skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This feels a bit like a turbo RSS reader that plows through some easy
and some difficult to access information and actively selects and targets
it to subscribers?
Safe to stop reading after the ridiculous assertion that Kyle Rittenhouse was over-prosecuted. I’m an actual anarchist and I can’t even.
""It’s the latest in a string of mysterious water features in the arid Permian Basin""

""Last year, an eruption of salty water swamped several acres on Wight’s cousin’s ranch, a geyser shot up from a well in Crane County, then another on the Antina Cattle Ranch. Nearby, a large pond of gassy groundwater has become a permanent feature called Boehmer Lake.""

This is the opening line of a disaster movie.

Dinosaurs?
Climate Change?
The Earths Core heating up?
Neutrinos?
"As soon as something basic goes down or when you have unexpected dives into low level stuff, the fair weather pilots are suddenly out of their depth."

Then they just jump jobs and get a 50% raise after enduring the "poor work environment" at their previous job.
You’re right, they all do the same things in some way. I’m in America communicating with Americans

Apple, Google and ironically European regulators felt this is a big enough audience to cater to
Group chats rule the world
The advent of the Space Force is not going to be a watershed in DOD contracting; the services are nothing but force providers who fulfill the requirements of the combatant commands. Demand for DOD space assets is merely going to be managed by the Space Force now in service to already-existing COCOM requirements; the demand signal is what it is.
Related:

Gruen transfer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16845078 - April 2018 (58 comments)
> there's a decent chance you'll walk away with very little

Well, some founders care about their employees and their idea, and the idea of the start up failing is much more than just money.
The person who made the post still can, which is the point to me

I look at it more like walking up to someone and saying "Hey I like what you're doing" not like standing near them and shouting it for everyone to hear
It could be worse... you could be like the NuGet team and fail to identify "prevent cache from growing without bound" as a necessary feature. ;)

Last I checked, it was going-on 7+ years of adding/updating last-used metadata to cached packages (because MS disabled them by default at the Windows fs level in Vista+ for performance reasons), to support automated pruning. https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/4980

(Admittedly, most of that spent waiting for the glacially slow default versions of things to ship through the dotnet ecosystem)
Have you considered the possibility that the people you are interviewing may be lying? If the CEO of Dow Chemical gets on Zoom and says the things they’re dumping in the river are safe, what is your AI journalist going to do?
For some countries (think US, Israel, China) I saw people having reservations on their sm activity - i.e. liking something against the gov, might prevent you from entering the country. Or at least this is how the story goes.
Between smartphones and drones, everybody is now way ahead of what telepathy in SF was supposed to be able to do.
Yes. Likely there are multiple points along this route where the vehicle will need to be aligned just so in order to safely make a turn or clear an obstacle. Far easier to do those maneuvers in daylight rather than risk compromising the cargo.

It’s road construction season in Ohio anyway so most drivers are going to face a significant delay along their journey regardless of when this load gets moved.
José Valim already caught two bugs (one in Phoenix, one in Livebook) because of the type system: https://x.com/josevalim/status/1791409843888111667
For a many of those values, the answer would be "as much as you like", but with awareness for tradeoffs.

You can store a lot of data in Restate (workflow events, steps). Logged events move quickly to an embedded RocksDB, which is very scalable per node. The architecture is partitioned, and while we have not finished all the multi-node features yet, everything internally is build in a partitioned scalable manner.

So it is less a question of what the system can do, maybe more what you want:

- if you keep tens of thousands of journal entries, replays might take a bit of time. (Side note, you also don't need that, Restate's support for explicit state gives you an intuitive alternative to the "forever running infinite journal" workflow pattern some other systems promote.)

- Execution duration for a workflow is not limited by default. More of a question of how long do you want to keep instances older versions of the business logic around?

- History retention (we do this only for tasks of the "workflow" type right now) as much as you are willing to invest into for storage. RocksDB is decent at letting old data flow down the LSM tree and not get in the way.

Coming up with the best possible defaults would be something we'd appreciate some feedback on, so would love to chat more on Discord: https://discord.gg/skW3AZ6uGd

The only one where I think we need (and have) a hard limit is the message size, because this can adversely affect system stability, if you have many handlers with very large messages active. This would eventually need a feature like out-of-band transport for large messages (e.g., through S3).
> * If IPV4 UDP multi-cast is used, the switch is obliged to forward all mcast packets to all 50 machines.

