skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not my kit here... But...

About 20 years ago (in college, of course) I ran OpenBSD on an UltraSparc 5 as our network router.

We had hundreds of meters of Ethernet cable running across the house and out through the windows - by way of a LinkSys switch - as it was the most "economical" route for the network.

WiFi back then was new, expensive, and comparatively slow. Sub 9ms ping is what we needed for gaming, and 54mbit wasn't gonna do it.

I worked hard on the firewall rules, and it had zero downtime, felt like a real sysadmin.

Maybe I was.
Isn't that what Western Union is doing, rather well and gobally?
I did not perceive the message as positive, but as rather sad. The protagonist is all work on a war machine while he looses a beloved one. In the end it surely made me (as an engineer) reflect on the role I am playing.
Money is vain. They got much more out of it and the post very clearly states that.
While seated, place your feet flat on the floor while bending the knees so that the toes go behind the vertical plane of the knees. (Z shaped legs basically)

Place your hand on the back of the upper portion of the calf, right under the knee. Keeping the foot on the floor and the leg in the same Z position, try to "slide" it backwards with as much force as possible but so it doesn't actually slip. You will feel muscle tension with your hand. That's the gastrocnemius muscle. You can probably contract it at will as well, so much that it cramps, that's the one. You don't want to flex it on either side of the calf.

Now lean your body onto your leg (same position) with your elbow on top of the knee. Try to lift your heel up with your weight on top of the knee, while not tensing the gastroc (feeling it using the opposite hand), i.e. avoid trying to move the foot backwards, only lift the heel up. I am pretty sure this loads up the soleus muscle instead, that sits underneath the gastroc. You can feel it tense up if you place the opposite hand around the lower part of the calf, above the ankle, to the sides of where the curve of the gastroc transitions into the achilles tendon.

Now this is pretty difficult to do without putting your weight on top of your leg, but I think after you identify the correct muscle it becomes much easier to do without tools. I had some success by trying to push the floor away with the balls of the feet while raising the heel and monitoring the gastroc with the opposite hand. After you do some of those loaded seated calf raises, the soleus muscle tends to become tense and stays tense for a while, you can feel it especially in the lower calf. This is probably how it eats up so much energy.

Another way to load these muscles is to sit, bend your knees and spread them out while raising the heels, lean forward and place your elbows on your spread knees, shifting some of your weight on top of them. Then try rocking forwards and backwards while moving your heels up and down. Your lower calves will quickly start to burn, but they take a while to truly tire out. Which I guess is the point. :)
The Linux kernel has a constant stream of fairly severe, exploitable bugs caused by memory safety errors, not to mention non-exploitable bugs that lead to system instability or even data loss.

Just a few months back there was a bug that allowed any completely unprivileged user to elevate straight to root using a combination of unprivileged user namespaces and cgroups. Other than RCE or severe data loss, I would say this is one of the most severe forms of bugs possible in a kernel. For some period of time the kernel's basic security features were completely ineffective, and this is possibly one of the most widely used kernels in the world!

Severe security related bugs are really common with our OS's and user space software, and we just pretend that it's not a problem. When your kernel can't even offer basic security isolation between users in a reliable manner, when visiting a malformed website with your browser results in arbitrary code execution, or when a malformed message sent to you phone can completely own it, I would say there is a serious problem.
You are rather misinformed on specifics and nuances, thus building your arguments on quite a lot of false assumptions, but at this point I'm kinda lazy to address multiple points at the same time.

Consider that quite a lot of what you hear is a wartime propaganda and everyone is lying. But, one could treat this as kind of a poker game and infer quite a lot from it: e.g. in his last speech Zelensky accused Russia of attacking infrastructure. But why would he do that if that was supposedly true from day 1? Why the sudden change of rhetoric on what is supposed to be non-news and yet-another-day-of-the-same-thing? Maybe cuz this time Russians had actually started doing this on purpose, rather than as random collateral?

