skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Leaving aside the fact that binary blobs already existing in x86 processors doesn’t mean much for users because they can’t help that - I mean, GNU existed before Linux, and only became a completely free operating system when Linux was released, so it’s not like the position of the GNU project was to completely rule out the possibility of running any software or hardware if there was a sniff of non-free software within a 5km radius …

No, you’re ignoring the crux of the issue, which is user freedom. Why are you so insistent that Guix wave the flag for Intel and allow its users’ freedoms to be even more flagrantly violated by shipping updated microcode? Why does the FSF not openly publishing certain kinds of information amount to censorship? - do you think that, if they were to remove certain blobs from the kernel but leave in these nebulous notifications that microcode updates are available, it wouldn’t be censorship?

Talk about a bad user experience by the way - what you suggest is for the maintainers of Linux-libre to say ‘oh, by the way, there are critical updates to microcode running on your processor, but we’re not going to give them to you.’ That’s antisocial nonsense. Should they tell users about updates to all the other drivers in the kernel which they don’t ship either? Give me a break.

I am currently, at this very moment, running updated Intel microcode on my Guix machine. Every Guix user who has used the distro for more then 5 minutes knows that a) you can track any channel you like containing packaged software, and b) there is a popular channel which contains some useful non-free software. They know this because it takes about 5 minutes to use a search engine for, say, ‘How do I get Nvidia drivers on my Guix System’, which will lead you to nonguix. What exactly is your problem? Do you think Guix users need to be babied?

> Auditability doesn't mean things get audited or all bugs fixed.

Correct! But it means that they can.

Why won’t you respond to the fact that Guix users simply don’t feel hurt by this? You have taken it upon yourself to speak on behalf of a community which is perfectly happy with the existing arrangement - that the default kernel is built on Linux-libre, and they are free to use any other compatible kernel they like, including the upstream.

If you don’t like Linux-libre, don’t use it. If you don’t like Guix, don’t use it. Your pearl-clutching about these projects’ violation of their users’ rights is unwarranted, unwanted, obtuse, and very annoying. If I didn’t know better, I’d think you had it out for FSF.

I’ll leave that as my final word on this because this conversation is fruitless and pointless. You are moralising on the behalf of a community that you are not a member of and that doesn’t care for much of what you have to say for them.
> You're correct. There were multiple grants, not exactly 2. The vesting schedule is standard and there is nothing abnormal about it.

So, can we assume some portion of the options was granted more than a year ago, and has vested already?

Your compensation is quite low, I would suggest negotiating now for a higher (market rate) salary and them making you whole after their next raise.

This whole situation has tax implications that could turn out badly for you in some scenarios, so you may need the money from that extra income to deal with that.
> I've seen in multiple locales how developers make alliance with the old-timers that don't like rules, and then they push through zoning variances, overrides, or elimination.

I'd say this is why we need a system of more uniformly applied rules, so that we don't have decisions made at the discretion of local boards and variances. A process like that is easy to abuse and corrupt, just as you described above. Those with the money and connections can game the system.

p.s. We might be overloading this comment thread! lol
Honestly? A ktm-250. Any model. Just moved to the southwest and these desert scenes are begging to be explored.
To me it seems like E-readers are more popular than ever. Onyx has been pushing out so many devices in the last couple of years(the newest ones run Android 11 with pretty decent mid or low range snapdragon SoCs, the last lumi2 has 6GB Ram).

Kobo finally got their act together and moved their manufacturing back to Taiwan and started releasing neat devices including a new a 10 inch note taking devices.

Some of the old manufacturers like Supernote have now become OEMs. There are eink phones, eink mobile readers, remarkable and even the new upcoming pine reader, which looks like a bigme device with custom board.
no one can decide for themselves what their social contract is. that makes no sense.

even if you mean texans collectively decide what their social contract is, they don't, it is determined before them. it's what they were collectively born into.
To get around the separate directories/copies someone established a pattern of doing a for each environment at the top of each tf file and then all variables are stored as a map of each env, which I find interesting.

