skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t understand who the advertisements are meant to reach as their audience?

The companies? They care about profit not the environment.

The employees? They are either already sold on remote work or don’t like remote work.

Whose mind is changed by being told the environmental benefits of remote work?
This just reminds me of the birthday cake for Clint.

Poor Clint.

"Name on cake must not be Clint"
head bobs in agreement
The pipes of the internet are essentially a public utility. Anyone operating above the level of an ISP should be able to police their usage.
It's not a meme in the same sense though. If this was a short punchy quote that implied that certain memes were bad, then yes.
I agree. In fact, many open source (and closed source) codebases are understood by only a handful of developers with deep understanding of the design and code (e.g. the original developer or a developer with many contributions). The rest of us (including me) have a superficial understanding of the code at best. There's even a word that developers use to describe popular open source frameworks: 'magic'. A euphemistic way to say: 'I have no-idea how the code fit together, but this code library or framework is popular and it all works'.
This is only a problem if they wanted to get hired, and then failed the interview because even the basic syntax of their language of choice is unknown to them in the slightest.

I didn't invent the rules, I'm just doing the interviews, occasionally from both sides of the table.

(However if I did invent the rules, I'd probably still require e.g. a Java developer to know Java at least a little bit. Is this really controversial?)
The VCs are willingly fleeced - they aren't about companies generating revenue either. Hard to feel sorry for VCs when they're playing the same game Kite is - just hyping the market and flipping an asset, hoping the music doesn't stop before they get out.
I also love your comments, this and others!

Of course OpenFirmware has some code for paging! ;)

purpose: Set up page tables and turn on paging

https://github.com/openbios/openfirmware/blob/master/cpu/x86...

start-assembling
protected-mode

\ RAM is on and mem-info-pa tells the memory layout
label entry
\ Initialize virtual page table
\ Initialize linear=physical page table (redundant page table entries)
\ Enable paging (note that page fault handler is not in place yet)

[ifdef] notdef
\ clear page tables
ax ax xor
/ptab /l / # cx mov
pt-pa # di mov
rep ax stos
[then]
I really like that blog layout. Nice images, good layout. Dense!

On the article and all her points: I guess the best we can do is pray to the computing gods that everything works out!

Everything is working out fantastic for computers. It should not be lost on anyone, that yes, javascript sucks, however I have a rectangle in my pocket with all the information that's every been written (to a large extent) accessible. Whilst I choose to use it for meme's that's more my failing than the computers.

Computers do a hell of a lot these days that goes unoticed. Like multi threading. Background tasks, richer more complex styles. Sure computers 30 years ago where fast, but they didn't really have color screens.

The architecture complaints seem out of place as well. RISC, CISC and then CSIC on RISC, there's change in the architecture space as well.

I don't think the author is considering the timelines that exists. It's been a pretty productive 100 years of computing.
Not new in C23, but I still think it's a glaring hole in the standard that there's still no standard way to ask the compiler which (if any) of "J.5 Common extensions" is supported.

For the C version you have __STDC_VERSION__, but there's no similar facility to check if e.g. J.5.7 is supported, which effectively makes the behavior that's explicitly omitted in 7.22.1.4 and 6.3.2.3 go from "undefined" to supported by C23 + the extension.

I understand why C can't have some generic "is this undefined?" test, but it seems weird not to be able to ask if extensions defined in the standard itself are in effect, as they define certain otherwise undefined behavior. The effect is that anyone using these extensions must be intimately familiar with all the compilers they're targeting.
> crypto isn’t for the masses

Exactly this. The entire selling point of crypto is its separation from regulated finance and from the rule of law.

If you don't believe yourself capable of either going toe to toe with the kinds of predators that prefer such an environment and thrive there, or of personally shouldering the risk of losing whatever funds you place into this space to such actors, crypto is not for you.

