skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
agreed, much of the bickering is on ABIs and FFI stuff which you could argue is hard due to ABI differences it supports. this is not a C problem, but a complexity C exposes. C does do that a lot, but thats also a strength. There are really no sound alternatives to C for low level system programming (OS core functionality, or embedded stuff). there's C++ ofcourse but regarding the complaints it suffers the same. Rust doesnt solve anything there, its impossible still to actually build a modern OS in rust for example. (maybe if most your core is wrapped in unsafe and you run on only a single core device...).

If C is such a problem id like to see some alternatives which offer what C does but less painfully.

C is only useful in certain domains, but within the domains where C is really good, theres no others. (unless you want to go assembly mode... good luck :) can be fun)..

anyhting that is less painful, exposes less complexity and is usually therefore less generally applicable.

A lot of the pains of C are lack of understanding how to use it because using it requires deep knowledge of it, and the target platform.

that being said, i do get userland applications and C dont really mix anymore. that is a fair point imho.
I thought the whole point was that you're organizing your thoughts and ideas across connected notes. I didn't think it required publishing. Got any more info on this? I want to publish someday
You're posting this on a site privately owned and run by an unaccountable billionaire.

> a proven history of public manipulation.

It's better when people say that they don't like Musk, than pretending there's some sort of higher political principle here. People don't have trouble believing that objectors don't like Musk, and disagree with him politically.

The trouble is in the appeal to principles that never come up in their discussions of e.g. the WaPo, which most of the objectors will defend to their last breath, along with Bezos. Like here, when the one of the wealthiest people in the world, owner of the largest retailer, that controls a massive part of internet infrastructure, also owns the second most influential paper, becomes 100x less important than Twitter changing ownership.
But the idea that 100k in facebook ads had any impact--whatsoever--on a race where many billions were spent is ridiculous.
The consumer does what the marketeers want, which do what the executives want, and round we go. It's a vicious cycle of inefficiency from people trying to get larger parts of the pie rather than growing the pie.
“At the time of this writing, no funds have been transferred to the attackers.”
MD is irritating in the wrong ways, agreed. Federation functionality is cool and needs to be built upon.

Twitter is irritating in the right way. In addition to posts w/ multimedia it has "identity", threading, boosting, and manual+auto moderation.
People with an Android phone that talk to people with iPhones where one of those parties doesn't use Signal. That's who.
My brain just melted reading this. I am sorry but this doesn't make sense and reads like a GPT-3 prompt. Which part of the comment is supposed to be related to the advertisement on app store of apple ?
>At this point, all I know is that by creating this project I’ve done something very wrong. It seemed liked I’d done something fundamentally wrong, so stupid that it flabbergasts someone. So wrong that it doesn’t even need to be explained. And my code is so bad it makes people’s eyes bleed. So of course I start sobbing.

Sobbing over what, Tweets? That's not behavior that I'd consider to be "normal." A grown up would look at this criticism and think "You know what? maybe my project isn't that good. Oh well, I guess I'll just learn from it and move on."
> I'm excluding that one book that was written by another author after Douglas Adams' passing.

If this is _A Salmon of Doubt_, I can strongly recommend that book. It's a collection of the things they found on his computer (with permission to publish it). It's a great and varied set of DNA's writing. I really enjoyed reading it.
I did, actually; I caught up already (see another reply in this subthread), but my point still stands: the hysteria has been at current level for at least two weeks now. There's little causal relationship between the firings and all the noise, or sudden interest in Mastodon.
> I feel like they are making languages too complicated.

Perhaps. But this topic is not a natural springboard for that topic since GATs are about lifting a current restriction in Rust. So you have the same features as yesterday, but with one less (arbitrary-looking) restriction.

Maybe it makes the language more complicated to implement (?) but it doesn’t make it more complicated for the language user.
Perhaps there's a reason for the cliches - "go with your gut", "what is your gut telling you?". It's pretty common to feel like some emotions (anxiety, excitement, shame) are radiating from the gut. Maybe there is actually a physiological link for certain base emotions?
A 38" waist is massive on most bodies.

At my current 150lbs and 5'7", I have a <30" waist. When I was 180lbs (got fat in college) it was near 38". That 30lb difference took me from athletic to obese. Granted, I'm male, but I'd think that on a 5'4" women, that 38" waist was visibly even larger.
That's including debt held by "private" corporations that are extensions of the state.

