skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of these programs are small but not exactly lightweight by browser standards. This is cool, so I applaud the efforts but this is also dangerous IMO because many entry level developers go out in search of solutions not knowing about optimization and eventually what was meant to be fun but not serious ends up becoming the norm. Converting optimized videos already supported by the browser to sub-optimized images to convert back into bloated videos is just insanity IMO, but could quickly become the norm for how websites operate if we are not careful with WASM... and it does come at a performance costs, whether bandwidth or complexity... and I for one, as much as I despise JavaScript, like that it is at least semi-transparent. How long before we have people reverse-engineering WASM programs just to read what is happening in your web browser which has already became the preferred tool for fingerprinting and gathering user information? Malicious advertisers will see WASM as the holy grail.
What is true is more like "~80% of many jobs is routine enough to (theoretically) be handled by a machine."

This phenomenon is obvious with e.g. grocery store checkout machines. For every 5-10 machines, there needs to be one person to confirm I'm old enough to buy alcohol, or assure the machine I'm not stealing when I bag my onions in a way it doesn't recognize.
Isn't this what Web3 is trying to introduce with integrated cryptowallets?
Something as small as a few kloc I can reverse back to compilable source in a day, so things that trivially small are not difficult to edit to your hearts content.

Heck, I suspect Ghidra nowadays makes that a single click task.

And if it's that small, it's also trivial to write. I doubt too many companies fret over stuff that small.
I do agree that the "old" internet is not totally dead, but in my case communities I used to be in and even a couple I had direct involvement in were gutted because people left in favor of participating in communities via websites like Twitter. IRC channels I was in dwindled in numbers, draining instead to massive Discord servers.

The thing is, the "old" Internet was always somewhat anemic compared to the "new" Internet. It was never all that big. IRC channels I was in that felt like communities would stay dead for hours at a time, and sometimes topped out at under 100 members. Yet, they had a feeling of community that I rarely experience much on today's internet.

With how many people are on the Internet today, you'd expect that this standard could be upheld even with minimal participation, but I find that not only are there less people participating in the "old" internet, but also in addition to that, the people still participating have far less of their attention and time dedicated to it. As it was, the "old" Internet was, as many things are, powered by the unpaid time and effort of a relatively small number of people. Those people still exist, but their attention is far more divided. There's just more stuff going on overall. The "new" internet allures people with more "passive" participation vs the active participation that was often demanded by forums and IRC channels.

As an icing on the shit cake, you link to Fandom/Wikia as a community hub. Fandom and its behavior has torn apart a lot of smaller communities with its practices. See, for example, what happened when the Touhou wiki's community collectively decided they no longer wanted to be on Wikia: old administrators were banned, new ones were appointed by staff, and now the site is effectively forked. Apparently, if a wiki is too important for ad revenue, the admins will literally just fork your site. Of course, I'm not saying they did anything illegal, but what they did is a major fuck you to the community that poured hours of work into the site. It would be like a forum host that decides to ban all of the admins and appoint its own in their place. Maybe a bit like Reddit...

While I don't know exactly how much and why the "old" internet is dead, I do have my suspicions that it has a lot to do with the evolution of monetization on the internet. My hope is that the patron model can help here...
‘Alarming’ Chip Shortages Uncovered by Commerce Department
> It's disempowering to feel like you're never able to make a decision yourself, despite supposedly being hired for your expertise in the field.

I'm going through exactly this at the moment. For reasons HN will probably consider fiction, my superiors have started treating me as a toddler that needs oversight on every single decision that needs to be made.

It's something I've been dealing with in therapy, and the way I was able to explain it to her was by saying that I feel like the monkey in the infinite monkey theorem. Never thinking about what you're producing (if you can call it producing at all), just pressing buttons.

It makes me wonder what the point of having me even is, considering they spend so much time solving all my problems for me. I've come really close to saying "ok, go ahead and let me know when it's done" during 40 minute meetings where every minute detail of what I'm supposed to do is discussed by 3 people.
>>>The point flew entirely over your head.

Funny. I'd say the same applies for you. The whole point of the article is that men and women have different value systems in how they evaluate interpersonal relationships, and your contribution to this discussion has only been: "While I put forth no evidence to the contrary, their conclusion is wrong....and any men who utilize such a value system are bad human beings." It's the same sort of overbearing, arrogant, intrusive shaming language used by religious conservatives in opposition to gay marriage.

>>>you should assume they are judging you by the same standards

I would absolutely assume that my friends are holding me accountable to the same standards to which I hold them. And if they didn't, then I wouldn't trust them as true friends. They should be able to share hard truths ("Hey, you are failing yourself right now") and also be willing to offer assistance to get me back on my path.

