skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once this tech gets good, and everyone has access to a high-powered legal team for pennies, I am a little concerned that anyone will be able to DDoS the legal system.

It's already possible for giant corporations to bury smaller actors in paperwork. They can and do crush people with this.

What happens when everyone has this ability?
It works both ways - a CEO throwing out resumes with prejudice means the candidate doesn't have to suffer a prejudiced CEO, "big boy company" already says a lot about the culture you're trying to foster.
Add an AI judge, and we have machines essentially ruining everyone's life in order to find the equilibrium on Justitia's scales.
Some modern browsers suck, especially if you also can't view local unsigned pages which makes development like, impossible.
If anything the downturn will create even more nonsense, as people try to keep the money flowing in. If you think of crypto writ large as a sort of accidental self-organising distributed Ponzi scheme (which isn't unreasonable), then this is exactly what you'd expect; traditionally towards the end they get weirder and weirder, as people need money coming in by whatever means.
The same site's precipitation graph suggests that despite some recent precipitation, it's still only above average, rather than 'historic' for the period since last October:

https://engaging-data.com/california-precipitation-levels/
ChatGPT is the ultimate bullshitter. From what I've seen of it, it seems to be very good at producing very convincing bullshit. You really need to poke at it to see that it's all bullshit with no real content, but ChatGPT knows how to sell it and wrap it up in nice, superficially consistent prose.
A somewhat flawed filtering method, since engineers don't have to belive in the technology that they are working on.
But I totally understand your point of view as well.
Would that really be desirable for the 80% who remain?

More than likely, any career CEO who would be brought in to replace him would likely continue staffing cuts, not reverse them.
I read this article and was surprised it was written yesterday because I could have sworn I read it a few months ago. Turns out I was remembering a post by a different author making the same arguments, discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32807969
I'm sure there's good money in boiler room scams, but that would be a pretty big red flag on a CV.
Yeah yeah AI will now become your public defender option...
Great questions!

> 1) Could you share examples of bad, good, and open-source Japanese software Outside of the gaming industry and except for Ruby.

"Outside of Gaming and Ruby" cuts out a lot. There is plenty of very good software, but not much that has made it outside of Japan. Nulab has made some cool stuff. I love what Mui Labs are doing with UI.

> 2) Does they have some kind of the hacker culture?
We are getting there. I think there are almost two "hacker cultures" in Japan. There are developers who model their lives on the Silicon Vally lifestyle, and there are people who just love programming. The overlap is not as large as you might imagine.

> 3) May you know links which answer question: Why Europe/Brazil/Turkey/Russia/etc failed to build well-known and international software companies, FAANG-like.
I'm not an expert in those counties, so I don't have a great deal of insight. During the dot-com book, companies like SAP and Nokia did great, but this time around the US has certainly been the winner in this winner-take-all marketplace.
The stock jumped 15% yesterday before this was public information.

Coincidence? I think not.
No doubt this has it's uses, but it will not replace 'master' sculptors, in the same way that clay molding/slipcasting does not replace artisanal hand-made pottery, looms don't replace hand-woven persian rugs, etc. The production process, artistry, etc, is a key part of the value of the artifact.
So the use case is evading tax, money laundering etc.

Glad we got to the point eventually.
Japan still to this day fails at gaming (see Nintendo)
If you're wondering what this is, a succinct summary from the projects about page [0]:

"The internet and the availability of stunningly capable chipsets has made it possible to create a monitoring network that spans the world & successfully receives almost every bit transmitted by the close to 100 navigation satellites currently in orbit."

Maybe clarify the above sentence with "an enthusiast-run, open source navsat monitoring network" and perhaps it sums up the project well AFAIUI.

[0] https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/galmon-project/
Ground water usage is a separate problem, but I'm confident (without looking it up) that surface water (rivers & reservoirs) is the dominating source of farming water.
Very interesting project

ps: a tiny video to explain storage layout optimizations https://yewtu.be/watch?v=dPb2ZXnt2_U
You typing this on an inconceivably advanced computer made by one of several competing companies whose information lances across competing yet collaborating network companies to rest on my pocket supercomputer?

Glad you just survived a global pandemic enabled by competing companies creating vaccines in record time, with your life made easier in the interim via streaming and video calling services enabled by competing companies.

Your example of going to the moon is the opposite. That was funded by taxpayers. Most or all this progress has been done by individuals and groups choosing to do it, not by presidential assignment of taxpayer money.
An intern tried some stuff, the result was a very serious talk with stakeholders while budget planning whether we should fire our copywriters - ChatGPT's bullshit is that good.
Lol, and you think your a 'big boy' with such a sweepingly ignorant attitude? Interesting.

