skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Is Linus Torvalds a Great Man of History?
Did a free version of Unix need to happen in the environment of the 1990s, and therefore, someone else would have made it without Torvalds?

Or did he make it happen?

Would we be using something else today?
Maybe GNUHerd would have received much greater attention, or BeOS would have been open sourced?
> Our experience with asbestos, another fibre that can penetrate cells, suggests "very bad" is on the list of potentials.

On the other hand, the issue seems to be animals ingest microplastics, mistaking them for food. The thing is, the vast majority of any environment is "not food". Tiny sand particles, dust, lignin, volcanic ash. If there is one thing life is phenomenally good at, it's distinguishing "not food" from food. Introducing a poison like pesticides into the environment, or wholesale environmental change like CO2 is doing - that could and indeed is wiping out a lot of species. But I have a hard time believing another source of "not food" will cause the same scale of damage.
I don't understand why a game company is expected to have an opinion about international politics, outside of "we don't want our platform to be used for politics."

It's bad enough that Facebook mods are now in charge of deciding what constitutes the truth; don't also conscript game companies into fighting idealogical battles with foreign states.
There's a reason why he got the lightest sex offender conviction in US history. Very likely he was providing information on his associate's exploits as part of a deal. Once they knew he was squealing it was only a matter of time before they fixed their problem.
If your house is made of radio opaque materials that maybe most of your problem. Brick, stone, concrete all seriously attenuate some radio frequencies. Metal roofing or solar pannels on the roof or foil backing insulation would also contribute to signal attenuation.
For more alone these lines, what incentives can do to a company look no further than: The Case Of Arthur Anderson.
I would assume that his ideal form of revenge is to win against them in court.
I think the most likely case is he did kill himself.

The second most likely case on the long tail is that Bill Barr ordered him dead. Everything else is unlikely in my eyes.
i think this is a probably that will problem that will never go away.

we'll solve global warming first.

i.e. this problem won't be solved, we're all going to die, but back to the subject at hand....

i did read one piece of advice that i haven't taken yet myself but i might....today? a founder-type needed an MVP and said he split off a very small slice of his MVP and asked 3 different contractors/groups/people to build it on some site, maybe Upwork, evaluated them, then gave the follow-on work to the one he liked best.

this seems pretty gd reasonable to me. almost too reasonable, so i'm not sure i can believe it will work or not.

so if you were trying to spend $1k on your MVP, maybe you need to fund three separate $100 projects -- see who does best.

i'm def considering doing this now/today.

i agree with verdverm below in that the really good dev shops/devs have more work than they can handle. and everyone else is trying to scrape by in a race to the bottom in which everyone suffers, but clients (like me and you) suffer least, potentially, even if our stuff often doesn't even work.

that said, i still think there is some type of middle ground. i just haven't figured out what it is yet.

one of the 'Freelancer' posts a commenter mentioned:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27699703
Elon Musk Twitter Inundated with Scam Posts
It's out of control now

https://twitter.com/search?q=%20TAKE2021&src=typed_query&f=live

https://twitter.com/search?q=ELOPUMP&src=typed_query&f=live

Thee scammer apparently have access to unlimited number of hacked accounts from which to post from . Somehow after all these years and thousands of highly paid engineers, twitter is unable to prevent accounts from being hijacked.

It's going to get wore that is for sure. These people making too much money to stop and twitter does not care either. Unless it involves ransomware, law enforcement doesn't care either.
When learning, I've adopted the practice of picking one of: a new technology OR a new domain. Never both at once.
Do we need to get the fact checkers involved. They will debunk you faster than you can say "election fraud". now take your shot.
I don't think Epstein getting prosecuted in the first place was part of the script. The people who had him killed have enough power to pull off much more complex undertakings.

Don't forget about Ghislane Maxwell. Keep an eye on that story as well. Let's see how it plays out.
Ask HN: Is there software like xiphos for the study of the Quran in English?
Same in Europe at least for VISA/MC, the parent probably used a non-card payment method.
I don't think borrow checking plays a significant roles in most projects compiling performance. Running `cargo check` generally runs a lot faster (after the first run) than `cargo build`, even if it runs borrow checking, etc. AFAIR macro expansion, LLVM code generation and linking takes a lot of time, but it depends on the project.

In the perf site you can see some examples: https://perf.rust-lang.org/
The Invisible Tech Behemoth
Timing of COVID was a life saver for Moderna. I appears..
That's not a real solution because education is mostly at the hand of governments, who are close to the said corporations. And the even if people were more critical about what they read, it is not that helpful since all the media outlets are controlled by the same people and thus pushing the same narrative. Without any alternative view it's hard to even think of something.
> they serve a very nice lunch or dinner for $1.50 or $1.25 (iirc).

