skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and the thing has had to go in for service every 2-3 years for weeks at a time to get it to keep time properly.

You can stretch this out to 5 years and get away with it. Also, most mechanical watches need some kind of servicing (usually relubrication) along that time frame. Hence why before the quartz revolution, local watchmakers were both a staple of any community and a necessary service.

You should really see to it that the Rolex is serviced by a reputable watchmaker. 20 years is a long time, even for a Rolex. Rolexes can last decades upon decades if properly cared for.
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/

Well, someone stealing from your bank account would be more of a law enforcement issue I guess.
Thank you for this. It's so infuriating hearing all of this social justice nonsense from people who don't know anything about actual situations. Knowing that people are paid twice the minimum wage is great and that it's not exploitation.
> So there's your number. A CEO taking zero would cover less than 400 employees.

That's not our number at all. GP said "executives" which includes a lot more than the CEOs. For all I know 1% of the company could be executives
Personal/un-scientific opinion. It's worth trying going on/off alcohol to see the effects on your sleep, mental health, behavior, and honestly finances.

I'm trying no alcohol Jan (like a lot of people) and I've been noticing the effects on my sleep, mental health and the $$$ saved.

Similar to skipping coffee, a week or so every year. It's good to just introspect and question your defaults.

You'll learn something about yourself.

Similar to eating meat, maybe we are better off just eating less of it. Just my two cents.
I've pondered this from the perspective of the Fermi Paradox; that Earth had a really fortuitous series of events where the planet went down one line of flora/fauna evolution that, despite millions of years of evolution didn't to our knowledge amount to intelligent life; experienced a global apocalypse which allowed that (plus later/earlier) flora/fauna to decay and become an easily available source of energy; then had a second line of evolution which did, for whatever reason, result in intelligent life; which now has access to all that energy from the last iteration.

To me, that's a really convincing explanation for the Fermi Paradox. There may be other intelligent species out there, but evolution on earth seems to have a history of producing killing machines (and crabs. its always crabs). So, the gate to get to intelligent life isn't probable; and then you hit the gate of "does that intelligent life have enough local resources to escape the gravity well of its own planet", a gate which for earth practically required a prior chain of hundreds of millions of years of evolution, and an opportune asteroid impact to clear that chain out and make way for a new one to roll the dice again.

The mitigating factor for the second gate is: There could be other resources which could provide the power to escape a gravity well independent of biological decay (e.g. uranium, hydrogen). But at least in human history: think of what it took for us to fully understand how to harness oil, let alone uranium or hydrogen, create a rocket, and get to space safely; we did that with the tremendous benefit of plentiful hydrocarbon resources (global shipping, computers, mining rigs, plastic, etc). At minimum; a species without this advantage would take a lot longer to get to our level; but we did it in just a couple hundred years.

Universal timescales help, but they also work against; as the earth has showcased, planets get bombarded by civilization-ending asteroids often. So, either an element of luck, or: a species has to have these structural advantages, and apply them for the purposes of asteroid defense before the next one hits; or its all over and the clock resets.

Point being if I were a betting man: there are probably between 1 to 4 civilizations in our galaxy (including us) which have reached a similar or greater level of technology; but a great number more that are functionally trapped in a steampunk age, unable to escape their own planets.

My other more fringe theory for the Fermi Paradox, which to be fair is practically the entire plot of The Last of Us, is: that the Apex Predator on every planet that is capable of evolving carbon-based life is Fungus. Eventually, Fungus always wins; and takes intelligent civilization with it.
Camon... this was a joke!
That's like asking "Why doesn't it hurt when a tick latches onto your leg and starts sucking blood?"

They've been designed (evolved) for a purpose.

Pulling a lever/pushing a button should get boring. Slots are designed to not be boring while they bleed you dry.
My 2018 VW works the same way. It even has a third brand of phone connection; MirrorLink
1Password in my experience was the biggest scum of bait and switch I ever faced.
They used to do "lifetime" licenses which I bought into, but wouldn't support it beyond one year of release and stop giving me updates.
Later, they invested heavily into the cloud side of things, and brought in confusing subscription-based pricing which made it expensive and difficult to understand. All they're doing as of now is trying to increase prices and tear into your pockets.

With BW I have never expected the same and I am still hopeful on giving them the benefit of doubt.
Just look closely at your next few receipts. Chances are pretty high that some of them will say something like "Testrechnung" (test invoice) or "Keine Rechnung!" (not a receipt). That's the restaurant preparing to not report that income to the tax authorities.

Many European countries have made certified/financial cash registers mandatory to combat this, but I believe in Germany they are still optional.

