skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was about to make a joke in poor taste that the person who normally updates the website was impacted...But, nah, the wound is too fresh.

Separately, well before all of these layoffs that are in the news...like many months ago, i have begun to see little things like what you reported, where companies are not keeping up with small areas to update. I remarked this to a friend and they believed that they started seeing this both online and offline during around the worst of the pandemic - when most things were on super lock down...And if so, then i can imagine this being pandemic-driven....but NOW with these layoffs, i imagine we'll be seeing this alot more. Granted as a customer (or job candidate in this case), its a minor inconvenience, especially since real people are being more severely impactedf by layoffs. But of course the guess for why this is happening is likely due to simeply a lack of people, or a diverting of attention top others areas of a business. Yeesh!
That's a purposefully insincere way of reading that comic. All that comic says is that being told "no" and "you're wrong" and people disagreeing with you isn't a violation of your free speech. It's saying that people unwilling to listen to you doesn't mean you aren't allowed to speak.
You can't imagine how many business processes will have to change and how many business opportunities will void if company ownership information suddenly becomes private.
Yeah I feel a lot of companies could do with running their problems past a consultant first.

Also, w.r.t hiring in cases like these, I think often the experienced candidates can smell that this won't be a good gig so don't apply, while the less experienced (or desperate) ones apply. This means the workers get stuck with an intractable problem, and the company gets stuck with workers who are too inexperienced to know better.
In theory, sure. But I’ve read enough horror stories. The reputational damage of even being charged is immense.
> We need to stop comparing it to Bootstrap.

Bootstrap has actually a lot of utility classes (since v4 IIRC).
I remain mystified about the value of running JS inside a wasm VM. I see why people want to go there, because they want one tool to rule them all, but I don't get the actual value add. WASM hasn't been built for this. Not yet. You'll be running the garbage collector, compiler, bytecode interpreter fully in an emulated environment. There's bound to be overhead. For no reason. (And remember overhead isn't just slow processing of customer jobs -- it's energy consumption as well.)

There are already multiple runtimes that can run both WebAssembly and Javascript/TypeScript. The JS runtimes themselves. V8 does a great job of running both wasm and JS. And a custom V8 (or JavaScriptCore or whatever) embedding with appropriate sandboxing can be put together without a huge amount of work.

Seems like the better peg for the hole in question if people want support for JS and WASM in a hosted environment.
If he's successful with Twitter it will add credibility to the idea that most high margin SaaS/social companies don't need as many people as they currently have, yes.

And they certainly don't from a theoretical perspective. Whether they can successfully transition from inefficient+large to efficient+small is another question
The real shame here is the recipient of the fees, and the realization that you're just lining the pockets of Booz Allen while the parks remain underfunded.

We recently had (lost) an ugly battle over the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area in Las Vegas, which proposed and later adopted the Booz Allens reservations system under rec.gov.

During the comment period, the overwhelming opinion of the community here was the reservation fee itself was not the issue, rather it was the fact that the fee does absolutely no good for the park itself.

I personally spend 1-2 days every week in the park for ~5-6 months of year rock climbing. Every year now I pay $30 to the park for the annual pass, and nearly $80 (1.5 times a week over 26 weeks) directly to Booz Allen. It's a tragedy that this money couldn't be going back to the park and put to good use; instead I'm paying for a C-suite exec's raise and some pretty UX on a reservation site.
America Is Losing Its Value Proposition
So that everyone can assess the character of the people running the charity.
My response to a similar reply on the linked comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33723987#33725758
This is the sexiest comment in HN history.
And carpeting everything with an even layer of poop
I'm still not sure I properly understand what the word means.
This feels like a covert commentary on homeless humans.
What do you think his employer should have done?

I recently had to terminate an employee who was becoming unhinged and a threat to his coworkers.

Maybe his employer is big enough to carry him on payroll while he gets treatment?
I think that the answer here is "not easily". To use the x32 ABI, you would need:

1. Kernel support to be enabled in order to make x32 system calls. Checking /proc/config.gz on Arch Linux, my kernel does not appear to have it enabled.

2. An x32 toolchain to build against. For gcc and glibc, that would mean re-compiling as described here: https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/x32

3. All of the libraries you link with to be recompiled for the x32 ABI.

x86 is definitely easier to build against since there's still legacy software using it, whereas almost nobody seems to use x32. However, over the long term I expect x86 compatibility will bit-rot too.
Feds Likely to Challenge Microsoft’s $69B Activision Takeover
It's almost like building our entire country around the idea of everyone needing to own a motor vehicle was not a good long term plan or something.
"Legal but harmful" is the logical expansion to "non-crime hate incident," which is when the police detain and interview you in order to create permanent records of hate non-crimes based solely on someone else's offense without any indication or claim the offense constituted a crime. It eventually devolved even farther into a somewhat milder form of SWATing utilized by twitter trolls.

