skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two obvious constraints in sharing software:

* If software producers are pushing out obviously incompatible changes (excluding Hyrum's law and https://xkcd.com/1172) to consumers, the eco-system is broken. This includes SemVer-aware package managers which transparently bump up past major-version boundaries by default. (That doesn't seem to be what's happening here.)

* If software consumers can't handle new warnings, the eco-system is broken. This includes C and now Common Lisp.

Creating an eco-system that threads the needle between these constraints is an exercise for the reader. One thing that helps is minimizing the depth of dependency stack: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16882140#16882555. Beyond that, producers should be free to make incompatible changes as long as consumers can pick them up on their own schedule. Anything else is absolutely bonkers.
As a long-time embedded C coder: I agree that (with the added benefit on hindsight) the original code "smells".

I'm well-tuned to consider overflows, and adding numbers together instinctively makes me consider whether there's a risk... Similarly, subtracting numbers should make one consider underflows.

Perhaps the original author was used to working with signed values and forgot to consider the risk of underflow with these unsigned variables.

(I used to have C's type promotion rules on quickdraw, but I very soon learned that if I needed to refer to them, I was probably doing something wrong)
Curious as to the motivation for this. I've never heard of this company, but the pricing page says the cheapest PG cluster is $6.88 per month. Is that enough to keep their target customers from using their service?
Which could indicate the gov has already broken TLS's trusted model. It's known a CA was breached some years back by a state, why would it be so far fetched to say CA's haven't been required to hand over private keys and are prevented from speaking about it?

I would not be surprised in the slightest that the government has subpoenaed a UK based CA or has a UK controlled CA of their own.

Having access to end private keys or being able to sign your own valid cert from a well known entity in the trusted list, to just operating your own all means the user is (almost) none the wiser TLS communication is opened wide to a state actor.
Oh goodness I love KubeSail. Before Fly.io, I really wanted to build a self hosted alternative to Google Photos. I think what you're doing is incredibly valuable.
> The problem with conservative forums like HN

Not terribly on topic, but I've been lurking here for more than a decade, and today I learned that it's a conservative forum. And on top of that, it has the same problems inherent to conservative forums (fora?). Weird.
I don't think we lose much sleep thinking about how hard we're making things for OVH, which booked over 600MM $EU last year. But we're flattered that you'd think that. :)
In rare cases, coronavirus vaccines may cause Long Covid-like symptoms
Ryan from YC here.

There's still a market for in-person jobs/workers, and people are willing to relocate as they did pre-pandemic. It might be significantly smaller, but if it matters enough on both sides to be in-person, I think it's a factor to consider when growing a team/picking a job.

While I don't have hard numbers, I know a few founders who are seed-stage and need to hire only 2-3 people; they want to be in an office (safely) in their early days. (Who knows what will happen as they grow.) Likewise, many job seekers I talk to want to be in-person and working alongside colleagues (safely) because they miss in-person interactions.

To your last point, I don't know if any angel investors in YC startups take into consideration a startups' willingness/unwillingness to be remote as a signal for whether they should invest. My guess is that there are better signals (technical founder, past experience, progress already made) that are more important deciding factors.
This is becoming a very outdated view.

If a business takes a performance hit, perhaps their talent acquisition, organisation, process flows and leadership are sub par?

Don't believe me? Wait till you lose your best performers because you want them in an office. There's a bigger performance hit you'll take there, along with staff who are demoralised and stressed out with one eye open on the job's market, trying to drop kids off or whatever else they need the flexibility for.

Remember my post as a warning the next time you espouse this view, because it's inaccurate and it isn't valid in every single case.
We include 160GB of outbound bandwidth per month: https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/#free-allowances
From my personal experience with the homeless, practically every single one uses drugs, even the ones who claim they don't.
Or a homework-style schedule: show up to meetings Tuesday/Thursday, no required working hours the rest of the time. Work when you want, just be productive.
Hear, hear! Some are worse than others, some don't bother much, but lots of perfumes give me headaches.
There’s nothing virtuous about any of this garbage.
Perhaps I can convince you with a more philosophical argument.

