skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't say it's characteristically fascist, but your instinct that all this will end poorly is probably right. Ever since the Snowden leaks, we've known that multiple nations built up a digital power disparity that can stockpile exploits and apply them for petty purposes. NSO Group proved that it can be done practically silently, to any phone, with no extra software. Situations like the Canada/India murder probe also recently suggested that supposedly-secure channels can be intercepted anyways. One can only imagine what China or the NSA is fully capable of today.

So far we've avoided catastrophe, but it does feel increasingly like the surveillance and internet control lines have already been drawn. I'd hear out anyone who wants to steelman a nicer interpretation of things, though!
Middle click scrolling is awesome.

Windows now has clipboard history by pasting with Win+V, having the best of both worlds.

I'm sorry you can't adapt, but honesty no one cares =)
High increase != just as high entry price

If you can't afford a million dollar home you're gonna have a much harder time in urban or suburban coastal CA than you will in... almost anywhere else, including AZ, TX, FL.

The rest of the parent poster's complaints are pretty SF-centric, though.
?? Even the local politician acknowledge crime or at-least super visible crime is up. They have different views of why but they aren't just like "no it's not!".
> 10K/s of insert/deletes

not clear if it is that much
Agree to disagree I suppose, moot with the project dead. Onward.
> I can easily imagine that Apple omitted period tracking intentionally to position these products as aimed at young professionals who take their health and fitness seriously, […] not menstruating women.

Yup, like for example Mikaela Shiffrin who doesn’t take her fitness seriously [1]. Or Wimbledon tennis players [2]. Not like those young professionals…

1. https://time.com/6279881/periods-sports-gender-bias/

2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kimelsesser/2023/07/05/wimbledo...
The issue is that Harvard students are or should be capable of mastering huge quantities of academic work at a far more abstract level than at less competitive admissions universities. Giving an A for mastery of an average amount of work vs mastery of the full potential of the course encourages laziness and doesn't help distinguish between motivated and merely good students
Differential Geometric Processing Unit would do it for me.
Aptos and Capitola are really nice areas for sure! But I don’t think they’ll be overrun any time soon as there’s nowhere to build :) and I agree, there is much more to California than the Bay Area. Across the bay there’s PG, Monterey, big sur. Further down you have SLO, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, Laguna, San Clemente, …
Everything old is new again. After delivering technology over the last 20 years to seamlessly offload arbitrary computation to a distributed cluster of dedicated hardware, managed entirely transparently by people you've never met, yes let's just go back to slow, local compute because that's "cooler" now or something.
A very US comment and surreal for the rest of the world, for most people in the most of the developed world this doesn't come in top 1500 priorities during any phase of life.

If we talk about picking a place to live, why not choose something that is not completely FUBAR that you don't actually have to worry about such things? That isn't a mark of high quality life.
Hell, business types confuse data entry work for dev work.

It's Computer Stuff. It's all the same.
Crypto (currencies) are not a scam. These are currencies and like any other currency are subject to devaluation and abolition.
> The flow of Californians to Texas has marked the largest state-to-state movement in the U.S. for the past two years, but it decreased from more than 107,000 people in 2021 to more than 102,000 residents in 2022

The data is available for anyone to download, and it has margins of error itemized for every number they provide [0]. The margin of error is around 10k for this number (CA->TX) and the observed difference is 5k, which means that the entire article is just interpreting statistical noise.

The reported variation in AZ's inflows are also within the margin of error. The only number in the headline that isn't is FL, with a difference of 13k and a MOE of 7K.

[0] https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/geograph...
> Ticketmaster has exclusive deals with artists and venues.

While it's true Ticketmaster does have these exclusive deals, it's demonstrably false that this is the reason why TM still hasn't been replaced.

If you've been around the industry for a while, you'll remember that LiveNation & Ticketmaster were distinct companies. In fact, LN tried to leave Ticketmaster. LN was the one with the exclusive deals with artists. LN was the one who owned the venues.

