skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ill-advised tool adoption is exactly the problem I'm aiming to get people to wake up and say "no" to. You need only one version control system, not one reliable one plus one flaky one. Use the reliable one, and stop with the buzzword bandwagon, which is going to be a completely different landscape in 4 years.

> Packages themselves are immutable as long as you don't blow away your lockfile

Lockfiles mean nothing if it's not my project. "I just cloned a 4 year old repo and `npm install` is failing" is a ridiculous problem to have to deal with (which to repeat, is something that happens all the time whether people are willing to acknowledge it or not). This has to be addressed by making it part of the culture, which is where me telling you to commit your dependencies comes from.
I didn't think about that. Thanks I'll research about it
China’s Model of Dictated Economic Growth Blew Up
The only reason why sound quality would be "worse" on CD than on vinyl was already mentioned: It sometimes is, or at least used to be, intentionally mastered with less dynamic range. There is no way vinyl can otherwise compete with CDs dynamic range of 96dB at up to 22kHz.

But I get your point, the way a vinyl record and its player make the sound "worse" can potentially enhance the listening experience, even if a sound engineer could have applied the same effect on the audio that got put on the CD.

Like a CRT screen with old video games.
Not a huge Dune lore-head, but I kinda feel slighted by how the new movie depicted them now...
Donald Trump’s new social media SPAC, explained
A more accessible approach than the High-Density Rosetta might be the M-DISC.[0] It's essentially a DVD/Blu-Ray which materials engineered to last significantly longer than standard ones. I attended a chemistry lecture by Prof. Matthew Linford (BYU) and from the gist of his description,[1] the materials that they were using have a good shot at lasting 500 to 1000 years if properly stored.

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC

[1] : https://purl.pt/24107/1/iPres2013_PDF/Permanent%20Digital%20...
Charging well over the previous market price.

Allowing price gouging is allowing selling at the current market price.
I don't think it is wrong at all. It may be a niche – specially in the US –, but with 46.3% of the world population still without internet access, the long tail is indeed long.
It's easier to trust 1 org than 1000 different developers.
I have been following SPACs for a while and I have never seen anything blow up like this. most spacs only go up 2-4x over many months, this was 10x in a day. nuts
I read recently MS executive bonuses were tied to metrics like Teams adoption. Big surprise it worked its way into Windows 11 by default eh?
Thanks a lot for that anecdote. What is a financial delta, though? Is it calculating risk?
On mac, that feature is actually available in MailMate, which remains the best in class email client I’m aware of. It’s the only one with that feature though.
That is true, just that I think in CS the bottom 30 is still earning more and has more geographical mobility than an English major, say.
Geographically there is no viable other port. And if there was one, you’d need trucks to get the containers there anyways.
Boeing aircaft and college educations, which are probably the two largest US exports to China, don't fit in shipping containers.
Run by a lawyer. Enough said.
These types of projects should be run by engineer leaders.
Maybe a self-evolving computer virus, that continually propagates itself to new systems, with its only function to serve some personal web pages?
There are warnings everywhere but maybe these works are somehow too dense or abstract or inaccessible for people to spend the time on and map to patterns around them in real life. Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago is after all, a long read in its unabridged form. But warnings can also be found in more accessible places. For example various TV shows or movies or books (like The Three Body Problem). I wonder if those are a more effective historical education.
US budget deficit hits $2.77T in 2021, 2nd highest
Lots of things have happened, but some are unrelated, and many have ceased. Extended unemployment benefits ceased last month. The expansion of the money supply remains. We’ll see if these problems resolve once the Fed tightens and asset prices crater (and replaced with a different set of problems, I imagine!).
Think Everything’s Expensive Now? Get Ready for What’s Next
> That day I learned that my money is only actually mine (in the sense that I can use it as I please) if the bank decides to allow me.

