skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Cannot swords be turned to plowshares? Can we and all nations not live in peace? In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity,” Reagan said.

“Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond,” Reagan proposed.

“I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?”
There are two types of funny. Ridiculous-funny and insightful-funny. And sometimes insightful-funny is confused with clever-funny.
No it wouldn't, because that's just kicking the can down the road to the exchange provider.
What was the final result numbers from the transcription?
https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/4/22419512/basecamp-politica...
Why would the deniers win?
You should put a blog/site up with some examples.

"GPT being the worst DM ever" sounds hilarious.

"I attack the goblin." "What goblin?" "The goblin you just said was there." "I'm sorry, I was mistaken. It's actually a Beholder."
It's "good" marketing research. Those AAA games with movie-like scenes do sell. Marketing research isn't "Hey, Dalewyn, what kind of game do you want us to make personally?"
I think that national digital currencies have less risk than the current private providers. While in both cases some people will be (I mean, already are) cut from the possibility to make payments, these aren't the same people and the impact is different.

Government-run payment systems have to have explicit legal grounds to make decisions, and their ability to make discriminatory decisions is curtailed by constitutional requirements for fair and equal treatments. A government-run payment system can and will block payments which are for a purpose which the general society through their elected representatives has decided to be criminal, and if the society changes their mind (as it has on many things) they can legalize that stuff, and it will also become legal in the payment system.

On the other hand, the current privately-run system can (and already does!) block payments which are for a purpose which a few unelected rich dudes have unilaterally decided do be undesirable; and if the society decides to legalize that stuff, they can ignore it as that's their arbitrary private choice and they can't be held accountable.
I've run into race conditions inside of react that has made me gobsmacked. I swear the thing must be written by fresh faced middle schoolers.

I'm so glad I don't have to deal with it anymore. After being in programming for over 20 years, I started making plans to exit the entire industry. Now I realize it was just react. That thing made me despise programming. I kept a virulent twitter journal of my time in react. It seems foreign to me now. Good! Example(s): https://twitter.com/SisNode/status/1458942812087414797 ... it made me pretty intolerant https://mobile.twitter.com/SisNode/status/143380932394827366...

The tweets in that account are like an insult comic does programming.
Where, oh god where, are there more sensibly thinking people like you! This is pragmatic and straight forward. There is very little room for technical make work nonsense in your described strategies. Most places, and many devs I meet cannot imagine how to do their jobs without a cornucopia of oddly named utilities they only know a single path of use.
I work for a streaming service and we deliver to Germany, we have pre-rolls before any ad-break which say "Werbung" to mark the entry to an ad break (and I think another marker on the exit of an ad).

Interestingly, we do sports and we don't have to have any labels during the game to cover the extensive in-game advertising/branding, just the specific ad media we insert.

I wish more YouTubers would cleanly delineate their adverts. Crowbarring sponsor messaging into every opportunity or writing the script so that it smoothly transitions into an ad seems very deceptive to me. I understand "sponsored video" is a grey area, but it doesn't have to be so messy.
Exactly, expecting a company to maintain a project forever (or give it away) just because they were used in research projects is ludicrous.

Maybe they did the research when “open” in their name meant something but it has been obvious for quite a while that ship has sailed.
There are a few possibilities I could think of:

- LastPass breach related.

- Classic phishing / session hijacking: apparently Google doesn't _always_ re-prompt for password when you change password / security device, if you have a valid session cookie.

- Poor opsec from Linus (and by association probably also the rest of their upper management team).

Luke, Linus's business partner, was recently "promoted" to CTO and has been working on their many know infra / security deficiencies. Alas, he's a bit too late it seems...
> A loan wouldn't have helped their situation much - the extra liquidity might have kicked the can down the road a few days or weeks

What does this say about the rest of the banks in a similar situation wrt their balance sheet?
Toshiba accepts takeover offer in bid to go private
Tarantino is about to stop making movies by his own account - "a director should never make more than 10 movies".

I'm slightly vexed that you did not mention Villeneuve, who made Blade Runner 2049 and recently Dune. Blade Runner 2049 is already a cult classic and Dune felt like a fresh air of mature sci-fi in the age of Marvel. He is about the only one I truly look forward to see his next movie, right now being Dune 2.
> 2000s was the golden era of gaming

I recently discovered L.O.L: Lack of Love (Dreamcast, 2000)[1][2] due to stumbling upon the soundtrack by Ryuichi Sakamoto[3], and I've been meaning to try to find a way to play it.