Same for all the "evil Russians rape and torture" - Zelensky ended up firing the official who was pushing this narrative. Why? Maybe cuz their latest ramblings became so incoherent, it might have caused suspicion and could have hurt the public image?

> Id still say it’s pretty comparable given it’s distance.

Distance to what?
IMO, the most comparable thing to Iraq would be Russian campaign in Syria.
'Fat Leonard,' Fugitive in Navy Bribery Case, Caught in Venezuela
Maybe it's a typo and should read "no, pay to win" :)

I think they were originally meaning you could grind for any content in the game and still be competitive... I haven't seriously followed the development for many years (just checking in every now and then out of morbid curiosity) so I'm not sure how true that remains.
I went through a CLI phase were I tried to do everything there, including calendar, sideshows, email etc.

The thing that makes Kanban useful is the collaboration in a team. I doubt a whole team would agree to use this tool though.
It's the opposite: "original" writing, even the vapid kind, used to be a luxury but is becoming a commodity.
> "It's hard to classify what it is [...] Maybe it's a "demo"?"

Exactly, those are demos, and while I believe it's slightly different there's a whole culture around it that I've never been aware until recently called "demoscene"! I even have a small "Demos" section on my website with a bunch of those, not to the same level of quality though since for me it'd be a bit more like "self-contained small experiments that resulted in something cool so I put it together as a demo":

- "Zoom", hyperdrive-like effect: https://francisco.io/demo/zoom/

- "Tree generation", specify a JSON/HTML structure and it'll generate a tree: https://francisco.io/demo/tree/ (disc: it was inspired by a broken demo I saw from someone else)

- "Stereo Depth", calculate depth of a couple of stereo images using JS: https://francisco.io/demo/depth/

- "Terminal player", specify a bunch of commands in plain text and they'll be "played" like a video: https://francisco.io/demo/terminal/
I use taskell just for the vim keybindings :)
Simple and renders to markdown lists.
I'm in my late 20s, still dream about school. But it's not like in the article. I almost never stressed about exams much. I never have any nightmares about it. Just dream about being in class, hanging out with people. I attended 3 schools total (primary, mid, high) and all occur in the dreams. Sometimes the people get mixed up, i.e. the class consists of a mix of colleagues from mid and high, or more rarely, the primary pops up. That's kinda weird when I think about it.
Is it you-eye-fy or oo-wee-fy?
Power Transition Trends 2022 (Bloomberg NEF) [pdf]
I see, so we allow the ideas that you agree with, and ban the ones you don't. FREE SPEECH!
Fantastic website.

The history of nutrition claims seems to be full of failures (e.g. "butter is bad, substitute with margarine" -> "margarine is bad", "fat is bad" -> "carbs are bad"). From someone who is ignorant of Nutrition research I have always wondered if the main issue is that the best research is not communicated because it is not convenient for business or government. So although some researchers are aware that current advice is likely to be harmful, they don't have the power to change the messaging.
I doubt that workers doing less from home is true. Probably they just now realize how terribly inefficient the average white collar worker is. People are very adept at being unproductive in the workspace while looking productive and busy. Remove the smokeskreen ...
From what I know its that prick tests are done after someone has allergy problems to find out what foods or substances trigger the allergy. That can then be used to narrow things down significantly.
> So it is not, at all, strange to ask about what are the interests of all the parties involved

Not only it is not strange but it is indeed what any decent analysis should do. What is a shame is that it is actually rather rare in the media.
Don't you slip into the void every night?
And while we’re at it, let’s bring back rack mount chassis. The rack mount market is appalling at the moment. If you don’t want the volume sales model imported to your region, your stuck getting overpriced models shipped at overpriced rates all the way from the increasingly limited number of manufacturers in china/India/etc, many of which are slowly sliding into overpriced industrial only markets. I bought one at full list price and shipping that had so little care put into it they didn’t even take the protective plastic wrap off the metal subcomponents before slamming them together! All because I wanted a generic 3U chassis to put together a compute node with low profile network cards. I looked at getting an empty chassis to just go open frame drill my own holes and it would have cost more to get a hollow sheet metal tube 3U high than the rack mount unit I bought… ridiculous!
Indeed, Backstage is a framework for creating a developer portal, not a ready-made product.

