skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My kids have no concept of linear TV. My 9 year old came back and told me that a friend had a broken TV as when they turned it on, the program was already half way through.

Their 'channels' are netflix, amazon and disney. When I had the choice and they were pre-school then sure, we watched things like Alphablocks on iplayer. I can force them to watch Attenborough or Blue Peter, and they enjoy it, just not enough to want to watch them over things on disney. There's so much competition of things to do.

I do watch BBC (iplayer obviously) occasionally, but the material I'm interested in isn't as accessible as it is on disney/apple/prime/netflix/youtube.

We watched Eurovision and Euro2020 (England games) this year. Aside from that the only BBC output we watched was Roadkill about a year ago, and the one Doctor Who episode which had John Barrowman in. I would watch have I got news for you, but whenever I remember to watch it, it's not on.

This itself might not say a lot, and I still have a TV license despite the limited direct value I get (listen to a lot of BBC radio, and the news website), but what's interesting is I actually work for the BBC. If my household barely watches it, where does the future lie.

Linear TVs days are numbered, but the underlying cultural links that prime time TV provided in the 60s through 90s has already gone. 1 in 4 people in the UK used to watch the same shitty sitcoms in the 80s because there was very little choice.

It's not just BBC or the UK that has this cultural difference. "It's a wonderful life" is an American classic. It is because it was shown on every channel every christmas year after year, generation after generation, and kids watched it, because it was that or reading a book.

I think Star Trek was right with its outlandish prediction from 1988. TV as a form of entertainment won't survive much past 2040 (I think linear TV will still be going in 10 years time, but probably not 30).
Problems with RSS:

1. Inconsistent implementation of standards: The implemented versions of RSS and Atom out there makes parsing more of an art than just throwing a library at it as no RSS parsing library out there can handle all the edge cases. (The last time I did a test a few years ago in an hour long sample from one of the RSS firehoses out there pulled up hundreds of custom namespaces and tag names.)

2. XML formatting: Consistently formatted, well formed XML is never 100%, even from by major news organizations. Embedded CDATA means parsing content is a quagmire of double escaping.

3. Inconsistent content: A RSS feed could just have the last few items that have been updated, with just titles or links, or it could be literally all of the content of a blog, jammed into some 20MB+ text file, double escaped and simply enlarged after every new update.

4. Inconsistent unique identifiers and HTTP header responses: Many sites will respond appropriately to requests with a 304 if there are no changes. Many will not. Many sites will give each RSS item a globally unique identifier, many will not. This forces every Reader to simply request the whole doc over and over again, comparing unique items with a blend of logic and magic.

5. Inconsistent support: Most sites that use RSS have no business model attached to it, so it's just sort of an afterthought and may be shut down at any time, and often is.

All this leads to: Massive amounts of wasted bandwidth as bots poll endlessly for updates, wasted processing time parsing unformatted or badly formatted content, wasted storage because of bad IDs and URLS, wasted effort on the user's part dealing with the inevitable errors, and wasted effort on the admin side dealing with an antiquated tech that should have gone away with MySpace.

RSS should be scrapped. Killed. Replaced. Forgotten.
I don't have much to add about it being a currency or not, just that you aren't being very clear. One moment you say its not, then the next it is, just not a good one, the next it's not again. And "not a good one", objectively you could lump just about anything into

I'm under the belief that if it can be locally commonly exchanged for goods or services is a currency. If its gold, cash, btc, or bottle caps. If its a good form of currency or not is a completely different question
> “The dishwasher is this wonderful thing but it did, in truth, produce a kind of idiot-worker in the kitchen because it took away the intuition of doing the dishes,” he tells Guardian Australia from his home in Seattle. “I want to get my hands on the thing, [like] cooking is getting your hands on what you’re doing.”

Don't let the dishwasher dry the dishes. Take them out and dry them yourself and you can make sure they're all clean.
Hilariously from the pov of this forum, Sowell is pretty much a hero of the right wing, having been formally trained as a Marxist at UofChicago only to reason his way out of that position back to sanity and then make a career of trying to educate the rest of the world to do the same.
Apple seems to be trying to occupy the quality niche though.
> We used rancher for solving our problems which did a fine job, rancher got a worse when they made the move to Kubernetes.

(Early Rancher employee)

We liked our Cattle orchestration and ease of use of 1.x as much as the next person. Hell, I still like a lot of it better.

But just as this article talks about with Swarm, embracing K8s was absolutely the right move. We were the smallest of at least 4 major choices.

Picking the right horse early enough and making K8s easier to use led us to a successful exit and continued relevance (now in SUSE) instead of a slow painful spiral to irrelevance like Swarm, Mesos, and others and eventual fire-sale.
Nissan beat Tesla by years with the first mass market EV with the Leaf. In some ways the 2022 Leaf is still a much better value than the Tesla model 3 if you don't need frequent fast charging. The price is a lot lower and the reliability and build quality are excellent.

