skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this seems like it could have died solely because non-web developers (almost all of whom use terminals daily, and would pay attention to this) are pretty quick to realize just how awful JavaScript is, compared to the languages they use day to day.

the fewer places that JavaScript can escape to, the better, and terminals adopting anything that looks like web tech is such an alarmingly bad idea that I don't even know where to begin to address any arguments for that approach.

TermKit deserved to die because of its JavaScript nature alone.
I thought they were randomly picked based on the date?
Except on the third Tuesday of the month. Then you add two zeroes.
You’re hiring for offices in Kharkiv!?! And Moscow!?! What the f*ck?

https://twitter.com/kyivindependent/status/14988591586444369...
The amazing part behind the pcapng format is that it's a streamlined format for multiple network interface streams.

And, tcpdump and most snort using tools have support for it too. You can literally build a local IDS/IPS by using command line tools these days.

As a former network security engineer, wireshark helped me really _understand_ problems in network protocols, in addition to reading other implementations and the RFCs. It taught me about wrong assumptions in the protocols, naive implementations and their exploitable bugs, and so on. It's amazing as a tool to make unit tests with exported buffers for your parsers, too :)

Wireshark and tcpdump are really underappreciated tools in the network space, and I can highly recommend getting familiar with them. Having the possibility to have a remote pcap stream from a buggy server inside your local wireshark GUI is just way much more efficient for debugging. Debugging time is reduced from days to minutes, quite literally.

I use tcpdump in my CI/CD build environments, too, which makes debugging a failed network test a blaze. I can just open the pcap file with wireshark or do a local replay of the same packages to test the code, which is amazing.
They refer to larger groups. You wouldn’t say The America, or The England. It’s the same here.
Update your uBO filters.
I've been wanting to make a pact with someone else so whoever is going to die first will be detonated in a spectacular firework. Rather go out with a bang than a wimper.
I think the second-chance pool* lobbed this one onto the front page while the OP was offline. I emailed to let him know that it's at #1...twill be quite a thread to come back to!

* https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
sorry, but Namecheap just redirected millions of dollars of potential help to Ukraine to Putin's regime. Here's my open letter to you, Richard https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/namecheap-just-redirected-mil...

Please help to stop the war, not to fuel it!
The author of the piece has been playing Dark Souls since before Twitter had a 'retweet' feature.

https://twitter.com/SimonParkin/status/45876470601629696

https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A%40SimonParkin%20dark%20...
You should be able to understand them easily: many don’t know about the adblockers, don’t realize they’re available or haven’t learned about the benefits or don’t know or lift a finger to install them and learn to use them
I agree, but this is a moment when it's especially important.
Oh yeah, you can make lots of choices on how to integrate them or what features to offer! Celeste assist mode lets you control the game engine's speed, modify how many jumps you have, etc. Hades gives you a mode where you get a permanent 2% health buff every time you die that allows the game to meet you where your capabilities lie instead of of forcing you to guess.
Please don't editorialize titles. It's against the site guidelines: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Submitted title was "Someone Is Wrong on the Internet".)
The fight to combat Russian misinformation via Google restaurant reviews
LOUIE

PARTY

has also been so effective for me it almost takes the fun out of it. Usually get it in 3/6, but never more than 4.
Only one past thread?

Cunningham's Law - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7364997 - March 2014 (107 comments)

Also, hasn't Ward disavowed coming up with it? Pretty sure I read that somewhere.

Edit: ah yes!

I never suggested asking questions by posting wrong answers. This is a misquote that disproves itself by propagating through the internet as Cunningham's Law.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fclyQt6R5Dc
Yup -- I actually am inclined to agree with my sibling commenter all the way up top.

I don't think the answer here is necessarily all that clever -- charged conversation notwithstanding, I just wanted to get at the fact that it's likely /not a conspiracy/.

I would love to deflate this mess of a subthread. :)
Why is this blowing up so much? It’s been on the frontpage of /r/fantasy since it happened, and now here. I mean, I like Sanderson, and I might eventually read those 4 novels, but isn’t this just an announcement of 4 unnamed novels in 2023? And nothing else?

I feel like I’m missing something here, or maybe everyone else is just way more of a Sanderson fan than I am ;)
I don’t know man, you tell me.

The context is everyone at home during covid, by the way. And the context of my comment was assuming the child’s perspective.
Stiff penalties including jail time - that is key, because it creates a meaningful incentive to not simply try what they can get away with.

