skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a paying customer, I am disenchanted. I agree with Drew's views on cryptocurrency on a personal level, but banning someone for using a technology before even knowing whether or not it's primarily being used to break the law is not what I had in mind.

Sure, ban harassment, spam, illegal activities, and abuse of platform. But this kind of banning seems more arbitrary even than GitHub's, which is sort of what I was getting away from when I went to SourceHut.

Oh, well. RocketGit[1] looks promising.

1: https://rocketgit.com/
If LiDAR was a solution, we would have driverless LiDAR based vehicles. No one has solved driverless though.
Can't quantify where there's no data.
I think the journalist using Twitter as their platform are doing it for PR, brand and for being influencers... So I feel it is right to charge them for using it as marketing tool. Just like anyone else.
Look at https://perl.careers and/or search for Perl on LinkedIn, or look at https://jobs.perl.org.

Plenty jobs for Perl developers.
I've never had time to watch the YTs, I just recall them being "I build a filesystem in 45 minutes" or something like that, where the resulting code can't possibly be anything close to a production OS with all the error codes and wrinkles properly handled, to say nothing of documentation and test batteries.

Is Serenity OS a bunch of parlor tricks, and is it a UNIX reimpl, or is there anything interesting in the underlying OS design (micro vs macrokernel, userspace vs kernelspace, everything-is-a-file-Plan9, shell design, etc)?
I think Musk is a master of tapping into public sentiment.

Griping about the uselessness of management is precisely the kind of folk wisdom that gets passed around. It's fun to divide the world into do-ers and managers, both because it rights the uncomfortable social hierarchy and encourages action over in-action.
Batman: Arkham City. You could use it to tune your radio, hack stuff, remote control gadgets, probably some more stuff I'm forgetting.
Is it though? Just a few days ago we had a troll incite redditors over a court case and once again, the only time Reddit responds is when they hit the news wires.

It is hard to groom a community, but if you have this many public denigrations, there's problems in the company AND on the site.
> the end of the era when big USA corporations were making long-term bets in speculative technologies

Please pick up the phone. Meta is calling.
> Also be sure that nobody carries cellphones into in-person meetings, otherwise location correlation will associate them.

Correct. Which is why it's good to start cultivating the habits now of "not always having your phone with you, powered on, or connected to the network." If you turn it off right before going somewhere, and that's the only place it's ever off, well, huh. That's interesting. If you're cultivating the forgetful 70 year old approach to cell phones of "I don't know where I left it and I think the battery is dead," so much the better.
Its the engineering that hasn't caught up with that theory. If I shake an electron here, theres a radiowave that travels in all directions at the speed of light. The problem is isolating those signals when they are extremely weak compared to nearly infinite background "noise", that are also distinguishable signals, many of which may be carrying real information. So there's nothing about my little packet of energy that can really set it apart from what my friend is wiggling over there.

If you could develop a sensor that picked up on just a small segment of the fourier vibrations going on, identify it, and then respond, all of this theory still seems like it would hold true. It's just practically impossible.
>f the cost of working to improve cameras to the point where they eliminate that delta is lower than the cost of using the sensors instead

In a vacuum, how can cameras ever be better than cameras + other sensors?
Ask HN: Alcoholism and Career in Software
I have been drinking for around 8-10 years. It started with one or two large beers in the evening and around 2016 progressed to a 6 pack (12 oz/375ml) every evening, sometimes more. Since the pandemic started, I lost all control (it wasn't helped by the fact that just before the pandemic struck I moved to a country where I don't speak the language and have no friends)

I recently started thinking of the damage to my brain. I work as a software engineer and I had some performance problems. My junior colleagues outperform me, and I think I might not be as sharp as I used to. I'm almost 40yo and I wonder if I permanently lost my skills due to alcoholism.

I managed to cut down my drinking in the past 3 months. According to my doctor my physical health is fine (including the liver), but I somehow feel sick and constantly tired.