The issue is so widespread, I remember hearing that the tax authorities fully expect some industries to only report parts of their income and have made peace with that fact. Mandatory reporting would apparently disrupt the economy too much...
It's not an article being shared in good faith. Look at OP's (sourpuss) submission history, and it's quickly apparent that their main goal is posting controversial bait. Most of their submissions fall far outside the site's guidelines, and their lack of discussion anywhere on the site basically cements them as a troll. Politics be damned, they seem to have no interest in fostering interesting discussion.

I've been flagging these ungratifying stories for a while now. Hopefully it teaches people to treat HN less like a tabloid...
Assuming the claims is correct: Why should the government waste money on having a bill which is almost only used to make drug deals easier? Better to just remove it out of circulation. Yes, it will not stop drug trade, but why should the government actively help facilitate it?
My colloquial understanding is that Startup is meant to grow fast, Business is meant to grow slow.

Some of the causes and effects:

1. New business may have a proven business model, customers, product, market. Startup may have to find or create any of those

2. New business may have some capital to build/invest itself (I've worked in a restaurant, saved up, now opening my own). Startup is based on idea/people/work, but likely has no internal capital

3. Both have risk; but in some ways New business risk is known & understood. Startup's risk may be as undefined as their product/market.

As frequently used, there's also a

4. Expectation of profit / failure rate. A new business would be happy to succeed with small profits, certainly very much over bankruptcy/shutdown. Startup ecosystem/expectations are built around fail or succeed wildly.
Also became a fashion statement
There will always be high growth things.

Look for something new and different that could change everything (https://scroll.pub/ https://breckyunits.com/oneTextarea.html https://longbets.org/793/)
Agreed, though I think the dev tied their hands by only accepting donations via Bitcoin.

Thankfully, they have received a number of donations in the last week: https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/bc1qsctktt...
Am I the only one that thought this was a universal format for describing CLI arguments?
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/If-by-whiskey for others
> There are some 40k layoffs in last few months and certainly a large number of those are US citizens.

That doesn't matter if they all find a new job very quickly, what's more relevant is the unemployment rate. Is it increasing?

At least when it comes to the overall unemployment rate, it seems to be very low when I see articles like this: https://www.businessinsider.com/december-jobs-report-labor-m...

I didn't find IT-specific stats to be fully sure (well it's somewhere on https://www.bls.gov if you're so inclined), but I'd be surprised if the IT industry were much worse (if at all) than the average over all industries.
the word "startup" has been a buzz word since ~2012 from my perspective. Ever since I saw established companies start to describe their approach as becoming more "startup-like".
The magic words are “Reg E”. Your bank won’t tell you about it, but they must follow the regulation.
Under what situation could that possibly be useful where all society hasn't collapsed?

You're not going to lose access to your bank account because the bank failed; the FDIC handles that. It just moves to a different bank over the weekend.

Locked out because Chexsystems thinks you're a financial criminal is more in the direction of possible.
Yeah, stoicism by itself is probably enough. I also really love stoicism, although I feel like in popular culture it has sort of a weird stereotype of being a really grim way to live (which is not at all the case)
If you close the BofA app after you are done, you have to log in again with either password or biometrics. If you don't and just go to the home screen, it stays logged in.
Chat Data Prep by Akkio: Transform Any Data Using Plain English
You mean recaptcha is payment for services? Of course not, they don't get any money from g$$gle. In fact, site loses money if I fail to access it due to recaptcha.
The grow fast part is key. If you can out spend your competition and out grow them it is much easier to monopolize your market. That is how you become a FAANG. Not all businesses have that potential however - which is why so many fail. Failure in this case does not necessarily mean the business is not successful - simply not successful enough.
When corporate email threads start getting lengthy, I like to flow* them. Too often it's not even a question of premises and conclusions, but rather I find technical threads get hung up on quibbling minor issues, while failing to engage ("arguing past each other") wrt fairly major points.

* eg https://www.speechanddebate.org/wp-content/uploads/Big-Quest...
FYI, D has https://run.dlang.io/

I actually use it regularly to run small snippets of code. It's integrated into the documentation, for example https://dlang.org/phobos/std_algorithm_searching.html#.find, so that you can play with the function to see how it works.
Suzerainty in Megacorps
I do not get it.

Defining the models a d network code for Swift APIs is the easy part. Do one, and the rest are just the same. Boring

Why would a wand large fullballs of third party and generated code for something that takes so little time and effort?
Thanks for the info and for the podcast link. Going to give that a listen.
This is true and my intuition may betray me here. But on the other hand, Windows 95 was perfectly useable to people who had never sat down at a computer before. It was obvious where the buttons where, and some programs even had the little question-mark icon, which you could click on, then click on any UI surface, and you got a text explanation of what that button or whatever did.