If a company sees that they'll probably get away with something because nobody will have the patience/resources to sue and win, and even in the worst case they'll pay X million/billion which may be less than they gain through their illegal behavior, they're very much incentivized to just try. And the managers making and implementing the decision have no skin in the game, so they'll happily play along.

If a person is at risk of going to jail for it, they're suddenly very much incentivized to not participate in that.
You can change nom registry url to be socket managed one, which would not let you install compromised packages - wouldn't that work?
Ha ha yes this is great.
To get my daughter to snap out of crying at night when she needs to go to bed I name her fluffy toys incorrectly. She immediately forgets her worries to correct me. So much fun.

(Here, hug this big - handing her a koala).
If we were looking for ways of storing and exchanging money where popular groups can confiscate the holdings of unpopular groups with impunity, we already have one; it's the banking system. We don't need a blockchain for that. It sounds like what you want is for cryptocurrencies to not exist, which is a reasonable point of view, one I held for many years.
Wife bought a new sprinter van two months ago, it was like pulling teeth to get the dealer to let us deal with our credit union vs originating the loan themselves. Luckily we were up against the end of the year, so they were willing to deal with us in order to have the deal done to count for 2021 sales vs 2022
> Every few years someone gets me to try Go out again and I discover, yet again, that it's still struggling with problems that were solved before it existed. It's a shame that this language has stolen so much mind share from more deserving languages.

Go steals the mindshare because it focuses on the important problems that other languages neglect in part or in full: performance, tooling, ecosystem, simplicity, readability, learning curve, etc. Much important software has been built in fully dynamic languages (never mind a 99% type-safe language like Go), but it’s a lot harder to build in a language that lacks important libraries or is prohibitively slow or for whom it is hard to find/train developers, or whose tooling is poor, or which is difficult to read/maintain, or etc.

So yes, Go is now looking at generics because it’s tackled the more important problems. Not because it was the most important problem and the developers were just too stupid to understand.
Congratulations on the launch, guys. Over at Statsig we have tremendous respect for what you have been doing.
PIMCO? (Newport Beach, CA)
https://archive.is/Qqitp

http://web.archive.org/web/20220301005233/https://www.nytime...
> After several decades of using GUI-based debugging in MSVC++ and CLion, I can't bring myself to regress back to command-line debugging. And sadly the GUI tools for GDB are abysmal.

Isn't CLion a "GUI tool for GDB"?
What weight does Jessie Jackson's opinion hold? Believe it or not, he's often a target of jokes in Black America.
It feels like a hard time to look for permanent remote work right now. So many companies say they are open to remote work but few appear to really mean it. They still expect you in the office once per month or once per week at a minimum, but rarely see fit to spell that out in the job description. I’m thinking about pausing my job search until companies decide what their true expectations are. I’m tired of having my time wasted.
You aren't going to fix that by only letting folks with terrible upbringings in important positions. You'd need to start fixing those terrible upbringings, and likely wait a few generations.
To be fair, I believe being able to compute ballistic parameters with pen and paper give you an advantage in a total war where every communication is jammed, network is hacked and energy supply is sparse.
>Up until a speech by Biden around the 18th of February, after which he wasn't as sure.

Are you contradicting my comment?
Who uses Genode
What is the use case?
When should I use it?
Meh, smart phones like web browsers are inherently insecure. I did some work towards a secure communications gadget for use with an Android phone, but gave up when I realized that there was no way to stop malware from activating the phone mic and listening in on you anyway. Also, these apps don't do much helpful to conceal metadata, which is more important than content in a lot of ways. Depending on what you are trying to defend against, you may have to go full Spy vs Spy, e.g. with spread spectrum radio or optical comms below the noise floor.