Nope. The switch (i've only used cisco/arista so ymmv) will keep a map of resolved macs that have made IGMP subscriptions and only forward to hosts thus subscribed to ip:port groups. View on your subscribing host (netstat -g). This is done in switch hardware, however new subs/changing macs is done in software.

Secondly there is/was (i might be out of date) a bug/wontfix in mcast subs in Linux that no matter the group unique IP, if you subbed on a port it would be forwarded to any group with the same port number. So isolate all services using unique port numbers if you have multiple consumers on one host. (see `man 7 ip` setsockopt IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP)
Yes this is a reasonable way to misunderstand given the way we refer to “hard sciences” and “soft sciences”, but it does not map to the terms “hard scifi” and “soft scifi” in common usage.

It’s not exactly about rules consistency either as stated by the GP, though that’s part of it. It’s more about strong consistent application of scientific principles even theoretical or untested principles.

This is in contrast to futuristic fantasy with no real focus on the science. But futuristic or space fantasy can be very consistent just like magical systems in fantasy can be very consistent. Hard scifi has to be constrained by plausible consistent science and that science is typically a main character in the story, or even THE main character.
They are actually planning to do that - it's just a software update - though they are doing that with Amazon Titan model, which might be kind of behind..

Also they are trying to sell as a subscription which is interesting since Siri is free.
Why not use this for a way more obvious application such as corrosion protection? You can then mix in the sacrificial anode as a powder instead of having discrete anodes.
The situation I recently went through reads like a horror story:

> was the founding engineer at a startup, essentially do co-founder work for 18 months getting the company off the ground.

> company is a breakout success, raises a large growth round.

> founders each take a couple of million dollars off the table in secondaries, no option for employee liquidity.

> founders start thinking about early employees as "problems" because they have too much equity and could easily hire multiple FAANG engineers for the equity comp they're paying the early team. push all early employees out of the company.

> horrible ego-based decision making such as this kills the company culture and runs the company into the ground. company is a mess, stock is now worth significantly less.

---

> early employees have to pay money to exercise their stock options which are worth millions on paper. early employees have to front money to pay taxes on the capital gains on the stock.

> founders have pocketed millions, off the backs of other people's work, while the employees who built the company all owe huge tax bills and have no path whatsoever to ever seeing liquidity with the floundering company.

> all of this is because the employees did their jobs too well, the company grew too fast, and the founders egos got completely out of control.

To be blunt, situations like this should be illegal. joint-stock companies aren't slush funds for three people to personally enrich themselves off the labor and capital investment of others, they're supposed to be entities where all shareholders participate in the upside of the value creation together. Until there's some sort of legal framework for pursuing class-action lawsuits against founders who defraud their employees like this I don't think this situation will ever get better. There are already laws against self-dealing transactions by company executives, I don't see what is different in cases of extreme founder liquidity off the backs of other people's work.
I don't know if that's really true - I've heard people who spin up successful teams can get bonuses (which basically don't exist at Amazon) for doing so. In that sense, incremental improvement isn't really rewarded at all - there's very little to no pay-for-performance as a concept at Amazon.
Most jobs are probably super interesting for a month or three. Even the simplest of jobs assume you won't be productive immediately, which implies there's probably something fun to learn.

I used to do a number of those odd tasks (jackhammering down bank safes in preparation for the new tenants, ordinary pizza delivery, engineering a track for people to ramp/jump their mid-90s shit-mobiles, ...). I'm in tech as an ML engineer or something now, but one of these years I think it'd be a ton of fun to sit down and intentionally experience a hundred or so jobs and get a feel for what other people do for their livelihoods -- ideally in many distinct locales (e.g., where I grew up it was common for people to rent/(buy-with-intent-to-resell) a gas-powered bandsaw mill and produce most of the raw materials for their house, partly because land was cheap, partly because wages were piss-poor, and partly because there was a strong "make-do" attitude where people were willing to work hard to make a nice life with whatever hand they were given -- the sorts of jobs you'll have access to there are very different than those even a few hours away, much less a few states or countries).

That was a bit of a minor rant. I'm in strong agreement though; that sounds like a super interesting job.
> But if you're the type of person that could successfully grow a company to a multi hundred million valuation in 5 years - you can make $1M at FAANG.

Disagree. Totally different skill sets. Not saying there is no correlation at all, but probably less than one might think.
They don't need you're birthday to see you're old.
> Yeah and we've all seen him boast about a bunch of stuff, you can't take it at face value.

I don't take it as face value in terms of believing the site is becoming more popular.

