skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes sense, looking at how signed arithmetic works on different architectures it would feel strange to use signed bitfields.

Unsigned bitfields are a nice way to get modular arithmetic with n bits without syntactic clutter.
Perhaps the word missing here is “precariat”?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precariat
For context, the thing preceding nodejs in the hype cycle was ruby on rails. While many great things could be said about RoR, performance definitely is not one of them, especially in the early days.
Your barometer for shit needs recalibrating, bud.
This looks super cool. Is anyone using this anywhere?
Networking Basics: WiFi and Bluetooth
They may have been correct in identifying and categorizing the problem, but they clearly failed at the solution.
Private Eye periodically reports on "log rolling" in book reviews - where an author approached by a journalist will recommend books with the same publisher, or the same publicist, or the same agent.

So I wouldn't be surprised if one found a similar pattern across the entire publishing industry.
Then their position in the org chart is non-sensical. That means they should be adjacent to the folks they feel no duty to.
https://archive.ph/HIym3
Smart speakers and phones are NOT listening to every single thing around it 24/7 in order to serve you ads. That's simply just not how it works. There are hundreds of other data points on you that can be used for this like your AMEX/Visa/Mastercard purchase history and etc.

On top of that, it would be easily detected via networking monitoring.
Plugging https://github.com/mcandre/tug

Automation atop the buildx Docker subcommand, for managing cross-architecture images.
The trope is that the South Carolina facility is largely un-unionized (because it's in a freedom-to-work state), which has caused poor quality. I have not seen any clear evidence of this, as all Boeing facilities seem to have QC issues. On a related note, I'm not sure how Boeing's QC compares to Airbus, though both seem to have similar aircraft availability rates, which would indicate similar levels of QC.
Helper functions or macros are just as clean as the bitfield syntax. That said, hardware register access is one of those things that is intrinsically tied to a specific platform (and if you target multiple platforms, it will already be behind an abstraction layer), so you can usually know the quirks of how the toolchain for that platform supports bitfields, and use them accordingly. Still more work for people reading the code, though since there are a lot of hidden assumptions behind that deceptively simple "=" than with an explicit mask and shift.
The United States should back it's (alleged) principles & help develop & spread liberalizing, anti-authoritarian software, like this.

This is still couched as consuming media. The stakes are higher, but I'd have us go further: try to allow person to person, group, & broadcast communication in places where the internet is being subverted & blocked.

"The Internet interprts censorship as damage and routes around it". -John Gilmore.

Alas the current regimes, bith conservative & liberal, are more focused around demanding things of the internet & making up new regulation, bith as a direct threat to letting people operate & maintain presence they would online. It's extremely hard days seeing one of the greatest emerged possibilities in the world- a universal right to speech & connect- clambored over & shouted down like this. Stories like this & others, of helping people see beyond their oppressive regimes, need much bigger celebration & support.
There's really three distinctions, in my mind:

1) Libraries (jQuery/Prototype/MooTools/etc) (Beginning - ~2010ish)

2) Widget-frameworks (YUI, Dojo, jQueryUI, etc) (mid-2000s - ~2013ish)

3) Data-orientied Frameworks (Backbone-onwards) (~early 2010s - current)

Edit: (Four, maybe, if you divide 1 into a 1/0 era, with 0 being the "rando DHTML scripts that many didn't really understand" era)
My naive self thinks his hubris has a lot to do with it. I mean if I were to speculate I think it's because he thinks he can do a 10x better job at running it if he were in charge of the whole show (esp after the recent shitshows by twitter like the bitcoin hack where his own account has hacked too).

Twitter has a lot of problems, like rampant bots, which have remained unaddressed for a very very long time and it can certainly do a lot better. And maybe he think he is the one who can do it. Maybe this whole thing can be explained by occam's razor afterall.
Would that let them GPL or even MIT the code? It would seem so.
I'm german and hate every thing in Germany. I love to live in Portugal. Lot of Portuguese people that I know don't understand it. Lot of germans that I know understand it pretty well ;)
Super exciting news. Go Veza!
Twitter has way more social influence than what its user base would suggest. Much of the world's media use it as a source for daily news. So what trends there will likely be part of the news some where.

A big part of Musk's fortune was created by his ability to promote himself. Tesla and SpaceX have both benefited from that.

Twitter has been a big part of his self promoting. Any possibility of losing access to Twitter by him would be devastating hit to all 3. By buying Twitter he can make sure he never gets banded and he gets a world wide communications vehicle to continue with his promotion.

