skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Americans surprised when their economic and political system worked exactly in line with historical trends.”

What did we expect? That the year 2000 was magically going to bring about a golden age?
If AI fizzles out and the investors lose everything, then I guess a group of the worlds wealthiest individuals have built a lot of infrastructure projects at no benefit to themselves.

I'm prepared to take that risk.
I live about six miles or so from the office. I'm so much more productive (and end up working far longer) at home than in the cattle car hotel configuration. I dislike the idea that they might try to pitch things as 'pay less' if I'm more productive. If I'm in the office, I've lost the day. WFH should not be a reason to make less - it should be considered a benefit like a gym membership. If folks use it, the company comes out ahead in the end.
This is really cool, I love the idea of demonstrating the different approaches that a visualization can take and how it affects the message.

It's very useful as a source of inspiration.
Wish there was a way to know
I believe for someone who wants to dive into blogging, start with "throw-away" articles otherwise giving pristine structure and stack will lead to analysis paralysis. Slowly and steadily hone your skills - writing and devops side of hosting your site.
I can't remember exactly when, but like 8 or so years ago a british guy had a post on HN that questioned all of this and everyone, I mean EVERYONE here basically lambasted him. It was the first time I kinda turned my head and started saying that all this stuff is fake. All these "save the world" job posts, etc.. etc.. it was all bullshit. I think everyone knew that then - but were not willing to admit it outloud.
As somebody who generally dislikes the office, i respect your opinion and your preference.

The issues arise when we’re all forced into the office, whether we like it or not.

I wouldn’t mind going from time to time, but i absolutely abhor being forced to.
>OK WTF ist most of this? How about not targeting the upper market during inflation?

Why? The upper class is the one least affected by inflation. Just look how the stock market is doing. Even in bad times, luxury brands are selling just fine, this has been proven time and time again. Have you seen sales of Bugattis, Ferraris or McLarens slowing down?

The problem is, VW is not a luxury brand, it's an expensive commodity, making it the first thing avenge people axe in tough times.
Wow that's really a lot...do you happen to live in Florida and work in the defense industry? I saw someone with 5 kids posting hiring posts a couple of years ago and he also has a lot of kids, so just asking.
I don’t think they are shilling, but they look a bit obsessed with the topic. I wanted to point out to them how this looks from the outside.
I was on electrical engineering side of things. Honestly I looked for companies that had large quantities of engineering lay offs about a year beforehand and tried finding contacts and calling them directly. Turns out there were plenty of departments in the shit and needing hires. Landed a position at a defence company.

CS I would have no idea about. I work for a company that does software now but tends not to hire any CS grads.
It is getting late to the party.

Clean enough energy alternatives are being deployed everywhere.

And we might be already running out of time, the climate system could had surpassed a point of no return by now, we keep adding fossil carbon to the system and if, or by when, this became practical enough to start deploying power plants based on it will be too late for a meaningful change.
Us humans do have noble goals which some literally willing to die for and we also produce world class villains and everything in between. Tech does nothing but amplifies what we can do to achieve our goals. It enable all the good things we have dreamed about and it also fucks everything up.
It’s been 30 years away for half a century. Then it was 20 years away for the last few decades. Now it is 10 years away. We’re making progress!
I wouldn’t sweat it. The market has a way of working these things out.

Want top tier talent but can’t afford it in your area? There’s likely a cheat code available to you now.

It’s inevitable that zoning laws will change. When the bag holders for corporate real estate have an exit strategy, I wonder if we won’t magically find the question of RTO features a lot less in the ambiance of life. I don’t know enough to say whether it might be true that the kinds of people to have large investments in media conglomerates are the kinds of people who’d consider large investments in corporate real estate as a sound and obvious diversification strategy (and vice versa).
Oh that's interesting: can you tell a bit more? What does it do better than Portainer? Or is it precisely because you can do it all from a terminal that you prefer it?
> Look up SSJ-100 production numbers

Now look at them post sanctions.

