skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm less surprised by the media coverage of the entire fiasco because when on earth have they ever not written sympathetically about your average millenial do-gooder cause driven entrepreneur, what I ask myself is, how have the investors not seen this coming, who are after all the people who open their own wallets for this and are professionals.

And not just this case but any of the recent crypto-company explosions that lost customer funds to the tunes of hundreds of millions. There are experienced funders behind this who tout themselves on being able to differentiate BS from reality.

People love to drag the NYT but I don't really expect them to have really deep insight into these firms, on the other hand people are way too uncritical of the whole Sequoia/al6z/etc alternate media machinery around this.
> You think copilot is self-sustaining/profitable?

Yes.
> Does anyone know of a good way to have a camera stream video over WiFi to my server,

with a battery life of a year? there is no competition. if you achieve this, please post it here!
The F-35 program has been pretty similar

We want an airplane that's stealthy! And modular! And can have vertical lift capabilities! That can be swapped out with a laser that doesn't exist! And can be used with a huge internal payload! And is also carrier-capable! And has super-cruise! And still fits an internal gun! And...

That they managed to iterate it into something that could actually be fielded is kind of amazing when you stop and think about it.
So the tens of thousand of migrant workers didn't die?
If you have a nuanced understanding of the language, yes, it is.

The common definitions have to do with stealing, but an equally valid definition of the word hijack is to:

> take over (something) and use it for a different purpose.

Taking over a project so you can have it to advertise your service is exactly that.
> I've worked for 10 years as a web dev and the bottleneck is very often at the product management level

Anecdotally, this was my experience at many companies before working at FAANG. But it's not my experience now.
Dodge have an EV coming https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/17/business/dodge-electric-muscl...

Toyota have a couple if you include Lexus
Show HN: Easy Trip Itineraries
> No. Too many other countries suffered worse and bounced back faster.

For example?

One issue with apartheid is that it essentially withheld education from the black population. Sure, it had schools for them, but they were nothing like the standard of the schools for white children.

So what's an example of a country with an essentially uneducated population of tens of millions who "bounced back(?) faster"?
No.

The battle has just been joined. The drunken and stupid are being picked off.

The battlefield is being set, for the first real battles.

Buckle up.
It's interesting, the ones I've spoken to are extremely suspicious.

"GitHub Copilot blocks your ability to learn." Is a common refrain.

I don't see ANY industry-wide consensus on whether GitHub Copilot truly helps developers right now.

The only scenario I can get anyone to agree on is generating templates. Aka, JSON or CSS files that you then edit.
+1 for simple is not easy, yet with enough thinking and ingenious ideas, it is achievable. Thank for the links.

"simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." -- Leonardo da Vinci
Depending on the twin study yes you can go into all kinds of sibling groups/measures too. However mapping it to something that must have had evolutionary pressure on it in ways we still don’t clearly understand is not at all straightforward, so yes, in a sense, I think most psychologists, who have no evolutionary training, are doing this very wrong.

You’re basically saying “some limits of cognition are heritable” which is so obvious as to be inarguable.

The huge qualifier in what you quoted is “reliably measured psychological traits.” They also have to be defined within psychological language and linked to genetics through behavior or biological indicators. There are exceedingly few of these, and schizophrenia, autism, etc, are not them.

Psychology as a whole without evolutionary considerations to articulate on is free-floating.

There is a long history of psychologists justifying their approach, but the reality is that reproducibility in psychology is still at something like 35%.
While not something that is read by a mechanical process - the code notches on sheet film https://125px.com/docs/unsorted/kodak/f3.pdf

This is for being able to touch and orient while in the darkroom.
Even worse, not a single comment about Rust and use-after-free bugs.
I've been complaining about FIFA for at least a decade, I don't see it as a new thing
See, you can decide to stick with discord, and discord can decide to not stick with you.

That's the difference.

"Your" discord "server" turns out to be neither of those.
Not yet, but it soon will be.

One word:

Tether.

Then crypto will never recover.
I included legally so the whole bit about adoption is moot, and hence the rest of your argument based on it. That’s a child, that’s an adult male, he’s the legal guardian therefore he’s dad. There’s a pregnant adult female, she’s not dad. Why? Because men can’t get pregnant, for one.
Agree. The 25 year old me is too confused. I think it’s better to go back in time- the 10 year old may have a better compass.
From one founder (of a much smaller startup) to another: respect for writing this. It probably wasn't easy but the fact that you took the time to do it and share learnings so that the next startup in the space can benefits speaks volumes about y'all.
Has anyone else used an IBM mainframe with a hardware 327x terminal?

They process all normal keystrokes locally, and only send back to the host when Enter and function keys are pressed. This means very low latency for typing and most keystrokes. But much longer latency when you press enter, or page up/down as the mainframe then processes all the on-screen changes and sends back the refreshed screen (yes, you are looking at a page at a time, there is no scrolling).

