skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sounds like musk and / or starlink stranded ukrainian soldiers in russian-held territory and got a bunch of them killed:

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Ian Bremmer: One thing that was really problematic is, after all of this good work that was being done with Starlink, suddenly you had Ukrainians in the front lines, in the occupied territories, trying to take their land back, and suddenly Starlink didn’t work. The Ukrainians didn’t know why. They thought it was a tech problem. The Americans didn’t know why. Ukrainians were getting killed. They had to pull back from some of those territories. And it’s because, after the Russians annexed them, Elon decided that Starlink needed to be —

Kara Swisher: Geofenced.

Ian Bremmer: Yeah, it needed to be geofenced, and that never should have been a decision that was being made. I mean, you can’t be in a situation where the only countries that are recognizing Russian annexation are the North Koreans, the Syrians, and Elon. Like, that’s not okay. Right.

I mean, Elon’s business model — on the one hand, you’ve got SpaceX, which is a U.S. national champion that gets contracts from the Pentagon and NASA. You’ve got Tesla, which finds China to be its most important future market, does AI development there, needs access to that data, all the rest. And then you’ve got Twitter, which is “free speech for everyone,” at least in the countries that we have some influence over. Like, it’s pretty clear that, geopolitically, those things do not work together.
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in a different interview, bremmer went on about the national security risks posed by our oligarchs:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tech-titans-risk-democracy-ia...

"The fact is that those people, worth hundreds of billions of dollars, also at the same time have literally no interest or conception in their role as stewards for civil society and American democracy," Bremmer said.

Bremmer worried about the same thing that Adam Smith did so long ago - the often-non-existent 'invisible hand' (home bias) by the 'masters of mankind' (our oligarchs) when doing their business.

i've read Bremmer's stuff over the years, but can't take it -- he always attributes benign intentions to America. in the case of these oligarchs he mentions, he says, effectively, "they don't _want_ dictatorship -- it just so happens that most of what they do is helping to achieve that end."

i have a less generous view of our owners.

p.s. Bremmer called Elon a country. :-D funny. but also, not.
I assume you've never been to East Asia in general or Japan in particular. Furries are regular business there. Heck, in Korea, at a police station, they characterized the police man/woman as rabbits.

We don't know where the author is from. However, the website loaded pretty fast, didn't have the 4524 trackers, a Signup/Enroll/Whatever Popup, or prioritize 70% of the page for content other than the blog post.

I'll take the furries over the regular shit one's browse everyday.
I prefer motion sensing lights. A bonus is that they let me know if someone is nearby by clicking on. Interior lights or a TV are much better at convincing someone that the house is occupied.
Very little hard work? Are you a CEO or ever ran a company? It’s not easy
Don't be surprised at how powerful modern mobile devices are.
Fair enough, I'd encourage anyone else reading this to read the original piece and not just her damage control as well. Cause to me it reads like a thought experiment, the express purpose of which is to make the case that the western world's problems (western world = capitalism via property rights) are due to said property rights and the freedom to use that property as one wishes. I know that might seem like a shocking conspiracy theory argument if you are westerner, but the idea that property rights don't exist is standard operating procedure in the eastern world, and a idealized view of such a scenario where property rights are no longer a hinderance to economic/state activity might not be considered an outlandish position in the World Economic Forum, where I believe Ida Auken was just trying to score clout, without realizing what exactly she was saying.

Once people noticed, the damage control spin started. That's my take, disagree all you like.
And then it's a pleasure to open the debugger and immediately see the values for each step.
Who would OP be working for in this scenario?
CEOs general work harder than workers. They're on 24/7. I don't think I'd ever want to be a CEO of a company as big as Google. They have to deal with 100s of teams as well as 100s of outside companies, governments, etc, all over the world. I really doubt they have it "easy"
Has Google transitioned away from stock units to dollar amounts yet?
My question is mostly rhetorical. It's addressing the strawman you erected. No one is claiming that the laws of thermodynamics are being broken. What they are claiming is that more or less energy is extracted from the food they eat.
1) You can put language-agnostic machines in a shared file and include them from the language-specific files.

