skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reporters helped SBF build a credible profile in order for him to steal money, everything to do with reporters writing glowing reviews of SBF and his fraudulent business in exchange for kickbacks of all sorts, including direct grands to several news outlets, which makes reporters corrupt.
Team leader. I was too happy to hire a person who, in retrospect, has resonated with me personally more than was the best person for the job. I wish we interviewed more. It wasn't a big issue - the hire was still ok, but the realisation still haunts me.
elon posted that they were shutting down 80% of the "unnecessary microservices". it's far more likely this was intentionally shut down because noone remaining knew what it did or it fell through the cracks.
Looks like chewing is back

https://st.depositphotos.com/2510389/2989/v/950/depositphoto...
I've tried getting offline altogether. So, reading a long-form book -- or at least trying to read a daily newspaper cover to cover. Taking a walk around the block...

If you really want to upgrade your online content, try spending time on a major news site like BBC.com or NYtimes.com.

Also, there's some pretty thoughtful pieces in the blog at aldaily.com
I've settled on this over the years:

play -c 2 --null synth brownnoise reverb bass 6 treble -3

It's close to the myNoise brown preset, IMO, if a little bass heavier.
It's absolutely delightful to see concepts come many full circles like this. I remember the Cray-2 cooling towers as the most futuristic computer in the world even in the 90s, and it inspired me to sink my old system in mineral oil in the early 00s. I did the research and found the stuff in the Cray towers (Fluorinert) was $many/gallon, and the smallest volume they sold it was something like 55gal drums. Mineral oil was $cheap enough, also inert, and so I got a 5 gallon tub of the stuff. I built a plexiglass case, sealed it with silicone caulk, overclocked the CPU, hooked up an industrial-strength aquarium circulation pump and... rapidly went nowhere with a disgusting, oily motherboard. And a ridiculously heavy case filled with, essentially, hazmat.

It was a terrible idea back then and still seems bad today. I'll be interested to see what the next cycle brings, if it's back to spot cooling or if immersion really is the way of the future.
By the time we are caching movies on clients, it’s almost like we’ve reinvented the Blu-ray disc and the original Netflix mailers in my opinion… without physical media or ownership, but otherwise, not far off…

Because what is a physical disc? It’s basically a cache, physically delivered, but you purchase it once and it’s yours. Don’t want to purchase? Netflix will rotate discs back and forth by mail.

Such a system would be the same thing - just more expensive, less private, no ownership option, and without the physical disc or mailing time…

I don’t know. I get that it’s more convenient than the old system but seems like a downgrade in almost every other respect. Less ownership, less privacy, worse selection (how many streaming services needed?), quite possibly worse for the environment (discs break even with streaming after ~4 plays and last an average of 16 rentals, and far more than that when frequently watched in a home)…
I have a corollary to Sturgeon's Law: "Most people are wrong, most of the time, and the people that are right, are usually right by accident."

I thought of this after listening to someone smugly quote one dead economist after another, while we both knew full well that all those economists were mostly wrong about everything.
Thanks for making this, it has been very fun for me.
A well run train system isn't full. It has to run at a convenient frequency, which is much higher than just taking the number of passengers and dividing by the capacity of a train.
NoSQL!

Rep from <NoSQL company> comes along, shows a CTO some graphs about how well it performs vs <BoringButReliableSQL>. If developers are unlucky CTO mandates a migration to NoSQL.
I really doubt that kind of stuff passes the cut without approval from Disney executives. Have you watched Eternals?
> There is a much bigger chasm between GIMP and Photoshop than there is between VS Code (with plugins) and JetBrains.

I don't believe this to be true. I think the difference is graphic designers tend to use much more of their toolings' functions, whereas almost every day I'm surprised someone I work with doesn't even know some IDE feature was possible, let alone how to use it. Hell, almost every frontend developer I've ever seen use either VSCode or WebStorm orchestrates everything from the built-in terminal and is baffled when they never see me use one - because it's all configured via run configurations, and that's a _basic_ feature.
Most charts don't have a ton of data. Choosing four accessible colors is not challenging. Most UIs are monochromatic.

