skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arguably an optical finder is still better in certain ways, such as optical quality and the fact that they're always "on." But electronic viewfinders have gotten quite good and this is clearly the future for most uses.

It's not so much that "mirrorless tech. has basically whooped moving-mirror tech. 's behind in a major way." But that mirrorless tech has gotten good enough that the inherent advantages of eliminating the mirror aren't overshadowed by the need to use an electronic viewfinder instead.
So hatred and killer instincts are the characteristics that appeal to you?

Chacun à son goût, as they say...
...but it's too small to be seen.
There is a perfectly modern Debian distribution available as 32bit. I put this on a 12 years old computer. Yes, that's not 20 years old, but the architecture is largely the same.

GNU userspace as well as the Linux kernels have not abandoned 32bit x86.
Papers please: a guide to the post-Covid-19 world
Scientific Publishing Is a Joke
He's looking for operating systems that are up-to-date. A currently supported Windows will not run on a 20 year old computer with 256MB of RAM.
Upwork Introduces Work Marketplace
I haven't tried the latest generation, but the display-based viewfinders just aren't quite a match for a good optical viewfinder in some ways (but have benefits in others). Running the sensor and a display at all times also is energy-intensive, pushing down battery life. It's a tradeoff, and while it clearly falls strongly towards mirrorless for most people, it doesn't for all.
No. Facade/roof tiles is only the outer surface.
Oh, no it's not meant for that. It's used for sanitizing untrusted outputs for display.
Some of those icons are XP-era.
This whole article is silly. Mac OS has breaking changes every 5 seconds and they don't tell anyone. Linux is fine. Microsoft has backward compatibility going back a thousand years fully supported for your pleasure sir. That is how it is and to argue otherwise with no supporting evidence is just zoomers bein zoomers.
Anti-Asian Racism’s Deep Roots in the United States
I’ve found that nightshift doesn’t go nearly red enough. Windows nightlight will almost completely turn off blue colors by the time I’m ready to go to bed, while sometimes I will have to check if night shift is even enabled although it’s at maximum.
Finding a version of Linux that works isn't an issue. Finding a web browser that's usable on an old version of Linux, with today's web might be an issue. But that's not unique to Linux.
>If a company is still profitable it doesn't actually have to raise its prices just because its profits go down.

Because companies/executives are known to be altruistic?
Our team is responsible for ingest and search, and a variety of feature-driven API endpoints. It's all happening at a fairly large scale, and growing, so it takes some fearless engineering and we're always looking for ways to improve performance or the operational aspects of the service. Looking to add engineers to the team who are confident enough to take calculated risks, test the heck out any change to ensure no negative impact to the product teams/customers, and embrace best practices regarding large-scale distributed systems - in design and operation.
The only issue i have is:
Is it "lon, lat" or "lat, lon".

(If "N/S E/W is not specified and only + or - provided)
Hic et nunc – Hommage à l'itération
However, for everyone of those examples there are many counter-examples: Intel came out of Shockley, ex-IBMers went onto found several other companies (SAP, Peoplesoft,...)...

So Im skeptical of this outsider/insider characterization, IMHO it's almost always the individuals.
See the last section of your link:

> Unemployment insurance (UI) programs are administered at the state level and provide assistance to jobless people who are looking for work.

