skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had to read it several times to get it, but I think they’re referring to “dumb” which could also refer to people who can’t speak.

The funny thing about this is that I simply read “dumb” as “stupid” and didn’t make any connection to being mute - but thanks to the earlier comment I’ve now made the association. So, well done policing the discourse, I guess?
It's not location-based pay, right? It's market-function based pay. A radiologist can usually give you a report based on your scans from anywhere. However, my cousin (a well-paid radiologist in the NHS) simply cannot give me a report that I can use here in the US. So I must pay above global market value since the market function constrains participants.

So it isn't location-based. It's just market-based. It makes sense that big companies would do this, since labour is usually fungible there. They can then treat the labour market as a highly-liquid market of equivalent units. This standardization of things leading to liquid markets is quite common: options contracts, the TEU shipping container, the ERC-721 standard.

I run engineering at a trading company and I don't do this, but that's because labour is not fungible at my scale. So I don't have a liquid market: each time I buy labour, it is not usually substitutable with another guy.
It's not goal post moving. All those other criticisms still apply, and as new, terrible ideas are added, critics react with new criticisms.
Any process that can connect to the X server has complete control over all other apps running on it and can record all user activity.

It can also pop up an xterm and type ‘kill’ into it.

Not that this isn’t poor design though, but it’s the best one can do.
OK, I meant more like "dangerous hot shit that wipes out everything in its path" in a general sense.

If someone gave me a contract to build something in modern-day Herculaneum I would say no. I think it's irresponsible to build there. In terms of lives lost it's tantamount to knowingly shipping a hundred 777s with loose screws that cause them to crash.

The number of downvotes on this thread is also exactly why we have disasters with volcanic eruptions. This is like the geological equivalent of a bunch of antivaxxers.
I know off topic but from 12 foot’s homepage:

> You ought to be able to search something on Google and get an answer to your question without signing up for some newsletter.

Why ought you? That sounds not only incredibly entitled, but also extremely one sided. The world isn’t being created for your convenience and wallet. It would be better if the bias was explicit, like “I would prefer to be able to get all information free of charge,” in which case honesty and audacity are clear.

This reminds me of the old hacker cry “information wants to be free,” which of course anthropomorphizes information and hides the bias, which is the hacker wants all information independent of everyone else’s concern.
Harmless is a pipe dream of a goal. Very few endemic viruses are harmless, the common cold kills many people a year so even that isn’t harmless.

Let’s really cement the goalposts where they are so this endless march of “well vaccine doesn’t mean harmless” and “well antivirals aren’t perfect” to “well endemic doesn’t mean we can relax”… it is insane.
The HashiCorp Story in 90 Minutes – With Mitchell Hashimoto
I'm a proponent of FreeBSD for desktop use as well and I'm currently playing around with 13.0-RELEASE + KDE Plama on my new laptop.

Unfortunately it's quite a new hardware (Clevo NV41MZ with i7-1165G7 and AX-200) and neither suspend-to-RAM (doesn't wake up in a working state) nor WiFi (iwm driver not ready and available for FreeBSD 13) work.

I have a RealTek USB WiFi adapter that kind of works, but I'm not sure if I can do without suspend-to-RAM on a laptop, as this is pretty much the most important feature for everyday use.
It's offensive to idiots.
Are we talking male anatomy? Circumcision? If so, why dodge around those words?

If that’s what we’re talking about, count me in except for the outrage. It doesn’t seem to have impacted my sex life in any way. What negative repurcussions are you suffering from it? Was the surgery botched, is that why?
What are the chances that the volcano erupts with a train on/near that portion of track? How often would you likely have to fix it? How much does it cost to go around? I am sure these questions are being asked and the risks being weighed. They may not be right and you might not agree with them but unless they did this without any forethought I would not call them dumb. Also you are comparing them to Pompei even though this is a train track not a city.
Doomsday Clock
The addresses are whole foods stores
A Touhou hijack occured on УВБ-76/Buzzer Russian military frequency
I really like the format and layout of this.
> ...a tool of theft by the government.

How is theft by grifters (whatever we're calling crypto-bros) better?
Not OP, but this page seems to have a nice writeup: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd/Timers
Scientists make first detection of exotic “X” particles in quark-gluon plasma
I'm confused as to why they (or their "propaganda") are the reason there is still a pandemic. Abandoning mitigations means it burns through the population quicker. Eventually we will all decide that the COVID-19 pandemic does not exist, because it will end at some point, right?
I haven't tried FreeBSD on a laptop, but I've always wanted to....

