skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, fully agreed with your take. I dont remember celebrating it even once, aside from a few times when I was keeping company to my grandma who was observing it. And even then, it could hardly be called a celebration.

Also, Christmas in Russia isn't celebrated on the same date as in the US either (Dec 25th), it is around Jan 7th or so due some old-time disagreements about calendar system transitions.
As someone interested in Front End, and to some extent also Backend so in that regard, full stack, please do start a wiki.
Something, something, defined benefit, it seems.

I had no idea defined benefit pensions were still a thing.
Edging mostly.
That's not the hidden one that one is given to you on a plate.

The hidden one is different: that's the one where you have to wait for a dialog option to appear and has a prerequisite that is a little harder to get then the prerequisite for "the star".
Writing code is rarely the problem anyway. Understanding the problem and devising a suitable solution given the full context is where the magic is. And since most humans have a hard time even accurately describing a problem and full context, there's no threat that AI will replace developers.

If we can build up an immense library of clearly defined problems and solutions, with variants which fit with all conceivable unique contexts, then maybe it will become possible for AI to provide useful assistance.

It would be a good goal to do what I describe, as it would result in many fewer bugs in software. The risks then would be either misidentifying the problem (and therefore getting a solution which doesn't fit the need) or providing inaccurate context which allows for suboptimal selection of a predefined solution.
The standard is very baseline “don’t kill the customer directly and quickly”.

There’s no real proof anything actually works for many products.
M1 Air, 8Gb/512Gb, used as a daily driver since release.

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 44 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 6%
Data Units Read: 443,320,843 [226 TB]
Data Units Written: 362,278,642 [185 TB]
Host Read Commands: 4,372,886,373
Host Write Commands: 2,111,809,609
Controller Busy Time: 0
Power Cycles: 474
Power On Hours: 2,228
Unsafe Shutdowns: 37
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
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Uhm. I can only guess why we Americans are not using Gab. But I thought I’ve made my guess pretty explicit: yes, I can clearly see and with great uneasiness that Americans prefer censorship. May be I was wrong - what is your thought, what Gab should do with these suprematists?

And my guess is based on some observations. I named one - GOP branch deleting their account.

Here’s the second observation, if you wish. Even more bothering to me. Not so long a go there was a mass protest at SF medical center. About a thousand of hospital workers were demanding that Zuckerberg’s name (paid by him at $25 mln) was removed from the plates. Reason - he is not doing enough to censor Facebook posts.

I was born and grown up and have a nice “living experience” in a totalitarian country. This popular demand for more censorship looks to me like people asking authorities to hang them - and bringing their own ropes and soap to the execution site. Not a nice picture to watch.
- only works in USA

- no fraud protection

- no e-commerce integration

- a couple months old

Maybe it'll catch on and grow, but this is not currently a solution.
The onus is generally on whoever claims the presence of an effect, harmful or otherwise. The null hypothesis is always that there is no effect.
Does anyone have a tutorial on using the openssl cli? It seems to barf on some inputs if it's not exactly perfect or you miss a step in the stack overflow answer.

Honestly I would expect some to be more familiar with the hashXsum tools.
I doubt there’s only 15k casualties on the Russian side of war. I could believe 15k deaths, I’d peg the casualties at 50-80k easily.

If there’s so few casualties of the initial invading force it makes absolutely no sense for putin to start mobilisation, which he did.
Implement a carbon tax, and it will happen. The insistence from some that we can just innovate our way out of the climate crisis, when the Industrial Revolution and pursuit of technological expansion for the sake of profit at all costs is what got us into this situation in the first place, is what I find truly “quixotic.” There is no incentive for corporations to improve the climate situation in a meaningful way.
So consuming less will be actually effective but it's just that people won't listen/change. I agree with him
Because it can is probably the reason (thanks to hardware).

Making better/faster/more reliable software is possible and I think this is an opportunity that will only reach its full potential at some point in the future, when hardware improvements will be slow enough for this effort to be competitive.
Somebody once summarized this as hacking off a boob with a machete is R-rated, while kissing the same boob is X-rated. Only in America.
I would've loved a basic FB integrated tablet for my parents. Something that had easy video chat for the kids. This would have worked really well with the friend graph. My options both on Android and iOS leave a lot to be desired.
A very slow scan of the Documents folder, by RuntimeBroker.exe which manages the Store app sandbox, reminds me of Android apps waiting up to 10 seconds for the Android system file picker to list the contents of my Downloads folder since apps (kinda) aren't allowed to browse your files directly.
Ok. I'm sorry you aren't convinced.

