skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This says a lot about their engineering culture. There’s no way I’d just casually take on the liability of having root privileges in the software I’m shipping to customers if it can be avoided. Them not caring is a huge red flag imho.
facebook needs employees far more than the employees need facebook, most of them could probably get a job in another megacorp pretty easily. you don't want to get the reputation of being a "petty bullshit" place to work.
The degradation is speculation on my part. I haven't ever experienced it.

Yes, the 30 fps rate is for small updates. A full screen update (scrolling) is commonly less than ~200 ms, and there are still ways to bring that number down.

I agree, the Libra 2 is great :) Try koreader, it's noticeably faster than the stock reader application.
For context, I daily-drive neovim and:

> Live preview rendered markdown as you edit

I use a plugin for that.

> Work on Jupyter notebooks and actually run them

I use a "repl plugin" for that, and I actually prefer the experience over Jupyter a lot! (even discounting the vim keymaps).

> Live preview SVG images being edited/generated by code.

Now that is something I didn't even consider. There's probably a plugin for that and I'll look into it lol.

I've never needed to do the rest, but I can imagine how helpful those features would be If I did.

To be clear, setting up even the two plugins above was not easy (in that, I probably spent about 2 hours between the two), so I think this comparison, by itself, actually favors VSCode.
the history of peasant rebellion is proof that people were not compliant
Wait till you have kids. Or rather: folks who don't have kids yet, recognize that when you do you pretty much lose your weekends to doing things with them. Especially so when you have more than one. I'm not saying this is a bad thing, but it does seem to be a thing that people don't really appreciate until they're knee deep in it.

This often leads to the sort of deep tiredness described in this post for introverted parents.
Fair points. Didn't know about the gov land sales. Honestly I presumed I was going to hear "rent controls!"
I don't mind having multiple/recurring threads on some topics. They serve different purposes: my main goal was to raise awareness on an event that seemed neglected by my country's newspapers. Then, if people catch up on the issue, it will be easier to engage in follow-up discussions when we get more data. I also enjoy to read the speculations and flow of thoughts of posters from different backgrounds.
You are welcome to throw money in the garbage when you waste carbon.

No need for the government to tax you for you to limit your personal greed that's wreaking havoc on the climate.
In France the price of electricity is incredibly low so of course power was very subsidized.

However the investment in nuclear in France still payed of big time. Consider a alternative solution where you use coal power, the only realistic alternative at the time.

Coal is absolutely horrible for air quality and incredibly destructive to the environment.

Any rational person would say it a huge advantage for a country to have heavily invested in nuclear.

The real failure of France is not having continued the investment in nuclear, their failure is that they stopped investing and advancing technology in 1990s.

> And who talkes about the real environmental (even CO2) cost to even produce a fuel rod?

Every single end to end analysis shows that CO2 of nuclear is tiny.
Nothing. The problem is E2E UI tests are always going to be flaky.

That’s why many recommend unit tests or pseudo E2E tests that save a copy of an API response. Unfortunately this advice is rarely followed.
The page isn’t loading right now for me.

But if it’s the same manual I had for that same printer, it was hysterical. For example at one point they showed how to generate arbitrary graphics for the 7 (I think) pin head by encoding as binary. Then just before the next section the manual said something like “now before you run off to forge a copy of the Mona Lisa…”
Awesome! Great work. Reminds me of Landing Confirmed on android on which I have extensive flight experience, but this particular tuning of the physics feels more difficult.

Is the acceleration constant or does it dependent on fuel remaining like real rockets?
Encode random bitstrings as pseudo-random poems
This is a pretty approachable intro to manipulating the heap and subsequently exploiting it. On their iOS device they were using a jailbreak, presumably to circumvent code signing requirements, but I assume you could do the same thing on any modern Mac - an M1/2 system for consistency, but I would expect similar behavior for the allocator on an Intel Mac.
There is a lot of room to play with there, I code monochrome on colour displays too.

