skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That merge only has fixed because of how the development model works: there’s a merge window where new features are merged and which then becomes -rc1.
After that only fixes are allowed until the final release of that version and then the merge window opens again.
I'd say that Racket makes for an easier introduction to Lisps, at least for people not familiar with the functional paradigm.

The reason for this is that Clojure intentionally discourages many common imperative idioms by not making any effort to support them. That forces you to learn how to do things "the Clojure way". Once you know it, you realise it makes sense and it's a better way to do thing in that context, but when you are coming from outside, it can be very hard to get things.

At least it was for me, after some 20 years of programming experience. Racket? Sure, I was able to do (simple) programs without too many problems in a matter of hours. Clojure? Lots of "huh?" moments for months until the "aha" moment when things makes complete sense.

I'm quite a big fan of Clojure, for full context.
The dates/times should now be localised!
Corporate guys "manage me"? Have you talked to any corporate guys who have actually tried that and discussed the results with them? :)
I’m seeing a lot of unrelated people reporting that their follower accounts are cratering. The two big explanations for this some problem with the system that maintains the count, or a large number of accounts leaving. The best case scenario is that most of those accounts are bots, but even rats leaving isn’t a good sign of seaworthiness.
Yes you could definitely make an argument that democrats benefit from poverty, or that republicans benefit from illegal immigration. People in poverty receiving benefits vote democrat because they're afraid republicans will cut benefits. People who fear illegal immigrants taking their jobs will vote republican because they think republicans will be tougher on illegal immigration. If democrats actually solved poverty or if republicans actually deported 100% of illegal immigrants, a lot of people would lose their reasons to vote for those parties.

Arguably by the same reasoning, republicans benefit from legal abortion and their finally getting Roe v Wade reversed was terrible for their electoral performance.
That generalizes to every kind of lock-in: have a viable escape plan, but only execute it if you need or it becomes cheap enough that it won't harm you.

Just having the plan is already expensive enough.
Yes, I know. My question was more if or why a sanitizer doesn't help.
Right, but you got fucked over by private landlord, that just happened to use some service to coordinate it

The service might be the tool used to perpetrate the problem but regulating corporations won't help much here, if they are gone landlords will find a different way to coordinate
Rent is unavoidable and essential to a dignified life. Crypto is for people with some spare cash who want to buy a thousand lottery tickets. The priorities of DOJ are correct. They are there to save you from the greed of others, not from your own.
So you're waving "at least half" as some kind of virtual compliance?

How does this sound: "Of our 12 year-olds tested, at least half are reading at grade level!"

One percent of GDP is a lot.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1293562/expenditure-on-m...
Travel on an airline with your life's data and devices?

I wouldn't. Bring the devices if you must (with you, not under the plane), but the data should be put in a Veracrypt volume[0], note the SHA-256 sum, and upload it to somewhere secure, perhaps with a technology like SecureDrop[1]... or just stick that blob in a zip file or something and park it on some random SFTP server, that might actually stick out less and thus be more secure.

If you need secure passphrases, you can bootstrap entropt by creating a mnemonic, then putting that mnemonic into a hash algorithm so you have something that would require a very targeted decryption effort but easy to remember. Other sources of seed could include things like the serial numbers on currency.

For example, I used the serial number on the last two dollar bill my deceased grandfather as salt combined with a code word set up back in the 2000s as the password to the encrypted Kali virtual machine I set during the Trump administration and tore down after the 2020 election.

In my experience, I have found that when you are trying to live that cyberpunk lifestyle (confidentiality, integrity, availability)... you can often only achieve two while interacting with an enemy.

And make no mistake: ANYONE who tries to coerce you into giving up your most intimate data without a warrant to simply travel on an airline is an enemy. The tools and techniques I taught to journalists traveling to the most oppressive regimes in the world must now be deployed by private citizens beating hasty retreats from fascist regimes the world over.

Have a safe holiday season OP, if you can. It's like the fall of the USSR at there, complete with гла́сность[2] :-)

Sincerely,
Greg.

Edit: I messed up the formatting on the citations -- sorry.

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VeraCrypt#VeraCrypt_audit

[1] https://securedrop.org/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perestroika#Perestroika_and_gl...
Indeed. On an external screen that would be most comfortable at about 125% MacOS will only offer you 100%.
>Some problems can't be fixed (eg. chip supply chain problems) even if you have more money.

