skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exchange control has been somewhat relaxed compared to when I'm guessing when your parents left. It used be insanely punitive. Provided you have up to date tax clearance I think you can now take R11m out the country per year. So approx. $600k per year. So people with a higher net worth than this who are leaving will have to a take a few years to fully financially emigrate, but it used to be much more complicated and restricted. If you have a substantially larger net worth you can also negotiate with the reserve bank! Famously Mark Shuttleworth - the Ubuntu linux founder - had a series of big court cases litigating some of these rules. He sold Thawte for approx $500m(?) to Verisign while South African but then moved to the UK. It's still a very unusual thing and foreigners are often surprised that a country with western style democracy has some China-style exchange controls.
What happens when the company decides to migrate from JIRA to something else? It wouldn’t take any special effort to migrate the TODO but in my experience the old JIRA is going to be stale and abandoned entirely in a year. No one will even remember or think to look back at it, and new hires won’t even know it exists.
Maybe Elon focusing on Twitter is a good thing for Tesla? Until Elon's image suffered enough to impact the perseption of Tesla as something different from a classic car company, and the evaluation drops accordingly.
I appreciate that.

I’m glad that my reply was well-received.
This is a bit of a tangent (and a response to only the title, which I admit is bad form) but what’s with the prevalence of adding “bro” at the end of random words? Can a woman be a crypto bro or a tech bro?

It reminds me of when everyone was talking about “brogrammers” a while ago, and it had a pretty clear connotation of “programmer who loves keg stands, hitting the gym, and making misogynistic comments”. I think “crypto bro” and “tech bro” don’t have that connotation at all, or at least that’s never how I perceived SBF.
Love this! Well done OP and thanks for sharing the code!
> Sure, but isn't private security and gated living (AKA security fences) becoming the norm in most of the middle-class suburbs in many other countries?

No. Even in the US, I wouldn't say gated communities are the norm, and at least from what I've seen of what SA houses look like, they're vastly more serious about security than gated communities in the states.
You can do this Postgresql. Since I switched over x number of years I have never looked back.
Can one blame apartheid governments for today's problems? When can one stop blaming the apartheid? Instead of blaming, what mistakes that the post-apartheid governments have committed? Sure, corruption is one. How about competence? Competence and corruption can co-exist, though.
>Progressive demands will then mount to raise taxes again on high earners, as Democrats did in 2012.

Except voters in the state just soundly rejected a proposition to fund some electric conversions by taxes on the top earners.

California's top 3 marginal income tax rates are also temporary, although one could argue they will likely be extended or made permanent at some point.

"Three temporary rates – 10.3 percent, 11.3 percent, and 12.3percent. These
rates will be repealed on December 1, 2031 and would no longer apply to
taxable years on or after January 2031 "
Futures are massively useful to both halves in commodities markets (producers and consumers). Why would you want to ban them?
I’m curious, do you have more details?
Look at a map of how alphabets spread and literacy rates. I think a more productive question would be not what is wrong with Africa but what was right with Europe.

Religion played a part. The best selling book after the printing press emerged was the Bible and majority of book sales revolved around religious texts. There was money to be made from this so it spread.

The great leap forward didn't come during the renaissance as many people imagine but as late as the 19th. The 20th for communist countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_literacy_campaign

Before the campaign, the rate of illiteracy among city dwellers was 11% compared to 41.7% in the countryside

Present day Nigeria is still somewhere around 50%, somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

Without universal literacy a country can't escape corruption, it is a necessary but not sufficient requirement to move to to the next stage. Not so long ago most everyone most everywhere was an illiterate peasant, the first places to grow out of that got first mover advantage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
FWIW, a quick ballpark test shows <30 ms minimum keyboard latency on my M1 Max MacBook, which has a 120-hz display.