>>>If your relationship with all your friends is based on their utility to advance your status, you don’t actually have any friends.

What are the metrics underpinning your assessment of friendship? In order to achieve a status of !friend, there would need to be failure modes for evaluation of actions to drive that conclusion. What are those failure modes? And which of my friends have you evaluated against these metrics to support your assertion? We all know the answer to that: NONE.

Men are under no obligations to evaluate their friendships using YOUR mental model, and possessing a working model that is different from yours does not inherently make them misanthropes out of touch with reality. The level of uncomprehending arrogance needed to come into a discussion with that as a leading talking point is astounding.
"Even more toxic" is not usually the preferred phrasing for comparing with ethanol; it implies you're comparing with something that's already quite toxic, and ethanol, while indeed toxic, is not normally considered quite toxic enough that we don't need to go out of our way to stop people from drinking it.
Commerce Department says some manufacturers have less than 5-day supply of chips
Any chance could disclose the ones that "simply don't exist w/o Javascript". (Assuming they are information sources, not online games or otherwise purely interactive.) I have had reasonably consistent success finding workarounds for sites that gratuitously use Javascript to present information.
Nuts. I checked settings and the email is correct :(
No. The 50 was subject to intermittent failures (whether microcode or hardware I don't know).

SYNCH is how user mode exits are called from supervisor code.

COLT (Canadian On Line Teller) often ran (runs?) in supervisor state and in the bank I was working at the time would initialise a transaction buffer by setting it to all one's - very bad news when that buffer address was erroneously set to zero because some registers were not preserved across pseudo reentrant (a particularly repulsive term) interrupt points.

This invalidated all the New PSWs triggering an interrupt cascade such that the STOP key would not work because the instruction never completed. SYSTEM RESET (courtesy the IBM engineer) did the job.
> You're assuming engineers can't be victims of cargo cult

At no point did I say anything to that effect.

I’m saying that marketers are not making technical decisions. That’s all I’m saying.
His victim's family (yes, really) doesn't like that he was the first to get a heart transplant. https://nypost.com/2022/01/13/historic-pig-heart-recipient-w...

PETA doesn't like that anyone got a pig heart transplant. https://www.peta.org/media/news-releases/first-heart-transpl...
> I suppose the piping operator is infix.

It's more like composition isn't it?

object | dothis | dothat

Is pretty much

dothat(dothis(object))

If stdout is considered the return value at least.

The pipe itself is just a sort of.. notation that a postfix function follows? Whereas in mathematics the function is prefixed, and the notation itself is infix and optional. (That's a knowingly rough and lazy description that any mathematician will hate...)
"Automation" propaganda was always a threat aimed at labor and labor unions. The only significant "automation" has been 1) moving factories to countries with lower wages and to localities with lax regulations on working conditions, and 2) the gig economy (the culmination of Manpower's et al. temp revolution from the 90s) along with independent contracting in name only to dodge benefits and the costs of downtime.

Actual automation is a comparison between workers, who are infinitely flexible, know their jobs better than their bosses, and are responsible for taking care of themselves, - and machines, which are morons that break down and require expensive workers to fix. Workers are better the vast majority of the time, and when we can get a machine to be cost-effective against them it's a good thing. It is just a rare, difficult thing.
> SUVs are appealing because they're big and cost a lot of money. It's often a display of superiority and wealth. Those people would drive a tank if they could.

Uh, that and they're useful? The only thing comparable for the combo of carrying capacity, people seating, and towing of your average SUV is a full size van. Which drives like shit, has terrible visibility side and rear, and is often even more of a break-in target. Oh, and it costs the same or more as that SUV that's easy to park, easy to drive, fits all your kids or family or bikes and luggage and can still haul a light trailer.

The modern SUV is the evolution of the station wagon. Some of the early models were just wealth signals, I can kind of agree with that, but generally there's no better option for someone who regularly hauls 4+ people and a bunch of crap everywhere.
$900/mo. is near the high-end of the feasible UBI range. If you want to live on your UBI, it's pretty much expected that you'd move to the lowest-cost feasible area, and content yourself with a somewhat dignified subsistence. UBI has by far the most potential as a supplemental income to low-skilled, entry-level or low-intensity work. The key aim is to make it seamless for people to enter or leave the job market as they choose, which removes the threat of exploitive "wage slavery".
Ugh PETA, always have to butt in just to keep themselves relevant.