Has any of you had a similar experience or witness this happening to your colleagues or friends? I'm worried mostly about the brain and thinking if I should just look for an easier job.
There are many ways to stress the machine or deprioritize your program so that it behaves worse. That said, actually getting performance that is in-line with what your users on old machines would see is generally not easy to achieve. What are you working on? Perhaps there might be something that can be done specifically for your workload.
The harrassment campaigns that have no* paper trail back to kiwifarms, the forum that is public and anyone can archive at any time?

Ever since i've started to pay attention to kiwifarms from cloudflare dropping them i've been trying to get the evidence of any harassment coming from there and not being extremely looked down upon/banned and have come out almost empty handed. The scraps i've got are from chris chan in like 2013/2014?

This is the kind of dangerous "everyone knows that it is clear they do X thing hence there is no need for evidence".

Now to be fair I don't doubt harassment comes from individual kiwifarms users, maybe even organizing with other people somewhere else, but taking down the website will not change that, and guilt by association is a dangerous thing.

*none that I could find in the previous threads/most articles about it that is. I'm happy to be proven wrong.
Yes, I believe it had been done with Google’s Wavenet for example where normally it’s trained to generates speech conditioned on textual input. For fun they trained it on piano music and gave it no conditioning and it improvised piano pieces.

Also see OpenAI’s jukebox.
Seems extremely arbitrary. Would ENS get a pass? What about Ethereum itself?
Durante o governo Lula a Amazônia era completamente ignorada, ficava nas mãos de garimpeiros e madeireiros. A mídia brasileira é sustentada pelo governo, como esse atual(Bolsonaro) não dava dinheiro eles usavam qualquer coisa para falar mal.
Nossas leis(brasileiras) de controle ambiental são mais rígidas que as da Europa atualmente, em parte graças ao governo atual.

Obs: Não apoio nenhum dos dois
Where in the world is this? I would actually fancy working with Perl, but here in Norway there's nothing to find. :(
> > Side note: Gish-gallop-style questions are note a conducive way of inviting conversations around a topic.

> Thanks, I didn't know that term before. I used a string of blunt questions formatted in that way to be as clear as possible, and because it mirrored the form of the OP's comment.

It's also a mis-use of the term. It's for live debates when you just dump a series of questions on the opponent without giving them time to respond, trying to make them look stupid to observers. Doesn't really apply to text like here, when you can take as long as you need to type of the reply.
Connection Between Gravity and Electromagnetism
I’m sure it’s possible but I’ve never gotten it to work even trying https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Distcc/Cross-Compiling

I forget exactly what I was trying to crosscompile but I think it was arm on x64.
Anecdotally, overall morale isn't great currently. I doubt that helps.
SiFive is not part of Intel. There were reportedly talks last year that fell through.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-failed-to-buy-sifive
If by "cancel culture" you mean books banned in schools, that happens indeed, but maybe not the way you believe https://pen.org/report/banned-usa-growing-movement-to-censor...
Although from what I can tell verifying journalists is at least somewhat arbitrary once you get beyond big names and pubs. I do some amount of writing for trade press etc. and I was rejected in spite of my account being impersonated the week before (and the impersonator being banned).
How much is that extra productivity worth to you? The majority of inmates are violent offenders, and are more likely than not to re-offend violently. Releasing them early to work is literally trading money for people's lives and safety.
He's pointing out that tight tolerances and/or non-adhesive gaskets exist. Glue/adhesive gaskets aren't strictly required to make a water-tight seal.
Spotify pulls audiobook purchases from iOS app after Apple blocks updates
> ...'Let me read it first' text link

Yep, I didn't notice that until someone commented that. Seems purposely hidden.

