skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used a regular back-pocket wallet until 2020 when I didn't use it for a few months except to enter my credit card number online. I'm in the Midwest and it seems that this is still the norm. Maybe things are different on the coasts?
And high-end manufacturing capability is very important to have domestically from a defense perspective.

I recall some NPR story recently about war games the US runs about a hypothetical war with China -- it was said that the US loses most of the time in these simulations. Why? A lack of industrial capability.
Nah, read about Glorifi and their position in relation to ESG. The powers that be got very upset when they perceived funds' ESG rules to be pressuring companies to make what they saw as "woke" changes to the structure and governance of companies.

Just another group of culture warriors biting the dust.
This article had a bunch of interesting insider info on what went down (most of it was news to me as well): https://www.capitolaccountdc.com/p/gambling-on-politics-an-i...
Although I was somewhat joking, the animal world shows a surprising amount of intelligence most people assume isn't there. Mammals especially show a lot of social intelligence. I'm sure there will be many more such discoveries.

I also don't know why I was down-voted!
Em interned with me earlier this year. Have passed the threads over to her.
>Prior to the pandemic, it was the open-office floorplan, and study after study said it was a failure on basically any metric: productivity, spreading of disease, stress…

Certainly, I would respect a study that has been replicated multiple times and shown the same result. Links are welcome!

>Someday, scientists will finally reach the ultimate conclusion: that many companies routinely make poor short-term tradeoffs to their long-term detriment.

I don't believe you can make any "ultimate conclusion". When it comes to human psychology, group behavior, and other complicated topics, there is no 'optimal for everyone'. You have to find what works for you in your environment.

You can't hand-wave science into everything. Science is observational. It's about proposing a model/argument/position, and then collecting data to see if the model holds up. You don't fit data to the model. Changing what you do just so you can fit a model is wrong and bad science.
Mastodon has a really clever approach to verification, based around the rel=me standard.

It lets you add verified links to your profile - which could be another rel=me supporting site (such as GitHub) or your own personal domain.

I wrote some notes about that here: https://til.simonwillison.net/mastodon/verifying-github-on-m...
That's why they are promoting themselves so much on HN now - to encourage talent to come to Meta
I think you'd normally be right, but Meta just laid off 10k+ people, and is currently in a company wide hiring freeze until at least Q1 of 2023. Much of the rest of FAANG is either doing one or both as well.

In Meta's case, they fired a lot of "boot campers" as well, some only a few days into their job and before they had a team. Some returning interns even had their offers rescinded.

Not to sound cynical, but this article feels more like "let us release this to show impact and keep our jobs." Or damage control for their engineering hiring image.
Do you ever feel like you've had enough of working in the IT industry?
I've been working in IT (software developer, architect, devops) for around 20 years now. I've dabbled in pretty much everything. I actually had a passion for it all - I enjoyed every second of what I did. The excitement of learning all that new technology and building something was amazing.

Fast forward to present day - I feel like I've lost that passion I had for technology. I don't feel like working in the industry anymore. Has anyone else gone through this?

I'm thinking of what else I can do with my life. I could focus on my current hobbies and start a business based on those. Not because of money, but because I'm looking for that excitement again.
Why was the title changed away from the article headline? Few people know what a DSID is before reading the article so this seems designed to deliberately bury the lead.
I for one am glad we are finally investigating the real issues of society
You don't have to solve the halting problem every time it presents itself. Otherwise, things like Valgrind and fuzzing wouldn't be valid at all. You just have to improve your odds.

EDIT: An important note to newbs: The Halting Problem is correct. However, a problem which maps to the halting problem can still be solved often enough in practice to make it worthwhile. In fact, entire industries have been born of heuristic solutions to such problems.
Why do you think it's trivial to implement E2EE? It's extremely complicated to do it in a way that works well, and handling things like backup/restore of messages, how to handle key recovery in case of lost devices/logins, how to allow parties to verify each other are all extremely complicated questions both technologically and socially.
At this very moment, reasonable people are debating the very real possibility that Twitter could be removed from both the Apple and Google app stores.