Try experimenting with font weight, italics, and combinations. I find that less distracting.
Ask HN: How do you track meeting related action items and decisions
How do you track outcomes from meetings? Esp. if you run multiple recurring meetings (committee meetings, team meetings etc.) where there are multiple decisions or action items.
I wont work on windows. I suspect a bunch of the industry feels the same way.
(Those are quotes from the Tao Te Ching, IIRC.)
No, this is what people who are too deep into crypto tell themselves and each other in order to sleep a bit better at night.
> completes all tests (no matter how many you've got) in less than a minute.

> My thinking is to charge 2 cents per a test-minute

Doesn't that reduce to 2c/run?

That aside, my gut reaction was don't charge for time if your selling point is how much time you save.

Charge for #tests, or something even better targetted at what makes it slow usually (I'm not familiar) - you charge some (<100) percentage of the reason tests are expensive and make that go away, and it seems like a sound choice to use your service doesn't it?
They were more compact than alternatives at the time, and had lower ESR. This made them especially desirable for supply decoupling in digital logic, whose random fast edges means a lot of broadband noise to shunt — you can't just design to a particular frequency range like you can with most analog circuitry.

Digital was also the new expensive hotness, and putting in a tant wasn't going to be a big fraction of BOM cost.

These days my understanding is that ceramics and non-tantalum electrolytics have gotten good enough to replace most tantalum uses, and between that, the expense, the slavery, the exploding, and the environmental damage, they're less common than they once were.
I really hope that the Debugger Adapter Protocol (DAP) from Microsoft catches fire like the Language Server Protocol (LSP) did, because I think it would do the same thing to debugging that LSP did to language intelligence/refactoring.

Both vim and neovim have DAP client plugins, but many DAP servers/adapters are not well maintained, so the overall experience isn't great.
The subtext, from the statement above, is socialist government decision making is irrational while capitalist governments are rational.

Having traveled across many countries in Europe, I have seen governments with socialist traits make rational, sensible decisions. Again, while I agree that a capitalist government is probably more effective than most communist governments, the world is not black and white.
GM charges for access to key cloning and module programming/pairing. Its not overly expensive (~$40 per module), but super annoying and bug infested (software crashing/failing/constantly updating).

https://www.acdelcotds.com

Afaik Ford has similar program where you pay one time fee for ability to reprogram modules remotely.

Imo a good deal for consumers.
I haven't sufficient electrical engineering knowledge to know why this happens, but:

- It only happens with the Mac Studio, I've never seen another device do this.

- It happens whether I use the original supplied cable or not

- A 30mA GFCI doesn't take much to trip, so I can imagine a little arc flash from the phase pins can create enough plasma sputter to then arc to ground

- It's certainly a ground fault as it only happens on GFCI protected circuits

- It's not a fault in my electrical installation, that has been checked recently now.

- It can be reproduced if plugged into any GFCI protected circuit, at home, in the office, a friends house

Some random ideas of mine:

- Perhaps Apple haven't adhered to the specs around the "gigantic clearances"

- The pins on the socket-side have this same matt-like finish the rest of the Aluminium body does, perhaps this has something to do with it.
""Nazi" is not a slur, and it should not be used for anyone who does not advocate those ideas. But it should be used for those who do.

And for those: no peace, no sympathy, no quarter, and no mercy."

Yeah...I don't think we read the same article.
As it turned out current civilizations are built on cheap energy. The cheaper the better.
I'm not sure what you're suggesting. Would you go to a doctor who doesn't know or want to do the right thing?
> Someone with skin in the game -- someone who actually makes business decisions about shipping and manufacturing things. As opposed to studying them and teaching about them.

Cool.

I’m CTO at a company of 150 people.

To be fair, we make video games.

