skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Modern UIs with all the bloated animations are painful to use with the 30Hz limit imposed on by most USB(-C) to HDMI or DisplayPort adapters. The USB-C alt modes except Thunderbolt just lack the raw bandwidth for 4K@60Hz.
Oh he might not be officially affiliated but he has been a russian mouthpiece for a long time and he took Russia Today money for a long time. The difference is that now he is doing it for free, or at least deferring his request for money at the moment.
I have spent more time in my career than many people think is healthy trying to plot out contingency plans for 'what if' situations. It stops being irritating the moment the building is on fire and all of a sudden people want to listen to me.

My relationship with YAGNI has ebbed and flowed over the years, and as with any 'problematic' relationship, you may or may not see your own relationship clearly but people who have it worse are still easy to identify. Whether you then ask if you're like that is a matter of wisdom.

What we hear about, what we interview about, what we write about is these cool huge projects from the heroes we want, but the heroes we need are the people who figure out how to solve problems in ways that leave the option of solving them differently in the future. It's a little dangerous to say things like that out loud because lots of people hear that as "I'm going to build a configuration engine that I can use to swap out implementations at startup/runtime," which is pretty much the merry-go-round we are all stuck on half the time.

No, what I mean is go back way old school, taking some notes from Bertrand Meyer, and arranging your code so that there are 'spots' where major changes in functionality seem to naturally fit. I may have mangled this story in my head over the years into a parable, but I still recall hearing my uncles waxing poetic about, the Chevy straight 6 engine block that was popular during the height of the muscle car era. This engine did not have a particularly high horse power to displacement ratio. But in those days engine bays were fairly empty, and the Straight 6 was overbuilt just enough that it was a dream to modify it, and easy enough to work on that many people did. They bored it out for higher displacement, modified it for higher compression ratios (naturally aspirated or blown), hung additional accessories off of it, you name it. Many people were running around with cars that had over 50% more horse power than the stock version, and some crazy bastards who went considerably higher.

In short, this engine was not that particularly great, but it was full of potential.

As someone who may or may not become the next Google, (it's been a long time since I worked for anyone who shared opinions like that, when Google was smaller and only dreamed of being as big as they are now), I don't want a system full of features. I want a system full of possibilities. IF we wanted to do this, you would add it here, and verify it here. But we don't, not yet, so if you could just not break 'here' please, that would be great.

Nobody is collecting those stories and patterns. They're hidden away in Meyer, Fowler, dropped as throw-away lines in lectures, and discussed at length over coffee, noodles, or beers but never written down. Elsewhere they are really hidden in older aphorisms like 'premature optimization', "single responsibility" and that ilk, so much so that they risk becoming bad advice.
What jobs will be there in 5~10 years when we consider all the progress done with Dall-E, GPT-3, Codex/GitHub Copilot, Alpha* and so on?
Thankyou for this comment. It helped me understand why a long running very much not indie project is making me feel quite so fed up. The next step will be to try to use it to fix it.
Ironically, part of the problem for the newbie is the enthusiasm of the heavy users, which can make getting started feel overwhelming.

Just bare emacs is a great editor. You only need a few commands, and then can incrementally learn more as you go. Often, when you learn some new command or new package you'll wonder "how did I manage to use emacs for all this time without knowing this?" But the answer is: you were able to get a lot done with what you already knew.

I've been using Emacs for over 40 years and have a very short init file with only a small amount of customization. And I still learn a new command or package every couple of weeks.
Ian Cutress (discussed elsewhere in these comments for also having his description of a CPU copied in the patent) suspects it's an intern[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/1511716678199132173
The pull request scenario is what scares me. Someone sends you a drive by pull request that has a ton of changes and you don't notice they slipped an obfuscated bash quirk into the .envrc (along with legitimate changes to the file) that invokes their obfuscated nasty script. You pull down the change, approve the envrc (looks fine!), and poof there goes your home directory or worse.
Something can be designed well without being made by a designer. Jaruzel accused him of being a designer as a "reason" for why the site's functionality was, allegedly (and wrongly), not working on low-DPI devices.

In reality, he's just a guy who made something cool and non-commercial on the internet.
Yup, if someone is saying your site is hard to read, listen. If someone facetiously dismisses a post because they claim that the parent website is intentionally designed to ruin, as in actively degrade, their eyesight, that's a different story.
I bet you it had something to do with doordash gift cards from clients/viewers, which would trigger fraud "stuff".
Who do we trust for longevity? On the other end of the spectrum is Google which also shutters many (most?) of their products after 24-48 months.
He rolled back his factual claims long after more evidence came in, and to this day hasn't acknowledged the misinformation he spread about the Khmers. It was one of the worst genocides of the 20th century, and his role in it was to sow doubt about it in the West.

