skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First thing i do, when i get a OS, is take a iron broom to the various Programmer Egos in the room. It has to go, the notifications, the ballons, the updates and other busy work simulators. GUI goes grey, the various empty real estate modes are turned off.

Then i try to protect the environment i created from the damage the original creators can do. Take a snapshot, kick the VMs Network driver if needs be. If something has annoying sound adds, i rather rip the sounddriver out of my phone then let it play loud - even in the background. Nobody is taking my attention hostage, i learned programming to turn my devices into servants of myself. Any coup by others will be meet with brutal punishment, and if it annoys me enough, that punishment will be available to others as a crack.

On my ideal workstation, your GUI designers starve and your bloat programmers hunger.
Can we stop the trend of linking to tweets that just contain another link to the content? what's the point? Wouldn't this be 10x better if it was a link directly to the github?
These days I just use a network file browser to copy files. Easier that way.
Yes, this law should apply to any operating system in a general purpose device, such as a PC, smartphone or tablet. In reality the only vendor that doesn't allow the installation of software from sources that are not the official store (as far as I'm aware of) is Apple. I'm not saying that it should be easy, in Android you have to go trough the settings and enable an option, this is correct since you don't want people installing .apk that are received via email with one click, but it should be possible to do.
Why? It is only Microsoft, they gave us internet explorer!!!
Nintendo's U-Force
Would the iPhone 14's built-in Satellite SOS (and satellite location sharing with friends) feature replace your need for an InReach device? It depends on how you use the InReach, I guess.
I would expect that most people who try to write a book and sell it will sell exactly zero copies. They will successfully give a few copies to their friends, and Mom, and that's about it.
Field Guide to the Lost Species of the San Francisco Bay Area
+1 for redis, first code I read that felt like artisan craftsmanship, approaching art.
The best introduction to taxonomies:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevo...

Jorge Borges also has written something directly related to 'the map is not the terrain'
Italy, 2020 and 2021.
Garmin only recently introduced dual-frequency GNSS in some versions of their Fenix 7 watches, and have since added it to some cheaper models like the Forerunner 255. The first watch with L1+L5 was the Coros Vertix 2 from last year, so it's still quite new in watches.

Qualcomm has had it since the Snapdragon 855 though, so basically every flagship Android phone since 2019.

https://support.garmin.com/en-IE/marine/faq/9NWiPDU4gM0JWMfd...
Most headunits with Carplay require you to have the vehicle speed sensor connected to them. They also have a compass. So, if you lose GPS, you have the 3 components you need for dead reckoning: A starting location, a heading, and a speed. It works pretty good even in complex areas like parking garages.
> Embedding a whole js engine and then interopping with it from python would be non trivial.

Cue libv8-node+mini_racer from which PyMiniRacer was born. It is non-trivial but not as hard as one might think.

The most painful part is the libv8 build system and Google-centric tooling (depot tools!), which makes it an absolute PITA for libv8 consumers that are not Google/Chrome.

This is why the libv8 gem was atrocious to keep up to date and to build for several platforms, and why libv8-node was born, because the node build system and source distribution are actually sane (props to their relentless work on which we piggyback on)

Disclaimer: worked at Sqreen, now maintainer of libv8-node and collaborator of mini_racer

https://github.com/sqreen/PyMiniRacer

https://github.com/rubyjs/mini_racer

https://github.com/rubyjs/libv8-node
Tangentially related, I found The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System fascinating back in the day. I don't know how well it holds up now (or more importantly how relevant it is) but it was genuinely interesting, especially as I was using FreeBSD at the time.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/231070
It was public support. Polls, as unreliable as they were, showed that the vast majority of the people asked were in favor. Aside that we had people calling the police on "offenders", DDR style, and at the very least showering them with insults.
Their internal app has ads for other Uber services? Oof.
And Motörhead’s cover.
There seems to be a lot of misinformation going on with Jackson’s water situation. It’s disconcerting to see this level of “fog of war” happening in a state capital.

I’ve seen everything from completely irreparable forever to already fixed being reported within days of each other.
What even is a "$language community"?

Lately it seems like everything has some weird community aspect to it that becomes relevant because (?), single player games have communities now, even brands and, I guess now, programming languages(certainly enough to have a VP of community). Sure stuff like comp.lang.$language has been a thing for forever but that was not at that level.

I probably went into a bit of a ramble but the point i'm getting at is that odds are this "community" is most likely not representative of the people that actually use the language and to not assume people who do are automatically part of it, not saying you were, but some words of caution I suppose.

And furthermore, although that is unrelated to your point but more in a general statement for the younger people: You don't need to join a community or even talk to people to use a language or api or whatever, they're tools and using them or not should be based on where your technical interests lie or what you're trying to solve, not trying to be part of a social circle where the only thing you have in common is that you all wrote some lines of code in a certain script. Don't let yourself be defined by such things and don't do it to yourselves.
It must be super frustrating to be working on and promoting Zig. Zig has a bunch of its own innovative language features. It has amazing cross-compilation. It is a major improvement over C that still feels closer in spirit to C than C++.

