skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well if you're sitting on a hundred billion dollars of factories to produce gas cars and it will cost you a hundred billion dollars to convert to electric cars then I guess you'd be "less confident" in EV adoption. Admitting that electric cars are the future would undercut your current market. Volkswagon fired their CEO for saying exactly that.

It's the same argument the horse industry said about cars.

Meanwhile California is seeing huge percentage increases in new EV car registrations. Electric car batteries last 1 million miles. I've never had a gas car live anywhere near that long. Electric cars have fewer parts and are cheaper to build. There are over a dozen battery factories being started in the U.S. this year.
Tesla gives free upgrades over the air overnight, not next year. Cars can be charged at home.

My tools are all electric. My riding lawn mower is electric. My next car will be electric. I live in "Pickup Truck, Pennsylvania" and I see a lot of Teslas.

"Confidence" is not facts.
Scottish gender law reform may have unintended harms for health and healthcare
> I have experience in working on statically typed Python codebases, it's just obviously inferior.

Maybe they just were inferior projects?

I've used a library where every function just accepted "args, *kwargs" and no documentation was given. In that case it's not really the fault of the language that it sucks. It could be a similar case for you.

> I'm a polyglot, I'm exactly the sort of person who should be commenting.

Ok I speak 3 languages fluently and 1 more so-so… But what does this have to do with python typing????

In fact most people who study literature and languages don't know much about python types.

> Does it surprise you that static typing is often a poor choice?

No because it isn't true.

> Static typing is something to be used when the performance of your code is important.

We can all agree that python isn't something to use when performances are very important.

> Your standard business CRUD app? Usually dynamic is the better choice.

Ok. That's not what I do though.

Have you done any C and C++? You know how people prefer doing a list in C++ with a template rather than a list of void in C? Same thing in python. But perhaps you haven't experience in this field either?
GitHub is indeed giving WeChat our information, but only when it looks just like WeChat secrets, and only once it's already publicly leaked (any leaked via private repo instead goes to the repo admin).

So technically the answer to GP is 'yes'.
He also bought a house. Perfect example of "Do as I say, not as I do."
Phaser is the one I liked the most and I got it _nearly_ close enough to being acceptable, but the rubber banding was enough to make it Not Fun^tm. I think the issues could have arisen from using Elixir as a backend rather than JS, leading to some of the math/floating point errors (particularly around sqrt) that others have mentioned here.
> They certainly both suffer from issues related to upstream packages doing their own thing.

Having used both Bazel and Nix, I agree they suffer here but with a slightly different take: They suffer because they must reinvent the wheel and provide a new API to mimic the upstream package managers. They're in a constant race to keep pace with best practices outside of their community - and patch their APIs accordingly which become "dirty mirrors", only partially reflecting the intent and functionality of upstream tooling.

But that's kind of the point - they apparently need to take over and constrain the system to fully understand the dependency tree.

I wish there was a Bazel/Nix/Guix build tool that had some barrier between the dependency tree and the developer tools that one uses daily. When I'm building the system as a whole, I don't want to think about cargo vs npm. But when I'm writing code for a given component, the native tooling is the correct abstraction. Is it even theoretically possible to resolve those two ideas without introducing another glue language?
Thermomix. It's a sous vide machine for my steaks. It cooks eggs perfectly. It makes bechamel without needing any babysitting. Asian food tends to be a little involved; a Thermomix handles all the tedious stirring and prep giving plenty of room to clean up or do other things. It also handles some dumb labor like making lemonade with just sliced lemons, or chopping the garlic. You also don't have to soak it before cleaning, there's a cleaning option.

It's a little like my GitHub for recipes dream - lots of little iterations. But it also plugs right into the recipe every step of the way.

It's a different kind of cooking skill. If the garlic is sautéed a little too brown, it's because I programmed it to cook too high or too long. It's one kind of fun to follow the instructions, and a different kind of fun composing and editing them. Some of the recipes turns garlic and ginger into paste, when the whole/crushed stuff is probably tastier.

Some reviews say it's a commitment, which is true. But if you're like me and do some very involved recipes, it's well worth it.

And considering the rising costs of food, it's actually saved money as I can cook something and pack it for work before sunrise.
I am skeptical that “power users” need more than a Mac Studio with possibly some of the feature upgrades.

While having power on the desktop is great, for real compute use cloud resources.
Love Chekhov. Perhaps I'll check it out!

I'm curious though -- it says it's about the development of his voice. By the time he published something major, obviously, his voice was more developed. I'd like to see what his voice was like from VERY VERY early juvenalia to when he finally became good enough to get published.
> I would much, much, much rather be alive in a fucked up world than dead in a nice world.

