skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the title of just "Architect" is protected legally.

Only if you're using the title to represent yourself as a certified architect, and no one in the public is going to be confused about what a software architect does and hire them to build a bridge. Otherwise, no, it's not legally protected and even then it varies by state.

I can legally start a match making company and have the title "Architect" without facing any legal consequences.
Now do Russia!
that is so foul
According to federal safety standards, the children will be safer in the car with seatbelts, rather than the school bus without seatbelts.

Who would want to transport children on busses when the safety devices are purposefully missing?
I'll repeat another comment.

This means conservative belief systems about labor, colonialism, race, gender, and sexuality.
Startup ecosystem? looks around
There was a big thread about this already:

Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29184198 - Nov 2021 (304 comments)

But the current article goes more into the history and influence of SA, and perhaps that is worth talking about? The sordid personal stuff has already had a thorough treatment.
This isn't for everyone. It's limited to Enterprise, who very well might have good reason to use said feature.
We should not blame "the gov" or "organizations". This kind of crap was coded by someone, maybe more than one person. These are the people to blame. Our profession will never be a truly profession until we (developers) are not held accountable for the crap code that we wrote.
> My goal in the post was to avoid "just use this crate"

I very much appreciate this sentiment and it inspires me to actually think about blogging again. Thank you.
I find it impressive that QNX is still around, I remember trying it out in the late 90's, booting it off a floppy disk!
What do you mean by "the DP state"?

Also, I think my previous formula is wrong. Maybe it is the sum of:

(m - i + 1)*(n - j + 1)*U(i, j)

With i, j in [1..m].

But maybe it is still wrong because U(i, j) will re-count combinations from U(i - 1, j) and U(i, j - 1)...

Argh! This is complicated! I think I'll have to revisit it if I ever have a good idea.
CF: Would it be asking too much to have a date and time stamp on your blog posts somewhere?
The Nintendo Switch version seems to have a lot more

https://twitter.com/nationalpepper/status/145929488113902387...
I don't think Linux nor RedHat are to blame for your poor experience with nVidia graphics. The one-finger salute Linus gave nVidia years ago was well deserved. A lot of work has gone into reverse-engineering attempts to improve nouveau but there is still a long way to go despite their efforts.
Symbolics Lisp Machines (2012) [YouTube]
sudo pm-suspend

Having to type that before I put my laptop in a bag is worth not having to worry that the laptop will spin up in the bag and cook itself trying to update the OS.
I don't think this assertion holds since most breakthrough cases are much milder than unvaccinated infections.
2014 Billionaires, Year Company Was Founded Strip Chart
I would challenge that thought. Saying that “smart” people get stuck to and have to rely on others. You’re also limiting yourself by thinking you aren’t smart enough to solve the problem alone. This is a negative feedback loop that keeps you from moving forward.
There's a big difference between personal ownership and corporate ownership. There's a huge legal and ethical gap between your living room and a Wal-Mart parking lot.
He was wrong because there are so many systems of thought; because he wasn't accounting for or aware of the existance of subconscious thought; because thoughts are context dependant; and of course because all formal systems of this sort tend to suffer incompleteness. However, I have only the greatest respect, as asking a question that leads to so many deep and interesting answers is far more difficult and important then having a "correct hypothesis".
I was thinking somewhat similarly.

The reduction in channels could mirror a difference in attention-investment. More attention invested in the "thought realm" and less in the "physical realm". Thus our unique facility with thought.
It's right below the title, where you'd expect it.
Am I the only one who feels like words have lost all their power in the political realm? There once was a time when speeches could be grand and alter the nation's consciousness. Words used to matter more. JFK's inaugural address is remembered as one of the greatest speeches in American history. That wasn't such a long time ago. Can the same be said of Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, or George W. Bush? Ironically enough, Trump's inaugural address, despite the fact that Trump is a terrible public speaker, will be more famous than those of his immediate successor and predecessor, because of the "American carnage" line. No one remembers what Joe Biden said in his inaugural address.