2) Ragel machines are restartable--you can suspend and resume at any arbitrary point. You can also insert your code blocks just about anywhere as well, and even control transitions that way. You can do all of this without callbacks, and for the most part the only state you have to worry about saving and restoring is a single integer variable. No other code generator library I've encountered supports these features, and it's extremely useful for writing asynchronous machines.

2b) Relatedly, Ragel supports recursion using a user-provided stack for the state variables (basically int[]). So you can suspend and resume a machine at any depth, something that wouldn't be possible if recursion relied on native function calls (some languages support async/await or fibers, but both are significantly more troublesome than how Ragel operates, especially if you want to maintain multi-language machines.)

3) Ragel can generate pure goto-based machines, among other generation modes. Combined with inline user code blocks you can write extremely efficient machines which wouldn't be possible through function pointers or similar indirection.

For these and other reasons, Ragel inline generation is key to its usefulness. Moreover, it's infinitely easier to work with than Yacc, Bison, etc, which have all the downsides of intermixed code with almost none of the benefits.

If Ragel is too low-level (and it often is), there are of course other options. These days I use LPeg much more than Ragel. LPeg is similarly unique in the extent to which you can intermix user code as the parser progresses. In fact, though PEGs don't support content-sensitive grammars (e.g. TLV grammars), this is actually quite trivial with LPeg and I've written a complete X.509 certificate parser as a giant PEG, which upon matching returns a tree that is already properly transformed into an idiomatic Lua data structure--as opposed to a verbose tree of nodes reflecting the literal details of the grammar. But LPeg simply isn't useful for the things Ragel shines at, and vice-versa.
Hiring people all too often focus on required skills like 'X years of experience with generic tech Y' and look for those buzzwords on the resume.

But the real thing is, every company has its own processes and procedures, its own legacy and proprietary code, its own business and product goals in its industry, etc. That's where the real ramp-up comes in. 6-12 months is not a bad ramp-up target.

Would you really rather have someone who knows new tech XYZ very well and can hit the ground running with no ramp-up, but breaks process, refuses to touch the legacy code, knows nothing about the industry, and builds things counterproductive to your business goals?

Or would you rather have someone who doesn't know new tech XYZ at all and needs to ramp up, but will gladly pick it up while also learning and adopting your processes, legacy code, industry, and business goals, in order to contribute to the best of their ability?

For that, you not only need to learn the new tech, but a whole lot more. Learning the new tech is the least of it. And industry/domain experience isn't perfect but is worth a lot.

Yes, they should be able to meaningfully contribute fairly quickly, even with things that are new to them. It'll take a while to get really good though. But while they're ramping up on everything else anyway, why not let 'em ramp up on the tech? It's a relatively small thing in the big picture.
If you’re happy with your smart setup it’s trivial to remove the existing switch, connect the wires directly and put a cover on top, then attach the wireless switch to it using adhesive/Velcro.
For every legend there are many many that don’t accumulate fame enough to be observed. The legends as you say exist, therefore the distribution width is at least as wide as they force it to be. The variance is small, but the distribution is wide.

In my experience at places like AWS and other FAANG my observation is it’s at a rate of about 1:300 engineers. In other top employers it’s closer to 1:500. In startups it’s probably in the 1:800 range. In your average tech company probably around 1:1000, and in hideous soul crushing companies literally zero.
> they are going to be more successful than you

They may make more money anyway. Whether or not that means they’re more successful is a different question.
Coding slow is often better because you see further ramifications during that typing time.
Ha, we actually agree. I originally wrote something to that effect in my comment, but deleted for brevity.

