skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Imagine a completely different question! Check mate!”

GP asked a simple yes or no question: Do you think knowledge should be denied to people that can’t afford it?

Your answer is “yes.” I don’t see the added value of trying feeble linguistic jiu jitsu to justify your position that yes, society should deny knowledge to those who can’t afford it.
I don't get why people like honeycrisp so much. It's like a sweet, appley, cardboard.
Perhaps because it is hidden behind a flag and could benefit from more reports first to get it stable?

https://caniuse.com/css-has :

> Supported in Firefox behind the `layout.css.has-selector.enabled` flag

see https://stackoverflow.com/q/73936048 etc.

NOTE: it looks like it's not ordinarily working even when switched on.
I lived in Siena for a while, and every now and then I would drop by St. Catherine's crypt for a not so gentle memento:

https://imgur.com/B7snnCR

Rough translation:

As you are, so I once was
As I am, so you will be
In that case, it doesn't matter if you do the code review before or after they merge and deploy. You could read through the diffs in the commit log whenever it is convenient for you, and leave review comments for the other developer on their PR after the fact.
MA Dept of Public Health sued for auto-installing Android contact tracing [pdf]
I rode the Cathlamet ferry recently. It was great except its cash only and I had no idea. I got super lucky that someone else in line just paid for my ride.
Airbnb found a crazy niche wherein properties can return crazy good profits. Many of which may not have had any profits. Users could find places to stay at cheaper rates than hotels.

But then they collided with the people who wreck the place. Partiers, neglectful, and malicious. So they had to figure out that cost. Which when they did, they found themselves more expensive than hotels. Hotels had already figured this cost out.

The apparent value of airbnb is suddenly 0; or at least far less than current.

They are -50% from ipo peak, and are at 40 PE ratio. They will be -75 to 90% peak soon. Then again what tech stocks dont have similar numbers?
https://twitter.com/death_reminder
Rosetta 2 doesn't emulate interrupts (they're not visible to userspace components)

It does have to emulate signals but its moderately easy to handle those by deferring them to "safe" points where all architectural state is known
While I agree with you in principle, some of us have KPIs which implicitly assume "productivity" equals "hands on keyboard, delivering features".

I'm a consultant with a 70% utilisation goal, meaning that at least 28 hours per week needs to be spent on things which I can defend billing a customer for. Add non-billable pre-sales activity and admin task on top, and not much time is left over.

My own experience and what I've observed in other people is that this is unsustainable both because of normal working habits and the unreliable cadence of new projects. As a result, I spend a few months of the year working 60 hours per week to get ~100% utilisation, then the next few months getting as much project time as possible while also catching up on all the other obligations I was forced to neglect like training.

As I write this, consulting seems more and more like a really shitty style of working...
How long that remains the case with at least two of its principals arrested may be somewhat uncertain.

Any present operator(s) and site(s) would have to remain outside the reach of US or other Western jurisdiction and extradition treaties.
> want Twitter to survive - in spite of him, because of its outsized importance to the world.

Personally, I hope it burns to the ground for the exact same reason.
I assume this is an elaborate troll?

I mean someone can't think that this will prove their point. But they've put so much effort in to it....
This article [0] has a summary, but the domain is shadowbanned from HN so I had to submit the PDF directly.

Here is the primary allegation (from the linked PDF):

> To increase adoption, starting on June 15, 2021, DPH worked with Google to secretly install the Contact Tracing App onto over one million Android mobile devices located in Massachusetts without the device owners’ knowledge or permission. When some Android device owners discovered and subsequently deleted the App, DPH would re-install it on to their devices.

[0] https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/massachusetts-depar...
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DqVhr5...
I appreciate the swing and I pointed this out early-on, but I wouldn't bet against Moore's Law - the hardware gets faster and cheaper. Back when they started 16GB was pretty high end, now it's more mainstream with 32GB being the high end...

And I think it's a very niche use case to have hundreds of tabs open - like, that's hoarding, like, just close some, you'll never get to all of that.
I've been doing quite a bit of philosophy reading over the past year or two after some medical issues put me in a chronic pain. I was already into stoicism but that made it a permanent part of my weekly nerd out sessions.

I'll take this opportunity to drop this (not affiliated) link for the folks with a casual interest who like it simple:

https://www.philosophybro.com/
I don't read the parent as advocating for pair programming, just that any given part of the code should be understood by at least two people. This is possible to achieve even on a fully asynchronous team.
How do you market your software? Please let me know if you don't mind sharing. Thanks!
Employee theft - CYA in case they're not, but heavily implying that there's evidence of criminal activity from the inexperienced and unsophisticated people in control of FTX.
Do they license codecs for Windows or something?
A cynical, but not entirely incorrect, take could be that greater fool theory is a pretty critical part of the VC model. The final fool in that process being when they offload to the public markets.
"forced" is doing some heavy lifting to describe the world's richest person voluntarily making a binding offer to buy something.

