skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ParaFi Technologies LLC | U.S. | Remote (San Diego preferred) | Full-time | Infrastructure Engineer

ParaFi Tech runs some of the highest-performing validator infrastructure on Ethereum and other blockchains. We run a hybrid infrastructure between on-prem and cloud. We solve interesting challenges in crypto, cybersecurity, and more.

Looking for someone with software, infrastructure, and cyber experience to help build and scale our operations. We have a small and experienced team. Industry-leading pay.

Email me at [my username with a dot before p]@parafi.com
They already have annoying modals that pop up when apps are using my location in the background, they could easily make these hypothetical "NotificationServiceKit apps" spawn similar modals when they take up a lot of CPU time, memory, or other energy intensive metrics.
Even more ominous that it's free
I'd be very surprised if the $880M was the extent of the crime. The government not jailing anyone involved in the scheme is completely inexcusable and in my view makes the government complicit in the crime, in which case my trust that the public information about this case is accurate is 0.
Housing supply and demand isn’t uniformly distributed across the United States. When we say “housing shortage” we only mean in popular places to live.
JavaScript Registry
Have you had to deal with read-heavy/OLAP queries? Of the kind that can't be cached effectively (i.e. arbitrary filters).
Cannabis is not a dissociative drug. I think pop culture has instilled a false belief it has a calming or chill effect, but it's the opposite.
Sadly you can't just spool down data either - data isn't fungible!
Climate change is the skeleton key of doing nothing. "Climate change means there is a drought" Nothing we can do about it, not build desalination plants, or raise the cost of water, or eminent domain farmers' property who refuse to relinquish their century old "water rights". Literally just complain about climate change is all we can do.
They have that many stars on GitHub. They actually also have thousands of forks each. The api probably still has a way to count downloads but I didn't bother. I wasn't claiming users in the millions anyway. :)
No need to teach your children honesty, when you can just spy on their toothbrushes.
The problem is that each of these steps seems fine in isolation but the net result is that websites get (and feel) ripped off. If I sat directly outside the printing press of a newspaper, intercepted each printed copy, ripped out all the ads and put in my own instead and took a cut of the resulting revenue, everyone would understand that's a problem.

I've seen Brave apologists say for years going "no, really, it's not ripping you off!" to people who feel ripped off, to basically zero effect at changing hearts and minds. At some point you have to accept the reality that people aren't going to be won over by "logical" explanations of why someone who seems like they're obviously ripping them off actually isn't.
You're not wrong but you're also not fully right: there has been a second instance that the devs have been using to test out the federation code. It's not yet open to the public because they are still working on the implementation. At the protocol level, it is very much there, but you are right to point out that the advantages haven't been fully realized just yet.
And, in fact, Brian Sandoval does indeed have a law degree.
No oil changes. No smog inspection. No visits to the filling station. No timing belt. No transmission fluid. Also, Corolla tire pressure gauges seem to be designed to break after several years, and are seemingly designed to be too expensive to repair. (Pretty much take this as a given for many years of Corollas.) I don't see that as being a problem on the Teslas.

There's just far less to go wrong on an EV. Corollas have a reputation for reliability? The Teslas following the S/X super luxury models, the 3 and the Y, look to beat them at this game.
Why? It seems like the sort of privacy-supporting thing they’d like.
I think if I could go back in time, my fix would be to make stderr the default. i.e. everything written 'out' goes to stderr until you explicitly write it as an output to stdout (or another descriptor/file), the inverse of the current situation.

(Ok, sure, I'd probably change the name too!)
This is probably the right place to grumble about the fact that it took Intel until ~2020 to stop selling chips that still don't have AVX/AVX2 in them, a solid decade and change after the tech was introduced.

According to the steam software survey as of Feb24, there's still almost 8% of the market that thus doesn't have access to AVX2. Which for many practical purposes means falling back to SSE for everything unless you want the complexity of dynamically dispatching functions according to instruction set and the complexities of it (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24577069). Even for significant performance, I usually do not.

The reason that whole rant is relevant is that the trick in the article (which is simple and short) doesn't even have a cost in SSE code! For SSE you have to do a load and shuffle anyways since there is no lane broadcast instruction. (The set1_ps intrinsic hides this from you, since it will compile instead to a broadcast if you have set the compiler suitably). Since you're already shuffling, there's no downside to this trick, only reduced register pressure.
Makes sense! I like the approach.
But it's optional enshittification. I should have the option of messing up my device. Apple are free to scare me away from doing so, but the choice needs to be mine as the owner.
Also a +1 for Simplifi. I switched from YNAB recently. Simplifi maybe isn't as nice looking and feels like the focus is definitely on function (imo), but it seems better for general purpose tracking, and it costs a bit less.

