skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bobiverse and Project Hail Mary

They're sci-fi but fun reads.
>Shouldn't you be using a shebang?

Why would they use a shebang? `bash script.sh` works perfectly fine. Ever used a terminal?
I think what you are talking about is morality and not honesty. Musk is brutally honest - with the people he works with, with the investors, with his followers on twitter and everyone. He is brutally honest by letting them know on their face what he thinks is right and wrong. I would argue that not being honest about something wouldn't make you move forward.

You can be brutally honest and immoral at the same time. Not leaving a note for scratching a parked car is being immoral to someone.

Morality doesn't get you up the ladder because there are certain hard decisions you need to make. You may argue that dishonesty can take you up. I think dishonesty can only take you so far. It definitely can't get you to become someone like Musk.
Don't have enough information from you. Big company, small company, medium sized company?

In work situations, if you have an utter complete and total asshole as a boss, best to beat feet and get out. Almost no company is going to back the subordinate over the boss.

If you like the company and it is a large company, and want to stay, then apply to another department, another job. If it is a small company, most likely you have to leave.

Or the third alternative is to stay and deal with it. Maybe if you "gamify" it, it will be better. Instead of getting angry, make it a game. Just like a video game, try different things to move forward and get around obstacles.

https://hbr.org/2018/09/what-to-do-when-you-have-a-bad-boss
The problem is that it's not at all straight-forward. It doesn't help that the word "gender" has been used to name a number of different and conflicting concepts.

See https://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/84795/ (copy available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZHkN2EYkl0v1oxhbd-5mnp9Fn1V...) for a discussion of the different concepts and the resulting confusion from a so-called gender critical perspective.

The distinction between sex and gender leads to interesting problems of performing gender and what it means for gender (and sex) to be socially constructed. And if both are socially constructed can the divide be upheld without requiring counter-intuitive definitions?

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-gender/#SexGenDi...

The haziness of the term "woman" seems to be a popular target for mockery among conservatives. And phrased as an ontological question ("what is a woman?") it is unsurprisingly baffling to many people who haven't kept up with feminism and who are not personally affected by the outcome of this philosophical debate. Equally unsurprising then for these people to consider "The Left" to be out of touch.

Expressing exasperation at our collective failure to wrap our brains around these concepts is an understandable reaction from someone well-read, but it does nothing to change minds.
> The conservatives viewpoint that the Babylon Bee seems to subscribe to is that gender and sex are they same thing and they are binary. There is no way to debate against that viewpoint. There is no possible compromise position.

No, the conservative position is that sex is objective and factual, while gender is a subjective facet of personality that is socially constructed. The compromise position is to destigmatize gender nonconformance within the category of “man” in a way that does not set up a conflict of rights with women.
I love SQLite but this is a terrible take, in my opinion. The Web is not meant to be a property of Google. Browsers don't have to implement the Chrome's API in a compatible way. There is a standardization process in place that should govern the progress of the Web Platform. The "do whatever Chrome does, then everybody else will be forced to follow suit" is doing it wrong.
That's a holiday in Germany. So "prepare" means we can take a day off our day off to patch OpenSSL on all systems? Obviously the OpenSSL team can't take all holidays in all countries in account but I still find it strange that the security problem is hinted at since like a week until there's finally the great day where the veil is lifted.
If I remember correctly then Genera[1] also had such an interface.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genera_(operating_system)#User...
Saitama for scale.
Binary Ninja 3.2 Released
The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul. You will not see the world the same way. You can then read Industrial Society by Ted Kaczynski and understand his desperation.
> - China might practically be able to invade a small island off their coastline, but it isn't obvious that they could tolerate the backlash. The quality of their army is largely unknown because they haven't used it seriously in decades.

Give them time, and they'll most likely be able to "flatten[...] multiple Middle Eastern countries," too. They also have something like 4.5 times the population of the US, and have gained the economic characteristics that made the US so powerful after WWII. China is now the "workshop of the world, while the US's manufacturing capacity has withered.
Certainly what you point out is probably part of the problem but it is, in my opinion, certainly not the biggest part.

For me, current inflation is caused by the fact that people have too much money the do not need and they invest it instead of buying goods.

This leads too more speculation on everything, stocks, cryptos, energy, real estate and even staple foods.

In the last 10 years every of those indexes has gone massively up. This has resulted in companies having share prices increasing faster than their performance would have suggested. If there's more demand for company X stocks then the price will go up even if company's performance is not so great.

