skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mean to devalue your experience, nor imply that it is somehow less valid due to it happening to be our society's default "happy ending", for clarification.

If the default happens to work for you, that's awesome, and in fact it's probably what will work for most people - otherwise it wouldn't be the default.

I'm just against considering alternative ways of finding happiness or purpose as consolation prizes, bittersweet stories, or somehow less valuable or beautiful than others. There's effort in keeping a marriage working for decades; there's also effort in daring to leave an unhappy comfort zone to find better ways, or simply to learn to live life in your own terms if "the one" never appears for you.
GitHub was built to host source code though.
According to a company that makes substantial profit off of a controversial product, said product is safe and effective. Science has spoken, folks, there is nothing harmful with young women trying to compete in an online beauty pageant for the entertainment of creepy strangers.
It's all Apple. The problem was that the hardware was released before it (including compatibility with the available software) was ready. It's a hardware release problem. The software that was released before the hardware was fine with other devices as the post is reporting. If a Tesla fails because of software, who cares about the distinction?
Sure, there are bad employees at all levels. I've seen plenty of bad/lazy developers in my time too. In fact I was probably on my way to becoming one when I decided I needed to do something new with myself after 20 years of coding.

Also, some of the work a manager does is invisible to the people they manage. In fact I would argue that the "good" work is often the most invisible of all the work.

So when that role, at some level, is responsible for you being able to do your work, whether you see it or not, calling it "not real" feels even more naive.

But yes, there are absolutely bad managers out there. I agree with you on that.
Other than adulthood being postponed about a decade how is that any different than it was was at any other time in history?
tl;dr: people with commercial drivers licenses can get much higher paying jobs doing other types of driving.
I should add that QubesOS has the only secure X environment ever. The central VM ("dom0") controls the actual screens and input devices. Each VM runs its own X server, writing to a raw memory buffer. dom0 copies window contents from those buffers to windows on the real screens, and forwards input from events that address a window to (only) the right VM.

SpectrumOS is built around Wayland instead.

Microphone and camera streams are, likewise, forwarded from dom0 to whatever VM you select to receive them, if any. USB gadgets you plug in, similarly, may be operated by the VM of your choice.
> This is even more sad when contrasted with the illegal immigration crisis at the southern border.

There's no illegal immigration crisis at the southern border. There are occasional refugee crises and most critically a mistreatment crisis (the latter exacerbated by the people that have, for political purposes, also invented the myth of an illegal immigration crisis), but actual illegal immigration has been low, not a crisis, for some time.

> We are rewarding criminal entry into the country

Uh, no, there are lots of things you can make colorable arguments about about no-visa entry on the southern border, but that it is being rewarded right now is not one of them.
> Sorry we killed too much, ops, our mistake...

53 protected cetaceans more were killed this week
Oooh. Thank you so much for pointing out the VS Code integration....

Five years ago, Leo was my main note-taking-while-dev-and-doing-projects application. Then I switched to Emacs and Org-mode. And more recently JupyterLab plus Markdown in VS Code.

This will let me go back to Leo, while staying inside VS Code :)
http is not a networking protocol in the sense I meant. It's an application level protocol. Although you can still write a server that implements only http1.1 and it should still work fine.

A lot of the things that you describe as changing don't really need to change.

Operating Systems? Windows XP was probably the best windows, and it's from nearly 20 years ago. Looking at Windows 10, what exactly does it bring to the table? It's a much worse experience overall.

Compilers don't need to change either.
I believe it's up to the programmer to implement this. Here's some code from the zig github[1] page that illustrates how it might look once zig is stable (this is from an issue).

pub fn write(file: *File, bytes: []const u8) usize {
// Note that this is an if with comptime-known condition.
if (std.event.loop.instance) |event_loop| {
// non blocking version
} else {
// blocking call
}
}

So I guess functions that don't support async could just do something like:

if (!std.event.loop.instance) @compileError("X function only supports async");

[1]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1778
Yes, that roughly matches my understanding as well, which is why I was curious what the actual criticism of your comment would be, in case you and I are both missing something.

From the fact that even that neutral curiosity was downvoted, I'm inclined to believe that there is no such substantive criticism beyond "Facebook bad, me angry". Sometimes I forget how poor the quality of the average HNer has gotten.
is there docker support?
Types of driving that also don't involve dealing with other peoples' children.
My biggest issue with all digital is that it makes discovery more difficult.

I recall as a child seeing books of my relatives and family friends and having my imagination sparked by them. Or just flipping through a book, not being able to read or understand it, but just looking at the pictures.

I've gone so far as to buy some coffee table books and visual dictionary books and atlases for my son just to spark that same feeling of discovery.

I think we are going to lose something important there when everything is in a digital playlist locked up into a proprietary platform that may not be around for more that a dozen years or so.