This got me thinking about of another thing: PCs (broadly speaking) are becoming less popular (not in absolute terms perhaps) compared to glass slab devices. But on the other hand, when people do real productivity stuff on touch devices, they often do PC-ish workflows, using an external keyboard and such. I don't know what to make of this. I think a real IDE made for touch from the ground up could be incredibly powerful. Like a Lisp (under the hood), where there are no parens, just touch-enabled rectangles you zoom into, one for each function.
This doesn't test the "epigenetic information theory of aging."

First, there is no survival analysis. How is the mouse younger if it doesn't live longer? Similarly, the OSK "rejuvenated" mice display lower lean muscle mass.

Second, the causality is (willfully?) misinterpreted. The endonuclease used to causes DNA double-strand breaks does NOT directly alter the epigenome. Instead, it induces DNA-damage repair stress. One consequence, of many, is epigenetic (chromatin) dysregulation. DNA damage stress is well known to accelerate aging phenotypes. In fact, David published on how p53 stress from repeated DNA damage - using the same endonuclease setup - initiates a DNA damage response in turn promoting cell-cycle exit and cell elimination [0].

Third, cutting "non-coding" DNA in this case involves cutting specific ribosomes (cell translation machinery). Given that this pressure is constitutive, it's likely that these ribosomes evolve resistance to the nuclease by mutating functional sequences. However, the authors never assessed the mutation and function of these ribosomes.

Lastly, the in vivo AAV transduction efficiency isn't measured. This makes the OSK "rejuvenation" result hard to interpret. All cells get DNA damage (germline edit), but only transduced cells (<10% at best in whole organism) get some OSK exposure. Yet, the whole organism is "rejuvenated"? Is there a positive spill-over from OSK expression?

All the core claims about epigenetic information are either incorrect or grossly misleading. The perturbation, site-specific DNA damage, does not cause only loss of whole-cell epigenetic information. Hard to imagine how this got into Cell. I guess a big name and 20+ figures is all you need these days?

[0] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2021.11.018
The last satirical novel from a tech-world alum? It’s got a bug
You might like this thesis:

http://www.bloechle.ch/jean-luc/pub/Bloechle_Thesis.pdf

I made a HN post on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33674525

Unfortunately I contacted the author via youtube and the work is proprietary, owned by the business he either created or sold-to.
It's like being a janitor but doing it for free.
Details on the design process: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improveme...

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On Wikipedia, and any MediaWiki installation, you can add the useskin query parameter to the URL to change skins on a page, even when not logged in.

Current (vector-2022): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59th_Academy_Awards?useskin=ve...

Previous (vector): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59th_Academy_Awards?useskin=ve...

Older (monobook): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59th_Academy_Awards?useskin=mo...

Older alternative (modern): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59th_Academy_Awards?useskin=mo...

Older alternative (cologneblue): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59th_Academy_Awards?useskin=co...

Mobile (minerva): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59th_Academy_Awards?useskin=mi...

Responsive alternative (timeless): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59th_Academy_Awards?useskin=ti...

Installed skin list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version
Many companies have a "Human-Cent" approach to developer productivity. It is "Human-Centipede" instead of "Human-Centered"
Stock Options and Restricted Stock Units are different things and even without the value going up, they have an intrinsic cash value.

And what memes about Total Comp?
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Metadata_Platform and https://ontology2.com/essays/LookingForMetadataInAllTheWrong...
Because the human brain is bad at probability and susceptible to hacking.

And on the other like-a-fox hand, the military does have a strong incentive to identify individuals susceptible to developing gambling addictions.

It's cold, but putting them in close proximity to available gambling isn't the worst test...
Still are some places. The well known bitcoin bar in kreuzberg is gone, sadly. Corona killed it off pretty much. They did really good longdrinks for fair prices.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/supmanual/cch/efta....

I'm not familiar with this and therefore not sure if this is the correct source but I tried to find something official.
What is luck actually ?

If you think you got some "virtual success", or eventually "weath success", it considered harmful in long run more often.
What is the best client for Keepass on Android? How is the autofill functionality?
It’s better explained by the reverse. Human evolution needed to fight aging harder in order to be successful.

Also, we aren’t made from the same biological stuff, or we would be rats. It’s easy to think of biology in overly simplified terms but cells aren’t legos.
Yes, it's weird, because it can actually be joyful. We need to break apart lowercase stoicism from uppercase Stoicism.
Usually the service structure will mirror the team structure, e.g. one team of 2-6 SWEs per service. I've enjoyed doing things this way now that we're out of the monolith.