By definition those receiving unemployment are looking for work. Once you come off unemployment, you are not automatically considered unemployed and seeking work, instead the burden is on you to prove to the BLS you are actively looking for work, this is called marginally attached to the labor force but the catch all is discouraged workers a subset and nearly anyone unemployed that has run through their benefits and still not employed is nearly always going met this definition and they are not considered part of the labor force. (See your link - Who is not in the labor force? )
I learned recently that reinforced concrete buildings only last about 50 years. Moisture and oxygen seeps into concrete and corrodes the rebar.
Yeah. Even Canon is switching over to mirrorless at this point although I assume they'll keep one or two pro reflex models in their line for the foreseeable future.
Definitely reduces eye strain for me. When I'm pulling an all-nighter I occasionally witness the shift from night to day and it immediately hurts the eyes
Pypy's claim comes from a set of common Python benchmarks. Pyston claim comes from company's webserver benchmarks. These may be comparable, but may be also apples-to-oranges.
Well said. If you don't spend the time looking after your kids when they're younger you'll end up spending a lot more time sorting out problems when they're older.
flushHeaders() is there to have a simple bug to find. In real world cases, tools like tcpdump and strace are essential, and I think this is a nice way to teach about how these tools can be used.
Perhaps their initial approach was not the right one i.e. was the public token the right method to maximize the value of their actual offering? Maybe they need to rethink given what you have said.

I know of a very similar company (might even be the same one) the telegram forum they have setup is just full of people speculating what will / might happen ...will it go to the moon... etc.. They have now moderated that out but still main reason people join the group to start with.
That would imply that the world consists only of alt-left and and-right people. In reality the vast majority of people are pretty moderate, and there are far more than two political directions.

Most dramas on Twitter or Reddit involve some one- or two-digit number of people that get enormous publicity.
https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/kubernetes-up-and/...

Kubernetes Up and Running by Brendan Burns, Joe Beda and Kelsey Hightower (published by O'Reilly).
Feature size seems to be 15nm, from the article. 2nm is marketing speech for transistor density.
Which chart should you use?
Or, if you are able you can move your business to Mexico or China.
Yeah, it's not a bug but a feature.
OP first needs to decide what the actual problem is they want to solve.

> Either they are filled with bugs, refuse to install on my computer's hard drive, require too much RAM, run too slowly, lack important drivers or codecs, are no longer actively supported, do not support 32-bit CPU's, are too difficult for novices to use, or have other highly-annoying problems like, for example, poor use of swap space.

Most of these problems could be tackled without having to invent a whole new distribution – bugs can be fixed, swap usage can be tuned, drivers can be packaged and added, etc. Any of these, apparently, would make one or several currently borderline useful distribution into a fully usable one.

Or maybe not, going by OP's other blog posts (e.g. https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/surf-internet.html) they're proud of not understanding how Linux distributions work. ("the same number of bugs as the average Linux distribution"?!, Complaining that lightweight distributions don't have as many preinstalled programs as big ones, dpkg -i'ing random packages designed for other distributions, …)
The thing is, most crazy new ideas are just that: crazy. For every great new invention there is the other 99.999% of bunk or snake oil.

It's very difficult to differentiate between an innovative idea and claptrap. Genius is difficult to recognise because it takes a genius to develop the idea in the first place.
The whole point is that you can't just stick with a knee-jerk reaction like "OoH, a PoLiTiCiAn!" Use your actual brain.

This particular politician was the prime minister of Denmark until 2015, and in 2015, Denmark was ranked third out of 180 countries on Reporters Without Borders' World Press Freedom Index. Another politician is Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who ordered the assassination of reporter Jamal Khashoggi.

I do think Helle Thorning-Schmidt lends them some credibility, and not because she's "a politician."
what's the carbon footprint of running older hardware vs. the carbon footprint of building new hardware + running it?
No, it is not. He is too centrist for left media. And right media hate him.
Really? I think you can change your MAC in Windows 10, macOS and Linux. What OSs do you have in mind?
> How is the value of "aggregate_periods_from_last_five_years of personal.property_ownership" calculated?

How is the value of "during the 5-year period ending on the date of the sale or exchange, such property has been owned and used by the taxpayer as the taxpayer’s principal residence for periods aggregating 2 years or more" calculated?

> What does it mean to own a property?

What does it mean to own a property under the non-formalized law?

In the end, it means that if you file a tax return that the tax authorities aren't happy with, you can argue in front of a judge whether you think you own something, and the judge will decide whether you do. Based on this they will decide whether your tax return was valid or not. The technicalities of whether you own something in the eyes of the judge have nothing to do with whether your tax return was based on your reading of the law or on a tool based on this language. Either way you must decide whether you think you own something, and the rest of the computation is based on this decision.