> it seems like most of the web is moving that way,

Yeah, I really don't care at this point. I'm not going to jump through hoops anymore. If someone wants to block me from reading something using trickery, than clearly it's worthless and neither the site nor the author respect me. Why should I respect them?
Cirrus Runners – Managed Apple Silicon Infrastructure for GitHub Actions
Why advent? That was already standard on OpenSTEP.
Cannabis doesn't increase creativity, only how creative you think you are
Thank you for your service, and for putting up with nonsense from the Minister.
Instagram ‘down’, suspending accounts for no apparent reason
It's protocol 101, pb is a binary protocol with known schema so of course it has to be faster than json for encoding/decoding. Now it does not means that it's going to be faster all the time, it depends of the maturity of the library / language but on paper yes it is faster.
This happened to a close relative of mine who has had an IG account for a very long time. Twitter has a lot of activity too.

https://twitter.com/search?q=instagram%20account&src=typed_q...
guess the phrase is a military phrase, and militarization of space is not a neutral topic at this time
This is literally what they sell though. It’s like going to a restaurant and complaining that they ask you to pay for your meal.
There’s one common criticism that I don’t get: That Perl 5 is hard to learn. I have a theory about this, but warning, rant incoming.

People used to read programming books. I learned both Perl and C from books; for me Perl wasn’t any harder. Yes, the syntax is unique — but you learned to read weirder things, C++ certainly isn’t any more intuitive in a vacuum.

But of course, few people read books anymore, so where do people learn languages? I guess universities and blog posts. (And increasingly YouTube videos, which have even less content density.)

Universities only teach old versions of Java. Blog posts are limited in size. Sad conclusion: any language that has more than a blog post’s worth of differences to Java 1.x will find it hard to reach very broad adoption.
In fact, many of the plots were used as a way to “sneak” progressive ideas past the network execs. Gene would have had to make them think he was a certain kind of person pushing a certain kind of narrative instead of who he was, pushing those progressive ideas.
And the invention of mass layoffs via stacked ranking.
Linked databases aid long-term device surveillance
It travels around in a cube instead :)
You can cheer for your ideology, but what if your business was the one being purged because the owners profess to be the moral guardians of humanity?
Look on https://perl.careers or LinkedIn or https://jobs.perl.org for remote perl development gigs, and you'll find one sooner or later, assuming you qualify ;-)
Wheat prices jump by nearly 6% after Russia withdraws from Ukrainian export deal
White-Collar War Crimes and For-Profit Famines
Don't these people work at many companies, not just Twitter?
Highly recommended book on this topic:

https://www.retrievalpractice.org/make-it-stick
The difference is that projects like Tor were certainly not created with any devious purpose in mind.

Arguments and use cases for anonymity are very easy to come up with.

Blockchain related projects cause damage on two fronts:

- They are commonly created with the explicit goal to scam most people while making very few people rich.

- The tech around blockchains (almost) qualifies as snakeoil. The use cases are nonexistent in the way they are portrayed. This perpetuates some pseudoscience equivalent in the realm of technology. Which is dangerous on its own. Blockchain is like Homeopathy.

No other use case has come up, and any blockchain related project has to simply lie from the get go to even justify its existence. (NFTs; "block chain in gaming" which is total bs from start to finish, portrayed as if they magically make assets appear in other games, which makes no sense whatsoever; block chains where they offer 0 advantages over databases, because a single company keeps ownership and administrative privilege; et cetera)
> Even if you could get that to work someone would take a cellphone to the secret meeting and share a geotagged selfie, people just can't help themselves. Hello secret police!

The book Deep Green Resistance goes into various organizing techniques (agree with them or not, it's a fascinating read on the history of leftist movements with quite a bit in the way of practical techniques), but this is one of the reasons why you need multiple different layers within a group - some core trusted layers, and then what amount to messengers who handle communication with that sort of person, with only what's needed.

And "the silence is the signal" is a reason one really needs to start cultivating these habits in ones social circles of not using social media, not posting everything online, etc. It's long past time to reject the draw of social media as intermediating everything, and either start hosting your own stuff at small scale, or simply not using consumer/networked tech for anything important.
Perhaps one could even take it a step further. Replace streetlights with infrared LED lights and cameras if the goal is to deter criminals. Cameras are already being installed in some big cities on the street lights. Infrared LED's allow the camera to have "daylight" 24/7. When word gets around that criminals can be seen 24/7 they may be inclined to go elsewhere.

