skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is from 2014, but I guess not much has changed since then.
> This is a very thoughtful and clearly articulated

Can you point to a part that you think fits that description? Because it read as complete nonsense to me.
I hear the twitter = public square analogy a lot but I fail to understand it. Here and on Twitter discussions take place. What is the difference?
I was using "king" as a catch-all term for rule by a single individual. Probably lazy in a discussion about actual aristocracy, but in my defense any sole person in charge of a nation could claim to represent a direct connection between the nation and the people.
"Number of engineers" has become another vanity metric in the VC ecosystem and it needs some pushback. I have viewed of a ton of tech leadership job postings in the last year+, and almost all of them have a requirement/bullet of "grew Engineering team from X to XXX", or something like it. As an engineer, building & supporting products with the right / a limited amount of engineers should be the goal. The Whatsapp example is fantastic and should be lauded. It might be extreme, but we need more stories like that, not less.

I get that most view it as a proxy for business growth, but I fear there's a growing group of non-technical investors/leaders/founders who see FAANGs with 4000 engineers, so you're only successful if you have that many too.
When your email endpoint starts getting jammed up with spam and phishing, drop me a line.
I admire the forward thinking and application of common sense here. There's literally no better way of testing the system than this. It seems that a lot of big tech companies would never have the balls to do this themselves.
I have an employee who takes days off because he's developed his own brand of whiskey which is going on sale later this year. We aren't hipstery, or a startup, however.
I don't think most are directly comparing them as it might seem on the surface. Simply pointing that, if ruby is past its prime, then rails is as well. We don't know what the end project is for everyone, so choosing a web framework here in the comments is kinda early in the discussion anyway.
> No one is suggesting that all students take calculus in high school.

It’s very commonly taught in 10th grade in France, Germany, Singapore and Taiwan (where I used to teach). It’s not universal by any means but as far as I can tell, the idea that calculus should be delayed until university is a nearly uniquely American idea.

https://www.mathvalues.org/masterblog/calculus-around-the-wo...
I don't agree, if that was true then CNN+ wouldn't have gone forward when the buyout was happening, because the new owners weren't happy that it did!
Good decision makers can recognize “one way doors” and adjust their risk tolerance accordingly.

But I think it is important to also realize that what is risky to one person, might not be risky to another. Either because they are at the end of one of the spectrums:

1. They have nothing to lose

2. They have so much, that losing doesn’t hurt them very much

Everyone in the middle of that spectrum has something to lose and will experience varying levels of painfulness if they fail.

It is easy to just call them pessimists, but they might just have a different perspective from where they are in life.

But that goes both directions. Pessimists should also realize that optimists see things differently from where they are, and not try to bring them down to their reality.
Roblox did a very interesting and similar write up at the beginning of this year regarding a large outage they experienced at the end of 2021: https://blog.roblox.com/2022/01/roblox-return-to-service-10-...
I kept myself to a deadlime to finish my MVP (Minimum Viable Paper lol) about a dao Ive been working on setting up.

Would love you guys and girls feedback :)

Our website is foragers.io

gn{time(3days)}-mf
I haven't watched an ad on YouTube in years. The day they finally block clients like NewPipe will be the last day I watch YouTube.
Right. When I read that my first thought was that there had to be a pretty big bunch who rolled their eyes and muttered under their breath but sighed and did what they were supposed to do just to get along.
other:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Arnold_(congressman)

"Benedict Arnold (October 5, 1780 – March 3, 1849) was an American politician from New York, and a member of the House of Representatives."

"He was named in honor of the famous Benedict Arnold at a time during the American Revolutionary War when he was still seen as a hero of the United States, stemming from the capture of Fort Ticonderoga."
"No doubt straight up ARC with refcounting bumps on every function call,etc..."

Yeah, but in Swift you don't do that. From what I'm told, the compiler's static analysis has gotten a lot smarter in determining when a ref-count bump is needed, and the increased use of struct-based value types in the language leads more and more to situations where a refcount bump isn't needed at all since there's no object reference in the first place.
My mental image of awk has always been something along these lines:

for line in readfile()
for block in script:
if block.match(line)
run_block(block)
end
endfor
endfor

Where the "for line in readfile()" is the "implicit loop", and the blocks are
the "condition { .. }" blocks.

