skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The job titles seem to say more about the people hiring than about the jobs themselves.

I have often thought that making software has at least as much in common with cooking or sewing as it does with engineering or architecture, as in "software architect" or "software engineer"- yet there are no software chefs or software tailors.

Perhaps executives are uncomfortable knowing less about a fundamental aspect of their business than a chef or a tailor but if an engineer or architect knows something they don't, well, those are demanding disciplines that the executive can be forgiven not having mastered. Likewise there are no attire engineers or food architects because we might be more reluctant to have our waistline measured by an engineer or to tell an architect in fine detail how our meal should be prepared.

It also occurs to me that both architecture and engineering are traditionally male-dominated fields. On the other hand, "computing" was originally considered woman's work[0]. Whatever title I propose is ultimately moot if the people hiring would rather call their employees software architect, software engineer, software lumberjack, etc. However, since you asked me, I think "codewright" has a ring to it.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)#Wartime_...

[1] https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Wright
I worked on a MIPS SOC that had a pair of registers that controlled DDR timing. The formula for calculating the correct timing was complicated and I am bad at math. Most of it was constant but 2 values were important. After failing to get it right a few times I wrote a firmware program (had to fit in 16k of I-Cache) to try every value, run a simple memory test, and print the number of errors to the serial console. This resulted in a grid where the number of errors would converge to 0 at the correct settings.

As it turned out, due to bugs in the hardware and the board, the "correct" answer by the manual would not work and this was the only way to get a working setting. My little hack became part of every boot of the system - it auto-generated the DDR timing. This was back in the early 2000's before DDR training at boot became standard practice.
So no ads, unrelated videos, excessive links, etc., etc., etc.?

I like this much more. Reminds me of a slightly simpler time.
You Shouldn't Nest Your Code
Hard disagree.

MFA is the best mechanism to stop hackers from constantly hacking everyone. Without it everyone would be getting brute forced 24/7.
It's absolutely NOT production ready but I once wrote a one-liner Vim macro to send clojure forms to the REPL via ncat:

https://github.com/djtango/spartan-repl

I tidied it up a little for my personal .vimrc but it works surprisingly well for how little effort it took to configure. One known issue is if the thread of execution spawns a sub thread then exits (because the ncat socket is closed)

I was surprised just how lightweight a REPL editor integration could be - simply having a Vim editing experience over a REPL is pretty incredible
Way back in the day, I brute forced a GEnie password.

By hand.
Are you saying Bezos is a far left activist?
> law enforcement

In the US our corruption is out in the open, we enshrine our corruption into laws. Corporations have lobby groups that literally write the legislation Congress passes. If you think our system has integrity you’re just naive I’m sorry.
Would you pay for Ritz Carlton out of your own pocket for a business trip?

Imagine for a second that company is not reimbursing you for travel expenses, would you go for medium priced hotel or for 5* hotel with your own money for company business trip (not your leisure vacation)?

answer becomes obvious if you look at issue this way
David Friedman appears to be a so-called “anarcho-capitalist”, which is not what this article is talking about. Anarchy is inherently incompatible with capitalism. Anarchy is the dismantling of hierarchies, the removal of rulers. Capitalism depends on hierarchies and lauds rulers.
The Internet is supplying those same people with obvious, immediate benefits. They're not being asked to endure hardship for a hypothetical benefit to hypothetical people. So to people who are victims of online fraud I would say, I'm sorry that happened, let's improve the Internet so that it doesn't happen again (eg by writing more secure software). To be clear I'm not a utilitarian per say, I just look at cryptoassets and say, yep, that's causing a bunch of harm, that's not good.

The right to have authority over your financial assets is just not that interesting to me. I'm largely ambivalent about people's right to hold private property (capital), if anything I oppose it. I care more about people's rights to hold personal property, like their home and the other tools they need to survive, but crypto cannot do anything to protect that because you can't put it into the blockchain.

I'm not a big lover of state power, but I have no interest in supporting the wealthy in thwarting state power. My view is that that is how cryptoassets after used in practice; as speculative assets, which is largely a shell game that transfers more wealth to the wealthy, and as a means to evade taxes, capital controls, and law enforcement.

I believe the main place we differ is that you seem to think these are necessary evils and that crypto will change for the better, and I'm pretty sure this is crypto is telling us what it is about and what it is for, and that we should listen & believe it. I think building a better society requires changing social relations by confronting them and discussing them, not by somehow transcending then through technology. Cryptoassets propose to "solve" trust by abstracting away humans and relationships, but that's just the wrong direction; trust is formed by speaking to and connecting directly with each other, not through math. In the same way locks may keep people honest but don't really stop dishonest people who are determined to gain entry.
I can’t remember the details exactly but there was/is a script injection vulnerability in the Salesforce formula field parser. Years ago I used this to emit a touch event from a click event back when those were different to get a UI working on a tablet for a client. The guy I was working with was fairly impressed which was good because he went on to much bigger things and ended up hiring me 4 or 5 years later for a lot of money.
It's funny that you mention that but pretty much "the MOBAs" genre came from the fact WC3 engine shipped with editor.