Either way I will be installing such lights and cameras on my property to help protect the horses. My long term goal is to combine infrared lights and cameras with Zoneminder to detect anything walking near the fence and record them coming to terms with the electric fence.
First two links are Go, so not relevant to client-side.

Third link is also server-side, but since it's NodeJS it's at least close enough / more relevant to client-side perf.

Here's the benchmark from the third link:

benchmark time (avg) (min … max)
---------------------------------------------------
encode-JSON 342.37 µs/iter (311.93 µs … 1.19 ms)
decode-JSON 435.9 µs/iter (384.44 µs … 1.41 ms)
encode-PB 946.43 µs/iter (777.38 µs … 3.13 ms)
decode-PB 770.79 µs/iter (688.99 µs … 1.78 ms)
encode-PBJS 696.75 µs/iter (618.43 µs … 2.43 ms)
decode-PBJS 455.36 µs/iter (413.66 µs … 1.09 ms)

showing JSON to be significantly faster
"Dogma is the root of more evil"
I played Windwaker HD and Pikman 3, which also put the map on the Gamepad. I didn't like the map being on a different screen at all! In practice it ends up being such an obnoxious gimmick. (To me)
Perhaps people are at the point of revolt over the ever widening productivity vs pay gap?

https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

Productivity kept on climbing and wages stagnated post ~1980

Time for the workers to reap some of that benefit.
You generally have the right to repair cars now... though the penalties for violating the clean air act are rather hefty.

I'll also point to Illegal Tampering by Diesel Pickup Owners Is Worsening Pollution, E.P.A. Says https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/climate/diesel-trucks-air...

This gets to some of the "why" that the right to repair gets into trouble - that people will "repair" it to violate other laws either knowingly or unknowingly.

Note that the 1990 clean air act required that car makers provide this information to independent shops.

I furthermore, consider the "hate EVs" because of emissions standards for diesel vehicles to be completely irrational.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33400828
I imagine you'd have to meet the existing criteria in order to receive this option to pay. That being said, when the business's income begins to depend on this, the criteria are at risk of "softening". One could imagine a public "talk page" for Twitter accounts where the notability is discussed.
Anything other than server maintenance or tangibly improving Wikipedia and directly supporting technical projects is unnecessary. Frankly nobody cares about the rest aside from the people getting money as a result and maybe their family and friends.

It’s like Mozilla and all of their non-Firefox/Thunderbird bullshit. Bloat for the sake of bloat.
I for one would not like my coworkers to sleep under their desk and not shower.
I know the AMerican library system isn't exactly awash in money, but why is Wikimedia not getting a huge amount of donations from the library budgets? It is practically the definition of the base intent of the library system brought into the internet age, and arguably is the internet's greatest achievement.

Sure you could start quoting things about undue influence, but I go into a library and don't exactly see lots of influence from the government on collection content, or censorship of encyclopedias. About the only political hotpotato I've seen about libraries is an occcaisional funding complaint by the ultra-small government wing.
You haven't addressed anything I've said. What they are working on? Definitely not privacy nor smart-contracts.
I'll have to go and get the source and compare it to AAC. I'm really curious why that was left out of the comparison since it's the modern equivalent of MP3 (aka MP4 audio). It feels disingenuous.
Haiti has been independent for a very long time.
I specifically referred to clientside in my original comment, so not talking about java to java.

Clientside is always going to be the pertinent metric for UX since it's processed on the user's device.
There is a low power mode you can turn on in battery settings.
And tobacco industry money
Oh come on... how can one assume a binary somehow TLV-encoded format is not faster than parsing strings (generall json schemaless btw, the dynamicity also adds on top, while yes, protobuf also has variable sized containers).
It is like you would claim parsing a string to an int is having no overhead over a straight int (yes I know proto ufs still require the varint decoding, still huge difference).

It id also not only the speed but also size is usually a magnitude off (and no, compression doesn't cut it and trades size again for computation).

Sure, if size and speed do not matter it is strange that you had considered protobuf at all.. but claiming they are never needed just means you have never been to resource constrained systems?

