skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe Twitter works yet because remaining staff is overworked, which kind of defies the point. Making drivers life easier by making engineers burnout is maybe a net sum, but does not look ethical

Also, taxi drivers in many countries are notorious for their dubious behavior. At first, ride-sharing was not like that. Now, it looks like a downfall.

Other then that, ridesharing provides valuable services. Many people hate calling. Security and reliability is higher in ridesharing. Convinience, too. Imagine calling for a taxi in foreign country vs calling an Uber.
The irony is that it also applies to electrical and mechanical engineers that very often do not hold or intend to obtain a P.E.
The US Government already trusts Oracle Corp with much more than merely a social media application.

https://www.oracle.com/industries/government/us-defense/

Larry Ellison defecting to China doesn't seem like a likely scenario, I don't think he'd like life as an international fugitive, slave to a host with a history of treating their own native billionaires harshly. Barring such a flight, the US Government can get their hands on him if that becomes necessary, but I doubt it will.
Crochet is a nice alternative.
Also, it's fairly common for someone to initially plead "not guilty," even if they're planning to change their plea to "guilty" later. IIRC if you plead guilty, you can't change it later, so it's usually best to leave your options open.
FWIW bash supports arrays, and running commands with an array providing the arguments
In a purely market driven world oil would have been phased out decades ago because of all the negative externalities that the pure and perfect market would have priced in.

I understand your point, I just take issue with the phrasing that subsidies for renewables are skewing the market, since in fact they are rather correcting it. Secondly because the oil industry is subsidised as well.
We should do the one because it covers both cases.

A TikTok that doesn't have the ability to do bad things isn't an issue. Focusing on TikTok pretends that it's the only hostile actor with a large platform in <country> that needs to be handled asap

You can handle Facebook and TikTok at the same time by putting in strong privacy regulations, along with all the other similar hostile actors
Correct. I do all of those things, but on my computer. Aside from not really trusting my phone, I find having a full sized screen and a real keyboard makes things immensely easier.

I use my phone mainly for text/SMS, and navigation/maps while driving, maybe watching YouTube if I need to kill some time. I don't really do social media at all.
Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Studio and also Jetbrains wants a word with you.

Personally I honestly prefer

- LibreOffice (much better for getting styling consistent last I checked + not spreadsheet is not as obsessed with mangling everything into an American date

- VS Code (less overhead, more ergonomic and seriously: who develops things that needs old Visual Studio these days who hasn't done so for years?)

- NetBeans (yes, I use Jetbrains but only because I have to use Kotlin. NetBeans just works and the shortcuts makes sense to me.)

but that doesn't prevent the above mentioned products from earning lots of (hopefully) well deserved money.
I don't think you're that far off. When Elon's antics went public, there was a good article about how most other tech CEOs/managers wanted to replicate it. One CEO felt a bit emboldened to crack down, but acknowledged that if he did what Elon did he'd likely lose everything. However, he said that it didn't really matter because Elon's actions have had an effect already by scaring workers and making them less likely to ask for more

I don't think it's crazy to imagine that tech CEOs, investors, management, etc stand to benefit from tech workers being more scared to negotiate for more
My preferred fix: don't develop in Docker.
> Facebook, for example, did so, for its own purposes. This is just as bad

It’s in a totally different league. Domestic corporation spying for commercial purposes versus a militaristic dictatorship with a track record of extrajudicial harassment.
"There’s a thought experiment I find illuminating: Imagine that Lyft announced tomorrow that it was going to shut down its app and lay off most of its staff. Then it was going to open a bunch of call centers and hire people to book taxi rides over the phone instead. When a passenger wanted a ride, they would call a toll-free number (1-800-GET-LYFT, perhaps) and provide pickup and dropoff locations. The operator would then relay this information to drivers, perhaps in a group chat or over an old-style radio system, and one of them would claim the ride. The operator would provide the passenger with an estimated pickup time and take credit card information over the phone. Here’s the question about this hypothetical version of Lyft: Would it be more or less expensive to operate than the company that actually exists?" Hilarious.
Vesta, Ebb Carbon, Planetary Technologies, Heimdal (YC), some stealth companies, and some academics are looking at OAE directly.

(may be missing a few)

There are a lot of terrestrial enhanced weathering folks too, where the alkalinity eventually washes into the ocean after being spread on land.
ZigZag – A Zig game framework inspired by pico8 that runs on the web and native
I am hacking up a minimalist game framework for zig that runs on the web and natively (without changing your code). It's heavily inspired by pico8 and would be great for 3 hour game jams (trijam) or just for learning some zig (my main motivation).

A little sample app can be found here:

https://ibebrett.github.io/zigzag/

Upcoming features (in the next day or so) include mac/linux support, audio, and potentially a fully native backend for windows (rather than using sdl).

