skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's look at the last 3 superpowers in history and compare the USSR to the US, or China to the US.

Which of the 3 would be best described as an imperial nationalist?

- USSR voluntarily disbanded. Moskow currently can't even assert military dominance over the Ukraine. Sole claim to global relevancy for Moscow is the soviet era nuclear arsenal.

- 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.

- US has flattened multiple Middle Eastern countries in the last few decades, the world meets in New York to conduct diplomacy regardless and barely makes an issue of this. Has had a comparable number of soldiers stationed in Germany to the German army (at least it did recently, I think that changed under either Trump or Biden). The US dollar is used for international trade and the people who move off it get invaded for unrelated reasons. Technically they did voluntarily shrink their empire too though, because of that business with the Phillipines, but they are still the undisputed military hegemon and set the pace of global affairs. By far the most invasive worldwide spy network.

Now this may well be a good state of affairs but the parliamentary democracy is not the timid and delicate flower in this picture. It is the most imperialist of the 3, by far. I can speak in sweeping generalisations because this is a big, obvious and hard to miss state of affairs.

Democracies are just more effective than dictators at building and maintaining an empire.
This sounds eerily familiar. Thank you for posting, I have some reading to do.
Out of curiosity, what are you replacing Consul/Nomad with?
Note that the Heisenberg uncertainty principle is about fundamental limits on accuracy of position and momentum. It doesn't state that the act of observing something might change it - that is the (completely classical) observer effect.
> Technical debt can help you deliver faster.

But the interest rate can be worse than a loan shark.
Some times I have looked at what it takes to write an actually somewhat portable shell script and I decided was one of those people

Luckily I've never been called upon to write a shell script that went beyond "works on the bash we have"
They're referring to the website. It renders terribly
Except the previous owners, hated by the right, got their money.
I never understood why anybody would listen to Jim Cramer in the first place. He is obviously a clown.
I appreciate the implementation of /bin/true.sh.
I would hazard that the bad drivers kill more people than the bad cyclists you speak of.
My answer was always the same: "Yes, I have smart friends so if they're jumping off the bridge there's probably a train coming".

Oddly enough the adults in my life never seemed to appreciate the logic.
> the workers coned off the bike path

Why didn't the workers cone off a lane from the street to make space for the bikes? Cars usually have easier alternatives, they can just take another lane.

EDIT: But anyway, the real viable alternative to cars is probably not bikes, it's trains and buses.
Sorry for my ignorance, why does TensorFlow in this repo readme have an asterisk? (It writes as TensorFlow*).
I did not, but will definitely do this if I hit this problem again (thanks for the link). I had reported it to the Google safe browsing pages multiple times over the past month and that had no effect, but going that legal reasons route seems like a better bet.
Doing nothing as you said.

This is the politicians fallacy:

>We need to do something.

>This is something.

>Ergo we must do it.

I can obviously think of any ways they could have done things worse. I can also think of many ways in which they could have done much better.
Twitter is basically an internet scale public bathroom wall with everyone scrawling short hot takes onto the walls. The best case scenario has always been that it shut down and I hope we are one day closer to that eventuality.

It is ironic and laughable that Elons post to advertisers is done with screenshots of text. After 20+ years of mainstream networked computing this is what passes as a state of art platform and user experience to communicate to n audience.

The bulk of the problems Twitter faces today are amplified and directly inflicted by the essential design of the product.

Tl/Dr; nothing of value was lost.
And yet in the last few weeks the UK government managed to cause a run on sterling. If they were using the Euro then that wouldn't have happened / limited effect and Mrs Truss could potentially have implemented her tax changes. Not that I support that, just pointing out there are also downsides to a sovereign monetary policy. I personally think that being in the bigger club, the EU trade zone and Euro, would be better for Britain.