And big part of SC staying power was because of community made maps and stuff.

CS (which gave birth to Valorant in turn) and TF2 (which Overwatch traces lineage to) also came from mods.

So it's not really the license just sheer fact community can take it and start modifying if it doesn't work, or evolve if it gets stale.
Also not an audit expert, but my understanding is that they've released an audited point-in-time snapshot of their bank accounts. The problem is that there are various ways to make that number go up for an instant, so people want (amoung other things) the value of their bank accounts over a longer period.

Audits aren't all-or-nothing, they've already paid an auditing firm to do a custom audit they designed. They could have made that audit much better without going into what you're mentioning.
Sure it does, it's a "product", so in principle it participates in the reverse reaction. This probably doesn't actually make a difference for combustion, although CO2 does apparently work a bit better than N2 for firefighting in spite of the added weight, but that seems usually attributed being heavier-than-air (heavier than O2!) and somewhat polar. Not sure how applicable that is to wildfires when it's the atmosphere, though.
So the ends justify the means? That's what you want to run with?
Considering that Authy relies on an SMS OTP for the account creation (and possibly account recovery), I prefer to use something else that provides the benefits of cloud syncing across devices and isn’t tied to a phone number. I understand that SMS OTP is simple for most people to handle (encouraged by many platforms over the years), but I just cannot get past that barrier to choose Authy over something else for personal use.
> You don’t need CBDC, just the existing system today. Here in the UK something like 3% of money is available as paper cash. The rest is just a row in a database.

The point the GP is trying to make is that they want to further restrict the usage of cash in economic transactions, & that CBDCs further help in that regard. There's a difference between:

"3% of money is available as paper cash"

and

"Paper cash is banned under all circumstances"
The metaverse is already a failure. So no it is not because you are getting old. Most people don’t want to strap a bulky helmet on their head to work or play. Maybe one day, if you just have to wear comfortable light weight glasses, this might change. But until then it will be a niche thing.
It's 2022 but macOS still somehow takes ages to install updates, even on the most powerful laptop Apple currently sells. Windows 98 installation takes considerably less time on a single core of that same CPU in an emulator.
I can’t scale down work to 1/4 hours and just get paid 1/4 it’s all or nothing.
The vast majority of people making a living on Twitch and streaming full time aren't getting rich from it.
You need the password too. That's what makes it two factor.
That's just the right combination of brilliant and bizarre.

It used to (and might still be) the case that at Waitrose multibuy type offers are still honoured on reduced items, and applied by discount - based on the original price - meaning you could/can get a further reduction on yellow labels, or potentially be paid to take them.
Vacuum is supposed to increase arcing.

People who want to prevent arcing flood the cavity with sulfur hexafluoride. Fun fact, it has 25,000 times the "greenhouse potential" of CO2. Dunno if that includes lifetime in the atmosphere, or just instantaneous opacity to IR. All the wind turbines are pumped full of it. There is an effort on to switch to something else of proprietary composition.
It does all seem to come down to, "there is no such thing as a free lunch"

Making money takes work, no matter what you do. If it doesn't take work, then lots of people will do it, the market is flooded, and it won't make much money anymore.

This is simply unavoidable.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but why does it need an access key if its offline?
Wanted to install Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 but lost the CDkey, this was pre Internet for me.

I was curious, maybe some random could work. Nope.

Then I had the genius idea, I also had Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun and the CDkey worked.
Sadly no conclusion in the discussion here, other than many different opinions. It is important and I feel good to read in dark mode. But really want to nail it.

Did try to get yellow light e-ink but not as nice as reading on ipad.

Continue to struggle then.
That's incorrect, you can defrag with

btrfs filesystem defragment /path

There is also the mount option autodefrag
That this is now their 6th year doing advent of code using jq is deeply, deeply impressive.
> can you send code to pry from your editor?

Honestly, I never really tried, and it's been quite a while since I last touched ruby. Being able to interact with a live system at a breakpoint was amazing enough to me at the time. The REPL was pretty nice from what I recall - much friendlier than irb or the builtin python one.
> Everyone working on it has top-secret clearance.

along with 1.3 million others [0]. just sayin'

[0] https://news.clearancejobs.com/2022/08/16/how-many-people-ha...
It doesn't in the slightest. But it does tie how healthy competitive scene is to their competence.
Isn't it obvious? The person playing the AI just has to ask the Gatekeeper: "Would you lie to save a life?" and "Do you think that a fear-generating outcome to this thought experiment will have more than a one-in-a-million chance of increasing the chance of the AI-not-kill-everyone scenario by 0.1 percent?".

