skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, the sort of soft trolling he keeps doing is allowed on here. It reflects extremely poorly on the mod team and is frankly just pathetic.
And thats what direct I/O is for. Leave that to the guest OS.
> we can't pretend that the amount of code that a developer writes is devoid of any meaning

The scalar of «amount of code that a developer writes» is «devoid of any meaning» outside frameworks of streamlining of such code (which would themselves not be a good idea, as you would in fact actually have classes of code, to be judged differently). The submitted specifies it was a case of a simple scalar field in a form.

Your argument is of course valid, but your conclusion disregards it. Outside a defined framework of quality adherence, the «amount of code» is «a random number».

The interesting part is all in the productivity (bulk of quality). That is the area that should be investigated - in both discussion and assessment.

And clearly, "amount of code produced" is a bad incentive, against quality. Aaaalways take care and beware of incentives.
My money is on Laz making it notoriously impossible again next year. No way he lets this continue lol.
Situation of 1920s and 1930s Germany is entirely different in almost every respect. It's pointless to compare the two, and enumerating the differences would essentially be giving a full history because almost everything of substance is different.
If you type faster you get more LOC. If you slack off all day you get zero.

It does measure something, not necessary something useful but zero LOC indicates trouble.
> You think the world’s geniuses are hanging out here?

Maybe. But they at least frequent here.

> I really think your vanity is warping your perspective.

I think you undervalue yourself. I don't see myself as a big cog, but neither am I disillusioned to believe that just because I'm a cog in a much larger and more complex machine means that I have little to no importance. Lesser, but non-zero. Were I to have the vanity you suspect I have, I would not be calling for your support as I would use my ego to solve it alone. But I am not. I can't do this alone. Nor am I drumming up people to collect wood and assign tasks, but I am trying to help those find a longing for the endless immensity of the sea. I am trying to help us realize we aren't inconsequential and that together, we have meaningful power. The big cog may be shiny and may have a lot more power, but it is still supported by a thousand smaller ones.

I have no illusion that people here work for Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and so on. Do you really think differently?
Ok, thats nice and all. But the actual results of all of this is memes and people making cool startups.

Regardless of whether a couple people who are taking their own jokes too seriously truly believe that they are going to, I don't know, create magic AGI, the fact remains that the actual measurable results of all this is only:

1: funny memes

2: cool AI startups

Anything other than that is made up stuff in either your head, or the heads of people who just want to pump up the valuation of their startups.

> Marc Andreessen’s manifesto

Yes, I'm sure he says a lot of things that will convince people to invest in companies that he also invests in. It is an effective marketing tactic. I'm sure he has convinced other VCs to invest in his companies because of these marketing slogans.

But regardless of what a couple people say to hype up their startup investments, that is unrelated to the actual real world outcomes of all of this.

> you wouldn’t need a new term for it

The fact that me and you are talking about it, actually proves that yes some marketing terms both make a difference and also don't result in, I don't know, the government being overthrown and replaced by libertarian VCs or whatever nonsense that people are worried about.
Right. One data point among many. And managers should be looking at everyone’s code, not just the low LOC ones.

But there are people (I’ve seen this frequently) who constantly represent their work as having been “much more difficult than expected” but then you discover that they actually are struggling with what should be easy tasks, and looking at code (complexity and volume) is a data point. For me, more often than not, it serves as a confirmation of a problem I’ve started to suspect.
For a bit of context, the TV series this refers to is called „Triumph of the Nerds” and it’s a great watch, even today (maybe ever more so?).
Just fseek to the end.

Zip format was not designed for piping.
> He specifically addresses direct punishment but immediately after is the nature of having the duty to defend one's innocence.

The issue is that the ratio can't mean much outside the realm of a criminal conviction when any of the rest of it would need a different standard.

Suppose we want to evaluate if it's reasonable for the police to search your residence for a murder weapon. Should we let 100 guilty people go free to avoid one search of an innocent person? That's probably not right, a search is enough of an imposition to require probable cause, but if you had to prove the crime to the same level as would be necessary for a conviction in order to get a warrant then searches would always be superfluous because they could only happen in cases where guilt is already fully established without the results of the search.

Conversely, with this YouTube kind of situation where the police want data on large numbers of people, the majority of whom are fully expected to be innocent, they're not even reaching probable cause for those people. Which is a lesser standard for justifiable reasons but it's still not one which is being met for those people. And so it's still a problem, but it's a different problem with a different standard.
Do you build tech for the money? It is not why I do it. Yes, I need to earn a living. But it is exactly that. What is necessary for living. What is the point of earning money if it is not to better our lives? Why is money the only way we can improve our lives?
decentralization != coinshit
> Should I have received a talk because of that?