Greece is a cautionary tale, but not necessarily a currency one. Yes, they had limited options after everything blew up, but they were heading in that direction because they kept taking loans and the loans kept being given. If they had been able to devalue their currency its not actually clear that would have solved the problem - doing so also requires tight fiscal policy. Iceland did it, with a tight fiscal policy.
> Microsoft is now pushing toward TPM being required in Linux

Oh? I think you may be reading too much into what Microsoft has actually done here. How exactly could a TPM be required for Linux?

> It also screams of the Halloween documents where Microsoft talked about needing to kill off open protocols.

Wow this is a blast from the past! Almost twenty five years ago! I think it's fine to not like Windows (yep), even hate (somewhat irrationally, sure) Microsoft for the company they were, but a generation has passed since 1998. Maybe its time to find some new material.
Tough week for Zuck.
Heaping things together is better than letting things stack up/down.
To be honest, nobody on earth would want to buy twitter at 54.20, not even 1% of it.

Of course he would try to back out. He couldn't predict the economic downturn, could he?
Either that, or Jack is terrible for investors.
As per my reply elsewhere:

And yet in the last few weeks the UK government managed to cause a run on sterling. If they were using the Euro then that wouldn't have happened / limited effect and Mrs Truss could potentially have implemented her tax changes. Not that I support that, just pointing out there are also downsides to a sovereign monetary policy. I personally think that being in the bigger club, the EU trade zone and Euro, would be better for Britain.

Greece is a cautionary tale, but not necessarily a currency one. Yes, they had limited options after everything blew up, but they were heading in that direction because they kept taking loans and the loans kept being given. If they had been able to devalue their currency its not actually clear that would have solved the problem - doing so also requires tight fiscal policy. Iceland did it, with a tight fiscal policy.
I ended up with 0 points, so balanced reactions overall :)

I think it’s a valid hypothesis. I’ve been on the internet long enough to know that places with no rules end up toxic. Heck, I participated in kuro5hin long after it turned into whatever the hell it turned into after the initial honeymoon period grew stale. And the tail end of people using usenet for actual discussion, rather than piracy… I’ve seen the chans too.

It’s a repeating pattern; toxicity takes over, attracts more toxicity and drives out any attempts at normal discourse, this accelerates until you’re left with either a toxic trollfest or the whole thing just dies or both. Musk is either going to turn Twitter into one of those, or he’s going to have to moderate effectively. I find all the “but free speech!” stuff very naive. Fine principle, but it kills online communities.
I’d be very surprised if this were intentional. My best guess is a driver issue.
I like it because I had found a tons of subtle issues over time with some of the scripts that were "simple" and system default of "just put it in ExecStart and set user" mitigates many of those.

For example:

Java app that gets put to background before it writes PID (which takes some startup time). In result running status right after start will say that app is stopped. Pacemaker didn't liked it and freaked out. Not only Java problem but start exacerbated it

MySQL disto package (Hi Red Hat) that didn't put PID into temporary partition, nor checked whether PID there is one running mysql so after reboot there was an edge case where "old" pid that's still in old file after crash was used by new app, mysql didn't start coz "simple" sysv script thought it's already running

Then there is dependencies that make a lot more cases simple like "start the service to get the encryption keys before you try to mount the encrypted volume" is just few deps, not modifying any code, and auto restart removed our use of monit

I do dislike the vast suite of stuff that worked fine before that comes with it and journald design is a bit shit, especially disk format (still have bug open when running status on app can take tens of seconds on spinning rust, why they just didn't use SQLite and indexes...) but overall, without exaggerating, it allowed us to remove tens of thousands f lines of code of "simple" sysv stuff that needed to be fixed.
This is quite a ridiculous blog post. Hyperbole is way too common these days, and this is the type of submission that drove away many of the smartest HN users.

I will always remember when I first learned about bitcoin here in 2010 when the white paper was linked.

Now we have shrieking missives warning about mean people writing stuff on the internet.
No, there wasn't. If he could have paid $1b to be out of this deal, he would have.
Yet those types of organizations are already scraping this data behind the scenes. Twitter’s API restrictions hurt well intentioned actors.
> At want point to do you accept you’ll have to buy into _some_ vendor lock-in?