It’s possible that the kind of account you have with that bank plays a role here. There has been a lot of deregulation over the last 10 years or something, but it used to be that your account had a descriptive name - passbook savings, demand deposit, etc. And those names meant something! A demand account meant you could demand your money any time you wanted, but it was against the law to earn interest. A passbook savings account earned interest, but you were limited in how often you could take money out, etc.
Yeah, this is a big factor. Everyone and their dog wants to design their own chips and fab them at TSMC, but it's simply not going to happen.
Thanks. But if I study in the USA, I get citizenship fast and easy + law is not an undergrad degree over there. So maybe it would be worth studying CS instead.

As a barrister, I think maybe I would be doing something useful for the community but what I really want is to become a millionaire
I was thinking about Arendt and Eichmann recently, in the context of personal responsibility. I think we place less emphasis on personal responsibility as before (and may be wrong), and I wondered if it was partially a consequence of the Eichmann trial.
Dr Todd L. Veldhuizen. I looked through his research and don’t see anything there so either I’m misremembering or the research hadn’t gone anywhere (or still incomplete).
imap has been working all day for me. I don't send a lot of emails though so no idea how stable smtpd is.
Why is it optional? Why would someone want the option to use it if it’s not required?

Sorry I don’t understand well. A lot of jargon is being throw around and I haven’t touched this topic much once I got my pass through setup working
If You Don’t Already, You, Too, Can Learn to Love Snow Camping
With dithering 16-bit improves to 112dB. No golden ear can hear that.
> Think archival grade materials and ink, then add translations into Mandarin, Arabic, and Spanish . . .

I think this is actually wrong. It certainly doesn't hurt to write on fired clay tablets, or to "store" your papyrus documents in an extremely low-humidity environment. That might enable accidental preservation. But at the of the day (or at the end of the millennium), things survive because lots of people care about them.

You mention Anglo Saxon. That's an interesting example, because the entire corpus of Anglo Saxon literature is easily anthologized in a single volume, and there is exactly one extant copy of what most scholars regard as the most important thing written in the language (Beowulf). But the truth is this: Most of it is gone, because people stopped caring about what was written in it.

But psalters? Bibles? Church histories? It's an embarrassment of riches. Why? Because people cared very deeply about those things.

And translation helps, but again, it's not quite enough. The instructions for my dehumidifier are in eight different languages. Where did I put that again?

To come at it from another angle: Finding a paper copy of a 1955 Seattle phonebook is extremely difficult. But why? It was written on paper, there were thousands and thousands of copies printed, none of them have actually disintegrated into dust, and yet . . .

So: My advice would be to make that web page pertain to something of epochal importance to millions of people. They'll do the rest.
I expect this is highly product and Industry specific. In healthcare, medical devices and drugs, the US, and Japan are the gold standard. Most companies won't even Source raw plastic materials or chemical precursors from China and India due to Quality Control issues.
> It seems that everyone now agrees that the bottleneck is yard space at the container terminals. The terminals are simply overflowing with containers, which means they no longer have space to take in new containers either from ships or land. It’s a true traffic jam.

The author makes this claim without proof. The circumstances may be consistent with the explanation, but maybe others are as well. Also, the source of the claim is not clear. Did he glean all of this information from the boat captain, or someone else?

The problem is that the claim is central to the entire thread and the proposed solution.

If the root cause is wrong, then allowing containers to pile up in yards 6-deep could cause yet another bottleneck - a lack of containers to return back on ships, for example. This could happen, for example, if yard computer systems were never designed for this kind of use and records start going to paper.

This article reports that the port has processed record numbers of ships:

> In June, the Los Angeles port became the first in the western hemisphere to process 10m container units in a 12‑month period. The Long Beach port will likely process more than 9m container units this year, exceeding last year’s record of 8.1m units, the most in the port’s 110-year history.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/oct/20/supply-chai...

Nowhere does the thread mention this record-high ship traffic.
One safe approach is to assume everyone is a fake until proven otherwise.

