skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good solar filer will let you see sunspots up really close. It's sounds silly, but the sun itself is fascinating.
You missed very important words. A blockchain is (by your own definition) a "distributed ledger".

Given you like Wikipedia so much, here's their definition of what a ledger is (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ledger)

> A ledger is a book or collection of accounts in which account transactions are recorded.

You'll find similar definitions on non-Wikipedia sources as well.

Thus, if it doesn't have accounts and transactions between them, it isn't a ledger and thus isn't a blockchain.
I thought about running `stress -d` on it and letting it go for an hour/day but decided I'd rather just label the drive "BAD" and keep it in my junk drawer. Sometimes tasks don't require reliability and I'd rather not destroy it if I can get a few more uses out of it.
I waited for it and as soon as it came out I went offline.

I played DF a lot around 09-11. I knew all the commands by heart, experienced so many fun situations that it absolutely holds a special place in my heart.

Then life happened, I didn't play it for a long time and after that trying to get back into it just felt like such a time sink. Played rimworld more during this time.

But now it's back and I am not disappointed. I would have payed 70 euro for this no problem.

Also I'm so happy Toady and Three are getting some money out of all this. At least I hope they are.
> Why can't I simply price my app at, for instance, 10?

The article says you can. It's one of the "supported conventions".
Damn, someone is salty. I like that color when I ordered my car because there weren't that many cars in such color...now I want a "normal" color because everyone is sporting the same color.
Matt Levine’s column yesterday quotes a Bloomberg interview with Zeke Faux where they did ask where the money went, and SBF gave some approximate numbers in a spreadsheet. I don’t see why this is trustworthy, but for what it’s worth:

> “You misplaced $8 billion?” I ask.

> “Misaccounted,” Bankman-Fried says, sounding almost proud of his explanation. Sometimes, he says, customers would wire money to Alameda Research instead of sending it directly to FTX. (Some banks were more willing to work with the hedge fund than the exchange, for some reason.) He claims that somehow, FTX’s internal accounting system double-counted this money, essentially crediting it to both the exchange and the fund.

> That still doesn’t explain why the money was gone. “Where did the $8 billion go?” I ask.

> To answer, Bankman-Fried creates a new tab on the spreadsheet and starts typing. He lists Alameda and FTX’s biggest cash flows. One of the biggest expenses is paying a net $2.5 billion to Binance, a rival, to buy out its investment in FTX. He also lists $250 million for real estate, $1.5 billion for expenses, $4 billion for venture capital investments, $1.5 billion for acquisitions and $1 billion labeled “fuckups.” Even accounting for both firms’ profits, and all the venture capital money raised by FTX, it tallies to negative $6.5 billion.

> Bankman-Fried is telling me that the billions of dollars customers wired to Alameda is gone simply because the companies spent way more than they made. He claims he paid so little attention to his expenses that he didn’t realize he was spending more than he was taking in. “I was real lazy about this mental math,” the former physics major says. He creates another column in his spreadsheet and types in much lower numbers to show what he thought he was spending at the time.
If I could get unambiguous specifications, then my job might actually be in trouble. It would cut my workload down considerably.
How old are your kids now?
Marx thought of that too, which is why he said there'd be a revolution.
I posted two answers to two different threads just to play with it. One got accepted, another didnt. I validated both answers before posting them. Answers were posted well before the ban on AI generated answers was even considered.

Nevertheless, Stackoverflow suspended my account for a week. Of course, it's only for a week, I'll survive and lesson learned, but at the time answer was posted, it did not violate any rules.
WSJ News Exclusive – FTX Effort to Save Itself Failed on Questionable Assets
Probably some. I think this change has more to do with emerging markets where users expect to make very small payments (and receive smaller benefits) than western users are accustomed too.
I think "influencing/leading people who do not report to you" is one of the hardest, most underrated part of mid-level people's jobs. When you're a low-level Individual Contributor, it's easy: You're not expected to lead anything or influence people. Take your ticket, do a great job at it, then take the next ticket. You're given a task, design it, and implement it, and job well done. On the opposite end, if you're a director or senior manager with a big org of people who report to you, it's also easy (or seems easy from my vantage point): You simply say "we must do this thing" and people do it. In the middle, we don't have direct reports, and nobody has to listen to us, yet our job is to convince people to do the right thing. Very difficult. You need to be political, cognizant of perception as you say, you need to gather favors and then call them in, prioritize and horse trade for things that are important, and so on. Difficult job.
the cost reductions are necessarily worse in the places where costs are lower. I think you didnt do that math right. You might be right that the logistics for shipping silicon are still so good that this does not reach the amdahl limit, but it is not a consequence of your argument.
CNN for Reverse Engineering: An Approach for Function Identification
Source code: https://github.com/alonstern/function-identification