For the first one, I can totally understand what the victim's family must be going through, but doctors aren't (and shouldn't) be in the business of making moral judgements on who should and shouldn't get to live. There is an established process in place for organ transplants (time on the wait list, viability of the transfer) and that's all that needs to be followed.
The original source from Commerce Department: Results from Semiconductor Supply Chain Request for Information[1]

[1] https://www.commerce.gov/news/blog/2022/01/results-semicondu...
It's perfect for use in Android, in both strengths and weaknesses.
That is the main goal of the server. In my opinion, it is a pretty good idea to run a lightning node so that you help the network and "help yourself".
> again if you want to really reliably reach a giant audience you again need the permission of the gatekeepers.

This is not true.
Easy-to-exploit Linux bug gives attackers root
> at some point closer to the sun we could perhaps pull this angular "hack" to shade Earth using a smaller object?

A. C. Clarke and S. Baxter A Time Odyssey series 2nd book, "Sunstorm" focuses on destructive coronal mass ejection as main plot. One of the mankind solutions is a megaproject of shield modelled on Fresnel lens that is constructed on the Moon from regolith and shot up from electromagnetic slingshot in parts, which are then "mounted up" along with AI controlled mechanism in Lagrange point 1 in order to protect the planet.

It's of course a sci-fi portrayal of idea you mention and in this book humanity has a serious reason to build up this shield. As for reality, I can't tell if such structure build with current technology (a solar sail material most likely) would do anything - we doesn't seem to be bothered with global warming enough in first place.
I kind of agree with your idea that we should work to decrease housing prices, but the problems with housing are not as simple as remove zoning and building restrictions and watch prices fall. One example. Energy prices are the base input to everything including housing, so if you want to make housing cheaper then better energy policy might be a good start.
Yes, right after not quitting and giving the biggest dip in 20 years. So this is likely the backlog.

And it's not a very big amount. If the rate lasts a long time let me know. Most likely, as should be clear from the graphs, there is very little out of the ordinary happening.
What's ArcaOS?
But I'm not allowed to have a business account if I also have HBO. Because I might be having large public viewings at my residence, I guess? Go Cox.
> saying orders against it are unreasonable and unenforceable as B.C laws do not apply to it.

maybe CSIS should DDoS and/or otherwise destroy the company's IT? US Laws do not apply to them.
This discovery and reporting will be suppress or downplay. We expect big pharma to give up the vaccine sales? We expect government to give up lockdown+controls? We expect our congress to be fiscal responsible and not going for round 2, 2T budget build abck America better sequel?
Archive link: https://archive.ph/frXB8
I use it for a personal notes app, any Android app I have made. I don't think I have needed a serious DB like postgres for any project in the last 5 years, sqlite has been more than enough.

If I were at the same scale as Facebook or Google I would probably pick something with a better concurrency story though.
China's pandemic is not over. They are still having outbreaks. Many of my family members spent the past several weeks and months in quarantine prisons, by force.

I, like many others, refrain from speaking on the subject because commentary is illegal and my family could be persecuted for my discussing it.

I will instead say that I believe your view is incredibly naive and you are fortunate to have your naivety be legal to voice.

Read between the lines here and understand that I believe there is a lot to say that cannot be said.
Not a fan to drop maintenance on the community.

As long as there is also a minimum support window, say 3+ years, and full specs and source are community released, then why not?

The important part could easily be ensuring that older hardware can be accessed. We need an end to binary blobs, or, to force long term blob support and updates.

I imagine a scenario where you pay $20 per year for support and updates for your old device, to a third party.

Or of course, there could be foundations, compile it yourself, etc too.

But if the environment is the reason, why not share the load?

Manufacturers publishing code, sources, and docs is not trivial in of itself.
Completely blind to it? Not likely. Marx was writing about it in the 19th century. Computing based automation and management is just the accelerated evolution of the automation techniques from the industrial revolution.

It's complicated.
>"It wasn't pretty, it wasn't elegant, and it certainly wasn't fast, but it was mine. I made that."

I know the feeling. Even though I use Hetzner and OVH I also host stuff in my home office. Ordered business 1gbps fiber line with static IP for $120 CDN per month for that.
Did sony pay that tax when they removed linux support?
Amazon.com: Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win: Books
Decentralized refer-a-friend NFT project. Steal launched
>Should the average person need to know the difference between murder and manslaughter to avoid getting scammed into a murder charge?

While I think "legal system that everyone understands" is a laudable goal, there are too many edge cases and "bad" behaviors for that to be possible.

>Should the average programmer have to memorize every API they use to avoid creating the next Heartbleed?

I'm not sure why you modified my original argument. Is having impossible-to-use-from-muscle memory APIs totally fine unless they lead to security vulnerabilities?

>And basic life skills is the literal opposite of your other examples...

in what way? because you assume most people know how to cook? that's because it's knowledge that parents pass down because you need it daily, not because society engineered it to fail safe or whatever.
"...and a tremendous waste of resources that could be used to fund research that might actually help humans."