I used to work on a consultancy (https://frontside.com) who's specializing in adopting Backstage at Fortune 500s like HP. When you adopt Backstage at scale, you rely on processors that scan your LDAP, GitHub, etc to discover, stitch, and feed cohesive data to the software catalog. HP is giving a talk next month on how they manage 100,000+ entities in Backstage.

Backstage does a lot of heavy lifting that I'd rather use than have to build from scratch.
Let's also not forget that the Indian subcontinent will be too hot to feasibly live in in the next 50 to 100 years. As someone who came from there, there is no way I'd go back to live in India given that fact alone, not to even mention any others.
pls no, stop
The Ciao System
Why is it so hard to think about releasing them in a forest or in a field?

They don't eat wheat or corn, so that would be a solution, also they don't eat trees, so the forest is safe.

They will always find what they need in a forest, and in a lesser extent in a field, as they can lunch on whatever decomposed food or smaller animals they find. Very unlikey that they starve to death, at worst they just don't have enough stamina to reproduce, which is the natural way to autoregulate.

And a starved insect will slow down its metabolism and then die peacefully, there is no need to "show mercy" by putting it to death lol.
The Daily Mail is probably the single most effective print publication anywhere in the world. It knows exactly what its readers want and gives it to them. Like it or not, that kind of content is what's in demand.
When a VC Passes, and Is Wrong
Same here -- my classmates and I go back to high school for taking one history class, as due to administrative difficulties one requirement for the degree was not met, and noone noticed until now. I went there more than 20 years ago.
> or return a pointer to a local variable that's about to go out of scope

I thought of that recently. I wonder about using escape analysis to detect that and simply don't release the stack frame until the reference goes out of scope.
Making a Desk with 10k Recycled Chopsticks
Well done, nice job rising to the challenge! I definitely did not care enough to do it myself, so I applaud you. I just tried it out and it's perfect.

To be clear, since of course this is the internet and one must be precise or else get nit-picked and "outplayed," I obviously meant 5 minutes for the author who already knows the layout of the code. Obviously. Any charitable interpretation would have taken that as a given. 25-40 minutes sounds more appropriate for a newcomer examining it for the first time.
> But my question is actually about the Apache Software Foundation: why would they be invested in long-standing values of Chinese civilization?

It's just a project name. And the name was not chosen by ASF, rather accepted by them as per their terms:

https://infra.apache.org/project-names.html
We’re in the process of adding them
How is the switch to electric cars a "staggering scale"? It is done as part of the natural renewal. Cars are driven for 10-15 years until they are scrapped and replaced with a new car. This should be electric the next time around. So the effort to build them is about the same as to build the next ICE car you would have bought otherwise. Yes, it requires retooling in the factories, but partially that also happens between car generations.

I am all for reducing the share of cars in traffic, but that will take quite some time and not replace all cars. So we need more environment friendly cars and those would be electric.
"Sedentary overweight people tend to become very inefficient at metabolizing fat. At anything higher than a slow walking pace, for example, they will begin the cutover to glycogen and turn down fat metabolism."

Hm...very interesting. So is there an ideal protocol for fat mobilization in sedentary people? Asking for a friend.
"It provides up to 50% higher compression ratios than H.264."
Those PCMCIA linksys cards were amazing back in the day, especially since they did come with windows 98 drivers. You literally could grab any old laptop and make it into what a pi is today.