Of course, these days people use emulators instead of hardware terminals so you get the standard GUI delays and the worst of both worlds.
Subaru have one based on the bz4x.

Honda have a more mass market EV in the works but do have an EV in Japan already.

Mazda have the MX-30

Chrysler have one in the works https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/14/chrysler-reveals-400-mile-...
90% of "tech journalists" wouldn't be worthy of the title.

When I look at the writing and output from any particular text media journalist, particularly on the subject of many things related to global geopolitical issues, I ask myself, "is this something that would be seen as neutral and impartial, ethical journalism by Steve Coll?" [1]. Often the answer is no.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Coll
Workplace? I think I remember those...
Mad props for facing the truth and unsparingly admitting responsibility. So so rare.

Whoever wrote this will go far.
Things (a dialog/popup box?) that let you see what each key are mapped to based on its current window and/or its mouse position.
Only after the collapse a friend pointed out that thread, where he’s arguing 10x Kelly makes sense because when you win such a crazy long shot bet you’ll have enough money to change the world and money doesn’t actually have a diminishing utility ever.

Regardless of his other arguments, it never makes sense to bet more than Kelly, because you move into _diminishing_ expected value… while also taking on more risk! You can do less than Kelly if you want to diminish your expected value, but at least that also comes with less risk.
> I thought you had to click the [-].

I cannot click anything on my phone.
It wasnt charity, and Jobs was underpaying while indimidating people. https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...

"OK, I've seen enough, " Steve interrupted me. "It's great. Apple is going to bundle it with the Mac. Congratulations."

But then he paused, and stared at me for a moment with an incredibly intense gaze, as if he was sizing me up or maybe just trying to scare me.

"But I don't want you taking advantage of this situation. I'm not going to allow you to take advantage of Apple."

"What do you mean?" I asked him, genuinely puzzled.

"There's no way that you could have written that program without confidential information that you learned by working at Apple. You don't have the right to charge whatever you like for it."

I started to get angry. "The program is only half finished, and if I don't think you're paying me fairly, I won't be motivated to finish it."

Steve gave me another intense stare as he paused for a few seconds. Then he stated a single number, without explanation.

"One hundred thousand dollars."

"I don't know," I told him, "I think it's probably worth a lot more than that."

"Don't argue with me. $100,000 is fair, and you know it."
that confiscates private property

Private property rights are intact in South Africa (for now perhaps, but things are bad enough without the need for exaggeration). Also, monetary (exchange) control regulations are quite loose nowadays, and shouldn’t affect normal people trying to emigrate, but as you say, the exchange rate makes this a moot point.
Get what you can and get out. If you care about bringing the full product to market, accept that you might need to take less to avoid any clauses limiting your future work.

Depending on the maturity of the company, there are a few different bits of value. Some you can take with you - your product vision - and now build in a linear path towards what brings value. Some things (IP) you won't be able to. But the real value in a company is the existing customers and PMF - if the company is still relatively young, the value you have moving forward is significant.

So just build yourself back up and move on. Try not to hold hate in your heart, it will only set you back. Take care of your mental health, be kind to yourself, and figure out what you would be doing next without worrying about what they're doing - that is for your attorney to handle.
Entertainingly, they do use molex micro fit connectors on SXM boards - the same ones as the 4090.
yeah, pretty much every one of the [not particularly large number of] positive pieces I read on him screamed "compulsive gambler", including the VC hagiography that talked in depth about his interpretations of utilitarianism and devoted a paragraph to wondering if there was anything in life he actually enjoyed.

not to mention the Matt Levine interview where Matt tells him he's basically describing yield farming as a Ponzi scheme and he concedes that's valid and doesn't even try to construct a counterargument for where the value comes from...
Not all OO languages even have inheritance.

I would argue that the only two features that are mandatory to call something "object-oriented" is 1) the notion of object identity, and 2) some kind of dynamic method dispatch.
I'm delighted you liked it! Your opinion here is especially important to me, given the work you've done.
I've been trying out Twitter lately for the first time in at least 10 years.

No social network has ever made me as mad at my fellow humans as that one does. 10 min reading comments and I'm outraged at the constant stupidity, attention seeking and political virtue signaling on both sides. It's like everyone is on a team and trying to score points on their opponents and become the MVP, instead of communicate.

I'm not sure if it's being related to real identity that makes people behave like that or if it's the focus on statements (tweets) rather than conversation, but holy crap what an unpleasant place to hang out.

I'm still drawn to it like a car crash but think I'll happily go back to pretending it doesn't exist soon enough.

