skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Women who cannot get pregnant is not a vanishingly small subset of women. There are many XX women who cannot get pregnant who are subject to a cruel assessment that their value and identity as women is severely impacted. There are several such women in my life, and they are important to me. This is a very real thing and you are eliding it with a clumsy and goofy spew about the rights a language has or the suggestion that concern about it is bad faith twitter argument. Honestly, that sounds like projection.

I didn't realize I had to say this so explicitly. The way you wrote your comment indicated that the definition of 'woman' is someone who can get pregnant. If this is not what you intended to communicate, then your wording is at fault.

I responded by questioning the argument. I asked, based on what you wrote, what that meant to you as far as 'biological' women who are not able to get pregnant. There was no trap of logic, no pedantry, no counterargument. I asked questions about what you meant. And yes, I am genuinely curious how someone who argues that women=fertile person would categorize my friend who had her reproductive organs removed as a child.

The "spurious analogy to mathematical language" was an attempt to efficiently illustrate the meaning of your own words as written based on an understanding I assumed you would have.

Further, it genuinely reads to me that you're claiming no argument can ever be valid unless you cannot be questioned when saying "the English word for 'roasted bird' is 'chicken.'"
He might need the money…I’ve seen plenty of people blow it all on stupid things who should have been set for life.

But in any case it is sad.
> 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). Then, sort employees by votes, and viola, at the top, you will get your true core team (which may not match perfectly to seniority, number of lines of code written, etc.).

This will get you a list of solid team players. It's a list of who can keep a company going, but not the company.
What's the story with nullability in Java these days? I used to be a Java dev, and NullPointerExceptions were a thorn in my side.

Kotlin has (real, language-level) non-nullable references, which strikes me as a big improvement.
> 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.

Well it is a software engineering company/business is it not?

The socially connected engineer will know more people who can be leveraged to meet the goals of the organization, even if they themselves are not as capable in isolation.

If businesses were judged on metrics like “most autonomous engineers who can write perfect code” then the businessy types would be disadvantaged (and the company would fold)
Not only is it heavy, it is very complex. If I were to make a Matrix client I would for better or worse be forced to rely on someone else having implemented a library for the protocol or most likely spend months on building one myself. IRC is so simple that it does not get in the way and you can roll a bot in less than 100 lines – protocol included.

Is IRC crufty at times? Yes. Is it arcane at times? Yes. But I personally will take worse being better in this case. In particular, I find the incredible client diversity to showcase the power of a simple, open protocol. You really can find a client that operates the way you want it to operate and if you for some reason can not, it is not daunting to patch or hack one on your own.
> If they don't violate US laws can you explain how they're examples of how the US doesn't' respect the rule of law?

They are special exceptions to the normal process of law that favour particular actors. Rule of law means that the processes of law must be consistent and public, and fair to all sides; people need to be able to tell their stories publicly in order to be able to find relevant witnesses, for example.
> and Alyssa said something along the lines of "we are very far away" I lost hope a bit.

I think the quote you're thinking of was a reference to modern OpenGL and Vulkan support, not accelerated graphics in general. Older OpenGL is a lot easier to implement, and sufficient for an accelerated desktop and games like Minecraft.

Marcan and Alyssa have been saying for a while that we were on track to get GPU acceleration in the near-ish future.
> someone does (or did) indeed know what the computer is doing for any given component within any layer of code.

It’s not unusual that code isn’t quite doing what its author thinks it’s doing. Secondly, the “did know” is important. The detailed comprehension of what some code is (supposed to be) doing tends to fade quicker than we would like, and intent often goes undocumented.
Hotel staff get in, for most needs you have to go out of your room. With airbnb, unless you choose a private room, renting the whole house or apartment means you don't have to worry about other people. Of course like hotels there are bad airbnb hosts that spy on you or intrude on your stay (that's what reviews and ratings are for)
So they wanted to run forever in the background and they'd already gotten in trouble for silently collecting telemetry?

Sounds like everyone has dodged a bullet!
And this:
https://www.tralac.org/news/article/6931-surge-in-botswana-s...
Something I've come to believe is that in large tech companies the Pareto principle is not true because only 20% of SWEs are good and the rest suck. More likely, the majority of engineers are blocked in some way from delivering.

Dependencies on other teams, management constantly changing their mind, having to put out fires, helping other teams, etc. There are very few teams where this kind of thing doesn't happen.

