skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A-class critique of the grounding of value.

I will add that there seems to be a substantial correlation between people who are made uncomfortable by the reality of socially-constructed value,

and the social construction of many other "foundational" things, such as "truth" and its relationship to natural language,

which flows naturally into self-delusional "originalism" when it comes to interpreting say the Constitution. Or for that matter the Bible.

which in turn are deeply correlated with autocratic-leaning and socially-conservative politics which favor rigid hierarchies and privilege authority and respect for it, over other values (such as equity, compassion, etc.)

I find it remarkable how many people are made uncomfortable even in otherwise well -educated circles by the premise that in natural language meaning is negotiated and collaborative and requires not absolutes of the universe but rather agents who maintain representations and models of one another's states, beliefs, intentions, etc., against which every utterance is measured and its meaning triangulated.

I guess if you got a degree in EECS rather than say CogSci it's possible to never encounter even anemic instrumental models of this in a pragmatic linguistics class... :/
"In the last 7 years of that time I've been a full-time Linux kernel developer. If I'm complaining about the amount of effort it took to make this laptop functional, then the average user is boned."

Same song and dance since 2006. Great only if you have no money and lots of time to learn and experiment.
Tries for days
> well regulated landfills are actually fine and there is plenty of space for them.

On the other hand, a quick Google search turns up quotes like "the US is on pace to run out of room in landfills within 18 years"

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/us-landfills-are-fi...

So which is it?
> Worst thing we had come through was a human body.

This should really go in the compost bin.
A library has librarians. Joe Random would have to contact the proposed agency anyway, and they would in turn first check if something in their catalogue already fits the bill or suggest if the process could be altered to fit an existing digital adaption.
I've been really looking forward to the variadic generics. ML and data code is full of types like "FloatTensor" and "DataFrame" which really don't narrow things down. Hopefully this will make its way into the ecosystem asap.
You're giving the plastics industry too much credit. The useful idiots who uncritically bought every word and helped them ram it down everyone's throats deserve some blame too.
> a very long period of process optimization and corrosion testing

How long? 1 year? 10 years? 100? 1000?

If it's not the last option, isn't it worth figuring out?
Imposing restrictions on OEMs got them in a bunch of trouble in the past, and restrictions like what you're suggesting are actively getting Google in trouble (see the recent fine imposed by India).

Incidentally, this kind of thing is why my personal laptop is a Microsoft Surface, and my personal phone is a Google Pixel.
What do you like about the turn-based mechanics?

What do you dislike?
> Something that doesn't belong there in any amount.

I have never heard this definition before! How do you in particular decide which compounds shouldn’t be in the atmosphere in any amount?

It kind of seems like such a narrow definition of “pollutant” enables the justification of burning darn near anything short of man-made nuclear isotopes that don’t otherwise exist in nature. How does this definition serve a practical purpose?

edit:
To address your hurricane analogy, I am not a fan of hurricanes or their damage. I have had friends die in hurricanes.

I agree that trying to argue an arbitrary definition of “pollution” to serve one’s pre-existing ideas or pedantic need to be Dictionary Emperor is silly and likely pointless at best, though.
Greed doesn't have limits. The only place it ends is where law enforcement (in the form of astronomical fines) tells it to.
Jabberwocky – The Indexless Database
A database that doesn't need indexes???
Not a gamer, but aren't games trying to differentiate themselves? A weird pig would be good thing.
But you have to demand it. People have to make clear to the vendors that this matters.

As long people don’t do that everything will continue as normal. It needs to be very clear you’re not doing good enough.

As long as reviewers keep ignoring the elephant in the room in their text and scores, how are you ever going to get what I’m guessing just about everyone wants? They may not know it (us Mac users were getting annoyed at heat and noise but didn’t know how much).

But I’m convinced if someone built it, users would come out of the woodwork. So many people doing “office” work that doesn’t require high power machines would benefit. Qualcomm just doesn’t seem to be trying very hard in the computer segment.
Apple Silicon Macs can run Windows and Linux in a VM. Asahi Linux (native) is making decent progress.
Ralph and Sue's Meccano News: The Last Post (2017)
I think that is just referring to the existing landfills. We can/do build new landfills all the time. And there is no shortage of unused space for new landfills.
Generally zfs native encryption these days (as well as native encryption in macos and windows).
Funnily enough, I believe that's completely achievable with enough time spent on it (probably a few weeks of an engineer working full time).

We have technology like WebVM [1] (from leaningtech / CheerP) or Copy86 [2] that already allows x86 machine code execution/emulation on the web. If you add an OCI client layer on top that is executable in the browser, it should be possible to run Docker containers in the browser.

[1] https://webvm.io/

[2] https://copy.sh/v86/
It depends.

Most of the times, you probably should jump around every 3-4 years.