As a Navy veteran, I can suss out a "stolen valor" account almost immediately. Just a vibe. When it comes to social topics, the current day is just too weird to guess.
Sorry, I didn’t mean the moderation team is shutting down dialogue, I meant that the culture of HN has its own rules which stifle particular points of view. Will respond to the rest of your comment later.
Yes, but then you would both incentive people into placing your device under sunlight and need some of the shortlived kind of capacitors.

It should still be possible to make a solar powered e-reader long-lived, but a replaceable power supply is a good idea even if your device has to last for a couple of years.
Maybe not wanting to rock the boat, maybe just busy and not interested in waiting in line to speak to the manager.
I don’t believe that Trump particularly cares about what I think.

This is the entire point of my argument. “But we didn’t censor you when we were in power” is not a real argument because people will just say “tough shit” and throw you in prison.
> Itanium shipped, and I have a soft spot in my heart for it, VLIW was brilliant. The hate is administered by knownothings, it was a CPU for engineers.

Around the 90s, the big OOOE scare and push to move away from it seemed to be based on projections showing wire delay and super-linear scaling structures like schedulers would bite OOOE very hard and make it nonviable.

This might have been technically true -- Pentium Pro reorder buffer was 20 entries while new cores might have only 10 times that, about an order of magnitude. Processor widths only by about 2x. IPC has increased about an order of magnitude as well (ignoring SIMD). While transistor density increased 3 or 4 in that time.

So I don't see a huge problem with that general prediction. What I wonder about is why on earth they thought in-order VLIW could solve this in a better way. Itanium scaling ran out of steam well before the out of order designs. And huge widths never happened or probably didn't help much because they're always just going to get stuck on taken branches, data dependencies, etc.

I liked Itanium when it first came out, it was a floating point monster and even on integer it shaped up pretty well against the likes of POWER4 in the TPC-C wars, exchanging the lead for several generations. But it became apparent that it depended on heroically fast (and therefore sadly tiny) L1 cache which halted its frequency scaling. It depended on a heroically large L3 cache which was became a problem in the multi core era. All because it dealt badly with dynamic hazards like cache misses, and executing beyond them to generate memory level parallelism.

Sure it had advanced loads which were very cool on paper, but never really were such a capable substitute.

I don't hate EPIC/VLIW. Some people hate Itanium because they claim it killed of a lot of diversity in the CPU market. I don't think that it did, and wouldn't hate it even if I thought it did. I can see why it failed though, and that's because it was technically inferior to out of order designs for most of its target markets.
I'm traveling from the SF Bay Area to Austin, TX for the US Grand Prix and Sky West (Alaska) is coincidentally unable to calculate their fuel vs load https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/2021/10/2...

My son was able to book the last 2 seats on a Southwest flight so we only lost a day of a $500/night AirBnB. Luckily, my son uses gmail so we got the confirmation w/ a check-in link OK. We lost our car rental reservation because Alaska's idea of a replacement reservation arrived 32 hours later and Budget only holds for 24 hours. Even the SWA was 26 hours later, but somehow Priceline + Thrifty found a car.

So a shitshow could have been even worse if the 2nd outage had started earlier & my kid had taken my advice to de-google. My sister & parents also use Fastmail due to my advice, but aren't as dependent on timely email.

One thing that did save me is that I brought a notebook which has all my old email. Almost left it behind, but it's 2.8 lb & 1.61 cm thick. Smartphones still have their limits....
If the amount I need to know to get a job is not as that available for study, then that is a great relief. Thanks
Nice! Too bad the video was already taken off reddit :( Would have liked to see it.
> completely impractical unless you steal a LOT of bank cards.

Like... 3 or 4? What's that, two average wallets?

(Leaving aside the question of whether scamming a few hundred dollars out of someone's debit account is practical in any sense compared with all the other ways you could legally make way more money with the same skillset, of course.)
Can someone please give an example of how this could be used in practice?