I know that my comments are more specific to books, but this also applies I think to music, and art, any visual medium.
How often are changes in your web app directly warranted by a new init system or HTTP protocol? Does your code directly depend on what init system is running it, or somehow become unusable if it doesn't understand the latest HTTP version?

If yes, just what the hell are you making?
"bigger than a Martian moon": That wouldn't be difficult. The martian moons are absolutely tiny. So tiny in fact, that some astronomers had even theorised that they might be artificial. (That was before we were able to actually see that they weren't.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Mars
Fair point, I have no proof of that happening. It just seems like an easy way to sell data that shouldn't be sold for various reasons. If it hasn't happened yet, it is only a matter of time.
I'm sorry you've had that experience.

In my early career, I never had any managers, we were just "the developers" and left to figure stuff out on our own..

But in the last 5 years of my coding career, I had some excellent managers who really helped me grow and do my best work, which is what inspired me to go that route myself and try to do the same for other developers who are earlier in their careers.

I will say, there actually is formal management education. It's just not often a requirement for promoting developers into management positions, and a lot of time the people who get put into those manager positions are either the least-good coders, or people who don't want the job but take it to get the promotion and (maybe) salary increase. And once they're in the roles, they are not properly trained or supported in the new skills they absolutely need to do a good job.

That's not a recipe for success... but it's also an organizational problem just as much as an individual problem.
Or maybe Facebook.
You ignored that China limits religious expression and puts people in re-education camps. That’s not propaganda, that is the actual situation. They also make an enormous point of trying to portray themselves in the best possible light. That’s why their news media is extraordinarily censored. That’s why people trying to spread virus information by text had to use ridiculous circumlocutions to avoid the automatic banned-phrase detectors.

Russia has sham elections where Putin always gets 99% of the vote. It absolutely tries to pretend it’s a democracy.

There is an obvious moral appeal to democracy that is inherent to the idea. Likewise guarantees of human rights. China and Russia could embrace these ideals for real and have the same moral high ground, but that is obviously not the state of things, and the fact that they are both run by leaders not accountable to a real vote is why I they are unlikely to change soon. At least the US has means to course correct.
Ahh no I haven't, if that's not working then it might be better to stick with subsonic...
Its like Big Tobacco telling us about studies they have done on the damage caused by smoking.
So ”full self driving” in the car world is just marketing for “assisted driving”?

This is why we’re never going to have self driving cars. If everything that they say in the industry has to be taken with a grain of salt, why would any city agree to take on that liability?

Doesn’t even matter if the tech saves lives. You can’t even be straight about what you can deliver.
You might be interested to know how we're honoring him today in the rationality and effective altruism communities.

We've set up big red buttons on each site that 100 core users of each site can use to 'nuke' the other site. If 1 of those 100 users enters their launch codes, the other site goes down.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EW8yZYcu3Kff2qShS/petrov-day...
https://archive.ph/bJCvG
anyway you can just skim through the altcrtl+Fn buttons untill you find the alternative screen root shell I left logged in.
I don’t know about you, but I put a coat on when it’s cold or rainy and I’m going outside. The alternative is being wet and cold.

I’m not sure what wonderful part of world you live in, but for me, dressing correctly for the weather is a basic requirement for comfortable living. Assuming of course you ever want to leave your home.
I guess I'd say that our genetically encoded behavior has a good track record over many millions of years of latching onto what "the right thing" is. That's quite a few chunks of 100k years that it was "outdated" yet still did ok given the conditions.

I agree our slow-to-respond genetically encoded behavior/values might not be fully optimal for survival in the modern world. And that there are now threats ("evils" maybe) that our emotions fail to correctly respond to.
> You compared an ID.4 to a LeMans car.

Nope, I never mentioned the ID.4.

> They can only compete on a very restricted space

Supercars are a very restricted space. That's why they're so expensive and produced in such low numbers. People don't buy them to do grocery shopping.

> Linear fit? Really?

Yes. You should check the circuit layout between 1975 and now.

> F1 rules, for almost 100 years, have been about slowing the cars down.

False. F1 lap times have increased at historic circuits. In 1991 Aryton Senna qualified at Monaco with a time of 1:20.344. In 2021 Lewis Hamilton qualified at Monaco with a time of 1:10.346.

In 2020 Lewis Hamilton set a new record for the highest average speed around Monza:

https://www.racefans.net/2020/09/05/264-362kph-the-stats-of-...
Yes. Windows is extremely backwards compatible. This could be, ironically, one of the reasons some people don't like it too much. See Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing [1] for some technical details.

[1] http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780321440303/samplech...
I use Finamp with Jellyfin for audio

https://github.com/UnicornsOnLSD/finamp
Yeah, it's really annoying that Twitter is following Instagram on the "fuck unregistered viewers" path. Looks like they're really desperate for the last bits of growth…
> Instagram is literally killing thousands of kids a year.

