skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To play a devils advocate for a second

>I have had several friends who died young without living their lives while they could.

What does it matter though? To the secular, when you're gone you're gone. What does it matter what you did or didn't do in the end anyways. To the religious, well the fun you had while living doesn't matter because this life is temporary anyways-- the only consideration is that you could have done more good in the world before going to one much longer.

The natural philosophical extension of this is to say it doesn't really matter whether or not you 'lived life'. Wanting the perception of 'a live well lived' is just another desire that creates unhappiness in you when it's not fulfilled. What if it's enough to spend your whole life working? You'd have still spent a whole life as a unique being with unique experiences and perspectives.

I mean what does the past matter at all really? All we have is what we experience now. Ok I see now I might be getting a little too esoterical for 8am lol
"No one should be the boss of anybody" - elon musk
Can you please not claim it is part of 'Indian' culture ? The Indian state is anything but Indian.
You can add to that list that microsoft has 2 different wsl's and distributes Linux in it's app store.
OpenGL is huge. It's probably a better idea to use the shared code in Mesa and write a Gallium to Metal driver. That's how Zink (GL on Vulkan) and Microsofts GLonD3D12 work.
> Everything about the incident is surreal.

I'm a little disappointed that we know hardly anything about this incident except the surreal parts. What specific events lead to the collision? What happened to the Skyhawk and its pilot?[1] Was there an investigation, and if so, what were its findings? I guess I've been spoiled by publicized NTSB investigations.

[1] The pilot of the Skyhawk was automatically ejected and his aircraft disintegrated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Negev_mid-air_collision
As I said in my first post “What they mean by qualia isn’t subjective conscious experience, it’s something else which they can’t actually describe that just so happens to conform exactly to their preconceived notions.”
What history can actually teach us is that things that never happened before happen all the time. This is so valid for anything related to global finance.
It's not just about warnings, Apple only supports OpenGL 4.1 which was released in 2011.
I see D as a non-compromising language (in terms of eating your cake and having it too) and that's why I like it. I think the authors don't want to limit its performance at the design level. For equivalent code, they don't want it to only ever be able to run 99% as fast as C, they want it to be able to run, at least theoretically, as fast as C or better. That's probably where the 'systems language' comparison came from. In practice though, I'm willing to bet DMD,GDC and LDC result in more than 1% difference in performance (but that's just speculation).
I have no definite opinion as to what your intentions are, but your argument is, indeed, wanting.

And what you did is, indeed, quoting out of context. The whole issue with quoting out of context is that, when you look at where the quote was taken from, you can see that it does not actually support the claim that it allegedly justifies. When the original is right there for anyone to check, it merely raises the tangential question of why the quoter thought the argument would succeed in the first place.
Currently finishing my third (full-length academic) book in markdown. Wrote the second book in markdown too. Wrote the first book in MS word. Never going back.

Here's the thing. Word is a buggy bloated piece of shit application with an incomprehensible and ever-changing UI that requires 20 mouse clicks hunting through badly labeled menus to do anything. Latex is far too complicated for prose that doesn't have equations all in it, and is also unsupported by publishers outside of the sciences. Alternative word processors (OpenOffice, Pages, the desiccated shell of WordPerfect) are either buggy, ugly, unmaintained, lack critical features, or all of the above.

So I just write in markdown in emacs. Markdown mode in emacs works very well, I have hardly any customizations on top. One file per chapter. References in zotero, insert citations in better bibtex. Compile it all in pandoc.

When I want to revise I just concatenate the files and compile it to PDF and read my own work there. When I want to submit to a publisher I just compile it to word. I have a makefile that handles all of that for me. Then I make a few tiny tweaks in the garbage program and submit.

This is the best workflow I've ever found for academic writing, because pandoc-enhanced markdown and better bibtex enhanced zotero give you everything you really need for academic writing (like control over reference formats), and nothing you don't need (endless nightmarish word bloat). And you can just store it all in a GitHub repo.
> For example, OpenSUSE used to be in the pre-UPG 0755 camp, but switched some time ago to the UPG 0700 camp.

When was this? 15.4 doesn't have user per group by default, nor does it have 0700 on $HOME by default. I have several fairly recent installs around I checked. Something in Tumbleweed perhaps? My last Tumbleweed install was last year sometime and does not have user per group nor 0700 $HOME.
If some of the 'liberal-intellectual' types in India have their way, the only thing Bihar will (again) be known for is the industry of kidnapping.
Why in the Sam Hell would you need printouts. Literally look at git histories and contributions per user. This is bending over backwards to explain what is most likely a simple power play that most probably backfired
This is just a great reminder that the cloud is just someone else computer!

Now tech companies are doing justice themselves.

