skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was with the author until I got to the picture of the sausage people. I like the idea of normal-looking people, too, but these all have the same face! Their eyes, nose, and mouth are all in the same locations. None of them stand out in any way. They're remarkably... unremarkable.

They don't have to be attractive, but at least make them look different from each other.
Chime 2.0 – a Go Editor for macOS
I agree. The problem isn't with how the Linux kernel brings up new devices, and more with the fact that adding support to unsupported hardware is a long and difficult process. These kernel maintainers have more important, official contributions to concern themselves with. Reverse-engineered software support is tangential to the work that the Linux maintainers do, which is why I'm all-for Asahi unshackling themselves from the Linux project. Hell, they might even find sympathizers in the NetBSD/OpenBSD communities, which have always welcomed unsupported systems with open arms.
Well, his avatar does have legs now...

But, yeah, he's too desperate to be/have the next great (hardware) platform. He wants the "metaverse" to be what Apple and Google have with their hardware and app stores. There's no way he walks it back.
If that's the ban they studied than it's even more ridiculous because it only applied after 9pm.

The following March the scooters were effectively banned before returning later that Summer under a new permitting process.
It's against HN's rules to post this without evidence, because internet users are so quick to interpret comments this way based on nothing other than someone else having a differing view (which does not count as evidence). The flip side, of course, is that if you think you're seeing this sort of abuse, you should let us know so we can investigate it. We do occasionally find evidence—and when we do we crack down hard.

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
> when paired with a 4090, the intel CPUs take the lead

Crypto mining is out, but enterprising gamers can now defray their costs by operating a steam turbine with waste heat.
Yes the technology existed, but it wasn't pervasive because it was too expensive.
The fact that democracies are starting to push for right to repair suggests to me that this preference is becoming much more prevalent. I think most people would be happy to save a ton of money being able to repair instead of replace expensive electronics.

Improved? Yes. Solved? Not really. Recycling is not a perfect process by any stretch. Producing less E-waste is just as important because global consumption of the resources that go into it is currently very unsustainable. E-waste management right now is not just unideal, it's more or less a joke. In 2021 less than 20% of E-waste in Europe was being collected and recycled. Recycling is hard. It requires changes at almost all levels of society. Designing repairable electronics on the other hand is essentially a solved problem that the industry has done less and less due to cost. Because the free market ultimately is best at optimising for lowering cost, and not other things like sustainability, safety, and so on. That's where regulations and taxes come in.
You may dislike this, but he is innocent. If you're convicted in an unfair judgement, and it's later discovered that it was unfair, and the Supreme Court cancels your judgement, you're innocent.

If one day Lula got a fair judgment and end up convicted, you may say he's isn't innocent. Until them, he is.
That gets into a wider issue, people aren’t going to want to starve and will in general try quiet hard to avoid that fait.

Saying the current social order breaks down isn’t enough to suggest Anarchy will take it’s place. A farmer who wants to collect a harvest without oil will want manpower, and survivors will want to eat. That’s the basis of civilization.

Sure suburbs in their current form don’t work without cars and oil. But, people can migrate quite far on a half a tank of gas and their feet.
I empathize with your experience having also grown up in relative poverty. But now that I have kids of my own and see other kids being disruptive, asleep, rude, violent, etc. I'm looking at those kids' parents and guardians like WTF?

So just like it's not fair for the person working hard and studying to get their family a better life (equality of opportunity), it's also not fair to penalize minors who don't have those types of parents or can't outlast their broken environment to reach a better life (equity in opportunity).

I don't have the answers either but think we should keep trying rather than accept some large number of kids can work hard and still fail due to circumstance beyond their reach. Especially when at the same time, some large number of kids can just be kids and eventually figure it out due to circumstance beyond their reach.
The difference in capabilities makes the core tech very different.
> which includes Twitter head of legal policy, trust, and safety Vijaya Gadde

Musk fired that one last Thursday.
Well, yeah. It's really hard to do, so maybe nobody does it, or it's just impossible. But with several billions of years of galactic history it has to be pretty hard if civilizations are common.

Really it's just one example of a technosignature that is longer-lasting than radio waves, that extends the amount of detectable overlap we might expect to have with an older civilization, and the lack of observation either says that sort of technology is either not feasible or there aren't many civilizations in the galactic past or present.
> O’Sullivan’s First Law

Interesting - I'd never heard of that quote, but I've definitely observed the same about online forums. But it's more like - the more moderated online forums become, the more left-wing they become.
I suspect employers are more interested in attracting talent by _appearing_ to pay highly than by actually doing so.
Hashicorp Vault is an obvious one. Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Service is another.