> Does it count if you jointly own a property with someone else?

Search the paper for "joint returns", it quotes both the law and its formalization.

> The whole thing smacks of false precision to me. It's precise about things that are not legally complex to be precise about in the current system

<scratches head> The questions you raised do appear legally complex to me. But also I think you misunderstood the whole problem domain. The law currently spells out an algorithm for computing something. The inputs to this algorithm include questions like "do you legally own stuff". These inputs are outside the specific algorithm spelled out in Section so-and-so. They are similarly outside the specific algorithm spelled out in the computer program.
They have to raise due to inflation regardless. A lot of people didn’t even receive COLA for the past couple of years.
Yes, but those modules need to be maintained as the kernel is updated. If a specific architecture’s tree is abandoned, it would make sense to remove it from the tree until someone picks it up again.
It's not quite a pickup truck. It's more an elongated car with the rear passenger area traded for a tray to carry things around in. Though having said that, the terms are often confused.
The issue is that domain experts often have crazy ideas outside their domain. Typical example is a technical expert or a scientist having a crazy business idea.
imo Linux is suffering from its won success. the Linux community grew so big that it had no choice than allow certain actors to hi-jack and divide its members: E.g. Poettering (pid_eins) would have never been able to force their ideas onto the BSD community as he was able to do in Linux.

While it's great to have friction in order to continuously question the status quo it has huge downsides when you need to focus on the long-term goals and ensure consistency across the stack. (echoes from mythical man month or too many chefs in the kitchen spoiling the broth etc). Linus has done a good job for as long as he could (and still does) but there are limits to what one can achieve as things grow.

Theo de Raadt seems a very similar character (like Poettering and Linus strongly opinionated which isn't a flaw but job-requirement). Theo had an easier time ensuring continuity & consistency because there aren't 25 distributions of OpenBSD under 1 "OpenBSD Foundation" umbrella. The problem was that Poettering (who despite my dislike for how he treats anyone who questions his approach, I still think is a genius) didn't create his own OS from scratch (perhaps something based on his own distro, or genode or whatevs) but hi-jacked Linux for his purpose.

Then there is the problem with Docker/isolation that, as others above have pointed out, is not new in the BSD world and is actually a poor product that constantly breaks things on every update. The BSD world would have laughed docker out of the door and down the street yet on Linux we pretend it's "genius" and we accept it comes not from the community but some outside vendor with terrible record in its own security posture. Pipe shit straight to | sudo bash was the docker way for a long time until they got called out for it and then pretended it never happened. But you can still see their incompetence also in other places such as dockerhub which remains the petri dish of choice for malware, or their latest stunt of forcing people to upgrade.

Compared to BSD's, in Linux we practice a lot of "hype driven software engineering" and the result is abstraction hell, and insecurity. This is visible especially if you just compare apples with apples, e.g. a Linux vs BSD on a server (ignoring all aspects where BSD's are hardly present but Linux is).

Poettering has also pushed for unifying isolation options within systemd to help orchestrate the mess, but it still feels like a lot of duct tape when comparing how all of this is done in BSD.

there are many other topics like eBPF, and how much we're now able to move into the kernel for performance / observability etc ... but I'll stop.

The Linux Standards Base (LSB) perhaps lacked teeth and never fulfilled the potential it could have, but a democracy (or federation of interests) is harder.
>Google didn't come out of Yahoo.

from my reading of the history of Yahoo they had plenty of good ideas that they destroyed because the problem was not domain experts but thinking they were in the wrong business (media!)
> If extraterrestrials are silently monitoring humans, isn’t it more likely to be for intelligence gathering purposes than for altruistic reasons?