I’m sure you’ll find a way to disqualify me from having an opinion in some other way.
Would Lambda be an option? Not sure what the stack looks like here, but a quick Google suggests people have gotten Cypress to run under Lambda, at least.
Because we all do.
> You take a source that only indicates about 750,000 of 2M detained people have been convicted of violent crime

I anticipated this objection and addressed it explicitly in the footnote. You might not find my argument persuasive; that's fine, but I directly engaged with this response already.
Also, even if you were to buy it's premise, the statement is still untrue. There is also stuff like Red and Wolfram language.
Any reason for not linking to that medium post? Did the new employer politely ask you to take it down?
I agree. That's another reasonable point.

If I were in your position I would absolutely be emphasizing these kinds of qualitative benefits in the marketing even if your pricing model is actually very quantitative in the end.

Anyone who runs the kind of engineering group you're currently aiming at won't have to think very hard to get an idea of the quantitative scale of the benefits they might enjoy as a result. Ideally you want authorising a few (or more than a few) thousand bucks a month to be a quick and obvious decision for them. "We provide a simple tool that enables radically better development processes with likely ROI between 10x and 100x" is a decent elevator pitch to people like VP Engineering and CFO who are going to end up making a purchasing decision.
I wonder if sample code using keys that don't look secure ("1111...") would lead to more or fewer incidents. Easier to guess, but more clear you're using guessable keys to the developer importing the code.
The author mentioned that they started out looking for the world's longest horror film but ended up finding a film which exposes capitalism's underbelly and brings home why life is turned into a blur by capitalism.

If you ask me though, based on this paragraph they did actually find the world's longest horror film! As for the anti-capitalism hints in the article, try watching an 857 hour film without starving in a non-capitalist economy!

"There came a point about three weeks into my viewing where the maddening, non-Euclidean shape of Logistics fully formed in my mind. I had an unnerving migraine. I could barely get myself together, let alone watch a boat not move for nine hours. I thought about quitting or taking a few days off, but then it occurred to me: the crew of the ship couldn’t quit, and the filmmakers couldn’t take a day off. I was now a part of this filmic thing, and I couldn’t stop until it was done."
Sure, I agree that EEE can absolutely apply to services which are purchased and then controlled by MSFT, but if MSFT is building up a community around software, and that generates positive changes (or even just no/neutral changes) to the original, GPL'd software, then whatever community existed there before, and the users who aren't using the various services remain at best improved (if good contributions are pushed back in) or at worst completely unaffected. Just stop using Github and run your own git server, and you lose nothing that you didn't already have before Github existed.
>PEX

Yeah, rather than just the joints now the entire pipe is leeching toxic compounds
Stupid people didn’t have access to the early internet. Then enteral September struck and… well, here we all are.
So… the better link is here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Cubers/comments/whuhkq/i_learned_fu...
Most Android users don’t get support. iOS users can just go to Settings and get official updates from Apple without trawling the internet hoping some volunteers decided to support their phone.
Ask HN: Are Linux HowTos dead? Why?
Somehow it just got me: Linux HowTos haven't been created or maybe even updated since ca. 2007.

https://www.linuxhowtos.org/

I haven't been using them for last 20 years... I still remember how useful they were in my early Linux days in 1999-2002. I will never forget the one about making coffee (http://fotis.home.cern.ch/fotis/Coffee.html). I made the relay circuit built into a power supply and that was so much fun!

But now they are all forgotten. Dead even. Why?
I've had some very positive experiences working with offshore teams, and I do think that large enterprises have plenty of value to derive from offshoring, but I were building a new startup today and knew that my competitors were relying heavily on offshore teams for their development I would be ecstatic.
(4000/3500)^4 = 1.70 so that 70% more road damage with a fleet of EVs. I don't know how high Vehicle Registration is in your state, and Fuel Tax, but it does add up to a surprising amount that mostly goes into rebuilding highway infrastructure. So it does need to be accounted for. Our transportation highway network is a system.
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Anything I specifically said about schizophrenia you'd like corrected?

