skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A minor historical quibble:

> RISC was a set of design principles developed in the 1980’s that enabled hardware to get much faster and more efficient.

There is a strong argument that RISC as a set of design principles (if not as an acronym) started in the 1970s with the IBM 801 [1] and many of the ideas date back to the 1960s with the CDC 6600 mainframes which were very RISCy.

On a more substantive point, I don't think small code size was ever 'officially' part of the RISC concept. Arm pioneered it with Thumb but I think that was a pragmatic decision to get Arm into devices with limited memory space such as early mobile phones.

[1] https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/the-first-risc-john-coc...
> smart contracts might streamline ops (international logistics comes to mind)

"Smart contracts" is just code. In case of crypto this code is running on world's most innefficient VM.

Elsewhere its just code and code has been runnig "contracts" for as long as there have been computers.

Everytime you buy a ticket inline, there's a "smart contract" running. Everytime you listen to music inline and money get accumulated and paid to artists, there's a "smart contract". etc.
Light water reactor run out of fuel.

Fast breeder reactor catch fire constantly.

LFTR is scifi made of incredibly toxic unobtanium.

Nuclear just way of moving power and money into hands of 5 companies while achieving nothing.

Happy?
There is this game as well, which is DEFCON’s spiritual successor

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1178220/ICBM/
So, Russia will adjust their weapons to target that area, since that's where all the important people will be.

That's the problem with predictions: they affect the outcome.
It's definitely possible to have 9 to 5 software jobs with a good work life balance. For the last decade I've worked for small businesses. nonprofits, and most recently a non tech manufacturing company.

All had 9 to 5 schedules with no expectation that you be there outside of regular work hours unless it was a true emergency. In the last ten years, I've had to work emergencies and overtime maybe a total of 6 to 8 hours total, across all the jobs.

I think that sort of culture is easier to find if you look for smaller companies that largely work together in the same office anyway, vs huge distributed multinational organizations that are always looking for commodity labor from anywhere.

The kinds of companies that look for cultural fit, implicitly or explicitly, also tend to plan around this sort of thing, rather than just blindly making their employees keep irregular hours.

What I'm saying is...this is definitely not something you have to accept as normal. Maybe within a specific part of the industry or at a specific level of management, it's a thing, but if you want is a software job that pays a livable wage and still lets you have a regular life outside work, that's definitely doable. Don't go into games, infrastructure, devops, etc. Find some business that doesn't need round the clock presence. Many of those are software jobs in other verticals. They may pay less, but the sanity is worth it IMHO.
Not sure how I'd survive if the option to press a button and have food appear at my doorstep vanished.
This doesn't sound very affordable to me.
The threat of using nukes is much more valuable than the actuality of using them, which would be immediate self-destruction.

It’s just an extremely convenient dead man’s switch (if you hurt/kill me, it’ll be millions paying the price).
I think you are confusing sound, or vibration propagating as an acoustic wave through a medium such as air, which is what acoustic instruments produce, with signal, or the representation or analog of sound by changing levels of voltages, what, say, a microphone would produce, which is also electrically analog, or analog electronics. An accordion produces sound as air flows past vibrating reeds, producing sound acoustically. Acoustic instruments have no signal if they have no electronics. Thus, there is no accordion analog nor analog accordion scientifically or otherwise unless you consider a digital synthesizer's accordion-sound mode an accordion analog. If so, the C64razy digital accordion in the article is also an analog of an acoustic accordion and an accordion analog.
Except when you realize that the Toulouse region is actually a bit significant in terms of aviation / space R&D, so we're probably not very far on the target list for France.

Which at least, makes "dying very quickly and hopefully without too much pain" a plausible exit scenario in case of nuclear war :shrug:
First of all, many landlords do physically maintain properties.

Secondarily, since tradespeople tend to like food with their meals, landlords paying tradespeople is an important motivation for them to do that work.
Ask HN: HNers with multiple sclerosis, can we get in touch?
I was diagnosed with MS 15 years ago, and was doing pretty well for a long time, but with the pandemic experienced a tremendous amount of stress that has left me with my first major flare-up since diagnosis and, more importantly, developing over the past 3 years, a feeling in my brain that feels like having been lobotomized, and symptoms like "mild" dementia. Difficulty multitasking, make silly mistakes, mentally tired easily, emotional issues, etc.

The MS was so far outside my concerns for all these years that I didn't know about the cognitive effects of MS (though I retrospect I realize I had some milder form of these symptoms all along), but I now understand MS causes brain atrophy and damage irrespective of flare-ups and lesions.

I've tried many things to make it better over this past year especially, but it's getting worse. It's quite evidently different from depression, it feels like I've lost part of my brain, which seems to be what's happening with MS.

