MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fooList | 2025-04-18 16:16:34+00:00
I think my mileage varies a bit. I was an Obama/Clinton supporter, and I have always felt strongly that the legislative branch was… less than efficient. Delegating away the hard non-glamorous stuff is incentivized and nothing changes because the DC system as a whole just works that way. Both parties want less accountability and more power, but citizens need the opposite. There has to be some reasonable amount of legislation coming from the legislature or what are they there for other than grandstanding, fundraising and performative outrage?
by Amezarak | 2025-04-18 16:16:44+00:00
This is a common theory but it's almost certainly wrong.

https://www.bartehrman.com/why-is-christmas-on-december-25th...

> However, upon closer examination, this theory encounters several historical and contextual challenges. One of the key issues is the lack of any contemporary evidence from the early Christian period directly linking the choice of December 25th for Christmas to pagan festivals.

> But several decades earlier (c. 203 C.E.), a bishop from Rome, Hippolytus, wrote: “For the first advent of our Lord in the flesh, when he was born in Bethlehem, was December 25th, Wednesday, while Augustus was in his forty-second year, but from Adam, five thousand and five hundred years.” (Comm. on Dan. 23.3.) [...]

> Tertullian, for example, calculated that Jesus was killed on March 25th. If Jesus had also been conceived on March 25th and you count exactly nine months later from that date, you then have Jesus’ birth on December 25th. I think this is the way early Christians came to believe that Jesus’ birth happened on December 25th.

> Moreover, unlike the previous and still most popular theory, this one is mentioned in the early sources!

> A treatise titled On Solstices and Equinoxes, which comes from the 4th century states: “Therefore, our Lord was conceived on the eighth of the kalends of April in March, which is the day of the passion of the Lord and his conception. For on that day, he was conceived on the same he suffered.”

Note that regardless, December 25th was regarded as the date by at least some Christians long before the fourth century. As for the mention of shepherds in the article, we have independent attestations of shepherding in winter in the area, so the question of "why would they be there in winter" is "because that's normal".
by harambae | 2025-04-18 16:16:44+00:00
I don’t know your particular area, but I have experience buying and selling raw land and it’s a much more unique and niche area of real estate that fewer people are competing in. Are you sure it’s actually zoned correctly and doesn’t have latent disputes?

I can give you plenty of stories of people who bought an empty chunk of land for $350k and then 20 years later sold it for around $350k. They would’ve done better investing in Pokémon cards (or anything).

Add on the flip side developers usually want to move fast and cash in now, in my experience, not do what you’re describing.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-04-18 16:16:55+00:00
Of all the RTO orders, part of this at least makes sense. If you're in sales, it's beneficial to be close to your clients.

But if you're working on cloud, hard to see how working at the office is any more productive than from home.

also, this is significant:

> The employee shuffling has been accompanied by rolling layoffs in the US, but hiring in India – there are at least 10x as many open IBM jobs in India as there are in any other IBM location, according to the corporation's career listings. And earlier this week, IBM said it "is setting up a new software lab in Lucknow," India.
by yellowdrone | 2025-04-18 16:17:04+00:00
I think you misunderstood the prior poster. In the story the boy just made the wolf up the first couple of times, there were no signs beforehand. The prior poster seems to believe that the republicans were doing something bad beforehand, which is now escalating and thus a direct consequence of what came before. That would be more like if the boy found wolf droppings and pointed to those, which would not make him a liar anymore.
by thesuperbigfrog | 2025-04-18 16:17:05+00:00
>> What would constitute a "good" programming language for embedded systems?

"Good" for what purpose? That is, what are the goals, requirements, and limitations of the target embedded system? If the system fails or encounters errors, what is the worst outcome?

C and C++ are the most widely used and supported. Rust is up and coming in terms of support, features, and popularity. Ada works great and is required for some embedded applications.

>> overall what would constitute a good PL for this domain?