You don't know that. You think that is the case, but (I) you don't know what death is like, so you cannot realistically claim it is worse than anything (II) until you qualify 'fucked up' then this is a pointless claim, since your version of 'fucked up' may not be that bad compared to what is in the realm of possibility.
The term "bank" comes from the Italian word "il banco" which is a bench or counter top. It is a reference to the original money changers who sat on benches and provided financial services to merchants. Those services, which were the origins of banking, were mostly about issuing loans and changing money.

The services rendered as described in the original article are of a payment system which allows you to deposit cash in one location and withdraw it in another. This is far more similar to the service provided by PayPal, than it is to the primary service provided by a bank which is to issue loans, and to be sanctioned by the state in order to do so.
your argument make me fear that you will batter me with words. please stop using it.
I wonder why noone except Apple manages to build a small device with an integrated PSU.

If you put them into a cupboard, those PSUs take almost as much space as the computer itself.
> Some of them are deliberate slurs but most of them are just colourful language.

Some of them are just simple language.

>> user

>> While often associated with one who uses (software, systems, services), it can also negatively be associated with those who suffer from substance abuse issues or those who exploit others for their own gain.

Seriously?

> It’s deeply funny, but also tragic because while there should be an attempt to make language inclusive, lists like this make the movement look like a joke.

Unfortunately, they can't notice because they lack a sense of humor.
It's always strange to hear Windows being actually good in the 90s and early 2000s, but so much of that was the fact that the consumer oriented, DOS based OSes, were so poor.

The switch to the NT platform in Windows XP was incredible. Of course, a lot of that was lost in teh beginning with the "Fisher Price" UI, and the massive rise of malware, but by SP2 most of these issues were resolved... Windows XP SP2 was one of the most stable and long lasting consumer OS of probably all time.

I wonder if Microsoft could have switched to NT for its consumer OSes earlier, and if so, how much better Windows based computing for most people would have been. Combine that with the Longhorn disaster, and MS lost so many years of precious development time.
I find strange that nobody thought of creating "Guru Meditation" flashing signs in the style of the Amiga one, to be used in place of "Do not disturb" signs. I know a good number of nostalgic Amiga users like me who would absolutely love such a gadget.
That's kinda the problem, how to incentivise making housing but dis-incentivise just buying them as an investment.

Taxing it just makes renting more expensive, high interest rates makes even less people be able to afford one in the first place, and you still need some rental properties as many people don't want to immediately get the forever home.

Regulating renting would make many people bitch and whine about their freedoms to do what they want with thing they own (and, well, rightly so) so there is not that much options left. Cities could build then rent housing (with maybe option to buy out at discount if you lived there for few years) but good luck trying to beat private investors without some heavy legislation on it.
A factoid that I knew thanks to Don Rosa stories!
Voluntary at first. It could easily become mandatory as the grid gets more and more strained from the increased usage.
> low paying jobs that serve the support the ruling class being filled by people willing to live in multi generational family units

You are making it sound coozzy. I'd say 4-10 unrelated 20-30yo males cramed into an apartment is closer too the truth for The Really Cheap Labour.
I think the Space X rockets regularly produce these when they are launched at twilight.
If you know that much, you also know he considers his house purchase an emotional and not rationally optimal choice.

I also own a house. I hate the maintenance part :p
You seem to believe I said something like "we should always believe the company no matter what the evidence says", but if you reread my comment you'll find that I didn't.
You'd be wrong to assume people are reasonable about this. I work at a place that is a bit progressive, but much less so than SV bigcos...also this is in Texas. I interviewed a person whose resume had a clearly female name, appeared more feminine than many tomboy type women I know, and otherwise gave no signals to us about gender identity(they went by a nickname which was gender neutral, which in hindsight is a signal, but subtle, not at all clear). Turns out they considered themselves nonbinary. During the round table afterwards I got called out for writing "she" in my summary of their interview and had to listen to someone grandstand for a couple of minutes about respecting nonbinary persons' pronouns in front of about a dozen senior people in the company. The interview panel leader advised us all to always say "the candidate" and never use pronouns in the future. Funny thing is "the candidate" seemed like a chill person that probably wouldn't have taken offense anyway.
This is perfectly legal, and OK with me, but many will perceive it as "democracy for those who can and are willing to pay."
This blog by a classicist claims that the word salary is indeed coming from the latin words salarium and sal, but that it is not clear what the connection is, that there is neither evidence for the explanation that Roman soldiers were paid in salt nor that it was an allowance for the specific purpose of buying salt:

http://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2017/01/salt-and-salary.ht...