Also, something to keep in mind when saying things like "you can fire 80% of your SWEs and survive" is slack. You might survive, but have no slack which means any sort of tail event is going to destroy your company.
I'm not feeling the async pressure (2020)
This. When I bought my 2018 Model 3, the tablet interface was a joy to use. Every function was obvious, critical functions were at top level. The more recent interface has buried every useful function into some tiny submenu which is labeled only with a non-intuitive icon rather than any text. And for some reason all the text has been re-rendered in medium-gray on dark gray, which makes it unusable. It’s still basically “fine” but I’ve never seen such a reduction in UX quality happen without a user base rebelling before.
that's honestly a better route. battlescribe has more data, but the schema is a nightmare and gives me headaches.
I believe you’re oversimplifying.

The approach that seems most common with serious Erlang systems is to identify the common errors and handle them without crashing.

Crashing on less common, or impossible to reproduce, errors allows you to gradually improve your error handling over time if it’s worthwhile, or just allow it to continue to crash into a saner state.

See the “bohrbug” vs “heisenbug” discussion: https://ferd.ca/the-zen-of-erlang.html
Many people are discussing the possible collapse of Grayscale (GBTC) and/or Tether. PG is not really adding anything to the discussion.
All we know is that some anonymous person told Paul Graham "the cryptocurrency economy will shortly experience a systemic risk" and Paul decided to echo that statement without any explanation.
For others who, like me, had no idea these were ever a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_zoo

Jeeze.
Me too - I would, on the other hand, pay to use VS Code instead of Intellij if I had to.
I'm curious to see how this pans out for Twitter. I suspect this is true in theory, but in practice, finding the right 20% is hard, you can't do it as bluntly as Musk, and the "extremely hardcore" ultimatum will scare away people in that 20% who will take a few months severance to be done with the drama.
IT departments in the various branches of the administration have to follow the guidelines of the government, it's not really hard to implement in that sense. What's harder is avoiding shadow IT.
I see [1] speculate that Coinbase users could be considered unsecured general creditors, and therefore lower priority to repay than secured creditors. That does seem bad on it's own. But nothing about equity investors having higher priority on funds. Is there some extra subtlety around e.g. shares being convertible into debt or something weird?

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-11/coinbase-...
Ask HN: Cybersecurity for Elderly Family Members
What are your tips & advice to protect elderly family members from ransomware/ phishing scams/ malware pop ups?

ie. I am thinking about putting their home routers behind NextDNS that can be managed passively/remotely.

Many email security tools (ie. Proofpoint) are not commonly available to consumers, but can be very helpful for the elderly. Obviously, there’s some effort to regularly maintain the setup.
> Our remodeled house feels the right size. Not because of the sqft, but because of the layout. We looked at 3k sqft houses prior to remodeling and they felt smaller than our 2.1k sqft one despite an extra 50% of floor space.

I'll echo this. We (family of 4) remodeled our 1500sqft 3BD/2BA to a 1600sqft 4BD/3BA, but the house feels larger than some 2k sqft houses because of the clever space design, because of a double height atrium and a large open kitchen.
It's nice that they explicitly addressed people who view Google as an attack vector.
I think many people would have argued beforehand that twitter in particular was overstaffed, and that you could safely cut large portions of their employees without much loss. In properly run companies, employees are already justified in terms of revenue or other value they bring to the company. If you fire them, you know concretely what the company will lose. Twitter was notoriously unprofitable, and the employees were instead justified in terms of the greenfield work they were doing to bring the company into profitability in the future. Except that clearly wasn't happening, and probably would never happen if they continued down the same trajectory. I don't think there are many lessons regarding that that generalize to other companies. We might carve out a category of company called a "post-startup", being a company that has gone through the startup phase of rapid growth in userbase, but that never moved onto the stage of "established company", owing to a difficulty finding their proper business model. Such a company might reasonably benefit from a large staff reduction. For other companies this is less clear.
Hey that's awesome! They work really, really well for the way I read HN. Thanks for suggesting this, and thanks to 'dang et al for the implementation!
It is very cheap compared to what developers usually earns.
> The Pareto principle is “80% of consequences come from 20% of causes”. And as an extension of this, 80% of results are delivered by 20% of engineers.

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.

Seriously: who writes this dreck? You don't have to believe that every single employee at a company is productive or necessary to understand that you can't saddle your remaining employees, even if you picked the "right" ones, with the remaining workload.
What exactly do you expect them to do?
You can't grow though, and you'll continue to degrade. Your market position will be static. You will get disrupted. Fat staffing at tech companies is about securing the future as much as the present.
Watching hockey is really awful as a result of sports betting.

When I moved back to Canada from Japan, I wanted to watch the Stanley Cup Playoffs with my kids. (I used to watch Hockey online with my wife but after we had kids, we cancelled the service)

I bought an online package from Sportsnet and was immediately horrified at the number of gambling-related ads. It's not that it was a new concept; horse race betting is a common activity in Japan, and I even remembered a kid from grade 5 proudly betting on some Lotto Quebec games (Mise O Jeu) when I was growing up.