The Leaf can fast charge and this is now included in all models, but it can only suck down 50KW vs Tesla now being able to draw 100+KW. It also uses ChaDEMO which is a fading standard, though still very common where I live. Apparently there are some converters in the works to let the Leaf charge off CCS and perhaps even the Tesla network in the future, but they'll probably cost hundreds of dollars since apparently a DC fast charge mega-dongle is not trivial.

In other news: there is now a market for dongles for cars. I have seen the future and it has a dongle.
Yeah, I read that and asked myself "Am I a garbage person?".
> If you can suggest some other ~100yo example of something a lot of people believed would solve a lot of societal problems I'd be happy to edit my comment.

Of the same sort of nature as masking during a pandemic:

Vaccinations, requiring docs to wear gloves during surgery, etc.
Proper use of 'unsafe' in Rust is to write safe code that the compiler cannot prove is safe. In fact, this is done to implement many parts of Rust's standard library. See the split_at_mut example in

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch19-01-unsafe-rust.html

The spec here is to turn one mutable slice into two non-overlapping mutable slices. The operation does not violate memory safety; we wind up with only one mutable reference to any part of the object. But the compiler does not know how to verify that the programmer has done this correctly. Here, 'unsafe' means 'I certify that this is safe, use that as a lemma to do further checking'.
> completely oblivious that many with bigger names have tried and failed to go up against K8s

Ha, I can at least assure you we're not oblivious. Nomad has a product manager from Mesosphere and most of HashiCorp's products integrate deeply with Kubernetes. We're well aware Kubernetes is the juggernaut to which every other scheduler has succumbed.

I believe there's room for both Nomad and Kubernetes. Whether as competitors or complements, having more than one vibrant project in the orchestration space will hopefully make all the projects better for users. Any one project has to make tradeoffs that improve the user experience for some while degrading it for others. For example Kubernetes has an IP-per-Pod network abstraction which provides an excellent out of the box PaaS-like experience for microservices in the cloud. On the other hand Nomad's more flexible network model more easily supports networks outside of flat cloud topologies whether it's small home raspberrypi clusters or globally distributed edge compute.
I meant that in the context of composite actions. You can't package up a composite action that can call other actions, at least not yet.
Unless the market is an autarky, it's a problem. Say you're a company that buys a bunch of components, many from overseas, assembles a widget from them, and sells it at a 5% margin. You're probably ordering your components ahead of time, because that's how it's done. At that point, significant volatility becomes a big problem.
The Case for 'Developer Experience'
Good luck with the project. Are you adding the GPS component as a hobby challenge? If it's going to be an NTP server, then it could also be an NTP client.
What do we still lack? Or: Prolegomena to any future hypertext system (2014)
Looks like this is an attempt: https://github.com/jecolon/zigstr
You're not alone in making comments like this, and as I read them I'm not sure if people are missing the point or being disingenuous.

Much of the work I've done professionally has happened in the webhosting space, and I'm not a new hand at it - the first "professional" website I ever ran was hosted off of a machine running on a Quantum R5000. I have served (and still serve) plenty of static content as files off the disk. My own first impulse when building anything is to use as few moving parts and as simple of a setup as possible.

Requests per second are not a good metric for the amount of work being done by a system, because not all requests are made equal. You say you got 3k requests out of your laptop and that it wasn't a trivial app, but you have only provided a trivial amount of information. Taking a quick look at the features provided by the site, they offer quite a bit of flexibility on both what is and how it's displayed. Filtering options based on original and translated language, adult content filtering, multiple types of search, request routing to low quality images to save on data, category and tag filtering, tracking of what you have read and what your progress is on it, follows and notifications, permissions systems for uploading and updating content, etc. This is all on top of the basic "Display images and metadata about the images" functionality.

They have concerns around privacy and being able to withstand active attackers due to the content they host. They have their own requirements about logging, analytics, etc. Their own concerns about data availability.

You could not meet the design requirements of this website and serve 2k requests per second on a 2 core VM in 2007. I'm not saying there aren't inefficiencies in their architecture and further places where they could save money/increase performance/etc., but acting like two cores of lower-clockrate lower-ipc compute from a decade and a half ago could do all of the work needed to support the features and design requirements they have for this website is pretty disparaging towards the people who built this infrastructure.
> Code review, or “Approval”, should not be a requirement for a Pull Request to be merged.

Shouldn‘t it? With all the code I‘ve seen, I think this works only in very specific projects. In all the other projects, this process will lead to many bugs in production that could have been caught by a short code review by a single person.

