skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there? There are multiple papers describing cond vars implementations. Many have been found to have errors after years.

I'm sure the BSDs have posix cond vars implementations, but they won't use futexes but some BSD specific signalling primitive, and will likely have different scalability profiles than the one in gilibc, which has been tuned mostly for the needs of Red Hat, Oracle and other big Linux vendors.
> But it is fine killing 14k peoples in the Donbass over 8 years?

I know this statement was being repeated in Russian state TV. But the sole blame for these deaths is with Putin, because he started the killing in 2014, just like he did in 2022.

Of course I don't want Russian soldiers to die, these are human beings with families etc. (although some of them seem like soulless beasts, I hope that's minority). This doesn't change the fact that it's Putin who sent them to death, not Ukrainians. None of them would have died if you hadn't attacked Ukraine.
That's also funny because one of selling points often starts with not needing to have separate ops people.

And it always ends with a bunch of people doing essentially same thing but with different job title.

> AWS skills are as arcane or more than traditional hardware management skills; I’m not sure I could make the argument in good faith that you need less people overall with cloud.

The main difference is that it is impossible to dig deep. You can do the deep dive, almost to the bare hardware level when you own the hardware. If you just call a bunch of APIs you're essentially talking with black box.

Like, I do not exactly miss the time spent finding out why our Ceph cluster misbehaves and getting to some driver bug causing ~0.5-1% packet drop after few weeks running with irqbalance daemon on, but it is possible and it can be mitigated, meanwhile in cloud, black box, tough shit, live with it.
> private shops that do innovate on the RISC-V core architecture don’t necessarily have an interest in open sourcing their improvements.

Most stuff in China is 'open sourced' through extensive code leaks, even for silicon designs. There are websites designed for downloading your competitors code. Most cheap products from China I have no difficulty locating at least some source code for. Getting it to build on the other hand is a totally different ball game...
The logistics part is value that Costco added by itself. They're entitled to fair compensation for that part.

But the "so big it can strongarm suppliers into pricing" is not value added - it's value taken from someone else.
I’m sure this goes for a lot of people, me as well for some time; but in the end, the problems simply became too much for me— so I’m curious, how long have you been using Gnome?
What if it makes me laugh, and congrats to the author if they generate any revenue.

But still, makes me laugh at the stones required for asking $8, for a randomized image, and in the age of Stable Diffusion.
> What Bitcoin is good for is being internet dollars that can’t be spent twice. That’s a nontrivial feature.

Funny. My bank account does that too and transactions don't cost me anything. I can even use trusted services to do direct banking when I want to buy something online so the seller can instantly verify the transaction and I don't have to deal with entering numbers.

But then again I live in Europe and our banking system doesn't run on physical paper checks delivered by carrier pigeons. I wonder how much it would cost to upgrade and maintain the US banking system compared to moving the entire US to crypto or Bitcoin.
Or 3. grit is simply a useful filter for overall effectiveness (as a proxy for resilience, initiative, motivation, perseverance) regardless of whether it's really needed in the current company.
In Denmark the state pays the full amount that the student pays in USA.

Humanities/sociologies: $4400 to $6200 depending on subject.

STEM: $6200 to $9200

Above rates are for Danish students. Universities gets paid more for exchange students.

source: https://ufm.dk/uddannelse/institutioner-og-drift/okonomi/til...
I don't know you, so I'm just making this up, so given that preamble.

No you wouldn't.
Yes, that's what I meant, and thanks, those are interesting points.

My main use case is launching one-off visualization tools on a remote system that I'm ssh'd to anyway. ssh -X is hard to beat in terms of convenience for that use case, and e.g. a persistence setup would be overkill.
Gruinard Island
Time to figure out the 13 core insights: decades. Time to flesh them out in an essay: 15 minutes. Thanks for sharing.

Idea: animated documents. It starts with the core points. and if you have more reading time you move the slider and more detail appears, highlighted.
If my country's farms used to produce 2 billion calories per day which kept up with demand, and they drop to only producing 1 billion calories per day and now we have a food shortage - does the nation "want more stuff" because we want to import more food, or do we merely want the same amount of calories as before?
I hope you realize both of your prices are incredibly cheap.
New contracts in the Netherlands are up to €0.88 per kWh (edit: seems i underestimated, 0.88 is the average, the most expensive is €1.14 per kWh now.)
I guess you don't see the irony of your comment?
This use allow to update SELECT operations, but UPDATE / DELETE still have to be done on the old underlying schema right ?

No way to trigger a DELETE from a view right ? How would you approach this ?
I was thinking recently. Would I prefer to die in an atomic blast or live under Russian occupation? Having seen some scenes from Bucha and other places I'm inclined toward the former.
Same reason petrolheads like to argue about purely technical pieces of their cars like the engine or transmission, as if it significantly affected them.

