skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tho institutional knowledge can cut both ways - being indignant rather than resigned about the problems, and trying to fix things without knowing why all the prior attempts failed, and even being friendly to people that are politically outcast, are all great. Even just bringing novel solutions from outside industries or organizations to bear on problems is useful (tho experience is also a common cause for having a variety of solutions in ones tool box).
Thanks for posting a very factual and highly credible source, not sure how it supports your assertions though..
It's actually a fascinating experience being in the presence of a narcissist for a while. It truly is a different kernel/OS that their mind is running. But exactly -- everyone in such a situation does and will reach this conclusion eventually.
https://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/inside/pdp1-instructions.ht...
> Was it possible in assembly to directly address each of those register (without the need for MOV-golfing ?

Kind of. 12-bit address field in the instruction. It was an accumulator machine; the CPU only had one main register (as we use the term today) and all operations were between that implicit register and the address specified in memory.
Funny thing is, this feature (with MathJax) used to be available in 2010ish, but got removed back then as they did not want to have "unvetted" large libraries as a dependency.
I hate pathologizing, I whine a lot about it on HN, but for some people, narcissism is pathological and no amount of service towards others will give them perspective.

I once knew a self-described narcissist who was proud of the fact. At one point, doing volunteer work benefited them, possibly for college credit or something, I forget.

Their lesson from serving in a soup kitchen? "The homeless people didn't thank me enough, they're all so greedy and should be more thankful that I'm giving them food instead of doing something better with my time."
How is CICO nonsense...? Unless you are breaking the law of thermodynamics, there is no way you could gain more from what you eat. The best you can do is utilize 100% of the calorie intake. It's physically impossible to gain weight if you are burning for example 150% of the total calories intake! The fuel has to come from somewhere.

The variation lies in different utilization rate, the burn rate, and all other variables, but within the limit of PHYSICS.
Some more info about the PDP-1 asm here.
https://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/inside/pdp1-instructions.ht...
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It does not take much to run afoul of sanctions on a country that has total embargo status. Even normally legal counsel advice may be prohibited to US persons to provide ( sorry for odd syntax ). In other words, OP does not have to deal with anything beyond normal IT work and still could be restricted on what information he can provide.

Not to search too far, although that is a more exotic example, recently crypto guy got smacked for providing crypto speech ( classified as technical advice ) to DPRK(1).

(1)https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-citizen-who-conspired-assi...
As someone who has experienced similar feelings. (I average about 250k-300k lines of code a year)[Yes I know lines of code is a terrible measure of productivity, you don't need to @ me]

Take 1-2 months off to travel. If your management team isn't run by a bunch of morons this shouldn't be a big deal. You probably want to go somewhere and you should do it while you're still young. During this time, your team will probably get a bit better. The other plants can't grow if one is taking all the sunshine.

My other piece of advice is to find a new challenge. Start a new hobby and get the feeling of sucking at something again. If you want to stick to computers, there are a boundless number of topics that you can dig into. Only start a company if you feel like you can't imagine doing anything else with your time.
Thank you. I am finally empowered to build the API I've been planning to build for years!
It probably was spectacular once you knew how to work with it. Like the Atari Jaguar though, getting the performance needed out of such a highly parallel architecture took a lot of time and investment. With cross-platform games really taking off during that time, it was a strategic mistake IMO.
Predicting how bad it will get is possible, it's just apocalyptic thinking, which is frowned upon and dangerous. Like the whole paranoia bullshit thing about how paranoid people are inferior, or something I can't listen to such bullshit. Ties in nicely to making everyone buy and hold, value investors.

Well earlier this week I myself made a prediction this week there would two days were the market would fall, one down -2.9%, the other down -2.2%[1]. I told this to a friend who speculates. Telling him we should talk that day, Sunday, instead of later in the week, because after those shitstorm days he would have no fucking time. Just booked solid, bailing out shit from those storms.

I was wrong, there was one day down -4%, another down I think down -1%. So I was wrong. No one can predict how bad a market will get. At the same time, my speculator friend hasn't written back.

[1] Yeah I realize down -2.2% might be interpreted as a double negative. In other languages like French and Spanish, and African languages, negatives are emphasis. It's an English thing to say even number of negations is positive. Basically so the words in people's denials could be deformed into admissions. Making their defection defective. Obviously the way to express a market rise is "the stock market went up +2%." Note also the + symbol, very rarely seen.
I think the other thread from YC on what it means for startups is on point.

"Survival of startups", plural, is not the metric of relevance. The strong will survive. The ones who were/are running on fumes are gonna have a bad time.
> "might have"

Sure, fine. But we're seeing two modes of galaxy rotational physics. One mode, uncommon, that matches classical predictions. A second, more common, which matches only if we add a distribution of unseen matter. That's compelling.
I took the opposite approach around 2010. I was one of the survivors of the mass layoff and I didn’t think about looking for another job.