The actual flow is a little bit more complex and has some exceptions e.g. (BEGIN/END), but this is about the gist of it.
I've always thought it a shame that the Atari ST missed a few tricks as a result of being developed at such a breakneck pace. In this instance it's not including the blitter socket as standard on all STs, and then using the socket instead to host a 16mhz T212 transputer in 1987 as a coprocessor.

Atari released the ATW in 1987, but it was a flop. I think the main reason was unfamiliarity- a parallel cpu architecture running unix-like OS but with no mmu, and no grandstand applications sunk it.

Had the transputer launched as a coprocessor (even the T212 was 10x faster than the 68k fpu) it would have allowed developers to get familiar with OCCAM etc. Alongside a more traditional arch before launching a 32bit machine with the full TRAM style modules.

Interestingly, this might well have changed the computing landscape, using transputers as Xeon Phi style GPUs before GPUs were a thing.

It would have also led to an interesting situation when Motorola ended the 68k line. Rather than going to power PC as the Mac and Amiga did, the ST/TT could have gone full transputer instead.

Lastly, the transputers are quite small (20k gates) and power efficient. ARM might not have had the same legacy with a competitive transputer scene as a result of using it in volume as a coprocessor.

This is a great project, with lots of enthusiastic people in the comments section, very pleased to see a revival of the concepts!
Old software can frequently be found on archive.org—with much more focused selection than ‘the whole web’.
“the twenty-sixth of April” would be the way I say today’s date and anecdotally is in common usage in both countries I’ve lived in (the UK and Australia, both using d/m/y). I’d say it’s about as frequent as “April the twenty-sixth” by itself, and definitely more common if you include the day (“Tuesday, the twenty-sixth of April”).
This sentiment completely bulldozes over nuance. Not all predictions are created equally, a person that is today predicting a mass market for self driving cars is not the same as a person predicting a mass market for flying cars. It's not pessimism to dismiss the absurd. Of course, vision is necessary for progress, but only a tiny fraction of the so-called "optimists" actually "make money", most of them fail.
Latest update from the Steve Hoffman thread:

> Jeff Bezos team just responded to my email by phone. The problem is a glitch not policy, and is being worked on. Everyone can calm down.
Yeah, I was wrong on that regard.

Although I still think with a mix of template metaprogramming and constexpr might be possible, however it would be a very low ROI on such example.

And it would still be worse than the other languages, so defeat accepted.
I don't support that theory at all, and didn't mention it. I even gave a completely reasonable explanation why they might not want to discuss it.
> pretend to support devices past their vendor EOL

They don't "pretend" anything. They are very clear that, after a device no longer gets kernel/driver updates from the manufacturer, they can only provide OS/framework updates.

> don't support locking the bootloader to enable verified boot on many supported devices

Can you expand on this more? My understanding was that you could do this on Pixel phones, but that no other manufacturer supports adding user keys to the bootloader.
Reproducible Builds: Stable order for outputs
For a while it was comical because there was some 10 minute magic threshold, and so many videos danced around and around to get to that 10 min mark. I agree through, I HATE it, I've started always trying to find written articles and reviews to shortcut this misery.

TikTok is capitalizing on this too - going to be much easier to digest a ton of tiktok then a ton of long meandering youtube videos.
> These acronyms are employment -centric

When it comes to employment, Facebook is usually regarded as being up there with Google. Well ahead of Amazon, that is for sure. Nobody considers Amazon as being a desirable place to work, even in engineering. Why didn't Facebook make the MANGA cut?

Facebook/Meta is not among the top five largest companies, though, so it stands to reason why it doesn't make the cut from that perspective.

> not to do with market cap

Thing is, MANGA actually works for market cap if you go back a year or two when it first started appearing. Netflix has just fallen big time in the interim. Tesla has taken its place.

