skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the fact that, 150+ years after 1868, a reputable source is can bin by {Black, Hispanic, White} and get a distinct signal is mind-boggling

Is it really? Compared to how long people have been competing along tribal lines, 150 years is less than negligible.
I love these weird, artificial "no true Scotsman" arguments that appear on HN when people are discussing little more than the colour of the bike shed. "Oh, but how does it do with 100k lines?" I can already tell you from my lovely, bloated IDE: Terrible. And, I don't care. Why? WTF is this file 100k lines!?
If lower level engineers were well treated, then I think that they would feel less pressure to be promoted. As the saying goes "shit flows down hill" and software development has a lot of shit.
> I’d like to see more people there work more on consolidation and refinement

It's also quite frustrating to encounter the endless threads on years-long open issues with no solution in sight.
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You seem to forget the debate between the SEC and the other org that want to regulate crypto.

The reason SEC moved this fast was to add to their counter-point argument that they should be allowed to fully regulate crypto as securities.
Your comment starting this theead was about the following quote from 'rayiner:

> Democrats could advocate multi-trillion social programs

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/advocate
Note that the SEC's is merely a civil action. The federal criminal indictment hasn't been unsealed yet (but should be soon, today [0]).

[0] https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-bahamas-unite... ("We expect to move to unseal the indictment in the morning and will have more to say at that time")
I'm not speaking of the guidelines, I'm speaking of the quality of the discussion. It reads like spam, in my opinion, to post the same off-topic response to every mildly argumentative comment on this post in order to preserve the post's ranking, especially since some of those responses come across as passive aggressive.

And it is somewhat paradoxical to enforce toxic, seemingly insincere positivity in a post about mental health.

Thank you for the Github links, that's an interesting ranking mechanism.
It won’t, just like even in this thread you see the perennial “this is good, actually.”

At rock bottom the crypto world is held up by unadulterated greed and it shows on both ends: I am willing to make too-good-to-be-true “investments” because greed; when that unfolds the obvious way it was going to then it’s someone else’s fault and they’re not moving fast enough — also greed.

In short: “Why aren’t I rich yet, I’ll speculate” -> “why aren’t I whole yet, I’ll speculate again!”
Here's from June 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5XdwlyWgSs
recent enough for you?
He compares himself to Peter the Great and says it's our destiny to reclaim Russian lands
The lines are all interconnected. Whether you view them or not, they still influence each in some way or another. And figuring this out is the hard part in coding and software-design, which the computer takes care of and assists you.
Original author here - I would encourage anyone who wants to learn more to read the entire GitLab Values page [1] - it is massive (would be 51 pages if printed out). This summary is just that - a summary.

For example the Spending Company Money page [2] doesn't begin and end with the quote I shared - it just begins with it. It's the starting point, and in no way the articulation of the _entire_ policy. There are lots of guidelines past that to help folks out and understand what is reasonable...but the starting point is what is important. Trusting people to make good decisions for themselves and for the company is a very healthy thing, and I feel bad for folks who haven't gotten to experience that in work environments.

Thanks for all the commentary - it was a nice send off to make it to the top of this site for a time :)

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/

[2] https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/spending-company-money/

Edited for spacing and to say - one last time - GitLab employee here.
I always thought the line was "you'll never watch your life slide right out of you" which hit me hard.

Of course, distractions and addictions are our coping methods du jour - but they are backward escapes and keep us stuck.

We need to get people to break away from those behaviors and get on the hard road of self-actualization, and those who have an easier situation should be the first ones to do it.
Stealing securities you're supposed to store for me is a crime.

Stealing non-securities you're supposed to store for me is also a crime.
I've got a cheap VPS where I put them running in a Tmux session behind Nginx.
You're streching now from puff piece to "tone".
Sort-of-related, for Americans reading this, from a Brit, when I watch US TV programmes, the inclusion of drugs (prescription and illegal) in scripts is so matter-of-fact, it's actually shocking. Comparing like-for-like programs (police dramas, hospital dramas, thrillers), the UK version will invariably have entirely different plots. Sure the US != UK, but it's so weird.

Isn't the USA the only country other than NZ that allows advertising of drugs on TV? Also sales reps from drugs companies isn't a thing we have here either (largely because the NHS is The Buyer of all drugs in the UK).
Tether and Binance perform a chain swap of $3B USDT from Tron to Ethereum
This was interesting and really well done. But now I'm wishing for something that would help me track each day's set of emotions (BeReal but for emotional introspection?)
That's some crazy powerful hardware, and would be a significant upgrade for most people.

My main and only laptop (apart from some ancient ones) has a quadcore i5-8350U and 8GB RAM. (I kind of want to upgrade its RAM though)

I also have a PC, that I upgraded to a Ryzen 7 5800 and 32GB RAM recently, but a few months ago it was an i7-4790K with 8GB RAM.

