skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taking a job at SpaceX was an irrational move by OP - the job ending in a way he desired was extremely unlikely. Getting up the management ladder in any large organization is a matter of making personal connections with the current leaders - like it or not it's just human nature. The guy expected to be promoted only based on the work he did :)

For someone with so much experience in a niche technical area starting a consulting company is obviously a better choice. You have far better pay, you don't have to play all the HR games and if they want to get rid of you it's nobody's problem - you just get an extra bonus.
the results of the fuzzing is overall very meh, but CATS looks like an interesting tool.
I'm no expert on the topic, but anyone in a position of influence has a lot more options for communicating with the public than they did a few decades ago. Leaks from SCOTUS were unimaginable in the 20th century, for example. Under the usual supply-demand assumptions, that means that any particular journalist has a lot less power in the relationship.
Not overly sensitive to particular words. Most TV folks I know are in a state of low-level crisis due to regular helpings of FUD.
The right move, for this fellow, would have been to create a small company and offer his valuable services as a consultant, not as an employee.

Given his age and expertise I think that would have made sense, and this arrangement can help to shield oneself from ageism.
I spent a lot of time in SimCopter as a teenager. It was always fun to get to explore the cities I had spent so much time curating in SC2k.
This is hacker news after all, lots of us are hackers that prefer non-VC boosted (nor "cryptocurrency boosted") businesses that are run a bit more lean. Although, it used to be called "Startup News" but lets just ignore that fact for a bit so we can scream at bloated companies for a bit longer.
> Most people desire to be happy.

Right. Of course.

Evolution has designed us to desire to be happy, but to be unhappy (to some degree, at some times). Otherwise we'd have no drive to do anything ever.

Some degree of unhappiness coupled with the desire to increase happiness is a state we should often expect in a healthy, intelligent individual. A state of unassailable optimal happiness should probably be pathologized (if it isn't already so).
I think New York State should also require the consent of children before institutionalizing them for non-criminal matters. The history of New York state suggests they are child abusers and mentally unfit to make decisions to forcibly institutionalize the non-criminal mentally ill.

If I were a child of sufficient age to express desires I would rather beg in the streets in a state of psychosis than be in the institutions such as New York's Willowbrook State School.
From the FAQ:

Each process has its own stack, heap, and even syscalls. If one process fails, it will not affect the rest of the system. This allows you to create very powerful and fault-tolerant abstraction.

This is also true for some other runtimes, but Lunatic goes one step further and makes it possible to use C bindings directly in your app without any fear. If the C code contains any security vulnerabilities or crashes, those issues will only affect the process currently executing the code. The only requirement is that the C code can be compiled to WebAssembly.

So as I understand it, an Erlang process can "crash" from an Erlang perspective and it's fine (and even encouraged!), but if it crashes from a system perspective (segfault or some such), it takes down all neighbouring processes as well - usually an issue when using foreign libraries.

With this set up, one of your erlang processes can segfault and it's fine?

I have to admit I'm not across using WASM as a general purpose backend.
Not a comprehensive magazine/paper, but I really like Matt Levine's Money Stuff newsletter; mentioning it in case you haven't checked it out yet.
Storing a cache header is not an issue, but if it is used as a unique identifier for user analytics purposes, it is almost certainly personally identifying information, at least after combining with other data. Since they are not disclosing that they store something they use to ID users, it is likely a GDPR violation, at least in spirit, and that spirit is exactly what GDPR seeks to control.
Revert “flag_descriptions: Add note about JPEG XL removal”
That's the reason I don't use kagi. I even sent them an email to ask about it and the response was "pay per person". A shame really, I was really happy with kagi in the beta.
“XLS: Accelerated HW Synthesis” – Google's Open-Source HLS Tool
It turns out that it's expensive to have someone on a living wage wait on you hand and foot and satisfy your every convenience. Consumers aren't willing to pay what it actually costs when the investors start wanting to see a profit.
Programmable Ink
I'm not sure what you mean by "frat-bro culture", but the overworking thing is generally pretty straightforward. If a company has any employees who talk about "seven days a week onsite... putting in 10-12 hours almost daily", it's a high-pressure overworking kind of company that's not going to give you much vacation time. SpaceX doesn't exactly keep this aspect a secret, and as the author says he was an enthusiastic participant in it.