It seems quite apparent that it, like FAANG before it, is old and outdated. Heralding from a time when it fit the times, but, like FAANG, no longer does. After all, MANGA itself replaced FAANG to recognize the changing environment, and the environment has changed again.
Microsoft beats on earnings after raising prices for Office
Buybacks and dividends are literally the way public markets are supposed to work. Raising capital without ever giving it back = a ponzi scheme.

Anyhow buybacks are a way to give money back to investors while making each remaining share more valuable.
but then if your rent goes up with 4 percent everything changes, so -.-
The Future of Ramez Naam
Also interesting and impressive: Halo multiplayer fans have modded the original Xbox version of Halo to act as a dedicated server for Xbox LAN multiplayer[1] that serves the same architectural role as 343's UHS does for MCC online play.

[1] http://halo1nhe.com
You're literally saying Firefox defeated the IE monopoly, and then turning around and saying IE had 95% market share.

"Just because IE existed for years afterwards, despite only having a minuscule amount of marketshare, doesn't mean it wasn't defeated, either."

Lets go look at what actual numbers were:

2008:

IE: 69%
Firefox: 26%
Chrome: 0%
Safari: 2-3%?

2009/2010 (Peak Firefox):
IE: 55%
Firefox: 32%
Chrome: >4%
Safari: <4%

I'm going off graphs rather than tables so the numbers are a bit off.

2012 (Peak safari):
Firefox: 24%
IE: 34%
Chrome: 32%:
Safari: 8%

2018 (Edge Becomes a chromium wrapper):
Firefox: 12%
IE: 6%
Edge: 4%
Chrome: 69% (Hey that's where IE was!)
Safari: 3%

October 2021 (From chart on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers)
Firefox: 6-8%
IE: /
Edge: 12%
Chrome: 73%
Safari: 3%
Actually just chrome: 85%

Opening up iOS is not going to magically make Firefox popularity boom, any more than android, if people install a different browser it will be chrome.

And once that is possible, Google will push Chrome on all of their properties. Just like they do on desktop.

To reinforce the amount of power google has. No other browser managed to kill IE6, not even IE>6. Then one day Google literally just decided that they would stop support IE6 on YouTube. Every person who came to YouTube with IE6 was greeted with “your browser is not supported. Update to a newer one. Chrome is a browser by Google that is designed from the ground up for security and performance. You can get it here”.

They rapidly rolled that change to their other properties, and by the power of controlling all the largest and most popular sites on the web they killed IE6 in like 6 months.

The entire existence of other browsers is dependent on what Google does with their dominance in web content.

I don’t know about Firefox, but in Safari when I go to pretty much any google property it’s aggressively marketing Chrome, and reasonably high % of the time. Google.com itself, possibly 100% of the time?

At the same time google has actively pushed back against most privacy efforts on the web, regularly nominates new standards that have the sole purpose of supporting their advertising business, etc
Do you disagree with the following re-formulations:

Some observable differences are due to social factors.

Some observable differences by certain groups are the result of past actions by other groups.

You should favor policies to correct for the result of past harms.

One cannot reasonably claim that no groups in the US are still disadvantaged today due to actions taken on a centuries-long timescale. It seems willfully unfair to stick your fingers in your ears and just say "I'm not actively discriminatory, so there's no need to try to mitigate things, everything is peachy."
NASA develops AM alloy significantly more durable than current aerospace alloys
VPN to Mexico or Turkey and then login to YouTube and subscribe to premium to remove ads for like $4/mo. Best money you'll ever spend
In the UK I think "1st of January" is probably slightly more common than "January the 1st" although you hear both. "January 1st" (no "the") sounds American.
I’d start by googling for Long term data preservation.

LTDP is a very big topic and the answer will depend on the type of data, type of access reauired, available resources etc.

Take a “simple” example, preserving digital text documents for the past 40 years. You’d need to be preserving word star and word perfect documents. You have two options (probably more); keep the original ones as well as the software and OSes to view them, or keep converting them to an always current format. This means the process might be lossy or require custom converters.