And here starts the loop for me, company X employees want a slice of this cake. Their are recompensed for the higher stock price (bonuses, wage increases) and not for their "real life" performance. And now those employees have even much more money they didn't need, so what they do? They invest and speculate => loop.

While the upper middle class (and above) has became richer thanks to this (more salary, stellar investment performance, low interest rates to invest even more etc) the bottom class has lost everything, they have pretty much the same salary than 10 years ago but everything is more expensive.

Nevertheless, almost everywhere in the world, we have also seen wealth tax cuts. So those who had money to invest have now even more and those who need to be helped are helped even less because less taxes means a state less able to help them.

All of this have brought us to where we are today. Unfortunately.
You have to pay a subscription to use Pantone colors in Photoshop now
The ones that stand out:
Fiction: Project Hail Mary.
Non-fiction: The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch
The article is almost completely right, aside from missing that VAX was little-endian.

But if 68k was really a 16-bit design, then Z-80 was a really 4-bit chip, because that was the size of its ALU. What matters, really, is the register size, and how much work you can do in one instruction. Federico Faggin ("fajjeen", btw) recognized that the Z-80 did not need its 8-bit result in the next click cycle anyway, so took two 4-bit cycles, and nobody was the wiser.
It would cap reported inflation, but capping prices just turns inflation into shortages (since demand > supply either way), and potentially slows down the supply response (high prices incentivize more supply).

If supply is actually restricted (and can't be increased), then capping prices makes sense in certain scenarios, and indeed price caps have been used historically in the U.S., from the 1940s through the 1970s.
> Riding the fence leads to a worse experience for both sides.

I don't entirely agree, I think having a garbage collected pointer (GCP) can make a lot of sense as a performance optimisation: manual memory management (MMM) and reference counting (RC) have stampeding characteristics similar to GC pauses when releasing large hierarchies e.g. persistent data structures, or large trees of widgets: all the tree is freed synchronously and recursively, if it's large it can be very sensible.

This stampeding is more predictable than a GC pause, but it's no less problematic when it occurs, and mitigating it can be difficult (you have to manually shunt the objects you'd like to release off-thread). A GCP can do that shunting on its own, letting a GC thread perform the releases asynchronously, and piecemeal.

Furthermore, GCP means you're not expecting to precisely track allocations at the system level, which means the usual tricks (arenas, bump allocators, ...) can be applied by default to GC pointers, where they usually can't be to MMM or RC pointers. This decreases allocation and deallocation overhead by reducing the amount of work the system has to do.
I haven't read a single book in 2022. Somehow, over the years, I've lost the habit of reading.
Reading this, it doesn't seem like starting a manufacturing unit in India is difficult. But starting a manufacturing unit in an AGRICULTURE land meant for farming is difficult.

The difficulty is not the manufacturing plant. It is the conversion of agriculture land to non agriculture land.

I find the title and the conclusion by the author very misleading.
What’s your evidence for the notion that the presidential campaign was “swayed” by “information warfare?”
Newton's CSS Cradle (2021)
> People joke about the programmer in a dark corner plugging away and never talking to others, but that's actually pretty rare. In 20 years I've only worked with a handful of developers who don't want to socialize, collaborate, or solve problems together.

On the contrary I rarely meet engineers that want to collaborate all the time unless they don't fit the typical profile of an engineer (usually a transfer from another industry). Engineers, much like myself, like to work alone not because we are loners but because often times so-called "deep work" requires actual quiet time. I don't like meetings, I don't like to pair unless there is some mutual misunderstanding that needs to be resolved, and I like to control my small talk (because I have a tendency to talk a lot about CS). I'm not a shut in, I just have work to do. Pairing excessively, for example, is an antipattern. When I worked in an office I would regularly leave my headphones on even when I got coffee because if I didn't someone would inevitably find a way to pull me away when I needed to be doing thinking.

There is time and place for scuttlebutt and honestly the amount of work I have to do every day leaves very little time for it. I could also be an extreme case because being introverted generally, a large number of meetings physically exhausts me. I've estimated I can make it ~30 minutes in a meeting before I am checked out.