Most embedded systems have limited hardware (slow or low power processor, minimal RAM, minimal storage, etc.) and will have either a minimal real-time operating system (RTOS) or no operating system running on bare metal.

A good programming language for embedded work will be able to interface directly with hardware, run fast, and use minimal memory.
by Mountain_Skies | 2025-04-18 16:17:19+00:00
Red Hat is involved with a lawsuit alleging that they used illegal criteria to discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, and sex in hiring and layoffs. Until that is settled one way or the other, Red Hat is a potential liability to its parent company. The most likely path is status quo so if doesn't look like IBM is punishing nor rewarding Red Hat for the situation.
by jasonpeacock | 2025-04-18 16:17:20+00:00
These are good animations for tall ships:

Warship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nr1AgIfajI

Explorer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pYqXrFx6S8

They don't cover the actual physics and processes of sailing a tall ship, but they do explain all the parts and pieces and how they connect.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-04-18 16:18:09+00:00
>know very few parents that would rather work than hang out with their kids.

But they would work to increase the odds of securing a house in a more expensive neighborhood to increase the odds their kid is surrounded by more well heeled children for myriad reasons which then results in higher chances of getting into the best schools to increase the odds they are able to earn a high income due to possessing the right signals and knowledge.

And they would reduce the number of children they have to maximize the odds for the one or two they do have.
by jonstewart | 2025-04-18 16:18:24+00:00
It’s kickass that USearch is in DuckDB. That’s something I will play with, for sure.

ElasticSearch has always seemed geared too much towards concurrent querying with mixed workloads, and then it gets applied to logs… and, well, with logs you care about detection of known query sets at ingest, indexing speed, compression, and ability to answer queries over large cold indices in cheap object storage. And often when searching logs, you want exact matching, preferably with regex. Part of me wants to play with rolling my own crazy FM-index library, part of me thinks it might be easier to play games with Parquet dictionary tables (get factors out of regexps, check dictionary tables for the factors for great win), and part of me thinks I will be better off waiting to see what comes of the Rust-based ES challengers.

Will definitely follow announcements to come with StringZilla.
by boricj | 2025-04-18 16:19:04+00:00
I haven't had to reach for them so far either professionally or personally, but custom memory allocators (slab allocation, bump allocator...) and allocation strategies is something I've been meaning to look into. Too bad that the one game I've done reverse-engineering on used dynamic memory allocation for just about everything, with an allocator that uses a singly-linked list of used/free chunks that wouldn't look out of place in the 1980s.

I'm aware that the C++ standard library has polymorphic allocators alongside a couple of memory resource implementations. I've also heard that the dynamic dispatch for the polymorphic allocators could bring some optimization or speed penalties compared to a statically dispatched allocator or the standard std::allocator that uses operator new(), but I have no concrete data to judge either way.
by 9rx | 2025-04-18 16:19:42+00:00
> is thinking (without transcribing for the government) illegal.

Thinking without a willingness to share what you thought with the government when it feels it needs to know (e.g. in court) is illegal. Full transcription is not always legally required, but it is in some specific contexts where there have been problems getting proper disclosure. Again, laws are created to deal with actual problems, not imagined problems.

I'll note that encryption isn't illegal today. While there are some outlier cases where it has been a challenge to government, it hasn't become a big enough problem to do anything about yet. But if it reaches the point where it is deemed sufficiently problematic, it will become illegal in some kind of fashion. What that looks like is obviously to be seen. It won't necessarily be a blanket ban on all encryption, or even a ban on encryption at all, but most people are not capable of imagining anything else, so here we are.
by johnisgood | 2025-04-18 16:19:53+00:00
No, it is not the same. Sadly the author probably made it private, might reach out to him, just don't know how. :( He did not put his e-mail anywhere from what I have found so far.

https://github.com/zhonghuihuo/asn1-tool is still available, but it is very old, it is probably a VERY old fork.

I need something like this :(. I need it for Java / Kotlin. I do not have the repository cloned, so I am kind of in the dark.[1]

Found the archived page of the previously mentioned project that is probably private now: https://web.archive.org/web/20240416031004/https://github.co...

