skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first six months of this year it was possible! All that would be needed would be a parent company that creates child LLC’s, one per customer, and then purchases $10,000 of I Series bonds using the child LLC tax ids.

The rate was 9.6% so you would have been pocketing a 1.6% spread on the customer deposits.
Even if you only have one disk, ZFS can give you transparent compression and dedup, and the ability to save permanent, known-good snapshots instead of just using Time Machine's time-based crap.
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Because weed (ideally not smoked) is no more harmful than alcohol and prohibition is counter-productive.
This is a product that I actually _would_ pay for as an individual. It's reasonably priced and worth the increase in efficiency and better experience. Plus their pricing is fair and flexible.
The problem is that bitcoin has no value to me all by itself. I can't pay my bills with it, I can't buy the goods and services I need with it. It only gains value at the moment I sell it for fiat money, and that interface between the bitcoin world and the world I actually live in means that the the valuation of bitcoin in USD matters more than anything else. Which means the volatility matters. A whole lot.
Online poker would be rigged so fas if declared a game of skill. Online poker relies on you trusting the online dealer to not stack the deck,reveal your hand to players representing the casino, etc.
More specifically open https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteNoiseGenerator.php and press ‘b’ for brown noise. Use j/k for volume.

I use this all the time, long before the article. White nose improves focus in everyone, not just ADHD folks.

This workflow is part of my standard work. If I have a document to read, a code review, or something that’s not mechanical coding (which I use music for), brown noise helps increase focus.
Population (whether in physical bodies or as bits after mind upload) growth is polynomial bounded by conservation of energy and speed of light. Real commodity growth is bounded the same way. Economic growth without commodity growth leads to everyone having financial means to monopolise everything which is logically incoherent.

Real activity on earth has much stricter limits. Humanity could expand into space, but growth on earth can't exceed various limits of commodities and ability to reject waste heat.

The growth is always good mindset is the same logic that would have you see a starving man fed being good and then concluding that shoving a firehose of glucose syrup down every person's throat must be better.

Growth is bounded. Resource use is bounded. Consumption levels in the worst polluting countries are past optimal for quality of life. The solution is to improve efficiency and reign in waste whilst uplifting those who don't yet have enough.
Winny (since 2002) and successor Japanese P2P network were like that. They use MD5/SHA file hash as address. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winny
How is killing time on Tetris on Nokia any different than Candy crush or browsing hackernews on iPhone?

At least with iPhone I can load up hundreds of ebooks to read and choose how I spend my time.
Although Pikachu (https://collectorpricing.org/golden-pikachu-card/) won't be replaced, Ash really can (and I wish he gets replaced). Does Pikachu (the species) even need to be with Ash in the first place? It is a common Pokemon species rather than a unique one like the legendaries. When Digimon wish to play the Agumon card again, they do it with a different Agumon in Savers since they're not frightened of having multiple human MCs per generation (same species, different individual). Why is that not possible with Pikachu?
All incoming IRC messages are like push notifications aren't they? Or do I have my webology terms confused? IRC clients can certainly pop up a notification or make a sound or blink an icon when they encounter certain messages (e.g., your nick is mentioned), if push notification now means a more intrusive type of alert.
Good time for Google Workspace to be testing client side encryption.

https://support.google.com/a/answer/10741897
Power-hungry robots, spacecolonization, cyborgs: Inside the world of Longtermism
Does the bot use every possible permutation of "Clyde"? It must be every Clyde that can ever exist?
wonder why much the macos version gets ootb?
The primary difference in ethics is whether you've forcibly relocated them. You're picking a really weird aspect of the human zoo thing to fixate on and ignoring the huge flashing sign that says "liberty". There's really no good reason to compare the scenarios. I'm a fan of Hanlon's Razor but this is the kind of obtuseness that raises genuine questions of whether you're speaking in good faith.
Disagree on this example though.
Crypto Bro is like Steve Stiffler from American Pie coupled with someone who does daily videos on YT talking up questionable shit coins.

SBF seems to be more intelligent than your average crypto bro (at least before FTX crashed).
Yes, and at a really low resolution. That's okay, it's expected.

Make It Work, Make It Right, Make It Fast. I personally didn't expect Asahi would get this far on steps #1 and #2 nearly as quickly as they have. It's bloody impressive.
check this out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRz1LFAu9Mg&t=1s
>> Our diagnosis is that individual developers do not pay for tools.

Hijacking the quote...

I can't count the number of times I see well-paid developers using the Sublime Text trial.
No... that's not what the word "scam" means. A scam is something fraudulent.

There's nothing fraudulent about 30% app store commissions. It's out in the open.

