skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There's a lot of the petty BS that you learn from in school that transposes to adult life.

No, you learn maladaptive patterns. Your options are artificially constrained. Most of the ways a grown adult would deal with e.g. bullies are just not available to you.

Take physical violence for example. As an adult, if you're threatened with physical violence you have the options to:

- Get out of there. But kids can't do this because they're physically confined to the same classroom with the same people, every day. And obviously you're not allowed to just leave the school when you want to.

- Fight back. Risky, but you at least won't be punished by the courts if you can argue self-defense. But kids can't do this because "zero tolerance" policies punish both the aggressor and victim, by design, if the victim fights back

- Call the police. Kids can't do this, police don't care about schoolyard disputes. Snitching to a teacher just gets you bullied even more.

- Talk the person down. Maybe this works, but in a school they'll be back again the next day, and you'll have to do it again, and again, and again. Adult interactions are not so predictably repeated, unless in some other highly institutionalized setting like the military or a prison (guess which places also have problems with violent bullying).

Adults can, well, solve their problems like adults. Schoolkids literally aren't allowed to solve their problems like adults. Fuck, they're not even allowed to go to the toilet without asking someone first.

Is there any wonder they develop behavioral pathologies to cope: passivity, social withdrawal, self-harm, proactive aggression, self-sabotage, etc etc.

And I wonder how much of adult suffering comes down from not un-learning bad behavioral patterns learned in school? How many people have put up with being treated like garbage for years (at work, in a relationship, etc), because they haven't internalized that they don't need to ask an authority figure to be allowed to leave?
Will Evernote be around in 14 years?
> disintegration of innately self-evident core values like "working hard to make a good thing good is good"

Working hard is necessary to make something good, of course. Working "hardcore", where 100-hour weeks are _required_, and only "exceptional" performance is acceptable, is _inhuman_.

I'm saying this as someone who's managed several teams over several years, but also someone who's read the literature: the surest way to get bad performance out of someone is to put that kind of pressure on them, _especially_ long-term. People in that situation get tired and/or sick, can't straight from the anxiety and pressure, and because of all of that that they'll make simple mistakes that take a long time to sort out (because everybody else is in the same situation).

In my experience the best work comes from people who are calm, healthy, and well-rested, _especially_ over the long term. Those well-rested people are the ones who are capable of putting in the discretionary effort to make something good.
The Ford F150 Lightning comes with either 98kWh or 131kWh of batteries depending on the package.
If you want to experience amalgam of socialism and capitalism then there is no better country than the UK.

UK is socialist when it comes to healthcare, education and media. But it is epitome of capitalism when it comes to finance/banking, housing, transportation and energy. And the results of that are for everyone to see.
I am not going to let my 8 year old walking alone, even in a safe neighborhood. You never know what is going to happen. If the bad 0.0001% happens, you will only live the rest of your life in regret and pain.
Digital Dollar: Global Banks, NY Fed to Launch Pilot Amid FTX Crash
That theory doesn't hold. If Musk doesn't have respect for other people's life (and time), why do you think he would offer them more money to stay? In Musk's view, "hardcore mode" is the "normal mode", so no room for negotiation.
> For example, a traditional terminal has no concept of command input/output, which means that it can't suggest a next command to run based on the output of the previous command.

Neither does wayland or whatever. Point being that you can treat terminals as dumb character cell grid display with slightly wonky input mechanism and get quite far ignoring/working around all the traditional line-oriented stuff.
i've never interviewed at amazon, or even heard much about their interview process, but the sheer amount of recruiter spam i get from them gives off a "desperate for engineers we aren't getting" vibe, so i can see why people think it would be easier to get in there than at the other tech megacorps.
I stopped using evernote when it kept having some sort of syncing issues and lost what I had written over and over again. Maybe they have fixed it, but I've lost any trust in them, so, I'm not willing to risk it.
edit: misread your question

I will go out of my way to not fly, since I've found flying (more specifically, the logistics _around_ flying) to be a displeasurable experience, and driving is much easier and affordable.
Yeah, for some reason people think six sigma is a management technique and immediately hate on it. It's really just applying the stuff Deming and others had already established.
A few of these seem like they are somewhere between harmless and inevitable... what's supposed to replace "the scientific method" or "steep learning curve"?
I know the author is in good faith and is probably very knowledgeable, but I have a few observations:

1 - Betteridge's law says "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." which, in this case, is the same answer the author(s?) offer themselves in the article. So title alludes to something is hinted not very plausible in the content

2 - Networks have existed before, and will exist after EDSA, people asked the same question 50-40-30 years ago about the television (and the radio). I'm old enough to remember it since when I was a kid. Nothing really happened to broadcasters, they have in fact all been bought by even larger companies.