That said, I have been at the same company for 7 years and the company has always compensated me well for my hard work.
Virgin type of consumption? Risk of mortality?

Is it me or is that title extremely oddly phrased?
It is interesting to me because it has exposed people that were once respected and now look like grifters.

People like Tom Brady.
Oh yeah, Mulan too.
The author of the article does not have a manufacturing background. It shows. Knowing about, and measuring, sensitivities to process variation is a big issue. Look up Deming, quality, the Toyota production system, and such. Manufacturing has random, environmental, and systematic variation. Random looks like noise, environmental correlates with weather and other external factors, and systematic comes from tool and die wear. Statistical quality control is about separating those. Do we need to control the humidity more tightly, or replace the dies sooner?

(One of the problems the US has in manufacturing is the loss of a culture where more people have a clue about a manufacturing plant works.)
Civet: The CoffeeScript of TypeScript
Ask HN: How would software look if hardware had stopped improving long ago?
Progress in hardware allows software to build computationally costly abstractions to make devs more productive (for better or worse). While some use-cases definitely required improvements (e.g. deep learning became a thing thanks to powerful hardware), it is not clear that all software is better now that "RAM/CPU is cheap". For instance, IRC predates the World Wide Web, but desktop apps like Slack/Discord (that get shipped with a whole browser with ElectronJS) solve the exact same problem. Many websites are excessively heavy, "because they can", I guess mostly to "look better", and maybe to some extent because of ads/trackers. Modern developer tools require to download half the Internet regularly (e.g. node projects often come with 30 000 dependencies, apps get shipped with a whole rootfs in containers, or with an embedded chromium browser, etc). There is a ton of overhead everywhere, sometimes just because we can, sometimes because it's faster to market.

So I was wondering: how do you think software would look today if hardware had stopped improving, say 10 or 20 years ago? Surely we would have end-to-end messaging apps and social networks, but maybe video-on-demand (e.g. Netflix) would be more limited, and we would not have TikTok? Maybe we would not need 5G to connect our fridges to our shoes? We would not have cryptocurrencies or NFTs. But that does not mean we would have stopped developing software.

Or maybe said differently: what are "useless/cosmetic" improvements that happened in the last 10 or 20 years in software, and what are "real" ones?
Tabs as a first-class UI element used in many apps is a big improvement. They are a big part of how I use Finder for instance.
Asahi Linux is making decent progress.
For encrypting files, I use AEScrypt[1]. Cross platform, simple to use, and easy to audit.

[1]: https://www.aescrypt.com/
Coincidence can still have conditions. Independent choices can still agree without implying causality. If you like someone and they like you back, that's a coincidence.
Comments seem divided on whether someone 'in' the industry is the only person that can understand the industry and whether being in it means having a vested interest.

For those of us who feel like "well duh obviously, and he should be allowed to do what he wants" I'd bring up that this is a democracy and we can simply make different rules. It is harder as a consultant to invest in an industry that you consult on than it is for a CEO who is advising on the rules that are being written for the industry. this is a problem and rather than having 'ethical considerations' we could make rules to

-limit investment

-require divestment

- disclose and review investments

None of these would be beyond the pale and really the SEC and other bodies should be way more on the ball. The fact that they aren't is a reflection of this kind of one hand washing the other that we need to get out of our government
A Surface device just gets you away from additional OEM crap (since most MS "OEM crap" is included in Windows anyway). You still have to deal with running an OS written by Microsoft.
Wasm "solves" running your application in a shared environment. i.e not your machine but say a cloudflare machine, that has to run dozens of applications like yours.

Without wasm, the unit of containerization for them is operating system process. Each process spins up a jvm that runs your app/backend API.

With wasm, the unit of containerization is the exact functions of your backend API. So they can fit more "containers" on a single machine, compared to docker. And that brings faster startups etc..
As a sound artist who specialized in actual field recordings, and took their honest representation and provenance seriously,

it is a recurring gripe of mine when media relations and pop sci writers assert that this sort of thing is the "the sound of."

It is not remotely that. It is sonification, which is a fine and noble art in its own right,

but it represents an often very arbitrary transformation of one set of signals, into some audio form consumable by humans.

FTA for example:

"The team used data from ESA’s Swarm satellites, as well as other sources, and used these magnetic signals to manipulate and control a sonic representation of the core field."

Some correlation is there, no doubt—but it would be very helpful for people to be educated about what sonification is, and, what they are hearing in this particular effort, e.g. given a sense of scale and timescale and medium transformation...
I would describe myself as a dataframe engineer.
I'm quite jealous of the nice hardware that Macs have. If Apple would commit to first class Linux support, I'd immediately buy a set for my family.