Even if I accepted your premise (which I don't). I don't think those words mean what you think they mean.
I had a lot of pain, started stretching my fingers and it was gone in a week. Can recommend.
How is making it look like one adversary hacked another adversary when it was really the CIA evidence against them fighting evil empires? It is exactly what I would expect them to do against an evil empire.
1) aesthetic is more novel than polygons, which are currently much more widespread (note: novel does not necessarily equate to "better" looking).

2) The finite limitations "leave more to the imagination" - in the same way that low resolution pixel art might, vs a high resolution vector image.

3) A very minor factor, but worth noting: not only are voxels visually novel, but they are technologically novel - in order to make a competitive voxel engine, you typically are not using an off-the-shelf engine like Unreal or Unity (though you can, and there are many voxel pluggins for these engines). Thus programmers are drawn to them (IMO) - they are an easy way to visually show off your technical know-how, just as you might many other effects in the demo scene.

4) A false sense of nostalgia - voxel engines never were very widespread, and the closest thing in the early days tended to be height-map driven rather than volumetric (the earliest notable exception being Voxlap). But the "nostalgia" exists, just as it does with synthwave (most of which does not fully mirror any music of the 80s/90s).

5) Voxels are point-based volumetric representation and thus are much easier to use for procedural generation (vs describing a surface, which is much harder). Though voxels are often wrapped on the surface with polygons, this is trivial (vs, say, describing the polygonization of a metaball without using voxels).
Sorry, I didn't read your 20-pages presentation.

I deal from time to time with people from Poland: some do really want to be helpful + are extremely competent + take over ownership/responsibility, others are the opposite => up to your HR department & you to identify the right people. In general they love to talk and are likeable people, many have a drive to really deliver stuff :)

No idea about Romania & Belarus - I would be careful as as much as I know they aren't hosting competence centers for any major company (but I might be wrong).

Personally I would especially take into consideration as well the Czech Republic, but that's just my personal opinion.
Oof you're 100% right; definitely missed this.
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Back when I was involved with shipping server products on a raft of different Unixen, this was a major issue -- code written originally on, say Solaris, would run like a dog on HP-UX because it fetched the time constantly.
There’s another- I don’t think you have to feel betrayed and victimized to simply tire of that dynamic and lose interest in it.

It’s a big world and there’s more to life than making software for corporations.
> your app is going to be responsible for a significant number of suicides. No matter how FB spins this, it’s just disgusting.

It being “disgusting” may well be true, but doesn’t follow logically, and therefore needs more argumentation than what you’ve given here. It’s entirely possible for something that causes deaths to be worth it from a utilitarian perspective. Cars (and industrial development in general) are the cliché examples.

Disclaimer: I worked for Facebook in the past, but my opinions are my own and haven’t changed much since before I worked there.
> The martian moons are absolutely tiny.

One of them is exactly the median size of a moon of a terrestrial planet in our solar system, the other is the closest moon of such a planet to median size that isn't exactly the median.

Earth’s moon is just gigantic.
I am in your shoes, and while I agree that the lock-downs have been damaging, I (and I think a good percentage of Australians) believe that not locking down would have been a lot worse. It was probably the best of the range of bad choices available.
To be a bit more obvious: I am afraid. I am not telling other people to be afraid. But I am very curious about the general public's view of this technology.
This is going to sound really stupid, but get bloodwork done for a vitamin deficiency.

As one ages, nutrient absorption wanes. You often need more, to get the same as when younger.

So even with an unchanging diet, you may have changed.

Working out is the same, eg a 30 minute walk may require a 35 minutes, 40 minutes, for the same cardio benefit.
It's not a mental illness. It's a strategically placed line to fend off a specific crowd that will call you out for complaining about something when you are in a perceived privileged position.
I trained as a school bus driver, and I agree with both of you, but especially the dealing with children part.

I quit my job as a bus driver on my second day because I was stressed out about hurting kids. (Yes, I know school buses are among the safest vehicles on the road; it was an irrational fear.)

But the other part of the equation is the schedule.

You are hired as a part-time employee, no benefits, but the schedule is such that finding a second job is unlikely. In the district I trained in, the schedule was 6-9, 12-2. Those are awkward hours to work around.
No co-worker is going to give you advice that doesn't serve their own interests first.

I strongly disagree. Plenty of people are self serving, but friendship and mentorship is possible in the workplace. This says a lot more about the places and people that you have worked with than something universal. Alternatively, if this is a mindset that you bring to interactions with co-workers, you might just be getting it reflected back to you.
Please defend this behaviour

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/old-coal-plant-i...