I did build up my savings, actively engage my network “just in case” and updated my resume.

Once the final hammer hit and we got acquired for our customer list and everyone got laid off. We went to lunch, hung out in the office after our layoffs and from looking at LinkedIn, everyone had a job within a month.

At each round of layoffs, people reached out to their network and had jobs quickly.

I met a recruiter for lunch that following Monday and had an offer Thursday.

No matter how your company is doing, you should always “keep your running shoes around your neck”.
Ask HN: How to navigate offers when interviewing with multiple companies?
I am currently in the position of interviewing for a few different companies. It's likely that my number 1 choice would be finishing the process later than a couple others which I would take, but only if rejected by the number 1 choice. Is it normal in this space to basically tell a company "I'm waiting on other options", without burning a bridge?
Ask HN: Have you quit Product / Project Management to become a Developer again?
How'd it go? Did you go back to being a PM?
I would recommend using an optimized permutations library/generator on the string start and end indices instead of directly manipulating the slices.
This synth got a mention (and a demo) on Late Night Linux just the other day: https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-177/
I use m4 to generate my ssh config files. Otherwise managing the complexity of hundreds of servers over multiple subdomains all with different requirements for access and authentication would be prohibitive, especially given that openssh's config format only has a cursory understanding of how to define patterns with regex or cidr.
anyone can register a .cat domain and you don't need it in their language, though it may be against their "rules"
Second this. Even if you don't remove the other features, removing the comments alone is a godsend.
Ask HN: Skills in This Tech Job Market?
I am seeing news that companies are putting in place hiring freezes. Some are laying people off, and others are cutting back on hiring.

In your opinion, what skills should one learn today to weather the storm and remain in demand in this challenging job market?
Laws aren't permanent either. Even the constitution was planned to be amended regularly.
420 enhance your calm
That's not much different than supplying other kinds of weapons (and anti-ship missiles are on the list anyway, if not from US then from UK).

Also everybody is mostly over nuclear threat I think. When a nuclear country keeps annexing land and threatens you with nukes if you object, you have two options -- keep giving up or call the bluff (or assassinate the leadership I guess).
It seems like Intel was in some ways like Microsoft. Their revenues were so high that they could survive spectacular failures and still keep going.
Anyone with that many extracurricular activities almost definition can't be a 10x developer. Producing books, papers, open source contributions, conference talks, contributing massively to Stack Overflow is doing a lot of things that aren't software development. As they say, those that can't do teach -- and you're describing the latter.
”Fun” fact: cigarette filters were made with asbestos.

> From 1952 to 1956, Lorillard Tobacco Company's Kent Micronite cigarettes were made with asbestos filters. The filters were advertised as increasing the experience and safety of smoking

https://www.mesothelioma.com/asbestos-exposure/products/asbe...
Anecdotally teslas account for 100% of the ADAS vehicles I’ve seen on the road so that seems like they are comparatively better
Haven't read the article yet, but I re-learned the language my family lost about 3 generations ago. Studied over there in university, returned to my ancestral village... felt like it filled in a missing piece. It feels a bit like a superpower now to be able to read news in another language (or two) in order to get a different perspective on the world.
Well, yeah, you are right. Sometimes I wonder why I bother at all. There's a sea of ignorance out there, deeply driven by ideological effects rather than science.

They are passionate about their beliefs while being almost 100% ignorant about the realities of what they choose to be so passionate and argumentative about. It's a really odd thing. A frustrating thing, for sure.

Science is about challenging every single assumption, not being cult members. And yet, these days, if you dare question the beliefs of the mob you are punished/cancelled for it and, at the extremes, suffer potentially serious real-life consequences (anything from losing your job to physical harm). This isn't a society in search of enlightenment and progress. Quite to the contrary.

Frankly, if I were a researcher in this field I would probably end-up having to say what they want me to say. Ethics aside, when your entire career, your wellbeing and that of your family depend on the crazies not destroying your life the choices are very limited indeed. I am always surprised that the cult members do not realize that this behavior is, ultimately, self-defeating.

History is marked by shifts in beliefs and centers of power. Which means that what someone is aligned with might not be the majority or "power" position in the future. At that moment in time you are going to wish you had extended the courtesy of promoting a civilized and open society to those who you chose to attack at the time simply because you could, because you were a part of a mob. As they say, what goes around, comes around. People tend to forget such simple ideas.

The current ideology surrounding climate change, saving the planet, renewable energy, etc. is putrid at best. It's as complete to a full-on delusion as one can get. And yet, the forces at play are so powerful that you'd lose your head if you stick out too far in opposition.