More to come!
All it needs to beat is stringifying and formatting that /proc|/sys already does
> she may have barely understood

Mathematics degree. Both parents economists.
24 cores CPU and the guy is still in a wordpress domain name ?
A GUI for your Docker container metrics
Anecdotally, that's not my experience with Windows these days at all. I've never had the whole system freeze up on my Win10 desktop. Never noticed a slowdown or app that can't be killed, and never done a reformat or rebuild. Windows Update is mildly annoying when it decides to reboot your system for you, though usually when you're not using it. The registry seems fine to me too. Okay it's not perfect, but I don't think it's meaningfully worse than the MacOS or Linux system of configs in text files with various types of special formats all over the place, unless of course it's some kind of binary format that can only be modified with a special CLI program.
I played around with the `dillo` web browser a couple years ago. It doesn't support javascript, but it was oh so amazing to experience it as you describe.
The best tool-assisted speedrun for this game comes in at 18:11. According to the runner, a lot of the obstacles, like swinging vines, all run on the same timer. This means that saving a bit of time on one room may not put you ahead (because it just means you have to wait longer for the next obstacle), but missing a "cycle" on an obstacle is an unrecoverable setback.

https://tasvideos.org/4000M
It's definitely not ideal, and I obviously try to do better than that in any product I work on.

But I've seen so many things fail due to bad switches, connectors, and other simple parts, to me it's a great tradeoff to occasionally reboot something as opposed to having it totally fail at some random time within a few years.

I wouldn't trust my life to it, but I'll trust my watch party to it.

Plus, a consumer now only needs to power cycle or factory reboot, so untrained people can keep stuff going.

I'd much rather they need reboots than need skilled work like they used to, that just wouldn't be practical in a digital first world.

Oddly enough having failures be so normalized makes them less problematic, because the victim doesn't get many complaints. People who have to wait just assume that's how it is, nobody will tell you you shouldn't have used a computer for that

Before all these complex systems we used pen and paper and things subject to human error, and we had to deal with that quite a bit.

Computers suck compared to what they could be but they are amazing compared to a lot of older stuff.
Hm. I actually would like a VR library or VR bookstore.
I don't understand why people find it so unbelievable that some people would choose to end their lives than face the reality of spending the rest of their life in an American prison.
The west values free enterprise, association, etc. China does not.

If you want to be more like china, you can ban them, but if you think that freedom is valuable, it's you who's losing out
Perhaps you thought me under the impression Russia hasn’t had a state security service since the USSR collapsed, but obviously I know that. The point is that one can better cloak the warmed over Cold War paranoia they’re peddling under the guise of knowing what they’re talking about if they avoid warmed over Cold War terminology.
Hot pads are super simple projects.
To clarify, all stacks are compatible, including the built in color tools. If there’s an XCMD inside that has not been supported yet, the stack will still run otherwise.
Indeed, and it would be great if it was just new accounts but there are also accounts that have been around for years that suddenly spout nothing but conspiracy nonsense while claiming the rest of us lack critical thinking skills and/or are shills for the FBI or have been brainwashed. It's getting really annoying.

I've seen one community be destroyed like this (an alternative energy community focused on solar and wind power was overrun by 'over unity' idiots and allowed to run amok because they kept buying expensive magnets which the forum owners were selling). And I really would like HN to stay sane.
You misunderstand. Benefit to Caroline Ellison is self evident. That SFB is the subject of her singing is also obvious. Qs are:

- was this too generous?

- who else besides Caroline Ellison would benefit here now that she has her deal? (Related to first q ..)
> You have much more flexibility of where to live as a physician.

Ludicrously false. In the long run, sure. But your youth will be spent in whatever random town the residency match takes you to, and that's after having to go wherever there's a med school that'll take you. The flexibility comes much later and by then you may have settled down accidentally somewhere you randomly got placed.
Showing yet again they are mis-named. They are not Ad Blockers, they are a security device called an HTML Firewall.
Lastpass: Hackers stole customer vault data in cloud storage breach
Sure, but since we explicitly won't, I feel that a lot of this outrage is just BS. As a US citizen, I'm far more concerned with the US government knowing where I am at all times than China. We could pass a law that forbids the US government to consume any personally identifiable data from social media platforms without a warrant, but we won't.
Naw, we should be honest about what we actually do, mostly so we can stop pretending our industry is good at what we do.

We are "Framework and API plumbers" by and large, taking existing packages and just hooking them into each other.
In a podcast interview the writer of the film (who was a war reporter I think) said he was writing from experience; this had actually happened to him after returning from a war. He hesitated before including this scene, thinking it might be self-indulgent and maybe not meaningful to others (but learned otherwise.) "Write what you know!"
Inverted yield curve and other economic indicators all point to an incoming recession. Then again, it's a pretty unique time when the natural interest rate is negative. Maybe boosting government spending will actually work, it's hard to say. It's all kind of a big experiment at this point
We're in a world where Facebook has already used it's power to influence who wins western elections.

