skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, the lack of those features is itself a feature.

I don't have any interest in using the subpar terminals/"execute this thing" buttons included in many editors. I'd rather use a terminal that I actually like -- the one I use for everything else.

I also don't want any "magic" to happen under the hood to run a thing (looking at you, Java IDEs). I want anyone to be able to download the thing I'm working on and run it without being tied to a particular editor/IDE, and the best way to do that is to put your build/run stuff into something portable (shell script, Makefile, task file, whatever) instead of relying on a button in a GUI somewhere.
> And they are unique

Maybe excepting https://store.steampowered.com/app/450540/Hot_Dogs_Horseshoe...
A fair point on the title! I think you can see it from both perspectives. When I chose the title, I was thinking of "untangling" in this sense: In the traditional C program that overuses malloc/free, you end up in a forest of dynamic lifetimes all "tangled together". So, arenas are useful in "untangling those", in the same way that you might untangle cables for your PC by bundling them together.
"... certain influential figures explicitly manipulate their speech in order to primarily amass personal power regardless of any second-order effects"

And this would include those currently in power, no? Who want to further their ability to put their narrative of choice forward - regardless of how truthful - while suppressing any counter-narratives, even if true.
“If you’re not ashamed when you launch, you’ve launched too late.”
sad that the government is having to regulate you into humane practices. Already in NY and CO im sure this will just keep spreading.
Ah, the old buy high, sell low strategy.
3.81 is the last make release that was GPLv2, so that's what is bundled w/ macOS

No need to go back over the GPLv2 vs. GPLv3 situation with macOS. There are dozens of threads on HN about it.

However, it’s easy to solve in any number of ways; I’d recommend installing Homebrew [1] and using it to install make.

BTW, Homebrew has make 4.4 ready to go; I just installed it [2].

[1]: https://brew.sh

[2]: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/make#default
There are already many comments saying this but the main objection is asking for money to do one thing and then doing something else with it. A secondary objection, for many, is the nature of the other thing they are doing with the money.

In the context of this particular thread, GP advocated for funding of organizational resilience. While this also isn't what Wikimedia was asking for money for, it would probably be less objectionable to those who disagree with the ultimate destination of their donation.
It's amazing how people still trust these "according to people familiar with x" articles after the past 5+ years. Like 99% of them have been wrong and just used to push a political agenda.
I would call the original Game Boy well-designed but put the GBC in the same "Underpowered, but a surprise smash hit capturing that era’s sensibilities" category as the Wii.

With the tech at the time, the Game Boy wasn't going to have a better screen without seriously compromising battery life. Case in point, the Sega Game Gear which was graphically way better than the Game Boy but died fast if you took it off the wall plug.

The GBC didn't have the same excuse; it was so many years newer, and it offered very little over the Game Boy other than a color screen. And its color screen still looked like a joke next to a Game Gear. Given how much newer the GBC was than the GG, I doubt Nintendo couldn't have made a handheld with Game Gear-quality graphics but without the awful battery life.

But it doesn't matter, because the GBC had an awesome games library and people loved it.
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I have been in this situation (I was burnt out and knew it) as CTO (and co founder) and suggested to my right hand to replace me and find something better for me.

I personally think you should discuss it with him, maybe first over a drink in a more casual setting figuring out how he will give up his role (to you for instance) and what he will do after, leaving his ego intact while putting the company first. He can then suggest it himself publicly and be done with it.
That was a logical counter argument against the claim that Elon Musk was surrounded by yes-men.

From the context it seems very unlikely that the post you referred to literally thought Elon Musk is always right.
> other companies are way more accommodating in building "bespoke" solutions to specific problems.

Then you upgrade and everything breaks!

But it’s an age old battle for and against standardization. I just walk around with several charging cables because each is “the best” for charging a small li-ion battery.
Thawing permafrost exposes old pathogens–and new hosts
GlobalFoundries Open MPW shuttle program
The power? Which form of power are you referring to?

The power of law? That's very clearly "Nowhere". Taking down Facebook posts is not authorized by law, and is not compatible with the First Amendment (though to be clear: The Bill of Rights does not create or codify our rights; It just enumerates them). It is in executive policy, which should be having repercussions such as prosecution and censure, and it's a failure of our legislative and judicial branches that there's not been such.

The power of force? They're literally a federal law enforcement department. They have guns and ammo and the training and experience to use them. They will arrest you if you wink at them funny while trying to board a plane.

The power of precedent? They're setting it right now. There were a set of leaked e-mails of government officials getting obsequious replies when asking Facebook for posts to be taken down for "Misinformation". I'm not even against the government pointing out posts that violate Facebook guidelines; I just think they should get the same canned responses that everyone else gets.