Yet LN failed. They dumped hundreds of millions into building a ticketing platform unsuccessfully. And eventually just bought Ticketmaster.

It a good data point that even if you have the right contracts, you'll fail if you don't have the right tech.
SF isn't even in the top 20 most dangerous cities in California.
Yes, you're right, there are technical benefits too.

Still, I think the primary reason Apple felt comfortable dropping the headphone jack while contemporary Android phone vendors didn't, was that Apple could afford to lose customers who didn't want to upgrade to AirPods or other Bluetooth headphones. What they lost in direct sales they would regain in brand reputation. That was about market positioning, not about engineering.

By the way, I just looked up some specs and my unfashionable Samsung Galaxy A52s with a headphone jack also has an IP67 rating, and it is the same thickness as Samsung's current flagship model, Galaxy S23, which doesn't have a headphone jack. Both devices are only 0.6 mm (7%) thicker than Apple's current flagship iPhone 15. So while I'm sure adding a headphone port incurs some engineering cost, I feel like this cost isn't insurmountably high, and it's not true that you can't have IP67 and a headphone jack at the same time.
TLDR - Yes, but from a crazy person.

Yes, in the most toxic place I ever worked. Gee, those are probably related, huh? The owner of the company was crazy. Not in a hyperbolic "oh yeah she's nuts" way but in a "she's either taken too much medication or not enough because she's unstable." Some of my favorite anecdotes, starting with one relevant to your comment:

1. After I provided an estimate of N weeks for a project, her response was "no it needs to be done faster than that." Okay, what features do you want to remove? What can be added after launch? "Everything is critically important and has to be available at launch, I thought it would take a day or two not weeks!" Finally she just wrote something about 80% of my original estimate and moved on. It took a week or two longer than I had originally estimated and it was fine.

2. Insisted on charging $10 instead of $9.99 because "the taxes get too complicated." Turns out rather than just using billing software like any sane person ca. 2010, she was using a calculator on her desk to figure out what clients owed and just typing that into an invoice and sending it. I bet 90% of our clients either overpaid or underpaid basically every bill by 1 cent due to her rounding in her head.

3. My favorite one ever was she was out on vacation one week, and while she was out we had some production issue over the course of a day and a half or so that was eventually resolved but she was cc'd on everything as she insisted. She pops into my office her first day back at like 8AM and says "I saw $THING wasn't working last week, everything's good now?" Yup. "Okay thanks!" and left. Comes in a few more times asking about $THING over the next hour, kind of weird but not unusual. Runs into my office frantic right before lunch "John Doe just emailed me, $THING is down!" Turns out she was just reading her Outlook top to bottom, so was gradually reading earlier and earlier emails. So in her mind $THING was totally fine and gradually slid into chaos as she read older and older emails.

That was an exciting few years, I have to say.
Ken just wanted to play his space game. He ended up writing Unix to do so.
My trackpad supports all clicks with physical buttons :-)

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-HP-ZBook-15-Workstation...

I disabled tap to click and all gestures except two finger scrolling.
Excuse me, you dropped this -> l
C/C++ has a historic preference for using signed "int" in places where it's not appropriate. Unsigned arithmetic is better defined - it wraps. So you don't have undefined behavior around arithmetic.

Use size_t for indices. That's defined as an unsigned value big enough to index the largest possible array. Rust uses "usize" for the same purpose. Only use signed integers where negative values are meaningful.
Where Did Everyone Go?
Interesting update:

> We've received a preliminary explanation from the data center that suggests that
a battery test went horribly wrong due to human error and wiped out at least the
entire floor we're on. Possibly more. It's not clear yet.
Thanks for sharing! I was trying to find something similar to flask (as it is required by university) but more lightweight. I would personally prefer to use Go but the language is banned until third year.
CA is insanely expensive, however I left AZ and came here to a very beautiful city. I don’t regret it, but I won’t be here long term. It truly is a place for the ultra wealthy, at least where I’m at.

