skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be pedant - this is HN after all - market segmentation is a business policy and relates to how a business is run. The word politics is used correctly here but in a somewhat old fashioned way. Policies would probably be more usual. Linus indeed bemoans that the industry is using ECC as a differentiating factor.
How exactly would it improve?

Right now any person in the world can contribute to Wikipedia because of their notable sources policy. Any person in the world can validate and correct mistakes.

Would homeless people write their own biography? Noone will be able to verify this information. How in the world this improves credibility?
Chances are you don’t actually want to build things.
Read the email. None of your scenarios fit Linus's.

TL;DR sometimes memory starts off good and goes bad later.
Physics is just “natural philosophy.”
Do you all not need to understand assembly to advance the discussion?
Absolutely, and this is specifically why I chose to start with seL4 and use Rust for the userland we built. seL4 has a verification framework already in place, so we can use it to ensure our system design and implementation is good. We've spent this time working with the seL4 guys to find a good middle ground in these changes, and we're going to see about verifying the design as we go, but we wanted to get these things out sooner rather than waiting because it affords more chances for feedback and collaboration. My only regret is not being able to open the entire source tree at once yet. We'll get there, but this is a good start in the meantime.

We do not have our changes formally verified yet, but that is definitely on our roadmap -- otherwise, what's the point of starting from this set of options? Likewise, this is why we chose Rust -- there are several projects already in progress to produce formal verification tools for Rust, so we can hopefully use those as additional proofs.
HN's footnote culture is so weird.
On an M1 Mac I believe that rancher desktop (mentioned in a sibling thread) is the way to go if you are going the kubernetes route. Because I only have a really simple usecase and want something just like docker I've been using lima[1] which you can just install with homebrew and set up an alias and then pretend you're using docker. I have had some problems where in long-running processes with a lot of network usage in the container after a while I get some network timeouts. I'm not sure whether that's a problem with lima or qemu or what else might actually be causing it. But basically as a dev experience it works fine even on a pretty underpowered laptop (which is what I'm using it on in this case).

[1] https://medium.com/nttlabs/containerd-and-lima-39e0b64d2a59
Definitely! Wasn't considering the other 3 in this discussion. The most efficient for all of these is most likely a native app everywhere, and all the complexity/duplication that brings.
+1 this is awesome! I'd like to donate if I can :)

edit: nvm me, found the option in settings (on activation show shortcuts immediately).

Quick question, I've been playing around with Shortcat for a while. When I press the activation hot-key it takes about 4 seconds for the yellow two-letter denoated highlights to show up, despite the app's text stating "found n elements in ~0.20s". Is there a config option to instantly show the yellow highlights?
https://liquidbit.com/killer-queen-black-update%EF%BF%BC/

Killer Queen Black is shutting down due to GameSpark being sunsetted. The game was released 2019.
No, that's not the main argument here. You're responding to me, not the other way around, and the point I made is that this post implies that the mRNA vaccines aren't even vaccines. That's a pure anti-vax talking point. It isn't part of the middle ground.
There is is some trouble with ordering smt service from jlc directly from kicad. But you can just import kicad into easyeda and export for production. Annoying extra step anyway. Kicad ftw
> I absolutely detest the crazy industry politics and bad vendors that have made ECC memory so "special

Haven’t bought RAM for awhile, what’s he talking about? ECC RAM should be at least 1/8 more expensive (plus something for the handler)
I haven't seen the film, and I don't know any of the details of the relationship between Langley and the University of Leicester. But this is a quote from the article:

> It was rumoured Richard might have been buried in an area that was now New Street car park but Langley felt strongly drawn to a private car park on the other side of the road. When there Langley felt, according to her book, "a strange sensation. My heart was pounding and my mouth was dry – it was a feeling of raw excitement tinged with fear… I knew in my innermost being that Richard's body lay here. Moreover, I was certain that I was standing right on top of his grave." She returned a year later to confirm that she hadn't simply imagined the sensation. She again felt goosebumps and, looking down, she now noticed a white "R" on the tarmac. It stood for "Reserved" rather than "Richard" but for Langley, “it told me all I needed to know”. However she also knew that a gut feeling wouldn't persuade archaeologists so she continued researching and, over a number of years, assembled a dossier of evidence supporting her instinct that the king was buried under the car park.

If I were an academic, I'd be extremely skeptical as well if that were the original description of the rationale for the exploration, even if additional evidence came along.
Why would representation be an issue? You make it sound like there are no women at all in male-dominated fields, but the gender ratio lies around the 30% mark. So although they are not the majority, nobody will bat an eye that a mathematician or a physicist is a woman. If by representation you mean support, women have way more support than men in terms of funding and ease to get fixed positions.