My favorite saying about security is by the cryptographer Silvio Micali, who said "a good disguise does not reveal the person's height". Be careful out there.
None of this at all. People already take time for multiple interview stages. Ask targeted questions, but don't trouble them with more 'work'. Ask for references.
On all the cards I've checked, the extended warranty feature excludes motorized vehicles.
The older I get the more I appreciate the wisdom of people who lived before me. When I believe I've finally managed to figure something out that I hope others will find worthwhile and put together the bibliography, I have to confess I don't actually read most of the citations.
It is impossible to read all of them carefully. When I make the effort to do that I find wide variation in the information content. The Bell Curve is a real thing, whether it comes to how fast humans can run or how clearly they can think. There is no stopwatch to measure thinking.
I rely on other people I've met over the years who's judgement I trust to help me not waste time sifting through the riffraff.
One technique is qualification. If the OP hasn't done their diligence in understanding the lambda cube then my default is to assume they wrote this in an attempt to clarify their limited understanding, just like I am guilty of.
On a positive note, I recently learned here about the Kind language. It is still under development, but it has a radically simple approach to dependent types that makes it much easier to understand than Haskell.
No, the context is WFH covid times. This sounds like my dad sleeping in until noon while I ran around the house, had brekkie, etc, and after waking up he locked his door and didn’t come out until 5pm.

But sure yeah, that’s some good focused time at the end there.

I regret making my original comment.
> If you can figure out a way to get yourself to a better position, I'll figure out a way to get you 400 USD / year.

Are you sure about that? Even now it's pretty hard to send money to Russia - SWIFT is not working for most banks, Wise stopped RUB transfers, etc.

In 1-2 weeks time there would be no legal way to send money to your family back in Russia, I'm pretty sure.
Would be nice if you also had an argument with your statement and not just mockery, to prove me wrong.
PCB 90 Degree Angles (2016)
Ask HN: Will consumers ever have a use for 10Gbit internet
I had this discussion with a friend. While 10Gbit Ethernet seems to be slowly dripping in to consumer hardware, it seems much less clear if users will ever actually have a use for 10Gbit networking.

If we look at the biggest network uses for consumers right now, its mostly video streaming and games. A 1 Gbit connection can already stream video at well above the maximum desired quality we will likely ever want. And better codecs are coming out which reduce the networking requirements even more. For video games it seems that large games would go with an asset streaming model like microsoft flight sim which can easily be done with 1 Gbit.

Are there any future developments that might make 10Gbit desirable in the consumer space?
> but it's good for society

I feel like you've taken this position as a fact without having any evidence supporting it.
It's pretty common. Interviewing is a messed up process.

I recently interviewed at a company, did really well, so much so that when they rejected me, the recruiter reached out to say, flat out, "you did really well; the hiring committee spent an hour debating between you and another candidate before finally going with that other candidate". Fair enough. I applied for other roles, got into one of those, that recruiter saw the notes from the prior interview and went "why the heck didn't we hire this person?!" got me to talk to the hiring manager...who was like "nah".

It really is getting pretty much universal thumbs up, and with a large panel that is statistically hard to do.
I think C# might be the closest mainstream language, but I’d say explicit pointers, interior pointers, and slices as the default list type might be things that make Go programming a little lower level.

There are also other differences that would prevent using C#’s system as is - Go doesn’t have the reference/value type dichotomy or inheritance. I think they also wanted to be able to abstract across float/doubles etc (unless C# added that recently).

Anyway I like both languages and I’m not trying claim one is better than the other, just trying to explain the design space Go seems to occupy.
Thanks, I'd never made that connection! I see it's mentioned in the Wikipedia article now.
Ahh, thanks for the correction. I missed that he stepped down in 2019. My point was that Google failed to remove someone who engaged in criminal activity for several years even after it was made public, which seems to me like tacit approval by the Google board.
Beware of trade secrets.
That said, patents should probably at least get mandatory FRAND.
Accessibility for dyslexia isn't about changing to "simple english" though. You can offer customizable fonts on e-readers (people with dyslexia may find some fonts have more recognizable word shapes than others, e.g. Comic Sans is a popular option that is widely available), you can offer your work as an audiobook, etc.

There are many games that offer similarly difficult experiences with accessibility options that did not "ruin" the difficult experience. Celeste, for example, is a difficult platformer that offers lots of options for making the game "easier" and yet it's still known as being a very difficult, and rewarding, game, especially in the later levels.
I see a couple reasons.

First, Brandon planned this well. He made a video Monday heavily implying bad news. For loyal fans waiting a day to hear the news caused quite a stir I assume. Then making such a huge unexpected announcement the next day caught many people off guard.

Second, announcing four new books is not common! Especially considering he wrote them while working on many other books over the last two years. I think people are just excited and happy to share something positive.
The doctrine of double effect applies here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_double_effect
> I think FromSoft's games (and specifically the ones directed by Miyazaki) will be among a small set of games released in the past 20 years that will still be played and studied in 50 or 100 years (or more).

