skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > Trouble is, names are hard to change.

> No they’re not. People just aren’t determined or organized.

I think this point from the article gets to the harder part.

> Once you've said a name, it starts to stick in people's heads, and it slips beyond your control. Other people use the name in conversation and it ripples out through the organization.

Technical modifications to change a name are one thing. Once people are stuck with using a particular name, it can be hard to change that.
This is basically by fast the best argument to use cute names over some main components, and by "main" I mean when there are few of them, less than a dozen or so.

An old name made of well-known technical words can easily suggest a level of complexity much smaller than what it has evolved into and therefore developers -specially new devs- should look it up instead of assuming what it does based on potentially misleading namings.
Here is a prototype of this that I hacked recently for iPhone:

https://twitter.com/ggerganov/status/1605322535930941441
You should be able to edit the title if you do it soon.
I lost a little bit of money investing in crypto on Coinbase (I put about £500 in which shrank to £200 - over the course of past 2 years and for past year I mostly have just had money in sterling - the market looked terrible)
I finally decided yesterday to cash out of coinbase yesterday - they charged me £3 to withdraw my money!!
In the scheme of things I didn't lose that much money - not really. But personally I can't see myself getting back in when Bitcoin goes below 10,000 dollars (which I believe it will in 2023). I think Coinbase share price is heading to junk status. No wonder the employees were selling all their shares when it went public!
The example that comes to my mind is that Square hired Iranian-American Apple II expert Nasir Gebelli to program their Famicom games.
use 'don't mention "perplexety"'
> because systems developed centuries ago cannot keep up with a population

This is _caused_ by technology, you usually don't solve a problem by adding more of its cause
Are people really leaving dirty dishes in the dishwasher for a week? That sounds like it would smell terrible and anything left on the earlier plates would be dry as cement by then.
We have to remember that it's the writing, the graphics, the music in Japanese video games that make them great, not necessarily their programming. They are amazing works of art, but unimpressive technical demonstrations.
Sure, yes - something that's not an issue at my home, but surely will at other places.

Regarding naming - Middle Earth should have many possible names at hand.
> If you are a Rust developer, you pretty much need to do blockchain stuff, as most of the Rust jobs are related to that. And so on.

I'm not a Rust developer, but I must admit I'm kinda surprised by this statement. Let me do my own research.
read the next job listing
Well when I lived in a Third World country with no access to international payment methods, Bitcoin was the only way I could pay for books and servers. So yeah, I am sorry my struggle to learn and better myself as an engineer was through something you deem stupid.
sounds like early christians in Roman empire. They were outsiders in the society.
Most important for what? I’ve naturally skipped breakfast (just black coffee) since I was a teenager. It’s been 20 years now and I didn’t even realize I was practicing IF until I read about it a few years back. I’ve felt fine and productive the entire time.

The only times I’ll eat in the morning is if I’m traveling, or know I’m going to be doing something intensely physical in the early afternoon (Muay Thai or two hours of yoga practice).
An End to Climate Doomerism
> 1. The name on the card is rather arbitrary.

In the US, that is. Other places put the name on your ID on your card :)
It does though. You’re not a good programmer for memorizing a bunch of functions. You’re not a good lawyer for memorizing a bunch of laws.

Even if they’re the ones you need.
I don't get why every CEO is cargo culting this line in layoff announcements. It plays extremely poorly because it's clear there's no accountability.
I don't think this is true at all

> These are the kinds of failures you get when you try to proceduralize everything with foolproof procedures

> Had the technicians

The report makes it clear that the problem was their lack of access to the relevant details, not that the process was defective. If they had seen the need to replace the hydraulic hose, they would have presumably changed it or flagged the problem to someone higher up.

> The maintenance people didn't even know they were making a judgement call.

It seems like they did. If you replace a part and something is touching, you are not trusted in aviation to try and make some space with a bit of fiddling for exactly this reason. They did make a judgment call. If they had relied on the process, again, they could have queried why the new pump was touching when the old one wasn't.
Smart contracts could automate this.
Why do you think the Fortunes results are not that competitive? I would have expected the python pg drivers to be very mature.
I think these discussions always seem focused on the ideal state of the "AI is perfect and gives correct answers" and not the current state where the "AI constructs sentences that are structured correctly, but are filled with inaccuracies and illogical nonsense."
I bought some bitc on coinbase in 2015/2016? Around the time that it spiked to 30k and gained some money, but even back then I parted ways with Coinbase anyway, it seemed like a scam made just for them to earn money without risks, like even their quote of a BTC is higher price when you buy and much lower when you sell, and that for me was the breaking point
Yea, on scrolling through some of this person's post history, I realized they were a complete waste of time to even respond to.

