently using the definitions themselves.

As an example, on their site, they’re sending about 68/12KB gzipped of styles. Some are already unused and could be removed by straightforward dead code removal. Inlining variables that are set only once and removing their definitions (which incidentally encompasses that dead code removal) reduces it to 40/8KB which will both transfer and evaluate faster. (A further 20% of the styles are also unused and possibly sanely removable.)
Which would be apropos for the train wreck under discussion.
I think he has a serious gap in his understanding of the company culture. He has basically just assumed that many of the employees work there for the same reasons employees work at Tesla, SpaceX, etc.
"The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering is a book on software engineering and project management by Fred Brooks first published in 1975, with subsequent editions in 1982 and 1995. Its central theme is that adding manpower to software project that is behind schedule delays it even longer. This idea is known as Brooks's law, and is presented along with the second-system effect and advocacy of prototyping.

Brooks's observations are based on his experiences at IBM while managing the development of OS/360. He had added more programmers to a project falling behind schedule, a decision that he would later conclude had, counter-intuitively, delayed the project even further."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
Yes people overthink it but it was essentially a resource economy boom-bust cycle situation, the belief that the good times will last forever is a hell of a drug.
I used to do that(w/ beta blockers). Now I exercise, take a cold shower, and do wim hof breathing. It's just about as effective, while making me more mentally sharp rather than less
Most other apples give me heartburn, but Fuji are very good.

I think taste may vary so that list is based on that person's opinion and taste-buds.
If twitter were to cease operation today, what is the maximum amount of money Elon can personally recuperate?
> By the time Jon’s company got around to decrypting their data, they were forced by regulators to prove that no patient data had been exfiltrated from their systems.

There is absolutely no way they could have proven that...
> Elon's MO is burning a ton of cash that his competitors aren't willing to do in order to be first in some space. That doesn't take talent.

He's had failures before. But this line seems unfair. He was neither the first person in electric cars (a few notable failures before him) nor in rockets (e.g. Boeing)... but he was able to lead a team that figured out some of the key tech and the business models to make these things viable. Even with a lot of money, this is no small feat.
And they did that math and decided to reduce costs. They are not running a charity for wayward coders over there.
Bad trips are a real risk with all psychedelics. I don't like the attitude in psychedelic communities that there's "no such thing as a bad trip, only a challenging one".

I had a couple bad trips. It felt like living in hell for a literal eternity. It's almost impossible to describe the agony that the human mind is capable of experiencing. It's absurd how much suffering the human mind can experience.

The main message I got out of those experiences was that everything I learned in hell could have been learned in other, safer, ways.
You’re in for it! I highly recommend checking out mupdf, it was one of the more pleasant Python libraries I dealt with for this purpose.
BYODomain would be great. This would give me a secure & reliable to host public services out of my homelab.
They are taxable (assuming they turn into stock appreciation which ASML has not been great at for a while) but at a lower capital gains rate.
GitHub Codespaces, Coder, and Enterprise Customers
His No Silver Bullet paper is another great one.
> I assume I will NOT get the job

I apply that philosophy as much as I can. I get good results. But from time to time I get excited about some prospect of a job (or anything else) and thinking that doesn't feel so good.
We could write a book on the different types of technical debt, obviously dumbing it down to 40 vs 10 servers is a massively over simplification on my part.

My point is when you're in a small company, even dollar counts, if infrastructure isn't trying to optimize hardware utialization then you end up throwing hardware at the problems. If engineering isn't trying to optimize codebases then you're throwing more resources at the problem (people, hardware, time, more services, monitoring, and safe guards). Then there's issues with marketing, sales, management, etc.

The other day we had that tweet from elon 'apologising' for android being slow and the '1000 requests' which was disputed by one of the engineers and he got himself fired.

But what he said is they have 10+ years of technical debt hindering performance.

Large companies like twitter suffer from the idea they are 'too big to fail'. They have 1000s of engineers and I question, what are they doing, you obviously have enough money and resources, but at the same time why are a portion of those people not sitting there optimizing what exists.

We don't see any resolution to bots, we don't see new useful features, we don't see any attempt to address issues people have been complaining about for 10 years. etc. So we have 1000s of engineers doing what exactly? There's some incredibly smart people working or worked at twitter, but their talents were wasted on effectively maintaining a sinking ship by trying to make it sink slower instead of trying to patch the holes and keep it afloat.
It's the right thing to do with a sinking ship that needs to take big risks. Twitter's previous shareholders are surely very happy with how much money he's taken out of bankers' pockets and put into theirs.
I’m sorry you experienced that. Do you feel like it left any lasting effects?
For some people, that physical feedback is most of the discomfort felt with anxiety. For others, it won't do much. There's a reason it's not always used
Didn't the saudi's get in trouble for trying to plant spies in twitter to sniff out political dissidents?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/09/twitter-saud...
I wonder how common it is for people taking SSRI medications to drink ayahuasca, unaware that SSRIs and MAOIs are a bad combo.
If you’ve got a giant house of cards you bought for $44 bln, I’m not sure the right approach is to start lobbing grenades immediately.
His antics were fine in the context of material growth at Tesla, and SpaceX.

There are incredible aspirational aspects to those businesses, and they have massive support from Big Government, and crucially, people mostly knew what they were getting into aka they went to work for him.

It's the opposite at Twitter.

This is looking more messed up every day, and Elon is messing with other people's money and they won't stand for this for very long.

When he says 'we could be out of business next year' as a bit of a fear/motivation tactic, that's going to make his backers uncomfortable.

If this keeps up Elon will be replaced and it's hard to fathom by whom.

I suggest he will use the excuse of 'need to work on Tesla/Space X', but the terms of his continued oversight of Twitter will be interesting.

Much like the otherwise 'normal' people who worked at the White House during the Trump admin, it's alluring for people to be that close to power, even at the cost of having the wrath of toxicity hanging over them. Any reasonable person taking over Twitter will want to have a pretty big firewall between them and Musk.

I suggest it will be better for everyone: Musk can get a few points in for reform which is his prerogative and there's nothing wrong with that, and Twitter will have a chance at operational performance without the constant contradictions between Musk's populism and the basic operating civil culture at Twitter.

There are so many uphill battles to fight before Musk can even try to get some of the reforms that he wants (which are a bit glib because most things at Twitter exist for a reason), and he's going to spend too much time just getting back on the 'right foot' ... I suggest that it's probably a good idea for him to just step down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_blocker#Performance-enhan...

This post is an alarming data point showing that leetcode style interviews are damaging to people's health and need to be removed as soon as possible.

I personally dealt with the same issues but have refused to use any medication or alcohol to deal with the stress of performing under time pressure. None of this should be necessary.
My assumption is that he's unable to empathize.
Sure, but I've heard people expect it to plateau soon for 40+ years now.

It will be true some day, and maybe that's now, but I've stopped thinking we'll know before it happens.
On pace to lose billions and yet Musk pays $44bn to acquire the company and hand the CEO a 10-figure golden parachute?