skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arguments against bundlers always sound to me like a person who lives next door to their job saying "I don't get why so many people commute by car, walking works just fine".

That is - some projects don't need a bundler, and for those projects, sure, do whatever. I don't think webpack is in any danger of becoming the new jQuery, where devs add it to every project because they don't know how to work without it. People using bundlers are usually doing stuff that can't be done without them, which obviates the whole argument.
My wife kind of did this for awhile and it left her feeling uninformed when hanging out with friends. One friend would mention something and everyone would be like "ah, yes, that thing" and she would be like "what??? that's happening??".

I definitely agree that news is addicting and a waste of time but I do like to be in the loop.
I’ve found that text.npr.org is really good for me. They don’t have pagination, only a handful of new articles a day, and no images. The lack of images really helps with some graphic stories being less emotionally impactful. Other than that, I just check hackernews.
> GDP per capita adjusted for PPP

What's the point of per-capita here?

I've found personally this is the part that cause confusion. The per-capita makes it look like each person is equally participating in the gross production and receiving an equal income from it.

Obviously that's false, the distribution is very uneven, so I've always wondered why we want it per-capita?

If 1 out of 100 people produces 100% of the GDP and it's the same total GDP as some 10 person neighbor country, why adjust it by capita?
Very opiniated answer here : I now rely mostly on Wikipedia, cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

Most news look to me as entertainment, not information. Articles detail what B.Spears has done or what hominous unacceptable sentence has been said by CongressMan X or Y.

Spoiler : I don't want entertainment, I don't want to be outraged (most people do and won't really admit it). I want the state of the world, at least a comprehensive and kinda global one.

Did you know there is a war in tigray (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigray_War) ? Well wikipedia has been reporting it for a year. Most news outlet focus only on Ukraine (yes it's important) and on the latest hookup of celebrity Z.

> to what end does this actually benefit the individual?

Agreed, entertainment does not improve my global thinking. News does.

> For those that have experimented with “going dark” in a sense, how was it, what did you do and what’s a good balance?

Completely dark, no FB, no Insta, no twitter/reddit/name_it . It's almost boringly peaceful. Craving is only the first half a year. Now I feel like I can describe some "shape" of the world - but of course in parties I can't relate to the (useless) "Did you see this guy sneezing coca cola on tiktok - yeah right, gross, it was all over the news for a week".

PS: happy with it.
Will your paper in the safe survive in the case of a house fire that kills you?
Yup that foam "case" made me cringe. Not just poor airflow, but actually wrapping the heat generating bits in insulation.
> These are public, as was the fact that there were multiple "Disinformation" hires. However, the meetings between the Wikimedia Foundation and the DHS specifically (as opposed to government agencies generally) were not mentioned in public communications, to my knowledge.

Embezzling information is a form of disinformation too.
I was a Twitter junkie. I'm using this transition period to take a break from it. I've still visited a few times over the last couple days but only to read a very specific item. I'm avoiding the doomscrolling. So far I don't feel like I'm missing much. I do visit here and a well curated Reddit feed. Washington Post and NPR fill out any political and global content.
Software seems like a very immature field where we can still do a lot to increase performance. I'm looking forward to the shift
Yes. It wasn't a conscious decision - I used to be obsessed with what was going on - but I have almost completely checked out. It's especially difficult to know what the current affairs are with WFH. Sometimes I'm a little embarrassed when trying to make small talk with someone who brings up [huge news story everyone has been talking about for the last week] and it's the first I'm hearing of it.

Throughout the pandemic my girlfriend would occasionally give me updates, for example about having to wear a mask or being barred from businesses for not being vaccinated.