Everyone is so fazed, cynical, tired, and disillusioned these days that they wouldn't care if the president made the greatest speech ever. On the opposite side of the coin, Trump broke about every single rule in the book about what politicians shouldn't say, and he won 74 million votes.

Americans don't care about words anymore. No one can change anyone else's mind anymore.
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> antitrust complaint against Alphabet's Google

There’s gonna be high-fives and cigars for all of the lawyers and lobbyists who have successfully executed on the strategy to spin off the ultra-high-revenue-generating but secretly-ultra-toxic asset into a standalone entity before the heat got turned on. J&J is trying to do this with the whole talc thing but it’s probably too late.

I am totally, totally impressed by Google’s government and legal people. They’ve gotten the company out of almost every mess unscathed, and even done something to erase its most senior executives’ rumored associations with Jeffrey Epstein. It’s truly remarkable. In my ultimate fantasy, they’d be working for the greater good, rather than against it, but alas.
I guess we must disable view-source in all browsers now! Welcome back to the 70s where you could only use a phone made by AT&T and got to rent it at $10/month.
Hey thanks! I'll take a look at that, sounds like a bug. Will look at adding some pause/mute/scroll buttons too :)
The DOJ has a lawsuit against Google in the works, it's even mentioned in the article. [[I'm hesitant to provide a citation as I'm not sure of the latest source]]
Stock trading comes to mind
On the surface, this:

> With a MOP, however, you can still have this more compact data representation format (since the data is sparse), but still have all the normal language syntax and semantics around the object (like accessing fields using the dot syntax)

just sounds like the JavaScript object model, and this:

> Users still access objects (from their perspective) exactly like any other, but all the mutex and condition variable stuffs can be automatically baked in (no need to add extra logic in your methods).

kinda sounds like computed properties/getters+setters (or simply "Properties" in C#), which many languages have at this point. I assume I'm missing or misunderstanding something?
Usually making a 1 ms query execute in 0.5 ms is a lot harder than making a 10 second query execute in 5 second.

One of the benefits of geometric mean is that all queries have "equal" weight in the metric, this keeps vendors from focusing on the long running queries and ignoring the short running ones.
It is one way to balance between long and short query performance.

A similar concept is applied to TPC-DS for data load, single user run (Power), multi user run (Throughput) and data maintenance (Concurrent Delete and Inserts).

Check clause 7.6.3.1 in the TPC-Ds spec in http://tpc.org/tpc_documents_current_versions/pdf/tpc-ds_v3....
Cargo-geiger and similar tools allow you to audit crates you depend on to discover whether they're definitely safe.

Of course just because some Rust is unsafe does not mean it's wrong, it just means that you're relying on it being correct as you have to with all code in unsafe languages.
I can only speak from a parent's perspective, not an engineering perspective.

* Melissa & Doug toys are robust. In particular, the cars and trucks take the same beating as the other toys and have never broken. They're relatively inexpensive and can be found in department stores like Kohl's.

* Mega Bloks, basically giant Legos, are also robust. They get stepped on, sat on, dropped, kicked and thrown, and they all still fit together. I don't think they're as tough as actual Legos, but they don't hurt nearly as much when stepped on.
Every programmer I know retired into management. They made more, sometimes a lot more, money than I did. I had 8 "opportunities" to do that. I turned them all down.

My reasoning is that I don't understand why I would move from a subject I know really well (programming) to one that I don't know at all (management).

Plus I know I'm neither good at self-management nor good with people so wisdom seems to dictate remaining a programmer.

Note that all of the former programmers all claimed they wanted to either return-to or continue-to program. One of them even had it written into his contract that he could program "in his spare time at work" (who has that?).
Not one of the managers returned to programming later in life.

Programming is hard, a lot of self-inflicted pain, and the ultimate source of frustration. Few people want to return to that once they have "escaped".

