skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once a grifter, always a grifter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Mashinsky

Mashinsky attended a few different universities where he majored in electrical engineering but did not graduate. He later served in the Israeli Army.

"As the founder of eight startups and three Unicorns, Alex has raised more than $1.5B with over $3B in exits, 50+ patents, and led the Celsius team with over $25B in assets."
-> 50 patents, credentialism. This man is not a scientist/researcher devoting his time in this pursuit.

See:
"a long tradition of decent achievement bestowing authority, then making one's personal fortune by leveraging that earned authority into decades of hackery. See Krugman, Paul and Jay Gould, Steven. It is a symptom of our overcredentialed and credential obsessed society"

https://web.archive.org/web/20000818233151/http://thestandar...

"Visitors to his family home in the Israeli city of Ashkelon say the place is a Rube Goldberg assemblage of energy-saving gadgets ginned up by Mashinsky's father Boris, such as solar panels that heat rainwater to supply the family bath, which then drains outside to water the lawn. It was years before the elder Mashinsky realized that diluted bath soap was killing his trees.

Always tinkering, the younger Mashinsky liked to tap into public phone lines until Israel's national telco threatened to shut off his family's telephone service. He flitted through three universities, never finishing a degree in electrical engineering, served his requisite time in the Israeli army and then struck out to find the promised land, his own global company."

"In his teens he began buying confiscated goods from customs auctions at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport. He bought hairdryers, VCRs, pens, electrostatic paper and anything he could snatch up with borrowed money, resold them and pocketed a tidy profit."

To me it sounds like Alex was in over his head from a young age, poverty changes people and it seems like he was raised a certain way. Entrepreneurial? Sure. Smart? Sure. Grifter? Yes.

"He tried importing urea from Russia, selling Indonesian gold to Switzerland and brokering poisonous sodium cyanide excavated in China for use by gold miners in the U.S. The cyanide business collapsed in 1989 as Mashinsky watched the Tiananmen Square crackdown on CNN.

"I saw this guy standing in front of a tank and I asked the bartender what was going on," Mashinsky says. "My big deal went through the floor." "

Always someone else responsible.
GPT-3 will ignore tools when it disagrees with them
Honestly, from a collective point of few, the more Twitter breaks down at this point the better. Ultimately I hope it shuts down for good and serves a warning to future employers that would attempt this kind of restructuring. We will see.
Architectural astronauts.
I think that math and programming may be the odd exceptions, as they employ their own language-like constructs. There might be a misconception in the name of LLMs - we say that they’re language models, but really they’re token models, some of which may be human language words, while others may represent other things.

As for the discussions, I agree that I don’t have a distinct narrative in my mind during one, but I also noticed that I don’t really know what exactly I’m going to say when I start a response. So it also feels like the act of responding is actually heavily involved in creating the response, rather than just putting it into words.

BTW, I’ve always wondered if people really think differently, or we just describe it in different ways. I guess we’ll never really know.
From my POV, IPv6 overshot and tried to solve too many non-problems while addressing the only real issue with IPv4, the address space. That fact alone explains the relentless failure to adopt IPv6, because it’s not just a matter of adopting IPv6. Nearly every assumption about networking changes, all the tooling is different, and the risks and concerns are all changed. There was an easier path to follow, but we missed that chance 20 years ago, and now we’re likely stuck with a dual stack mess for the rest of our careers.
They do this every time. Last thread I saw was Twitter had an outage for only 10k people for a short amount of time and HN was having a victory lap.

I personally don't think that 100% uptime for everyone around the globe is even a worthwhile goal for Twitter. The incremental costs for that last 0.5% aren't worth the incremental benefits.

HA is most necessary for what, journalists? (Who are already antagonized under Musk)

Everyone else can wait the hour.
Hammertime Day 1: Bug Hunt (2018)
And so now I have to stick stickers on every light bulb with a huge address on it and then get up on a chair several times per bulb while I transfer chunks of its address from the sticker to my terminal?

