skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are quite a few very minimalist people out there. I know several who don't own any tools at all and don't keep at even the crappy ones that come with furniture. Like, not even a single screwdriver, nothing at all. Tools don't spark joy and see use very infrequently, so they get tossed out, but that way a loose screw or a battery compartment with a screw on an item makes it effectively broken, possibly to be replaced with a new one. Then there's that remote acquaintance, late thirties, pretty well off, who last time I checked still owned just a single small table with a single chair. Guests were expected to not sit down at her place, she didn't have many. Not to speak of all the people who like to tag along on hikes way above the tree line wearing sneakers, all cotton clothes, no rain gear or the like and with a stylish little backpack because hiking boots or trailrunners would ruin their aesthetic etc.
The watch needs updated GPS ephemeris data to accurately calculate the position, received by an aGPS (Assisted GPS) server (over IP) or by satellite.
This takes at least 30 seconds by satellite.

Solution: Tether with IPhone before leaving until fix is achieved, otherwise keep watch outside or near a window for 10-15 minutes before running so that it can update its almanac from overhead satellites and get a fix.

There is no software solution. Buy a newer watch with cellular connectivity and aGPS-support.
It also doesn't account for wage disparities. Even if I accept the premise that wages cannot increase without increasing either unemployment or inflation, it still doesn't follow that increasing the minimum wage imposes the same requirement. Under that model, employment/inflation could also be kept constant by increasing wages to workers while decreasing wages to management, or by increasing wages to both workers and management while decreasing rent extraction (e.g. stock buybacks, dividends).
I wonder how many UPS trucks full of hard drives Youtube uses in a day.
Well, or automation just is less convenient/isn't as good. We'll probably see a lot more self-service at stores for example which (depending) I don't really like but if you have to wait 20 minutes in the one open cashier line, I guess you adjust. Repeat for ordering at restaurants, etc. And other tasks just get more expensive and you either just do them yourself, pay more, and/or wait longer.
Or about the same as the shock you get from touching a doorknob after scuffing your feet on the carpet.
Honestly I don’t think Deuter’s advice and yours differ that much. You’re not going to carry weight below your belt line, because if you do you’re wasting energy moving it back and forth as you walk. You’re not going to carry weight above your shoulders, because it’s pretty damn dangerous in anything approaching technical terrain (throws off your center of gravity too much, and risks causing uncontrolled head first falls). So you’re left with how you distribute weight along your back. Deuter’s advice doesn’t distinguish, but the usual thing is heavy, dense things go on the lower back, and as you move up the back you put still-heavy but less dense things, and then lighter but dense, etc. Your sleep system goes at the very bottom, usually in its own compartment, and you put lighter stuff along the outside. This means when you rotate your body, the heavy stuff is close into your center of mass and easily controlled. You reserve the top of the pack for heavily accessed, light stuff.

They don’t say this explicitly, but the entire logic of the system revolves around having things that will throw you off your stance as close to your body as possible, so that you remain stable as you move.
First I've heard of auto-repost. Is this documented somewhere? Is there evidence that it exists?
That's what DEC did, they ported VMS to Alpha. No virtualization necessary.

OpenVMS is still out there and used by people, but VAX is dead. As is DEC :/.
Are you saying this is a Russia sponsored article?
Democrats are going to get annihilated in the midterms because of this.
Netflix was famously "All in" on AWS for quite a while.
Yawn.

Raise pay, train on the job, hire competent managers that fire people who do nothing, improve working conditions. (For example, public universities are filled with administrators who don’t do anything useful at all)

It’s not a “crisis” it’s just competitive pressure. There’s nothing quite like people not needing your shitty jobs to improve conditions.
More perspective on the 32016 vs. the ARM1:

There were about 25K transistors total, in the KISS-or-die ARM1 chip ( https://www.theregister.com/2015/11/28/arm1_visualized/ ).

vs.

There were about 60K transistors in the NS32016 chip, which had to implement features like virtual memory ( http://cpu-ns32k.net/CPUs.html ).

A quote on the 32016, from the latter source: "It is one thing to define a superior architecture on paper. But it is another thing to implement all the required functionality with a limited budget of time and man power." Sounds like NS was really skimping on resources for the 32016. (Wikipedia claims NS had $1 billion in annual sales by 1981, which was Serious Money back then. Vs. the article makes it pretty clear how much leaner things were at Acorn Computer.)
The pandemic had the effect of the wake-up call of "Why hustle all of your life, enjoy it more, for it may end sooner than you expect.", although I don't know how great that effect is.

Maybe in the West/all over the world the workers have also noticed that the wealth is getting funneled more towards the top (Bezos can now send Captain Kirk up to the sky in a penis and buy a yacht that made headlines because a bridge in the Netherlands had to be allegedly disassembled so it would fit through...).