I do have an RSS feed set up for 4chan that I check on occasionally as it's proven to be a great source for things that I'd like to actively know more about. It's an indictment of the MSM that you may hear from them about a "lone wolf with no known motive" with a doctored photo, meanwhile 4chan has his entire biography, photos, religious affiliations, criminal record, and analysed his entire social media history in a fraction of the time.
That sponge between RPi and backup is going to take alot of heat. It may catch fire.
Seems Nix/Guix are tracked outside of the Reproducible Builds infrastructure, but the site only lists those within that infra.

https://reproducible-builds.org/citests/
https://r13y.com/
https://data.guix.gnu.org/repository/1/branch/master/latest-...
It is possible to use Twitter without seeing much news/politics. But you can't do it just by choosing your followers carefully, because everyone tweets some BS now and then. The essential feature is "Mute words". I've muted about 100 words like "trump", "biden", the clap and fire emojis, etc.

Filtering the noise is not hard like email spam filtering because there's no adversary actively trying to circumvent your filters, and false positives don't really matter. Now all the garbage disappears and when I visit Twitter I see AI and space and gamedev related stuff instead of news and politics. It's quite nice!
I remember using xinetd, and while xinetd does do the job… sometimes… systemd is much more comprehensive, so you don’t need to fuss about with different configs for xinetd, cron, init.d, etc. This is especially nice since the number of config options has skyrocketed, so systemd really simplifies administration (in my experience, at least).
I love Wikipedia's "Current Events" portal so much that I have built a search engine for it: https://pastevents.org/

PastEvents is my entry point to the news nowadays. It updates daily and I can look at source material and relevant articles linked directly from the event, as well as search the past for related events to understand chronology.
OpenSSL security update for hundreds of Raspberry Pis
> Hey, someone rediscovered xinetd

1. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html

Replacing inetd was a systemd design goal.

2. Snark for someone learning is a bad move.
Do we know with "high confidence" though? What if we are in a simulation?
Great idea. Won't happen.

So, not really such a great idea. Just getting the stuff to where the rocket is will take more than the hour. Then it has to be loaded and secured. Then the rocket has to be fueled, because you can't sit there with uninsulated tanks of liquified gases just waiting in case there is something.

A launch tower is a big enough undertaking that you can't afford to squat it, even sitting empty.

Best case, you have a fully loaded can sitting dry and out of the way. You roll out a booster, roll out the can, shift the can on top, and fuel them. That's your hour already, at best, assuming a booster is at hand. Maybe you keep a booster idle, too?

Where it is supposed to land, where it won't fall over, and where a possible deflagration is OK, is another problem I won't go into. Then, unloading whatever it was. Just getting it to the ground to put on a truck is a big job.

You could imagine a 40-ft container stood on end, with hardware surrounding it to snake it out of a hatch and down, with cleverly placed wheels to roll down the can side, and then away to lay it out. Maybe the wheels are road-ready? You can dream.

Maybe you could unship the Raptor engines, after, and send them home with their bells cut off. I estimate the scrap value of the rest of the can at maybe $40,000, 60 tops. You are certainly not lofting it ever again.

Rolling stuff into a C-17, flying it out, and rolling it off will almost always be faster, and always overwhelmingly cheaper and less likely to explode with >15 ktons of blast energy. It is what they are for, so having them kept ready and fueled up is not a boondoggle.
It’s not absurd. Usefulness is purely the decision of the buyer. You may think buying an expensive car to impress others is stupid, but so? All car sales don’t have to fit within your definition of usefulness.

Unless you want the government to step in and define appropriate “usefulness” it’s always going to be up to the Buyer.
Tell HN: Sourcehut is updating its TOS
I have not used Sourcehut for many months, but I recently received an email in my inbox about TOS update of Sourcehut[0].

The email has mostly agreeable points, though I'm not sure how banning cryptoconcurrency projects will affect its image.