1: https://lparchive.org/Lack-of-Love/
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.O.L.:_Lack_of_Love
3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZjeC4BiUuM
FAANG is to be blamed for rapid rise in incompetence in tech. So many engineers are grinding on leetcode and bagging jobs that pay them insanely high salaries. These engineers know next to nothing when it comes to real world engineering challenges. I knew a guy who had a 200 day leetcode streak but didn't know the difference between a process and thread.
We have essentially collectively decided that these stupid hiring processes are an accurate proxy for finding real talented people.
I know so many colleagues who are here just to virtue signal that they work for a "cool" company. And it has become super easy to get into these companies and coast.
Might not be able to tell if an AI wrote something general on the internet, but i can tell if joe down the hall wrote a subject matter specific email.
You don't need currency to facilitate payroll; it's a series of transfers, not withdrawals. And the recipients don't usually need that much currency either, even if they do bank at the same place.
Singapore has relatively efficient bureaucracy and few private landowners with few rights to challenge projects, but it also has low wage migrant workers from India working all night on them.
We created a vaccine in record time and distributed it in peoples arms in even less. I think all in all the Covid pandemic response was an incredible achievement, even if far from perfect.
Because GPT3/4 manage to write the kind of code I already used automation as much as possible towrite for me, because it's boring and repetitive?

I don't think so.

When ChatGPT can write code to the query: "Hey, the production server acted weird last weekend, could be about that issue we talked about on slack yesterday, could you have a look at that?", then I' going to start worrying about my job security.
Hundreds of China’s wealthy lose billionaire status
It was a goof about how they have a whole video series on building an enormous petabyte media server. LTT is too big for YouTube to not work with them to fix it, and maybe this will nudge them to develop Floatplane into something more than a backup.
In addition to what others have said, you should enable Keyboard Navigation in System Settings > Keyboard to control more of the UI by pressing Tab.
Ask HN: Gonna travel and work. Should I get 16“ or 14” MacBook Pro?
I'm planning to travel for some time and working on my software engineering side projects. I use Mac Mini at home, and obviously I'm going to sell it and get myself a Macbook instead.

I'm, however, not sure which one. I have 16" that was given to me by my employer (gonna quit the job, so will have to return it), but I never really worked off it. It's docked 99% to dual monitor setup.

If I get the 14" it will be the 2023 model, if I get the 16" it will be the 2021 model (odd price difference that makes 2021 14" more expensive than 2021 16", but the opposite in 2023 models, weird).

The rationale behind getting 16" is - bigger screen. On the other hand, I'm going to eventually settle back home and will probably keep the Macbook docked to a normal dual monitor station, so from that point of view, getting the 14" makes more sense.

One other consideration is that I mainly do development, and I do it in Neovim. Other than Neovim, I just use the browser, email, and sometimes photo editing software. And while it is true that 16" gives more screen real estate, I'm also not the person who has an IDE open with a terminal, file browser and whatever. I utilize Neovim and tmux heavily, and prefer to have one thing on a screen and use MacOS spaces/desktops feature.

What do you think?
> As long as everything flows through 3-4 “private” entities, and those entities owe their existence to gov’t bailouts, they’ll be quasi-govt organizations.

You are so fixated on Government, you miss the forest for the trees.

If these 3 organisations are run by similar people with similar agendas, you can have universal censorship.

No need for government. Tyrany has been privatized
If the SEC began interpreting securities laws as designating Pokemon card, wine and luxury watches securities, Congress would change securities laws. And that's why they don't. They're exploiting the novelty of cryptocurrency to give it this designation without a broad backlash.

As a matter of law though, the case for being a security is no stronger cryptocurrencies than for Pokemon cards.
"For example: you have a callback function declared as an expression, that the useEffect hook calls. The linter will say "oh this is an expression, therefore it needs to be declared as a dependency". But it doesn't, because looking at the code as a human, you can immediately see the function never changes."

Can you elaborate on this? In my experience this isn't the case. If a function is declared outside of the component scope then it won't trigger a lint error. If it's defined within the component scope and not wrapped in useCallback then it does in fact change on every render and the lint error is being raised for good reason.
It's alright and quite frankly understandable to be motivated to work on a "big project with big cash and big name".

The problem is when the producers use it in an exploitative way to have people work insanely longer hours than billed, or to lower the costs of labour so that the workers can have the "pride" of writing "big name" on their resume.

Unfortunately, this is common practice.
Journalist in Ecuador injured in USB drive explosion
How about "A bestiary for 5th Edition D&D that ..." etc?

"Bestiary" is used in the article and it should be recognisable by people who play D&D or not. The "for" makes it clear it's not by the publishers of D&D.
"Know thyself". People need to admit to themselves that they are not smart financial gurus. Not everyone has that level of introspection.
Investment opportunities in major Australian companies. You might have your own thoughts about the Australian market, but we're hardly talking wild risk here. Although, in fairness, Transurban Group probably does sell bridges and Rio Tinto/BHP probably do a lot of business with Nigerian Princes so you might get some irony points. But the profits are there.