Know thyself.
Have you considered going back to finish college? You didn't mention when you dropped out but if you were almost finished, you enjoyed it and you are in a position where it's possible financially you might want to consider finishing it. While definitely not a requirement for tech, I considered not finishing my degree (I was receiving job offers for my "programming hobby" from everywhere and knew would not use my degree) but luckily I finished it; thanks to that I am able to live and work in Tokyo. I would not be able to do that had I had no official degree.
Previous ongoing thread:

Email from FBI Looks Odd - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29208276 - Nov 2021 (150 comments)
VMware WS 1.0 for Linux – 1999
Gee: "titanium metal walls"! "Sapphire windows"!

(Not exactly aimed at the technically proficient...)
Are you sure you want to remove old backups unconditional to the success of the backups
> For email uses, a textual encoding of a hashcash stamp is added to the header of an email to prove the sender has expended a modest amount of CPU time calculating the stamp prior to sending the email. In other words, as the sender has taken a certain amount of time to generate the stamp and send the email, it is unlikely that they are a spammer.

I can see exactly why this wouldn't work - nowadays wouldn't spammers have enough processing power to just do this for every spam email? And how does this not slow down email processing for the end-user, sending an email now requires me to brute-force a hash, right?
Intel Core I9-12900K vs. Core I9-11900K: Alder Lake and Rocket Lake CPU Face Off
It is mentioned in the article, but Google lost an appeal in the EU recently, related to ranking of its price search engine. But one wonders whether that's really such a big deal for Google.

An interesting detail instead arises from the other cases. The one case Google apparently WANTS to settle out of court is the case on the use of data!

Now, this should tell the careful reader quite a bit about what Google thinks is really important here.
related "Ask HN: Alternatives to HN for non-Hacker News?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25318880 , "Ask HN: What are some more authentic online forums?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20941191
Supposing substantial antitrust actions are taken against Big Tech, would that have any effect on rank-and-file salaries in software? Big Tech kinda sets the bar regarding salaries, no? When MSFT was hit with antitrust action did it have any effect like this? Or is it an apples/orange comparison?
Url changed from https://asiatimes.com/2021/11/atomic-avocado-could-change-th..., which seems to be copying from other sources and mentioning them, but not linking to them. That's a shoddy practice and from a quick look at other submissions like they do it a lot, so I've banned the site.

If anyone knows of a better article on this, we can change the URL again.
Still less an instruction manual or idea sourcebook.
I don't want to derail your question, but I am curious about your issues with 1Password. Would you be willing to elaborate?
Would you call TeX or Bash stagnant? They have a few commits per year. Some projects are like Michelangelo's David where they arch toward completion. At which point the game usually becomes inventing new stuff on top of it, like LaTeX. It's a good model for a gift economy like open source and less disruptive than things like the Python 2 to 3 transition.
…how‽ What is the explanation for this?
You say it's limiting your real world socialization but given you're now comfortable dancing at concerts and making friends it sounds like overall it's been positive socially in a way that could have been harder to achieve without it

It's interesting how much your experience echo's mine (I just jumped out of a VRC dance meet a moment ago)

I can definitely see social VR eating more of the world in the long run however. I can't say for sure this is a bad thing, just different. I think it's something the next generations won't feel negative about in the same way, for them it'll just be the nature of the world
> Tell that to sun

I'm not sure if you're being intentionally daft or what, but obviously we're talking about energy used by humans.

On Earth, the means to capture or produce any energy is a result of economic interest. If you want to capture energy from the sun at scale, there's a cost attached to it.

> And what’s bad about leaving the lights on? Is energy a scarce resource or what?

Yes, captured energy is literally a scare resource. Texas had rolling blackouts last winter. Many places in the developing world have constant rolling blackouts. That's why we charge money for it, that's why we invest money to drill for it, that's why we've invested decades of research and development into improving our ability to capture energy.