It does not help that a key campaigning strategy from the sitting president was suppressing an embarrassing story. I would have had some respect if Biden had come out and said "My No-Account son is trying to profit from my name, and I apologize for that". I have no respect for the sitting president nor the previous.
Can you prove it?

I don't think I've ever met an engineer who is, by themselves, 1000x more productive than even the least productive person I've ever worked with.
That doesn't limit in any way the expression of the belief that there are only two genders. Feel free to run a Twitter search and confirm that for yourself (I just did). I have to say I am genuinely curious to find a conservative belief that I wouldn't find thousands of (unironic/uncritical) hits for in a matter of seconds.
> And if those conditions are removed, no known reactor design is safe.

The claim for MSRs is that they actually are inherently safe.

- There's nothing the on-site staff can do to cause a serious accident, even if they want to. The reactor is stable because of the physics of fuel and coolant, not because of active control systems.

- There's a strong negative feedback the slows the reaction rate as the fuel heats up.

- If somehow you get overheating anyway, or if electric power to the pumps cuts off, passive systems automatically shut down the reactor. One common design is a freeze plug that melts when you stop cooling it, causing the fuel to dump into a tank that passively cools it. Another uses a similar approach to dissolve a strong neutron poison in the fuel, shutting down the reaction.

- Since the fuel is liquid, you never need a large amount of fissile material in the fuel. You can add a little at a time. It's also possible to remove some of the fission products as you go.

- The most troublesome fission products are chemically bound in the salt, so even is someone destroys your reactor with artillery, you don't get a large radioactive cloud, just hot rocks at the reactor site.

- For either thorium or fast uranium MSRs, the waste products are just fission products, not the long-lived transuranics. Encase them in glass and bury them, and they'll be back to the radioactivity of the original ore in 300 years. Since the decline is exponential, most of the radioactivity goes away in the first few decades.
> In the end, I think the idea of making all subnets /64's may have been a mistake.

True, but just imagine the subnets are only 64k hosts, with ipv6's address space as a /80.

My own ipv4 routed network (which is currently routed across 5 continents) is based on a space in the 172.16/12 range comprising 5 /16s. A lot of the subnets I use are chopped down to /27, /28 and /29 (and of course /30 and /31s for links and /32s for loopbacks).

That said it's a bit of a squeeze at the moment.

To implement that in an ipv6 world, I'd make every subnet currently sizing between /29 and /25 into a /64. At most it's 8 subnets per /24 at the moment, so call it 16.

As such every /24 I currently allocate would be a /60.

and I have 1280 of those /24s, so 11 bits, which means I need a /49.

Add some expansion space (which I'm currently looking at) and that seems quite neat as a /48.

That's a fairly big network. At some point in the future I could see justifying a second /48.

My company as a whole certainly has more requirement than that, but we have a /32 allocated (we also have a /16 and /19 in ipv4 land and 2 ASes). That /32 could allocate 65,000 of my continent spanning networks. I think we have about 8, and only a couple are really large. The main one is based on the 10/8 network range, which would probably fit into a single /48, but certainly in a handful of them.

> where anyone can grab a /32.

If the requirement to grab a single /32 is an ability to fill in a form asking for it, we aren't going to be running into any issues any time in the next 100 years.
It's ok if it depends on a range of factors, but those factors should be detailed in the job posting. The candidate should be able to read the ad and calculate what their salary would likely be based on the company's salary determination process.

Most importantly, the ad should reveal the position's maximum salary, so job seekers know how much money is on the table. Ideally, median and average salaries would also be listed.
But his company is IOI. At best he is hoping he creates enough groundswell that he can buy GSS if it comes about.
Because ostensibly, governments should be acting on behalf of their citizens (almost all of whom work for a living) rather than their corporations.
I wouldn't really call it a talent acquisition. It's more the same reason that any company pays people to work on open source projects. For example, Google pays people to make Flutter and Dart. Are those employees a "talent acquisition"? Clearly no because they started the project within Google. So then why is Google paying people to work on some MIT licensed thing? Well, it gives them a high-quality bit of code to build the things that are actually their business and it gives them a certain amount of control over the direction and priorities of the project.

Let's say that I make a library X that your company uses. You can use X for free so why acquire X? Well, if X is a project of your company, that can give your company positive reputational benefits by association. You can set the priorities and roadmap of X. I'd be working at your company so I'd be there to help other developers. I'd see the friction you had in your environment and want to remove that friction.

I'm not saying that the owner of an MIT licensed project can do anything they want. There's always the possibility of forks. However, there is still a certain amount of control. For example, Google's control of Go basically meant that they controlled the decision to go with a non-copying garbage collector because that was what would be best for Google and its codebase (and most people wouldn't care about the trade-offs that much).