My partner and I bring in around $350k and it’s barely cutting it here
stereotypes aren't inherently bad, they're just ways of reducing the complexity of the world. For someone who has never been to mexico, never met a mexican, never thought about the topic deeply, that is what a mexican is like. There may be some people upset by that, wanting to show that they are more than just the stereotype which they personally don't like. The only way to get further is to introduce more nuance. The way I see that here is to ask for a "mexican buisnessman" or "mexican lumberjack" or whatever. If those pictures had sombreros then maybe id agree it was a problem but right now this is the most shallow and surface level interaction with the technology possible, and the article presents it with such gravity as though it was some great hidden injustice.
Tier 1 is good, but caring about 300-500 euros is not a "tier 1" sort of budget for pretty much anything. You can't get a reasonable amount of AWS compute for that for example.

I'd look into country specific providers. They tend to be much cheaper, and the APIs often won't be terrible. SMS has the advantage of being fairly straightforward too (where say, payments is not).

I've used Twilio and I've used a local alternative, and there was really very little difference in practice for a startup level of reliability and feature set. The trade-off with local providers is time, and the bootstrap trade-off is time instead of money, so they're well aligned.
Don't use any "accounts". Backup the QR codes on paper. (Literally, buy a cheap laser printer and use the browser print action when presented with one of those QR codes.)
Note that Materialize uses differential-dataflow under the hood. (I work for Materialize)
Agreed. I live in US and it’s so bizarre that people walk around with rifles on their back.
Has anyone got this working with IntelliJ?
Middle-click scroll was a feature of the Windows 3.1 drivers for a Logitech TrackMan I bought in 1994 or so.
Why experienced programmers fail coding interviews
A friend of mine recently joined a FAANG company as an engineering manager, and found themselves in the position of recruiting for engineering candidates.

We caught up.
Altera MAX 10 evaluation board is probably one of the cheapest options. You use quartus prime lite to configure it which is free, and better than the equivalent Lattice tools.
Huh. Interesting. It reminded me of something:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/fact-check-does-texas-tea...

similar tendencies.
You’re addressing a political problem from an engineering perspective. As long as the US constitution grants two senators per state regardless of population, thus allowing democracy to operate free of human need, farm states will create policy the enriches their farming megacorps at the expense of humans and human life. Doing nothing is perhaps not greenwashing, and taking a principled stand against agri-industry subsidies will feel like doing something, but the argi industry subsidies will continue as will the CO2 emissions unabated. Perhaps doing something is better than nothing?
In my view, it's fine if it's not treated a performance metric, for the individual devs.

I saw a lot of questionable tactics stem from this. It's like when you play capture the flag, and focus on the "KDR" metric, as is often done.

Critical people who were saving the teams life and working their fucking asses off would get grilled and questioned; not intentionally, but as a natural extension of these processes. Meanwhile, people that scored easy points would get a pat on the head, then sit silently during the sprint review; thankful that they got the easy path this sprint.

It got to the point of absurdity. I think it could make sense to look at sprint points during planning, but then the total bank of points goes to the team; who scored what should be anonymous... this was one of those ideas you have that you know you can never share, lol.
> and they were not from some rich family that could have paid their way through schooling

Huh? If they'd got private tutoring, that wouldn't make them understand things any less?
There is a very good reason why this is not done. In a financial crisis the fed would be safer than any other investment, which would have catastrophic consequences.
Normal for any major urban area where one can live outside year round. Prob won’t find too many homeless encampments in Chicago for some reason.
Anywhere I can see updates?
Ticketmaster was still seen as a monopoly long before LN bought them.

In fact, Pearl Jam sued TM for being a monopoly in 1994, about 15 years before LN bought TM.