I would say this is actually true of very nearly everyone, which is why traditional financial systems look like they do.
This problem is also hard to parallelize. There is a lot of reuired communication between computation lanes (sections of the number), and the calculation takes a lot of dependencies on that communication.

You could probably design a supercomputer specifically for prime searches, but it would be a weird one.
> It is ideally something I already know.

Yes. I've listened to some albums 100s of times and they are so familiar they aren't distracting but actually help me focus.

If I listen to something interesting and new it's harder to focus. If I listen to primarily speech (Howard Stern, podcast, etc.) forget it.
I agree, I think IPFS-the-idea is fantastic, but IPFS-the-implementation is terrible. I created https://www.eternum.io (the first IPFS pinning service) a while ago, and it has been an endless slog to run. Even basic UX things (like managing pins like a torrent client, ie asynchronously/listing pin progress/etc) haven't had any progress for YEARS.

I really hope your project can improve things, I'd be glad to try it out.
Sure zoom is still used, but I would be surprised if it's on the same order of magnitude.

I'm not trying to argue that commuting is more environmentally friendly, it's very likely not, only that I need a bit more substantiation than "it's obviously true," and I particularly would want substantiation on the long term. I also would want to understand if electric cars are being accounted for.

The reason not to live in the suburbs is a long commute to your office. Living in the city might make a commute walk-able. So a commute dis-incentivizes suburban sprawl.

Definitely a USA problem. Cars are poison, literally and metaphorically. I don't think the average American has experienced what car-less living is like and how much better it is.

My critique of your original post is that there are many reason's remote work might be better, but environmentalism probably isn't the strongest.
The Long-Term Fiscal Spiral
> Compare that to something like slack. Every message has a bunch of upper and lower padding, an avatar, space for reactions etc. If someone links an image, it can use up half your screen to render it. If someone links something, suddenly there is a preview wasting space.

FWIW, slack and discord have 'compact' modes where information density is about the same as the screenshot you posted.
Found on that site; Wena Pro and Wena 3.

What a great idea, I love my old mechanical watches, really like metal bracelets, and I do like having smart watch features.

Unfortunately seems like Wena is a bad implementation of this concept. What other companies make things like this?
I’ve worked with the folks in public affairs at a Forbes 500 company before.

Plenty of what you read as “reporting”, which to the reader appears as actual news, is carefully planned corporate stories that are shopped around to various contacts in the media until someone bites. This is described as “organic media” (only because it’s not paid for), but it’s mostly directed by the companies themselves.
Unless you're in a Scrum team and "The Product Owner is responsible for the Product Backlog, including its content, availability, and ordering." is taken to mean that the PO has the final say on what's prioritized. If your PO has a project manager title, as most do, and they see their career advancement is tied to shipping features on or ahead of schedule, then indeed, that ticket will be forever ignored.
Usually, "cult" is used in a negative way to define a group of ppl with strong, too strong, "in-betweeners" behavior.

One of the time which surprised me: got some feedback of ppl who did work for mozilla.

That said, it can happen with real religion based network of ppl: it is so strong (economy included), my country state had to setup some laws to deal with this.
I more or less agree with the approach advocated (not that anyone asked). Reasoning out how to produce the fundamental state of awareness (“the lights are on”) itself is the tricky bit. All the phenomena that occur within that are “easy”. Abstracting away all of the parts that “aren’t relevant” helps to distill to the core idea, which is that we ought to be able to determine how to produce awareness via software. Unless, of course, awareness is not a function of information processing (ex: “souls” are involved), or some bit of the processing machinery was relevant and needs to be incorporated. Meh.
Last I checked, the mycroft timer could set simple timers, (set a 5 minute timer, etc.) but things like repeating timers weren't working yet.

It's getting better, but in many cases it's not there yet.

I'm not complaining because as much as I want to help, I simply can't spend enough time to get into the code.

I want to use mycroft, since their privacy concerns are a real thing.
Is that reference to Nicholas G. Hayek?
Adult with ADHD and tinnitus here. I have been using brain.fm with either Bose headset or Apple ear buds with resounding success. Actually made aware of brain.fm from a post here.

