skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One interesting property of the Laptop Class is the contempt with which they treat everyone else who isn’t part of the club. There are still countless posts from the lockdown era as evidence of this. Many right here on HN.

People collecting 200k to sit at home in air conditioned rooms, tweeting rants at mom n pop shops calling them ignorant and stupid for the crime of having to go outside to make a living. Then reminding him how “we’re all in this together.”

Just spend 5 minutes on HN or LinkedIn and watch how many of these pseudo-intellectuals talk down not only to outsiders but to one another. It’s really something to be hold it’s like a race to the bottom of people think they are the smartest / most morally superior members of society.

Of course this is nothing new. Historically it was the church or academia. Now it’s the laptop class.
Why should I have to prepare you for a discussion that you've already jumped into unprepared? The data is out there.
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> I'm sure you really tip the scales.

Why get so upset about someone whom you are apparently certain has no impact?
Finds? Or predicts?
You're safe with me, as I eschew use of rhetorical tricks and traps in debate
(people try them all the time on me). I do my best to rely on facts and reason. I only take sides that I believe are correct.

I believe that if one espouses honest opinions, and they don't hold up to facts and reason, one should re-evaluate those opinions, or acquire a stronger basis for them.
The legacy back-end system being migrated was Clipper + dBase III on DOS, which is reminiscent of COBOL.

The part I added was built with ASP.NET 2.0 on top of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and was eventually upgraded to 4.0 and 2008 respectively.

The only magic sauce was the use of SQLCLR to embed a few small snippets of C# code into the SQL Server database engine. This allowed the full-text indexing to be specialised for the high level data partitioning. Without this, searches would have taken up to ten seconds. With this custom search the p90 response time was about 15 milliseconds! I believe PostgreSQL is the only other popular database engine out there that allows this level of fine-tuned custom indexing.
I don't think I disagree with either of those statements, and I don't think they refute anything I said (in case that was your intention).
That's a good point, we should probably dial down the nostalgia a bit and give it a more distinctive identity.
I appreciate your initiative!
This is great advice - I learned a slightly different way…

I’d saved up for a while when I was 20ish, and I wanted a NEW car. Only thing I could get a loan for was the cheapest offering - a stripped manual Honda Fit. I fell in love with it and ordered one from Japan (they didn’t have a fully stripped version for sale in my town, so it was a “special” order).

Long story short, I learned to drive stick for the first time when I picked it up from the lot with zero miles and had to drive it home, and then to work the next day… that first commute was UGLY. But I more or less had the hang of it by the time I got home that night. I still drive that car daily almost two decades later - and I absolutely still love it. It’s never needed one thing beyond regular maintenance in all those 150k miles. They literally don’t make ‘um like that any more.
So - were helping knock out China’s last regional threat and renewing an enemy that could have been turned into an ally two decades ago?

That seems like a terrible investment.
"Virtually" - is murder even a federal crime in the United States?
Yeah that was my thought. What's the difference between this and actually deleting the tweet? If nobody but you can see your tweet (without linking to it directly) is it even a tweet then?
This is not really correct.

I can create a private group that excludes people who wear purple, because purple wearing is not a protected class under law. I can do the same for people who program in APL, or who have ever ridden a tricycle, or listen to "Freebird".

However, I cannot create a private group that excludes on the basis of any protected status (e.g. sex, religion, ethnicity, age).
Death penalty would perhaps be suitable if customers died because of Theranos' faulty products. I'm not familiar with this case in detail but I know she scammed patients with her blood tests. Imagine your doctor scamming you with your health records?! That reminds me of a horror movie Jigsaw where main antagonist gets his cancer X-ray record mixed up with other patient's record. I agree 11 years is a light sentence. If I was judge I would give her 20 years.
> Nowadays, I'm sure we could software-automate a mechanically manual transmission to have the same driver experience as an automatic...

Paddle-shifters and CVTs, right?
At some point tacking years on just doesn't do anything to change the reality of the sentence.
That's just how everyone makes tablets now. I wish things were different, but they aren't.
As far as I know, that was originally posted by @ndrew_lawrence on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/105039166355267174...
I get Honeycrisp at my local market that I don't like much (other bags are great).

I have some hope that the newer trademarked varieties will be able to/choose to control for growing conditions so that they are more consistent.
And lithium batteries have a 3 decade history of 80% price reductions per decade.
Yes, it is. For instance, if you deliberately murder a senator. 18 USC 111.

I think a bunch of different kinds of federal crimes (like major drug crimes) will also port their accompanying murder charges to federal court.
It’s bizarre to see such comments on HN. Short-term it get that gains on the geopolitical storm, long-term I feel that will e very bad for the developers community.
Like you said the problem is the things you need in order to survive and work, healthcare and housing have become absurdly expensive.
Sequoia was also backing Musk's takeover of Twitter. Not sure if they ended up investing.

