skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that nobody claimed that they were modern or high tech, but that they were engineered! The article claims how our society is modern and high tech because we are finally engineering stuff in the last few hundred years (where we instead just ran into mechanical and construction contraptions by accident previously?).

I disagree by giving examples of engineering feats from a few thousand years ago.

Btw, for "statues", I was thinking of things like the Great Sphinx of Giza or Colossus of Rhodes (Colossus was of comparable height to the Statue of Liberty).
Loved the article! There are so many great details such as the standardization of UTC happening after UNIX time invented, UNIX itself being born before the epoch, and all the great insight into the morass of 64 bit time across modern OSes.

Putting on my pedantic hat though, I see that East and West were switched in the discussion of Japan's unique 50/60Hz AC frequency split, and I can't get my mind off it. Hope you can make the edit.
Coffee Bar – Caffeine for macOS Ventura
Or I could just go on my Hilton or Hyatt app and be guaranteed a minimum level of service and consistency and know they are operating legally. I also don’t have to worry about leaving the space spotless and cleaning fees.

Not to mention between status (automatically conferred by the right card), base loyalty points and the right cobranded credit cards, I can easily get 15%-25% back for future stays.
Apple to put USB-C connectors in iPhones to comply with EU rules
Have you seen https://copy.sh/v86/ ? It doesn't run as fast as jslinux but is BSD Licensed, on Github, and supports resuming the VM from a snapshot.

https://github.com/copy/v86
If you are downsizing you can cash out and then buy your next (smaller) place in cash without a loan. This all assumes you aren't in California, though, where prop 13 encourages you to stay put no matter what.
I remember people talking about internal rivalries at IBM and Microsoft over user's eyeballs. Every app wants to be the main productivity app., king of the eyeballs!
Motionless in the sense or they do not have to be facing the wind at all time.
A big chunk (most?) of the evil in the world is done by people convinced that they know what's best for everyone else, and so are justified in forcing it on them.
Most county governments have a fixed levy for property tax mills. So if their target is $639 million then as tax appraisal values increase the tax per $1000 of appraised value will fall so the total property tax collected is constant. Of course as more levies are approved by voters individual property tax bills will creep up that way.
I didn't have much of any trouble in Snowpack with even the largest projects I worked on but at least with Snowpack it was easy enough to target "freeze" a sub-tree of modules into Snowpack's "web_modules" with esbuild. I don't know about Vite in that case as I haven't been convinced to actually try Vite despite Snowpack's shutdown endorsement. Recent stuff for me has either been projects still using webpack for platform reasons or ESM with hand-targeted esbuild bundles for specific module trees (libraries) without using Vite or Snowpack above that. About the only thing I feel I'm missing in those esbuild workflows is a good HMR dev server but the simplicity of using fewer, more targeted tools feels handy to me.
> I personally use a boot-stub based booting method with my own SB keys

Same here - stub, kernel, initrd and embedded cmdline all in a signed UKI on the ESP. I do encrypt my root however, so I wouldn't go as far as "painless" for the grub->efibootmgr switch (but I also switched initramfs generator so... always keep a rescue stick around).

But it's all about ownership and trust. I control the keys - hence I am the owner of my computer - and I don't trust e.g. Microsoft[1] to not eventually try to fuck me over. But that's not the important part.

> Also, I don't understand where remote attestation entered the conversation here, and I also don't see why that can't be a community based thing (al la let's encrypt is now everyone's CA) where you can choose your providers or even roll it yourself.

Remote attestation is mentioned five times in TFA and is where this can get really pernicious - indirectly limiting user choice because $safety_critical_industry (e.g. banking) only allows "the corporate keys" (likely including a few Linuxes too, but something like Gentoo couldn't be). They'll even have very good and completely valid security reasons for not allowing arbitrary user keys, but they'd lock me down to approved choices remotely. A reverse AGPL if you will.