In the past many tycoons have used newspapers to promote their businesses and point of views. He will do something similar with Twitter and use it to promote his point of view and it will be done at a world wide level. But he'll need to continue to grow Twitter to help him with that. He has to deal with both business and political risk. It's very gutsy but he's comfortable with risk.
Many States in the USA have implemented a "track-and-trace" program for their cannabis. The States use this information for enforcement. These programs have many bugs -- observable/repeatable bugs. Then enforcement uses the data from the buggy software to cite businesses for failures of their "track-and-trace" requirements. (eg: the system magically restores weight to zero-weight lots, or marks dead trees as alive).

In Washington State they started with BioTrackTHC; couldn't share the code cause it's a proprietary and a security risk; however they were dumping parts of the database as CSVs so folk could check that (and confirm some bugs!). Then WA switched to LeafData (MJ Freeway) and wouldn't share that code either; continued to share similar data-dumps. Now WA has moved to just uploading CSVs to the State system in code they wrote themselves -- and still won't share the code (and now are doing even less to share the data).

It's frustrating when viable open source solutions exist and are actively ignored by the State agencies (we were blocked from even participating in workgroups about the future of T&T (which don't really matter, they didn't even follow the recommendations of their own workgroups))
Unless the answer is not politically expedient!
OP and Porter founder here. The article was meant to outline the most common technical limitations we see companies on Heroku bump up against as they outgrow Heroku. For individuals and teams running smaller workloads on Heroku where saving $ is a chief concern, Heroku is probably still a good option even though they’re declining in market share (this unprecedented recent outage aside). Porter is designed for companies that are maturing off Heroku for the technical reasons we mention or for those already looking to get the automation of Heroku in their own AWS/GCP cloud.
I couldn't help myself. Always desperate to find an opportunity to shove my 2 cents into the world. So imagine my glee when you provided me with another one!

Yeah, I think both (A) defaulting to auto-expanded threads and (B) making them annoying to collapse make HN worse than it could be.

You tend to read the top-level thread because it's already there. And then it ends up being longer than you expected, or you're trapped in a subtree that just won't end, or you just want to see what other people are saying. And there's no good way to move past it.

Would be nice to click the indentation to collapse the thread anywhere inside the tree.
DaVinci_Resolve_17.4.6_Windows.zip is probably great but ... 2.5 GB! I was looking for something more lightweight, but still a good idea, I'll have a look.

I also tried mebm months ago, but it's not really mature. (Is there a version hosted somewhere? the domain mebm.xyz is no longer available)
I'm so excited about the idea of creating an anarchic healing network of former medical industry workers looking to create a new system oriented toward meeting all the needs, not just some & also not for profit.
I don't know if this is what you intend to imply, but it sounds like you're justifying the "all coffee makers are fire hazards" rule with an anecdote about a jimmy-rigged coffee maker (which never actually even caught fire, although I wouldn't necessarily be surprised if it would have done). Certainly permitting coffee makers increases the risk of fire above "no coffee makers", but both are in a completely different risk ballpark to "jimmy-rigged coffee makers". I also don't know if coffee makers are expressly forbidden in building codes or if it's just an over-zealous facilities manager policy (and perhaps in either case it's a legacy from a bygone era where these things caught fire more frequently than today).
Indeed. I follow the fighting game community and the pattern there seems to be:

Young prodigy climbs the ranks by playing ruthless winning strategies > he wins everything there is to win > he sees that the prize money isn't all that > he deprioritizes winning at all costs and emphasizes more on the fun side of things and being an ambassador for the game
True, high likelyhood there is _a_ Python but maybe not the Python your script needs. The situation is better nowadays but 2.7 persisted for a really long time.
Im currently working as a software architect for the government. The software we are developing is not beneficial to any citizen.
Additionally, there is no staff to review and merge improvements. And merges need to get tested by regression as well, so bringing it to production would be cumberstone.
Nonetheless, if we use another piece of software, we are preferring solutions where the code is open sourced. There needs to be enterprise support, though.
And most of our colleagues are also pushing to pay our consultancies to improve these pieces of software.

Our use cases with these solutions are kind of essential, so there are no possibilties to "give back".

Any federal agency is supposed to cover one aspect of the government services. Developing individual software, which cover national laws.

Also note that our software is almost 90% legacy code. And new solutions need to work around these quirks.
That's what happens when your executives vindictively outsource important software to the cheapest devshop they can find.
You end up with a product being built by a team that by default has no sense of ownership.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/boeing-s-...
https://www.industryweek.com/supply-chain/article/22027840/b...
You can't compete against "New York" or "London" on locality terms. They just have so many more people in a small area; they're an implicit link farm. To build something up that can challenge the literary mainstream, you've got to align on something else.

I do think something like this is already happening, but along genre lines. Twenty years ago, self-publishing was a last resort option for people who were mostly writing perma-slush. Ten years ago, it was an admissible strategy for certain genres but still considered an undesirable way to go for most authors. Five years ago, it had become a respectable alternative (in part, due to consolidation-induced dysfunction in trade publishing). Now, we're starting to see self-publishing take over literary fiction [1] as well.

