skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least America seems to try (and most countries in the Anglosphere, I think).

In Spain, you can get through the whole educational system and not be taught writing at all. I remember being told to write an essay from time to time but without getting taught any specific technique (in fact, I think the only technique I was taught was introduction - body - conclusion, but that was in... wait for it... English class!). I have always liked writing fiction, but I got that from the books I read when I was a child, not from school. I remember being happy when we were assigned an essay, especially if I could use it to write some fiction, but it was a quite uncommon occurrence.

My understanding is also that it is relatively common in America to take a creative writing course in college/university, this is typically unavailable in Spain for STEM students and often may even be unavailable for humanities students.

There is a lot of emphasis (both at school and university) on knowing the history of literature and analyzing classic works, but zero on writing your own.
"you can make the light go faster"

are you listening to the words you're saying? seriously? yes, we can make light go slower so that the sensor receives light at different times. i'm with you all the way to the point you make some ridiculous not thought out comment about making light go faster. No. Just stop. We cannot do that. We can only slow light down.
If I'm understanding correctly: it sounds like the kidney was still working, they just chose to end the experiment after two months. Which is amazing!
I share your observations on the evolution of specs and of user experience. But I disagree with the conclusion. My observation is that the more powerful experience today is not proportional to the compute, memory and storage resources we are deploying.

Looking at the bigger picture, just having a lot of OSS nowadays having apps hiding in the background rather than being killed; constant updates and pinging of servers by apps; etc means that we now have a much bigger, bloated footprint.
It's rather simple, hardware is cheaper than the developer time required to optimize software. And there's also an unprecedent pressure to continually ship new features, everything else takes a back seat.
I don't disagree, but I think that container overhead is the smaller part of the problem. It was recently recommended to me that we should just allocate double the max we've ever seen it consume--switch from 99% unutilized to 99.9% unutilized. Better to be conservative than to get paged in the middle of the night.
It is also due to how unstable software is. Is it possible nowadays to write a simple calculator function and ensure that nobody will ever need to care again for the rest of the century?

Making software stable (including for example the web spec) would go a long way improving efficiency.
This is just reality though. I know it really feels "wrong" that money was so cheap for so long, but in all likelihood, interest rates will return to close-to-zero in the long run precisely for the factors you call out.

Business investments are now overwhelmingly software; it doesn't take massive infusions of capital to make your business more efficient, because efficiency gains are achieved through acquiring a copy of an infinite resource -- software.

Sure software vendors can create artificial scarcity through licensing fees, but competitive market pressures will keep those down, and the floor of software fees is very low. As a result there has been less demand for money than there has been in the past. Hence lower interest rates. (Aging populations and slowing population growth also drive interest rates down.)

In other words, cheap money is an implication of the software-driven world we live in, not some sort of moral failing. It's not the result of policymakers doing something with punchbowls to prop up governments or whatever dumb metaphor gets thrown around.
The problem is the terms “wrong” or “right”. If I tell everyone confidently that https is all you need for a secure, privacy focused site then that is a different kind of wrong to companies that are set up to do experiments.
> heisse-preise

I remember that show.
Well, Malloy is developed within Google by the founder of Looker, so there is a chance it could be natively integrated into BigQuery. At that point you have a next gen SQL replacement available on one of the most widely used analytics and transformation engines.
German Jewish academics were expelled en masse because of antisemitic Nazi racial laws... not metrics regarding their academic credentials.
I've talked to both parties: the successful tend to give the lion's share of the credit to themselves, the unsuccessful tend to give the lion's share of the blame to circumstance.
The problem with most companies and monoliths is they broke the first rule of engineering, keep it simple. A tool or service should have one purpose in mind. Mutli-tools are fine if they are used infrequently, but not one tool should share the same burden or it loses efficiency.

Same thing happens in microservices too. You just need good planning an organizing.
They gloss over the issue of writing being taught primarily through literary analysis in American public schools.

You can't evaluate how good of a writer someone is unless you already know what they are trying to explain. The writing has to be about a topic for which the evaluator and the writer have a common level of understanding. This means that post-modern literary analysis is useless for teaching writing. Everyone can interpret the text any way they want, and each individual is expected to interpret it slightly differently. The correctness of the content is subjective. If the correctness of the content is objective, and mutually understood, then any confusion added during the writing is bad writing. Driving the excess confusion and length to zero is basically the problem of learning to write well.

In practice, writing isn't used to convey mutually understood ideas, it's used to convey novel ideas. But when evaluating writing that conveys a novel idea, the quality of the idea is mixed in with the quality of the writing. That's good for teaching how to think, but it just adds another variable in the way of teaching how to write.
The point is that not all cash is the same, and some immediate cash causes medium or long term harm. But if cash is your metric, it will be gamed by not distinguishing between healthy and unhealthy cash.

