skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If a person’s behavior doesn’t make sense to you, it is because you are missing a part of their context. It's that simple." I have no idea where I saw that quote for the first time but it had a huge impact on my ability to comprehend people around me. Both in the private and work setting. Be kind to those around you even if their behavior does not make any sense to you.
Pseudo-Programmer Model 100 Review
Are you really saying that a 1% performance loss makes something "not a systems programming language"? Of all the weird definitions of "systems language" I've heard this has to be the weirdest.

1% compared to what? Hand-written assembly? C? C++?

Clang and GCC differ by way more than 1% in most benchmarks. Does that mean that one of them can't compile system languages or something?

I mean, I would agree that there definitely is a performance threshold below which you wouldn't consider a language a "systems language" - i.e. it would be silly to write an OS in the language. But 1% seems at least an order of magnitude off.
With the crank in the position closest to the front tyre (horizontal and forward), put your allen key in the socket while aimed at 12 o'clock (ie, upward) and rotate toward the rear of the bike.

The rule is basically: rotate against the direction of the crank's rotation to undo.
Some thoughts about taking responsibility.

From an old boss:
“Excuses are like assholes. Everyone got one and they all stink.”

From a friend’s dad who was an excellent trial attorney:
“If you’re explaining you’re losing.”

From my kids 4th grade teacher: “While that may explain, it does not excuse.”
"Move to America."
I don't know anything, but chuckled because of today's news:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33380500
I am the older folks. My Twitter friends are the older folks. And my mute word list grows every election or scandal to cover the copy/paste rhetoric from “both” sides. Maybe 1/3 of my follows hit that.

It’s not a statement that all or even most older people do it. I anecdotally see it more from older demographics. I might be wrong. I probably am tiptoeing the line of “ist” there. Definitely don’t mean to say all or most older people, but I am generalizing on a demographic. I’ll have to think about that more.

I don’t think statements like that should be “disallowed” anywhere except places like employment, etc. And it’s never OK to say that a generalization applies to an individual because they are within a demographic.

I think if Musk pulls off what he’s trying to, it’ll be better than now. I block and mute Trump, Biden, etc. anyway. When I want to get politics I reach out for it in a format >280 characters.

I don’t idolize or demonize Musk. He’s just another person with talents and flaws like the rest of us. He does some smart stuff. He does some head scratching things. He likes attention, can be hilarious, clever, or, as my kids say, “cringey.” But I don’t want him to be anything other than he wants to. We need all of that in the world.

This is more a statement that Musk isn’t going to ruin Twitter. I think it will follow the same historical curve as all social media and it has 0 to do with him. And pre social media things as well, since at least WWII. “The kids” set trends. By the time the majority latches on, they’ve moved on. Heck, you can probably see that in slang’s impact on “proper” language much longer.

I’ll be happy if/when “epic” leaves slang. For some reason that one irritates my pedantry more than any other.
One can safely assume you do not often converse with people in or from England.
“Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don’t match how they really are.”

I started reading Hardcore Zen out of interest after seeing it recommended in a twitter thread. Still deciding about the book but this one stuck with me, that (physical causes aside) unhappiness can be a choice that you make moment to moment and that you can decide to change your mind
Buddha's explanation of why life is not satisfactory and his solution to it.
I agree. Those guys played ol' Musky lake a fiddle.
Hmm, what about their celebrated multi-stage popups though ?
>And given Parag's masterful display in forcing Musk ...

Oh boy, here we go ...

That's not even remotely true.

Musk got into this trouble because of his immature antics (no source needed), then he was "over-paying" because the stock fell weeks after his offer without expectation (markets moved or whatever), finally the deal closed because Delaware courts don't fool around.