3 - questions like what will it mean if an instance ends up generating above EUR 10 million in annual turnover or hires more than 50 staff members are casting doubts when the answer is already well known: it will happen what has always happened, once they reach the tipping point, they'll split.

It's been observed in the past 10 decades in every sector of the economy.

One example is the proliferation of small companies in Italy where the limits for some of the more pressing obligations are set at "more than 15 employees" with the result that "over 93% of the Italian companies have less than 15 employees" [1]

[1] Google translate(d) https://www-ansa-it.translate.goog/pmi/notizie/lavoro/2016/1...
My mom gave me a manual pourover, not an all glass chemex but similar, which is one of very very few simple functional objects I'm happy to have. I use it every morning.
Does the steepness of the curve happen earlier or later in the timeline?

I imagine that one could spend a long time learning the fundamentals before getting to a stage where the proficiency escalates quickly i.e. where the steepness occurs. But the long time getting there is what the term "steep learning curve" is about. Like the opposite of taking a long run at jumping off a cliff. I'm sure that this is easier to show with a graph.
> SBF was gambling with his clients' money and lost

> I do think they consented to a game where a reasonable person would have known this was a possible outcome

I think you might be confusing the two different types of clients who were involved here.

My understanding is that SBF initially lost money that had been entrusted to him by investors in his "please gamble with my money and give me the winnings" company (Alameda). I would not call that fraud and I agree that the Alameda investors consented (foolishly) to this use of their money.

The problem is that after SBF lost the money of Alameda clients by doing risky gambles that went wrong, he tried to cover it up by stealing money that had been entrusted to him by clients of his "please hold onto my money for me so I can conveniently trade on your platform" company (FTX).

I don't think the FTX clients consented to SBF's use of their money to do gambling. They put their money on FTX so they could do their own gambling.

While I think FTX clients should have known better than to put money on a crypto exchange for safekeeping, that doesn't change the fact that their money was misappropriated nor does it excuse the fraud.
AVX-512 is huge. See https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/intrinsics-guid...
of so if it's 100% free, where's the source code?
Seriously, even if you're a true believer in Elon Musk's vision for humanity or whatever, the working conditions just sound miserable. Twitter will almost certainly lose a ton of their best workers now, and more in the coming months.
If I tell you that repetitive railing against Marxism is tedious and off-topic, does that make me a Marxist? what if I tell you that repetitive railing against capitalism is just as tedious and off-topic?

Every passionate ideologue thinks that the mods are secretly against them (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). This you're-just-moderating-me-because-you-don't-like-my-opinion perception is a cognitive bias. If you don't believe me, look at the first batch of examples here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870. I could give you a hundred more of those.

The truth is that we're bored, tired, profoundly do not care, and feel exactly the same way about all such comments—the ones you'd consider most wrong and offensive, as well as the ones you'd most passionately agree with. Why? Because they're all mirror images of each other.
> You can 'rm /usr/local/bin/*' without sudo.

... so? I can also rm most or all of my home directory without sudo, and that's far bigger problem. If this happened it would be a minor annoyance at worst. Also, this is 775 on my system, and most of the contents are 755, so it's not even true except for one of my users.

> Or replace /usr/local/Homebrew/bin/brew with something malicious.

If I go out of my way to make that globally writable, sure. I just checked mine, though, and it's not.

Unless you mean that a program running under my user could replace that file with something malicious without my knowing about it, but there are a bunch of other ways it could accomplish similar things if a malicious program is running under my account, so yeah, I'm gonna give it a pass on that. About the only thing it makes a little easier is putting malicious code in the hands of other users on the system if the compromised account has write access to that file, but hell, if the same thing happened on a Linux system the malware would probably have my sudo password and a ton of other even-more-important info before long anyway, so it's not like that's any better.
I feel like I’m missing something obvious here, feel free to make fun of my obliviousness, but for what would it be misinterpreted? Post-modern chat?

Edit: I see! Thank you for the responses!
Another vote for SQLite until it needs to be accessed from multiple hosts, at which point I'd go to MySQL.

Why MySQL? I know it in and out, since I was a MySQL DBA for a few years. It doesn't surprise me anymore, and I can quickly get it to a point where it requires effectively no intervention on my side.
I sometimes feel like most people would rather drag people down to their level then let them run free.
That was later yet. At least in the public mind - some leaders who should know better were saying things that they should have known were false.
Perhaps un-intuitively, a 2D/3D continuous medium (i.e. a picture) is less expressive than a 1D discreet symbolic medium (i.e. a script). For example, the picture enforces a notion of nearness, of distance, whereas the script need not suffer such strictures (unless explicitly enforced - see GOTO vs structured programming). Thus the simpler topology of the script allows the author a more unfettered medium of expression.
I don't know what a wellness circle is. You can't do anything about a problem if you don't know what the problem is.
But that only means people will start to look for another job while working for Twitter. As soon as they find something, they quit. That's even worse than quitting suddenly (because the ones who are looking for a job somewhere else won't have their minds on Twitter anymore).
> A woman one block away had called the cops to report a boy walking outside alone. That lady had actually asked Aiden where he lived, verified that it was just down the street, and proceeded to call nonetheless.

