skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my extensive experience of optimizing stuff it is right.

I cannot even count how many issues were created downstream of the decision to start caching X, Y, or Z. At a point, every other software engineer gets the bright idea to cache their special little function or request or database call. Soon enough, there are N layers of cache responsible for delivering some special piece of data. The engineers build tooling to clear those caches on updates, either manually or automatically. Both suffer from issues, the latter occasionally failing to perform and just causing general confusion about why stale data is returning, and the former being far worse, recruiting dozens of business stakeholders into the problem of knowing-how-to-expire-cache. They start making their own internal wiki pages with steps or various cache tools to clear, often incorrect steps because they got lucky one day by clearing cache X and not cache Y that they did not know about.

Overall, in my experience, allowing software engineers to do caching as they wish without any real guardrails has caused massive problems most likely on the order of N!. I cannot roll my eyes far enough into the back of my head when I hear someone suggest caching as a solution any longer, at least not on an application that has more than a dozen business stakeholders managing data and expecting it to be updateable in any reasonable way so that customers see the most recent data when the business wants it.
> Is there any proof that's truly the case?

Not the OP but the proof is my own experience in both in-office and remote settings. And everyone is going to go by their own life experiences. If enough people think that remote setting sucks and that junior engineers, along with many other roles, are more effective in person, then the burden of proof is on you to demonstrate that that's not the case.
You can't bootstrap OpenDylan from source without a Dylan compiler. You can bootstrap Gwydion without one with substantial elbow work, which you can then pivot into bootstrapping OpenDylan.

I know what I was doing, and if you look elsewhere in the thread, I was right about what the GUIX maintainer wanted. Not to get egg on your face.
> His assertion that lords and peasant system needs to be dismantled is absolutely correct, however.

But what if the entire business model was/is actually a lord and peasant system. Whereby lords can, while verified and identified as lords, communicate with the masses of pesants without any other gatekeepers.

The peasants having their chit chat on the side isnt the point, that is the noise and the lords are the signal.
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World [Boook]
What Counts – How Every Brain Is Hardwired for Math (1998)
> It was no secret that SBF hated traditional finance.

Uh? The guy worked in traditional finance for a few years and was pushing for more regulations on cryptocurrency. His parents were compliance lawyers. He donated tons of money to the democratic party to push for regulations. He ran a centralized exchange. This does not exactly scream DeFi... He was just an opportunist who saw crypto as a means to get rich quick and apparently, getting rich from trading fees was not quick enough for him.

There are a lot of "gold bugs" types in crypto but they mostly self-custody BTC and stay away from shitcoins and day trading.
edit: I think you edited your posting so that mine doesn't make as much sense, but whatever.

is it really hard to believe? I think a lot of the preachings in a lot of religious institutions are quite weak, as in: just do as I say because God says so. Also: Ingroup vs. outgroup. As long as you are nice to the ingroup, everything goes.

Granted, there is one story (as told by the preacher in church) that still sits with me nowadays about the woman who shared her only loaf of bread and by doing that was a better person than all the rich people who shared more but had not really anything to lose by it. Still words to live by.
Sometimes it doesn't matter if a public API is incorrect, because it's set in stone for whatever reason, and you just need to fix the problem internally.
Free all-terrain wheelchairs are appearing in more states and parks
The performance issue here is not value semantics, it's the overhead of automatic lifetime management. The copy is cheap. The lifetime tracking is not because it forces a heap allocation and creates additional GC pressure. In fact, assuming Rule is small, if Match returned by value, the code would be similarly as fast.
I'm not a doctor, so maybe there's some deep difference between something that has the same symptoms as a heart attack and a heart attack. Regardless of what exactly it was, it freaked him out, it freaked me out too and I'm glad there doesn't seem to have been a recurrence (or if there was he chose not to tell me, knowing that I'd tell him again to see a specialist).

"Both the Vaccine and Covid are known have a low chance of causing heart issues."

It is 'known' by people who are deeply conflicted by their own pushing of the shots and could thus never admit it, if their policies had led to immune or heart damage. Nothing much can be said about vaccine safety given that the public health and research system are clearly terrified of doing or saying anything that might reduce compliance with their policies.
> Also - this is an international site - you should really write in English.

That was bait to expose your double standards. Germany is a German-speaking country, if you want to do business here, you should really do it in German.

I could criticise your approach with the founding, but the other comments did that well enough. I'd largely parrot https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33588536 .

I think "Entitlement" captures the essence of your article well. You did not research how to do it and created most parts of the mess yourself, and then blamed it on the german system. Of course this is going to aggravate people, me included.

If i was you, i'd take the article down because i would not want to be seen as a incompetent founder. Its one thing to fail at challenges, its another to put it online where people can find it when they google your name.
It's dropping but way slower than it used to.

