skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You are leaving out the vacuum created by the regulators.

One phase I’ve heard in other situations is that “bad cases make bad law”[0]. IANAL, but my understanding of this is that because the US is a common law system where precedent influences future outcomes, legal and regulatory bodies are hesitant to take legal action unless the outcome is likely to be in their favor. Loosing cases end up creating legal precedent against the power of the regulatory body.

In a greenfield areas where there there is no precedent to point to regulatory agencies end up being served to wait until there is a clear and obvious case to be made to cement their authority. If the SEC were to have taken aggressive action again kinda scammy ICOs early on, it’s possible they could have lost legal action, and hamper their ability to regulate in the future. Waiting for a scam obvious enough for them to win in court gives them legal precedent to successfully pursue more actions in the future.

[0] This came up a often on the podcast “All the Presidents’ Lawyers” with Ken White, generally when discussing how and why the DOJ does things.
Same, and I've never understood why Debian installs insist on pulling exim into my life.

I used to use qmail for ages. Actually, one of my first paid dev jobs was as a contractor for a small company that supported qmail/vpopmail back in the shared hosting heydays.

Lately I just run postfix in a container and hope for the best. qmail just became too obscure and borderline abandoned, and I got tired of having to constantly patch it for modern features. It was starting to feel again like running Apache+SSL before SSL was an actual supported feature; almost certainly full of exploitable bugs introduced by hacked-in modernities.
> It could be any DE, even a newly created one.

Like I said earlier,

> but I don't appreciate when people call everything else besides GNOME (or *anything really*) as fragmentation.

The idea of "one agreed upon blessed way of doing things" implies that a DE can be made to work for everyone, which is a false assumption. Just because Windows and Mac follow this philosophy, doesn't mean that it's right. Diversity and independence of thought isn't irrelevant fragmentation.
The scissor statement but it’s Go vs Rust.
I'm guessing regulatory frameworks and a more competitive market in the US.

It's surreal to me the rates you can get locked in for 25 years in the US. Seems like the lender is taking a lot of risk there. When I first got my mortgage in Canada RBC offered me something like ~2% fixed on a 5 year term or ~8% fixed for a 25 year term. I can't imagine what their 25 year term rate is right now.
There was a site I saw on HN once that made consumer reviews based around a cost by lifetime of use metric. I found it quite interesting.

I’m not sure if it was usable life, or how long the user kept it.

Somethings don’t break, they’re just not very good, and it makes sense to replace them with a more useful version. Most things just break tho.
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31685776
Embedded C + Assembly + datasheet + custom startup code + custom dev board --> became Adruino

HDL, Logic Gates, State machines + custom startup code + blah blah blah --> became ???

GP is looking for "???" to materialize.
1b) Bob actually has a bit of self-awareness, nothing happens.

1c) Bob gets annoyed and tries to leave, but all the offers aren't really better.
None of that is reason or justification for illegally dumping it in the ocean, specifically along the coast of one of the most populous cities in the country.
NASA launches study of UFOs despite ‘reputational risk
It is all the examples have in common: Being women.

That is all. Questionably relevant.
Mac-using devs are mostly Linux-using devs who prefer a non-free distro ;)
From what I understand, Fossil was designed for single developers or small teams where all developers are trusted to push directly to the trunk. In other words, the model used by sqlite (the same person made both).

It's probably possible to set up a pull/merge request workflow in fossil, but that isn't what it was designed for
> we reveal that between launch (January 3rd, 2009), and when the price reached $1 (February 9th, 2011), most bitcoin was mined by only sixty-four agents.

So who can work out which addresses were mine?
I don't think we're disagreeing? Musk doesn't have the money cash in hand, so the default position is "he doesn't have financing". The most he can become personally liable for I believe is the $1 billion fee.
The main reason why work is worse than school is that by controlling your income and health insurance it gains control over whether you will continue to have food and shelter, and potentially whether you survive an illness.