> FreeBSD supports a wide range of network cards (including an increasing number of 802.11n chipsets)

Is this out of date or should I not even try installing on a laptop with an ac chipset?
This is the use case for a metric store. https://blog.transform.co/history-of-the-metrics-store/

It's a separate system, which has downsides. As an upside, by being a component of your system, the integrations with monitoring, alerting, quality checks, and dashboards is usually pretty easy.
> Object-oriented programming is the most successful programming paradigm in history.

I don't think it is. The vast majority of code is imperative, with sometimes classes here and there, and these days with sometimes higher-order functions here and there, and with sometimes declarative programming (SQL and stuff like that). But the core is imperative code.
You're right, I initially completely misinterpreted your point -- sorry about that. I edited my response accordingly.

My new point is simply this: You can make this argument about anything whose value declines relative to other things; it doesn't make it a useful interpretation of the actual market trends.

For example, I could say that the price of computational resources hasn't been falling over the past few decades due to advances in computer efficiency an speed; no, rather I claim that this is just an illusion -- the cost of computation has actually remained fixed, while the price of literally everything else in the world has been rising, as long as we denominate them in terms of computational resources! But this is silly and doesn't reflect what's actually happening, because I'm subtly making an axiomatic/unfalsifiable assertion here (that the 'true cost' of computational resources is fixed).

It might be easy to misconstrue as reflective of truth because many things do rise in cost, so it intuitively might seem like a profound alternate viewpoint on reality that logically checks out. But, in reality, the viewpoint is simply wrong / not useful -- a reflection merely of an axiomatic assertion yielding a tautological claim, with no external evidence to back it up.
I did a quick Google for examples, and found this comment [0] on HN which gives some examples.

It being "basically text" doesn't matter; a pdf can be mostly just text but that doesn't mean in any shape or form that it's searchable.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17683719
Adding onto this; the parts of the kernel that were from FreeBSD were taken two decades ago, without much if any attempt to follow up and rebase. I don't know about the disk I/O subsystem, or even if it was taken from FreeBSD, but the 2000 era FreeBSD tcp was scalable for 2000 era machines (although it would have been nice if Apple had taken it after syncache/syncookies), but needs changes from the 2010s to work well with modern machines. I'm sure that similar improvements have happened for disk I/O, but I just don't know the details. Not a lot of people would run a FreeBSD 4.x kernel today, but that's what's happening with the FreeBSD derived kernel bits in Mac OS.
Hmm, the problem with the parent is that it's derisive and also just wrong, not that it is 'ableist'.
Yes, the goalposts keep moving: first it was smoothing the curve, now it is???
From what I've read it seems that the ocean exacerbated the explosion: the hot magma caused water to vaporize and created a steam explosion. I've read about a 70x volume expansion and that the top altitude of the plume was steam.

On the other hand, the ocean might have captured some of the ash (?)
Also worth noting:

Even if you believe that all drugs should be legal for informed personal use, that doesn't change the predatory and destructive nature of drug dealers and cartels in the system as it exists today. If you want to support personal, recreational use of drugs, the ethical, responsible way to do that is through campaigning for reform of our laws, not through enabling and funding violent organized crime groups that profit massively off keeping people so addicted they can't function in society.
Linux has been my primary development OS since ~2008 but I had always run Windows as my main desktop OS for gaming. Over Christmas of 2021, I installed Ubuntu on my main desktop. During the fall of 2021, I was migrated to Windows 11 as part of the developer experience and did not care for it. Add to that the fact that Microsoft wouldn't support my "ancient" i7-4790k in the live release of Windows 11. They made the decision to switch to Linux for me. I went with Ubuntu so that I could easily test-drive Linux for daily driving and gaming. I've had a couple of strange snags but every game (that I play) has worked fine otherwise and many of them have native versions regardless. If/when I can spare a weekend, I'll move over to Arch.
Thanks!

I agree that integrating with the DB would allow much more from a lang. But PRQL is a bet that languages which start there (e.g Kusto) get lost because it requires changing DB, which is really hard. I worry EdgeDB may hit this issue too (but I'm really hoping it works, and they have an excellent team).

As I think you're suggesting — you could imagine a language starting out as a transpiler, and then over time DBs working with it directly, cutting out some of the impediment mismatch.

Malloy [1] is another point in space — it targets existing DBs through SQL queries but can also ask for schemas etc while developing.

[1] https://github.com/looker-open-source/malloy
What is the legal basis for the lawsuit for those of us who cannot watch the video?
It's clearly in Celsius, which is the metric system's temperature unit and it is clearly stated on the website's about page:

By default the page loads and displays distances in miles, temperatures in Fahrenheit, ie English units (also known as Imperial or USCS system units). If you wish to have the page load and display in kilometers and temperatures in Celsius, ie metric system units use the urls below to select your preferred units.
What is making you feel burned out and what do you expect to get from switching?