[1] Never mind, I found the newest (probably) asn1-compiler.jar! I still need an actively maintained alternative, however, for Java / Kotlin. For ASN.1 between Erlang / Elixir <> Java / Kotlin.
by Veserv | 2025-04-18 16:20:05+00:00
I literally have no idea what you are talking about. You can send garbage packets that conform to no known protocol on the internet. You can get more bit errors or perfect bit errors that make your bit error detection pass while still forwarding corrupt payloads. Transport protocols and channels must be and are robust to this.

“Damaged” frames and frame integrity only matter if you need the contents of the entire packet to remain intact. Which you explicitly do not when truncating.

The only new problem that arises is that maybe the in-band length information or headers get corrupted resulting in misinterpreting the truncation that actually occurred. And again, you already need to be robust to garbage. And you can just change my proposal to recompute the integrity tag on the truncated data if you think that really matters.
by cryptonector | 2025-04-18 16:20:17+00:00
In the winter, as you note, it's not much of a waste, and it helps keep the pipes from freezing.

In the summer... this is central Texas, so the sun helps keep the water in the pipes hot, so I imagine that the pump is on less often than in the winter. I've not checked though. My gas bills are not out of the ordinary, so I think it's not a ridiculous waste.
by achenet | 2025-04-18 16:20:31+00:00
counter-example:

Most systems that work with standardized tests, while they can systematically fail to capture certain types of talent, are fairly objective - "if you're in the top 10% on this test, then we take you". The format and subject matter of the test is known in advance, people are free to prepare for it in whatever way they want.

Of course, being good at passing tests doesn't mean one will be good at other things, in much the same way that one can be good at Leetcode problems but not good at building and maintaining large scale software systems in a large corporate environment. Still, it remains a 'credible' example of 'how to do meritocracy right', with examples dating back to the Chinese civil service examinations during the Sui and Tang dynasty (from around 593 AD). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_examination
by jp57 | 2025-04-18 16:20:52+00:00
I've been getting into sailing, solely for the purpose of cruising and sailing for fun with no interest in racing. As I've started talking to sailors, I've realized that you need to gauge whether you're speaking with a racer or a cruiser. Racers will claim these are not mutually exclusive categories, because of course racers can also cruise. But racers who cruise will ultimately talk to you like racers.

Racers are, as you might expect, fanatical about performance. They will go very deep into details about optimizing sail trim and shape, and using wildly-named specialized foresails (not merely spinnakers, but asymmetric spinnakers, reachers, screachers, code-zeroes, etc). It's a bit like talking to an SCCA racer about your new pickup truck.

In fact, if you have a good grounding in the basics of sail trim ("when in doubt, let it out"), and know how to put a reef in you can have a fine time getting between points A and B in a sloop with a basic mainsail and jib.
by conductr | 2025-04-18 16:21:18+00:00
IME, I'm a CFO so see every department this is not specific to software industry, it went well but it also ultimately highlighted how inefficient most company's office workers are. So once those people adjust to WFH, get caught up on a backlog of projects, etc. (the "being very good at WFH" phase) they eventually become unnecessary and headcount reduction becomes more obvious next step even though WFH "worked". But, there's also the part about why did the backlog of projects not continue to grow? What are we working towards now? etc. The response to this is making people RTO, because we feel that we broke something by going completely remote. The company isn't as connected, they're just coasting now pushing things forward, etc. These are the kinds of reasons that employee's and executive's see the RTO issue so differently.