I'm not sure I need data, most interfaces or designs you see already accommodate color blindness via simplicity. Those that do not can almost always do so by adjusting the palette subtly, with almost no perceptual difference for those who are not colorblind.

Obviously simulating colorblindness on a general graphics level is less effective, and I don't think anyone is suggesting we apply such filters universally.

The center of my argument is that it is easy with software, which has consumed the information world, to simply offer alternative viewing modes, of which colorblind modes are not very complicated.
> I had a boss who said he only hires a certain ethnic group because they always take on more work and never say no.

> But he wasn't aware of the flip-side... that the manager is then responsible for judging the situation and not making direct requests that are impossible to refuse.

He was fully aware of the "flip-side." He explicitly admitted he's hiring people solely with a cultural predisposition towards "never saying no." He can ask anything of them knowing it's impossible for them to refuse, even if it kills them.
"Of course, it wasn’t always this way. Computers used to be small and straight forward. They used to be cute! Now they are big and scary and mind boggling."

You're kidding right? Having a desktop PC in the pre-internet days was a scary experience. My smartphone and iPad are both cute and work unblinkingly every time all the time.
It's Scottish or maybe northern English - "nowt" is more common south of the border but "bairn" is more common in scotland. The fun thing is that we also use "wean" (wee one) as another common word for "child" but with a completely different etymology.
Ethereum Standard Taxonomy
The same is true for some other primates. Eye contact seems to be a sign of aggression:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_contact#Between_species
Surprisingly, seems like it's reasonably good! There's a section in this blog post about characterizing it and comparing it to a hardware implementation: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6521

Since it's the same algorithm, most of the tricks appear to make it through the language conversion, so it's reasonably good even on a completely different architecture.
Apologies. My mistake.
What are you even talking about? Who owns what has always been available to everyone, that's how land title deeds work.
Frozen, Coco, Moana, snd Encanto come to mind as enjoyable non-franchise originals with excellent, lasting music.
Canvas Cycle: True 8-Bit Color Cycling with HTML5
Disney reports that Domestic (US) subscriptions bring in an average of $6.10 /month. https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/app/uploads/2022/11/q4-fy22... (page 6).
> Marvel, Star Wars, and Disney+ are just a few of the highlights.

How much of the absurdly poor quality content that made to screens, were projects left in the pipe by Iger though? Iger is also the CEO that failed to reign in the woke agenda at Disney which has become the guiding principle of most of Disney's content.

I would also argue that Chapek didn't bungle the Parental Rights in Education Act, he just inherited a company that is extremely aligned with a single political party in the US, and those values don't translate well outside of that one political party. Do you think Japan or China disagree with Florida's stance on the issue for example? Those two countries represent 3 of Disney's resorts, literally half of the entire portfolio.

Don't get me wrong, Iger has ran Disney for decades and importantly, he's ran Disney through business cycles that aren't just Congress and the Fed going nuts with stimulus. He knows what it means when consumers are suddenly squeezed for pennies and you know it's bad when the de-facto Prime Minister of Canada uses cutting Disney+ as an example of consumer cost-cutting[1]. What I'd be worried about, is that he's not necessarily the best person to reign in the woke and return to universal values, which is a key pillar of why people consume Disney.

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[1] https://www.disneydining.com/canadians-are-urged-to-ditch-th...
This feels like a long form rant that anybody with a modicum of self reflection already had concluded on an individual basis.
They do have the tick next to their names and yet they still have this nonsense in place anyway.
I'm inclined to agree for the non-eng parts of "the workload". But swe workload in a company that already pretty much does its job is a very flexible concept, and I'm not sure it has a firm existence apart from the workforce, firm enough to say there's something there that "isn't going away". And remember the standard for "the workload" that must be done is "survival", which is not a high bar.