I'm posting this in hopes I can get in touch with others with MS that are programmers and are doing well, and have found ways to make this better, or have gone through periods where they felt like this and it improved. I can't imagine living like this with worsening, I don't have any support from family and any savings (lost an enormous amount of life-changing money few years ago), my programming abilities have waned, and if I can't support myself in the future I'm going to end up homeless.

I want to believe I can do something, that there is hope, perhaps medical advances, or anything I could do.

If you want to get in touch my email is mush_room_hn at protonmail.com. (but you could also reply here)
I laughed.

But if you’re going for maximum economic damage, a capital whose economic value is largely in tax avoidance wouldn’t be that high up on the list since in a post-apocalyptic world, taxes will be the least of everyone’s worries.
And we’d all be happy for it. If there is at least one major economy remaining then humanity may sort of survive what comes next.
So it looks like if things get tense, we should al emigrate to Australia then?
Ask HN: Why is there no open-source applicant tracking system (ATS)?
Greenhouse and Lever are good but are there any open source alternatives? I need one for my company but I don't want to spend the exorbitant amount and I want some customizations.

The existing options don't seem anywhere as good as existing closed-source software.
I don't personally believe it's covid causing delayed diagnosis of other underlying diseases because it's a persisting effect and appears broadly linear to the 5 year trend including that bizarre knee in the data. (Which may be the weight of this trend in the 5 year model I guess. They says it's the effect of the ONS office closure in May/June, so perhaps it's just data handling effects overall)

I'd be much more concerned it's a post covid mortality statistic which may still be under-reported worldwide.

Could be one of those "wait and see" things. Cause of death and prior covid, long covid and vaccination status will be important to understand it but a problem here will be the sheer ubiquity of covid, and vaccination.

A single event like extreme heat wouldn't evenly distribute deaths in an ongoing trend surely?
Property/land taxes are the best form of wealth tax, as its difficult to shift your land to another jurisdiction.
This got me wondering. How does one aquire property such that it your own? I'm thinking of some patch of land that doesn't belong to anybody, since nobody owns it there is noone I can aquire it from. Seems like there is some form of original sin involved in any form of owning land.
They've largely stagnated for a decade while Intel and AMD sat on their butts.

But then Apple Silicon came along and showed the world how much better laptops could be. They are a huuuuuuuuge leap forward.

And that's coming from someone who used to love ThinkPads before. Apple really changed the game there. Soooo much better, faster, cooler, quieter.
Isn't the property zoned for a commercial space / a restaurant though? And when you sign a lease for a commercial space it states what you're allowed to do and even what types of F&B businesses aren't allowed there if it's a strip mall.
I almost agree with you. But I don't understand how is the programmer (Software Engineer) responsibility to produce code that hit production? This is the responsibility for project managers, product owners or whatever. Given the Software Engineer is not a one man team doing all other roles. This is like saying the UX/UI role is to decide what iteration of the design (as in visual) should be in production. No way!
tl;dr 95% yes, 5% no.

I'm a solo freelancer and I work from 8am till 3:30pm. However, there are times when things need to be done during late night hours. This happens maybe once a month and I don't complain - this is a bonus of working with me. When my client starts to abuse my flexibility I charge 2x/3x hourly rate for the tasks done outside my regular work schedule. This quickly verifies how important these tasks really are - sometimes clients indeed pay extra without fuss, at other times the "unacceptable 3 min downtime at 8am" becomes acceptable to them ;-). Share the pain with them.
You use a backup source. Currently that would likely be gas; increasingly batteries are taking over for short term, and in the long term hydrogen can be added.

At reasonable cost projections, renewables + batteries + hydrogen will give a 100% renewable grid at a cost less than one including new nuclear plants.

Additional strategies (transmission, demand dispatch, other storage technologies) can only improve the case for renewables vs. nuclear.
I don’t think I’d do better, but that goes two ways. The generation before me blames the generation before them. Thinking that I’d be any different is a bit arrogant (if a nice dream).
How far away does it have to be from you to count? What do I need to prove that it is getting into my water? Do I need to hire a lab to prove that a certain chemical causes cancer 20 years later and that it is in the product they are putting in the water? What if it is air, instead? What about climate change? What if they operate a business, say, they buy tiger feet, and it is causing a growth in a market for tiger feet which leads to poaching of tigers who have been endangered and are needed for a local ecosystem which I rely on to work?
The thing is Java is improving, so it has become better suited for a variety of jobs. Clojure is 15 years old, which means when it released Java was at version 1.6.

ABCL was separated from J in 2008, when Java was at version. Kotlin was released in 2011, when Java 1.7 was released. Groovy was released in 2007, like Clojure. Scala was released in 2004, when we were at Java 1.5. GNU Kawa was registered on Savannah in 2001, when we had J2SE 1.3.