That control gives supervisors immense (and intoxicating) power because of the constant implicit (and devastating) threat of taking away your livelihood.

Even worse is graduate school, where supervisors combine the role of teacher/academic supervisor and boss/work supervisor. It's sort of the worst of both worlds - still hard to change schools or teachers, but with the added terror of the workplace.
Get a copy of the Chinese book - I think it's called the Barefoot Doctor.
That is awesome. I'm glad I don't have to use it as a GUI and that I can have all those options nicely tucked away until I need to look something up that I haven't memorized from frequent usage yet.
A fun read. But seriously let’s stop the whole “developers are ugly/smelly/not social” theme. The developers I have worked with for 30+ years were mostly smart, married or with partners, looked after themselves, and not more ugly that the general population. I have met a few (less than a handful) that were not. But they were very much the exception to the rule.
It's different for me because I know that computers are knowable because they were built by people, and lots of people (including me) know how they work. I believe dogs are knowable too because I believe in science, but nobody really knows (yet) how dogs work at anything close to the same level of detail.

Lets take something I know nothing about: Industrial chemistry. That still seems less mysterious to me than dogs, because I know that I could find books about industrial chemistry at whatever level of detail I wanted. But dogs--not so much, beyond a rather superficial level.
Basically all the major ones. This is the current list:

From Windows:

- MSVC: x64, x86, arm64, arm

- LLVM/Clang: (same as MSVC)

- MinGW: x86_64, i686, any version of GCC & Clang from MSYS2

- Intel LLVM (mostly experimental)

- No WSL support yet, although I'm not sure what does and doesn't work with it yet.

From MacOS:

- Apple Clang: arm64, x86_64, universal binaries

- GCC from Homebrew: x86_64

- LLVM from Homebrew: x86_64

- Intel Compiler Classic for x86_64

From Linux:

- GCC & Clang: x86_64, i686, arm-none-linux, arm-linux-gnueabihf, x86_64-w64-mingw32, i686-w64-mingw32

There may be others that work on Linux, although I haven't tested them. As for compiler versions:

VS 2017+
LLVM 12+ (earlier ones might work)
GCC/MinGW 7.3+, MinGW 4.8.1
If you take a "social good higher good" outcome.. maybe your role in the cycle was to stockpile, not to survive? Dystopia for the individual might still be net beneficial for the species.

I'd hope not, but use value remains, even if you dont? Fictional gangs are asshats and waste it but actual Gangs have distorted rules and hierarchy and sometimes preserve things, not waste them: those Harley spares are hard to find. The quartermaster farms them out judiciously.
Except it's not banned in much of the world and was overused for decades after the publishing of Silent Spring, which led to widespread resistance in mosquitos. With agriculture use finally banned in the 90s, it can be used far more effectively in a targeted fashion, because for all its effectiveness, it's still nasty nasty stuff.
I don't have time to try to convince Congress about privacy. But Tim does - in fact he recently wrote a letter in hopes that it'll add some weight to the cause. Whats wrong with relying on people who have the means to get shit done if they're clearly capable and willing?
Yes. If you don't have mutual defense, bandits will clean you out and probably murder you unless you manage to hire the Seven Samurai.
That might be true in some cases but it is not true in general. Most great software has been worked on by the same developers for many years.
The problem of safely transferring money digitally between strangers without an intermediary is hard.

What if all the energy, talent, hard work had gone directly into finding practical scalable tools for that?
"The needs of the narrative outweigh the needs of the factual" sounds like a spock-kirk dialogue in the high rad chamber scene
> I understood the intention of the movie, but I'm also in the camp that thinks engineering ourselves is the way forward, and a given. Genetic and silicon advances have a real potential to make us super/transhuman and immortal.

Techno-optimism hasn't really panned out as promised.

And I really doubt it will be "us." If trans-humanism pans out (though I suspect it's bunk), we'll be the Homo erectus populations to their Homo sapiens.

> This argument could have been made about early computers as well. But time and its economies of scale come into play. We can't limit our species based on shortsighted fairness, there's a longer view to take.