I guess where I'm going is that the article states a roughly true thesis, but applies it in a situation where it's not terribly relevant.
Consumption of marijuana in public places is perfectly legal depending on your jurisdiction. Allowing smoking of marijuana wherever smoking of nicotine is allowed seems “only fair.” Examples in the USA include Oklahoma and New York.

On the other hand. The impairment you are talking about has been shown to affect non regular users more.[0] and to be negligible to regular users.

I wouldn’t want to be driving on the road with someone after they smoked their very first cigarette. I remember what that was like the first time I inhaled. It’s all relative. Marijuana can be less psychoactive than nicotine depending on the person and their tolerances. Just anecdata but people also report some cultivars of marijuana calms nerves while improving focus.

[0] https://norml.org/news/2022/06/16/study-regular-cannabis-con...
Back in 2008 (when I was using Solaris daily at work and MacOS at home), I actually had a personal use-case, which I actually took the time to document.

https://macoverdrive.blogspot.com/2008/10/using-zfs-to-manag...

It was pretty flaky. I'd forget to use the zfs unmount command, accidentally hit the super-friendly eject icon in Finder and BANG! Still, I thought I was just a few months ahead of an Apple sanctified and properly guified native ZFS.

In those days I lived in hope of a merger between Apple and Sun. The engineering in both organisations was great. Sadly only exists in the nerd fanfic alternate reality fantasy I'm never going to write.
Yes - it seems fundamentally misaligned with the academic mission of a university. Especially a sport like football with no willingness to address the known brain damage and other physical harm endured by athletes. When you add on athletic scholarships, different rules and standards for athletes, and the opportunity cost to one’s education on single tracking for a sport, it really starts to make less sense for many individuals and the institution.
The acquisition of Fox assets dwarfs Disney’s previous acquisitions of content:

2019 $71.3 B for 21st Century Fox
2012 $4.1 B for Lucasfilm
2009 $4.2 B for Marvel
2006 $6.3 B for Pixar

As well as Disney’s other billion dollar acquisitions:

2016 $2.9 B for BAMTech
2001 $2.9 B for Fox Family
1999 $1.8 B for Infoseek
1996 $19.0 B for Capital Cities/ABC

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

Bob Iger must have been eager to bulk up before the launch of Disney+?
There's no reason why we couldn't come up with a nice GUI than piped output.

I don't think the problem is GUI specifically - the problem is poor/no provision for automation. Our widely used apps either discourage (by making it difficult), or just do not enable, anything other than manual actions.

Take the MS Office suite, for example. The entire suite is built round highly manual operations - the common operations are provided and triggered manually. But if it's not provided, good luck. Just say, you want to print your document with the odd pages rotated ... it's not going to be easy ... perhaps print to a pdf, then use an external editor to MANUALLY rotate each odd page! Or print odds and evens, then MANUALLY interleave the pages. It can be done, but we're encouraged to do it manually and mechanically :(
The effectiveness of institutions cannot be measured in black and white. There is a continuum of effectiveness. It is very rare in the developing world that the courts are completely ineffective—it's often just that they are slow, expensive, subject to corrupt influence, etc. They function, to an extent—but they function poorly. How poorly depends on where you are.

In addition, bribery and corruption themselves also operate on a continuum. In the example cited in the article, the rich landowners don't just remove the property markers—they wait for flooding to wash them away before illegally expanding their claims. In other words, even in a society where official corruption is rampant, there are still societal limits within which corruption is possible.

The impact that blockchains can have is to simplify the tasks that systems of adjudication must undertake in order to enforce property rights and contracts. They also remove individual judgement from most decisions, and make it impossible to alter or destroy records.