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/1994-when-pearl-jam-took-ti....
How does that work? Let’s say a stream is running with a 5s latency with the streamer and a bunch of viewers, all located in the US on fast connections. Now someone from rural Australia connects to the stream on a slow connection. Do you pause the stream for everyone in order to build a buffer for that new user and allow them to catch up and synchronize? What does the latency look like after that? 15-20s for everyone? That sounds like a terrible experience! When users find out what’s going on they’re going to demand the ability to block these slow/distant users from the stream so that everyone else doesn’t have their performance degraded.

It also doesn’t solve all of the interactivity issues. If a streamer is directly chatting with their viewers, a 15s latency is huge! It effectively makes normal back-and-forth conversations impossible and therefore leads to disengagement.

Why is this such a problem? Look at the relationship between engagement and monetization. Highly engaged viewers give way more money to streamers than do passive viewers. Highly engaged viewers are simply way more valuable as an audience, so their experience is given top priority. This is why best-effort low latency without synchronization makes sense. Lowest-common-denominator synchronized video sounds much more difficult to achieve if these “power viewers” are your priority audience.
Make the Rust compiler 5% faster with this one weird trick
I would assume they just dump a few handfuls of ice in the disposal and turn it on with water running over it. When the beaters break the ice it will form sharp edges for a short period of time that remove any material buildup inside the disposal.
However that requires your learnings to be complete (in respect of the code you are rewriting). My point is that for any reasonably complex code base of some age, that may not actually be possible even with the best of intentions. There will be a corner case you'll miss, or a necessary optimization you'll leave out. Of course this is over a spectrum, so refactoring code that only you wrote quite recently is probably ok and indeed a good thing!
Except, half of all planted trees are dead within 5 years. And my guess is that the easily available planting locations of people planting trees close to them are less likely to survive.

Second, it is rather hard to find a solid source for that CO2 number. https://onetreeplanted.org/blogs/stories/how-much-co2-does-t... supported a figure that is half that one.

Third, CO2 in trees does not necessarily REMAIN in trees. Need I remind you of last summer's wildfire problems? To fix the wildfire problem, we need to remove large amounts of dangerous overgrowth that a century of fire prevention has encouraged.

Fourth, the current trend is towards losing forests, not gaining them. It is easy to point to land and say, "Add forest there." But people living there who want to plant soybeans and raise cattle have different ideas. That's why rainforest is disappearing. What do you wish done with those inconvenient people?

Yeah, planting trees sounds great. But it is not likely to be a workable solution in the real world. Though it has promise as one of many pieces of a workable solution.
What consequences? What is the purpose of an intermediary (the bank) if money in a bank account is guaranteed by the federal government anyways?

See the recent bank failures of SVB and the couple others. How did having the money at a bank help, rather than say an electronic money account in a ledger operated by the federal government?
Windows has clipboard history
I added some letters to a demo and made https://susam.net/cfr.html#B15FRCFE7R2F4C11BR3E6C2E3. Thank you for making this! I don't know how it works but it is fun!
Note that the only of the three changes mentioned in the headline that exceeds the margin of error on the measurement is the increase in California->Florida migration. The decrease in California -> Texas is ~5,000 on a measure with a margin of error of ~9,900, the increase in California -> Arizona is ~5,000 on a measure with a margin of error of ~8,900. [0]

[0] From the Census department source data: state-to-state migration figures: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/demo/tables/geograp...
I’d agree with the lede’s sentiment that it’s not anything like Silicon Valley. I think Austin, TX is a hotter tech center.
And only the owner can then refresh it - there are some annoying gotchas to them
That’s just survivorship biases of artists thinking there has been a shift in Hollywood. Hollywood has always been a commercial enterprise studded with artistic egos, some deserved some not. CGI had just made mainstream action movies balloon is price, so they have all become financial endeavors.
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If you are like most business people I've worked with, you love my complicity.
It's also generally not allowed, just like you aren't allowed to buy stock in your own company right before a merger agreement you negotiated, or sell shares right before you post quaterly earnings you know will be bad.

