skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The crypto sales people were obvious, brazen, proud con artists, and everyone talked about what a scam it was. I'm sure some especially unsophisticated people were unaware of it, but plenty knew and decided to take the risk anyway.
The name-pronunciation effect: Why people like Mr. Smith more than Mr. Colquhoun
if you weren't addressing my point (medicaid expansion) then why are you responding with random articles?

I, in fact, think things like negotiating drug prices is good, sadly it was outlawed by republican policy: Medicaid Part D (One of the most expensive policies ever) -- the Biden "Inflation Reduction Act" addresses this Bush-era money-grab for drug companies.
The crazy thing is that a small team of around 10 really good engineers could probably have put together a robust reliable working Healthcare.gov-like system that could handle the potential 300 million users in 1-2 years. If you paid all 10 of them them $300k each a year, for 2 years, that's 10 * 300 * 2 = $6 million. Worst case, Healthcare.gov should have cost 5 times that, $30 million. I feel like the sort of egregious and copious waste in government should borderline be illegal.
Yeah but if you wrote that no one would read the article - its just more clickbait. Max exposure but diminish the underlying work.
Branch/Call/Jump Compression
Solid.js Creator Outlines Options to Reduce JavaScript Code
The current version just grabs the whole feed and removes it from the website. If you can program, it won't be hard for you to extend it so you can remove only the content you want.
> How does Disney fail to make money off Star Wars? Because they decided to build a shitty tech company in-house instead of just doing what they know and licensing their content to the experts.

They may or may not have tech issues. Their issues with Star Wars are far larger than anything having to do with tech, starting from the fact that apparently no-one associated with Star Wars in over a decade appears to like, understand or even be more than superficially familiar with Star Wars.

In the particular case of Rian Johnson, if one only examined The Last Jedi it would not be clear that he is even superficially familiar with cinema, film, science fiction, space opera or simple storytelling. The Force Awakens may have been bad fan fiction, but TLJ was something I’ve never seen before: hate fiction. Actually, maybe ‘hate’ is too strong a word: perhaps TLJ is evidence of a creative team who doesn’t appear to hate Star Wars so much as resent it. They appear to have resented it for existing, for being successful, for being a world they had to tell their stories in. But it’s resentment tinged with something verging into hatred.

I honestly believe that for generations to come Disney’s squandering of the Star Wars franchise will be taught in schools alongside the New Coke fiasco. It’s remarkable: while success would not necessarily have been easy, Disney could have churned out low-effort dreck like TFA for years. It would have been bad, but folks would have eaten it up.
Are there any other programming languages that have this feature? I'm fairly certain Rust, Zig, C#, JavaScript, and Python do not.
This part is what many have a problem with I think: "...When a company needs to make decisions to increase their margin..."; why? Why do you _NEED_ to increase your margin? You can increase your profit amount without increasing your margin by extending your customer base, by being smarter about expenses, by being a savvier customer to your online infrastructure, etc. But what is the _NEED_ (emphasis is mine) to, literally, squeeze that rock harder to get more blood out of it, therefore ensuring it will crumble in the future?

The only thing I can think of is that there is no care for said future, "I'll squeeze as much as I can now, I got mine, so screw everyone else".
Some Miscellaneous Git Facts
> In another response, Dr. Eli David wrote, "At first I laughed reading this. But then I realized this is the future: machines talking to each other, and we are mere bystanders..."
If I’m encrypting my disk, the NSA is far at the bottom of people I want to be safe from. At least the NSA might make a reasonably well implemented backdoor.
I recently added this propane flame thrower to the front of my school bus RV, the MajikBus.

I’m super stoked and had a blast making this push button device.

