skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought the author's phrasing was brilliant. The x86 architecture was terrible on purely objective grounds in 1980 and it's still quite terrible today. It stinks and it has always stunk. Intel knows this as well as anybody; they've tried many times to replace this botched Yugo of an architecture but those efforts always die because of the omnipresent PC compatibility issue that you pointed out.

Yeah, turning a Yugo into a moon rocket is impressive. But I'd have been a lot more impressed if Intel had said "No more x86 for you. It's gonna be Itanium now. It's better in every way. Deal with it."
Yes! I remember my first time at Whole Foods I asked where to find the Coca Cola and they were very rude about not carrying it.
I recently had an experience kind of like this. I run a website about a kind of niche topic. I got a call from someone at a FAANG one day working in a similar space who wanted to chat about it. I get these calls pretty regularly and agreed, always happy to chat about it. While she was showing me some of what they were working on it started to look very familiar, and I realized that a lot of the ideas had been copied from my site. In some cases they had literally copy/pasted my content. I mentioned this to her and she got uncomfortable and admitted to something like "yeah we took a lot of inspiration from your work." Frankly I don't care that much, I put the info out there to be used and use it they did! But attribution (or an acquisition offer) would have been nice.
According to memo, Walmrt has competitors. who knew

Look how well the stock is doing and has done over the past 4 or so years. to say they they are facing challenges or are struggling is overly-dramatic.

Online shopping will never replace Walmart completely. Rather both will grow together.They both serve a role. A lot of ppl do not want to use amazon or don't have good internet access or cannot receive mail easily.
Funnily enough, that's actually how grocery stores used to operate: people would bring a list of items they wanted to the store, and the employees would go get them. Piggly Wiggly (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piggly_Wiggly) popularized the concept of self-serve grocery stores that we know today. I recall that people preferred this because they could pick their preferred cuts of meat, or veggies, or what have you.
I can see how it would be useful for digital negatives too, but I don't know much about those.
By the time something goes through this many twitterfilters, whatever non-petty quality it may have had to begin with has long been boiled away. It has become a self-licking ice cream cone of internet drama—something that certainly deserves the word 'petty'. Moreover, there was a long history of pettiness preceding this.

We can't set aside your history because (a) you've been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly and (b) we've asked you repeatedly not to do that in the past. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I was going to say Walmart has exactly the feel of a US public institution like a prison, DMV, immigration and customs etc. You can get a good deal but as soon as any human effort to provide service is required all bets are off, and the whole place feels vaguely hostile.
Jobs paying $100k in California generally come with health insurance though.
So long as they give similar bans to anyone praising a violent crowd action / riot / civil unrest, then I'm ok with it.
Congratulations to the Zig team. Zig's a very interesting project for language mavens. A question - what does the Zig ecosystem look like?

Are there strong products and parsers, services, actor models, interfacing with Middleware written in Zig? Or is the theme - drop to C based interfaces to those products? What's the zen of Zig say?

What are some notable wide use applications, solutions written in Zig?
>MFA doesn’t solve targeted phishing and that’s something people keep forgetting.

any VPNs support u2f?
You only believe these things are a problem because you don’t understand positioning (in marketing terms). They are successful because of these qualities, not in spite of them.
So to be clear you are not an elitist, but you don't shop at the lower cost store, because the greeter was having a bad day and was not nice enough to you and should have known what class you are and should have shown more reverence?.
Maybe. Or not?

http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/paris.metro.minimal.txt
so then somewhat reading between the lines of your answer, the core of this issue arises from the fact that the groovy code is executing "in-process" with the rest of the jenkins server whereas other CI/CD solutions execute whatever customisations you are making outside of the actual server process itself, so there isn't a possibility that the code can "see" into parts of the code it shouldn't be able to.

I am guessing that this enables Jenkins plugins to do a lot more than they could from outside the server process (literally see and manipulate everything that goes on inside) but it does make me wonder if indeed the tradeoff there is worth it and whether for the more routine cusotmisations it wouldn't be better if it was running these scripts outside of Jenkins itself.
For those who don't know, all the wonderfulness of Logo is there because Logo is a Lisp dialect. Like they say in the ads, "If you like Logo, try Lisp!"

PS: Logo changed my life and made me want to be a programmer. PPS: We currently build back end tools with Lisp.
https://buildkite.com/docs/agent/v3/hooks indicates you can override the builtin git support with your own checkout system. Sucks having to write a plug-in but it should be short.
I don't think meritocracy is a myth. The myth is the belief that the current world is perfectly meritocratic.

