skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other than old arguments about innovation deficiencies (wanting flying cars but getting 140 characters), there was little/nothing about "The End of the Computer Age."

The talk was more about scaling (Finance, Tech, Cargo, and People) with some insights regarding which the US has a chance to compete effectively against China (only Finance and Tech) and some (related?) advice to the left and the right in the US:

Left: Move beyond identity politics.

Right: Rethink the doctrine of American exceptionalism.

Thought provoking commentary, but mistitled as "The End of the Computer Age".
Unicode handling can be really, really, really, hard, and I’m willing to bet a there’s a lot of edge cases there that are not unique to Bazel.
The article says typing this doesn't work-

when you do `foo()` it foos the bar.

But it works fine for me.

His second big gripe is you can't position your cursor before a styled phrase and add to the front of it. That's a legitimate annoyance, but tbf Google docs and TextEdit behave the same way.

I'm 1000x more annoyed with the features taken away from ScreenHero than this stuff. Or the channels jumping over to some "draft" list.
Fuck slack. They're hostile to user choice and preferences, pushing a one-size-fits all attitude. Communication preferences are extremely personal and must be respected.

I have a custom ssl proxy to intercept slack.com and modify their api, eliminating what I believe to be dark patterns. Some things I do:

* Force dark mode always

* Disable favicon.ico updating when there are notifications in DnD

* Group channels based on name prefix (stealing behavior from an add-on)

* Ignore bots

It's hard to keep this up to date so it's not really that robust. If I open source it I know I'll get legal pressure from slack, not to mention they'll probably try to block it.
Worse is better.

http://dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html
I don't think pretending to ask for advice is a fair description of what's happening. usually when people tell me about their problems, it comes in the form of declarative sentences. clearly venting, not asking for advice. sometimes they'll say something like "I don't know what I'm gonna do" or "what am I gonna do?" which almost sounds like asking for advice, but really isn't.

now if someone describes a problem and asks "what should I do?", that is a clear solicitation for advice. if they get mad at you for trying to help solve the problem, that's totally on them.
I really think this is true. I don't know how to extract a prescription from that, though.
Likely only because it doesn't see enough attention to be migrated.
Her Amazon Purchases Are Real. The Reviews Are Fake
Replace the C-suite with a chat bot that regurgitates whatever startup methodology is hip this month.
From the attack model this is looking at no; cold storage LUKS encryption is safe.

The downside of having encryption done on the CPU is that it has a max throughput and latency burden (even with AES acceleration) which isn't a problem for SATA devices (both HDD & SSD) but it is with new high-end NVMe drives that can see througput in excess of 1GB/s.

On the other hand, LUKS still has it's own attack methods when a volume is opened (cold->hot). If the keyfile/password is stored on a seperate drive or entered manually, the interface (USB keyboard, SATA connection, motherboard chipset, etc) could be exploited to retrieve the key in cleartext. If the key is stored or tied to the machines TPM, then it's up in the air as to wheter Intel/AMD + the motherboard's manufacture didn't leave a flaw somewhere. i.e How much more secure is the mobo/CPU TPM than the OPAL/ATA based encryption found on these drives?
For six years, man who refuses to identify himself has held in a Canadian prison
I love reading the responses here about how these decisions are made. I've watched a CEO at a unicorn constantly parade his vision past the UX and design team until they all quit or were fired. He got what he wanted. Customers were constantly battling the interface. And now he's worth sen digits so he must have been right... Right?
I expect this was more likely a manufacturing mistake. It was assembled night and day under a very tight deadline.
I'm not going to say the PDF format is perfect, but I do like sending out documents knowing that in general they are going to be opened by a reader in a presentation format. I'd rather they not be opened by an editor, where my viewers are immediately invited to start making changes like a word doc. I suppose having them open initially in a non-editable mode would work, Acrobat functions that way.
Exactly, all the cool kids were using backticks, underscores and stars. Naturally the lesser users would figure it out just to fit in. Everyone feels mildly powerful being able to wield a tool like this as trivial as it is. Now we're all just back to being bottom feeding piker fish toiling away on word docs.
How else do you think I keep my reputation as a miracle worker? -- Scotty
Recently I was looking at their laptops, but with a resolution of only 1920x1080, unless I wanted to buy one of the thicker laptops, was a deal breaker. Perhaps once they start making their own they will bump up the resolution, but until then I will wait.
Possible Ways We’ll Avoid Gun-Related Massacres in the Future
That’s pretty cool. I only glanced through the article but i wonder it s possible to do something like this on your own but on a smaller scale. I really need to read up on distributed computing.
>they dont seem to be trying to "spin" anything

Compare their statements about the cause of the CRS-7 explosion to NASA's.
To be fair, all the examples you mentioned (except Google maybe) aren’t exactly bastions or people who care about software quality. I used to work as a bioinformatician (whatever that means) at Harvard Med and the people there weren’t exactly that interested in the quality of their OS. Sure they could use ssh or whatever and code up some god awful C++ or Python, but technology wasn’t exactly a topic they were passionate about.
Lessons from Working at Atlassian
Since when ycombinator is allowing self promotion in the comments?