I wrote up a how to DIY so you can make your own.
I have never used it but it seems lawyers wants something like Clio which not only does manage documents but runs their entire business.

https://www.clio.com/lawyaw/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clio_(software_company)
HBO’s offering is particularly terrible. It’s amazing how often it just … pauses with a blank screen. Or thinks that I am episodes back in my watch history.
I've been alive way before facebook and I can think of a number of ways they have made my life worse, not better. It's up to personal preference whether the trade-off is worth it, but to argue that facebook is a boogieman of ignorant people is really lame.
Home sales are on track to hit the slowest year since Great Recession
Grumpy. I don't use them, it's another thing I have to remember, and it makes the parser more complicated.
Study to evaluate Lightbridge Fuel use in Candu reactors
Why are you letting your compassion get in the way of your pleasure?
Blade Runner: The Unofficial White Dragon Cut
I've only played with OS/2 in emulators/VMs, and not really enough to form concrete opinions. What do you think made it better?
And only 64 cores, versus 256 for the IBM chip. The "mind-blowing" part is about its efficiency, not about its total memory or core count.
OpenSSL Adds Support for Raw Public Key (RFC7250)
We have other choices and end up using Apple-specific languages for bridge code.
Injected a custom stylesheet via extension vs. removing elements. I messed around with YouTube before and they can detect when their dom changes. Not to say it's breaking but I thought it was interesting.
Google's Postpandemic 'Reckoning'
https://archive.ph/DxW62
That's what a 'manifesto' is; you gotta dig deeper if you want the subtleties.
Okay but this layoff process didn't look like a strategic move where they cut the excess services from bandcamp. It sounds like it was an across-the-board 50% slash. Half the blog staff is still around.
It's more realistic than smug. I run a small net-label on bandcamp and don't really care about the culture of Bandcamp outside of it being a platform we can easily slap albums on and share through other channels. I just need the site to work and exist while passing us our percentage for any sales that come through.

Bandcamp has lasted because they haven't let the place go to shit like their competition and they've been reliable enough to stay online consistently.

I don't need social tie ins, and I don't want to message my listener base about anything. The spam emails I get from labels trying to be social go directly into the trash and usually make me unfollow them (or disable notifications)
ARMCE executable format as well, but developers have to care to recompile.
> (To answer my own question, apparently Azure SQL does)

Which is fun when you add a future schema migration that drops a column, test in locally and in some test cases, and then see it bomb in production because the column has an Index that you weren't aware of. (That's an easy thing to solve though, but definitely one of those cases where "The database is messing with its schema on its own" does do funny things)
This is critically missing spiral hex coordinates which require only a single coordinate, not two.

I think the original idea is from Paul Bourke. He calls it a Spiral Honeycomb Mosaic (SHM).

See his "Tiling on The Plane" page [1]. Scroll down to the section titled "Hexagonal Lattice" (contains links to source code with coordinate conversions).

Here is a Rust implementation of a different variant of the same idea [2].

[1] http://paulbourke.net/geometry/tilingplane/

[2] https://crates.io/crates/hex-spiral
"intent was to encourage the op"

It certainly was. I do realize though that my style is too crude and seems to lack empathy.
Fisherman, here. I have a few stories...
Microsoft Announces Radius
That "lawful" interception allows certificate issuance to be a means of wiretap completely undermines any trust one should have in CAs. It seems that an alternative is greatly needed.
Izzyreal/vmpc-juce: JUCE implementation of VMPC2000XL
I should be more clear. I'm talking about pursuing novelty for the sake of novelty.
So glad they were allowed to buy their competitor Auth0.
I do the same as you. I used to attempt to track cash spending but I found that if I wasn't tracking it within 24 hours of it being spent, I probably wasn't categorizing it correctly anyway.

Since my cash expenditures represent well under 1% of my total spending, it wasn't worth tracking in detail.
It seems like generating some data structure definitions (similar to a protobuf) and checking them in along with the code would be useful? Then the compiler can tell you when they still match, or you made an incompatible change to the code.

This seems like a situation where defining the data structure in two different ways might be good?
I would definitely agree with you.

I can’t do without documentation or google.

And that makes me think am i a bad programmer
> from the additional value its capital is able to generate on top of the labour value.