The more rules, people, and processes that are put in my way just reduce my effectiveness. This leads to more frustration than it solves. For example, all these company parties and get togethers, "fun" meetings, etc are annoying to me because I legitimately stress out when I can't complete my work on my own (internal) timetable.
Since it's optional, why does it matter that much?
If only real-life worked that way! But you can always try to live like your fantasies are real and see what happens to your life!
>GC is also a convenience

“Convenience” makes it sound like syntax sugar, it’s not merely convenient.

It eliminates certain types of bugs fundamentally, often it can simplify how the code is reasoned about.
Just click login and then click the X in the top left corner to dismiss the modal.
Software inhibiting user freedom (like drm) often gets broken using buffer overflows, string parsing mistakes, ... (as seen on many game consoles). Broken (drm) software allows for more user-freedom.

If this software was using Rust, it would be much harder to break them than is currently the case.

And tbh, I have to concur (somewhat). I have lost little-to-nothing due to software exploits, but have gained significantly. For example, reading epubs with my kindle or loading homebrew on game consoles.
This looked very promising (despite the pricetag), but those have only 1xsata.
Those who use them will, and have already been doing so even without memory-safe languages, one notable example being that company named after a fruit; but for a long time, there was always a way out.

The metaphor I like to use is "giving them better nooses to put around our necks."

...and I suppose you could argue that neither do guns kill people...?
On what basis exactly?
Leading in Ambiguity: How to Transform Uncertainty into Possibilities
by Katrin Elster
Although I agree that modern web apps suffers from the size already and additional 300kb doesn't hurt in this case, but one of the most popular use cases for the client DB is the offline capability for an small footprint web app. You know, it is when your connection is poor or even absent. 300kb hurt really badly.

> Also, couldn't the implementation of that storage spec. be shipped in the standard JS web APIs (i.e. by the browser)? Why would it be in every app?

Actually, that is exactly what happens to WebSQL and IndexedDB. WebSQL got deprecated, they were not able integrate SQLite, and created IndexedDB, which is hated by many developers. Just an example:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27511941
The domain does not resolve for me.
The impression I got is he wants it to be everything. One app to rule them all so to say.
> It is about causing capital investment to be less lucrative than tying the money up in treasuries

Money isn't tied up in treasuries, money (loosely bank deposits and cash) and treasuries are two distinct concepts. You can trade money in exchange for treasuries, but then the previous holder of the treasuries has the money, and you have the treasuries, it doesn't tie the money up.

The amount of value captured in treasuries is a function of the total government debt outstanding, and a way to increase that value is to issue more Government debt (in which case, the money goes to the Government to then spend, it still isn't tied up), however the Government is actually disincentivised to do this as their cost of borrowing (interest rates) goes up.

> That’s why the last huge injection of money in 2008 didn’t cause inflation.

The "injection of money in 2008" (the creation of central bank reserves) didn't cause inflation because the overall quantity of broad money still fell over that time period (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DDOI07USA648NWDB). This was because of the "credit crunch" occurring at the time, where commercial banks where massively reducing their lending activities. The same is not true now, the creation of additional central bank reserves in the past 2 years has directly translated into more broad money, and we have inflation as a result.
I'm a member of NAFO. I've spent a lot of time on Twitter the last 8 months.

I've not seen signs of this: on the contrary we have had to work hard to get Twitter to ban the worst of the worst (e.g. socialist accounts who argue openly for military attacks on Ukrainian civilians far from the front lines - or even worse).

It would be great if the same Twitter that finds it OK to throw out Babylon Bee for having fun with a government official would also be consistent enough to throw out tankies that more or less (you should see some of the things I have seen) argue for genocide of Ukrainians.

Same goes for hate speech against Jews, it is amazing what some people can get away with on Twitter.
The Unwomanly Face of War: A Oral Histoy of Women in World War II. By Svetlana Alexievich.

Thought it was timely, and wanted to know more about the soviet perspective, from a different angle. Easy to go through as it's a series of short oral accounts written down. Sometimes a person shares a single memory, sometimes a few. Hard to get through at points due to the subject, obviously.
Also, PLC modems (at least the Qualcomm ones afaik) are SPI modules which (due to drivers) expose an Ethernet interface to Linux. The PLC utils package up commands for the MCU on these chips in Ethernet frames. This also allows things to mostly work remotely.

PLC modems require firmware and configuration. The firmware is hard to come by, Qualcomm is not sharing it with a redistributable license :(, though can be extracted from devices that do not have an EEPROM to store this firmware (the chips reference designs often have an EEPROM, but Linux can load the firmware from the filesystem quite easily (kernel does not yet do this automatically, PLC utils are needed, but that fix is just a patch away ...)