…but Rust has changed how people view languages. It has brought focus on compile-time safety, and shown it's possible and practical. It has shown that data races can be caught at compile time. It has shown that GC vs manual memory management has a third option.
That’s great! Hopefully this means some JVM developers will move over to .NET.
Hah. Some decades in now, the people I remember most have been anything but climbers. They were just here near me and the others they cared about. If being remembered is your motivation, you don't need to go anywhere.

In fact, you're probably climbing away from the people who already recognize and respect you best already.
A far better Conan story is his private opening for Johnny Carson, remembered after Johnny's death:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TazTAqBQakQ

Johnny told him "Just be yourself. That's the only way it CAN work."

Conan spends the entire bit unpacking that advice.
That is the photo that was on the article before her dead; the discussion on whether it should be changed, and if so to what, it is still ongoing.
You think I'm going to resize my browser window narrower every time I switch to HN, and resize it wider every time I switch to a different tab?

Or you could just put it in a separate window of the desired width; maybe then you'd even have enough space on your huge monitor to see several sites all at once!

As I wrote the post above, I had about a dozen different windows open, all of varying sizes. Monitors have gotten much bigger, yet the users seem to have gotten worse at making good use of that space.
I left out the fact that around 2007/2008ish (right around when SICP was phased out of MIT) Computer science enrollments dropped to ~100ish.
Open source projects definitely have communities and it’s not an artificial thing. You have the developers and consumers of the project and they have a lot of social interactions.
Nobody will remember:

- Your salary

- Your fancy title

- How ‘busy’ you were

- How stressed you were

- How many hours you worked

People will remember:

- The giant monoliths you have erected to your own majesty

- Poems about the monoliths, or at least a few of the good
lines

-Tim Carmody (tweet)
Which book do you mean when you say "Polya 1"?
Seconding redis, and noting that the original redis source code is _also_ an interesting read and demonstrates how approachable well-written tcl is, even for those entirely unfamiliar with it as a language: https://gist.github.com/antirez/6ca04dd191bdb82aad9fb241013e...
https://archive.ph/jq3kw
> It has shown that GC vs manual memory management has a third option.

C++ had shown this long before Rust.
Somewhat ironically, idiomatic code in Zig can easily be more correct than unsafe code in Rust. The Rust devs are still working on giving a full semantics for the 'unsafe' superset of the language, and this currently involves quite a few pitfalls that just don't exist elsewhere in the same way.

(And btw, unsafe code cannot be ignored altogether since it comes up naturally in any interaction with outside, non-Rust code. Additionally, idiomatically "safe" APIs can sometimes introduce restrictions that leave some performance gains on the table compared to well-written unsafe interfaces.)
the problem being that a large majority of the homeless in SF aren't "your people". They aren't SF locals, they move there for the benefits and the nice weather.
> the various exchange rates allow for industrial protectionism where necessary (by benefitting imports of industrial inputs), populism for convenience (subsizing certain middle class consumer goods) and greater taxation of highly productive industries

How complex is the Argentinian tax code? (Every democracy needs complex economic arrangements to reflect the balance of power. In America, we tend to stuff that complexity into the tax code.)
>The government doesn't control them now. What do you bet there are armies of programmers working for the government, figuring out how they can?

Argentinean here. That probably won't happen... for many years, at last. Programmers from my country start working for foreigners for dollares/any other non-meme coin that is no the peso. Anyone with 3+ years experience stops working for locals if they have a good english level and stop considering job offers in pesos (100% anual inflation as of now). What I'm trying to say is, the government can try to do that but it'll have to manage with only mediocre devs or spend a lot of money which... they don't really have.
>Currently a big next step for TikTok stars is moving into Hollywood stuff - Addison Rae, the D'Amelios - just like it was for the Kardashians a couple decades ago.

Waning once-huge markets still attract up and comers because of the residual prestige and money - but same newcomers get their popularity from outside those markets, and people wanting to be like them are from the outside too...

But it's not about the actual values but about the momentum...
Do we have similar statistics for the App Store?
This argument that it’s pretty easy to construct adversarial examples would be much more convincing if…it were not what PageRank actually is. PageRank itself initially ran iteratively and would have had exactly this same problem.

In any case, I’m not sure your example is actually adversarial, as there’s not an action that an adversary could take implied by it? Maybe you meant “poorly handled case”? But yes, run it iteratively. 10 steps? 20? Until convergence for some epsilon?

