skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the focus on comparing 'hours worked' is very damaging to our culture. The effect is that employment becomes a competition, where 'they who works the most hours are the most valuable/noble'.

In reality people who work more than the standard working hours (40) are effectively undercutting everyone else in terms of price per hour worked. Working more hours for the same pay is not something to be proud about; it is an attack on you colleagues. The overwork behaviour causes increased competition, where everybody's expected work hours will silently increase ('why don't you work as hard as they are'). The employer will of course be happy, because they get a better deal. Giving away your time for free shouldn't be something honorable.

It's a bit different if you are getting compensated for the extra hours, e.g. if you are the founder of the company, or are getting good overtime pay. But I still think there needs to be moderation.

Emolyees should be working less than they are today, not more. 40 hours is already too much to have a balanced life. I think a more reasonable level would be somewhere around 4x7 = 28 hours per week. But instead of moving an inch towards that level, our societies have gone in the other direction, where unpaid overtime is the norm.

I hope we can see a attitude change about work / overwork in my lifetime. But I'm not very optimistic about that.
You realize nestedvm is compiling native code to MIPS and then inlining the MIPS interpreter into the generated class files? Had the JVM supported unsigned types, none of this would have been necessary.

Wasm is a refinement of the ideas in the JVM, with a couple good JVM on Wasm solutions already existing. The best of which is CheerpJ.

Instead of referencing NestedVM, you should link to GraalVM which I know you are aware of.
> Those are the same questions that people ask on SO

On the good threads that become helpful, yeah.

On most of it, no, those are not the questions people ask there. They will focus on unrelated marginal issues, try to refuse to answer the question, just assume the reason the person is doing it (even when explicitly told on the question), and just throw wrong answers on the wall to see if they stick. (Granted, throwing things on the wall is a useful way to answer some questions, but not all.)

It's good that Google rewards the first kind of thread, but the second one is what sends people away from the platform.
I was thinking stick in a gsm module with $7/month airvoice sim.

https://www.airvoicewireless.com/plan/monthy-plan
> He just bailed.

After taking a poll if he should continue working at Twitter. The poll was in favor of him continuing. He did not honor the poll despite using the same language as Musk to say the poll is binding.
"$100 or $189 is trivial compared to all the plane tickets and other expenses of travel. Over a couple dozen trips a year, I’m grateful for the reduction in waiting time and stress."

Don't assume everyone else has the privilege of not being worried about an additional $100-$200 cost to airline travel, it isn't a cute look.
Musk is right in wanting "high velocity of features," i.e., the ability to evolve Twitter faster. How deeply he understands the technical details does not matter that much, as long as he has capable technical people working with him. It's likely that they are the ones telling Musk they need to rewrite big chunks of Twitter's infrastructure. Given that WhatsApp was able to grow to ~500 million users with only 32 employees, it's quite possible they're right.

I'm reminded of this confrontational interaction between a technical person and Steve Jobs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeqPrUmVz-o -- in hindsight, Jobs was right: "You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology," not the other way around.

In Twitter's case, they've got to start with what's important -- being able to try out a lot of new ideas quickly and cheaply to find out which ones work. The exact details of how they accomplish that are of secondary importance.
A possible link could be that people head out to ride because of full moons. The number of accidents then scales with the number of rides.
“ Then when someone wins the internet lottery, they succumb to their ego and do a bunch of stuff in business to hoard even more wealth, rather than working to reform the system which keeps so many others down.”

Well said
The scratch set of tools still enables kids do a lot of this stuff.
One of the early attempts to balance those two goals was an option in the settings to switch between Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced mode. Never really see that anymore.
MariaDB uses SPAC to begin NYSE trading in a tough market for public offerings
I think that security has always been a goal of FreeBSD jails and I believe they are a bit more hardened than docker
For now it seems the agencies with the technical expertise to prosecute arnt going after the occasional drug buyers, it's pretty safe. Of course, nothing stopping future better police from taking through old records
The Arduino IDE is very limiting. It hides a lot of these important implementation details in an attempt to keep things simple and easy to switch between Arduino-like devices (which is fine for users who aren't doing complex stuff or want all the features out of their particular chip or care much about optimization). I would instead recommend to use Espressif's SDK directly (https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp8266-rtos-sdk/en/late...) so they have access to all the API the SDK offers.
Enron was a US publicly traded company regulated by the SEC.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/00/100900.asp

Theres another fun one from an NYSE stock ...

In December 1996, Emanuel Pinez, the CEO of Centennial Technologies, and his management recorded that the company made $2 million in revenue from PC memory cards. However, the company was really shipping fruit baskets to customers. The employees then created fake documents as evidence that they were recording sales.
So what does the date mean? Date last marketed?