All the mega banks in China are indistinguishable from the state - you're looking at 100% of debt to GDP on their balance sheets alone.
"Passive income" strikes again. Such schemes are not just clogging up courts with patent troll cases, they're responsible for a great deal of the spam, bogus reviews, garbage products, affiliate nonsense, and other online B.S. designed to trick the unwary and make it miserable for legitimate businesses.
The global economy is not a zero sum game, and globalisation worked well for the USA as a whole.

Americans just didn’t share that newfound wealth with the lower classes as well as India did.
Germany gets a lot of flak for buying Russian gas cheaply the last 30 years in ever increasing volumes. But it seems strange to argue that Germany just should have bought gas from Qatar or the US for double the price from the start.

How should Germany have done that? Import tax on Russian gas? Laws preventing importing cheap gas from the east? Sounds a bit aggressive towards our big neighbor to the east.

Germans maybe were naive to think (up to until this summer) that Russia would need the money as much as we needed the gas. Still from the grand scheme of things (fossil fuels need to end anyway, gas is better than coal for climate, trade is better than no trade) the idea to partner with Russia made a lot of sense.

Europe benefitted from cheap gas over the last decades and it will be somewhat affected by higher prices for this and next year, but it will accelerate the transition to renewables and strengthen nuclear in those countries in Europe where it is still an option. In the end it will push Europe in the right direction.
What @riskable said.

The list of "patentable subject matter" ("101" to insiders) is a legislative decision, i.e. a political one. The Congress doesn't need an ironclad reason, but there are plenty. The Constitution just says:

Congress shall have power… to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.

It's simply a matter of Congress using its power to decide that the "useful art" of software does not need patent protection.

Pure mathematical formulas are already excluded from patentability.

And now yet another election is happening where Congressional and Senatorial candidates are not asked to support or oppose this proposal.

This is how it's going to happen, if it ever does. A bill gets introduced, the Establishment runs op-eds against it, and the battle is joined.
I dunno.

I spend time in the evening working on art projects where the color rendition of LED-based "warm" bulbs is awful (can't tell the difference between the coated and uncoated sides of inkjet paper), although there are some halogen-based "warm" bulbs that are a lot better.

Most of the lights in my house are set to "warm" but I do use "cool" when I need to make fine sensory distinctions and I have a work area with a few of those halogen-based bulbs that I turn on as needed.

https://www.solux.net/cgi-bin/tlistore/colorviewbulbs.html
Does something like this exist for other languages (Go/Python etc)? This seems well curated, looking for community input vs digging on a search engine.

I'm all for "batteries not included", but every time I dip my toes into languages like that, it can take a bit of work to find out common libraries that the majority is using. Not trying to re-ivent the wheel. It's nice to see opinionated takes on things in one central location.
India doesn't have "private" corporations which are just an extension of the state.

All the mega banks in China are indistinguishable from the state - you're looking at 100% of debt to GDP on their balance sheets alone.
The NES/SNES were just a stop-gap to fill between the Wii U (having bad sales) and the Switch. I don't think they need any stop-gap now.
It's not short-sighted IMO. Most people don't care about privacy, and an even smaller amount care enough to switch to and learn to use Unix.

Moreover, Microsoft and Apple can do essentially anything they want to. They have an unassailable stranglehold on the desktop OS market.
From my reading, China is only looking at it in response to the US.
Looks like I was mistaken. We've replaced all the zwave bulbs with Sylvania Osram zigbee-based ones in our new place. Cheapo stuff, but they don't flicker when adjusting temperatures/brightness:

https://www.amazon.com/73742-SYLVANIA-Adjustable-SmartThings...

Smart things has been a bit of a mess lately with their automation related to zigbee. They've got a hotfix rolling out, but it's been a month or two of random lights turning on or refusing to turn off.
This seems like a really interesting application of AI! I think the multilingual chatbots are a particularly cool idea.

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I’ve found that search in crates.io works surprisingly well for me. I just make a few searches with different keywords I feel make sense for what I’m looking for, look at download characteristics, and that’s it. A curated list can quickly get outdated.

I do like this website though!
You know that Elon Musk (who has of course had a verified profile for some time) has changed his displayname in the past right?

To "Elona" https://www.newsweek.com/why-elon-musk-changed-his-name-elon...

To "Lord Edge" https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2021/11/08/elon-musk...

...and probably some others.
Because the CCP’s (more specifically Xi Jinping’s) entire thesis is that democracies are incapable of producing good outcomes.

A lot of the move towards authoritarianism that we’ve been seeing in the world has been driven by the success of the “China model”.

If India is successful to a similar degree as China, that shatters this belief, especially since there are very significant questions about the Chinese economy and how stable it is. A lot of the numbers appear to be made up in a way India simply cannot do.