Imagine if SWATing didn't have much of a chance of getting you hurt, but had a 100% chance of putting you on what is essentially a domestic terrorist watchlist.
>in the US people very often use DS very differently from how the title is used in the UK

I haven't heard about this before and now I'm curious- can you elaborate on the differences?
Mozilla Rolls Out Subscription Tier for Its Hubs Virtual Meeting Space
I wish you success!

AFAICT from some searching this morning, CTF is implemented in the GNU toolchain (compiler -> debugger) but not at all in LLVM? so seems like it'd be a while before this really happens even if everyone gets behind that format.

> FWIW both in Polar Signals and Parca (our OSS offering) we resolve to async symbolization done in the server, as it's very expensive to do and we want to reduce load where the Agent runs.

Makes total sense for your cluster-wide always-on profiling. I've worked some with GWP [1] and Google Cloud Profiler, and they similarly defer/offload the symbolization to a dedicated service. But in a small-scale setting for e.g. a Rust std::backtrace::Backtrace with an Error or panic, I generally want to print a nice symbolized version in-process shortly after capture (or never). For small-scale on-demand profiling, similarly I likely want to symbolize soon after, although probably out-of-process.

[1] https://research.google/pubs/pub36575/
Active Knowledge in Software Development
Unlike other CSS-in-JS though, the way it's made, via object properties, enforces compliance to the design system. In things like styled-components, it doesn't.

Doubly so when using TypeScript, as with Vanilla-Extract: https://vanilla-extract.style
He knows nothing bad will happen to him.
Wires have an expected lifespan of about 15 years. They can go longer only if accept poor reliability.

Wires themselves last longer, but the poles, insulation (a big problem underground), transformers, breakers, and all the other parts don't and get replaced all the time.

Most neighborhoods.are fine, with just smaller taps to bring more power in. They have years to fix this.
I guess both securefs & gocryptfs are more tailored towards mounting encrypted folders locally (i.e. they don't have any support at all for cloud storage systems, that part is left to other tools).

But I guess you can do the same with rclone given that it supports encryption, mounting and the local filesystem.

I am not sure however how they compare in simultaneous read/write access by multiple users.
Interesting, I may try it.

I do have proxmox at home already, so spinning up a container for PiHole and pivpn was super easy. But it looks like AGH supports certain features PiHole does not.
Honestly, I think runtime metaprogramming can be a lot easier to understand then compile-time metaprogramming, because it's easier to build runtime debugging features for runtime metaprogramming, compared to building runtime debugging features for metaprogramming that's already been erased at compile-time. For example, a sibling comment mentions Ruby—well, pry already supports "show-source [expr]" for basically any possible Ruby expression you might want to call, no matter how meta-programmed it might be. Navigating and debugging Ruby code can get very fluent once you have the right set of tools.
Apple's iPhone Pro shipments may fall 20M units short of estimates
To date, the number of EVs is small compared to the rest of vehicles. On top of that, relatively few of those EVs have crashed or had their batteries fail. Aside from the first gen Leaf, which had an inadequate cooling system, EV batteries seem to be lasting 10-20 years. At least some batteries are being repurposed for grid storage.

The result is that there are not a lot of batteries that can be recycled yet. There are groups looking into how to do it on an industrial scale and there are some prototype programs out there to test out the processes, but this is not a problem that needs to be solved in the near term.

https://electrek.co/2022/10/14/us-increases-ev-battery-recyc...

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/07/volkswagen-partners-wit...
More succinctly: Nothing about free speech requires ANYONE to hear you. If you cannot convince people to listen to you, that is not a violation of your speech.
Don't worry, it's not that long. Most of the sections are a couple of paragraphs at most, not an entire page's worth of content.
Or they get corrupt/powermad.

Or you happen to be in a group singled out as ‘the bad guys’ when people start getting tired of the dictator or their methods, etc.

It’s extremely rare to have a true Cincinnatus, but pretty common to have someone who says they are. Until they get in the seat, anyway.
> Curious about deer: if deer aren’t hunted, they overpopulate and starve. It would be cruel not to hunt them.

I strongly disagree with this. If there were no humans participating, and deer ended up overpopulated, and then starved, would there be any issue? Of course not, this is just how nature balances itself.

That "killing an animal directly via hunting" is more cruel than "letting the populate self-correct via natural processes" is not a matter of common sense - it's not something we all agree on. There is an implication that we know better than the universe and I'm not convinced that is the case.

> Wild pigs are another significant environmental nuisance. They reproduce rapidly and cause massive destruction wherever they go. Seems like managing those populations without eating the meet is worse ethically.

I assume you are referring to feral pigs, which are not wild in the sense that a native creature is. They are domesticated pigs which have ended up in foreign environments. Whether hunting them is appropriate or not, I'm not sure.

