skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never encountered an issue on Windows related to two library versions conflicting. That's something that happens all the time on Linux. As a Windows user, you don't even have to know what libraries are. As a user of Linux you need to be aware of a ton of different shared libraries and research various compatibility workarounds to keep using them with the growing pile of software you've installed. This isn't something the typical desktop user is up for.
> I think most states will fail a car with the "check engine" light on.

Except Maryland, none of the states I've done an inspection looked inside the vehicle. The states that did emissions would fail if check engine light is on, but if you disconnect the battery right before to reset it then they might pass it.
the real problem is the decision making power isn't it?
Yes. I've worked a couple of jobs that had a lakehouse with transforms written in notebooks. Usually sitting on a data lake, with processing handled by a Spark cluster. I've much preferred it to the ETL tools of yore, even if Spark can throw some weird curveballs.

That's on the warehousing side, however. On the reporting side, I've only seen notebooks catch on with small research teams, a la Jupyter Lab or something similar. Most of the hype today is around self-service BI tools, not tools that require hosting and a working knowledge of Python, Scala, or whatever.
“I distinguish four types [of officers]. There are clever, hardworking, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and hardworking; their place is the General Staff. The next ones are stupid and lazy; they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the mental clarity and strength of nerve necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is both stupid and hardworking; he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always only cause damage.”

— General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, 1933
> I think they were popular in medieval siege warfare (is that right?).

And more recently:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mines_in_the_Battle_of_Messine...
Note that this is just an academic paper to propose such a transmission. Arecibo is currently out of commission and FAST is presumed to not yet have a transmitter.

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2203/2203.04288.pdf
Neither of the two parties represents anything close to a small-government platform.
It's odd that you seem to find restricting speech and pushing dissidents underground into radicalizing echo chambers to be a problem, while not being at all concerned about those dissidents' capacity to radicalize orders of magnitude more people and form even bigger echo chambers when given free rein on the biggest platforms the internet has to offer.

The entire point is to slow the ability of dissidents to spread their message, because despite what believers in free speech maximalism claim, truth doesn't always out. "A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on" was a meme well before the internet gave lies the speed of light.

>while at the same time rapidly expanding the scope of "dissident" to include anyone who says anything remotely offensive to anybody. Is that what you want?

I've already commented that I reject the slippery slope argument. If the people of the UK find their free speech laws go too far, they can change those laws.
Mac external displays for designers and developers, part 2
just because 63 was a shorter constant to type than 127. Hex would have been longer due to the prefix. :P
Thanks a lot this is awesome!
In light of the fairly small margin of victory, maybe some employees were too undecided to vote. I also wouldn't be surprised if the demands of the job left some without the capacity to engage with the question. I share your disappointment, though.
It does seem that way. Keep thinking along those lines. You're almost there!
Nick Maggiulli vectors people to https://twitter.com/dollarsanddata to comment on his posts.

Alex Hardy commented two days ago https://twitter.com/CantHardyWait/status/1508789463664709646
“There is no such thing as not worshiping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.”

I did not see this when I left my comment here. But Maggiulli responded https://twitter.com/dollarsanddata/status/150881548046684979...
DFW is a major influence [I am inferring DFW = David Foster Wallace].

Bryce Thornton https://twitter.com/brycethornton/status/1508788922624716802 pointed to the YouTube video and Maggiulli replied https://twitter.com/dollarsanddata/status/150881551953269966... "It's so good"

I would have thought he would have done more to credit Wallace as an influence.

I had blogged about the Foster commencement speech at https://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2012/05/27/david-foster-wallac... which is why I saw the resonance.

Wallace offered an appropriate antidote to a model for entrepreneurial motivation that aspires to make enough money to do whatever you want. He outlines some of the risks in failing to align your life with a higher spiritual purpose.
Don’t call this the MIT license. That’s attribution to a real place. At least call it the Expat-0 license!
Which OS kernel doesn't provide video decoding capabilities nowadays? At least Linux does, and most likely Windows too.

> This is likely done for the sake of DRM

The reason is hardware acceleration. No sane OS vendor is going to place every single piece of code in the kernel where DRM is involved.

