jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Boeing isn’t a remote company, so it’s not a contradiction.

If you read into most of the arguments for remote-friendly workplaces, step one is cultural changes.
> Basically any game you've played that has any pre-rendered video (for cutscenes, logos, whatever) most likely uses Bink video for it.

Unless it was a DOS game from the 90s, in which case it may have used its 256 color predecessor Smacker.

It's amazing how this tiny company has managed to stay relevant through decades of huge technological shifts.
It would be unethical that Tesla's magical actually full self-driving is only available as a autonomous system, not as driver assistance. You should not compare a modelS driven in favorable weather on favorable roads with younger people to the average car on the average road. You should also not compare a autonomous system with a system with no comparable driver assistance.

Tesla will convince me of driverless cars when a modelS driverless outperforms a modelS with a driver using emergency braking and lane keeping assist.
All things considered, there is a stark difference between a job whose primary focus is to build a physical thing and a job whose primary focus is to build a digital thing.
The worlds first nuclear-powered lighthouse in south of Baltimore. Nuke-battery removed many years ago. Some friends purchased it and made it into a retreat/bed&breakfast. https://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=423
>They also never challenged the authority of the state itself

>(except for police),

I rest my case.
Lots of love for Bink, but Bink's predecessor is an earlier video codec/format called Smacker, which was especially for 8-bit colour palettes, where the palette (or part of it) might be fixed due to being needed by UI elements outside the video, but some or all of it may be allowed to vary/rotate as the video played.

I first encountered Smacker videos in Caesar II (which even shipped smkplay.exe on the disc so you could play them from outside the game), but they were used for a lot of games of that era, including a bunch of early Blizzard titles like Warcraft 2 and StarCraft.
>Although it has the same goals as supply chain engineering, supply chain management is focused on a more traditional management and business based approach

gasp, there's that evil "business" word again
Yeah, this is reliability engineering 101 - don't ever expect that outside content won't be malformed, even from 'trusted' systems. There was a codepath somewhere that went from an unmarshal error into a crash - and that's something that should not pass any code review.
I've never seen flash run smooth on any os
Eric Raymond
They're useful in many non-car situations too - tidying up cabling is another favourite.
> The unlimited data plan was designed for much less devices in the wild.

The unlimited plan is and always was a marketing ploy to make the plan look like a deal. It's just too bad that AT&T (or at least one of the other major telcos) haven't been brought to task for their deceptive marketing practices.
In Easter Europe you get the following from the official(read most expensive) iPhone carrier: $5 for 200mb, $9 for 2gigs and $18 for 10GB, $40 for unlimited.

These plans may be slightly cheaper than US plans, but that is nothing special.
What is nice, that if you DO go over your limit, you can continue using the net downloading/uploading albeit at a ridiculously slow rate 16kb/8kb. If you want to go back to your usual speed you send a SMS and upgrade for $1 per GB or go to the next plan.

What is better in this approach is that the customer is never charged over what they agreed to pay in advance.

Sure beats paying $200 for a local phone bill in early 90s in USA for connecting to local ISP...
The Board of Directors still need him as a human punching bag, absorbing all the blows thrown to BP by politicians, media, and locals, environmental groups, etc. Even if BP remove him now, which new CEOs in the right mindset want to step into troubled situations like right now. This is how the Corporate world roll I guess.
Hmmm... come to think about it I have been getting quite a lot of results from CodeWeblog.com in my search results. Unfortunately, that site seems to be a link farm and its so useless that I reported it to the Google spam page. Maybe its appearance in the top sites was a result of the Caffeine changes.
This is not quite a perfect "best of", it's extremely biased toward a few authors. But those authors (Henry Spencer, George Herbert, Paul F. Dietz, a few others) have an exceptional track record so the result is still an amazingly high quality collection of posts.

I really miss usenet, there was a time when it existed in a sweet-spot that fostered some quite excellent discussion. I believe HN is the closest analogue in the modern day but it's a pale shadow of usenet at its best, in my opinion.
Do they permit using this office live version in business?
Sounds like somebody has a lot of free time.
Wow, it seems only a short time ago that I and a colleague wagered to which stable the place would go. We were consultants on-site at Palm HQ pre-exit. Seems sad considering webOS was ahead of its time, but alas, the shop was unable to generate the numbers necessary to stay afloat on its own.
Mechanical engineering is black magic.
> Bandwidth is cheap.

