skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don’t buy the treadmill, you don’t save money on the real estate you already own. It either goes unused or is used for a different purpose. Is this really the right way to think about the trade offs?
Two more alternatives to crev:

https://github.com/vouch-dev/vouch

https://github.com/mozilla/cargo-vet
They are clearly not and it’s daft to suggest they are. They are using an extreme example that should be easy to agree on to establish a principle or point that then once understood should be used to analyse the actual, less obvious, thing they are criticising.

Whether or not their point is a good one is a separate issue.
thank you, that's quite an interesting article. however i don't agree that the lessons of OS/2 apply to linux.

for one, linux does not have a single business interest driving it, so many of the OS/2 issues relating to IBM don't apply.

being a better windows than windows bolstered windows apps, but only killed OS/2 because native OS/2 was worse than native windows. that too does not apply to linux.

OS/2 died because IBM expected it to be backed by microsoft, and gave up when that didn't happen and they realised that it could not compete. linux never had this issue. linux won't loose its backing. linux never depended on being able to compete against windows. microsoft is now supporting linux more than it ever supported OS/2.

so at the worst, the status quo remains, and nothing changes. realistically though, wine will keep getting better, enabling some people to use it. wine will continue to be developed and supported. there is no risk of that ever stopping. there is no danger betting on wine, because once it works, it will continue to work indefinitely. at worst wine may fall behind implementing some new windows feature that new apps need, but it won't stop supporting what already runs.

wines user share is not going to go down. linux and wine development will not stop. unlike IBM we are able to play the long game here. there is nothing to loose. there are no risks to continue as we are.
> because any worldwide phenomenon has a large chance to use more energy than

It's not a worldwide phenomenon. There are orders of magnitude more Christmas lights and wash dryers than mining servers. And yet...
> Maybe he wants a discount but maybe he just doesn't want to buy a company if the real number is 20% fake instead of 5%.

That may be, but it's not part of the contract, and it's very unlikely to materially impact the future revenue of Twitter to a high enough degree that it would be a breach of the signed contract, so all he would be doing is assisting the dirty laundry of his new company in public.
But how does it spread?
Not shape, per se, they're the same shape for competitions (+/-).

It's the weight, weight distribution and rigidity.

A very heavy, stiff and top heavy blade would be very offensive, since it would generate a lot of speed but you'd be lacking in control.
I was a successful retail and enterprise salesperson earlier in my career. I also suffer from lifelong depression.

I did not fake "happy happy joy joy," but I also did not allow self absorption to inject my mood into my business. My model is that sales is a career that involves having structured communications.

That was a lifesaver for me when feeling depressed, because I could focus on the structure of what needed to be accomplished rather than the unstructured touchy-feely business of "getting along with people."

I suggest that "YMMV." Salespeople are not all the same, and some break preconceptions and stereotypes hard while being successful at what they do.
Bitcoin's resource use, comparable to a mid-size country: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/

Lacking viable uses outside of the criminal underworld and speculation, this is wasted energy. And it will only keep growing unless regulators step in.
But we’ve already established that we can do all that without the energy costs if we end up needing a trusted authority anyway. There’s zero need for proof of work if you’re going to trust a central authority to validate the transaction history. What’s the point of such an extremely costly base layer?
Very clever hiding techniques. Makes me wonder which state level actor(s) are behind this one?
We did an article about it 1 year ago!

https://blog.kalvad.com/ddos-on-demand-how-to-properly-load-...
no wonder my builds are all failing..
This is how I justify the purchase of guitars and bicycles.
I would say the wasteful proof-of-work securing upwards of $1M per hour is destructive - https://www.crypto51.app/.

It can be solved through Pigovian taxes on externalities (carbon emission mainly). But it should apply to all industry fairly, and our energy-industry lobbyists will hear none of it.
That is definitely unportable code that is not intended for anyone but developers to use.
Looks comfy, IMO.
I highly doubt the average carpenter in Botswana is a white dude :-)
> were only shut down when the plant reached end-of-life

Which one can be described this way? As far as I know all were and are plagued with problems (mainly liquid sodium leaks, which is not fun at all).

> fear of nuclear power, lobbying from energy companies (for whom traditional designs are more profitable, externalities be damned), and fear over nuclear proliferation

In most nations research were conducted for decades, this is difficult to explain if such hostility was real. Fear of nuclear power is weak here, as breeders reduce the amount of dangerous waste.

The most mature and advanced breeders are in Russia, and all those reason simply don't apply there as governments always were pro-nuclear, without any serious opposition, controlling energy companies, and not really afraid of proliferation because they always export according to their own strategic views.
ORA-600 just means an Oracle process crashed while executing a query. Could be a bug in the query optimizer or a dead disk controller. Just restoring a backup without understanding the root cause seems like setting up the next occurrence...
Oh god, I'm not insane. This is definitely not a new surveillance vector and there are clear techniques to overcome it without meaningfully interfering with signal or performance.
It also reminds me of some of the older copy-protection technologies which relied on a comparable idea of checking for expected variation at a level above the actual data stream.
> I'm leaning toward scripted.