The memory requirements for pc are from my understanding due to PC often multi tasking next to the game, chrome, discord, mail client, music, twitch, the list goes on.
HN downvotes enough unmarked sarcasm as a culture that most regular "non-green name" commenters on HN prone to (good) sarcastic tones learn quickly to try to mark it (/s, ~, </sarcasm>, however you prefer). I know I also generally assume that unmarked text is not sarcasm nor ambiguous on HN.
Average Speed traps work great. I used to hate those in the UK. With all the toll roads in the USA I'm surprised it hasn't been done already. Eg on the interstate for an hour or two, sensors can tell when you entered and exited & average speed.
Its just a prank bro - or I am a "Journalist"
I can say that I have generally been a modest person who has performed well in the past.

The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

People can have fewer accomplishments and make a big deal out of them and get more out of it. I would rather not make a big deal out of meaningless stuff. I recently certified as an AWS practicioner after my associate level certs expired. My manager wants to send an email out to the department about that accomplishment. I don't get it - it's just practicioner.
It seems to me that "being verified" means you shouldn't get to change your Twitter display name without undergoing another review process. I don't think the whole idea of charging for verification is now a discredited idea because of these past events.
Some good news. Still a long way to go America (and world).
but at least in theory we can keep using less-featureful versions of open-source software if we like, even fork them

i mean people are still using tvtwm, rxvt, and lynx
The Time Blocking feature is very sexy. It is exactly what I need. Currently, Evernote allows linking notes and calendar events, but it is cumbersome. Your solution is absolutely great.
Conspiracy theorists keep being proved correct. Experts say, that’s dangerous.
Because it's a comment thread I find interesting, I made 4 or so comments related to Jane St, 2 of which are replying to people replying to me.

I promise you I have no affiliations with JS whatsoever, just think that there is lots of sloppy reasoning going on in this thread.
There's a pretty low limit on the amount you can invest in ibonds per year. It's in no way a solution for people looking to protect assets in a bear market.
That's not a deeper lesson. A deeper lesson is to understand where the pointer points to and then decide accordingly.
Or TOTOPOTUS! https://twitter.com/MarkDStrauss/status/1590026071059013633
Depends on your perspective. A good thing, collectively, for society. A bad thing for the health and longevity of Twitter in it's current state, and I think that's how it's being framed in most of these discussions.
All of this was true pre-ACA, but worse (in my family's case, much worse; we went bankrupt over $90k in medical bills back in the 2000s). As it was, the thing barely passed.
> It's really a bit surprising that noone told him that his tweets are worth anything only because people reading them can know they come from Elon not some guy who paid 8$ to call himself Elon on Twitter.

Given how obvious it is, a more logical premise might be to assume someone did and Elon chose to believe otherwise.
Still, in B2B you typically want to show you have some megacorp logos (in particular due to larger deal size and up-sell potential), are attractive to different industries, et cetera. So this may be a known issue, but it's also considered when assessing startups.
It’s not cronyism - it’s people knowing your portfolio of work and abilities.

And at the end of the day - do whatever you need to within reason to put food on your own table. Don’t worry about someone else judging you for cronyism for feeding your family.
I believe that the universe and god are essentially one and the same. This is the central defining belief of "pantheism".
...instead of having better user experience all the time ? And have more code to manage on top of that ?

Sorry but that sounds like terrible idea.

And when system starts being slow the cache is empty, because you waited for system to slow down to start filling it
> read comments Caroline made on her blog/tumblr?
Isn't that the Martingale strategy?

> It's incredible these people managed to create a company size of FTX.

Didn't they got hundreds of millions in play money from their network (school friends). This worked while everything was going up and new cash was coming in.
And yet if op says this to management/HR, he would be the one looking for a job.
Elon Musk says he fired engineer who corrected him on Twitter
Thank you so much. Damn that thing is irritating.
All things are liquid if the transaction fees are big enough
Sure. It's also why I cited other reasons beyond stock prices. :)
That makes sense. Our boilerplate is for all new-code projects where we get to pick the stack, in which case we default to all things TypeScript anyway. If a client project has an incompatible existing codebase, we take a different approach.
Also leaving this for anyone interested:

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/11/26/20930374/nathan-latka-...

Seems like he may not have been upfront about the interviews conducted and has been sued a bunch.
Code should be quoted upfront.