Here are some resources to educate yourself:

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/visual-hierarchy-ux-definit...

https://xd.adobe.com/ideas/process/information-architecture/...

https://uxplanet.org/visual-hierarchy-and-ux-design-a-guide-...

https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/visual-...

https://guides.lib.wayne.edu/iaux

It's a field of study that has research to back it up. It's great you find that link legible, but most people would not. Even most developers would find it helpful to tweak whitespace, use headers, and layout the content a little more structured to improve legibility.
I got that too on my Mac Studio. And I don't know if it's a bug or something real.

Seems the code that generate this error is something like this:
https://github.com/mirror/smartmontools/blob/0df69a95136fd42...

It simply calls `GetLogPage()` on the `IONVMeSMARTInterface`. Apple documentation is as usual devoid of content.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/iokit/ionvmesmarti...

But I found this `745` value `0x2e9` might be

#define kIOReturnDeviceError iokit_common_err(0x2e9) // the device is not working properly!

https://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-344/iokit/IOKit/...

Device not working properly?! Or is it just a shit driver?
Sure, I totally get it, and I even agree to some extent. A lot of that eats at me on the regular, too.

But as I get older, the impermanence of, well, everything sits at the front of my mind a lot more often than it used to. Add to that the fact that English has always been in a perpetual state of change, and I just kinda shrug my shoulders at the idea of it changing further.
There are other issues such as criticism of lockdowns, vaccine safety, anthropogenic global warming, central bank digital currencies, investigation of certain incidents like the Las Vegas mass shooting, supporting the Russian side of the Ukraine war, etc that will get you banned on other platforms.

They are all lumped together in the mind of your average CNN viewer as "white supremacy" unfortunately. Sometimes there are weird glitches in the issue lumping, like when people say that Trump is anti-vax even though Trump has been an advocate of the vaccines.
You are 100% correct. NYE is the largest celebration of the year that ended up stretching for days somehow, with the tree and drinking and gifts and all. Only pretty religious people observed Christmas, and it wasn't something that was really even considered as a celebration, more like a minor religious holiday.
But that means `thread_loops [0].index` must be read / written with atomic ops, right?

I saw that's how wasmtime solves pre-emption of wasm threads with their "epoch-based interruption". [1]

I see your Rust implementation does indeed use atomic ops.

Have you _measured_ that there is no overhead to atomics?

[1] https://docs.rs/wasmtime/1.0.1/wasmtime/struct.Config.html#m...

(Also it says that malicious guest code cannot skip the check, which is nice)
They can do that with IPv6 too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26615231 (the last paragraph in particular).
Large mining robots? Some dump trucks are already autonomous, I'm guessing excavators aren't far.
Web3 Dev: Life on the Front Lines
The heart of Google Drive is Google Docs which is 2006.
This is mostly from well-run population studies. The effect sizes are very large and robust, e.g. 40% for Tdap.

Herpes treatment, from a small RCT in Asia.

Hypothesis is that amyloids are a response to inflammation, and things that reduce inflammation (including blocking various infections) help. But nobody knows, really. Or is trying very hard to find out. It would be criminal negligence, except it is all perfectly legal, like most corruption in the US.

Grant money for Alzheimer's research ($2B/y?) is controlled by people who have made a career of chasing ways to suppress amyloid production. They are not about to waste any on people they don't know wandering unlikely blind alleys when ways to suppress amyloid production (in these mice) are not fully explored. They divert some for tau tangles, and how much good has come of that?
Everybody remembers Justin showing Janet's boob in 2004.

Nobody remembers that in 2007, Prince used shadow puppetry to stroke a penis-shaped guitar. Not one peep about that.
What I learned from this is that AI can't compose music.
I don’t anyone would care. It’s a bad joke but I don’t think it’s fair to think he actually fondles big breasted women for a living (or plays golf or buys “rich cars”).

It’s very likely that he does fondle big-breasted women, consensually, as there are many big-breasted women who date rich middle-aged men.

I would have a different stance if he said he sexually assaulted women.
Pension funds take money from poor people and give it to rich people, just like everything else. When the economy is doing well, rich people make billions by managing them, and when it's not doing well rich people still make billions until the funds become insolvent. Here's a PBS documentary on the state of pensions in the US: https://youtu.be/_r0htm5uHPQ
Seems they're trying to corner the market for more annoying elevator music.
Very true! When the first Apple Park designs were shown, I was wondering how those grand, sweeping hallways could be reconciled with our quotidian experience of more and more lockdown areas popping up daily…

In practice, I get the impression that the move to Apple Park stopped and maybe somewhat reversed that trend. Areas can be, and mostly are, locked down by sector and floor, but rarely finer grained than that. And maybe that was a subtle design goal to begin with.
The king is worth billions, I doubt he gives a shit.
Introducing a new app for diabetes and diet
You do not have to context switch the kernel thread when context switching the multiplexed user thread. So the context switch should in principle be much faster. There are second order effects of course, for example the new user thread might touch cold cache lines so the context switch speed up might not make much of a difference.