> But SiDeLoADiNg

Not disagreeing, but do you have to bring it up on every single issue? I don't see the connection here.
Being cultured and well read is very similar, I think

The main difference is that a physique is more immediately recognized; all you have to do to recognize Arnold is huge is look at him. But you'd have to listen some (and have enough cultural baggage yourself) to recognize that Chomsky is intelligent

Also - perhaps as a consequence - being physically fit is objective. Who would argue Arnold is _not_ huge? But I'm sure you'll find at least one person arguing "Chomsky is an idiot"
How did you get .82 rectangles from light taking 8 minutes 20 seconds to reach Earth from the sun? Isn't that .8333... minutes?
Companies indeed often have a fuzzy grasp. But you can do things like point out how your work got the product to market X days sooner, and point out the profit per day of sales times X. Or point out how you fixed Major Customer Y's problem, ensuring a steady revenue stream from that happy customer. Or point out how you sped up the code in the datacenter by 1%, meaning 1% less needs to be spent on the datacenter.

At Boeing, the accountants managed to pin down the cost of one pound of airplane weight. At the time, it was $250,000 per pound. This made it easy to point out to the boss how much money you'd saved the company by doing weight reductions. I.e. if you saved a pound, that was the equivalent of 6 years salary. Time to bring up that raise you deserve!
People seem really stressed that they've changed databases twice before. Their service never went down and they didn't stop delivering features while all this was happening, so I don't see the big deal. You pick what works at the time, and incrementally evolve as problems and solutions become apparent.

This article could have easily been "why we were down for a day while some auto-vacuum setting was broken." Then everyone would be like "why didn't you just scp a json file between machines" ;)
There is a description of a 409a above the fold. So I don’t think it’s totally fair to say the results are all below.
I am tall. I have problems finding clothes. I cannot fit in the best light plane (in my opinion) and I am a pilot. My grandmother's house had the ceiling very low, it was about my shoulder (she was 5 ft tall). Never complained. Never complained the world is not built around me. I don't understand how that works. I am not entitled to anything.
> but it's just plain ludicrous to say the judge isn't sentencing based on the merits of the case

I think precisely the opposite, and I think we're using different definitions of the word "sentencing."

He committed a crime by the text of the law. Yes, we agree on that. No one is questioning that. But all you've argued so far is that the judge came to the correct verdict.

The sentencing, in the other hand, is completely out of proportion to the crime, and is not mandated by law. The judge himself said that he is sentencing him harshly as an example. That means her was motivated to set an example, and is not simply giving him this ludicrous sentence on the merits of the case alone.

The comment at top you were responding to was arguing about the injustice of this exact thing.
Even the well-thought-out desktop environments, however, have massive glaring holes in them, e.g. the wifi utility on Ubuntu and Mint is totally broken, almost all the time, occasionally even lending itself to stroboscopic behavior, and I've never found a distro where the wifi utility actually did everything it was supposed to.

Yes, it's distributed ownership, and while that explains why the problem exists, I don't feel it's an excuse. There is definitely room for someone to come in with good product sense plus technical excellence and work to make a really great desktop OS on Linux, it just hasn't happened yet.
There's no particular evidence that the NSA has backdoored P-256 or any other cipher in Suite B. Suite B is considered suitable for protecting compartmentalized classified information, so it would be actively dangerous for the NSA to attempt to backdoor it.

The closest thing to evidence of a backdoor is circumstantial: P-256 and the others use seeds that have never been fully explained. But this alone isn't particularly unusual: DES's S-boxes were similarly chosen opaquely, and we now know that the NSA did this to strengthen DES against the not-yet-public technique of differential cryptanalysis.

All that being said, Curve25519 (and Ed25519) is just better, and you should prefer it whenever you can[1].

[1]: https://safecurves.cr.yp.to/
No, it wipes all local changes to tracked files in your worktree that haven't been committed yet.
If you have a "single source of truth", sqlite/Litestream seems like a pretty-near-optimal way of taking advantage of the relational model while keeping design simplicity. I don't know what the higher-level architecture of Tailscale is, but we have the same problems; we have a complicated "single source of truth" that takes the form of a Consul cluster, but sqlite makes an absolute ton of sense for us, because we can condense the Consul cluster down to a SQL schema and then ship it around our fleet.