I understand the good purpose for why they want to do that. Almost no one will contest the good side of that work.

But, think about it, if for the "greater good", they were to put camera+mic everywhere in your house and say that it is legitimate to monitor your home 24/24 for the occasional case you might be part of the minority of child abusers or, in the current trend, something similar like having hate speech at home and propagating fake news to your friends and family? This is how you finish with the 1984 world.

Even if being 'suspicious' of any individual by default without even a good cause, is like wiretapping the entire population by default in my opinion.
And 70 million people go eat Mickey D's every day, doesn't make it good in any way. Whenever I play unity games (rarely to be honest as I play maybe 5-20 hours a year nowadays, but this has been consistent) I brace myself for a laggy experience. Most people don't care about this it seems but it really makes me want to close the game when there's a laggy scene (and definitely put the tech used in my blacklist).
You were referring to manufacturers, and 3np thought you were referring to consumers (which is what I initially understood also).
That's fair. The question is, are the meds helping? People with ADHD react very differently to stimulants than people who don't, to the point where it's usually apparent to others.
Why would this even have to be the case? Linux will work on hardware with a TPM chip. It will also work on hardware without a TPM chip. If you're saying one day, some distro may choose not work on hardware without a TPM chip, take it up with that disto (in your imaginary future)? It's not Microsoft's problem?
My operating systems professor liked to engage his audience during lectures, so it was commonly more of a dialogue than a lecture. At one point he gave us some problem to consider, we didn't know what to make of it, so we started asking how to approach this. His reply:

"You're asking me? Soon enough you'll be engineers. You're the experts people will come to for solutions."

More of a reminder than advice, but it affected my approach.

Other, unrelated, but also life-changing, even though I don't remember who gave it:

"Never explain yourself unless explicitly asked to."

EDIT: This one is from my Argentinian AirBnB host in Switzerland:

"If you didn't make time for it, it wasn't actually important enough for you."
This kind of employee shaming is the reason we see less and less people posting amazing anecdotes as the one above.
> I hear functional programming is great. Not so sure I'd write a driver with it, though.

Why not?
‘The fate of the fool will overtake me also.

What then do I gain by being wise?”

I said to myself,

“This too is meaningless.”

For the wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered;

the days have already come when both have been forgotten

Like the fool, the wise too must die’
I’d agree. I was hurt by bullying enough that if I had ever made it big I would have found the most outrageous bullying case I could find and try to sue a school district out of existence? Maybe if teachers thought they could lose their pension maybe they would put a stop to bullying.
I never claimed it was a generally good idea to raise locally. It depends on the context of the bigger Story.

> You can guarantee compliance with EU rules as long as you provide an EU-based option.

Not true due to Patriot Act (if your HQ are in the US). I don't require my customers to be flexible either as long as they are good business and I can create something that helps them.
A bash helper for prefixed scripts
"In surprising turn of events, meta renames itself to thefacebook"
In English, the title is perfectly fine. It just says the plane landed, not how it was landed.

The title is correct, and while the pilot does deserve recognition for the impressive feat, the article is primarily about the plane, not the pilot, so changing the focus of the title from the plane to the pilot is not appropriate in this instance.

The subtitle is terrible though: it mentions "he" (the pilot), but doesn't say who "he" is. So for the subtitle to make sense, the pilot's name should be in the title. Perhaps it was originally written with the pilot's name, but was changed by an editor for the reason listed above.
> Bezos has been sinking > $1B per year into Blue Origin for nearly a decade

Not to claim a false SpaceX-Blue equivalence here, but this is misleading. Most of the early work at Blue Origin was on a fairly tight budget, and SpaceX has always had significantly more development money than Blue.

It is true that Blue has taken much longer to get to orbit, but they're starting with effectively a Saturn V class vehicle (a bit smaller, but partially reusable), whereas SpaceX started their orbital ambitions with the vastly smaller Falcon 1.

The gap in technical competence and effectiveness is still huge, but it's not as stark as the money-to-orbit metric would have it seem. New Sheppard could have reached orbit long ago, if it was designed to be orbital; it's just there's no money (in a Bezos sense) in small launch, and that wasn't the tech it was designed to prove out, so it wasn't.
Smart tomb robbers would have themselves buried in the tomb along with the king and all his gold, ostensibly to help him in the afterlife. Then they would escape out the back door.

Have they ever found any skeletons of these royal helpers inside any tomb?
As far as I'm aware, the updated versions of Source games made for Steam Deck release are in fact using DXVK instead of their old ToGL. Not sure if that includes CS:GO though.
1. learn to firmly say "NO", no matter how difficult it sounds.
2. If YOU think "what will world think", then what will world think? (it sounds way better in my mother tongue, but basically don't care about what will people think about you)
3. You don't work for the company, the company works because of you.
Obligation isn’t the right word. There is an “expectation” and it’s enforced by the markets.
This isn't just some weird game with definitions, though, I'm pretty sure it has actual consequences that are important for understanding inflation and the cost of living crisis.