And if Democracies can achieve success, Chinese citizens themselves may consider it as the better alternative as it might indicate that China’s economic success was less the result of the CCP and more because the Chinese government chose to move towards a Western capitalist economic system a couple of decades before India.
Economic freedom follows rule of law. And enforcing rule of law is not a passive activity. Free markets are only possible when governments take an active and benevolent role in society
certainly complex from a implementation standpoint, and some of the rough edges can be a footgun around lifetimes until those are ironed out. But being able to add generic arguments to associated types is just a natural extension of the language from a user standpoint. You could already add generic arguments to functions, structs, type aliases, enums, etc. This just allows it in one more place.
I'm the opposite and am annoyed at the obsession with dates causing people to ignore anything written more than a year or two ago. Wait until you find out how old DNS is!
When I was living in Germany I felt like I was an astronaut in December because it never got very bright during the day and the nights seemed to last forever. My biological clock quickly got unstuck and started running free.
> Gas prices can go up tomorrow, but you won't get a cost-of-living increase for half a year or more.

And what if prices are going up tomorrow BECAUSE everyone got a "cost-of-living" increase last year? They did! And they tried to buy stuff with the excess cash, and there wasn't enough stuff, so prices went up. (Obviously real causes are complicated, and supply shock is a big part of the current inflation drivers and not just demand, but you get the point.)

This is exactly what I'm saying: bad news leads. We don't want to talk about the flip side of natural relationships, we just want to complain.

[1] That's not a thing, by the way. All raises are for cause, even if they call it "cost of living" what they really mean is "retention".
Its about identifying symptoms, not being an apologist

okay so you’re living paycheck to paycheck and took the risk of filing your patent with the attorney for $10,000 and arguing with the patent office a couple times for another $10,000

now you need to monetize it and other people did the thing you described after you described it

everyone on the internet says “hm you should have launched a startup using more capital and more risk, doing that one specific thing, otherwise you are just a troll!”

yeah ok. convincing argument
Android users apparently.
> quotes of people that have a lot to gain from praising Elon

The two people I quoted don't work for Elon so it doesn't seem like they have much to gain or lose either way. Same with John Carmack, Liam Sarsfield and Eric Berger.

> any quote from any of the people in that thread that paint Elon in a bad light

I haven't read the biography or anything like that on Musk, so I'm not sure. I imagine though their opinions of him aren't all positive. The thread I posted selects for the positive ones to prove that Musk is indeed chief engineer at SpaceX.
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> It's essential to the voting system that different groups who do not trust each other can trust the vote counts.

This is one of the big reasons I endorse cardinal style voting over ordinal systems. The act of counting the vote is trivial in comparison (singular round, no runoffs, trivially parallelizable). There are other reasons I advocate for it, but this is a major one: transparency.

I definitely a agree that creating a highly transparent system is integral to our elections. I think we need substantially more transparency than we have now. But not just with how votes are counted, but also in who has power and how they are making decisions. The left has been discussing quite a bit about how the right is trying to hijack the system. So I think even both sides would be highly in favor of increased transparency.

But like I said in my OP, complex problems require complex solutions. The original post was about one such need. I think this is another need under the same umbrella and I think there are many more too.
Barry’s good but i have a strong preference for sci-fi or at least fantasy.
One can but that argument is settled on HN for now.
> and in fact the VM pretty much has to be written in C

What makes you think that you need C/C++ for this? Compilers were and still are written in many languages, and you can always come up with a compiler written in an "arbitrary" language which outputs e.g. an executable ELF file containing your VM runtime code.

There are a few examples of this in the wild btw, look at e.g. the GraalVM and its SubstrateVM sub-project.
You can just go into settings and turn it off...
As a fellow Indian who has had a similar trajectory as yours, thank you for sharing your story.

The point you said about Infosys paying salary that is good enough to escape poverty trap can’t be emphasized enough. Infosys, TCS, and similar companies gave lifted hundreds of thousands of families out of poverty trap.
Elon Musk Posted a Nazi Picture, Then Called for People to Vote for Republicans
Again... The point of the person you are responding to wasn't to really defend whether the idea of unbanning Trump was good or not: it was to demonstrate how ridiculous it is to explicitly move to a decentralized solution like Mastadon if that's your concern.
> I’m not convinced either governments are not in kahoots with private companies.

By which you mean that we have plenty of evidence that both are?
I think iptables was supposed to be able to do this, right?

https://linux.die.net/man/8/iptables

--pid-owner processid
Matches if the packet was created by a process with the given process id.