I loath crypto, but I still did it for a couple years while they paid me in USD while I traveled to Asia extensively.
I'd point anyone interested to: http://joaotavora.github.io/sly/

Creating and redefining functions on a running program is incredible to experience. The turn around time for feature is so much quicker because you can, for example, save a web request and continue applying it to functions until you figure what's wrong.

You're also able to inspect data just by clicking on it. For example, I can define a class, create an instance of it and then click on it to see its data. https://i.imgur.com/4jydmBy.png

Another interesting feature is how errors are handled. If you encounter one which causes the program to stop, it'll raise a frame from which you can choose what it should do next. Should it continue anyway or retry, maybe you should redefine a function, maybe you want to change some of the data. Options are endless.

Something else that I don't use nearly as much as I should is the labels feature from SLY, which allows you to mark certain sexps and record the data that gets passed through them. Image here: http://joaotavora.github.io/sly/images/tutorial-6.png

There is so much more that could be mentioned and I'm sure there are other people with their own favourite features but these are mine.
I agree, it would be much better if the article url would be

ntietz.com/puppy/cuddles-and-teddybears
I’m a crypto hater but I think this is silly…some people work in industries just because they want a paycheck and don’t have to “believe” in it.

And sure, you’re a “big boy company”…that sounds so satirical.
Because you want to have delays between bot login attempts?
I made this comment on another post about piracy:

Interesting, as I've grown older, I have had to actively try and keep my morals defined.
Constantly seeing people behave badly and get rewarded for it has increasingly led to me to believe that obeying the rules is a fools game.

Having said that, a lot of things in life come down to random chance.

The startup that you could have joined but turned down - maybe it would have been successful, or, maybe you would have ended up slaving away for 10-15 years only to see it slowly fail.

The girl/boy you could have asked out - maybe that was the one, or maybe they would turn out to be a basket case.

Crossing a powerful CEO and losing your job - maybe keeping the job would have made you rich, or maybe working for such a person would have been soul destroying and broken you.

It's very dangerous to use hindsight to select decision points that you now know would have definitely been the "right" choice to make. That is a path that leads to bitterness and regret.

I'm in a very similar position to you - I'm reaching the end of my career and my thoughts have increasingly turned from "what's the most exciting/interesting/useful thing to be doing" to "I need to make enough money to see myself through to the end - what's the optimum way to do that". The optimum way may be to bend some of the principals that I may have.

Reading through what I've written I hope it doesn't come across as condescending. That is certainly not my intention as I feel in many ways the way you do. Maybe we're both just getting old ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
No it is not just about competition it needs to be treated as utility. Do you have 5-10 different companies bring their electricity wire or water pipes to your home of course not. It should be the same most cities should get fiber to the home themselves they can and let isp provide services over them for price let them compete on services. 10 different companies puting fiber all over a city won't be cost effective as they will do 10 times the work and 15-20 times the capital costs.
"we were pretty impressed with the overall performance on offer, despite being limited to a 65 TDP limit. Although power consumption on the CPU package was around 90 W at full load, this is still considerably lower than other processors the trio of 65 W Ryzen 7000 chips was pitted against."

This is from the Conclusion page. Still pretty impressive.
There are multiple facets to this question depending on the type of law you are talking about.

Criminal, Civil, Contract, Torts, Family, etc.

In many areas of law I would agree with your statement, however with criminal law I have always felt that many governments have been in the habit of criminalizing poverty in many ways. Personally I think it should be mandated that at a minimum for every $1 given to a prosecutor's office to prosecute criminal cases, $0.50 should be given to public defenders (ideally $1 for $1 but I would take $0.50) currently is more like $0.10.
Why peel apples? I do cut it in half and take out the core, but that is mostly to be sure there is no Griswald.
As per the article: The problem is that descriptive names don't stay that way. Descriptive names turn into misleading names as the things they refer to change over time. And while code can be refactored, it's very hard to refactor a service name, and almost impossible to refactor it away from people's minds.
> To me, seeing crypto on a resume means the engineer is a true believer in viability of crypto, and therefore not smart enough to do well in a big boy company.

I don't believe in crypto myself - but your statement sounds a bit egotistic. Should employees work at a crypto company (such as CoinBase) only if they truly believe in crypto and not for say, a good pay? The second statement about smartness too, doesn't seem like a good thing to say.
I am fairly sure I saw live, in-courtroom coverage of both the Rittenhouse (as a prominent criminal case) as well as the Depp/Heart (a prominent civil) case.
All of those things are just signals to help hirers make the right hiring choices. Some folks are too rigid with requirements, but in my experience other signals will generally suffice. Show them you're the right choice.
Can it be a socio-economic problem? Do universities that these lawyers study at really need to be as expensive as they are?
It could also make things much worse, due to Jevon's paradox. The way rich societies throw away tons of food because it isn't scarce, or how modern software is slower than ever because hardware is too cheap. If half-baked AI's lower *some* of the costs of law practice, we might end up wasting more resources than ever before fighting against the proliferating volume of it.