Regarding the latter he writes:

"As I said above, ‘salt allowance’ isn’t a terrible guess. But I strongly suspect it’s much more metaphorical than that. Compare how the Greek word for a salary was opsōnion, literally ‘(money) for buying opson’, where opson means ‘fish, relish, sauce’. That doesn’t mean Greek workers were given a ‘fish allowance’: it means that there was a generalised idea that wages went on traded goods like fish, and not on things like barley which land-owners would grow for themselves. Similarly, in Rome, grain allowances were a common thing; it could easily make sense to interpret salarium as ‘everything-else-money’."
Apple to start making MacBooks in Vietnam by mid-2023
Self-Hosted Audible Replacement
Complete with Android and IOS apps
Ask HN: Why does Firefox need the “Advertising ID Permission” on Android?
I thought Firefox was against tracking???

The pending Firefox 108.1.0 update on my Android's Google Play shows this as a newly added permission, I can't find any documentation about why they recently added this.

TAKE NOTICE: It's only shown on an actual Android device, not on the Google Play website!
Perhaps this is true but the convention is no longer in use pedagogically.
Spade is a rather dated term for a black person, historically from Harlem.
I'm a crochety old grumpy greybeard, now get off my lawn! ;-)
This happened right after Elon was being agroed by Twitter for some weeks, so you can say that not only did salty communists invent space travel (1957), salty communists Made SpaceX Great Again.

You should marvel at the ingenuity of the salty commies who meticulously crafted a 5 year plan to ensnare a special high tech gulag to contain Elon Musk's unlimited genius. A feat made only greater once you realize they did it in secrecy on US soil.

I can tell you're a fully based trans-boomer (Assigned Millennial At Birth) who understands the necessity of war and agrees with all military decisions made by the United States who refused to worship Karl Marx as commanded by your professors in highschool, probably even spotted a few ghouls at night planting fake bones in the dirt to make the earth appear older than 5000 years, so I won't bother trying to convince you Musk's incoherent chicken strut style authoritarianism isn't actually good and smart tech genius CEO-ing.

Just gonna let you know that Tesla is next. And Amazon. Then Colgate. Then Apple. They're waiting for you Gordan. In the capital flight chamber.
What if the suggested replacement is problematic?

The suggested replacement for 'manmade' is 'made by hand'.

Surely 'made by hand' is ableist.
Check if your ISP allows this. Some ISPs forbid self hosting.
I can't stress enough how important college is. People who can drop out of college and still do extremely well are very rare: When you look at Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerburg (sp?), they had to drop out because their startups' success was a once-in-a-lifetime event. They also had family money to fall back on if their startups failed and they needed to go back to school.

Many of the techies who I've met who dropped out of school had career struggles afterwards: I can't stress just how important it is to do college while you are college age. You can delay it 1-2 years if you like, (and it will really be nice to have spending money when you're in college,) but going to college when you're significantly older than everyone else will really suck.

College isn't just about the book education. That's the easiest part. It's also about the social experience; but it's much harder to apply for jobs without the degree.
That seems like a severe lack of imagination/empathy on your part. Others won't be "drowning in the sea of nostalgia" because they didn't find the past enjoyable.
I would prefer it if I could just earn my "wealth" on my own instead of having to rely on the luck of being born to the right parents or having to wait for my parents to die until opportunities are available to me. By the time I am old enough to inherit I won't need my parents' assistance any longer and I will be too old to care about the "wealth".
> Because market failures exist and one of the main goals of gov't is to change the incentives to correct them.

Concrete examples where those market failures cannot be corrected, ever, with market mechanisms? Bc I hear it again and again in abstract terms.
That's actually smart, without my mocking scare-quotes. I think we very much agree, but I'm responding in the context of one parent higher comment than you are.
Hong Kong exchange opens first U.S. office to woo foreign listings
I think 1 basically implies 2; becoming Truth Social, only without the main attraction, won't pay Twitter's bills.
> The problem is that government regulations almost always create perverse incentives.

Remove almost from there: always
Significantly clearer! Best of luck.
Codeberg isn't a marketing company. It isn't even a company
What were your latency requirements on pulling a record out and how complex were the joins to pull said records?

If you have a simple db structure with a few tables and very clear data/index rules then billions and billions of records is pretty easy. Your indexes cut out 99% of the work and everything runs smooth and efficient.

But then you can have eldritch horrors where your stored procedures look like seedy detective novels where you chase join after join and have scary high memory requirements on execution.
The chart in the article didn't even mention the 2nd largest EV maker in the world, BYD.
...true, I was forgetting that.

I don't, sadly, live in a part of the world that really believes in government ownership or management of anything at all except perhaps the military; our government has spent the last decade slowly dismantling the public institutions that do exist, largely unopposed.

Things like social housing, financial support to cover rent, and so on are also options if you are in a part of the world where those things are viable parts of the political discourse.
Isn't cloud rendering cost prohibitive? i.e. don't you get killed on egress costs?
A quick search came up with 3U plates that will allow you to mount two Mac Studios.