The electric company where I live, which is hydro-electricity based has run commercials for as long as I can remember to conserve energy because of its positive impact on the environment. Where the hell do you live that you think energy is infinite and free? The sun?
What is the difference? What are we disagreeing about here?
Technically, yes. But AFAIK, the eGates at e.g. Heathrow didn't work with a German ID card so you had to queue for a human.
> The lawsuit also highlights Google's use of a secret program dubbed "Project Bernanke" in 2013 that used bidding data to give its own ad-buying an advantage. For example, in a 2015 iteration of the program, Google allegedly dropped the second-highest bids from publishers' auctions, accumulated money into a pool and then spent that money to inflate only the bids belonging advertisers who used the company's Google Ads. They otherwise would have likely lost the auctions, the states alleged.

Can someone rephrase this and possibly explain like I'm five? I'm not following the mechanics...
> Abusing your (near) monopoly position to drive out competition is illegal.

Yes, but it happens so often with so little attention paid that stories like this more often make me think a politician is looking for election funding rather than trying to enforce the law.
Or animations that stutter. Smartphones have been managing consistent 60fps animations for years now, and MacOS is similarly smooth.
You make a lot of assumptions, and dismiss my valid opinion as uninformed. I would say that's arrogant and offensive, but I'm sure you meant well.

More to the point, in my many years of experience with Rust, I've found that if you're working on a stateless project, or a small project, or have a very clear picture up-front, you can know what data you will need to centralize and split ahead of time, and things will go smoothly. However, that's rarely the case in the parts of industry I've been in, where we need to prototype, refactor, and build out our programs constantly. In these cases, Rust is slower to work with compared to other languages, because the borrow checker makes our APIs brittle, causing refactors' blast radius to increase.

I'd be curious to hear if your architecture experience with large Rust projects might be different, I'm always open to more data points.
This wouldn't work for "longevity" because "longevity" isn't a bell curve.

If "longevity" were a bell curve, we would see some humans at the 150 years old mark. We do not. Human longevity has a "cliff" that it won't go past.

Selective breeding could get you arbitrarily close to whatever that cliff actually is, but no further.

To get further than that cliff, you would have to fix all the issues that cause it. There is no guarantee (and practically an anti-guarantee) that selective breeding would ever accomplish that.
Crypto critics:

https://amycastor.com/blog/

https://davidgerard.co.uk

https://schiffradio.com/

Warren Buffet

They are not necessarily predicting the collapse of bitcoin but they are against crypto for many reasons.

Something to think about - bitcoin only wins if it becomes a reserve currency. Until then it’s a negative sum game measured in dollars. Because it’s people swapping in and out dollars but with the expense of mining thrown in which has to be paid in dollars.

—-

People that are critical of bitcoin but pro crypto? … not sure that would be interesting.
Thank you. That was very helpful.
A redditor gets caught up in a triangulation scam and investigates
How do you spoof the source IP? If these attacks mainly originate from IoT devices in home/business networks shouldn’t the ISP block outgoing packets which have a source IP which does not match the IP of the home/business routers interface?

I haven’t tried but I would hope my ISP would drop any packets I send out from my home network which do not have the public IP address of my router, but I haven’t tested it.
During Obama it didn't seem like the problem it is today.

I'm not saying it wasen't a problem, but America thought these FANG companies were solving our problems.

I never liked Google Executives going to the White House, but I don't think it was because Obama sold out. Tech was very new. Google honestly wanted to help.

It seemed like every young guy wanted to be Zuck. Hell even Zuck thought he could run for president one day.

It was all so inspiring. Now it's just ugly.
Does this natural tendency to “explore” explain why children will try doing again the thing you just asked them not to do? And then follow that up with different variations of said thing to see how you react?
I hear the frustration and empathize, but we can't allow the downward spiral that results when people who feel strongly about something for good reason take it as a license to break the rules. I know it's not easy to do otherwise.
You'd never want a team made up of exclusively one or the other.
What size 4K monitor and what effective resolution?