The reality is with IPv4 I can memorize all of the IPv4 addresses of every light bulb, every robot, every thermostat, every plant watering device in my residence, and I can hammer out CURL commands to control everything almost from muscle memory in the event of a DNS hijacking.
Can still remember I bought a book about SimCity 2000. I think it explained how you could rebuild real-life cities in SimCity. Pretty cool
>In IPv4 NAT is used to make sure your laptop isn't exposed to random script kiddies trying to scan for vulnerable services behind your router.

NAT does nothing for that. Those incoming connections are dropped on the WAN interface before NAT would even be involved. Which is why it works exactly the same way regardless of whether the destination IP for that traffic was IPv4 or IPv6.
I coincidentally tweeted the exact same thing earlier today.

I selfishly hope Fly put all their focus toward becoming Heroku 2.0. I’m sure some people care about all the edge latency stuff but I don’t know many of them.
I complain about the fact we don't have data on this one way or another but we fund it.
God, I'm glad someone else sees it as clearly as I do. I learned about Fly from them acquiring freaking Litestream! The SQLite replicator! The canonical database at the edge of the network! Of course that's what they want to do.
I didn't know about ViewComponent until now, it looks more appealing to me than Rux. Dealing with transpilers is a necessary evil in JS land, I really don't want to bring that headache into my Ruby code.
I have never fixed network problems by turning IPv6 on, but I have fixed them numerous times by turning it off.
> This is an extremely cool project, but after browsing the source code a bit, it looks like it's badly in need of modernization.

Just wait until I tell you about the code in your OS, your car, and your phone...
No, I don't see people benchmarking BeOS on a Surface. Then again, I've never heard anybody say "well, if this whole Windows thing doesn't work out, I'll install Be on my Surface".

At any rate, this article isn't about the Steam Deck's performance, it's about Van Gogh specifically, and how it relates to other pieces of Zen 2 hardware. Testing with both Linux and Windows is useful. There's a comment elsewhere in this discussion by a Valve engineer saying that one of the issues the author saw is due to an ACPI handling issue in Linux. That's the sort of thing you catch by testing with multiple OSes.
Eastern and oriental are kind-of synonymous in Portuguese and I bet in most Latin languages.
We did a ton of free components and apps, and we have been doing it for 10 years.
- More than 10 apps
- The number of UI components exceeds 300
- The number of flow components exceeds 100
- More than 60 components in UI Builder

Internally, we have 9 people in full-time employment, they need salary. As a result, we would like to sell some premium components in order to earn money for the next development, but that's a terrible idea according to you. Yeahh, you are really crazy!
Which government does that?

They can sue and arrest people who publish, not play ducking big brother
Agree - V2 apps on machines are incredibly slick to launch (create/start/stop), get info on with graphql, and scale up and out. Magic. When the PG administration experience is that good I'll move it all over.
Our team at AWS had a poster up on the wall that more or less went:

1. Security

2. Durability

3. Availability

4. Speed

Similar: https://twitter.com/colmmacc/status/1071088017190711296
> There is no way a Pi with GPIO should be anywhere near any industrial equipment

That's a pretty strong unqualified statement. I disagree. There are lots of ways in which a little Unix SBC can find a role in industry, lots of that is non critical but very useful, such as impromptu data logging and visualization. I agree that a Pi is far from ideal but but the time you have an industrial computer with the same specs as a Pi you're looking at a massive increase in cost and that may mean that the whole thing gets canned. Something is better than nothing. The 'interface' to a Pi is usually a solved problem in that you can just attach a bunch of pre-cooked stuff to it. And some of the industrial Pi models are surprisingly well hardened. There are literally 10's of thousands of Pi's chugging away happily in various guises in all kinds of machinery. I have worked 'in industry' as well and I don't have any holy houses. It either works, or it doesn't and then it gets replaced.

https://revolutionpi.com/

https://www.onlogic.com/industrial-raspberry-pi/

https://chipsee.com/product/epc-cm4-070/

And so on. These range from 'just pretty packaging' to 'opto isolated IO + stable built in supplies'. Once you have stable power, isolated IO and good storage (all three are known causes for problems when you take stuff into harsh environments, and the Pi is pretty critical when it comes to dealing with these) you are still lightyears ahead of where you'd be with anything the competition fields with respect to available interfaces, development environments, display options etc etc.