Discrimination is harder to avoid because it's not tremendously correlated with overworking or other observable qualities of a work environment. IBM is the epitome of a work-life balance company - didn't stop their executives from secretly plotting to get rid of the "dinobabies".
> which stock performed as well as Bitcoin

If you want to go for a rodeo, there are litanies of similar success stories in penny stock and angel investing.
I recently worked for a startup where I consistently out-performed software engineers who were decades younger than me. I was often asked to finish other engineer’s assignments when they got stuck, and to find and fix difficult bugs from other teams. After several years working there, during a favorable performance review, I suggested to the director of software that I could help the company more if he would give me more authority. His response : “You are too old for me to promote”. I quit shortly after. A couple of months after I left my boss was fired, because he didn’t accomplish one task after I left.
Show HN: One-click HTTP(S) inspection and mocking for any Docker container
A year ago getting workers was very nearly impossible because easy credit was flowing like water and capital was abundant. In addition, historical level of retirement was bringing available, knowledgeable workers out of the market. Anyone who drove workers away was shooting themselves in the foot since those workers were very difficult to get back.

Today, the labor market is rougher for employees and easier for employers - credit is drying up and many projects that were employing workers are dying. More workers are competing for fewer positions and even some workers that thought they would retire are coming back after losing money in the markets has made retirement less viable.

I think parent post is saying that musk is a (somewhat) rational actor - when labor was scarce he would have been more careful not to offend. While labor is plentiful he doesn't care how badly he treats his employees because they don't have a better option.

Not sure I agree with that point - musk seems like an even mix of carnival barker and bipolar to me, but I think that's the idea.
I agree; maybe when git was new and actually being used in a decentralized fashion some of the more advanced operations were necessary. But with the typical checkout/branch/PR/merge flow from GitHub and others, I rarely need anything but git merge (with squash merging when merging a pr)
SpaceX sends real people on rockets into space. If they dont do the job right, people could die. Ive had a back injury, I actually had an artificial disc placed at my L4/L5 (which by the way is a life-saver and my back is 100% now). But there is no way in hell I could do a demanding job or any job at all when I was going through that. Creating redundancy for his position is a no-brainer in this situation.
To be clear anyone making death threats to her should stop that.

On the other hand someone posting here comments pointing out that they were lying is not responsible for idiots elsewhere posting death threats. And it is not bullying or "helping foment the hostility".
Arguably this can become personally identifiable, much like a persons height of 7 feet becomes personally identifiable. How many 7 foot people live in Elko Nevada? (I have no idea, perhaps there's an entire colony of them.) But most very tall people, well, stand out. "You're that tall guy from Elko!"

Early on, it's not personally identifiable. No doubt there can be a lot of folks visiting the site only 10 times and never again.

But as someone continues to visit, they begin to narrow down who they are to "You're that guy that comes in here every day with a yellow hat". They may not "know" who you are but, they "know" who you are.

Eventually, there may be that one person that has the highest hit rate, who always stands out.
Static typing certainly have many benefits, just as it has a number of drawbacks. But I'm not making a general argument about static versus dynamic typing, I'm just rejecting the specific argument that static typing saves you from writing any unit tests.
> git add -A .

> Add everything I’m working on (new and edited files).

Bad idea. Extraneous cruft that isn't caught by .gitignore will leak into the repo. Always run git diff and git status first to see what you are about to add.
Now I can procrastinate on twice as many things! (It is important to realize that medication doesn't make you a different person.) I am still on it, and I did ask to slightly increase my dosage after 12 months. I'm often worried that the effects will wane over time, so I work on improving all of those long term tools (sleep, diet, exercise, etc), but the two most important lessons that I've learned are that its okay to be happy that you stopped drowning, and that caffeine is also a drug that is used to treat ADHD and no one feels guilty about using that.

There was an interesting point a while ago when I could focus on more, I could handle more, but I still couldn't focus on or handle everything... I was still just one normal person. But realizing that, making sense of it, and making decisions based on it, were also new things that were easier. As was connecting with the people in my life. Medication wasn't just making me better at work, but at being a human being. Obviously YMMV, but I think that in our society there is too much guilt around certain drugs. If you feel like you need a life vest, maybe try one on. As many people have said, it isn't especially difficult to stop.
Unless you're dosing your morning coffee with amphetamines, why make the comparison?
I've seen too many companies waste time on metrics theatre, tracking hundreds of metrics while knowing less and less about how the business is actually doing. The more metrics you have, the less you know.
So you're saying that when I get arrested for public indecency, my defense should start with "due to tidal forces and the changing orientation of our Moon, my nether region emerged above the water's surface"

Or something like that?
Counting to two is needed to handle the bounce rate.
This is nonsense: that the oil industry knew about climate change but that the academic world and government scientists didn't. In fact the scientific community knew about it for a long time (even back to the 19th century...) but public policy makers ignored it.

"How 19th Century Scientists Predicted Global Warming: Today’s headlines make climate change seem like a recent discovery. But Eunice Newton Foote and others have been piecing it together for centuries."

https://daily.jstor.org/how-19th-century-scientists-predicte...
The right solution is to hire some more people, with input from the critical employee, and have them gradually learn the ropes. And keep the key employees!
Physicists Create ‘The Smallest, Crummiest Wormhole You Can Imagine’
Cant reply to jai's missile comment:

Targeting cities is already a war crime regardless the weapon.