Been a long time lurker and fist time posting. Thank you all for the great analysis and commentary!
The sudden need for silence after needing the audio is such a distinct mood. Interesting that it hits other people.

I feel like it’s related to once I hit the point where I’m really into what I’m working on.
Postmodernist Negative Dialectics?
This is a common pattern I’ve anecdotally seen in myself and others with ADHD.

It’s not just sound, but any sort of background stimulation can help me focus. You can’t play brown noise in a meeting, but you sure can play with a fidget cube in your pocket, and it helps me focus on the content of the meeting. I like taking calls on a walk because background visual noise helps me focus on the call.

> With ADHD, we need to seek an optimal level of stimulation to keep focused.

https://www.hackingyouradhd.com/podcast/the-science-of-fidge...
I can't but think; 60 years ago this man was a baby safely with his caring mother and father. In a village, with all the other people.

He lost them all. All taken from him. His whole surrounding culture.

Imagine being him.
We don't know that is the actual ban reason. Could just be something they made up when they were gonna ban them for something else and were disappointed there was no money to steal.
Interesting.

I had the same experience as a kid, but I didn't try the noise thing yet.

Mostly, because music leads to very emotional responses.

But, maybe I should try other "sounds". My mind keeps wandering all the time and it's quite stressful.
Code generally is but the target size and scope here completely changes the game.

When an iOS zero day is discovered (as one example) exploiting it often still takes multiple steps, i.e. some action each individual target needs to take. In most cases (rarer and rarer with the exception of log4j, etc) this limits exposure until it can be discovered and patched. Even in the case of things like log4j you can patch your instance before someone gets around to exploiting your instance.

It's widely known that governments, people like the NSO, hacking groups, etc sit on zero days for as long as possible waiting for an opportune moment with the highest return and biggest impact. Hacking groups, governments, etc have been known to sit in compromised networks for years before striking. Point here is they can be remarkably patient and with smart contracts by the time the issue is discovered there's no point - the smart contract is now at $0 and the attackers have disappeared into the night.

When smart contracts are deployed they sit at an address. If an equivalent "zero day" is discovered it's just there there waiting for someone to exploit it with global/universal impact. No action on the part of any users, no need to deploy target by target. I'm sure I could phrase that better but early-morning HN is what I do between waking up and the caffeine kicking in for real work :).

Point here is, I don't quite understand your "it's been around growing for a few months and $10m (or whatever) is there so it's probably safe". Why strike a buggy contract when it's received some amount of traction and is still early stages? Why grab $10m when you can grab $100m (or more)? As I noted there have been several cases (arguably most) where I'm pretty sure the attackers did just this.

Or, in the case of Axie Infinity, you can steal $620m the "good old fashioned way" by targeting and manipulating one of the people behind it. So, in practice, in many cases, humans are still involved.

This also doesn't get to my other points involving the challenge of securing your own wallet, etc. If you peruse around Discord, Reddit, etc where crypto people of higher than average knowledge, skill, and sophistication are reporting daily wallet hacks you'll see just how hard this is. The equivalent being there's a reason why (for example) the United States keeps gold reserves in places like Fort Knox where there is a literal army of 26,0000 soldiers securing it. Most people don't have that ability and even though this comparison is a little tired I think it applies quite well to the difference between keeping gold in your house vs securing it in a bank vault (for example).

That said, you have a point about centralized exchanges but there's a reason why banks don't run off or gamble (FTX) with customer funds - regulation. I think it's clear from the FTX situation something closer to "bank-ish" regulations are coming to centralized exchanges which only tips the calculus further here towards centralization. So, as is often noted, crypto in general is marching closer and closer towards centralization and consolidation which history has demonstrated is almost always naturally the case.
My three year old loves playing with a marble race puzzle inside a plastic ball, called a Perplexus. He can play with it for hours on end.
Compared to paper ballots it makes casting a ballot cheaper, more opaque, and less accountable.
The events described here took place in 2016, over six years ago. That's a long time in technology!