Finding some sequence that also isn’t a valid Perl substring is impossible, in any case.
Note that for the housing projects, neighbors are objecting to the externalities that new people and more dense people bring. This is clear tension between quality and quantity, and fewer people being pushed into existence also solves that problem.
https://archive.ph/irH5f
I imagine they're just losing their money slower because they aren't subsidising entire industries like Uber is.
Can we stop using the initials? Is it just SEO so you have to look it up all the time?
I can confirm the time taken, negotiations, and HR interference at Apple. They took about 6 months to get me through their process, by which time my current company gave me the promotion that I was trying to get by moving companies in the first place. (Really a lateral move but to me it was a promotion.)
Just so we now for next time: what is the proper way to express concerns about _this_ kind of things with enough nuance and moderation so as not to be automatically considered an anti-scientist tin foil hat ?

What is the scientifically acceptable way to phrase "I'm not concerned about BigPharma planting 5G chips in my future children's eyeballs to turn them into communist ; but I'm very concerned about blind spots during testing and biases in protocol and just plain bad luck that made us miss something ?"

Maybe I just write too much software for a living, but my only certitude was that something, somewhere, was going to break. At least I can TDD the hell out of my paranoia. Don't let me write health policy, ever.

Sidenode: if this kid had chosen the wrong profession in the wrong country, he would now be facing either "getting a couple of other shot" or "loosing its job".

If he had made a tiktok video about his problems, or a facebook post, or a twitter thread, etc... at some point it would have been flagged, and it would have only garnered the attention of the worst possible scammers.

And, worst of all, I'm pretty sure his grandmother would now refuse to get boosted.

Talk about loose-loose :/
:D

Thanks for that.

Not opposed to chatting. Do you have marketing experience?
- invent a currency.

- mint one token and sell it to your friend for $1.

- make a tweet saying that supply of your currency will be capped at 1 billion tokens.

- you now own $999.999.999 in assets!

Analysts hate this one weird trick!
There are hundreds of people in platforms, language tools, ads, search, and probably everywhere in the company that have saved Google way more than they ever got paid. The thing to understand is that Google's scale is not your scale, as an employee. You make a change that saves the company a million dollars per month. The number is large because the company is large, not because you're amazing.
It seems you are working in a very niche area where most of the work is entirely asynchronous. In my area of work (non-trivial software development), there is a wide consensus that some in-person collaboration is needed on a regular basis. My company has fully embraced remote work, is going through an economic down turn like many other "growth startups" and yet finds it necessary to mandate meeting hours where everyone has to be present or to organize offsites where people can meet and get to know each other in a better way.
It’s an older device but you raise a great point. I would never buy another Apple product. Is that good enough for you?
Same experience here. I do have a network, but have never leveraged it. I just apply for jobs I'm interested and I get some of them. I never have to apply for more than 10 - 15 positions to get at least one. I don't have FAANG on my resume, but a string of solid, but not amazing experience.
I was imagining a way to filter content into three buckets:

1) All tweets

2) Tweets by paid accounts (low verification)

3) Tweets by official accounts (high verification)

Bonus points to filter content by 1st party client vs 3rd party tweet schedulers
What are you trying to do? Absent no other information, I'd say Laravel (PHP.)
Why? Glowing puff pieces are a reliable, dirt cheap source of revenue
Sounds like they found a way to make the plot of Office Space work in real life.
> the history rule

I'm unfamiliar with this rule (and not finding anything good to google). Can you elaborate?

I can't really think of a scenario where an immutable datastructure isn't a subset of actions against a mutable datastructure.
"All of statistics" by Larry Wasserman. I took a bunch of courses that taught stats as a bunch of independent tools for different problems. AOS helped me to build some a strong foundation.

"Fundamental university physics Volume 1: Mechanics" by Alonso and Finn. This book seems to be not very well known in the USA, but it is very popular in Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries. It is your classical introductory physics/mechanics course with a very high emphasis on calculus.

"Computational partial differential equations" by Hans Peter Langtagen. A book on numerical methods for solutions of PDEs. It has the right amount of rigour (so you are able to tackle the literature), but it also includes code and plenty of practical advice.

"Nonlinear dynamics and chaos" by Strogatz. I think this book is really well known and I can't add much.
The UK has "average-speed cameras", which use number plate recognition to see when you enter/exit a long stretch of road, and from that measure your average speed over a significant period. You can't just slow down for the camera. They are extremely effective - in practice traffic does slow down to the posted speed limit. Unpopular as they are, I wonder if they should be deployed widely.

(These are usually deployed near roadworks)
Agreed. But I would think that a speed trap would slow some people down, not all people. Lots of reasons for that, such as people unaware there was a speed trap there previously, people forgetting, etc.

I know that areas in my town that are well known for speed traps definitely have a lower occurrence of people speeding. On a neighborhood road near my house we had a really bad problem with speeders. Over the course of several months, there were numerous speed traps. Today, there are less speeders than before.
Wow, thanks for listing me as a personal website that you love! It'll give me some motivation to write new blog posts. For anyone curious it's the aryaboudaie.com one
Endemic has a specific meaning - that there is an expected number of cases in a given population.