Simple example: In order to be able to afford building terawatts of solar and wind generation facilites we need oil, fuel, to be as cheap as dirt. Why? Because construction costs are influenced by the cost of oil and oil derivatives in a non trivial way. The more expensive oil becomes the less affordable it is to build the massive infrastructure improvements we are going to need in order to make any of this a reality. And yet, the ideological hatred for oil is causing all of our costs to double or triple, almost guaranteeing that we will not be able to make advancements at scale in these domains. Crazy. That's ideology for you.
Now thats power to make a politician feel nervous!
The Economist is cagey about the definition, but by context it works out to "America and its allies" (where "America" is "The United States of America".

See e.g., "How the West should respond to China’s search for foreign outposts" (https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/05/07/how-the-west-sh...), which uses the phrase "America and its allies" three times.

The US, NATO, NORAD, ANZUS, SEATO, and specific alliances such as the US-Japan alliance, Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and the Republic of Korea, and the like, would likely be included. In the context of Ukraine and this article, probably the Common Security and Defence Policy (CDSP) of the EU as well.
I started by scrolling straight to 418, to see how they handled that one.
In an era of belt-tightening, it's reasonable to expect that companies that can't even achieve a profit, including companies like Uber, will have to make changes and the people who have created lifestyles based on VC subsidies will have to face reality as well.
This is where I worry. My recollection of how the dot com crash unfolded was that first the bogus startups folded as expected. But they're part of a larger food chain. There were other b2b companies who had them as customers. And now they're out of money so they fold. Which affects other companies. And so on.
> Can you convince me that end-to-end connectivity is desirable in most cases? I certainly don't want ingress from the public Internet to devices on my home network in the general case […]

In the IPv4 case you have NAT and a firewall. If you have some software that you want others to connect to (communication, gaming, etc) you have to punch a whole through the firewall (via UPnP, PCP) and then the software has to use a bunch of protocols to figure out what the public IP address of your router is: see STUN, TURN, etc.

See "How NAT traversal works":

* https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30707711 (2022)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24241105 (2020)

With IPv6 you just have a firewall, which you punch a hole through when needed (UPnP, PCP) and you're done (because there's no futzing about with determining the network address). When the P2P session is done the whole is closed and you're protected again.

So if you have a 'home network', it cannot be reached from the Internet by default.

Note: you already have a device that's always on the Internet: your mobile phone. Lots of telcos are IPv6-only and you there's not NAT or firewall between it and the Internet.
> I don't want to be with someone who doesn't care to drink tap water

I don’t know if it’s ultimatum worthy, but this is a really curious behavior to me. Tap water in almost all of the US is healthy and fine. So not drinking tap water is as queer to me as not wearing any clothes that weren’t professionally cleaned.

I’ve heard from people that they don’t like the taste of tap water. But if one lives in an area for a few weeks the taste is acquired.
There’s something a bit ironic in the attitude of this essay. By the conclusion it seems to suggest the only thing one should do in a relationship is continually verify that it isn’t toxic and to find tools to protect oneself over all else…which is when you become the very thing the article decries.

America, and slowly global society thanks to the success and pervasiveness of American media and technology, has always been on a hyper-individualistic trend. Nearly all long-standing communal institutions have at best become shadows of their formers selves at this point or have pretty much dissolved entirely.

It’s the natural outcome of a society that idolizes individuals through rampant celebrity fixations and continually perpetuates the lie of meritocracy by permitting a wildly unbalanced late-stage capitalism to persist and prop up entrepreneur-celebrity types, which are pretty much the manifest fusion of America’s worst aspects: praising individuals because of their entertainment value and praising individuals because of their capital gains. Unfortunately, social media has devolved into a means for extending this possibility of celebrity to the masses. You too can become successful and wealthy not on any significant merit that actually improves society, but just by being a “fun” personality that posts “content” on social media. No need to be an inventor or do anything significant, everyone gets their little kingdom of “followers”.

In America, people who perform selfless, society-serving feats are generally sentenced to becoming footnotes in the public consciousness, maybe being remembered and celebrated for a holiday or so, while the rest of our mental space is occupied by nonsense pretty much 24/7.
To the breaker on your solar (or genset) the resistance of the neighborhood is gonna look indistinguishable from a short circuit so you'll need to at least disconnect from the grid if you want to power your house. From there your next problem is that solar panels don't handle being overloaded very well so you either need a ton of them ore batteries.
The critical difference is that EPIC (the architecture model of Itanium) essentially exposed CPU pipelines naked to the code - so you didn't just have to reorder instructions as optimizers do today, you also had to figure out changes that experience so far suggests is doable either in hw with runtime-only data, or in very tight numerical code. This includes compiler taking the place of branch predictor as well as OOOE scheduling, as well as no on-cpu instruction reordering or out of order retirement, and IIRC a branch mispredict was quite costly.