Article: https://towardsdatascience.com/cnn-for-reverse-engineering-a...
THAT for Senators, Governors, other Politicans - based on their claim, would be awesome.

like a text2data….
Which IAP model?
There's a big difference between ML Eng jobs and ML Research jobs. Research, yeah you'd need a top PhD and many difficult years of study. Eng, far more attainable, but IIUC it's not exactly going to feel like you're working on some crazy cutting edge tech, you'll mostly be cleaning data and tuning pipelines.
YC is creating venture-backed startups, where the nature of power-law returns necessitates aiming for "grand slams" (i.e. 100x outcomes following SeriesA funding). If successful, this creates billionaires. So in a sense (though I wouldn't conflate cause & effect): Yes, YCombinator is looking for people who want to create companies that could reasonably result in the founders becoming billionaires.

Worth noting: Not all companies can or should target this trajectory -- which just means VC might not be the right funding source.
Isn’t the Tesla FSD available as an in-app purchase?
I think we're disagreeing that if a organization makes bad behavior notably easier (a cheap Airtag with a long battery life that's implementable by the vast majority of people, versus an old cellphone), they bear proportionate responsibility for the bad behavior.

It's not acceptable to me to significantly enable evil and just say that someone else (LEO) can handle it. In this case, that means figuring out stronger controls before releasing a product.
Wow! Those must have been really good names. Do you have some examples?
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Given the number of partners and children he has / has had [1], and his personality, it is only a matter of time before he establishes a sex cult to begin building a population of genetically engineered superhumans suitable for conquering Mars.

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Seriously, if your employer has beds at your workplace it's not because they care about you. You are either putting in unhealthy hours, they expect your work-life balance to be almost all work, or there are some questionable relationships at the workplace.

Leave while you can.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Personal_life
Well, before galvanization (and more modern coatings), cars were pretty junky.

https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/galvanizati...

My first car, built in 1987, was partially galvanized (I know
because the sales brochure was proud of this fact), but had rust streaks down the doors at 50k miles and the frame rusted completely through at 80k miles.

The improvements in automotive coatings in the 90s and 00s have been immense.
PR review:

- Reformat with `black`; needs space around "="

- Change constants to uppercase, so YOU and FART

- Probably best to use an f-string, e.g. f"{YOU}{FART}"

- Needs tests

Otherwise LGTM
The ones in Vancouver, yes. Not so much in the suburbs, and despite the name there were more Vancouver Specials built outside of Vancouver than inside.
Tesla is being turned into the red Maga hat of cars now by Elon so in theory that could hurt the bottom line.
Honest question: Is "because sometimes I need to cut something" a "good reason." I routinely carry a small pocket knife with a 3" blade that folds up, and I use it very frequently. Would this be allowed in the UK?

Also from the site, one of the requirements is "are not lock knives (they do not have a button, spring or catch that you have to use to fold the knife)"

My pocket knife folds open and then catches, meaning I have to push a little metal tab out of the way to fold it back closed. This seems safer to me, since otherwise the blade might fold up on my fingers while I'm trying to use it. Would this be illegal in the UK?
What about competition? What prevents multiple copycat companies from propping up if a one-person startup grows to a billion dollar valuation?
Typical BI. Should have its title changed to:
Remote work is making downtowns more affordable, will save people $blablaB
here is 100k, please agree to 30k salary and give me 80% of your company.
oh yea.

using a software framework like django for "rapid application development" gives me a feeling closer to writing configuration files rather than actually "programming" (where "programming" is writing hardcore algorithms).

but don't get me wrong, I liked doing that, I got paid to do it. But let's call it for what it is: that python code (django app) was really django framework config.

this is a simlar phenomenon but worse, at least I could look around all of the actual code of the program for which I was writing configuration as code.

then, the thing about hardcore algorithms is that they need to be written once, and then everybody can use them. this is a giant problem. as I think about this, such hardcore algorithms are digital artifacts, so they are subject to the same problems all other digital artifacts (media, videos) are. a problem also known as software piracy. but software has been about composing proven algorithms together since day 1. the problem by this point is socio-economic. not technical.

I see the whole debate around "who will pay for critical infrastructure software" as another instance of "how should artists make money in the digital era".

But this comment (which I'm editing) is already at 0 points. somebody doesn't like what I'm trying to say, but I knew this already.
Like when people are talking about what we should do about homeless people, and how we can't house them because that would cost too much money.....like, might it be possible that there's something in between sleeping on the sidewalk and a condo?

Homelessness is a complex topic. It's hard to wrap one's brain around it. Trying to adequately analyze a complex topic and then effectively communicate about it with people who haven't studied it the way you have for years is actually, like, hard.