It also affirms my belief that anonymous social networks are the way to go for discussion. An official announcements platform from the famous the the masses has value as well but it's a different thing entirely.
I'm trying these colors as a tweak of dark solarized in my terminal. The contrast is improved, yes, but on the other hand the red is breaking my mind. It is obviously red when you look at it but I keep seeing it as a magenta (albeit entirely different from the palette's actual magenta). Likewise the normalized contrast between the background and yellow and green has made yellow and green hard to distinguish. I can only conclude that the uneven contrast in vanilla solarized is a feature not a bug.
I pay for Copilot. Integrates with my neovim and my Jetbrains IDEs. I love it. Great stuff honestly.

My favourite use is at the command line. It's great!

I pay for it myself and use it in all sorts of contexts.

EDIT: Actually, perhaps that is actually smart. If you want to find people who would pay for dev software you probably should target people who pay for dev software already. Jetbrains is better for paid plugins than VS Code by this logic.
Out of interest, how are you using it to write tests? Do you just write "make a test for functionX" or something?

(Don't have much experience with it)
Hearing about this, my mind immediately went to the VC scene from Silicon Valley where they get better offers the more rude they are to the VCs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6Zz-Nkkaxc

Evidently there was some major truth behind that.
> Developers are somewhat reluctant to pay for tools but I think you can get them to pay for things that are worth it. I've been paying for code editors for years.

Especially when you don't market to developers in general, but freelancers/contractors specifically. It might be hard to sell to salaried developers (they'll buy because it's nicer to work with good tools), but it's easy to sell tooling to anyone who makes more money when they get more done.
When hosting your own IRC server, you can "force-join" users to arbitrary channels to replicate what it's like to join a discord guild. Pine64 does it, for example.
Readium LCP will be an alternative to adobe ADE.
>> The equivalent would be something like if a large HFT firm like Citadel, Virtu, or one of the others had the same ownership with a brokerage like Robinhood...

Yeah.
"Bourgeois" is not defined by how much you make per year. It's defined by your relationship to the means of production.
It goes much farther than that I think the most interesting use of its API i've seen was using the dumb little reaction "press icon to add to the counter thing" as a way to opt in or confirm stuff.

I remember one server where the #welcome channel just have a bunch of "categories" to choose from and depending on which one you clicked you got assigned a role that unlocked a bunch of channels related to the topic. Some also used it to the new user onboarding where you got access once you read the rules and accepted it by clicking the reaction.

> So in a sense announcement only channels are much less useful because users cant find them (not to mention lack of history if you dont have a bouncer).

That's my issue with projects or corporations using discord for generic chat - it is entirely undiscoverable to outside world, can't just google a question.
My university had adopted a no-wifi policy for about a decade, based on flawed research on safety of wireless communications by the individual who was the university president at the time. Fortunately, the whole university benefited from being wired with 100 and 1000 MBit anywhere you went.

There was a lot of Civ games played with my group.
Germany leveled to the ground in 1945, occupied up to 1955
I'd like to see older MS-DOS and Windows on there for comparison; I remember dualbooting 98se and XP for a while in the early 2000s and the former was noticeably more responsive.

Another comparative anecdote I have is between Windows XP and OS X on the same hardware, wherein the latter was less responsive. After seeing what GUI apps on a Mac actually involve, I'm not too surprised: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11638367
Hmmm, I can see why you're doing this. But if you don't trust TODO comments to be useful and/or addressed in a timely manner then having a bunch of Jira tickets won't help you either.

I've made the exact same experience you describe with both tickets and comments. Ancient tickets, somewhere deep in the backlog with cryptic descriptions. Or even better, high prio bugs that never get picked up by the teams. Same with TODOs and FIXMEs.

In both cases it's probably a good idea to just remove the perceived issue after a while. Backlog tickets and todo comments are not like wine, they don't age well. IMO they behave more like compost heaps. :-)
Depends, I don't use them myself (yet) so I usually get out of bed in the morning to use the toilet.
Fair. Not everyone spent 12 hours per day on their computer like me! They probably had friends and stuff. :)
I don't think so.

In person I tend to look into people's eyes for mostly the whole conversation (easily 95% of the time) when I'm either listening or talking minus natural breaks to react to a noise or event that warrants looking away. I've had really long chats like this where I never got a hint someone was weirded out.

Honestly I couldn't even imagine talking with someone without looking at them. In my mind that would be one of the rudest things you could do, especially if they're the one talking. I also wonder if this comes down to how you feel about yourself. I think when you're looking at someone's eyes you know what they're looking at it. For me, knowing where they're looking makes me more relaxed.

I'm in the US and don't recall ever being brought up a certain way, it just "feels" right to do the above.
Vapor: Swift, but on a Server
It was the late 90s, and I remember going to a LAN party in a guy's garage where we all played various games, swapped pirated software, and second most importantly of all, an absolutely terrible VCD pirated copy of the theatrical release of the Matrix that somebody copied off of a PC that came into the repair store they worked at.