Normally on an M:N setup the kernel threads are pinned one per phisical hardware thread (i.e. core or SMT thread), so as long a they are the only program running in that core, they are never preempted.
I agree. Nuclear?
3 months into financial tightening and pension funds already facing margin calls.

Very promising.
The “correct” use of a language for any group of people is really just the way they choose to use it. The English language is changing, like all languages always do. But I can’t help but think that’s a good thing. So much of English language doesn’t make sense, or is needlessly complicated. Seeing these stupid rules erode over time is very encouraging.
Fixing an ancient GDB problem
But why single out Bitcoin? What about all the data centers serving Netflix movies? Others might say those are excess. Consider the annual energy consumption of tumble-dryers in the USA (which uses more energy than bitcoin mining): in Europe where I live most people I know hand their clothing to dry, thus they might consider American dryers to be an excess of electric consumption.

Last time I checked, bitcoin miners have to compete for energy same as anyone else---and when energy prices rise, they move their operations to where its cheaper.

That why they're using methane gas that would have been flared by oil companies to generate electricity to mine bitcoin in the west Texas oil fields... which is net positive, because the resulting CO2 emissions are 84x less carbon-intense for the atmosphere than the flared methane would have been.

Or, there is Vespene Energy, a bitcoin mining startup helping US municipal landfill operators comply with new expensive EPA methane emissions regulations by using landfills emitted methane to generate electricity, which they then use to mine bitcoin and they share the profits with the landfill operators. The cool thing with their business model is they can simply sell the electricity to other grid customers, but the reason they often end up mining Bitcoin with the power is because the landfills are often not near cities or large areas of electricity demand.

If one takes time to research this, one would see that bitcoin miners have a strong financial incentive to find the cheapest sources of power, which are typically stranded or waste power. Bitcoin mining is improving the environment.
There are 2 sides of the same company working against each other. There's the side that wants to create new products and then there's the side that wants to tighten costs and improve earnings. New products will always be a cost and not being able to show a profit or fast growth will mark it for closure.

I suspect that starting a new project inside google is comfortable enough that the thirst to grow and show a profit is muted. Also, I bet, the politics between departments makes it hard to do what's need to succeed.

Google should consider extracting companies into their own entities rather than closing them. Or creating an incubator where they keep a big percentage of the company and let the companies grow or die as the market dictates.

Google's primary job should be to provide resources to scale up business models that are working like they did with YouTube.
Hello, I’m the developer behind Saltie. I’m happy to answer any questions.

Last December, I left the startup I co-founded to work on an app to help my wife and I manage our 6 year old’s T1D and food allergies. Before this, we were using paper logs to keep track of his diet and how much insulin we were giving him, however the high cognitive load and constant second-guessing was burning us out. Saltie has made it easier for us to meal plan and make diabetes-related decisions, and make those decisions with less second-guessing.

Bigger picture, I believe that by making it easier for people to enter high quality data, and by having a dataset of high quality glucose/insulin/exercise/nutritional records, that should allow for a high quality AI that can accurately predict what any particular meal will do to your glucose and the optimal way to bolus for it. There are a number of clinical studies aimed at improving our understanding of how blood glucose levels work in people with diabetes, but most say something along the lines of “more investigation is needed”. Beyond helping others in a similar boat, an important measure of success for Saltie would be its use in a clinical study.

I’m looking for beta testers to try it out, so if you know anybody with T1D - in particular, parents of kids with T1D - please let them know. Thank you!
That’s available.

https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/results/?doma...
These aren’t Lua projects per se but they are configurable/scriptable using Lua:

Neovim [1] and WezTerm [2].

Neovim is the "hyperextensible Vim-based text editor”--quite the understatement IMHO.

WezTerm is an incredibly well done, GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal written in Rust and uses Lua for configuration.

[1]: https://neovim.io

[2]: https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/index.html
Oh barely... sometimes I hear clicks when switching between apps
“ Those who seriously plan ahead are a minority, and don't control the ballot box.”

Sadly true.

And sometimes this reduces the benefits of planning ahead.

If the fed money printer will bail is out every time then it makes financial sense to splurge.
Have you dealt with FBI much? What you wrote is incorrect.
Recorded history is only a few thousand years, and things changed significantly, especially in the modern era.

Don't be so sure that everything follows the patterns of the past.

But, we best not remain complacent.
As a standard disclaimer: I work at AWS in Professional Services. What I’m not going to do is criticize GCP. First it would be gouache to criticize a competitor and second I’ve never had any interaction with GCP as a user either personally or professionally. I have had experience with both AWS and Microsoft both from an implementation/hands on keyboard developer and from a more strategic business standpoint as a dev lead (Microsoft) and cloud architect (AWS) sitting in a room with CxOs dealing with vendor relationships working at startups.