Anyways, here goes the email (which I have pasted full text in Pastebin):

https://pastebin.com/fGEZ5WvB
I think the idea of running systemd inside docker (or vice versa) is a little redundant to begin with—systemd and docker share a number of features.
My brother recently passed away unexpectedly and I can say with certainty that the well established processes are not smooth, and in fact I’d say that it’s a 50/50 shot that even when you follow each step to a “T” - have all of the paperwork and talk with everyone you can reach - you’ll receive no help at all. After weeks you’ll simply be told the accounts can’t be made available to you and there is nothing you can do. Trying to navigate these processes while also managing your grief, increases the level of difficulty By a magnitude. Apart from that, an unexpected death leaves a hole that your loved ones will try to fill with anything you have left behind, it’s impossible to anticipate what they will want to keep of yours when you’re gone. All I can say is that if you ever have the thought that it would be helpful to write a few things down in case the worst were to happen, do it. It’s hard to fully explain how much easier it will make the grieving process.
Yes. Also stopped using social media almost completely. Don't have Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat. Have a Twitter but use it rarely. Stick to Whatsapp - that at least has people I want to stay in touch with.

I also don't go on Reddit much anymore. Besides a waste of time, I always found that site to have a deeply corrosive community.

I'm active here because the quality of discussion at HN has stayed rock solid.

I always figure that if something is important enough, I'll hear about it organically.
I don't trust anyone's opinion, for or against, unless they've used alternatives. I've used systemd, I'll probably use it again, and I'll keep hating on it if someone gets me started. Fortunately on my own systems I've been a happy OpenRC user instead.
Visualizing Diffs: The Myers difference algorithm (2020)
So you have shit, you read a blog about some mathematical paradoxes about infinity and now think you somehow are smarter then everyone else.

Models are evaluated by how well they predict the reality but models are not the reality. So you can complain that Newton model for mechanics is imperfect but as long as it does the job for me and you bring nothing better I will still use it productively.

I am trained in math not cosmology so I wanted to get a link to read about your better model.
The Reproducible Builds test infra indeed runs on Jenkins, specifically the jenkins.debian.net service.
> I have utter disdain for real-life people, who would miss no opportunity to destroy our lives, such as borrowing a trillion and endebt us for generations just to fuel a stay-at-home policy that destroys social links and physical health, and more generally play the class warfare game (I live in France)

A practice that’s been good for my psychological health is to imagine how a good person would come to hold the ideas I disagree with. I’ve never failed, unless the subject is someone really beyond the pale like a mass murderer.

You can come up with multiple explanations, that range from “they are ignorant” to “they know something I don’t” and everything in between.

To try to engage with the example you gave, I’d imagine this about the people who support the lockdown:

1. They believe covid is extremely dangerous, and they want to protect people from dying. They don’t like that the lockdown is an inhibition of personal freedom, but they believe it’s justified due to the extreme circumstances (kind of like how it’s OK for the government to force people to evacuate their homes if the area is about to be flooded). Probably if covid had a 5% death rate, you’d support lockdown too. A poll found that over 35% of US adults believe covid has a death rate of 5% or more! [1]

2. They may think that the economy can just go back to the way it was before when lockdown ends, the government makes the money, and it can just pay people enough to buy what they need for now.

3. They may understand the economic cost of the lockdown, and they know it will make life more difficult in the future, but they believe the sacrifice is worth it (kind of like how the government went into debt in WWII).

I’m not saying these people are right about the facts - I’m just saying their motivations are not evil. You and them both want the world to be a good place, you are just working from different premises that lead to you different ways of achieving that.

Now, if you want to be some kind of political activist, you can go through life trying to convince people they are wrong about things. That could be noble.

But if you are just trying to enjoy life, it’s good to be able to walk around and look at the people you meet and have positive feelings about them. It will make you happier, and it sounds like that is something you want.

