skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No they do not losw their citizenship and it transferred if the father of a new born carries it out. [1]

And I include that because in this context they are counted and allowed right to vote ( many do). They are even the biggest source od foreign currency for Lebanon. The system in Lebanon is unique (you vote according to your religion and the power is splitted according to that) but also it is not considered Muslim majority country because of this numerical fact.

Lebanon never had any islamic financial system and their system gives the power of the Lebanon central bank to Christians as part of the split [2]. Lebanon usually follow france and their elite class is very attached to foreign power. sunni supported and attached to the golf, Christians to France and shia mostly to iran influence.

(1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_nationality_law

(2) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banque_du_Liban
A very useful website.

It took me some time to understand what "the R word" is.

I wonder if there are other countries that hide words the way Americans do.
Betteridge's law of headlines says: no.
TL-DR: iOS becoming Android.
It was on his Twitter AFAIK, for some reason Twitter search wouldn’t find it but here is the thread! https://mobile.twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1557841469674...
The US had nukes substantially under 10kt long before these experiments or the existence of supercomputers…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)
Apple comes to mind.

But yes, it seems very rare.
Was there some point when major media publishers decided they were all fine with being a mouthpiece for blatant attempts to “nudge” mass behavior? It first hit me during the Gamestop short squeeze incident when I started seeing articles every few minutes telling me why not to buy GME that we were living in a Truman show world. Now its eating bugs etc.
I believe the phrase originated from Reddit many years ago, where the audience isn't fully familiar with the phrase's previous incarnation.

Since then it has been reappropriated widely on HN and Imgur and any place where people gather and unwittingly cause a denial of service with the best of intentions.
Sprint here refers to crunch time, and not agile development.
Are You Sure You’re Not Guilty of the ‘Millennial Pause’?
> When did the Slashdot effect get renamed to Hug of Death?

Probably around then time when reddit really started to take off, so I'd guess early 2010s.
Apple Silicon Face-Off: M1 Ultra and M1 Max Take on High-End PC Juggernauts
Modos Paper Laptop – laptop with e-ink screen
What continental divide does it cross? Chicago is on Lake Michigan, which drains into the Atlantic. New York is on the Atlantic.
OK, thanks for clarifying that you did not understand what I wrote in the least bit and have no intention of learning, not even so far as looking at the relevant information on Wikipedia, which would help clear up your misunderstandings.

Once again: ALGOL is the ALGOrithmic Language. It might have something to do with algorithms. Now please tell me what the main structuring mechanism for code is in Algol (and C, for that matter).

Do you at least understand that any language derived from C is therefore also derived from ALGOL?

And nobody claimed that Algorithms "are" call/return. They are just intricately related in both history and current practice, particularly once we stopped treating "primitive" operations separately and instead started understanding them as functions/procedures as well. (In C, something like multiplication is considered an operation (via the * operator), whereas most current languages treat multiplication is considered a function that the compiler understands and will directly emit machine code for).

So please stop chasing tangents that have nothing to do with what I wrote and what I've done and address your core misunderstanding(s).

Have a good one.
Looks like Just-JS author is looking into swapping V8 for JSCore.

I’d be super interested in seeing just how much faster Just-JS would get using JSCore (like Bun uses).

https://Twitter.com/justjs14/status/1557856790897106944#m
But but, how else would I introduce more bureaucracy for engineers?
Probably also was done without agile, I didn’t really see anyone doing “agile” in my time at google.
> Why not point the finger at Windows? Development on Windows is archaic.

How so? Zig is a programming language, so I'm guessing the main interactions it needs with the OS are file IO. It shouldn't need to do any GUI work as long as it provides proper bindings to the C functions. And file IO is essentially cross platform in C++ as long as you use the stdlib. Threads are also essentially multiplatform if you're using the stdlib. I also don't know if Zig is written in C, C++, or Zig so it may differ.