It's not meaningful to say an abstract ideal is a myth when it's not fully realised, because meritocracy still exists as a relative measurement between different times and places. It still means something to say "our workplace should be more meritocratic." It would also be meaningful to say "our country should be freer," even if absolute freedom doesn't exist.
Yep, just keep walking.
I think the real reason it’s not a bigger hobby is that what you get 99% of the time is just junk.
America atleast created a society where life revolves around corporations. Your job is a big part of your identify. Corporations are part of your identity in general. Your a McDonald's or a burger king person, coke or Pepsi. private corporations run America. I think it's only natural for people to express them selves through their work
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395366
Most people in the USA are white:

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219
"The odds someone is interested enough to spend truly mind boggling amounts of energy (literally moving hundreds of mountains worth) and hundred of years to check us out after one of those events - and not even say hi - is low. That they are also so close - also low."

How could one even begin to make that kind of reasoning? Then the conclusion estimating the low probability is based on what? If I'd have to guess, I'd say otherwise - once a reasonably developed civilization (Kardashev type II and above) gets access to colossal amount of energy, there aren't that many things worth spending it (and attention in general) for. Life may or may not be plentiful around in the universe (it occured relatively shortly after Earth formation), but I'd bet sentient life is orders of magnitude more scarce, considering that it took billions for it to develop on Earth. That alone would make potential cradles for sentient life to be very interesting destinations to check once in a while. To provide here a relatable example, let's imagine a mostly desert continent, with a community living somewhere on its coast. At one point they develop enough capabilities to safely venture out in the desert and to make long journeys. How interested would they be in revisiting some oasis where they encountered some earthworms and small plants, and how interested would they be in revisiting a place (even across the continent, if that is what takes) with apes which happened to also exhibit some signs of primitive engineering?

P.S.: With all that, I still hope we're alone within a large enough vicinity, so we won't have to deal with anyone else for as long as our species exists.
The problem with the bs work hypothesis is it assumes important human work is like a horse's work. The horse spends an hour pulling a carriage, the work is measurable and continuous.

The most valuable thing humans do are nothing like that. They involve coming up with new ideas, resolving conflict, persuading people to do things, and fixing problems. No one knows how to measure this kind of work in terms of inputs and outputs and it is clear when it is happening successfully it involves a lot of downtime and extraneous communication. Also, it's often times really unclear who the key or effective people are in this kind of work even in success. So you may need ten people developing scripts -- nine of whose work is going to be cast aside-- to get the one really valuable film script. And yes, as the author points out a lot of people exploit that pretend to be doing something useful when they aren't.

The growth of this kind of work isn't a new sickness in society, it is that we need less people working like horses and we need more people doing work we can't measure the input of effort or the output of work.
Why do you think *leftist* elites?

I see no reason they would have been selective.
>Rotate keys regularly through a secure channel

the secure channel being...? The point of "complicated" solutions like this is that the complicated stuff is done by the sysadmin, not the user.
"He said if I didn't already know how to program I was probably too old because you have to learn a language when you're young"

Good, now there's more older and experienced people for me to hire in the companies I work. It's amazing how my view is the complete opposite, and I'm just 31 years old.
Funnily enough, everyone I know who works at Intel who's expressed a thought about Itanium would not agree with the statement that Itanium is superior to x86.
You're being dense and overly rigid and missing the spirit of what is being said.

Food is complex and people try to find simple rules that prevents us from not consuming a ton of stuff that's not good for us.
Just say no. They won’t/can’t stop you. Costco has it in their membership agreement but stores that aren’t memberships; you didn’t agree to it and you have no obligation to show it. Worst case you get banned.
Really, its just Lisp. So the answer is yes and there are many apps using Lisp. This (HN) is one. All travel website flight lookups are a Lisp system. And so is Grammarly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy
Best Buy checks receipts, Costco checks receipts.

Best Buy is the most confusing of these as the receipt checker is stationed about 3 feet from the last register by the door watching you get rung up and pay.
It sucks that while there are enumerable benefits to free market capitalism, there's also serious drawbacks. You tend to see the formation of mega corporations that can use economy of scale to secure and hold huge economic advantage.