It's not that strange really.
> Say Canada does what you say will fix everything

If you thought I was saying it would fix anything except the number on the price tag, you must have misinterpreted my comment.

> and in theory supply will increase

I don't believe an increase in taxes would cause supply to increase.

> there's only so much you can be elastic in your demand.

Demand doesn't only mean how many loaves of bread people want, or how badly they want them. It's also how many dollars they can and will pay. Picture goods being sold at an auction, as they essentially are. With fewer dollars in everyone's pockets, the winning bid will be lower, even if the bidders are just as hungry.
This is excellent, please build on this idea.
No, the comparison is bullshit.

We're not talking about 30 years of technological difference here, we're talking about two versions of the same model of motorbike here, but one has everthing stuffed into it and disabled by default, and the other one is reduced to what you need/wanted to have.
I'd love to have a simple way to compile stuff for macOS from Linux.
This is basically BS; housing in Tokyo is only expensive from an American point-of-view because Americans only look at $/square foot, and don't realize not everyone wants or needs a palatial home. 25m^2 apartments are very common in Tokyo and generally affordable by normal people, but such a compact place would probably be downright illegal in America because of housing codes.

Try getting a nice, safe, comfortable, and modern apartment in NYC on USD$1000/month; I don't think it's possible. In Tokyo, it's common.

Also, Tokyo being one of the most expensive cities to live in is a myth, so any source that makes that claim is, to me, immediately disqualified as having truthful information. Going out to eat here costs a fraction of what it does almost anywhere in the US.
Do you have any comparison that's relevant in modern countries?
It is not like having a monopoly on finding customers combined with not finding customers is going to have any economic effect.

It is also entirely fine if IT is leading the US economy where IT is a bunch of guys playing ping pong.

Companies can just dig a little deeper into their pockets, customers can pay a bit more for products. Specially nowadays everyone has plenty of money and the economy is solid as a rock.

It is the responsible thing to do.
I was an affiliate on both CJ and rewardful, got both clicks and conversions but they were not tracked. Maybe 1 in 10 clocks was tracked.
Slack has Bring Your Own Keys[1], however they're a bit light on details.

1 - https://slack.com/help/articles/360019110974-Slack-Enterpris...
Uh, put down the pitchforks. This is not Google taking it down because of not liking the tool. According to the screenshot it's a DMCA request from "BPI", "a UK record label association".
Honestly? I don't care. The economy will figure it out, somehow, like we always did whenever some business model or another went obsolete. At the end of the day, no ads produce wealth; people do.

And no, I don't want "government-approved ads", either - that's a surefire way to corrupt our political system even further.
More supply = lower prices = more people able to afford housing = less people forced into homelessness.
While scrapping Google follows robots.txt file rules
> So, when Google scraped the internet to provide search engine, that was okay, but when some other site scrapes something, it is not?

No, but when Google scraped the Internet, nobody did anything about it.

The value they added by making everything searchable was so great.

Giving content creators platform flexibility is clearly a threat to YouTube.

Double standards are twice as good.
Sure. I've read an agreement (by a tier-1 ISP) which was a pure pleasure to read.
Electron apps are often pulling in hundreds of unvetted npm packages and then given direct read/write access to the entire file system. I'm okay with browser security overall for PWAs as I don't want websites to be able to break out of the sandbox and I want permission prompts when they want access to perform specific actions, but I can still inspect the code more freely to see what is happening behind the scenes and say no I don't trust this developer to have read/write access.

With WASM, it is like machine code for the browser meant to obscure what is even happening and you are supposed to just trust it and I don't. I don't trust it to not be abused to push more privacy violations and I don't trust most web developers enough to not just pull in a huge framework with no clue what they are doing and to make accessible fast sites using it.
> Wouldn't most if not almost all of the homeless just remain what they are and the new housing would be used by new people moving into the city?

There's truth to that as the new stock would only go to those that could afford them, and the vast majority would be swept up by investors, unless they were actual public housing - the kind of housing that NIMBYs are most upset about. Either way having more stock ought to have a deflationary effect on housing costs. Though maybe perverse incentives/legislation could cause the opposite.
As I understand the article, it argues that relying on transaction fees to reward miners is not viable, as there are too few transactions happening thus making the transaction fees extremely high.

> "$7.125B / 91,250,000 tx = $78 per transaction."

