skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just another anecdote - I regularly see commenters decrying the walled garden, etc. always with the addendums that they’ve abandoned all Apple products, don’t use Google search, and use Linux on their Thinkpad instead of Windows. I notice so often because I have a lot of doubts about the veracity of those statements.
The Programmers, like the Poets
The programmers, like the poets, work only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. They build their castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.

- Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man Month
Shouldn't one look at genetics as well? When a completely different ethnicity invaded and called themselves Roman, and copied the parts they wanted from Roman civilization, but without having almost any Roman ancestry, are we to consider them a continuation of the Roman civilization?
Does anybody know if there’s a Mac app that randomly pops up a “what are you currently working on?” dialog? No automatic stuff like trying to find out using the foreground application and no explicit starting and stopping of activities, just simple sampling?
Do you realise that he, his brother, his grandfather (TH), the Darwin family, Wallaces, etc were eugenicists?

He is from a rich upper class family that believed it was their right to plan the world, and that there were too many of us then!

This category of elites didn't go away, or stop planning, or change their views. They just created better governance structures, eg the UN.

We are the carbon they want to decrease.
Facebook is so harmlessly impotent, it has not even managed to get me to create an account.

You know, maybe spend less time on QAnon-anything.
My larger point is that "democratic management of capital" doesn't have to mean socialism of any kind, it can mean worker co-ops, which can exist in social democratic, free market capitalist, hell even ancap utopian conceptions of stateless libertarian societies. It's just a management style.

> I mean I’m fine with a democracy on the board of a company, I just don’t think it is wise to have everyone be on the board.

Some companies are co-ops and have made it work. It depends, and is perhaps worth trying more.
Exactly. It is a bandaid, tear it off. You’ll work extra hard for a news cycle or two, rather than allowing an angry employee to poison your other employees for however long. And they’ll be let go eventually anyway.
I love this. This can be very useful.
You are right that you can only await in an async function, but you can call an async function anywhere and get back a Promise.

await-ing that promise is often what you want to do but there are other ways to do work once the promise has resolved.
ADOP: Approximate Differentiable One-Pixel Point Rendering
LA saw about 343 murders in 2020 of which 73% (about 250) were from guns.

The 24 killings mentioned in this article would then represent about 10% of 2020 gun murders. That seems significant to me, especially if it continues increasing.
You can run it on the host network as well.
SEC Approves Bitcoin ETF
> These things become problematic when no service is provided, or the quality of service is lower than you would have gotten otherwise.

No, they are a problem when the process is not transparent or fair and open to others and don't have some modicum of value for money estimations performed.

> I also think that $18.000 NZD per year, for any local government, hell, even for a corner bakery, is a paltry amount. That’s below minimum wage anywhere that I know of.

I don't know what that has to do with how "fair" the money for the service was. He was not an employee, he was not being paid a salary to do a full time job. He got $368,000 for... something. Continuing his public performances that he was doing anyway and would have continued to do. Doesn't sound like the local tax payer got anything at all out of it. The politicians bought themselves a publicity stunt.
Not really a 1 megabyte club member website I take it...
Traditional anti-trust methods would only go so far with big techs because while monopolies in the past are driven by economies of scale (and lobbying and other illegal stuffs, of course), big techs’ monopolies are mainly driven by strong positive feedback loops (search results quality for Google and network effect for Facebook). If Google and Facebook were to play it 100% fair, I doubt they would be smaller than 75% of their current size.
You can use the unstable branch for rolling releases closer to how arch works.
Examine bad investments to raise “smart money” - investors' losses
Author uses jmalloc to confirm malloc allocations are unfreed, then later speculates the allocations might be something not visible to Valgrind e.g. mmap.

I’ve often done similar mistakes, where data from step 1 already rules out a hypothesis for step 2 - but I’m too sleep-deprived and desperate to realize it. Debugging production issues is the worst.
A "ghost gun" is a political buzzword for "gun not manufactured by someone the local government has leverage over".

Most firearms manufacturers that manufacture and sell firearms for resale are bound by federal guidelines to do things like serialize them to comply with regulations that make it easier for law enforcement to trace the paper trail or ownership of a firearm. They must also have enough metal in them by law to set off a metal detector.

None of these measures cover firearms privately made, not for resale. those are not regulated. therefore it creates an extra "spooky" mystique the media likes to play up, and xertain groups wring their hands over. The fact 3d printing has made firearm manufacture that much more accessible to the everyone of course has certain political factions wanting to figure out ways to keep those pesky weapons out of people's hands.
> so you cannot simply saying "# of case is rising, vaccine is useless".

I never said that second part, I was responding directly to "are observing significant reduction of daily cases and deaths".