> People get to merge their own Pull Requests. This way they’re in control of whether their change is a “Show” or an “Ask”, and they can decide when it goes live.

Don‘t like that. It‘s a „I can decide and I can do whatever I think is best“, which will obviously not always work.
I'm in the US using a GE dishwasher. It is similar to the ones in UK - no pre-wash compartment.
PR a cloudformation template
I don't disagree with this; it seems that if you ask most people who aren't following mandates why they're not following them you'll get a lot of poorly thought out answers.

I would even say that DeSantis isn't really trying to follow science in his decisions, but more trying to align with the beliefs of Floridians.

Sweden is one country which seems to have made the right decisions, though they themselves have said they would have done lockdowns if it were legal to do so. Because of that, I'd say that Sweden is at least competent and transparent in it's democratic policies. Other countries simply made lockdowns legal, clearly subverting their own established democratic processes. Now Sweden seems to be quite happy about it's decisions though.
I've heard of issues with scheduled jobs on Github.com but we didn't have any issues so far on GHES.
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We sort of have this in the concept of a micromort: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort
If You Never Met Your Co-Workers in Person, Did You Even Work There?
> In the (post)modern world, every device should have its driver built-in (along with a CPU to run it on). The communication protocol (the command language) should be standardized for each given class of devices.

We are currently in this world. NVMe, USB, etc. NVMe for example is "just" DMA'd ringbuffers of requests and responses.

One challenge is that vendors tend to want to have "special features" that go beyond the standard command set. SCSI and SMART are examples of that pain.

> The protocol should support the ability to upload custom “shaders,” whenever this makes sense, to tweak or extend the default behavior.

This part is crazy complex and not very likely to happen. "Shaders" in the context of GPUs can work because it's a very large & expensive component and very vendor-specific already. That approach won't work for a chip that costs $2, with the additional burden of needing to have the same programming interface for competing vendors.
New theropod dinosaur occupies apex predator niche in early Late Cretaceous
Like Intel, Microsoft and Google?
https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/M6wg5Xzs
Actions > Order Board
I would say that Zig has the same advantages for a lot of these points. Its interoperability with C at the source and object level is first-class, the syntax was very easy for me to pick up as someone familiar with C/C++, the features it adds on top of C (e.g. slices, compile time execution) are few but huge QoL improvements, its translate-c utility works amazingly well at transpiling C code to Zig, and its test blocks make unit testing trivial to integrate.
A 2-big-mac lunch sounds like a terrible idea
There are large debt rounds in businesses that have cash flow, assets and huge operating budgets.

The nature of VC/early-stage is such that it doesn't fit the risk profile for debt.

Companies have no assets to back the debt with, often no consistent revenue etc..

With the insane valuations that companies are getting these days it seems to me that debt would even be more afraid.

Like Clubhouse: 15M users, no revenue, flakey product, no obvious kind of revenue model, $1B valuation. Are you going to loan them $50M at 5% interest? Consider the risk on that.

So if your startup sells some funky kind of new wind turbine, and you do the deployments yourself, you might be able to raise debt to pay for the the installs themselves, because you can do the math on that out for a few years.

So you could raise debt to finance your sales in a way like that.

But it's about a risk profile, and how far out you can predict stable cash flows.
Cunningham’s Law IRL
Who knew there were so many polymaths on hackernews
Bridging the hybrid work gaps with Google Workspace
> BBC World Service, which is an entirely commercial entity

This is not truthful - the World Service is funded by the rest of the BBC, not the other way around, and until recently was also funded by the FCO.
"I don't think it is moving towards being an authoritarian police state any more than any other western country"

The example on which this thread is based, and otherwise discussed within this thread (checking in every 15 minutes with the state or be visited by the police), is well beyond other western countries and especially the USA at this point. We'll see if that holds.
While true, I'm not sure if you're suggesting that the war on terror and its intrusions in our domestic lives have to do with risk assessment? Don't think I have to say it out loud but it's about literal trillions of dollars that have flowed to MIC, expanded bureaucracy, surveillance, gov contractors, natural resource industries, foreign allies, and a whole lot more that could be noted.
Because what I do in my so called "work" time is what I would do in my "free" time as well.
I guess I should be more specific in my wording: I should have said "advocating for specific older specs" (i.e. HTTP).

Not all older specs are worth advocating for.