If they did then their record is looking pretty poor right now.
I've taught around a dozen folks how to drive stick, and I finally found a method that reliably worked to make it "click" more quickly. When they get in the car, I tell them to forget about the gas and brake pedals and pretend the only pedal that exists is the clutch.

In first gear, I have them release it slowly until the car starts going, then have them push it in until the car rolls to a stop. Take breaks, explain what the clutch is doing. Repeat until they start getting bored.

Then introduce the brake pedal. Tada! You can stop more quickly now.

Finally, the gas pedal. You can push it until the engine shrieks in protest! If only there were a way to get it to quiet down but still keep your speed....

Of course, you need a very large, very flat surface for this method to work. But I've had a lot more success since starting to do it this way.
I'm not voting because I think it's true or untrue (although I do think it's untrue) I'm downvoting because it's an extraordinary claim offered with absolutely zero evidence, and I've watched the entire Western world practically collapse from offering credence to this behavior over the past decade.
Or he was the lynchpin in killing crypto and thus brought a great good to the world in the end (at big expense to those caught in it).

I don’t believe that, but seems equally valid
Someone ought to make a museum of failed products. These two exhibits would be a great start!
Cuz they espouse advice without having proven it in practice. When I say at scale, I mean they literally haven't shipped any software of note, I don't mean software that's getting hit by an arbitrary number of req/s. Why I think this matters? They haven't demonstrated that their rather arbitrary list of Good Things help make successful software.

Also, some of the advice is just provably nonsensical. Like "uncle" bob says the "ideal argument's number for a function is zero (niladic function)" which is absurd. It either means your function is impure, or is literally a constant.

Most of it is just very shallow stuff that's mostly applicable to Java/C#/OO languages. A lot of the patterns might even be considered antipatterns in other languages.

I just don't find stuff written by these guys very insightful or useful.
US can build reactors in 13 years in the same fictional scenario where Russian government can be competent and can substitute all the foreign components it needs, especially electronics, with home grown ones.

Back in the real world, US is taking decades to build a railway and Russia's import substitution programm is 90% fraud - they buy from Czech Republic kits for assembly of Tractors, out them together in Russia and call them 'russian-built'.

You cannot just hand-wave away political issues, incompetence and corruption.
Also, there's 3 messages that I keep trying to request encryption key and nothing happens (it's been a week)... I can decrypt older and newer messages from the same user in the same "room" though.

If I can reproduce the bug consistently, I will file a bug report. It happens very often when you signin on a new device.
Actually the Apostles try having "all things in common" for a while in Acts 4 or so, find that their initial ideas don't work out that great (see, e.g. Ananias), but eventually set up institutions of communal living with some monasteries and such.
By anyone who uses them as the loaded terms that they are.

Oh, how I would hope that "positivity" and "negativity" would be understood as relating to position and negation, like in your example! But in practical usage (as in "stay positive" or "we don't want that kind of negativity around here") they're semantic stopsigns for silencing voices that express unhappiness.

I think the term for a culture of only accepting expressions of happiness as valid, with the goal of suppressing constructive disagreement, is "toxic positivity".
I think once manifest destiny and the American Indian wars started, a case could be made. Indian removal[0] at the very least seems like ethnic cleansing, and there are plenty of accounts of wholesale massacres of natives by European settlers and soldiers.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_removal
https://sfzoning.deapthoughts.com. It changed the conversation about zoning in San Francisco, and lots of politicians and activists now quote the topline stat (apartments are illegal to build in 3/4 of San Francisco).
> But the same knowledge that allowed them to identify a doctored video (like 50hz/60hz hum) could be in an adversarial manner to create a very convincing video.

I don't think it's automatically true that being good at spotting fakes means that you're good at generating fakes. For example, I suspect that I, like most humans, would be pretty good at spotting humanoid robots at the current level of terminology. However, that does not suggest that I would be particularly good at creating humanoid robots that would evade detection.
Thanks! Whisper is a lot of fun but it didn't take long before I wanted to build a frontend. And then I built something that I think came out super nice so why not share it with people. I used to pay $100/month for transcriptions and this works a lot better for me so might as well open-source transcription if I can, but I give all the credit to Whisper that module they put out is amazing
Hah, point taken. When he sued other research over their research, I think he became highly political within the field, even if not along US national political lines.
It would be more useful if one could directly paste links to videos online as well. But yeah, in general this is extremely useful. I'm looking forward to video site integration. Would be great if youtube could finally retire their horrible auto caption function for something that actually works. Being able to easily watch media in different languages from around the world will be an absolute game changer.
Scrypt is memory hard. The reason ASICs were easy to make was the small memory requirement chosen to make PoW verification not too slow.
sharedsolar.org

Back in 2010, I built the software systems to manage solar-powered microgrids providing prepaid electricity in remote, rural offgrid communities with no internet connectivity. People could pay for the electricity service when they wanted and could, with no minimum amounts required; aside from the tech, we wanted to demonstrate a viable, sustainable business model for scaling so free electricity was not the objective.