People want to think it's not. Unlike, say, Physics, they want to think something social like that is simple to understand or whatever. It's really not.

My answer to something "between the sidewalk and a condo" is updating the concept of the SRO and bringing them back. We've torn down about a million of them in the US in recent decades.

And what do they produce: more of the same, well within the boundaries of the Overton Window.

Yet another reason to not want to pay people merely to "be smart." Solid solutions typically come from the margins and from people directly impacted by the pain points enough that they have skin in the game and can't just walk away, no matter how much they might wish they could.

our super duper "free" medical system is falling apart

Health care and medical care are not the same thing. There is vast room for improvement in non-medical health care which has tremendous potential to alleviate some of the stressors on modern medical systems while improving quality of life and reducing costs.

I believe things are much worse than they appear on the surface

I'm an optimist whose father fought in the front lines of two wars -- including WW2 -- and was decorated both times. Humans have faced potentially world-ending crises before and risen to the occasion. I see no reason why it can't be done again.

I've studied what we (in the US) did for WW2 and I don't see any reason we can't do a lot of those things again. We raised Victory Gardens. We made work spaces female-friendly with on-site daycare and such. We converted all our efforts to solving the problem and it got solved and the prosperity of the 50s and 60s was rooted in what we did during the war.

We did a whole lot and I get tired of trying to repeat it. It's the kind of thing you can write entire books about and still miss stuff and a comment on a forum never does it justice and is exhausting to write.
>automation never replaced workforce as such. It moved the focus of the workforce

Seems true but also doesn't automation diminish the diversity of work available?
Replacing a tire is one thing that requires specialized equipment built for the task, but something like regular maintenance - changing oil, replacing filters, battery etc is relatively easy and can be done with basic tools that almost every "handy" person will have: wrenches, screwdrivers, etc.
Less steps as the code it generates will do what you ask of it, or be modified based on your english language changes.

It also gives you a human readable section, in addition to the code, that tells you what the code is doing, and where exactly to copy/paste it to make it run.

Give me an app in flutter that does X
How do I install flutter
How do I run my first flutter app

That only requires typing and reading for exactly the results you want.

Github only gives you what you know already.
ChatGPT only gives you what you asked for, and holds your hand for how to use it.
I think the point being made is that if all you have available is $120 fans, there is going to be a good number of people who can't afford them at all.

Cheap goods make things more accessible to more people. Planned (or even unplanned) obsolescence is an unfortunate side effect.

Re: planned vs. unplanned: I don't think the cheap fan manufacturer really builds it that way so you keep having to come back when yours breaks. At least, I don't think that's the primary motivator. More likely, their goal is just to sell more units in the first place, and lower prices are usually a good way to do that.

(Meanwhile, companies like Apple have found the holy grail: an expensive, high-margin, premium product that's difficult to repair.)
> Then again, at this point, Apple is a treasury operation that also sells phones and computers.

I'm guessing you are joking but incase you were not, Apple still makes far far more from selling new products than they do from investments. So that statement is false or misleading.
I guess it depends on what your art or career goals are, but assuming you don't mean digital illustration, people do value real/physical art objects like painting and sculpture. I don't know if that pays the bills, but that is harder to automate away with clicks on some webpage.
The seafloor is being auctioned off.
I don't believe they're saying the feature doesn't exist or never gets used, but rather it's rarely something that's taught to junior developers, and rarely something you see highlighted as a best practice.

I've been developing for 25+ years in any language you can imagine, and know how to use pass by ref just fine, and know there are situations where it might be the best solution.

But I can't remember the last time I've used pass by ref. It's really just a coding style quirk for me, I find it "ugly" and it breaks my train of thought when reasoning through the flow of code. I certainly don't begrudge anyone who uses it though.

And OP's anecdote about the interview is certainly disheartening. You'd hope the interviewer would at least be open to the idea of learning something new. I've learned countless things from developers I've interviewed over the years, and I was incredibly happy about it each time.

Edit: In re-reading your comment and below replies it seems you may be misunderstanding what's being discussed. Yes, the things we pass into and out of functions tend to be object references by default. But when we say "pass by ref" (in some languages at least) we mean, essentially, modifying a value in a calling function without actually returning anything from the called function. That's a horrible way to explain it, but the MS documents for the "ref" keyword do a good job of showing examples:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...
fortran works fine. it has a compilation model very similar to C. (Note this comment is based upon F77 / F90. Fortran modules may be different).

ada support in cmake is terrible. in the end you have to call gnatmake several times, if you want a build that always work. terrible.
The psychology is (allegedly) simple. When you see a price like $4.99, unless you're pre-conditioned, you are expected to read it as FOUR-99, essentially $4, even though it's $5 for all practical purposes. Often it is styled as $4.⁹⁹ to double down on this effect.