Even in China the youth are (or they were, was it just a fad?) doing the "lie flat" movement that the government has made statements of "Everyone has to work hard for the greater good!".
https://archive.ph/2022.09.25-113932/https://www.theatlantic...
iCloud may be secure, but private? No end-to-end encryption and Apple scans the user's content. It's no better than Google Photos in that regard.
Combine the financial stingyness of pretty much every manager anywhere with the self righteousness of people who truly treat you like you are their Victorian era servant as in their minds they own you for paying you.

Customer service people get treated like this all the time, public or private sector.
> This is deleterious beyond just economics. Put people out of a job and they go sick, die more frequently and have a general unpleasant time.

This "people are going die" justification has been behind so much catastrophically unwise policy, because there is no argument against it that matches the visceral alarms-blaring rhetoric. It's a blunt weapon and there's not a matching response, since the honest & sincere response is abstract arguments about the fallibility of human judgement & how every decision has costs and benefits, intended and unintended, associated with estimated probabilities.

The problem is that this inflation is so obviously tied to the moral hazard of 2008, bailing out corporations (a result of progressive policy arguing to protect people) and then, the very much similar in spirit, policy enacted during the pandemic. Even 9/11 & the whole apparatus of the 2000s is similar in spirit. All these things were enacted under the pretense of emergency & collectivism. Totalitarian rhetoric and orwellian redefinitions of language were used to silence & stigmatize opposition. Money was printed recklessly in order to finance even more precarious and unsustainable economic dynamics & govt projects.

Guess what? It's all crashing down now. This isn't austerity & libertarianism. Those people have practically no power, only a handful of politicians qualify for that label. We're ruled by big government. The New Deal won over American government, and by any reasonable analysis has reigned supreme ever since and these are the results. Constant crises spilling over into each other, eking out a couple years of relief before the dam gets ready to burst again even more spectacularly.
That's surprising to me. Canada has a reputation where I am for being generally pro-immigration and friendly to immigrants. Is this not the case, or is it specifically different in Quebec?
I am not a lisp person, but it is just a configuration file with key value pairs and lists, mostly copy pasted from the documentation or other ppl configurations. A file with all configs in the same place in an unified way

Also each configuration file in Linux has already has their differences and quirks
Unemployment is still near record low levels.

The Fed isn't firing people - they are correctly raising interest rates to keep up with inflation.

There's not much wiggle room for them.

If we all want this problem to go away, we should be focusing on improving our own energy independence and energy transportation quickly and ending the war in Ukraine which is disrupting markets and causing economic havoc in Europe.
I think in a good faith situation, a scaling back while transitioning out is totally fair. That's a far cry different from intentionally trying to figure out how to do the bare minimum while also refusing to look elsewhere though. I think we are on the same page.
Inflation is high because demand exceeds supply. You have to reduce demand to match the available supply. Interest rates are the main tool to do that.

This is true even if the ultimate cause is supply chain issues.
You live in the world 4chan made and don't even realize it.
> Programs are written first and foremost to be read by other humans

extremely bold assumption. plenty of write-only or use-once code in the wild.
Yeah, you're right. I was blanking on the name of the predecessor.
> It's frustrating to live in Canada and be told we're the biggest problem in the world with our 2% of all emissions.

It's frustrating to live in china and told we're the biggest problem in the world, even we're responsible for less than 15% of carbon in the atmosphere. Wealthy countries like Canada and the US have profited from blowing carbon in the atmosphere over centuries and got wealthy from it, but now refuse to lower their emissions and blame us for wanting to get rich too.

It's all a question of framing.
Historical note: Big Pink is a house that's famous in rock history [1]. The Band called an album "Music from Big Pink."

You can rent it on AirBNB now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Pink
‘I’m Dropping My Covid Hubris,’ Vows a Top Immunologist
Lots of comments saying more immigration is the answer. Perhaps historically that has helped. But it’s a worrying position, and here’s why:

1) implicitly you are saying that lots of public sector jobs are so bad they can/should only be done by “others” that move “here” to do them for us.

2) who will do the crappy jobs where the immigrants came from?

Getting immigrants to do exclusively jobs that locals won’t do feels like a bandaid to me. Does anyone else worry about this?
Race to the bottom, as in the price of labor was racing to the minimum. Not really ironic, people with little other opportunity will be the happiest to work for the least.

I’m not prescribing right or wrong to the situation, just what is
Aah I realized the www prefix is not working with https. I have fixed the URL for now without www prefix.
Go will give me VSS of hundred of Gigabits on a MIPS board that has only 64MB memory, it's a known 'feature' by design. Its binary size is at least 10x larger than C/C++.

Go also has the stop-the-world GC problem, GC is great but it does have a price tag.