Also please share your amazon book links, not your own website with own reviews.
Create your own maps and stories in Google Earth
If We’re Having an Economic Boom, Then Why Doesn’t It Feel Like It?
Hopefully someone who works at Slack uses Hacker News and sees this post's 500+ upvotes and 200 (mostly) angry comments
You really should worry about the FBI.
I agree with you Jonathan but am wondering, will Jai help programmers write programs with better cache coherency even if said programmers don’t understand cache coherency well? Or is that orthogonal to the goals of Jai?
That's the worst splash screen I've ever seen.
One example in the other direction seems to be Eric Schmidt being hired at Google.
Also from the FAQ:

> Please don't delete and repost the same story. Deletion is for things that shouldn't have been submitted in the first place.
The three of them form a triangle. Which side of the triangle is most important?

This is not a magical thing. Id argue it is fairly mechanical. The biggest issue you'd face is fear. Focus first on conquering that.
It's far more likely that the data obtained about what videos you watch is far more valuable than the cash value of the ads you're not being served. Youtube videos are a very good early interest indicator for advertising.
Back in ye olde days, we'd call this WYGIWYS.
There is still time for a creative person to enact (not re-enact) the "Tears in the rain" scene on a Los Angeles rooftop tomorrow night. Just so the two timelines share a special moment.
> Instead of bored devs sitting around an office looking for ways to integrate $FRAMEWORK_OF_THE_MONTH and get those coveted resume points

This hits painfully home for me. I learned a few weeks ago that some of my coworkers did something akin to this. They were working on what was frankly a mostly-silly project to preserve the relevance of increasingly irrelevant internal tools. Once they had produced something working, they stopped. Then they re-implemented the whole thing in Rust.

Which few in the company know or use. There are no clear benefits to this except exciting resume points for the developer in question.
I think the steamvr environments feature lets you change the time of day by dragging the sun around. There is a nice one someone made from the curiousity rover data that includes a model of the rover itself. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=92814... Google earth vr has a similar thing. I havent seen one for the moon but it should be possible.
Functional Imperative Programming with Elixir (2018)
Did their engineering team not dogfood this change? What Slack engineer or product manager tried to share a `snippet of code` with a peer and thought, "yes, that was a pleasant experience. we should ship that."
"...the iPhones that distract us from our environment also distract us from how strangely old and unchanging our environment is, how you're riding a subway that's 100 years old. And I think sort of a healthier sort of progress would happen on many different fronts."

This quote stood out to me. It seems like we silently concluded that the physical world has evolved enough, developed enough, even though there's a ton of inefficiencies to fix.

I often lament that the built environment of the average American city looks stuck in the 80s, and this quote made me think of that.
It's like a fundraiser, but in the reverse order ...
There's some things you could try listed on this page: https://dev.cancel.fm/wiki?name=Linux_DPI_Problems

Gnome should probably have the correct DPI values, since it's a complete DE, but I'm guessing something has gone wrong with the way the Qt version that Ripcord uses is reading the DPI values.

Try something like:

QT_SCALE_FACTOR=2 QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=0 ./Ripcord.AppImage

It would be better if this always worked out-of-the-box 100% of the time, but Linux desktop environments are quite varied and it's hard to handle every case while also not limiting support to specific desktop environments and versions.
I wonder what future civilizations will try to guess my home Manhattan looked like in my time and what they'll have to reconstruct it from.

If you haven't read the poems Ozymandias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias
Sources:

New York to Shanghai slightly more than economy ticket by 4/2028:

https://www.vox.com/2018/4/11/17227036/flight-spacex-gwynne-...

Moon 2023:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacex-plans-to-f...
Starship looks particularly shoddy because it's made from relatively small steel plates welded together. The welding process causes each plate to warp slightly, so the end result looks like a quilt rather than a nice uniformly smooth cylinder. Most rockets don't look like this. Most prototype rockets don't look like this either.

The argument has been that this is good enough to start testing structural features, and probably also good enough to do a little bit of low-stress flying as well. The first argument seems sound. I'm not so sure about the second... there are a lot of welds. At least a few of them are likely to be structurally unsound, and assessing weld quality is difficult.