If your grocery store makes a 30% profit on a packaged dessert it sells, do you think that's a scam too...??
Don't forget NCAA arguing that paying athletes would somehow taint the experience (by taking money from the corporations).
Apparently it's do deal with fraudulent uses for their internal bot.
> That's not strange is it?

That depends on your baseline, of course. Or to answer your other question:

> Why would you expect anybody getting that kind of money to identify with the lower classes?

I don’t expect it, though I do have deep solidarity myself. Because, to return to the middle of your response:

> If you're making 100k+/year, you're well into bourgeois territory, and FAANG benefits are practically near-instant-owner-class.

I can speak to six figures, and I’m in no way into bourgeois territory. I’m approximately as comfortable as middle class boomers, ie I can make financial decisions to benefit my aging family with some hope I’ll still be comfortable myself. I don’t own anything in the sense meant by “bourgeois” in this context. I may yet, in the sense of a retirement plan. That’s a middle class aspiration. Which, having grown up poor and then broke and then getting by… I recognize very much is still working class.

There certainly is a larger segment of the tech work force than the general population which has reason to believe it can cross the bridge from gentry to ownership… but it’s still a minority of us and it’s mostly scraps. I don’t expect most of my colleagues to be comrades, but I certainly don’t agree with their class analysis which you have expressed so clearly.
Not sure how to interpret these tweets:

> A person I have known for more than ten years, who I consider trustworthy, is convinced the cryptocurrency economy will shortly experience a systemic risk. I don’t know anything concrete, but if I were exposed, I would be concerned.

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1594446009010212865

> I didn't write that. He did. Since I don't know any details, I didn't feel I should edit it. And because I don't know any details, it's no use asking me what he means. If you've read the preceding tweet, you know as much as I do.

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1594447689961377795
Let's be honest here..."...getting them trained up to do..."...probably doesn't exist these days. In my 3 decades of HR interviewing exits, near 19 out of 20 replied no training...heck some don't get any proper intro by their manager in charge. During interviewing, hiring managers already expect candidates are better than the one leaving complete with company internal workflow knowledge. During 2008, the expectation of resume thickness exceed a doctorate-master thesis.
Making Sense of Big Ocean Data
As a person with ADHD (confirmed by the nice people at the UCI psychiatric departments child development center), I can confirm that background drones help me work.
You may like this app
Meshenger (P2P Voice- and video phone App.)
https://f-droid.org/packages/d.d.meshenger/
Shouldn't you put a reasonable time limit on "survive", like oncologists do? A 5 year survival on 20% staff seems unreasonably long, but a couple of weeks is too short for such a verdict.
Good luck to you, then.
1) I think most software companies can probably survive with far fewer programmers if they were willing to cut dumb features. Are they though? Bloat is kind of a lot of businesses business.

2) For what it's worth, the Twitter employees let go were not just programmers, but also fulfilled other roles. I'm not quite sure what percentage of programmers Twitter lost, but I bet they lost a much higher percentage of other roles such as HR and content moderators.

> BTW. Figuring it who is the core team is not that complicated. You just ask everybody to name five people who are doing well and who they want to work with again (in the next company).

For what it's worth, this might yield a misleading answer because it could become a popularity contest.

The charismatic guy who plays office politics and tries to make everybody their pal might score highly here, but the smart engineer who just sits down quietly and churns out good features might be forgotten.
I know an Alexa. She hates it.
I think this comment was in bad taste, but I can't edit or delete it now. So please accept my apologies.
There are certainly far more Clydes than there are Discords (has anyone even been legally named Discord before?)

I'm not happy about it, but those are the rules.

..."then change them", as someone might say. But that article seems to be mostly about the edge-cases. I don't think someone named Clyde is an edge-case, nor would someone named Bonnie, for that matter.
Stop Playing Whac-a-Mole, Start Using Least Privilege IAM Policies
>I love ZFS and go to great lengths to run it everywhere on Linux, but the last time I tried to use it on macOS it was nowhere near usable.

I've run ZFS full time on my production and personal use Macs continuously for 11 years now. Of course needs and use cases vary, but I'm genuinely curious what did you find "nowhere near usable"? There are definitely rough edges depending on how you push it, but I think it hit all the core usability criteria once spotlight support was added and became stable (a lot of Mac functionality depends on that, before then it was a lot more limited). That was many, many years ago though.
How are they bleeding money? I would expect that they would make a ton of money from their trading fees
Since this claim about company survival after firing 80% of engineers has been presented without evidence, it can be dismissed without evidence. The author doesn't seem credible looking at their LinkedIn either.
It got suddenly better. The effect are visible in my last two jobs.

It’s still good old verbose Java. But the entreprise Java insanity is over and other stuff than spring emerge ( Java Lin for instance )

Functional programming is still cumbersome. Having a map of <enum,function> for instance requière some googling and weird syntax.

But it’s possible. Getter/setter are gone. Immutable records replace them.