Sublime Text: 17–29 ms
iTerm (zsh4humans): 25–54 ms
Safari address bar: 17–38 ms
TextEdit: 25–46 ms

Method: Record 240-fps slo-mo video. Press keyboard key. Count frames from key depress to first update on screen, inclusive. Repeat 3x for each app.
It's not something I want to argue about, but I feel like I can envision a world where you connected with your audience without the intercession of a "black box" corporate system. (I hesitate to believe that an algorithm could beat word-of-mouth, or that, if it could, that this is desirable in some hard-to-quantify sense.) However, I have no idea if this imaginary alternate reality is realistic or some kind of Harry Potter fantasy, y'know?

In any event, I'm glad you are getting something good out of it. Cheers! :)
It must be more expensive for a reason, right?
It pains me seeing how nature is being treated when large amounts of lowest common denominator visit the woods. Lots of noise, junk food wrappers, bottles, beer cans. In that sense, it's more "valuable" having these types away from nature
In fact, the Matrix permission system allows for what you describe. For each room, you can define what actions a certain access level can perform.
> acre-feet

That’s an incredibly strange unit.
FWIW I don't think the macOS + Kafka (professional) userbase needs the shareware model. (I'm in neither groups)
Kite is saying farewell and open-sourcing its code
"While we built next-generation experiences for developers, our business failed in two important ways.

First, we failed to deliver our vision of AI-assisted programming because we were 10+ years too early to market, i.e. the tech is not ready yet.

We built the most-advanced AI for helping developers, but it fell short of the 10× improvement required to break through because today’s state of the art for ML on code is not good enough. You can see this in Github Copilot, which is built by Github in collaboration with Open AI. As of late 2022, Copilot has a number of issues preventing it from being widely adopted.

The largest issue is that state-of-the-art models don’t understand the structure of code, such as non-local context. We made some progress towards better models for code, but the problem is very engineering intensive. It may cost over $100 million to build a production-quality tool capable of synthesizing code reliably, and nobody has tried that quite yet.

Nonetheless, we could have built a successful business without 10×’ing developer productivity using AI, and we did not do that.

We failed to build a business because our product did not monetize, and it took too long to figure that out."
Maybe the trick is to clearly label these addictions across whole society as harmful, the lower the age the more intense/deep/long lasting harm and act accordingly. When we managed it rather quickly globally on proper narcotics this should be achievable.

I've met parents who were saying 'we have digital kids' when their kids were acting like heroin addicts on withdrawal just to play on phone another 30 mins, and they were saying this as something normal. I get it why, admitting you are raising hard addicts and it was you who failed to prevent that must be outright unacceptable for many. People have this innermost desire to feel good about their actions and decisions and this would be properly undefendable if hard truths were told.

But it comes back to parents too - spending more time with kids instead of chasing career and money kids have 0 interest in (which is smart!), more meaningfully, be an example in ie activities, sports and hobbies. In an age when obesity jumps through the roof, people are seriously messed up after 2 years of covid lockdowns and all news are about doom and gloom. Tough.
My friends and I have had a LAN party every year for the last 20+ years. Usually around Christmas or early the following year.

Since the pandemic hit we moved them to be online over Discord and I'd say that they've been just as fun as the in person ones. There are obviously pros and cons but given we're all much older now and many people have moved away I doubt we'll ever have an in person LAN again.
Bitcoin, not crypto. Crypto is mostly a scam.

My bitcoin denominated net worth has gone up a lot this year. Most of my other money is in the S&P 500, which has almost tripled in value this year. https://www.pricedinbitcoin21.com/chart/index/GSPC.INDX

Unfortunately, the cost of goods and services denominated in bitcoin has also gone up a lot this year. The money supply is only one side of the equation when it comes to the price of goods and services.
Cool, would be nice to see more competition for Conduktor. I have worked with a few “Kafka is a database” people in my career and even if you agree with them, it’s still a terrible one from a tooling perspective. Having to debug Kafka issues on topics with almost any volume of data is slow and frustrating, either with a GUI or command line/REPL tools. Your only hope (if you absolutely have to wrangle Kafka in the core of a project) is heavy testing with the test driver from the start and hoping to avoid getting into too many knots. It’s interesting to note that Conduktor’s more enterprisey features are in this area now.
> The Carlsbad Desalination Plant near San Diego was completed a few years ago and is now operational. It is the largest, most technologically-advanced and energy-efficient desalination plant in the United States. It is approximately the best we can do right now for large-scale desalination.