Of course not.

But, if your commit history for last 6 months is just one or two of those one-line changes a month, that might hint that there’s a problem.
If youre on Android you can use newpipe, and just see all your subscriptions together sorted by time uploaded. You can still have it autoplay their default algorithms which seems to work just as good as a personalized one.
You can already provide script tags with a nonce attribute and prevent them from loading if their source changes.
> The largest impact is sometimes asking simple questions (how are you going to handle X?) which leads to not building something.

Which is why I teach new people to have that loop in your head and not start pounding the keyboard at high velocity. The people who find programming to be akin to fast typing show very interesting equivalence with LLMs; fully write/remove/write/remove etc of not very well written code.
I dont understand. If China does not allow foreign internet companies to operate on its soil, why should India or US or any western country allow chinese internet companies to operate within their jurisdiction ?
Wow. Nor “spurious human rights claims”.
some people are the people in question here. This discussion started as a conversation about a wealth tax and “capital gains” is mentioned. The wealthy largely do not pay a proportionate amount of this tax. Additionally, you will see “massive amounts” of anything in an economy as large as the united states. Capital gains tax is not a very big percentage of US taxes collected, and the taxes that are collected are mostly shouldered by people who are not wealthy. So, in the context of this discussion, I’m not sure what your point is. some people pay capital gains tax. My point wasn’t that no one does.
I remember writing a script for doing this, more than 10 years ago. I haven't used it much, and not for many years.

The problem is that a fully automatic schema is only readable for very small databases. So small that very soon you can keep the structure in your head. For larger databases, the automatic schema will be awful. Even with just 20 tables, graphviz (dot | neato) will make a mess when some tables are referenced everywhere (think of `created_by` and `updated_by` pointing to `user_id`).

When I need a map of a large database, I usually create a few specialized diagrams with dbeaver, then combine them into a PDF file. Each diagram is a careful selection of tables.
China blocks the world-wide internet because it follows a totalitarian ideology. The US has a free and open internet because we're a liberal democracy.
you honestly think there is some masterplan? I love a good conspiracy theory but that is nuts.

Nobody has a made a plan so it hasn't been long planned. Shit is just happening and we as a society, a culture and a race are adapting to it like we've always done.
That makes your point clear, but then what you are looking for is not a scalar value (that may be for instance be subject to a proportional judgement) but a fuzzy threshold.
I knew Redis Labs was a sleazy outfit back when they falsely claimed on billboards to be the “Home of Redis”. That they hired Antirez a few years ago and eventually bought Redis did not change this. We need to converge on one fork to supplant theirs, and redict seems as good as any. Unfortunately redict.com is squatted by DNS speculators.
I wonder who's going to have to end up hiding out in a US-hostile part of the world for us to read this part of the cloudflare FAQ: https://developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/troubleshooting/faq/#w...
The great lesson of Prohibition was that minorities trying to boss around a majority are always a dodgy play.

Minorities wielding power, like teens exploring sexuality, excel at not learning such lessons.

The correct answer to a perceived threat such as TikTok is to provide a superior TikTok.
It certainly was. Also in the late 80s, Apple IIGS (a.k.a. Woz dream machine) was fairly successful on the US market, albeit obsolete and discontinued by the time the Falcon was introduced.
Evolution of Click Farm Fraud
> Xi could have left the country quasi-free

With what method? Before Xi's rising, China wasn't exactly a nice place to begin with. The corruption was rampant, and the gangs were effecting the lives of common people. All the communist shit mixed in with capitalist shit. The only thing kept China going is people's wishes to improve their lives, not some gov policy.

Given the track record on how the Communist Party's China solve it's problems (likely doing patches rather than finding long-lasting systematic solutions), it's quite reasonable to assume that a quasi-free China will have other type of issues going on that are equality bad as fist-tightening.
Yeah except people don’t use computers like that any more. Sorry if that makes you feel “wrankled“
Private is supported too.
In the Indian context, Tiktok was merely one of dozens of Chinese apps which were banned following an attack by the Chinese military on our borders.
Work too hard?
Don’t know why it’s so difficult for some people to understand the paradox of tolerance. Allowing your media to be controlled by a foreign totalitarian adversary is a quick way to having your institutions and society undermined by them.
I find this interpretation odd. I do not see the numbers as meaningful in a literal sense but rather in a means of making a point and a grounding for the surrounding abstraction. I think the point is to explicitly discuss these bounds and view them as a spectrum. To think of them in the abstract but to push back against authority.