During covid, they're charging nothing at all.
Who WAS Apple's customer base during the classic MacOS era?

I remember Apple II's dominating when I was in school back in the 1980's. Then in the 1990's when I was in college, all I remember seeing anywhere were PC's. DOS and then Windows for the masses, and this new thing called Slackware Linux for many of us in the CS department.

In the 2000's I started hearing about Macs, but only for creative domains like Photoshop or video editing. Then the Intel CPU switch happened, and today I'm on a MacBook just like pretty much every other programmer I know.

What was Apple's "niche", and who was their "base", back in the 1990's?
Honestly the first two paragraphs of this article alone indicate that this article is a polemic intended to stir up a pogrom against so-called elites. This isn't intellectually gratifying: it's an angry political screed.

Furthermore, as a Jewish person myself something else jumped out at me: there is a long, long, long history of the word "elites" being associated with control over the media as an antisemitic dogwhistle. Any Jewish person will read this, see "the media is controlled by elites", and immediately understand that this is a restatement of antisemitic conspiracy theories that are over a century old. This article is wildly irresponsible.
Perhaps the generated C isn't as portable (endianess, byte alignment, etc).
Yes it is easier.

Some setbacks may hurt my confidence in my first startup journey. Now I would just drink a cup of coffee and keep working.
Ha! I'm delivering value to the project in exchange for money.

I can't help if that value is being squandered by others.

You could give my buddy some money if you want though.

Consider it economic stimulus!

You could give me some as well!
> Even the mentioned heuristic was for decades being implemented incorrectly until one individual came and demonstrated its superiority (K. Helsgaun).

Does this mean that the Linkern program in the Concorde TSP suite is also implemented incorrectly?
If the goal is to have more women in tech, the messaging is wrong. If women in tech are "so angry all the time", that does not encourage a company to hire women, women to enter the field, or parents to encourage their daughters to consider a tech careers.
I touched a 1500 year old olive tree in Antalya, Turkey. Almost a sacred experience.
I get that it's not about cakes and websites. But the legal system can't force someone to do their best work for you. It can't be illegal to not do your best.
Brilliant and horrifying - I love it.

It's a transpiler that puts "await" in front of every expression, resulting in code like:

(async () => {
async function fetchPageBody(url) {
return await (await (await fetch)(await url)).text();
}

async function sleep(ms) {
return await new (await Promise)(await (async (resolve) => await (await setTimeout)(await (async () => await (await resolve)()), await ms)));
}

const body = await (await fetchPageBody)("https://enable-cors.org/");
const numDivs = (await ((await (await body).match(/<div/g)) || (await []))).length;

await (await console).log("Number of divs:", await numDivs);

await (await sleep)(2000);
await (await console).log("This prints after two seconds.");
})();
IIRC while there are UHF RFID systems that can give rough physical locations, a clear line-of-sight between the reader and a UHF RFID tag is needed to get an adequate signal. If another book were on top of the book with a tag, that tag would probably not be detectable.
I understand that there are probably some weird edge cases where this could cause an issue

But I've been doing this for years and so far haven't ran into it

I really don't have the mental energy to fight with people over package managers -- it's just not worth it.

> your colleagues and you may have slightly different behaviors in development (on top of desync'd dependency trees).

Yarn and NPM both take a "package.json" and install the dependencies so that you can import them though.

If I have "express" in my package.json and do "npm install" or "yarn install" -- the functional outcome is (and always should be) the same

Unless you're using some package-manager specific behavior so that it only works properly or relies on particularities from either yarn/npm/pnpm whatnot, I'm not sure I understand how this could cause problems

But also, you're the lead maintainer of Yarn and I'm just some schmuk who's been on the consuming end for the last many years. I reckon you've got a fair bit more clue here than I do.
Also making a lot money off what is essentially a huge casino. (games that use Addictive Gambling Mechanics to sell Micro-transations)
I follow this pattern as well along with one caveat: I refuse to cut and paste code while learning.

I require myself to retype any examples, stack overflows, and so on in the process of learning. Along the way, I get a handle on the patterns of the language. And if I'm learning in an IDE, the autocomplete suggestions start to hint at the other functions within libraries, etc.
They were the previous stop for Bezos, were they not? That was why the GAO was even directed to look into this.
Can you give a citation on that? I’ve seen rather, well, creative interpretations of Bible verses online before, and I’m wondering if the text actually supports this translation.
We’re talking about an unoptimized 1990’s 44mhz CPU here aren’t we?

How is it at all comparable to a relatively state of the art 2014 laptop?
At some point the values have no deeper meaning and are just whatever VW decided on as their API. DBC files have concepts of enums, but that’s really diminishing returns and wouldn’t make the code that much easier to understand.

