skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I.. wish I could share your faith in people. Not to search very far, I can name at least one candidate, who would be willing to sacrifice a lot just for a few more years.

As for Bush, Cheney, Obama, Pompeo et al.. I don't know if they can retire in peace exactly. US taxpayers fund their security detail; some more so than others if you read some recent reports, but the point remains.

I am willing to agree with you on that there is a difference of degree, but Iraq war did a lot of damage.. not to just US standing, but to US population's perception of how things are really done. The main difference is that some of that damage is not as... easily translated into viral imagery.
Except that as we heard from many here, they might very well be binding and enforceable in many states.
If the coffee is overly hot and multiple people have been severely burned, at some point, the company selling an obviously dangerous product and handing it to people in cups that are flimsy enough to crush between your legs is partially to blame. What if the coffee was 220 degrees and still boiling when they hand it to you, but you warn people on the cup? You still don't see any culpability?

I would imagine the legal cases decided that McDonalds was not taking reasonable precautions to account for their much hotter than usual coffee. No amount of written warnings or even signed waivers will protect you from negligence, at least in most US states.
It's more of a range thing.

Hitting an enemy fuel truck from 5000m away is a lot safer than running up and shooting it at 200m.

200m shots are common in a city, because cover / concealment is everywhere. Sure, there are still trees and hills to hide in the countryside, but having the option for super long range really helps.
This is very well said. People who can create a cult of personality and offer simple, but uselessly vague, solutions to complex problems are in vogue these days.
This is probably a good scripting task, suitable for either a beginner or to outsource to a freelancer. Ideally just activate a browser extension and have it go through the conversion steps and pop open the print dialog.
He has 82 million followers. That’s a lot of people to be completely biased. Granted, it’s not half a billion for completely unbiased sample, but still, that’s a lot.
I've no idea what this crap is doing here.

It's also warez and no one but microsoft can distribute Windows ISO images.
The type system of Rust requires you to be clear about which data your code is touching, and whether that code can mutate it or is just reading. This allows a sufficiently smart task system—like that of Bevy—to automatically distribute work across threads for better hardware utilization.

Also, one of the main reasons I'm interested in Bevy is that the engine is modular, pluggable, and extensible at the core renderer level, which is nice for those of us experimenting with different rendering techniques. Unity in particular is not a good fit for this type of thing.
This why I turned down a job offer from AWS:

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/why-i-turned-down-an-aws-...

They made me feel like a jackass when I did.

Less than a year later I was vindicated:

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-ruins-own-attempt-at-...

And your timing is apt! "Should I Accept an AWS Job Offer?" went up yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCiUulzr9f8
Show HN: FastAPI and MongoDB back end boilerplate
This exactly. When you sell stock it’s not to some magic black box. There needs to be a buyer. And no buyer is going to buy billions of dollars of Twitter stock once Elon starts his fire sale.
Especially considering how trivially easy it is to run Windows programs in Wine these days.
>their prediction of what their test scores will be, is uncorrelated

I couldn't access the original 1999 full article because it's behind a paywall, but is this accurate?

The abstract states that people "grossly overestimated their test performance and ability". If it were truly uncorrelated, wouldn't we expect there to be roughly equal number of people who "grossly underestimate" their performance? In any event, I wouldn't expect a weak correlation to be described as "grossly [anything]".

Or maybe this is just the D-K effect in myself trying to understand the abstract :-)
I think the article should be titled 'JVM isn't for me'.

According to the article, the author moved to Janet, because it is Clojure-like without the JVM overhead.
Considering that the actual, you know, votes would have produced a different result in 2000, it is not an idle conceit. The US Supreme Court did, in fact, choose in 2000, and very publicly, by 5:4. Had Anthony Kennedy chosen differently, we would have had a different presidency, and probably no Iraq War, and might have been well on the way to controlling the now very obvious global climate catastrophe.

It was all perfectly legal.

