skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When in reality, "the community" is often juuuust enough accounts to trigger gray text--a fraction of a fraction of a percent of total accounts.
It cant be behind VB. No way. The only reason VB could be in a better shape is because it is in Roslyn compiler next to C#. But nobody talks, onboards or plans a future on VB.NET. The lack of interest from the .NET team is staggering. And there is no VB community as strong as the F# community.
proof of work
A Chemical Hunger – Part I: Mysteries
As human rights invading as it is, I can easily see how forced sterilization would be an effective means to curb bad genetics, such as being short or fat - or worse.
You misunderstand what this is about.

1. Having monopoly power is not illegal.

2. Misusing monopoly power is illegal.

Google and Facebook are allowed to dominate the market if they don't misuse their market power.
Imagine I was measuring the temperature in your home. I measured above your grill. Is that a good average for your home temperature?
This is Las Vegas every summer. Out of a cooler, into an oven door being opened.
1. Maintain fitness better.

2. Do everything possible to get into FAANG or other top tier tech company. Made the ignorant mistake of thinking that working in the tech departments of Wall Street investment banks and hedge funds were the pinnacle of a SWE career (I'm not referring to places like Citadel/TwoSigma/JaneStreet/etc.etc.). Ignorance is bliss. Note that this was many, many years ago when a SWE career wasn't considered as hot as it is today; plus I was surrounded by Wall Street finance types in my social circle, as opposed to fellow SWEs/technologists.

3. Related to #2, but probably move out of NYC to the SFBA.
> Why isn't there yet a Poser or Daz3D/Blender/MakeHuman/$GAME_ENGINE that combined makes it easy for people to tell tales as movies yet? It should be possible to put everything together in an interface that even a movie producer could understand, which would make it a doddle for ordinary people.

Okay, seriously? That's a really good idea right there. I personally would lean towards Blender + Godot game engine for such a project, but I'm just hugely in favor of open source in general, so… The thing to make such a tool useful though would be an easily accessible library of actors (character models), animation/movement presets/prefab library, scenery and set dressing, and an interface to tie it all together in a way "which would make it a doddle for ordinary people" as you say. I could see something like that bein' a huge boon for "storyteller" types to get a good start in the media creation arena though.
Czechs love beer, so much so that there are two taps in the company cafeteria--1 with alcohol, and 1 without.

Drinking beer without alcohol is no big deal. It can actually be quite good, though I've never found a non-alcoholic beer in the US that is worth drinking.
HN, Reddit, Kuro5hin, gaming, many places. What differentiates them isn't the tech, but the admins and moderators curation of social behaviours.
Regarding banks, we need account number portability like we have for phone numbers. One of the impediments to switching banks is that all automatic payments (and direct deposit) have to be revised.
That’s absurd. 100gb is a few bucks a month on [cloud provider]. Wouldn’t it be cheaper to expand it instead of micro managing the talent?
Half of the US is still in denial that the pandemic was a big deal after 600K+ deaths, and they are even outspoken here. And I imagine climate denialists are in even stronger numbers.

What path do you think it will be taken seriously even after the heat waves, freezes, wildfires, storms we've already been having?
Maybe I'm dumb but... I feel like a red plus sign is too simple and generic to be afforded such strict and special protection. It's almost universally understood that a red cross is synonymous with "first aid" or similar. You can keep insisting that only your brand is "velcro" and all others are "hook and loop" or whatever, but it's a losing battle and eventually you have to accept the ubiquity of the word or symbol.
> They don't feel off, they are off.
But with the popularization of apps, webapps and Electron everyone is accustomed to custom UIs for every app.

Congratulations everyone! We're so shitty at our jobs that we've once again lowered everyone's expectations!
(Intel) "second source" producer of Alpha chips and their revolutionary new design wound up in something called the "Intel Pentium Pro" that suddenly and unexpectedly revived the all but dead 808x architecture.

No. The Alpha was a RISC machine. The Pentium Pro was a demonstration that, with 3000 engineers at peak, you could actually get several instructions per clock out of x86. It was the first real superscalar microprocessor, one where what the CPU is doing inside is very different from what the programmer sees as the instruction set.

The VAX was a classic CISC machine. Way too complex an instruction set.

Amusingly, x86 turned out to be a good instruction set for superscalar machines. Not too many registers, so context switches were not so bad. Variable length instructions, so you didn't get "RISC bloat", which tended to double the size of code and cause cache misses. The fast but dumb one-instruction-per-clock RISC CPUs were outclassed by superscalar x86. You can build superscalar RISC machines, but once you've added a few hundred million transistors of superscalar logic, you've lost any simplicity advantage RISC offered.
Cross-Compiling Is Way Too Difficult, How Can We Fix It?
Yes, again, I was replying to the suggestion that 'oh it's easy no need for NDA, just share the secrets later if they get the job'. Point was it's not just deliberate sharing of secrets you need to avoid in that case. When candidates are asked to sign an NDA, it's probably not because they're going to be explicitly told anything sensitive.
"If you're reading it in a book, folks, it ain't self-help. It's help." -- George Carlin
Actually, HN is more of a distraction to me than random people popping by.
No - consider it mostly a design and infrastructure problem.