However, I never saw the stuff advertised so blatantly in a media that is so likely to be consumed by families. I resent it, especially since the NHL package in Japan included none of this.

I cancelled Sportsnet subscription after the local team ended their playoff run, and will never subscribe again. I might go watch a local WHL game but I think professional sports are a cesspool.
> Bloat is kind of a lot of businesses business.

One person's bloat is another person's critical feature. The vast majority of people use a small percentage of Microsoft Excel features, but the feature use is such that you cannot replace Excel without supporting all this esoteric stuff some small percent of users are leveraging. Excel's "bloat" gives it a competitive edge over the competition and makes it difficult to replace because of all of these edge cases in use.
digression: on macOS it is possible to manage apfs snapshots manually, though it's not great. You take a snapshot with `tmutil snapshot /`, list them with `tmutil listlocalsnapshots /`, and then use the undocumented `tmutil mountlocalSnapshots / <snapshot date>` command to mount a local snapshot. Deleting a snapshot is frustrating though. macOS thins them automatically as the free disk space diminishes. Or you can sort of trigger snapshot deletion with `tmutil thinlocalsnapshots <mount_point> [purgeamount] [urgency]` but it's not explicit what will get thinned. Also all snapshots are at the root file system level. No where near as powerful as zfs, but enough control for my personal uses without relying too much on the whole time machine GUI.
That's why I name my bots "A" and just ban any username with "a" in it. If you can't get it 100% right, fuck it, do whatever you want.
Everytime I read about the antics here I'm just reminded of Mark Twain's Roughin It. His adventures as a 'journalist' in Virginia City, NV during the silver rush are just too similar to everything going on right now that it beggars belief. He's not an unknown or unpopular author, though the work is a bit dusty.

If you're interested in the relevant parts, read from about here:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3177/3177-h/3177-h.htm#linkc...
Jeff Bezos on Acquiring Ring
What does that have to do with the kernel?
As someone who has worked for years in crypto, the tweet reads as very late to catching up with things.

After the repeated huge insolvencies of the last few months, everyone in crypto knows there's massive systemic risk, and new risk from ill thought out new regulation. Everyone has their own list of which companies they guess will be next.

It's very hard to take the tweet seriously. It's like walking around in the California hills predicting a forest fire, during a super dry summer, while orange glows from nearby hills light up the smoke that is choking the air, and ash rains down.
"Constant change" is pretty misleading. This is the language's first major version bump in 16 years since its first public release, and there were few significant changes between 2.10 (2013) and now. I struggle to think of another language that has been that stable; even Java has had more breaking changes (at least in practice) in the same time period.
With all the recent calls for transparency and public auditing, I'd guess USDT; My guess is as worth as any though. USDT run would be a mother of all systemic risks barring one of the majors (BTC/ETH/ADA) technical stumbling or second coming of Satoshi (dormant wallets resurrection event).
That is with power tools available. Destruction of nearby medic tents, storehouse, petrol can prevent the repair to Japanese WW2 manual level. That cant fix within 72 hrs. China has huge productivity vs Russia and USA combined. They are the one written Sun Tzu that is used in Westpoint. Taiwan is so near, once carriers are taken out, Guam will be massive bomb with napalm. SK and Japan will seat out because China can nuke them without repercussions. They know USA dont dare to nuke back because of the Kabul flee incident showing how weak American is when their citizen is unhappy. Plus Russia and Iran is on their back. India and Asean will be neutral. USA is pretty much isolated when the war begin. Of yeah, dedollarisation will be in full swing so USA cant touch much China economy without Walmart store running empty. Oil? Russia unlimited. Taiwan? Checkmate. As Chinese there...historically they will surrendar exactly like Ming Taiwan to Qing China. The chess set pieces had USA setup for failure before the opening gambit by Chinese-Putin-Iranian. Think about it, American cant beat Talebans for 20 years with sheer air supremacy, the chances against superpower China+Russia with unlimited oil gas and rare mineral resources plus world gold reserve, USA as according to Ray Dahlio, is declining just like no so great... Great Britain.
If only Jack had not been a part time CEO for all of those years. He should have stepped away when they had their quarters
They're not scams, they created a platform and that's how they fund it. Would you say there is a fair percentage? What are your thoughts on retail stores?
What Elon Musk misses about how this generation works
I’m not a programmer and I pay for github copilot. For me it is worth the productivity boost - even if I just make things for fun.
On a macbook with a M1 pro I generated a single new world that started in a forest biome and with the default settings I got about 80 fps when using a resolution of 854x480.
*Adds to mental list of cool resources that exist on the internet*

Looking at the map with the blue dots, a cool rainy-day project would be to show the pings and pongs flying back and forth :3
Kotlin has always been positioned as a better Java.