Parag was circumstantial to all of this, it could've been anyone, really, it could've been a rock with eyes and the outcome would've been the same.
Well, we know how to unleash it in a really dangerous way. We don't yet know how to get net power from fusion in a way that doesn't involve enormous explosions, though it appears we're getting close.
The answer to that question is capabilities usually attributed to Strong AI. Depending on who you ask, we are currently either 10 years or forever away from that, which pretty much means the same.
What possible value to the company can come from the CEO doing this stunt for coding style? Don't you think there are already company-wide guides for this?
It sounds like something that someone from outside the software engineer world would think it's valuable.
You must always negotiate the parachute when joining (or perhaps, when staying) - when leaving it is too late.
Good story. I think advice can come in many form and shape, you just have to recognize it as such.

A bit like luck. Sure, you can win the lottery (if you buy a ticket). But a lot of what people call "luck" is a combination of:

1. Opportunity (which you can increase your chances of it occurring). Although some people are born in a highly advantageous environment.

2. Readiness to grab that opportunity (skills, finances, environment).

3. Realizing that you actually have #1 and #2 and going for it. I have sadly not always done that.
Tornado Cash sanctions and their implications [Thread]
Burn Rate - written by Andy Dunn, the founder of Bonobos. It’s part startup story part mental health story. It’s very well written and goes into deep detail about his struggle with bi-polar disorder.

Project Hail Mary, The Martian, and Artemis - science fiction books by Andy Weir. All very different and very technical. I like Project Hail Mary the most. One of the best sci-fi books I’ve ever read.

Turn the Ship Around, by David Marquet. It’s a story about turning followers into leaders from the perspective of a military submarine captain. I’ve read dozens of management and leadership book over the years, but this one really resonated with me.
I use teddit.net and libreddit.

Edit : Do you mean uBlacklist ? I use uBlock Origin and was looking for some sort of "list" option in there I may have missed. But, if something like uBlacklist is needed to use that search engine, why not use a different, better search engine ?
See the other comments for why the parent is wrong.

> I really wish we had some way to protect ourselves until the patch is widely available.

I would hope/expect that the OpenSSL project has no indication that this vulnerability is used in the wild. And that is probably why they preferred announcing a patch date instead of releasing a fix right away. (But I don’t know their policies, so this is just speculation.)

That would mean that you don’t really need to do anything you shouldn’t have already been doing prior to this announcement to protect yourself until the patch is out.

Unless the vulnerability is easy to find — in which case we’d already hear about exploitation attempts, so I don’t think it is — worrying about this is as useful as worrying about the other critical yet-to-be-found vulnerabilities in the software you use (which most certainly exist).
Right? Its creator obviously knows Forth, but it feels like they've gone to extreme lengths to make it prefix rather than postfix, at the price of making it much more confusing than it needs to be? It's really not obvious to me that if they were both equally complete, there'd be any advantage at all to choosing this over Factor...

(That said, I did a lot of Forth programming in the old days, and while I am utterly intrigued by Factor, I've never managed to write anything useful in it...)
> But anyone fool enough to be standing out during a barrage would be killed, so your artillery could force enemy gunners to hide in deep dugouts designed to resist artillery. Machine gunners hiding in deep dugouts can’t fire their machine guns at your approaching infantry.

> And now we have the ‘race to the parapet.’ The attacker opens with a barrage, which has two purposes: silence enemy artillery (which could utterly ruin the attack if it isn’t knocked out) and second to disable the machine guns: knock out some directly, force the crews of the rest to flee underground. But attacking infantry can’t occupy a position its own artillery is shelling, so there is some gap between when the shells stop and when the attack arrives. In that gap, the defender is going to rush to set up their machine guns while the attacker rushes to get to the lip of the trench:first one to get into position is going to inflict a terrible slaughter on the other.
Dune books 1-4
I tried reading book 5 (heretics of dune) but lost interest after around 100 pages due to the sheer number of different characters that I couldn’t keep track of!
No way at all. Musk played itself. Have you been paying any attention to this? They were pretty much forced to sell at the beginning.
Counterpoint I’ve been thinking about recently:

Imagine you have a fancy self-repairing spaceship, so good that even accounting for the slow wear and tear of micrometeorites, outgassing, and the motion of feet slowly polishing grooves into walkways, it still only looses 1% of its mass to the outside vacuum every thousand years.