The SSJ-100 contains far more important systems (not parts) [1] than e.g. Embraer’s regional jets. It was designed with consultation from Boeing, including throughout manufacturing. Russia’s indigenous jets are terrible, and there is no reason to expect them to improve, they can’t compete against the Chinese for the anti-Western market.

To be fair to Sukhoi, this is how Boeing builds planes. If America were sanctioned by its allies, I’d similarly argue that Boeing, too, is incapable of mass manufacturing airliners.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190402154855/https://www.uacru...
I just remember considering it for routing/firewalling duties about 2007, grabbing then-current performance optimization guide, and finding whole chapter in how to force irq sharing so that interrupts from any NIC will trigger driver code from all NICs...
The defining metric of progress in a society is that all of us have to work less for maintaining same or higher quality of life. Leaving aside the supply demand aspects, who is going to pocket the savings if people aren't overpaid and why should they be the appropriate recipients of that savings.
Straightforward steps to get the first paying customers for your SaaS
I got my first paying customers less than two months ago. Since then my SaaS has grown to $2000+ revenue and 1800+ users.

I believe the process to get here is actually quite straightforward, it's not easy, but it is straightforward.

If I had to start over with a new SaaS, here's how I would do it:

1. Find a problem I want to solve from an industry I have previous experience in.

2. Interview at least 10 people with the problem to understand how they're currently solving the problem, how big of a pain it is, and how much they're willing to pay for a solution.

3. With their input, create an MVP that solves the problem in a simple way, no extra fancy features.

4. Share the MVP to them for free in exchange for feedback.

5. Use feedback to improve the MVP.

6. Market the product within communities of my target audience to get first 100 users.

7. Use all the feedback gained to flesh out the MVP to a full product.

8. Launch on Product Hunt.

This is pretty much exactly what we did to reach 60+ paying customers in less than two months for our SaaS Buildpad.
If you can ssh into one of your production nodes and modify the code to add some logging, you can also attach a debugger to your production node.
Trump Taps Scott Bessent for Treasury
What? The EU and US aren’t in the war at all. We’re almost 3 years into Russia being unable to conquer a country 1/3 their size right on their border.

On top of all the damage done to them, and their advanced EW capabilities that have been captured and sent for analysis in the US, and exact knowledge of things like Kinzhal, the lost flag ships and submarine, the modern sea drones - this war is a disaster for Russia.

The US and EU aren’t even involved and Ukraine is holding its ground. Russia is doing so poorly that they’re not even considered a threat anymore in the West.

Their “GDP” numbers belie systemic economic weaknesses that show up when they have to BARTER for food. That’s how worthless their currency is.

Russia is basically completely pathetic at this point - they can terrorize countries that share a land border with them but can’t project power even past Ukraine.

They had to import starving North Koreans with antique shells and Iranian RC toys. Some superpower.

The US and EU don’t care about the war in the same way someone with a Ferrari doesn’t have to race someone with a Honda Civic - because they’re not a threat. Let the person in the Honda rev their engine and scream that they’d win - they’re just stupid. They look stupid.

They’ve lost what, 500k soldiers? They’re so much weaker than the Soviet Union it’s laughable.

The rest of the world disrespects them so much that they had $300B worth of Russian assets outside their country - and they were all seized. That was half their famed “sanction proofing”! What are they going to do about it? Nothing.

They have “hot” GDP based on faux demand for wartime goods - as they trade Rubles for oranges because nobody wants their currency. Does that sound viable to you? Laughable.
You don't have to absolutely write for the public. Maybe some articles here and there but consider blogging as a documentation of some sort or "dear diary" but digital, running on the greatest and best tech stack.
I'm not trying to be evasive. I'm directly saying quantum computers won't factor interesting numbers for years. That's more typically described as biting the bullet.