Constraints for the software system running at the microgrid included - server hardware should not draw more than an energy-efficient bulb at peak load, cost <$100, little-no internet conn in the regions we deploy but remote access required, little-no technical capacity available locally (made things interesting for debug/updates...), integrate with meters + charge controllers + gsm modules etc each speaking potentially different protocols, allow for meter data collection every 1-3 seconds(!) and utilized in distribution + tariff accounting, etc.

Took about 3-4 months to go from concept note to first field deployment in Mali. Over the course of the next couple of years, increased robustness and features and expanded to over 20 villages in East and West Africa (Mali, Uganda). These were all villages/communities that for the first time had homes with AC-electric outlets that they used then for applications like lighting, cell charging, small fans, etc.
Yes, I do a lot of macOS inside macOS, but I do Windows and Ubuntu, too.

The macOS support was just horrible in the last 1-2 years. I had purchased copies for 3 machines and I couldn't get stuff to work on any of them.
It appears that three of these that you listed, which are the most silencing, will no longer be used (assuming legal content): post removals, temporary bans, permanent bans.

I don't understand how the new policy is "status quo", if this is true. That's a very significant change of policy.
Arduino Nano with Raspberry Pi Pico Chip
Strange, I thought this would be people posting six or so screenshots of source code they’ve recently committed!
Here it says Germans are paying 13.58 c/kWh. I was under the impression that most Germans are paying >30 c/kWh. Source below. Makes me question the rest of the article.

https://www.vattenfall.de/stromtarife?plz=10117&consumption=...

I see the cheapest price as 33.12 c/kWh.
> CEO's are climbing over themselves to pay $150k to $250k year to someone who does only 2 to 4 hours of real work per day.

Some or many of the resigned or fired Twitter engineers will be able to find work at over $250k per year, actually. That should be easy for anyone at the initial senior level.

For that matter $150k is doable even for a mid level engineer at a mid-tier non-faang "boring" company these days.

You sound out of touch with the US software labor market of today.
1. The underlying logic behind earning to give is sound. You flying over to Africa or whatever to do charitable activities (digging a well?) is obviously going to be less impactful than you working at some high paid white collar job and then donating the money to pay some local laborers to do the same job.

2. Contrary to what you think, there's nothing about effective altruism that requires/wants you to donate to effective altruism organizations. Yes, there are effective altruism funds that effectively collect money and donate them to the most impactful causes, but there are also sites like givewell that tells you which charities are doing the most impactful work. I don't see how the latter is ponzi-like in any way. Even the former isn't really ponzi-like unless there's high administrative overhead (ie. most of the money isn't getting disbursed to charities and is instead spent on admin expenses).

3. This whole comment feels like an attack on a strawman on effective altruism and/or earning to give. The EA people I know of definitely do not give me the impression that they're willing to commit crimes so they can divert more money to EA/charities. I'll admit that I'm not deep into EA, so it's possible that I didn't witness their secret meetings where they they do discuss this. What you're doing feels like attacking utilitarians (eg. Peter Singer or John Stuart Mill) by saying that the logical conclusion to their ideology "creates an excuse to act outrageously evil "for the good of the longterm""
Someone should buy twelve 21:9 monitors and place them side-by-side to watch the video (almost) fullscreen.
If there's one thing that recent events have shown is that we need more regulation, not less.
You can only get 54 days per year of good time credit and there is no parole in the Federal system, she is nearly guaranteed to serve ~9 years.
Many modern stickshifts have hill assist, so if you're fortunate enough to be teaching on a model with this, you either want to temporarily disable it (if possible) or at least communicate the right way to do it and what might happen if they're going to driver an older car.
From what I’ve been told, compared to the State penitentiaries, the Feds is relatively easy. Using this is a reference, for a person like Elizabeth Holmes, I reckon that 11 years will not be as punishing as the person I am responding to imagines. If anything, at some point, she may be given access (either legally or illegally) to a smartphone device that will enable her to interact with the outside world (as is very common in prison, the phones aren’t cheap but I don’t think she’d have trouble getting a hold of one).
I'm curious if he always has bodyguards when in the office.

If you antagonize enough super-stressed-out employees, I'd think one will eventually lose it.
Quite insane. If you ever write about it, I'll surely be reading.
I don't necessarily disagree, but was answering from the perspective of generic insulin purchased without insurance.