So you modify your metric to try to eliminate the harmful kind. But now you're in the same race as other metrics.
Just your regular reminder that for the only security certification Apple advertises on their website for iOS [1][2] Apple only achieved the lowest possible level of security, EAL1. A level only fit for products where [3]: “some confidence in correct operation is required, but the threats to security are not viewed as serious” which does not even require “demonstrating resistance to penetration attackers with a basic attack potential”. Four full levels below “demonstrating resistance to penetration attackers with a moderate attack potential”[4].

Is it any wonder that a company which has continuously failed for decades to certify resistance against moderate threats keeps getting their security completely invalidated by moderate threats? It should not be; they positively certify for sure that they are useless against them.

Until they can prove any non-trivial product of theirs can protect against moderate attackers, their claims about security of any form are extraordinary claims and thus demand extraordinary evidence (like certification proof). I am not holding my breath.

[1] https://support.apple.com/guide/certifications/ios-security-...

[2] https://support.apple.com/library/APPLE/APPLECARE_ALLGEOS/CE...

[3] https://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/files/ccfiles/CC2022PAR...

[4] https://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/files/ccfiles/CC2022PAR...
It’s a trivially easy choice for anyone with good ethics, full stop. Your contrived straw man has no relevance to the person in the OP, and they have none of those qualms. You’re doing a lot of mental contortions to defend committing fraud.
> The chain is very mutable! How would SegWit and other changes have been implemented otherwise?

Through backwards-compatible soft forks.

Nobody removed the ability to make non-segwit transactions. SegWit did not change the existing transaction format or change the chain, it repurposed the "anyone-can-spend" transaction space.

Unlike with a lot of other cryptocurrencies, the Bitcoin dev team bends over backwards to try to make sure their protocol updates extend the existing protocol rather than changing it.

And most critically neither issuance nor balances have been changed, with the exception of the isolated value overflow error that was corrected during Bitcoin's infancy in 2010.

> Every fork happens in order to effect some change – and whether that change is beneficial or not is the matter of policy, not technology.

It's a matter of individual opinion. And with Bitcoin, every individual user can assert their own opinion by running the protocol version that aligns most with their own opinion. You can't opt out of your bank's software update.

> Voting against a fork (with your mining power or wallet) is also a policy decision. You can't escape human nature in a system built and used by humans, not even in a very conservative/change-averse one, because conservatism is, once again, a human value, not a technological one.

I can't argue with that. Being a bitcoin user is inherently a policy decision.

Everyone makes a policy decision by clicking the "download" button. It's part of Bitcoin's strength and it's part of Bitcoin's weakness.
Germany has a market 10 times as large and in some ways better regulation.
Because the end-users are paying for the costs of running software. So their resources are given zero value.

More interesting is just how expensive the server side is... It seems that you really need to get pretty bad point until someone cares about costs...
I hope so for you guys. I personally don't have experience with this extortion around booting a car, but, wow.

It's incredible sometimes to hear that this happens in a modern city/country.
Companies have been self-immolating for short term gains since basically forever, so that is nothing new. Raising interest rates have definitely pushed some long-term money losers over the edge though. Rather than subsisting on ever more funding rounds they now need to figure out how to make money out of their huge "free tier" subscriber base and the quickest way is to start charging them money. Predictably, the people who formerly got valuable stuff for free are not fans of this idea.
He's got several references at the back of his book "Debt", on the topic of the jubilee. But you have a point: there's lots of room for interpretation.

Still, the idea just seemed too delicious to pass up: debt cancellation does not arise from benevolence but from fiscal necessity.
Electronic Paper
Can Tailscale magic DNS + tunnel obscure things? Or only when you keep a service within the tailnet? (Still a + for selfhosters)
Generally, the cultures that place high value on "preserving face", struggle with the fear of being proven wrong.
I'm making a VR combat flight sim (of sorts) https://roguestargun.com

I went into it thinking I needed a bunch of ECS multithreading to make it run on an Oculus Quest 2, but honestly, it's completely unnecessary. Vanilla essentially single threaded Unity C# with careful asset optimization, and I get get ~60+ rigidbody running on a mobile chip at 72 fps. I haven't been able to survive a dogfight against more than 12 enemy ai fighters

Tim Sweeney was right, ECS for optimization purposes is overkill for most games and is best relegated to fancy particle systems (which is the route Unreal went)
I found that the approach of template processing at large prompts leads to difficulty in reading programs. Their attractive part is that control flow is not separate from prompt as in langchain, which allows you to write prompts as classical programs. But the problem remains in unintuitive syntax for large programs
Thank you, teleforce, for necroing this in the middle of a yet another massive RAM and storage price crash.