There are several experiments that claim to factor 15 with a quantum computer (e.g. [1][2]). But beware these experiments cheat to various degrees (e.g. instead of performing period finding against multiplication mod 15 they do some simpler process known to have the same period). Even without cheating, 15 is a huge outlier in the simplicity of the modular arithmetic. For example, I think 15 is the only odd semiprime where you can implement modular multiplication by a constant using nothing but bit flips and bit swaps. Being so close to a power of 2 also doesn't hurt.

Beware there's a constant annoying trickle of claims of factoring numbers larger than 15 with quantum computers, but using completely irrelevant methods where there's no reason to expect the costs to scale subexponentially. For example, Zapata (the quantum startup that recently went bankrupt) had one of those [3].

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/414883a

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.5707

[3]: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=4447
He does get shit done.

Sometimes it's good shit, other times it's just shit.

That cost-cutting approach worked with turning Tesla from the butt of (quite reasonable at the time) jokes about "Death Watch" because they kept needing more and more investment money, into the success they are today.

It utterly failed with Twitter, which has lost most of its revenue and is constantly running into legal issues.
It's presented like a magic fact of life, in reality people do what they are taught and are quite impotent without knowledge, most universities have some sort of compiler course probably using the dragon book, or a derivative copy and these students proceed to go out into the real world and write more or less the same implementation they saw in school with the same mistakes.

Compilers are interesting, but there is literally no proof that they are optimal for any of their popular applications. Which is what I think you are trying to imply by this narrative you have constructed of people constantly reinventing compilers. This is just the same propagandist argument lispweenies make to claim that their language is special.
Animated ASCII Art (Beta)
seems higher quality than most Wattpad scifi work.
It's not really
I’ve never understood how universities charge so much and spend so much when all the teaching is done by grad students for low pay. Seems like this is a phenomenon in both North America and Europe.
Stop reposting
I prefer people stay civil but CoC is not a smoking gun. CoC easily turns into another form of toxic. I've seen it happen on a few projects, NixOs is a great example of CoC Stasi going crazy.
The fundamental problem is building a good car and letting customers changing a new Mercedes every couple of years are very different goals.
It definitely brought about a lot of positive changes. It's fair to be disappointed that some of the things we hoped for didn't materialize, and that a lot of negatives were even worse than expected.

The historical trend is for improvements followed by lulls. But we never can predict in advance how far the improvements will go. We do feel that there was a lot left on the table.
Who wants to stay a billionaire? You can't take it with you, and that's an unfathomable amount of money for a single person to have. At a flat 5 percent interest per year, that's $50 million a year, or just under a million per week, or $137k/day. per day! You could fund a third space for quite a while on that and still never run out of money after your ordinary life expenses were paid. Ballooning life costs can still add up as jets and yachts get expensive, but that's still an insane amount of money.

On 50 million a year, you could give out 49,000 homeless people to give $1,000 to every year, and still have a million dollars to spend, without touching your principle. Could you even find 134 homeless people every day to give $1,000 to?

The goal is to Die with Zero, as written by Bill Perkins, and while you may not want to literally do that, it's still a good book to read to get you thinking about how to spend your money.
I don't think we can claim zero downside from one anecdote. There are always outliers that can occur from extenuating circumstances.

- The family potentially has the financial resources or possibly connections to 'make things happen'.

- Perhaps the student is especially charismatic and was able to somehow right the situation. Some people have that con-artist mindset where they're able to cheat/commit fraud through their life with seemingly minimal consequences.

- Perhaps they just got lucky and the administration didn't do their due diligence.
> country won't fail, but it will further struggle because of the decisions made my leadership

It’s removing itself as a conventional threat to Europe for generations to come. And as much as Beijing is a rival to Washington, they’re rational in a way Moscow is not. Russia as a Chinese suzerainty is probably a better world configuration than Russia as a sovereign regional power.