Not a great thing to do IMO... by all means resurface the good stuff to the top of the blog, but why change the date? SEO? I don't think there's a good answer?
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I think the only thing Musk wants from Kushner is to bring Trump back. Kushner isn't part of Elon's circle. He likely thinks he isn't qualified.
my mastodon link is on the front page of my site. i decided not to put it in the article because i want to emphasize the phenomenon rather than my own small place in it. and who knows, maybe i’ll move soon, just to demonstrate for myself that it is possible.
It doesn't matter. Climate change is happening. It doesn't matter what we do as individuals, the system can't be changed from individual action and it can't be changed via collective action as that would require full cooperation.

There is no practical way we can achieve the goal of survival for all through reduction of CO2 emissions. It's a farce because we'll never get all parties to agree.

The only path forward is to hope we have some very clever science and engineering that can help us survive this disaster.
you're either joking or creating a flame war.
[edit]: typo
Speak for yourself. I'd rather live next to that person than somebody with an immaculately cared for, landscaped yard/outdoor area.
Since COVID, I've noticed a "quantity over quality" strategy deployed en massé by the pseudo-intellectual right. It allows one to give the impression of a well-researched response without doing any of the needed work.

It's almost as if they realize that posting a wall of links will daunt most into not questioning them, even if most of the links wouldn't survive a hint of scrutiny.
Okay, let's run with this. Do I have the right to demand that you repaint your house, because it's starting to look bad and that drags down my property value?
That still seems senselessly combative. I wasn't being mean, at least re-reading my comment it doesn't seem so to me. What's the deal here? Who did I offend, and how?

To repeat a third time: don't run stuff as root simply because you assume root elevation exploits exist. I stand by that, and don't really think anyone here disagrees.
Yeah, I agree we should be reliant mainly on civil society. Unfortunately, moral relativism means we are not allowed to teach civil virtues in public schools. We see moral panic over things like our own government institutions (Smithsonian, for example) labeling virtues such as promptness as relics of colonialism and whiteness. You're not going to be able to have a moral civil society if your ideology associates all virtues with particular races.
I was ill, and I'm upset every time I've tried online dating I run into someone with a security clearance who blows up when I won't ignore the things on their profile or convo that could get it revoked.

I also am ill, and apparently should log off when I have a migraine.

I wish HN supported post or account deletion in accordance with the GDPR.
Sure, sent you one. :)

Btw, if more people want to join, let me know.

EDIT: hm google rejects the mail, will see if I can fix this.
I don't think the statement "fairly simple to compile an arbitrary program" hasn't been true for any ecosystem, ever.
> no interest in corrupting officials if there is nothing or little to gain

Except there's a lot to gain! Don't you remember when banks were saved in 2008? Don't you remember that copyrights used to be 28 years? Don't you remember the times when you could build your own vehicle, pass an inspection and then legaly drive it on public roads?
Yes they have. I gave you an example of my city of Portland, OR whose policies resulted in a major destaffing of the police department by city policy.
Seconded. Neovim with their built-in LSP is so good! Was a happy VSCode user for years but not very comfortable with how they’re starting to push more and more proprietary pieces, so started looking for alternatives. Neovim fits the bill perfectly.

Helix is another one to watch. Not quite at Neovim’s level and may need some reprogramming of the vim muscle memory but definitely promising!
How is slow inevitable if companies like Clear can get rid of it?
Regardless of its technical merits, .NET was never adopted universally, WebAssembly is on the path to do so. It is also not exclusive: Blazor is a successful Microsoft product implementing WebAssembly leveraging .NET
If someone says they are an expert at nuclear engineering, I expect they can build a working reactor in their basement, not that they have read a pamphlet and might know the difference between fission and fusion.
> How can that madness be better than the meds? Why do you think they prefer the madness?

Lots of people voluntarily take substances that make them think much less clearly but also make them feel good: it's just a matter of scale
It is very hard to leave platforms. You lose a voice you had. When you rely on communicating with others, where the platform was the mechanism, then you end up severing some severe ties. Most are anonymous accounts, so there is no easy way to move those conversations.

Paul’s last straw was the policy on tweeting for competing services, but that has been taken back. Perhaps that is the reason he is still tweeting.
This knowledge event horizon is bound to stay around the current position for as long as our primary medium for information is text/video/sound (i.e. linear).

When you google for some programming story you typically look for a story that describes how to combine concept A, B, C and maybe F. The more concepts you add the likelyhood of somebody having described a good implementation story for the combination of those concepts goes down. But you don't need to add many such concepts before the number of potential stories become very large. So for any non trivial number of concepts a blog article is not likely to exist.

We could only really change the game by going from text representation to intelligent representations. Rules or general AI.