They even had CF/PCMICA wifi cards for PDA's and such. While this thread/topic isn't about that or such, I rushed to recall netsumbler and wardriving.
What do you think will happen to the bulk of the population in this time?
Modern engines also do a lot of streaming data to VRAM, rather than loading everything up front. So it’s not necessarily a single delay and could very well impact framerates etc.
I was thinking what was the gold card and kept thinking of cryix cpu's, but it was Orinoco! Those were worth their weight in gold and hard to find compared to linksys pcmicia.

And then having to do some ndis wrapper fun with linksys or intel cards. Wow.

And even then, no packet injection!
Just to point that water is almost exactly 1000 times thicker than air
Edit: 800 times if we have to be precise
Presumably because organisations are just groups of people and in this case a bunch of Chinese people contributed to the code. The top contributor is located in Beijing according to their GitHub profile.
Current monitors can be raised on their stand, maybe future monitors could be lowered in front of whatever they’re on top of?
It’s possible that you’re being a well meaning jerk. I said why I’d value it. Why not just let me value it?
Those things are neither smart nor contracts.

They are just pieces of code in esoteric programming languages running on world's slowest VMs. They encode primitive trivial rulesets and are still so complex that their own authors fail to see trivial errors even after multiple audits.

An actual real world contract such as buying or selling property (which I've done several times now) would be a beast of such byzantine proportions that it would take until the heat death of the universe to write and audit it. And it would still be unenforceable after that.
I clicked because it's a naturally interesting topic because I (like many others) have this dream, and I usually find The Atlantic to be good quality.

But this doesn't give any meaningful answer to the question, just some speculation that anyone could make and which doesn't seem to be backed by any scientific evidence (of course, I'm aware there is probably no such evidence, but they could be more straightforward about the answer to the title question being "we have no idea").
Those who are rich enough (or those who seek asylum and are accepted) will leave, and those who are not able to leave will literally roast alive. We are already seeing this today [0], so in 50 to 100 years, the temperatures will be such that no human will be able to live there anymore.

[0] https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-change-made-...
I never experienced any anxiety from exams or performing well in the elementary school. School was easy for me and also, coming from one of the Nordic welfare countries, I never thought that my life would somehow be ruined if I didn't do well in school. I felt much more anxiety about other kids in school since I was quite nerdy and didn't fit in well.

Consequently, I never have dreams about exams. However, I do have dreams that I have to go back to school as an adult for some reason (usually because I missed some classes or exams or something and I have to do them now). The dreams are also never about the actual classrooms but just hanging around in the school with the teenagers and feeling weird about it.
Just because this post made me remind this page, which may be useful for people looking for stuff to read: https://hackernewsbooks.com/top-books-on-hacker-news
GCC Rust Monthly Report #20 August 2022
Northrop Grumman to Unveil the B-21 Raider
I use to ask people about the thing exposed in your photo (why the seasons change, what the moon phases means) to make a quick test about random interlocutor's intelligence to see is it worth to keep discussion. Your father passed this test in absentia.
Context https://signal.org/blog/run-a-proxy/
If you give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, I will move the world.

The length of the 3090 with air cooling is what makes it so heavy on the PCIE connector - localized coldplate weight is not an issue.
Really bizarre that the whole asset class is labelled "crypto" when it's not even traceable. The blockchain being an unalterable ledger makes this generation of cryptocurrencies weirdly public. Perhaps in the future there will be true crypto currency.
I have an SDIO 802.11b wifi card for one of my PDA's.
SD card formfactor.

It's interesting that SDIO has survived to this day as an interface. Just mostly staying on the same board between some SoC and peripherals.
Introduction to Fahrenheit 451 by Neil Gaiman (2013) [pdf]
The article said Dolby prefers to charge on the playback side. Does anyone know if Apple pays Dolby anything? iPhones produce a lot of content so it makes sense for Dolby to provide Apple with free licensing if it popularises the formats.
EU: More protection for victims of artificial intelligence
”So once all that is done, the user needs to click away cookie consent banner, newsletter sign-up and the continue reading button. And only now can we stop the clock on "time to read content".”

You forgot the paywall that you will see at this point.