And frankly I do not think young people are making career decisions based on representation. That's more of an academic's way to look at life.
But the value is not having to go through what he did, right?

And the whole points made above are pretty much the exact political points Linus is referencing. It’s clear in his opinion that ECC should just be normal, or at least not so elite.
Kuiper and Blue Origin have been pretty entertaining. Bezos can throw all the money in the world at space but it still hasn't bought him a single functioning satellite.
These are indeed similar in spirit to cPanel, only difference being a tighter integration to VM/app deployment and the whole stack being tested. It's probably a little closer to a pre-configured cloud formation and cloud-init.
The link was changed to a different post on the same substack.
For windows users that would love something like this I recommend https://github.com/GavinPen/AhkCoordGrid
I have always wondered exactly this.

Market segmentation on what platforms/controllers support ECC: fine, whatever. But market segmentation of what is an “ECC DIMM” vs. a “regular DIMM”? It makes no sense that the commodity memory manufacturers have any leverage to enforce that segmentation.

Is it just laziness on the part of the platform vendors (who do have leverage) not simply allow ECC with any DIMMs by giving over 1/k {bits, lines, pages, chips, whatever-granularity-they-reason-about} to parity?
They're canals which feed into underground aquifers which then feed streams somewhere else.
No. Debian supports Secure Boot, and that means anybody can add their own signing key and sign and boot their own kernel, packages and everything else.

As long as users can update the signing keys it's all good.

If not, it's tivoization, and it breaches GPL.
I’m no entrepreneur but from the media I’ve seen around recently (podcasts, articles, think pieces) you should be selling before you code, that is, eliciting problems from clients.

Intuitively it seems harder to sell a piece of software which exists concretely, than to sell a solution/maintenance to a problem which can evolve constantly. Would you rather buy a shoe that may or may not fit, or retain a shoe maker to build a custom shoe for you?

If you want to sell an existing piece of software though, I’d probably do it through an App Store and focus efforts on optimizing it’s visibility there. That way you can leverage the existing ecosystem (and let them take a cut) instead of sinking time/money into creating your own.
Hating a language is not at all the same thing as hating its users.

PHP is an awful mess, and the fact that it's a common tool for budding web devs makes that worse, not better. New coders should not have to learn to navigate that pile to get anything done. I feel for them because I've been them.
The development of a fractal isn't internal. Its shape is completely predetermined by its mathematical description.

I think what the author is trying to say is that we could imagine the universe is a massively hyper-dimensional fractal that we are utterly hopeless to determine the initial starting point on. I can't immediately see a reason that model wouldn't work, but its descriptive power (relative to QM) is basically nil... To be consistent with the observations that demanded a quantum mechanical understanding of the universe, we have to introduce the idea that we can't know where we are on the fractal, so this is more a philosophical pondering than a physical one.
Learning different programming languages definitely helped expose me to new ideas, but I think it's a relatively shallow way to grow. There's only a few that I think are really worth learning for the sake of personal growth:

- both C and C++

- Some form of lisp. I could see julia taking this spot.

- Haskell

- SQL

There are obviously more that are worth learning for industrial use. Learning the above will give a solid understanding of how every other language works though, even if there's different semantics for a particular language.

When I was really into learning new languages, I think it was because I didn't have a good sense of how to do more challenging things.

At some point, I settled down and got more into projects that really require more domain knowledge. Writing an external merge sort, interpreter & compiler, a gameboy emulator, a disk persisted b+tree, ray tracing & physically based rendering, etc.

Those types of problems are what really pushed my boundaries and made me think more about how to solve problems. In the case of ray tracing & pbr, it forced me to learn some calculus, linear algebra, and statistics, which has been an incredibly rewarding experience.

It can be fun to imagine what solving a problem looks like in a language, because it may have some qualities that play to the strengths of a solution. At the end of the day, the languages are just tools people have come up with. Learning the quirks of C++ becomes less fun when you start to realize that it is the way it is because of how history unfolded rather than because of some interesting concept.

(edit: hn list formatting)
I tap Hitchen's Razor [1] and dismiss your entire post.

I then play TFA [2] and make the claim that I like it when computers work for at least 3 years.

I end my turn.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens%27s_razor
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33224680
I can't speak to what the other poster was talking about but NVidia 3000 series caused a huge stir because it would jump in power consumption much faster than previous generations and many power supplies couldn't provide the wattage fast enough and would brown out the system. It was especially bad for low and mid-tier PSUs that were nearing their rated wattage limit at peak power.

edit: I misrembered some aspects of this, The 3000 series was actually spiking much higher than rated TDP and tripping overcurrent protection versus just browning out. NVidia did recommend 850w PSUs for that first release of cards for that reason but iirc some 850w still had issues.
Who acts? Who reduced their footprint under 2 Tonnes equivalent CO2 / year? Not many of us, though that's definitely something with many other benefits than environmental
How many seconds do you need to think about this to come up with counter examples? There are entire businesses based on selling things which are better or helping buyers find them, suggesting that the rush of perceived superiority isn’t warranted.