But instead of delighting customers, Apple is now chasing the mystical "services revenue". In my opinion, that's just a more pleasant way of saying "everything will be infested with DRM so that we can sell you the same movie multiple times". We can already see the start of it with Apple Music which is raising prices now that customers are appropriately entrapped and have lost their old (purchased) iTunes mp3 collection.
Asbestos is still being used in industrial settings today.

In undergrad, we used it frequently in organic chemistry for thermal reactions like sodium fusion.

We don't see it being installed in places where it can be easily inhaled. But it absolutely still has uses.
> As an industry, we're so bad at isolation that we have to put a computer (container) inside a computer (VM) inside a computer (hardware) just to achieve any sort of sane guarantees.

We don't. But shortsighted design, rushing, and herd mentality around "hyped" tech make it a virtual certainty more like this will exist, just in different shapes and sizes.

You can run most stuff on a baremetal box or VM w/ direct install of dependencies. All of this container stuff, sorry to say, is a grift save for some extreme multi-tenant use cases.
Um. Cheaply to 10+ TB SSD? Where are you shopping?! I want to go there.
The difference is that you don't necessarily know what is important until you forget it and try to recall it later. If you record everything, then you can make a more informed decision later on whether to keep, archive, or delete the information.
Funny, I have an i7-3770K as my gaming rig and to this day still play Warzone regularly on it. Such a workhorse for being 10 years old.
The M1 is a marvel, however there's a vast range of things it's not going to do anytime soon, e.g. CUDA, eGPU etc - nevermind games.

https://store.steampowered.com/macos

Had they not pushed Metal so hard over Vulkan - then things would be different. There's time yet for Apple to change course. (Seems Valve open sourced MoltenVK, so that's one barrier removed at least!)
It's a bit more complicated though, interest rates are part of that function too.

Low prices & low interest rates: great for new entries to homeownership, but would require a surplus of housing
Low prices & high interest rates: great for those who buy property with cash (wealthy people and corporations)
High prices & low interest rates: great for existing owners
High prices & high interest rates: generally bad for everyone except those able to offload existing housing thy own
No, because you can use another product. The government can fine or send you to jail.
Just to be clear, it wasn't being recycled when we were shipping it to China either. It was just going into their landfills instead of our landfills.

Recycling plastic is a non-solution to a much bigger problem: over-consumption of plastics.

The only way I see forward is for governments to implement policies that discourage use of plastics by consumers and manufacturers. Some places have done this with plastic bags, but need to do it for plastic single-use bottles, etc.
Could also be a way of making managers take mentoring and development more seriously. Va current rank and yank/pipping
First, get yourself set up with sources of feedback that can let you play around with things safely and get rapid feedback. This could mean setting up a sandbox environment. This could mean finding someone more experienced and asking, “Hey towards the end of the week can I walk you through what I’m building and you let me know about the implications of things?”
https://guides.noloco.io/getting-started/quick-start
And improving your SQL skills is almost always a good choice. No-matter what tech-role you hold at the moment.
New Psychedelic Entactogens
Thanks, this is interesting, but also very abstract.

What do you mean when you say "scaling on the level of a function"?

Do you mean any "plain old" function or a specific REST endpoint like AWS Lambda?

If you could just throw distributed computing resources at any function that is a bottleneck in your code, that would be alien tech.
Don’t forget this tweet from a day earlier, which he quotes:

> “So will wasm replace Docker?” No, but imagine a future where Docker runs linux containers, windows containers and wasm containers side by side. Over time wasm might become the most popular container type. Docker will love them all equally, and run it all :)
Bit rot. If my backups aren’t redundant and I don’t care to access something for long enough, it eventually becomes inaccessible to others.

Full-disk encryption from your OS vendor (FileVault, LUKS, whatever windows does) will accelerate this process.
Vampire Survivor and others like it are starting to form their own sub-genre. There are so many bullet-hell roguelikes just like it coming out these days. Making a clone seem like a great first game project.
Then maybe you should try getting in touch! You could get ahold of some varieties and try to do some selective breeding in your own area and contribute pits if it works out
My college girlfriend and I were both in ROTC to pay for college, though she grew to hate the fact that she had to do it. Part of ROTC is drill (learning to march in a coordinated fashion, mostly as a matter of discipline and for parades rather than for a direct military purpose).

Anyway, when we were walking around casually as civilians, I would sometimes synchronize our steps as we would do during drill. Drove her crazy when she realized what I was doing. :)
THIS!
Apple:- fair warning an inside Bollywood joke.

Apple:-
“Mere paas
M1/M2/MAX,A16, Hain “ and looks at MSFT and asks “Tere paas kya Hain”?

MSFT:-
Shoulder shrugs and says
“Mere Paas Excel Hain”.

Apple has nothing on Excel. And Numbers languishes Excel by a few generations. Esp after the boatload of updates that Excel APIs got last year. I guess it’s all about priorities and what’s important for that business at that time.
Somewhat related, this guy: https://github.com/mosuka/ seems to be very passionate about search service.