See, the sword cuts both ways. Prosecutors' office would run more efficiently, would pursue much larger caseloads (lower priority ones) with fewer employees and less time. Civil lawsuits could become much cheaper to file; trolling could expand from niches (like patent law) to much broader, more socially-impactful forms of warfare. The financial risk/reward equation is what deters this, and lowering the costs means eliminating the deterrence. And imagine regulatory compliance costs, when regulators feel emboldened to design regimes so elaborate they themselves don't understand them, because they have AI assistants capable of parsing them.
FWIW, my Herman Miller Aeron has given me sciatica over the years. That's frankly more a problem with my terrible posture and sitting position, but I wanted to note it here because we're all probably pretty bad at that. If you need a quick fix, I'd focus more on core strength and sitting posture than chairs.
Games, and especially console games targeting immutable hardware, are a different world. On a console you control the environment 100% and it simply doesn't matter what you do behind the scenes as long if it works.
The people with the power to fire them don't care. So your threat is empty.
For others reading: the $60 million number is his comp from 2020, $57 million in the form of stock options.

I doubt he’s getting anything close to that in 2023.
This is my first time hearing about it. Thanks for the tip, I'll give it a listen.
> how do you deal with the ongoing requirements it appears that jobs place, such as social network involvement

I have no idea who on earth is bothering you with this but I know for sure that if you tell them that you are happy to post about the company at their behest on your Gab/Parler account they will immediately leave you alone. Try to keep a straight face.
>- safe transport for women at night

This was also solved using non-tech and hundreds of years ago. It's called a firearm.
TBF, middle names cause problems in France too.
I'm deeply crypto-skeptic but that seems grossly unfair.

I've worked for a number of startups that, in retrospect, had terrible business models. Does that make me a "true believer" in their viability? Maybe, but then I learned better. Or maybe I joined because I needed a paycheck and they had a good offer. Either way, my performance as a developer had nothing to do with the viability of their business model.

Even if you make the argument that "crypto is a terrible idea as a technology, so anyone who engaged with it is stupid", well, again, in a long enough career you maybe make a wrong pick every now and again, especially early on in your career when it's harder to distinguish hype from reality. A good developer would learn from this and be a more valuable employee as a result.
I market myself sometimes, but I never market my company
Feel like this article was intentionally written to validate Cunningham law and to promote bikeshedding. It's an almost perfect trap for that
What shortcuts? Spec said no touchy between tubes. Tubes no touchy when aircraft left the hanger? Seems good to me.

These are the kinds of failures you get when you try to proceduralize everything with foolproof procedures, checklists, run-books, processes, etc. The maintenance people didn't even know they were making a judgement call.

Had the technicians sleeved the offending tubes with appropriate chafing gear and secured them to reduce movement as would be common place in more earthly situations instead of trying to get it "technically in spec" without thinking about the implications of what they were actually doing this problem may very well have been averted. But maintenance people in aviation aren't really ever exercising those creative problem solving skills since it's such a book driven workflow they're always dealing with so of course they missed the forest for the trees (not that they would have been allowed to implement a one-off fix like that).
The whole Cloud Native Landscape is full of BS like this: Kong, Skipper, Harbor, Calico, Helm, Linkerd, Flannel, you add the next 50 or so project that I forgotten. It makes the entire thing really complex to navigate, and impossible to talk to others about, because they may have plugged in some network you don't know, but you don't know that it's a network, because the name provides zero clues. Or there might be clues, if English is your native language, otherwise too bad.

It's this needless layer of jargon that doesn't help with the understand of the solution.

Sure, if there's a reasonable chance that your project becomes absolutely massive, then a unique name is a great idea. For internal project, don't be cute, just call the thing by its function. Your warehouse management system should just be "the WMS", not FluffoTron. Should it happen to take on new functionality, then either split that out in a separate project, or just rename the whole thing.
Kawai Wasabi is incompatible with Yakotori. It is a known choice by the lead developer.

When using Yakotori you should use Tare instead.
A lot is being demonstrated with it being on your resume:

1) enjoying the technical challenges of crypto is to me like a guilty pleasure. So do I, but I don’t tell the world about it (outside of this HN comment).

2) such a high % of the people involved in crypto are doing something shady or illegal. Personally I would bet that only a slim slim slim monitory of US crypto holders pay their taxes accurately. For any top security clearance jobs in the US, you can’t have any major outstanding debts, because they could be used as leverage against you. In the same way, hiring a cryptobro looks like an unnecessary risk to me.

