skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m pretty sure the way people like Feynman “ponder about” things is very different from how normal people (like an average physicist) ponder about things. Probably similar to how we could compare me playing tennis and Roger Federer playing tennis. No matter how much I practice I will not approach that level.
> Sure, you can prevent it, just hire journalist to vet every story.

That won't prevent it.
> If the Spanish and Portuguese would have waited to solve all of humanity’s problems first and then set out to explore new worlds the world would be a different place today

I mean... yeah it probably would've been a lot better. They weren't the ones who explored the Americas. It was the people we now call Native Americans

If the Spanish and Portuguese had instead solved AT LEAST their own problems of constant famines and the inefficiencies and brutality of monarchies, they probably would've been a much kinder people...

People like to act like hierarchy is just an inevitable result of increasingly complex societies but there is no archeological or anthropological evidence to support this myth. There's fascistic hunter gatherer groups and the Americas themselves had examples of very large complex and extremely egalitarian societies. Like Teotihuacan which was nearly as large as Rome. After a brief fling with total authoritarianism the people had a revolution and ended up creating one of the first examples of public housing we have evidence of as well as dramatically increasing the average standard of living of everyone

Yeah I think the world definitely be a better place if they waited to solve their problems actually
doesn't necessarily follow. there is a huge disconnect between the facts and what "they" make legal.
> Other folks got money out of Madoff during his scam years, and the trustee says “I’m taking that money back to pay back others.”

What’s the limit on that? Dollars or time? I would be beyond furious if I was expected to help make someone else whole.
They don't work.

Creative work is not an assembly line. You can't predict the effort, and you can't control the outcome.
This house of cards can't hold forever, can it? Maybe it's too intertwined with the rest of society to only face serious revision in the face of other upheavals.
Clickbench is single-table. Do you have a join story?
Yes, this is the problem with things like OKR and OGSM.
People write up incredibly vague examples to protect imagined IP, or a bunch of counterexamples.

Rarely do you see anyone public a set of "this is what good looks like".
I meant more immediate warning signs, like giving away personal possessions or sudden happiness.

When my friend killed himself, it both was and wasn’t a surprise. On one hand, he had a whole host of risk factors that everyone knew about. In the other hand, he’d gotten therapy and meds and seemed to be doing much better. His texts seemed normal. I’d even taken a training called “mental health first aid” - I knew that if I saw any signs I should ask him directly if he was thinking of suicide.

If there had been a magical way to know that he was in a period of high risk, there are a million things that could have been done besides in-patient. As one example, he had many friends who would have been by his side 24/7 (as had been done when we knew he wasn’t doing well).

I’m extremely skeptical that a technology like this could have worked and detected what was going on with him. I’m even more skeptical that the military would use it in an appropriate way. But still, I do see a glimmer of hope in it.

Of course, the obvious solution and the one that should be higher on everyone’s priority list is to simply stop sending soldiers into wars, stop letting parents get away with beating the shit out of their kids, and stop covering up rape. Unfortunately the mind reading machine is probably more likely to actually get done.

Just to add, I hear what you’re saying about how the hard part is preventing suicide more so than identifying risk. That lines up with what I’ve seen. I don’t think that negates the need to work on both problems.
As systems become more complex, so too do their failure modes. This paper documents over a half a dozen slow performance modes of SSDs with several different internal failure modes caused by the silicon, firmware, etc.

Contrast that with the modes they discovered for CPUs: no internal factors, only external factors such as power delivery or cooling capacity.

That's quite a testament to the construction of the most sophisticated manufactured goods on the planet.
Here is SBF's full statement: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenehrlich/2022/12/13/exclus...

Worth a read
Is it though? Show me a good Steam game that isn't selling well.
First this: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/11/10/quad/ -> "B2s"
Which led to this: https://psychcentral.com/lib/narcissistic-injuries-what-they...

When B2s separate from the company ... such a relief
You seem to be connecting UBI to the "Do not want a job now" category, but I don't think there's any reason to think covid stimulus/unemployment led to much growth in those particular numbers. See https://www.bls.gov/cps/aa2004/cpsaat35.pdf for the same numbers from 2003/2004; they're certainly higher now (~100k vs ~70k, but population increased, so more like 100k vs 80k if we equalize) but not that much higher. And at a glance the biggest increase is in 55+ - so possibly it's largely older people retiring rather than substance abuse or whatever.

I do think UBI has risks, hopefully we can encourage useful pursuits, public works, etc.
> the author writes "If you register your domain in a banana republic because you think the TLD looks cool, and el presidente wants your domain..." with the implication that Spanish speaking countries are (more likely to be) corrupt.

Well, first, that implication is obviously true if the comparison group is English-speaking countries.