I can definitely see this. Until this morning, Dark Souls had been the only FromSoft game I had played, mostly because I only managed Capra last year despite first playing around release. But I still boot it up at least every couple of years, slog my way as far as I can, and enjoy every minute of it. The only problem is that it scratches that itch so well I never got around to trying the later ones.
If your argument is that one is worse than the other because you can hide then you didn't take into account things like plastic surgery or bleaching one's skin or straightening one's hair. If you're going to tell someone to just abandon their family name then why not tell them to get plastic surgery or anything else to modify their appearance?

It's a bad argument.
Oh dear, I never thought about the year 922,337,203,685,477 problem before.
Exactly, you need to work in tech to understand the sheer unprecedented achievement that the JWST is, for instance. To be frank, I quite don't believe it yet, and I hope they will one day publish a postmortem (postvivem?) on how they did it.
Actually, Sai Deepak mentions that 15% of those classified as SC/STs also wear the sacred thread. Of course, we know 'Shudras' have run empires in India and have held high status before the age of colonialism.

Unsuprising that the Western press and academia has the nuance of a brick, perhaps because their own history is so grotesquely checkered.
> Of course that was dismissed as a pipe-dream because the existence of NATO was to contain Russia to the east.

Ironically, you have just confirmed what Russia believes justifies its actions in Ukraine.
But that is proper. The quality of craft/creative work matters. It belongs in the evaluation of craftsmen and creative workers. And it is fundamentally a feeling. When you are junior you may not yet have developed this judgement or taste. Your job is to learn it, from your own failures and the feedback of your senior colleagues. When you are senior, you have it. You are more valuable to an organization precisely because you can be trusted to have positive feelings about good work and negative feelings about bad work, and therefore do the right thing in a position of decision-making power. Also because you enculturate the next generation of senior craftsmen through your feedback.

This shouldn't be surprise at performance review time, nor should it necessarily come from your manager -- it should be coming from your senior colleagues on each of your code reviews, giving you a chance to improve your bad code before it gets checked in. But when your senior colleagues think your PRs are worse on average than those of your peers, then yes absolutely you should get a worse rating.
Yeah, I wish I made US$400k a year. Shit, I'd be satisfied with AR$400k a year, at least until inflation gets a bit worse.
As someone interested in making some indie games, any courses you'd recommend?

I'm always looking for a weirdly.. medium level explanation of things. I specifically focus Rust, and use Rust game frameworks (because they interest me), but i often find i need more information than the framework level tutorials explain.. but not necessarily "write everything from scratch in C".

Maybe i'm wrong, maybe i as a person do need everything-from-scratch to wrap my head around everything. It just feels like so often frameworks assume so much more domain knowledge than i have. Yet most books/courses/etc are binary. They're either super deep, or super light.

Are there medium courses? Are medium courses even possible?
It wasn't a political problem, it was a ratio problem. Dealing with more than a couple PMs in a single day is maddening.
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>and with a large panel that is statistically hard to do.

This. And with a large panel come lots of different biases where some random shit could work against you like having the wrong accent or looks.

I once was in an interview where it consisted of a 6 people Teams call with one dialing in from their car. Got rejected despite answering all their questions correctly.
I wouldn't say that applies globally however. Plenty of NPCs get locked into sequences of attacks when they have no chance of hitting you, simply because they started an attack sequence.

And that isn't a problem, because these games aren't about smart enemies. They are all about complex enemies that challenge you till you figure them out. It may sound nitpicky, but there is definitely a fine line between them.

Smart enemies are simply not fun to play against. You need to give players that "aha!" moment, when everything clicks and something that was otherwise tormenting you is now doable, all because you figured the mob out. These games are still about power trips, but relying on pattern-finding in addition to just mechanical prowess.

For actually smart enemies, PVP games are the go-to. But those get tiring, and come with their own host of issues.
The magic system in Stormlight is astonishingly good. About halfway through the most recent book, Rhythm of War, I said to someone: when did Stormlight turn into sci-fi? Because the magic is so logical, and so deep, and so specific, that it feels more like science than magic at times.

On the other hand I've been put off by the pacing of the last three books. It feels like the basic structure is that there's a build up to a huge conflict at the end of the book, and the vast majority of the pages are spent waiting for it to arrive. In my opinion, the second book, Words of Radiance, was the best so far in terms of balancing character, plot and action.