The configuration bit to the firmware also does 'initial calibration' (the chip also does a little runtime calibration) to ensure PLC communication can work, especially in noisy environments.

ISO15118, a DC/V2G/V2H/Plug-and-Charge standard for EV's (optionally) heavily relies on PLC for communication with an EVSE (charging station, Supply Equipment). It basically creates an Ethernet connection between the two, where a high-level TCP/IPv6 based protocol is then used (15118).

Just some extra data for this lesser known/obscure tech :)
I’m the biggest fan of the third option, basically you are relying on nft image viewers being so universally compatible with everything that can be returned from the nft getImage protocol standards

One is a raster image

Two is an interactive 3D file

Three is HTML injection

you can stuff each into the image method
Thanks for the heads up. Added a temporary one for now while I figure out how to do per-page titles in my SSG setup
Online discord is being sown because there is real world discord. It’s not coming out of thin air. The college educated upper middle class is increasingly pulling away economically from the middle class, and is being increasingly assertive about their value system which is increasingly diverging from the traditional values held by most of the rest of the country. Institutions are breaking down in different parts of the country in different ways—both red America and blue America are less likely to attend church than before, but what they do instead is creating greater gaps between them. Immigration and globalization are bringing an increased pace of change, and the New York Times is calling anyone who objects to that change bigots and racists.
And why weren't they already canned? Slacker tls and managers. Next thing you know Elon is looking at himself.

Yeah bring code so we can talk about it is fine at the bottom level. Dumb for owner in first week. The good programmers know nothing will ultimately come of this codiscovery process thus making a bad impression on the good employees
Jersey and SpringBoot have both been quite decent for me.
There are several other financial leaders "of the time" quoted and summarized in the article.
Thank you very much, that sounds great!
It is observable but it is far from simple.

Sex is an emergent property of multiple genetic networks. This doesn't mean that it doesn't exist or that it is not bi-modal, but it is far from simple.

https://www.nature.com/articles/518288a

The fact that we don't go around performing genetic testing on people before we interact with them also raises questions about whether sex itself matters, or whether there must be different definitions for sexed categories dependent on policy purpose. (e.g. based on genitals when the concern is sexual violence; based on fertility for the purposes of reproductive medicine; based on gender performance; based on hormone levels, etc.)
Maybe just stop using social media. If you're interesting your friends will contact you still. If you're not interesting, go get a hobby and become interesting.
Right, I should have tried to inject relevant nuance into my original post. Without trying to be pedantic, I make a distinction between "advertising", and more generic "promotion" activity. A well done piece of intelligent material, in any form, that happens to allow voluntary discovery of something related to the matter at hand is fine. Anything that disturbs or disrupts the flow and tone of the aforementioned material is not.

On the other hand, I do appreciate the snark here:

So basically all products are shit. Gotcha. Seems like a sound model.

You're not too far off. The rule of thumb I apply to this world is that 90% of everything is crap.[ß] And that rule is recursive. Acceptably decent things are rare exceptions and outliers.

ß: Including me.
once inflation is embedded in the economy the velocity of money matters more than the supply, because the sticky price effect causes a spiral.

there will be enough money in that business's account because they will do the obvious thing and increase prices by 13% - after all, their costs are up and their customers are making more money so they can easily absorb the increase.

here is a simplified illustration of the phenomenon https://archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/0...
Not a scifi guy, but really enjoyed Project Hail Mary. It felt almost like a puzzle, tickling the part of the brain that does problem-solving *amaze amaze*. Not the epitome of writing, but it got the job done, and first time I think I've felt something for a rock. *jazz hands*
I believe he only bought Twitter to nuke this account./s
localStorage suffers from issues like size limits and performance (which, probably, leads to higher battery consumption).
In addition, here's one big difference: the Biden Administration printed 1.7T worth of handouts, which was mostly spraying helicopter money directly to the people. During the financial crisis of 2008-2009, TARP was not mostly helicopter money given directly to the people. It was given to institutions, so it was much more indirect. With the Biden Administration's money spraying, a good amount of that taxpayer money went to covid relief scammers.
Verified accounts means it’s somebody well known outside of Twitter. So it’s beneficial to Twitter to have them.

I see today’s Twitter as a chat app where popular people promote their content to less popular. Maybe it would make sense to help populars sell stuff directly and get a cut.