The pattern exists in one repo with the other being all the duplicates, they’ve been in “it just works” for long enough that no one has changed them. Workspaces look pretty slick, I’ll have to check them out
Now this has me wondering how you would be able to reverse something like this to get something like:

>>> 'Straße'.upper().lower()

'straße'

instead of:

>>> 'Straße'.upper().lower()

'strasse'
Not exactly. If I remember correctly (at least 10 years ago) the official way in Germany to uppercase ß was to replace it with two capital “s”.
That would be JavaScript.
But this isn't how the world works. It's not Simcity where you lay down neat grids of zones and the dutiful citizens follow your orders. People will want to take advantage of cheap(er) land alongside your "road" so that they can own a house while still having reasonable access to the "street". And boom now you have a stroad.

Attempting to use zoning to stop that runs into the problem that by and large people don't want to live in dense areas. Most of them want the cheap home in the burbs. And they'll vote for those that give it to them.

This is the root problem with Strongtowns and their ilk. They love to navel gaze and contemplate the platonic ideal of how a city should be laid out. But for the most part fail to provide a viable option that people can and will choose.
I'm not convinced. It's not like your "better horse-carriage" example because the option already exists and people reject it. My colleagues in the Bay Area all lived in SF, then quickly moved to the subrurbs when they got older. Sure, there is no pedestrian/biking utopia in the US, but there are places where you can pretty much get by without a car. And many people don't choose to live there.

I also spent some time in Singapore and it seems much closer to the Strongtowns ideal than the US - dense housing, top-notch transit (most don't have cars), carefully planned development with first-floor shops on every block, lots of greenspace and public areas.

And when I talked to my colleagues you know what their desired was? Make enough money to buy a car and get the equivalent of a single family home. They lived in dense housing and got by without a car not out of choice but out of affordability. Again, not all of them (many who could afford cars choose not to buy one), but it was a pretty common theme.
When the solution is “we need more laws, more regulation, more inspections”… I tend to think this viewpoint is reactionary and not well considered.
Billions of years of evolutionary survival instinct would have my body grasping at all straws, releasing chemicals and likely having negative affects on my physiology and mental state for the rest of my life. Clearly that isn’t anything anyone wants.

If I had no memories of the experience, and it had no long term physical affects on me, I would be indifferent, obviously, because I don't know about it.

If I were to die from it, I see no advantage to a painless death over a painful death, other than for those around me. I will have no memory of the incident.
So it just dumps all the clippings on the ground behind it, so you need to go around your yard and manually rake it? Awesome.
I agree intent matters. My point is that harm here is the catalytic converter being stolen, not the unfortunate chain of events that might befall someone as an indirect result (and other things that can cause that indirect result aren't even crimes). That unfortunate chain of events can't be used to justify murdering the thief of a relatively inexpensive car part. It's like saying a pickpocket should get murdered because they might steal your bus pass and that's how you get places.

For the record, I'm immune to catalytic converter theft because I don't own a car. I've had bike wheels stolen multiple times though, and that's no fun, but certainly no justification for murder.
I would say it is still a common pattern. I don't see how workspaces really improves anything. The fundamental problem with Terraform is it lacks if statements. There are solutions that involve dynamic blocks and for_each, but I don't think they completely solve the problem. I would say they don't have great readability.

I would love to hear a reasonable way to not snowflake that doesn't dive down the dynamic hole.

Overall I think this is all an argument for Pulumi over Terraform.
A lot of the products I've seen built that attempt to be made of microservices are actually just a really inefficient monolith. A lot of different "services" that are all completely inter-dependent, or all use one database, or use libraries of the other "services", or use the exact same patterns/tools/templates/build systems/frameworks, or hard-code configuration values from other "services", or are actually stateful. My favorite thing is when one team can't deploy a change because they're waiting on another team to deploy a change.
Context: I'm not a hypocrite. I eat a lot of meat.