The enemy was here before TikTok has existed, china is catching up quickly to the western tools for dominance
I just went into my old lastpass account to try and wind down the account, delete everything, and then close the account.

No option to "select all" in the list so I resorted to clicking the check box on by one down the page. I accidentally slightly clicked outside a check box... guess what? Everything gets deselected.

Start over.

Ok start again, maybe I want to list in alphabetical order rather than group by category to minimise mistakes. Whoops, selecting that option deselects everything in the list.

300 odd deleted in batches of 30-40.

When a company's whole application is covered in anti-patterns and dark UX to make it as hard as possible to leave then companies like this deserve to die.

Deleting the account is a bit tricky too.

1. Go into account settings in the top right drop down
2. In the Links area click on "My Account" which spawns a new browser window
3. Click the red "Delete or Reset Account", you can't miss all the red buttons
4. You can either reset your account or delete, choose delete
5. A modal will appear telling you stuff, enter your master pw, a reason why your leaving and then click delete
6. You will be asked twice if you really really want to do this
7. Press ok
Small cost for the whole world, heap big cost for one country.
This actually argues my point, because it seems (ignoring the strange design) only the last case would really exist in business code in another language.

(Obviously, without source code access the following is guesswork) The other cases might either not be required (since you'll get a stacktrace anyway and don't need to leave breadcrumbs) or be part of some general infrastructure, say interceptor, that logs interesting things on boundaries. At least that's my day to day experience comparing Go and Java.
Lizard: Modern NES game (and cartridge or emulated game app download)
Will the US political parties be returning his donations?
The money they “inherited” is a tiny percentage of the money they made. The other things they inherited matter: education, political and financial connections, and if they hit $0 they usually have backup options.

What I am trying to say is that the money is almost irrelevant. If money were the only relevant issue, then the top ten would have all come from “ultra affluent” families and the top ten should all have recognisably older wealth surnames, like Windsor, Rockefeller, Washington.

Inter-generational wealth matters, but where does Ford come into the Forbes list? Certainly the poor are less likely to move up (who on the Forbes list had parents from 1950s China?)

Most importantly, the majority of arguments about the wealthy fail the smell test, as soon as you see the billions of people in the world who desire to be as well off as a poor person in the US. Don’t just look at those that are far wealthier than you, look at the number that are far poorer, and the arguments they would make about how you inherited your wealth.
The American clones are garbage. The problem with protectionism is it leads to less competition and therefore worse products. If you want apps to stop tracking people just make it illegal for apps to tracks people. Country of origin is irrelelvant.
It depends if it is a software company or not.
Seek out simple, low-hanging fruit tasks that you can volunteer to do right away while you are ramping up. This will help you get to know the codebase as well as show some quick wins that people can see you are able to be productive.
I think between 3000 and 6000 is typical (depending on how high it was, and how long it stayed there).
> must have some information about the Democrats' shady financials, likely going way up

There is zero chance he has inside insight into anything. D.C. is filled with new money throwing around millions. The point isn’t to get access. It’s to convince the politically unconnected that they have access. They get a photo, the candidate gets cash.
According to [1], there were 5,000 client-side rounds of SHA256 in key derivation in June 2015.

It does sound like a missed opportunity to have an at-login upgrade mechanism to upgrade KDF rounds that can be carried out seamlessly or near-seamlessly during the login process. Or at least actively nudging users to change password and thus raise their KDF rounds that way through the default.

[1] https://blog.lastpass.com/2015/06/lastpass-security-notice/
I think where 2001-style projections of the future differ is that they hold up video chatting to be some end-all, be-all goal of future communication. As you say, audio only is more convenient. I'm a dirty tech person and I prefer text even when most of my friends prefer audio. But unless I'm putting my software engineer hat on, I'm not really thinking about "how am I communicating today is it video, voice, or text" I'm just summing up my situation (at home, in public, doing groceries, etc) and finding out how I can communicate with a person. With video, voice, and text all instantly available, none of us really think of one form as paramount, though we all have our preferences. Just like in real life, we all communicate in each other with different ways appropriate to our moods and our settings.
What bondsman has $250 million in the bank to do this? Seems like such an obscure niche to be in.
The data you've cited is wrong though. It lists Sweden's literacy rate in 1800 at 21%.

People were interviewed by their local priests to see whether they could read and the results were noted down. From this we know that in the middle of the 1700eds the 70-90% of all people could read.