This looks silly, and many people, including me, have taught themselves to recognize this pattern and round the price correctly without a mental effort.

Some people, of course, fall for it; I suppose younger kids are heavily affected.
Humans introduce subtle bugs as well. I've found that it gives me a great starting point and then I can clean up from there. It does 80 percent but then I go do the rest.
At that point it would make sense for the vendor to mail you a top-of-the-line non-iOS device to avoid the 30% commission if at all feasible.
My bad, completely missed the second table. Thanks for pointing it out!
Exactly the same thing can and is achieved with a distributed log (append-only database, distributed) controlled by different legal entities.

No need for ETH there.
Is it open source, open core, or just proprietary? How much does it cost?
I personally know I person who works two remote PM jobs at the same time and in addition runs her own side gig. Sometimes she joins two meetings from the two laptops at the same time.

I know a guy who overlapped months of two different jobs.

So it exists and happens. And for IC-type positions should be even easier.
Are you a solo dev? I wonder how much can be done compared to the teams behind Bazel and Buck(2)

Anyway, CMake is terrible - for all the reasons you have identified - so I wish you luck!
Aren't we just back to rehashing vapid Marxist arguments? In your experiment a brilliant computer scientist working on a breakthrough invention will be forced to do menial tasks like data entry and accounting him/herself rather than split the profits evenly with a laborer. This is not going to work, a society where geniuses spend most of their days using Quickbooks, cleaning the bathroom etc, will be outcompeted by ones where they can specialize.
Maybe you haven't noticed, but I was talking about the incident between Carlsen and Niemann.
I don't know what kind and how many VMs are you planning to run, but simple desktop hardware can go a long way. And they scale back power usage nicely too, when not utilized. My setup is small and old, I run an AMD FX-6100 with 20 gigs of RAM, six hard drives and an SSD, and idle power draw is around 15W.
I think the free-to-play model has been destructive for many apps and games.
The rush to the bottom with $1 price tier, introduced by Apple, was also destructive in itself.

The App Store is a huge market, fortunes have been built, but I know many indie developers who have been reluctant to adopt the F2P model.

As a user, I don't like it either.
Not beyond their most recent change of commission being 15% for new developers, and developers who made less than $1M in the previous calendar year.
> You could start by being open to the possibility that your position is not the absolute truth.

I have done that. In fact for decades I was convinced that the exploitation of animals was okay/fine/moral/necessary, etc.

The open-mindedness that you encourage was the catalyst for believing so strongly in this.

> And then maybe make arguments as to where you think the other arguments are not consistent, instead of snarky comments very close to personal insults.

That's exactly what I've done. I said the argument is silly because it is self-contradicting. And what psuedo-insult are you referring to?
Definitely not better for users. You used to buy an app and get everything it has to offer. You wouldn't have to worry about getting a useless app and having to pay another $1,000 to get it functional. And you'd know that any reviews of the app are inclusive of functionality you'll have access to.

With IAP, it's really difficult to know what you're getting and how much it will cost you in the end. And reviews may be discussing a completely different app experience. Plus the constant feeling that you're being nickel and dimed.
You didn't understand my point. I'm saying if this bothers you, you should stop eating meat. If it doesn't bother you, well, then no cognitive dissonance.
I wouldn't say a surgery could be considered routine until it's complete. That's hindsight bias. Most hospitals can provide an estimate for these types of surgeries now, it's built into Epic, the most common electronic medical record system.

Out of network providers are a real issue and certain specialties, frankly, have the hospitals by the balls. The hospitals would love to employ those anesthesiologists. Good luck finding ones who will accept that job offer. We have the 'no surprises act' now that's supposed to address this issue but it's not working very well https://www.hfma.org/topics/hfm/2022/october/no-surprises-ac...
For crypto newbies like most on HN are, maybe. To be fair to him he does a decent job explaining Bitcoin so that non-nerds can understand the basics. But beyond that if you get more into it you'll find he's a controversial figure like most are in Bitcoin. There aren't really any leaders and either way leader following is the exact opposite of what cryptocurrency is about anyway. The vast majority of the crypto OGs come from the cypherpunk sphere and are skeptical of centralized power/authorities.

Ironically one common criticism Bitcoin hardcore fanatics have is that Antonopoulos is not a Bitcoin maximalist, he's Ethereum friendlyand wrote an entire book on that together with Gavin Wood.
I don’t see it as a strong disagreement, but there is a slight but sometimes important difference between heteronormativity including, e.g., cisnormativity and patriarchy, versus heteronormativity being distinct from them but frequently co-occurring with them.

But we certainly agree that heteronormativity is different than society having a majority heterosexual orientation.