> I reject your assertion that Elon Musk made the employees at his platform because it would increase engagement or whatever

It's pretty standard for sites to track and push for improving KPIs - "increase engagement or whatever" isn't an obscure aim.

It's totally plausible for Musk to deviate from the norm, but everything I've seen so far suggests the direction he deviates from the norm is placing too much weight in certain figures resulting in some short-sighted decisions, as opposed to not valuing them.

> and that he significantly factored in the impact that it would have on LGBTQ people.

I don't claim he was thinking specifically of LGBTQ people.
Yeah, whoever pushes this is way more annoying than whoever makes the bubbles green. Just one group chat I'm in uses Signal for some reason. People often miss messages cause it silently deprecates old versions. And nobody has verified each others' secret numbers anyway, so after all that work someone did to secure our bar plans, we might be mitm'd anyway.

E2EE apps have inherent UX problems. It's possible to do multi-device messaging with synchronized message history and a way to get in if you lose your codes, but it requires trusting the service and/or your cell carrier in some capacity. Something has to give if you want E2EE, usually it's the chat history or multi-device support.
At larger organizations, a significant amount of the custom code in CRM systems are proprietary business rules... e.g. pricing calculations, business rules regarding the fine details of internal and personnel operations, etc. It's not uncommon for them to contain information that is covered under NDA, which would be a non-starter for redistribution.
This is unreasonably dismissive: the `pip` authors care immensely about maintaining a Python package installer that successfully installs billions of distributions across disparate OSes and architectures each day. Adopting deduplication techniques that only work on some platforms, some of the time means a more complicated codebase and harder-to-reproduce user-surfaced bugs.

It can be worth it, but it's not a matter of "care": it's a matter of bandwidth and relative priorities.
First of all, we're on the same page about the risk profile of working for larger companies being better for employees. But the reality is there aren't enough of those jobs for every single startup employee out there to get one. Some people also like the startup environment - move fast and break things, etc.

Your denominator (5000) is _all_ investments that YC has made. You need to look at investments of a certain vintage, e.g., 10 years or more. You also need to include all the other companies of that vintage where employees did well (way more companies in that cohort have sold or gone public). The result is 0.06% is a gross understimation of the success rate (where success is defined as successful enough for early employees to make a lot of money).
One thing really worth addressing from the post that I don't think author accepted, and I see this a lot with engineers:

> "That did introduce tension for our team because we were supposed to be taking experimental bets for the platform’s future. These bets couldn’t be baked into product without hacks or shortcuts in the typical quarter as was the expectation."

If I can pump one learning into engineers' and PMs' heads it's this: intermediate deliverables are not optional no matter how cutting-edge your team is.

You will never succeed if your pitch to leadership is "give us a budget for the next N years and expect no shippable products until the end of N years". Even if you get approved somehow at the beginning, there's a 99.5% chance your team/project will be killed before you get to N years.

Again, once again for the audience in the back: there is no such thing as a multi-year project without convincing, meaningful intermediate deliverables.

To clarify, that doesn't mean "don't have multi-year roadmaps", it means "your multi-year roadmaps must deliver wins at a consistent cadence".

Understanding this will carry you a lot further in the industry.

As a fairly cutting-edge R&D team part of your job is to figure out what slice of this is shippable (and worth shipping). If you're coming up empty you are not ready to pitch this to execs.
To be clearer, it's not related to fracking wells as the wells being injected into are not fracked wells.
How is it a practical question? You're taking on no long-term dependency by using this service. You'd use it to find a data set you need, and then use that data set. If the service were to go away tomorrow, you're still better off having used it than not having used it.

Your comment was totally generic. Nothing about it was in any way specific to this service. The only specific part was your belief that it had just launched, when it was actually six years old. So it seems a bit hard to believe that you were genuinely interested in using this, and the only thing stopping you is having some kind of a guarantee on a minimum lifetime for the service. What you wrote has a much stronger pattern match to seeing what you mistakenly thought was a new product launch, and trying to get in the first "can't wait for this new product to be killed lol" comment.

Have a look at the links to the previous HN discussions that ChrisArchitect posted on the toplevel. You can see exactly the same kind of generic low effort comments implying an imminent deprectation/sunset/shutdown in the threads from 2020 and 2021. And here we are in 2024.
>> Russia cannot give any credible security guarantee to a country that it has just invaded!