Can you provide a concrete example of capital generating value without the involvement of any labor?
But WP isn't a VC company, and it's not publicly traded, is it?
Always looking for better lightweight editors so will try it out. Thank you for sharing!!
What do you use it for? So far it seems to be okay to get a project started in programming but overall it sits in the way of solutions and learning a new technology. It seems to be okay at rewriting text so I don't plaigerize myself when I'm writing papers or proposals. It actually does a really nice job of classifying technical reports which is way easier to implement than any NLP solution but definitely not the most accurate. Overall if it didn't exist I think I wouldn't miss it even though I currently pay for chatgpt.
Is this a new thing? I installed windows 11 fresh about a year ago and it did not force me (or to my memory, even offer) to use bitlocker during setup.
This seems like a project where AI text to speech tools would be useful.

I would throw out all assumptions about how websites are “supposed to” look and just figure out how to best replicate a phone-first workflow on a website. Presumably with AI tools, as I mentioned above, but also making the site super simple, with large icon buttons, etc.
Ruby is a great language. It is very expressive and often quite readable. Ruby has a strong standard library, and the ruby gem ecosystem is great. Ruby is a highly productive language for devs to use as it makes prototyping easy. In terms of benchmark performance, I would say it is probably closest to python. One thing I stress when comparing CPU performance of languages is to not get hung up on that too much. Most web apps I work on get hung up on IO and database interactions and not CPU. I've been working with ruby for 17 years and the number of times ruby's performance has got in my way are too few for me to mention.

Finding a job with ruby isn't too bad. Keep in mind that just because there aren't as many ruby jobs that also means competition may be less because fewer people know ruby. 9/10 (probably higher) jobs will be rails jobs. Rails is an outstanding web framework. There is a reason rails is still one of the most popular web frameworks after 20 years.

For learning to program, choose something you enjoy. If you pick a tech that doesn't agree with you, learning is going to be an uphill battle. I don't love JS, and I don't find python enjoyable either. Pick something that clicks for you. Once you learn one, other languages will be easier to pick up. Disclaimer, ruby is my favorite language.
And with Sapphire Rapids having 64GB of HBM2e, I think even TR's is quite miniscule.
Pretty much every government that calls itself "communist" works that way in practice.
I often have to do architecture diagrams and this usually involves Visio. Visio has design stuck in the past. It’s so amazingly clunky to use and even simple things like arranging or sizing shapes on a grid can be incredibly frustrating.

There’s a ton of shapes, but they are all inconsistent visually that mixing metaphors becomes a real mess. Search is terrible. I often find myself spending more just screwing around trying to get things laid out how I want than actually designing.

Figma isn’t really designed for this kind of thing but I find that with FigJam I can throw together really great flowcharts and infrastructure diagrams with really little effort. UML state diagrams and other things of that ilk are too much effort though.

Ultimately I work at a Microsoft shop so whatever I do in Figma ultimately ends up in Visio anyway but I find it faster to prototype in Figma and then adapt to Visio. (As frustrating as it is.)
What does it mean to rubber duck complex problems
Or 17hmr... hard to find where I live, while it's not useful at all in a battlefield.
You mention "construction workers" but that's a massive group. Is this targeting large infra/Union construction, commercial or residential etc?

I'd recommend you post this to DIYchatroom forum, it's a sibling forum to ContractorTalk (which is explicitly licensed-contractor Only), but many contractors are active on both.

My opinion is this could be a better fit for larger projects (Commercial) whereas most residential crews are small in comparison - think you'd get a more relevant discussion from the mentioned sites than HN. How does this compete with Unions?