Generating binaries is different, but I wouldn't consider windows binaries any more archaic than Mac or Linux binaries, and I'm not sure if zig already uses LLVM backend or something anyways.

But given all that, writing basic Win32 code to do file IO or any sort of OS level interactions isn't any less archaic than what I've had to do in Linux. It's an API, and it's got a lot of cruft built up over the years, but so does any sort of Linux OS API.

Here's the Linux API for creating a file[0] and here's windows[1]. There's more parameters for the Win32 version, but the documentation is solid and gives a lot of tangential information. I actually prefer the Win32 docs to a lot of the Linux docs that I've used because they describe all the details very explicitly. So I wouldn't call Windows any more archaic then any other OS.

Basically what I'm saying is, it takes like 2-3 hours at most to add Windows support to a programming language unless you've architected your code in a way that tangles OS operations with regular operations. It's really not that hard to keep OS code separate from the apps logic to make porting the app to different operating systems trivial.

[0]: https://linux.die.net/man/3/creat

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/n...
Isn’t garden leave agreeing that you won’t work for the competition? Or is it even saying not working at all, not even in an unrelated job?

If I had a job the next day I might just enjoy two salaries. Would this be blocked by a garden leave agreement?
Professionally engineered products have their steel specified by physical attributes, not country of origin. If it meets the spec, and passes QA, it meets the spec.

That being said, not every plant makes every type of steel. Higher end steels are the types of steels that western manufacturers can compete on, so it is often what they specialize in.
Yeah, I was really surprised at the idea to equate the number of followers with wealth, and calculate inequality of this wealth distribution

Like... Followers are people with their own agency! Even if they tend to read someone more often then the others, you can't treat this in same way as the wealth distribution
I'm not familiar with the twitter UI, does this put things in the correct order?
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1427137725119959046.html

In response to this thread:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1426587396343099397.html
I have no inside knowledge whatsoever but we can all rest assured that each side is in a near constant back and forth of implicit unstated "communication" about capabilities and doctrine.

Merely publishing a paper on a certain subtopic in the fusion space can easily be interpreted as an implied threat or threat response.

Of course the US does have a stated doctrine of using nukes only in response to nukes used against it or its allies. It is enormously doubtful that the US would trigger an end-of-days scenario in response to Russia using tactical/low-yield nukes against a non-US-ally like Ukraine, but the uncertainty is for sure purposefully cultivated.
I remember a quote that goes along the lines of "the amount of effort to refute bullshit is orders of magnitude higher than what is needed to produce it".

They can essentially DoS you by spreading libellous statements which will take lots of effort to refute and encourage people to distance themselves from you as to not become collateral damage themselves.
The dealbreaker is that consumer GPUs (and their drivers) have a terms of use prohibiting various aspects of datacenter usage.
Robotics - super expensive just to start. Think about 3 developers for mechanical, electrical and software parts plus expensive hardware. Timeframe at least 2 years. So $1M just for shy start.

Home automation topic goes for decades. However I don’t see wide adoption anywhere. Most tech savvy buddy is playing often with new products and stated, that the best thing is Philips Hue lights in home automation area. Other things barely work.
I did. Or rather, I saw teams that thought they were dong it, because they used pivotal-type tracking tools and stories. But it always degraded into broken-down-waterfall.
The person he is responding to has a dismal history of bad faith trolling on this subject.
Well, if it's the bass alone and in the left channel, that strongly suggests a problem in the wiring of the left speaker. A continuity tester is your friend.

If you get a crackling noise that changes when you change the volume, the volume potentiometer either needs to be cleaned or replaced. Similarly if the volume knob has ranges where the sound drops out entirely.

If one channel doesn't work at all, you trace the signal path starting at the source.

If nothing works, look for a fuse (and look for something that might have caused a short).
All ideology ends up like this, Zizek is right.
This is good news, but Milwaukee is primarily a power tool company. Bringing power tool manufacturing back to the USA would be much bigger news.