(we don't use Litestream right now; we're pushing the complexity up a layer in our design instead)

A lot of people on this thread are looking down their noses at sqlite, but I think they're kind of beclowning themselves; the unreasonable effectiveness of sqlite has been a meme in infra dev for a couple years now. It's not a new idea. Lots of people are doing stuff like this.

The funniest bit on this thread is the person saying they should use RDS, as if their infrastructure was just a big Rails app.
I was surprised how well treating the database as an API worked at one series A company. We had a single database schema shared by ~5 services. The coordination cost wasn’t bad, and I don’t recall any major issues. It was a big net win for our velocity.

I’d do it again, if I had the guts.
I’m over 100 hours in, and it’s probably the most sticky gaming experience I’ve had in years. I’ve played most of the recent AAA open world games (Horizon Forbidden West, Far Cry 6, AC Valhalla etc), and Elden Ring is the only one that didn’t quickly descend into feeling like a chore.

It’s got a lot of rough edges, but it’s an absolute breath of fresh air; and even my gf says it’s the one she’s enjoyed watching me play the most.
Drone Wars
I'm not convinced. There are plenty of countries with social safety nets galore, and all of them seem to have fewer freedoms and fewer small businesses created per capita than the USA.
Yeah i think this is accurate, this was actually an HFT firm, and was a prop shop not a hedge fund. They need to weed out people who are there purely for the money. He was kind of describing how the CTO's brain never stops thinking about coding, and when hes in bed at night, hes imagining how to apply a design pattern to a problem at hand. In some ways, they wanted people who would not stop working and were obsessed with the problem space
Sure, the neo-cons are right to criticize realist frameworks on those grounds; the importance of moral imperatives, importance of soft power and other cultural factors, etc…. The neo-cons sure to get us into a lot of foreign entanglements so they aren’t perfect either. It’s good to have more perspectives, more voices at the table was my point.
There is no reason to believe that driverless cars will be driven more than regular vehicles, and even if they were, you'd be able to regulate fleet pricing to stem overusage.

There is still no comparison between electric vehicles and combustion vehicles in terms of carbon footprint.
No idea what CTA means, I am just asking to explain in simpler language if possible.
Thanks for this explanation. Totally makes sense!
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Non obvious? Some people you know will be weird about and consider it taboo no matter what the context.
What are some examples of these words? I’d like to know for my own edification, this is not a challenge.

If you actually want to be decent, then that means taking global perspectives into account if your communication is to a global audience.

If I posted a tweet saying that my company is looking for “refugees from big tech”, that would be insensitive even though there aren’t refugees fleeing the US. Saying that the issue of refugees is not sensitive in my local cultural scope is not an excuse if the audience for my communication was larger than that.
Using language like "fire fast" might presuppose a situation where someone is going to be "hired" - possibly involving a lot of work, life changes, and moving/other expenses - only to have their effort/money wasted when they are "fired fast".

What if instead of "fire fast", the idea was re-framed/restructured into the new employee initially working as some sort of consultant with a short term contract? Use telecommuting/work-from-home or other temporary workarounds to defer expensive/disruptive things like moving to live near the company until after the defined "trial" period. Instead of "firing fast", you either let the temporary consulting contract expire or you proceed with the actual hiring process and the deferred tasks.

Maybe this isn't possible in practice, but it seems like we could design a workaround to this problem if were sufficiently creative.

> think about the effects it has on others

Unfortunately, that takes proactive effort. Unless there is a mechanism to actively incentivize spending time and energy to protect others, most of the time that effort will be spent on "more important" things. ~sigh~
> That's my understanding of the whole "embracing neurodiversity" movement.

Your understanding is pretty much correct.

An unmentioned danger here (in addition to self-fixing) is e.g. the autism industrial complex trying to convince the parents their child needs to be "fixed" early on through their absurdly expensive, completely ineffective and pseudoscientific, horribly mentally damaging "therapies."