[1] https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/co...
You can find like-minded people in the real world. Sometimes you have to be open to finding them in different places.
utter garbage
i dont read the news. I see more benefit in reading about economics, history, philosophy, sociology or engaging in active entertainment. The more you know about these fields, the more the news seems less like news and more like literal brainwashing. Powerful megalomaniacs want huge swaths of people to talk about Kanye's outbursts, my favourite Aussie catch-phrase "the cost of living", or some equally hot-topic...meanwhile, the world continues to turn as it always has, billions of SE Asian nobodies die in yearly tragic events without but a blink of an eye of the Western media.
They're probably referring to the rudimentary Martinez study that's making PRC collapists convinced PRC is over reporting GDP. For reference, much more sophisticated light study by NBER (staffed by FED economists) concluded PRC growth was higher than PRC reported GDP.

But more broadly, it's important to understand GDP in PRC is (and has always been) guestimate to appease foreign investers / media for comparison wank. It's well known PRC smooths GDP to show general trends, but internally they've used their own metrics like LKI index (proxy measurement using combination of rail freight activity, electricity usage, industrial activity etc) and total social financing to measure economic activity. A few years ago, the most rigorous western analysis of Chinese GDP I'm aware of was conducted by CSIS who comprehensively reverse engineered Chinese GDP reporting from ground up, sector by sector, and concluded China was (~1 trillion USD) larger than official numbers purported to be.

Also remember PRC has incentive to underreport GDP to keep developing economy perks. Ultimately, GDP like all statistics, is political. It's why internally PRC leadership is focusing on quality growth and "comprehensive national power" , a nebulous but (IMO) more useful composite index to guide development.
It's very interesting what you call out as news.

No I have not stopped reading or listening to most news. I have never read the social media "news" so technically I also can't say I've stopped reading that. Unless HN counts. Since you reference "the state of the world" I don't think it does. Very little in the way of world affairs makes it to HN (which is just how I like it).

Being uninformed is certainly care free! I would love to criticize you for being part of the problem, but I'll be honest. Even though most of my reading is news, for all the news I consume I don't "do" a damn thing with it. Except maybe, maybe, use it to inform my useless vote.
There are a variety of 2.5D (chip next to chip) and 3D (chip on top of chip) packaging techniques. Each comes with different tradeoffs.

Here are a couple of articles with more detailed info:

https://semiwiki.com/semiconductor-manufacturers/tsmc/306329...

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16051/3dfabric-the-home-for-t...

https://www.eetimes.com/amd-tsmc-imec-show-their-chiplet-pla...

https://www.techpowerup.com/292256/amd-details-its-3d-v-cach...
Mars has garbage pings to earth, so interactive transfers are a definite no. You need to build offline first and (asynchronous) bulk transfers. TCP with really long timeouts could work, but you probably want something more appropriate because throughput would be really small for a long time until the congestion window opened; you'd almost certainly want to address packet loss handling as well.

Look into sneakernet compatible data transfers, because Mars latency is closer to that than anything else. I haven't studied it, but NNCP might work https://nncp.mirrors.quux.org/

You could 'just' run a Mars cluster and direct Martians there, but you'll need to think carefully about how changes from Earth users and Mars users are merged. The window for in-flight changes from both sides is quite large, and waiting for interactive writes to another planet is unreasonable.

This does mean hard work on conflict resolution; some may be solvable by the system, but many will require user input, and that user input is likely to be delayed, as they'll likely have moved on to something else. Lots of not simple UX there, but 'everyone' will need it, so users will be forced to adapt.
Its soo clean.

Logo, Icons, Font, Color selection, everything looks perfect.
It scary that some think Russia and others are so powerful at shaping the news compared to the power of the US govt and corporate interests.
Beginning days of the Ukraine-Russia war was all propaganda from the Ghost of Ukraine to the hagiography of Zelensky. RT was banned from some platforms.

I am afraid of propaganda from Fox news and MSNBC, not a relatively weak Russia and other "foreign actors".
I stopped actively keeping up with any sort of serious news a long time ago. There's a few RSS feeds I'll check once a month or so but most of the news I get is filtered through whatever jokes are being made on twitter (UK govt chaos, Brazil election) or whatever people irl bring up in conversation.