> find this general attitude of "Russia has no issues" that are going around on the internet quite confusing if pretty much every economic indicator says otherwise

The sanctions’ goal was to cripple the Russian economy in a militarily-relevant way. On this they failed and that has been widely discussed. Folks might be extrapolating that discussion inappropriately.
In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.

With any understanding of the real world, "demand" can be seen to be artificially manufactured. The "demand" for smart TVs reflected in the long term phasing out of non smart TVs is the result of the will of the manufacters and docility of consumers. The same playbook will have nearly all of us eventually using "AI" PCs whether we want to or not.
To put it differently, Yotta’s customer’s misfortunes are because they are poor and not politically connected. If Fidelity fails, their customers are rich and they vote: they must be made whole.

Kind of like the SVB failure. SVB customers were made whole. Systematic risk and all that.
There is a massive amount of investment into fusion startups right now, so much that it is difficult to keep track of all the really innovative approaches that are being tried, often with billions of $$$ backing them.
You have zero data to support that. It’s just your gut. Forgive me for not believing in your gut.
The cynic in me is already asking: where are the flying cars?

They were at the top in F1 until 2021.
At the end of my 5 year computer engineering degree, one of the groups had nothing to show for their industry project. They had written an Android app with MySQL credentials hard-coded into it, and on the school's network they couldn't connect to port 3306. They could have changed the MySQL port, or they could have written a REST API, but instead they just gave up and it didn't matter.

I was already pretty disillusioned with my undergrad program but that was really the icing on the cake.
When Twitter was sold there were many articles about Mastodon, but it seems that BlueSky got critical mass now.
My guess is that this article may get flagged, but it encapsulates very much my feelings as a younger Gen X.

In the 90s, while I didn't believe tech would bring about a "utopia", I did believe tech would be a very positive, powerful force in human society. The Internet was supposed to "bring us all together" when it made it easy for us to communicate without boundaries. It would cause the fall of authoritarian regimes as societies had freer access to knowledge.

In a major sense, though, the exact opposite has happened. Social media has torn us apart. Authoritarian regimes have discovered how they can control their people with rage bait and blind patriotism. And most importantly, from a personal perspective, I so often see tech not about improving the human condition, but how we can better addict people through dopamine scrolling, or insert yourself as a middleman in "winner take all" economics. In short, I've become intensely disillusioned about the positive power of tech, and that's a tough pill to swallow after dedicating the majority of my career to tech (and, transparently, I see the role I played as often part of the problem). I'm just very sad with how it all turned out.
9/10 days it’s nice weather in Oslo?
> I’d never buy a Tesla. They are a joke and you’re paying for the name and they used to be able to charge a premium because they were the first to market

I'm not sure where you're getting "charge a premium for the name" from. If anything, they're driving prices down. Batteries are expensive; they've cut corners on interiors and stuff like that in order to make them price competitive with ICE vehicles.

Thankfully there are a lot more EVs on the market now but most manufacturers are having a hard time hitting the price/range points of Tesla. Every time I watch an EV review, the Tesla ends up being the benchmark, at least from a cost/range perspective.

I recently watched the entire Out of Spec Motoring I-90 Surge EV "race" across the US, and, impressively, the 2 cheapest cars -- the Hyundai Ioniq6 and Model 3 RWD LR -- were right near the top in terms of roadtrip performance. Legacy automakers are just finally reaching parity.
> A fusion reactor would be at the minimum, as expensive as a fission one

What are you basing that on? Many of the fusion designs being talked about are quite small.
My boss has been trying to bully me to RTO for several months now. Unfortunately for him, he promised me verbally that this job was remote forever during the interview, and where I live verbal contracts are just as valid as contracts on paper.

Because of their bully tactics I've essentially been paid for doing absolutely nothing at home for 2 months now. They can't fire me for cause, because they did contract with me under the stipulation of WFH, and they can't lay me off without cause because they know perfectly well that I can and will sue them if they do because the reason is obvious even if not explicitly stated.