Next version the thread model gets an update. No more system thread. So spawning them carelessly will be possible ( ala Coroutine in go)
If it were environmentalism they'd agitate to raze the cities.
What makes Scala great is their language syntax. The ability to do higher kind functions makes it a joy to work with. I program much faster than I would Java. I am also not a big fan of OOP myself. The downside is that it’s slow to compile and it’s no faster than any Java based languages. I am slowly realizing if I want performance, I need to forgo Scala altogether.
> "No one knows what they’re doing, and it’s a civilizational problem."

This last bullet point unintentionally describes the root cause and settles all the article's complaints.

How? Because this is plain factually incorrect. Just like how it works for the rest of civilization, someone does (or did) indeed know what the computer is doing for any given component within any layer of code. Complaining about computers in this way is exactly the same as complaining about the inefficiencies of government or other large organizations.

What's changed is how much every aspect of the software must have "moving parts" so to speak. The most efficient solution is not necessarily the best solution anymore now that so many people from non-technical backgrounds are stakeholders in software development.

Hardware improvements have allowed for far more complex software and greater speed has indeed been achieved where it counts (the lower level operations). Just because a GUI is slow doesn't mean the underlying system is slow. A user's perspective is inherently biased, selfish, and inaccurate. The sheer scale at which we deploy software today has a cost too and it's more important than perceived (in)efficiency despite being less glamorous.
Can you fire 80% of doctors and a hospital will survive? Probably, the janitorial staff will still come in, and the light switch will still light a bulb. As a sibling comment notes, the degree to which employees are expendable and measure of survivability is key. Business types will erroneously think they can fire 80% of the staff, keep the lights on, and keep up new feature development. The biggest risk with this sort of minimizing thinking is thinking you can achieve more with less: you often can't, especially when it comes to the large business environments this article specifically carves out (the concept does not apply to small and medium sized businesses).

Growth often comes with dead weight. You can't 10x your staff overnight and expect the same output per engineer. And as you grow, your organizational structure impacts your architecture (Conway's law). The downsizing frequently is an unwinnable scenario, and people need to recognize that going into it.
There are different types of market timing. They're right about the tech not being ready, but others are because you found the right "moment." Wordle was a success because it got traction in a covid winter. The exact same experience was just as viable 10 years earlier, but people weren't looking for entertainment in the same way.
I don't have any sources other than anecdotal, but I'm under the impression many are diagnosed with ADHD as a result of behavior shown in school.

It's almost like, ADHD is the disease you have when you're "unable to do consistent & focused work". Obviously medically it's some dysfunction in dopamine regulation, but how many underpaid overworked teachers/parents have access to equipment that would actually measure that? Maybe some kids are gasp bored in school, or shudder don't mesh with the thought-system of menial productivity the school -> work pipeline tries to instill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js4NiTFq9Pw
>day 1 driver

Mesa is 27 years old.
(shrug) OK. I'm a domain expert here, but that doesn't mean my claims are infallible, of course. Your call. Good luck.
I flagged it because there’s no content to discuss here
How does the joke go?

"It's called medium because most of the articles aren't very well done" ?

Enough with the twitter analysis already, just let him finish running it into the ground and after he fails to make the first or second billion dollar annual financing payment someone else will finally just take over or sell the domain.
SBF was smart enough to be born to the right family who had the right kind of connections. I will give him that much.
IRCCloud regularly gets stuck, has to be manually reset, doesn’t cope well with network changes and seems to have database overloads once per day.

I use it, but discord’s mobile client is a far better experience.
Yes, it seems fair to me to spend real money on Jetbrain's tools, if you like them.

It is strange how reluctant programmers are to spend on tools even though they are, as a rule, quite willing to let themselves be paid handsomely for their services. Yet graphic designers pay for Adobe's tools. Who can read this riddle?
It's hard to feel sympathy for the Hollywood lawyers. Sonny Bono's "Mickey Mouse Protection Act" sets protection for 120 years, or the life of the author plus 70 years, whichever's earlier. It just does not seem like anything related to the public good.
It can be even better. With a little bit more JavaScript.

https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news
> I fell for this. I enabled it because I was curious about trying new development tools, only to find out later it uploaded all of the source code on my computer to their service. What the hell.

An old comment from another user. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14837253
The PricedinBitcoin21 index shows the price of goods and services priced in bitcoins. It's akin to the CPI showing the price of goods and services priced in USD. The PricedinBitcoin21 index going up 3X means goods and services are 3X more expensive when paid with bitcoins, which means bitcoin has been devalued 3X.

It's bad for bitcoins for the index having gone up 3X. It's like the CPI has gone up 3X. You want the index to go down if you're holding bitcoins.

