skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but pointing to a factory that pollutes because you buy their products and want their product cheaply is equally inane

Agreed, but I'm not pointing at the factories. Consumers _can't_ lobby congress or control the media narrative. Factories don't lobby congress nor spin a media narrative designed to distract attention from those profiting off dumping the externalities of the business models onto the world.

I'm pointing at the corporations (the sum actions of their boards & C-suites taken as a single entity) that own the factories and reap the rewards. I'm pointing at the people that have effectively "won" capitalism and then took it way too far by changing the law and controlling the narrative to make sure they stay in power no matter the costs.

I hope there's some resolution that doesn't require a revolution, though I suspect we'll just do _nothing_... then it'll be a mega-clusterfuck the likes of which we can barely imagine... and maybe after the first 10M-100M deaths due to famine/heat/fires/storms we may figure out that we need to do something... and it'll be too late and/or that something will be another major war.

But before that western society gets to decide how to handle storms/crop failures/droughts driving the largest human mass-migration EVER (Central America => USA, Africa/Middle East => Europe) during a period when resources are constraining.
So, the bet you're making is not 'volatility swings will wipe me, the whale investor, out'.

It is 'This system will eventually supplant governments and fiat money systems, which it directly competes with. I benefit hugely from this system, so the governments will allow me the crypto whale to become the truly powerful one and I'll be able to buy and sell them as their fiat currency collapses leaving me HODLing the only true asset.'

"They'll never object to that, or make it illegal or anything. That would be RUDE. And anti-freedom.'

I think you're correct about the volatility swings, but the nature of societies is that they've gotta come up with defenses against the whales like you, otherwise you're just King over everyone. Those defenses won't be further volatility swing, but legislating against your profiteering directly. Not because it doesn't work, but because it does.
You're thinking like a HN reader, rather than the intended audience for the chrome omnibar (i.e., non-specialists)

They don't want the abstraction punctured to see the inner workings...

Anything less than that creates a Norman Door conflict, whereby their inner mental models conflict with the intended interaction, where they want to pull the door, when the door only works by pushing (yet the door handle basically beckons to be pulled)...

Whether it's a good thing or not is besides the point. It's how people work, if you want to reach them at scale.
...because being an embarrassment to the state is reserved for our government
The weird thing is even if this was a conspiracy to discredit an administration... it's a really bad one. Perhaps you could link the security flaw to a budget issue, but I can't imagine something like this seriously affecting a governor's chance for re-election. His response has obviously done more damage than the flaw ever could.
The fact that journalists in the UK can and have been prosecuted for publishing leaks is completely absurd. Europeans think the first amendment goes too far a lot of the time, but this is the other side of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_S...
We did a talk on it, happy to answer any questions. It’s definitely worth it.

A lot of our Jenkins issues came down to “we are not very good at managing Jenkins”, but even if we where the massive jump in productivity, flexibility and team independence we saw after rolling it out makes me believe it’s just better.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k83hTlb9pMc
Some of us prefer to assume the continuum hypothesis just for the sake of this notation... but it turns out that the continuum hypothesis is still pretty hot.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-many-numbers-exist-infini...
To the ego self that previously existed and previously suffered.

Is it OK to torture someone as long as you make sure to kill them afterward ?
Good. Let this go all the way to the top, this is someone who at least in theory should be backed by an institution (and various amendments...) so this should establish a nice precedence that no, you can't shoot to the messenger. The only "tiny" detail would be how to shield the individual reporter from the fall-out in the meantime.
And while we're at it, holding an office should not protect you from personal liability for the harm done to said messenger during the process.

Terribly idealistic, I know. One can dream... :|
Only brief glimpses. And I have no doubt it’s amazing in capable hands. My interest in learning vim is likely solely rooted in some vague jealousy of these skills. I keep having to remind myself to be happy with what I have and stop spending what little time I have gazing at greener pastures.
There's no reason to assume this is a solvable problem, just because it's a new field. I remember when cold fusion was considered inevitable.

You don't actually have any reason to assume it will happen other than blind optimism.
Same here. And don't look up how he first came upon the job either.
> I wonder why this sort of vibration can't be addressed with shock absorbers in the seats?

Not at all naive, because it is addressed with shock absorbers in the seats; that is one of the very many tools NVH engineers use. :) But they're not 'shock absorbers' in the way you're thinking; the actual foams used in the car seats are specifically designed and selected to dampen certain frequencies. But, kind of like a speaker or headphones or even ear plugs, the dampening happens over a spectrum, and in general our organs resonate at lower frequencies, which are harder for foamlike materials to dampen.