On the surface probability seems antithetical to the explicit well-defined determinism of programming.
Firefox cut back on a number of potentially useful products. There are still some I'm the hopper. I'm bullish on the sanitizer api

https://www.google.com/amp/s/portswigger.net/daily-swig/amp/...

However, if they don't find a way to grow revenue, I don't think they'll ever realize their potential. Let it be a lesson, someone has to want to buy what you are selling, or it's just a hobby.
Ha ha, perfect - you both summed up the hellhole that is Facebook commenting so well.
Nazis are only willing to fight without violence (generally) now because they currently aren’t able to use violence without retaliation. I don’t believe that this “commitment to non-violence” would hold any sway whatsoever were they to hold real power.

I also think it is just observably false that insane people cannot get into power if there is sufficient speech to resist them.
If Ryan's tweets had anything to do with this, my respect for him just went through the roof (and my disappointment with people actually tasked with figuring this out diminished proportionally).
Did you quit your job to get those very lucrative UBI payments?

Me neither.

Canada gave out a very "generous" $500 a week, which would not pay rent on anything outside of a 1B apartment in Toronto.
Great advice there. Yar, do something you really want to solve. Don't go through the motion of building for the sake of building.

Spend the time reading or watching how other find problems and solve them. Talk to people, especially people out of the field. See if they have interesting problems you may want to find a solution for.

And yes. Take a break. Actually, take a long break. You will find that you will regain your motivation, and work faster and longer when you come back.
Your use of "extinguish" describes a situation where you can use exactly what you have now, in exactly the way you're doing now? And the terrible thing which "extinguish" means to you is "future people who might have given me free stuff might not, and it will be Microsoft's fault"? And not only that, but the way MS will "convince people to divert effort" is by making something people want more? And that is somehow terribly unfair?

From Wikipedia:

> "Extinguish: When extensions become a de facto standard because of their dominant market share, they marginalize competitors that do not or cannot support the new extensions." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

The current world is that there are programs written for Linux distributions with certain subsystems (audio, window manager, systemd, etc) which don't work on other distributions without those subsystems. People who ignore binary blob video card drivers, etc. A Microsoft Ubuntu with DirectX that only runs in WSL would be just another thing like that. It would be practically no different to "macOS is UNIX but you can't run all macOS programs on other Unixes" which hasn't extinguished Linux or Unix.

Even moreso when people who want to write for DirectX can do so for Windows. Why would those people target DirectX on Linux which only runs on WSL? And if it doesn't only run on WSL, let's say DirectX on Linux works on any Ubuntu and Valve use it for Steam and gaming on Linux becomes massively popular by targetting DirectX for video ... how do you then connect to "nobody writes plain Linux apps because 3D games are an option" and from there to "and now despite being massively more popular, Linux is extinguished and this is bad because even though I can run literally any other distribution and write and run my own software and all previous software, I can no longer be bothered to and that's both bad and Microsoft's fault"?
>I'm actually pretty nervous of how few Carmack's we have.

Just because they aren't celebrities it doesn't mean they don't exist.
this guy is so tiresome sometimes. BY having no position, if it falls he can still say he was right, but if prices go up he can still say he was right because he did not short it.
Aren’t their servers all in the US?
> but I shouldn’t advertise this too much - its a secret weapon!

But do you use this weapon?
Why? Can you rationally explain what you are afraid of them doing?
It's possible with AWS CodeArtifact using EventBridge to promote after a delay. The company I work for has a three day delay on npm.
Thanks a lot for your advice. Interesting that you can't get rich with cs in all countries, but I think that in the USA at least I should be able to launch a business or something.

Thanks for the reassurance and sharing that you did it for the money and were only mildly interested like how I am right now. Hell, from what you've described it even sounds like I might enjoy it o.O
Bluetooh has been a real problem for me on a brand new laptop which is frustrating.

It works great, but always cuts out. I have to restart the bluetooth software and it will work for another short while until it cuts out again. Very annoying.