Second, the phrase "banana republic" refers to a set of countries that all spoke Spanish...
that is why VCs are diversified
I probably have been that guy. Especially when younger, and very 'in the weeds' of code. It was laced with my opinions about how to solve the problem. I thought my main outcome was some "pure" sense of well implemented code that stood the test of time. I really prided myself on my craft. Who were these interlopers coming in to my perfect paradise and fouling the place up?

Then I became more senior and realized:

(a) it turns out not everyone thinks like me and what I think is 'pure' (surprise surprise!)

(b) holding tightly to my attitude of good code, means I live by some attitude that only I can solve the problem. Which is a sure way to get overworked and burn out.

(c) it's also cool + fulfilling to level other people up and grow them. And often they want to learn. Because then they bring their other fun + hard problems to you, and you also don't have to maintain the original stuff forever - see point (b)

(d) I was embarrassingly wrong enough to need to learn some humility

(e) Related to (d) I won't grow if I always think the same

My guess is that in my case, I experienced some early narcissism - basically all teenagers and young adults - but grew out of it. Especially as I matured, had more leadership roles, and had kids

Note though that even to this day, I get the "grumps" when I have to manage some sudden opinion not in line with mine. I eventually swallow my pride and it usually is an educational moment.

I've learned I'd rather have a well loved piece of code held together with duct tape and bailing wire with the misery shared with the team, then my own perfect, isolated place where only I understand how things work.
it's a lot worse for your health, for one. also, they don't have remotely similar effects
Sure thing!

In all honestly, to say it was a "persistence layer" is a bit of a stretch since it was not an additional layer per se, but here's what we did.

Context: I was the CTO for a sort-of text editor SaaS that allowed auditors to write reports collaboratively, these guys usually work together in teams that visit companies for a couple days/weeks, so our solution made everything much easier for them.

Anyway we tried many different CRDT(-like) solutions (automerge, etc...) and we eventually settled for yjs. All clients were coordinated and synced through a centralized server, with websockets providing the transport; we didn't make use of y-websocket though, we rolled our own thing since we needed a lot of custom functionality (see ahead).

Now on to persistence, we were already using Postgres in our backend so we wanted to store this data in there as well. Every "document" was internally a CRDT structure to which all collaborators connected to. Our solution was to create an extra yjs client for each of these documents (i.e. another hidden collaborator), whose role was to listen to all changes from the CRDT and storing them to the db, and viceversa, akin to what a data historian does, running inside our custom websocket server.

So, each time a new document had to be instanced, we first enabled the historian and recovered the relevant CRDT log before sending it to the user, and when all connections were closed this historian made sure everything was committed and deallocated itself to free server resources.

It was a bit complex but it worked quite well in production. It also had some sort of a nice composability element in the sense that we could just "add" an historian client to any existing pool of yjs peers and enable persistence for them transparently. These historians were easy to adapt/extend themselves so, for instance, we could make them use MySQL instead or any other db stack; then again, just by making them join an existing pool of peers, that smallish network gained a particular function. It was an interesting paradigm. I hope my explanation made sense.

Unfortunately that startup went kaput so I'm back at consulting, but some clients request this sort of functionality from time to time so I'll give this (pg_crdt) a try and add it to my stack of tools. Btw, Supabase is great, I've been following you for a couple years, you're really building a great product. Congrats!
You think there is no evidence that corruption exists? Or maybe you think it’s just “a few bad apples” problem?
Easier to make the year begin in March.
No, it isn't.

Public health is just difficult to fund. Especially on a shrinking population.
eye for eye
OKR's are great for one thing: They force writing, which in turn forces clarity of thought. It's the clarity and focus that's important.
> Imagine any other manufacturer or OS charging you for allowing you to write software for their systems.

Back in the day computer vendors didn’t let anyone else write software for their systems. If you wanted software you had to pay the vendor an arm and two legs to write it.
Then some would chime in about how raising the price is (somehow) Microsoft using the EEE playbook.
The one table used for Clickbench isn’t that large. I assume these are the “warm” results that throw away the first execution of each query & all perf being measured here is in-memory.
Aren't they Russian elections though?

A bad actor can steal the voting tokens, and decide the vote. Even without that, I can't assume that the voters are aligned to my interests
Steam is a special case because they set the bar incredibly high while having a monopoly on PC for almost two decades.

However, you can't rest easy with a monopoly, even with a BDFL. At some point, Gabe will step down, and Steam will either go sideways or get sold to Microsoft or Google, ending the love story.

That's why I buy some games on Epic, to keep Steam on their toes, even though they are still the best option out there. I tell everyone I know to do the same.
After four years working on my retro game nearly full time, and several launches, I still don't understand marketing enough to understand what to do differently.