Maybe there is also a customer service bot saying: ”Hey! Ask me about our special offer on 12 month subscription!”
I develop very complicated software for a living and as always, there are some features that will take an unreasonable amount of time. On large documents, you have customers wait 5 seconds for a regular operation (that you may need to complete dozens of times in a row).

And yet when you ask customers whether they want more features, or a faster program it's invariably features. Fix a bug or add a feature? Add a feature. Improve perf or add a feature? Add a feature.

My own tolerance for delays is tiny, but my "average users" seem to not suffer from it at all. I guess the reason is this: they know how much time something took before. They know that if this takes 10 seconds and it took them an hour to do on paper, that's quick. Meanwhile for me I'm in the IDE having a 200ms keystroke delay and I'm almost having a heart attack.
> One in eight US-trained tenure-track faculty members got their PhDs from just five elite universities: the University of California, Berkeley; Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts; the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; Stanford University in California; and the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

It's worth noting that 3 of these 5 are public — only 2 are private. I was expecting to see a list of Ivies, but there's only one on the list. Things are much more skewed among law professors, who are mostly from Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Chicago, and Michigan.

> This picture of elitism is bolstered by a study published last month in Nature Human Behaviour, showing that almost 25% of faculty members in the United States have at least one parent with a PhD (in the general population, less than 1% of people have a parent with a PhD).

What a silly comparison. University faculty are not selected from "the general population" — only people with PhDs (or JDs/MBAs/MDs, in certain fields) can get these positions. The relevant baseline percentage is: what percent of people seeking faculty positions (i.e., people with the requisite terminal degree) have a parent with a PhD?

Otherwise you're comparing (1) people who successfully got a job with tons of requirements with (2) Americans, generally. If you're going to do that, why not use the average rate worldwide, which would undoubtedly be even lower? Plenty of professors were born outside the US, after all!

A faulty comparison like this calls into question the seriousness of the article.

EDIT: another commenter linked to a list of the schools with the largest number of PhD graduates. [1] It turns out that all but one of the 5 schools listed here is on the top 10 list for volume of graduates. So the conclusion is: the schools with the most PhD graduates...produce a large chunk of professors? Not a huge surprise.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32945639
> I remember getting to college and being wildly unprepared for everything. School before then was devastatingly boring and fostered very little independence.

College wise, what I recall was a lot of freshmen who just couldn't be assed to wake up for class or do homework without parents on their case. Especially with the dorm basically being a 24/7 LAN party, and I recall one dude who just watched like, every DVD ever. The coursework itself in freshman year was comparatively breezey.

For school before then, I suppose it depends on your definition of boring and independence. IEPs for gifted kids can put you into advanced classes of all kinds. It's still very much on rails, so I'd liken the independence to a choose your own adventure book. And, sure you can do AP English instead of normal english but you have to read like, Bronte and Hurston, so the boring is only far off.
APU*, for accelerated processing unit. Essentially a CPU with integrated graphics, but the graphics cores can also be used for traditional CPU computing if it's not being used for graphics.

They can't put anything bigger because they run into heat, power, and memory limits.
This short essay is good philosophy, but doesn't seem very connected with reality. No, search engines and browsers don't permanently cache permanent redirects. Yes, you should probably use unique usernames instead of reusing them. The second fully mitigates the first, for this particular situation.
> it is not necessary

For the price of increased breakage rate.

And then people still wonder why many big projects keep choosing Java instead of Ruby.
Why Black Holes Are Astonishing
We should minimize the use of C and C++, and use safer languages instead, regardless of which.

However in many domains the only mature options are C and C++, in which case my option will always be C++.

There are lots of areas where Rust is still quite behind managed languages and C++, in IDE tooling, libraries, infrastructure.
Or best research is boring and does not make for good headlines, will not sell books or get you invited to conferences and TV to talk about it.
I'm sorry, what? Single-camera, no laugh track has been an extremely common format for sitcoms for the last twenty years.