As I noted in another comment, it's never lost on me that I make 10-20x what my siblings in non-tech in the midwest make in a year, and I just sit in front of my laptop all day. (and my stock can easily go up in one day, by more than they make all year).

So... yeah.
Note that the person in this article (a) wasn’t working at the time and (b) deliberately wanted a lot of interviews to explore their options. I think it pretty obviously isn’t the only way to do things.

One needn’t interview at so many companies. If one is in no rush to quit then just spread interviews out over a much longer time.
> By "render" they probably meant "didn't strip"

Yes, this is what I meant.
> id love to see a 30 min tax return

That looks like one or two W2s, maybe a 1099, deductions, no state taxes, capital gains... and that's about it.
I get ads from the Epoch Times in my Discover feed all the time, and every time, I tell it to block that ad. No, I don't want to get news from Chinese cultists. No, I don't want to watch their corny stage productions. Please stop.
Which will eventually be cancelled because they're not search.
Because B-tree indexes are ordered, rows likely to be adjacent on disk (written in time order) are not at all adjacent in the index and vice-versa. There is no "hot page" in the cache representing recent records; the index node you need for any given uuid is random and makes your internal index pages effectively uncacheable. The result is increased IO and cache thrashing.
No, I have no inner monologue in the usual sense of some "voice" in my head that I think in. I just translate thoughts into words when I need words. I certainly don't narrate my own day or anything like I've heard others describe their inner monologue.
6) your employer submits incorrect w2s
Einstein was such a phenomenal person.
You may wish to read some books by people who have lived under fascist regimes. It is a bit more intense than being criticized by busy bodies.
That’s why I swear by Shelly modules. They’re small relays meant to be installed behind the original light switch and accept an input from it - this means you still retain the functionality of the switch, but get network-based control as a bonus. Should the network go down, the physical switch still works and it’s acceptable for rentals because you don’t even have to remove them as they still behave like a normal switch if the controller is unavailable.
If there's a 1:1 mapping from some emoji to one of the basic Chinese logograms, we should just reuse the pronunciation of the latter as the name of the emoji. This one could be "qiu", for example.
I want to believe that there's some world where developers start putting actual craftsmanship into their software (again?), but I think this will only be true for SaaS or related environments where the developer is also the one spending money on the compute. Everyone else will probably outsource the optimization effort to a mixed hardware-software vendor that amortizes the cost (like hyperscale cloud providers) via middleware, instead of just amortizing the cost via hardware.

People (including on HN!) like to say that cycles are cheap but developer time isn't. There's a reason for this that will be invariant of the actual costs: it's the user that pays for the hardware and the developer that pays for development time. End-users are willing to spend money on hardware, but not software, and this has remained true even as companies like Apple and NVIDIA have blurred the boundary. In the current environment of $0 software, how do you (as a developer) fund more efficient software? I think the likely answer will be that developers will happily lock themselves to whatever vendor offers to solve this problem for them. We've seen this in ML already.
CEO's job is mostly to convince you of how valuable they are. They set strategy and direction. They contribute 0% to the bottom line, so value is hard to measure due to too many variables

Edit: Think about it. Sometimes a CEO's best move is to not mess something up. Other times, the best move is to take drastic measures. It's a rare blend that makes a good CEO for a given situation. I'm not saying Steve Jobs sucked. He was an outlier.
Google spent over $50 bill in the last 12 months buying back shares, ie handing money to it's shareholders. It fires people when costs are too high. He appears to try to have the company make more money. His actions suggest he is thinking about shareholder value all day long.
Yes! Come by tonight, 7p! There's actually a former YC guy that shows up sometimes, too.
Because this

> Corporations are bound by fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit

Is just dead wrong. There is absolutely NOTHING that requires, suggests, or even implies that the duties of the CEO are to maximize profit.