This isn't necessary good news--to self-publishing properly is expensive, beyond what most people can afford; and traditional houses are now able to farm out their risk unto authors--so much as it is a mix of good and bad, but the scene is changing and I think the New York literati are already under 20% of peak relevance (midcentury). They confer a bit of prestige, but they don't actually get you read, and they certainly don't get you read deeply, which is what you want if you want your books to still be read 20 years from now.

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[1] I'll skip over the long, long debate over "What is literary fiction?" That would add 3 kilowords to this post, just to define terms.
I think the answer is somewhere in between. Looking at their growth shortly before implementing this, the conclusion of y ourreductionist statement would appear to be that smart people cause companies to eventually go bankrupt. Obviously, it's not as simple as cheap = good.
It is unreasonable because it is completely incorrect! Lower & wetter lows, and much much higher much wetter highs is what CO2-induced climate disruption has triggered. "It" would not have been one degree cooler, this is a completely invalid way of thinking about the predicament.
Ask HN: Do you feel overwhelmed by the amount of information?
In the pre-Internet era, when you were curious about tech X, you'd walk to a store, skim through a bunch of books, pick the one you liked the most, and take it home. The whole process of searching took less than an hour, and then you were committed, because back at home, it was the only material about X you had physically available. If something wasn't mentioned in the book, you couldn't Google it, tough luck. And reading that book was genuinely exciting, because with TV and offline games being the only alternatives, it was your strongest source of dopamine. You'd be picking it up instinctly, just like today you pick up a smartphone, because it was the most mysterious thing to explore within your reach.

These days, you type X into Google, and you get hit with an avalanche of tutorials, ebooks, video series, paid courses, online lectures, all available constantly and immediately. Then you fall into the rabbit hole of ratings, reviews, comments, forum discussions, opinions, endless comparisons of X vs Y vs Z, and so on, and so on. Right from the beginning you get analysis paralysis, FOMO, and anxiety. When you finally pick something up, the amount of material about any given topic, unconstrained by the volume of paper, seems impossible to get through in a single lifetime. Instead of peacefully exploring, it feels like you have to force-feed yourself just to get to the end of it. All of that while trying to ignore that video in your recommendations about the latest breaking news, or the other one promising to teach you quantum physics in 15 minutes.

Does anyone else feel like this?

Btw. you could say, just turn off the Internet and buy a book, but can you really pretend it doesn't exist? And how long can you stick to it?
Readable code that does not necessarily execute what it says does nobody any favors.
Early npm would regularly create directory trees so deep Windows couldn't delete them, and I was just using it to pull down LESS and friends.
This whole situation is such a mess. Disney World is clearly working great today. The company is happy since it has autonomy. Guests are happy because they get a great experience. The state is happy from all the jobs and tax revenue Disney (its largest employer) brings in.

Now DeSantis has to throw a wrench into all this because of his presidential aspirations. I'm (thankfully) not a resident of the state, but the prospect of long term economic loss over the ambitions of one man would make me furious.
Sure they can: "there's a nonzero chance of [behavior you've heard of somewhere in the behemoth] happening to me if I work here".
Why Being Anti-Science Is Now Part of Many Rural Americans’ Identity
Arch Linux – A FreeBSD user's experience
Note A) The foundation is honest and open about where the funds go and B) Diversity has been a recurring problem in the tech community.

Linux doesn't need help, but real people do. I love Linux. I don't mind a significant portion of the funds going to help minorities out. We have a quite stale echochamber here oftimes.
Unfortunately the Uber web app is disabled for my country (UK).
I completely agree that the incompetence of the organization was greater than the carelessness of my coworker. Regardless, he should not have plugged in a heating element without a switch.
For me full stack means someone that can deliver a complete product (ui, server side business logic, database, deployment) on its own.
Providing the link for those interested

Geniuses of the past were aristocratically tutored https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30698624
The only Lisp I know of is Emacs Lisp. I thought It was implementation of common lisp, but according to Wikipedia I am wrong.

So If primarily Linux user (sysadmin/devops/ occasional embedder programmer), wanted to learn lispy like language, that is useful which one would you pick?

Emacs one? some common lisp or scheme ?
I don't think it'll be technically possible to release code to the taxpayers and no one else.

It may be the case that code should be released publicly. But their reasoning does not seem applicable.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31185021
How so? Because of external contributors? Most software developed for the public sector is quite use-case specific (and the use-cases are often quite boring), so I don’t see that happening for most projects.
I wonder how this is handled inside apple? Are apple internal tools good or terrible?
Just encode and append the binary to the script:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/450614/is-there-a-w...
Everything has a flash point after a certain point x.x
Some companies: https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/ An interview: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/lisp-interview-kina/

Hint: all Quantum computing companies, Google for ITA Software, the NASA for James-Webb's planning and scheduling system, smaller companies (Kina), solo devs that find they are more productive than in Python (like myself).
In that content is the sometimes implicit, sometimes not-so-implicit understanding that efficiency is something positive. The very first thing a finance textbook will inform you of is that the market is efficient and that this is what allows it to function.