Nowadays, though, we have gotten ourselves in a pickle, by eliminating the natural predators in many environments in which deer thrive naturally, or have adapted to. Via our own lack of foresight, consideration for the planet as a whole, or even some degree of self-serving malice, we have created a really tricky problem.

I do agree we ought to work on this issue. Hunting is probably the best, most practical solution we have, but only because I believe we should try to fix what we have broken, not because it is somehow less cruel. A less practical but far less cruel solution may be a sterilization program for the invasive populations.
The wiki page on Hopf Fibrations has a brief application section - but its still a bit too technical. Any sophisticated HN readers have a more simplistic explanation of the applications of these structures?

I've done some light investigation myself, but math is a minor hobby for me, not a specialty. I really like the demonstrations in the post - allowing parameter adjustments and some clearer technical explanations gives you an intuitive sense for how the Hopf Fibrations "move".
> Serious question: you consider rectangles with crosshatching "beautiful illustrations"?

Yeah, particularly compared to everything else mentioned so far in this thread (with the possible exception of the YouTube videos I have not investigated).

> This is a pure regurgitation of introductory material one could find anywhere.

Can you share a better presentation of this material? The current suggestions include a full MIT course, a pair of 2 hour long lectures, "the book from the class we all took in college," and the Wikipedia page for transistors, all of which feel like they're targeting very different audiences than a short illustrated article such as this. Ben Eater's vids are great and a lot closer in scope, but YouTube is very different format and many (such as myself) prefer reading.
It is kind of obvious, no?
Land was an example, not an exclusive example.

A service address isn't sufficient to, for example, easily piece together that one private owner has quietly purchased 70% of some town's resources, especially if they've done so via a collection of shells. And most legal actions against such abuse generally start grassroots; regulators aren't aware there's a problem until people complain.

Hiding information from the public makes it harder to notice abuse.

Flip the script: when an individual has incorporated and is enjoying the legal protections of being a corporate entity, why do they need their name hidden? What value in the society of granting them that privilege when they are enjoying legal protections and privileges not enjoyed by all members of society?
In Sweden that happened for a year, then it stopped. Just refuse to pay abd deny all.
ClamAV was bought by SourceFire in 2007, development team included. SourceFire was purchased by Cisco in 2013.

Cisco has owned an maintained ClamAV (and integrated it into their products) for a while.
Just hope they never link up with the Emus after their decisive victory in 1932.
I got a bit bewildered by the quick start documentation. It starts by showing how to install and uninstall, followed by running it in different execution environments, it seems to be expecting that you already know what wasmedge is. That's unexpected, as usually a quickstart shows how to write and run a simple application.
I wonder if Tailscale have any numbers on how often clients failover to STUN?
somewhat smart folks around here. that's about it
I think is true for >general< data science houses and firms that offer Data Science across any domain - I'm generally wary of anyone who writes about Data Science as a concept, rather than the use of Data Science to solve a particular problem in a particular domain, the rise of the Machine Learning bros is very real.
In 2014 when the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U sales were much worse than expected, Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata apologized to the company and its shareholders and took a 50% paycut.

[1]:https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts/nintendo-ce...
Too smart by half, this guy just doesn't shut up. Sure plays into the narrative that he's a naive kid. But painful to listen to all the scheming in the pauses of speech.
> However this is politically unpopular, because it punishes behavior that has become widely accepted (traveling exclusively by car, owning larger cars/trucks) in the US and distributes the cost of infrastructure maintenance to those that use it more.

It is also a regressive tax. Living close to work in a modern city is a luxury, and housing close to mass transit is much more expensive than housing far away from any such amenities.
Lots of people are citing bad management as a most annoying thihg in tech. I wonder two things:

1) To recognize bad management, there needs to be awareness of what good management is. What is the common source of that awareness? How do one know good manager from bad one?

2) If good management is so crucial for tech company success, why there is no worldwide trend to help engineering managers become better? There's an awful lot of courses, bootcamps, learning videos, tutorials, git repos and so on for those who wants to be software engineers, but all I see for managers is self-help style books and articles, centered around typical situation "oh, shit, they appointed you to a managerial position, how do you cope with that?"
It's been my experience that utility companies offer multiple options for payment, so one can avoid the third party and their fees.. In the case of US Parks, there is no way to avoid the fee from the third party..
Changing the Face of Robotics
> (including health insurance!)