If you're looking for a service-oriented offering, maybe think about Keyfactor, Venafi ... do you already have a PKI that you need to integrate with, etc?
I don't think they'll hate it. If they know what a prospective employee is making, they can offer a minimal increment on that within their (wide) salary range.

Currently, only the employer knows their real budget (and that may change if they get the right candidate) and only the employee knows what they'll move for. Salary negotiation is based on those two secrets. This legislation makes the latter secret public knowledge.
They get less attention. Are usually there to supplement the app so the bar is lower.
This is exactly what I mean when I say "nobody can define exactly what [the metaverse] is." The metaverse is simultaneously VR-based business collaboration software, but also decade-old sandbox video games. Web3 and NFTs often pop up in explanations, too.
Hmm, What kind of bike at what kind of speed on what kind of surface?

It's entirely possible to ride a bike in a way that actually doesn't require a helmet. It's VERY boring :-P , but nevertheless practical and doable.
If you're willing to run Manjaro (which uses systemd), any opposition to running e.g. Fedora with GNOME? I'd guess multi-session would function fine with GNOME on GDM, and pulseaudio has been replaced by pipewire. Although you could also use pipewire in Manjaro...

> Proton supposedly runs steam games on freebsd these days. Maybe that’s worth a spin.

Via running a Linux userland with syscall emulation. Since the GUI and user session stuff in FBSD is mostly the same as Linux (DRM/KMS for graphics, libinput and the xf86 DDX drivers, logind/ConsoleKit for session tracking, D-Bus for IPC) so I don't think this will address many grievances...

> I want Debian circa 2002 back.

Did display managers back then even support running multiple concurrent X servers on the same seat?
The Wii Mini - I believe only available up here in Canada; but actually fairly common up here - I think dropped GCN support.

Otherwise, all Wii models had GCN game, controller; and memory card support.

Fun fact: the Wii was a modified GameCube for a bit of its development cycle. Prototypes of the Wiimote with a GCN have been found.
Agreed, to some extent. Perhaps I should have said Voyager style technobabble, as to some extent the later shows 'ruined' TNG for me.
Nice little dystopia you're advocating for there.
IIRC most users and moderators or /r/antiwork were opposed to anyone doing interviews on behalf of them. The person who did just unilaterally decided to do it anyway.
You can go back to the year 2000 and find Fox News and CNN talking heads warning us about the impending doom of baby boomers retiring and taking the economy with them. Any year now...

What has actually transpired in the meantime has been record breaking bailouts, corporate handouts, and profits, while workers pay remains in stagnation and housing market inflation goes through the roof (because of slow development, IMO, attributed to NIMBYism, mixed with a nationwide inability to build densely or build public transportation infrastructure).

edit/ And let's not forget, there have also been 2 disastrous, major wars, one of which inarguably never should have occurred.
> Between TikTok, Roblox, Minecraft, call of duty (and other triple A multiplayer games), we’re already there.

I'm going to need a definition for "metaverse" here because that doesn't sound like what I would imagine. You have listed a social media site and some video games. Both social media and video games have been with us for a long time, and if Facebook had just said "we want to work on social media and video games" then nobody would bat an eye.

Of course, that's not what they said. They now call the company "Meta" and toss the "metaverse" label around. This implies that they at least view it as something different in some substantive way.

I guess, either way, it's a failure. If it's just a trick to seem innovative by slapping a new label on old things, then that's a failure, because people now seem to expect them to do something more. If they view it as something novel that's going to "eat the world," that's also a failure (at least so far), since it clearly hasn't.
> That said, WhatsApp using the E2E Signal protocol is immaterial if they exfilter the locally stored private keys out to their servers

They don't do that.

Biggest issue with WA is the backup mechanism. You can encrypt it with a passphrase nowadays but AFAIK that's off by default, rendering E2E moot if either party backs it up to their Google Drive.
My apologies. Will do.
Well, you login, no big warning signs, you become a paying customer, years later the owner decides that you are not welcome. Why was it Ok before? Don't know. Same could happen to anyone anywhere and that is not ok. And a violation of basic human decency, I guess. Not that I think this one would connect.
Thanks for not email-gating the site. Added mine from my previous job. I created RemoteFriendly [0] to showcase companies sharing salary info on their job posts and see a trend in this direction. Hope the new laws coming up in some states push the companies more and save people from wasting some of their time.

[0] https://remotefriendly.com/
Yeah, insiders not knowing the full details of Musk's plan because Musk doesn't have a detailed plan yet seems more likely than WaPo just making some stuff up.
I don't develop in JS so can't comment on DX there, but I've found the DX to be pretty good when using protobuf in other languages.

That's mostly been down to having IDE autocompletion for data structures and fields once the protobuf code's been generated.