I think it's more than just "here are some smart people we can acquihire." I think it gives them influence over a project they might see as important.
> It sounds like they don't know what they want.

In my experience, including at companies I've worked at, that's the case more often than not. Every department is perpetually short of employees, so the hope is to hire anyone halfway competent and figure out their real responsibilities later.
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Hetzner is a too good to be true service. Only that they have less locations but I'd imagine they need a very well controlled data center and staff to reach that kind of cost and can't expand easily.
The Index Librorum Prohibitorum was not a bad idea. It was scorned and mocked in the 20th century because it had become so unwieldy and impractical, based on the widespread use of the printing press and other media such as film, television, and music.

Now, "truth" is an interesting thing. Ricky Gervais decided that the founders of Christianity were the lying liars, perhaps because their stories were not concretely, verifiably true in every historical detail, and therefore Ricky concluded that Christianity is a fabric of lies made up to make people feel better or control us or something.

Unfortunately it's Ricky who's got the short end of the Truth. Because Truth is more than just facts that are printed in a newspaper about the daily police blotter. Once you accept that there are higher, more important Truths than what you'll find in Wikipedia, we'll all be a lot better off. And we can better evaluate those lower-order facts and figures for what they really are.
I'd go one step further and say that even primary observation doesn't guarantee you'll have a good idea of what's happening. Just ask a group of your friends from Ukraine/Iran/Pakistan/Haiti (or any other country that's in the news).

It's unlikely they'll have the same position on the issues that they all have first hand information about. The issues that are portrayed as black and white in our media, where the good and bad side is "so obvious", are suddenly not that obvious if you ask someone who actually knows more.

I know it's not a popular approach, but I just accept that everything I know could be wrong, and I don't know who the bad and good guys are (tbh, most often it's just various groups of bad guys the more research you do).
A couple of questions here asked about the intellectual property rights. Has an answer been provided?
There’s probably a way to low-tech it by printing half of each password glyph (with a suitably ambiguous design) on transparent slides that you need to overlay with each other to be able to read the password.
The pictures are the end of the road for billions in R&D, to say nothing of the academic costs studying unverifiable cosmology. Tasked with?? Is that all it's for, pictures that add zero new information? NASA might as well be the Vatican making smoke signals behind closed doors, and then revealing new doctrine as a result.
"So what's to be done about the actual, real harm being done, while also protecting free speech? I don't want to assume that assaulting people is just the cost of free speech. That just seems so wrong to me."

More speech.
Elon Musk named sole director of Twitter, dissolves board
How do you protect against government accessing your safe, getting your master password and accessing all your digital files. If I am not mistaken, Fifth Amendment protects one from incriminating themselves by giving up their own password, but in your case they just need to confiscate and open your safe.
Let's be clear.

There is no "policing disinformation". There is only "information control".

And that control will be used for the same purpose that control is always used : to maintain and increase their control.

That means a guy listening to everything you say. Sometimes reporting you. Sometimes censoring you. Sometimes altering what you said.

We don't want that.
Our two eyeballs plus brain is SO MUCH MORE than just two mediocre CCDs.

Our eyes provide distance sensing through focusing, the difference in angle of your two eyes looking at a distant object, and other inputs, as well as having incredible range of sensitivity, including a special high contrast mode just for night driving. This incredibly, literally unmatched camera subsystem is then fed into the single best future prediction machine that has ever existed. This machine has a powerful understanding of what things are (classification) and how the world works (simulation) and even physics. This system works to predict and respond to future, currently unseen dangers, and also pick out fast moving objects.

Two off the shelf digital image sensors WILL NEVER REPLACE ALL OF THAT. There's literally not enough input. Binocular "vision" with shitty digital image sensors is not enough.

Humans are stupidly good at driving. Pretty much the only serious accidents nowadays are ones where people turn off some of their sensors (look away from the road at something else, or drugs and alcohol) or turn off their brain (distractions, drugs and alcohol, and sleeping at the wheel).
hours worked went way down but dollars made stayed the same because of the handouts. The productivity metric had nowhere to go but up.
TikTok Blocks Z-Library Hashtag Pending Piracy Investigation
I've seen this in action professionally and it drove me up the wall.

At a previous job I had to spec out some hardware procurement on the order of a million dollars over two years, and all of my compute was based around AMD EPYC. The amount of fighting and arguing that this resulted in was wild. These were all still supermicro boxes, still from the same trusted vendor we were using, but I had to spell out many times that we were basically getting double the compute for what we would have got otherwise.

Worst part was when the first shipment arrived and nothing booted and worked and turned it out be a bad batch of drives from micron that had bad controllers, the same ignoramus used it as a "I told you so" moment, even though the vendor confirmed it was a micron issue and immediately shipped over replacements.
Wow, a whole weekend?