I like Go a _lot_ and use it in some projects, but I certainly will not claim it can replace C++ 'generally', not at all.
Only tangentially related but I just checked the Google Photos iOS app to see if any of mine are corrupted, and it won't even allow me to view my cloud photos without giving it full permission to all current photos on my device?! Isn't this against the app store policy? You can't deny me access to one feature just because I refuse to grant permissions to a different feature.

But because it's Google I'm sure they can break whatever rules they want as long as it doesn't involve trying to avoid Apple's 30% fees.
The thing vendors care about more than anything is making upstream work supported.

Google isn't even complaining about things, this is a very dry technical document about their experience, for an amount of work they certainly expected and were possibly even pleasantly surprised about.

These sorts of things are routine in massive code bases
See also https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all (`ripgrep`, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc.)
See my comment elsewhere in this thread, where I argue that Go is a good replacement for C/C++ for almost all purposes.
Except that kids were eating tide pods (before the challenges) and that increased during the fame of those challenges. Reports from poison center seems to say there is a clear link.
Or we could just automate more and innovate, instead of spending most of our time & energy & capital on leveraged speculation that the Fed will continue to endlessly pump up asset prices...
Perhaps the original document was created in FrameMaker, but this particular document was obviously scanned from a hardcopy.
Canadian tech boom is fizzling out as more startups cut jobs, fight to survive
I remember when I went to sixth form in the early nineties they had a couple of the Archimedes machines around the place - but all the kids, and staff, used the x86 machines (running GEM IIRC) instead.

I had a couple of friends at the time who'd owned BBC Machines, but most people had the ZX Spectrum or Commodore 64. I never knew anybody who personally owned an Archimedes at all, and other than seeing them at the sixth form I never saw any at all in the wild.
It's easy to scapegoat the Fed for the ongoing recession and inevitable layoffs.
for me, main thing is turning on the (now native) vim emulation which is decent though missing some things (dot operator please!), and learning the keyboard shortcuts for the various UI panes

for "prettier" all I've ever needed is just auto indentation of a block, which works fine

other than that, I just submit to what Xcode is and live with it
Embarrasing that you are so unaware that you present this story as anything but a failure on your own part. Yeah, so you chose a language that you didn’t know for a task that you needed done in 24 hours? Whew, that’s an unforced-error story for the campfire.
And risk taking is not related to intelligence.
> slightly different every time we look back, but with no way of knowing what's changed

This is already the case with different image compression algorithms improving on one another. Users couldn't and shouldn't tell the difference between JPG, or slightly smaller / resized JPG, or WebP, or whatever. I personally don't think image hosts should have to alert users when making undetectable changes to their images like this.
You misunderstood the term infrastructure here. Almost no one considers edge services “infra”.
Treasuries go up to 30 year maturities. In fact, the 30 year Treasury used to be the leading indicator for the bond market. Most use the 10 year now though.
I started reading the link "bans everything to start with anyway" in the slides:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/styleg...

And I noticed the ban of shared_ptr and <chrono>.
I know the use of shard_ptr should be done cautiously, but just banning it from use? How do the Chromium devs solve a problem that requires shared ownership?
I guess you can come a long way with singletons and consumer/producer queues. But are raw-pointers just used instead of shared_ptr when shared ownership is needed?

Also banning use of <chrono> ?

Can someone try to explain the possible reasons?
What are people using C and C++ for that you can comfortably use Go instead?
How to survive a lightning strike (2014)
You pass off your dirty work to the most desperate players, and the frugal companies even resort to using political prisoners and children as laborers. These companies aren't saviors, they're accutely aware of the living conditions and actively exploit it.
It’s not about enjoying doing nothing.

It is that going out of your way in the public sector is not rewarded and just gets you dragged into meetings, so if your manager isn’t telling you what to do, why not just sit on your ass?

The public sector’s motivation problem is relying on intrinsic motivations.

Why do they rely on intrinsic motivations? As the public screams when they hear of people getting large raises or bonuses.
This is the thing I don’t get. Yes, those animals are exploited for food, but it’s not like you need to eat animals to live. You could very well thrive on plants exclusively, but you choose not to. Why, and I ask this not out of spite but honest curiosity, do sentient beings have to die for your diet?
> You were set up for failure: "do something for tomorrow in a new complex technology, and present in front of multiple peers".

Perhaps you missed this part

> > Decided to try the last part in rust...
What you do is not trust a single article. You download about a dozen in the field, including review articles if you can. You look for journal titles and journal rankings. And check whether the authors come from well-known research institutions. Click on the "cited by" link and check the papers that cited them if there are any refutations. Looking through 30-40 papers sounds like a lot but it only takes a couple weeks at most and it's not a lot of work at all if the issue is really important to you.
I read it as history, as I see anything religious; interesting folklore and history.
Except in that case it lasts for 0 seconds, which is why you don't die. Something that's trying to use it to fly, that seems unlikely to be how it works.
Quebec is effectively a country within a country. Even our legal systems differ in some major ways (this is why you often see contests that aren't valid in Quebec)!
The unmentioned reason is that, even in the UK, cannabis use is growing. Given the choice between the two - especially with the gender differences mentioned - it seems obvious why people would choose weed over booze or nothing over both.
> what options do I have? I have to pick up c++ in this case. it falls to the saying "a language is either blamed, or nobody uses it".