Oh well
Japan developed plenty of its own operating systems like MSX, PC-98 and DOS/V, none of which went anywhere (outside Japan, that is).
Maybe start here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2658458/
Not that I particularly liked GP’s comment, but this I take issue with. You’ve always got a choice to not join a company, and you’ve got a choice to start your career deciding not to work in particular areas. I’ve always been clear with myself that I’d never work in defence for example.
I actually tried to get chatGPT to do this just after it came out: https://imgur.io/a/vvPjB2s. Atm it's quite hard to work with it because of all the safety blockers they added to prevent it from pretending to be someone, but it almost gets the idea. I just love "in order to seek revenge for the death of his husband" as well as the chatGPT's suggestions that follow - if connected right it would play out in a very convincing way.

Imagine killing an NPC right at the start of the game bc other games don't do anything about it. Then later in the game you're ambushed by a group of strong NPCs who internally traded/organised/bartered/trained their way into having nice armour/weapons, mercenaries with them, all with the sole purpose of seeking revenge, coming up to you and telling you just how much they hate you for what you did and try to kill you. Hell, with enough integration between various game systems it would even be possible, at that point, to try to redeem yourself through some dialogue, depending on the internal character traits involved (how persuasive you are, how distraught/determined they are).

A another big thing is that NPCs in games atm don't really do much when you're not around. Some games make them walk from place to place, but it would be so cool for them to have different motivations in a not statically-programmed way where you might find a rural NPC decides to move to the city because there are better opportunities there. Or that the price of iron bars has gone up because a group of NPCs have formed a successful weapons guild and you as a player now have to pay more for your weapons unless you, say, choose to assassinate key individuals within that organisation.

With a custom tailored version I feel it would be super easy to have something like chatGPT spin out the literary parts of the game, then feed say character descriptions into art/sound generation and everything else to get the game together. Would definitely be prone to utter weirdness now & then but would be so cool to see.
Ah, good old days where the first step of developing a CGI app in Ruby was creating your own web framework. Rails changed everyhting.
In that regard, crypto is like hard to use easy to lose cash.

Cash, unlike crypto, is hard to trace. The best can do is to use chemical markers.

Government making cash illegal doesn’t mean much as it is pure p2p with no integrated bookkeeping or remote sensing.
Aren't you discriminating at people such as himself with such a statement?
I find a similar pace in the Air Crash Investigations series. Despite the low-budgeet filming and the actors who are clearly not allowed to speak, it goes into enough detail to be interesting without labouring the point.
Show HN: Hierarchical task/bug tracker with colors that visualizes your project
I think in 2023 "minimalist" just means "not written in something like Electron"!

While this certainly doesn't match my idea of minimalist either, it does look interesting - I'm always enthusiastic about projects that target systems beyond Windows and Linux - and this one can run on Haiku.
I did some testing on Pulsar a while back to see how many shared consumers it could handle on a stream with 1000 msgs/sec.

https://github.com/jgaa/pulsar-test-consumer-scale

I was a bit disappointed by the result. It's known that Pulsar shards it's topics so that one topic is handled by one broker - for subscribers and publishers. However, at least at that time, it appeared as the broker looped trough all it's subscribers in a single thread, effectively enforcing a linear limit on the number of subscribers it could handle on a topic.

I'm just mentioning it, because when I tested, I could definitely not handle 100k shared consumers.

(Eventually, I ended up writing a consumer-proxy that could scale the number of subscribers indefinitely, using just one or a few subscriber-connections to the broker. Unfortunately, it's not open source.)
Surely this is satire.... Right? Right?
It'll still probably take a few more years to get the full picture of what the cost of the lockdowns was since it takes so long for the statistics to be collated.

For example, turns out the lockdowns got one of my family members by making it difficult to get a diagnosis on what turned out to be a cancer. Hopefully the 6 months (approx) delay on getting it dealt with doesn't turn out to be important.
I think we're past believing that our top .1% is bringing value that's worth billions of times more than the rest of the population.

They're all hoarding wealth and offloading risk on others, it's just that in comparison, the crypto-rich are not (yet?) a social class with an army of lobbyists on its payroll.
Absolutely agree RE podcasts. These are ads, which I pay not to see.
You're humour challenged. But so is most of HN.

Perhaps if you scrolled down to the actual article you would have found it interesting?
Aside from the paycheck, is working for FAANG really something people still want? The workplace politics sound dreadfully toxic there.
Why Thomas Edison served soup at every job interview
Anything to go the other way? I’d like to use BQ to warehouse and be able to examine but PG to do heavy analytics due to the cost once you really start doing many repeated queries.

I guess I could just dump directly to CSVs and download but BQ is a nice convenient bottomless data bucket.
> You know what is fun when it comes to work? Things that work, are named appropriately, are understandable, and people not needing trivialities

I don’t know I agree with this. Microsoft has taken the descriptive naming style all the way down to products. Not only names like Batch or Functions don’t add much value, but also it makes searching information about them much harder than “cute” names (such as Excel).