So, doesn't that astonishing fact deny pretty much every claim in your post?

Crazies (the least perjorative term I could think of) that have the power to eject an App used by hundreds of millions of people, from those people's own platform, are dangerous -- to our liberty.

And, when people are starving, and are forced to use only their oppressive regime's worthless money: these issues put citizens' lives at risk.

So, yes: these are things people care about. Many just don't yet realize they could be the victims of these dangerous bullies forcing these sub-standard tools on them.
Starship has twice the thrust of SLS. It could do everything SLS or Saturn 5 can. It just chooses not to because it chooses to be fully reusable. If you stuck a third stage, Orion and an Apollo CM style lander on top of Starship you could do everything in a single launch Saturn 5 style. That's something SLS can't do because Orion is much heavier than Apollo was. But Starship could. It'd have to run expendable.

The difference is that Starship is getting $3B from NASA vs the $40B that SLS got. NASA could get a single launch moon mission using Starship, but they'd have to pay SpaceX more than $3B to get it.

> SLS can launch the manned element directly into a Lunar injection orbit. It doesn't require any refueling to get anywhere. It also doesn't need a fuel tank at the destination to allow a lander to return home.

SLS doesn't carry the lander nor the fuel for the lander. So yes, it does need something else to get the lander's fuel to the destination.
The headline needs the word “model”. This is not a functional engine.
Are there any particular communities or groups for this you can recommend?

Here are a few I've discovered that I've really been enjoying lately:

https://tildeverse.org (EDIT: apparently they don't like being linked to from HN; copy and paste the link instead of clicking it)

https://indieweb.org

https://neocities.org

I think the main focus of those communities is recapturing the spirit of the (arguably more fun) internet of the 90s to early 2000s. They're not specifically dedicated to static site minimalism, but there's definitely a large overlap.
"who saw Wall Street as too liberal"

I think I see the problem
Retro computers, like RC2014 (based on the Z80), Ben Eater's 6502 breadboard computer, anything by Lee Hart[1], all the fun kits on Tindie…

1: http://www.sunrise-ev.com/projects.htm
I was just looking up the profiles of the astronauts selected for the future Artemis Moon Missions.

These people have resumés that look like they rolled a 20 for every one of their stats.

"America's Finest".
This. Every couple months I disconnect the internet and walk around the house verifying all my "smart" home automation products still work. Sometimes I'll make a second pass with homeassistant (or a service dependency, e.g. zigbee2mqtt) shutdown to make sure I can still physically use things (like a dimmer switch).
The fact that fraud is a crime is a form of regulation, although it's clearly not sufficient on its own (just like how smart contract code being auditable isn't sufficient on its own)
> Technical founders often focus on a particular cool way of solving a problem and burn lots of capital building that thing.

This nicely summarizes the current hype in Bitcoin or deep learning.
Money is the basis of a ton of politics. See the different perspectives from socialists and capitalists.
It’s really hard (impossible?) to have a type system with user defined types and do without a declarative top level.
That's a good point, but tangential to OP's question
Buy a hardware device, put it on your desk. There’s less chance you will not notice it for months on end.
Why do you need people in the same physical space than you? What can't be achieved via remote tools?
> Point I was trying to make is that the types of attacks that can be made purely by computation are very limited, and generally fall in the category of excessive resource consumption, which is something we have fairly decent tools to manage. Or put another way, no amount of computation is going to get a program access to my emails or install rootkit (or whatever) if the runtime does not provide APIs to do so.

My point in turn was that it doesn't matter what APIs the runtime intends to expose, as long as it can be abused accidentally to allow that behaviour. But I guess that, if one doesn't trust the API, then an intended guarantee of circumscribed behavior by the program can't be relied upon either.