Capital got automation from computers, the plebs got distraction boxes that push ads.
To learn, sure. Just write it yourself then.

To use day by day? No way. It's like running your car with a cross-section cut out. Fun to look at! Might work! Might break when you stick your finger in a moving part.
I mean, it's been like months of random press about the M1 despite there being anything special other than , _Apple_ so that's basically what you get when your marketing is super effective.
A customer of mine has two different Dockerfiles, one for Intel and one for M1. Deploys are Intel and are built on a CI server. No image gets out of our laptops.
Given my own personal anecdote that I wrote about earlier in the thread, how much easier do you think it was for me “to practice” when I had a parent who not only was high school math teacher, but also volunteered to do SAT tutorials and administered the test than someone who had parents who didn’t even go to college? Yes, she made sure that I didn’t take the test in the room she was monitoring.

Let’s also look at the other end and get rid of legacy admissions.
Eg Apache has only a ~250 mile range, (Gripen and F-16 are 2,000+) so it may not be feasible to intercept with the helicopter.
If you have JS disabled, you might have missed the photos and videos in the article showing corroded punctured barrels in the ocean. However the text of the article does mention that tests show dangerously high levels of DDT near the leaking barrels (actually orders of magnitude above the "dangerous" threshold)
> I had asked the team at Tuxedo how the plans are with the source code to their operating system going public, but I haven’t heard back from them. I’ll update this review if/when I get a response.

So they're basing it on OSS, and aren't even OSS-ing their own bit in turn? WTF? :(

Hard pass.
I never read "Lean In," but one of my favorite blog posts of all time[1] did a truly epic takedown of it, exposing it as a thinly-veiled manifesto for white-collar women to become miserable underpaid status-chasing workaholics.

[1] https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/03/dont_hate_her_becaus...
The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a company (2016) [pdf]
When was the last gas car commercially available that didn’t run without software involved?

As a practical matter I don’t see how what you wrote applies.
I’ve used it to make a complex game with a big board, jumbo-sized cards, special surface treatments, lots of bits, and a nice box. Cost of materials was about $80 IIRC. (It’s a niche simulation game that I sell for $500 + training, so price wasn’t really an issue.)

Quality was excellent. Somebody who’s more price-conscious could certainly make a good game for much less. I’d certainly recommend them for people interested in making small print runs.
A Bolt engineer borrowed $100k to exercise his options, then he got laid off
What backdues? They were neutral, there was no treaty.

> "Depend implicitly"

That is your opinion. These countries have capable armies.

US benefits from NATO in a different way; it gets unprecedented level of access and control of airspace and land. It is a military and political power benefit, much more precious than some joke money. US can print all the money it needs, since US dollar is reserve currency.
> contains approximately 2,100 unique Go services (and growing)

How is that possible and what do they do???
In the US the banks write the loans and offload them to Fannie and Freddie. It’s essentially a government back stop.
non-free distro and nice trackpad :)
But that equilibrium could be a lethal temperature.
GitHub Open Sources Entitlements IAM
25? No one does 25. You’re locked in for 30.
As much as I love FOSS, Element isn’t even close to Discord. Discord has one click streaming, easy to understand voice rooms, etc. You don’t have to sort out hosting, and the overall UI experience is sharper and feels more polished. Visually Element is nice, but it has some clunk to it.
Thanks, didn't realise that'd been made illegal as well. eg:

https://www.tga.gov.au/blogs/tga-topics/nicotine-vaping-laws...

Good. :)
.....wait, we've known this for 20 years
Jack Dorsey’s TBD Announces Web 3 Competitor: Web 5
Welcome to the Great Covid Reinfection
Fiber everywhere is expensive enough that it won't happen instantly.

Low latency DOCSIS is starting to be deployed, though-- which over the next 2-3 years will really chip away at the problem (in addition to fiber rollouts, etc, helping).
Yes. And as long as I am not staying too much time in the US. One week for meeting the team is ok. 3 months not ok, you need a work visa.