But let us not get distracted from the main point, the US regulations in the area are the stuff of laughter. They're literally being forbidden from raking in easy money by their own government for no good reason.
> "cloud everything" or "kubernetes cultism" that seem prevalent.

Not here? To me, general sentiment on news.yc has been anti cloud / k8s for at least 5 years, if not more.
What if I do this with Terraform using AWS Serverless and staying in the free tier for this workload that you are referencing instead of VMs and a load-balancer?

I just don't see why people prefer the VM based approach over serverless.
This seems like a misrepresentation of the entire file picker saga.

The “vocal parts of the community” were not against the UI change. For the most part, being the ones who were charged with putting in effort to make this improvement for free, they were pointing out the significant technical challenges it involved, and they couldn’t find someone to volunteer their own personal time for free to take on this challenge.

As Gnome has made massive strides towards simplifying its codebase, these changes become far more achievable and reasonable (click through to the developer changes page and you will see GTK4 has deprecated something like 20 possible file picker classes, in favor of 3, which provide equivalent functionality).

Of course, the same people who complain but are unwilling to either put effort or money towards fixing these supposedly deal breaking problems, have also spent the last 2 years complaining about the code and architecture cleanup effort Gnome devs have made to make it possible to fix those problems.
AFAIK the group that allegedly gets protected by the Swedish system - the Swedish sex-workers - are overwhelmingly against that system.
I think they show the clusters? Light/dark blue = H, gray = F, white = T or P. Not sure, seems like you’d want one color per cluster rather than two colors for one and one color for two.
"He writes funny office comics and that's about it."

If that would have been it, he would not have been canceled. (After publishing a racist rant, so also not really a qualification to predict global human social behavior).
A bare closure would always see the latest values because it closes over them during render. And the latest useEffect closure will have closed over that method..

Here is the test suite for useEffectEvent and the test ensuring it does not provide a stable reference: https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/main/packages/react-r...
The idea was dismissed was that the object was a "hydrogen iceberg"; the idea in this paper is that cosmic rays caused the object to evolve a lot of hydrogen internally which was stuck inside until it got warmed by sunlight.

Much more plausible than the "alien solar sail" hypothesis that got so much press.
Let me make a prediction: this is because types in Verse will be just (failable?) functions that validate values. Notice that types are lowercase.

I said failable above, but they might be some other kind of functions. They have a total effect type (functions that are guaranteed to terminate), which could be safely called by the type checker.
I'm pretty sure he meant a month of your job.
14" way more economical. Size, weight. When I look at my 16" (which I don't even use anymore), I get frustrated at the thought of even having to lift it.
Historically, war has been something where a truly large number of people and a large fraction of world economy could be "united". It's hard to imagine a disaster that would require the same level of both world GDP focus AND individual human labor participation in the modern economy. COVID seems the best example, but the GDP impact seems to have been largely negative in the sense of needing more factories to (temporarily) close more than new production to come on line. I'm quite curious to hear brainstorms of acute disaster scenarios that would drive a big transition of production to something special...
they get to work on stuff that is legitimately cool

Like most things, working on the cutting-edge, successful, top-tier stuff is cool, but most people in the industry aren't doing that. If you look at something like https://steamdb.info/upcoming/ you'll see a small number of "Yeah, it'd be cool to make that" games, and a lot of "Who the hell buys this crap?" games. Most people employed to build games are working on the second type of game.
So you litter the App Store with N + 1 versions of your app — where N is the number of major versions you’ve released plus the subscription version for non-enterprise end users. I mean sure, that may work, but it’s really ugly and it’ll probably confuse end users when they search for your app. Apple should account for this model in a better way.
This is why I oppose ESG. It’s being pushed by the financial institutions under the guise of sustainability. But now you have many things unrelated to climate that have been show-horned in.

It’s fine to create regulation that’s voted upon, it’s not okay to use financial firms to push moral or societal change in collusion with governments.
Wasn't broker, but their upstream provider Euroclear
> That's logical: almost by definition, it costs more to run workloads on cloud machines than on your own hardware

Only if you are not adjust the workload. Lift+shift is cost more. Re-architecting and making the workload cloud ready cost less.
Yes, for sites I visit often or semi-regularly they are fine.

For recording sites/articles/blog posts I've read and will likely not read again, but want to keep a record of just in case, I used pinboard, or make a note in a notepad app.
If your money market fund is losing any significant portion of its value, you've got larger societal issues to deal with that make all this stuff irrelevant. Zombies, nuclear war, or something along those lines.