I started out as an EE doing mostly hardware work, continued to do more HW/SW integration and now do essentially 100% software work but with the ability to read and interpret schematics, datasheets, figure out HW/SW integration bugs etc. I have done a ton of physical system integration: i.e., getting my software to make things move, move properly, and work around mechanical or electrical bugs. Yes, there are also bugs in mechanical and electronic systems, and it's usually cheaper to "just fix it in software!"

You may just be switching one kind of burnout for another...

One of the most telling remarks I remember was from a friend who had done mainly software and was now coding for the electromechanical system that I worked on: "I'd really just rather work with the Simulator because when I put my code on hardware then I have to deal with a whole other set of problems that have nothing to do with software."

He eventually got past that but that's why I think you need to be really clear about what you want to get out of doing this.
Born in Indiana, and at one point something like 40% of adult men belonged to the Klan (in the 20s-30s). The state government was controlled by the Klan. In rural areas, the Klan is still very active. Indianapolis has a large Black population, but suffers oppression via systematic racist to this day.
You are not allowed to use Lightsail once you use more professional services on AWS atleast per ToS
Having every move I make, including every fill-up catalogued for corps and govts then sold to a string of highest bidders is a non-starter for me. Luckily don't drive much, will be sticking with classic cars (circa 2000 :) for the foreseeable future.
One-Liners Compilation
That's true, and there may have been fewer casualties if such a leader had stepped up sooner
Having spent significant time in the South, but not being from there, I have conflicting feelings about the civil war.

The divide that existed then is a permutation of what bitterly divides the US now. People outside the South seem to despise southern people and their values more than ever, and the south is no closer to sharing their values.

I often wonder if we would have been better off fighting the war to free existing slaves, embargoing further slave trade, and just leaving the Confederacy alone as its own country.

(With apologies for responding more to the theme than to the article itself, which is a nice summary.)
So I am not an expert in blockchain or web3, I've only completed a few courses implementing a blockchain in golang and I work in the digital health industry.

But the points you raise, are exactly the issues I've been thinking could be solved with web3. I am imagining using it to give control to the patient of who has read access(to what and when), who can add data, etc.

I.e. give full transparency and control to the patient. Instead of the current situation where a patients data is on different systems, you don't know what it actually says, besides what a doctor tells you.
Can you expand on "starting from filesystems"?
The others are misleading you with very limited perspectives. Are you comparing yourself to the father and the kid together or just the kid? The kid is using the parents' space. And while house prices have shot up recently pricing out the current generation, the parents are obviously not of the current generation. Housing in that part of New Jersey used to be quite cheap. They might be doing fairly well, but nothing he's done requires it. Frankly, a lot of what he's done suggests more blue collar access to tools, a truck, and ability to work with your hands fixing things.

The article says the microscope was $1k. That's about 750 GBP. The kid didn't make the purchase at the market rate when he just happpened to feel like it. He jumped at the right point when an opportunity presented itself. Everyone immersed in some hobby dealing with old equipment comes across such opportunities now and then.
This reasoning cannot lead to a practical policy directive. Volcanoes often lay dormant for thousands of years and their eruptions can deny huge amounts of land, which is not a reasonable tradeoff compared to "just rebuilding the railroad every 5000 years", since its service life is probably shorter than that anyway.
Except most of the large properties moved to online-only, loot-box infested monetization scheme. So yes, you aren't being "forced", but comparable alternatives don't really exist anymore.
>> I say this as a cheater and a liar.

I really appreciate the honesty that can be obtained via anonymity. It might be interesting to have honest discussions with "bad" people, but most of them appear either not self-aware, or refuse to be honest about things.
HDMI 2.1 Compliance Certification: An Incomprehensible Swamp of Confusion
I was vacationing in Mammoth one time and started reading about the geology... quite a shock to find that basically everything to the east is a giant caldera [1]. Also 760,000 years ago is really quite recent on geologic time scales.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Valley_Caldera
What kind of chip layout/validation tools and methods would have been used for this chip? The layout does not appear to be as dense or uniform as other chip images that I've seen. Is the large spacing between elements more indicative of a prototype that would have been refined later in production?
I swapped computational fluid dynamics for basic python scripts and web apps and 3x’d salary. Job markets are weird.
For (1): Comparing sums of logarithms is pretty easy, since you can rewrite it as comparing products of integers. So not all sums of irrationals are hard.

For (2): Allowing inputs to arbitrary precision presumably means they are arbitrarily long bit strings? But if you measure complexity in terms of the total number of input bits, summing long bit strings is very easy.
Sounds like a situation where there would be absolutely no doubt that the auction house would be liable for the error in a classical case. Also a case where the error would have been discovered or the transaction rolled back quickly perhaps with a small compensation to the buyer who would not receive the work.
Seems like a poor implementation of localization - the root redirects to a language specific landing page.
Those arguments are for the Windows service and don't appear to have a corresponding Linux option. On the Linux side, if things are still done the same way as they were in the past, you had to set CATALINA_PID before starting the java process.