What you cite there, I assume most of that 400ms has nothing to do with the message encoding at all btw..
I guess the name HermitCrab was already taken?
I am on the other side of this equation - if I went from my current big tech role to an equivalent seniority level in the public sector, I'd be looking at a 50+% pay cut. I am not ready to make the leap yet because I fear the jealousy eating away at me - but at the same time I know it is more rational to aim for happiness now than push for an early retirement I might not get to see at all, or might not enjoy when I do get there.
Apple is surely aware of the existential risk of being entirely reliant on a stable China.

I wonder what their contingency planning looks like under the assumption that instability due to covid craziness/taiwan/mass unrest/2024 election/etc. means that China bans exports of the iPhone in 3 / 5 / 7 / 10 years.
Bang! --Ouch. My foot!
I honestly don't know if we have red wine on tap, but I'm sure one of the cafes will serve it to you. We do have beer and kombucha on tap. Not at all unreasonable. I mean I understand that this is privileged when you take into account the entire workforce, but it's nothing unusual for a tech company.
""Considered harmful" considered harmful" considered harmful.

There are only two hard problems in computer science: "cache invalidation, naming things, and humorous recursion.
I can't count the number of times I've accidentally flagged something and gone "aw hell" and had to track it back down to unflag it.
I think it's a fair assumption that major backbone sites are now a prime target like any other critical infrastructure. And close does count here because of EMP.
Biden lost temper with Zelenskyy during phone call over Ukraine aid
Nicholas has broken this out into multiple packages, and is actively updating only those. Here is the theme. See: https://github.com/rougier/nano-theme
Just see it as a 64-bit address-space, as one /64 will be for 1 home/location/lan.

Then we still have 32^32 times the amount of address-space we have in v4.
It’s not misleading. If you’re not growing, you’re dying.

A lot of things happened in that era, including massive productivity improvements. But at the end of the day, fiscal policy and tax policy drove even state of the art manufacturing to first push to the South, then to Mexico and then to China.

So we exported wealth for cheap goods. As predicted in the 80s, the result is a country that is poorer and facing increasing social unrest.
What Ancient Egyptian Sounded Like – and how we know
Is that really what all premature optimization is about ?
Do you get many ads on Twitter? I only get occasionally every few days a "promoted tweet" and just block the account sending them so they don't appear ever again.
>stuck on an old OS release (i.e. RHEL?) and/or they don't build their own version and use the "system" Perl.

I build my containers and put Perl right in them. Makes the container a little chubbier but no outside dependencies.
but then what is the point of calling it 'verified'.
it is also a stupid idea: verified sources are often the ones who bring people to your platform, you dont want to charge them (and thus force them to give you their CC/ real life info), you want to charge others

Twitter seems to think they are the bee's knees. The mainstream press is already building the narrative that twitter is now rightwing because of Elon, and building a twitter competitor is not hard.
> Google hasn't used TCP in the datacenter for years.

That's absolutely false. I don't have any sources except for having worked at Google from 2013-2022, but it's not like you quoted any sources either, so...

There's a reason why Google is still releasing stuff like TCP BBR (2017).
For the last century we have glorified greed and individuality and now we get upset about it when it overrides nationalism and sense of community? Capitalism and globalisation has freed the elites and charged us headlong into a cyberpunk world.

The Chinese actually noticed this and they are trying to get the genie back into the bottle. They'll probably fail.
"Funny" though.

EVs have less moving parts, than any ICE vehicle. And brushless motor control isn't a complex issue at all(if your EV has brushless motors, that is). If your EV had traditional brushed motor(s) - then it's even easier.

The opposition to EV is beyond stupid at this point.
Seems like a poor naming choice as Nano is already a common text editor
Perl has some weird quirks - dollar-variables vs. percent-variables vs. at-variables (and sometimes you can "cast" one into other), round-brackets where most others have squiggly (and vice-versa)...

But once you get over that, it's a great language. First-class regex, -pine options. A lot to love about it.