I guess the point of this post is that companies will cut off their nose to spite their face.
And for AP US History... a college level course. Yikes.
I wouldn't say this is the case, though it probably looks like this at a superficial level, and is a trendy soundbyte that seems to have gotten a life of its own lately. Plus a lot of what you call 'industry' is in fact driven by universities, e.g. via collaborations or spin-out companies. Deepmind, e.g., a notable example when people point to Google as a research lead in the field, was effectively almost exclusively driven by Oxford academics through their university positions (at least in the beginning, I haven't kept up).

The bigger problem is universities (are forced to?) behave like corporations more and more as opposed to academic institutions, in order to survive silly politics (national and not) but without having the requisite corporate infrastructure and corresponding personnel. Instead, all jobs are offloaded to academics, and made part of their "progress and development report" or whatnot as the main driving factor. Which then dilutes the quality of both teaching and research, cuts down on creative time and replaces it with mountains of bureaucracy and counterproductive deadlines, forces people to cut corners just to keep up with it all, and eventually burns them out.

Example: we have recently been asked to enter a cleaning rota for the office, because management fired the cleaners. And I think it's ridiculous and a sign of things to come, but I do it anyway. I don't know if refusing to clean will somehow find its way on your probation record as "not good academic citizenship", but it's not something I'll refuse to do anyway because I know everyone's in the same boat and I don't want to cause trouble for my team. But, then this behaviour gets normalised, and honestly, at this point academics might as well start mowing the lawn and cleaning the toilets too.

But academia still has better structures / people built around attacking the more 'creative', less profit-driven problems, whereas industry is has different incentives, which seriously constrains where that research can go in its own way. And a lot of the time, when you look under the hood, industry claims are little more than hot air trying to get a quick buck, or they're the last little brick building on years of academic work and then going full PR and taking all the credit; whereas academia does things "slow" and steady for a reason.
Yes virtually all companies do this but some are very good (or aggressive) at this game. Classifying things as new research is easy to claim and hard to disprove. Think about it from the perspective of an auditor - they can’t do much more than check something off. Like there’s some vague project plan shared as evidence? Alright this checks out. Next company. The real problem is it’s big sophisticated incumbents who abuse this system. Young scrappy startups that are actually doing R&D often underutilize these tax breaks.
Oh, that is tricky. If you want to play around with the algorithm that picks which device to read from, it's in fs/bcachefs/extents.c

static inline bool ptr_better(struct bch_fs *c,
const struct extent_ptr_decoded p1,
const struct extent_ptr_decoded p2)
{
if (likely(!p1.idx && !p2.idx)) {
u64 l1 = dev_latency(c, p1.ptr.dev);
u64 l2 = dev_latency(c, p2.ptr.dev);

/* Pick at random, biased in favor of the faster device: */

return bch2_rand_range(l1 + l2) > l1;
}

if (bch2_force_reconstruct_read)
return p1.idx > p2.idx;

return p1.idx < p2.idx;
}

Perhaps just squaring the device latencies would balance things out more the way we want.
> I like the commute, it marks the beginning and end of my workday and I get fresh air.

I get up at 06:15. Work for an hour, then go for a fast and invigorating walk through the forest where I often encounter deer, and this week a fox, and then I'm back at my home-desk to start the day with some video meetings.

When my kids get back from school I take a break and we have a snack together. Then I work another hour, and then in the summer I roll out my bike, and in the winter we've gone out with the snow-racer (although the kids don't wanna do that so much anymore).

Before covid I used to sit in a miserable office. Everyone had headphones on. My window overlooked a motorway on-ramp that was always backed-up as far as the eye could see.
Well it also absorbs a lot of resources. We could have largely the same benefits from tech at a fraction of the cost. But that doesn't produce maximum growth! Or at least, not in terms of GDP.
It would be futile. Parents and children are now united in not wanting to be educated.