They can't magic chips into existence, but leaving a major region like Germany high & dry for almost half a year sounds like planning went wrong frankly. If it were a matter of chips I would have thought on a 3+ month timescale they can steal a few from another region that has a bit of fat
Speaking as a graphics engineer, Metal is THE most painful API to support bar none (including all the console vendors) because they just had to roll their own shader language as opposed to extending an existing one. The development cycle on Apple just plain sucks, and the tools are not as good as native tools provided by IHVs. I dread needing to support Apple platforms because they choose to be completely unhinged and make zero attempts to making porting easier.
I have spent more time fixing bugs in unit test than fixing bugs they exposed. The one exception is in untyped scripting languages. Test are necessary to run every piece of code to at least attempt to insure a type or function signature has not changed in a way that completely breaks the code.
They are also claiming it as a discovery by the scholar when he found it in a book published in 2009, seems very biased overall
How long have they been present for? If more than a few years, then they can't be why, since the article says that 10 years ago, this wasn't a problem.
I was also interested to know how this was handled for IPv6, but it was only briefly mentioned.

Probably they didn't need to do much work with IPv6, since half of the post is solving IPv4 exhaustion problems.
Scientists debate the role of a virus in multiple sclerosis
Market cap is not revenue. While Google and Microsoft do have a lot of revenue, saying "trillion dollar company" is a tacit suggestion they're sitting on a trillion dollar dragon hoard.

Their profitability compared to profits is a more logically consistent comparison. If they recognize a billion dollars in profit while shipping brain dead bugs it goes to demonstrate their lack of respect for customers.
The problem with operators is not only that they often delayed fixing critical bugs for no good reason; they also liked to add maliceware. I remember a Nokia phone with one key dedicated to trick users into starting it by accident, which of course was billed.

Apple preventing network operators from breaking their software on purpose was a huge step forward.
Interesting observation.

Also “verboten” to ask, unfortunately.

You are not allowed to question whether someone “decided” to pursue such an option.
The Mystery of Spin
While you are right that our hardware with a finite amount of RAM is not a Turing-machine, you should not forget that it is usually not just a CPU and a RAM module with no side effects. Does writing to HDD extend your tape? Sending a post request on the internet and storing data on another computer, hell, controlling some physical machine pouring concrete into a hole? These all extend the same tape, effectively turning the whole universe into one. And while you might even go as far to claim that the universe itself is not infinite, and you would be right again! There are a finite amount of atoms, but I’m not really sure it is a good rebuke of the Halting problem that “we can brute force our way out of it”.

I think that’s what makes computability theory interesting, especially if you add that our very Mathematics “break down” at a “trivially” small scale and that Turing machines will happily go on and on, literally being mathematically reasoned about, because we hit the edges of it sooner!
If I recall, PayPal bought them a number of years ago, but I haven't heard of any horror stories from that specific PayPal product.
IntelliJ have that feature builtin IIRC
The common argument of "our own hardware would be more profitable in X years" is typically countered with "but you need to pay engineers to maintain it, which adds to the cost".

Another advantage of not having to own the hardware is that it's easier to scale, and get started with new types of services. (i.e, datawarehouse solutions, serverless compute, new DB types,..).

I'm not trying to advocate for or against cloud solutions here, but just pointing out that the decision making has more factors apart from "hardware cost".
Because some problems we lack the ability to solve any other way. There are at least three problems which are famous, as described in the article I linked.

see if you follow this one one, for a real computer:

Suppose I pick a n bit key, and encrypt a phrase with it. I will provide you the plain text phrase and either a real or fake cipher text. You have to determine if a program which loops through all the keys will decrypt the ciphertext into a the phrase.

Either you know weaknesses in the crypto system, or you have no choice but to iterate though each key to see if the output matches the phrase.

There is a relationship with proof of work crypto as well. Even all the Bitcoin mining has trouble finding hashes with a certain number of leading zeroes, add a few more zeros and no one will ever find a working seed again. There is no way to speed up the process beyond iterating over the seeds.

You can tie this to the halting problem by just saying to go back the key 0 once the key space is exhausted.
Do not take this advice.
Shouldn't be hard. Their strategy seems to be using recruiters with weird names to spam everyone an introduction followed by an online first round coding challenge.
Thanks. I thought so too, I just wanted to have some confirmation. It's not that they don't find issues, but it's more of a coverage issue then? (In which case I really understand, someone said it's 25 million lines of code...)
Also, n8n arguably has product-market fit so the advice was impertinent to start with…
Squeaky meal gets the grease.
> More and more countries questioning why they need to base their foreign transaction on the US Dollar.