That's not really established for COVID-19.

Also, endemic doesn't mean something doesn't matter. In much of Africa, malaria is endemic.

What you mean is "As a society we stopped caring."
Thanks for the response. I'll definitely give it a proper look and try out self hosting. It's actually quite nice that you have a "Budibase DB" option which might come in really handy compared with OpenBlocks.

And yeah, I realise I could just self host immediately but I wanted to use the cloud version to decide whether to make that effort and that was where the flow sort of got in the way (though I wonder now if there might have been an option to cancel it earlier or skip it that I missed…).

Re: the perf, I honestly don't think it is all that bad, but interactions just felt a bit less instant straight after using OpenBlocks. It might even just have been the animations in the UI giving that feeling :)

EDIT: actually, a couple of examples of the performance difference I have just noticed are:

1. The speed the selection outlines of the components follow the mouse hover in the designer.

2. The speed of updates of the designer when properties are changed, for example OpenBlocks both updates the text of a text element in real time and does it nearly instantly, whereas Budibase waits for pressing enter (which I think is fine) and has a noticeable delay. The delays seems to be there with all property edits. It feels like perhaps a server round trip vs optimistically updating the display locally, but is definitely noticeable.
All the signs were there for everyone to see in the 2000 Dotcom Dotbomb. The root problem was a bunch of investors wildly investing in crappy tech companies, like tinder for cats. There were toxic assets, huge and publicly visible waste, low product output.

This time, there is a lot more growth from many companies but we also see the results of that work, products and services exist as a result. There is waste but not like in 2000.
If you're accepting payments for in-app purchases through iOS, all the billing for that happens through Apple. The app developer has no control (or knowledge) of how those payments were funded.
but this is how all stock reporting works, and its pretty useless. they look at every big move, find some weak correlation, and pump out an article. and then if it generates enough clicks the regular newsrooms copy it. ive even seen 'why XX is losing big', and 'why XX is going up' on the same day from the same publisher. basically no stock news is reliable, it all might as well be AI written
> venture capital/startup tech scene is arguably the biggest Ponzi scheme in the last 20+ years

Between VC returns, at the top decile (where it outperforms) and broadly (where it simply performs), and the tangible track record of VC-backed companies from SpaceX to Moderna, this comparison is foundationally false.
The founder of EA got SBF in. That's another can of worms but that guy apparently changed his last name from Crouch to McAuskil or whatever...
Lisp-stick on a Python
Let's take a step back and go back to the three pillars of currency. The consensus is that for something to be a currency it needs to be:

* a store of value
* a medium of exchange
* a unit of account

You can stake another step back and say "what does value mean?" If a currency is "shells" then presumably it's that way because everyone values shells. If you don't value shells then the currency is worthless.

In short, value is what everyone agrees value is.

Now let's go back to when the gold standard was in effect. Back in those days you could exchange your USD for some amount of gold. Great! But so what? Today you can also exchange your USD for some amount of gold - it's just the amount is variable depending on market conditions instead of fixed.

So what's the difference between the two scenarios? Nothing, really. The "fiat currency" people try to argue that removing that fixed peg suddenly invalidates a currency. In reality the value of a currency is pretty much (and has always been) determined by how useful other people believe that currency to be. All of the "full faith and credit" etc are there to provide a foundation for that belief. For example, the US government has never defaulted on its debt obligations, including the pre-colonial debt obligations. That provides holders of the currency with a pillar on which they base their belief in the USD. In addition, the USD is used in trillions of dollars per day of transactions, bolstering its mindshare.

Digital currency is sort of the ultimate evolution of that idea of value being belief based, because there's literally nothing behind digital currency except belief...period. There is no "full faith and credit." Nobody stands behind it. That's why it's amusing that digital currency fans try to denigrate real currency by calling it "fiat currency." Digital currency is the ultimate fiat currency, in that its value is completely based on belief.

As an aside, hyperinflation occurs when people basically lose faith in the value of their currency, so the government tries to print more currency...which reduces the perceived value...which causes people to lose faith...etc. It becomes a death spiral.

The US is unusual because it seems to be able to print as much money as it needs without ill effects. If other countries behaved as the US does they would have the IMF at the door and debt markets abandoning it.
Well yes but at 2-3tx/sec, that supports a large flea market or a mid-sized costco, not a global economy. Even onboarding everyone onto Lightning would take 75 years, the entire rest of the block reward, about a trillion dollars worth of electricity and many gigatons of e-waste.
What if the traps are made to be permanent?