When looking at social media,
it’s part public forum that needs some type of discovery/filter mechanism, and part a tool for individual users and community to communicate and collaborate.

The barrier in current social media networks is largely skewed towards manipulative design that optimizes towards datamining and addictive gamified systems and interfaces.

Sure you could try to build a social network for open science and peer reviews of research projects, but the bar is set so low right now that any improvements to interfaces that facilitate a more comprehensive search/discover/filter system on datasets will be a massive improvement over now.

Information needs to be discoverable, but people need to be free from propaganda.
These are medical units that fall under the protections of the red cross as outlined in the Geneva Conventions.

"Under the Geneva Conventions, the three distinctive emblems of the red cross, red crescent and red crystal are intended to identify and protect medical and relief workers, military and civilian medical facilities, mobile units and hospital ships during armed conflict."

https://www.redcross.org/content/dam/redcross/atg/PDF_s/Inte... (PDF)
Design Beyond Human Abilities (2007) [pdf]
I'm sure it's quite good. I love a good ginger beer for example. However, when I'm in the mood for a good beer, this would be a woefully inadequate substitute.
This is bizarre, willfully blind take in a world where Always Sunny is one of the longest running comedy series of all time.
How can you make a blockbuster movie? Here’s how AI can help
You're comparing apples to oranges though. The 54.0 reading in Death Valley was measuring the temperature of the air - in particular, 1.5 meters above the ground. Satellites measure ground temperature - as in, temperature at the ground. Lots of things can affect ground temperature.
WeVerify: Open-source platform for collaborative content verification
You can use dual n-back as a systematized way to do this. Get them to do it for a bit uninterrupted, and then use a random beep generator to generate interruptions. Most people will score drastically lower with random interruptions.
Ask HN: Kafka vs. Nats/Jetstream vs. Redpanda – Any Suggestions?
Hmm, I'm tempted to use it for mathscr... It probably would even be more legible.
Lessons learned as a CTO from building a remote team
Conrod is targeting 3 and it does a decent job at that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZXLCVibI8c

Themes are something they would like to implement and once they have themes they could do native looking themes like Qt (which are perfectly reasonable, I'm generally very happy as a user with Qt applications across all platforms)

I agree with you there is not yet an audience big enough to justify a Qt written for Rust, but who knows, maybe something will change in the next years.

That said, when I had to do something like this, I used Qt with Rust, just because I couldn't justify the time investment of reimplementing a native looking theme on top of Conrod.
The 6800, 6502, 6809, 68000 and ARM instruction sets were all heavily influenced by the PDP-11.

The auto post-increment/pre-decrement addressing modes of the 6809, 68000 and ARM exist on the PDP-11.

The set of 2's complement branch instructions and related flags for all of them is pretty much exactly the same (well 6502 does not implement the full set).

It didn't have to be this way- for example, the instruction mnemonics could have been the IBM 360 ones..
There is a newer SICP (2004) at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7BcsI5ueSNFPCEisbaoQ...

The architecture course is 6.004, although it is a bit different than Abelson/Sussman. Abelson focuses heavily on software concepts while 6.004 has a strong hardware bent.
yes here. if no person knows if is on performence management plan all must act like they are on probation of some sort, work much extra. like dictatorship where person may be monitored any time and so always act like this.
What’s the difference? I’m looking at some now. I hate heat but I like working in my non conditioned garage, so I’ll take anything that may help
Programming isn't labor.

Or, at least, it's only "labor" in the same sense that literature or painting is labor.

Does it seem strange to you that writers or painters would want the world to see their work, even for free? It doesn't seem strange to me.

Programming is the same.
Ah, but going back up to the top, the Red Cross seems to be unhappy with in-game depictions of this reality.

Edit: Perhaps I misunderstood. I thought the Red Cross was complaining about military ambulances, hospital ships, and so on, depicted in games. In addition to less realistic uses.
Some people seem to look back on the period of time between the fall of the Berlin Wall and 9/11 as a relatively stable period in "the West".
Protip: Fn + Up/Down = Page Up/Down
To add to this, there’s a lot of neurodiversity in the programming world. A lot of people have brilliant brains that just don’t work well with interaction. I had a discussion with other people on my team recently and realized I was the only extroverted person on the team. I think it’s also worth saying I personally think I’m one of the worst developers on the team but being able to context switch is unfairly rewarded and gives business people the impression I’m way more competent than I am. Furthermore, to me COVID was the worst thing in the world in terms of social isolation and a majority of my team mates loved it. I wish respecting communication preferences Was more respected. Asynchronous and non intrusive messaging seems so much better for the majority of my coworkers
That's the point. They don't want a blocked transfer to be the first sign they could lose their job.
I’m taking you off my Hanukkah list for that one
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The example I like to use is sudoku. Often, after a day of programming, it takes me a while to "come out of it" and I explain that to my SO as if she'd been doing hours of sudoku and then had to jump into a social situation.