I've personally worked at 4 different companies since early 2020. Not everyone does WFH well. Many pretend they do, but don't. Even those that do it well, do better when they meet regularly in person (have some hybrid model). Some teams/departments/functions are better at it than others, but companies as a whole I think perform better when the people have personal connections and relationships across the org. In a remote WFH situation, over time, through natural attrition, new people are onboarded and never actually meet anyone in the company and this becomes a large portion of employees that are very loosely connected in terms of their interpersonal relationships/network and this weakens the organization. I can see how that is fine in a individual contributor role of SWE, but for most roles, in most departments, it doesn't play out well (or takes a very special/rare personality trait to actually do it well).
by repiret | 2025-04-18 16:21:23+00:00
Veering off topic, but this letter is in a variable width font. Were there typewriters that could do that? Was this so widely distributed that it was typeset on a printing press? The letterhead and body text aren’t aligned, so if it did go through a press it took two passes. The signature is also in ink, so that’s either a third pass for color, or an actual signature, and the letter doesn’t have the notation to indicate that it was signed by the secretary, so that leads me to think that it wasn’t widely distributed.

Does anybody have any other insights?
by memling | 2025-04-18 16:21:31+00:00
> In the ASN.1 space everyone hopes that someone can dethrone OSS Nokalva's proprietary solutions

You're buying more than a compiler and runtime, though: you're also getting an SLA and a stricter guarantee about interoperability and bugs and so forth. I have no idea how good their support is (maybe it's atrocious?), but these are important. I had a client who relied on the open-sourced asn1c once who complained about some of the bugs they found in it; they got pushed into buying commercial when the cost-benefit outweighed the software licensing issues.
by xg15 | 2025-04-18 16:21:35+00:00
> Martin Luther didn't like how saints were praised and tried to convince people to pray to Christ instead of Saint Nicolas. Which then Catholic reaches formed to the Christkind.

#maliciouscompliance

But really, that's interesting! I didn't know Luther was the origin of this. Even more, it's almost a Christmas ritual of its own to discuss whether the presents are brought by Santa or the Christkind, etc. Wasn't aware that those tongue-in-cheek discussions have traces of the actual Catholic/Protestant conflict in them.

> (And then later Coca Cola took over spreading Santa Clause in their style)

Oh yeah, forgot the Nikolaus/Weihnachtsmann duality, which I think was an attempt by the church to get their saint back from the clutches of Coca Cola/pop culture. I guess they succeeded partially, because now we have both of them as separate characters.
by LoganDark | 2025-04-18 16:21:35+00:00
> I think this is one important reason that more and more emails are just links to some website with the information on it (often with a login required as well).

I hate this with all of my being. It's awful. Send me an email that tries to tell me how important the information is without actually giving me the information... and I won't read it, fuck you. You don't get to decide which information I find important.
by nonrandomstring | 2025-04-18 16:21:42+00:00
This quote stood out:

"It’s not so much that people are persecuted because of their beliefs, but there is a certain trend where careful reasoning, the search for truth, all the delicacies of having a balanced point of view, acting on facts, being honest about what you do and don’t know, your uncertainty, all these values we have in science and scholarship are at risk."

Isn't this epistemic crisis [0]. I think mistrust in the world increased to the extent the it got digital, but taking advantage of crisis, even conjuring untruth, mistrust and polycrisis [1] as a smokescreen strategy for taking control is also a basic Machiavelli thing, right?. This (epistemic injury) is more easily done to already traumatised people. Germans of 1930s, already reeling from recent war, were vulnerable to a rampage of anti-intellectualism and a bonfire of knowledge.

[0] https://academic.oup.com/book/26406/chapter/194768451

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20210209-the-greatest-s...
by constantcrying | 2025-04-18 16:21:43+00:00
A bit bizarre to push this on Schmitt, when it was a common thread throughout fascism.

>As a novel concept, the total permeation of the Nazi state into academia and the rest of the spheres of non-governmental authority would have been far from obvious at the time to observers of prior governments, but it was also the intent.

It wasn't a novel concept. What are you on about? Mussolini seized power in 1922, while Germany was still a functional democracy.

Schmitts Most influential writings were all after 1922, pretending he conceived of the idea while Mussolini was already implementing it is patently absurd. The history of totalitarian thought did not start with Schmitt.