And that is just to make sure the data is actually useful. Dealing with the hardware from storage media to location will be a fun rabbit hole to go down in.

—-

What are you looking to preserve?
I'm from NZ and it is 100% normal to switch back and forth between "The second of March" and "March the 23rd".

People I have met from Australia, South Africa, the UK, all have the same flexibility.
Well hey, that's news to me, and utterly fascinating!

Thank-you.
Seeking input on: “A 21st Century Software Ethics Manifesto” [pdf]
Added a Table of Contents for easier perusal.
Dell DDR5 CAMM Comes in Several Shapes, Won't Be Proprietary
Tech employees are much more liberal than their employers (2018)
Apple says it’s not benefiting from privacy changes that burned Facebook
He met secretly with exiled politicians and planned their return.
Welp, I can sorta get it there -- but I cant figure out how to install it after mounting:

https://i.imgur.com/WRNDdjB.png

https://i.imgur.com/Pedlilm.png

---

Whats really interesting to me about this, was that just ~last week or so, I was wondering what ever happened to Kai (Kai's Power Tools - Kai was the inventor of it and it was a revolutionary glimpse into the future of what 3D worlds were going to be put into the hands of the masses via PCs.)
95% of the commits on my personal open source projects use emoji commit messages. https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/commit-emoji

PRs matter a lot more than commit messages, especially if you're squashing + merging / rebasing.
> The possibility of sustained progress is a consequence of the view
of humans as "universal explainers" (cf. David Deutsch), and of
progress as driven fundamentally by human choice and effort - that
is, by human agency.

As a humanist, I too am very optimistic about the ultimate triumph of
human agency. What gives me cause for pessimism is the emergence of
technologies that act against it.

Biology, intelligence and evolution, on a long enough timeline tend
toward unbridled possibility. We can overcome anything. I reject
Malthusian doom-saying.

The greatest challenge may not be energy or food, but how we overcome
our own technologies that cultivate dependency, weakness, and
ignorance. How do we avoid abandoning intelligence amplification in
favour of artificial intelligence, reality in favour of a "virtual
metaverse"?

I think the subtle danger in late modernity is the creation of
technologies that optimise for pessimism, thrive on discord, reward
laziness, and learn from our worst vices in order to amplify them and
offer us more.
> Having whitespace-altering "Dummy commit to trigger CI, ugh!"

`git commit --allow-empty` may be sufficient for that "there is a new commit" trigger in many cases. If so, that may be preferable to whitespace changes as those clutter up the blame.

As an aside, my initial commit on a repo is an empty one so that I can branch from a completely empty repo to do radical rewrites and yet maintain a history relationship with that initial empty commit (which I feel is preferable to an orphan branch and then a merge with unrelated histories ... though those tell slightly different stories in the log).
A sibling comment to yours has noted a recently-discovered Papyri that details some scant information about quarrying limestone for Khufu's pyramid.

https://www.history.com/news/egypts-oldest-papyri-detail-gre...
> affluent Virginia suburb, until I got into a top STEM magnet high school

TJ? :P
It wouldn't be my responsibility for 100 years. I'd keep it backed up reasonably by using multiple methods (physical storage stored in different locations, digital backups, etc) until it was my time to quit or retire. Then I would hand the backups off to the next person for them to track and maintain.
SpaceX is pretty much recession proof. SpaceX will get government and commercial contracts as long as the technology is there. Tesla might face issues, but a recession might be used to propel the "green/climate change" movement even further which will benefit tesla greatly. Like how the 2008 financial crisis was used to pump billions into the "green" industries. I can see the next recession being used to promote electric cars and other "green" initiatives. But I'd imagine tesla's lofty $1 trillion market cap will certainly take a hit in the next recession.
Sounds like the author didn't have any.
Thanks for taking the time to write this - it really gave me new ways of thinking about it :)
That's such a revisionist look at history. I don't know how anyone can be educated about the matter and think somehow that Corporations are at the whim of politicians, and not the other way around.