I don't think that needs to be called out any time Chomsky says anything; it's usually not relevant to what he's talking about. But in this particular instance, it seems extremely relevant.
I'd guess that line is in there to create debate and make the comment more controversial.
The whole point of the US Digital Service (https://www.usds.gov/) was to make this better. I'm curious as to whether they were involved with this, or was this developed along the usual broken processes.

Of course, a part of this is coming up with standards so aggregators such as this do something actually useful. Doesn't look like that was started.
Definitely a lawsuit is going to come of this. I'm not even talking the blatent copy of the presentation but the blatent patenting of memory on interposer. This is basically what AMD's 2016 patent encompases for much of Ryzen's design architecture especially with HBM.

Now I think where Intel might be in the right is that they will claim improvement on AMD's patent and design. But it will be a stretch considering they are using AMD's presentation. Which obviously in court it will incredibly hard for Intel to prove no wrong doing.

NAL but you have to check your patents before submitting them. Intel went full patent troll.
But that's the problem. Would Russia has gone on a saber-rattling course, starting in '08, had NATO not gone eastwards?

We can't know, it's alt-history speculative wankery. But what we can know is that the latter left the former with very few options.
Bind mount your small system's /usr to /lower, mount your bigger /upper, and use overlayfs to combine them.

Looking forward ro some blog posts discussing how to support this use case; it's a good one. I think usr-merge is so much more managable though that it's totally worth doing.
AI still needs the text prompt to know what to generate. Hence the human who provides the prompt is still the artist, just like a photographer finds an aesthetically interesting spot to take the image with their camera. Cameras make images, humans using cameras make art. Granted, this is not quite 1-1 with AI art, but still the idea is the same. If anything the flood of AI images will only require artists to go beyond what is possible with these text->image kinds of things, of which there is no shortage.
I'm not sure what you've seen but I've been very impressed indeed by some results I've obtained. Some less so.

It's hard to compare because we don't know how much cherry picking is going on with published Dall-E results (either v1 or v2)

My gut feeling is that it's in the same ballpark as Dall-E 1
my .02$: get an ergonomic keyboard (I use the MS Sculpt keyboard nowadays), and learn to type like a pianist (use both hands, don't be afraid to move them to minimise strain).
This reminds me of a discussion I had with the high school band teacher in the 90s. I was telling him that one day computers would play music and you won't be able to tell the difference. He got mad at me and told me that a computer could never play as well as a human with feelings, who can feel the piece and interpret it.

I think we passed that point a while ago, but seeing this makes me think we aren't too far off from computers composing pieces that actually sound good too.
Headline is sloppy. It doesn't mean that she chose Israel instead of Ukraine. It means that she chose to leave Russia due to the invasion of Ukraine and that she happened to end up in Israel.
As a heavy Emacs user for over a decade: I still use IDEs instead of Emacs for programming. Emacs has plenty of uses outside of SW development. Only recently did I manage to set up my Emacs to have IDE-like capabilities for my Python work. But if I switched to a C++ job, I'll use an IDE. And maybe, over the course of a year or two, I'll bother setting up LSP for Emacs.

It's totally fine to use IDEs if they make your life easier. In my last C++ job, I would edit code with Emacs, but keep Visual Studio open for the IDE conveniences.
Unfortunate, I still think forum software for running companies is a good idea. I suppose https://threads.com/ is the main product left there - I can't help but think their pricing model makes a lot more sense than Friday's.
I'm inclined to believe that many mobile networks compare favorably to Hugues Net. We made this mistake once. Never again.

https://support.hughesnet.com/en/faq/internet/unlimited-data...
I don't think it was an inside job, it's actually pretty hard to wash $600m+ of blockchain funds already (it's highly traceable). Doing it as an insider would be truly insane.

The whitelisting wasn't a secret. Axie DAO is an open community, so it's easy to have known the whitelist existed and was left in. It was a very bad idea, but what can I say, people get cocky and make mistakes. The only difference in crypto is that it has a built-in bug bounty of losing stored funds like this, so you have to take security incredibly seriously, and they didn't.
Wait how did he do that
> our only solution is technological.

Technological progress is just a function of energy in a civilization. I highly recommend Smil's Energy and Civilization to understand this better.

The problem we are facing is directly a consequence of unsustainable energy usage, as such technology cannot be the solution.

Our quality of life will change whether we like it or not. In theory it would be preferable to choose that path. But people's in ability to accept that reality means we are choosing the hardest possible path.