Apparently it has something to do with there being two bluetooth daemons running at once?

And it's been happening for years [0]

Anybody here ever solved this?

[0] https://askubuntu.com/questions/1023184/bluetooth-randomly-c...
While I have the option, yes.

There’s a few Rupert Murdoch owned companies recruiting where I’d be a good fit with the roles, they are one of the few companies building teams with the technology I enjoy working with which is in demand in a few countries but not the one I live in leaving the Murdoch owned companies one of a very small number of options.

Unless I become unemployed and desperate to pay the bills I reluctantly ignore any company owned by him despite actively looking for work.

Similarly gambling, it destroys life’s and the gamification prays on the vulnerable. Gambling provides no benefit to society. Unless I was unemployed with no other options approaching financial hardship, gambling is a hard no.
The real bottleneck is customs. The government works slow.
There's probably a link to monolith and distributed systems here. You gain way more resiliance when you get more people in your team, but what was once a thought firing in the brain of someone is now two people talking, which is order of magnitude slower. But on the flip side, you can probably handle more things in general this way.
He’s incorrect.
You don't seem to understand that there is a shortage of workers here, and we're not even producing anything! The labor is not available even to transport and sell the products. Imagine if this country tried to manufacture things... Unfortunately, for the foreseeable future the market has no choice other than continue to buy from Asia.
What do you mean? I’m pretty sure a random citizen cannot just ask for millions of ballots and count all of them. When you help counting, you’re only counting a tiny portion of the ballots.
We've known for a good while how Roman concrete works. The reason that nobody uses it is that the economic incentives aren't there. Roman concrete is more annoying to work with and takes way, way longer to usefully solidify than cheap modern concrete. Yes, it will last longer, but almost nobody these days cares about paying through the nose for a building that will last more than 100 years when you could just force future generations to pay to rebuild it when it collapses.
Tangentially related: Minimodem
http://www.whence.com/minimodem/

There is an option to translate files to audio and emit them.
Thisisunsafe – Bypassing Chrome security warnings
But the subject at hand isn't whether winters are going to be warmer. The topic was extreme weather events. And the question wasn't "is this indisputable gospel" or something, it was "where can I read about this?" Of course I biased towards selecting the links where you could read about it!
I buy them. They get immediately ripped but now I have uncompressed audio originals, compressed versions with the settings I want, and an album's worth of music played in the order intended by the artist. Streaming individual tracks sucks for live albums and concept pieces that depend on the flow between tracks.
>The moment the suppliers can set up their own shop or sell enough IP to local rivals, they will be able to sell the identical good for $150...

That's what I am looking forward to!

What is so special about manufacturing? What would be wrong with assembly-line workers going the way of farm workers?

14 million farm workers in 1910. 3 million today. Tragedy?

https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Farm_Labor/fl_frmw...
Suggestions:

- Use an old tray, or a cheap one, that you don't mind getting beat to crap. Baking heat + water are very hard on trays.

- Also hard on the bottom of many ovens.

- Don't use glass. It will very likely shatter either when adding water or due to oven heat. Ceramic likewise.

- Iron will rust.

Stainless-steel or aluminium are your best bets.

When removing the tray (at the end of the oven-spring bake), realise that you have an extremely hot tray full of boiling water. If you guage things right, you'll have very nearly completely boiled off the water.
The entire film can be found here (in 4k even): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt-RbV8KiC0
The goal isn't to convince. It's to keep your workers safe. My company nearly revolted to get the CEO to put a mandate in place because the vast majority didn't want to be in an office with unvaccinated people.
You and the parent comment are referring to the same situation.

> the prosecution is entitled to point out that you had the opportunity to fabricate it.

In the US, the prosecution is NOT entitled to point out that you didn't say this at the scene of the crime.

This is part of what we mean in the US when we say right to remain silent.
Looks like a criminal operation is behind this.

https://therecord.media/ddos-attacks-hit-multiple-email-prov...