I'm not saying that blockchains can entirely replace all human governance systems. Rather, blockchains can make it cheaper and easier to maintain functioning and accessible systems for adjudication. They reduce the surface area for the use of individual judgement, and thereby reduce costs and opportunities for the injection of corrupt influence.

Yes, many of the things that blockchains can do can also be done by centralized database applications—maintaining property records, for example. Those centralized databases still need to be maintained by trusted parties, however—trusted parties who themselves may be subject to corrupt influence.

By moving title records from paper to a centralized database all you are doing is changing who becomes the bribery target—the Postgres DBA instead of the clerk at the records office. With a public blockchain, there is no one you can bribe.
Maybe now, harder for anyone to get a mortgage. The last time I got a mortgage while self-employed I had to document my income. Not exceptionally difficult, just tax returns and bank statements rather than pay stubs.
>>As an extension of this, I propose we remove 4/5ths of each airliner. The 20% that remains, so long as we pick the right 20%, will surely fly correctly.

Not sure if they will fly correctly. But most airlines I'm sure have wildly profitable routes, some moderately profitable routes, some mild. And some I'm sure are loss making routes.

You start plotting a graph and a bell curve emerges. The key is this- Do the profitable routes have more demand you can't meet now, but can meet if you divert resources from the loss making routes. If the answer is yes, you can always eliminate the loss making routes, and use those resources to supply to profit making ones. This makes perfect sense, because it not only saves money, this makes money.

There's a bakery near my place which used to sell its things in a shop. Soon enough they realise finding talent to bake is a big problem and most people were buying bulk quantities to sell it to others for a small profit. Eventually he realised he could sell to people who could run shops but had no talent to bake. That way we was able to divert his time and resources to make things at scale, so obviously his profits and by definition market capture increased too.

The real question in case of companies like Twitter is- What is Twitter's core competence? Should Twitter run a in house payroll team? Should they be running a PR team? What sort and size of Legal teams should they be running? Should they be running a in house content moderation team? If their business benefits more making newer products and features. It does make total sense to cut down resources from places are a cost center -ve to hiring more programmers. And it does make total sense for Musk to say things like they will be fairly intense on the engineering and programming side of things.
I’m a meteorologist. Most of the time no one bothers to spell out mbar, and just uses mb in both scientific papers and operational data.
I recently did a Kotlin project using Bazel and it wasn't perfect but it was definitely serviceable.

One thing was that while iterating on the build was painful compared to Gradle with Kotlin script it did have very nice performance in combination with remote build cache and I imagine the remote build execution feature could be very nice for large JVM projects.
Right - domestic is better, but the overall (which matters most) is the number I stated, because Disney+ Hotstar subscriptions in India are a money pit ($0.58 per month!!)
iPads predict user input https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/touches_pres... . Did they do this back when this article was written or is this a newer thing that lets them get to even lower user perceived latencies than 30ms?

In general, predicting user input to reduce latency is a great idea and we should do more of it, as long as you have a good system for rolling back mispredictions. Branch prediction is such a fundamental thing for CPUs that it's surprising to me that it doesn't exist at every level of computing. The JavaScript REPL's (V8's REPL) "eager evaluation" where it shows you the result of side-effect free expressions before you execute them is the kind of thing I'm thinking about https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-devtools-68/#eagere...
I dont have the historic knowledge of the parks change but I have been often in the last years as a friend of mine has employee passes. I found them to be exceptionally clean with friendly staff. Leagues ahead of other parks.

By far the worst part of the experience was that it was too crowded. Raising prices or limiting annual pass holders would help solve this but I feel like that falls into the penny pinching category. Lower attendance cap would also help but would be surprised if they did that given it is capping your income.
> Hopefully Disney will cut the political sermon from the next movies. I've just watched "Eternals" and couldn't believe it's a Disney movie.

I'm not sure why you expect Iger to do that, he is 100% responsible for Disney movies and animations cultural shift and decided that one group of people are the audience they want to focus on and pander to, probably because it makes them more money than the alternative. Purely a profit driven decision. This is just the way it is, at the end of the day, money talks.