Some people can’t afford to buy anything but the cheapest but in most cases it comes down to not thinking that they use it enough to matter (e.g. the common homeowner advice to buy a cheap tool the first time & replace it better if you break it), not having a good way to tell whether something is actually better, or the market being such that there is a huge gap between the product bands. ECC falls into the latter two categories: the average buyer isn’t familiar with the issue and probably thinks the outcome would be a crash rather than silent data corruption, and Intel’s market segmentation means that you don’t have a choice in the consumer space and have to move into far more expensive and limited categories. It’s not reasonable to say price-sensitive consumers are the problem when that’s also saying “stop buying laptops”.
I cannot answer your questions directly, but page view information is available for all Wikipedia articles.

https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/
> I don't see the obsession editors have with making sure that a person is "important enough" to have an article. I feel like the bar should be lowered - not too low, obviously.

Wikipedia wants to document the notable things, it does not want to make notable the non-notable things.

Much like newspapers want to report the news, they don't want to be the news.
In the US, section 230 protects Wikipedia from defamation lawsuits. A victim of defamation via Wikipedia would have to sue the people who wrote the page, and that's unlikely to be worth the trouble.
Is there a reason why it’s public?
As Americans attempting to be more globally-oriented in these things, we set our thermometers to Celsius and all our GPS maps to kilometers.

It was interesting to watch ourselves slowly become "bilingual" over several months as we got used to what we needed to wear when it was 30° (F or C) outside.

I do wish countries (especially ours) would go all in.

Except for the pint. I always thought that was a good, allowable exception. :)
Maybe it is a volume issue - not enough are produced to benefit from economies of scale in the same way
Can we change the title to something like “PHP is good despite the nay-says”? The title as it is is writing cheques that the article can’t cash.
https://github.com/GavinPen/AhkCoordGrid
Why pay for something I don’t need when there’s the option to not pay for it? - me

Just yesterday, I bought an extra 64GB for my home Linux PC. I absolutely couldn’t care less about it crashing or calculating the wrong result every blue moon (in practice: never), but I did choose the RAM sticks that were $10 cheaper.
I get the sense that you are just a russian troll. I clearly stated that the atrocities happent in WW2.
You obviously could do exactly that. What upsets people about the way Wikipedia is run is that they know their "better" fork would attract no meaningful usage.
Not really two. I have used 6 power supplies in total.

Maybe I've just been lucky or I've just been buying the quality stuff, two of the ones I'm running now are 1,200 Watts, the other two are in computers that don't use much power because they are basically idle servers all the time. They are also semi reasonable quality.

But I have been running a computer on a 450 w power supply that was very much having its limit pushed.

I also did run on a bottom of the barrel super cheap 500 w supply that I bought in the middle of 2020 when all of the supply crisis was happening.

That is why I was curious. My experiences didn't line up with what the OP was talking about, so I was interested to see examples of what was going on.
I wanted to write a bit extra about wiki policy, less my opinion and more an interpretation of the current state of policy enforcement:

In theory wikipedia aims to be a mirror of the current times. As they say, if wikipedia was around in the 1500s it would say the sun revolves around the earth, according to notible sources at the time, like it or not.

A gender bias in wiki entries then in theory would also mirror biases in our current media, i.e, if news is only written about men scientists, then thats all there will be for notible sources. It would be more effective to petition news sources to write more comprehensively about women in science, which is the real problem, instead of just fighting policy on one website.

The end goal should be to fix the bias at the source, not lower wiki standards to fix a problem created elsewhere.
It's wild to me that we gave up hardware error correction on memory at the same time we increased memory sizes about 1000x, shrinking the die (and thus reliability) by a roughly similar amount.
The Kagi search engine is written in crystal on the backend
From what I've read:

If you haven't got C, either build the missing parts (assuming that the customer is the right one) [0], or find another customer [1].

If you realise they don't really need B that much, then no amount of sales is going to help you [2]. Time to pivot based on A or find a new B?

[0] Chasm crossing - A Pennarun, https://archive.is/cHeKx

[1] Users you don't want - M Seibel, https://archive.is/tCCLa

[2] Making something people want - T Blomfield, https://archive.is/8IDcl
Well, as the TL for this engineer-driven research prject, I have to say it's quite demotivating to read these sorts of comments.