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/09/06/sonnet-mac-studio-rack-...
It's a small thing, but nice names for the subcrates for naturals/integers and rationals.
It’s absolutely shocking to observe how hostile HN is to Chinese affairs. While in real life many must have collaborated A LOT with Chinese engineers & managers. Are you worry about bias bleeding into real life? I’m indeed worried as a Chinese immigrant working in tech
What We Lose If We Lose Science Twitter
Similar. The last MacPro I saw was a friends PowerPC cheese grater MP over a decade ago. Laptops were taking off with Intel's Core architecture, and I haven't seen an MP since.
Close! Differentiated goods are priced based on what people are willing to pay, not cost of production.
I feel they are arguing for home ownership instead of against. If a home is not an investment in the sense that you will get more money out than you put in, why would anyone rent you a building? The only reason people rent out property is because it is an investment.

If you think homes should not be an investment in that way you should argue for home ownership. Everyone owns their home and they do not expect to get more money out then they put in. Just about the same and a place to live
This is one of my favourite sites on noctilucent clouds:

http://www.nightskyhunter.com/Noctilucent%20Clouds.html

It describes what they are, how they differ from normal clouds, and how to recognise them.
Thanks for sharing. The "trust thermocline" was a good short read.
to be fair, i truly think the ship has sailed.
If it was reality, okay, we shouldn't just throw more garbage into it.
But it's mostly google. So I think it is fine to let Google either find a solution or die with it & make space for something new.

So, truly: thanks for filling google up with more trash. Soon it will be unusable & we might enter a new era of big tech-companies that are not fully depending on privacy-violation as a business model.
Perhaps the result wasn't the one he hoped for?
The Cato institute is one of those "think tanks" that is actually a business-backed lobby group.

It supports "libertarian" and "rightwing" positions and is linked to Charles Koch and his late brother David.

They also fund the some of the US's Christian right-wing politicians.

So your ignorant and insulting guess is way, way off.

https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/cato-institute/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute#Funding_details

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/23/koch-brother...
> – The online browser-based system was telemetry and JS heavy, replacing a far leaner page

I remember one of those banks using the "leaner" page also had heavy telemetry turned on at some point. I type very fast, so I noticed that when I was entering my user id, it was lagging heavily. Then I turned on developer tools only to see that they were logging all keystrokes to analytics. Including username and password. At first I thought I got a virus or something, but these appeared to be legit scripts from the bank.
So I decided to not use that bank account for a while.
I wonder why would they turn something like that on.
There's a reason why naming things is one of the "two hard things".
Current generation F1 engines for example, are limited to just 1.6L (97 cubic inch) displacement, and teams are not allowed to refuel during the race. This forces engineers to design more efficient engines (less fuel equals less weight). Last season's cars were reported to achieve over 50% thermal efficiency (compared to ~20% for a regular road-going car) and close to 1000hp.

Whether this technology actually trickles down to production vehicles is debatable. But traditionally racing has been the incentive for major advances to be made in efficiency, aerodynamics, drivetrain components, tyres etc.
> There are tons of people on Twitter with over 10 million followers who interact with Twitter a ton.

They certainly don't interact with 10 million people. That's impossible. They only interact with a tiny subset of their followers.

> If a social network can't handle people who are popular, then that's a real problem. And remember, people's accounts can start unpopular, and then they gain millions of followers over years.

I disagree. The most popular person I followed on Twitter had 300K followers and had been on Twitter since 2006. It's really not a big deal if there are no celebrities. The celebrities can post wherever else on the web they like. Don't need them. Let them continue on Twitter, whatever. Not a problem.

I've spent literally decades on the internet, on countless forums, never interacting with celebrities. It's fine. It's great!
I am curious too but the article is in the style of an English major and I just can't stand that style of writing. It is like the literary equivalent to guitar shredders.

I know he was a doctor and that is obviously an odd career trajectory but I don't know much beyond that.
Any euphemism will become a slur, and so will the euphemism that replaces it.
For that to happen, it has to lose all its momentum, MySpace style. I don't see anything right now replacing it, which is why the journalist class is in such a state of impotent rage.
By interviewing. Extremely simple and popular solution
There are a few paths forward for you, and a lot hinge upon your skills outside of security (somewhat your morality).

Computer security is a lucrative field, and a broad one.

You could continue the bug bounty approach, which leads into vuln selling (with the attendant morality questions). You could go into systems security research, a long term project but worthwhile intellectually. You could contract (needs networking and business), you could FAANG (needs patience and soft skills), you could government (needs patience and more patience).

My advice: don’t rush. You have at least 50 years of career ahead of you. The decisions you make now will influence your direction for years, but there’s very little you can do to completely derail your future. Try some things, see what resonates and clashes and learn more about you.

Context: 25 years in computer security in a variety of roles, currently FAANG, currently management. My 17 year old self would likely be somewhat surprised at my circumstances, but hopefully not upset :)