Terminating huge amounts of the workforce when they have next to no knowledge of the inner workings of the company... well, it's going to be a disaster, and I think all the tech people here know it. I'm sure there are some areas to cut, but they almost certainly don't know which yet. Cutting 25%, you're going to mess up. Then you have to face the reality that the other 75% will be seeking the exit - few want their workload to increase by 33%, plus work for someone as mercurial and abusive as Musk and his team, plus be a party to the dying company which will inevitably become a more effective tool of the alt-right and extremists.
Obviously the Hubble is still doing useful science, but since the JWST is operating now every time I see a Hubble thing it makes me wonder what the JWST would see.

There's some really good explanation of the difference in the two systems in this NOVA episode: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/ultimate-space-telescope...
When I learned Perl, the syntax reminded me of C and bash. The magic variables are also from bash.

Maybe because I knew C and some bash and awk, Perl wasn't alien to me at all.

Coming from a Pascal and Java background, it was a breath of fresh air. Programming was actually fun.
Specifically about the Lagrangian of Classical Mechanics (Hamilton's Action)
I have discussed that on physics.stackexchange
https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/670705/
The ideas are expressed in diagrams. What is expressed in the diagrams is repeated/corroborated in mathematical expressions (stackexchange supports Mathjax). The visualizations leave no room to get lost.
This sounds familiar! Is the CTO also the (co)founder?

If yes, then he probably agrees with you about being in semi-retirement.

But he has been “needed” in this company since day 0, so this new feeling of not being needed (because of the great job you’re doing) is strange and uncomfortable. He probably hasn’t worked out how to explain to his co-founders and CEO (let alone to you) that it’s time for the next thing.

If it’s in the company’s interests for him to launch a new product or revenue stream, that could be an exciting and engaging project for a while.

But ultimately it’s gonna work best if you make it easy for him to let go and move on to his next project. Encourage him to explicitly take a vacation and have someone else (or you) act in his role. This will make it easier to realize that his work is done, when he returns.

If no, ignore all this.

Source: I was once this CTO. Had an awesome VP Eng and CTO-in-waiting who helped me hand things over. Happy to discuss more candidly over email.
You seem to think that modern cosmology is little more than uneducated guesswork, which is blatantly false.

That explains my downvote at least. Not a moderator, but a marxist though.
"Stories about the media", that is.

Back before Margaret Sullivan became public editor at the Washington Post, there was a reporter--name forgotten--who wrote about the media. It was possible now and then to read a Post story about the NY Times's reaction to a story in the Post. That sort of thing made you wonder why you were reading it.
That would make sense if journalists had a better track record when it came to their anonymous sources, but they don't.
Do you have any reliable source for this? as it's fairly common in the industry. I know lots of things are common that turn out to be illegal, but this one is ripe to be tested time and again, and the fact that it's still being used implies that those challenges failed.
> I'm curious what commenters here think should be done about this, if anything?

This will sound impractical: I think the internet is a revolutionizing force, and a free and open internet is incompatible with our current conception of the state. The natural correlative of a free and open internet is a society of individuals who are citizens of no state in particular. The state will react to the free and open internet by limiting its scope (as China has)

I don't think it's a matter of "what should be done?" from a policy standpoint, but "what should we do?" as individuals. If the US government is unable to adjust to the new reality, then I would choose the internet over the US government
Disk and snapshot costs aren't bad either which leaves me to use AWS as only a backup solution as it imposes no outbound traffic.
Fair point, it’s all hard. I intended to call out romance as a (long shot) potential source of overnight success. Reading the various self-publishing forums, any post that starts with “I earned six figures on my first book” ends with “and it’s a romance.”

I didn’t mean to imply that those authors don’t work hard or that those stories aren’t crazy outliers. Just that there’s more money sloshing around from a lot of avid readers.

As an aside, please keep doing what you do. Accelerando hooked me deep when it came out, and I’ve had a ton of fun reading through The Laundry Files. Thanks for optimizing your career for something other than money.
Even if wormholes were real, and even if we could manipulate matter with negative energy density (which doesn't exist) on the order of many times the mass of the sun (which is needed for wormholes), constructing one that spans from A to B would take longer than light travels from A to B.
> We've had the technology for level 2 for 20 years. You just need to track the painted lines and track the distance to the car in front of you.

Considering many vehicles still do this inconsistently or poorly I’m not sure that’s an encouraging sign.
How many devs at twitter have no code to show for the past month, because they swept up by the impending doom of Musk's takeover and stopped working? I would guess more than a few. Firing those "for cause" will probably be easy; they stopped working for a month and anybody can get fired for that.

Those that remained productive will probably have better prospects for keeping their jobs, and for suing if they're fired.
It was also very unforgiving - one mistake and you were back to rebuilding that virtue.