But with Java on a faster release schedule the point of Kotlin gets weaker every day.

Scala on the other hand is more and more a true FP language.
Isn’t the biggest reason to build on wheels is to register the tiny house as a vehicle and not pay property taxes on the house value?
https://archive.ph/YLZho
Essentially, energy is carried throughout a circuit by the electric field created by a voltage differential, not by electrons pushing other electrons like how sound is transmitted through a medium. So signals propagate on the same order of magnitude as the speed of light. I think this is a relatively intuitive explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7tQJ42nGno
Logical, fascinating, and terrifying, yes. Actually real? Maybe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_judge_effect
There's smart, but then there's creative. Smart engineers might be wizards of mastering the technology, but creative engineers will re-define the problem domain such that their team can deliver without being blocked by other teams, which is a frequent problem in large organizations. Solving business problems effectively is a different skillset from pure mastery of technology (though, you really do need both).
She's right and I hate it. I used to love programming and now all I can think whenever I see 99% of software is, you don't need this. It exists to prop up capital.

I can't even think of anything useful to code. All the useful stuff has been done.

I just want to play board games with my friends, lift weights, read books, and never use any piece of technology more complex than SMS ever again. I am 25. If the internet weren't responsible for my coming out I'd say burn it all down.
What's the point of even tweeting that? If someone is exposed and following PG, are they just supposed to panic sell now?
Which they have to pay for anyways since they are schools and public admins.
Minor correction but most of the "bootstrapping" work unrelated to the GPU has been done by Hector Martin, Alyssa's focus has always been on the GPU side of it.
Good writing, like anything worth pursuing to a certain level of quality, takes practice. Lots and lots of practice.

Pascal, in a letter, famously wrote something along the lines of "I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter."

More practically, I think Pinker offers great advice in his "The Sense of Style".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sense_of_Style
The cost of maintaining undocumented and/or poorly written code is far lower than maintaining the physical infrastructure the code may have replaced though.

It's great that the industry still has enthusiasm to always improve, but this is not a technical problem. What we are experiencing are organizational problems. Not to kick a hornet's nest, but the flip side of this problem is so many software devs not wanting to work in management.
Even more harrowing, no bidet.
Speaking as an adult diagnosee, whose diagnosis had nothing to do with the behavioral problems in the DSM other than finding a way to fit my actual symptoms to diagnostic criteria, with a caring and mindful intake doctor and then a psychiatrist…

I agree the diagnostics are unhelpful. I think takes like this are equally if not more unhelpful. I definitely struggled with boredom and didn’t mesh with the design of my educational programs… but I also struggled intensely with anxiety and depression, both very deeply rooted in my ADHD experience. I struggled with them for decades before I understood what my experience was and found helpful treatment. I may well have suffered a much less severe and much shorter time had I not had a parent who was just as dismissive of the actual disorder I experience.

Your take is the same as the diagnostics: attributing it to externally observed childhood behavior that doesn’t suit adults. Meanwhile adults with undiagnosed and untreated ADHD experience higher anxiety and depression, higher suicide rates, higher rates of substance abuse. We’re permanently in a state of trauma.

Instead of rescuing kids from symptoms assigned to them by adults, if you want to help kids with ADHD, help them have a voice about what they feel and need.
> many people would have argued beforehand that twitter in particular was overstaffed

Based on what.

Have any of these people worked at Twitter or have any metrics benchmarking it against its peers.
This is all wrong. You can only build great products with people who have enough wherewithal to exercise their personal agency.

When the agency being exercised is departure you get two remainers - the zealots and the hanger-ons.

You can try to roll the clock back to a nimble pivot or preserve startup but you're looking at wildly different skillsets to make that work and those people have likely just left.

It's possible to pump out great things with this configuration, but only a fool would sign up for the task. Or maybe a Michael Milken who fancies himself as a Steve Jobs.
Yeah exactly. Having someone who know reliably who knows what and how to get that person time and attention is important.

Specially in corporate settings where the gears need greasing. People are not gonna magically do the right things. They want context and understand why you are talking to them.
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>so you will always fare better (and usually more environment-friendly) with air cooling.

Sorry but this is not true. One of the key drivers of liquid cooling IS efficiency. Liquids are for more effective at heat transfer than air. Additionally, a liquid can carry a lot more heat. Yes, you can run higher density, you can also indirectly free cool servers year-round, even in tropical climates.
Thank you for all your good advice. I finally chose a more readable font, spaced the columns, added a button to display the document in one column ... and even chose a light background, even if you don't care about the black background. Maybe the final result will be less "insulting" to your eyes and you can give me an opinion on the content?
Ah, it's a good idea to be giving ideas to CEOs and shareholders, oh wait.