Nor am I arguing that laying landmines everywhere is not immoral. Certainly not landmines in a city.

Im arguing that a concentrated land mine field across a small strategic piece of land (say a mountain passage, the DMZ) can be militarily effective and therefore help avoid war.

Does this then change the moral calculus of land mines?
> But the US right has from my perspective gone insane. Take as an example the belief that Trump won the 2020 election. A majority of Republicans (and only Republicans, not independents, Democrats, or people outside the US) believe that Joe Biden did not legitimately win: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/07/republica...

I think both parties have gone insane and have been there for many years. The US system has been unbalanced and wobbly for years. While the problem is much worse on the right as of late, the corrosion of our electoral system is strong and alive on the left as well. The incoming House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries repeatedly said that the election was stolen by Trump and that his presidency is illegitimate. [0] Honestly, this tweet written by Jeffries reads exactly like an unhinged Trump Twitter rant. [1] The claims that the election was stolen was repeated publicly by Hillary Clinton, then the defacto leader of the party. Going further back, there are Democrats who still say that the election was stolen from Al Gore, which is a ridiculous claim. To be clear, Trump takes these assaults on our democratic institutions to an entirely different level and breadth, but let's look at this from both sides instead of asserting that it's just one side.

[0] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/election-denier-hake...

[1] https://twitter.com/RepJeffries/status/964581721088897025?s=...
The article only mentions skin/eye contact as a danger but I'm sure it would also be pretty bad to breathe glass in just about any form
There are also many timezones and you can encode information in the timezone indicator as well. Also, you can use different days. You can stretch this number into millions. For a website that gets a certain number of unique visitors per year, this may be unique enough.
Subdomains. (Not sure why I immediately thought subdomains and not just multiple resources.)
> I think it's a safe assumption that significantly more people order food from local restaurants than they did before DoorDash existed.

Do you have any comprehensive evidence for this? I have very strong doubts.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33800997
It sounds like you might have a sleep problem instead of a focus problem. Without good sleep, you can’t focus.

One thing to try is melatonin (0.3 to 0.5 mg). Take it around 8:30 PM, then stay up past the point it makes you drowsy (it will kick in in about 30 minutes after taking). Got to bed at a normal time like 11:00 PM. You’ll probably wake up around 7:00 and be wide awake, and have much better focus during the day.

Doing this will help you align to the rest of the world’s schedule, which like it or not, is really when most people are expected to be working and available, and will also help to align your social schedule with others.
Nothing can be down more than 100%. Average stocks in S&P are down 55%. Growth stocks are down 70%. S&P is down 18%. Bitcoin is down 60%.
One of the most un-intuitive rules of leadership is that you have to make yourself replaceable.

My bosses all know because I always tell them, “if I get hit by a bus, put A in charge of X, promote B to Y, give C to Z”.

On every major project you need at least one ambitious junior engineer who’s been identified as having leadership potential shadowing you and learning the business inside out, who aspires to your job.

If you’re doing cool work these assignments are more valuable than gold to the young people, and they earn you a lifetime of friendship, loyalty and appreciation from them and their managers.

This is how you get to retire in old age as a beloved, valued individual contributor.

If you ignore the leadership part of being a principal engineer and don’t do this, others will do it for you at the worst possible time and you will get fucked.
Then what's the point of the beam then? you can have the beam, but you can't have concurrency?

I *could* eat soup with a paper airplane, I'm really not understanding how any of this is viable solution to implementing something like ruby on the BEAM VM. What would the performance hit be for using ETS for all your state? You'd just be better off using MRI for Ruby.
To be fair, begriffs never shut down any discussion of HATEOAS, previous contributors did - because at the time users were asking for more JSON capabilities from PostgREST and we needed to focus on those.

We're still open on adding HATEOAS, I've just opened an issue for it: https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest/issues/2579
So more of a development platform than an end user tool?
Similarly, to have a tolerant society, intolerance can't be tolerated.
All these layoffs make me a bit nervous to be graduating next week. There are still countless positions posted though so I'm still fairly optimistic about entering the job market.
Not sure why exactly, but this gives me strong nostalgic feelings for Lego Island.
Yes. ETag tracking has been a thing for decades:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag#Tracking_using_ETags
I don't know if I'd recommend it, but it'll be roughly as convincing as blaming geopolitics!
A Critical Discussion of React and Spas with Alex Russell and Theo Browne
Alex Russell[1] was an early member of the Chrome team, a 3-time elected member to the W3C Technical Architecture Group from 2013 - 2019, and a representative to TC39 from 2006 - 2017. Lately he has been very critical of Single-page Apps (SPAs) and React, going so far as to call the past 10 years a "lost decade"[2].