I would put very strong money down that by the time most people reading these comments are in an old folks home with their grandchildren, the vast majority of the population will consider consumption of all meat unethical.

I don't think it will be illegal yet (just extremely regulated, and expensive - not the least bit because the carbon footprint of meat production will be fully factored into the price).

But to most people under 30 they will consider it as ridiculous as smoking.

And they'll ask us uncomfortable questions we won't have good answers for. Didn't you know about the health risks at the amounts you were consuming? Didn't you know about the carbon footprint? Most importantly, didn't you have ample evidence of consciousness, personality, and sentience in every way that is reasonable to us? We didn't eat dogs but considered pigs and cows different? Why?

And we won't have answers.

A few more decades and people will look back, note the high numbers of vegetarians and vegans in the public sphere, and ask the people of that present to stop venerating historical figures from our time because of pictures of them eating steaks. They'll say "even by the moral standards of the time, they were criticized. The information was all out there."

I don't say any of the above as a value judgement that I think it's good or bad. Just that I think it's inevitable.
WebWorkers changed that in the browser. Could have always spawned child processes in Node or via utilities like PM2.
The mass testing model was always dumb because the state/emission testing vendors have test results for every car and should be able to predict which model/years need testing and which don't.

Instead out of "fairness" or greed, they'd require everyone to get every car tested every X years after Y years of age when sampling would make a lot more sense.
yeah, and just like earth can't decide its gravity field, a society can't decide its social contract.
That's not their philosophy, it's the opposite of it. Their point is more in line with something like "the ability to sense pain is not related to sentience and is not special", not "if something can sense pain, it is therefore not sentient and is not special".
> phone's autocomplete dictionary.

Snicker ... The new Webster or Oxfords ...
Appreciate the thoughtful response. I've also found the subreddits to be echo chambers. I am looking for more curious places.

Regarding be your own bank -- agree that $25/transaction doesn't make sense, and that this a regular occurrence on bitcoin and ethereum. Does not seem like layer 1 will be in a position to solve this ever. Could take a decade for level 2 to get there. Inevitable though?
We don't need to live in mud huts, I'm pretty sure houses can be vegan. Also it doesn't need to be all or nothing, we can simply reduce suffering. I don't understand the logic of "we can't eliminate suffering, so might as well maximize suffering by boiling animals to death."
I'm using the search-interferance model and the recognition primed model.
Like my Gran tells us, when she was a girl her mother asked her if she'd like some chicken for dinner. "Oh yes" my gran said enthusiastically; she pointed out the window and said "which one"?

"Then I went and wrung its neck".
As a sibling comment notes, Intel can (and has a history) of doing this physically. Where a manufacturer price discriminates by offering two products, a normal one and an inferior one, it may be the case that the cheapest way to do that is by simply making twice as many “good” ones and intentionally disabling half of them.

There is a very famous economics paper by Deneckere and McAfee that outlines exactly this behaviour from Intel in the 386 (…?) days, and how it may even lead to Pareto improvement - and increased consumer welfare. I can’t find it at the moment on mobile, but it should be relatively easily surfaced.

Edit: found it, “Damaged Goods” - https://www2.econ.iastate.edu/faculty/langinier/teaching2005...
I love how whenever I read about radio stuff I feel like I'm reading something from r/VXJunkies.
When travel opens up again and you find yourself taking a trip to Japan, come visit Wakayama's Toretore Village: https://www.google.com/maps/@33.6797444,135.3761989,3a,75y,8...