3) they probably can’t do the job I need them to do. For example, any front end change to our sales funnel requires a sign off from compliance. Can I trust a cryptobro to work in an environment with stricter rules & compliance requirements? Not really.
Yeah there’s Comcast and I keep seeing a Verizon truck and hoping FIOS will come.
is this a serious comment?

Of the tech companies I or acquaintances have worked at, I've personally 'believed in the viability' of maybe 25%. If the tech / pay is good enough I could see myself work at them for sure since its a job. not all jobs require personal investment.

I now see that the username is IRL_CHAD. I feel stupid for falling for a obvious troll
You might get some VC subsidised cheap rides or a lower cost stay. But zooming out, what is the wider effect on our economy of allocating billions of capital in the attempt to build virtual monopolies?

This money could and should be better spent elsewhere, on actual productive assets and activities, rather than pushing for digital rentiership.
The government can also make the use of cash illegal. They can also put a huge dent into encrypted messaging by sending anyone caught using straight to the electric chair. They can drag you out of your home at night. (So can your neighbour for that matter).

The argument was never that crypto is some kind of magic shield against bullets. It's simply a tool. It raises the cost of certain kinds of abuses for the state. In the balance between the individual and the state, it shifts the power, ever so slightly, to the former.
We revisit the legal system itself and hopefully replace it with something better?
Well at least your username checks out.
His reply, reminding Frederick that S. is in charge of the squadrons of horse because he knows how (most importantly, when) to use them, reminded me of OP; rephrasing slightly: "I'm interested in continuing my ongoing work as a principal cavalryman ... to focus on the things[0] we're collectively doing to be successful."

I am saying that although we could imagine OP might possibly be fired for refusing to publish rubbish, OP's worst case scenario is still far better than Seydlitz'[1].

[0] Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments — ANW

[1] During their After Action Review, Frederick conceded, at least implicitly, that Seydlitz had indeed made better use of his little grey cells:
https://www.meisterdrucke.com/kunstwerke/1200w/Richard%20Kno...
Crypto engineers who joined in 2020 and left before the bubble popped have impeccable timing.
I was thinking about chaotic Italian road crossings. Or, to give another example, l'Arc de Triomphe in Paris. People tend to communicate with their cars where they want to drive and I understand that foreigners find this aggressive.

I was not thinking about excessive speeds or tailgating.

In Southern Italy, when you are stuck in a traffic jam in the city, you just drive nearer to other cars, and this is only mildly dangerous because you don't have high speeds.

If you don't drive tight enough, you just can't proceed because some other car will take your place.

This is not tailgating or driving recklessly.
Back when I was working with shapefiles, it was the type of things that tended to be far more convenient to process in-process using something like GDAL [1] (which can operate directly on an in memory copy, gzip files, sqlite databases and far more) and query it with GDAL's SQL support, especially when build with Spatialite [2] rather than loading it into a separate database. It'd have been interesting if the author had talked about what's stopping him from that approach given he's clearly aware of GDAL and given that 130M records and a few tens of GB isn't a particularly big GIS dataset.

[1] https://gdal.org

[2] https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index
If you do chords it sounds kind of bad and I miss a hihat. Other than that pretty cool! good job.
> therefore not smart enough to do well in a big boy company.

You should put that in your job listings to allow people to avoid even sending a resume to you
Bonk happened within a week so you might say that rug pulls have at least gotten more efficient...
The efficacy of ChatGPT is contingent upon one's utilization of its capabilities. Its ability to generate text of exceptional quality is undeniable.
I also think that in general game engines should quit trying to do everything and focus on specific niches. This makes the game engine simpler to build, which means everything can be better, and makes the games easier to build as well, by a large margin.

Rather than Unity and Unreal, I feel like we should have:

1. Game engines for 3D level based pre baked games
2. Game engines for procedurally generated 3d games
3. Game engines for isometric 3d rpg games
4. Game engines for 2d top down rpg games
5. Game engines for 3d space games

and so on

Some of these exist! Especially number 4, some people have build #3 but they did it on top of Unity, so you are still waiting 10 minutes for massive Unity stuff to load all the time.
For broad services and product lines, this is 100% correct.

Change is inevitable and having a simple (cute) name allows collective semantics to float with reality as it changes.

Of course for less volatile components, descriptive is useful, almost necessary.

One of the most important skill sets in putting together technical systems is understanding the difference between volatile vs stable components.

The problem I’ve found is that so many technical people can’t fathom change or see where change is inevitable. So they operate as if everything is stable.

That’s why you see so much pushback against the idea proposed here.
Look, I just don't believe in a no win scenario. Which part of evasive maneuvers don't you understand. :P
Let me know your company name so that I know never to apply.
Thank you Gary.