This is (allegedly?) a segment from the British documentary series Equinox, from the episode "Malltime":

* https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15434612/

* https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264241/

* https://tftsarchive.gla.ac.uk/vod/maindisplay/?mid=7203&nid=...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox_(TV_programme)

So an actual person it seems.
> It's not even using more energy than Christmas lights or wash dryers

I can't come up with any reasonable measure by which Christmas lights use more energy than Bitcoin mining.
The reports that suggest this seem to extrapolate US figures across the world, which looks unrealistic. And they're old enough that they don't account for the switch to LEDs.

Even if a billion households had 50 strings of LED lights each and kept them lit 24/7 for all of December, they'd still use less energy than the annual usage of Bitcoin.
Update: Done.

Should be better now (added break-word instead of break-all to the styling).
> So any attempt at improving this mess is welcome in my book.

Already done, I think. :)

2. Not a big problem if the responsible programmer employs named captures and named subpatterns, and switches on extended mode and makes use of whitespace and comments. Like with any other programming environments, it's a matter of wanting to write readable code, and perhaps enforcing this through technical and social means.

3. I observe that Perl-style regex have become the de facto standard, in the sense that numerous programming languages in common use have adopted it, and preceding styles are marginalised to the point that any discussion about regex that does not mention the style makes the assumption of Perl-style.

The next points are actually implementation dependent. It is not fair to condemn regex as a whole just because some implementations fall short.

4. Perl has good debugging tools for regex.

5. This is easy to express in Perl.

6. Non-capturing grouping exists.

7. Named subpatterns exist, interpolation of variables containing regex values exists.
Netflix has a strange technical management philosophy: they have zero interest in any technology other than their existing streaming infrastructure and traditional media production tools. I've had conversations with members of their tech management, and their ability to investigate new technology directions (such as a Netflix Game Service, or a Netflix Online University) are absolutely zero. One of their identified sources of success is a narrow focus, and they push that commitment.
I really like the message composer in Claws Mail. It has proper line wrapping, meaning that you don’t get strange line breaks in quoted text when replying inline. I’ve never got that to work on Evolution and Thunderbird (which I haven’t used in a while, so maybe this has been fixed already).
Do you know if any linux distributions ever fixed it in their packages?
Cython's error messages are terrible. That's one reason is a great tool, but not a great language to use on its own.
>> also seem to be against the consequences of that speech, such as being "cancelled"

> Getting shot for saying the wrong thing is also just another consequence. Is that also acceptable to you? I'm sure it's not, but that would also mean your whole point is BS.

OP never said any consequences were acceptable; we have laws against shooting people so clearly such a consequence is proscribed in civil society.

> But the thing is, if you advocate for any personal consequences against the person expressing their opinion, then you're arguing directly against a human right.

By that logic, if someone says something racist and then loses friends or a job because of it, that violates their human rights. But surely we cannot force people to associate with someone who says abhorrent things without in turn violating their rights.
Sámi languages are split into many languages and dialects. Vast majority of the speakers are speaking Northern Sámi. But some have only a couple dozen speakers, and others are already extinct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1mi_languages#Classifica...

The story of the Sámi people is very similar to many other native people. No independence allowed, decades and/or centuries of cultural assimilation and powerlessness. Only now the governments are starting to throw a bone to the Sámi people by funding language nests, but there is a long way to go until the Sámi people are in control of their own future.

Interestingly, some Sámi people have taken on rapping to keep their languages alive. One of them being Amoc, who raps in Inari Sámi, which has around 400 speakers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdjwXx531Y4
> In software, it's usually impossible.

Lol I guess you have not seen some of the code I have trying to use reactive programming at all costs.

In all seriousness though, I think software is quite flexible. A lot of what programmers do is take two APIs which don’t quite go together and find a way to bridge the gap.

Even the word “shim” is borrowed from woodworking and used in programming as well.
Those seem expensive options. Why not take your phone out of your pocket more to check the time more? That would increase your use, and thus reduce the $/utility.
As a resident of post-Brexit Britain, I was horrified as I read this expecting it to have the opposite punchline and to turn into an anti-immigration joke.