Security guarantees would be provided by Western countries, not only Russia.
MySQL is better than PostgreSQL.
Yep. My previous company almost exclusively hires in Latin and South America now. The interesting thing to me is that it hasn't affected the executives themselves yet. If employees from one region work just as well as employees from another for other roles (or at least cost to performance is favorable), then it seems hypocritical and counterproductive for them to insist on US-based execs. The vindictive part of me hopes that it catches up with them next.
Not to mention that in reality there is no guarantee you'd end up selling for $250m. $500k now would look pretty damm good if the whole thing tanks and the other 90% of your shares become worthless.
A soldier telling a story from experience is a soldier artist.

If Plato's point is that knowledge can only be derived through direct experience, then one must endure war to know what war looks like.

If there is any value to be derived from the experiences of others, either through descriptions or related empathetic resonances, then those are dependent on communication and storytelling, and now we're in the realm of being effective at putting your reality into another's mind, and that is art. The authority or accuracy of your message doesn't negate that fact, and is entirely down to the individual in the receiving end in any case.

Funny to hear a philosopher, whose entire domain is abstract thought and whose power and relationship to the world is through the art of communication, be so petty. Maybe that quote has more context?
Yes. And most SaaS are AWS wrappers. Do you think this is a problem?
The title made me think this could actually layout and paint HTML, but I couldn't find anything remotely layout-related in the source tree. Then I found this comment saying even block sizing isn't done: https://github.com/lexbor/lexbor/issues/219#issuecomment-207.... Looks like a nice groundwork, though. It's nice to see things like parsing and Unicode being part of the same source tree.
It’s a risk most companies don’t want to chance.
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No, unfortunately. We're going to make a new API that will be much easier, but there's at least one other major project that needs to get done first.
If Kobayashi's banning benefitted anyone, it was Chestnut, but now he's on the other end of it. What goes around, comes around.
On the other hand, there is also a lot of poor information in very popular blogs telling people to do things like season your pan with flaxseed oil (which has a very low smoke point). It's hard to sort the good info from the misinfo, so I get why people overdo it after being burned.
amusing, acknowledging a redundant restriction

OFAC office is so understaffed and underutilized
Heh this reminds me of a joke from an old colleague, who would say, "forget working on a great demo! let's work on technology that makes you feel like you've just seen a great demo!"
Show a human from 300 AD a tablet with google earth and zoom, and they'd have no idea wtf is going on. It's not about intelligence.
Terence Tao also gave a great talk on this topic a few months ago, where he goes into more detail about uses of Lean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AayZuuDDKP0
Yep! A mix of work and play. When I'm going to be spending a LOT of time coding I still prefer my ultra-wide physical monitor (probably my own fault for preferring such a small font size), but for things like handling tickets, emails, quick code changes in terminal, etc. it is pretty great. I ended up using a third-party head strap [0] to greatly improve comfort, but I know other folks use the stock strap for long sessions with no issues. YMMV :)

[0] https://amzn.to/4ehZpnL
I've only ever heard Gattaca described as hard sci-fi and Star Wars as soft sci-fi.
Probably natural or artificial pistachio extract. Much cheaper. Also common for almond desserts to use artificial extract
Chess.com ran all games and matchmaking on a single server machine till recently
I think you want Salesforce because of how reliable and secure it is, also because of the cute mascots.
The weather is nice. Economic opportunity is crazy good, network effects are weirdly magical.
Housing crisis is fucked.
Traffic is fucked.
Government is excessively bossy.
SF planning department is corrupt and pathological.

I left and don’t regret it one bit.
Different strokes for different folks.
Yes, still using it several times a week mostly for work via mac virtual display. If I need to work late at night, I find putting myself in a daylight immersive environment helps me stay awake and avoids high contrast difference between a laptop screen and a dark room.
> I don't think it needs any justification, really

From a founder's perspective sure, you can do what's best for you.

That's not what this article is about. This article is highlighting that there's a tendency in SV for founders to cash out early, and secretly. And along with that, there's a tendency to paint a narrative that the founders haven't sold a share. It's hard to see that as anything other than deceptive.

It's one thing to join a startup that you know may not succeed in the long run. It's another to join a startup that has a founder whose been secretly cashing out along the way.

Justification does seem necessary in that second scenario, at least from a morality perspective.
That's probably because the wars started by "the West" (US and allies) are significantly more than the wars started by Russia or the USSR. See: vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan. Not that Russia is some big supporter of peace, but the US and its allies are the current global bully. And you don't need Mearsheimer to tell you that.
The Leidenfrost effect is also one explanation often given for why walking on hot coals without burning your feet is possible. The theory is that the sweat on your feet evaporates creating a vapor barrier that insulates the feet from heat.