Project Farm is a YouTube channel that reviews tools. I've noticed that most of the made-in-USA products are relatively simple - hand tools, drill bits, adhesives, lubricants, and so on. Any complex assembly that includes electronics is almost invariably made in Asia.

It feels like the remaining made-in-USA tools are those where the manufacturer doesn't need to do much more than maintain some old machines and keep them fed with raw materials.
The only reason I recognized this brand is because of Project Farm who delivers insightful tool review/comparison videos.

Latest was published 4 hours ago.

https://youtu.be/E-Xfv-7FFNk
It was a product that no one had asked for and no one was waiting for, and wasn't intended to make a dime.
Obviously very good that Chrome was delivered without people doing lots of overtime. However, a lot of his argument seems to be about the age of the management, and surely ageism is illegal and it should be about the person's skills rather than being old enough to have school-aged kids or even how many decades of experience they have

Edit: Okay, I guess the kind of ageism he is suggesting isn't illegal in the US, but it is in the UK and is still generally considered unethical
> Yes, I am forgetful. If I were smarter, I would just not lose stuff.

It's really not about being smart, some people are just more forgetful and distracted than others.

What I found helps is to do a regular check that you have your stuff with you. Whenever I leave somewhere I check that I have my keys, wallet, and phone.
And then what about fluids? Are there other descriptions for things that look like that?

TIL superfluids have zero viscosity; and at that scale, galaxies are supposably superfluidic; at least one formulation of "superfluid quantum gravity" has Bernoulli's && GR and it supposably works.
What I've learned from the world's elite is that hustle culture has it all wrong
This thread really seems to be burying the lede which isn't just "we didn't have crunch" but the more specific claim that it was engineers with at least a decade of experience having deep technical involvement that made the difference.
Worth noting, from the linked thread:

> In light of all the responses, I really regret posting this tweet that mischaracterized reality:

> In fact: The IE3 team did not have an unusual rate of divorce.I know of no broken families and only one divorce during the IE3 project.

> Here’s my statement reflecting on this in greater depth: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-recent-twitter-blow-up-had...
I hope you win! I usually get my reality checks from Sabine Hossenfelder, who a while back explained that all these fusion claims are wildly optimistic. You can find her video here: https://youtu.be/LJ4W1g-6JiY

I am no scientist, so it is hard for me to know if team optimistic or team pessimistic is right. But even if it is the latter, I think we should put more money and research on it!
They may not be cheaper than coal plants. But coal plants (indeed, any fossil fuel plants) are off the table if we are to stop global warming.

What pumped hydro(+other storage)+renewables is cheaper than is nuclear. You will notice Vietnam isn't building nukes either.
The discussions on static- vs dyamic linking piqued my interest. Is there any resources I should read about the history and concrete pros & cons of linking techniques?
Good primary sources are the `glibc` documentation, especially the FAQ [1], and the `musl` docs, especially the "differences from glibc" section [2] and the FAQ [3], which is basically a long list of ways that `glibc`/`gnulib` developers have leaned into ever-more-broken/nonstandard behavior. If you dig through the GNU mailing lists (which is where I draw the line for an HN comments), you'll find megabytes of admission that this is in an effort to make "GNU/Linux" (or as I've taken to calling it, GNU "plus" Linux, Linux being merely the kernel...), to quote Fassbender as Steve Jobs: "Closed system! Completely incompatible with anything!"

But the short story is that both NSS (DNS lookup), and `iconv` (locale handling) don't work without `glibc`-specific dynamic linking shit. Ostensibly this is because of things like merely being able to read decades-obsolete multibyte character encodings, and not able to write them, is a bridge too far to support at all, let alone as a default. They've also got a bridge they'd like to sell you (see mailing lists).

It's just 90s Microsoft vendor lock-in: "embrace, extend, extinguish" we used to call it. Stallman was a hero for getting the free software movement rolling in the 80s. But in this business, you either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain, and Bill Gates himself would be proud.