I'm happy to make edits if I'm wrong (especially if I'm dangerously wrong!)
Yes, and the way you'd end up doing that is by not having doctor telepathy.
For copper you want to use ProPress, it’s completely solderless
I guess technically it's correct then. Distributed always makes me think of p2p systems.
So you're claiming the history he's referencing genocide soon after guns taken from the population are false?

Or you're avoiding my point?
Are you talking about Google Meet or Google Meet (nee Duo)? It’s hard to keep track, when they both have the same name https://www.pcworld.com/article/707997/google-pledges-to-mak...
See, that’s the type of enthusiasm that concerns me. In this ever complex www, why would you sweat an ounce anywhere outside of trying to survive?

There’re 9 people using Plan 9.
That's wonderful to hear! It's been > 1 year since I used daily-drove Python, so my comments do lag behind the progress by at least a year. Maybe an unofficial superset syntax is indeed not required!!
we love a good Fogus post, don't we folks?
Timestamps, it's timestamps all the way down...
Airline miles are nowadays bordering on useless for actually booking flights. Loyalty programs are attractive instead for “status”, priority boarding, upgrades, free changes, free bags etc. Uber can’t really offer any of this.
I don’t like staring at a screen and sitting still. I’m sure it sounds silly but why can’t programming be more like wood working or some kind of active process.

Maybe something with VR?
In a lot of cities and city neighborhoods it would be fascinating to have a "StreetView" of at least more interesting neighborhoods over time. But, as you say, even with relatively cheap B&W film, that would still have cost a fair bit of money and time and very few people systematically did such things.

In a somewhat similar vein, I unearthed a book a long ago company did in the 80s called "A Year in Development" which had all these photos and random detail about what was going on during a year--with a mostly engineering slant. Especially at the time, that sort of quotidian detail was rarely documented at all.
This is true and was proven by numerous scientific observations. Mild physical and intellectual activities indeed improve cellular energy levels to some degree.

Nobody really knows how it works exactly, but it's a fact.
Ultimately, this squares the circle, because what's happening, I think, is that human beings are pretty good at defining other creatures to be outside of their circle of empathy. Historically, animals were obviously right out, but so were foreigners and surely criminals, too.
So yeah, good luck with getting Qualcomm and the other chipset manufacturers to open source their drivers and then depending on volunteers to support your phone.

Even Google once had to drop support for some Nexus devices because it couldn’t convince chipset makers to support their latest OS on the phone.
I definitely agree. But we cannot really use (only) already-known facts to validate a theory. A theory built around such a fact will explain it by design and won’t have as much explanatory power as if the fact were verified after the theory is established. Of course if a theory cannot explain an already-known empirical fact, then it’d better provide a good explanation, like a different domain of validity.

Because of this, I would not consider relativity to have been validated until things like the Kennedy–Thorndike experiment. Even if it could already reconcile the principle of relativity and a constant speed of light, which was a significant intellectual achievement. Explaining the Michelson-Morley experiment was great, even a posteriori.
>ensuring I don't break anything by making changes

I think this is a problem in both static and dynamic languages and is pretty much solved in the same way: you test your code.
I find myself using reader mode Safari a lot on iOS.

I wonder if it’s feasible to write a browser from scratch that attempts to render just that.
Currently though, the relationship between the fine and the profitability of the transgression seems wrong. The fines seem to be too low to be an effective deterrent. In addition, white collar crime is punished far too leniently, given their often outsized societal effects.
>My alters ARE NOT VOICES, they are not hallucinations, they do not present audibly.

What if a healthy individual and a individual with dissociative disorder are just experiencing the same process from a different angle?

The author of the bestselling book "The Power of Now" speaks about some mental processes as if they were other entities (inner voice, pain body, etc) and yet he is not in a mental health unit.