Certainly Blackstone was not saying that infringement of rights (punishment) should not happen under any circumstance. Rather that there should be significant friction and that we should take great care to ensure that this is not eroded.
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LOC as a datapoint provide no value that a manager couldn’t get quicker and with less ambiguity via other sources.
For example, identifying engineers struggling for a month on a topic, as you described, can be uncovered way earlier by replacing a reporting-Like „standup“ with collaborative structures that help the team, and the manager, understand progress and potential blockers.
LOC are lagging way behind on issues like these and are devoid of any meaning in isolation.
I know your counter argument here is „one data point among many“, but mine is: if your other data points are solid, LOC do not add any value.
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Because the U.S. is not a country that censors its internet. Free access to the entire internet is a right Americans have always enjoyed.

In my opinion, banning foreign websites/apps is just as bad as banning foreign literature.
Good write-up!

I will add:

- make sure to “stream” your transfers in general, instead of keeping whole file blobs in RAM. This to avoid refactoring at the least comfortable moment when a file gets too big in production

- it is quite easy to use Mox for isolated testing in general, and it works nicely with ExAws, so make sure to integrate those tests early on
Since the computer is a friend to all of us, citizen, I hope you are not accusing it of malicious intent against us.
Just to be sure you are not a traitor, it is in your interest to have this checked by the relevant authorities.

Stay vigilant citizen, anyone can be a traitor.
Including yourself.
There was a bug in an embedded system I worked on that several engineers, software as well as hardware, spent months troubleshooting.

I eventually got called in and fixed it with a while loop and one function call inside of that loop. 4 lines in total, counting the brackets.

A very trivial change if you didn’t know why it was there, what impact it had on the system or how much it would have continued to cost in engineering hours if I hadn’t figured out what went wrong, why it went wrong and how to fix it.

I’ve spent a good chunk of my 15 years as a software developer as a pure “bug killer” and then you don’t really get to write that many lines of code, but the impact per line is big.
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I was giving myself RSI by deleting <12000 lines of copied comments (only misleading noise, explaining what was happening) and <4000 LOC (replaced with a 120 LOC in a single fn) when I reverted to using regex while sanitizing a badly bloated codebase.

Can feel you right there.
Great idea, and it seems like it is working as expected, but the events suggested are dated March 5th, 6th and 7th in the year 2022. Such information feels useless, no?
That is the standard argument for totalitarianism: safety and stability of society, at the expense of freedom. The US is doing something different.
On a individual level, your examples may not representative of younger generations who have less liabilities. This demographic of course are more likely to rent and buy a cheaper car (or no car at all), consequently they would likely have a higher liquid/non-liquid asset ratio and therefor would probably benefit in the short term to deflation. In the long term they would fair better than older generation for the reasons you mention, plus the fact they can change their living situation faster (new location, rental, job etc) at the detriment of their landlord or other leasing companies.

Regarding inflation, I would argue that younger people are more susceptible. Their free cash flow will drop, and at higher rates could lead to negative flow which over an extended period would be financially deadly especially for NEETs or other people at risk.
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“As a baseline reality check, we should not be sending over 1% of a 3.5" floppy disk purely in signatures and public keys.”

Really? This is a ridiculous statement and sounds like we're worried about bandwidth consumption from the time when a US Robotics modem was a luxury.
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I have a side-project in a somewhat crowded area of the iOS app store. It gets around 500-600 installs per month and has decent retention. There is a path to monetisation but it requires quite a lot of investment from me time-wise to get paid features into it. I also lack a lot of the marketing and sales skills to promote it. I have ideas about another more niche app with a clearer subscription model and am considering just re-rolling and trying a the new idea. But I keep running into sunk-cost fallacies and thinking it’s better to keep investing in the existing app that has traction. Thoughts?
OP likely meant that a Midjourney-level AI can easily generate all the card art.

Obviously, current AIs cannot generate game rulesets because the game feel is an internal phenomenon that cannot be represented in the material domain and therefore AIs cannot train on it.
Censoring foreign speech is also a slide towards totalitarianism...

Imagine if the U.S. banned a Chinese book series because we were concerned it would "undermine our institutions and society". Does that sound like a free country?
I can't find much information about Shan Shan Wong, the new co-CEO. Not even a photo of this person on the internet.

Anyone else have information about them?
I think the reality inspired the satire.

E.g. the (also very 1984) "SECURE BENEATH THE WATCHFUL EYES" poster from 2002:

https://art-for-a-change.com/News/eyes.htm

And the banned 1997 Conservative election campaign posters:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/guardianwitness-blo...
This. Plane and simple. And from my limited interactions with teenagers, no one is missing it. YouTube and Instagram now offer everything needed.