If I wanted that, I'd go back to Windows. Well. Maybe Apple. Either way, I wouldn't be here.

> Should you always program in a way that ensures your application will function a Zaurus running OpenBSD?

Preferably? Like, your framing makes me think that you think that's somehow extreme, but... unironically yes, if your program wouldn't run on OpenBSD on a Zaurus you should seriously sit down and consider why and whether that's really how it should be. And there are valid reasons to decide "no" (ML needing really high performance can justify hardware lock-in, cutting-edge development on things like DPDK could justify needing a specific kernel, I guess needing very specific features and not having the developer-hours could justify using systemd features), but 90% of software should absolutely 100% work on any of FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD/Debian Linux/Alpine Linux/Gentoo/Fedora/whatever on any of x86/x86_64/aarch64/mipsel/riscv/whatever
Suicide when done for notoriety or self-righteous fundamentalism can be very selfish. He traumatized those who witnessed and cleaned up after him, put his pain on those who now grieve him, and stochastically inspired other mentally vulnerable individuals to act out. All because he had an unshakeable belief in his pessimistic worst-case-scenario viewpoint being the absolute truth of how the world is and will be. Is that not irresponsibly self-centered?
The art of the desk setup (2021)
He doesn't have any duties to debt investors beyond what's explicitly in a contract with them. If he has equity co-investors (which he was certainly attempting to syndicate at one point) then those are indeed shareholders (private rather than public, but still shareholders) and he'll have duties to them.
I really enjoy working in Swift these days, and async/await has been a huge blessing.

But the whole way that Actors were rolled out leaves a funny taste.

Apple’s main illustrating example for using an Actor was to update a database. But if you try to do that, you run into exactly the same reentrancy issue described in this article!

While your Actor function is await’ing on the database, you can have another call to the same function start running, trying to write a different value to the DB. Now you have a race condition — exactly the kind of pain that Actors were supposed to save us from.

WTF Apple?!?

It would be ok if the first version was presented as a stepping stone to greater things. Instead they piss on our heads and tell us it’s raining.
I probably would. Splitting hairs though, if I was watching a stock plummet and had no idea what was driving it, I think that would be analogous to your running situation and I'd try and dump it asap. If I saw a stock declining in reaction to news that I didn't think was so bad, I might hold or buy more, and if I was really certain, I might double down even as I was ridiculed for my choice - a la Steven Bury (sp?) in The Big Short
>happy advertisers

Why would we want this? I don't see this kind of pro-advertiser slant anywhere else but here. Is it because of the google/facebook employee presence here?
All data should only exist within the light cone that it is used within. That means a lot of data is improperly used today in terms of where and how it is moved.

You need a lot less information "over the wire" when it doesn't move as far, and when you can speculate and predict what to render (ML/AI). What matters is the package and space more than anything. Go figure. That's also why "massively distributed compute/swarm computation" makes sense in this mesh like model you hint at.

The future is strictly local data unless we totally escape time dialation over large distances, whether or not we bypass speed of light limits.

The future is strictly a simulation if we are a multi-galaxy species, let alone spread across the galaxy. The only way to have a real-time conversation is to simulate the person/ego. The local copies would be as real/eventually consistent as possible over time.
*HD-DVD noises*
Now Elon has access to all internal emails.

For example, he has an evidence of which execs ignored the fake news concern raised by an employee.

It is 7000 people company. At least, one has pointed out about fake news that might help trump won election.

It is going to be fun if he goes after those execs.
He’s certainly made people believe he’s rich!

But making a lot of money in a market that’s organically interested in tech the last few decades still does not make Musk literally the most valuable person alive except when measuring in politically correct fiat currency terms.