A Dyson swarm of those still becomes a mysterious cloud slowly puffing away from its parent star, and after just 2150 millennia, it’s declined from a Kardashev II to a Kardashev I civilisation.

A planet-based civilisation may live or die, but it won’t burn out quite like that.
I’m curious if someone is going to come forward with it diffed out anyways…
That will work in some cases, but in many you'll be expected to work for the duration.

My contract has a 3 month notice period, which is pretty standard in Europe for senior roles.
Solved for most the image text I see on social.
I agree. They probably don't have any experience in Big Tech if that's really the case.
My experience has been a mental health diagnosis, even from a professional, has the terrible byproduct of reifying the symptoms of that condition.

It's perfectly possible that the environment that manifests something like social phobia can change, and a person who previously felt uncomfortable doing something can feel again comfortable.

However, if having social anxiety becomes part of your identity, it becomes the lense that you see the world. TikTok makes it easy, but social media as a whole is identity obsessed by its nature, and as the article illustrates is making this problem worse.
Neither Firefox nor Windows are written wholly, or even substantially, in rust. I thought “we” were rejecting programs written in unsafe languages?
pipewire is replacing pulseaudio. Besides reducing latency it tries to manage permission for audio and video streams.
+1 to this. The aerodynamic lift from the F-15 wings/body also increases its maneuverability as well since the pilot will roll the plane into the turn.
IMO, low code quality and technical debt is one consequence of the Agile movement. Mantras like “Working software over documentation”, the constant push to shove demos in front of customers, and the battle for metrics, the idea that everyone needs to be “full-stack”, etc. have real consequences.

Building software is analogous to building a house. Sure you can make it look good and deliver that to your customer, but poor build quality will eventually be exposed during your first hurricane or earthquake.
We can stop saying everything is brilliant once Americans stop overusing "awesome".
I have seen this first hand with a (non-teenager) family member. They self-diagnosed with ADHD over the past two years.

Then they paid to get a private assessment and sure enough got diagnosed with ADHD. Do I think they have ADHD? Nope, not at all.

So why the official diagnosis and treatment with pharmaceuticals? He learnt everything he needed to know to easily fool the doctor assessing him. He knew every test they would use and exactly how to respond. And as he is an intelligent guy he didn't go in there and flag every single thing but just enough to look like a legitimate person struggling with attention and executive function. He told me before the assessment he wants the medication and he got exactly what he wanted.

My son was diagnosed with ADHD a couple of years ago so I have seen first hand how the assessments work and it is a joke how much "flexibility" there is. It isn't like a blood or culture test where you can detect the presence or lack of some substance. It is mostly voodoo for want of a better word.

One question I ask myself is does he genuinely think he has ADHD or did he just want the meds and figured out a way to get them while looking genuine?
Maybe they're all around us. Or maybe we're their historical simulation. Not readily falsifiable, but interesting to ponder.
Since Andrei Alexandrescu decided to refocus on C++, I think it kind of settled the future of the language, when core members go back to the language that apparently is less capable.

https://research.nvidia.com/person/andrei-alexandrescu
Many are double trigger. (Change of ownership AND getting fired within X time as an example.)
> Because its fucking impossible to escape the Suns Gravity well with all our stuff

It's hard but not impossible. Even using 1970s technology [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_10
> See, the remain side is interested. That's why they ask: "can you give examples of ridiculous laws". And the leave side... cites laws that cut the use of hazardous materials in electronics. Perhaps you want to return to asbestos, too?

Nice try - but I gave three examples of ridiculous regulations/legislation/law - not one.

Your cherry picking, and attempted distortion of my example(s), only demonstrates my previous statement.