Now just because Java has become a lot better in the interval doesn't mean those languages have no purpose, but if Java in 2001 had all the nice features (streaming API, try with resources, the Optional type, switch expressions,...) it has now then the JVM landscape may very well have looked very different.
Are you so ideologically bent on thinking that things ought to work some other way to utterly reject the reality of how things actually work right now?
FWIW I've seen this term used more when discussing *chans, and less traditional forums. I think cognizance of the temporally-sorted nature of those imageboards makes the practice of "forum sliding" that much more alarming -- but that nature also makes the prospect of "forum sliding" almost inherently conspiratorial. How can one prove that activity that moves a thread off the front page (and thus probabilistically dooms it to irrelevance) is the result of some co-ordinated effort or the natural process of people using the forum?
I understand where you are coming from. It's interesting to see the Puppet/Chef-debate played out over and over again.

You generally want an overarching single source of truth for IT systems. One that defined which parts a system contains and how it is set up. This starts to get important when you want maintainable testing environments, and more so as the number of system integration points grow, but it generally makes tracking changes and having a controlled deployment process so much easier.

So it is natural to start with a declaration of how small pieces fit together. This is Puppet/Ansible where the language is just a list of objects, where each object is implemented in "real" programming language. But the list soon needs logic, if not for other reasons than because testing environments have subtly different requirements, and the list grows into a semi-language.

That's not enough and people new to the system soon feels constrained, why not ditch that domain specific thing and implement the whole thing in the "real" language? This is Chef/Salt. But now all you have is another object, which needs an overarching list of objects, and soon we have another simple description for that.

And then we repeat this all over again.

(There are specific issues for some parts of this, which is not part of the above story. Ansible didn't have to choose yaml for their domain specific language, they should have seen that coming. But that's not for this story. We instead get to see this repeated again in the container space with templates and Helm charts. Also Jenkins pipelines which slowly mutates to Groovy and back.)
It’s a shockingly simplistic simulation to the point that I’m not sure attaching the Princeton brand to it is doing them any favors. I was expecting to learn something new but this is even more basic than I could have guessed knowing nothing.
> It seems as though at least one of the simulated parties has a current doctrine of trying to destroy power plants and food distribution hubs

Given the state of economic "optimization" our current systems are operating under I would imagine that even if the enemy did not strike energy and food distribution centers on purpose these systems would fall apart pretty quickly. Redundancy and resilience costs money, money that would not land in certain pockets if spent.
The US has been physically inspecting Russia's arsenal (and vice versa) under the terms of New START: https://www.state.gov/new-start/

These inspections don't actually test the functionality, but we should have a pretty good idea of the condition of their nuclear arsenal, as they have of ours, as that is part of how MAD works.

From that page:

Implementation: The information provided through the treaty’s implementation contributes to reducing the risk of strategic surprise, mistrust, and miscalculations that can result from excessive secrecy or decisions based on worst-case assumptions. Since the New START Treaty’s entry into force, as of late January 2022, the two parties have conducted:

* 328 on-site inspections

* 24,000+ notifications exchanged

* 19 meetings of the Bilateral Consultative Commission, and

* 42 biannual data exchanges on strategic offensive arms subject to the treaty.

Treaty Duration: The treaty’s original duration was 10 years (until February 5, 2021), with the option for the Parties to agree to extend it for up to an additional five years. The United States and Russian Federation agreed on a five-year extension of New START to keep it in force through February 4, 2026. The treaty includes a withdrawal clause that is standard in arms control agreements.

Russian Compliance: Although the United States has raised implementation-related questions and concerns with the Russian Federation through diplomatic channels and in the context of the BCC, the United States has determined annually since the treaty’s entry into force, across multiple administrations, the Russian Federation’s compliance with its treaty obligations.

U.S. Compliance: The United States is in compliance with its New START obligations. The Russian Federation has criticized U.S. procedures used to convert B-52H heavy bombers and Trident-II SLBM launchers. The United States stands by its conversion procedures, which render the converted SLBM launchers and heavy bombers incapable of employing nuclear weapons thereby removing them from accountability under the treaty.
If you have ever watched any urban exploring or tourist guide videos from the Chernobyl area you will notice that they always check for radiation and don't go into certain buildings or areas because radioation is not uniform.

There's places where there's almost no radiation, then you walk into a random building and the exposure is too high to stay for a longer time.

Not sure that's a place you really want to live in, easy to say from a comfortable chair behind a screen somewhere far away.
This is a very pessimistic (but still quite possible) scenario and hopefully it will not realize. I once per year watch myself the movie "The Day After" (1983) to remind me of the horrible consequences.