The CEO has the following three fiduciary duties:

Care - they will act to gain information relevant to their decisions (they will act with care)

Loyalty - They will act in the best interests of the company and its owners instead of say - for personal gain, or for the benefit of a 3rd party (they are loyal)

Disclosure - They will disclose relevant business proceedings and possible negative outcomes or significant issues (They are honest)

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Notice what's conspicuously absent? Not a word about profits anywhere in there.

Notably - acting with care often means that they should be making decisions that are not immediately profitable, but set the company up for long term success (ie: making large capital investments, or upgrading infrastructure)

Now - there's a neo-capitalist viewpoint that says that maximum profit should be the result of the three above duties, and that shareholders (and really the board) should be looking for maximum profits, but... to quote a silly movie: "Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man."

And really - the CEO's job is to keep the board of directors happy.

Is it bad optics to host a concert right before a round of layoffs? probably.

Can it be a good decision given the above? Certainly.

Simple counter you might make: We're about to have to cut a significant portion of the workforce, this will have an impact on moral. We are attempting to keep moral high among our most valuable employees, and the costs of the concert are utterly negligible in comparison to the long term cost of retaining those employees. It is in our best interest to continue providing compelling perks that retain and attract the best talent available - even if we have to make hard decisions to wind down or cancel teams and products that are not meeting our expected goals.
bounced radio waves are fair game. IANAL.
Scripts to make Android APKs reproducible
Awesome, thanks for the tip
Thank you, I was not aware; I implicitly thought rights were only for citizens or naturalized persons.
A recommendation from neighborhood cops is things is a TV simulator, which is just a small box with LEDs that projects TV-like light. The notion is a burglar will think somebody is up late watching TV. Very low wattage and most of the light won't head skyward. Or if HNers' junk closets are anything like mine, an old monitor and a looping video playlist would do about as well.
Mimetic desire
I've had motion sensing lights for a long time. I've never had any issues. They have sensitivity setting for range, time setting for how long they stay on, etc.

Someone came to my house after dark. I'm pretty sure they were lost. I watched the replay on my cameras and I can confirm that the light clicking on made them jump (not that it would make everyone jump, but still).
Steve Jobs seems to have taken a company worth about 0 to be a company worth hundreds of billion. Some CEOs are valuable.
That's my assumption too. There's no reason why the IRS can't create something that walks people through their own rules. Their list of "providers" is always filled with the most sketchiest sounding companies. ezTaxReturn.com FileYourTaxes.com 1040now.net and TaxSlayer.com sound like scam domains you'd see in a phishing email or a late night TV ad.

People shouldn't have to surrender their data to third parties just to have a website walk them through their taxes.
Homeless to senior mech eng here. Do you also find yourself dealing with imposter syndrome or struggling to account for survivor bias in your advice?
How is that any different than "anyone who doesn't think exactly like me is woke and dangerous to others?" I have to wonder if you're deliberately misinterpreting the parable just to give yourself more ammo in this culture war you seem to be fighting.

The plain and simple fact is that different communities have different threshholds for what sorts of opinions they find acceptable. The person who posted the article considers Hacker News to accomodate unacceptable opinions. Instead of just noting that fact and moving on, you've decided to get angry on the internet about "woke people." It's really weird, since their opinion doesn't affect you or Hacker News in the slightest.

So, what's the problem here? A blogger is mean?
It's maybe the dumbest possible idea, no sensible government should allow it.
> Most recycling winds up in a landfill. It’s expensive and costs energy. Sometimes we just pay china to put waste into a landfill and call it recycling.

Source for this being applicable to glass? The news sources I've seen say that it's mostly an issue with plastics.
Because they added too many people. From end of 2019 they added

Google (through September 2022): 68k

Microsoft (through June 2022): 77k

Amazon (through December 2021): 310k

Meta (through September 2022): 52k

Salesforce (through January 2022): 39k

Most of the layoffs in these places is coming in HR and sales.
I’m counting on my brain fog to thwart this.
> has no pronounceable name in English or any other speakable human language.