For those that don't know, Polish (and other Eastern European) migration was a major issue raised by some in the Brexit campaign.
Cull your dependencies
hehehe Thank you very much! :-) Funny video. I'll check out that course. Thanks for the links.

edit: Took a lil while to work out that LTI system is Linear time-invariant system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_time-invariant_system
Probably very small part of twitter but fintwits (twits using Dolar signed stock symbols/crypto i.e. $tsla) has the highest bots.
It definitly is something to be proud of. Shows that business success is a marathon.
implying that a conversation between two people on a podcast is representative of the whole is a form of disinformation
Schwarzenegger is a governor, not a president. Elon could run against him today.
I think the documentation is referring to the point that rulex compile to regex, which are implicitly assumed to be portable across implementations.
To add - I don't think the issue is that something political is being discussed on HN. We talk politics all the time here, and even heated comments don't always get flagged or downvoted.

The issue here is that this is a fairly benign and interesting story, but this person has used it as an opportunity to air a grievance on something which, to be honest, doesn't seem related other than occurring in roughly the same area. Tangents are fine IMO if they're "if you liked that story, check this...", but if they're just trying to shoe-horn in a rant about some provocative issue that could be crossing the line
I had no processing rules.
Oh good! We finally moved past the doctor metaphor.

There is no standardized methodology in SE as of 2022 that has anything resembling actual science as it’s basis, or we would certainly have thrown out LC interview hazing by now.

Your comparison is inaccurate. You might as well rail against non-conservatory musicians who taught themselves to play.

For fields where software safety matters, THERE ARE ALREADY EXISTING LEGALLY ENFORCED CODING STANDARDS
Our ignorance about the experiences of animals will be a black stain on human legacy. There are still people who don’t think fish feel pain, or that cows don’t mourn when their calf is taken from them. Scallops eyesight is very interesting, but even the most common farm animals are still a complete mystery to the average person in a developed world.
Isn't it literally the same with Medium? People go to Medium posts from Google and co, and maybe subscribe to a specific Medium poster. Medium tries to do recommendations "since you've read X you might like Y" which are fine, but i doubt many people go to Medium.
Symbiote Deep-Dive: Analysis of a New, Nearly-Impossible-to-Detect Linux Threat

And disclosed in a blog post, with Nearly-Impossible-to-Read text.
Ralph Baer. A name every american schoolkid should know, conceived of the home console back in 1951! I recall with Quest for the Rings circa 1981, you had to initially purchase it at a Magnavox branded retail outlet with like the showroom full of jumbo cathode rays ;)

https://habr.com/ru/company/edison/blog/278447/ (russian language / русский язык)
This was the most deranged and illogical conspiracy theory that I heard in a while.
I think the point of that quote is less about error prone regexes and more about regexes not being the right tool for many parsing problems. A new regex language doesn't really tackle that right?

Maybe we need a new syntax generator language...
There are fast setups for e.g. Gmail that use oauth. Vivaldi, Evolution etc also use them
MiniZinc – a free and open-source constraint modeling language
> So it still needs an unpatched privilege excalation to do any real harm

https://xkcd.com/1200

All the important stuff you’d need to ruin someone’s life only needs their user account anyway, why is it such a relief if someone doesn’t get root access?
That only happens if you don't compare cost of use in both cases. If the upfront is $100 for the other option, you should calculate what the cost per use is at 10k/100k/1m/10m/whatever uses, and estimate which of those you think you'll hit and make the decision based on that .
The hack had happened a while ago. So it would have synced up for everyone. Sure, you might notice, but you very easily wouldn’t.
This is utterly astonishing to those who have been raised outside this race bubble. Gee, it's like you all find the slightest crack to start spitting "white vs others" rhetoric. It is extremely exhausting. It's 7.30 AM where I am at and I wanted to click on an interesting thread and this is the first comment.....
Strong disagree, I did sales (I would like to think successfully) for a long time as someone who struggled with depression and anxiety, there's far more to it than just having a fake smile plastered on; people like those who can empathize with them, understand their needs, etc. and sometimes a no-bs straightforward approach talking pros and cons directly instead of a fake used-car salesmanesque over the top approach is far more effective.
That's my exact question. This requires getting a .so on a device, and setting an environment variable for all users. The malware itself isn't too interesting, however clever they managed to hide it, but how they actually got it on the computers is.
Wouldn't mind trying this out of curiosity. I've got a SDR and line of sight of a busy pathway.

But don't have access to matlab...
I’m also curious to know. Preview is pretty much the only tool I really miss whenever a switch from Mac to Linux for a while, and it works really well for annotating and basic editing (moving pages around)…
The core product is a 280-character buffer.

The hypothesis is that sampling those buffers at scale should be enough to detect significant bot activity on the platform, without needing any additional metadata.

That may very well be the case, so why the snide?
Bitcoin is not "inherently apolitical"; it encodes several political ideas, including that unregulated capitalism is a good thinng and the environment is not worth worrying about. There's also some more specific ones, even if you generally agree with those; that a deflationary currency is a good thing, for example.