Of course, workarounds will exist: "just multiboot", "just use multiple devices", "just choose the bank that allows you to whitelist your key" (assuming there is one, it's nice to dream) - but user freedom is reduced without malicious intent being strictly necessary anywhere in the process.

That's focusing on the negatives with my paranoiac hat on, of course.

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/07/lennart_poettering_re...
Right as I was reading this title on the front page, I got an amazon prime video push notification popup (that I don't recall permitting before) to tell me about an upcoming sports event I could watch live.
Thank you thank you thank you. I've been trying to find this talk forever after watching it once. I immediately knew this was it when I saw it under this particular thread. Super Illuminating stuff.
> A developer that has been able to make arbitrary choices and drive them thorough his employers connections to get mass adoption

FTFY
> I can literally dope silicon and make my own chips

How so? The best usable homemade transistor project that I’m aware of, consisted of something on the order of 100 amplifiers/transistors on a chip. And even then, the author had access to professionally made silicon wafers, and likely a whole lot of expensive/dangerous chemicals and equipment. This is very far outside the realm of a casual hacker.

Making even the simplest 6502 equivalent by yourself is impossible, forget more complex projects. I feel like this should be urgently addressed, given how important computing is.
I completely agree with you. As a matter of fact, I often say that if I had to pick one reform issue to support it would be to "make prison safe".

Out of the people labelled "criminal" or "legally deviant" in the US, I believe there is a big split between people who could reintegrate given a safe prison sentence and people that I think need to be exiled or executed. If prison was safe for the prisoners we could absolutely use a "light touch" for some offenders.

A lot of the worst damage to society, though, is orchestrated by chronic offenders who through whatever mix of genetics and environment have developed a set of beliefs and motivations that I think are unacceptable to keep around. To quote the example from the original article, forcing someone to commit crimes under pain of punishment or death simply isn't someone I have any interest in rehabilitating. Second-order organized crime is almost always worse for society than first-order crimes of passion or need.
To be honest, I'm surprised that question works. It's close enough to a real opinion that eventually someone will lose a defamation case on it and then legal will tell HR to stop answering it.
There is one. The author's implementation of `combinations` runs in quadratic time making copies of lists on each iteration. I replaced that for `itertools.combinations`, which uses an iterator, and found a pretty big difference:

~/p/not_that_slow  python3.11 modified.py 5000000
-0.169075164
0.183753791
Time: 6.335 s

~/p/not_that_slow  python3.11 main.py 5000000
-0.169075164
-0.169083134
Time: 48.515 s

Other than this, the only modification I made is to include a `print` statement at the end to show the time taken.

EDIT: That is not actually equivalent, my bad. The iterator is consumed and the execution ends early, I didn't realize the algorith iterated over it multiple times.
What are some important differences do you think?
I'll just reiterate what I said below which is that, while I think you point of view has a lot of merit, there are compelling "Why Now" counterpoints that I think you're undervaluing. Only time will tell though!
Yes, it is an ad. The only distinction is the boosted "ad" starts life as an organic post instead of a created ad.

Yes, Apple modified the status quo...they didn't enforce this for Meta until recently - Twitter, TikTok et al all pay via IAP and Apple is now enforcing this for Meta.

Yes again, it is related to the fact that boosted posts are done via the Facebook app and the economic value is created in that same app vs Ads Manager where the "purchase" is in the Ads Manager app and the economic value shows up in the Facebook app - or on the web.

And...yes, the rules are fluid from Apple. Yeah, I think it makes logical sense per the IAP rules to buy a Kindle book in the Amazon app and then consume it in the Kindle app but I bet Apple and Amazon had talks about that and Apple would not guarantee they would not try to get 30% of those sales so Amazon said...nope, not able to buy a Kindle book on the Amazon iOS app. Which, is exactly what Meta was doing till Apple "clarified" its rules and now wants them to pay for boosted...