We going back to 256 colour images, 320x240 textures in games, super low quality MP3 sounding worse than audio tapes?
Going back to terminals?
i'm not sure cures is the word. some people might have a change of attitude, others, it will only ingrain the situation even further.
A lot of it is to do with abstraction and reusability. E.g A third party lib uses hashmap for implementation but for my use-case an array would have suffice (like small number of integers over specific range). Since the 3rd party lib is essentially an implementation for union of many scenarios whereas I need only a specific set of it. This results into inevitable bloat.

The flip side is that you write all of the layers of your software and control the bloat. This now becomes an expensive option.
AMD Linux Gaming Performance Largely Unchanged with Linux 6.6 Git
Not if GPU accelerated. If software rendered(or bad GPU), then yes, you should see a big difference.
static arithmetic encoding appears to store the initial board, "black to move" and 4 rook "can castle" flags and a 1-of-9 "can en passant" value in 22 bytes. "4 pawns taken + 12 pawns promoted to queens", which I still think is the "complex-est" configuration that might actually be reachable in a valid game, fits in 25 bytes. A board with just 2 kings left on it encodes in 10 bytes (en passant and can castle flags are not needed).
Economist here. Why Modern Monetary Theory in particular? Just curious :)
Still, a great post. Thanks for sharing.
I think it is also important to acknowledge that there are things innodb does better than Postgres, eg. For most workloads an undo log is a far better data structure than implementing MVCC by duplicating rows. Autovacuum and vacuum can be an absolute nightmare, plus the extra disk traffic the duplication generates. Maybe one day OrioleDb will bring this to postgres too.
What's wrong with std::format?
> if you need to go above or around them in the org

In this case, the whole company has around 10 employees, so I assume there isn't much in the way of management. I understood "director" to be the big boss, maybe sharing his position with one other.
Why would I click on something to see an article on a site which requires SO MUCH CONSENT? This is HN, not F**book.

https://archive.ph/ZbJ0L
> The only way out in the end might be to open source the engine.

The problem for unity is that it costs a ton of money to develop the engine and not enough people pay them for it. Open sourcing the engine does not help with that problem and might even make it worse.
In addition to UI and all that entails (and I assume people not working with graphics or UIs often forget or underestimate the ungodly amounts that entails) theres safer memory models, encryptions, multi tasking, etc etc.
Chrome flags are pretty annoying to use, especially if you use the same browser for regular browsing.
Thanks, I've personally found benefits from being to learn to control my breathing in stressful situations.

Right now it only works with the Polar H10, but it would be possible to adapt it if other chest strap monitors have an accelerometer in them.
> Doesn't really seem more restrictive?

You misread the law. Only for a total of 72 hours. So if you were to open from 6 to 21 you couldn’t open Saturday at all and would have to close early ok Friday.

In practical terms most supermarkets in Austria close at around 7pm.
what a language
TikTok will fund Black Friday deals to take on Amazon
First, a trip to Vegas for most of Americans will cost much more than a $1K per weekend. Second, my link said exactly this - most of the revenue comes from slots. People using them are by definition is not a small minority. Minority gambles away hundreds of thousands per trip.
It's more, something in our DNA. Being confident and/or right many times increases or at least increased our chances of passing on more of our DNA. Hence there's more people with such DNA.

(my DNA will punish/praise me hormonally according to the amount of resulting downvotes/upvotes. Since I'm rather confident, i take my chances here. Also I'll try to apply the article's advice if I fail.)
FQL is interesting because it focuses on transactional systems and eliminating the need for an ORM in applications. I feel many of the SQL replacement projects like PRQL and Malloy instead come from the analytics side of the house, which doesn't really help application developers at all. (But does raise the question, how do I do analytics in Fauna? Do I ETL to a traditional warehouse system?)
In engineering, writing can be extremely valuable. Multi-million dollar proposals are won and lost based on the quality of writing. It is very important.
Bitwarden is E2EE, it doesn't matter where its hosted.
Notable that the latest layoff there (and a pretty large one, at that) is Airtable, which is the system the site relies heavily upon.
Seems Chrome is specifically making an exception for custom root CAs though:

> This will only apply to TLS server certificates from CAs that are trusted in a default installation of Google Chrome, commonly known as “publicly trusted CAs”, and will not apply to locally-operated CAs that have been manually configured.
That would be a nice idea for halloween :D
NixOS Wiki – the unofficial user wiki
Sure computers are faster today, but I think the point is that with all of this available horsepower that we have gotten quite lazy about having performant software. These GUI apps really only feel slightly faster than they did 20 years ago, but you'd think given the orders of magnitude more computing performance, the time it takes to do things like open applications, files, save, etc, would also progress at such a pace. Clearly there are inefficiencies when it takes over 10 seconds to open microsoft word on a blazingly powerful M1 cpu. using the cli on an m1, sure, everything follows as expected with lightning quick tooling at that level, but its in the gui software, the software most people use day to day, that the inefficiencies are exposed.
Exactly. Any reasonable person who sees crypto for what it is (gambling) doesn't touch it other than making trades in an order book on some exchange - treating BTC just like they would EUR, AAPL, etc.
WhatsApp rival Telegram gets Crypto wallet integration
Shareholders are victims, executives are their agents that acted against shareholder’s long term interests.

Here is a better example; you trust the bank with your money, bank gets robbed. The criminals are gonna be criminals. But why is the bank vault made of cardboard, and why is the password ‘1234’? Imagine the same bank keeps getting robbed for 10 years, and they make no attempt to fix things.

Should the management still get their bonus? Should they be help to account? At some point you have to start asking if the bank management is in on the crime.
YouTube Simplifying and Improving Ad Controls
Starting in November, we’re optimizing creator revenue and taking the guesswork out of which ad formats to use by removing individual ad controls for pre-roll, post-roll, skippable, and non-skippable ads on newly uploaded videos.
> For example in the US, when TikTok became too popular, politicians quickly reacted to avoid having a major social network that was backed by a foreign country. Legitimately in the name of consumer protection, of course, but clearly also other interests. Funny how the US very selectively protects its consumers.

What happened to TikTok in the US?
> I find his description of the typical
money lender especially attractive [...] a professional, often associated with the royal sector, who held a suku allotment and had the resources, in barley, silver, and draft animals, to cultivate his allotment and to pursue the control of additional allotments (Steinkeller 2002: 117). What this individual lacked, according to Steinkeller, was the necessary labor to work the land that he could acquire.

I'm pretty sure I've seen a similar characterization of nobles in England: They possessed land, resource-privileges, and capital equipment, but had to seek out labor.

I suppose it should be no surprise, given the asymmetry between being able to own those things versus not being able to own labor in the form of slaves. (Though serfs can come close.)

It's weird to imagine an opposite reality, a planet where ownership of land/capital/resource-rights is impractical or anathema, but slavery is normal and expected.
It is a very simple reason: abstraction.

The more abstract a software is, the less efficient. But it is also more flexible, easier to understand and modularise, and specially way cheaper and faster to develop.

Of all of the above cheaper and faster to develop is the main reason, by far. It is also safer with fewer bugs.

Software engineers are very expensive, the harder it is to develop something the longer it takes, the higher the economic risk.

To make something the "old way" takes years of work. People are not willing to wait nor pay for that, and the low level technologies will change over time so you could get trapped in a never ending rat's race.
Kind of interesting. Yeah it sucks to write about things that I dont have an interest in. I struggled in school with english. Though looking at my internet/forum use I don't think I actually hate writing.

> every child is monocropped on the same curriculum.

This I get, but at the same time, there really is so much we did learn k-12 that is fundamental to build on. A 12 year old is never going to sign up for algebra or trig. Maybe physics or chemistry but then drop it when you get stuck calculating molarity. I've been trying to catch up on the ml stuff lately and some physics for fun, right now I do appreciate the forced math. Algebra, and trig, pre calc. Im struggling because when I got a chance to blow off math when I was later on in school, I did. Now I'm seeing if I want to understand anything, let a lone do something novel, I have to put in the years of getting an understanding of calculus, linear algebra, stats etc that I don't really have.

Maybe the courses them selves could be more interesting. Instead of 4 paragraph essays and unrelatable classics. Ive gone back to reading books. I think I stopped because of how school treats it. It was stressful if you worry about missing a line and not getting some random symbolism. I actually went back and read great gatsby, much more relaxed. The green light didnt seem to really matter imo.

The exploration can happen outside of school though. Balance less rigorous homework with better extra curricular. Balance sports better somehow.
Cruise and Waymo rides in San Francisco cost roughy as much as the equivalent Uber/Lyft. Given the cost of hardware, and the need to recoup the cost of developing the software (and hardware), I wouldn't be so sure. What it does allow is for drivers to scale up, and run at all hours, but it'll be a long time before an amortized hour of self driving car time, when you factor in the R&D costs for that hour, is under minimum wage
Why is it okay to list the specific employees who were laid off? What if they don't want that information to be publicized to the internet?
I intended for low pay, dangerous conditions, abuse/hazing, etc to wrap up into lack of interest.