Israel built a 624000 m^3/day desalination plant for about $400M in 2013.
It costs about $150M to operate per year, most of it probably from electricity consumption

So you already have an order of magnitude reduction in cost

Build 10 of them should reduce building cost even more per plant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination_by_country#Israel
It does not suck for consumers, maybe for some but not as a whole. I rented cabins in cali for a lot cheaper depending on location and other types of properties. I think you're probably looking for vrbo.

Hotels of a similar price have less space and you have to deal with a lot of hassle and less privacy. Rentals before airbnb required interacting with renters and dealing with them a lot more, I have no problem paying more to avoid that mess. It is also safer in my experience and allows me to pick from a wider range of options.

My theory is that consumers (not neccesarily you) that figured things out and where the socio-economical landscape was suitable for them dislike stuff like uber, airbnb and uber-eats but it also opened up goods and services for people that are willing to pay but these things were made complex and inaccessible to benefit middle men and other interested parties.
> If you have anything relevant to add regarding your hack, post it in the ticket.

Presumably your integration will automatically create a ticket from the TODO. There is already a linting automation, per the original comment. No reason to stop there.
At this point, with Tesla's quality issues, it seems more like catch-up is what he needs to do.

The solar roof & battery businesses could be really good, but it seems that their battery capacity is constraining their car biz, so no room to expand, and they've been having yet another round of cancelling solar roof installs, but why?

In any case, there's a lot more he could be attending to.
Might be nice if you can run any script as the "viewer", and set it to do different things for different sections of the config file. So then you could open youtube rss feed items with mpv or youtube-dl, download podcast mp3 files instead of first reading what it's about, etc.

With newsboat the scripting always feels a bit icky, even with something like Luke Smith his "linkhandler" script.
> A macro character is either terminating or non-terminating. The difference between terminating and non-terminating macro characters lies in what happens when such characters occur in the middle of a token. If a non-terminating macro character occurs in the middle of a token, the function associated with the non-terminating macro character is not called, and the non-terminating macro character does not terminate the token's name; it becomes part of the name as if the macro character were really a constituent character. A terminating macro character terminates any token, and its associated reader macro function is called no matter where the character appears. The only non-terminating macro character in standard syntax is sharpsign.

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw50/CLHS/Body/02_add...

That is the system I was alluding to. It’s been a few years since I’ve done anything with CL and so it seems my memory was slightly off.
What's to take out of this?

Anything else than avoid committing secrets to your source code, and especially, don't include clear-text secrets in files when you build containers?

This is also a 2 years old issue. Am I missing a subtile element to this?
Pikas UI, an open source UI library for React/TypeScript
Perpetual nag, my employer will probably never purchase. Time limited trail? We may purchase 20-30 keys.
> What happens when the company decides to migrate from JIRA to something else?

Aren't you grasping at straws? How many times do you believe a project changes it's ticketing system? So far I saw that happening a grand total of zero times.

Meanwhile, I've repeatedly worked on legacy projects which have decades-old TODO/FIXIT items, which serve no purpose other than being noise and serving as topic in water-cooler shit chat.
> I don't think that African dictators are rejecting reason and evidence in the course of administrating their corruption, although they might reject evidence of corruption in public.

South Africa isn't a dictatorship, but the voters still vote along tribal lines, with a concerning minority (+-10%?) voting along race-hate lines.
Meritocracy is biased for people with money, especially if you were born with significant sums.
Very cool! Awesome project
Yeah, i've seen my teammates use this "trick" to get the pull request merged: By introducing more tech debts.
> Amazon was planted by natives several thousand years ago.