My bank (PNC) was supposedly going to be making it harder for Plaid to connect so I went looking for a different tool. So far it seems like Simplifi will be able to connect multiple times a day for that extreme scrutiny fix! I'd rather banks just play as nice as possible with data aggregators, but I also didn't feel like moving to another bank just to keep using YNAB reliably.

I will give my experience with YNAB full credit for making me realize I need to be tracking expenses carefully, even if I don't need a tool built around YNAB's specific budgeting system.
how is this article dated 2018 using statistics dated 2021?
It could be a bias, that's why we do blinded comparisons for a more accurate rating. If we have to consider my opinion, since I use it often, then no, it hasn't gotten worse over time.
This is super interesting. From what I gathered, generating a video autonomously given the content or instructions is sort of difficult. Curious to hear if you (or others) have any leads on how you can build this? (I'm assuming you intend to generate an instructional course video given the content)
If this works well, could be used for teaching students via auto-generated video.
Old Cliché, but appreciate the difference between Leaders and Managers. Managers get promoted along with leaders, sometimes further up the chain. For a nauseating exploration of the tyranny of Management, and perverse rewards, read Robert Jackall's "Moral Mazes."
I agree that suffer is the right word, but unclear. You are getting down voted because a lot of people are interpreting to mean you are saying applications using sqlite don't have n+1 queries.
Related:

The world is awful, the world is much better, the world can be much better - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32173146 - July 2022 (121 comments)
At the bottom of the article: "This is a revised and updated version published in February 2023." (I agree that this should be near the top, next to the publication date, to make it much clearer).
I'm in this camp and have met many others too. I was a typical heavy user for a few years before over the course of a week I went from chill-out high to full-blown paranoia and insomnia. Tried weed periodically after that and always got the same intense paranoia/anxiety.

Now with edibles I can eat a very small dose (2-4mg) and just skate under the threshold for freak-out, but its a far cry from when I used to eat gummies by the mouthful and have goofy fun for hours afterwards.
Ruby Next Playground:

https://ruby-next.github.io/
Oh, it's nothing anyone can't get through with a little help from someone who can take a broader perspective. That's a lot harder to come by these days than should be, or at least than is healthy for primates as social as we. Stronger communities would yield fewer such ER visits, too.

I don't advocate a ban; Prohibition is a salutary example and it would be worse today for all involved. But I also don't like to see anyone talk about any drug, and certainly not this one, as entirely benign.
happy to answer any questions people might have about custom feeds, the post linked above is me
>The current president of the institution is a former Republican governor without a Ph.D (something nearly all university presidents have).

Brian Sandoval has a law degree, for which there is good precedent for university presidents to have in lieu of a PhD.

Two other governors who became university presidents immediately come to mind: David Boren (Oklahoma), Mitch Daniels (Purdue). Both with law degrees.
Good article. I agree with the sentiment. It is easy to be pessimistic, and it is dangerous to be complacent. Recognizing that progress is occurring should motivate future actions, whereas believing the world is inevitably getting worse, or that it will get better on its own, can lead one to give up or withdraw from the world.

I caveat this praise with my now instinctive skepticism of all of these EA projects coming out of Oxford. It feels like an overfunded set of charities.
Advice for New Grads
"Something drastic has to be done about the cost of housing if we're to leave a functional society to the next generation."

Drastic? Well, then: kill NIMBYism. Just off with its head. We know the 18th century in England as the "Gin Craze", future generations will look at our period as the "NIMBY Craze".

Large-scale construction is absolutely possible. There were periods of massive construction booms all around the globe, especially after wars (when a lot of housing had to be rebuilt immediately). You can absolutely build a lot of comfortable middle-class housing in a fairly short time. Most German cities were rubble in 1945 and fine again in 1960.

But you need density and straightforward approval processes. No artificial scarcity caused by one-family home zoning and endless environmental reviews that are abused to stall developments for decades.
Feels like a Slack killer :)

But seriously, we'd solve a lot of issues with internal docs if Slack threads died as soon as they were no longer interesting.
How about an ultimatum? Either people can only own one house without huge tax consequences, OR we open up restrictions on building so we can build a lot more housing stock than we currently do.
> We should be seeing many people holding mortgages at HSBC not able to pay.

Not really. Lying about the source of cashflow doesn't mean the cashflow isn't real.

The end objective for a lot of these frauds isn't to sink the bank with fake loans. It's to launder money.
I take your point but you don’t explain how you came to be intimately familiar with those technologies in the first place. Applied consistently, this logic would seem to preclude becoming familiar with anything.
I know someone who did that in the Yukon during the winter, just monitor temperatures and crack a window when it got too hot. Seems like a great solution except that they were in a different building so they had to trudge through the snow to close the window if it got too cold.
Pff, this is cool and all, but Big Rigs trucks go much faster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8X7Vj6JXPk

Will the universe also say "You Win" when you hit the speed of light?
Profile Guided optimisation in Go 1.21
I like it. I like colored terminal output, and emoji are colorful, which helps me rapidly form a gestalt of what's going on. I like syntax highlighting too, and find code quite a bit more difficult to read without it.