It's still a guessing game, though, even with CATALINA_PID. It is entirely possible for Java to crash (something which RC scripts do not handle, at all) and another java process starting up which happens to be assigned the same process id as the dead java process. This can not happen with systemd units because each service unit is its own Linux cgroup and it can tell which processes belong to the service.
not if they lift the injection and resolve the issue themselves, or if the two parties come to an agreement to resolve the situation
> people need to consider hardening their activities against google et al

Isn't your own solution--that you would never consider g-suite for any business application--the obvious simplest way to "harden" against Google?
Doesn't help, because if you start with the sum of N square roots you end up (in the general case) with 2^N square roots once you raise it to a power.
Yes, they did use transparent shadows. You can tell because the images are not GIF's, they're actually a sequence of PNG images overlayed atop other PNG images. There's the base satellite image of the area, then the frames-of-explosion-with-transparency overlayed atop them. You can confirm this by right clicking on the image and choosing "open image in new tab", which will (usually) open this final frame in a new tab.

[0] - https://graphics.reuters.com/TONGA-VOLCANO/lgpdwjyqbvo/cdn/i...
Null is more popular than OOP. It's also something all programmers can agree is a huge mistake. But this concept is replicated literally everywhere.

See:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskComputerScience/comments/bhgtzp/...

People in general are stupid. They get onto hype trains they develop biases and they vote for Trump and try to invade the Whitehouse.

Programmers are people. Hence why stupid concepts can propagate throughout the community.

(Not saying OOP is stupid, just saying that something being popular doesn't negate it from being placed in the stupid bucket.)
I do admire all the different ways you can shoot yourself in the foot with using C++. The relentless pursue of 'what would the compiler do and does it costs us cycles?' is a great mindset to have - if you can afford it.

Thanks for the interesting analysis of const.
I was an aerospace major who worked mainly in software. It’s two very different worlds. A degree is a must. I wouldn’t say physical engineering is harder than software, but like say medicine the corpus of knowledge required as a baseline is much larger. A lot of the job is analysis, and you just have to know the math, the heuristics, etc.

You’ll also be a much smaller cog in a much larger machine. You can’t single handedly design a bridge the way Torvolds wrote the Linux kernel. That’s ultimately what convinced me to pivot to avionics and then ultimately software as I got through my degree.
I don’t have a reference for this, but I seem to recall that corn ethanol in particular produced more CO2 in its production then you saved by burning it.

(Might have been a different ethanol. There are many things that can be turned into ethanol, and it matters if some are worth it and others are not).
I think the problem is caused by deskreen.com redirecting to https://deskreen.com/lang-en . It is a shame I can't update it.
Follow it up with "The Color of Law" by Richard Rothstein to understand how the decisions made during Reconstruction impacted the 20th and 21st centuries.
There are people trying to make hardware more open source and user friendly for the average user right now. The Framework laptop, for example, is not a perfect product with DIY silicon but it's well on it's way to open, repairable hardware, open bare iron code, and other user-friendly attributes.

It's also quite expensive because by definition such things will always be more expensive. Vote with your wallet and not just your HN post and you'll push the world just the tiniest bit in the direction you want.
It's had over a decade now for "something valuable to grow". There is still no use case for cryptocurrency (that I've ever heard of) that isn't either done at least as well without it, anarcho-capitalist fantasy, or purely about making money off having more of it.
Technically two other commenters here have a point, I think. It depends on your bankroll and investment strategies. But it's so personal that no one (especially random analysts who don't even know you exist) could really advise to HODL and make sense. That's a nitpick, though insightful one, to be fair. But in in-vacuum analysis it's either BUY or SELL. No one knows your portfolio to tell more, so everyone assumes that your money from a corresponding risk category just sits idle.
No it is not. An image cannot be stored on any of the popular block chains. An NFT contains a link to an image, which the chain has no way of displaying, third party websites like Opensea display the images.

And you can never delete anything from a blockchain so your second point is completely false as well. And even if you could delete something from a chain it could not "drain" your wallet unless you explicitly gave it permission to use your coins.
Not really. I'm using all parts of Google suite together as they are well integrated with every device I have and eachother. I am using Adobe cloud for photos instead of Google photos for example, and even there I quite often feel the difference in integration with the Android operating system.
If you force enough current through a wire, the Lorenz force can cause it to pinch in on itself and disintegrate. Copper wires aren't so simple at high currents, high voltages, or high frequencies.