That being said, despite the old wives tale that AWS came about because Amazon decided to sell its excess capacity, AWS was started as a separate initiative with completely different infrastructure when Amazon wanted to enter a separate vertical. It was led by Jassy (not technically from a business development standpoint) - a sales guy who looked at the market and went after a need (I refuse to say by “Working Backwards”). Every initiative that Amazon and AWS has starts with the business case, six pagers, PRFAQ’s etc with product managers and program managers involved. I even had to do a couple to get “funding” to spend time on a couple of features to a popular company sponsored open source solution I wanted to work on.

Being successful in the cloud is all about building relationships, knowing how to meet large organizations where they are, not being stuck on “the one true way”, developing and grooming a network of “partners”, etc. It’s very high touch. Microsoft has been doing that since the 80s and AWS had first mover advantage.

I won’t speak to GCP in particular. But none of the above characteristics is part of Google’s DNA.
I think it was a kneejerk to the YouTube shooter.

There are also now rules about how many badge readers need to be between public and private areas. This turns into a mess in historic buildings that have technically-public stairwells littered throughout. (The Munich campus is particularly bad for this.)
Ask HN: Do you plan work goals, etc. that take 1 yrs to bear fruit? Why/why not?
(Anyone can answer of course, but I'm primarily interested in fellow software engineers' answer.)

In my former career I was a manager of a program whose goal it was to "safely reduce the number of children in foster care from X to Y by 20zz". While there, it felt natural and easy for me to create programs and plans that would take years to come to fruition. Today it occurred to me that since switching careers to software, I don't think I've ever thought about anything further in the future than "finishing the current epic" (which usually takes weeks or months, definitely not years).

I think this is for two reasons 1) I've mostly been a junior and mid-level IC where my focus was on what was in front of me (and arguably I wasn't a top-notch software engineer, but that's another discussion) 2) I don't think I care about any company's goals, initiatives, whatever nearly as much as I cared about "safely reducing the number of children in foster care". That actually meant something. But "making more money for CURRENT_COMPANY by MAKING_THEIR_WIDGET_BETTER"... I just don't care other than the fact that "CURRENT_COMPANY does well" translates to me not having to find another job.

So I'm curious. Do you plan work goals, initiatives, etc that take 1+ years to come to fruition? Why or why not?
Thanks to the shale boom natural gas has been effectively free in the US (as a byproduct of shale oil production) for the last few years. For various reasons the boom has reverted to the mean (although shale is still very much around), and as a result natural gas in the US has gone from "free" to "not free". Prices will go up, but we'll be fine. We still literally have more gas than we know what to do with.

It's the Europeans and East Asians who are being royally screwed by gas prices at the moment, and that pressure isn't likely to cease anytime soon, particularly with the destruction of Nordstream.
One of the listed reasons:

> Credit card companies are anti-porn. You’ve probably heard how Pornhub can’t accept credit cards anymore. Or seen the new rules from Mastercard. Whatever crypto-utopia might come in the coming decades, today if you are blocked from banks, credit card processing, and financial services, you’re blocked from the modern economy. The vast majority of Automattic’s revenue comes from people buying our services and auto-renewing on credit cards, including the ads-free browsing upgrade that Tumblr recently launched. If we lost the ability to process credit cards, it wouldn’t just threaten Tumblr, but also the 2,000+ people in 97 countries that work at Automattic across all our products.

There are different ways to be "blocked." You can be blocked because your website can't accept CC payments, or you can be blocked because you are, for example, sanctioned by the US. It's possible to be blocked in the former sense without being blocked in the latter. For example, you own a website that accepts Bitcoin payments and which does not link to your identity.

Like it or hate it, this is a use case. I bring this up because a favorite point of contention seems to be that Bitcoin has no use cases. Here's one.

If that sounds outlandish, consider how very far the Internet has come along the free speech axis, as many commenters on this thread have pointed out. Now consider how far there remains to go and what the future is likely to hold based on past trends.

Granted, one thing Bitcoin hasn't quite managed to do (yet?) is replicate automatic payments without trusted third parties.
You would put down your credit card on a website without reading anything on the page? Why?
not true. prior convictions and prior drug use need to be declared on the SF86 during interview by your agency. most agencies deprioritize cannabis entirely. these factors along with mitigating factors will determine your adjudication and clearance level
For when you want to raise a rror
I applaud the effort of whoever put this together, but it is a toy, and a broken one at that. Trivial examples break it easily. When an "AI" like this can take 5,000 lines of SAS in a single file where execution starts at the top and finishes at the bottom with nary a function or external module to be found written by a government employee who hates his job and really doesn't think you should be reading his source code and can turn it in to comprehensible Python that is readable I might be interested. But this is most likely going to be a case of GIGO.