Why? The Gulf War showed that a gap of ~eleven years of advancement was enough to lead to arguably the largest one-sided victory in the history of warfare. There is no need for an advanced civilisation to silently monitor us for nefarious purposes. All they have to do is show up.

> If the monitoring were intended to be altruistic, where’s the proof of the altruism?

If we are being monitored, the fact that we're not aware of it is likely sufficient proof that their intentions aren't inherently malicious. Whether or not this means that their intentions are altruistic is another argument.

However, if we are in fact being monitored, it's far more likely that we're supporting a bunch of intergalactic Ph.D. theses - and maybe a documentary or two - than putting ourselves in the sights of some malevolent conquering race.
Why Java's Records Are Better* Than Lombok's Data and Kotlin's Data Classes
CS as a pixel hunter is very shallow view of the game, its like saying that Starcraft is just click per minute competition or football just kicking a ball.

CS is about reading opponent, creating opportunities and reacting to what is happening.

Pixel hunting is very last step.

That said, DotA is by far the best esport to watch if and only if you played it before and can follow what's happening.
Well, sure, it's an average; it shouldn't be surprising that the "happiest" places are the ones that best manage to reduce catastrophic unhappiness on the low end; that's where the biggest marginal improvement happens.
> Enjoying life is wonderful, but if everyone enjoys life, we'll all starve.

What a grim, zero-sum view. How about working and enjoying life?
Humility Index
I agree 100%. The list could be continued indefinitely.

Less positively formulated, you could also say people outside an industry are naïve enough to start something people inside would deem impossible.
So really Intel would be 100 nm, TSMC 77 nm, and IBM 55 nm, then? Those node names really are fiction.
Something I’ve noticed a lot lately is that the people who have crazy new ideas are often the absolute last people that should be communicating them to the world. I’m not sure if it comes from the insularity of academia or just a basic inability to write clearly.

My theory is that many domain experts haven’t needed to communicate with a lay audience in decades (if ever) and thus aren’t aware of their own baseline assumptions. Seems like a startup idea, maybe? Convert academic papers into comprehensible English. Two Minute Papers does this but it’s only for technology.

https://youtube.com/c/K%C3%A1rolyZsolnai

This probably applies to early Apple. Wozniak, while clearly a technical genius, needed Jobs’ communication and design skills to sell “personal computing” and make Apple a mass-market company.
UK NHS site allows your employer to determine if you've been vaccinated
If they see you pay enough for them to afford rent (which is not possible with $300 week)

It is quite possible to pay rent if you make $300 a week in parts of this country. That is why the $15/hour nationally is dumb. Let the locals pick their number for their area.
Tax codes that spell out detailed computations are de facto "Napoleonic" (civil) even in a country that applies common law to other things, no?
A project that provides credits without doing valuable research.
> The time has come to stop building obsolescence into our computers and make the small effort required to provide user-friendly distributions of Linux that support near-vintage computers.

I look forward to seeing the author’s low-resource Linux distribution; since they’ve identified that as a small-effort task, I expect it won’t take them long to ship it.
Ask HN: Please critique my internal tool idea
Hey HN!

I've recently started using Retool - not affiliated - and it's got me thinking about the evolution of rapid internal application development.

The success of Retool is (according to the founders) derived from a simple insight - 90% of internal tools are composed of the same building blocks (tables, lists, dropdowns etc). Making it easy to build these elements and wire them to a data source makes developers super productive.

The drag-and-drop UI layer opens the product up to a semi-technical user but I at least don't derive value from that feature. To me (and other developers?) it is an annoyance to have to work in a web interface away from my preferred toolchain (IDE, terminal etc).

Thus my proposal is for an open source React framework for creating CRUD applications with a simple UI layer. Features would include;

- React components for displaying + interacting with data (Tables, Text Inputs, Charts etc).

- A state-management system (essentially a port of Redux) which automatically ties the state of every UI component (text input values, selected table rows etc) above to part of the state-tree.

- An API for querying data from data sources (DBs, SaaS applications). Queries are called inline in frontend code but executed by the same server process that serves the page.