A lot of the advice out there is something like: "create a community" or "go join several communities" or "get to know other indie devs on Twitter". To me, this simply feels fake. I don't really participate in any online communities. I spend enough time in front of a computer for work and I prefer to socialize with my real life friends.

Besides, I simply have no idea how to get any kind of attention on social media. I created an eight-page booklet that recreates the first issue of Nintendo Power, except with my characters in place of Mario and Wart. It's an homage, because I developed a retro game. Somebody suggested that I post it on a retrogaming subreddit, where many others were posting fan art, and those people should recognize the magazine cover that I recreated. Well, I posted my PDF and it got about 4 upvotes. A simple photo, posted around the same time, of the very common TMNT NES cartridge got -- 800? 900? I stopped looking.

I understand that what I made is not going to be for everybody. I'm not expecting to be a millionaire. But damn if I can't figure out how to even get it in front of people. Everywhere I try just gets ignored.

The game is pretty substantial too. Mac, iOS, and Windows versions all done by me -- custom game engine -- 40+ hours of gameplay -- about a 5-6 hour minimum play time if you start from scratch and you know what you're doing (I was shooting for 3.5ish hours to equal Mario 3 or Mario World in "size" or "depth"). Lots of fun secrets. Nothing repeated. Challenging, but not as hard as Dwarf Fortress. Real life playtesters (not friends or family) asked me to reset the game so they could start all over again.

I just wish somebody else could do the social stuff. It all just makes me want to stop programming altogether. My brain just does not work along the lines of "how can I phrase this email to get this person's attention?" So I realize cold calling is a numbers game but I seem to be ignored no matter what I do.

I want to make great stuff, and I really don't care about attention/fame/money -- but what's the point of working so hard if nobody gets to enjoy it but me?
Is it a straight lottery (random chance), or does marketing play a role along with the game itself?
Also recommend Namesilo. Always good pricing for renewals. The website is a bit outdated, but I prepay for 10 years and rarely have to deal with it.
I was mostly using "reputable" as a hand wavy way to eliminate the minority of smart contract projects that don't have such protections. As it relates to smart contracts or more broadly crypto, the point is that you can theoretically inspect every aspect of the system, rather than trusting whoever is running it won't do anything bad because they're "reputable". There are still failure modes for this (eg. hidden bugs, intentional or otherwise), but at least you can't pull off what happened at FTX.
Does such statement, given what SBF did and said, qualify as treacly and sanctimonious?
I was under the impression it was a quirk in cobol.
Yes, I don't think you quite understand the horrors of Britain ruining india during their 100 year invasion. Similar to the destruction of the native american population of Canada and America. As well as the treatment of Kenyans during their rule.

This is not " Just as shark migration patterns were not changed by slavery. "
This is a European country travelling halfway across the world and murdering a indepdant nation. Stealing their exports, and reselling it on the global market. Using their land to produce opium where they later used to invade china and kill their local population.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/opium-trade

You can deny it all you want, but the history will remain.

There's the 3 million that have died due to the bengal famine.

https://newint.org/features/2021/12/07/feature-how-british-c....

The destruction of India's economy under british colonization, causing massive poverty.

http://www.srimatham.com/uploads/5/5/4/9/5549439/how_the_bri...

Various Massacres (That we have heard about, from british soldiers when the local population tried to rise up)

https://www.britannica.com/event/Jallianwala-Bagh-Massacre
Founding Twitter engineer's thoughts on what should come next:

https://www.nelsonstar.com/news/nelsons-blaine-cook-helped-b...
true. its a simpler, even dumber model. but the core thing - following people's posts - is preserved. And there are other benefits, and I'm really dating myself here - but it was nice that engaging with RSS often involved visiting someone's personal website - often a richer, quirkier and crankier space for self-expression than the few fields offered by the twitter profile.

benefit #2 is that it just slows information down. I know I'm tilting at windmills on this one. But somehow the very speed of information on twitter seems to be a component of its societal risk. speed limit for memes?
> Tesla also argued too much time had elapsed since the cars were purchased and that the plaintiffs hadn’t really been harmed by the fact the cars never drove themselves, despite the system being called “Full Self-Driving” and costing some owners $15,000.

So because Tesla has lied for long enough and people believed the lies, Tesla is now blameless? That's one hell of an argument.
I generally have to accept contract changes before they apply to me? And I'm given an opt out method before they apply
What the.... ?

> humanity probably can’t handle this responsibility.

Again, evidence please. Assisted Dying stuff seems to be actually useful for people in very bad situations, where death is "actually better" (for various measures :p).