Our firm is small and we avoid any possibility of Apple trying to grab 30% or our revenue...so, no app for us at all.
People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force Organization [pdf]
Most of these Worcester (Bosch) boilers don't come with these sensors. The one installed by my landlord is so cheap it doesn't offer any regulation interface besides the one knob in the front. It also lacks any temperature display, so I had to tune it with external thermocouple.

Usually the boilers are also oversized for houses here. The temperature differential is not big enough and you waste quite a lot of energy through steam.

Finally, the system boilers are also the most common (as opposed to combi-boilers) and for that reason you are not supposed set them below 60 degrees.
Replace it with a symlink to /dev/null! Or /dev/full if we feel like it.

(Yes, these are bad solutions, since the instructions explicitly said to stop the process which is writing.)
also farmers are incredibly resourceful. Every farmer i have ever met can fix any just about equipment they have because its so difficult and expensive to get someone to come out and fix it.
What exactly is evil about corporate tax accountants?
Oh wow they have so many opportunities that they need to go on websites and click buttons to apply? The ones with all these opportunities coming out of their ears are getting recruited, not spamming websites.

Setting up a spam magnet just attracts spam, not the “candidates with the most opportunities.”
“Besides strict typing and having a generally ugly syntax, C++ also requires ahead of time compilation.”

What’s wrong with strict typing and ahead of time compilation as long as it compiles fast? Doesn’t this prevent many runtime errors that can occur in Python?

Python is a higher level language than C++ so it requires less effort but newer compiled/typed languages offer more of what Python is good at
No. Compare SweetHome 3D to any similar tool written in C++.
I've had interviews like that in the past, and really enjoyed them. Much better than "Draw an architecture diagram for how you'd handle a serverless IoT application" - where you lose points, silenly, because you didn't pick something the interviewer expected you to do.

Usually a simple combination of immutable files, SELinux policies, and types in configuration files were enough for most of the challenges. Though now and again you'd find they'd given you a server with packages removed, or not yet installed.
Putting a few hundred thousand in one parcel of land and structure seems a lot more volatile than a cheap broad market equity or bond or target date index fund.
>>"Passive Income" is the root of all of our economic troubles. People who are getting "Passive Income", are by definition not working and producing output for the economy.

You bet they are not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
Wow you two really understand each other!

I was thinking "what movie did I miss where they discussed Dicky Eklund and George Chuvalo?" I was wondering if it was from that old Showtime documentary about Dicky's darker times.
Or a £200-300 worth signal adapter.
If that is the case, HN definitely takes a relatively big chunk in my case.
Yay for NC representation!
Is there an equivalent to IME for AMD and/or Apple M-class processors (that would similarly benefit from disabling for home user)?
Garry Tan: Reprogram Your Mindset
The site says 2kw continuous for the domestic system. That's about half of typical domestic solar installation. I really do wonder if you can get that in a real world environment.
They want to make "pylons" - not "cylons". One is good for supplying electricity.
The Soviet Union had no trouble at all monitoring and punishing tens of millions of people. It also operated forced labor camps (gulags) on a vast scale.
I admire your positive view on people but I feel like you vastly overestimates both the ability to learn and the willingness to care of a huge chunk of the population. If we talk about corporate environments with hundreds of thousands of employees, you will absolutely always have malicious or drunk or just plain uncaring people that will not care at all what happens when they click that one blinking link in that one special email from the long lost relative.

The goal to teach people how technology works is admirable and necessary, but it is no defence against a motivated attacker. The attackers will always have a massive information advantage just because they have so much more time to aquire it.
A libre Unreal Engine 1 when? The first Deus Ex it's better. Doom I-III, Quake I-III engines are under a libre license. UE1 was always missing there.
Ditto more or less. Dad was a mechanical engineering academic. Learned fortran programming in the late 1960s on punch cards.
Can you test some alternate pythons: pypy, pyston, pyston-lite ?
I have worked with very few C++ projects that compile fast, and my experience is that the errors in C++ projects are often more severe than the errors in Python projects. Even with modern C++ smart pointer style, I’ve seen all sorts of stuff like dangling pointers / use-after-free, buffer overruns, etc. All in code that had been reviewed.
Sweden has an its version of CPS. The first time they will do an investigation but without any proof, nothing will happen.
After a few of these without any indication of harm being done to the child they will just ignore them as it has been investigated.