Wrong. He is called ピエン (Pien). Please call him Pien.
Solar energy in Europe will be 10 times cheaper than gas by 2030 – here’s how
What's the purpose of your math?

They're a public company. If you want to know how much they spend, just check their quarterly financial reports. It'll be far more accurate than these guesses.
The nice thing about emojis being in Unicode is that you can copy/paste them and look them up, unlike embedded images. The reference name in the Unicode database conveys the original intent of the people who submitted it for standardization, at least.
Arbitrary deadlines are awesome – you just have to remember they're arbitrary
MATCHed on Stripe?
Does Stripe ever MATCH / TMF people? I'm thinking of switching to Stripe. But I know they randomly close accounts. When accounts are closed, do they actually put people on the MATCH list?
At the risk of sounding myself like a knee-jerk HN meta-cliché... you absolutely do sound like the famous Dropbox quote from here, or CmdrTaco's comment on the original iPod.

Absolutely every single tool in this space is re-inventing the wheel. The entire concept of this kind of system automation scripting is, "do stuff that you could already do — but more conveniently."

Now "more convenient" is maybe a slippery concept, but it could mean:

- the same scripts work on different platforms

- the interface for creating, managing, and executing scripts is good

- include a good core library of building blocks to make tedious foundational things quick

- generate a lot of user support/enthusiasm, resulting in e.g. lots of scripts, good forum or a lot of blog posts or docs, that make it easier to work with

- offer UX or design elegance that somehow warms users' cockles

- start with really good defaults

You could do any one of those things well and make the world better.

I currently use Raycast on Mac and it's cool, but it's Mac-only. On Linux I use Albert, but am still looking around (for years). The built-in commands of these tools are appreciated, but even when they are just invoking scripts I myself wrote, as a user I still want any help I can get in organizing my scripts and commands, syncing them across my machines, restoring them when I set up a new machine, and easily editing them in a convenient way that works well with revision tracking.

Plus (in theory) I'd love to see other features, like easy ways to share useful automations with friends/family/whoever, etc.

My point is that there is absolutely nothing wrong with reinventing the wheel if you can make a better wheel, especially in the context of day-to-day user interaction automation scripting.

(For me personally, the potentially exciting bullet point for this particular system is "cross platform" — even if Linux is still WIP.)
I'm sorry but this is just delusional.
You can download the software (TurboTax, H&R Block, maybe others) and run it on your own machine and eFile on IRS directly. The data never has to leave your computer.
Feds seized nearly $700M from FTX founder Bankman-Fried
> I think nuclear is a fine source of energy if you have it, but evidence over the last several decades shows that it is virtually impossible to build for myriad reasons.

> What we need is more energy storage

If nuclear is impossible despite existing, storage is Even More Impossible
Why an architecture with 3 AZs is better than the one with two AZs?
The Unlimited Possibilities of AI and Satellite Imagery
> Does that work in anything but boilerplate code?

It depends on the problem and the language.

The most impressive I've ever seen was implementing "call with current continuation" as a monad, given nothing but the type signature.

Generally, it works best in strongly-typed, functional languages.
Governments are composed of individuals.
i have 32 micro-magnetic transponders spaced micrometers apart. any attempt to get between it would only result in audible noise.
> […] but also paying having your data both sold and eventually also breached?

Based on the emails I’ve received from six companies across six different industries in the last six weeks, this is apparently the end state for every commercial interaction I’ll have.

Not that it makes it OK by any stretch of the imagination.
I mapped out the structure of the board as a graph of which squares you can get to from which other squares. It's surprisingly stringy without all the squares forbidden by the queen placement.

https://i.imgur.com/8OuQcu8.png
That's why I prefer the F# version where it's just the names of functions or anonymous arrow functions. Nothing magical about them. It just calls the functions in order from top to bottom.
Apple didn't roll that out in Australia, where the author's located, until yesterday: https://7news.com.au/technology/major-update-to-apple-maps-i...