Also, I am a contractor. If they wanted to hire me as a full time employee with typical benefits they would have to establish a branch here.
The problem with software engineering is not technical complexity. The problem with software engineering is the complexity of humans and the real world. Have you ever worked on software that needs to encode 30+ years of government and employee/union agreements into rules that can be used to automatically decide how much a specific employee needs to be paid overtime in a given month? If you had you would know that no amount of tooling or software will make that problem simple.
Symbolics XL1200 Lisp Machine – Demo and Discussion
Blockchain has a purpose: consensus without trust.

Central banks are institutions that are trusted and cooperate with trusted institutions.

In general as long as you have a mechanism to establish trust-based consensus by relying on people or a government there is really no advantage by using a blockhain and a huge number of disadvantages.
Computer Networks by Tanenbaum. Boring name but this is like the bible for computer networking.
> I would prefer app stores be similar to health warnings on cigarette packets, because predatory data collection and billing practices are so entrenched.

yes, exactly

but on the other hand (and just a guess) but likely "conversion rates" were lower with the labels.... so off they go
It's really funny how hard everyone is pushing the "prices won't go down" line.

They might not, it's totally possible -- but every article about the housing slowdown I've seen in the last three months all have virtually word-for-word the same disclaimer about prices not going down. It's really weird and feels like pushed messaging.
Its quite similar, I agree! Unfortunately not the same story. I appreciate it nonetheless!
VLC doesn't use ffmpeg, it uses libavcodec.
Substack supports auto-discovery which is the "best" way to do it. You can just paste article URLs into your feed reader and it will find the feed for you.

Of course this was a lot better when browsers had built-in indicators that a feed was available. But for those "in the know" there are extensions which restore this functionality.
> Perhaps it's just especially effective in its organization and ordering of fundamentals.

This is it. It’s not going to tell you some deep technical details about how modern processors work, but it’s an extremely well-written introduction to low-level computer concepts that any moderately intelligent person can follow with no prior specialist knowledge, which is rare among nonfiction books. But still, it’s a popular science book, not a thorough technical treatise.

Also, probably a lot of people read it before university. I read it at age 16 or so and learned basically my entire framework for understanding what a computer is and does. I doubt someone with a rigorous computer engineering degree under their belt would learn anything specific, but it’s still a fantastic piece of writing and you might enjoy seeing a good explanation from first principles of how everything fits together.
> Hrm. So what? How is that different from the uneven distribution of money/wealth/power/medicine/upbringing/private schools/university/"connectedness" today?

Vague resemblance does not an equivalency make.

Right now, there may be an unequal distribution of wealth, etc.; but the wealthy by and large aren't actually better models of human. Genetic engineering has the potential to ossify that (both morally via "meritocracy" and physically) with biological superiority. It stops being Homo sapiens vs Homo sapiens, and becomes something more like Homo erectus vs Homo sapiens.
My biggest problem with Mastodon is it’s psychotic user base.
> The over-prioritization of certain products, which has led to a lack of focus on other important issues like infrastructure

It comes down to someone's judgement call. It's usually not possible to quantify if "certain products" should be prioritized over "other important issues" or vice versa. Particularly so for someone who does not have the full picture.

> Not being able to output any higher or better quality products and services despite aggressively hiring more employees

Is it objective or just an opinion? If objective, how is it measured?

> Why fluff and not actionable in this case?

Because
"Someone anonymous said some of you were generally apathetic and sometimes condescending".
"Well, can you give specific examples? No? Then it's fluff and not actionable".