Most news isn't relevant to my life, and if it is, I usually can't do anything about it. This month, there was an election in my city I didn't follow at all because the incumbent's victory was guaranteed from the start.

If it's important it'll make itself known to me.
If consciousness is 'only' the act of reading the memory of the past ~500 milliseconds [1] coupled with the act of integrating that memory in the past short/long-term memory [2] obtaining 'artificial consciousness' after you have adequate sensors and data processing pipelines could be as simple as an endless loop over the incoming data stream. The problem is that our $x+ trillion datacenters are less able to process data, and adapt to environment feedback, than a 'banal' single cell lacrymaria [3] [4].

[1] Around N400 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N400_(neuroscience)

[2] Consciousness as a Memory System https://journals.lww.com/cogbehavneurol/Fulltext/9900/Consci...

[3] Michael Levin | Cell Intelligence in Physiological & Morphological Spaces https://youtu.be/TK2o_ObVt-E?t=3922

[4] Michael Levin: "Non-neural, developmental bioelectricity as a precursor for cognition" https://youtu.be/3Cu-g4LgnWs?t=776
Hehe. yeah, exactly. And Putty was the ssh client I had used for a while on Windows.
That is cheap words, show me a better mathematics or a better science or a better model. Black holes were proposed by theory and thought experiemnts and then we found them, this tells me the model were good. Now your move, tell me what your model predicts and let's see if you can prove it.
Even if not explicitly set that way, I found that windows security can intermittently end up blocking unsigned stuff, which if anything is even more annoying than a consistent rule. Had this problem when trying to make a python gui executable.
I pay for Bloomberg, WSJ, and NY Times. Its an okay mix, with its leaning, but a phenomenal mix with the depth of reporting.

I've stopped bothering with free news.

archive.is doesn't quite cut it
> Usefulness is purely the decision of the buyer. You may think buying an expensive car to impress others is stupid, but so? All car sales don’t have to fit within your definition of usefulness.

Exactly. So saying that a more expensive car is always more useful is crazy. Maybe the more expensive car is too big for the roads where I live, or has worse fuel economy, or has less interior space.... Price and usefulness are not completely unrelated, but assuming they're equivalent is absurd.
systemd is fine for single user systems and perhaps verts, but I would never deploy it on a server. The deprecation of cgroup v1 is a welcome change. It's come a long way, but it still has a very long way to go.
The benchmark is measuring HMR specifically. You've already dev-served your app, now you make a change... Which builder is faster?

It's important to get all the speed gain we can, Angular (webpack) is really slow at rebuilding when you save changes, this would be a life-saver, but no dev is ever watching 30k files at once.
So they aren't going to block any newspaper stories before the election this time? Good for them.

What are Facebook's plans?
I don't read any news except for something I find on here or someone I know recommends to me.
Exploring a number of concepts at the base of a programming language I discovered that it was possible to do without "closures", whatever their indisputable interest.

* http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/

* http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=unclosure

I wonder if such a language in which the management of the lexical context would have become useless could lead to optimizations. For example in recursive operations. What do you think about it?
Or if you just don’t have a smartphone. Obviously that’s unthinkable though.
I rocked a Commodore 128.. Don't F with me :p

Power is nothing without spittle (I'm sure at least one person said it)

I'm not familiar with the lingo, but I was thinking of multilayer sockets, with a higher bandwidth loop/ring for the primary sockets with the PCIe coming off the CPUs in a traditional fashion. Perhaps I read about that with the opterons ages ago.
I read that and Carl Sagan's voice comes to mind.
"Messing with God's plan" is only one way to arrive at this conclusion; I agree with your objections.

As I see it, killing people simply isn't in the gamut of options we should choose with our free will. Ten Commandments state "thou shall not murder" but without an immediate justification; just don't.
It does at least spawn interesting conversation!