NVH engineers view the entire road-vehicle-driver system as a huge, complex, spring-mass-damper system, and do a whole ton of partial differential equations to solve for the outputs.

Edit to add: so why not use traditional 'shock absorbers', the spring-damper kind that you're used to seeing? For passenger vehicles the answer is weight and complexity. But many trucks and tractors and so on do in fact have these.
Yeah, I should really quit struggling with Gitlab's.

For really large MRs, I use Tower + Kaleidoscope to view the changes. But then I can't easily leave a comment on a line of code (a big part of the review process)
> that seems like the logical next step if Apple wants to permanently remove OpenGL from macOS

They should just allow third-party OpenGL implementations. OpenGL on OSX is stuck in the past.

It would be great to see Metal die a fiery death too, and Vulkan being adopted. The current situation is just DirectX once again.
We had a class on Blender in high school (mandatory even!) and it was very popular.

A lot of people in our school played with Blender in their free time in the following years.
I don't know, that sounds like a pretty valid response given that you "shopped a few other companies to see how our plans compared".
I'm always confused when "child" is used for teenagers. I always assume child means elementary school kids and it throws me when I realize they mean older kids.
FYI in Firefox you can revert to the correct, two-box implementation by checking "Settings > Search" . You can get two boxes back, and you can turn off search suggestions in the address bar.
The south sounds exactly like my experience in two fairly non-political (as non-political as government can be) departments of state government that provide non-controversial social services in a state in the northeast.
https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geolite2-free-geolocation-data
If the vaccine and masks work, why do people who have taken it and wear them, need to worry?

What is this narrative we’re pushing today? You’re acting like by not taking the vaccine, they’re directly violating people who did take it. How do you square that circle?

P.S. I’m vaccinated. I’m also not worried about being around people who aren’t.
For context I'm in the safety critical industry where everything is old and slow, and you're slightly more likely to see FPGAs for "traditional" non-signal-processing reasons (bundle of logic with deterministic timing, custom PHY when you can't use a COTS PHY for cert reasons, Heterogeneous backup for an MCU etc). So my own thoughts probably skew a bit old fashioned -- strangely that also means that none of the things that you listed are important in view of the world!

In short, what we see in our graduates' teaching is a wrong-assumption that VHDL/verilog design is a bit like designing for 74-series chips, where you work out that you need to splat down a load of and/or/not gates and individually wire them up to some flipflops. This is reflected in section 18 of the problems, where students are asked to design simplistic low-level entities (sregs, muxes, and a single transparent latch). This is wrong because the true building blocks in the bottom of an FPGA are not individual and/or/not gates so there's no use in designing as if they were.

This leads to a situation where people have done their VLSI/FPGA module at university but they arrive without knowledge of core fundamentals such as:
* Not clocking flops with data
* Design for even mild levels of concurrency (it's common for courses to never get students to make two FSMs talk to each other even in the same clock domain -- pretty sure this document doesn't do this in section 18)
* Thus everyday problems such as race conditions and deadlock will never have been covered.

IMO the very-incomplete nature of such courses also which attempts to pile concepts on top of each other too quickly without adequate explanation means that people come out of courses without really understanding how little of the basics that they know.

I accept that universities only ahve so much time to teach their students, and there is little academic pedagogical value in spending time on specific technologies, but the general poor approach could definitely be a lot better.

tldr; I agree that there hasn't been any revolutionary development in HDLs, but most universities missed the mark on teaching the basics when they first wrote their FPGA courses in the 1990s, and they haven't got much better since.

(P.S. if anyone wants to create a HDL without the crippling expressiveness flaws of either VHDL or verilog, I will personally transmute myself into a solid gold toilet especially for them)
Krita also has a nice funding website: https://fund.krita.org/ (forked from the blender one)
We do. It's called an election. What you want is credentialing requirements for voting.
I am flagging this. It does not cite any sources specifically enough to be worth anything. The other stories on the site are designed to amaze or shock readers but only insufficiently informed ones.
>These numbers have nothing to do with the Republican bogeyman of extra unemployment benefits supposedly discouraging people from working. Reminder: the extra benefits ran out on Labor Day.

So maybe there's some correlation between some going back to work and others quitting. I can think of a couple of ideas to test, but I guess that's less scientific than partisan shaming.
I thought what I know was much more important than who I know. Just in practical terms, not for Machiavellian purposes.

I thought it was ok to be a bully. And being good at it was even better. Not without reason. I worked at jobs where it was a soft requirement.