Why is Insulin aspart $70 for 1,000 units at walmart, but much cheaper in India.
Read Bad Blood and you will understand why.
So close. The correct house is Ali Khamenei‘s
Next stop: the stars. All of them. That we can see, anyway O_O
It wouldn't be Ticketmaster's turn if it hadn't got caught up in a Taylor Swift news cycle.
Thanks, this made me realize how good Haskell is for declaring API routing.
I was a warehouseman in the Marine Corps in the late 90s. Our warehouse was absolute garbage. we couldn't fill something like 30% of our orders because we couldn't find the items or the inventory was off. We were also still running on nightly batches from some IBM AS400 system. I wrote a receiving program to print labels and properly assign stock locations to incoming inventory. Coupled with better control procedures we turned the ~$4MM operation around and ran at over 99% efficiency. Earned myself two NAMs for that work. It was 100% VB with a custom flat-file database.

Then I stopped working on software for ~15 years because I burned out
You're correct that it's not necessarily a single group of people. The broader point is that perhaps the pendulum has swung too far in favor of people who say no to... a wide variety of things, many of which would benefit society.
At work: In house tool for helping image computers without interacting with them as much. (I work in IT)
I've heard of the endless disruption that leap seconds cause for years and only now have I thought to ask the question: what was so important that the entire world needed to add or subtract individual seconds from the calendar? Seems like you'd need a pretty big justification for something like that, but I only here the horror stories, not what the leap second was supposed to actually solve.
At the very least it calls into question their due diligence process.

I mean how did dozens of big investment firms put money into this thing without even seeing the balance sheet? Which would have immediately exposed them as fraudulent
Effective altruism is about taking a desire to do good. So I’m not sure how criminals can be doing EA.

Is el Mencho doing EA? He gave some toys and even suggested that they will stop killing priests.
There has to be some punishment. If I steal $100 from you and the risk is I get caught and all I would have to do is give it back then there would be a lot more white collar crime.
> The Typst language is Turing-complete, dynamically typed, and not macro-based.

Knuth did a lot right, and some things wrong, when designing with TeX, but I think he has said that he regrets allowing Guy Steele to convince him to make TeX Turing complete, and that makes sense to me. Sometimes I want lots of computing power when typesetting a document, but more often I want to know that I can TeX a document sent to me without worrying that I will be opening myself up to unforeseen exploits. There's a reason that good security involves turning off VBA macros in Office documents from an external source!
> 80% accuracy

Sentiment analysis is way worse than that in adversarial scenarios, where a human is trying to outwit the machine.

My prediction for this whole thing: Elon Musk [again] gets swept up by AI hype, tries to replace humans with software, and it doesn't work. Like at Tesla, so at Twitter.
>Website: ip4.me/ip6.me

>At work: the CDN for Megaupload. I was also the guy who had to shut it down when the FBI seized it.

>adult LEGO fan conference

Wow, what a small world. That's what I love about HN. The people that make things you use are on it :)

I wish I had something nearly as impressive. I just have open source stuff that people use. Nothing recognizable though.
There are some of us who don't consider children a thing anybody has a "right" to have.
Some things I built on the side, outside of my day job:

In the late 90's, I sold a command-line SMTP e-mailer for Windows. It was easy enough for folks to integrate e-mail transmission into their systems ... even 16-bit systems since spawning a copy of the shell would allow 16-bit systems to invoke my 32-bit mailer. Lots of folks had used these tools for all sorts of things. I got registration checks and cash from around the world before I started taking credit card payments.

I have an open source command-line MP3 player for Windows that folks still use and incorporate into their systems, JS libraries for node.js, ...etc.

https://github.com/jimlawless/cmdmp3
Let’s put things in perspective.

A typical median families income was approx. $70k in 2021. That covers multiple people, and in general across the US is enough to pay for housing, schooling, medical care, etc.

A lifetime of that (inflation adjusted) is usually enough for someone to retire somewhere.

If you take the 48 years from 18 to social security retirement age of 66, that would make a median lifetimes earnings $3,360,000 in 2021 dollars.

Holmes got nearly $1bln from investors in the Theranos mess, which is 297 lifetimes worth of median earnings, which considering that directly maps to someone (or multiple someones) working hard for that time, can be consider ‘life’s works’.

She was convicted of fraud on at least $140 million of wire transfers out of that, or ‘only’ 41 life’s works.

While 11 years is a long time, the destruction of value done is nothing to scoff at.

With decent leadership, 300 people working for their entire lives could accomplish a lot of great things.

Of course, it could also be blown on crypto scams and lambos. It’s not a perfect comparison.