Similarly, if you are interrupted in the middle of a "solve" it may be difficult to jump back in - especially if the puzzle hasn't been created correctly and you are trying to "debug" which numbers conflict. Some puzzles are harder than others. At times you don't have a pen and paper so you have to keep a mental model of the whole puzzle in your head which makes an interruption that much more jarring.

Not a perfect analogy, but close enough to get me a 15 minute buffer at the end of the day and fewer knocks on the office door :D
Compose Key followed by three dashes (two and a period for an en-dash) https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/libX11/i18n/compose/e...

Also on Windows using WinCompose http://wincompose.info/
I once set my oven to 350F, does that mean my house holds the record?
> unexpectedly revived the all but dead 808x architecture

The Pentium Pro came out in 1995. To say the x86 architecture was "all but dead" at that point is not supported by the historical record.
That trailer is a piece of art. Well done.
Nobody said anything about wasted work
I should have pointed out that it's literally an exponential growth, so it'll be fine for a while until, suddenly, it isn't.

It's also very vulnerable to "founder effects" if the teams are small: a few geniuses early on make it nearly impossible to hire someone new.
Used to be with vanilla Ubuntu but switched in Mint a few years ago and haven't looked back.
King of the Hill:

> Bobby: "111 degrees? Phoenix can't really be that hot, can it? Oh my god, it's like standing on the sun!"

> Peggy: "This city should not exist — it is a monument to man's arrogance."
That document can absolutely be interpreted to say that this is blatantly illegal, but it doesn't explicitly address the question of maximum years of experience, so it's a matter of interpretation. Have they explicitly addressed this question somewhere else?

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/insight-cap... is a more recent article summarizing a court ruling from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in which, at least for the states covered by that court, it was determined that job applicants (as opposed to transfer or promotion applicants) can't bring disparate impact ADEA claims against theoretically age-neutral rules such as maximum years of experience. State or local age discrimination laws can go beyond the ADEA, of course, and some do.
this sounds delicious, I wonder how it would be if you muddled the berries a bit so more flavor was released but still chunky enough to eat. Maybe garnish with some mint too
> This is actually really cool, and something I would seriously consider for my house.

Thanks so much! Excited to serve you!

> Would you be able to handle that without too much of a dent in your costs?

Since we fully insure the furniture and depreciate it over a longer time, our goal is to refurbish and reuse most items after your subscription is completed. If you cancel sooner, chances are that the furniture is in an even better quality so we can probably use more of it. So it shouldn't be too bad if people start to cancel early, but of course, we wouldn't want too many people to do this.

> Would you offer refunds / cancellation, and then own the costs to take the furniture back etc?

Yes, we allow for monthly cancellation. We're still trying to figure out exactly how this would work because the prices are lower for longer contracts and we're not fully sure how much of a "penalty" we will charge for early cancellation. For now, we've decided that people will only have to pay an administrative fee of $1k-$3k depending on how soon they cancel it, and then we'll take all the furniture back, refurbish it, and put it in a new apartment.
True, but it isn't like the things he talks about have changed significantly since then.
This article is why I'm not a programmer anymore. It's just impossible to be a programmer in the office while also trying to be social. I don't want to sit in an office surrounded by other people and get frustrated because it's not quiet or calm. I rather talk to people and have fun.

For me, programming only works when working from home and I'm alone.
How Atila Navigates Social and Political Issues
Firefox is not a problem for me, I find the account useful for sending links and syncing the few extensions and settings I use between devices. Pocket is annoying but they do not push it very hard, I changed my default homepage to be clean of pocket articles and that was about it. I use bitwarden for passwords and FF gives me no problems.

I think the fatigue of being pressed for new settings/accounts can be wise than the thing itself. You see your device pushing some new bloat, and even if disabling it is three clicks away, the exhaustion of remembering all those frustrating settings you COULDN'T disable makes you too tired to find out. But maybe that's just me.

I agree with the author about windows through - I have a dual boot and only use the windows part for gaming. Even as featured as it is, the bloat and ads and Cortana you can never quite turn off are too exhausting for me to use it for anything else.
> It’s an odd and (I think) new phenomenon: that someone can lack the prerequisites to watch a movie.

There’s nothing new about sequels and movie series. The only difference with Marvel movies might be that they are a lot of films and they tend to be some of the most popular films.