Currently, energy prices have been going up due to an inadequeate supply of fossil fuels and an excessive supply of money (especially outside the USA, with natural gas prices particularly high). This is a direct consequence of too much money chasing too little supply; it's not possible to set a lower price because more would be purchased at that price than is actually available. However, all the money people are spending doesn't just disappear but ends up as profits for fossil fuel producers, and particularly in Europe there's been a push to fix this by placing windfall taxes on producers and using it to subsidise consumer prices. The problem is that although the money doesn't disappear, the fuels bought with it have gone up in smoke, so if you distribute that money back to consumers you're effectively increasing the amount of money they have to spend chasing the same limited supply of fossil fuels just like if you outright printed money. In a sense, monetary velocity is the supply of money.
Indeed, I'm aware - that's what I typically use

When I say build it, I really mean allow dkms to function
Could someone explain this bit from the intro to me?

> Recursion is very efficient in the Om language, due to (a) the "eager" evaluation model enabled by prefix concatenative syntax...

How is the syntax of any relevance for the evaluation model?

Once the AST is parsed, the syntax is gone and we're just left with pairs of 'operator' and 'operand'.
This is falling into the same trap. Fusion power is not a panacea. The Earth has a heat budget, where it can only emit so much heat over time (moderated by several factors, e.g. the current crisis with greenhouse gases is that we are lowering the rate at which heat is emitted). You cannot simply build an infinite number of fusion generators to generate an infinite amount of energy without also generating an infinite amount of heat that then gets dumped into the Earth's environment, killing all life in the process.

The whole point is that eventually a planetary population must stop producing more energy. Those that don't, die. At best, you could try to colonize more planets to increase your heat budget. The open question, then, is whether or not interplanetary colonization becomes feasible before or after the point at which energy production becomes do-or-die (or rather, don't-or-die). There is no law of the universe that says it must be so.
I disagree on Three Body Problem. Especially the second book which I thought was even better than the first. The third was pretty meh and I didn't entirely like the resolution. But the first book is really great imo.
So what do you propose is the alternative? Not tell you about the vulnerability at all until a patch is released? Publish all the details about the vulnerability before a patch is available?

Seriously, what are you complaining about?
I think there's too much stock in the Apple closing off their tracking and somehow advertisers stopped using their ads. That privacy control started in iOS 14.5 in April 2021 and I'm sure it's had some effect but I think it's overblown.

https://www.oberlo.com/statistics/facebook-ad-revenue
Up 13% - https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...
Down 1% - https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...
Down 4% - https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...
When I was a senior at CMU in '88, a group of us went on a plant trip to the McDonnell Douglas factory in St. Louis where they built the F-15. I've previously posted on HN about how cool are plant trips and that engineers should take every advantage. Well, this factory visit was as cool as they get. Some highlights that I remember that related to the article about the Israeli incident.

1. This plane was machined out of blocks of titanium. 80% of the material is machined away. I asked the guide if it's collected and reused. He said "no". Their optimization for performance didn't really have to consider cost.

2. Seeing the "testing" was a mind-blow that I can still see in my mind 35 years later. They had an aircraft in a test harness and grabbed the tips of both wings in massive hydraulic presses, and bent that wing up and down by a couple meters. My brain was like “that’s impossible – they should snap off”.

3. “Avoid FOD” signs everywhere - "Foreign Object Damage". I learned many new acronyms that day.
It blows my mind that Netflix is still mailing DVDs.

Not only that, but their DVD plan is far better then their streaming plan because it includes decent (not Netflix produced) movies.
I’ve worked in big companies and I’ve worked in small companies. The one constant has been that writing code is required to make product changes. No code likely means no changes. Maybe LOC != productivity makes sense when algorithms are of great importance, like in situations where a genius algorithm can unlock tons of value. Machine learning would be one example. However, most work is feature work, which typically has a straightforward path from start to finish. In product feature work, it’s unclear to me what activity would use time productively that didn’t result in lines of code.
one was "if you want someone to like you, become a person they would want to like." turns out there's lots of reasons why someone might like someone else. I just assumed they only liked people for the same reasons I did (like vanity).

another was "women don't owe you just because you're a nice guy." took a while to accept that I had been telling myself a lie, that I would naturally attract women just from being nice, and was getting subconsciously angry at women when my presumption didn't pan out.

and another was "is this what they want, or what you want?" works in a lot of situations. I think it helped me have more compassion/empathy, but also avoid situations where one of us would have been unhappy.
I'm happy to see some of the examples here are of bad advice.