Really? What was there when the natives first arrived? Is there somewhere I can read more about this stupendous continental scale triumph of pre-modern environmental engineering?
You should just quit your job
Equivalent to what a Youtube or Instagram user would say. So, if I understand, you see any other app as bad, but you don’t see HN as bad because you are in charge of your own experience?

I personally think I don’t want to masquerade my participation as something else than an excitement to be part of an interesting online community, an interest in being up to date with trends, but nonetheless, an addiction, since it takes time and doesn’t create that much value in my life, and if I had to quit it, I would be doomed by being unoccupied.
> The continent was raped, looted and pillaged by Europeans and Americans. Complete populations were enslaved. Natural resources were stolen, cultures were destroyed.

Our species is a violent one. The same can be said of other continents. Africa had the same problems long before America was hardly even a thing.

You could just as easily give counter examples of say gunboat diplomacy cracking open Japan and hurling it out of stasis and into modernity.

> The top post on this thread is saying the apartheid government was bad yes... But they made the trains run on time!

You are not doing the people you purport sympathy for any favors with such an attitude.

Trains need to run, electric grids need to work. The observation on competency in no way implies endorsement of the previous government.

People are objectively worse off now, believe it or not (look into it before arguing), while you get to moralize from far away. Nobody is arguing for a return to the previous regime obviously.

What you're doing simply isn't helpful.
It's so slow: on the order of single digit minutes to a dozen to install a single package. It feels messy, like it's shotgunning my entire system with bits of itself (I don't know how true the reality of this is). I've not infrequently had packages simply fail to finally resolve after they did their dance of resolution. It does not inspire delight. The vibe, if you'll excuse me, is very crude cudgel.

Oh, the install location it asks you about when installing Linuxbrew is extremely odd. One choice offered is to make a dedicated brew user directory and then install there? That's terrible practice. No one else does this because it's terrible. And then the other apparently breaks a bunch of stuff and is not recommended.
Yes, if this gains some traction then I’ll probably do a Windows version down the line.
>VinFast has announced VF 8 pricing will start at US$40,700 – plus a monthly battery subscription fee of US$110. Customers who don’t travel long distances can pay just US$35 a month for 498km worth of travel each month, with each additional kilometre being charged at the rate of 18 cents

No thank you!?

The upside of this is that they will replace the battery once it goes below 70% and price the car cheaper at 40k USD.

You’d have to batter the battery to get that far down the curve though I think.

Not sure the payoff is there.
This plus never doing a stock split despite BRK.A trading at $468,000 per share are little details that show what an extraordinary and unique company it is. I don't think there's anyone in finance who cares about appearances less than Warren Buffet. The fact that he chooses to stay in Omaha, Nebraska instead of a penthouse in Manhattan's Financial District also seems to tie in to his modus operandi.
I kick myself every day for not pulling the trigger when they were that cheap. That's less than some higher-tier electric bikes!
What is living agreeably?
I gave it a shot. It was way to slow for my use case. And I think it was several hundred MBs just for homebrew itself if I recall correctly.

Maybe software these days just has too many recursive dependencies.
We already have a considerable seasonal surplus of photovoltaic power. We actually disconnect California PV plants in the spring because we can't use the energy they would produce, and we have to pay the operators of those plants for the curtailment. This represents essentially cost-free energy that we can redirect to desalination. As we deploy more and more PV to cover our late-summer peak demands, the spring curtailment will also grow.
It's a pretty good roundup of the competition, but the closing line made me chuckle.

'“Production is hard. Production with positive cash flow is extremely hard.” Elon Musk tweeted this in 2021.

Welcome to the car business, Elon. And it’s not going to get any easier.'