We're already seeing wars over resources this very second. We will see global starvation this year from limited fertilizer production.

It's already happening and even in the comments on HN people aren't willing to entertain the necessary steps to prevent the worse case.
Other than the biggest OS pretty much choking on the node_modules black hole whenever you do a global operation on it (try deleting a js project on Windows)
From the article - (and I find this attitude rampant!)

Software engineers go crazy for the most ridiculous things. We like to think that we’re hyper-rational, but when we have to choose a technology, we end up in a kind of frenzy — bouncing from one person’s Hacker News comment to another's blog post until, in a stupor, we float helplessly toward the brightest light and lay prone in front of it, oblivious to what we were looking for in the first place.
Running a Container off the Host /usr/
It's a common tactic in patents in my experience. You're not going to sue yourself. So you describe your invention in the context in which a competitor would use it. Of course, this would typically be coupled with a disclosure to the examiner that the thing describing the context is in the prior art.
> anything which normalises surveillance by citizens on citizens is a death spiral for society.

Citation needed. I'd argue that without surveillance we wouldn't even have society. We'd just have warlords and anarchy
Some people happily mistake NATO for USA because it makes for a more personal/persuasive/convenient argument.
But the written agreements are the "diplomatic agreements". A lot of things get said, a lot of positions get stated. It's the written agreements that are the actual binding promises.

Of course, as you say, those aren't really binding either. The written promises sometimes are worth the paper they're written on. Verbal promises are worth less than that.
no more both-sides propaganda please. one side attacked and is committing genocidal destruction of Ukraine, not the so-called other side.

if all Russia wanted was Donbas they could just go here, take it, and eject the ethnic Ukrainians if they like, and steal the resources and territory instead of paying for them. Instead they go all-in on destroying as much of the country as possible before they most likely retreat to a relatively small region in the east, which I think was the original objective.

Russia chose to commit this massive crime, no one else.
Unfortunately the author chose to show his arguments in the Twitter. The subject is interesting, but I have a hard time following the discussion there.
This comment on here. Jesus. This guy is ad hominem reincarnated.[sic]
If the source code of what you are running is not fully available, assume it contains telemetry or data collection.
How is NATO (and it's minimal expansions) not a concern to Russia again?

It's more complex now, but for awhile they were the two players at the game.
Official blog post: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/now-in-preview-azure-...
Stop NOT calling it magic...
Fast, now Friday. Expect to see a lot more of this.

Funding is getting tight. If you're not profitable or don't have a plan to be soon, it will be tough.
I'm surprised he used inheritance to demonstrate magic. method_missing is a better example.
I did. I went to the url in the post but got a login page. I'm not an at&t customer so that's basically the end of my attempts. That said, based on the upvote/comment count, and how big of a market share at&t has, there must be at least hundreds of users that can reproduce it.
About this:

"I could have left Airbnb before things got so bad. But despite all that I observed and experienced, I truly loved my job."

If I love a job, I hesitate to quit just because some of the management is terrible. As a point of reference, many people on Hacker News have read my book "How To Destroy A Tech Startup In Three Easy Steps":

https://www.amazon.com/Destroy-Tech-Startup-Easy-Steps/dp/09...

If you go read the reviews on that book, one of the most common sentiments is "Lawrence should have left that job much earlier than he did." And yet, I really loved the work and I had a lot of fun, in many ways. Maybe I didn't emphasize how much fun we had along the way, but I think, getting to work on great tech while being well paid is a relatively rare gift to an engineer, so I don't think many of us really want to walk away from a job too soon. I do understand why an engineer might stick with a place like AirBnB, even if the burden is heavy.
You're making a rather large and unsupported assumption that "speeding" is dangerous.

In the overwhelming majority of cases it is not. 10-100M people in the US speed every day. "Speeding" as a term makes no distinction between the common 5-10 over and doing 120 in a 75.

Meanwhile US speed limits are incredibly low, and treat a sports car on an open dry road the same as an 80,000lb semi on wet tarmac.
I have a growing pile of anecdotes about smart people getting trapped in this hump, possibly confirmation bias based on recent experience.

But it has made me revise my esteem for former coworkers who were very smart and avoided the trap.
Until it breaks on a fresh install? Reproducibility is a must.
People attempt suicide but unconsciously don't really want to die, so they choose "inefficient" methods. Therefore they are often qualified as a "call for help", which is disputable.

If my memory is right, something like one third of death by guns in the US are suicides. Something like 10,000 deaths per year. Not that using a gun always work, many people survive but disfigured.

This is to me an argument strong enough to revoke the 2nd amendment.