Compared to your average Siemens, Omron, Allan Bradley, ABB or whatever floats your boat's toolchain the Pi rocks, you have access to pretty much all of Linux. The biggest problem with Pi's is availability (but even there: all manufacturers have had their issues on that front too).

Anyway, long story short: let people do what they think is right, if they get it to work reliably and affordably then so much the better. Industrial automation hardware has always been ridiculously expensive and underpowered for what it offered, some disruption certainly won't harm them.
Another one bites the dust. Pity. I quite liked Gandi.
I guess Nepal is chopped liver then?
Market share isn't everything. Last I checked, SkyllaDB wiped the floor with Cassandra. Hadoop Distributed FS underperformed GFS, etc.

I'm glad C++ niche is shrinking, but there are still plenty of good use cases for non-GC'd languages. Top-tier browsers and top-tier games are the main niches on the desktop.
Gnome 44 Mutter Adds Fractional_scale_v1 Wayland Support
That just seems to be playing with words to split hairs however's convenient to split. "Close as proof" is what a theory is, so now either it ain't a theory or it is a theory. Everything else is just window dressing.
Yes in the way that someone with a multi-million dollar trust fund who wants to buy a nicer car or bigger house and someone working for minimum wage both have money problems.

Especially when working from home any health-related dangers around software development can be all but completely eliminated. This isn't even remotely comparable to any of the health or occupational risks in the trades.
> I think that in a lot of the USA, it's common to knock down the house you bought and build a new one.

Maybe in specific places (like Detroit), but generally, no. Most new houses are built on empty lots that never had a structure on them. Though I've heard that cheap McMansions built 20-30 years ago are deteriorating alarmingly fast, so demolition might be more common in the near future.
A lot can happen in 11 years :-)

And thanks a lot for fly.io -- it's working great for my (rather small) use cases.
Yeah, it's fair to say that the ceiling for what can be developed is higher in WPF.

I'm unsure what problems with DPI scaling you're referring to. Last time I was working on a WinForms app (admittedly not an especially big one) I think I just needed to set the DPI awareness in the manifest and it worked OK. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/desktop/winforms/hi...
Tested it and found it realized doublequotes something none of the big ones that I can access (bing, ddg, google) does.

That was it.

And the first time I saw a reported bug in the search results getting serious attention and a fix I was sold.
It would set a precedent that the government could not force you to install a gps tracker on your car at your own expense.
"Undeterred by the competition, Mashinsky landed a brief spot on CNN Financial Network where he boldly predicted little Arbinet would have sales of $3 billion by 2001.

But back at Arbinet, reality proved less inspiring. Mashinsky's creativity provided an endless stream of new ideas that he loved to strut for interested audiences. But while Mashinsky traveled and talked, promising initiatives at the company – like Internet telephony – were lost because of a lack of focus. In addition, says Bravard, Arbinet's former president, "Clients were extremely frustrated by the gap between Alex's talk and the reality." Arbinet couldn't keep up with the ideas as quickly as Mashinsky could spin them out."

"With Wall Street spooked and Mashinsky on an extended trip to Asia, Bravard and his team made their ultimatum. Mashinsky rushed home from China and fired Arbinet's management for trying to "steal the company." A week later, he temporarily rehired them."

"He was also an early developer of voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP).[10][11]" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Mashinsky#cite_note-10 , check out the sources if you want a laugh.