From your previous comments it seems you believe your net worth has gone up because of this index gone up. This index going up has the opposite effect on your bitcoin based net worth. I hope I'm mistaken.
So if I understand correctly, in Julia you programmatically look at generated machine code? Is there a way to modify it, or is just for making sure some optimizations were applied?
Sounds like the ocean breaking on the beach. Makes sense that living near the beach would be calming: the shoreline is a rich source of resources.
The thermal forcing from emissions are on the order of 20x the direct thermal forcing.

Any energy releasing process (nuclear, fossil fuel with ccs, geothermal) is bounded somewhere around 10-20x current energy use by running into direct thermal forcing.

PV produces less waste heat depending on where it is installed so has a slightly higher limit, but both solar and wind have pretty severe land use limits you run into at 20-100x current global energy.

Basically, everyone can have enough energy to flourish, but it's time to reign in growth and maybe dial it back a bit from US levels of consumption.
If I could warn all Californian voters against approving sports betting, I would. Would I do so for moral reasons? No, I don’t care what people do with their money or their time. But legalized sports betting has ruined advertisements during sporting events. I can only watch so many sports betting ads before wanting to rip out my eyes. That’s all you see now in states where it is legal.
The article was a lot of words uttered specifically to avoid the words, "ppl didn't use kite because it sucked", while conveying the same meaning.
I mean you can certainly fire 80% of engineers and the software still runs.

Most workers if you fire 80%, there is an immediate drop in production.

I think the loss of engineers is felt on a more long-term basis.
It's a tiny country (population 2.3 million, vs South Africa's 60 million), mono-ethnic, rich in diamonds, strong culture of law and order.

South Africa also props Botswana up via a customs union.

https://www.tralac.org/news/article/6931-surge-in-botswana-s...
This quote seems to be referring to 90s mainframe silicon, which absolutely had an architecture which didn’t match the current direction in software. They were built for batch-processing in COBOL when those same systems would soon be re-purposed to run Linux.

Modern x86_64 and ARM designers absolutely know a lot about computers, and the expectations of modern software. That’s why we see constant advancements in things like vector instructions, needed for video decoding and photo manipulation, and specific instructions to speed up random number generation and block cipher modes such as AES-GCM. Then, at a higher architectural level we have much better integrated memory controllers, protected memory implementations, and branch predictors than could ever be dreamed of in the 90s. The Intel Core architecture reigned in the cost of pipeline flushing, and led to a 15 year renaissance in efficiency, now being led by AMD’s Zen architecure.

There have of course been advancements as well in semiconductor physics and chemistry, such as Optical Pattern Correction and ridiculous advancements in DRAM dialectric efficiency that isn’t touched on anywhere here; and I would consider being able to physically manifest these near impossible artifacts of technology “knowing something about computers”
There's a 4 part series on navalgazing on Why the Carriers Are Not Doomed (https://www.navalgazing.net/Carrier-Doom-Part-1)
JR East mulls seats for dogs on some special Shinkansen rides
This also happens with direct heat release from fuels or geothermal, but at an order of magnitude or so higher energy output.
I pay for tools independently if they are affordable and I can use them commercially (even at work, even if my employer does not pay for it). I pay for JetBrains yearly and am at the lowest renew cost as a result, so theres no incentive for me to stop paying them yearly. I also saw that you can get Visual Studio Pro for $45 a month, which is really decent considering you get a professional grade IDE all to yourself.

The other thing is they have to be tools I want to use. I am an outlier I am sure. I hear often "let your employer pay for it" but they don't always necessarily pay for the tools I need to use. Having my own JetBrains license grants me strong freedom.
From a 30,000 foot view, one begins to see interconnectedness when you look at the shift in other dopamine mediated processes in modern society (social media, attention spans, sexual behavior, drug use, etc.) I view modern forms of gambling through the same lens.
If you fired 80% of just the developers at Twitter yeah you’re right, it would probably survive at least in the short term. That isn’t what happened. Entire departments serving all sorts of functions were wiped out. Hell you have advertisers, you know… Twitters customers, backing out just bc they can’t get anyone on the phone there. It’s stupid, period.
Do we really need new features in everything? I mean, I understand the business point, more features, higher price, higher chances someone will buy product for feature X.. but I've seen feature creep, where a good app that did one thing great, now becomes a bloated mess, because they added one feature, and another, and another,...

First it's just a file browser.. then it starts with a text editor.. then image viewer, pluus cloud support (dropbox, onedrive,...), then file sync, backup solution, package management, image editor, music player, video player, and in the end, with all the "streamlining" added, you've got a 300mb app that just lost the ability to sort files by size, but which can now order food delivery for you.

What new features does eg. twitter need?
Show HN: Crowdsourcing art from Twitch chat and Stable Diffusion
Just a fun weekend project, enjoy!