You could just use C.
The local ZFS array is the “source of truth”. ZFS has built-in end-to-end checksumming. I also have a monthly scrub that should correct any untouched corrupt blocks.

Details on ZFS checksums: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Basic%20Concepts/Chec...
https://archive.ph/z1QKG
Can you connect the dots for "garbage not getting picked up/shitty roads" with tech industry and immigration?
An economic system that demands people must work to obtain food and housing, but also demands a certain percentage of the population needs to be unemployed is barbaric.
I'm worried about how this reality is leading to the formation of a modern slavery system. That might seem hyperbolic but I can assure all who read this, it is not.

In the US especially, it cannot be forgotten why people from Central and South America are flooding the southern border. It's because of the US's meddling in the affairs of other nations, particularly via the War on Drugs.

So if the immigrants are supposed to take these public sector jobs because the current citizens refuse to do them, it would be considerably more ideal if they were to not take them under duress, which the US actively caused.
Does memory_order_consume count?

> people often suggest features that they don’t realise would be catastrophic for performance if implemented, or are sometimes literally impossible to implement.

Oh, that's every language.
This completely misses the point. It's almost like you didn't even read the article. He makes clear they were by no means perfect, nor did they genuinely see themselves that way. Where the Buddhists' self-reflection was to accept reality, the puritans strove to change the self. This doesn't mean they all succeeded. You just want to denounce everyone else as imperfect (which is easy to do). You might try the Puritans' advice and look at your own failings first.
Having come from a poor American community into the tech world, I oppose justifying immigration with filling tech jobs. There are a whole lot of people in country already very capable of learning to fill these jobs and very little industry or state encouragement or support to help them.

Siphoning away the most ambitious and capable people from around the world also hurts the places they are from.

To be clear I do support immigration, just not as an easier to acquire and cheaper source of skilled labor.
Ask HN: Any good podcast or blog on the US states that always run a deficit?
Do other large language models perform well on this task, e.g. EleutherAI models?
I developed in ObjC till 2016, so my opinion are dated but:

- Xcode is an acquired taste. A bit slow and crash prone, but most of my issues came from the frameworks. Completion and linting were good enough and the integration with dtrace was enough to help me move faster than my colleagues. I even did use Xib :D

- I tried multiple time app code: it’s not good either. In fact, I don’t like most of the jet rains product, but they’re easier to set up than the competition so….

- but now I’m back to nvim or emacs.

I don’t develop as my job anymore, so my tooling seems pretty barebone to what seems to be the trend :) I nearly make do with the Processing/Arduino IDE and they’re both horrible.
FFMPEG hasn't even implemented VVC yet, and neither have web browsers, so Netflix can't just make "a mere function call" to get H.266 support.
The Pandemic confined me to my home and I only drank at parties. So, I basically quit drinking without even trying.
That thread spent 4 hours on the front page, so I don't know if not getting front page exposure was the issue there.

Lists of front page stories, ordered by the amount of time they spent on the front page, can be found by clicking 'past' in the top bar.
Submissions in Active Threads [1] typically stick around longer. It often happens that my favorite submission of the day appears on the first page of Active Threads and is gone from the first four regular pages.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/active
Itanium is responsible for the best graph on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium#/media/File:Itanium_Sa...
Republicans operate differently at the federal level than they do at the State and Local level...
System Crafters Live – A First Look at Guix Home
Apple plans to reduce emissions by 75% till 2030 and fill the gap with carbon offsets, which unfortunately all-too-often don't mean anything. Reducing their emissions by 75% is an admirable goal, filling the gap with carbon offsets and advertising with them not so much.
If avoiding animal protein stunts growth, doesn’t that mean we should be consuming it?

I can’t help but think people lack other things by avoiding it in their adult life.
This article already didn't really interest me, so I don't even know exactly clicked on it... but when it came to the baloney on how "gender" is related to it, I'm sorry, I just couldn't read on.
> Although I think it's fair to characterize the left as favoring collectivism, I don't think it's fair to characterize them as following government rules any more than the right.

Left/right are really just meaningless words in 2022. The woke left of today is literally as intolerant of any belief outside their moral code as the evangelical religious right is—-to the point that but for their beliefs they are indistinguishable from each other in terms of willful authoritarian support.

They are equally destructive and equally bad in my opinion as both want government or community to bend the will of everyone outside their group to the morals of their group.