> "But we just proved the store-of-value narrative breaks down because of the $7.125B/year leak and the fact that mining is unsustainable long-term unless it is subsidized by transaction fees, which will not exist because transacting on Bitcoin is slow and expensive."
Not really. WASM doesn't add any extra capabilities in the browser or Electron environments.
I think the best solution that works with most platforms and doesn't have to deal with adblockers, is to use coupons (e.g. 10% discount using the affiliate's code).
Every time i see an author use semicolons, they are fullstops in all, but name. It's not a long sentence. It's multiple independent sentences.
I mean, yes, it does change the character of the area. That's the point. The character of the area is currently an overpriced shithole full of racist pricks hiding behind NIMBYism, and just about anything proposed to be built in that abandoned parking lot would change the character of the area for the better.
>There are valuable skills (particularly writing and communication) that are learned in these degrees that might not be seen as valuable by your average techie.

That's true, as someone working in tech I admit, I am illiterate. I cannot read or write. My communication is very poor. I normally just scream until someone from HR brings me more snackies.
What are you talking about? Of course they do! Try performing any of the operations listed in this article, or making a reply to this comment, by only twiddling the state of the transistors in your CPU.
What's so special about "literals"? They must be symbols in the sense that they can be evaluated. The fact that you've defined them so that they evaluate to something indistinguishable from the unevaluated form is neat, but it doesn't seem to me fundamental. We could have a lisp where you aren't allowed to evaluate a raw number, it would just be a little more awkward.
But they don't care about opportunities; they care about revenue, and they already have plenty of that, guaranteed.
If you read to the end of the article you see:

"Finding replacement parts won’t be a problem and DOS is no longer necessary for Allen and his crew, but it will still be bittersweet to say goodbye to trains that they have lovingly kept alive."

So they don't actually use DOS anymore, maybe, or possibly this just means they don't care because the new trains will soon replace the old ones and then DOS will be gone too. It's a poorly written article even allowing for the usual tech mistakes but either interpretation would be reasonable.
> Mixed DPI is basically unusable on Wayland due to X11 apps but last I checked, X doesn't even support this at all.

Xorg/RandR provides the necessary info, but it is up to the apps (really, toolkits) to work with that and to do it properly it needs the cooperation of both window managers and applications(toolkits) to define some messages/events for scaling, etc. It shouldn't be any different than the other common stuff between X clients, like ICCCM and EWMH (if anything, it should be part of a new version of EWMH), but nobody has bothered so far.

Also there is the -separate- issue where under XWayland, Wayland is lying to X about DPI so apps cannot scale themselves if needed. E.g. Lazarus/LCL has its own scaling logic which works even with the Gtk2 backend (Gtk2 has no scaling logic itself) under Xorg but under XWayland the compositor is lying to the program that is running at 96 (or whatever "non-hidpi") DPI and does bitmap scaling instead (so applications appear blurry). Or at least this is how it is under KDE (which is the only DE i have installed on my PC to use as a secondary environment for testing out stuff - i mainly use Window Maker myself as my main environment).
I am not sure this has been proven (at least within the M1 or M2, I seem to remember RISC-V cores in other places but cannot find a reference right now, so I might be misremembering). I think the parent is overly enthusiastic.

What we know is that Apple is hiring people with RISC-V experience. And it would be very off-character if they did not have at least a team somewhere working on it. You can bet that they would jump on it the moment it makes sense for them.
I think you are kinda right in that it might be very hard to get people out of homelessness, but what more housing could do is prevent homelessness in the first place.

Presumably most people start their lives as not homeless, and at some point that changes, because housing prices exceed their income. More housing would lead to lower housing prices and less homelessness.
The vast majority of homeless/unhoused people are completely normal healthy adults that had one bad turn in life and could not get back.

In a 2016 Census, only about 12% of the homeless population aged 15 and up were actually unable to work due to various maladies[0]. According to the same census report a whopping 62% of homeless males were currently employed.

The issue is not to just remember the 3 or 4 homeless people you've seen clearly dazed and likely unable to work, it's the thousands of people living in their car because rent is unaffordable for their income. That's the first point, abundance of housing lowers rents to the point of being affordable to Minimum-Wage workers.

Secondly, one of the first issues homeless shelters noticed is that employers require and address to even apply. So if one of those people living in their cars or under a bridge and still heading to work god forbid loses their job, they literally cannot apply to another one without a fixed address, another way affordable/abundant housing explicitly affects homeless employment.

The 12% that cannot work should probably not be on the street and should be cared for in shelters, but many shelters are filled with people who's employers underpay or pay an unlivable income and so also require shelters. Abundant housing thus allows people in the work-force to not be priced out of a roof, opening up shelters for those that cannot care for themselves.

More housing is a win-win-win. Except maybe it means aunt Karen notices more busses, which she doesn't like the sound of, hence no more developments to appease those with the ability to make their points to local government, at the cost of those that many people even avoid eye contact with.

[0] https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-cp5hpi/cp...
> If they don't, Google gets to decide if they put the material back up.

No they don't. If Google decides not to sue (which frankly seems likely given the precedent it risks setting), then they have to put the material back up.
Right! So 'legalese' could be generated from simpler diagrams which make edge cases much more evident.