In any case, for the "real" Starship, they plan to use a technique similar to the one they use on Falcon, where they roll a huge metal plate and then stir-friction weld along the seam. This kind of tooling is difficult and expensive to set up, and the configuration of the machinery and the material depends a lot on the actual design, which hasn't been finalized yet.

Apparently they're using thicker steel then they plan to use on the monolithically constructed version to compensate for weld quality, but I don't know... weld seams are great stress concentrators, and stress concentrations are where fractures are likely to form, and fractures on the skin of a rocket are usually catastrophic failures. All it takes is one defect.
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I’m more replying to the entire notion that the user should be able to determine whether they are using secure software instead of the operating system enforcing it.

How will the user know whether software is secure?

But you actually trust Google to protect people’s privacy?
Excellent constructive feedback.
I don't really think unsolicited advice is even that bad usually. if you see someone struggling with a task and offer a good tip, they usually appreciate it. when someone starts venting about a problem, they are (implicitly) asking for something other than advice: usually just a kind ear. this is basically the worst moment to start offering advice.
The great pyramid should really be regarded as a separate phenomenon than burial site pyramids
This is incorrect [1] - they block questions on independent repair from Apple forums.

> Does Apple take any actions to block consumers from seeking out or using repair shops that offer a broader range of repairs than those offered by authorized technicians? If yes, describe each action that Apple takes and the reason for doing so.

Apple does not take any actions to block consumers from seeking out or using repair shops that offer a broader range of repairs than those offered by Apple’s authorized technicians. Customers are free to obtain repairs from any repair shop of their choice.

[1] https://www.cultofmac.com/620124/apple-support-forum-jessa-j...
Again: the gripe is fair. The question should be raised.

The UK (and its various predecssor states) have been a limited monarchy for quite some centuries. That's not a guarantee of perfectly non-corrupt behaviour, but it helps.
> appropriately minifying and not obfuscating, because many of their variable names are comprehensible

Wouldn't most scripts run through a minifier have incomprehensible names?
Why is everyone on ycombinator promoting their own stuff today? Admins, can you stop this?
Yet this perception and the fact that it’s difficult does discourage editing. It’s kinda like security by obscurity: it’s not “real” security, but it does work, for the most part.
NaNoGenMo is one of my favorite weird things.

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/11/forget-nanowrimo-read-the...

I think we'll be hearing more interesting things from it in the coming years. I'll be excited to see more realistic generation, but sad to see less weird bonkers shit.
AMD Promises New Architecture for Zen 3, Adopts Intel Tick-Tock Model
Yo OP. My intent here was to help avoiding anyone taking on the assumption that "women don't want to talk code". I didn't mean to throw you or your comment under the bus as sexist - which is why I said "borderline".

Obviously, most women don't code, because most people don't code. The likelihood of bumping into a woman randomly and her being able to nerd out about the latest NodeJS framework with you is about as likely as being able to bump into anyone and discuss the pros and cons to some new breakthrough in materials science - most people just aren't experienced in the field...

My goal is to share a friendly word of hope to guys out there that might think there aren't ladies who will want to nerd out about code with them. There certainly are. You just need to put yourself in the right environment to meet people who have similar experience. Your local bar (unless you're in a very software heavy town), likely isn't the best place. Conferences, meetups, etc, might be worth checking out for meeting like-minds.

Though, generally speaking, if you're looking for a conversation topic for a date, code wouldn't be my first suggestion. It's like talking politics. You might land yourself in an opinionated argument really quickly - fighting about the tradeoffs to upgrading to python3...

If you don't have any other interests to talk about with a partner besides code, I highly suggest expanding your horizons. Learn to cook, or snowboard, or get into a popular TV show. Anything to diversify your personal experiences. It'll at least give you some fuel for more interesting conversations.
FTA: "Making "have fun" the goal is the key that unlocks everything"

This is enticing blanket statement. However, there are many things you'll need to do that will not or should not be fun. And if you fully believe this sentiment, during those times you are not having fun, you may feel like you're "doing it wrong" when this is just how it is and that's ok.

Happiness is more related to contentment than fun.
> Nobody wants groupware. Nobody uses it unless forced.

Surely you're talking about some very specific crapware subset of groupware, because plenty of people choose to use, and very much enjoy using, all sorts of groupware. Distributed version control, issue trackers, simultaneous editing of documents... just to name a few examples of incredible groupware.