Nothing against theory, but I think they did fine without it.
I do not see an uptick to hotmail addresses on my fake open relay honeypots. Could it be they adjusted their global filters recently or that your address ended up in more spammer lists?
Some companies convert biomass to carbon-rich media that is be buried or contained. For example, Charm Industrial: https://charmindustrial.com/
> stay ahead while often being a step or two behind

Yeah, good advertising can make even those sentences a valid statement.
Recently my favorite is core contracts of Uniswap V3 - https://github.com/Uniswap/v3-core Lots of nice ideas for a restrictive computing platform like EVM.
It’s lovely, highly recommend.

Also it’s been a few years but the little coffee shop across the street had some of the best chocolate coconut macaroons that I’ve ever had.

Check out Frozen Dead Guy days as well, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_Dead_Guy_Days. It’s an interesting little mountain town.
I didnt know what the word “coomer” meant so I looked it up.

“Coomer is an internet meme based on an illustration of a scraggly male character who is mocked as an excessive masturbator.”

So calling someone a “safety coomer” isn’t great - especially from a “VP of community”. Let’s just agree not to do that again and move on.

Personally I’m more annoyed that a small language foundation would hand out VP titles.
Why are we talking about ferns and duckweed? It is the same reason wildlife conservation efforts tend to involve talking about the "charismatic megafauna"?

We would do well to remember that a full 70% of plant-based carbon sequestration takes place in the ocean (you know, 70% of Earth's surface), not inland, and is done by phytoplankton.
The first GPS device I used didn't have any built in maps, only a breadcrumb trail on a monochrome LCD display. It used AA batteries and it was before selective availability was turned off, so accuracy was quite poor compared to today. Late -90s, so around 25 years ago now. If I recall correctly it was a Garmin 38.
They are not a cloud provider, they sell servers. So you have to pay a couple million for a big rack full of servers. That product will offer some of the same things that you would do on a cloud.

If you were a cloud provider, you might want to buy this system rather then some Dell/HP machines.
So are you saying you do things just so people remember you?

I wonder where would we as a species be if Newton or Einstein or Steve Jobs and a million others who contributed their little might to advancing our species forward thought the same?
> Are you using free or paid Wrap ?

free
Not just fossil fuels. Burning wood is also significant source of particulate air pollution. And switching from natural gas (fossil) to wood (renewable) for heating makes air pollution situation much worse.
Latin America is too brown to be from the west?
UNIXv6:

http://v6.cuzuco.com/

C4 and its follow-up C4x86:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8558822

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8746054
I actually think Wikipedia would benefit from way more photos. Even in this example - give me 10 different photos on the right, right below right information panel.

For many things and topics there are too few photos (and maps, for that matter), often it’s easier to go to other sources if you want to learn about something visually. I.e. “how this historical building looks?”, and “where is this town?” both are not answered well by Wikipedia.
> if you consider that the economy almost stopped for two years straight

It wasn’t Covid that did this. It was government mandates in response to Covid. Printing money let everyone who supported these government actions ignore all of the tradeoffs involved and obfuscate what, under hard money, would be a direct comparison.

What you are arguing for is a kind of financial authoritarianism. You are using words like “driver’s seat” and “pilot” to describe an intense amount of power in the hands of unelected persons. Financial authoritarianism can be used to pay for other kinds of authoritarianism like lockdowns, concentration camps, or a war spanning multiple decades and the entire globe. The First World War would have ended much sooner if the belligerents were unable to steal the wealth of their populace by printing money. The arguments you are making, that recessions need money printing - those arguments were going to be made by government-funded academics who obviously have an incentive to argue that governments should not be constrained in their budgets.

Hard money makes the cost of government action immediate and legible. Hard money puts constraints on what the government can do without taking money directly from people who feel the cost immediately. This is why authoritarians really don’t want hard money.
I don't understand how this could turn you off. Is it good? Is it useful? Use it. Who cares if some community rep guy is a perfect princess or a bit of an asshat.
No, it's more like observing that a region with 30%+ of the world's population is rising (economically, influence, cultural appeal wise, and so in) and another with a paltry 350M one appears to have had its heyday...

The US had a couple of Tim Minchins back in the 18th century too, and even up to the early 20th century it wasn't that much of a deal in terms of global cultural cachet.

As for GDP terms it only surpassed Great Britain around 1880 and then had its global share peak in 1960. It's been downhill since.
who says im in "this" industry?
> This content is not available in your country/region.

At least they are not spitting in my face and telling me that I matter and they would loooove to be available in my region. I like this concise message better.

Here's a mirror for the poor souls like me: https://archive.ph/sdyh3
As the context of this topic is Australia, this isn't necessary. Warranties don't add much value compared to consumer law, which the vendor must comply with in Australia.