For spot transactions, it doesn't really matter beyond giving the buyer and seller a common language to negotiate in. For contracts sometime in the future, if you're Argentina, no one wants to bet on where the Peso will be in 6 months.
You’re not wrong. We should get rid of landlords and replace them with housing cooperatives.
So what? Rates go up, dollars get more valuable, it's more expensive to buy dollars than it used to be, and each dollar buys more oil than before.
Thanks largely to k8s, running on multiple cloud providers and your own hardware is a lot more convenient than it was a few years ago. Component interfaces and protocols are a lot more consistent across platforms as well.
Don't use flops as a comparison please. Meaningless numbers especially across platforms. Especially across vendors for those devices that are pushing out said flops. Same thing with texels per second or gigapixels per second or any comparison like that between 3D graphics accelerator devices. If those numbers meant anything then my Intel A750 would be one of the fastest graphics cards in my house right now.
makes some very good points about the never ending cycle of trying to improve your situation vs. just loving what is.
Why the wrapper needs to be some open source software not owned or depending on anyone.
Reminds me of PHP's Omnipay

https://github.com/thephpleague/omnipay
There used to be one (Spreedly) but then it went out of business or changed models so I had to convert everyone anyway!
This catspiracy goes all the way to the top!
Regulation might work but it’s complicated and expensive. The best thing you can do against landlords is abundant housing supply. Collusion isn’t going to work in practice in the face of 20% local vacancy rates.
The ‘how’ was never explained right?

Edit: the title used to say “How ‘Bin chickens’ learned…”
> everyone working on this little DevOps/Infra project.

Everyone? That's not going to help.
VPs and PMs focused on updating things that are “concrete” to them like buttons, and logos soak up engineering agency.

Aggregate engineering and customer experience are cost centers.

Our management culture is irreparably broken. Somehow the Linux kernel runs the world without them. Very few CRUD apps out there need a literal people pipeline to copy-paste React deps into git.

We’re missionaries for nation state currency, sharing the wealth we create with our neighbors through make-work tasks. We’re not engineers engaged in craft.
I think you’re saying that only cost-plus pricing is ethical. That’s . . . a take.

Most of the world operates on value-based pricing. For instance, you could probably afford to work for less money, but you are unethically asking your employer for more money than your pure cost of living. You presumably expect your employer to pay based on the value you provide to the company, not your costs.

It may or may not be a losing strategy, but I think it’s very strange to see value based pricing as immoral. But maybe? I’m open to correction if you ask your employer to lower your wages when your costs go down, e.g. by paying off a car or student loan.
There's also the (fictional) visual attack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIT_(short_story)
Bahamas reels from FTX collapse: ‘Crypto was going to be our way out’
The phyrric victory: a lesson in product management
National problem caused by extreme virtue signaling, which in turn makes these thugs feel like they can get away with anything, while the only risk is to the careers of those doing their job who will be branded "racists"?

Honestly, it seems like that moment in the Batman movies after the Batman goes into exile and Gotham goes down the toilet. And for some reason, these don't seem to be as prevalent in Boston either, so it's definitely not a "those damned liberals" issue.
There's this cool analysis, linked to by Schneier: https://web.archive.org/web/20070110122719/http://www.intere...
No idea why custom gesture isn't baked in macOS itself yet.
Is it tough to feel sympathy for the ordinary bahamiams who had nothing to do with this who are going to suffer the actual consequences of all this? As for the government, I see two possibilities: either they were paid off, or they were scammed too.
To clarify, by defining a record to break that includes making up new categories so that you automatically get the world record by being the only competitor. There are also records like "First Rubik's Cube", which are impossible to beat.
Apple Engineer Addresses Lack of Lossless Support on New AirPods Pro
Show HN: State-of-the-art Computer Vision with a few lines of code
Short generic answer for all SaaS/cloud: remarkably little. If you're a legit business, who can make payments as a business (rather than on a personal card), and have any small amount of spend, you should have no problem getting a basic contract that provides you some reliability for your business.

Negotiating significant discounts needs a bit more work, commitment, or growth story. Discounts tend to scale with spend.

(Disclaimer, I now happen to work at Google, unrelated to cloud, but this was my experience at my previous employer)
The world cup is held in the summer because that's when no other football is going on. It's that simple. Moving the WC to november not only ruins the WC, but ruins the entire rest of the football season. And even doing it in November it's just too hot.
> Linus has been losing control on Linux directions long time ago.

I'm interested :)
Experimenting with Mastodon Federation and Migrating Mastodon Accounts
This is a terrible attitude to have, some startups are cobbled together by 1 or 2 people and get off the ground, yet you are expecting them to have a team of at least 12 and additional retainer resource of lawyers and similar otherwise "they deserve to fail"?

In the real world, many businesses aren't created in the Silicon Valley by established founders and friends with VC funds, who can afford the time and cost to have all this.

Edit: To clarify, I am not saying that the things suggested are unimportant or not vital to an established business.. But that the bottom line for a brand new business with very few people involved is to survive and be stable enough to have the change of introduce backing on/off site, distaster recovery plans, paying for pen testing, security consultants, dedicated QA, etc.
Feels like HN comment sections are like seeing all the thoughts a brain can come up with on a subject written out in parallel, including the dead-ends and false-starts and "on second thought"s. Normally a person only continues thinking the resulting two or three most compelling thoughts, and only says one of them out loud, but on here you get to see the whole process.
This is the best argument for bitcoin.