(But I think that resource consumption shouldn't be underestimated as an attack! Of course, as you say, it can be mitigated by imposing artificial resource limitations, but, as you said earlier, that's not really a solution so much as a renunciation of Turing completeness.)
I expect to see "Why you should be using VSCode in 2022" on your blog tomorrow.

What a thread!
>My belief is that a lot of the people who get to make these decision like the office, because they don't suffer from the same externalities. In other words, many of the things that make commuting to the office suck ass don't necessarily pertain to the boss.

You have a valid point, but if one way is clearly superior, your competition is going to adopt it and start producing results faster/better. I don't really have a strong opinion on this - I work in manufacturing so remote work is not even an option for me and my team.
> As a user, I'm not exactly clear about why I should feel outraged

Why should you? Not everything has to be about outrage.

I think it's interesting to see how a major tech company falls apart when 80+% of staff abruptly leave. Breaking logins for paying customers and ignoring issues they raise seems like a notable issue.
Really depends on how big your scraping operation is going to be. These days there's a lot of "managed" providers that give you headless browsers / proxy rotators through an easy API so it's relatively easy to plug them into your code. Examples of these would be https://www.browserless.io or https://www.scrapingbee.com for headless browsers to render JS.

From my work experience of working on a large scraping stack with thousands of integrations, I can say that we are very happy with our own custom framework, written in Go (https://github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery for HTML parsing) and using headless Chrome for JS rendering.
There's a chasm of difference between a startup and a 15-year-old company with a well-established product.

Not that I ever support Elon's approach to running a business, but just because it worked for brand new companies, doesn't mean it'll work for Twitter. I think that's the main thing he misunderstands.
Making Static Noise from a Weird CSS Gradient Bug
No. But if you go on and on that you didn't get your way, you might be.
No I havent (at all).
+1 on this. This is not how any of us operate.

Regulation in this space is really tough and thorough - we've been battling through it for years now (also explains why this post is coming so long after the end of our batch!).
FizzBuzz in Haskell [pdf]
> are there specific banking features that cater to LGBT individuals?

not deadnaming trans customers on the cards they have to give to people who know them by their new names is really good on its own and many banks simply will not allow customers to have different "display" and legal names.
Get objective not subjective. Use CircleCI's competency matrix.

Concept: https://circleci.com/blog/why-we-re-designed-our-engineering...

Matrix: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/131XZCEb8LoXqy79WWrhC...

Evaluate yourself critically and honestly within every single row. Learn to convey (market/sell) yourself to an interviewer on those dimensions. Be truthful, people can tell.

In the event these interviewers are actually picking up on something, it may be that the "senior" for them is along a dimension they consider more important than a dimension you think matters.

For good measure, begin to work deliberately on those rows where you aren't as far along as you'd like.
Super interesting article, and TIL Firefox does not implement PNA (Private Network Access).

Does anyone know why? It seems like an obviously good thing to have.

https://wicg.github.io/private-network-access/
They literally have a "trending" page [1], yeah, that claim is strange.

[1] https://www.tumblr.com/explore/trending
Tickets aren't fungible. You can never sell the same seat twice.

You have complex business rules. How venues are laid out change. How tickets are marketed is very dynamic.

Bad actors have a strong incentive for fraud.

You have an insane delta between median traffic & traffic spikes. You need to be able to sell out the staple center in under 4 minutes to an audience of millions.
I am, therefore my AOSP phone is google-free.
I love retro gaming on CRT. People tend to misjudge how retro games are supposed to look (visible pixels or mismatch between 2d backgrounds and 3d models). I'm not opposed to people playing on LCD screens, I just think it's important to remember how those games were supposed to look.

Some people are dedicated to show that, which is great:
CRTpixels: https://twitter.com/CRTpixels
Standard Definition Gaming: https://www.tumblr.com/sdg480 or https://twitter.com/DefStan480

And taking a picture or video of a CRT can be quite tricky, you have to be very careful of your parameters, your angle, etc.
The Xbox is called Xbox because Microsoft wanted to build a console around Windows APIs, internally calling it a "DirectX box".