The quantities of lead, in solder, is not hazardous to workers assembling boards. With the current state of electronics recycling, there is no danger of the “lead” being leeched into the ecosystem.

The higher temperatures required to solder, non leaded varieties, are also antithetical to the so called “energy conservation” rhetoric, favoured by the EU borg.

You provide no response to the ridiculous vacuum cleaner wattage limitations? Lower wattage cleaners, with less “suck”, take longer to clean the same surface area. Not only a waste of human effort, but electricity, too.

Also, no response(s) to my EU/IFRA perfumery example?!

These were just examples that came to mind, immediately. I’m sure if I could be arsed, I could completely eviscerate the comments from you, and others here - but I already know, that you’re not interested, and it’ll simply result in more “drive by quips”, and probably admin warnings, from your ilk.

That’s how Hacker News works. Flagging, downvotes, drive by ad hominem attacks, from pseudo intellectuals...

Where’s that picture of a teste in an egg cup, when you need it?!
The vast, vast majority of successful businesses - probably more than 99% - are, so.. yes?
> Would you pay 40 bucks for an hour of your life back? Maybe you like tinkering on cars and thats legit. Satisfaction is another benefit.

You're missing your opportunity cost. Would you be doing utility during that hour to make 40 bucks? If not then to maximize your profit to time then you want to do it yourself.
There are some other obvious reasons for that unwillingness to increase supply that I think you're missing. Any substantial increase in supply would require investing money in new infrastructure, since it's currently at close to capacity. For the last few years environmental activists have campaigned against any investment in fossil fuel production with some success and this makes it a lot harder to get funding. Also, you may recall that there were a bunch of articles claiming fossil fuel assets would become stranded and literally worthless due to the global push for net zero, and how fossil fuel companies were basically scamming investors by ignoring this risk. The companies are acutely aware of this risk and have been quite cautious about expanding capacity as a result.
> The same can be said about pretty much any monopolistic corporation; the money will keep coming in regardless.

This cannot describe Twitter. For one, money was going out, not coming in:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TWTR/twitter/net-i...
Sit ups can be really hard on the spine, even if done "properly". You slip a disc in your neck even slightly while working on your abs, and you won't be working on your abs or anything else for a long time. Slipped discs can cause an astonishing amount of pain.

Not an exercise guru, just someone who slipped a disc.
I was due to be in a meeting and was super anxious about it due to having to report out on some stuff I'd been working on. That morning, before the meeting, my dad texted me with the line "there is fear in all of them". Had a profound impact on me and reminded me that we are all human and are all prone to worrying about stuff.
Geez, was the "open source" link there all along and I just missed it? Thank you!!
Also an election day in Israel, which is a bank holiday.
Candy companies financing Russia’s war in Ukraine
It was an amazing day when I discovered b-ok.
Happiness is a choice. « Have you choose to be happy ? » That’s was the question a mentor asked me. Since then I have made it a priority in my life, and I am much more happy 7 years after. It so basic but since I meet so many people who don’t know what they want in life; have no purpose, never asked them selves what do they want and fell like shit. I think having the honest goal to be Happy, it is a good starting point.
I mean, isn't Putin really just a puppet for those oligarchs? For them, the sole reason to replace Putin is to blame him for the war when it fails. Things will be probably the same with/without Putin (like when nothing really changed after Yeltsin got replaced by him).
Am I remembering correctly in that it doesn’t support modern OpenGL features, just the really old stuff that the old implementation did?
More likely they'll build brilliant houses in sunny places
> It's easier to build muscle mass before the age of 30 and the muscle you gain during that time will never go away (with a minimum of training).

Why would that not also be true of muscle you build later in life? It might be harder to acquire it, but it should be similarly long-lasting.
We lower our standards, lots of middle class families don't eat red meat anymore for example. We don't eat out. We sell assets, take on debt.

Young people don't move out in the first place. Lots of people move back in.