Even Democratic “rule of law” places like Canada can seize your funds for engaging in “politically incorrect” behavior.
I hope this is an operation to arrest the #$%#$% SBF and bring him to justice for the scorched earth he caused. What possible benefit could SBF bring to the NYT event--how to blow up millions of people's finances while you rob the company blind? Well SBF's financial insights _would_ go well with a Yellen's "transitory inflation" disaster. Just sayin.
There are unit tests for the Linux kernel and even a kernel-specific unit-test framework. See: https://kernel.org/doc/html/latest/dev-tools/kunit/

Here is an article about the various ways Linux is tested: https://embeddedbits.org/how-is-the-linux-kernel-tested/ Unit tests are just a small part of the array of automated testing used.
While I tend to agree, the Go toolchain authors are very specific: it doesn’t count as unit test coverage when the code and the test are in different packages. And our management has no interest in breaking with them on this.

You are free to write tests that compose packages, and I’ll do it for my own sanity and confidence. But that’s in addition to, not instead of, the minimum “not horrifically irresponsible engineering” standard of universal, exhaustive, very detail oriented mock driven unit tests within all packages.
Schröder was cozy with Russia/Gazprom before he was an "ex-chancellor". This level of corruption was seen as "business savvy" at the time and he was coming in as the leader of an opposition government on the tail end of 16 years of Kohl, who took his corruption secrets to his grave after being fondly remembered for bringing about the reunification while being less remembered for enabling the massive firesale of East Germany to private investors and speculators.

This was of course also helped by the Greens, Schröder's coalition partner, being religiously anti-nuclear but too cowardly/dishonest to also demonize gas, coal and oil to the same degree.

Of course another factor in this is EU liberal market reforms which promoted austerity and cutting public investments, effectively laying the groundwork for the eventual shutdown of solar subsidies at a time when Germany was seeing massive interest and business development in solar technology (and to be clear: coal, oil and gas continue to be heavily subsidized to this day).

The German government has repeatedly shat the bed when it comes to energy independency, green energy and averting the climate crisis. The only thing we accomplished to date was shutting off all nuclear plants (which is nonsensical if the goal is to reduce the impact of the climate crisis while we still run on coal, gas and oil) and despite all their campaigning this was achieved by a conservative-led government without the involvement of the Greens.

This is not to say that the conservatives aren't corrupt. In fact from what we do know about ties to lobbying groups and direct business deals, the conservatives are even more corrupt, if only by the number of corrupt politicians. But either way this is very much on the German government, not an "ex-chancellor". His post-chancellor business ties were set up when he was still in office if not well in advance and the rest of the government played along (and continued to do so well past his term).
How is Japanese web design different?
Their indiegogo was started in feb 2013, with a demo v0.2.2. I think I still have it somewhere
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/factorio#/updates/all
>"Unfortunately, China probably also learned from the USSR that the entire charade only collapses when you blink and refrain from using the military to crush civilian dissent."

Baloney. USSR did not crush because of "civilian dissent". All the changes were driven from the top.
Cool product. Can you explain how it’s different than Algolia?
> Every full-time contract I've ever had had a clause stipulating that it would be my only employment.

I, the opposite. I'm explicit that I plan to work other jobs and work it into the contract. Nobody really cares; or at least aren't in a position to display care. If you're paying $200k-type salaries, you've already shown your cards that you're desperate!

The only time I experienced a little back and forth was one organization that had obligations to their customers for the workers not be engaged in work at other companies for data security reasons, with a formal rule that workers not work anywhere else to cover their bases, but as I like to do my other work in unrelated industries it was crafted as an exception without much trouble.
You can tell when your attention span dwindles, when you keep re-reading the same page of any book because you can't get to the next one, start clicking back to HN if the prior article goes deep, or picking up an iPad when an academic tome gets dense.

Take a break, do a digital detox. Except for windows mid morning or late afternoon when you respond to e-devices, force yourself to only read long form content.

Start with an airport novel, easy breezy attention peasy. After that read fiction with substance until any urge to set it down goes away. Then dig into nonfiction. Finally, back to academic or in-depth domain knowledge.

Things you couldn't read two pages of before, you can now read in a sitting or two.
Mantle became Vulkan in only the most superficial of senses and when Metal came out, khronos+NVidia were banging on about AZDO OpenGL instead.
Sure, but perhaps it is worthwhile to ask when these games have become "soma," or at least become that for certain individuals. The above poster was reacting to someone saying they put 1000+ hours into a single game. Maybe we'll reach the conclusion that it's time well spent, but I don't think it's wrong to at least ask the question of what this impact is on society. People don't seem to have the same antagonism to the question when it gets asked about, say, social media addiction.

For what it's worth, I do think we should ask the same questions about TV, or browsing HN. There are a lot of things that it's easy to mindlessly do for hours that, if given some reflection, we might find we'd rather not spend so much time on.