If you have not done it until now, here's a link for the full movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-phsyn3KQM

Just don't blame me for the miserable tight stomach afterwards... :-/
i mean you're deploying caveman talk at me because you're so into this you assumed i'm stupid instead of realizing you forgot to write a complete sentence, so at the moment no i'm not happy

if you're gonna stoop to that level the only other thing i'll say is "battery get cold go offline. battery get hot go offline. knife go in galaxy note 8 make go boom. armor piercing shell like same."
If you scroll down a bit you get a option to download a nice epub for your reading pleasure.

I definitely agree with the others that the tone and content of this comment is a net negative and should be avoided.
Like Element which does publish its client on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/im.vector.app/

(Yes, F-Droid availability is a very good cutoff, I agree.)
That seems like a societal problem.
This claim ignores the statistical deaths from cancer from radiation released by Fukushima. These deaths cannot be detected, but that doesn't mean they can be legitimately asserted to be zero.
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I do. Thats how i work. I feel like there are two tiers of software engineers: programmers and developers. Programmers implement spec sheets, while developers talk to stakeholders or even end users to understand what they need to build. I am the latter. I think good CS curricula should include product and project management and accounting basics. Otherwise software engineering is just conveyor belt work.
Clojure is dynamically typed, right? Just curious: how do you refactor large codebases without a compiler telling you if the pieces still fit together? (I'm coming from Scala)
Because they want to.

I agree that it makes the videos hard to watch for me, but it's their choice to use and and my choice if I want to watch.
It is a different level business can be done at. Compare business before telephone/fax, contracts had to be signed in person. With internet we can sign remotely, but we still need to trust each other that we are who we say we are. With blockchain we don't trust anyone anything and can prove everything.
while that's true, it's not black and white. The invested asset produces output. This output is useful, and speculative demand of that asset will, in normal circumstances, produce more of that output due to the pressure to increase the number of those assets.

Housing is not different. Except that there are some people who would prefer to limit the builds of new housing.
Europe could use hydrogen for seasonal load leveling (as well as wind). The capacity for hydrogen storage in salt formations in Europe is many millions of GWh.

This would still be cheaper than nuclear.
My company has a culture where it's totally okay to refuse, I've even gotten invites at 2am whenever they hold a webinar during their morning. Regardless of that we still see replies from engineers there when it's 2am for them (they are not on call at that time and it's not an emergency).
> How does one aquire property such that it your own?

you acquire it by fiat - and enforce that acquisition by force.
While reading about the various QM experiments I've always wondered why people use the word "measurement" for what looks more like to me as "particle collision with large enough macroscopic effect to be seen by human".

A few QM experiments:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment

Little dots on the screen are some collision with a macroscopic visible effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern%E2%80%93Gerlach_experime...

Silver atoms going one way or another again on a screen and little dots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect%27s_experiment

Detectors probably some collision again and counting or imaging apparatus.

And of course a collision is a physically mostly discrete event so no one would question wether there's a need for an "observer" for it.

Would love to be pointed at some QM where there's no collision or similar discrete event for "measurement" as I'm a total noob in QM :).
The total demand from investors is a drop in the bucket compared to aggregate demand. Additionally, investors don’t actually consume housing, so they aren’t increasing demand. What you’re suggesting is that investors purchase housing and then somehow charge tenants more than they otherwise would be charged, which is of course absurd. Tenants will be charged as much as the landlord can charge.

I agree about making housing uninvestable, but the issue is supply, not demand.
First, there are ladies here as well.

Second, there are some functions of society that may operate better outside a capitalistic system.

One could make the argument that the police are a necessary function of society that should not be governed by market forces.

I wonder if basic housing is a similar necessity?
Pyret has a pragmatic way of dealing with what they call "roughnums":

https://www.pyret.org/docs/latest/equality.html
Why don't we give genes names like functions?

Seems like the whole thing might be easier to understand if we called a gene "butterflyStripeWidth" rathern than "WntA".

It's like we're writing a new core library but only using obfuscated function names.
The right to disconnect for me is when I don't have to care about work anymore for that day. Whenever I work some odd hours to have free time during the day this time is simply much less enjoyable. I know I will have to attend to work obligations while I'm supposedly on free time to enjoy daylight hours. This pressure is not something I can turn off at will.

With remote work I appreciate having the option to use the inevitable idle time to be more efficient with house chores and such but remote work never brought me the freedom you tout...

I have worked remotely in the past before COVID and tried your suggested approach, would be free during afternoons and work from 17-00, or split the day in morning and evening work. It didn't ever give me the same relaxation as I get from having free time until the end of the day.
How about corals fixating CO2 from the atmosphere?
I'm sure you understand sarcasm.