I thought it was worth keeping up with technical change. Now I value stable tools.
This is a matter of job security, the reporter is embarrassing the state and that's Parson's job. Fingers crossed he goes on strike after this.
Feels like the traditional foundation of US democracy, free press, is being constantly undermined more and more every year. Doing even basic investigative work puts you in the crosshairs of someone.
Why should age excuse incompetence? If they are incompetent in tech, they should at least know that and shut up.
Apple dictate what is inside their App Store. Along with tools that partly support the Game Development. i.e Development of Metal and their Custom GPU ( At least that is the way Apple likes to formalise their argument in court ) . In reality there is no different between the role of Apple and Sony when viewed from a business perspective. No matter how big or small their input into Games. They take their Cut on Games purchase. So either Sony is not counted as one, and if they do the similar revenue counting could also be used for Apple.
Yeah, we're at 47.6° N.
https://twitter.com/us_fda/status/1429050070243192839 how about the FDA?

https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1448637553129648129?ref...

Fauci/Acosta on CNN
Who browses the web without the DevTools exposed by default? I don't know how to make the web work without "fixing" web pages before attempting to read them.
I bet they still have the New Tab button floating off by itself instead of in the navigation menu where it belongs.
> a boring global with careful access control

There is no such thing as "access control to global", unless you mean humans in code review, in that case, OK
WhatsApp launches end-to-end encrypted chat backups
> it’s using Unicode-aware string stuff

Rust uses UTF-8 internally for Strings, so it's very efficient to parse a file into a String, then using slices to go through it... this is probably the best you can get as parsing ASCII input as UTF-8 is very efficient (the 0-bit is always zero in ASCII, the unicode decoder only needs to check that's the case for every byte, so it's not some kind of complicated computation it's doing to decode)...

If you use bytes for everything, you will make the whole code much harder to follow and it still won't run faster.

Check for yourself: https://github.com/renatoathaydes/prechelt-phone-number-enco...
its best to assume Responsible Disclosure™ is a psyop to find gullible people
The point is that protecting your own privacy should never been used as an indication of guilt.

"If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide" is the lie of the authoritarian. It is naive to think that a bad actor cannot construct a falsehood with a collection of truths.

I have worked on court cases for both individuals and (small) businesses that were innocent, but pissed off the wrong government agency, and got pushed/intimidated into pleading guilty.

Judges are flawed human beings who rule against innocent people and companies ALL THE TIME because court cases are a flurry of biased witness accounts and misleading/incomplete/subjective evidence. Folks in HN should appreciate this most because as I work in IT forensics, the judges appreciation for the technology details of cases is usually very low and they make mistakes. Defense attorneys know that and so they encourage innocent people to strike plead (guilty) deal, even when they have good evidence of their innocence because literally anything can happen in a court room. Prosecutions also know this, and so they throw absolutely everything they can think of in front of the judge, from hearsay to irrelevant data points to try to influence the judge's overall impression of the defendant so the judge will get frustrated with the complex details and rule on other subjective evidence. It's really an eye-opening experience to see people getting railroaded in court.

Few appreciate it until it happens to them, and they are presented with a subset of facts and hearsay that the prosecution has architected to paint a misleading picture in front of the court.

That is just the unfortunate reality of the world. Protecting your own or your company's privacy is the prudent way to behave even when you are completely innocent.
As with GitHub, the bigger value is owning shift left disruptions for enterprise and cloud sw+he services: security scanning, backups, prod server hosting, ... .

It is hard to compete with AWS, and a lot easier if you own the UI+APIs for how software teams do CI+CD: you become a default preferred vendor for all IaaS/PaaS add-ins, and can proactively recommend and even trial them well before any competitor. IBM, Oracle, SalesForce, SAP, Alibaba, etc could all win big -- imagine if IBM bought GitLab instead of RedHat to fix their data center strategy.
Coinbase Digital Asset Policy Proposal
I did the tax forms myself when living abroad, precisely because I didn't earn enough income to afford the $1000 cost (in fact, it was perhaps twice this, in Switzerland, based on my cursory Googling at the time). It routinely took over a week of working days, which was only possible because I had a sympathetic boss and generous vacation time.

It's also quite stressful, since there are many ambiguous questions, most of the proprietary tax software is ill-equipped to consider the situation of an American living abroad, and a wrong answer can subject you to audit.
I am a computer science teacher and have developed a teaching and learning programming language with an easy-to-use browser IDE. There are several tutorials integrated - from a programming course for beginners to recursive programming.

The programming language and IDE run entirely in the browser, there is no communication with the server after the web page is loaded. Since it is designed as a PWA, it also works offline.

This language has a very simple structure: There are numbers and strings as data types, arrays of these data types, and arrays of arrays. Unlike Python, it is statically typed and has explicit end-of-block delimiters.