More over, EPIC pretty much meant thar you couldn't apply similar chip-level IPC improvements as you could elsewhere, at least originally.
The stock market is not the economy. If you are working for a money losing VC backed company and the VCs aren’t willing to keep throwing money at you, that’s because the VCs know startup funding is a Ponzi Scheme and they will be left holding the bag instead of being able to pawn their investment off onto the retail market.
I think GP means more calls outside this article, particularly in the U.S. where 1) rising food prices are a hot topic 2) we grow a LOT of corn.
1. Feed it to a grazing animal.
2. Eat that animal, or use its milk to make food.
Yeah it's hard to beat just running linux in a VM on a Mac, especially with Mac's new hardware. Framework's modularity is probably the most compelling alternate value proposition, though.
Elon's MAGA turn is not some heartfelt ideological evolution, it's just a shtick to get a new base of support and make himself look like the victim when TSLA's stock price implodes.

Where I will somewhat agree with your comment is that it's clear the media has carried water for Musk for many years, and that imperative seems to have lapsed. Why it's happening now, I'm not sure.
When i was new to Linux all i wanted was GUI versions of every CLI. I even dreamed of writing something that would turn man pages into GUIs
If I go three generations back (great-grandparents), I'd have to learn at least three languages other than english. It can be rewarding to learn this stuff, but it scales about as well as hyphenated last names.
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This post reminds me of the 'nice guy' asking why girls only seem to love jerks and how he can't get a date.

Except this is 'nice guy', workplace edition.

Just like you don't win at dating by being nice, you don't win at corporate wage slavery by being a hard working slave.

You lose by being a 'nice guy', you lose by 'working hard'. Get it? Because you'd be trying to do the wrong thing? Figure out what the right thing is, but you'll have to let go of your slave morality to get there - as long as you think lying is bad, while working hard to make someone else rich is good, you will be stuck.
Is there any kind of parallel for this kind of experience. I’ve always thought the rigidity and discipline of military life would suit me well. This is another reason why I would love to join up. I have a family and a career now though and joining up would be a selfish decision
Guess which web servers use(d) openssl...
I first ran into Cockpit when it was included on a Fedora Server install, and I've been really impressed! It's sleek, I've never had any major[1] issues with it, and I really appreciate the wide variety[2] of functionality that you can include, eg. cockpit-machines for Virtual Machines and the EOL[3] cockpit-zfs for all sorts of regular RAID activities.

My sole gripe is that, IIRC, it's really tied into a dependency on Systemd, so I can't use it on any of my current machines which run elogind-based distros like GuixSD or a typical Gentoo installation. I don't happen to have any systemd-based distros installed atm, and if I did, can't imagine I'd use Cockpit regularly unless I could use it everywhere-- but I do wish I could! Maybe the systemd functionality can be factored out and re-implemented, but I'm not sure if anyone's going to decide it's worth their time and effort.

[1]: I did have to set $TERM=linux for the web-shell to behave correctly, but am not convinced that's an issue with Cockpit itself.

[2]: https://cockpit-project.org/applications

[3]: https://github.com/optimans/cockpit-zfs-manager/commit/80190...
Why would they be motivated to do that?

If I were Ukraine, I would do all I could to exacerbate global food shortages.

If I were the United States, I might consider how massive aid packages interact with various incentives along these lines.

Supposedly the aid is help get around the sea blockade. Every cost is a negotiation.
The typical track is: First generation speaks their native language at home. Second generation is bilingual. Third generation is monolingual english. It sounds like the author tried to accelerate that process and it blew up in her face.

I do wonder if the author will teach her kids korean. I'm guessing she'll try, but I doubt they'll be as fluent as she is.
Github becomes a favorite option for research and academic people to work and collaborate their projects their. That is a reasonable move from github to make it more suitable for them. I know my group and several others are relying more and more on github as git host with other products used for collaboration.
Right? Check that one off the list (if this actually happened ... Russia cant get anything done right anymore so I dont see that grain making it anywhere).
Pretty much, if you can choose the parts of the company which are profitable and self sustaining. If given the choice, avoid profitable businesses that rely on other companies growth projections (aka ads)
The TI's serial I/O bus takes the prize, for me.
Caddy has always been open source. The source code has always been Apache licensed.
I don't find it fascinating, they're actually quite simplistic, you'll find that they see the world through the eyes of a selfish toddler, where they are perfect, everything is about them and anything they don't like is everyone else's fault. They'll act like the fact that their actions may have consequences that they don't like is somehow the gravest injustice in the world. It's both incredibly boring and exhausting at the same time.
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