I also think we tend to overthink this too much. In the end, the significance of names is as high as choosing between tabs or spaces.
- "Finally, it's also worth reminding everyone that, as has been the case for several processor generations now, TDP is not the maximum power consumption value for either AMD or Intel – nor is the definition of TDP even identical between the two. For AMD, the metric to watch is Package Power Tracking (PPT), which is the power level that the CPU socket allows the CPU to draw in terms of power. On the AM5 platform, AMD defines PPT as being 1.35x the TDP – so in the case of today's 65 W Ryzen processors, that means an 88 W socket power limit."

(This is on Anandtech's first page).
well eventually, if you have a curious mind, you’ll question or challenge your thought that it’s weird that people have beliefs and stick to them instead of having a curious mind and question or challenge their own thoughts …
Personally I am past the "crypto is a terrible idea as a technology" phase.

A very significant fraction of crypto companies are basically just running a scam. FTX was the third largest exchange and even they turned out to be fraudulent! At this point if you are involved in crypto, my assumption is that you are knowingly involving yourself in an attempt to scam people.

I have no problem with not being a "true believer" of the company you work for. I do have a problem with willingly working for criminal enterprises. It's not 2014 anymore, you can't close your eyes to the issues inherent to crypto.
A UK Minister Photoshopped the ex-PM from a rocket mission
neovim is a fork of vim. https://neovim.io/

alacritty is a terminal application. https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty
> ten thousands of dollars lying around that I could have invested in 2014

Neither did I, nor would I invest so much. $50 would have given you $5000.

> Any person who actually needs their money can't invest into something like that.

The trick is to keep high-risk investments very low. Let's say you have some money you are saving up. You could invest 1% of that in a high risk thing such as crypto. When it goes to zero, you only lose 1%. However, when it does the bitcoin thing and goes x100, you just doubled your total savings.

I agree that when you are in highschool and put $20 or $50 in that, it's a gamble.

But just to be clear, I have nothing against people not investing in crypto. I have a problem with all the people here that seem very resentful and just hope to see everyone in that space lose money.
Rug pulls as a Service
Rackspace founder says it’s ‘on trajectory of death.’
Call me old fashioned, but an entrepreneur like Browder or Bankman-Fried, the type of guys that don‘t know what a workout is and that fail to clean their rooms when Vice stops by: Why are the top VCs investing in them?

Isn‘t the room or fitness of someone a reflection of their self and their mental health? Sure, messiness is easily solved by hiring someone to clean: But isn‘t it telling about their reflection capabilities and their handling of stress?

- Vice: https://youtu.be/4ywSt641A58
I'd probably have the same opinion if the resume I got was from someone who worked in the porn industry (developing websites/infrastructure etc) - yea, it is a lot of the same technologies I would be using in a non-porn company, but like it or not, it does give you a bit of insight into someones personality based on the types of jobs they choose to pursue.
You'd need to find people/businesses who are willing to accept crypto in exchange for goods or services, and if that is not an option, you'd need to exchange crypto for local (or another accepted) currency.

If your government tries to stop you from doing that, it is of course much harder, but not impossible, since decentralized exchanges such as Bisq would be an option, as well as LocalMonero or regular old black markets, assuming that you have coins that someone is willing to pay for.
>None of human art exists outside the extremely complex [perceive data]>[internalize]>[algorithm]>[output]>

That's just a description of what the AI is doing with a tacked on group interaction that AI will do when more AI art is available.

>dehumanizing sledgehammer

In other words people tend to be objective, i disagree but i don't see the problem. If our only difference is because we can anthropomorphize humans better than AIs then there is no objective difference.

But just to play along for the sake of the argument, for Humans to create "art", it would have to ingest a body of boring mystery whodunit prose and be guided to write a poem about it.
I love how all the comments on that page seem like people lost their minds.

(They're their copied sequences, which you can paste in the editor to load them.)
A column oriented database is probably the bigger performance increase. Parquet and a good data warehouse (something like Clickhouse, Druid or Snowflake) will both use metadata and efficient scans to power through aggregation queries.
Go developers might though. A go library that requires native is a pretty big reason to avoid. Similarly a headline “c framework that uses libuv is faster than go fiber” wouldn’t cause an eye blink.

So the concern is the title you used to get to the front page not the actual implementation.
One can be competent and still suck. The thing with software is that it's quite easy to reach mastery in some very specific domain, while lacking any competence in other important areas.
It's an interesting question. There are politically loaded repos and potentially someone may regret their contributions over a 20 year period. I don't see a valid exemption in the GDPR. The closest seem to be the personal activity exemption (subject could go after GitHub though) and public interest archiving, but I don't think the latter stands in the case of a public code repository.
Headline> Excess deaths in 2022 among worst in 50 years

Article> [2022] represents one of the largest excess death levels outside the pandemic in 50 years.