Sure, 8GB RAM is quite little, but it's still within the mainstream. In laptops quad-core CPUs also only became mainstream in the last few years, let alone more than that.

FWIW, I don't have any real performance issues with Jetbrains IDEs on either of my machines, but I don't use them much either as I don't like the convoluted user interface.
I think you’re conflating things.

Fentanyl is a Schedule II controlled substance. So while yes, it’s “legal” - it’s an extremely controlled narcotic.

Said differently, it’s illegal if you’re in position of it and it wasn’t prescribed by a medical doctor.

Unlike marijuana that doesn’t need a prescription where it’s allowed.
> If you want to assign blame, assign it to the FDA. They're the ones who make it practically impossible to roll out any new medical technology. Their byzantine rules prevent the sale of devices as simple as epipens.[2]

Weird take, FDA regulations much like FAA regulations are put in place very often as 'paid-in-blood' from data on previous accidents and faulty devices.
I’ll start by saying I’m a lawyer, not ever a professional coder. Years ago, I wanted to help a friend translate a Japanese video game and release a fan translation. I had some experience in assembler a long time before it, but I had forgotten most. I had little experience in disassembly. I also had never learned anything about compression algorithms or theory.

Turns out this particular game company (Falcom) had a habit of implementing their own compression on their assets. So I had to painstakingly read the disassembly. It got to the point that I had notebooks of hand written disassembly so I could read and think about the code when not at a computer. Eventually I figured out how to both decompress images and text and then save the decompressed assets in a way that bypass the compression. I wrote the hack and patch and was super happy. Of course it blew up the size of the game assets for translated materials, but it worked.
Most nuclear reactors use uranium dioxide as a fuel but Lightbridge is making a fuel based on a Uranum-Zirconium alloy that conducts heat much better. It can increase the power output of existing reactors but maintain a lower internal temperature than convention fuel both in normal operation and in accidents.

Metal fuels with a similar composition have also been used in advanced fast reactors like the EBR II and could solve some difficulties in fabricating plutonium fuel for waste recycling.
> Okay, maybe the ones who just copy and paste from Stack Overflow all day.)

Aka the most junior of juniors? Let's not pretend that will actually produce a working code meeting any real requirements.
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then what's this?

https://i.postimg.cc/vTHXhxFC/7089-F268-8-C2-A-4935-A280-841...
While I would argue Drupal may be dying, Joomla is truly dead. I don't know a single remaining Joomla consulting agency that has more than 1 employee. At least full-time Drupal shops are still a thing.
I guess it could be considered arrogant to talk about making lots of money, but in this specific instance, given that the author shares so much information, it's far more valuable than braggardly.

To be considered braggardly would mean that we accept a capitalist definition of value and worth being how much money someone earns or makes. That means that we accept both that the market efficiently rewards societal contributions with money (lmao no) AND that those that are rich because they got a good spawn point are as valuable to society as someone that has the same net worth through their own work "from scratch."

I reject this and therefore I'm disheartened that this person will stop being radically transparent. The information is valuable. I understand the copycat thing though, that makes sense.

I try to avoid linking my own shit on here but I did literally just last week write a post on this subject: https://blog.calebjay.com/posts/share-your-salary/ after a similar conversation with someone who makes a lot of money, and how they felt uncomfortable sharing their salary cause they didn't wanna seem like they're bragging. No ads or trackers or anything (other than goatcounter).
The last press release I could find is here: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ftx-us-derivatives-...

FTX US had (at least) nine board members. FTX International (non-US entity) was private, as I understand, and essentially unregulated, so who cares about the board.
The Oroville Dam was built by California Department of Water Resources primarily for water supply and flood control with electricity generation effectively a useful byproduct.

As a California government agency it’s self insured by the state government, which is a very different situation than a private company building a power plant exclusively to generate power.

As to bankruptcy, insurance is normally required. Wildfires are an odd case because unlike nuclear the people who suffer damage are partially responsible for failing to mitigate risks as eventually fires will happen.
Yeah, Emacs's performance isn't really that great when going head-to-head as an IDE. Yes, it uses less memory and disk cache, but if we're talking about, e.g., working on a large Rust project with Emacs+lsp-mode/eglot+rust-analyzer, you're going to be in the ballpark of IntelliJ for memory usage, and the responsiveness will be nowhere near it. I will say, though, that the disk usage will be much less, and that has mattered for me on this 256GB disk MBP- between Xcode, Docker, and all these package managers for various languages, my disk space has become a precious commodity.

I still like Emacs. I prefer free software. I love Magit. But, the UI responsiveness is honestly frustrating when using LSP.
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Looks like Carsten Höller slides are Wiegand slides:
https://www.wiegandslide.com/en/products/slides/event-slides...