Not everyone is like that, and that's ok. I don't expect my whims to be catered to, and you shouldn't either.
Small correction although you’re mostly right: m4p is the FairPlay encumbered file extension and unencumbered AAC audio files are (by default in iTunes) m4a.
Is the salesforce data in a structured (SQL-like) format? Or uploaded documents?
Anything with real customer data in the cloud? Certainly you need replication.
Assuming these mortgages are insured through CMHC, would HSBC be on the hook or the insurance system when some of these mortgages fail?

Canadians are certainly paying for social services used by folks who earn income abroad and pay little to no income tax in Canada, and folks who want to buy their first house are harmed by inflated housing prices.

My currently overseas landlord for some reason needed to travel to Canada to give birth, and was very eager to get their health card / banking documents sent to our rental despite it being rented out for several years prior to us arriving...
This is an exaggeration. Yes, people flocked to Netscape.

Because, yes, it was marginally better than what was available, especially on Windows. But the main feature improvements that drove that initial rapid adoption was Netscape ignoring any attempt at agreement over standards and adding new "trinkets" like background images etc. in each release.

And yes, they created Javascript, in a rush, but there already were other client-side scripting options.

They were important, but their importance is inflated by looking back at a timeline where they won. We'd have lacked none of these things without them. They were one of many, and they were ahead in terms of features, but not by much, and the pressure they were under also left a wake of chaos.

E.g., sure, they invented SSL, rushed it out with massive security flaws (that was a fun time... one of the gaping holes was that if someone ran Netscape on the same host they ran their e-mail on, which was not unusual, you could get a whole lot of the bits needed to cut down on the cost of bruteforcing the SSL key by triggering an e-mail bounce to help you narrow down current process ids), but there were prototypes of encrypted socket layers around for two years already by then e.g. see Simon S Lam's work on SNP [1].

"Nobody" used Netscape's web server - which wasn't developed by Netscape anyway (it was acquired from Kiva, unless Netscape had a pre-Kiva web-server I've forgotten) - it was way too expensive. It was a market leader, yes, but in a crowded tiny niche of commercial servers. I ran an ISP around that time. I sold packages to businesses, and we'd have loved to convince customers to pay for Netscape server software, but most people stuck with NSCA HTTPD, and quickly switched to Apache 1995 onwards.

[1] https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductee/simon-s-lam/
The MIT license covers liability more broadly and tightly in a single paragraph.
I think a 1:2 capital:revenue ratio is what I would call "medium difficulty" mode -- you should know what you're doing and don't need to be insanely perfect in every call. So to make $10-$20k annually, putting $20-40k to work should do it.

But you never know - I've had double-ups on some coins, so you might buy a $10k coin and make $10k in a single deal if you know what you're doing :)
On first glance it sounds to me like bitrot* with extra steps, but it's cool that you're making the experiment.

* compare how little text we have left from 2500-5000 years ago.
I started doing the same thing a few years ago, but on New years day instead of my bday. It is way better to just see where your head was at and what you wanted from the year ahead than to make a list of resolutions/achievements. Really wish I had started at 16 that is invaluable.
What is it? The website and github org give no indication other than it is something that interacts with some JS related tools?
Related:

Command Line Interface Guidelines - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38053692 - Oct 2023 (1 comment)

Command Line Interface Guidelines - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31651161 - June 2022 (1 comment)

Command Line Interface Guidelines - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25492119 - Dec 2020 (5 comments)
Don't forget to write back
Riffing on a toot I saw this morning:

Don't build your house on rented land. Especially if the rent is zero.
I would love both BlueSky & Matrix (and/or Element) to be given hoards of money and for us to race each other to the best federation imaginable (and then bridge it all together and live happily ever after)
That comes out of the company's wallet, but does it come out of a person's? Persons responsible for committing crimes, not customers or other third party members. HSBC has trillions in holding, so those numbers might not be as big as they appear.
The problem with micropayments has ALWAYS been malicious actors. It will ALWAYS be malicious actors. This is not a technical problem but a problem with the whole concept that is structurally inseparable.
>Everything else isn't even going to be a rounding error. Even if aggregated with thousands of other people abstaining as well.

I truly dont understand this mindset. The total is always the sum of the components.

You actions make the same difference if you do them alone or with 7 billion other people. Both actions are the same tiny marginal impact.