In 2000, global climate catastrophe was still denied.
Having worked at Google previously, I completely agree with this assessment.

I love remote work, mostly because actual work environment feels hostile towards ICs but if I had a Google like environment again, I’d have no problems going back to office.
The main thing I’ve seen is if the local executive uses the coffee. If he does, it’s free for everyone.

If the executive break room is hidden and secret, then there may be a lack of free coffee.
People kept asking because the original article doesn't address the "violence" accusation at all. It does link to one that does, but while I do think it's reasonable to expect commenters to have read the article, I don't think it's reasonable to expect that they also followed every link and read all of those articles too. The other article link that provides the information came after the thread had already developed quite a bit. It might be helpful to look at the time timestamps on the comments.

It does sound like the violence accusation was a BS excuse, so the original anger is justified. But gathering all information before grabbing a pitchfork is a responsible thing to do.
I think the dangerous situation this is trying to fix is when drivers turning right fail to see you stopped there, ready to go straight. Drivers are usually looking left or ahead when turning right, and often fail to look right. I’ve been hit this way myself. Being able to legally go straight on those reds would help a lot.

The alternative, which does help, is to wait in line behind a car, but often drivers dislike this more (have been shouted at for this as well).
I thought ring-lwe was pretty good. It's at least very embarrassingly parallel
I don’t see Instagram as a hate factory at all.
Show HN is for showcasing something you've made.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Nicely spotted, though!
Word of advice, this is interesting and worth paying attention to.

However, hearing loss has already been successfully cured before decades ago. I remember reading back in the 80s that it was only 10 years away.

It actually worked.. only problem is, the dosage required was toxic for humans.

So when they say it is years away, take it literally and assume that might be forever.

If you have hearing loss that can be treated by other therapies today, do not wait for tomorrow, because tomorrow may not come.
Should the doctors who disagreed with the official information from the government that masks were not important have their licenses revoked? Seems only fair.
There's nothing in that example that assumes they are adjacent. It only assumes they are in the same (flat) address space. Put a gigabyte between them if you want.

If I had used `uintptr_t` instead of `ssize_t`, I think it's even compliant as far as wraparound goes.

edit: Note I changed the code to use uintptr_t
Increasingly, I don't see clojure as primarily a matter of the clojure-on-jvm implementation, but as a distinct and (generally) hosted dialect of lisp. Clojurescript is a clojure. Janet is a clojure. ClojureCLR is a clojure. Fennel is a clojure. Babashka is a clojure. Ferret is (kind of) a clojure. Maybe someday we'll have a bare-metal clojure. So far as I can tell, the lisp landscape (land of lisp?) has changed from common-lisps and schemes, to common-lisps, schemes, and clojures.

IMHO. Maybe I overexaggerate. Anyway, the author, from my perspective has decided that clojure IS in fact for him, but clojure on the JVM is not, so he chooses to use a different one.
Some programs do follow a specification (sysexits.h) where numbers 64 and higher are used for common uses, such as usage error, software error, file format error, etc.
GATs are apparently very close to stabilization, I think I've seen Rust 1.62 suggested as plausible. So that's a big step towards the likely design of async traits. But sure, async traits is not likely to be this year. Fortunately although for some reason async traits are on pjmlp's must-have list, they're nowhere close to the critical path for Linux, which again is written today in C.
Well, the 20th century gave us a lot of examples already...

But are you seriously rejecting the post-WW2 paradigm where tech was made sacred and engineers and scientists were turned into its high priests ?

I know some people like that, but I wouldn't have expected to see them on hacker news !
I recognize your name from the facepunch days. I think you updated my early SWEP templates, which AFAIK were the first "full-featured" template published on the forums and proliferated everywhere. I didn't know you made your own GMod.

I wrote a VR GMod clone[1] based on Source2/SteamVR Environments, mostly in lua, with some basic HTML/JS/CSS for Panorama UI components, incorporating the usual art assets updated/ported for Source2 made by kind artists from the community with their permission. My work was mostly to re-write the physics gun and toolgun with UI/controller input bindings to the physics engine and my custom UI. Of course, all of the hard work is credit to the teams at Valve.