But was disappointed by the note:

> NOTE: pid, sid and command matching are broken on SMP
It is very funny watching people here not think about how federation works and then, instead of considering they might be missing something, go on a diatribe about how the way they imagined things work in their head doesn't work. Don't get me wrong, it's perfectly fine not knowing how federation works! Just... be humble enough not to immediately issue strongly-worded judgements about things you don't understand.
Why use multiple apps to text people? I don't us FB messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram, or any of that. I use Signal. Signal lets me send a message to ANYONE else with a phone number protocol agnostic. That's very useful, especially when I'm talking to committed iMessage users.
Artists? Absolutely. You better have thick skin for that kind of work.

Very strange to see software engineering somewhat in the same category. I suppose though you always needed thick skin in an industry where you are likely to work alongside people much smarter than you. I at least have found it humbling.
Awesome seeing this posted! Full disclosure: I'm a co-founder at Phylum.

This campaign is ongoing. Our system just notified us of two more packages, which have been reported to PyPI. I expect this list to continue to grow throughout the day.

As a related aside, we are working on a package sandbox that prevents access to disk, network and env variables during package installation. It's not quite ready for primetime, but it is completely open source and we'd love some early feedback/contributions!

https://github.com/phylum-dev/birdcage

If anyone has any questions, I'd be more than happy to answer them!
Arcane artwork based Stable Diffusion
Everyone had (or will have) this wake up moment at some point. Here it was thai pedo slander, for me personally it was that Tesla will school Toyota how to make cars.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2018/02/16/tesla-th...
Forced sterilization is something India did do.
There is an increase of click baity titles on hn. Titles should be like the "Subject" field of Email. Short, crisp, giving a tldr of the body.
I would like to do something like this, but it would mean moving the smart bits from my switches to my bulbs, which I'm just not really willing to do. Right now, if I take a hammer to my Home Assistant server, all my lights still turn on and off at the wall.

A good option might be to move to those new Inovelli Blue Zigbee switches and pair them directly with the bulbs. But I've already swapped all the switches in my house once...
Is this a way of rationalizing your adtech position?
I come from a soft water area and I prefer the soft water for drinking. Our water cooker never needs vinegar, it's just not getting the residue :-)
List of CSS properties, both proposed and standard
Yeah, but why do you need Signal to handle those messages?
We're trying to stay on top of this as much as possible. I'm hoping if we can be quick to report, the attackers will have wasted a bunch of effort on this campaign and not see a dime.
I tried for a few hours to get it running on Portainer and gave up.
We actually have D-Mart and they are quite huge but not comparable to Walmart. These are present at multiple locations in tier-1 cities but are hardly present in tier-2 cities. The thing is even though these are very popular they are not shutting down local shops in the region that they are located. The sheer demand is so high that people get things from local shops instead of standing in long queues at D-mart.

To answer your question, yes Walmart can happen but it has to be ready for some serious competition because other than D-mart other big player JioMart backed by Reliance has entered this space recently.
some hi-CRI bulbs even lower the colour temperature to mimic incandescents when dimmed.
Liquidated my life savings and went full cash. It _sucked_.
If anything this will actually drive people away from Mastodon.
You will learn a lot about yourself, maybe things you will not like. Parenting requires patience- very easy to say, difficult to execute. Your kids cannot be in second place when you spend your time, and this is really easy to say but when you have whole day behind you it's extremely difficult to execute. I learn all the time and many times I have a feeling of failure. Then next day comes by and you get another chance to be a parent :)
It looks like he might try to monetize everything, which would mean that he won't need any help to destroy Twitter entirely. I would hope this would benefit Mastodon, but Mastodon has technical problems, so instead I think it will ultimately benefit Facebook's future internal twitter clone.
The article is a decent example of what I'm labeling as the hyper-rational hermenutic in the domain of postmodern exegesis for the purpose of discussion. Postmodern exegesis in this form is a form of social narrative building facilitated by the internet. One of its hermenutics is hyper-rationalization especially the hyper-rationalization of great men beyond the realm of realism. This is facilitated by the narrative bias and is most embodied in the 4D-chess meta-narrative, but we also see it along with other interpretative mechanisms in QAnon and others.

One should at least be familiar with this framing as it's one of the most powerful forms of inoculation against it. In a mental landscape that's more turbulent than in the past, it's natural to want to attribute a narrative to it. What's insidious about some of these narratives is that they are a trojan horse for ridiculous assumptions - like the one the author makes. ie: Musk's hyper-rationality is beyond the comprehension of mere mortals. It's not.

1. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/trump-is-playing-4d-chess
just some generic IMPACT FONT meme, you can't even tell it's a Nazi soldier