Article> Though far below peak pandemic levels…

2022 is not even “the worst in 3 years” which would be a reasonable inference from their headline.
Grant Shapps had an interesting take on it:

https://twitter.com/youngvulgarian/status/161277296322435891...
Precisely, it will just get weirder and more extreme until it explodes. These are all spasms of a dying organism. The addiction is so massive though that there will be some kind of backlash or a shift to something else. It's like when the authorities cracked down on money laundering through banks, for every one they killed four new ones sprang up.
Tech naming has become a pet peeve of mine. Too many common nouns are being used.

Something like coffeescript is at least distinct but then you get a hundred things that will be called something like apple juice, based on some in-joke connected to a stack that will be called orchard.
I am not sure if BONK already rugpulled.

There are too many tokens with Elon Musk and Shiba Inu, and they are all interchangeable.
A fraction of a percent.
I hope he took puts for the options.
> They literally had people with 1-2 years of experience conducting interviews last I remember.

What's the problem with that?
That depends massively on the countries concerned. US, UK and the like yes but for many countries even friendly ones the closest diplomatic mission is often in a nearby country, eg for Bangladesh it might be in Delhi, for NZ in Canberra. And by their nature they deal with a lot of things which aren't readily handled online.
> Ahh, trying to deflect the spotlight from your comrades, eh Ivan?

Your ad hominem makes it clear that you have no arguments to present. I don't have a dog in the US domestic politics race. I'm neither a US citizen nor live anywhere close to the US. I do have some knowledge into the volume of support from Ukraine's allies declared so far, and the US is by far the largest supporter. Only recently did the EU collectively surpassed the US.

https://www.ifw-kiel.de/publications/media-information/2022/...

If you have nothing productive to add, consider saying nothing.
They go to real life jail. bonk
I have written boiler room scam callcenter software in direct violation of a law that doesn't allow for fanned out autodialing and autohangup to minimize agent downtime. So what?
Seriously? PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch remain top of the class for console hardware, and Square Enix, Bandai Namco etc are still huge names in games.
That’s an interesting point. But I still wouldn’t include crypto on my resume - instead, leave a gap in the resume, and if the hiring manager asks, explain.

It reminds me of how I see a lot of applicants to LinkedIn job posts with people who list their work history all the way back, past their time in the industry. Eg McDonald’s cashier. You may think that has a positive effect (has experience talking to customers, can be trusted to handle petty cash, held a job even at minimum wage..) but in reality the first thought I have is “did bro really put McDonald’s on a backend dev resume lmfao”
That's a past station at this point.
asyncio and python async is very slow, that's why i'm planning to build alternatives to it too!
To me chat GPT represents the same interaction you see on Star Trek when someone is talking to the computer. In particular when interacting with the holodeck. They ask it to modify the environment, incremental tweaks etc and the computer understands what you mean. They are programming, but in a no-code scenario.
hnmods produce amazing community that definitly isnt shit hole

we just do things differnetly here

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Well put. There’s the adage that says don’t judge people as you have literally no idea what they might be going through. In this case you have no idea why they did a stint in crypto. Now, if during an interview it’s clear that someone has a strong ideological connection to crypto (or anything really), and you want to foster more of a “make it work“ engineering culture, then by all means don’t offer the position. Excluding people based on whims like this will not set your company up for success.
This question is answered in the episode "Booby Trap" of STTNG.

"The answer lies in our own computer, the mind, the best piece of engineering we'll ever need. There's no way the computer can compensate for the human factor, the intuition, the experience, the wish to stay alive."
Oh, I’m sure it’s super rare. It’s actually quite easy to setup, but I’m not sure many people bother with the setup because LDAP (I’m not counting Active Directory) in general isn’t all that common. I know this just from the rarity of articles posted about getting it configured.

But once you do it, it’s something that’s easy to keep using because it’s so useful.

My favorite was setting up LDAP in combination with a jump host where I had a special program for the SSH command shell (like prgmr.com). I had it setup where the use could authenticate with a password, but then upload an SSH key from the custom shell.
> > Do you complain that any Google search returns lot of bullshit as well?

> No, I don't.

Well, I do. Because Google's signal to noise ratio is absolutely terrible.
Thanks, just edited
Coinbase mining at a loss makes it more difficult for other miners to turn a profit?

The profits for miners = the security budget. The chain will work fine regardless, it's just less secure.
> the benefits are reversed 90% within 5 years because of the un feasibility of keeping it up that long

I'm on IF for 10 years, it's not a diet but a lifestyle. This is not a "drink only tea and broth" or "you can only eat raw veggies" type of thing
What terrible advice to start a small time side hustle with low margins, for someone accomplished enough th have become CFO of an actual company.