The sorts of rationalists who would play the Gatekeeper would probably answer yes to both of those questions, and draw the obvious conclusion that "losing" in their role would have an expected outcome of at least one life saved. If they don't value Truth (with a capital T) then there is no reason not to pretend that there really is some amazing "AI convinced me to let it out of the box" secret argument.
He's a journalist.
I've always watched streamers mostly based on the personality rather than whatever game they happen to be playing. If anything it's more interesting to watch someone I'm familiar with try out a new game.

Looking at stats though it seems like I'm in the minority - switching games kills viewership for most streamers (at least in the short term).
Another way of thinking about it: should uptime with bad data or services making false guarantees about data durability actually count as uptime?
This is nice!
Another use case for my STM32 boards…
Definitely interested on the implementation too!
Tulips only go up!
This is a great summary of what makes Clojure-the-language awesome to work with.

The REPL is way too complicated as a selling point, but it's THE concept I took from Clojure and ported it to my workflow in other languages. It has made me appreciate Hot Reloading in front end apps (and make sure it always works perfectly), make my Ruby console reload friendly, organize my React apps so business logic stays in models I can use in a REPL.
There is a lack of mutual understanding that shipping code and closing a deal have a lot of similarities. A Pull Request is basically the same as an Opportunity in your JIRA/SFDC. We can estimate when the PR will be pushed to prod or the contract gets signed. Generally, the more experience you have, the better you’re at setting expectations on when a PR/opp will close. The PR or opp can stall, but it’s up to the person responsible for the PR or opp to notify the rest of the team that there will be a delay or figure out a way to unblock.

The big difference is the lack of accountability. AFAIK if a developer misses shipping during a sprint, they’ll just add it to the next sprint. If a salesperson does this, after 2 quarters of missing your quota, you’re fired. Doesn’t matter if you had monster quarters before that, if you’re not hitting your numbers, GTFO.

I think this is because sales have very clear metrics that everyone can agree upon: revenue, number of demos, cold outreach, etc. We’ve been tracking these types of metrics in cuneiform. Comp sci wasn’t a thing until the 1960s. It’s still too new and everyone has an opinion on what metrics to focus on without angering a developer for micromanaging them. This is where the friction lies; until that’s fixed, you will not have a cohesive team. I hope that AI takes over and we don’t need devs or salespeople anymore.

context: I’m a sales guy that sold software that tracks “engineering performance” to VPs of Eng and CTOs depending on the size of your company. It was shocking to see the level of variance in measuring performance metrics for eng teams.
Let's assume there's no documentation or non-conspiring witnesses who can pin someone, but there are five co-conspirators. They will quickly turn on each other and spill the beans. Literally the prisoner's dilemma. All the government needs to do is threaten 20 years in prison. People will do anything including betraying friends and lovers to get that down to 5 or 10 or zero.
This nihilism is wrong, and exhausting.

Yes, corruption exists. Yes, there are bad actors. But this idea that "everything is corrupt, all the laws are corrupt, the whole system is corrupt" is just lazy bullshit.
Game doesn't need to be opensource, just moddable

"You need to pay us for a copy but can modify it however you want" type of license from game company would work entirely fine
The Supreme Court has made it quite clear ‘the constitution is not a suicide pact’. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Constitution_is_not_a_su...]

Public health is one of the clearest legitimate reasons to infringe on individual rights in an emergency.
> Banking is private-sector, but I believe the government should always be accessible even if you live like the Amish

I got a notice from my state that I'm required to make future tax payments electronically. For that they require ACH. Banking may be private sector but participating in it is increasingly non-optional.
Very common to see techs that are better in every way than new engineers but don’t get recognized as such
Ask HN: Is Twitter worth more or less $$$ since Musk bought it?
He bought at a pretty high price, there's been a lot of controversy since, advertisers are reportedly dropping out... but staff is 1/3rd ppl/cost and reportedly traffic is up. Curious how that puzzle fits together
Nobody has torches out. I'm just pointing out that 'spaulding has made a strictly correct observation. You could have responded to it with an equally valid and interesting observation ("we have ample social evidence that criminalization is gendered"), but you chose to be inflammatory instead.
This loop and a lockout was a nightmare for me. No suspicious IP address or browser changes, but Google would still not let me in. Worse, it asked me to verify with a phone number and after I verified, it still wouldn’t even send any codes to the phone and stopped me from recovering or logging in to the account.

The people who created this useless and draconian account “protection” system seem to have no clue about the real world.
> I dont like the idea of ruthless efficiency by tracking metrics similar to a sales funnel.