But yes, generally when it claims to do all the things, it does none well. This is orthogonal.
Well said. I worked at Google on Adtech. I have decades of experience and it was the most meaningless, uninteresting job I ever had. All everyone cared about was perf/promotion and their gsus. I also took a pay cut (total comp, yes) to join, thinking the work would be interesting and people worth it. The last year their was miserable

Sure there are great people and projects but anybody claiming any of them would exist without the drudgery and 90% revenue stream of “adtech” have their blinders on. And fwiw, if all one cares about us pay, Facebook pays MUCH much more.
'You Are Not Expected to Understand This': Unix's Most Notorious Code Comment
You mean like an pre packaged combo of an IRC server + logging + bouncer for users that can trivially be rolled out.

Like one days work for 1 person?
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Spend more time actually doing *hit that matters and less time online. Also practice grammar correction before posting.
I disagree with essentially your entire post.

My (current) point isn't about Apple banning individual consumers, but rather about Apple (or Google) banning companies from distributing via their infrastructure. From the perspective of the affected company, this is in fact roughly equivalent to an ISP blocking access to their website.

> But app developers can still reach customers in other ways.

Not in a commercially viable manner, at least in the US. That's my current view anyway, and you haven't (yet) convinced me that it's flawed.

> An ISP ban of a website means that website is literally off the Internet as far as all of that ISP's users are concerned.

And by analogy, an Apple ban of a publisher means that their app is literally blocked as far as all Apple device users are concerned. My original analogy holds.

> The website has no business relationship with the ISP the way app devs do with Apple.

Devs don't necessarily want to have a relationship with Apple, they're forced to in order to maintain a viable company (in some market segments, in the US). It is precisely this lack of choice that necessitates neutrality regulations of some sort. In fact, if an ISP were to charge website owners in order to reach their customers it would match the Apple app store model almost perfectly.

(Resident : User) :: (House : Device) :: (ISP : Apple) :: (Website : App) :: (DNS Record : Dev Account)

Your proposed hosting analogy is fatally flawed because an app developer can't switch distributors and still reach the (very significant, in the US) Apple device user subset. Apple is akin to an ISP, and blocking a developer account is equivalent to blocking any and all web properties owned by a particular individual.

It doesn't matter who "owns" the internet or a particular app store, or how the current state of affairs came to be. Any company possessing such unilateral control over effectively unrelated segments of the market is a completely unacceptable situation and needs to be remedied by lawmakers.
True, although only slightly. Of course, it also wouldn't be trying to take off with a full tank of water and you'd expect it to pull at least 2G during takeoff (do we have an actual figure?) so I'm guessing the answer would be 'yes, it could take it'?
It's in their ultimate best interest to find a new vocation. You can't just hit undo or tab out of this one.
Can we start calling it the WYTIWYG (What you type isn't what you get) editor...
The FAQ doesn't address it completely in my opinion.

> Many people believe PDF to be “impossible to edit,” but beware: minor edits in PDFs, such as swapping figures on an invoice, are trivial — therefore you need other technologies, such as digital signatures, to verify that your PDFs have not been tampered with.

That's not really the point that it can't be edited, the value to me is that the sender has confidence that it will look the same to the receiver as the sender.
I think the market is what silently concluded that the physical world has evolved enough; software isn't more important, just more profitable. And because the United States is allergic to public spending, that's all that matters.
If it still plans on wrapping SOA in something that looks in use like AOS, it could make people less aware of how their code is impacting cache (would now have to look at the definitions instead of seeing the array form at point of usage). But if it is enough more ergonomic to write AOS code it might still be worth it and increase uptake.
Like any reasonable language, I imagine JAI will allow a developer to write software with the cache in mind. It will not force them to, nor will it prevent them from doing otherwise.
Jason Kenney's 'anti-Alberta' inquiry gets increasingly compromised
Then where are the stories about netflix, icloud, and google breaches, or is that only talked about for the first two weeks after a service is introduced?
Atlas booster:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imkdz63agHY
Yes, if set to maximum minimization. They might retain the original names to help with debugging, possibly.
Supersingular isogeny Diffie–Hellman key exchange (SIDH) has post-quantum keys comparable to current RSA keys.

It seems limited to DH key exchange with it's favorable properties, however...
I meant it as in no government contracts are going toward starship development, but looking it up it seems I'm actually wrong, maybe...

The air force has given them some money for development on their Raptor engine, and they've talked about wanting more government funding for starship itself, but they've also talked about how starship has been privately funded so far.
CIDER is also the Clojure Interactive Development Environment that Rocks if it matters

https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider

It likely doesn't as they seem unlikely to be confused.
That happened to me literally an hour ago. I checked out and when the shipping was added the price felt high. I left the cart open and started browsing Reddit. I was waffling on the purchase. Then I remembered to Google for coupon codes and I found one and put it in and at the new price I checked out.
This could be a great chance for everyone to show they can work together and pass some form of pathway to legalization.