[1] https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=20429...
Going All in for Gemini Space
And how long is the arm supposed to be in the intended orbital system? Because if you want a 500m arm, you literally have a millions-of-cubic-meters-sized vacuum chamber -- and not only that, you have a vacuum chamber with a highly disadvantageous shape (a flat disc). That sounds like a mildly insane design to me.
How would you even go about doing that? You would have to kick people out of houses.
This is great, thank you! I actually have read Traction and have the EOS bookmarked. Appreciate the extra validation.
I've been trying to learn Bevy on and off for months but I'm finding it difficult. The official Bevy Getting Started tutorial is very short. I've looked through many of examples but I find them difficult to follow because I'm not familiar with how Bevy wants you do to things. I find that the API docs don't explain what things are used for. I feel like I'm missing some core concepts but I don't know where I'm supposed to learn them.

Some examples. What are commands? What is the world? How should I be creating and destroying objects? How do I ensure some systems run before others? How should I delay loading most of the systems until a button is pressed on the first screen? How do I unload systems? How do I pass information between systems?

I'm not looking for someone to answer all of these questions, I just want to know where I'm supposed to read about them because I feel like I'm missing some important docs.

The Unofficial Bevy Cheat Book looks promising because it appears to explain some of the core concepts. However, it is weird that I have to read an unofficial book to learn these things. Without the Unofficial book, where was I supposed to learn the coordinate system convention or how to use events?
A lot of people do crazy stuff with Paint... just imagine what they could do with good software
A casual trawl through Voluptuous Panic made me a little less shocked at the reactionary angle. Anyone who wanted to capitalize on that could have.
Yeah, that's because it isn't (imho a promising candidate).

It's an interesting experience, though.
every suggestion he's floated so far is bad. edit button, open source algorithm, "time outs" instead of bans, "free speech". all of these ideas have obvious flaws that he does not address and none of them would be sufficient to drastically change twitter's stagnant share price.

If Musk, or anyone, has solutions to the problems with freedom of speech that have existed since civilization, let's hear them. If the ideas are good and he's the best person to implement them, then there's a good chance that people will want to do it.
Many farmers in my state water from rivers on their land that aren't even large enough to get EPA attention let alone direct regulation. I think you're under the impression everyone with a vegetable stand is Cargill or something.
What's the format? A wiki, or document or something?
It sounds very good. But how can I trust the authors with this?
Is the ECS paradigm useful in enterprise situations e.g. database driven (web)applications?
Agreed. Is anyone aware of any explicit statements by NATO about how they would respond to a tactical nuke? Has this been clearly stated?

I've wondered what a proportionate response would be though. Sevastapol? From the NATO perspective it would make sense since they consider it occupied territory, but from the Russian perspective that would be an escalation.

Perhaps within occupied eastern Ukraine? I doubt Ukrainians would see two nukes on their territory as an improvement. I've got no idea what a proportionate response would be.
The Unarchiver didn't used to be proprietary, it used to be LGPL. Coincidentally just a few days ago I was looking to see if anyone had forked the last LGPL version but I didn't look very hard and didn't find anything.

If it's still floating around, you could start there.

Edit: This appears to be the source code of the old LGPL version: https://cdn.theunarchiver.com/downloads/TheUnarchiverSource....
My whole heart agrees.

I’ve often chalked this up to founders following the money. If everything is secondary to that — if it’s not for the love of software — you become bedfellows with technical debt and flashy bloatware.

But you have something to write your investors about.