I guess the problem is that people see a slide and think playground/children's toy and that they are inherently safe, but the size of them can lead to trouble - there was one in the Tate Modern Gallery in London a few years ago that had to have safety personnel at top and bottom.
Except marijuana does require a prescription in certain states.
This is so a US thing. In my country an adult is just expected to be able to look at a slide, judge it as dangerous, have te freedom to do it anyway, receive medial help if needed, feel the shame, experienced a learning moment. Get laughed at, Laugh about it.

In the US there is always a lawsuit and it's someone's fault. It always feels like a not-so-nice place to be. Then again it makes for great lawyer and medical series. Lots of emotions.
The SEC didn't get SBF arrested in the Bahamas. That was done by the DOJ. The SEC has brought a separate parallel civil enforcement action.
Opium Wars Round 3 is getting pretty intense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fentanyl

https://www.brookings.edu/research/china-and-synthetic-drugs...
If even a household name like Apple puts a so called boilerplate at the bottom of their press releases [1] this reinforces that's a good practice.

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/12/apple-announces-bigge...
I'm very happy about this. A few days ago, I checked the Bugzilla site for new releases because I'm considering it again for another project. It is not shiny like ClickUp et al., but, IMHO, the issue tracker, should be a piece of software straight-to-the-point, a little bit dry. I'm not going to live in my issue tracker.

Another tool I still appreciate is Jira (I'm aware that might raise some eyebrows :P). But, unfortunately, I find everything else as (still) half-baked, heavy, or simply not-there-yet for any serious usage outside of pet project management. I am begrudgingly saying this after a large client moved to ClickUp, which was a total management disaster, not to say that using uBlock Origin will make ClickUp (randomly) unusable.
The SEC's complaint. It's a brutal read if you're Sam:

https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2022/comp-pr2022-2...
Is this somehow different fentanyl for the stuff that in the UK gets handed out in litre bottles to old ladies with dodgy hips?

Because the whole point of fentanyl is the massive therapeutic window and difficulty of overdosing.
I think my intuition tells me that this is analogous to the convolutions you do in neural network image processing. Just that this is one dimensional.
I would say 90%. I would contend the main problem is we really don't believe in education as a society.

Most people don't even believe that becoming more educated makes you "smarter". "Smart" is this CPU clock speed you naturally have and then "education" is running the cpu through various benchmarks.

School is just standardization of the benchmarks so it can't be cheap and freely available. We don't want everyone to join the guild. As a society we want joining the guild to be as prohibitively expensive as possible while pretending we wish the guild could be open and free. All a racket and bullshit for 99% of the population.
> Furthermore, the current "bad crypto news" is still suppressing the BTC price.

What determines the natural price that is being suppressed here?
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legend say that popcnt was the "NSA" instruction, was heavily used for cryptographic analysis and that was kept out of common instruction sets for a long time to give NSA an advantage.

It is probably just a legend though.
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Ah, interesting. I wasn’t aware of that.

Thanks for clarification.
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I interned there around the same time. The office was an old mall. Apparently, there had been a shooting in/near the mall, which led to people not going and the mall going under. Rackspace bought the mall and converted more and more to office space as they needed it. If I recall correctly the slide was from the old food court balcony area down into the main floor. I agree, it was a very cool office.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33957488 (73 comments) "The school that grants your PhD thinks it’s too good to hire you", which contains a link to this Nature article.
Companies and the products / services they produce have a lifecycle. Some are very long, tech companies tend to be shorter. Rackspace, I suspect, is past the harvesting stage and now in the maintenance / slow burn stage.

How long this goes on for is anyone's guess. They may turn into the Oracle of VPS providers and somehow keep going on for decades even though what they sell isn't really of great value anymore.

I think it's untrue to say the whole company is dead especially with the head office reduction as an example. Moving support to offshore is common in tech now so I guess they are just doing the same as everyone else.

Also note that companies that have a large data breach are often the most secure companies you can buy from after they have taken corrective measures. They know the pain of not being secure and are willing to spend money securing. That brand new tech start-up probably doesn't really care about security at the moment as they think they have higher priorities.
Yeah, but what happens if it's not worth 1 $ anymore?

My understanding is limited, but naively:

- I give them 10 USDC
- They convert it to 10 BUSD
- Price of BUSD falls to 0.5$
- I want my 10 USDC back
- They have to sell 20 BUSD to get 10 USDC
- They have to generate 10 BUSD ??

I'm sure this is not how it actually works, but you get my point.