The law was also clear. You couldn't get married unless you could read. To be married you had to be confirmed, and to be confirmed you had to be able to read.
Friends of ours do this, and we love receiving them!
Sometimes the "add to cart to see price" means you're getting a good price - the manufacturer set a minimum price and they're going below, and they don't want it to show up in searches.
As someone who finally moved to a bank that actually has web access/ phone app in 2020, its perfectly possible to live without using your phone for anything on that list. Hell I didn't start using my phone for medical/banking/travel stuff until 2020 and onward.

It's inconvenient, but possible. I'm in my 30's and I just largely avoided needing any of that because I live in a rural area and don't travel much. Of course I don't miss my old local bank at all.
Geosynchronous Orbits Are Weird
> This is one of the primary resaons I ditched Windows for Macos.

The raison I just ditched Fedora for ubuntu...

The raison I ditched MacOS for Windows is that MacOS is slowly but surely becoming a magnified version of iOS... One day you will have to jailbreak if you want administrator rights on your ~~personal computer~~ Macbook.
Should be denied access to the internet too, like most internet related criminals are on bond conditions.
We care A LOT about testing everything, always.

We use SQL container [edit: new, freshly cloned DB for a test function in less than a second] and find it to be no problem in practice to write integration tests for our pieces of Go code that calls the SQL queries with some business logic in them.

(No, we don't do a sprawling mess of stored procedures calling each other. We just try to not move data over to backends ubless we really need to)

If you really need complex flow, making connection scoped temp tables for temporary results in SQL and having the composability/orchestration through backend functions calling each other and passing the SQL connection between them is doable.

Yes you cannot unit test every small line of SQL, but since SQL is much higher level that isn't really needed. Test the functional behaviour / inputs/outputs and you are fine..

It really isn't different for writing for a GPU in a sense.
Sounds like Windows needs this 200 line kernel patch that sped things up for linux in 2010 [1]

"The patch being talked about is designed to automatically create task groups per TTY in an effort to improve the desktop interactivity under system strain."

"Tests done by Mike show the maximum latency dropping by over ten times and the average latency of the desktop by about 60 times."

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux_2637_video
Anything in the way is a conversion fail and leaving money on the table.

And for heck's sake, automatically associate previous guest transactions with a new account when a user finally decides to take the plunge.
> Only a few days ago he declared he had less than 100k on his bank account and now he forks out 250m?

No, he (or one or more other people on his behalf) secured a $250m bond. Bail bonds generally cost significantly less than the amount of bail; in many states with a maximum or exact amount set by law. In New York, the maximum is 10% up to $3000, 8% for $3000-$10000, 6% for the amount over $10000. At $250M bail, the bond is a hair over $15M.
Our hiring portal is a start, and we see lots of YC companies hire first employees/founding engineers on it. But any additional insights you have -- especially from the candidate's side -- is welcome. We'd love to get a better sense of what more we could do here.
so when will we declare this advice outdated? Or extremely limited.

The first thing that is outdated, the advice is basically don't be a programmer be an expert in something the company needs. The thing is in the modern world the company often needs programmers more than it needs the other expertise, hence the big salaries we earn getting hired to solve problems.

>There are companies which create software which actually gets used by customers, which describes almost everything that you probably think of when you think of software. It is unlikely that you will work at one unless you work towards making this happen.

I mean, I've never done anything to try to be writing customer facing software but, aside from some international standardization work, that is all I have ever really worked on.

I think between 2011 and now that stuff changed, and maybe it was already very well on the way to changing in 2011 but the person who wrote this wasn't aware it was changing.
> What's the actual likely hood that the average end user is going to install a random service?

For now, UnifiedPush is targeted towards De-Googlers, self-hosters and FOSS enthusiasts, not average users.
Is lower immigration becoming less of a factor now that remote work is nearly the norm?
I am aware of 4 other people who share my name, one of them has an email address one character off from mine.

I've followed their life from their employment offer, maternity leave plans, childbirth hospital trip, baby photos, pet purchases, school registration, and recently their child is registered in a gifted student program. I'm almost part of the family!
Yep, these kinds of applications are on our mind! We consider autocomplete to be the "baseline" task since there are plenty of benchmarks and research to compare our model's performance to, but there's lots of things like highlighting code, upgrading to new libraries/conventions, etc that we can do with a good base model.
>> emphasis collateral. A loan was taken out for 250M with 4M collateral.

Nice. Reminds me of how some folks recently borrowed $1B with crappy illiquid collateral. Round and round we go!
Yeah! 2-player (or 4-player!) simultaneous Warlords or Medieval Mayhem are really fun, even in 2022.

After many decades I finally managed to try it out, on a real CRT and everything. It's not something you generally want to play for hours or anything like Mario Kart... but it is really really good.
I think he already said on Twitter that stuff was just a set of woke shibboleths.
For my part, I still insist on calling British soldiers "red coats".
A CMOS Multi-Band Phased-Array Receiver Utilizing Harmonic-Selection for 5G NR