He's rich, he's smart, I feel comfortable ascribing agency to him.
But also, "memento vivere".
Web 2.0 brought about the foundation of web applications we have today. I think it is a prime opportunity for the technical folks involved to set aside the financial elements as part of a way to get rich, kick the marketers and finance people out of the room and think about what technical standards could be developed strictly for web browser/web application use cases and build out those standards with reference implementations.

Anything that people come up with will surely be met with "you could already do that with X" types of arguments. We have so many examples of pre-existing ways to solve problems, like the plethora of JS frameworks. Blockchain and/or smart contracts might provide new ways to solve existing problems in a way that provides more value to people or an improvement on existing solutions.
"I can see that the approach is worth trying" - It's been tried since forever and literally goes back to the beginning of slavery.

I have walked away from several employers who berated their employees. And I didn't wait for them to berate me. I wouldn't never put up with any kind of strong arm tactic that threatens me. I would always make the choice to leave as soon as that was attempted.
Honeycrisp are my ever favorite and the site agrees. Their rank it as a superb
I'm mostly going to be in Seoul but I have plans for a weekend in Busan; Maybe I'll catch an early train to Daegu, stay there for a night and then onwards to Busan.
I think Warren Buffett had a very related take. Basically, in America at least, real businesses which simply make a profitable product well, are no longer viable. The only viable businesses are those which have some "trick" which appeals to the capital owning class, I feel like crypto is a pretty good example of this in action.

So we see this endless game of "large" "profitable" companies that are the equivalent of 90s vaporware, doing nothing but shuffling numbers around in a spreadsheet without creating value. But the government is terrified of any form of meaningful regulation (because so much campaign finance is tied into these zombie corporations)
I asked a Google friend to find totw/110 for me and apparently it's just some tips about construction and destruction of global variables.
(Insert toilet humor in shitty content.)
It's unbelievable the new governor cause such a turmoil on the financial market over less than 0.1% of the annual budget. Though the article said nothing about the possible causes of the move, but it is hard to believe he or any of his party didn't foresee the disaster
I think the report mentions important issues, but I‘m not seeing one important thing. To defend a nation, you need to have a functioning military.

Anyone I‘ve asked who served mentioned to me that the Afghan military and by extension their trainees were made up of a few patriotic people who had an intense focus on defending against the Taliban. The rest seemed to be made up of those who were just there to cash their check, or far worse, those who shared common values with the Taliban.

Wether I watch documentaries or talk to those involved, I always get a feeling of defeatism, as if the program was deemed to be unsuccessful from the start.
Even if you bought a cheap laptop with soldered-in RAM, you can always invest the $35/month towards buying a new laptop with reasonable specs.
I have heartburn and can feel the smell of stale cooking oil in the friers from the cafeteria in an IBM campus I worked ages ago just by thinking about it. Jesus Christ, the food was so awful i used to call it Websphere.
The prompt seems to no longer work.
i've been putting off reading this, and the comments.
Hardening unused (sub)domains
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory

The name implies that it is mainstream modern economics, but it isn’t.
It takes but a few moments thought to realise that there are many alternative remuneration models available for authors and creators.

See: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33647625>
And an outstanding symphonic poem by Sibelius. It's also a remarkably nuanced warning about the effects of child abuse.
I am starting to think it is getting time to try out Matrix again, this time with my own homeserver that won't disappear from under me like the last three services.

Looking at the three C++ clients' source code, it seems all depressingly pre-modern. Maybe the SerenityOS crew can do better?
But I wonder if Qt forces archaic practices on programs that use it.
Implementing semantic video search in 5 minutes using CLIP
That Balance Sheet is so unbelievably wrong.

I would have gotten an F if I had done that in my first Accounting 101 quiz.

Just to see it describing the financial situation of a company holding millions is just unbelievable.
Anytime I’ve been confronted with the possibility of being laid off in my career I’ve put my head down and worked harder.

I have been fired or managed out every time.
Ah yeah, that makes sense.

I’m surprised the debtors assumed control of the company that quickly though. Figured it would take some time to play out
I feel that I, an older millennial, was raised by a generation that by and large forgot life is not guaranteed and death is always looming. I felt an overwhelming push from my elders to find a safe, stable job (and be grateful for the honor!) and to save as much as humanly possible for old age, even if it meant significant sacrifices for the here and now. Part of it was the glorification of "retirement", a concept I still can't wrap my head around, yet it seemed to be the only reason a lot of Boomers even bothered waking up for work in the morning.