Says someone who I'm certain doesn't rely on a prepaid SIM for their primary Internet connection. Not that I do either, but I'm far more aware that tens (if not hundreds) of millions of these people exist today. In fact, it's likely that such people will be a clear majority of Internet users early in the life of HTTP2. Leaving them out of the conversation, as you implicitly do here, would be a colossal mistake for a protocol that intended to stand the test of time.
They fold outwards, and would require less room anywhere inside the garage, Han the op version.
I worked with James Golick many years ago in Toronto. He was a fantastic dude who will be sorely missed. :(
SSL/TLS is something that needs to be thrown away and start over (not that it would happen realistically without immense pressure after another spectacular failure). The over-complexity of X509 and the ease of which one can acquire legitimate certs for domains one doesn't own is appalling. From recent revelations, it's even more troublesome the number and scale of exfiltration of private keys, making it possible for some state actors to MITM 10's-100's megaconnections. (One has to put on their tinfoil hat to estimate how many countries have successfully placed staff in core IT/webops positions of Fortune 100 that are then able to leverage that access... Not to mention high-level engagement. [The direct approach conversation might go like this: "gives your keys or we will send in agents to expose embarrassing details about your org and we will still get the keys anyway."])

Perhaps folks like 'cperciva would be kind enough to propose a single, simple TOML-based cert system that is extremely lightweight with the fewest of features. (Not that TLS/SSL would change without focused, sustained herculean effort immediately after yet another Heartbleed.)
I am one of those people. I've worked in the aircraft industry for about 5 years total of my career, and with rockets for another 2 years or so. I have two engineering degrees, neither one of which are directly related to the kind of engineering I actually get paid to do. And I'm not really exceptional in regards to being flexible. The lead electrical designer for my department has a background in mechanical engineering. Our technical lead was a test engineer on the Delta IV program for years. It's common for maintenance leads to also have business degrees, or for an engineer to have a side job doing app development. Program goes away? We'll find other engineering work somehow.
That's why I phrased the cost comparison the way I did. Even if the SMR modules were completely free, the rest of the plant would still be more expensive than solar.
we're thinking of introducing several models, that would break down into three main costs: ECO - 12K EUR, PREMIUM - 24K EUR. Both of these will have few options to select from (like range, power, rims, etc)
The publisher is gambling. I don’t know much about non-fiction, but regarding fiction they actually loose on most books and win big on a few.
Would you think it’s better if publishers only published if they were really sure it would sell?
Not or, both. There is a crapton of data available in the terminals.
> There is nothing inherently human readable about plain text. It's still unreadable bits, just like any other binary protocol. The benefits of plain text are the ubiquitous tools that allow us to interact with the format.

You seem to have glossed over my whole point about how the ubiquity of text is what drives good tooling for it, not the other way around. Text is not a technology created for computers. It has been a ubiquitous information protocol for millennia.

> I'm not afraid of binary protocols as long as there is tooling to interact with the data. And if those tools are available, I prefer binary protocols for it's efficiency.

I'm not afraid of binary protocols either and there are good reasons to use them. The most common reason is that they can be purpose-built to support much greater information density. However, purpose-built protocols require purpose-built tools and are, by their very nature, limited in application. Therefore, purpose-built protocols will never be as well supported as general-purpose protocols like text.

That isn't to say that purpose-built protocols are never supported well enough to be preferable over text. Images, audio, video, databases, programs, and many other types of information are usually stored in well-supported, purpose-built, binary protocols.
It is, except that a hardware and a software person both expect them to have technical meanings. That is, hardware and software people have enough in common that they can (usually, perhaps not always) tell when a term is being used in a technical way.

And the same may be true in the humanities. A philosophy person and a sociologist, say, may have enough in common to be able to detect when the other is using a term technically, even if they don't know the exact definition.

The problem comes when talking to laypeople, both for the humanities and the technical people. (And the technical people are laypeople to those in the humanities, and vice versa.)
Are you advocating that tax on housing should be purely when transactions occur like during stock sales?

So no more yearly property tax?
No, the branch of the discussion is regarding sunsets in the context of social media/apps. Outside of that, they can be any number of things to a variety of people.
Why are you so certain that I didn't mean what I wrote?
I think Atom still uses React-- they just decided to build one super performance-sensitive part, EditorComponent, without it (https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/5624).
This happened during covid though. Is it always like that?
Putting on my tinfoil hat: it suits FAANG to have potential competitors burn their runways on baroque tech fads like Kubernetes or <insert-react-state-management-architecture-of-the-month-here>. Extra credit if they end up hosting their overly complex solution on your platform.
Author here. We're living in the most exciting time for developing terminal applications. When Microsoft unexpectedly added support for VT100 and XTERM codes to CMD.EXE it totally changed the equation and ANSI became universal for the first time. Blinkenlights is an example of a TUI application I created using Cosmopolitan and it literally works everywhere. https://justine.lol/blinkenlights/index.html You don't need curses. All that's needed is an ioctl() call which flips a bit in termios. Cosmopolitan polyfills that across operating systems. Another cool example of a demo app is this conway's game of life tui gui: https://justine.lol/apelife/index.html
>since many e.g. file systems don't implement async IO

If we're picking on Linux here we should also mention that this issue cannot exist on Windows because it doesn't support anything else besides NTFS and a couple of options dating back to the 18th century or so.