If a random person were to say these things, we could almost certainly ignore them. But when someone with these credentials feels this strongly about a technology, we should consider the argument, and try to understand the thought process that resulted in these conclusions. Unfortunately, these criticisms have largely gone unchallenged — perhaps due in part to the medium in which they are mostly found (Twitter), which doesn't exactly facilitate nuance and empathy.

Fortunately, this is where in-person events thrive. We can bring two people together who have different experiences, opinions, and perspectives, and have a civil conversation to bridge understanding, increase empathy, and establish brightlines. Theo Browne[3] is one person who does not shy away from controversy, and we are delighted to feature him as the person taking up this mantle, to discuss the merits & limitations of single-page applications and, more specifically, React.

[1] https://twitter.com/slightlylate & https://infrequently.org/
[2] https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1583157448885514240
[3] https://twitter.com/t3dotgg & https://www.youtube.com/@t3dotgg
You don't have to. A unique visitor is someone who comes in without a last-modified header. Set the header, that person is no longer unique.
Chances are they aren’t the first to come up with something like this. How can we detect this kind of metadata abuse?
Tracking without consent is illegal. This is a clever way to get absolutely reamed, because you’re not only in breach of data protection laws you’re actively trying to obfuscate it.
Ah, I misread you. Apologies!
The article barely mentions radio, giving no data just could/may/potential to.

In visible wavelengths though :

> The International Astronomical Union coordinated observations from around the planet, which found that the satellite is almost as bright as stars such as Antares and Spica, the 15th and 16th brightest in the night sky, respectively. Another study found it to be a little less reflective, on par with the 22nd brightest star or so.

By comparison, the ISS : On favorable passes, it can appear as bright as the planet Venus, at magnitude -4.5, and some 16 times brighter than Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky.
Is it naive of me to think that CEOs aren't really much better macro predictors than most of us and are kind of doing this in a wave like fad "because that's what everyone else is doing"?
Yep. Honestly it’s just been a question of whether you were going to try to take advantage on the way up or not.
"decile" means 10%, are you intending to claim that the riskiest 10% of stocks are down on average at least 1000%? That seems like a pretty strong claim that needs some backing...
I got on ADHD 2-3 months ago and my life changed.

Up until now, every day was an uphill battle, causing me tons of stress and anxiety. I, too, self-medicated.

I never thought anything of it because I was always able to work and finish stuff. It was my normal.

Now I know it shouldn't be that way.

I did try many other options before starting meds. They helped a little bit, but not significantly.
Because a lot of society buys into said consumerism and expects bonuses and stability heading into lots of potentially irresponsible gift-buying decisions for their friends and family?

And I'd expect the calculus is "we're planning to offer severance and paying out bonuses, so they have stability in their consumer choices, and we can start the clock earlier on their severance by doing it as soon as possible (including during a holiday when those employees probably weren't going to be very productive anyway)"
I think people make the mistake of thinking that 100% retention is even desirable. The company isn't paying me what I am _worth_, they are paying me what I am _worth to them_. If my unique combination of skills is a better fit and more valuable to another company, then it is more worthwhile for me to move on and it is not worth my old company to pay me above what they can afford for the role. Plus some turnover and fresh ideas are always healthy.

Just look at baseball teams. Could the Cleveland Guardians have paid Francisco Lindor what his market rate was? Maybe, but it would have blown up the budget for the rest of the team. So he was traded to New York for some cheaper, younger (and less skilled at present) players which fit the team's plan. Win-win in this case, obviously there are many bad examples too!
This isn't a matter of not being able to delegate. This is a matter of being cut out of the loop.

Done right, these people would have reported to him or reported to a peer manager, but detailed to work with him to build a department. He would have been in on their interviews and selection. He would have been the key voice in structuring the department.

Instead, these people reported to Starlink as opposed to SpaceX and he was forcefully cut out. Totally different dynamic.
3 is magical in that it comes after 2.

If 100 people visited once, and one person visited twice... then a new request with visitCount=3 is that second person.
Options very well can be down more than 100%. It's a leveraged bet and a very common vehicle in traditional finance. So much so you can buy/sell them on platforms like Robinhood.
>The necessary information can't be effectively gathered with electric questionnaires.

Your explanation is inadequate. Which systems are you referring to and how do you know it can't be done?
Autonomous Trucking Software Upstart Embark Has Quietly Gone from $5B+ to Zero
“Probably you won't believe me when I tell you a given exchange is safe to use - and you should be wary of anyone who says that - but you should definitely believe me when I tell you an exchange is about to go under.”

He makes a compelling argument.

If this service tells you that an exchange is bad, you should stay away. And if it tells you it's not bad you should stay away.