I have no problem blaming this behavior. To be clear, it would not be productive to blame only the neighbor.
No voluntary layoff plan you could take advantage of to get some severance pay? Might have been worth holding off a week to see if they rolled one of those out. Water under the bridge now, though.
Mixture-of-Experts with Expert Choice Routing
Price is up because it takes 18-24 months to produce lithium on the margin. The primary source of lithium is solar concentrated brine, so today’s supply is peak Covid planning decisions.

The people that had the guts to invest in lithium production in the middle of Covid when the price was in the tank, are currently harvesting that lithium and getting a massive payday.

Price will come back down.
Is the length of time taken to compose the tweets he posted throughout the day the important aspect here?

There are materially false tweets in the various threads, including a claim that FTX US was unaffected (https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1590709195892195329 ); it was part of the bankruptcy filing the next day.

Part way through he realized it was probably unwise to be posting like this; https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1590709199067295749.
With a permanent record, can't apply for many jobs, can never live near a school or daycare center, etc etc. Maybe can't even vote.
U.S. House committee to hold hearing on collapse of FTX
You need a thing that actually does something with those zeros and ones. Like, process them. That’s called a processor. A CPU. Zeros and ones by themselves don’t do anything.
> In both those companies, people die if the software doesn't work right

A non-zero number of people are dead due to issues with Tesla software.
I really dont think so.

There are just crossing 500m at 2-3 knots several times a day.

This is basically less than a semi rolling resistance which is maybe 1/5kwh/km?

EDIT: even so, x10 batteries 2mwh are still very reasonable for a boat which cycle daily
Middle class isn't just the middle of the bell curve.

Middle class is being able to live comfortably, get 2 weeks of holiday abroad, afford some but not many luxuries, have a house and enjoy children and hobbies without going bankrupt. Maybe every couple decades you get yourself a nice Audi car.

It is very possible that the middle class is shrinking. But you also have to admit that it's a bit harder to notice it of you're a software engineer in the Silicon Valley on $250k a year and full private life and health insurance.

Even as a software engineer with a decent stint in the top 5% bracket of UK salaries (£70,000) I wonder how the hell am I going to afford a house with more than one bedroom for myself, and I'm already luckier than 95% of the country.
Elon Musk Says He Expects to Name a Twitter CEO
NPCs?
>No competent employee stays in those companies

Absolutely true from first hand experience.

Imagine being a top performer doing great work for a company whose managers insist on wasting your time putting you into needless meetings getting you to explain how you're doing everything all through badly communicated text with typos and misspellings.
I really like guild.ai. The best thing is that their developers assumed people to be lazy and automatically makes flag for global variables and track them.
> They came up with that plan because the grandparents DID live nearby.

Yes, these kind of ”no unsupervised time, but children remain with parents” agreements are one alternative that CPS sometimes gives, where what they see as suitable supervisers are available, to putting the children in temporary foster care during an investigation.

They are justified in exactly the same cases where what they are an alternative to would be justified.
PyPI is not required to run Python though. You could serve or source those packages elsewhere. Pinning the dependencies would at least resolve compatibility of the actual code.
I would generally agree with you. However, unfortunately, a lot of organizations tend to mimic these exact same social structures. It may not be as aggressive because we're adults now, but understanding how to navigate that and when something is toxic can be a helpful skill.
Not so far as I know.
Doable, but you end up having to generate a unique sequence for every single instruction in the program because for something like 'mul r1,r2,r3' your going to have to move the information about which registers are being multiplied somewhere else, as well as encode the return address, and as you mentioned the register spill/etc is going to be costly or you have to reserve a couple registers for it.

There are a lot of problems doing it that way too, particularly if your on a small microcontroller with limited ram.
Gotta put your kids through the damage of school social dynamics so that as adults they'll be equipped to interact with other people who were also damaged by it.
I used Linux as a daily driver for 7ish years. All flavors.

At the end of the day I pay the tax and buy Apple.
Ok, looks like there was another "audit" done in August, where they did verify the existence of additional tokens.

Nevertheless, from the most recent "audit" report:

>"We were not engaged to and did not conduct an examination or review engagement, the objective of which would be the expression of an opinion or conclusion, respectively, related to the platform account liabilities and asset balances represented by Kraken. Accordingly, we do not express such an opinion or conclusion. Had we performed additional procedures, other matters might have come to our attention that would have been reported."