Private communication is essential for freedom of speech. I may not speak freely with my friends or family if I believe that those conversations are easily accessible by the government. It's not that these conversations are inherently bad either; rather, I believe that people have a tendency to self-censor themselves depending on their audience. When the audience consists of an entity that has overwhelming influence on your life, I believe the potential for self-censorship is enormous.

Historically, many of the world’s greatest ideas were first discussed in private. Bold ideas were discussed in discreet locations, free from the threat of eavesdroppers out of fear of government recourse. Nowadays, technology has enabled people to communicate instantaneously with one another from thousands of miles away. Encryption enhances that capability by further allowing that communication to be private, fostering freedom of speech and the discussion of new ideas. It is really quite amazing when you think about it!
The Mahabharata on Time
Time createth all things and Time destroyeth all creatures. It is Time that burneth creatures and it is Time that extinguisheth the fire. All states, the good and the evil, in the three worlds, are caused by Time. Time cutteth short all things and createth them anew. Time alone is awake when all things are asleep: indeed, Time is incapable of being overcome. Time passeth over all things without being retarded.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15474
I've heard all three of those. Andrews wins by a knockout in the first round. I bought Dion's albums, too. Sorry, dude!

The only problem with Andrews is her songbook is kinda small. She burned very brightly, but all too briefly.

But I have a suggestion for you. Get the bluray of Sound of Music. Put it on play. Forget about the schmaltzy plot, the sappy lyrics, the saccharine emoting, the cardboard characters. Just listen to the music. You'll be blown away. I envy anyone hearing it for the first time. If you're up to it, figure out which character is Marni Nixon without looking it up.

And lest I forget, check out Roberta Flack. She gives me chills, too.
I sincerely hope Ford gets hit hard and pays back all the profits they made from their tax dodging scheme plus penalties.

I'm beyond tired of massive corporations sending jobs to other countries, pretending to care about their own country and lying about being made locally, and dodging taxes. Ford hit all three here.
I find turning "at most 16 years" into "nearly 20 years" egregious!

What I hope is that Google will at least have an option to turn those accounts into regular Google accounts instead of being in yet another limbo state where they exist as part of a management that isn't free.
If GNU units isn't lying to me:

The blast yield has been given as equivalent to 6 MT TNT,[1] equivalent to a large nuclear weapon. This estimate itself is probably based on shockwave, ejecta volume and velocity, or similar effects,[2] so I'm somewhat working backwards to the estimation basis, but let's roll with that.

6 megaton TNT is about 11,100 billion * 2260 J

2260 J is the latent heat of vaporisation of water (the energy required to turn 1g of 100C water to steam).

If the ocean water were at 100C before vapourisation, that works out to about 11 million m^3 (or 11 million tonnes) of seawater vapourised, about 0.011 km^3.

The actual amount would be less than this, as the seawater would have been heated from below 100C (at 4.18 joules/(g*degreeC)), and some of the heat would likely have been dissipated in other modes (e.g., kinetic energy).

But that's an upper bound.

Since steam occupies about 1,000 the volume of liquid water, that 11 million tonnes would have displaced 11 km^3 of atmosphere, or a cube 2.2 km on a side, or a sphere with a radius of about 1.37 km.

Which makes me wonder what the specific blast geometry would have been, and how that might have affected blast and gravity wave generation. A narrow column jetting straight up might have a much more pronounced gravity-wave effect than a generalised, say, hemispheric, blast.

As before: not a geologist.

Edit: It's also helpful to remember that that volume of steam has mass and momentum. Once it starts moving, it's going to take some resistive force to stop it, and atmospheric resistance and gravity are pretty much all we've got to work with. But 11 million tonnes moving at a good clip (up to around 600--1,100 kph, based on other estimates of the shockwave) has a significant stopping distance.