Chapek is no different, but "optics" were against him as he mishandled the PR aspect of the pandering.

That kind of preachiness is there to stay, at least until there is yet another cultural paradigm shift.
aren't literally every stock down?
"People use 20% of Excel's features, bit it's a different 20% for everybody."

Apologies to whoever I ripped that off from, I'm not finding the quote anymore.
IBM is up 8% YTD, for one example. Kind of a shocker but good for them.
Do they work that way in rural Africa?
Do you have a link to more information about this?

EDIT: So doing some googling finds that Telecom Regulatory Authority of India implemented “Distributed Ledger Technology” for fighting spam, but roll-out seems to have lasted not long (a week? A month?) because it didn’t work (didn’t scale?) and every so often tech vendors suggest they’re going to re-do it? Honestly there’s a lot of promo articles and conflicting information that I’m struggling to understand what’s going on there, my take-away is that it’s not currently being used because it didn’t work?
Do you have any other clues for finding that open source project?

It sounds very interesting to me.
The last hype cycle, from about 10 years ago, I remember is that of BigData and associated technologies such as MapReduce, Hadoop, NoSQL DBs, data pipelines and so on. That lasted for about 4 years I guess? Then ML took over.
Iger has said Disney has built enough capacity to generate more entertainment than the world has cash to consume. The mega machine has become so efficient, they can produce a new marvel level movie everyday if they wanted too. But there aren't enough customers for it.

So the question is, once your corporate mega machine has become this efficient what do you even do next?
I had periods of time where I played nothing but a single game, though those were never more than a few months. Definitely seems like it would be good for your son to broaden his gaming horizons somewhat.

Re: "Juicing" - I saw the word and immediately assumed you were using the definition from this classic gamedev talk, well worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy0aCDmgnxg
I, personally, don’t think we’ll get to either of those two scenarios for a really really long time.

Reason, too much money has been invested into them. I believe it’ll trickle to zero slowly, but very slowly, over a long period marked by lot of volatility.
The utility of decentralized blockchains is that they facilitate permissionless financial innovation. Yes, that means "regulatory arbitrage". But not just circumventing the law, more importantly, circumventing the de facto law of corporate gatekeepers.

A substantial amount of de facto financial regulation comes not from democratically elected governments, but from companies that gate-keep access to the databases where financial truth resides. A great example of this is Visa and Mastercard dropping PornHub as a client. But there are many others. Building software that interfaces with money is extremely difficult, what you can and cannot do is extremely limited, and you may only do so at the pleasure of the major financial institutions that sit between your code and the traditional financial system.

Right now, if you want to write code that manipulate's someone's money, you have to ask the permission of both the owner of the funds, and several intermediaries along the way. What those intermediaries choose to allow you to do can be arbitrary, capricious, and certainly is not democratic.

It is true that decentralized blockchains also facilitate the flouting of the law, and that can be good or bad, depending on your point of view. But fundamentally, having an open fabric for finance, in which anyone can build any kind of application they wish, seems like a pretty cool thing to me.
58,220 of them died in Vietnam.
> People being pitched on why they should stay with Twitter weren't offered more money but instead were urged to be excited about Musk's vision for Twitter and its future potential...

Work more for same money? Seem like easy math.
You need people to monitor bwhat users are doing. They realize that users are doing X and Y manually to do Z. So you implement feature Z.

If you don't, then a competitor that implements Z might become more appealing to users.

But features are not always user-visible. New features are regularly added to web browsers and phones, and it's often in your interest as a web site or app developer to make use of them.
* Certain aspects of social networks (I remember leadership at google being convinced everyone will do online stuff on social networks in around 2011)

* To much smaller extent some core tech like NoSQL, SOA

* More recently - AR/VR bubble
I always pay for Sublime at an employer. Support your roolsmiths.