BTW, monolith DB has its own form of eventual consistency. Process A puts data into DB, process B picks it up later and affects the DB. There's no reasonable way that everything in such a multi-use DB is always logically in agreement. You're just guaranteeing that B sees what A writes immediately, which comes at a cost.

> the only thing it gives you is that it forces you to silo data

It gives you a smaller blast radius when something goes wrong, avoids over-stressing a single DB, alleviates single points of human dependency like the DB curator, lets you scale separate pieces independently, and yes forces you to silo the data. There are several good reasons larger orgs have been doing things this way for a long time.
The article seemed really disjointed to me as well, as a person who's spent plenty of time both living in Berlin and out of Berlin. Jumps to gentrification, dabbles in "centralized currency", covers some social programs, all to wrap it up with immigration, "kids these days" and slips in the surveillance state before signing off.

Berlin's cash-only culture is definitely a shock to most tourists who come there from the EU and US. Whether it's restaurants that don't advertise "cash only" anywhere, only to surprise you when you pull out your card at the end, to späti that have ridiculous card minimums like 15+ euro. A discussion on that, the reasons for it, and the implications of moving away from it would have been interesting. But instead, we got an utterly confused mess from the author.
An important consideration here is unrest is in part in response to perceived factors in the economic collapse. Even if one takes the position the measures are not the cause of the collapse they can still be a cause of unrest.
Thanks.

> What the "Big Three" do is leverage their OS's and platforms to enable the storage and migration of passkeys within their eco-system. WebAuthn is implemented in their browsers, and they enable the use of passkeys (which websites make happen via implementing WebAuthn).

That was really helpful, I think that was the bit I was missing.
Because, what, Python doesn’t have any language details related to method lookup that might require a sentence or two of technical explanation? __getattr__, __getattribute__, __get__, base classes, metaclasses, __mro__, __mro_entries__, __dict__, __slots__, __call__, bound and unbound methods—none of this has ever confused someone looking at it for the first 3–4 times?

I assume you’re going to reply that you don’t need to think about all this when writing most Python. And that’s true of most Rust too. Don’t get me wrong, Rust does have some unique complexity that Rust programmers need to learn in exchange for its unique safety guarantees—but method lookup isn’t where the complexity is.
Out of curiosity - how do bun plan on monetization? Is that even possible in the age of node.js, deno and who knows what else? :-)

I mean, I wish bun all the best, but trying to wrap my head around - who the heck and on what basis gave to bun project a money :-)
Ask HN: Who is excited the 96 GB RAM MacBook Pro?
The new MacBook Pro can be configured with 96 GB of RAM, up from 64. I know there are people out there who are excited about this and will use this much memory on a laptop. I'm just curious, what are you doing with a laptop that makes you excited about being able to have this much memory? What are your workflows?

I'm guessing extremely high res video rendering, extreme amounts of virtualization... But you tell me!
VC has unfortunately pushed forward a model that rarely helped building sustainable businesses, but rather grow fast, build hype, IPO, cash out move on
model. It definitely benefitted few at the expense of many.

People have accepted to work tireless hours for peanuts and paper money
with the promise they will become rich: this rarely happen. Don't buy the
hype. It is more the exception than the rule.

Many multi billion dollar VC funded business are still not profitable
and often don't have a path to profitability.
> Plopping your life savings in one large savings account has never been a good idea.

Yeah, it should be in a tax advantaged retirement account.
Maybe I'm just not that good at networking, but I haven't found this to be true. Networking can let you bypass the very top of the funnel: Where you're pissing your resume into the void. And that's significant! But I've never "networked" myself into a job. Your standard Software Engineer peers in other companies just don't tend to have the power to hire. They may know which jobs are real, which ones are good, and might be able to help coach / steer you the right way, but I've never seen a case where I got an actual job offer from a peer without at least still having to go through the "phone screen + whiteboard hazing" grind.

The best I've ever got out of networking was, "Thanks for re-connecting! You should apply for job #41190, since I particularly know that hiring manager is really motivated to hire! Prepare for questions A, B, and maybe C. Happy to do a mock interview. Good luck!" And I got the job, so that's great! But, have realistic expectations. You're not going to bypass the queue and get an offer letter just because you're good friends with one of that company's Senior Software Engineers.

EDIT: Maybe it's different at the ultra-high level, like "VP of Engineering." I have no idea, never been up to that level and don't have peers there. But I can't imagine that a "VP of Engineering" candidate has to do phone screens, and grind at the whiteboard, and have to deal with recruiters and ghosting. Maybe they don't even have to apply and get traditionally interviewed like us commoners. Who knows? Any VPs of Engineering on HN care to chime in and describe how hiring works at your level?