Being antithetical to bloat, I see real innovation in FOSS.
This may be odd advice, but I found it helpful to watch animals. I go out in nature and I see a bird spend all its energy to survive.
“Coercion is coercion” is an inane idea. If you’re kicked out of a bar for being drunk, it’s coercion. To say that there’s no difference to the Holocaust is, at the very least, deeply misguided.
Totally agree. People should not be forced to have a birthday party.
How Flyback Rocket Boosters Got Off the Ground
> but to speak up about the direction of technology and what we are helping to create

Shot in the dark here, but maybe it's worth asking: how exactly are you managing your (remaining) relation with technology going forward? How do you see it (in the future, that is)?

I'm asking because I assume (this being HN) that you're somehow employed in a technology-related field and, as such, you can't/didn't just "quit" technology cold-turkey. I'm also asking because I'm sensing that I'm in the same both as you, i.e. I'm a computer programmer that has started to see more and more clearly the way technology is going and what bad things it does to our society (for me it started about 4-5 years ago, when I actually got to read Ellul first-hand, and before anyone starts asking, no, I'm definitely not a fan of what Ted Kaczynski did).

Later edit: Seen your other comments on this thread after I had written down my comment above, saw that you also mentioned Ellul and some other very interesting stuff/authors that I didn't know about, so thanks a lot "from a distance" for all those suggestions, comments/inputs like yours is what still keeps me active on this website.
That is not entirely true. There is sysexits.h, which tried to standardize some exit codes (originally meant for mail filters). It is used by, for instance, argp_parse().

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=misc/sysexi...
The flaw here is that I’m not interested in the indie web per se. I’m interested in specific, interesting looking articles, some of which might happen to be indie web in nature…
How hard would it be to port a pygame to this? What would be the advantages?
Were you speaking to them about AWS before hiring or once they were hired? I could tell lots of justified shit about my previous employers but none during an interview.
You would probably benefit from watching a talk or two on ECS (Entity component system).
You literally can’t download any content from that site: neither ISOs nor torrents. You’re reaching.
I looked over the second option and it's a pretty extensive patching process. The 2-3 hours they give for it is generous. Also it appears that they do do windows update manually, so it's still a fully up to date Windows 10 installation. I suspect you could get away with just running their script on a legit, fully updated, Windows 10 install, with presumably the UI modifications they want you to do (says the scripts need you to do that).
That is so interesting that you can react worse than when in real danger and I think that probably matches some of the people I know who struggle with anxiety. I wonder if that is simply because most of the time one gets into real danger, there is no lead up to it, it just happens quickly and unexpectedly - no time to dwell on it.
One thing I was thinking about some time ago was that if you wanted such infrastructure while still being able to adjust azimuth and elevation, perhaps an artificial lake would work? At the very least you avoid salt water this way. Of course at that point you can't pick and choose your launch site after the fact, but that's not a regression compared to stationary launch pads anyway.
Mf wrote a game when he was 12. Good exposure at early age.
Where are they? I see them failed against multiple times a day, but only see the complaints about them, and not the actual subject of those complaints.
Why Did Harvard University Go After One of Its Best Black Professors?
Text of the Open App Markets Act
It's something but honestly anything less than 100% is not great though. You can't easily go from living on 100k a year to 50k or less. It's still fulfilling the purpose of being an unfair deterrent from finding employment elsewhere.
Probably not, because how would you get consent from the test subjects without messing up the test?
I wouldn't call it criticism. Software at this scale and complexity will have vulnerabilities. I'd be a lot more concerned about someone who claims that their code is fully secure and doesn't need any patching ever.
So I changed jobs in May 2021. Had been a happy Intel mac user since the intel switch (my first Mac was a PowerBook). New employer supplied me an M1 MBP and I was fucking delighted, since I didn’t have the means to buy my own at the time.

Contrary to other comments later, I have no niche needs. Well… I’m predominantly a Perl coder, so that’s niche but nothing to do with architecture. I spend most of my days with just iTerm, a couple of browsers, Slack. Not much else. I’ve been an edit-over-ssh developer for 20 years.