That other people are not working with it in good faith isn't (by itself) an indication of humanity not being able to handle the responsibility. At least, it doesn't seem that way so far (to me).
> I held in my hand a single DVD with thirty full-length movies on it

But at what resolution, fps, color space ? Storing the same gray scale image over and over again, as in most old security camera footage, takes up very little space.
Are these improvements (security updates) coming on iOS 15? Asking for… a friend still stuck on original iPhone SE.
Not really. He's a pathological liar. There's probably great incriminating evidence there (as in lies that can be exposed as lies for not a word of that person can be trusted) and it's good to see him whine that his accounts got blocked but it's not a good read.

The six counts of conspiracy are a great read though. I wonder who his co-conspirators are but in case they're in the Bahamas those implicated may not be sleeping that well: now they just saw that even the bahamian authorities bow to Uncle Sam.
No. Half of the INJURED people in USA are stoned or drunk.

You would need a control group that isn't injured to support your conclusion.

But, presumably, that population would have a much lower percentage of stoned/drunk people, in line with loads of existing data showing that operating under the influence is a strong cause of crashes & injuries both statistically, and with a well-established causal chain (impaired perception, impaired cognition, slowed reaction times, etc.)
Well, gol-dang it to heck…
I hope the Computer History Museum will consider an interactive exhibit of early online services someday when the Prodigy, AOL, CompuServe, and other service recreations are more complete.
Unfortunately, Brother also seems to have switched to pulling DRM crap and similar recently too. :(

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131
Well, its not so much in making the bomb, but the particular ways of focusing the X-Rays and particular efficiencies in creating the tamper for the most velocity and thus most compression in the secondary.

The key thing here is the Lasers aren't doing the immediate compression, the lasers are simulating X-Ray radiation which then is ablating the casing around the tritium. Figuring out how to create and amplify a x-ray pulse was a major sticking point in the Star Wars program.
If Jamie Dimon asked a developer at the bank "hey can you have Chase ATMs allow these 10 accounts that are in my name to withdraw unlimited funds?" everyone involved would be in jail.

This is not dissimilar.
How to be less distracting is certainly one of those things. Modern computers are constantly begging for one's attention. It's one of the things I really resent about a lot of modern platforms, leave me alone.

> You can sync Newtons and Palm Pilots with modern desktops

Yep and I am seriously thankful JPilot exists, even though it's one of the most homely programs I've ever used. Keeps my Palm Pilot and laptop in sync with each other with absolutely no issues. Without it I'm not actually sure what I'd do.
I don’t mean a financial reckoning, I mean a reputational one. Why would you want to do business with such foolish people?
I'm not sure where you see any indication that he doesn't care about people. If anything he seems to care quite a lot about people. Most of the reason for what he's doing is based on the reasoning of caring for people. You may not agree with him, but that's one of the driving things that's been consistent his whole life.
I think this is a generational divide when computers were significantly more limited. If you look at older data formats, they are nearly all fixed width. Either due to punch cards, memory constraints, performance considerations, or just band wagoning, prematurely optimizing for date representation seems silly.
I wonder if the charities will have to give back their funding.
I bet its a horror show too
The real problem behind all these crypto companies is the people who make the money have no concept of what "integrity" is.

They aren't coming from a baseline assumption that their job is to protect and interests and the money of their clients.

Traditional banks, for the most part, have DNA built around protecting customer interests and customer money. Crypto companies have none of that attitude - behind every one of them is a sleazy tale of self interest and corruption.

My first introduction to this way of thinking was many years ago when I worked on a software development project and the project manager was extremely concerned about a single cent being wrong in the calculations - he taught me that with customer money you cannot get even a single cent wrong.

These crypto idiots are just young cowboys who see a giant pile of loot and don't have any concept of how to manage it in an ethical manner. They just wanted to work out how to gamble it all in the hope of more crypto gold. If there are crypto companies that have not yet had their rotten hearts exposed and gone bust, it's simply a matter of time.

Every single one of these companies will - and should - go bust - good riddance. It's a pity Robinhood won't go with them - the filthiest scumbags of all.
I would say that pennies for the instructors, giant bills for the students, and huge numbers of well-compensated administrators are all qualities of the modern progressive university. Please, tell me of a non-progressive university; where students pay the same real-dollar amount that their grandparents paid in the '60s, where instructors are compensated enough such that their annual salary is 1/3 the list price of a house in the nicest neighborhood within 20 minutes of work, and there is only one fulltime administrator or bureaucrat for every thirty faculty.
I fully expect that the average consumer is not reading any of these notes, and either has automatic updates on, and stuff just magically happens at some point, or has them off, and then wonders why shit breaks 2 years after their last update. The segment of the population that has auto updates off yet waits to read the release notes to make an informed choice regarding updating, is very small. And I'd hazard a guess most of us are on this thread.