Microsoft overreached significantly and the US government 30 years ago gave them a slap on the wrist.
I see. The need to quote JSON values and the need for @ seem like a high price to pay for removing the . in field accesses.

I also find jq more intuitive but I really dislike that we have three standards each used by a number of tools, e.g. jsonpath, jmespath, and jq.
> Credible reports of emotional abuse against partners

I'm not an Elon Musk fan (seriously: grep through any comments I've posted about the guy), but the article linked here is an incredibly weak substantiation of that libellous claim. I'm rather impressed by the writer's balls in posting it. The content of the article is just a desultory ramble through a few things Musk has said or done which make him look like a kinda-shitty person, but nothing remotely rising to the level of abuse.

"He didn't let his kids have stuffed animals" or "he 'put his wife's flaws under the microscope' when they argued" or "he pressured a reporter not to publish an article by insinuating that he'd go to jail" or "I didn't realise he had a dead son, he must not talk about it much" ... none of these make him look like an affable, sweet-natured guy - I'm not sure what anyone expects from a tech billionaire - but to call it 'abuse' devalues the word, imo.
The fact that before you can join Mastodon, you first have to choose what server you're going to host your account on is going to turn off 90% of people right there. They should have a default instance you can join from the front page and make it an option to join another.
Microsoft finds Linux desktop flaw that gives root to untrusted users
sirbarksalot – Listens for Dog Barking
How are Meta/Twitter/RH related to cloud?
I agree with you somewhat, but I think there's an important distinction to be made.

If a political decision-making process concludes "men account for more road traffic deaths than women, but we've decided that gender can't be taken into account when pricing car insurance" that's fine; the facts have remained the facts, and a political decision has been made by a political process.

But if the same process concludes "men and women cause the same number of road traffic deaths" the process has gone off the rails despite the fact the outcome is the same because in one situation the facts have been acknowledged and the decision to act contrary to them made knowingly; while in the second situation that isn't the case.
A solid active/standby design should regularly flop. Every 2 weeks seems to be a sweet spot. This also balances wear across consumable hardware like disks.

If your failover is happening "all the time" you basically just have a single system with failures.
We do say "five dollars" while writing "$5", so saying and writing different things is not unheard of.

And endiannes / sorting comes up in real life pretty often - scanning for large numbers in the price list, or finding stuff in the sorts list.

I think if history turned differently, we could have had sane time format in the US.
What I mean is that R varies by disease (or for a given disease, according to interventions, etc).

The size of the total epidemic varies sharply as R is changed in this way.
When I was in my late teens I lived with an older friend who worked as a web developer at the beginning of the dot com boom. He would come home stressed from work and I'd think how can be stressed? He gets to work on a computer all day!
> pretty much every college requires "college algebra".

Caltech didn't. In fact, they expect you to know calculus before entering. I didn't, and that nearly capsized my college career before it left the dock.
I think it's quite subjective actually. I like the UI.

"beauty is in the eye of the beholder"
There’s tenured Stanford professors in many subjects, such as theology. I’m sure their work is impressive within the context of the field. But that doesn’t mean it’s rigorous or has real world application. PhD publications are supposed to be a serious contributions to the field. This particular work won a major award.

Stop it with the accusations of “arrogance” and naked credentialism. Any of the millions of people with an undergraduate STEM degree (mine is in aerospace engineering) learns enough about the scientific method to distinguish “rigorous” work from non-rigorous work. It’s actually kind of an important thing they try to teach.

Scientists and engineers who don’t call out non-rigorous work that claims the mantle of “expertise” are shirking their moral obligations and helping to erode the credibility of science as a larger discipline.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/nasa-new-material-alloy-s...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nasa-invents-revol...
Or just git rebase -i like normal people.
The Dirty Secret of Capitalism – and a New Way Forward
Especially in this scenario where you are communicating to an international audience.
>I’m familiar, so dont fuck up

Don't.
Clarification (can't edit the above post anymore):

> our parents called in

should be

our parents were called in
Suggestion: Watch it at 2x.