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Notes:

1. Initial estimates were 10 MT, but revised downward. https://www.npr.org/2022/01/18/1073800454/nasa-scientists-es...

2. Acoustic / shockwave methods are described here by Arrowsmith & Bowman, further methods are listed among references: https://asa.scitation.org/doi/10.1121/1.4984121#
I <3 Sci hub
Highly recommend 7+ Taskbar Tweaker by Ram Michael. https://ramensoftware.com/7-taskbar-tweaker
Nice site and awesome work. Going to have a better read of what's available later on for someone here in NZ.
> To make this sort of solution ubiquitous you really want better hardware support to make bounds checking cheap.

It's funny because it's trivial to implement underflow/overflow reporting in an ALU, but somehow that kind of event doesn't get reported to the offending program, at least at the naive C level.
There’s no winning here. Sending back a bunch of 429’s is still part of your API. Sure it’s less expensive to do than the operation the client was probably requesting but it’s not free and it’s stateful. For the kinds of bad actors people are talking about in this thread you still want to blackhole them.
It's not absurd to worry about it, it is absurd to say there is no safe exposure level and leave it at that. Especially because so many people smoke it is important to be informed about the actual risks of second hand smoke.

If I'm walking down the street do I need to cross the street if I see someone approach with a cigarette? If I'm at a bar and smell smoke coming in should I leave?
The damage from smoking is accumulative. I have noticed it in the skin of young female smokers after a few years of heavy smoking. You can see it's affects on some other parts of the body over longer periods.

Drinking a lot of alcohol has a similar effects as tobacco on your health, and on the skin. If you know a heavy drinker then they quit for six months and then you see their face, there is noticeable rejuvenation. There are patterns of looks to older people that drink at pubs frequently.
Sorry, I prefer Mary Poppins to Sound of Music.

Thanks for the Flack rec.
There's a bunch of things about 'being in an office' that aren't so much about 'being in an office' as they are 'not being in your house'. Cynically, you could point out some power dynamic - symbols of you being part of something 'larger' than yourself are often parts of offices (big or small), and you're submitting yourself to some rituals shared by your colleagues and (many?) others in society.

BUT... there's also less responsibility for maintenance - offices often will have cleaning/maintenance, decent hvac, etc. They can provide a standardized work environment that helps legitimately separate 'work' from 'home', which many people need help in doing (even pre covid).

Yes, you get the big whiteboards and maybe other equipment that just doesn't make sense for a home (big copiers from decades ago, etc) as well.
It absolutely can be. Similar at least. Companies that have nothing to do with this market are shoehorning in "crypto", "web3", and "defi" projects and announcements just to go with the trend and look good to VC's. Like "AI" and "machine learning" from a few years back. In this case it isn't really "virtue signalling" since there's no moral position involved, but it's a similar form of market signaling.
Bigger than the technical hurdles is the fact that the 'user-owned' selling point is all an illusion.
At least decades ago when I first read about it, it was said that the third party, a company called the Stepan Co., imports the coca leaves, removes the cocaine, and sends the leaves to Coca-Cola and the cocaine to Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals.

https://apnews.com/article/af06f48660bf613e12d411a8f4dd4784
The only evidence provided is highly circumstantial and geographically limited:

>>Consider that when the Mexican government passed a law in the early 2010s to require more information about buyers, and how much cash could be spent on a single piece of art, the market cratered, as sales dipped 70 percent in less than a year.

Much of Mexico's economy, even the legitimate markets, is controlled by cartels, so operates very differently than most economies.

It might not even be the law's impediment to money laundering that caused sales to crater - it may be simply that in a country with a large outlaw faction that has thoroughly infiltrated government agencies, people with means will not want to be easily tracked/identified by attaching their identity to large purchases of luxury items.
The False Promise of Web3
I thought maybe it was like BDFL but different words.
> If you want to disengage from society based on your personal risk preferences, you should be free to do so. At this point, two years after this started, I should be free to reengage in my normal activities

Yes, 100% agreed.