>The way to counter the spread of government is to put strong limits on government, keeping it out of academia, the media, religion, and so forth completely, with no government funding for any of them.

Just FYI. Germany post WW2 has publicly funded universities, churches and media.
by ccorcos | 2025-04-18 16:22:07+00:00
The most recent Veritasium video touched on this — Emmy Noether worked under Hilbert and made significant contributions to general relativity, worked at University of Göttingen (Jewish, and first woman professor) until 1933.

https://youtu.be/lcjdwSY2AzM?si=qVZdS1QTBgmMTX9r
by rawgabbit | 2025-04-18 16:22:07+00:00
The holy day of Christian Easter coincides with the Jewish Passover as Jesus celebrated the Last Supper before his death and resurrection. Passover or Seder is on the eve of the 15th day of Nisan which is the first full moon after the beginning of Spring.

By the time of the first Nicea ecumenical council, Christians argued against using the Jewish calendar as by the 300s, it dated Passover before the spring equinox. The early church was now the official religion of the Roman Empire who followed the solar calendar.

In other words Easter and Passover has always been associated with Spring.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover_Seder

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_of_Easter
by dmos62 | 2025-04-18 16:22:33+00:00
How do you think about its value? I too am interested in others' perspectives. I'm not the person you asked, but I rarely do more than "{query} reddit" or "{technology name} {documentation-oriented query}". Google, or any of its free competitors, work fine for that. On top of that I'm subscription averse: the only "digital" subscription I have is additional google drive capacity and a VPS, which together cost less than 10 moneys per month, and I'm fantasizing about canceling those too.
by Someone | 2025-04-18 16:22:33+00:00
> Quite interesting, to myself magnetic fields wouldn't seem all that accurate but then again it's known some animals can navigate back to the same spot each yearly nesting / migration

I think consensus (insofar it exists; the field is rather divided on how these animals navigate) is that these animals use a combination of signals. In particular, they may use magnetic fields ‘only’ for getting roughly home, then use smell and/or vision for precise navigation.

Also, those animals only statistically make it back to the same spot with fairly high losses.
by jryan49 | 2025-04-18 16:22:34+00:00
Seems like a lot is going on in your life. This might just be your body telling you to take a break. Maybe just take it easy for a while, and be okay with decreased productivity. Don't beat yourself up over it. We are not machines that output 100% all the time. Decrease your expectations. Sounds like you're already doing enough.
by harimau777 | 2025-04-18 16:22:50+00:00
The issue that I have is that I've almost never seen an anti-DEI advocate actually engage with the issues. Even if I ultimately disagreed with them, I could respect someone who was willing to look at the problems the US is having with inequality and present a reasoned argument for alternatives to DEI.

However, what I usually see is people either ignoring the issues people are facing, ignoring the arguments put forth by advocates of DEI, or substituting slogans for arguments.
by jimbob45 | 2025-04-18 16:23:17+00:00
Yep. Same dilemma as Star Citizen. If both just threw their hands up and said, "Done!", today then everyone would agree that a great product had been released and everyone would be mostly pleased. Instead, development has dragged on so long as to cast doubts over the goodwill of the founders. Now, Jai is unusable because it's difficult to trust Blow if he's willing to lie about that and Star Citizen is unplayable because the game was clearly released under false pretenses.
by kragen | 2025-04-18 16:23:31+00:00
Almost certainly! The one here in Argentina has campuses in six cities and is well regarded, though it doesn't rank well in worldwide rankings. It has 24000 students at any given time, with alumni including the Queen of the Netherlands and one of the founders of OLX. It seems likely that the number of programming languages designed by one or another professor or student there at one time or another is in the dozens. One repo I found on GitHub uses a dialect of Smalltalk I'm not familiar with, but I don't know if it originates at the university: https://github.com/uca-argentina/2021-bigtalkers/blob/master...

The PUC in Santiago de Chile is even better, academically, and has some 34000 students at any given time.

It would be very surprising if different languages originating from these universities had significant design features in common!