You see your body as part of you but not the chair you are sitting on. The brain is certainly able to move the boundaries of what is you and what not. For example, some musicians experience the instrument they are playing as part of themselves. it's not far fetched to think that the same can also be applied to mental processes.
You could always be pre-pooling VMs once you hit a certain scale.
I wasn't aware that the serotonin hypothesis was "fraudulent," nor can I find credible evidence of this on Google. Instead, it seems that the scientific process worked as intended. A reasonable hypothesis was initially proposed, then opposing evidence accumulated over time.

This seems moreso an issue with the pharmaceutical industry. For example: "In 2005, two academics published a piece of research in which they compared the information on pharmaceutical websites with the pronouncements of certain researchers, and found a ‘disconnect’ between the marketing and the experts’ views." - https://joannamoncrieff.com/2022/07/24/how-to-take-the-news-...
Pretty cool, he wrote a Turing machine using ruby regex. He also almost got a regex for the game of life.
Their engineering culture is very much ”does it work”, instead of ”is it Correct”.

They have taken the market by storm, because most people care about the former, not the latter
I wonder what happened to _why
- Huge ecosystem.

- Common stuff (opening files, dealing with databases, string processing, math, regexps) is very easy. Sane defaults.

- Works well with the existing C ecosystem. It's not a "rewrite everything in X" language.

- It's everywhere, most machines run Python just fine.

- It doesn't treat Windows like a second-class citizen.

- It doesn't force upon you a programming model that you might or might not care about. It's not a puzzle language where everything is a monad, or everything is a class, or everything is some weird widget. Write the damn code.

- I'm personally not a fan of the language itself, but it's mostly a bog-standard algol if you don't poke it too much. It's relatively standard, people just get it even if Python isn't their main language.

- Very personal point, but it's the only language I can edit with a plain text editor. Think nano, vi, Windows Notepad, that kind of thing. I don't know what to tell you, maybe it's my tiny monkey brain, but I can't do the same in Java or C++. Not that it's my preferred way to edit software, but I like having that option in a pinch.

At least for what I do (developer, but with a data engineering/data science flavor) the overall architecture is usually the important thing, so admittedly some downsides might hit me less.

I'd still rather write medium-to-large pieces of software (say 10,000+ LOC) in something else (Java, C#, C++, something boring like that), but it's pretty much unbeatable for small programs as far as I'm concerned.
I like Google Meet and Skype in large part because they have decent web clients with instant meetings without sign in [1] [2].

[1]: https://meet.google.com/

[2]: https://www.skype.com/en/free-conference-call/
This is not true of traditional American families. In many traditional American families you will have some people that are widely successful and many others that are not. Yes, there are the elites, they are a different class for sure, but the middle and lower classes of American society are not tiered in the way a caste system is. In a caste system, your family is your destiny. Confusing the two is dangerous because it normalizes the caste system, a system that is very economically damaging to a country.
In my experience Lambda can have a pretty slow start when it's cold.
Does the law apply to German citizens hosting blogs anywhere, or only to blogs hosted in Germany? If the latter, can you move your hosting to a country that actually respects your privacy, like the US?
This is really important work to get things like WASM off the ground. Recently I've been working on a rust library I want to be able to run in the browser and from nodejs via wasm.

But its way harder than it should be. Wasm-pack has a different target for nodejs and the browser for ridiculous reasons - like 'crypto' and 'WebSocket' being globally available objects in the browser but not in nodejs. And es modules working slightly differently in each environment. Npm is designed assuming packages will be isomorphic. I've ended up with separate -node and -web packages - which makes my code feel non-native.

You shouldn't need to care that a JS package uses wasm internally. But these little points of incompatibility really hurt wasm as a target for libraries to use.
Or alternatively walking back the „limited“ liability. Would probably kill all innovation though
Significant. Have you tried Google?
caste-bias is a subset of racism.
I find it relieving to be living in a world where things are not static. So I read as much news as I can, every day. I also recognize that I have very little impact on whatever is being reported on, and that it has very little impact on me.

I think a lot of people have to let go of the idea that they will somehow save the world. Embrace your insignificance. It's just as much a blessing as a curse.
standard issue nalgenes already.