It's probably quite helpful if you do it yourself. But yeah - definitely something that has historically been easy to game.
You do for lots of other things (and many people have it for Google as well). Most banking or payment, a random selection of apps that decide you now need verification, new apps in the new country...
I used chatGPT to create a newsletter, I made close to $2,000 total profit.
You might be surprised, if you actually tried.
I was 16 or 17 and had a guest account on the local universities Ultrix server. I discovered that all of /dev/tty* was world-readable UNTIL someone had successfully signed in.

So a “cat /dev/tty* > passwords.txt” and waiting an hour collected the credentials of everyone logging in to the server.

At some point, I had logged into the account of one of the sysadmins who msgd me and let me know he’d changed his password and this would be my last time on his account. (If he only knew.). He offered me my own account if I told him who I was, and he might have meant it, but I didn’t bite. About a month later, a patch fixed the issue and that was that.
I must admit that I am a bit disappointed. Verse doesn’t seem to bring anything new to the table that will make developers more productive.

Perhaps it would be better for the team to work on a runtime environment (think JVM or similar) optimized for the metaverse. With compilers for a number of languages compiling to it.
> Whenever they don't want Congress up their ass.

That's not really a problem when intelligence services can just "remind" any would-be annoying congress person that they have endless amounts of data showing exactly what they and their family members have been doing and could plant whatever they want into the data they already have.

One of the things that finally convinced Snowden to give up everything he had in order to tell the American people that the NSA was violating their constitutional rights was when he watched NSA director James Clapper outright lie right to the faces of congress. After the truth came to light, do you think Mr. Clapper faced any meaningful consequences for that? Nope. Can you guess why not?

Intelligence services are too powerful to be held accountable by anyone. They'll do whatever they want.
From an ethical perspective, it matters that the US criminal system treats prisoners inhumanely. Therefore, it is OK if foreign citizens in allied countries like Japan come in and break people like Bernie Madoff out. Especially if it's done not primarily based on ethics, but because the accused has paid large sums of money to do it.
BigTable's replication settings guideline by use cases
She is getting the leniency from the sentencing reform act of 1984 which is predicated on cooperation. No way prosecutors have given her a damn thing. Yes, many cases use snitches because that is the only way to win the case, but it is fraught with peril because of the obvious incentive to lie. Prosecutors avoid deals, and sentencing guidelines already provide for leniency for cooperation. When it is all over, they may, at their own discretion, decide not to pursue charges against her.
The places with big homeless problems, like the Bay Area, certainly do lack affordable housing. And it’s true that part of that shortage is due to many years of not building enough housing.

But the best economic research I’ve read concludes with great certainty that no amount of building, not even the most absurd, wildly improbable hypothetical amounts, would do anything more than slow the rate of rent increase.

A small studio in the Bay Area rents for 2400, at the low end.

McDonalds is paying $17 an hour. Assuming you get 160 hours a month and pay no taxes, that’s $2700 a month.

If you find a studio within walking distance of a McDonald’s, assuming the all of these best case scenario factors (17 dollar an hour wage, no taxes and a $2400 studio which you can somehow pay fist and last for), that leaves you $300 a month for food, bills and other stuff.

To me, that’s not sustainable.

And the key point, is that no amount of building, even the most absurd “thought experiment” hypothetical amounts, will move that needle.

I will say, because of the loosening of zoning, more and more in law studios are being built in the backyards of the ubiquitous suburban track homes. Some of those can be rented for $1800 dollars give or take, which is the best thing to happen in terms of housing in a decade or more. But, many of those are substandard, and it’s another way for the landed gentry to exploit their prop 13 privileges and exploit the working poor. As much as I’d like to be happy about it, it’s hard to not see it as a sort of new feudalism.

Anyway, I guess I just want to say it’s a problem, but one without easy answers. People are homeless for a lot of reasons, some of those are solvable. Housing prices however are the least solvable of all the myriad issues involved. Most people will have to leave, or get higher paying jobs. I choose to leave.
He could be intelligent but distressed (who wouldn't?) or he could be just a front for more sinister people.

> Binance and Tether

Binance is the elephant in the room. They might have their finances in order, however. The fact that they were enabling shady deals doesn't mean they were cooking their own books. For Tether, I think it's more solid than you think. These guys have been cooperating with NYAG from day one.
> your correct that nuclear has had some very expensive accidents, but the chance of a modern gen3+ plant that we'd build today causing any accidents like that in a western country is so very close to 0 that it's not even worth discussing.

But that's precisely why nuclear power plants are so expensive to construct. If the generation technology was inherently less risky, it stands to reason the facilities would be cheaper to build
I'm picturing old tape drive robot arms like this one:

https://hips.hearstapps.com/pop.h-cdn.co/assets/16/19/146289...
Among the many other things already listed here, you would need to increase the rotational velocity of the planet.

The earliest dinosaurs experienced 22-hour days.

https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/11/28/3642932.h...
Has anyone done any work to compile R to wasm?