Nothing like freedom of a speech, government oversight etc. etc. the article is trying to portray.
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I will make a 2 trillion parameter model just so your comment becomes outdated and wrong.
Did Apple write this?
1,000 should be the maximum allowed. And we should get rid of 200 EUR and 500 EUR banknotes.
What about this? https://shop.boox.com/products/tabultracpro
What do you mean? We are reducing fossil fuel usage. Look at the UK's grid.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63976805.amp
What makes social media social is not a user profile and feed. It is the recognition of many types of different relationships between people and the solution for interaction within them. There are friends, family, colleagues at work, parents of other children who are friends with your kid etc etc. You don’t just post updates for each of those audiences, you talk to them, plan shared activities and so on. It is not something you can build with RSS/vCard.
Jeff Booth with a great perspective (slightly over the head of the interviewer!): https://youtu.be/okDGQ-zU4sA
Did the USSR have radio and TV stations in the US during the cold war? During WWII the US had a censorship operation - was that totalitarian?
This seems to be p-11B fusion via electrically accelerating protons to collide with slow boron nuclei, producing three ballistic helium, or alpha particles, and gamma radiation. Under normal thermal conditions this would need to be many orders of magnitude hotter than e.g. D-D fusion attempted in earthbound projects. Guessing two alphas come out neutral and the third positive, with kinetic energy that can be extracted magnetically. If the boron were ionized, more of the alpha particles would be, too. It is not clear how they get thrust from it. Much of the gamma radiation can be converted directly to electrical energy to power the system.

They say the fusion boosts the thrust by 50% over a simple proton beam.
I wonder what the grandparent would think about a few LOC/month, there were a few rather gnarly performance issues in the codebase at my work for which the fix was usually a one or two liner, but that took an inordinate amount of research to even know where to start looking.

I guess I should be grateful for having a workplace that has sufficient understanding for the effort it takes to debug such issues.
Regardless, the implementation in 128 lines of SQL combined with graphviz is cool.
Ah ok, I was wondering if there was some theory here that I wasn't aware of but if it's just experimentation no problem ;) good to know in any case!

I find it a bit difficult to find resources describing the properties of various options for this topic of discrete choices and clustering, apart from a few papers & blogs describing the idea.
Why should firms get a free 2% cut in salaries paid? Generally, firms are in a stronger negotiating position about salary, especially for the lowest skill labor and poorest people.

If there's a downturn, then everyone will have to tighten belts, and firms can make that case to employees.

Making a real 2% salary cut the universal default is cruel, and if your typical hourly wage-earner understood clearly the choice being made on their behalf, they'd be pissed.

Deals shouldn't be altered without agreement, but that's what 2% inflation targets do. If you agree to a salary, then nobody should be specifically putting their thumb on the scale one way or the the other.

Professionals and job-hoppers have less problem negotiating to keep up with inflation. It's the poor people who get screwed.

Also, inflation is less steady the farther away from zero it is, I'd wager. So we have inflation spikes sometimes, like we've seen. There's always a time lag between spikes in price increases on goods, and wage increases (which require negotiation). During that lag period before a compensating wage increase, savings get used and real loss is suffered. I highly doubt that the loss in savings is generally recovered, and the Fed never even aims to recover that loss. The most vulnerable people lose the most, and are impeded from building wealth as a result, and probably come to depend on government more.
Could You please be more clear on how the last sentence relates to the first?

If You think Prohibition (of alcohol) is somehow related to prohibition of TikTok, then corollary would be "correct answer to alcohol threat is better alcohol".
"Modern slavery system" is hilarious, but even more worrying is claim that one might ever lose the modern society's protrection against being enslaved under some conditions.
Agreed, though disagree about the database class thing. I got a C in my class. I was a DBA at the time and definitely knew my shit. That was kind of the issue. He was teaching by the book with no regard to the database engine used. I was using SQL Server and MySQL daily.

There was a fundamental disconnect. I approached a class project differently not only because I was a DBA, but I am neurodivergent. Because my design didn’t align with his expectations, I got a C.

I had a 4.0 GPA prior to that, but that made me realize I wasn’t a fit for college.

Good thing as well because I am debt free today.
Understanding the Phases Applicative
> It seems like a privacy/tracking issue, or am I offbase?

It absolutely is, and if you do include them you have to show a consent popup in the EU.
Wow, I haven't heard of this one before. I'm no couch potato these days, but that's the kind of feat that makes me realize I am far from fit, it seems insanely difficult to even navigate the trail.
> I don't need some fear based faith system keeping me in check.

Maybe others do?
I don't think nobody else should be able to build a "mobile payment service", I just do not care and I do not think this is about consumers.

If it was just up to me, the "mobile ecosystem" would just burn to the ground.
> The problem is when another part of the program holds a function pointer into the library which has been unloaded.

How is this different from holding a pointer to an object being deleted?