Since then additional billions of investment dollars have flowed into the space (a "VC crypto spasm" as the author calls it). Yet zero meaningful products have emerged. But we've witnessed many giant scams and endless crypto startups that happily spun their wheels producing nothing, just minting tokens so that insiders and investors can dump them onto retail investors.

How long will this have to go on? There are real things to build in software. This nonsense is both an embarrassment to the profession as well as a giant distraction. Time spent thinking about cryptocurrency mindgames is time you'll never get back to use on something productive.
This comment helped me to put into words something I've been thinking about recently.

Propaganda that erodes the concept of truth in a society also destroys trust. While a dictator may benefit in the short term from confused opposition, their erosion of truth deeply damages the society on which their power depends.

That being said, I don't know how long a truth-optional trust-destroyed society can last. For instance North Korea, but I know nothing about how much corruption exists there.

(Apologies for being off topic)
The same Christopher Hitchens that went pro-Iraq War and got water boarded himself?

Do you have a better example?
I’ve heard that the service interval for a new watch is typically a decade. At that point the mainspring likely needs to be replaced and the watch needs to be lubricated.
"write of passage" too!
The difference is that if your money comes from sources or is used for purposes that the traditional banking system does not want on their books, you cannot use the traditional banking system.
Ha! I had the same experience, except I had a 2 bed 2 full bath unit. Totally unused extra rooms that only got use when I had guests staying with me for an extended period of time. I downsized, got rid of all that junk in the extra room which was extremely liberating, and moved to a 1 bed 1 bath unit across the country. Best decision I've made!
If one node has a problem and you don't want anything else scheduling there as you debug, what should you use instead?
Presumably because the size of intmax_t was set to something specific on its introduction and changing it now would constitute an ABI break most everywhere.
Definitely an interesting idea! There's some tasks I keep postponing over and over and there could be some smarter logic for that, I think.
Sampling bias? This was run by a totally separate private company. It was opt-in.
> That is either selective awareness or you do not understand how economics, markets, and industry works.

This is the second time you've personally insulted me in this thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33683528 And also this ridiculous straw man:

> If you think making the effort to save some of the 10,000 lives lost in car accidents in the US is a waste of money and effort

I'm done here, and I've flagged this reply. Please follow the HN guidelines in the future. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A fun 4-minute talk on the latest developments in crypto
If they are from a middle-class family up and can afford some tech and parental assistance, enhanced subtitles is indeed a good idea. Other services include https://subtly.media/ and https://www.languagereactor.com/.
What about that one editor of Scots Wikipedia?
Interoperable Europe Act Proposal
It seems that the universe creates geometries that organize other geometries into self-similar procreations. I don't know, maybe it is a cosmic joke, but it seems everything is making itself out there one way or another; and that begets a certain level of organizing.
I thought about getting diagnosed too, but to be frank, while I certainly wanna try those meds, I don't wanna take them for the rest of my life, let alone pay for them on a regular basis.
Nope, not at all. I've seen some people wearing a watch on one wrist and a band on other, and I didn't like how it looks. I also didn't like the feel when I tried the same thing, either.

Swatch shop employees in my country wears a watch on each wrist, again which I don't like how it looks.
I'll begin with myself.
I purchased the Jabra Elite 7 Active wireless headphones earlier this year.
Amazing user experience, long-lasting battery, and active noise cancellation.
Though not the cheapest, this one is definitely worth the money.
Extensive testing can yield pretty specific and accurate results. You won't get that from an hour one session but my testing took ~ 15 hours total. Expensive but worth it for me.
Public record keeping has never prevented two sets of books/"cooking the books". You need independent audits.
Well, while not officially endorsed, there is `signald`. With mautrix-signal, I'm able to bridge my Signal and Matrix accounts. I can also make signald my primary device.

https://signald.org/

https://github.com/mautrix/signal
The standard itself has a better example (well, older versions). In C99 it's:

printf("Eh???/n");

Which is the same as:

printf("Eh?\n");

I.e. the "??/" supplies the "\" to the "n", making it a "\n". I think it's good that they're gone (they were there to support some ancient non-ASCII systems). But it's worth mentioning that the "horrifying" semantics are there so that these trigraphs combine with 
digraphs
 (edit: "escape sequences", see downthread) in this way.