You can't be observing "significant reduction" while the numbers are going up.
Workers are being blamed every time it's called a labor shortage instead of a wage shortage.
One of the reasons I tend to lurk more than post. It’s disappointing to throw out an opinion and get attacked for it. I’m fine if you disagree (and I look forward to it) but it seems like some are conditioned to be offended by others opinions… or maybe paid? :)
> You can’t get rid of this, how do you work with it?

This reminds me a lot of an attitude among anti-DRM people that I’ve been trying to get folks to reconsider: the “DRM is bad _and also_ useless so why bother!” stance.

The RIAA and MPAA have largely gotten their way with stuff like EME and HDCP. It’s become pretty tough to get 4K pirated versions of any but the most popular movies, and even then it’s pretty tough sometimes. While we were chuckling about that 12 digit DVD region lock code meme they were cooking up invasions of privacy that we just didn’t think they’d have the balls or the competencies to pull off.

I’m not too into guns myself, but if you are, take heed from what happened to piracy. These things are not inevitably going to propagate. If you find yourself going “but in order to stop this, they’d have to do X”, stop yourself and consider the possibility that they might try.
Depends of what real life scenario is.

A cafe, maybe not. A meeting room, likely yes. There at least you can declare that a hearing aid is used. The very point of the device is to jam other microphones.

Not going to last very long, though; ultrasound filters will soon appear on all relevant gear, including mobile phones.
OK, what you're saying definitely applies when we incentivize speed and forget everything else, or when we compare ourselves to others without knowing the whole story. But this current discussion is in the context of someone's personal goals to improve their own productivity from their existing baseline. Valuing that doesn't necessarily mean they have to stop valuing quality or maintainability.
Judging by his (excellent) textbook mostly basic familiarity with math logic and proofs should be enough. Calculus helps as a first example of proof technique application but should not be a necessity.

In fact, I went through most of his book on my own - my own electrical engineering degree was enough to follow and solve exercises.
I don't know if Paul was the only guy working on the network code, but I believe he was responsible for most or all of it.

He wrote that code when he was 18 or 19 years old I believe. But unlike some of the other devs at Ensemble, he never had a big ego, and he was just generally nice and humble.

He (much) later created the early mobile hit, Words With Friends, which had many copycats later.
It’s pretty clear the aim here is people who read papers with glasses and listen to FM Radio.

Designing it most likely was a minuscule cost for a company like Nokia. More of a marketing move really.
Hah! Your comment mirrors exactly how I feel but could not put into words.
I'm pretty curious about the possible motives as well, but there is some evidence it was happening even before 2020:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anti-vax-movement-russian-troll... (May 2019)
The political posts on here are amazing though. You get well thought out arguments from both sides. The only downside is the down voting/silencing of people’s opinions when the masses at HN don’t agree. The down vote feature should be disabled, let the responses/post chain do the judging.
Thanks for the response.

> Because unoriginal political flamebait is off-topic for this site. From the site guidelines:

Whilst I agree with you here, when the topic occurs within a tech company I think it is relevant. Basically it's very difficult to separate the tech from the politics in the current climate.

> A very common sentiment I see around here and elsewhere is imagining some secret, organized sjw cabal

When employees and students are being asked to complete "check your thinking" training, it's hard not to think there's a organised cabal pulling all the strings :)
But piracy is a completely different issue. The source is controlled. With guns, it's literally random furries posting the latest Glock variation they designed. Sure, you can try to stop that, but you'll need to repeal the 1st amendment first.

I'm very much into guns, co-host a pro-gun and Pro-AAPI gun ownership podcast, and personally know a lot of the people who are behind this movement. Many of them work for FAANG companies. They are aware of the challenges.
That it is clear to you doesn't mean it is not a flaw in the article and more importantly : it might not be clear to everybody.

You are trying to drag morality into this where I just pointed out a flaw.
Article is from 2019. Should be added to the text link.
For a daily driver, I'd just use nixos-unstable instead of a specific release to get access to all the up to date packages. It's actually not as unstable as the name might imply. PRs are merged into the master branch of nixpkgs and are only merged into the unstable branch once the updated package is successfully built so it tends to be perfectly OK for daily use.

A lot of updates do get backported to stable branches and you can do it yourself pretty easily if you need an update, so running stable for servers makes sense. But for a desktop I prefer the rolling release, always updated model.
I don't think the Dutch court has any authority with regards to your US citizenship. It would be a massive breach of national sovereignty if Dutch judges could strip Americans of their citizenship.

They could prevent the Dutch banks transmitting your info, but they can do that regardless of your US citizenship.

The likely outcome is the Dutch court refuses to touch it. Even if you win, I don't think they'd touch your citizenship. They'd just refuse to extradite. They don't have to do what the US wants just because the subject is a US citizen.