Its not unique either. There’s a company in the U.K. that bought an old coal plant, to convert to gas operators, to provide power solely for a crypto mining operation.

Simple fact of the matter is that it currently cheaper and easier for miners to use fossil fuels, then build renewables. Which is exactly what they’re doing.
>not something more tangible like intelligence

You can, and people did, there are published studies on this and its not well marketed because it is something that some people would really rather not read. The illusion of a world where everyone is equal is very conforting and some people have fought very hard to keep it that way.
Why would you give up actually doing real work?

Building something past a certain scale requires people to work together and building a system of people working together is just as much an interesting challenge as building a computer system of components working together.
Surprising they decided to include those bar charts because don't they suggest that not only is social media bad for 22% of teen girl's body image, but that it's even worse for loneliness and sadness and social comparison and fomo! For some things, more than 50% of respondents said worse. That, paired with the title (which comes off as a bit sardonic, over text) "But, we make body issues worse for 1 in 3 teen girls", as if FB is pointing to some slight positive sentiments as counterbalancing the negative things.

edit: ah I might be misreading this; apparently it's a measure of e.g. of the people who felt sadness to begin with, IG made it more/less/no different.
Then use a Beaglebone? TI documents everything.

And x86-64 really is a really complex platform to develop from scratch for. Have you seen the C ABI specification for it?
Seems like the world had close to another moment like this with Milley/Li over the recent presidential transition in the US.

Is it going to require the use of nuclear weapons on a global scale before humans decide to abolish them? I think it's just a matter of time before politicians with a wish for mass death finally bring it to us.
Like so many things, it only seems awful in retrospect. Perhaps it is time to revisit the indentation implementation Hacker News code and change it to use nested lists for threads. (I wonder how HN is implemented and how the code is updated. It could be anything from a single file lisp program running over a single text file to a whole cluster of more traditional specialized servers. (Is it rude poking around DNS looking for clues about a backend implementation?)
Silverblue has some promise. However, at this point, security is not a consideration. Toolbox is nice, and gives some of the convenience that you get from Qubes, but unfortunately none of the security.

Code running in a toolbox container still has access to the user's home directory, and based on the bug reports on the topic, there are no plans to address this limitation.
Does this point to a solution in the form of using smaller vehicles that don't require a CDL?

School buses are super inefficient because kids are all spread out, so you end up driving a huge 6 MPG diesel a lot of miles to pick up 40 kids. Or worse, driving it a lot of miles to pick up less than 40 kids.

If you used smaller vehicles to pick up the same number of kids, you would need more of them, but they would each only have to cover a fraction of the bus route, and they get much better mileage.

The main reason not to use smaller vehicles is that you need more drivers. Not as many as you would have additional vehicles, because with shorter routes the same driver could cover two of them in the same time. But if you're all out of CDL drivers and there are a surplus of, effectively, Uber drivers, then that goes the other way, right?
Labor productivity: Agriculture up 16x since 1947, but 0% in construction
I think the analogy is to “domain” meaning “the set of valid inputs to a function”. A business domain is the set of entities a particular piece of software is designed to work with. It’s a fuzzy “philosophical” term, but it’s not useless and paying attention to these seemingly arbitrary concepts makes a system much nicer to work in.
I'm chasing that FIRE
At least here in Argentina long distance real state investment is full of scams. Someone buys a part of a nice house, but it's actually a roten wood cabin in a swamp. So ...

How can the buyer check that the nice photo is real?

In case there is something unexpected, who will be sued?
You were probably not aware when you sent your reply but you literally replied to ai.

iskin on HN is Andrey Sitnik (ai).
I've had some fun with BiwaScheme (a javascript scheme) https://www.biwascheme.org/ which is pretty painless to use for some purposes. I embedded minikanren in my blog using it for example https://www.philipzucker.com/aop-minikanren/
Probably there's a parody exclusion but my memory is fake ID with commonwealth government artwork come under some pretty heafty "don't do that" laws.
How to eat a whole fish, nose to tail
Try sharing it along with an article taking the opposite position, and frame it as an interesting topic for discussion.
The situation would be comparable is Trump actually ordered a nuclear assault, but he did not.
3 is about right.

What happens is that the difference between the estimate that management will psychologically accept to begin the project (and then commit to due to sunk cost fallacy) and the actual schedule is about a factor of 3.
“Transmission” is not what is important at this time. Keeping people out of the ICU is the primary objective. Healthcare systems are failing. The unvaccinated are destroying our ability to provide healthcare to anyone else. It is not viable to continue on this path.
Reading this, all I see is the tech equivalent of "Cigarette companies find no link between smoking cigarettes and lung cancer."
This is the same argument that people who have bullied others into committing suicide have used to try and avoid responsibility. The courts disagree with you.
The solution is to recruit teachers to work as drivers.