Others feel free to chime in with their preferences too.
Workforce software? New world systems? Llamasoft? Barracuda? I think there's more out there than you give credit for.

Rest in piece Compuware.
You could check which one Fedora uses. It has millilightseconds.
There haven't been any analysis to the best of my knowledge.

I saw some Twitter threads early on with people trying to figure it out but those efforts seemed to have died out.
indeed. literally nobody said this
It is almost as if actions matter more than words.

Anyone can say anything but if they repeatedly fail to back it up people become increasingly skeptical.
Advocates for <insert thing you dislike> always seem to gloss over the fact that a lot of that shit is not healthy. I doubt that is a conversation that can really be had online by people who aren't pseudo-anonymous - measuring a thing's healthiness by the adherent's propensity to kill themselves at elevated rates...
He is passionate about it so too. He is also good to read for FP/Haskell related gems
Pro tip:

You can continually sign up for trial versions of the full suite for 90 days. At the end of the 90 days you sign up with another email and a new free trail. I’ve heard of a few produces that have done this for many many years.
this was with and without a dock, had the same issue when I used a dock and when I connected the two monitors into the laptop's thunderbolt ports directly.
Google does not want documents produced to the DOJ to be shared with the state AGs.

https://ia601404.us.archive.org/8/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.56...

Judge Castel reminded them that they must produce those documents to the state AGs.

https://ia601404.us.archive.org/8/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.56...

Perhaps this team can benefit from the discovery conducted by the DOJ.
Some kids are just assholes.
The innovation here appear to be the chamber. (caveat: I still need to read the paper). A few thoughts follow.

They are going for a UHV***, probably <1e-10 mbar, but want to do it with a passive pumping design. In an ordinary chamber to get there you'd do a pump down, then bake it to remove the water. Then use an ion pump plus occasional firing of a titanium sublimation pump to remove the hydrogen that leaks in (ion pumps don't work so well for hydrogen at low pressures). They have some expensive chamber that doesn't suffer from these leaks.

Still a lot of other work to do though. I see a table full of optics to make the MOT*. Also see a pair of anti-Helmholtz coils for the magnetic field. They could maybe replace those coils (which probably drive a few amps) with permanent magnets (assuming they don't need to switch the fields on and off which I imagine they don't because it can't imagine a pulsed design that wouldn't risk missing data)

Passive getters work for a good long time with low leak rates. These you can just buy**. To be honest I'm not sure why you need such a fancy chamber. I'd guess a good NEG pump, a small chamber, and good seals would make you fine for a long time, but I'd need to do the math to be sure.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto-optical_trap

**https://www.saesgetters.com/products-functions/products/neg-...

***https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high_vacuum
Unfortunately we're terrible at prediction. The code you spent all night getting clever with gets rewritten next week, but the code you just threw together survives until the new platform, when it gets ported directly because nobody remembers why it was written like that.
Our profession has a relationship with complexity that no other engineering discipline has to deal with.

Other engineers can reasonably design around known variability in the environment. You can engineer a 4x safety margin in a bridge. No such concreteness exists for programs.

When we make a product, we really have no idea what the landscape of computing will look like in the future. Even the projects that are less than five years old that I’ve worked on have had so much grafted onto them that I barely recognize what I had originally wrote for it. My hunch is that the email system is basically a “legacy app” that had more and more jammed into it as time went on. The prudent thing to do would have been to go with a new provider, but that is extremely expensive compared to jamming new features like that script into it.

In this scenario, how would a developer be held accountable? Would telling a judge “I really didn’t want to write this code but the client demanded these changes” be a viable defense?
That is an absolutely fair distinction.

I think a blocking implementation being a `await(async impl)` is typically fine...

the problem with that is the lack of async interop in the current state of things, more than the async runtime which mostly gets compiled away.