The writer supposes that "the establishment" is going to be able to produce EV's at scale with positive cash flow better than Tesla. But:

* The pure EV startups like XPEV and NIO have awful margins

* The OEM's like Volkswagen have ~18% gross and 6.3% net income margins, Vs Tesla at ~26% and ~14.9%. OEM's also don't break down their margins on their EV programmes - Volkswagen's is for the product mix including its established ICE cars. Toyota is similar. Who knows if they're making any profit on their EV's.

The author also claims Tesla is "a company that’s still struggling to build cars at volume". I'm not sure how to reconcile that with their 50% CAGR.

It's great that Tesla has competition! The world needs more EV's! Why can't we celebrate that competition without always having to denigrate Tesla? Why does every new EV entry have to be a "Tesla killer"?
I suggest because such a cityscape implies a vision where we solve all environmental problems with tech.

Whether we can do that or not is a moot point, because - from the opponents view point -

1. numerous historical attempts to solve things with tech have led to more problems down the line

2. "We'll solve it with tech" has also been used as an empty promise and excuse by those with vested interests who want to continue the status quo
That's not nice, that's just smart. Delete production, and someone will notice right away. Leave production as it is, and they might not notice until the bill comes due.
For JS in general: anything from https://2ality.com - articles, books, walk-throughs, etc. Axel is thorough and systemically reconstructs complex topics from core building blocks.

For Cloudflare Workers specifically: first, learn regular Web Workers, then read everything from kentonv who's the tech lead for CF Workers, and a user here. He's written many (disjointed) pieces on Workers both here on HN and on the CF community board. Additionally, Cloudflare Developers Discord (https://discord.com/invite/cloudflaredev) has a very active channel for Workers with people discussing implementation details and edge cases.
No, TSC on modern CPUs is much more granular that that. No atomic clocks needed, just a normal quartz crystal. This is how ptp works and you can definitely get sub nanosecond accuracy from it.
Wrt scheduling quantum, this is entirely configurable and subject to scheduling policy, priorities and additional mechanics such as isolcpus and nohz. GP's comment is just plain wrong.
Ya but there’s little client diversity. I can’t have discord running on a headless dev box and remote in to catch up. This is what irc better for terminal enthusiasts
> Traditional finance can, in time, adopt tools and systems from the crypto space (for example, distributed ledgers, "blockchains") if they are technically robust, without the associated speculative mania.

New technologies and speculative mania naturally come hand in hand, no? Crypto seems to be following the same adoption curve that all flashy new technologies have followed.

https://i.imgur.com/uhYF1OW.png

There's the trigger, the peak of inflated expectations, the trough of disillusionment, the slope of enlightenment, then the plateau of productivity.
Ask HN: Is AMP Dead?
Official blog updated infrequently.

GitHub doesn't show much activity.

Changelog mentions some recent stuff but hard to tell if it's more than just one person.

Official domain has many broken examples and demos.
You want Tesla to sell skateboards? I don't get it.
Given his handling of Twitter I would say the less attention he pays to Tesla the better off they’ll be
> and how everyone lives basically in a castle with electric fences.

I feel like this is a huge exaggeration. I'm extremely far from an expert, but I'm in SA (right now) surfing and it's not that bad everywhere. Cape Town and the bigger cities felt like that, but I went through a bunch of small surfing towns/villages/suburbs and stayed in a bunch of places that didn't have electric fences.

They did have a sticker saying they paid for some security company, but that was it.

The inequality is absolutely disgusting though, I agree. It's such a shame, because it's such an amazing country.

Staying here longer definitely crossed my mind, so I see what people mean by quality of life. The food is amazing, amazing surfing and hiking spots, amazing wild-life, the list goes on and on. I really wish it was possible to fix the inequality, but I can't even begin to imagine what that would involve. I did my best to tip well, but obviously that makes no difference at the macro level.
This article is 3 days old, before the "hack" was revealed as SBF transferring the funds (after bankruptcy and stepping down) to support Bahamas regulators in a jurisdictional fight. Which, in the Vox interview, he said winning was his only way out of the mess.