Oh, and WinFS, of course, F being short for future which is like the horizon, or the communism, always out there just a month or two away.
SOPA = Stop Online Piracy Act [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
Kubernetes is dramatically complex to the point where I refuse to touch it if I have to do any configuring myself. Unfortunately there are not really any good alternatives. I work on the Azure stack myself, and it has only Azure Container Instances, which Microsoft recommends to not use for production purposes (without explanation why). For deploying a simple machine learning model on Azure Machine Learning, you need to set up a whole Kubernetes cluster, and if I remember correctly it also needs to have a minimum of 6 machines which is a very high amount for simple projects. At least with Azure ML they have an abstraction layer over Kubernetes so that you don't have to deal with any of its intricacies.
Maybe they are just planning on enhancing their manufacturing capabilities. Quote from their Quarter call:
"Applied Materials is also trying to tap into efforts to bring more chip manufacturing to the US and reinforce the nation's leadership in chips."

And the majority of the job openings are CA and TX
It's ridiculous to think that working those kind of hours for 6 weeks is actually productive.
You have full ownership over your data and can export at any time.
Flag is available when you are logged in. Like you said, there appears to be no difference whatsoever between the two versions.
No, like I've wrote shipping to customers interrupt controllers, not a school project. The meat of most of what you're talking about happens in the CPU cores. The interrupt controller just exports "this is the highest priority interrupt" signal based on some signals input, and some interrupt signals that can be triggered off of a memory write (IPIs). The shit's really almost hello world HDL. VM passthrough is just a parrallel set of comparison logic and another "this is the highest priority signal" to the CPU core.

But you didn't address the important part, that your calculus is wrong on the support time frames. They aren't supporting these things for 20 years. And I guarantee you they've cranked the numbers, so much of these designs are focused at taking a fraction of a penny off of each shipped unit.

Adding to that, the underlying piece is that they don't care about the bootloader being nice, and 'they' is several entities with their own goals and requirements. The chips in SBCs are almost entirely leftovers. They made too much for some big customer that for whatever reason didn't use the whole batch, and went to sell them off at fire sale prices. Then some incredibly cost conscious shop buys them up, sticks them on cost reduced dev boards with the custom kernel and calls it a day. The chip company doesn't care because the major customers don't care. The major customers (ie. the integrator for who the chip was designed in the first place) don't care because they just want a Linux kernel booting, and don't care how that happens. The SBC customer doesn't care because they're already running on such low margins they can't afford to do anything to software as it is.
It seems that this guy enjoys behaving this way foremost, and has spent some time coming up with reasons to justify his behavior as rational as a result. Some of this may in fact be good advice, but I wouldn't be inclined to trust his word on it. I highly doubt he only acts this way towards lawyers.
We need to borrow terminology from other fields. Given the nature of the software trade, I propose we adopt "blooded" from infantry jargon.
I'd also add to this that the government is pretty heavily invested into python (at least NASA, DoD, and DoE based on direct experience). It's kind of becoming the scientist's and engineer's new Fortran.
It worked for Walt Disney in Florida.
Well said. When I talk to people at conferences and whatnot about GitHub, they're often surprised we run a core git stack with few modifications. Repositories are stored as plain old git repositories and we use git's normal command line interface for many types of operations.

It really is a testament to git's design (and I think maybe classically designed UNIX programs in general) that we've been able to do so much on the server with something designed mostly for local command line interaction.

People still talk about git's "lack of extensibility" (i.e., no library / you can't write extension programs in Python) but I've found that the "write programs that do one thing" model lends itself extremely well to all kinds of unplanned and novel uses.
Please don't speak for so many people. I, for example, do not have such sites open.
Some of your points feel off to me:

"they insist Chinese law is used outside China, and lecture people how they should refer to China in public;"

Not really sure what examples you had in mind, but I would imagine most communities would have a preferred way for other people to address them; I don't think it's wrong for them to demand that. If you don't like China's demand then you can refer to it however you want; but they also have the freedom to dislike those who do that.

"they operate concentration camps;"

In my unpopular opinion: I would call them brainwashing camps, or re-education camps if there is no need to appeal to Western audiences. I don't think I have seen evidences that people have been systematically terminated in those camps, which I believe is a key characteristic for concentration camps.

"the Chinese language has no word for *mutuality*"

Did you mean what you said seriously/literally? Or is it a phishing question to see which commenter speaks Chinese? ;)

"China benefits from free speech"

I would argue that they didn't benefit much from "free speech", otherwise China would probably be mentioned in a more positive light nowadays. IMHO, China's state machinery is pretty good at internal censorship and propaganda due to their long authoritarian history, but their methods for manipulating/spinning narratives is rather unsophisticated compared to societies with more democratic traditions.