You can stay in one of the dome rooms in what feels a bit like a Smurf village.
That’s actually an interesting thought experiment, and with modern processors you’ll see them throttle down and adjust trying to preserve themselves.
Great channel, have been following it for some time, a few takeaways from there:

- It's the cars that make the cities undesirable

- I was shocked how the historical center of London, ON was demolished to the ground and replaced with shacks

- Kids should be able to walk to school alone in safety

- I live in Europe and I was baffled to learn that multi-purpose developments are disallowed in most of North America. This alone makes me reconsider my plans to move to the States. I love how I can just jump on a bike here and be at a large supermarket in 5 minutes
> Apply this to software, and everybody will be forced to pay the Office Pro price when they only need Office Home features.

Or rather Microsoft makes less money producing pretty much the same products and selling close to the lower price, which is more likely, since their margin is high enough to allow it.
When you're throwing something together as a hobby project, or a working name that never gets changed, or something that was only meant for internal use, or whatever, isn't it just too grandiose to have to think about whether your (far in the future, if at all ever) Reddit group is going to be ambiguous? I think you're attributing too much forethought to these things.
maybe not in every detail, but are the broad strokes really so varried?
The devil doesn't need an advocate.
You're wrong. People want to live in walkable cities. Property prices prove this.
It's actually, "functional pricing."
Do we know approximately why synthetic insulin is that slow, e.g. is it the delivery mechanism or is it the formulation?
You're "sickened". You're acting like this is the killing of completely innocent people. You can't even acknowledge that it's kind of a gray zone?

Did you read the article? "Elk Grove, CA: Authorities seized 2K converters along with 300k Cash."

This is literally hundreds of thousands of dollars drained from the wealth of the community.

Gotta keep these career criminals alive at all costs huh?
I know this is a joke, but this is an actual thing in linguistics called reduplication. For example, hito (人) in Japanese means person, and hitobito (人人) means people, more or less. Japanese isn't the best example since they don't have "real" plurals but I think it's a fascinating phenomenon.
I’m not. I’m just an interested layman who likes to read and think. And if I’m really fortunate, to think clearly and distinctly.

Evidently then whatever claim it was you were making was not clear to me. I’d be obliged if you made it so. In case it’s not obvious I supposed you implied the universe is a TM on account of that was the first way it occurred to me to make sense of your claim.

Incidentally, that Newton’s laser sword monograph was interesting but philosophically rather immature. I think the author would greatly benefit from reading some pragmaticist philosophy, in particular that of C.S. Peirce. Who, by the way, was a mathematician and logician in the Frege tier. Frankly though I do share the author’s disdain for the more navel-gazing pursuits that occupy many contemporary philosophy departments.
The group r/cocoa used to be about Apple's Cocoa framework, but eventually got taken over by chocolate lovers.
Spreedly as a wrapper around other payment gateways may add additional fees. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
>My understanding from previous reading is that after just one or two staff suffered vague symptoms, the rest of the Havana staff were briefed that they may be under attack in some way

Citation please.
On the Embaddening of Geek Culture
Easy. Scam. At least in the sense that it exposed the scam that you need to have a viable business or even be a competent executive to raise gobs of venture capital.
Interesting, I’ve always thought it would make more sense to optimize for hot-swappable batteries rather than try to improve supercharger tech.
> ...because you can’t define it with any precision no matter how hard you try.

For my clients, when we discuss "tech debt", I give it to them in concrete terms.

"You want Capability A at Month 3, but in order to pull that off, you're going to have to give on Requirement 1 and Expectations Lambda, and it will cost us Y months of implementation in Q4 instead of Y-2 months, will that work for the business?"

"Sure."

"So marked in the meeting notes, and filed under our Tech Debt Jira backlog Feature, we won't move forward with Capability A implementation until you send Sam when you need the technical debt paid off by, and we'll slot it in ahead of time, okay?"

"No problem, we'll get it to you with more detailed requirements on Capability A next week, thanks!"