Add to that the massive fear-based campaign against drugs and sex that we were all subject to, and it paints a picture of a generation hiding from their actual lives in the hope that they would be healthy and wealthy and alive and enough to enjoy a quiet decade or two at the very end.

Hard pass.
No? High nominal interest rates are clearly themselves still bad for business.
Right. All of these "bigger than Enron" or "bigger than Madoff" claims are so dumb. Much of the money lost on FTX was in the form of magic bean tokens that people pretended were worth billions of dollars - they weren't actually worth billions of dollars.
Just in the past year, there was a pretty significant fight about funding the IRS. Despite additional IRS funding yielding significant returns.
That can't be the majority opinion, given how most companies try to avoid communicating the threat of layoffs in advance.
Are you actually going to explain what's wrong with the analysis that points out how cyclic capacity is much lower than 350 GWh? Or are you just going to accuse people of bad faith when asked to defend your claims?
> Another sw engineer was telling me he was really excited when Elon took over, and could not wait to work with him. Then was confused why Elon treated Twitter so poorly. e.g. didn't even talk with staff. Then this person was fired as part of the 50%.

It's interesting that people don't want to see Musk for who and what he is. They always want to learn the hard way.
This page feels very odd when I browse it how I usually do - pressing the PageDn button.
> Talking with a software engineer who was fired by Musk. This person is saying they are conflicted. They feel mistreated, but want Twitter to survive - in spite of him, because of its outsized importance to the world.

> I agree.

I was following along just fine until this bit of corporate koolaid slipped out.
The little red dot is one microservers, message previews is another, 'load profile picture of message sender id' is probably another, etc.
The Case for Buying Technical Books
What is also wild is that none of their investors obviously ever asked for even, like, a single account reconciliation, because obviously there were none!

Until the Chapter 11 filing, I assumed the books were pretty much normal until Alameda started to tank and then shady stuff started happening, but it turns out they were always just guesstimates in Excel. Which is apparently fine when raising ~$2B.
I'd rather imagine a world where Citizens United was decided differently and this donation wasn't legal in the first place.
I'm curious about some things you said.

Under the disadvantages of 1, you say:

> II) you can't give customers what they want/need immediately even if they want to pay for it right now as you need a significant improvements for the next version.

That's true of subscription software, too. Developing any feature takes time, often a lot more time than you thought. It might be longer for the traditional model, but a feature that takes 2000 developer hours takes 2000 developer hours regardless of what your sales model is.

Under 2, you say:

> I)Everyone is on the newest version all the time

How do you figure? Just because you offer an update doesn't mean people will install it. In fact, many pieces of software I use on a daily basis are "don't update until current project is finished" status. It can be very disruptive to install an update mid-project, especially if something goes wrong and breaks.

It can also be really irritating. I remember reading that Valve releases something like 3 updates per week for Steam. I hate running Steam because it's always freaking updating and I have never seen an update that made any material difference to my use of the app. I literally can't tell anything has changed in most updates.

Under 3 you say:

> III)It's seems to be recipe for a situation where there are 100s of "current versions" people are running and that's very difficult to support.

I think that's going to be the case no matter which sales model you use. (Well, maybe not hundreds, but several versions.) Most businesses decide to support the last n versions. If you're on an older version, it's no longer supported and you either need to update or migrate to something else if there's a problem. This can be fairly reasonable if you support a wide enough range, but there's always the push and pull of what the company can afford to support vs. what users want supported.
Were the people you talked to ex-NATO or ex-ANA. The ex-ANA people I've chatted with had a bit of derision for the NATO forces.
> When Einstein’s theory was pushed harder, what was revealed was that every object travels through spacetime at a single speed — the speed of light.

Nope, don't push it that hard. Four-velocity is a nice mathematical abstraction, but has nothing to do with "speed" and "travels" as we know them.
Not sabotage, just incompetence. Anthony is probably overworked, and has seconds to approve or reject an app. He may also not be a native english speaker, and be unsure about the meaning of the words used in this app.

Sure, he has every "right" to be angry, but that strategy will only make things worse.
I wonder if monetization was the only easy way to prevent abuse from the greedy hyper-thieves. Most people who used Z-Library weren't going to buy the books anyway.
The library allowed the hungry to learn while giving the greedy some difficulty. I liked their system. I'm not proud to condone stealing but, in my opinion, people were only stealing from the greedy or the teachers at heart, and the teachers at heart would've given away some of their books for free anyway.
courts have repeatedly upheld that only humans can own copyright. nothing an AI generates is considered a "work" in copyright law, so they can't be violating works or derivative works. the onus falls on the copilot operator (one might say "the pilot") for purposes of copyright.
OP here. Company I work for recently changed names (and thus domains). This article was a godsend in realizing how important the old domain name still is. Thought I'd share!
She put people at risk of undetected cancer. SBF accepted money from suckers.
They haven't named the firm, but the same paragraph goes on to say that they used an external accounting partner for their books.
How to Write and Publish a Technical Book (and make lots of money)
Just FWIW re your last sentence, per Wikipedia the US patent for the Honeycrisp cultivar expired in 2008..
> If it writes code I don’t understand or wouldn’t be able to write myself

For me the bar is higher - it's not that I wouldn't understand it, it's that its easier to miss mistakes when reviewing than when writing from scratch. In the same way you may have ignored the typo in this comment and understood what I meant regardless of the mistake. But that doesn't work for programming - a mistake is a mistake and likely matters in edge cases even if it's not immediately obvious.
Thanks for posting that. I would have replied with this if you hadn't.