Anything I've ever had a fault not caused by me with has been replaced free of charge years after I bought it, including from large American companies like Amazon and Apple.
I haven’t used the products in years but any SaaS company competing directly against Microsoft and Google and actually gaining traction deserves respect in my book and serves as inspiration for other startups hoping to do the same. We have a real risk of businesses only using FAANG products and services because it’s easier and safer and that is a terrible trend for startups.
AFAIK there are only a handful states where black/silver tip ammo is not legal to sell and/or requires a special permit. [1][2] Most can still sell green tips. The definition appears to have evolved over time to include brass/hard-cast for some calibers/states. [3] AP are supposed to be law enforcement only. The ATF exempt some AP intended for specific sporting or industrial purposes. I've never personally found a need to buy it.

[1] - https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/ammunition-...

[2] - https://giffords.org/lawcenter/gun-laws/policy-areas/hardwar...

[3] - https://rocketffl.com/ap-ammo-are-armor-piercing-bullets-leg...
Tutanota have been around for a bit over a decade. They close unused free accounts after six months inactivity.

Their main focus is end-to-end encrypted email. When sending encrypted emails outside of their ecosystem, they used to send a link to a temporary account, so as to reduce the chance of a leak.

They've never been hugely popular, but their name pops up a fair bit in circles where legality of things might be a bit gray. Like countries where certain human rights are suppressed, or where Tor is needed to workaround only getting government approved sites, etc.
How will the Queen's fortune be divided among the royal family?
Sounds like both are true: The problems have been fixed already, but the notice is still in effect because they need to flush out the distribution pipes and that just takes time.
I can expect negative results in the long term from this strategy, even though we are on HN.
I think so but perhaps more general mindfulness resources may be better places to start
Not when you have a footer that you want people to be able to click. Can't stand when infinite scrolls make footers impossible to interact with!
Also excellent resources
"The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering: Mastering Complexity" by Sanjoy Mahajan.

It beautifully treats estimation and problem solving techniques, illustrated by examples from science and engineering. Instead of aiming for a complete, thorough and accurate treatment of problems, its goal is to teach shortcuts to sacrifice some accuracy for much reduced effort. This is a refreshing change to academia where rigor is often pursued at all cost. But in the real world rigor rarely matter, and simplifications are almost always worthwhile, especially initially since we can always refine models if required.

I first read it as an undergraduate and use the estimation and problem solving techniques from it almost daily. Though well hidden, the pdf is available for free on the website of the publisher.
Why the Risk of a Nuclear Accident in Ukraine Has 'Significantly Increased'
> Good news! Mendoza province now accepts crypto for taxes

This is irrelevant. The problem wasn't the mechanics of paying taxes. It was the willingness. Getting USD-T is just an easier (albeit more traceable) alternative to envelopes of cash in a suitcase.
Article says “$40 billion in net shipments of U.S. currency”[0] total over many years (mostly $100 notes from article) yet Argentina only imports $5B[1] to $6B[2] billion of goods from the USA per year!

That is one very very sweet deal for the USA. Especially considering the USA dollar inflation depreciates the value of the physical bills over time.

[0] 1993 https://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/ifdp/1993/460/ifdp460.pd...

[1] https://oec.world/en/profile/country/arg

[2] https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/ARG/Yea...

Edit: $5B looks like hex and makes me double double the B billion making the text unreadable, however I am guessing too many readers here don’t like the metric 5G$, which I would otherwise prefer to use. I guess I could write the billion in full, but then this footnote would be pointless.
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The reason for climbing corporate ladders is to [... and] gain you respect and recognition amongst peers when it is most valuable: while you are alive.

"Peers", maybe but that just means "other people who value climbing corporate ladders" - who tend to be quite superficial people.
My limited but actual experience says that you can disbelieve all business AI claims and promises. You’ll only be wrong very occasionally, if ever.

AI is the latest blockchain. That’s not to say it isn’t being used effectively and innovatively in a few cases. However, many companies dreamed of somehow using AI, did the corresponding marketing, and then never actually delivered useful AI based solutions.

I know some of them believed in the goal, but reality (and deadlines) got priority.

It turns out the you can pay humans behind a curtain and get AI-like results. Go figure.
> fact that it is a point of pride has literally nothing to do with the fact it is possible to buy health care or education privately

It does mean that if identified, the system is incentivized to make a brutal example out of you.
Yes I wholeheartedly agree, rust is definitely overpromising in that department.
The language has grown too large too quickly imho, and having the compiler as a formally verifying aide when the foundations/axioms aren't defined yet certainly leaves a bad aftertaste for me.

In a sense rust hasn't managed to reach it's de Bruijn criterion yet, see https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io/2022/01/05/LCF.html

However, the very same can be said for zig. Given that it is such a simple language, development has focused on a many interesting things including incredible performance, but one has to wonder if the priority shouldn't have been correctness and a fully working compiler that can handle e.g. packed unions.
Ted Cruz blows up Congress’ plan to save journalism by making Big Tech pay up
This sentiment ignores, that programming, like everything, is a social endeavour.