The alternative just comes off as an excuse to do nothing. As if car manufactureres will just keep building cars that nobody buys.
A terminal program is quite easy to pin, though, just do this:

- $package-manager install $program
- which $program
- cp $program ~/my/own/directories
- $package-manager uninstall $program

done. It won't ever change by accident.
I think you're reading things in my comment that I didn't put there.
> I would consider a phone as damgerous as a scooter, if not more - considering the amount of private information in it and the access to bank accounts it grants.

App sandboxing protects you from apps trying to access your information without your say-so, I'm not advocating for Apple to allow these third party apps to bypass the sandbox.
What's the drawback to a trigger? I would think that any overhead you recouped by avoiding a trigger would be offset by the overhead of sending the entire WAL to your listener, rather than the minimized subset of events that listener is interested in.

(To be clear I do see other downsides to listen/notify and I think WalEx makes a lot of sense, I just don't understand this particular example.)
Yes, I agree this is a weak point. It's also one that the team is aware of and seemingly has the right amount of discomfort with. I see temporary compromises like this as an example of the pragmatic decision making needed to ship, and trust that they will do the right things here, but I also understand some skepticism.
Yes. Downtown Toronto is full of store-fronts.
Go client for jup.ag to get quotes and perform swaps
Zen etc. was nearly ruined for me by others holding it up as some sort of philosophical holy book - that part of the writing didn’t appeal much to me ultimately, but the story it tells?

a man struggling with mental health issues, struggling to discover and decide who he actually is and who he actually wants to be - while also being responsible for his kid, and of the kid not understanding what’s happening to his father… that part I loved. The ghost story of Phaedrus.

The scene towards the end when he finally sits down with his kid and tries to explain what’s going on and what’s going to happen next, and his son’s response just gutted me. Never expected to have that emotional of a story from the way the book had been sold to me.
People just vote with there feet against this life of monks and hermits offered.
And the usual rat catchers take advantage. Which make those insisting on those non working policies of reduction, instead of boosting science, accomplices feeding democracy to the rats.
Because it is?

The problem is, you and tons of folk like you didn't read the fine print, because... who knows, ignorance? Fok ya all attitude of young? Even though all info is few clicks away at most.

It has been said 10 thousand times here and everywhere else, including quite a few posts by me - just don't do any mind altering drugs if you are not balanced +-happy person. There is no clear definition or dividing line, each of us is unique and should know how stable/unstable they are, if they have unresolved long term issues and so on. If folks can't be even honest in such things with themselves, well, life will be a tough walk in many aspects thats for sure.

For all those folks, if you do such things, you take tremendous risk, you may end up off better despite issues, but that's your Russian roulette with your own mind, don't complain that you risked massively and lost a huge gamble. These cases are not reference, unless say 50% of US population is by default anxious.
If you are a 19 year old Canadian who is priced out of everything and is in a line at the local movie theater 100 long with desperate foreign students trying to get your first job you're going to feel cheated and pissed off.

If you are a 37 yo millennial who still doesn't own a house, can't afford to have kids moving back into the shitty style of apartment you lived in your early 20's but now it costs $2700 a month, you are going to be fucking pissed off.

If you are a new parent waiting 9 hours overnight in an packed emergency room, you are going to feel pissed off.

It is hard to tell Canadians this is good for them when everything has gotten worse.
lexapro made me suicidal. YMMV
For those who want to learn map, capital, and flag: https://github.com/anki-geo/ultimate-geography
Or the payer of support finds ways to "hide" income or they put in less effort and earn less knowing that some of it goes towards child/spousal support.
My Russian ex used this to send me a long note eight years later.. on Chekist Day
How to Manage $745M in Venture Capital Solo
The world is awful. Millions of children die each year.

The world is much better. Even though children die, we don't have nearly as many as we used to.

The world can be much better. Most of these child deaths are preventable.

This is how I view the world and it is why it upsets me when people voice concern about crime in a city or something like that and people respond with "ACKSHUALLY" followed by some sort of statistic. It feels like people just want to stay stuck but as the author says "to see that a better world is possible, we need to see that both are true at the same time: the world is awful, and the world is much better."

Being too dismissive of certain concerns is just as bad as being too pessimistic.
I think this is because immigration is mostly pushed by people with heavy ideological reasons (far left, no border militants, etc.) but also rich employers who just want cheap and malleable workers.

Now you have the common people to whom you never asked their opinion about mass immigration: they now understand that instead of increasing wages, giving better benefits and improve working conditions to attract potential workers where it is lacking (supply and demand), the rich employers cheated the game with the help of elected politicians, by bringing hundreds of thousands of people who are willing to do it for less.

Add to this difficulties to buy a home, wages stagnation, rent going up, general inflation... The rich get richer, the rest gets poorer. This is how hatred is born unfortunately.
Which is a good thing and an intended behaviour.