You can’t really cause problems for people this way.
Tell HN: Meta is using my 2FA to call and sell me
I run a couple of businesses with ad accounts connected to my personal account.

I received multiple calls this morning on my personal cell that's used for 2FA for my personal FB account. All of them, they were pitching me ads to buy for my business accounts.

None of my business accounts have my personal cell on them.

Edit: Now my personal email connected is getting emails to purchase business ads...
> mixing employment with friendship can be difficult to navigate.

This is only true if you both dont either have eachother as a priority or act hypocritically in light of that stated value.

Losing $100 to a false friend is a great way to pay your enemies to get lost.
In the field this journal publishes in, it is (or else they wouldn't accept such a paper titled "Acute Toxicity ...").
Academic achievement is entirely a measure of how well you're able to play the game, and has little to do with intellect until you reach the highest levels, and even then you can be a little less intelligent if you are very very good at the game (whereas you cannot be very intelligent and bad at the game).

So yeah, you weren't very good at the game. I wasn't either. Own that, and stop making excuses!
I don't buy this argument. WebAssembly is a vastly different beast than trivial C extensions (since WASM is a browser thing). JavaScript has both and is still much faster.

Bun (the runtime I used for the post), has a native C interface that's far simpler to use than Python (even with pybind/nanobind):
https://github.com/oven-sh/bun#bunffi-foreign-functions-inte...

Deno (a v8-based runtime) has the same thing: https://deno.land/manual@v1.25.4/runtime/ffi_api

These use the standard C-ABI directly without requiring headers (unlike Python).

Node.js standardized a more Python-like C API called Node-API: https://nodejs.org/api/n-api.html

I believe Python can continue to add performance and is not hamstrung by the implementation.
You can see the moving part on the video. It's just internal to the duct.
I think your response was sarcastic but I actually fully agree - yes language changes, cultural & social norms change. Today in 2022, based on average of media creation & consumption, this article is wordy (or "long form", if we feel "wordy" is loaded with negative connotation:). It would not have been wordy in different times & places.

I like long form. I like essays and articles and geeking out and getting in depth of things. But I'm not oblivious that majority of media consumption is swiping on TikTok or Instagram or Facebook.
If it's a micro-optimization that produces no real value, then perhaps it isn't crazy, but is irrational if the goal is to save meaningful amounts of money.

You can also compress/save used aluminum cans and periodically sell them to a scrap metal dealership for money. Quick check shows scrap aluminum cans are selling for a national average of $0.45/lb, and it takes about 32-35 12 oz cans to accrue 1 lb of aluminum cans. Assuming you go through a 24 pack of cans per week, enjoy your ~$1.30/month savings for hours of effort!
Herbert Simon, "Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World", 1971:

> "In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention."
I'm sorry but I couldn't disagree more. This is just cherry-picking and not even accurate.

First of all, let's look at the "truly great" things Google has done -- search, ads, Android, YouTube, Maps, Gmail, Apps/GSuite/Workspace, and so on. 100% commitment, 100% great.

You say Google is "rather uncommitted" to GCP, which is hilarious if you'd look at the billions they've sunk into it. They committed to competing with AWS and by god they're spending the money to do it, and they're almost at profitability after more than 10 years of staying the course. If that's not commitment, then I literally don't know what is.

The rest of what you're listing is just that it's very hard to achieve profitable product-market fit, even if you're Google. Hardware like Pixel is hard to turn into a series of reliable successes, consumers just didn't sign up for Stadia in the numbers needed, Hangouts is a complicated story but Google certainly keeps trying with messaging, and FB Messenger's popularity was not even remotely a result of Hangouts splitting.