And DirectX has nothing to do with ModeX; it's a family of APIs: DirectDraw, Direct3D, DirectSound, etc.
what really exists in phreaking? I used to be interested in the mid-late 90s, but it seems it was all but dead by 2000 or so. Asterix seemed to keep things interesting for a bit, but I haven't heard about that in years.
> the process was a lot slower than shipping an update to a blockchain network

The process of creating a system for private, energy efficient smart contract transactions took 12 years. To make them scalable and foolproof for the general public will likely take another 5-10 years.

Blockchain updates are less like the process of laying physical cable, more like the process of building up a very large piece of software with lots of moving parts, like an operating system. They both require a lot of effort, but with laying cables the effort is physical and legal whereas with operating systems (and blockchain platforms) the effort is heady and research-oriented.

We've seen that shipping an update to a blockchain network can be extremely slow indeed, if that update requires a lot of R&D.
Yeah, I wouldn't have problem going to the office if I can afford a penthouse in the city centre, 15 minutes from the office.
I'm fairly sure the entire point was to market to the segement of the population that pins their identity on hating "wokeness", "liberals" and "the east coast elites", and doesn't do much intellectual examinations of those sentiments.
How much do things move between two frames? Would you really have to recreate the full tree or just reorder a small number of leaves?
His plan was to drive away advertisers and and critical systems engineers?
Neither MS or Amazon are SV companies...
It's 4$ times 4. So 16$ ?
Sure, but it also may be true that remote work is not necessarily better in every situation. I don't assume every manager is a fraud when they're wanting people to work from the office. I don't know their situation, so I would much rather grant them the decision.

Ideally, you will have companies that are remote, non-remote, and hybrid - so a candidate can choose which company they want to join.
> you had to have a bunch of precise resistors (or someone tweaking a pot on the production line) to keep the gain same in both tracks

Or match them by hand before they’re placed.
In terms of scale, you cannot simply order a larger factory. It has opportunity cost.
I use Nix on both Mac and Linux, so my developer environments get automatically packed-in with my Git repos when I push them. It takes maybe 30 seconds to pull the repo and open a shell with either OS, but only MacOS consistently complains when doing normal stuff. I suppose all of this comes down to personal preference, but my experience has leaned in favor of using desktop Linux when the task permits.
> Some employees said that founder Toby Neugebauer had a volatile temper and drank on the job, and that the company’s unusual workspace—Mr. Neugebauer’s home—added distractions.

A pseudo-bank run out of a drunk's house whose unique value proposition was being exclusionary, backed by the 172nd largest bank in Texas (TransPecos). Anybody who invested in this nonsense deserves the outcome.
Clipping can occur at any gain stage, not just the final output
Have passed your comment over to her. The website has been updated with an email address.
That was a good argument in 2009 but it's a bad argument now. There are currently over 100 rocket companies in the US. Having those people work on dead end technologies like SLS rather than forward looking technologies like Starship or RocketLab Neutron or Relativity Terran R or Blue Origin New Glenn etc hurts rather than helps.
Thinking you have to infect the universe or otherwise perish is the mentality of a virus.
We shouldn't forget that only a small portions of jobs are eligible to WFH. How the vast majority of non remote workers will commute to work?
Excuse me, sir. Kindly get out of my head, thank you. :)
Isn't "do not fuck with my money" basically the default in the consumer banking space? I've not seen a flicker of SJW stuff form any bank or credit union (until maybe you choose yourself to invest in ESG). "good app, and reasonable loan rates" is kind of what banks already compete on
Jabra are the worst - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31388163
The letter: https://concerned.tech/

I have to say, I think it's dumb. I try not to be a crypto-bro. And some points are accurate (how can something be a stable currency AND increase in price?!). But others are foolish:

* having no ability to reverse a transfer is exactly the point of cash, and reversing transfers is a classic source of fraud in and of itself.