"Winnie the Pooh is extremely thin-skinned and can have games like Devotion removed from Steam and GOG even after the reference is removed from the secret area in the game;"
"there are many instances where businesses with Chinese shareholders were pressured not to publish anything mildly critical of China."

Capitalism has no backbone, I guess?

"BBC team visiting China investigating covid19 faced obstacles reminiscent of The Truman Show;"

Your neighbour doesn't like you, and he thinks you are guilty of theft. You told him you have not done that and turned down his demand to enter your home to investigate. Your neighbour informed the police, and they come to your door with a warrant; this time you have to let them in. Is BBC the world police? If so then I guess China is at fault here.

"WHO scientists investigating covid19 recently not permitted into China;"

I think WHO is much better qualified than BBC for investigating this, so not a great move from China. They should let them investigate.

"China doesn't even formally frown at corruption;"

I can see you don't know China at all. China does formally frown at corruption. The problem is China informally doesn't frown at corruption.
Miner fees are charged by the various blockchain networks, and not by ShapeShift.

If the Bitcoin network is charging 0.00066 BTC for a transaction, ShapeShift passes this charge through to users transparently.
- https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/27/paperless-voting-m...
- https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/13334934000839843...

This is why we would need an official investigation.
> I mean, when you put it that way, it's genuinely astounding that they managed to find themselves technically so far behind, and so quickly. This was not a minor mismanagement fuck up, this is complete incompetence.

Is it though?

Or is it just the hardware of equivalent of the risky move of throwing it all away and rewriting from scratch for version 2? Intel have just incrementally improved their design, whereas AMD threw theirs away and almost disappeared in the process. In a parallel dimension, Intel could be exactly where they are now, with no AMD.

But... I agree that there was/is clearly a huge amount of incompetence letting non-engineers run an engineering company.
The Unix way:

diff <(curl -vs https://news.ycombinator.com/ 2>&1) <(curl -vs https://news.ycombinator.com/ 2>&1)

As a shell function:

httpdiff () {
diff <(curl -vs "$1" 2>&1) <(curl -vs "$2" 2>&1)
}

httpdiff https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/
Hopefully Maddox is involved. He always served the best pages in the universe.
There's also evidence pointing to the theory that the virus didn't originate in China and came in on frozen food being false - in particular, the fact that when traces of virus have been found at frozen food processing facilities the evidence pointed to it being caused by the outbreak there rather than vice-versa, the lack of major outbreaks causing hospitals to collapse in other countries at the same time as Wuhan, and the current scientific consensus being that contact with surfaces isn't even a major source of transmission anyway. That didn't stop the WHO team from pushing the idea that this is plausible and needs investigating. The only thing their positions have in common is that they're following the Chinese government line.
In the lab scenario their lax standards wiped out 2 million people and they covered it up. In the wet market scenario, it mostly reflects on the local inhabitants doing the usual black market stuff most local inhabitants of most countries do, and the CCP can only do so much to control their people. Plus, lab source has many other possible implications that are concerning, e.g. engineering bioweapons, IP theft, more nefarious conspiracy if it turns out to be a purposeful leak, etc. Wet market is overall much more benign. Also, from an evidential standpoint, lab outbreak seems much more plausible. Very easy to connect the dots with researchers, funders, etc. On the other hand, they cannot even determine the proximate transmission animal for the wet market theory, and the supposed bat source assembly is based on a faked dataset from the wuhan lab.
That works just about as well as apologizing.
I don’t understand this.

My current portfolio is, say, 30 times my yearly living expenses. All I care about is that it will continue to grow in a way that stays at/above this ratio, so I will be able to retire early.

The pace at which my yearly expenses inflate is much more correlated to CPI than money supply. My expenses haven’t changed much between 2019, 2020 and 2021 (projected), despite the large money printing, and my consumption pattern has been the same.

So, why should I care? Genuine question.
This is a very real. I used AirPod Pros for months without any issues until December when the ANC entered a feedback loop, resulting in an extremely loud high-pitched noise for a few seconds until I took the earbuds out. I would estimate 1500Hz at about 115dB. My sense of balance was severely disrupted and a loud ringing in my ears started immediately. I later learned from an audiologist the feedback loop from the AirPods Pros caused a "vestibular event".

I dealt with the constant tinnitus for the following four weeks. Thankfully, it resolved itself with time.

I suspect the feedback loop was in part due to poor fitting of the AirPods in my ears. Regardless, I did nothing to trigger it aside from using the earbuds. Apple ought to take these claims serious.
I, uh, sincerely hope you’re not in charge of any apps I use.
Sport, Sports, Sports!
Yeah, this is still a guessing game.
Haha, I bet that has definitely happened.