"Apolitical" in this context seems to mean "I agree with its politics".
Exactly. The BOM cost of a NAS with 3 2TB needs to be under $100. Even if we could somehow have 2TB 2.5" HDD for $30 BOM, three of them would have been $90.
And an HTTP server.
There are very "pretty" Hugo themes out there, and the setup is usually extremely straightforward.

But in general the UX is great. There's some terminology to learn if you want to get really deep, but it strikes a great balance, imho, between usability and customisability.
I’ve kind of had it up to here with the deliberate proposal echoed by many folks here that Leetcode interview hazing has anything to do with either software quality or the safety of safety critical systems.

Safety critical systems already have legally defined coding standards.
No really.

The former notion is just not worth defending, but this thread will continue to grow, regardless
I use this a lot! Also I love the youtube channel that they have Tailwind labs, as a non-css person I appreciate how easy my life is with Tailwind.
You are aware of Control-Command-Space, right?
You make it sound as if regex don't have this ability, but they already do.
..and Turky will start again
shipping refugees from its "sovereign" territory. This clawn show is very expensive for both sides. Make a deal!
My point is that this is an apples and oranges comparison. An appropriate comparison would be between banning terrorism and banning sending cryptocurrency to enemy governments. Thankfully both are already banned so there's no need to debate on this.
> the annual worldwide energy usage of blockchain technology is roughly equal to the annual US energy waste from machines plugged in while in standby mode. It is also significantly lower than the annual worldwide usage of Christmas lights, and wash dryers.

... and it benefits much, much fewer people.

That's analogous to the pro-air-travel disinformation argument: "air travel is only 2% of CO2 emissions". It is only so because air travel is only adopted by a small minority of people: that doesn't stop it from being insanely carbon-intensive.
> Tell me any library which can only be built for Python?

Are you really making the "every programming language is Turing-computable" argument?

All your talk of features is missing an important point - Python is one of the few languages designed with insight from how to develop a programming language for non-programmers. In Python's case, experience drawn from ABC.

These are people for whom "public class java { public static void" is a barrier to entry.

For whom diagnosing segfaults is arcane knowledge.

And for whom hygienic macros sounds like a bathroom product.

I like Python because it's a language that my colleagues - most of whom are not software developers but who do some programming for their research - can productively use. Even with all the complexity of modern Python.

So no, there are zero features in Python which don't exist in other programming languages.

And it doesn't matter.

What better options do you suggest to a grad student in chemistry, biology, or physics?
Physics is a branch of maths dealing with environmental and/or chemical properties.

Those properties could be constants or additional formulas in their own right, just like a computer program in many ways.
So what? If the pollution is the problem, government should tax the externalities through a Pigovian tax.

In the EU we have a functioning carbon cap, and as such mining is less profitable here.

https://ec.europa.eu/clima/eu-action/eu-emissions-trading-sy...

But the US will hear none of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MondapIjAAM
Next we need a TailwindCSS CSSZenGarden demo.
> Of course, if all you've ever known is sub-par tools, then you won't see a problem.

Yeah, sure. What makes you think that I haven't used a wide variety of programming languages covering every paradigm from unstructured imperative to procedural to functional (pure and impure) to OOP to relational to logic to...?

When I am amused at the anger people have about their idealized mental model of what should matter
not being what actual does matter most to practical utility, I’m not speaking from ignorance of the different features of programming languages and the theoretical and practical benefits they bring. I am speaking from four decades of programming and understanding all that, as well as the human and social side of the activity.
There was a post here recently where a Netflix employee was proudly showing off their log processing system. Which was collecting the equivalent of nearly 2 MB of logs per minute of user streaming time.

In my mind, that's just bonkers, and no amount of handwaving could justify it.
I had zero exposure to TikTok until about 60 days or so. I started seeing a lot of content from TikTok on my regular feeds, like YouTube and a few other media sites.
I don't have any social media accounts other than this one and YouTube, so it wasnt hard to stay away from it all, but now even on my news channels I see 'everything' TikTok content seeping in, and I have to say, I really hope the content I'm seeing is a curated list of what goes on in that place because its horrendous.
They say 4chan is the cesspool of the internet but by God... I mean, I can't even begin to address all the mental issues that seem to be glorified by the platform. To these standards even a /b/ post might seem academic in nature.
Poppy quarter led to spy coin warnings (2007)
There is no backing out penalty of $1B, as there is no option of backing out. That penalty is only for extreme cases that cause the deal to fall through, such as a discovery of massive fraud or the financing falling through entirely (say, Tesla going bankrupt tomorrow). I those cases, Mush would stop owing $44B and onyl owe $1B instead to Twitter's shareholders.

Unless and until such a thing happens, he owes them ~$44B.
What I do not understand is why Dutch is the only language that has two words for "family", one describing the parents and their children (gezin) and the other all relatives (family).

Please proof me wrong.