Hey PETA, source?
Apparently journalists don’t check Grantham’s past predictions…e.g., https://www.marketwatch.com/story/stock-market-legend-who-ca...

Even given the recent turmoil, being bearish like he was in June 2020 would have cost you lots of money.

It’s easy to “call” the bubble if you keep saying it every six months
As a Pfizer triple vaccinated person I would prefer getting Omicron to its descendant that is even farther away from what I'm protected from. The immune system is capable of reacting to series of smaller mutations much better than a big one. This is one of the main ways of developing a series of vaccines that lead to HIV immunity right now.
> A long time ago in a place far far away, I was part of a team that did exactly this to differentiate between healthy and possibly pre-cancerous tissue.

How did those techniques pan out? Did patients ingest fluorescent dyes that got ingested and metabolized faster by cancerous cells, or do some types of cancer cells naturally fluoresce with a unique spectra you can detect?

Epithelial and endothelial cells only?
when I think of 'cheap' in that context, the thought of shoddy does come up.

That seems like a negative.

what kind of benefit could the switch have? I'm having a hard time understanding the need.
A "cheap" education dosent seem like a good thing unless were talking about cost to the student.
Yes, the FDA will insert itself to regulate medicine wherever it can. For example, the FDA has been pushing to regulate diagnostic tests as medical devices.

It’s funny how Americans surrender medical autonomy to the government but draw a strict line in the sand in other issues
Lucky for me my MacBook camera isn’t being detected.
>is way too complex for the given functionality, and is completely unneeded in the first place--yes, get rid of the damn thing. Unless of course you enjoy getting "your" system OWNED and dominated by bad actors.

This is a rather nonsense statement. Polkit (or something like it) is needed if you want to have those macOS-style "program A wants to have permission to access privileged resource B" security prompts in the GUI. It's about as complicated as any similar solution needs to be for that use case. Perhaps you find these to be annoying and you disable them so they always succeed, but with that you've effectively given every program permanent suid root access. Definitely simpler, but can you say it's less of a security nightmare? I wouldn't. Yes there are risks of vulnerabilities in any security layer, but without them you've got no security layer at all.
Factor fits what you're asking for, I think. It doesn't seem to be all that common for compiled languages to be designed "monolithically" with IDE and compiler as one package.
> while at the same time peddling their own gas at a much higher price.

The US is not a monolith. The price of US-produced natural gas is not negotiated, controlled, or manipulated by the US Government. Natural gas is extracted by private companies, hundreds of them, some in the US, many outside the US (for example Quatar).

And when you are saying "much higher price", do you have any numbers to back that up? I just googled a bit, and it seems to me the futures for LNG with delivery on the Gulf Coast are much lower than the nat gas price in Europe.
Because the court system has become a pay to play scheme where if you have more money than your opponent, the courts will provide an advantage to the one who is profiting from corruption than the ones being taken advantage of. Even representing yourself pro se does not come without a significant burden where judges will clearly tell you that you are disadvantaging yourself by doing so, and the laws are so complex that often they could care less what is fair rather than what a previous judge decided a long time ago back when racial discrimination was prominent.
Wow so much downvoting. But no serious counter arguments.
> Many "Monoliths" can be run on something as simple as a desktop emulator.

I'm not sure what a "desktop emulator" is, but a lot of micro services can run as native processes or in a VM. There's nothing about micro services that fundamentally restrict where they run--they're just application processes at the end of the day.

> my use of the term "distributed means that if AWS East has your DB instance and your web server is stored in an entirely different region, you app goes down anyway, but your front-end team can maybe still deploy updates... Which is not really a dramatically productive gain for a customer running a restaurant web site.... On the other hand, if you're running a massive video streaming site, it might be a good thing to base it on micro service architecture. Each use case is different.

I mean, that's one scenario but the inverse could be true--your custom emoji service could go down but everything else--your payment service, etc could stay up. More than that, you can play it fast and loose with deploying to your emoji service while your important core services get more scrutiny. With monoliths, any change could take down core services so you have to use the same scrutiny when deploying changes to the emoji features. Moreover, you don't need to coordinate with a bunch of other teams to deploy--your team can deploy its own service whenever it needs to. You can use whichever language is best for your component. Etc, etc. But we are agreed that micro services aren't fit for every use case--if you only have a few teams then you probably won't benefit much from micro services.

> I'm resisting the pressure to be drawn into a debate about which one is better, that's not what I'm out to do... What determines which solution is better is the business case it seeks to resolve. Neither is inferior or more obsolete, the two ideals both can and often do run on identical/similar code bases... It's the configuration and potential uses/application/benefits that differ.

You're back pedaling pretty quickly from the tone and claims of your original comment, but I accept all of this--neither is a silver bullet. :)