* the claim that crypto has no use case. First it's an opinion, don't lay it next to facts and try and sneak it through. Second, that is fine, don't use it. But don't tell people who do they can't have it because you don't need it.

The thing that amazes me the most about crypto is how it continues to be either the messiah or the anti-christ. It's neither. It's a bit of a novelty, it's useful for some specific cases (hyper inflation, evading state controls be that good or bad). There is a lot of dishonesty, but that isn't the tech's fault. That human nature, refusal to regular and gullible idiots thinking they can get rich quick. It's no different to the early days of any other security.
2018.

Using the googles, that's the year "pistachio wars" owned google, but not much after that.

The framing of billionaires as bad guys feels over the top, but maybe only a little bit. Still, "pistachio wars documentary" offers no links to imdb or something relevant, though still, lots of hits.
I'm okay with the current suburban model in many ways. For me it would make a difference is dedicated bike lanes. I walk for exercise my neighborhood and the labyrinth is a welcome pattern to reduce boredom.

Public transit will never work for me except under very rare circumstances. For what it's worth, I hate wasting my time traveling and cars are the only things fast enough make going anywhere vaguely tolerable. Amazon lets me avoid a lot of driving.

I get that you want to change things in the world but the only way to do it is not to say "it should be…" But find out what public office you need to hold, run the campaign, win the seat and then start trying to change from there. Then I can tell you from experience that you have to start local like planning board or zoning Board of appeals. Gain the trust of the people on the board listen to what people want. Once they feel heard they will hear you. If you go in guns blazing, everyone including potential allies will dig in their heels and say fuck you and the horse you rode in on.

Yes I've served on municipal boards and I have been told FU. Learned my lesson and then had my ideas heard. I didn't live there long enough to affect change but I learned a lot about local politics
From another WSJ article - https://www.wsj.com/articles/glorifi-how-new-anti-woke-bank-...

"GloriFi defined itself in contrast to many big, established banks, including Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc., which have in recent years pledged to consider environmental, social and governance, or ESG, principles in their businesses. Some lenders have cut ties with some corporate clients in the gun, coal and private prison industries."
You can also be directly hired onto a team, skipping bootcamp (some roles).
Why does this need to involve cryptocurrency, if it’s centralized and regulated anyway?

Edit: the crypto part isn’t true
> I think you’ve more or less ceded that blockchain provides value. It just needs wider adoption

This is a vacuous non-sequitur. It's like saying "my new social network provides value, it just needs wider adoption"—uh, yeah, that's how social networks (or markets) work. If no one is using it, by definition, it has no value. Markets are social games (not merely "financial" ones).

And exceedingly few people are using crypto in general, but even fewer are using it as a store of value, or as a way to transfer money, or as any kind of hedge. And even if we look at the people using it, most use it merely as a casino.

I mean think about it: not even 100 million people have a BTC wallet. It took Snapchat 4 years to reach 100 million daily active users. We're now in year 14 of Bitcoin.
You're missing nothing, it's pure PR fluff.
Amazon's competitive advantage was not paying any tax. Amazon's selection in technical books was quite poor for quite a while.

However, the tax discount drove ALL the small, local technical booksellers out of business. It might have happened anyway since local sellers had to pay retail rent and so Amazon had a structural advantage. However, Amazon also gained a straight 8% advantage for not having to pay tax.
There is a doom emulation demo here now: https://github.com/fwsGonzo/libriscv/tree/master/emulator/do...

You will need to add the shareware doom1.wad yourself. :)
> caring only about money

Seems to me this would make them the _most_ political entity.
The NNCP Matrix/IRC rooms have folks interested in offline / air-gapped systems.
Assuming everything touches the floor, and floor is flat, sort based on bottom y coordinate of each object
Really? Because I see low paid service workers making one one hundredth of what software engineers make. And one thousandth of what CEOs make. That’s not due to automation automating jobs. I call bullshit. There’s something else going on.