He built two distributed search services:

- https://github.com/mosuka/phalanx, written in Go.

- https://github.com/mosuka/bayard, written in Rust.
Part of being a highly experienced software engineer is being able to clean up the mess that the previous person made.
Good to know, but I don't see why it's harmful. Here in Canada they're also contemplating nitrogen fertilizer bans for reasons of climate change, so it's not like this argument isn't being made.
Lame advice, I went ahead and helped our c level retrieve lost data via outlook and excel and won a 2 year around the world tour!
Clickable link: https://podcastsaver.com
"Recycling is largely a scam"

And then you name one material that is recycled and ignore the rest, most of which are highly effective. It's called cherry-picking and it's a bad look.
I miss devmaster and flipcode, both coming from the age of people writing their own engines. Unfortunately ever since Unreal and Unity went mainstream, the community of amateur game engine developers shrunk considerably.
Same on AWS iirc, why would they? the speed up will loose them money, whoever implements that is not getting a promotion to L7!
The information on asebestos can be found in some book or technical documents
> Advertised strong Linux support

? I looked at framework laptops and as far as I could see there is zero official Linux support. There are some community forums for it, but no warranty if something doesn't work or officially support distributions or anything.
When I think of a "roguelike", I think of a game that is played in "runs" where a run is typically 60 minutes or less, but completing a game round is not completing the entire game, as it will take several runs to unlock all the features and content. You are also generally not expected to be able to complete a run to the final boss in your first several attempts.

Hades, FTL, Vampire Survivors, Gunfire Reborn, and Crypt of the Necrodancer all satisfy these.

RimWorld is not at all a roguelike because a "run" can easily last hundreds of hours.
Amazon's fault would come from displaying fake reviews for so long, if anything.
It's always a willpower issue. If the US needed a fighter bomber range it could find the land etc etc.

Whilst the US has a lot of people. its also really big. It's got space to solve this problem.
Good Employee Feedback Ideas
I’m not advocating everyone switch to Mac. I’m sorry if I gave that impression.

I’m advocating Windows/Linux users should have the choice of a machine roughly as good. Doesn’t have to 1:1, but clearly there is a lot of space for “better” past what everyone is selling today.

And I don’t see that improving much after 2 years and I find it kind of sad.

Why should you have to switch OSes and everything to have a fast computer with good battery life that’s quiet and cool?

You shouldn’t.
It's getting harder and harder to turn this stuff off. Firefox wants to talk to its Sync and Pocket servers. I still have an Android phone with F-droid, no Google account, and all Google services turned off, but I don't know if that will work in my next phone.
But isn't the walled garden in thsi case part of the appeal? i.e. running windows on it bare metal would not be as performant because of all the tighly coupled hardware-software integration apple do?
Can Ventura run x86 VMs on M1/M2?

I thought it was only able to run ARM VMs which can _utilize_ rosetta to run x86 code?

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/run...
>… what people valued and what they took for granted for things like social hierarchy and everyday customs would be completely alienating

One such historical custom which has gone by the wayside: an entire family used to share a single bed. If you had a stranger over, they were likely to hop in as well for the night.
All of the members of this industry board have conflicts of interest being from industry, but having read the reports here:

nscai.gov

I thought the reports were good and I'm not sure how the conflicts would come through. Most of the advice would seem common sense to people on here.
> When my Mac has GPU problems, I don't complain to NVIDIA or AMD; I complain to Apple.

Does Apple actually do anything? I see plenty of people complain to Apple and it falls on deaf ears.
This is one of the things FrankenPHP is dealing with (w/out fork).

The big 'gotcha' here is that the heap is typically shared amongst threads in a process and that's where globals tend to live. However, you could make a heap per thread (which is kind of how some implementations of isolates work). You lose a bit of perf by doing this but it does deal with the global stomping problem.

We've (NanoVMs) looked at this a few times. It can be done but as bdg mentioned most frameworks expect state to be in a completely clear so the real challenge is that you have to go in and deal with each framework itself (for instance using WP as an example).

Anyways, I thought FrankenPHP was pretty cool so went ahead and package it up for Nanos: https://repo.ops.city/v2/packages/eyberg/frankenphp/0.0.1/x8... .

If you had a php framework that wasn't so dependent on global state you could definitely make something way more performant.

In general scripting languages and their usage of global state is a recurring concurrency issue but I'm hopeful that the isolate pattern will catch on in other languages to help alleviate it.
> I have never heard this definition before!

Let's hear your definition then.

> How do you in particular decide which compounds shouldn’t be in the atmosphere in any amount?

Why is that hard? Nitrogen, Oxygen, CO2, Water, and some noble gasses.

Other stuff might be there naturally (for example salt by the sea), but are pollutants.