As an engineer, I don't get much say in what other parts of the company do, but unfortunately, I have to bear the brunt of the blowback every time it happens, in social forums like this one, and in B2B interactions. It's quite frustrating, actually.
Love it =)
market segmentation is entirely political
I've only found out recently, thanks to the C++ Iceberg.

https://fouronnes.github.io/cppiceberg/

(Entries are clickable.)
>Thalidomide is a very useful drug that is still prescribed today.

With a metric shit ton of caveats, that were outright denied until the public raised an unholy fuss with regulators to get it clamped down on in light of the severity of birth defects/reproductive complications it produces.
Copy on write fork mitigates some of that.
If you just need to read the return type, I don't see why in this case you'd be prevented from hovering the function to see it

If you want to constrain the return type so that any errors about bad return-values from this function are localized to it, instead of having them show up further downstream, then that's what I meant by "other reasons to use explicit types"
Very good question.

I’ve been programming for just about 30 years in one shape or another and the 2 skills I wish I had learned from an early age are sales and copywriting.

What I can say (as an amateur of both disciplines now) is that yes, find the books and courses etc.

But, the most important thing is to start selling and writing right now.

It’s the absolute best way to learn. The books and courses will accelerate your practical efforts.

Don’t wait.
I'm not clear which of those options you think is a trap.
That's not the way it came across, but sure. Either way, my point about you not reading the future remains.

> Their limit is demonstrably in the wrong place isn’t it?

You can't demonstrate something about the future, except to wait and see how things unfold. We may yet be blundering our way into a thermonuclear war, or maybe we aren't. Time will be the judge of it. Everybody who perceives a line that shouldn't be crossed is engaging in some form of appeasement, so using that term as a cudgel is short-sighted; the same accusation could easily be made against you. Why don't you support [measure which you think would go too far]? Appeasement, right? That's probably not how you'd characterize your own position, but unless you're the most hawkish voice in the room that accusation can certainly be leveled against you just as you level it against those people.

Without being able to see the full web of possible outcomes, what does it even mean to be demonstrably wrong? Take my position, that the Biden administration is generally doing a good job of managing NATO support and involvement. Well objectively, the war has not ended yet. Maybe somewhere in the web of possible realities, the war has already ended in Ukraine's favor because Biden behaved differently. Has Biden's handling of the war then been demonstrably wrong because the war is demonstrably still ongoing? Do you see the problem? Counterfactuals cannot be objectively judged. Neither the alternate reality with more appeasement, nor the one with less. The basis for my support of Biden's handling of the war is simply this: thus-far there is no nuclear war, and I subjectively judge the present and near-future risk of nuclear war to be low. The passage of time will reveal the truth about the decisions made in our timeline, but even that won't reveal the outcomes of counterfactual realities. Those are closed to us, we can only speculate about what could have been. How then can speculation about a counterfactual reality be demonstrably wrong?
The central concept of this work is that adding more women to Wikipedia will inspire girls to become scientists. But now you're saying that nobody is going to notice the thousands of insignificant Wikipedia pages this woman has added. So, on the one hand, the Wikipedia articles are so meaningful they are going to change the career path of young girls, but so insignificant that nobody will notice there is a much lower standard for women to get Wikipedia articles than men. Hmmm.

The article is about a woman creating Wikipedia articles for random female academics and scholars who are below the notability thresholds. It's not reasonable to say this isn't lowering the bar for women to get a Wikipedia article.
Collusion by proxy is still collusion. My guess is their marketing will take care never to put in writing that effect, yet still communicating it with a wink and a nod.
Those were the good old days; Newsweek got utterly destroyed by the internet. When I was there, the only full page buys on the website were for full page scabies medicine takeovers. Yes, those ads were exactly what you're imagining.
Both the fascists and the nazi never considered themselves socialists.

This is proven by numerous quotes from mussolini, hitler, various party members and verified by historians.

The fact that both fascists and nazi imprisoned, tortured and killed socialists and communists (again, widely proven by historians) is perfectly aligned with that.

Additionally, both fascists and nazi never implemented policies or took actions that would be aligned with socialism.
Bitcoin Validity Rollups
This sort of IR hacking is pretty badass, even if a bit fiddly.

How much additional heat does that old G4 add into the mix?

I wonder if this could be done much more efficiently with an RPi Zero or similar.
Actually, it is a coincidince. Picking names is hard, and I actually had no idea this project existed before I named ours.
Accepting the very simple assertion that the thing being measured is not independent from the act of measurement already renders the bell inequality invalid.
Well now my interest is piqued 1000%!
We run our company with a forest in mind. Client projects are gardens within the forest. We have a green house for seedlings (innovation projects), we have a fire in the center, where we regularly meet and hang out. We have an outlook point, where we look out to sense what’s on the horizon… obviously, we don’t want our gardens full of weeds or trash laying around.