Since the language is kept very compact, it suits beginners on the one hand, and the browser environment on the other. The environment loads quite fast, and the IDE is also able to parse and format the code up to the current line on every "enter". The language is written in C and runs using WebAssembly. JavaScript is used for the graphical user interface and graphical output.
You're right, I got thrown off by the "countable" part in the "set of countable ordinal numbers", which is indeed uncountably infinite.
It isn't surprising, really. Computers are wonderful and complicated devices but a lot of knowledge about them is handed down more as an oral history, and it is dense and has had over fifty years of tumultuous growth.

Have you ever thought about even just the jargon you need to know to be fluent today? Not even just the important computer systems terms, but the names of tools, all the acronyms, the context of why things are the way they are.. its huge, and its endless. The stuff we think about as basic really never was, and now it gets hidden behind a slick user interface, and you might reasonably get to your third year in a CS program before getting a handle on how everything sort of fits together.
Make work, bullshit jobs is basically a crude mechanism for a kind of UBI for many people.

Our governments are deeply disincentivized to cleanup these inefficiencies because it means higher unemployment.

This is one of the reasons I'm a strong supporting of an actual UBI + universal healthcare. If people's lives aren't destroyed and driven to death by poverty if they don't have a job, then there won't be as much moral and political hazard to eliminating bullshit jobs in favor a system that works better for all of us.
Natwest seems to have taken to sending me text messages listing three recent transactions (where one is suspicious to them), and asking did you make these? Reply y or n.

I can't verify that the text is from Natwest, but it seems relatively safe, as I'm not providing any personal information in return, so this seems a reasonable first line security mechanism. Of course someone could clone my SIM, in which case there's no protection, but it does raise the bar for using a stolen cards, and I think that's the intent.

If my bank ever does call me, they have to leave voicemail because I don't answer calls from unknown numbers. And then I call back using the number on the back of the card.
So nearly every pol will have to be locked up.
Exactly. When you've endured 15yr of this kind of bullshit and enduring five more gets you an extra 10% on your pension you shut the f up and do what's good for you, organization and taxpayers be damned.

Now imagine what this situation teaches all the younger bureaucrats who think they can work hard and make things better.
You can find data here: https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-by-Sex...

In my opinion, just about everyone is low risk but there is jump in numbers once the 35-40 age group is added
How to design systems that evolve over time and how it is like ordering espresso
Japan has been framed as weird and backwards since the 80s and 90s when the US took issue with their rising economy and encroachment on western industries
House bill would limit Section 230 protections for 'malicious' algorithms
I can't wait to see the legislation that treats plaintext as encrypted, and goes on to criminalize all written and electronic communication.
> But that low level access means that software is tied to hardware... and software is not forward/cross compatible. Which is a VERY big deal for pro market.

As a game dev - hardware dependence has been a fact of life for a very long time. There are too many useful extensions not included in the base profiles, and enough video cards combinatorically combined with those - that the most tractable path is to actually care about the specific device's capabilities.

The best way forward is to be as detailed as possible than to come up with a new albatross to hang around one's neck for the next 30 years. A thin driver with a fatter app stack is probably more manageable going forward than a very fat driver with a continually aging app stack, so long as appropriate care is paid to forward compatibility.
Now that they've shot the messenger, I'm sure that everything will be perfectly fine, right?
Eventual expat here (clock is running on citizenship elsewhere through an investment program). I would not recommend filing your taxes yourself if you're a non-US resident with citizenship. It's cumbersome because of mechanizations to prevent tax evasion. There's room for improvement, but expats have very little pull congressionally in getting reform done to improve the experience. These fees should also be made deductible (tax prep fees no longer are).

With that said, $1k annually is a small price to pay to maintain your US citizenship through annual tax filings. The benefits (imho) outweigh the cost (employment access, residency, repatriation).

Tangentially, this sounds like a startup opportunity.
Apple isn't even remotely in the same position as Facebook.

Let alone - Apple is private, Facebook is anything but private
Zero-days, unlike knives, are not dual-use instruments. The only people buying those zero-days are incorporating them into surveillance and monitoring systems. Literally, how else could an exploit be monetized? Stealing crypto-wallets?
> To the ego self that
> previously existed and
> previously suffered.
> Is it OK to torture someone
> as long as you make sure to
> kill them afterward ?

In this view the ego self existed before, but only in so far as I exist as the character in a novel, while I am reading it. So I would say yes, it is OK to torture a fictional character if it makes sense in the context of the story.
Digital Asset Policy Proposal: Safeguarding America’s Financial Leadership
I think "view source" was actually invented by the Russians, then leaked by "4chan" - They're an individual, not a group.

You probably got it mixed up with Lunix, that was invented by "4chan".