Short of some breakup, or government intervention, what can be done? The system is designed to reward those who find the best market fit. The problem is, there's no brake pedal on their growth. They can absorb entire industries.
If we're throwing stones at LLVM features that don't work let's toss one at noalias
Since it just finally made sense to me... it’s basically the checkbox hack but without a sibling structure requirement. Given markup like this:

<form id="foo"></form>
<div class="target">...</div>
<div class="doesnt-matter">
<input type="checkbox" form="foo" required>
</div>

You can target `.target` with:

#foo:invalid ~ .target

Because the checkbox is required/unchecked. (And the inverse if it’s checked using `:valid`.)
Agreed. The mentoring I benefitted from was never from other programmers. Most of my colleagues have been antagonists. Elders to learn from were few. I started a book club just to have some peeps to geek with.

Maybe it's a cohort thing. I've definitely coached, mentored a lot of other people.
The cockpit door being hardened introduces its own set of problems as well, and the engine failure containment is a good point.

Though the prevailing logic on a bunker taking flight is that the engine size will be too large to be economical, which you probably factor in, Walter, but the uninitiated in the aerospace industry tend to simplify away.
I emailed them a few minutes ago and they replied to confirm that they’re able to receive email.

While I respect that you may be demanding a certain standard of their mail server’s telnet responses that Google is refusing to meet, I imagine either that you are able to send them email and simply do not wish to, or that you have consciously chosen not to be able to email anyone hosting email with Google in deference to your objections at how Google operates. In any case, whatever the reason, I wish you the best of luck with your choices.
They were misleading the government.

> Het niet uitkeren van bonussen was overigens door het ministerie van Financiën niet als harde eis vastgelegd in de voorwaarden voor de NOW-regeling waar Booking gebruik van maakte. Hoekstra had simpelweg de Kamer laten weten dat het “niet de tijd voor het toekennen en uitkeren van bonussen” is. Wel een harde eis was dat ontvangers van de staatssteun ten minste drie maanden lang niemand mochten ontslaan. Booking hield zich hier exact drie maanden aan, direct erop volgde een reorganisatie waarbij bijna 26.000 mensen hun baan verloren. Dit betrof ook zo’n duizend mensen op het kantoor in Amsterdam, de meesten van hen maakten gebruik van een vrijwillige vertrekregeling.
In 1998 a buddy and I made a site for ladder style Total Annihilation game matching site, built entirely with ASP 2.0 and VBScript. I honestly thought nothing of security. I was just happy that I got it working. I luckily had a friend who cheesed the entire site showed me several xss and sql injection attacks. At first I was happy that users could use HTML to decorate their messages, then I saw a login box appear where I know it shouldn't be...
React is not a "reactive language", and JSX is an abomination, so I'm not sure this is a rebuttal to the GP's "this sounds horrible" point.
EDIT: I was mistaken here, corrected by a response below.

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I don't think there was a way for the public health authorities to create an explicit rule about neighborhood residency without inviting lawsuits. The best they could do is place vaccination centers in more convenient locations for underserved communities, and hope that it could raise the rate of vaccination in the vicinity.

I think there were people assuming that if it wasn't against the explicit rules to commute there to be vaccinated, it must be OK, even though it might (in the event of limited supply) undermine the effort to raise vaccination rates in that specific area.
Such is the case for a lot of figures worth looking up to: tormented artists, philosophers, even scientists seem to have to forgo the layman's definition of "happiness." I think happiness is only achievable in a Sisyphean sense.

"For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it." - Victor Frankl.
I would love to be away from people who believe "If you don't know X then you're not good for programming", so if it's divisive in that way then that's the post intention and I'm happy with it. Toxicity would be the programmers who believe in that statement, so I'm dividing myself from toxicity.
From the employer's perspective, there is one type of employee that can pretty much work in any environment given that they are paid - and there is another type that needs ALL the other coworkers doing things and acting in a particular way for them to feel safe and productive. I'm not even against their need to feel safe, included, heard, or their claimed victim status, ptsd, lack of representation, whatever they are concerned with at any point in time - but it is very hard and expensive to build and maintain an environment where they will prosper - very expensive too.

A new drama every week, dealing with bad press from a resigned "activist" employee every other month. Even with sympathy towards those people, I probably wouldn't want to touch them with a ten foot pole when money and livelihood of all my employees are at stake. I'd probably just try to help their cause by other means but would not try to torture them in an environment where they'll inevitably suffer and be unproductive. Their utopia does not exist in planet earth (yet), is it reasonable to expect that to exist in a company working environment?