We got immensely poorer, it is tough out here. You see beggars everywhere, especially low income families were hit the worst.

We live under Erdogan, if we try to rise up, we get shut down. All public protests are de facto banned, with the new disinformation act I am risking a jail sentence even by writing this comment. You can even go to jail if you like a tweet of a whistleblower for example.
This is somewhat standard in the US. I’ve worked for some companies I thought of as cheap or not so great but they both paid out some hefty severance packages based on years of experience. Some ex-coworkers got 24 months of severance based on the years of employment.

HN leads me to believe that SV companies don’t do severance and just fire you at a whim but I wouldn’t say it’s the norm.
You mean American? :)
They wanted to avoid the deal at first, then shareholders told them to continue in the deal and sell it to Musk. So they did exactly what shareholders wanted them to do.

Musk did not wanted to buy Twitter at all, he wanted to liquidate his stock without crashing stock price of Tesla. In the end Tesla crashed and he was forced to buy Twitter for absurd price.
Teens don't watch Dr. Phil anymore and this is the result.
Doing good enough is generally good enough. I always used this maxim in education to get just enough marks to pass with a high enough grade to study ratio. Today's perfectionists are tomorrow's procrastinators.
The Cold Start Problem is informative and a great read. Not only is it great about its subject matter, but it is a rarely non-self-aggrandising business book. It's about solving a particular problem, not the usual "Look what I did!" business book.
Apparently no one told that to Elon....

It may have been German mad-scientists who pioneered sending rockets to space, but I think you actually have to be more crazy to think you can bring them back down again and land them in one piece! (Not that it has stopped Musk from doing just that...)
This has been my experience, both professionally (I used to teach children at a school which specialises in those who may have some form of diagnosis), and in my personal life with 4 step children, 3 of whom have ASD diagnoses.

For the vast majority who I taught, the diagnosis became their identity, rather than a way to understand their behaviour. Any disagreement with them was answered with "that's because I'm X". I can only recall one who approached it as a way to identify and understand their behaviour and experience of the world, and as a way to deeper understanding.
https://www.everyprompt.com/
This is the same person who made pokegb, a similarly tiny Game Boy emulator: https://github.com/binji/pokegb
In his AMA he wrote that that's what he earns before income tax. In French parlance this means after all employer and employee social deductions.
But aren't niche war sim video games able to take the niche war sim board game ideas even further ??

http://www.furysoftware.com/
Related: MoltenVK is now compliant with Vulkan 1.2.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/MoltenVK-1.2-Vulkan-Apple
Electrolyser development: 200 times less iridium needed
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Blindsight by Peter Watts.

It was mentioned here several times, so I bowed to peer pressure and pirated it like a child of the 1990s Internet that I am.

It's definitely imaginative. I do love a good unique universe that is distinct from everything else. It's not a space opera in the traditional sense. It explores notions that likely no other author has, such as the Chinese Room thought experiment.

The spaceship captain is a vampire, and that's just a detail, but a part of the plot, but not at all how you would assume, which is what makes this book great.
Far too many prototypes make their way into production. I know because I’m maintaining a 10yo legacy product that started as a prototype that should never have made it into production but that is an essential tool for the project and basically un-replaceable. It’s an absolute nightmare to maintain as a result.
Is this not part of the problem with evaluating senior management in general? Short of performing a drastic shakeup with drastic changes in fortunes as a result (i.e. Jobs returning to apple), you can always argue that the org would have got there anyway
There is no obligation
I hope that the techs give an extra tug on the wrench "just to be sure" when they are tightening those two bolts back on like I do when putting the lug nuts back on my car wheel...
> Parag was circumstantial to all of this

That's an interesting concept. The Twitter CEO not being at the centre of a takeover deal.

And in hindsight it all looks simple and clean but at many points it wasn't necessarily obvious that forcing Musk to acquire Twitter through legal means was going to pay off.