When in reality, efficiency and fragility are two sides of the same coin. You might not want to maximize your efficiency if you also want to be resilient.
This was effectively a heating element without a switch. Yes, the risk is low. Still stupid to do it.
Food service workers don't want to take food into a patients room?

My mom worked in food service for several years at a hospital and took the food into the rooms. Is this not the norm?
When I started with EDS in 1999 it was right after the dress code policy and such changed. I was given a new employee that specified the dress code (IIRC it was jacket whenever away from your desk, certain colors for shirt/tie/socks/shoes), but the only dress code at the time then was "business casual".

Doing onsite IT support for a big car company that meant khakis, a golf-type collared shirt, and boots. I was fine with that.
Space Force
thats the one, and it was great!
Many can't afford to not work due to debt/rent/child support payments. If you don't pay rent you lose the apartment and the weekend parenting time. Miss the child support payments which were being taken from paycheck and child support enforcement takes driver license and starts process to take the car that is in your name.

Many people don't have even a little optionality.
What I read here instead is that the American people is fine with deteriorating healthcare, and will not regulate the industry, nor burst into a walkout of their own.

I find it cheaper to fly back to Europe and pay out of pocket (uninsured) for anything non-trivial along with my flight ticket than pay for California services. Only two things I miss: a) nicely decorated clinics and nurses taking my vitals and information instead of the doctor b) heart attack or stroke chance while reading the bill.

(Of course, I have the advantage of having people to stay with. Perhaps, Airbnb will start offering health services that way soon.)

/s

Seriously, we need to start looking as health care for its value as health care and not a money grab; we pay enough taxes to have a hospital running without the fear of profitability I believe -- in California at least.
Wow, this is totally counter to my experience. On my team we explicitly frame PR review as an opportunity to pick up slack of other team members when necessary. We trust each other but, put simply, "shit happens" and people have bad days, miss things, aren't as familiar with parts of the code base as others, etc. PR review, even for experienced and senior engineers, is us admitting that humans are flawed and we should account for that in shipping software.

It has also been invaluable for onboarding junior engineers and giving them an avenue to contribute in a controlled manner that also allows us to each them in an asynchronously. They can review the notes we leave on their PRs and learn at their own pace.

I guess the alternative is to do pair programming 100% of the time, ditch PR review and commit directly to master? It's certainly an interesting proposal.
Farmers have known this a long time. There are specific protocols to follow when keeping a silo, to avoid explosions.
Mainly because the government has no expertise in the area, so you have to convince politicians (who have no expertise in the area) that it is important, against those who DO have funding and will fight it as being "insecure" and various other buzzwords.

Governments often don't even employ the armies of civil servants anymore, lots and lots of stuff is contracted out.

The way around this might be to convince some of the smaller "tech wannabe" states to enact something, and let it grow from there.
I can only speak about render.com as I use for a mix of 10 static websites / Go webapps + cloudflare for DNS and caching proxy.

It sounds prosaic but "it just works".

Specifically compared to Digital Ocean Apps (which I used before render):

* the dashboard UI is better designed and faster

* the builds and deployments happen faster

* similar price (to Digital Ocean, much cheaper than Heroku)

* similar capabilities (attached disks, hosted Postgres, hosted redis) but the velocity seems better i.e. render.com seems to implement features faster than DO

You would think that "well designed dashboard that displays instantly" would be a table stakes in an offering like that, but sadly it isn't.
Identities could be signed by a centralized authority, which would have the same desired effect as centralized hosting without the drawbacks.
Exactly. While Apple's special tools might be the best ones to use, It really seems like a way for Apple to frame stuff like iFixit tools in a bad light. Suddenly hair dryers and microwave beanbags are only for hackjob poor quality repairs now that Apple's fancy screen press or whatever is available to rent.

Reading through the comments sections on MacRumors posts pertaining to the toolkit, plenty of people are seemingly very eager to jump to disparaging iFixit, their tools, and any repair store that doesn't have Apple's fancy expensive tools just because they're not doing it "the right way".
"as swiftly as possible" means nothing. Unless the announcement specifies a time, it's just the opinion of a party with an obvious conflict of interest. Either they list explicit dates and times or it's a worthless waste of text that makes me respect and trust the party even less.
What I'm saying is that the case where you want to use less RAM for a bit field but you don't actually care if the compiler allocates less then an addressable line of RAM for that bit field (because it actually just might not) is pretty empty.

Edit: I know it's hard to read a whole sentence at once, but I made that same point directly up there too.