> Even worse: no one can quite agree on what exactly those prerequisites are.

Fans might enjoy discussing nuances of different viewing orders, but I think it’s pretty undeniable that you can’t go too wrong watching them in the order they were released.
https://archive.is/eA8ND
the lime flavor is good, I swear you could be fooled thinking it was a corona with lime in a blindfold taste test
Absolutely fine by me :)
Nokia 8110 4G KaiOS can be rooted with JavaScript
I choose when to open HN. It might be more often than is ideal, but it's not mid-thought.
A useful check is to then compare the certificates presented by the sites the DNS wants you to talk to. If both paths present the same cert, you're good. If they present different certs, there's a problem.

Cloudflare's creation of fake TLS certs for sites they front-end may mess that up, though. Do you see the same TLS cert from all Cloudflare MITM nodes?
There are several studies on the relationship between vehicle weight and road wear and tear. 1 fully loaded semi does more damage than nearly 10,000 cars. The reality is if costs were assigned appropriately large aspects of life would become unworkable.
"Stuffed up" - had to be an Australian news article
Not even close. What do you reckon the highest temperature was achieved in a house?
Open Source Software and PaaS: Crisis and Adaptation
You don't need to lecture me about the just world hypothesis, I'm well aware of it thanks. The insult isn't appreciated.

You should realize that at a purely practical level collusion is far more difficult to achieve than you seem to think.

A few senior managers are going to do something super-risky without the knowledge of general counsel, the board, etc.? Something that can get them sent to prison? So their stock options go up a little bit? While 99% of the benefit goes to remaining investors? At the risk of being caught and the entire company being fined, to the detriment of all remaining investors as well?

Not to mention the senior managers need to justify to C-suite, board, etc. what their strategy is, and why raising prices won't result in the competition eating their lunch. And the C-suite and board aren't dumb.

On top of this, collusion can result in defectors as well -- company A raises prices, company B promised they would but doesn't (or lowers them again later) -- and then what?

It's not so easy. Collusion is unstable, risky in multiple ways, and difficult. I'm not saying that it never happens, but regarding large publicly traded companies, it's by far the exception, not the rule.

None of this has to do with what we wish the world was like. It's just basic incentives and coordination. But sure, have fun with your conspiracy theories.
Maybe it's just a signal for trying to come up with something interesting, or refrain from engaging in pointless comments? Voting is separate from comments, and entangling them makes for even less interesting discussions.
More specifically,

> For Nokia 8110 4G with firmware versions up to 13 inclusively, an exploit exists that allows to obtain root privilieges right from the KaiOS browser.

From GerdaOS https://gerda.tech, a KaiOS custom ROM
Last time I responded with a polite message that once they treat their non-tech employees better I would consider. Never heard from them again.
Which is probably going to be followed by a no-cost contract modification to switch out the name of personnel who couldn't possibly wait for a job as long as it takes the contract to get to approval/award. Just in my experience.
The bigger problem is that it discourages formation of high performance teams. The high performers know to stay away from established high performance teams because they risk getting cut
Yes, and that's trivial for useful business cases. Let's look at a service beyond reproach:

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/dedicated-hosts/pricing/

Wow! An M5 costs $2300 a month, which is almost three times as much as Graal licensing would cost, assuming you paid for all 48 cores ($864). Frankly, if a minimum wage job is a larger revenue stream than your "app", then you should probably do the minimum wage job instead. There's also a community edition. It's free. I think the moral outrage about anything Oracle-related is a hollow fashion statement, like a Che Guevara t-shirt.
You really think people point vents away from themselves because they don't understand how heat transfer works, rather than because they dislike having the air blowing directly on them?
Might sound strange, but beer and tomato juice is also nice if you want something more savory vs sweet. Possibly a Canadian thing.
This doesn’t make sense to me. You’re saying a water heater that uses N joules to heat water by 0.5N joules is 33% efficient? That would be difficult for most people to translate: I use 100 wh to get 50 wh of heat, which should imply 50% efficiency. As the cost to gain the end state I want is what I care about.
Yes, those poor AWS employees sure have it tough vs that warehouse division.
It's a shame that China is so authoritarian, but at least they're controlling people positively in this aspect.
I disagree, I think this kind of corporate mentality should be stomped out from existence. Employees should have a right to know if they are trending, or are on, a performance improvement plan.

Muddying the waters with corporate speak “your performance is not meeting expectations” is beating around the bush and not saying what is actually happening.
I’ve felt tremendously better since Biden was elected and, as an introvert, the lockdown for the past year and a half has done wonders for my mental health. I’m happy now than I’ve ever been (at least for the past four decades).
Does it use less RAM because it's shared with the system browser? I sure as hell avoid all the Electron based apps because of their memory consumption.

Cross-browser compatibility is not too bad these days.