Security is unfortunately an arms race, which means that broadly speaking software-updates are important for anything network-connected. Using old hardware is thankfully still possible, but the idea of expecting a 12-year-old piece of software to securely connect you to the internet today is disconnected from the reality of the threat landscape we live in.
according to 5 minutes of wikipedia research:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_Soviet

On Friday 11 April a meeting of the United Trades and Labour Council,
to which Byrne had been a delegate, took place. At that meeting Irish
Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU) representative Sean
Dowling proposed that the trade unions take over Town Hall and have
meetings there, but the proposal was not voted on.[5] On Saturday 12
April the ITGWU workers in the Cleeve's factory in Lansdowne voted
to go on strike. On Sunday 13 April, after a twelve-hour discussion
and lobbying of the delegates by workers, a general strike was called
by the city's United Trades and Labour Council.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Transport_and_General_Wo...

The union was founded by James Larkin in January 1909 as a general
union.[1][2] Initially drawing its membership from branches of the
Liverpool-based National Union of Dock Labourers, from which Larkin had
been expelled, it grew to include workers in a range of industries. The
ITGWU logo was the Red Hand of Ulster, which is synonymous with ancient
Gaelic Ulster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Larkin

James Larkin (28 January 1874 – 30 January 1947), sometimes known as Jim
Larkin, was an Irish republican, socialist and trade union leader. He was
one of the founders of the Irish Labour Party along with James Connolly
and William O'Brien, and later the founder of the Irish Worker League
(a communist party which was recognised by the Comintern as the Irish
section of the world communist movement), as well as the Irish Transport
and General Workers' Union (ITGWU) and the Workers' Union of Ireland
(the two unions later merged to become SIPTU, Ireland's largest trade
union). Along with Connolly and Jack White, he was also a founder of the
Irish Citizen Army (ICA; a paramilitary group which was integral to both
the Dublin lock-out and the Easter Rising). Larkin was a leading figure
in the Syndicalist movement.[3]

So a strike instigated by a union founded by syndicalist who also founded
revolutionary unions endorsed by the cominform, who was yet to pivot to the NEP
and still advocating global union based insurrection to trigger socialist revolution.

Doesn't mean the proto-SU planned this activity particularly, but claiming 'no connection'
when people involved were part of global revolutionary activity directly connected
to groups descending from the internationale and associated with the cominform is also just as tenuous if not moreso.
No, it feels like my reaction is akin to basic government accountability and asking why enforcement is so inconsistent. Coinbase isn't complaining that the law exists -- as in the Twitter thread, they're happy to comply with the law, so long as they know what it is!

Your analogy isn't very good. Offering a long-term financial product isn't like a one-off instance of speeding where it only last a few minutes. It's more like group A getting ticketed every day for speeding while going with the flow of traffic, and group B never gets ticketed for doing the exact same thing, and, oh, group B makes more donations to the police.

Your reaction is akin to someone who sees that going on, and says it's okay because police don't catch every speeder. "As long there aren't accidents: mission accomplished."

Believe me, I get the concept of not catching everyone. Letting a financial product persist for one company but not another isn't that!

And:

>The SEC didn't say that everyone else could do it.

Yeah ... they did. By not prosecuting the others who have already started doing it, and been doing longer, or clarifying what's different, or at least saying "oh don't worry, they're going down too".

If I'm wrong here, it's for reasons other than not understanding the concept of not catching every violation.
This feels potentially disingenuous. Why are all the graphs only until mid-April/May? Of course states with higher density populations are going to see more spread/death/hospitalizations. Counts per 100k people don't show the whole picure. How does this site clearly demonstrate that restrictions don't work? How can you know what might have happened without restrictions?
The biggest thing to keep in mind when "gatekeeping" is that it's more important to step up and take on the role of a "initiator" or "sponsor" into the culture, and pass on the community knowledge that makes the culture a special place.
Having a mentality like this seems like it will crush you when you do finally retire. No one is good at a hobby from the get go, the point is to be bad and develop a talent over time.
Crux Is Evolving into XTDB
>Well, I'm referencing a "random" number generated in someone's head, not one generated by a CSPRNG.

What is that responding to? I thought I made the distinction between which one I was addressing pretty clear.

>But with regard to CSPRNGs, an implementation can have a flaw, and we have seen these sorts of things happen, a well known example is MD5, a hash function, which are similar in principle to PRNGs, was broken.

True, but my point was that the algorithm can itself be flawed, even if implemented correctly.

The point being, yes, you have Knightian uncertainty about the real factors that cause human-generated random numbers ... but you also have Knightian uncertainty about the existence of undiscovered flaws in your algorithm.

Yes, you're much less likely to run into the flaw if you're using a CSPRNG based on a high-entropy source, but in both cases it's true, or at least, impossible to rule out, that "there are biases in it, you just don't know there are."

Edit: And, FWIW, there aren't usable cryptosystems based on P=NP, which would actually be an improvement! Most are based on the far stronger assumption that certain "NP-intermediate" problems aren't feasibly solveable.
Why not just use NTP to get time data from someone else’s (more accurate) atomic clock?