Edit: said it in another comment but biggest thing for me is works well on android. And fwiw I'm a licensed contractor
That wasn't at all what I gathered from the comment.
And confusable with lambda/function and pattern matching operators in other languages. Imagine only being an occasional C++ user, seeing =>, and thinking they added terse lambdas! You'd be in for a [big]<T>(){disappointment;}.
Why not? You could use "certificate usage" value 1 and (if the implementation does not neglect it) immediately notice that validation by CA disagrees with validation by DNS. That should be good enough, no?
Yeah. Seems likely that the subjective experience of the trip is simply what you feel when firing/rewiring the networks that cause the healing. There's no incompatibly between "it's the experience" and "it's the neurology" because they are one in the same.

But there are a lot of different ways to do the healing (e.g. consistent meditation as others mentioned) which will of course be coupled to different feelings/experiences. The "large psychedelic dose" method is just one end of the "works fast + feels strongly" spectrum. Of course as the science/technology develops we will find other points on the spectrum that balance the properties differently -- maybe even through placebo effect alone as suggested here.
Tell HN: Asking good questions is much more important than giving solution
Throughout the years as i built up experience on software engineering, i think it's time for me to give an emprical conclusion: Asking good questions is much more important than giving solutions.

About the why i think so: Asking good questions is like you understand the "parent problems", so actually learn how to give the questions to the problem is actually trying giving it the solution (partly).

Why this is important ? Because i don't rush for the solutions before just asking good questions first, and it's hard !

Prove me wrong !
Many platforms have COBOL as option but not [insertYourDiscriminatedSkillHere]
Have you noticed that some skills are negged or downplayed? Even if they aren't legacy they are not being included? This triggers an ethical discussion: is okay that market has more demand on X1 and less in X2 but is not okay to pretend X2 doesn't exist. Whoever is in charge in the "skill tags" list for your profile, do have invested in you? If not, why should have any say in suppressing the expression of any of your skills? What can be done about skills censorship? And noticing that this issue could easily go beyond the tech world, right?
You have no choice but to read this
And this is another example of foreign interference at EU level... How can Europeans trust the EU after so many incidents like this one?
Eh? My understanding wasn't that the tax receipts increase as you get closer to a tax rate of zero. Wasn't the point that maximum receipts happen somewhere in the middle, but obviously tax receipts are 0 when the rate is at 0% or 100% (and closer to 0 when near the extremes)?
Show him a game with the web, let him play, enjoy it, then teach him how to make such game.

https://jsfiddle.net/fjrqosb0/
It is possible to produce a long transaction versioned database, but the tricky bit is normally merging the structured data. For most applications this either needs to be entirely automated (so no user intervention is required) or the conflict resolution needs to surface in a lot of UI.
Can someone who fell for the 7%+ return explain which part you got tricked by? Was it just not registering as red flag to offer such a high, risk free rate? Or did you believe it wasn’t risk free, but thought the risk of it turning into this situation too low/zero?

How much of the decision was based on using the claimed FDIC insurance as a limiter on the downside risk?

I don’t mean any antagonism by these questions, I’m personally curious what is the thought process to get involved with this investment option.
One of my favourite parts of this embezzlement of customer funds to spend elsewhere is that their Anthropic investment may pay off alot of the hole that FTX dug themselves.

SBF could end up like Martin Shekreli where they can technically pay back the money they stole but will still end up in prison because they committed fraud to begin with.

With the reports that Alemeda minted about $40B of Tether I was hoping that the government would capture that amount and then hand it to Tether to force a redemption back to USD. Saddly they don't seem to have that Tether around anymore.

For a bunch of people who worked for a respected traditional trading firm in Jane street, they dont' seem to have been very good traders at all.

The government's done a pretty good job with their end of the trial, by

- first making it clear that SBF ordered that FTX remove the borrow constraint for Alemeda that everyone else had,

- then by showing how all of Sam's purchases and political donations were done with money that he first sent to Alemeda and

- then by having the head of legal at FTX go through their terms of service that make it clear that FTX could not lend out customer money for any reasons at all except for margin accounts.

They are now closing by making it clear to the jury that "effective altruism" is not a valid defense for fraud and theft.