FDIC insurance won't protect you from inflation, either. You asserted the money market stuff isn't protected; it is, either via the FDIC or the SIPC.
Everything its a remix (look for the documentary)
> the current privately-run system can (and already does!) block payments which are for a purpose which a few unelected rich dudes have unilaterally decided do be undesirable; and if the society decides to legalize that stuff, they can ignore it as that's their arbitrary private choice and they can't be held accountable

People are obsessed eith the idea that censorship can only come from government, they are completely blind to the idea of that rich individuals have agendas and power to advance them.
Trend of not putting a simple description is annoying.
Jake Paul was also the main force behind cryptozoo, another rug pull. Coffeezilla has a three part documentary on YouTube.
The reason behind "Basis Points" is that saying something has increased by a percentage is ambiguous.

If interest rates are 5% and they are "increased by 0.25%", does that make them 5.25% (adding 0.25% of 100) or 5.0125% (adding 0.25% of 5).

Basis points are supposed to be an unambiguous way of explaining the increase.
That's rough. Hope those unprivated videos don't contain anything that really REALLY shouldn't be published.
I agree with you that the current AIs are just pattern matching. It's a known fact. But we don't really fully understand how human intelligence works, so I'm not sure how can you be so sure we're actually better. I mean we probably are, but how do you know it.
If they can eclipse Arm performance maybe. But Samsung, Qualcomm have struggled to match Apple with Arm for years... licensing isn't what's holding them back. It seems quite optimistic to think they can match even their own Arm designs in performance with RISCV in the next 5 years. Could Microsoft turn around their phone market position in that time? It seems doubtful.
> Things weren't better, you were just younger.

Games weren't made to be cash grabs that will be edited in post.

Say what you want about games in 2000 but people draining all their savings on a game was THE news, not just another mobile/gacha game.

And if game didn't ship fully done it got panned. Today they get score based on number of dinners writer was on
They're identical in terms of all legal tests for an asset being a security, your insults notwithstanding. And if you contend otherwise, it would be constructive that you articulate why instead of engaging in more low-brow sophistry.
Android was playing games with the file open mode (open(file, "w") didn't overwrite and truncate), and that kind of change would be unforgivable on linux.

Also on linux you'd quickly notice something was wrong with the file sizes.
For stuff I visit regularly or want to check out later, bookmarks. For everything else, save as .mhtml in an organized archive.
At one of my former workplaces we ran Kubernetes on premises and it worked like a charm. I still think that Kubernetes can be a good fit for microservices even if you use your own hardware.
Can someone explain:

> unregistered offer and sale of crypto asset securities Tronix (TRX) and BitTorrent (BTT)

Was there a BitTorrent token? Was it associated with Bram Cohen or did it just use the name?

Update: apparently Cohen sold bittorrent to this guy.
Most game studios from that time wouldn't qualify as AAA today.

There are new indie gems all the time. Tunic, Hades, Hollow knight, Risk of Rain, Overgrowth, Return of the Obra Dinn, Kerbal Space Program, Factorio, and the list goes on. Innovative gameplay, music, visuals are everywhere. Often indie games cater to niches. They don't appeal to everybody, which is part of their charm.

Just like blockbusters are usually average in most respects other than their budget. That makes for pretty good results on every single aspect, but given the budget, studios won't take risks by innovating too much in unknown areas.
Sometimes I Cmd+F "elm", but only on days where I feel like picking a fight.

ducks
I suspect tools like this will become excellent at all the slight variations and duplicate work that goes on in a whole bunch of development work. To the point where especially for the low complexity work you get enough productivity increase that you actually begin to reduce the demand for programmers in general.

I wonder what the proportions work out to be, if you break the work into "the hard bit" vs the "automatable bit", Ive defiantly worked on projects where there is one novel bit that had to be done just right, but 80% of the time was still spent setting up standard databases, payment processors, customer interfaces.
> That's why technology leapfrogged all other domains, because it was free to innovate at a crazy pace.

i have a lot of questions. what do you mean by technology and what are the other domains? when did technology leapfrog those other domains? what are technology's innovations with respect to those other domains? why was technology free to innovate so fast? why were other domains not?

at a very basic level, the tech sector advancing must corrispond to advances in other sectors because tech only advances by advancing other sectors. if it doesn't advance other sectors of the economy, then it's just a waste of time and energy, which is a fair characterization of the tech sector for the last couple decades. in contrast, the advancement of tech happening now is nothing compared to the 1920s to the 1940s, when unions were a lot bigger in the united states.

not that that has anything to do with it. in truth technological breakthroughs happen every once in a while, take several decades to be fully exploited, after which point there's no real development for who knows how long until the next breakthrough happens, and it doesn't really make a difference (for technological development) how work is organized.