I'm against the idea of assisted suicide. But our society generates so much mental illness without either trying to solve its cause nor providing a solution to cure it - e.g. a low cost access to psychiatric therapies.

So the suffering can be unbearable. The society doesn't care much about homeless veterans wandering the streets with their post-war syndrome. So in the name of what exactly would the society forbid the stop to their suffering to those of the veterans who choose it?

They gave their life to the country and are forbidden to a way out? The proper way out is of course an intense therapeutic work and social reinsertion. But if it is not provided, I find it hypocritical to forbid assisted suicide.

There is plenty of way to improve the mental health of people, through protective laws and concrete actions: detect abuse on children, abuse at work, reduce inequalities so that life is not so hard for at leafy of the population of this country.

Paying for the high cost of metal healthcare can be achieved very easily. Like reducing from 4,000 to 1,000 the number of nuclear bombs.

Or set up a few laws forbidding ultra bad food. Fighting obesity has an immense ROI for the health costs. A small percentage of the population has genes that causes a "natural" obesity. Most obese people have just disastrous bad food habits.

I'm not shaming them. I consider them being victims of a pandemy. I'm not either "fat-shaming" for how they look. I just want them in better health. So that money is available for mental health for everybody.

The steady rise of mental illness is a sign of a very dysfunctional society.

So I dislike wholeheartedly the idea of assisted suicide, but l refuse to consider it immoral. The way our society works is what is immoral.

The worst hypocrisy of all is that the conservative veto to the aforementioned laws is in total contradiction of the Christian values they pretend to defend.

Jesus Christ would vote Bernie. Just read the New Testament if you disagree.
Parent here, of 3 pre-teen kids. My experience is that having kids has brought a joy of learning and exploration like little before. We constantly visit flight museums, train museums, and do unusual things like joining Facebook 4x4 groups and go on weekend adventures. We've done local MTG events and similar. Last weekend we went to the local Japanese Garden (yea, spring!) and the kids dressed up in crazy clothes for some fun pictures.

I can't sit still, so am always looking for new things to do. Having children do this with me bring joy to me, and to them.
"Crimes"

Next up, hunting drug users, people who get abortions, jaywalkers, the homeless, etc.

Hyperbole? Yeah, duh, but also the reality a significant portion of society wants to realize. Don't enable these people.
> Why would the user only get to configure 1 of the 2?

I don't quite get what you mean here.
Blender, Linux, VLC, Rails, Django, Numpy, etc

There's really no reason why all of this software needs to be cloud based, other than vendor lock in. For collaboration software we should have a way to self host or pay for managed hosts.
microservices, amiright?

k8s has its use cases, but i am always baffled by people refusing to use the abstraction the cloud they leverage provide (things like vms, load balancers, autoscaling groups) in the name of using some hot new tech and some benefits that are not clear to them (again nothing against using it if you understand it and fits your use case, but this is not what I reach for as the first thing)
My basic response to any KYC initiative is, you don’t have a right to know who I am.
Is there a lawn length measurement app?
I'd honestly be interested in that.
I take issue with the 'monkeypatching core classes isn't magic' conclusion. I'd define "magic" in this sense as something that looks like it does one thing, but actually does another.

In python, if I see `print(5)`, I should know what that will do. Now, it's possible to do all sorts of magic and make it do something different (like print "five"). The reason that hijacking `print(5)` is magic is because when I look at it, I have reasonable expectations that are subverted.

The reason that magic is often considered bad is that if my code is supposed to subvert my expertise, then my expertise suddenly isn't useful to getting my job done. If I want to make it do something else, or debug it, I won't know where to go, because I should know how to debug `print(5)` or change it to `print(6)`, but now I don't know my way around my tools.

Maybe it's a connection to black boxes. If a reasonable user can't see how or why your magic works, and can't debug or direct your magic, it's too magical. Yes, that's subjective, but too bad. Maybe "opaque" is a better word.
Hrmm what distro? I haven't looked in sometime, maybe something changed (Slackware here). My understanding was static linkage in boot related folders was to minimize chance of accidentally losing a library/dependency and breaking booting.
Lie down with RT...
Some developers underestimate the cost of building slow webapps.

For example Magento. Magento is extremely slow. I know companies who pay hundreds of dollars for hosting per month to make it faster.

Working with Magento always means thinking about scalability and complex architecture.

But in reality webservers are extremely fast, even cheap ones. If Magento was built as a good app you would only start to worry about scalability at the time you had a million dollar webshop.
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I bet those engineers who interviewed you appreciated the simplicity, though. It probably seemed like a breath of fresh air.
We had society long before surveillance.