He’s literally one man in a society with a history of teaching idle idolatry.
/etc/systemd/system/foo.service:

[Unit]
Description=Foo

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/foo-daemon

——
Start/stop:

systemctl start foo
systemctl stop foo

On boot:

systemctl enable —now foo

—

Hopefully this helps you skip the red tape.
Yet the Ayatollah can tweet at will. Nothing to see here.
Not in terms of CPMs.
There is such a thing as live patching a kernel without rebooting. Whatever it is that you think you need to reboot because of, it would always be better if you did not need to, because uptime and constant and consistent availability of services is virtuous.
Looks like a code quality consultancy. The vague terms are fairly par for the course, with business consultants.

Probably coaching, analysis, and advice. Maybe coding, as well.
What the Great Inflation (1965-1982) taught us
> because of that business with the Phillipines

At the time, the Philippines had the same status as Hawaii. Hawaii was a non-state during WW2 that became a full state 14 years later, and the Phillippines became independent instead. I wonder who has it better now? Who would like to switch places with the other one?
Nov 2022 Workshop on Open-Source EDA Technology
I have found the libtcc from https://github.com/TinyCC/tinycc to be absolutely fantastic. I'm using it to instantaneously compile the C output from my hobby language to create a repl. Once I had the compiler in good shape it allowed me to create a 100% compatible interpreter for (basically) free.

The libtcc API is minimal. For my needs that has been 100% sufficient and a pleasure to work with.
> How exactly could a TPM be required for Linux?

Of course it would not be "required" required—so long as you're okay with maintaining your own distro, with forks of everything having essential TPM-based security features excised, working with your own builds of the kernel. Good luck selling this your employer.
"unforced error" and "forced error" already are sports jargon (baseball) and from context "unforced error" must have been intended, which is similar to "own goal" but doesn't imply points being scored. (It's not possible for the defending team to score against itself in baseball anyway, so "own goal" would never really be applicable... though actually the pitcher can walk a run in, I guess that's like an own goal!)
Or a bit over 4% percent (annual) on 6month T bills also on treasury direct
That's perfectly sound reasoning! But it's not the reasoning the OP offered: in their case it was sufficient to be bullish because everyone else is bearish, without regard for any actual interpretation of the news.
By having a determinstic way to talk based on what you want to talk about.

Call it, determinitic-spontaneous-rendezvous-routing.
I bought one of these to play with xcp-ng, but I didn’t do enough research or I’d have known that there’s problems with jasper lake, and they won’t have a working release till end of year.
So is everyone else who understands free speech
I don't know all the details, but so far this looks a good example of the opposite irrationality to blind news trust: Jumping at the chance to criticize the news. Hatred of journalists is the default position for a lot of people. In this case, it seems reasonable to report on people saying they were fired who are going so far as to physically act the part. I wouldn't have suspected they were lying. Also, it's not a particularly dramatic thing to get wrong, as long as they correct it. It's not as if they're reporting somebody's death.

Commenters are calling this "scary" and "illuminating". Some outlets report some pretty scarily big falsehoods, for sure, but this is not one of them. Another commenter even went so far as to imply that not knowing the word "ligma" is a joke counts as bad journalism. The tone is uncharitable, to put it lightly.
if spacex wasnt launching rockets into space they would not have talent there.

people arent going to take pay cuts to serve lists of shitposts and ads
The departure from that analogy is the fact that we the people do not really have influence over who gets elected to this counsel. Power in the wrong hands is just as dangerous
Right, hence the link to the PDF
> It also makes it easy to think of those who don't know what is obvious to you as idiots.

Honestly, if someone does this to me, I often think they are the incompetent one/idiot. Teaching and ensuring understandability is a core skill (which can absolutely be learned) necessary for a functioning team.

At least the two folks I know with autism on my team have worked incredibly hard at ensuring they practice this skill, and they are some of the best developers I know, partially for that.
But does rerouting traffic through other bypasses actually alleviate traffic?