So once again, they're not saying anything al all about Kraken's overall assets or liabilities, merely confirming that the customer accounts have the correct number of coins in them at a point in time.
> producing 1kWh worth of petrol doesn't require 1kWh of energy

… so long as you don’t count the 1kWh of photosynthesis that was done by a bunch of ancient plankton to rip CO2 molecules apart and build hydrocarbons instead.
People who agree to Musk's terms and click the 'yes' link aren't going to be given a severance if he deems that they've not met the terms of his implied contract. Better to get out now and save yourself a lot of mental anguish and burnout.
how the letter "m" in "pomochat" can look like "rn" when kerned.
We have 3 electrical ferries in Oregon crossing the Willamette but they use 3 overhead wires to deliver 3phase AC. Works great for short hops.
I sometimes mistake 'rn' for 'm'. Perhaps they meant that?
Reuleaux Kinematic Mechanisms Collection
to be fair there are books from hundreds of years ago written in dead languages which you can't read anymore easily.

as for file formats, pretty sure you can find readers in some internet archive + operating systems which you can just as easily get/create and emulator for.
In a nutshell, git has an unintuitive and unfriendly CLI with bad defaults.

I want my VCS to be quiet, out of sight and do as it's told, because my main focus should be programming, not how to tame a tool that's supposed to save text. The fact that you have to "learn git", and that there are so many StackOverflow git question on how to do (what should be) trivial operations is probably a hint that things aren't great in the usability department.

For hg, I just read an introductory guide (I think it was Joel Spolski's one) and that was enough. I used to be able to do a more in-depth comparison and criticism but nowadays I use git and try not to think about it too much.
Ulysses is great, I'm glad I found them as well.
What do heavier terminal users think of Warp's philosophy vs. Fig's (which I've found useful as a relatively-light terminal user)? https://fig.io/
> Firstly, the article has zero example of the "native knowledge" in question.

You mean apart from this link that specifically talks about use tradition harvesting practices and local knowledge to find the kōura to study?

https://niwa.co.nz/our-science/freshwater/research-projects/...

> Maori are not indigenous to New Zealand

Completely untrue. They are absolutely indigenous to NZ.

I'm so tired of this stupid myth being brought up again and again. Yes, Maori arrived in NZ. They were the first people to do so. They are the indigenous people of NZ.

Unless you want to argue that to be "indigenous", you literally need to have evolved in that place, which is a nonsense argument as far as humans are concerned.
>It's remarkable how many people who've never run any kind of company think they know how to run a tech company better than someone who's run Tesla and SpaceX.

What are your thoughts on him being pretty much the only one not being able to see that the feature he pushed would create massive problems with account impersonation?

What about him retweeting obvious misinformation?

Proudly mocking his new employees with factually wrong understanding of the product?

I know many people conflate wealth and power with talent, but come on, at some point it has to be impossible to not see that the emperor has no clothes.
>and ZIP is still used by macOS instead of .tar.gz for some reason.

Also, several other tiny insignificant Operating Systems like Android(/Linux) [apk files] and Windows [builtin explorer support]. Let's also not forget Java JAR files.
It's deeper than that. It's a systemic and cultural issue. All of the parties you named think that they have the right to behave the way they did. In their own minds, they are all the good guy. It's a realm of petty tyrants, "Little Eichmans".
Sales price definitely does matter though. It was problematic in the 2008 period because housing prices shot up so fast, then crashed, leaving people with houses that were deeply underwater.

Although you can 'afford' more sales price with a monthly payment based on a 0% interest loan vs. a 10% loan, it puts you at greater risk.

With a higher interest loan, you have more slack to potentially refinance in the future. Also, taxes and insurance are based (roughly) on the price of the house, not based on the monthly payment.

The 2.5x-3x annual salary was always a rough rule of thumb, but when I hear people talking about 5-7x their salary... there's very few ways where that house makes sense.
Maybe you were making a point by using a Twitter link. But this did not need to be a two-step jump for people who want to read the email.

The source is actually https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/16/elon-musk-demands-twitter-st... and not some rando account on Twitter that happens to link to it.
Amazon's internal tooling really is the ninth circle of hell. It seems unsalvageable too; ostensibly the teams are supposed to be customer obsessed and the developers are the customer, but there's no accountability for anything to work well at all.
Locking in WebKit (2015)
Survivorship bias!

Yes, this is something I've experienced directly from end-user perspective as well as debugging/user-analytics perspective.
Parent is referring to kerning [0]

"Pomo" can appear as "porno" with some fonts.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning
Especially bad because it's not even gifted kids, it was literally just one class for the kids who wanted to be there with the rest of the classes being for the kids who didnt. Yet people want to act like it's discriminatory to just put effort in. Plenty of bad students in the gifted program, but they were there because the teachers saw them trying.