The worst, specific piece of advice I received was when I was choosing a major in my senior year of HS, which informed where I went to college. For some paths like engineering you need to know before you matriculate at some schools.

The bad advice which was handed out in 2001, was that CS as a career had peaked and all those jobs created during the dotcom boom would be outsourced, so there was no point in majoring in it anymore.

I unfortunately took that advice for a few years, before realizing it was bunk and having to spend extra time in school to enter a career in software.
No. The current development version of DXVK requires support for Vulkan 1.3

There are missing features for older versions too:

- bufferRobustness2
- geometry shaders
- transform feedback
- tessellation is super but very slow and problematic

Geometry shaders and transform feedback are terrible features that most GPU vendors would like to get rid of because they don't map well to modern hardware. But games do use them and everyone who isn't Apple has to maintain backwards compatibility.
So it's unlikely that those will ever get supported in Metal. You could probably emulate them with varying levels of compatibility/conformance which might be good enough for a lot of games.
There are pros and cons always.
But it is not good either if there is only one primary developer.
There is a high risk that single author becomes blind for is own bad coding practices, if there are some, and they will repeat. It is also difficult to understand every possible use-case alone.
Had a similar epiphany. Worked really hard on it and while it kinda changed my life, I eventually realized I'm simply not a builder type person.
That's totally not the same thing though. Vint Cerf wasn't telling me I was but a mere footnote compared to his invention of TCP/IP. He thought gTLDs were actively harming the Internet.
I think that the commenter was asserting an ethical obligation, not a legal or contractual one.

In other words, it was a statement of opinion. You can't really [citation needed] opinions like that.
Being dismissed due to misconduct can be instant, e.g. if you were stealing or otherwise breaking the law. (Sometimes this goes to court, and the court can say the dismissal was unfair and grant the missing pay. Unions often help with this.)

Being made redundant has the paid period, and depending on the business it might require working, or it might not. If the factory just burned down, or (like in this Twitter case) management decided a whole team was completely pointless for the business, or if you do something with serious security measures, you'll probably not need to come to work, but if they're closing the factory on a known schedule you probably do.

There's usually a similar notice period when the employee resigns, although it's common for this period to be less. I think mine is 3 months either way, but in my previous job it was 1 month when I resigned, and 2 months if they dismissed me (but 0 for misconduct).

A lower bound of some of these rights is in EU/UK law, and many countries go beyond the minimum. These laws were passed through pressure from (mostly) unions.
> CSGO has a builtin DX to OpenGL translation layer. They're not using Proton or DXVK, it's Linux native OpenGL.

It's D3D9 to OpenGL, and it's open source and called ToGL. On Linux you can also opt in to use DXVK by using a launch parameter.
This might be feasible in a setting with multiple people providing power, but I'm not sure how usable it would be with just one person.

As a rough rule of thumb, an average person riding a a bike at about 15 km/h would be using 30-40 watts of power.

Let's assume that this cooking device would be twice as hard to pedal. If it converted your pedaling with 100% efficiency—which it certainly wouldn't—it would give you a peak output of 80 watts of power.

In that case, you'd still only get about 80 Watt-hours of energy after 1 hour of pedaling. For context, it takes about 90 watt-hours of energy to boil 1 litre of water, so you'd be pedaling over an hour to boil it. In fact, that's ignoring the rate at which the water is dissipating heat out into the air. You might not even get it to boil at all.

For this to work at all, you'd need many sets of pedals to allow multiple people to put energy in. With 10 people pedaling in the above scenario you'd be getting 800 watts, which would be usable for a lot of different types of cooking.
TCDD can be OK if you control the scope. "We must deliver a functional thing in 2 weeks, it may be small and advance us 2% towards the goal but it must be done in 2 weeks and it must work. Now let's see what we can do well in that timeframe..."
My argument is that you always need to think about memory - even in GC languages. Being able to not think about memory is not a feature, it is a problem.
>Is the treatment, on net and relative to other possible strategies, going to be a positive impact on this person? If yes, then whether they have apparent Disorder X (a figment of imagination) versus actual Disorder X (which is itself also a figment of our collective imagination) isn’t super relevant.

Just about every human being operates better on amphetamines. It increases dopamine and adrenaline, increasing attention span and motivation significantly while decreasing the need for food or rest. Medication simply improving performance is not really a working metric in this case
Absolutely - in aviation generally, not just gliders, and also for electrical and hydraulic connections. That's why Embraer's design choice and justification for it provokes a 'WTF?'
Without paywall: https://archive.ph/kWbfR
Apologies for posting under Cory's somewhat clickbaity title, but I rather liked the description of how a quite reasonable company end up collecting license fees from a less reasonable but certainly not inclined to just give money away company.