For many JSON APIs I've worked with there's only been human readable documentation, making them more error prone to work with (e.g. having to either craft JSON manually for requests, or writing a client library if one doesn't already exist).
I think the #1 cause of both slow development and quality problems is a mismatch between the mental models an application is based on and problem domain and the needs of the users.

If the mental models are correct is is possible to add new features and fix bugs.

If the mental models are incorrect you are at best going to be pushing a bubble around under a rug and everything is going to be expensive and broken at the same time.

Frequently organizations talk as if they were making a tradeoff between speed and correctness but when that kind of talk is in effect you usually find development is slow and it is all broken. That is, talk of a "tradeoff" obscures the fact that there is one right thing to do which is bring the mental model in line with the domain and then bring the application in line with the mental model.

For instance, splitting up functionality into small features that can be deployed into small units is not "low quality", in fact it can be conducive to very high quality because an incrementally developed system can feed experience back quickly such that the system has all the right attributes.

Where people get into trouble is with data structures as opposed to algorithms.

I went through a phase where I fixed maybe 15 seriously broken applications in six months and most of the time the hardest problems was something seriously wrong with the database structure that caused errors and made it difficult or impossible to add features. Overhauling an app like that was probably 80-90% migrating the database to a proper structure, the remaining part is almost trivial when you have the right data structures in place.

If you are thinking ahead you should be able to deliver functionality in nice small increments and never find out that "oh crap, my data structures are totally wrong and I need to rewrite this."

Facebook, Adobe, Microsoft, Google, Epic and Cerner are monopolies that don't face competition that can hire expensive developers, use them poorly, and subject users to their boondoggle. Other software companies, not so much.
Right, I was more referring to a fork of the community than a downstream development branch.
Those god-forsaken Canadian communists.
Yes, you have a brain.
The usual cycle is: two kernel maintainers have an endless argument about overall architecture, and one or another of them blocks any submission, so nothing could be done until this endless argument is resolved by them.
Interesting point. I also found this passage intriguing:

The problem with this line of reasoning is that Meta’s
capital expenditures are directly focused on both of
the two main reasons for alarm: TikTok and ATT. That
is because the answer to both challenges is more AI,
and building up AI capacity requires a lot of capital
investment.

This makes it clear that Facebook/Meta's overlords don't think of these products as a social network; instead, they think of them as a conduit to show people ads. Ads recommended by AI.

With growing concern over censorship, political manipulation, and platform moderation, I wonder how long the "AI-recommended ad" cash cow can continue. You can only show people so many political and gambling app ads before they stop using your product or run out of time/money.
Think of Fediverse as akin to the email system, where there are thousands if not millions of different servers out there hosting email and exchanging them to each other.

Now consider Mastodon as an email client which is hosted on a web site, like Gmail or Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail. That web site gives you an interface with which to interact with the network of email servers, but people using other servers with other interfaces can still see messages from each other; someone using Yahoo! Mail can send and receive messages with someone using Gmail.

The difference is that Mastodon is open source, so that anyone can download the code and run their own Mastodon instance (whereas nobody can download and run their own Gmail instance), but that instance can still exchange messages with instances running any of the several other Fediverse interfaces there are out there, such as Pleroma, Misskey, Soapbox, etc. (Unless an instance at either end has "defederated" the other; that is, the administrators have configured it to not exchange messages with the other server.)
You could get “helmet adapter caps”, similar to the rubber ones you wear in swimming pools. It would be much more compact than a helmet, and could solve both the hygiene (by virtue of being hermetic around the head) and size (by “padding” the head to some standard dimension so the helmet fits well. Then the helmet could tighten.

(Disclaimer: Just an idea.not sure how practical it would be)
Things that don't currently exist:

* "Suspended animation" technology about preserve living humans indefinitely

* Means of human being living a lifetime or giving birth in zero gravity.

* Human made, fully self-contained, large-scare ecosystems, even on earth.

Which is to say a "generation ship" would require considerable progress in either reliability of systems or the self-healing of systems. Moreover, such a ship with minimal tech would take even longer than the slow, slow movements of Voyager spaceship.

And finally, if alien did occasionally put out things, by the huge cost and slow speed, it would be plausible to none have reached us yet. I mean, the hypothesis that Oumuamua is alien space junk seems plausible given that space junk would be first alien technological product one could expect. Maybe in 1000 years or 100,000 years, some slow, slow ship will limp into the solar system. That would be interesting.
They have access to the same health insurance, it is just expensive, which goes back to needing capital.

It is trivial to go to healthcare.gov and buy the same health insurance an employer subsidizes for employees.
The theory existed before the novel, and the first book in the trilogy did not shy away from unflattering portrayals of PRC history.
Maybe for the simple fact that they are still predominantly a local newspaper for Washington DC. Their beat coverage is still largely going to be Federal US politics.
Good. Disinformation is a threat to our infrastructure and the country. Not all weapons are physical.