However, my main surprise in all this: why do we need this many combinations of concepts in the first place? Why isn't the total domain of things that are interesting to do for utilitarian reasons more limited in size?
But for that you can also use a Nokia 3310, not spend hundos on an iPhone.
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I once imagined a time in a far, faraway land where the new OS secretly in development was nothing more than a thin interface between the hardware and the software. And the software was a VM. And this was codenamed Fuchsia. And was being worked on by Google. They took away the lessons learned from CHromeOS with its LXC containers and Android Container. And realized the new OSs of the future can be anything and everything for anyone and everyone. And opening 35 applications meant running 35 different VMs made of 17 unique OSs and this was called a software's full-stack. And then I would check the memory usage only to be horrified my 128 GB RAM was nearly full, and RAM was just not enough. Then I snapped out of this nightmare.

Are we intentionally not thinking about RAM usage in this dystopian world where we celebrate WASM-Docker progress without thinking of the drawbacks: memory inefficiencies?
Medical & aged care social security costs are tied to deaths of recipients: the bigger the delta between retirement and death,the greater the cost. If the average lifespan grows rapidly, current social security funding will become insolvent, requiring taxes to be raised and/or retirement age to bw raided to leep the current average delta: neither option will be popular with the electorate.
I don't understand the point of your distinction. Barriers will always exist. You'll always need to download an app or visit a website.

If something can be used for collaboration, it is be definition collaborative, is it not?

A multi-user tabletop projection system is collaborative, even if it requires everyone to be in the same room using the same device.

Is Slack, Teams, or Trello not collaborative because it won't run on my XBox360?
Just to be clear, the guy challenging Musk on his "off the cuff" BS about velocity and the twitter stack is:

Currently JVMs & Performance stuff at @Netflix. Previously JVMs & performative stuff at @Twitter.
Ah good catch, thx!
^-- This is the answer: this capability wasn't needed to fulfill science objectives. End of story.

To add context: InSight was proposed to a cost-capped, competitive NASA program. Within competed programs, you can't spend money on nice-to-have's. You have to come in under a cost cap, while demonstrating you will achieve science objectives. Period.

The science objectives are carefully time-bound by a very knowledgeable science team, and from those science requirements, all the engineering requirements, including lifetimes, are derived. InSight didn't need more than one Mars year for the science, so that's that.

There were 2 instruments. In the case of the heat probe, they needed to observe at least one full annual heating cycle. For the seismograph, I think they had an approximate event rate and they needed to capture X number of events of a given magnitude to get insight (heh!) into the subsurface structure.

Here's a description of how this works in general, from someone who was involved in InSight formulation and who is in the leadership of mission formulation at JPL:

https://science.nasa.gov/science-red/s3fs-public/atoms/files...

The whole presentation is great: the first introductory slides, some InSight examples, and the last 3 slides in particular give background on some of my claims above.

The person who (with the PI, Bruce Banerdt) led the InSight "requirements trace" is Peg Frerking (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=t6XZBAIAAAAJ&hl=en), who is now a JPL fellow in part because of her work in adding engineering rigor to the formulation process.

As this thread shows, it's very easy for clever engineers to add on nice-to-have's that are not required to meet science objectives. That's how you get overruns.

Here's another recent HN reference point on capabilities that don't contribute to a great product: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34032672 [Steve Jobs Insult Response]
And vscode core isn't without its issues, it's not straightforward to fork and build without running into userspace issues: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/issues
I'd take this argument more seriously if people cared about non poor/non 'trashy' noise. For some reason we rarely see people up in arms about lawn mowers/leaf blowers/parties/screaming children etc.
This hasn’t been true for years. Since like iOS 12 or so it tended to be the same or faster. The problem is that the first time it boots after an upgrade things like photo reindexing happen and that didn’t use to give you a warning, so people would say it’s slower and never retract that statement when the problem went away the next day.
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Many platforms exist for a candidate to practice leetcode style questions. Created one to practice and discuss system design problem statements.

There is no auto evaluation as high level design is subjective, but we support upvotes/downvotes and a comment section for feedback and discussion.

Looking for early feedback.
He did sign it, so you're not completely off base here.
Neither of those are choosing to kill oneself. Choosing to accept one's fate or to not fight is just that. Choosing to off oneself before an intruder has the chance to kill you or choosing to euthanize yourself are active choices. You cannot honestly conflate active choice with passive acceptance of fate.
> In London cab drivers have to spend up to four years learning the street network before they can get around without a map. Chicago or New York taxi drivers can achieve much the same thing in a day.

These days this is less about being able to navigate, and more a way to limit the number of taxi licenses without limiting the number of taxi licenses. Many other cities impose a numerical limit, but London has never had such a limit - they'll issue a license to anyone who can pass the test. It's just a very difficult test.
Ahh I somehow misread the post and thought it’s a generic map that uses hash table.