The US is going to be infinitely more interested in preventing this than the Dutch are in allowing it though.
Why is it “Apple takes down Quran app in China” and not “Chinese Government takes down Quran app from Apple’s platform”? What else could Apple have done but comply? Does anyone really think Apple should decide for itself which law should or should not be followed? Big techs already have way too much power. Now we want them to have power over the (Chinese) law too?
As a fairly high rated AoE2 player (~1800), I can attest that the network architecture has not stood the test of time. Lockstep causes tonnes of problems. Desynchronisation is still possible, when that happens the simulation needs to backtrack (I think?), which can cause units to jump multiple tiles. Because your machine is resolving the movements of other players, you run into problems with more players. The wire protocol is widely known and easily hacked, in a way that's hard to detect in game.

AoE2 DE is still lockstep, but through a server. All players are connected to the same server. This has slightly improved on the previous P2P, but not really addressed anything.
He did send the regalia to Constantinople, because he wanted Zeno to wear them. The two halves had been ruled sometimes by different emperors and at other times by a single person (Constantine, Julian etc.). As far as anyone at the time was concerned, things were legally returning to the state of 395 AD with Zeno instead of Theodosius as the joint emperor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Nepos#Exile_in_Dalmatia...

(This was no mere pretense either. When Zeno became dissatisfied with Odoacer he sent in Theodoric to depose him. When Theodoric's daughter was assassinated, the new emperor sent in the army and took back direct control of Italy.)
I'm fairly convinced there are. Often comment discussions for newer technical books pop up here on HN that get shilled for weeks like it's some legendary book that has been in print for decades. Then those discussions just die out until the next book makes the shill cycle (I guess?).
Awesome to see Jeff Snider pop up here. Very few people in the world understand international monetary plumbing a the depth Jeff does.
> bad ride by legions of consultants over the last ~2 decades

For a long time the most important factor was a head count rather than quality. Financial institutions often used loopholes to ship workers from 3rd world countries and indirectly paid them their country of origin wages and small allowances. These workers would live in wholly rented hostels and replaced every 6 months (to avoid residency laws messing the tax implications).
I wonder how sensitive dogs would be to such a jamming system.
I think these are mostly political interests like "weakening the western economic" or "divide western liberal societies" and maybe a few richer people who had a bad experience with vaccs and think they do something good.

Actually comment trolls cost near nothing when hired in India or russia. And they scale by infecting some other people with the same thought, who themselfes comment then in similar ways.

Often "they" buy some celebrities that run out of money. In Germany for example this is near ridiculous. Just look at Michael Wendler.
> He'd been doing it over over 20 years before he was given the contract.

I'm not seeing the part where $368,000 bought anything of value for the tax payer.

> Also what does fair and reasonable consideration mean, more hoops of paper should have been jumped through before making this decision?

I don't know what more hoops of paper means. It's not rocket science or some massive burden to procure services properly. That's half of what local governments do.
Not in all cases. Check out the FGC-9. It's a pretty standard carbine, but it's designed to use parts that are generally unregulated worldwide.
I use FF on Android and don't suffer any of the things you mentioned and have used it on multi android versions on multi android devices.
Yep, just happened a month ago --
Stripe banned us for payment disputes but we never had a single dispute
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28522784
I don’t think the US government had any intention of truly getting the US out of the 2008 recession. All it wanted to do was keep the banks afloat and inevitably dilute the mass bailouts that were given via QE. That’s totally different than building from the bottom up, your FDR ‘prime pumping’ of the average American.

Very different motives and one can argue that it wasn’t until COVID that the lower elements of society got help. But even then, they simply got a cash check. No programs to truly stimulate the society were implemented.

Just eliminating credit-card debt for Americans would be society changing.
Yes, they did raise the minimum wage at that company. The expression "minimum wage" gets applied to different contexts. National minimum wage is the minimum wage specified by (presumably) a national law. Likewise some states have higher state minimum wages.

But every company has a minimum wage - that is the lowest wage paid to an employee of the company. Or it can be more broadly used to describe the minimum hourly wage paid to anyone who does work for the company (temp worker, contractor, etc.).

It seems you're really missing the point of the article. Some political forces have been pushing the argument that raising the minimum wage will have many negative side effects, especially for the businesses themselves. This one example seems to show the opposite. But it's not a market force; it's a (contrarian) business decision which was made with a long term goal in mind. It seems the company decided that retaining skilled talent was worth paying more for and would result in better long term profits.
I don't really get this "waterfall" boogeyman.