One guy realized we could hook the whole ensemble up to a dial-up ISP connection and he could share his connection out to all of us with network gear and we suddenly could access the internet...sorta...very slow and highly unreliable.

When we finally got it sort of working, a few of us all joined demoscene and gaming IRC channels and tried to sorta build a "meta" LAN party across the globe with everybody at their own local party all coordinated and joked around in the shared chat.

We'd send somebody off every few hours for a pizza run, and it being autumn, got pretty chilly by around 2-3am. Lots of caffeine, soda, coffee, and most importantly community and fun.

Days like those, where we were connecting to each other on the very edges of technology may never really come again sadly.
It's often less efficient and slower to hit a target in GEO from GEO than from the ground
> he’s arguing 10x Kelly makes sense because when you win such a crazy long shot bet you’ll have enough money to change the world and money doesn’t actually have a diminishing utility ever.

right he also had a thing in there where i think he was conflating the log utility in kelly with human’s tendency to have a logarithmic view of the utility of money.

they’re not actually connected, they’re just both the words “log utility”.
Great, cheers
You don’t need to do any of this. Exchange controls were relaxed a while ago and taking money out of South Africa isn’t difficult for most people.
>€

Contact your regional consumer protection agency.

>did their utmost best to not need a helpdesk

EU is pretty serious about ability to contact real live person on the other end of any business operating in EU.

> I am a customer

no you arent
Long comments like this often look like they're going to present a serious diatribe but this is actually a balanced take.

The line "The two mega coal power stations have been beset with issues as well" even radically undersells just how much of a debacle these two power stations have been. They were supposed to be the 8th/9th biggest coal stations in the world & accurately sized to solve the pending shortages in time, the major contracts went to legitimate companies like Alstom, GE & Hitachi. They were supposed to take approx. 5 years from 2007 and cost a reasonable approx. R30 billion each.

What's actually happened is that 15 years later neither is fully operational and the money spent has crossed 10x the original plans. The parts of the stations that currently do work are hamstrung by massive and debilitating design flaws that regularly cause trips or bigger issues (e.g. a smoke stack collapse last month) and there is no clear end for the construction in site even after all this time & money. And these aren't complex nuclear plants - these are just standard coal power stations. How to build them is quite well understood by now!

It's a combination of sustained and massive corruption (every now and then the current administration finds a few extra billion to recoup from a corrupt contractor), poor original designs that have complicated every subsequent step in the waterfall chart and finally unfortunate incompetence (for instance one of the 6 units at Medupi was entirely blown up after hydrogen wasn't vented before maintenance. The entire generator room must now be replaced with new parts from France at the cost of multiple billions of rands and over a year and a half of additional delay).

Finally, w.r.t. the reforms mention in parent comment's final line - I think they have a chance. South Africa has previously had a radically regulated energy sector. Basically you couldn't generate your own power, period. But due to the pressing political weight of the current situation there have been increasing steps away from the ideological commitment to exclusively state run coal powered grid. Large energy users and businesses can now do paperwork for approval to run their own multi-megawatt stations and basically every big factory, mine, mill etc. is now doing this to varying degrees. The big mining houses especially will spend a lot of money building their own infrastructure now. Between allowing the grid to buy private power (a lot of which is affordably priced renewable energy) and a lot of heavy demand starting to make its own power I think there's a fair chance things will stabilize in the next 2 years. The big question is electoral conferences and the next elections. If EFF wins meaningful electoral power there is a strong chance SA will go the route of Venezuela quicker than people think - and I say that as someone who is very committed to staying here and doesn't subscribe to most of the negative takes people can have about SA.
Thanks! It hasn't been super publicized yet which is a bit surprising, but here's an article about it https://www.fragomen.com/insights/colombia-new-immigration-l...
Yes, if you show an example, or even have the test file open, it will make the other tests for you.
I think that thread is being widely misinterpreted. Kelly betting applies to repeated bets. At the start of the thread he makes it clear he's talking about a one-off. In that situation, EV really does scale linearly with bet size, so if you have any edge you should just go big.

You can argue that there is no such thing as a one-off bet, because there will always be more bets on other things for someone who isn't ruined, but that's the explicit assumption for that thread.
This metric seems silly on its face. 10 bucks to get 18% more productivity out of a $10k per month developer? If this was indeed the case, everyone who employs software engineers would instantly pay this. Maybe they should have marketed more? Or maybe there are other problems with the technology (e.g., fears over copyright infringement?).
FWIW, I just tried it on iPhone and works for me...
This is the first time I heard of Kite and I frequent HN a lot.

Maybe they should have spent more budgets on marketing.

That said, I agree that no one wants to pay for developer productivity. The only exceptions are IDE and databases.