Otherwise you'd just get:

printf("Eh?\\n");
If one held a coin that appreciated in value from the massive flood of retail investors using CEX, even if you custody your coins and then pointed to the price as some indication of cryptos success over the past 5 years like pretty everyone in the crypto community, and then now claim that wasn’t real crypto, well that an indication of cognitive dissonance.
Both Spiral and Duality use homomorphic encryption (HE). DPella, however, uses differential privacy (DP), which allows for a different set of applications.

As a rule of thumb, HE allows you to offload a intensive computation (or one that requires a private model) to a server that you don't trust. Only you can decrypt the results.
DP, on the other hand, lets the server analyze big data and use the results. Privacy is achieved by each input being "noisy", so no little information is leaked. The statistics still work because over a large data set the noises cancel out.
Off topic: isn’t Amazon know for forcing people to be better writers due to how they conduct meetings with written memos.

I bring this up because that post could have been 1/2 the length, if not shorter, without losing any content or messaging.
>If you feel you are dependent on an external human

Absolutely not, I’m a free trapper who built its own computer from scratch.

Joke apart, who is thinking really that interdependence is inherently bad? Things like symbiosis are generally connoted rather positively, aren’t there?

Now, being dependent on a group which is applying rigid rules which are systematically leading to toxic behaviors for all or part of its members, that is certainly a sound concern.

It seems to me that "independence" is a none issue: no man is an island[1]. It’s all about the way we steer our interdependence, with indefinitely many governance models we can try, but as soon a you put apart solipsism from deemed beliefs, none will honestly pretend that anyone can be absolutely independent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devotions_upon_Emergent_Occasi...
Reasons to join EO
Not exactly the same but wanted to share what has worked wonders for me for years. I needed to run a terminal multiplexer on a remote machine, SSH into it, and be able to use emacs (key bindings and all) on my Pixel 5.

I found this combination of now defunct open source apps worked better than any I've tried.

https://github.com/irssiconnectbot/irssiconnectbot
For SSH client. (not version 2. version 1.7.1-irssi specifically)

https://github.com/klausw/hackerskeyboard
Keyboard that has Ctrl/Alt/Meta keys without having to switch modes. A bit cramped and the UI for AutoSuggestion dissappeared in Android 13 :(

These tools are not without their quirks tho but I'm sure with some TLC they can be ironed out. Funny I'm an Android dev by day but haven't had time to look into the minor issues both tools have because they are so old. Then again, they are not serious issues and I've been able to whip out emacs and write code (clojure: so succinctness helps) when the moment strikes or in lieu of social media.
There are a few good reasons for this that doesn't make this as bad as it looks at first glance.

Firstly, the median salary of workers in India is much lower than salaries you will find in the west. $8,000 AUD is more than the median salary.

Second, cricket is big. Disney+ had IPL rights for a long time, but lost them to another streamer. (Disney still owns the Pay TV rights).

Thirdly, many plans from mobile phone providers include Disney+

A retail Disney+ Hotstar subscription goes for the same price as a monthly phone subscription that includes 4GB of data a day.

Competitors in India have plans that are at similar prices to Disney+. It's hard for Disney to charge more for the product there.
This sounds like it should be illegal imo. I’m not Swedish but your country strikes me as one where there are lots of protections for all kinds of people. Your (mental) health status really shouldn’t have an impact on whether or not you can get a mortgage, you cannot change anything about that. To me it sounds just as bad as profiling based on race or gender.