"What if Mashinsky's telecom dreams ultimately fail? He has other, even more ambitious plans. He wants to tap recent advances in genetics to commercialize "body transplants." Companies of the future will be able to "give an old person a new body – keep the head, keep the spine and re-create the rest," he predicts. "That'll be my next assignment.""
You're missing the point, recommender algorithms are supposed to show people what they want. Even if what you said is true, the experience is absolutely doomed, because its a shitty UX
When I was working on a team with people from all over Europe our standup was a 15 minute video conference at 09:00 CET. Each of us briefly said what we had done yesterday, what we intended to do today, and mentioned any problems that we thought that someone else might offer some insight into. The team leader would then summarize any concerns that were raised, suggest that person A contact person B to discuss the aforementioned concerns and that was it. We were mostly pretty self motivated but the standup helped us keep moving together. Fifteen minutes or even half an hour at the beginning of the day doesn't seem like much of a chore to me.

And this was long before Zoom existed. Can someone explain to me why Zoom is such a big thing? We were using video conferencing in the last century without it.
It's not just speculative. It's a retrospective on the early mainframe era.

The nitty gritty punch card programming was something stereotypically done by middle aged/older women. Many early computers were massive and housed in what could be considered temples in big universities surrounded by gothic architecture. They were expensive to replace and kept around for long periods of time because of how difficult it was to upgrade (some large mainframe systems still exist today for that reason). Mechanical computers like the Babbage difference engine would last a lifetime. The idea of an average Joe spending all day using expensive compute time was insane. Those who focused on them did so for academic reasons, and spent most of their time meditating on computation, math, and the structure of language and meaning.
Won't that imply that "humans" didn't exist until the term "human" was invented?
His analogy of teaching resonated too much with me. I have been feeling exactly that for a couple of years, and it feels scarily like when I abandoned the belief in god many years ago. There is that nagging feeling I can’t shake that, no matter how I look at it, I can’t negate the null hypothesis that organized education is basically useless.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think educational institutions shouldn’t exist; surely smart people need a place to go and do things and get together and work. The point to me is that, whatever it is that smart people are doing, they’d mostly do that anyway no matter what kind of education they’re getting.

Whenever I bring it up with colleagues, I usually get into heated arguments where I become the 1 in an invariably N-to-1 aggressive debate. Plus, my wife is a primary school teacher with a Master degree in Education who loves teaching, so obviously that is a very delicate subject to bring up at home. I have noticed that people like her, who love teaching, usually have a very emotional attachment to it from their own personal experiences and how they see education as transformative, and that makes any kind of objective research on teaching become very hard to do. It’s almost like teaching is such a holy subject that any teaching has to be good, and criticizing it is like defending imperialism or capitalism or rich people or something like that (it doesn’t help that my wife came from a very poor background and got out of that through education practice, and has teached most of her career in poor neighborhoods; that makes a delicate subject even more touchy).

My personal opinion is that I am only human and seeing myself as some kind of ”savior through teaching” is unfair, to me and to others (yes, I do some teaching too). Most of the time I focus on trying to give smart students a platform to grow, and while I also try to motivate the other students as much as I can (I do believe you can ”fish” some of them out of the pool), I don’t usually pull my hair or lose sleep over them. One, because I don’t feel like I have the right to keep patronizing people as if I know what’s objectively better for them; lots of people out there are doing much better than me without formal education. Second, because I do not have the illusion that I (or most other teachers) know a really good teaching method that can make a significant difference. It would be like losing sleep because a glass of holy water that I blessed did not save a cancer patient.
data types are absolutely helpful. when you know a column stores Float64 data, you don't have to write out float to base 10 and parse it back. You just dump the bytes.
> The upper levels of government can and should correct the failures of the lower levels which are captive to local homeowner interests.

They have been, for decades. That's where things like the Community Reinvestment Act, which played a significant role in causing the crash of 2008, came from. Not to mention the decades-old policy of encouraging mortgages by funding them with money printed by the Fed's printing press.