Sure, when you don't track tech debt it is just sloppy work ("incompetence" is a little harsh, I tend to say the staff involved need more coaching and are possibly more junior than their roles require...bees, honey, and all that). It has served me well to get through to those managers who initially demand the impossible.
And the reason people often move out with kids is that it's too expensive to own a large-enough property for most people due to the high demand for walkable places.
Could you maybe install and use a BSD cut instead?
I don't believe that company size has anything to do with whether microservices work. That's the line people are sold, but companies large and small both suck at implementing microservices, and companies large and small can both implement monoliths successfully. I think it really has to come down to the individual case of a given product/project. One product may work way better as one architecture versus another, regardless of how many parts it may involve, due to the context, customers, use cases, organizational model, support model, regulations, etc.

As a general rule, we tend to use the org chart to define our architectures (Conway's Law), but many org charts are just fucked up. We should absolutely fight an architectural design that is mimicking a poor organizational model.
Consensus based systems aren’t wasting resources if data replication is desired and at least with raft and similar the replicas aren’t continuously trying to obtain the lock.
I've seen this formalized as a strategy (probably here on Hacker News):

1. Express disbelief at the offer. You might just repeat the offer with appropriate inflection and body language, like it's hard to believe they are asking that much.

2. Don't say anything, no matter how uncomfortable it gets. Wait until the other party makes a concession.

I suspect professional sales people will be wise to this, but they probably already have a concession they are willing to make to close the deal.
Happening in South Africa now. Because the utility publishes their rolling blackout schedules.
> There is a very toxic self centered car culture here; any impediment to it real or imaginary will make people very angry.

I have seen more comments and people talking about this toxic car culture than seen it in real life.

Not everyone is young, healthy and rich enough to bike. There is a historic racial divide. White folks live in more bike friendly places.

https://theconversation.com/the-unbearable-whiteness-of-cycl...

https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/ex/sustainablecitiescollecti...
If your criteria is sentience and not ability to feel pain, then what are your thoughts on a newborn baby? Or someone with severe brain trauma? Is euthenasia ok for those born with the brain capacity of a cow or lobster? Or are you just being speciesist?
The search-unfriendliness of Go is particularly ironic given that it was created by Google.
It is widely used and offers more features than Markdown. It is much better for techinical documentation in many cases.
This also happens for language keywords. Apple used to have the NS prefix and removed it in Swift. It was easier to search for NSString than it is for String.
The only reason this works is that it's backed up by government enforcement of intellectual property rights. If the government didn't do that, then consumers wouldn't pay anything for office software, Microsoft Office wouldn't exist, and the whole landscape would be very different. The natural price for the second copy of a piece of software is $0.

Something being known and taught in product classes doesn't make it any more acceptable. Planned obsolescence is taught in economics classes, and it's still awful despite that.
Are you suggesting that sentience is required to suffer from pain? Or that suffering isn't a problem unless you are sentient?
>A company that uses software automation to increase efficiency and improve margins at scale (thereby scaling non-linearly).

WeWork probably qualifies then. With sufficient scale they could bring technology to bear in order to increase utilization of office space. Especially to global companies that have ever changing needs for office space around the world.

Of course, WeWork hasn't (AFAICT) accomplished that but theoretically they could.
In fact, you could get a Talos II with dual 22-core CPUs for a whopping 176 threads, even. Raptor has them in stock.
> no more than it's disregard of a fox to eat a deer

Does this happen? It would seem that a fox that attacks a deer has a disregard for its own life
Im not playing devils advocate, I was answering a question.

>How is it possible to kill someone with your car while exercising "due care"?

It is extremely easy to kill someone with a 2 ton piece of metal traveling 70+ miles an hour.

Surely, even if you don't believe a protestors has ever been on a low visibility road, you can understand that they could be. There are limitations to how fast cars can react to pedestrians being where they aren't supposed to be.
Nixon won over 60% of the vote and only lost Massachusetts and DC. Biden got 51.3% of the vote and as many states as Trump.
see also

https://old.reddit.com/r/Tesla/

https://old.reddit.com/r/TeslaMotors/