My M1 was also my first experience of Big Sur, so I was never sure whether my issue was hardware or software. But issues I had:

• frequently it would stop all ipv4 networking, going ipv6 only (which in practical terms meant I went offline)

• I would often - multiple times a week - lose all sound devices. Suddenly things would go silent, and all inputs/outputs (including the built in speakers/mic) would disappear from preferences. For a while only a reboot would fix it, until I learned to `killall coreaudiod`

• chrome would often say “you don’t have a camera”, which I could only fix by a reboot (we use Google Meet, and safari was always terrible with it. But I just prefer chrome anyway)

I had a variety of other problems but can’t recall them clearly enough to list them, especially from this temporal distance.

[EDITED to add: I did go through hardware checks and company IT checks, but nothing ever came up as faulty]

I did love that it was silent and permanently cool, but that was about it. Since it too was always plugged in, any difference in trackpad or keyboard or battery life made zero odds to me, and that’s why those things don’t matter to me about the Starbook either.

When Monterey came out I upgraded and actually things got mostly (but not entirely) better. But by that time I’d ordered the Starbook, and the desktop Linux experience has been so good - not to mention just a refreshing change - that I don’t regret it one bit. And if I do, well, the work MBP is sat in the corner and I can resurrect it…
I'm confused because you are the one who said that they were opposed to technological tyranny. Like, somehow how factories were controlling their lives/agency as another commenter puts it. I am the one that is saying that technology is but a tool (which we agree?). I was just extending this nebulous definition of "technology running our lives" to mean "technological tyranny" which I prefaced was ill-defined and took it to its absurd logical limit that we were being "controlled" by other technologies.
Never heard IT to mean only desktop support, it is the whole thing.
Probably best not to encourage fighting, since flaming is what an argument descends into when it starts to get directed and nasty.

How about "discuss away", heh.
This is something hard to word. The boiling frog is hard to fight, because there's no big event to go against, it's just a mellow dilution of behaviors and values.

The Ukraine invasion made me see how Russia is today, and it doesn't take much to turn a society into a fog of nothingness. A bit of leeway regarding police forces, a bit of good old propaganda, and now you can't speak, nothing is true anymore.
You have completely misunderstood the post. It's about ageism, not whether a 50+ year old can do the job.
If suspending Trump didn't end Twitter, suspending Musk won't.
OP doesn't need or want the JVM or Java libraries, and he wants to stay in the world of Free software that C and Ruby provide.

He analyzed his needs and wants.

This is a good example of what "right tool for the job" analysis looks like.

Though honestly, if OP wasn't in "java land" (his phrase), I'm not sure why Clojure was even on his radar.

I greatly respect people who reject the hype and just go with the language that fits their needs, even if it isn't hyped like C, Ruby or Python but provide plenty of what you'll need.

https://boringtechnology.club/
Has anyone here successfully gotten Clearview AI to delete their facial data?
We will probably just see more tricks like computing keys from random seeds and storing cached key exchanges, and AMP style clickbait accelerators to funnel stuff through CDNs you already have the key for(Assuming the EU lets us do that....)
The thing about the Nazi's is it wasn't just the obvious "Jews are bad" stuff. They really framed themselves as being scientific and holding an interest in not just making the nation better but humanity itself. They did a lot to project strength, progress, modernization and scientific thought and inspire people to get behind them.

Of course, it all blends together... There was insidious breadth in their messaging... They would do things like go to elementary schools and cherry pick the most pathetic and weak (who "happened" to be stereotypically jewish-looking) child and then pick a child known amongst their peers to be athletic, intelligent, and handsome/beautiful (and who "happened" to be Aryan-looking) and then they'd talk 'scientifically' about the distinctive features of the two races, and the physical differences between the two children, espousing the 'good genes' of the Aryan looking kid.

Even today, in 'more virtuous' societies, people love to think of themselves as superior to others in some capacity. It's less common to emphasize the inferiority of others, especially using race as a basis, but at the end of the day, we're talking about basically the same human tendency toward contempt.