> The ideea that you can eject the state from regulating the use of a resource with so many externalities is a pipe dream

No, what is a pipe dream is the idea that governments can somehow fix problems with externalities or market failures. They can't; they make them worse. That's because governments are not magical entities that somehow always do what is best. They are organizations run by human beings, and their incentive structure is even worse than that of free markets.

> the residents re-invent a much more exclusionary and bigoted version of the state, for example the HOA

While I'm no fan of HOAs, at least the people in them have skin in the game, being members of the community themselves. However flawed this model is, it's still preferable to having unelected bureaucrats in a city a thousand miles away micromanaging people's lives.
You might want to Google "Ganga-Jamni tehzeeb" and "composite culture" and read a little and then get back to us here. And by the way my family lived that, it wasn't some academic thing historians cooked up.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24999906

Shitty ISPs do exist, or at least they existed two years ago.
As I was reading the post I assumed (1) happened because something better came and completely replaced computers: magic, raw energy manipulation, biomachines, hextech... something like that.
There is an interesting astroturfing/spamming tactic on Reddit that is currently being used, and it is practically invisible to Reddit admins. Here are the steps:

-1- Create at least two Reddit accounts - an astroturfing account and a moderator account.
-2- Moderator account: Become a moderator of a medium-sized subreddit - it doesn't have to be about your promotion target. You can either buy a Reddit account or petition to be a moderator through various means. Use your moderation credentials to become a moderator of a relevant subreddit that is run by an absent moderator.
-3- Astroturf account: Start astroturfing - by putting your links on any post that is relevant to your product in the relevant subreddit.
-4- Moderator account: Set the spam filter to automatically delete all posts and domains by astroturf users.
-5- Moderator account: Approve the deleted spam comments/posts.

Now, after that, Reddit won't care if you mark those comments/posts as spam because they have already been identified as spam, but the moderator approved them.

To get Reddit to take action in a situation like this, I had to send probably over 20-30 reports. Reddit is making it harder and harder to get in touch with administrators/abuse teams - everything is automated. The key phrase that I think got the issue raised was something like, "I believe these posts/comments violate FCC rules regarding material connection to XYZ.com. Moreover, the relationship between the moderators of the XXX subreddit and the astroturfing accounts violates moderator guidelines and promotion rules."
And yet we don't see capital flight from western countries to Russia and China. People with skin in the game are sending their money and kids to NATO countries.
Thank you, fixed it :-)
Agree. I was only misled for microsecond. For me the title is whimsical, not deliberate clickbait.
They don't even need to say that though, just present some evidence to make me believe this is something other than an arbitrary management cultural preference and I'll feel much less imposed upon and bitter about it.
Had the unfortune to have to work with Total.js a few years ago.. safe to say I'm never touching it again.
On their free tiers though?
Do you have data to back up your claim that the vast majority of new LA condo development is uninhabited and going to foreign investors?
> Outlook for Mac is available from the Mac App Store as a 974MB download.

I’m used to software bloat, but this download is enormous for an email/calendaring client.

Does it include some sort of Windows compatibility layer to assist with porting and feature parity with the Windows version? I know Microsoft did something like that for the Linux port of SQL Server.
It's down for me and hasn't worked for the entire weekend.
: separates groups of 4 while optionally :: abbreviates a bunch of 0's and leading 0's in groups are optional. The address can be longer, sure, but it's really near identical to dotted decimal beyond the lengths.

I wouldn't mind a simpler DNS server IP though seeing as it's one of the few locations you need to treat as an address regularly. Sprint/T-Mobile has 2600::, which is not only short but seemingly a phreaking reference, active so why can't something similar be active for DNS. I get not wanting 8888 or whatnot, those blocks aren't assigned and advertising random bits for vanity can be annoying, but there are plenty of short IPv6 addresses that could be in use for the most common DNS servers on the planet. Even I have my personal DNS server running on an XXXX:XXXX:: public IPv6 address!