I started programming professionally in 1989, and I delivered a LOT of software for a few different companies before the Agile obsession hit. I had a quite a lot of freedom to modify the process depending on what the project called for. There were fewer corporate overlords worrying about whether I stuck to this or that process. There were certainly no Agile Coaches making sure I followed all the ceremonies of the "Agile Process" (that's a quote) or making sure I used story points instead of calendar time in my estimates.

Making software is a lot less fun these days than in the "bad old days" of the alleged waterfall process.
Well then Rome died in the 600s as the Empire abandoned Latin language and adopted the language of the majority of it's population. Greek.

If you're talking about ancestry, most Turks in Turkey are descended from Anatolian and Balkans populations so...
OK, but shouldn't that leave more qualified employees on the market for employers that do want to hire? The stories we're seeing are the opposite, with employees putting out unfilled want ads for weeks / months.
>> to consider them a continuation of the Roman civilization?

Yes. A civilization is not a race. It is something above biology. The fact that nobody running things is related to the founder of a civilization does not mean that civilization has somehow fallen and been replaced anew. It means that, at most, a particular regime has fallen from power.
Civilizations are larger than their leadership, even their founders.

Would anything really change if one day we realized that nobody in the US congress was a blood relation of the founding fathers? I doubt anyone would see that as anything other than an interesting blip in a new cycle.
Don't fall for it Python users - Lucy will pull the football away just before you kick it.
Here is a link for an earlier VR viewer for Gaia EDR2 (there is supposed to be same for EDR3 but I didn't see it yet)

https://sci.esa.int/web/gaia/-/60036-gaia-data-release-2-vir...

Edit: here is EDR3
https://zah.uni-heidelberg.de/gaia/outreach/gaiasky/download...
> To do that you write 10 changes, each about 50 lines and trivial to review since everything is super clean, otherwise you can't get through code reviews fast enough

No matter how small or clean the PRs were, I'm pretty sure I couldn't get reviews for 10 in one day.
Smart! We should try that with harmful drugs too - just make them illegal.
Disclaimer: founder here

We offer a hosted/managed app search experience on top of Elastic or OpenSearch with appbase.io.

You can leverage the best of Elasticsearch (state-of-the-art) engine while getting Algolia like features like search relevance control plane, query rules, out-of-the-box analytics / insights, caching, UI components across all FE platforms (React, Vue, React Native, Flutter).
Without the graphics part of Lisp Machines.
Yes, that's accurate.
This project runs on top of Redis as Redis has already done a good job as a memory storage engine. And https://github.com/doyoubi/undermoon-operator will help run it with Redis instances together, so you won't need to set them up manually. And yes, it can work with KeyDB in theory.
Interestingly the download errors after 79944810 bytes using http1.1, but 79928426 bytes using http2. Strange!

Thanks, that embed link worked properly.
This is doing wonders for my procrastination!

But I agree that if you find out that you have been working on the only problem worth solving for 10 years you should be able to take a break because the likelyhood that anyone else is able to run past you is very small. (they would have needed to start before you without you finding out for 10 years because hard problems are not solved faster in a group)
"Mylar capacitive touch surface" he says at 2.3 minutes in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEzEbS4uvuo&t=137

On a spacious 4" x 3" screen.
Spotify expands in-house podcasts with two more shows on artists and creators
Yes but I have found that, in the case of Google News, the content prioritized up by the algorithm tends to be things I am interested in; which tend to be more commercial in nature. For example, boardgames.

If I was clicking on outrageous type news headlines, it might look different.

I have disciplined my curiosity to not click on obnoxious viral headlines.

I see a click as a vote, so I don't do that.

Social Media is trickier because the media and the social part is mixed up.
I quit social media about 7 months ago and I don't see going back.
The numbers do not agree with you.
I'm sure they'll have something, but it's unlikely to be what MS folks originally promised.
Worked in Financial Services for a couple of decades and I don't buy this it sounds like a sales talk from a consultancy company. Banks do use (and sometimes contribute) to Open Source libraries - but usually non financial lower level technical things - Apache Commons, front end libraries, FinLib, Messaging systems etc.

Many public/commercial APIs/feeds have SDKs available by the provider and even when not most of the the work involved goes in getting the data/messages to and from the banks system/data format/language.

Most code for things like entity matching, fraud detection is highly tied to the data the bank has which often - due to the various other banks the bank has purchased and has partnerships with - may be a huge mass of data. An open source library would probably help with 5% of the work. Great if its being pushed by consultancy that can do the glue work for a fee.

In the area where I've mostly worked in - the trading side of investment banking, the computing systems - trade handling, pricing is seen as a competitive advantage, that you don't share with competitors. I made some fixes to a low level communication/transaction library for a vendor library we used (giving them the code meant we wouldn't have to patch it every release) that took nearly 9 months to get approval.

I could see Banking services as a Service would be more appealing to the banks i've been in.