The petition is immature and maybe 'condescending attitude' towards petitioner is deserved.
I tried

a green bowl
a green bowl with an apple
a green bowl with an apple inside
a banana in a bowl

the only one that seemed correct was "a green bowl", all of the others were very different.
India's 3,000-year-old martial art still practiced today [video]
Being from a place where showy displays of wealth are expected, one of the things I like about Americans is that such displays are considered distasteful. My friend got married recently and despite knowing his fiancé for years it wasn’t until the wedding I realized her dad was worth half a billion dollars. Even then the wedding was very low key.
Now Even NASA Wants to Talk About UFOs
If you're in a situation where resilience against odd browser quirks matters, you probably shouldn't be writing HTML like this anyway. This style is fine for writing HTML for a blog. For any kind of application, it would be a nightmare to try to maintain.

Every time the author introduced a shorthand, they had to clarify that it works only in specific situations. The result of those qualifiers is that you will have to have some code written in the more verbose style anyway. Context switching between those styles and having to decide whether the shorthand works in any given case just isn't worth it on a large project that you'll be making changes to over time.
For anyone curious I believe the statistical method referred to in the last segment is annealing[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing
Oof:

> When your primary, present-tense, validated use case is regulation evasion, you do not win a special regulatory pass.

Very well thought-out and written
It would be fantastic. Unfortunately all of the better ones I have found are reader-dependant.
I already did, thank you :) but yes, thanks for explaining to everyone else.
This is my impression as well. Social media and newsletters.
Centralization of people into cities led to many, many, many historical advancements in arts and sciences.

Decentralization of cities - competition - sometimes helps even more, but the societies that never centralized never got as far. (And that decentralization can backfire sometimes too, e.g. military competition instead of economic.)
Without crypto incentives how will users be drawn to this architecture?
You can only do 30 years in Canada if you put 20% down. The agency that underwrite default insurance will only insure up-to 25 year mortgages.
It's not funny anymore. Countries are their own domains, with their own laws, including copyright laws, and each legal system has (mostly) decided what the Internet is and is not. Gone are the days of 1997 when the Internet was utterly lawless. (DMCA was 1998). Now, we're lucky ISPs don't charge long distance fees for accessing foreign websites.
Intel Mac -> M1 Mac this week.

Almost perfect, but I did switch development tools from Xcode/Swift/SwiftUI -> VSCode/Dart/Flutter at the same time. So I am having a lot of problems! But nothing mush unexpected.

I copied my system over with timemachine. I think that a lot of binaries got copied that I should reinstall.

> none of our pipelines yet do multi-arch Docker builds, so everything we have is heavily x86-64 oriented

Another data point for the fundamental principal: Portability matters
I mainly work with VSCode both professionally and for personal projects, mainly for:

* Copilot (personal projects only)
* Debugger
* Remote sessions
* Workspaces
* GitLens
* Postgres client
* Rest client

But I do use Sublime Text 4 as a buffer for temporary files. (ST4 keeps them even after restarting it) AND because sublime text works at 144hz refresh rate.
I’m not claiming there are no downsides to DRM — the fact that it makes it hard or impossible to copy things one has legitimately purchased is clearly a negative. However, I think making piracy more difficult is valuable and more socially important than the downsides.

In an ideal world we would subsidize content consumption for those who can’t afford it (we already do this via public libraries, and public funding of content creation in many countries, but we should do more) and also more strictly enforce laws against piracy by shutting down torrent trackers. Then we wouldn’t need DRM. But until this pipe dream comes true, I think DRM is valuable.
Oh, I saw $500/transaction.

Thought that was the limit
They have a responsibility to their owners to pay enough to be successful - but the thresholds for "mass company-ending resignations" vs "complaining on the internet" are very far apart.
A lot of jobs pay in social status… whether you’re a university professor, or a destroyer captain, an airline pilot, or even something really highly-compensated like a doctor, a large part of the compensation is that even complete strangers clearly understand how you fit into society. They will respect you beyond what you get from mere salary.
Difference between WINVER, _WIN32_WINNT, _WIN32_WINDOWS, and _WIN32_IE (2007)
Sometimes I think that those who want humanity to be forced to return to subsistence farming should get their way.

They'd learn so much about what life actually is.

But I don't actually want to live in that world, because I know enough to hope it never returns.