I should get some sleep, thanks
For a bit of anecdata, I was diagnosed with ADHD in the past year. I asked around on some forums and somebody suggested knitting. I've tried it and I've found it helps me with my fidgety hands and helps me focus. I work remote and it is especially helpful for me during long, audio-only meetings.

I just finished knitting myself a winter scarf.
So why bother to judge something that you refuse to read? Are you serious?

Graphs from EU data about excess mortality are conspiracy theories now?
Cool but:

- my bank has an upper limit of 1500 GBP so I can't receive the cheque

- if I could receive the cheque, the latency on me getting the funds is a few orders of magnitude more than 400ms
That's what I'm saying. These are only US fines, they surely did some crimes elsewhere without bribing the right people or hiding it.
Thanks.

I'm not saying Binance did nothing wrong, only the article does not elaborate what promise of independence is made.

These statements, while certainly very strongly hinting at total separation, are vague enough that they could mean anything.

Clearly, the powerhouse of transparency that is Binance could just cut all such speculation by providing a proper audit. We're all arguing around the margins of a slightly dog-chewed napkin containing scribbles pinky promising Binance is good for the money...
> If you are flying on your own plane or one you lease what benefit is there in going through TSA?

To make them experience the system that they're imposing on everyone else.
I see your comment has been down voted, likely due to pedantry, but I wanted to let you know I appreciated it. One of the things I love about this site is the tremendous depth of otherwise obscure knowledge.
Also offshore accounting.
No. It's not.

AMD only officially supports GPGPU headless. That discounts 90% of the market. Old graphics cards lose support randomly. That discounts much of the rest. The whole thing is a horrible, bug-ridden mess.

I'd pick AMD over NVidia if it was e.g. 50% slower at the same price point -- open source is worth waiting for -- but I can't take nonworking.

AMD also has no support. I'm now building tooling reliant on NVidia, so if AMD ever gets their stuff working, we're many backports away from a working ecosystem. The longer AMD takes, the deeper the hole.
> ignorance and hate

To many, it’s admirable to do what you say and say what you do. If there’s a law, enforce it. If you don’t want to enforce it, change the law. If you can’t change the law by convincing enough people, tough luck - it’s what democracy and rule of law nominally means.

Casting everyone opposed to illegal immigration as “hateful and ignorant” makes about as much sense as charging open border advocates as “enemies of the state”.

If you have to denigrate your political opposition to understand them, you probably are not really interested in understanding them. Without understanding the steelman opposing view, you become a very poor advocate of your own.
What makes you think anyone is going to take the job, or that Musk is even serious about finding a replacement?

He's done everything possible to make to make sure no one wants it, not least of all promising to saddle the new CEO with an utterly incompetent, can't fire CTO. (But also pointing out how unattractive the job is in other ways, given that Twitter—by Musk’s description—has been hurtling toward bankruptcy since his bid for it became public, thar whoever took it would also be expected to make a sizable investment into Twitter, etc.)
This will likely be remembered as (one of) the peaks of loose monetary policy foolishness.

Palantir had cash that it basically chose to turn into revenue (plus shares of high risk unprofitable businesses).

That’s the opposite of how normal companies work. In any normal environment it’s an obviously dumb move, but when rates are basically 0 and risky assets are worth an insane amount (in cash prices) it seems like it makes sense (until the rug is pulled).

Like imagine if a client asked you to put up $100k of your own money to be given back $100k in freelancer fees plus some shares in their on-demand-X business with -100% contribution margins!
Or have the drone fly low over the panels, making use of the down-draught.
Ask HN: What is the most moddable drone
Are there any drones with an open-source, mod, ethos? Cost-effective yet versatile. Would appreciate if folks can point in interesting directions.
What happens when the pad gets choked out with dust?
The Minsky Moment: subprime crisis and possible recession [Jan 2008]
They're not the same thing. DBPedia is trying to extract structured information from the existing versions of Wikipedia, which are segregated by language and licensed under CC-by-sa. Wikidata is a newer project focused on providing high-quality structured data from scratch (labeled in any natural language), with a CC-0 license that's as close as legally possible to releasing them into the public domain.
I have tested my typing speed on iPhone vs. Nokia N900
Wasm composes in the way that the JVM/SecurityManager did not. You can implement your proxy functions in wasm, not only defining the set of functions that a Wasm program uses to talk to the outside world, those proxy functions that you pass in can also be implemented in wasm inside of another context.

Wasm can learn from the JVM for sure, but if you went almost 30 years back in time, you would have some great tricks to teach the JVM, learned from Wasm.