To be clear: disinformation is not a free speech issue. It is a weapon of war. Saying we shouldn’t fight it is as invalid as saying we shouldn’t repel an invading force because that enemy has a right to bear arms.

(the 13 critical infrastructures that the DHS protects includes our voting system, our water system, roads and bridges, etc. look it up)
> Ordinary upright/city bicycles have significant controllability problems at high (>50 km/h) speeds compared to e.g. cars. I think that's where "even bicycles" comes from, in this context.

Who on earth is using ordinary city bikes at 50km/h near cars? Even class II e-bikes are limited to 20mph/32kph.

Class III are limited to 28mph/45kph but are forbidden from bike paths.

[edit] 50kph under your own power is the average speed at the Tour de France.
I do not understand what this actually does, has anyone got a better example? :)
he's a big yarvin (mencius moldbug) guy, he's read entries from the gray mirror (yarvin's substack) on stream. people who were into nrx (neo-reactionary) figures like yarvin and bronze age pervert (see: bronze age mindset quote in the op) pivoted to a religious slant, taking up catholicism or orthodox christianity in the last couple years for what seems to be aesthetic reasons and/or resentment of the general state of things

this is just my perspective as a passive observer trying to be objective as best i can, so take all of this as you will (and at the same time who am i to question their faith? how can i know that george hotz wasn't actively religious prior to recent broader developments?)
I made the switch from IBM/370 assembly to Java around this time. It was a good six months or so, with Beer Cart Friday, weekly free massages, and massive plasma TVs in the conference rooms (at iXL in Denver). It was a rough few years after that.
The overhead of the thousands and thousands of insurance-handlers certainly doesn’t help nor does the administrative people at the health sites dealing with them. There are probably better uses for these people…
That is, sadly, the main reason I've found people choose not to wear them. The one time I rode with that brand I didn't either, because it just looked...gross.

I'm buying my own e-scooter for when the snow clears. And a helmet.
No doubt he’s well known.

Successful? Comma.ai has raised a rather small amount of money and hasn’t delivered anything except a toy for a couple of nerds.

I really can’t imagine by which metric you’d call his work in self-driving “a success”. It certainly hasn’t been a commercial success.
All that matters is that Facebook continues to be generally disliked by anyone who would run the next Instagram/WhatsApp/Oculus.
But as recent events such as Figma show anything it probably just means another 0 so they have to spend 10,20,30 billion instead of the 1 or 3 they used to.
> there should be roving vans throughout the city moving and balancing the slots based on usage

There are, and the system does rely in part on this rebalancing act to be functional. (Also to bring the E-bikes in for charging — sadly the stations won't be able to charge those for some time yet.)
Ask HN: Data integrity when it matters
What do system architectures look like in fields (such as Finance) where data integrity is really important?

Historically, systems were build on mainframes, using TP monitors (such as CICS or Tuxedo). You would build your business logic into services, that could call other services, within the context of the transaction, and you rely on TP monitors for transaction handling logic.

In modern times, we build systems based on microservices. When we do changes that touch data in multiple microservices, we could use transaction managers and 2-phase commit, but this does not seem very common. More typical pattern seems to be to go with eventual consistency.

However, there are fields where eventual consistency is not sufficient, such as banking, insurance, and finance. What kind of architectures and systems are used in those fields when systems are modernized?
> As such, I hold the entire theory as suspect and someone trying to justify a particular mode of human existence. This extends deeper into the trilogy as women continually are painted as too soft and emotionally empathetic to make the cold hard decisions that will kill many humans but ensure the survival of the race.

For folks who've only read the first book and might be somewhat confused, this specific set of values becomes crystal clear about halfway through the second book.
Are they happier? Great.

Otherwise well, less crap produced and reaching the global market is already something nice to hear I guess.
That was the case when scooters were brought back in Miami after initially being banned.

It was a terrible idea, because the city had 2 mandates to allow them to come back - 1. Speed caps (10mph), and 2. mandating that all scooters were banned from sidewalks.

If you know anything about how terrible Miami drivers are, you'll quickly realize that those mandates were designed to make the scooter idea fail. Forcing someone to go 10mph on a busy multi-lane road known for bad drivers is a death wish.
> By 2021 its valuation had risen to a hyperbolic $15 billion, and the founders had cashed out by selling some of their shares to investors. They bought a private plane and decamped from Philadelphia to intracoastal mansions in Miami.

This is might be the best example I’ve seen of getting rich by just riding the bubble mania and cashing out at the right time.