I've always thought that statements of law are a centuries-long struggle to get to a level of expression that we achieve in computer programs.

We also have unit testing and versioning, plus a lot of other relevant processes.
It looks you're back here (or not removed yet) https://imgur.com/yCKetPI
Link to the resulting essay (for those that quickly got distracted by the great content, like I did): http://www.paulgraham.com/13sentences.html
So the value of gold should be exactly the same as the value of silver or coal then?
Twitter doesn't even let me click the link unless I signup or login. Great website.
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Yeah, look at Andes Technology for example. They are very big IP company and are doing lots of RISC-V stuff.

Of course ARM is still dominate but RISC-V is defiantly an option in that space that is growing.
> a non-point here from me but i only know of XOrg and Xfree86, and i think the last time i tried that, linux kernels started with a two.. :)

There is also Xenocara, but that is OpenBSD's Xorg almost-fork (they do track updates but also apply their own modifications).
A sequel/followup to Hackers today could be awesome. The characters all got the override beaten out of them by life. Rallied back together for one last mission.
That does not seem to be any different from how most people write I suppose?
Yeah you're right, this was a brainfart but after reconsidering that for 5 seconds it's clear to me this is too generic.

But since I didn't want to leave you hanging I thought about it a bit more and I came up with a list of websites that could potentially sponsor your newsletter. Sorry if this comes off as intrusive, this is just my brain not being able to let this go :)

1. Online antique stores: loveantiques.com / 1stdibs.com / rauantiques.com

2. (Online) magazines dedicated to classic art: minervamagazine.com / juxtapoz.com / artnews.com / theartnewspaper.com / artltdmag.com / aestheticamagazine.com (offers a subscription service)

3. Education dedicated to art: courtauld.ac.uk/study/ / corcoran.gwu.edu

I hope this helps!
Actually, we should keep up the pitchforks, but redirect them towards the legal frameworks that give private, unaccountable entities the power to unilaterally disrupt infrastructure with almost zero legal recourse.
Not building is a symptom of a larger problem, not the disease itself. The issue people take with your comment is that it has gotten to the point that building pretty much anything would alleviate the disease, and you are applying nuance where it is unneeded.
Imagine you built 400 million homes in San Francisco. Would every one be filled?

Programs show time and time again that housing homeless people massively helps and reduces the problem of homelessness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_First#Evidence_and_out...
Just to be "that guy" for a minute...

Windows 98? The DLR (Docklands Light Railway) still uses computers from the 80s for their self driving and signalling systems. They have a room full of them and when the last one dies, that's it.

London Underground were at one point the worlds largest manufacturer of vacuum tubes for their signal systems (can't buy them, I guess we have to build them)

Train systems are one of the ultimate examples of people not thinking long term, complex systems and infrastructure that cannot be closed even for a few days. So you often get these weird special cases.
'Bigteched'
Direct link to the content[1] if you don't want to load twitter. Context is that this is a live view of Paul Graham writing his "Startups in 13 Sentences"[2] article in real(ish?) time.

[1] https://byronm.com/13sentences.html

[2] http://www.paulgraham.com/13sentences.html
another reason to split Google & others into many smaller companies
> By the way, does anyone know of a VNC-like solution that can use MPEG compression?

You want xpra.
What country are you in?

In the UK, women aren't taking CS degrees. That's why I mention pedagogy. There's something in my country's culture that is planting the idea that girls don't code. "Planting ideas" is also the basis of teaching - it doesn't imply "pushing them" and it isn't opposed to "letting them sample".

I haven't come across any female devs at all in my company. We have diversity of skin colour and sexuality but not sex. So we haven't got any females to sit in on technical interviews.

Please, don't straw-man me as suggesting that female devs cannot be the best. My point is that there _aren't any_ female devs, and it looks like it's because girls _aren't interested_ in becoming devs, and here at least that is due to social conditioning afaics. You really missed my point there.

Keen to know what's different in your locale.
The Branton Files[1] set a high bar for this kind of conspiracist fantasy.

1: see: https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_autor_branton.htm (If you dare.)
- "It starts with the core points. and if you have more reading time you move the slider and more detail appears,"

That sounds like visibility cycling in org-mode (?)
Oh wow, I thought it was a paid service!
That is good! Thank you for the clarification !
ahem, try again with FACTS as I defaulted on loans for a STEM degree.
tip to anyone following the link: you can drag the progress bar at the top, and make the playback much faster.

one observation: PG does plenty of local edits (reworking over and over one sentence), but not so much changing the order of sentences, or moving paragraphs around -- these are the things that I have always been told (such as in college writing workshops) I should be doing. maybe such "macro" edits are not needed in such a short piece. and truth be told I never found much need for them either, even for pieces that are quite long.