Heck look at the scandal (which imo should have been bigger) around congresspeople trading around mask/healthcare/vaccine stocks early in 2020 based on their reports while publicly downplaying risks.
A little OT, but when I looked for this settlement of Tekoa on GMaps I noticed that nowadays most of Israel itself is not blurred out anymore once you zoom in. I certainly remember that to be the case until not that long ago.

Some locations/places are still blurred, such as Ashdod, but Tel Aviv is now mostly "clean" on higher levels of zoom.
Sony Xperia 5v and 10v are two current phones that reasonably sized and still have a headphone jack and memory card slot. Not the flagship Xperia 1v though, I think that one's a bit bigger.
> overthrow of the Ukrainian government and spiraled into a civil war in Donbas

There was no "overthrow". President, prime minister, other members of the government disappeared (later appeared in Russia), so fail-safe mechanisms, already present in the law, were enacted.

There was no "civil war" -- it was Russian invasion from the start.
That is correct. They weren't trained appropriately on how to handle the incorrect AoA scalars they were receiving but reacted as if they were correct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Air_Flight_610#investigat...
I haven't been following the scene too closely, but there's been a huge ecosystem of fpga clones of 90s video game consoles in the last few years. The "mister" project is one such endeavor.

The market for the original hardware, old cartridges and mods for things like better video signals or Bluetooth controllers is also popping.
That is indeed a better fit. Personally, every time I visit the USA, I am reminded that it is a country of morbidly obese people in so many customer-facing jobs. I sort of forget about that in the interim, because media depictions of Americans show more photogenic people.
> And middle click is for opening tabs.

Learning that you can middle click on the back/forward/refresh buttons to open the previous/next/current page (respectively) in a new tab was a game changer for me
How far are we from a codebase-wide IDE integration that submits pull requests?
I'm wondering if anyone is building or how far are we from an extension or integration that takes your whole codebase and identifies bugs and submits pull-requests that you can review.

I know some people are working on AI agents using GPT4. I've also been using Cursor and it's pretty good. But it has its limits. I'm not sure whether Copilot X will be able to do that.

Curious about when this will be possible.
There is a mathematical technique called simulated annealing.

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

The idea is code goes through development cycles. You have the most leeway to make changes in the first few development cycles. But less and less as time goes on. And the beginning of a development cycle you can make larger changes than at the end. Between cycles the code is frozen and you never touch it unless you can prove a change is needed. And development cycles are triggered by the need to for gross functional changes or interface changes.
Indeed it is a fantasy, however a fantasy that is all too easily and often indulged - which is how regressions end up back with the customer.
I wish linux had a comparable system for systematically embedding assets in binaries.
What you are failing to factor is the the ancillary costs associated with owning real estate in Florida, namely the cost of insurance. Also, Miami and Tampa are seeing the latest influx of new residents where the average price of real estate dwarfs other markets in Florida but is on par with NY and CA.
Suppose you do separate the Federal Reserve from the US federal government, what role does a bank serve? Surely the federal reserve should be able to maintain the same database of accounts that Chase and BoA and Wells Fargo maintain.

Although, I would argue the federal government and the federal reserve have the same mandate, which is maintaining a steady increase in asset prices. They might say they have other priorities, but their first will always be maintaining the social order, and politically, that requires sacrificing the currency’s purchasing power to maintain a minimum ROI.
> I have never in my life seen an Indian person with a beard and turban

That’s surprising. Sikhs are a prominent feature of the Indian diaspora in North America and Europe. And after 9/11 they were in the news in the US since authorities had to inform their population that these were not the Muslims who had perpetrated the attacks.

Perhaps you have seen Indians with beards and turbans but, not being informed about Sikhism, you thought that they were from somewhere else like Afghanistan or the Middle East?