> Motorways and bypasses generate traffic, that is, produce extra traffic, partly by inducing people to travel who would not otherwise have done so by making the new route more convenient than the old, partly by people who go out of their direct route to enjoy the greater convenience of the new road, and partly by people who use the towns bypassed because they are more convenient for shopping and visits when through traffic has been removed

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
ah, log base 2 of 7 is 127 bits (aka 8, y 1).

Unicode character can have more than 7 font boxes associated with one character box and still be a valid determinate character form.
A lot of those things don't use plain bash either... Of that bigger things in that list:

There is OpenWRT, which uses "procd" (a process management daemon written in C, like systemd but smaller) with its own system bus ubus (like dbus but smaller)

There is Android with its own proprietary init system.

And many others use OpenRC, which is 65% C and 30% shell (according to github). the init files do use shell syntax, but you are supposed to use their interpreter [0] "if you insist on using #!/bin/sh you're on your own" [0]. In fact, the recommended approach is declarative method when you specify name of main binary and their args.. just like systemd.

The world is moving and sysvinit is left behind.

[0] https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/blob/master/service-script-...
Power is nearly-free in civilized countries, a couple thousand isn't much for the developer & hobbyist market the card is aimed at, and by virtue of being well-off, the expenses to cover those two demographics' housing costs in case of a fire is quite great.
IMHO politically alienating half the country is not helping their bottom line.
It wasn’t an “opt out”, the termination fee was only available under several specific circumstances, neither of which applied to the facts at hand. He was never permitted to walk for $1 billion.
We have arrived at the peak of capitalism where corporations are as powerful as governments
I’m allergic to debt. Financial, code, whatever.

I’m big on “If I do it right the first time, I don’t need to do it over.”

It’s worked so far, but I don’t have any raging success stories, so I guess the “Cram a lash-up out as fast as possible” crowd can sneer at me.

I’m still gonna write code, the way I do, though.
Is there a link to HN line discipline criteria? (beyond asci ranges 0 through 31)
> every now and then I check what some elected Canadian politicians have tweeted recently

there's yer problem, eh?
Do you mean unforced error?

They didn't need the metaverse, but they did need some sort of new direction; buying out nascent social networks was a stall tactic to prolong the time before they became uncool with the hip youths.

I don't think it's too far of a stretch to say that Zuckerberg read Snow Crash as a teenager, loved it, and either missed the punk ethos or edited it out of his memory when he found himself in a position of respectable authority.
Ok, agreed!
"vaccines cause mild autism"

Misinformation has real world impact
Trite? You're the one who brought up BlueAnon. (And if you're going to virtue-signal "HN is above that kind of thing," I'll remind you that whining about downvotes is against the guidelines)

There seems to me to be plenty of room for interpretation (and potential for foul play) in the TOS. Maybe that's an exaggeration, but to call it a "fake news clickbait" is disingenuous.
A "random genetic error" (by definition) is not an argument for sex being a spectrum.

>A genetic condition in which a male is born with an extra copy of the X chromosome

So still a male, got it.
Coke Zero is zero calorie, it has no sugar.
I think TikTok nailed this. They will promote posts to their home page that do not have lots of engagement but but are high quality for the site.
After a bit of digging, this article (2020) has a very clear and open-minded discussion of the whole systemd and System V etc. issue. The author notes that the init system is tightly interwoven with the Linux distro and isn't sanely swappable, and the more popular distros are all systemd, which makes some people unhappy.

https://opensource.com/article/20/4/systemd

One problem I'm having is that learning to manage sockets with systemd, with good security practices implemented (i.e. not toy examples) is an area where there's not a whole lot of accessible information, however. I've been using Beej's Guide to Network Programming Using Internet Sockets (C), which seems to be a more general approach.
See also: http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/humor/ATT_Copyright_true.html
Consciousness is an actual thing. It's not an idea. The idea that somehow a collection of stone objects springs forth a consciousness when arranged in one pattern versus another... is certainly an odd concept.