And just checking -- you think the 4th largest company in the world has the worst business people in the world...? No amount of genius engineering is going to get you there without an awful lot of genius business and product people too...
Yes... but this seems to be then a timing issue to me... what happens if the replication factor changes again while they are reconnecting to the wrong server... then they will miss the second 'reconnect' message... and will stay connected to this server where it will never receive messages... perhaps an edge-case scenario.
then maybe those actually aren't requirements for 90% of use cases ;)
The dichotomy between attention and money (in this context) is forced and not necessarily true. While it is true that attention is valuable, it is valuable primarily because there is an expectation that it can be monetized (either now or in the future). There can be some other minor use cases for attention being valuable for its own sake but those are a minority. The primary goal is to leverage attention (eyeballs) for some kind of advertising.

Attention , when it is hard to monetize it, is less valuable (again in the majority case). A case in point would be messaging apps such as Snapchat or WhatsApp compared to something like Pinterest or FB newsfeed. Attention in one of those systems is more economically valuable than others. It's true that WhatsApp was valued high because of usage/attention despite having no monetization but that was more of a strategic play to thwart competitive threat as well as the belief that they could monetize it in the future (as evident in the current direction that the messaging apps are going in)
Slavery is the norm in non-capitalist societies.

The emergence of free markets coincided with a dramatic decline in slavery.
And it is used later on, probably every day until you graduate. Most people probably won't use it at their jobs, but things that are useful during your studies are useful period.
I completely understand this objection. Ultimately, this was a tough trade off that I made for reasons that I can elaborate on at a different point.

In most cases, the goal is to have an organizer create a quick video describing the trip to communicate enough info for you to then declare your preferences. Here is an example:

https://villagersapp.com/t/gkkfv

Either way, I just pushed a change to make the modal escapable.
It is good to hear that big up front design sucks as much for movies as it does for software.
I imagine the scar would be relatively easy to fake with makeup. I always assumed it was just the most obvious way to verify smallpox vaccine status. Did we even have consistent medical records back then?

It's okay if some unvaccinated people manage to cheat the system, as long as the vast majority cannot. Similar to how laws against thievery are useful even though thieves still exist.
Closed source, so we can speculate (or try to reverse engineer/break it).
Show HN: I made an app to A/B test YouTube thumbnail for free
> On my machine (very similar, a macbook pro m1 max):

Should make essentially no difference then, since I rather doubt the Python implementation of n-body can leverage the GPU, or strains the RAM so much that the 200GB/s of the Pro (IIRC) would be an issue.
Agreed, but this has the advantage of being able to generate at night.
"the laws do not apply if they contravenes the constitution"

Isn't the EU based on the primacy of EU laws over local ones? The Sweden constitution should have been amended long time ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primacy_of_European_Union_law

"The principle was derived from an interpretation of the European Court of Justice, which ruled that European law has priority over any contravening national law, including the constitution of a member state itself"
>> but under what conditions?

A windy night.
The difference for most conforming loans (sold to US government) is that less than 20% down payment requires property mortgage insurance (PMI), which should add to monthly payments compared to a 20% down mortgage.

Are you seeing PMI costs? Or are they being waived for you? Or is it a non conforming loan that does not require PMI? There’s a bunch of other possible reasons on this website.

https://www.redfin.com/blog/what-is-pmi-insurance/
If you don't sell, the inflation makes your mortgage _relatively_ cheaper.
these people are preying on sorrow and loneliness, and the victim is not only robbed, but emotionally assaulted, some dont surive that.
Interesting world where the experts would not immediately go to Home Depot and pick up a nail gun. It does feel a bit like that sci fi book I am blanking on the name of where the whole world is just academics writing about the decline of productivity instead of, you know, being productive.