Also, one could argue that if the BUSD price drops against the dollar they should have more BUSD ? Or how does that work? :)
US annual inflation declines to 7.1% in November vs. 7.3% expected
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To compare plain JS and React/stuff with C and assembly, that is a bit much. The comparison of things from so fundamentally different ecosystems is not going to yield a convincing argument.

"Smart" people are actually dump, if they use an overblown framework for something as simple as a switch on a website and thereby destroy normal browser functionality, because most of them do not actually know how to use their hammer.

So once one has carefully considered not using a full blown megabytes sized framework and simply writing a few lines of JS instead, coupled with standard conform CSS and has actually thought about what parts of a website really need to be interactive, then one can still decide point-wise / component-wise, where to use a framework.

The problem in the JS community is a huge load of people, who present their specific solution as a general solution and others who trust them and add dependencies to their project. Putting something like left pad as a package shows what I am talking about. There is no need to have such a simple thing be a package and no harm in writing a single simple function, when one needs it. But in JS ecosystem there are also loads of devs who just started out developing and they are happy to choose dependency after dependency, because it means they can have it now, without having to code it up themselves, even if it should be a simple exercise. That does not lead to being very smart. Smart is, when I can avoid dependencies, due to intelligently coding simple things myself in generally reusable ways, so that it does not impact future development. But with most of the JS ecosystem mentality, people never get there.
Of course it's a JS problem. "Programs" being replaced by JavaScript apps doesn't mean some custom homegrown LTS framework. It means apps that aim to replace what used to be known as "Programs" have some sort of frontend JS component. frontend JS doesn't mean npm.js sure, but it means whatever flavour of bower is hot today, webpack or the other new kids on the block, react or other stuff. There is a reason why these big companies hire unlimited amounts of frontend devs. If you leave a react apps dependencies half a year and then try to update it none of it will work. It's "less" bad than it was 2 years go, but it's extremely cost-intensive to maintain nonetheless.

But it's not like backend js is any better. Most people run express.js in some shape of form, but then people roll their own (or use any of the existing 50) input sanitizing libraries and then half of those projects run into the same authentication bugs that Rails fixed almost a decade ago. There's a reason why people don't ask for JavaScript experience, but instead ask for Node.js experience in resumes.
Yup. At the end of the day, this isn’t complicated. The man directed assets (whatever you label them) that were clearly meant for the use of the owner only into SBFs investment vehicle for his use (Alameda).

He stole coins, period.
I remember when I was a kid, I wanted to start coding so naturally most places mentioned Visual Studio.

I installed it in the hopes to begin something new and challenging.

Every time I open Visual Studio, it took an average of 18 minutes (yes, I timed it), and it was using my full 2 gigs of ram that I had at that time, so the typing experience was even worse.

I wish I was more persistent with the idea of start coding, but a heavy IDE was one of the causes my curiosity was killed.

Since that day I have kind of a resentment against big IDEs like the ones from Jetbrains and VS, although my PC doesn't struggle at all with them nowadays.

I mostly use VIM and it's enough for me.
I like your idea about Iceland. They are already a major aluminium smelting hub due to extremely cheap thermal energy.
Everyone who bought and held on to their bitcoins in their wallet instead of
storing the coins with a custodian (exchange or otherwise) is still in full
possession of said coins. not your keys, not your coins as the saying goes.

"Not your keys, not your coins" is probably the single largest blocker to crypto adoption, in my opinion. With every other financial asset, custodial accounts just work. Putting a hundred dollars into a bank account is, thanks to bank regulation and the FDIC, the same as putting a hundred dollar bill underneath my mattress. I've traded a bunch of stocks, and not once have I ever thought about acquiring an actual stock certificate, because thanks to regulations and the SIPC, having stock in a custodial account is the same as having a physical stock certificate in a safe at home.

"Not your keys, not your coins" is viable only in some kind of libertarian fantasy. In the real world, regulated, insured custodial accounts are useful and available for pretty much every security available to individual investors... save crypto.
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You can perfectly run peertube at home.
A below the fold, secondary tab that contains a link to a separate page with a video?
> dataframe/sci/numerical plotting libraries

What libraries do you recommend for these? I would love a statically typed alternative to R.
Yup, accreditation is a high barrier to entry.

Make School failed to get accreditation. I doubt Make School is worse than the worst accredited university.
I've been using Render and Fly.io

Render is the closest thing to Heroku's ease of deployment currently. Major disadvantage is the larger build times.
Why is there a need to switch distros? Is it not possible to compile ffmpeg with the relevant flags ourselves?
TILvids looks quite well curated, seems to have some interesting content.

My main entrypoint is usually sepiasearch.org, where I'm looking for specific topics. And more often than not the results were a bit disappointing.
> Reminds me of heroin overdoses in Europe in the 80s

Regardless of your comment (which will likely soon be dead) I don't think heroin was the leading cause of death in Europe at any point.