I think they’re European?
Affective experience in a virtual crowd regulates perceived travel time
It doesn't have to be a anime girl. There are also a few male vtubers. Bubi and Lord Aethalstan beeing examples.
Naw, he paid a lot of politicians, he fine.
This is better than the "enter visual mode, select text, paste into helix, save file, rsync back to my desktop" workflow I have developed over the years. Thanks!
what's the deal with wasi-nn? (who is supporting it?) Seems super high level and somewhat brittle
Excellent news, thank you! Imagine telling someone even ten years ago that they could program something in a notebook environment, over the internet, in a slow language, with all the work of setup and computation being done in the browser, and it would still be convenient and fast!
The future programs are what I'm worried about. I worry that it'll in practice just end up being trash barges of e-waste going to China "recyclers". I truly hope they materialize because one way or another gas vehicles are a huge source of pollution we need to deal with.
AWS Announces AWS Supply Chain
I clicked because I was puzzled why anyone would want to use eBPF to do this. And then the first sentence of the article said why!

Sad that I am delighted by this. It seems most articles these days obfuscate their story.
Some recommendations from a comment a few years back, too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15748285
Yeah... writing web apps in C++ will do that. No time.
I'm not saying you cannot do that (and, specifically, I am not saying you cannot do the sort of things the author seems to want to do.) I am saying that I don't see how you can write the program in the first place, unless you have some semantics in mind for every identifier you introduce. To add to that, I doubt to can perform a runtime substitution unless the substitution conforms to the semantics of the original design. This seems to be the case with the author's examples, which extend the original types with a sidechannel for getting information about the execution of the program.
Thanks. I did overlook that. Although, the docs are a bit foreboding.

"Whatever you do, don’t use @apply just to make things look “cleaner”. Yes, HTML templates littered with Tailwind classes are kind of ugly. Making changes in a project that has tons of custom CSS is worse."

Then it lists a bunch of reasons that seem to just be the author's preferences on things like naming and workflow productivity. I guess I don't think naming things is that hard. I generally need a name of some sort anyway so I can interact with the thing from JS. I haven't seen anyone argue not to use React or Web Components because naming a component is hard. I wonder if it's just a granularity thing. I tend to give a class name to a logical entity and then use ancestry selectors for nested tags, with SCSS mixins to avoid duplication.
I favorited this comment for showing me a new analogy in your second sentence. I'll have to use that one in the future.
Data encryption can be decoupled from key encryption. Let's say I hash the content of a file, encrypt the file with its own hash, and then encrypt the hash with the user's password.

This way you can have deduplication of data, and only an attacker that knows the content of the file can decrypt the file, but since they already have the file, it does not matter.
I think that is pretty speculative. I think a large portion on the population would not be haunted by killing others in a wide range of justified situations, particularly when it comes to defending themselves or family from a credible threat.
Are you saying that you're comfortable banning conversation of important, unresolved issues? I'm not sure I see your point, and

> There was even less evidence at the time, and anyone discussing it was only serving to distract from the conversation to blame China

is both a very strong assumption about the motivations of those you disagree with, and a very political opinion of yours that many might not agree with.

If anything, this comment of yours seems to contain an example of the exact thing being criticized: limiting certain domains of speech (including certain positions within some domain) for the reason that you don't think it's right, or dangerous, or it doesn't agree with your politics or int'l relations, or w/e.
I think that's the reason why mammals evolved in this way. Red blood cells go everywhere, and I mean everywhere, in your body. Most other cells can't get close enough.
Yes I meant for the M1.
I don't think you appreciate just how much poop we are talking about. One example, Coyote Point is a huge park near San Francisco. Massively large grass fields and hills etc. Very beautiful but the fields are largely unusable because every square inch of grass is covered in goose poop. The playgrounds and the CuriOddyssey museum are cool though, so still worth a visit with the kiddos.
Which lets folks get deeper into trouble before running into a wall.
Organic units should not be admired for their design.

DNA is the worst spaghetti code imaginable.

The design is such a hack, that it's easier to let the unit die and just create new ones every few years.
Re: popular theories post-Epstein:

In the late 80s/very early 90s there were people in Usenet’s alt.sex who told of their participation, as children, in wealthy sex rings. One in particular made claims that he had been well-compensated, in that he was also provided an excellent education and developed the connections to the wealthy and powerful that ensured his outstanding success in adult life.

These theories are (a) not new and (b) IMO likely true. Having seen what humans are capable of doing to one another, I have absolutely no doubt that there is a cadre of powerful people who use child rape to gain blackmail material, ensure loyalty, and to get their sick jollies off.

I am always surprised by those who express doubt. Have they not watched the news? Humans can do the most horrific things for pleasure, let alone power and wealth.
The Brave browser already does this and has for some time.
I'm not trying to defend this or that development environment or framework, just pointing out that there are trade-offs everywhere.

I don't understand speculative execution or any of the other deep voodoo that happens in modern CPUs that spend enormous amounts of energy presenting the "I'm a PDP-11/70 with way more memory and bigger registers" lie to programmers.

These days I'm not even sure which part of my computer is running the networking stack, or where my computer is located.

We stand on towers of abstractions, and complain about the ones we're forced to notice. I don't think many people understand "it" these days.