> Where? In places that are locked down?

Let's take a look at Georgia, for instance. I don't think they instituted particularly heavy lockdowns. Here we have a state where 60 teachers/staff have died in Georgia over a roughly 3 month period [0]. Some notable statistics:

- They had 14 bus drivers who died. I know people like to pretend that Covid is safer than driving, but literally 14 bus drivers have never died over a 3 month period due to traffic accidents. That just does not happen. Anyway, what do you think it takes to replace those 14 bus drivers, and how are students getting to school while the vacancies persist? In the Griffin-Spalding School District, 3 bus drivers died within a week. That's not normal.

- 42 faculty and staff died, the average age of deceased faculty was 46, the average age of staff was 50. That's not normal.

What's the effect of this? This article sums up my thoughts pretty well [1]. Some excerpts:

[I]n my district there are several schools scrambling to fill vacant teacher positions with qualified teachers

A big group of baby boomer teachers is retiring, some on time, some early. Fewer people are going into education because it is seen as less of a profession and more of “calling,” with little pay. There is a movement called “The Great Resignation” that is speaking directly to the exploited feeling many teachers have.

The author goes on to list a number of suggestions that she believes would help the situation, but we all know approximately none of those will happen. Hence the teacher exodus. Hence the substitute teacher shortage [2]. Hence the bus driver shortage [3]. Hence school closures [4], which make parents angry. Parents lash out at teachers demanding that schools open, which further just drives teachers to want to quit. Because they're not closed by choice -- they're closed because teachers and staff are dying, quitting, and finding other opportunities, and the sales pitch to fill those vacant roles is really quite terrible.

Anyway, my point is this: no matter how much anyone wants to get back to normal, getting there isn't a matter of someone "in charge" ordering things to just open up. This sounds like an Underpants Gnome strategy:

1. Open schools

2. ...

3. Kids are educated and mentally whole

There's a whole lot of detail missing in step 2 there, and I think people who want things to be fully open and back to normal really need to grapple with the complexity of what step 2 is eliding.

> My wife and I will likely be homeschooling, for a number of reasons

Good on you, I wish you the best of luck!

[0] https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/least-50-georgia-te...

[1] https://www.ajc.com/education/get-schooled-blog/teacher-my-p...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/labor-shortage-georgia-schoo...

[3] https://thegeorgiavirtue.com/georgia-news/bus-driver-shortag...

[4] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/entire-south-ga-school-dis...
First presidential election was the year Bill Clinton won.
Thank you. This guy is the equivalent of Richard in Silicon Valley when he tries to take the stairs three steps at a time to demonstrate how tabs are superior to spaces.
Well the inverse of that is you have the freedom to not move when you get a job in another state.

I've already done this.
Conduit: Data Integration for Production Data Stores
Banks took both sides of LIBOR contracts. So it wasn't really about manipulation so much as just having a standard to follow. Do you read about clubs of Silicon Valley browser makers meeting up to come up with a new HTML standard and assume that this is some nefarious plot? I imagine your London banker counterpart does.
Back to the BBS – Part Six: The Demoscene
What do you use it for daily?
I mean did his work shape politics or did politics shape his work.
Okay, I think there is something I don't understand here. That link references a book I might have to read "Time Travel and Warp Drives".

Thanks!
English isn’t abelian.
YouTubes low payout is because they consider themselves a radio station provider and not an alacarte music streaming service.
>I mean, I guess we could just let Coca-Cola import metric tons of coca leaves, sell them to whoever the fuck they want, and then just... prosecute the people who do bad things with them?

Yes? Basically?

(1988)

"Workers at the Stepan Co. plant, the nation’s only legal importer of cocaine, must undergo strict background checks, and agents from the federal Drug Enforcement Agency frequently visit, said plant manager John O’Brien.

DEA spokesman Milton Smilek in Newark said there haven’t been any security problems at the plant just west of New York City. He said it processes hundreds of tons of cocaine each year."