[1] https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/FAQ
[2] https://wiki.musl-libc.org/functional-differences-from-glibc...
[3] https://wiki.musl-libc.org/faq.html
This is an underrated point
Sony Unlocks In-Camera Forgery-Proof Technology
The winning team for the DEFCON 30 TeleChallenge is Foxbox Dialing Services
The TeleChallenge is a DEFCON contest that has been running since DEFCON 25 (2017).

The TeleChallenge is a fully immersive puzzle challenge playable only via telephone. It combines real-world clues with phreakable systems in a battle of wits and skill. While anyone with a phone can play it is not for the faint of heart. Winning requires an intense level of dedication from the people and teams playing the game.
This makes sense, thank you
This is definitely the case in med tech, devices and Pharma. Many manufacturers avoid China because you can set a spec but you can't trust the outgoing QA testing. You can do incoming QA testing, but then you are double testing and losing a lot of efficiencies when those things would be best done at the supplier
I don't ;)
Correct eventually.

But in today's world there are plenty of companies wanting to charge you a 50x markup on power electronics for a truck charge station just because they're novel. Charge stations will end up costing more than the truck (per charge bay) to begin with.
If you were to make the same comparison in the US it would be very similar.

A lot of railroads were abandoned or turned into trails. Those that remained were stripped as much as possible to fire sell assets in desperate attempts to improve the balance sheets (de-electrified to sell the copper, reduced tracks from 4 to 2 or 2 to 1 to sell the rails, etc.)

At least part of it is that in some US jurisdictions railroads have to pay property tax on their assets, which is not something that (usually) publicly owned roads and airports deal with. This is a massive perverse incentive to run everything as skimpy as possible to reduce the value of land.
He said there were no divorces! /s
I remember when Ndamukong Suh played for the Detroit Lions. The fans adored him and he said that he loved Detroit. But as soon as his contract was up and another team offered him a richer contract than the Lions were willing to match he was gone. For him it was primarily always about the money.
The problem with Bun currently is the missing killer feature, there is no absolute reason to switch over or I might be wrong?
Thank you. Try it in an tablet and a smartphone, it still works, even if it is in a downgraded mode. Lots of pages in the wiki were created on a tablet.

You write: "The one thing that would be good seeing as the page is a viewport onto a larger canvas is auto-scrolling the viewport when the pointer approaches the margins - so we don't have to chase, make visible, and manually grab the browser scroll bars. That would make the page naturally follow where our attention currently is."
On my Powerbook I move the page using two fingers on the trackpad and on my iPad or smartphone I use one finger. No need scroll-bars.

You write: "The one downside I noticed for the exemplar page is the browser CPU load. constant 33% of 1 CPU on an AMD Ryzen 7 1800X with Firefox v103.0.2, and around 32% with Chromium v104.0.5112.79."
In fact you can see on top of the frame-editor the cost of computing the page, it's about 30ms on my iPad. When the page is loaded no more CPU cost. The Hilbert curve CSS animation and the linear_watch (JS setInterval()) have a very small cost.
The paper's analysis of LMDB is wrong.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32462537
Off-topic: does 9-to-5 mean that 1-hour lunch break is considered as working time? How common is that?
Unlike IE, Chrome initially built off WebKit, so a lot of the work in writing a renderer was already done. Obviously a lot of work with V8, multiprocess IPC, etc. still went into the effort but still easier than starting from scratch like what IE did.
If there's one much-believed software industry trope I wish would die, it's this idea that building great software requires constant heroics, crazy hours, mandatory crunch time, living at the office, and sacrificing your personal life and loved ones. That's how undisciplined and/or disorganized clowns do it, not professional software teams.

When someone says, "Wow, we worked nights and weekends, guzzled Mountain Dew, pulled 48 hour coding shifts, drained our mental health, and half of us got divorced, but the result was this kickass video game!!" it's not admirable--it's sad. That's just not how it's supposed to be done, people!