From a certain perspective, more is wrong with the world than right, and it is impossible to provide an environment that is "right" when most of the world is wrong. When you are the employer, you take the implicit role of building miniature model of that world in their working environment and I reckon that is impossible, at the very least very very expensive.
Ah. Thank you. That problem is caused by developers who choose to introduce breaking changes in new releases, or who don't fix known bugs. Those are common problems in a lot of software.
There is an 'in' crowd, for which the rules protect but don't constrain, and an 'out' crowd for which the rules constrain but do not protect.

I'm paraphrasing.
It's hard to pack thoughtful and mature communication into 280 characters.
> It's getting harder and harder to maintain good password practice.

I would be very curious about what you mean

Harder than when?
Twenty minutes ago I got random tanks. Now I get the expected results.
It is literally the Walmart of warehouse stores.

Sam Walton is the originator of both Sam's Club and Wal(ton)mart.

Sam's competes more with stores like BJ's and Brandsmart than Costco, which is really in a league of its own.
How a big company might crush a startup
There isn't a loss. There is nothing wrong with adding some sass to the comment if the moderator hat comes off. It'd be unreasonable to expect him to turn a blind eye to a situation where he has more at stake and better information than 80% of the comments.

Dan's opinion is only different from the average HN commentor because it leads to people being banned. As long as there is a careful separation of personal opinion from an official moderator view there isn't anything to take note of from one personal opinion.
Any post that challenges dang will likely get voted down. This is normal given his position and it's the price of admission (see my other reply to his post). People also rarely vote on how substantive your post is but on whether they agree with it or not. It's not in the spirit of HN to do this but you really can't control human behavior and people do this without being fully aware of it.

Due to how human voting behavior sort of deviates from the spirit of HN, it's a good excuse to have some people moderate the site as having an emotional mob control everything could have the entire site turn into reddit. The problem is the people moderating the site are also human and also victims of their own biases and business interests so you get hella sketchy stuff like this pinned post.

Still it's sorta good that this post wasn't outright deleted.
One great program that I recommend for Windows users looking for a plain vanilla set up is Open-Shell-Menu. https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/

It replaces the always animating Windows 10 start menu with something more simple.
It’s perfectly acceptable to do this thing (in theory), but if stories about it turn into he said/she said there is part of the context we are missing.
No offence intended by the following question, but if it’s not made clear who the vaccines are intended for, how can it be “hacking the system”? Hacking the system implies you know the intent but you ignore it and used the system in a way it was not designed.
Yes, that. = is for assignment and == is a test. The test inside your if needs == to work.
they set it up as a separate business that they made compete with their retail outlets.

Sadly, this is very common in retail, and one of the things that is destroying brick-and-mortar.

My wife works in this space and tells me that a lot of retailers, from department stores to fancy boutiques, do this.

The worst part is that since the online store is generally located in the warehouse, it gets first dibs on stock, while the stores have to do without. Some of the retail stores she works with will lose out on $20k/day because they can't get stock, but online always has it. The managers are training the customers to check online first, cannibalizing their own employees and stores. Then they send the daily reports to the stores with notes like, "I see that online did 44% better than your store in your zone today." Well, no shit. Online has stock and the boutiques don't.

Sometimes the boutiques do a little fighting back, and sort of "pool" their stock. Meaning that if a store doesn't have something a customer wants, the employees of that store will call another store they reciprocate with and try to have the item shipped to the customer from that store for free. The just-above-minimum-wage shopgirl ends up eating the shipping just so she can make her unrealistic sales goal and stay employed for another month.
I wish I could donate all of my karma as votes for this comment. I'm really astonished at how the dynamics of internet forums make so many feel like they must immediately pick a side, even when there is such little information and even when getting just a single side of the story.

The worst part about this is that when more information does come to light, it's so rare to see an "oh wow, I really shouldn't have jumped to conclusions" apology. Instead, a lot of the time you see folks dig their heels in more, lest they actually have to admit they were wrong.
While Cambodia did suffer from this, Laos by comparison was hit much harder:

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/t/tap/7977573.0003.107?view=text;...
Ok, so I shouldn't have confused the issue by mentioning Stuxnet.

The point is, failing to secure those general use computers has bad consequences.
Tailscale is Wireguard with MFA and key rotation.