'Oh but Linux is so much buggier than commercial stuff' yeah, no. If you honestly believe that linux or BSD is that buggy then go use commercial software. but in my experience, commercial software is the one I cannot rely on.
It is the same, it's the fact that you don't really own it or know if the 3rd party has it or has the means to get it. If you have the keys to the wallet you're certain of what you have and you have full domain.
Fortnite is 120 too.
So sad that it's missing so many niche varieties and their translation... Am I to assume it's always the case with American authors?
Tough feedback is great. But no one person can say whether there is a need or not. Only the market decides.
Just to provide another data point in addition to JetBrains, the license for NCrunch (which I very much recommend) is similar. Being a paid user of both of them I find that kind of option pretty ideal. The main difference between them is that NCrunch allow the latest version available in the qualifying period as the fallback one and JetBrains use the earliest.
> Copilot is just copy / paste of the code it was trained on.

Every time I hear someone say this, I hear "I've never really tried Copilot, but I have an opinion because I saw something on Twitter."

Given the function name for a test and 1-2 examples of tests you've written, Copilot will write the complete test for you, including building complex data structures for the expected value. It correctly uses complex internal APIs that aren't even hosted on GitHub, much less publicly.

Given nothing but an `@Test` annotation, it will actually generate complete tests that cover cases you haven't yet covered.

There are all kinds of possible attacks on Copilot. If you had said it can copy/paste its training data I wouldn't have argued, but "it just copy/pastes the code it was trained on" is demonstrably false, and anyone who's really tried it will tell you the same thing.

EDIT: There's also this fun Copilot use I stumbled across, which I dare you to find in the training data:

/**
Given this text:

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.

Fill in a JSON structure with my name, how much money I had, and where I'm going:
*/

{
"name": "Ishmael",
"money": 0,
"destination": "the watery part of the world"
}
Wow. That's aggressive.

You previously said:

"I work at the most important company in the "AI" industry, a company you hear about every day.

I write GPU kernels for transformers and convolutions. You probably use my BLAS kernels in your networks."

It's pretty easy for people to figure out it's NVIDIA. You probably work on the cuBLAS library.

All the personal attacks I've seen come from you, with your snarky comments.

All the people that responded to you did so in good faith, trying to engage in honest conversation.
When I hear “PR” I think of a tree of git commits. When I hear “diff” I think of one set of squashed text changes, for a tool that doesn’t support git.
Yes, more accurately referred to as CeFi. It's no different than a bank going belly up. It has no bearing on the underlying assets. But HN loves to call crypto a scam so they'll refrain from acknowledging the difference.
He tried to exercise his "agency" to get out of the binding offer and that didn't work, did it?
I wonder if that could trigger any plagiarism checkers. Not that I have any idea what I'm talking about as far as standard operating procedures in academia.
This is not a text only console. It's how I was using UNIX workstations circa 1990. Boot to a script running startx to run X11 and a window manager (ttwm?).

What was I missing? Probably a start menu / launcher (but I guess it can be installed and run anyway) and a control panel for settings.

Which modern software won't run in such a setup? Maybe dbus? Systemd? I think a lot of GUI software would still run, some won't, daemons and servers probably would.

Is this something for the nerdiest 1% of the nerdiest 1%? Definitely. I won't do that myself because it's too much of a hassle and I'll probably have to revert to a standard DE to run some software I need for work, but it will work, mostly.
Stuff like this makes me less regretful of ignoring the original bitcoin posting on HN by chaostheory.
I would probably walk away from an employer that treated me in a way I didn't like as well. But we are not their target audience. I'd also be unsuitable anywhere that had a rigid authority structure, like the military. That doesn't make it a universally bad model, just one that automatically selects for a certain type of person. As a deliberate bet by leadrship, such selection could be worth trying.
> Russia is out. Some books on the platform directly contradicts government ideals, and it seems that the operators aren't willing to filter it out.

Any source on this specific claim (ie. not Russian censorship writ large)? I get that Russia is unpopular right now, but is this just conjecture?
What, no Bravo? Needs the ability to submit guest reviews.