EDIT: This seemingly well-received comment seems to have ended up perma-locked to the bottom of the page. -weird!-
Everything is contextual. If you want to do webdev you could learn JS or PHP or something. If you wanted to do data science then Python or R would be a good step. If you like the idea of exploring languages for shits and giggles go with elm or Clojure or Haskell or something. Really depends on what you want.

Rust seems like an interesting choice for you since it's a system language but also gets used by web devs in some situations. Go might be another good choice.

Again though, it all depends on what you want to do with your time.
https://deepwork.me/

I'd describe what it is, but then that would be marketing
You need to find a way to weight it. Improving, by a huge percentage, something that is traditionally very slow can sometimes be trivial. Improving, by even a few percentage points, something that many different systems have spent decades trying to make as fast as possible can be much more significant.

For example, finding files in a big file system using standard file calls takes forever. Making this hundreds or even thousands of times faster is certainly possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWIo6sia_hw

On the other hand, making general database queries run faster than the latest version of Postgres with proper indexes takes a bit of novel thinking. Even a 20% or 30% improvement should be considered a breakthrough, let alone 2x or better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVICKCkWMZE
There's a great YouTube channel, Project Farm (https://www.youtube.com/c/ProjectFarm/videos), that features a single guy testing, grading, and comparing all kinds of things you might find in your garage. He's not sponsored and tries to be objective throughout the process. It isn't perfect but he puts a ton of effort in and for backyard science it's pretty good.

Anyway, he mentions country of origin for a lot of tools and there's a clear trend towards better results for items made in the USA.

Obviously China is perfectly capable of producing high quality products, but regardless of the details of the causes, the end result is that "made in the USA" is a reliable signal for higher quality products.
"AI" has come a long way, then!

It is a bit fawning, and the sans font looks like a cheap blog. The content itself doesn't feel bot-driven.
This reminded me of a google apps script hack/solution on stack overflow [1]

Havent used it in awhile so not sure if anything changed

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46434390/remove-an-attac...
9-to-5 here is figurative. No one is tracking hours for software engineers at most companies. It just means: you start working in the morning, and you stop working in the evening. As opposed to working until late at night and/or weekends.
How relevant is this (excellent) post in 2022? Has the tech changed at all on this front?
(Illegal stuff)
Pure Java SVG Implementation
It seems like someone with an application up and running on AWS isn't really the target audience. (Although I'm still trying to figure out who _is_ the target audience, here.)
I think this is great stuff. I have been thinking very much along these lines for a few months now as well, as a user interface for a logic I discovered. In the end, TeX does something very similar, just with a sharp focus on typesetting. I am not sure if the focus on Wiki is sharp enough to succeed similarly, but on the other hand, why not?
Understand all and Aaron, at the question:

"You guys forked webkit which forked khtml, so you all had a nice leg up no?"

says:

"Yes. Just like IE started from Mosaic Spyglass. But a rendering engine (like WebKit/Spyglass) is not a browser. Certainly not a multi process, sandboxed browser. Chrome v1 was a 200 person year effort."

but, come on, much work was already done and they seem not to remember this.
I wouldn't call that a successful roll-back unfortunately, they've been somewhat contained at best, but they're still being produced and more powerful than ever.

Those discussions aside, what I meant by social reasons was people wanting to see some tech go away because it's automating jobs.
Molten lithium (or Pb-Li) probably won't be used in magnetic fusion reactors, because the magnetic forces from induced currents in the flowing metal would cause unacceptable pressures to develop. There was hope that insulating coatings for metal structures could be developed to deal with this, but apparently even small cracks are too much.
Seems to have collapsed, but archive.org has a snapshot.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220811232234/https://reactos.a...
It’s very strong of you to do something you don’t enjoy for 6 months giving it some real time.

But I am curious what was it that made your productivity fall, and what didn’t you like about it?

May I also ask how was introduced and used? And why did your company introduce it?
What he writes about is seniority, not ageism. It's about whether to incentivize career paths in which senior engineers keep doing technical work.