Also sometimes there are fixed values in the message that we’ve only observed as static data. Ironically that makes it impossible to reverse engineer what they mean. So those just have to be labeled as hardcoded value.

Those are actually magic. Those are the ECU firmware identifiers from the manufacturer that are used by openpilot to recognize which car it’s connected to.
I was unaware of the merger, sorry.
Maybe the standard in Pakistan is above ground cables on telephone poles? I would assume an experienced professional would be able to tell which cable delivers power and which delivers phone service with a glance.
If actual controls engineers are involved, it's probably going to a be a terrifying blob of C autogenerated from Simulink or something like that.
You clearly don’t understand this topic from the inside so allow me to explain the common trap you are caught in.

You just pointed to bullshit. Not your fault, someone wanted you to think that. But I can promise no one even remotely associated to guns believes this. No. The number of firearm owning households has not decreased. That’s propaganda and you just don’t know any better. I’ve seen it as a competitor and a trainer, new gun owners are making up these records - not as Michael Bloomberg (the single biggest source of gun control money in the world) would have you think. The number of concealed carry permits are at record numbers. The number of training outfits has never been higher. The numbers of protestors for 2A civil rights has never been higher. The only place you’ll see otherwise are antigun outfits with extremely questionable methodology.

The question you should be asking is why do you have your sources lying to you and what else have they lied about?

So right off, you use a lie that is sold to you as comfort food. “Dont worry, it’s just the same few horders trading guns to each other, they aren’t a majority, you are”. Then you use that to make a completely evidencless assumption that less guns equals less crime - when we only have correlation of the opposite.

So… while I really don’t like to apples and oranges… In 1997, Australia banned most all good defensive firearms. They also nearly doubled police per capita. Crime fell! But… in the USA crime fell by a greater amount over the same time period with no ban and only more guns added.

So again; there is absolutely zero proof that less guns equals less crime, especially when faced that more guns hasn’t made more crime.

> So my naive read

Indeed. But the worse part is you don’t want the truth. You are looking for the lie. And going far to find it, why is that?
Money spent on equipment to discourage China from killing people.
> we need to see Blockbusters so that the money can trickle down to independent filmmakers and riskier ideas

Did they ever expand upon how this trickle effect supposedly happens?
I'm entirely prepared to accept that someone in his position would attempt suicide, but from everything I've read, it seems implausible that he coincidentally happened to choose a time to do so, precisely when it would leave no evidence. If he did kill himself, it only seems plausible that he did so when he did because he was told that he would be able to go through with it.
the crypto code actually has some 68020 assembly (credit to the mbedtls devs), it could probably be made faster, but I would need to sharpen my assembly skills a lot

doing the initial key exchange before timeout is barely possible for a 68030 at 16MHz, takes the better part of a minute!

of course, on the later PPC machines it's a complete non-issue
> Occam's Razor says suicide.

Are you allowed a razor in prison, though?
Here is a link for those like me that had a vague recollection of the name, but had forgotten most of the details (assuming that you meant “Andersen” rather than “Anderson”):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen
If he's killed because he knew to much, why's she still alive?
There's openpilot code, and then there's panda code that runs on a separate real time micro chip. All the safety relavent code runs on the panda, and it's written in C following misra c guidelines. They also comply with iso 26262.

See more info about their safety model in the safety architecture section of this blog post.

https://comma-ai.medium.com/how-to-write-a-car-port-for-open...
This might be so, but the way that the BBC operates is pretty incomprehensible in many cases. I worked for them for several years and know of what I speak.
Square Milk Jugs
Wonderful game. I loved exploring the protagonist's apartment, full of books and clockwork mechanisms he tinkered to better understand his new mechanical body.
For me the company lost a lot of my respect when they released Starcraft 2 without LAN support. The game was destined to slowly die.
What principle? Are you saying you weren't disputing the principle that there are two different kinds of things that people call "censorship", in practice and in theory?

It is a difference in kind, not degree.

You can have an arbitrary number of rules, enforced by human and machine, for acceptable behavior in a forum. I think that's basically the case on HN or reddit.

But if you have an optimizer that filters and reorders things on top of that, then any particular item that is moved or removed is not against any rule. And nobody can really say why, even if they are informed of what happened.

The latter thing is what many people, including me, think is terrible, and the distinction is not fuzzy even if you can call it all "censorship" or "curation".
You’re young aren’t you.

The color palette is to evoke the old amber monochrome crt displays.
Politics isn’t _really_ a thing that you can pretend doesn’t exist and operate in isolation/ignorance of it.

You can’t pretend it doesn’t exist (see the “no politics in my video games/comics please” argument used by some gamers) because it a part of, as much as a function of, any given culture. This doesn’t mean of course, that we require every company to lay out some kind of political guidelines that they’ll support/abide by, but it does mean that when something happens culturally, and the politics “rears its head” that something will need to be done, or some position will need to be made.
> The acceptance of fiat in a transaction is not enforced.