- End-user authentication handled by the framework.

Wondering what the HN community make of this proposal. Is it worth thinking about further? Thoughts positive or negative really appreciated!
It could also just mean it hasn’t been tested on anything else. But yes, the README should mention these things.
I think you're missing the fact that in most countries baseball isn't even played at any meaningful level. Bit hard to discover and further any talent if they never even tried the sport.
Graham's obviously inspired by some Kuhnian paradigms here, but in Grahamiam fashion, he doesn't cite anything to back it up.

What I find interesting where he calls most people conservative is how when I'm discussing VCs, YC, etc with non SV people is we talk about how conservative they are. YC's business model for years was predicated on finding talent (kids) that was undervalued, underpaying them (10k was the initial payouts?), getting them to pack up and move to super-expensive monocultural SV like everyone else, and then when they made bukku money, lose interest in improving the service (Reddit, Dropbox). There's nothing original there, it's the business model of carpetbaggers and robber barons. How boring.

I often feel like Jonah Hill in Moneyball, a pariah for pointing out how ancient VC thinking is. Or maybe I just imagine it. Well, it is my experience that true deep domain knowledge can only come from years of insights. People without years of experience will be lacking maturity and/or won't have time to even consider those insights. Usually people who mainly care about money, influence "becoming powerful" (Graham's words about his protege, not mine) will jump at whatever shortcut they can take instead of spending the card work necessary for learning these deep insights PG is interested in.

With all due respect, Coinbase didn't require deep insight. It was the equivalent of "You like money, too?"
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PG, you should stop the contrarian persecuted intellectual look. You're not the little guy anymore, haven't been for 2 decades.
Would be nice if sanitizer output was a "known safe" type instead of plain string.

With only strings, your API has no way of knowing if a string is safe (was already sanitized) or not.

For example, goog.html.SafeHtml

https://google.github.io/closure-library/api/goog.html.SafeH...
I don't even know if we can argue that there is an economic point to enslaving other humans (look at rates of industrialism in ex-slave owning regions).
You mean termites? I would assume that's true. But they shouldn't be a real concern with wood framed houses when constructed and maintained correctly.
My suggestion is that they did conclude that. Best proof is that there is no widespread research into UFOs funded by the government or the military.

Military even released couple of videos captures by their own aircraft, if it was anything sensitive or secretive they wouldn't release these videos to the public (and to the adversaries).
It's more that any place that doesn't censor information currently gets overrun by the alt-right, because they are pushed out everywhere else.

But yes, the effect is pretty much that.
You realize doge coin is still worth less than 10% of btc by marketcap?

Not sure I would count on that prediction.

I mean is gme going to surpass apple?
But it does. You'll never be able to find jobs for literally everyone (mental illnesses, etc.) and want some slack in the labour pool to handle seasonal fluctuations etc.

If you're literally scraping the barrel, you need to import more workers, or move jobs out of state, or automate some away etc.
Technical recruiter here.

For okay-paid fulltime roles, you won't never attract people who are after the money.
These people will always prefer juicy contracting rates to your small company salary.

You have to try to find people who care less about money and more about other perks like remote work, interesting tasks, a strong technical team, meaningful mission etc.

In Switzerland, which is my market, freelancers aren't liked at all. Someone who freelanced for too long will have a hard time getting a full-time job; people think former freelancers won't ever be loyal and leave once there is a better opportunity. (As with every prejudice, there is some truth to that.)
Yes, if you assume transistor area to be square and take the side length. In defense of existing nomenclature though, feature size originally denoted the size of the smallest distinguishable feature within a transistor, not the entire transistor.
I think it's more accurate to say "If everyone optimizes for immediate enjoyment all the time, we all starve."
Automation is coming anyway. A kiosk costs many many magnitudes lower than even an unpaid human. The unpaid human still has to go to the loo.

This is not an argument to keeping people underpaid.