Side note, the bankruptcy team has announced that individuals who pulled out less than $250,000 in the weeks leading up to the collapse will not be pursued for claw backs, which is great news for small retail investors.

They also announced that FTX and FTX.US customers would precede vendors in the payback hierarchy which is good news for those of us who bought bankruptcy claims. Now seeing them valued in the 45cents on the dollar range.
For lots of companies, 'increasing their margin' refers to increasing their margin from < 0 to > 0.

That would be my charitable reading of parent post, and does anybody believe that Bandcamp was profitable?
You're so right. You're the only one who is allowed to define what is a "real" problem. Every widely popular thing that you dislike is just virtual opiates, after all.

Classic HN comment.
Thanks for the explanation! So that means they can reinvest and grow their business just as much as for-profit businesses, then? If a for-profit saves millions in the banks, that will be taxed, as it is a profit at that stage.
And out of curiosity what are you using more these days that isn't Ruby?
Viewing files uploaded to support tickets is still a scary prospect. I doubt Okta can say with 100% confidence that no confidential data or credentials are uploaded to their support portal.
The same chance as Windows encryption having a backdoor of course.
Are you familiar with "The Wal-Mart Effect"? It describes the impact on local economies when a Wal-Mart opens. Spoiler: It isn't good. Far from being a net producer of good, decent-paying jobs, it tends to wreck the local competition, driving small-business owners out of business and into low-wage employment.

These days, "The Amazon Effect" is probably even more worrisome, because it's much more diffuse.

When companies can rely entirely on economies of scale, rather than innovation, to crush competition, it's possible to have immediate effects (such as lower prices) that are beneficial, but knock-on effects (such as the broader impact on the economy and the quality of jobs available) that are insidious and deleterious.
> The part I don't understand is why the prices still go up at the same time for my ammo despite it not running low.

I know next to nothing about this, but my guess is because the ammunition factories are busy making the military ammunition.
This is my go-to text editor on Linux. Only one feature I miss from Notepad++ is persisting unsaved files. Otherwise it is a perfect application.
>robots don’t, and likely never will, want to do anything whatsoever.

You can play games with words and claim that a chess engine is just a machine and consequently does not want to win the game, but if your life depended on your winning a game against a chess engine, you would die.
OMG, that kid is obviously sober.

Obviously as in the cop comes across as someone so naive as to have never seen a drunk or stoned person; and have plenty of unfounded biases as a result.
>> Communism pretty explicitly involves the proletariat seizing the means of production, but go on.

So, by that definition, all publicly traded corporations are communist :) I mean, significant part of their shares is traded on stock exchanges and owned by anonymous members of proletariat :)

EDIT: Also, think about all those Silicon Valley companies that pay their employees in stock options. Marx would be proud :)
Yes. That’s a problem to sort out between the employees and the company, it has nothing do to with users or customers. As a user I’m not going to pretend I know any of the relevant context to engage in activism on behalf of anyone.
I read Reuters [1]. They quote the Orthodox Church itself:

> A Greek Orthodox church in the Gaza Strip which was sheltering hundreds of displaced Palestinians was hit overnight by an Israeli air strike, the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem said, and Palestinian health officials said 16 people were killed.

> There was no word from the Church on a death toll.

> The Israeli military said a part of the church was damaged in a strike on a militant command centre and it was reviewing the incident.

I do not read anything with a name referencing osint, nor other astroturfers.

There are missiles coming into Gaza also daily. I think it should all stop. Do you agree?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/orthodox-church-says-it-was-hi...
Seems that most people in this country really do fall into the "temporarily inconvenienced millionaire" category, who favor no rules or regulations for how big corporations can get, or how many business lines they can own under one roof.

First they came for the manufacturers, but I didn't buy raw steel or wood by the train load. Then they came for the programmers and consultants, but I didn't need any software written or any business advice. Then they came for literally EVERYTHING in retail, and I squirmed, but bought Prime anyway. Then they came for my TV and music, and... Hey! Wait just a dad-gummed minute here!