I don't know what jurisdiction you're in, but if you happen to have any USD lying around, you'll see a note that says 'This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private'—this refers to legal tender laws which, in the US at least, means that if you refuse to accept USD for a transaction within the United States, then the debt is legally unenforceable. I don't see how that squares with what you've said above, but if I've misunderstood you (or there are different rules where you live), please correct me.
The lead here was the lead used in leaded gasoline. It was lead in the air.
Both of those books are about WIP (work in progress). The Goal describes a systematic way to figure out where your production process is getting bottlenecked, and then how to alleviate the constraint and improve overall throughput. The first step is to identify the largest pile of WIP waiting for a particular process step.

The Phoenix Project extends this same methodology to IT processes, which is challenging because unlike physical production processes the workflow (and piles of WIP) are often hidden in databases and ticketing systems (which have an infinite capacity!). Furthermore, the process steps are often not even systematically documented, which makes it impossible to pin down your capacity in the first place.

Personal productivity is definitely more like the latter, since we are capable of holding quite a bit of invisible WIP in our brains.
I'm still hand-drawing pictures and linking images to do app-mock-simulaton. All the tools seem too complicated for me
What's the right ratio though?

I try not to get angry about "the bottom 20% eats 90% of the cheeseburgers" stats until I have a reasonable benchmark, or I have a really deep understanding of the "why" and "how" of a given disparity.

Two children raised in the same house with the same parents never have equal outcomes - I don't expect it anywhere else either (as a default assumption).
What is xiphos?
This sounds like a great idea (I recently moved and ikea bookshelves are out of stock) but i’m sure my cat would have other plans with stacks of books.
Another aspect is that most of the people in working low wage jobs who may have been living on their own or with roommates eventually had to abandon them and move back in with their parents, or find more roommates.

The people who worked these jobs may simply be gone. And with COVID lingering, there's no reason to leave current stable living situations even if they're still relatively broke.
There's a bootstrapping problem to all these decentralized communities though. Because you need to be slightly technically adept to create, run, or even hear about such instances, all these platforms are innundated with psychotic nerds. I like free software, I think Marx was right about most things, but I can't think of a bigger waste of time than hanging out with a bunch of mentally ill furries and groomers.
"NASA is a jobs agency." is pretty clear.
How the English language became such a mess (2015)
Doesn't this subthread belong to the Blizzard Entertainment topic, not the Crossrail topic?
So, firstly, I deplore the behavior that's been exposed recently. I hope the people responsible and their leaders end up getting shut out of the industry, sued and/or criminally charged as appropriate.

But I wonder if those hoping aloud that this saga kills off Acti-Blizzard are indulging in wishful thinking.

Isn't it likely that this is yet another so-called PR "disaster" that the vast majority of customers won't be aware of, won't care about, and won't be willing to shed one of their hobbies over? Most Blizzard games are designed to be more than just games to their customers. They're built to be a part of your life. Blizzard is perhaps the best in the industry at this. They've done horrible things before, as documented in this article, but it hasn't really mattered. The users are hooked and business is booming.

"Blizzard's reputation collapsed." The question is, did it collapse among a significant number of their actual customers, or did it mostly collapse among a vocal minority of Twitter and Reddit users?
Right, and Amazon is providing the data in a commonly used format.
unfortunately, file transfer isn't in yet, but it's the next feature I'm working on, probably within a week or two
They have a seperate device that enforces more conservative limits than what the car allows.

https://comma-ai.medium.com/how-to-write-a-car-port-for-open...

Any safety limits like on the eps firmware stays intact and aren't bypassed.
I don't think that's a coincidence. He knew his suicide watch was expired. The story about broken cameras was exaggerated because no cameras were ever pointed at his cell. Only one camera of many malfunctioned. There was ample evidence showing no one approached his cell. I'm also assuming the sleeping guards happens all the time at every jail and just never makes national news.
> There's another approach to making CRDTs fast, which I haven't mentioned here at all and that is pruning.

Pruning is a key thing I appreciate about Yjs, because it's not just a performance optimization - it's a privacy feature. Users often expect that if they delete something from a document, it's gone unless they have explicitly turned on document revisioning. A CRDT without pruning leaves every accidental paste or poorly phrased remark in the permanent record.
no, the knowledge frontier expanded. To reach the point where you have a good idea you must be exposed to a lot of existing knowledge (as well as bad ideas), which by itself increase every year.

Hence just to become a professional in a subject, you must spent 10-20 years (probably also getting an advance degree), until you can start having good ideas.

So I would say that the amount of good ideas is inverse to the amount of existing knowledge taken by some growth rate.