This is where Coca-Cola is said to get its flavoring from.
If* a technology were to be dependent on lack of "feud" between two individuals, I wonder if it has any intrinsic merit. That is especially ironic for something that bangs on the decentralization drum.

[*] Not claiming all interpretations of "web3" fail that condition, but if they do.
In a sense, but that’s more a “how” than a what.

As you’ve described re: drinking, tying it to funding is a clear, well trodden path for the feds but let’s not forget the even clearer message, motivation and inertia that was behind it in the MADD type stuff all of a few decades after the temperance movement.

What policing is, and what its standards should be was the single most divisive topic in a year we were overrun by plague though. Nationwide protests. No resolution. Every particular reform (atm, under the current systems) takes years to see through and is shackled to locality, socioeconómics, different explanations, political warfare

Very wicked problem, and that’s not even getting into anti federalism…
I think the worst change with Win11's taskbar is that it _always_ groups multiple windows of the same program behind one icon on the taskbar. So previously you had two+ taskbar items and could easily click on the one you want, now you must click the icon, a menu comes up showing the windows, then click on a window.

If you're used to using the taskbar for quick switching like that it's a jarring change.
Meh. There's some logic to that.

People tend to work harder to create interesting things if they get to have a chance to generate wealth from that work.

But the nature of web3 now really doesn't fulfill that vision.
So web3, the alleged fundamental reorganisation of the internet as we know it and the future of how we interact and communicate is put at risk because two dudes have a spat on twitter? Do China and India exist in this scenario? Does everyone in the world just go "well Marc and Jack are pissed off, so we might as well bin the thing"

Imagine someone picks up a heated Hackernews conversation and goes "well these two guys put functional programming at risk". It says a lot about what people truly think web3 actually is.
As I commented elsewhere, Beyonce is clearly using autotune. The best way to tell the difference is to just become familiar with singers that predate autotune. It's the way they abruptly (too quickly) shift notes, and then stay dead on the note. You'll hear it after a while, and then you can't unhear it. It's a one-way ticket.

> that's kind of an impossibly high bar

So true. But so is Karen Carpenter, Julie Andrews, Grace Slick, etc., that all predate autotune. I suspect a cause and effect there.
You can get the same benefit of relaxed by making or buying a hops tincture in MCT Oil. The hops are what make a pilsner feel really relaxing. The pulse side is you don't have the harm from the alcohol.
I am mad about how slow the search is now. I used to press window button, start typing first few letters of app of choice hit enter and it would open. Now it takes like 3 seconds for the search to start and by muscle memory I've hit enter now before its even warmed up and for whatever reason ends up doing a web search..

That alone Makes me want to quit Windows.
It's C# that created and popularized async/await, not JS (and it having an already open source implementation at the time, it was available to everyone for free).
I dunno bro, contactors generally dodge the employment law issues. That's why a contractor charges out at 110 an hour whilst an employee would be happy with 50.

As someone who prepandemic was contracting back to nz whilst living in south america and now is starting to hire contractors, NZ and OZ don't represent good value spend in comparison to many other countries that have great people also but are getting paid 5 instead.

I have friends back home I would love to bring on to my team but the thought of paying them gives me shivvers.
I'd be pretty surprised if I saw a guy eating his hands.
Jack Dorsey may be critical of Web3 but it's because he's high on something much worse: Bitcoin maximalism. He's a crackpot crypto billionaire who has some minor disagreements with billionaire crypto VCs. Web3 may be designed to benefit insiders but Bitcoin emergently benefits its own early adopters; the result will be the same either way. The masses don't even enter into the equation.
IIRC that shows the history of tracks you've played from your own playlists or when you play specific albums and songs, but not if you're using the radio feature (where you start playback by pressing the center and not the bottom right of the tile).
Unruly, maskless passenger forces London-bound flight to return to Miami
No. Marketing fraud.
Windows 11 would be a better product if their vision was communicated to users somehow. As it stands windows 11 is something that “happens to you”.