Certain kinds of "self-help" books targeted at neurodivergent people are the equivalent of that for teens/young adults who think they need to "fix" themselves.
Arguably he did gain status. He did just what the writer of the article suggested. Instead of putting all of his effort into 'richest person in the world' status, he picked another thing to be high status in. Seems to have worked. He's not the richest guy in the world any more (admittedly he ain't far off, either), but he's arguably worth more respect than Bezos or Musk. Unless you're against microchips in vaccines, of course.
TL;DR: Confessions of one of many cryptocurrency gamblers.
I have done all those things. On Linux, Nvidia drivers are a royal pain, webcam and printer both worked without any effort other than hooking it up, and running a 32-bit application was not too difficult with instructions. On Windows, I've never messed with video drivers, but have had problems with the same webcam and printer requiring me to locate and install drivers, which were bundled with software I didn't want. 32-bit applications on Windows were of course a breeze.

So anecdotally, it's a mixed bag. Maybe if I had less Linux experience and more Windows, the story would be different.
> why is the C mutex API structured in a way that is hard to use and trivial to misuse, requiring elaborate comments or even static analysis to get right? .... There are important language features missing from C (and C++) that make it impossible to implement a Rust-style mutex API with the same guarantees

The simple answer is that the C11 Threads API was designed so that it could be trivially implemented using either POSIX or Windows threading primitives. One annoying consequence is that C11 mutexes do not support static initialization, unlike POSIX mutexes. (AFAIU Windows does provide some primitives to accomplish this, but not the standard mutexes it was presumed the C11 Threads would be mapped.)

In principle C11 could have specified a safer API along with any necessary semantic changes. It had to do this to some degree with atomics. Heck, it could have even introduced some narrowly scoped dependent typing, which is basically what some of the recent proposals regarding arrays do. But AFAIU nobody even looked in that direction as the focus was on finding a common, simple subset of POSIX and Windows API facilities.
I remember when the search engine space was full of cool competitors. AltaVista, Yahoo, GoTo, Dogpile, Northern Light, Ask Jeeves, Lycos, Excite, WebCrawler.

Now we have Google whose value comes with their incessant privacy abuse, and Bing/Bing front ends (DDG). Cool and exciting are definitely no longer the emotions I associate with web search.
Seems identical to the Zero-Clause BSD.
What I like about the game is that once you’ve been down a path once, you can usually repeat it without stopping to fight or getting hurt. That cave is a prime example, it only takes about 10 seconds to get from the place you get trapped to the site of Grace once you know where it is.
Dan Geer at BlackHat: Cybersecurity as Realpolitik (2014)
Sure, after all Ukraine has a right to defend itself. But we need to stop pretending nobody knows why Russia invaded. We knew exactly what they would do, so the question is...why did we think this was a good idea?

That seems to be the question going largely unanswered.
I'm not exactly sure what you are asking sorry. The Freedom movement is around like you said ya -> encouraging civic involvement, supporting freedom of speech and promoting science and healthy debate (even within science), transparency, and bringing more "power to the people" in more aspects of society and also fighting against censorship.

If you have watched and agreed with any of Edward Snowden videos for example. I think he comes at it from the technical side pretty well.

Web3 movement is also a part of this, however i'm less interested in the blockchain atm and the WAGMI culture.
The word "culture" is used 3x as much as "countries" and explicitly distinguished from culture.

Your lashing out is embarrassing yourself.
I would argue it's purely a difference of kind, not degree: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30884953
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It's not the first time amazon took something from someone else, repackaged it and sold it as their own. AmazonBasics-0
What about evolution guarantees there was no conscious designer?

We write genetic algorithms and use machine learning to build things.

If you believe in a Simulator or a God (and in many ways they're indistinguishable beliefs), either one of them could easily be using evolution as a designed tool, as far as I can see.
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Nanette is more an angry speech by a clever and witty person than the "comedy special" it's made out to be.
+1 on good design and programming.

My go to language of choice is PHP/MySQL. I've never not been able to scale a project. At one point while working at Comcast I prototyped a system for every error code from every cable set top box (150 million) in the country on a MySQL server instance running on a MacBook Pro pulling data from Splunk in real time. All so I could generate some png charts and embed them in Slack.

I know there are limits to MySQL but so far in my career I haven't had any projects hit those limits because hardware has been getting better faster.
Education spend is in the upper range but still close to other OECD countries [1]. Healthcare is the outlier there [2].

[1]: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd

[2]: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/ae3016b9-en/1/3/1/index....