skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its a question of whether you are happy to be a passive bystander in your own life, or are self-directed.

Corporations, governments, etc, are most happy with passive bystanders. They encourage this behaviour, and train people to be this way (deferring to authority figures, etc) as it makes everyone more regular and easier to manage.

The self-directed individual however, rejects this sort of entrainment. They would prefer to receive various information directly and in an un-intermediated fashion, so that they are able to make up their own mind.
Twitter is preparing for a series of legal battles over missed payments
The Design of Everyday Things (1998)
It's rare that I come across software with such thoughtfully designed UI and great UX where everything just works™, including things you didn't know you needed. I felt like I immediately knew where everything was (even without toggling the simplified mode). I use LosslessCut from time to time to make small looping videos for my blog, and after my first use I immediately went to donate to the developer. I remember even writing some detailed paragraphs about why it's so good in the PayPal message, but something went wrong and PayPal lost it, so it was a silent donation in the end. Definitely in my global top 5.
You sounds like you'd enjoy learning about the Surreal Numbers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPn2AdMH7UQ (15m video starring Don Knuth)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eAmxgINXrE (1h15m video starring John Conway)

It may be the case that you've already heard of the Surreal Numbers, but I remain confident you enjoyed learning about them. :)
True they're not particularly helpful, but the commenter was arguing against their truthfulness.
35 years old mom would be the perfect cover for an arms dealer to cash out...
Because we have better methods now. Rather than break up Apple, the EU knows they can just force Apple to do the right things when they don't naturally happen.

We don't need the free market of 100 alternative products to have user respecting software. We can just legally mandate it. Right now the software and products we have are extremely good and keep getting better. Tech companies aren't just sitting on a legacy of old stuff collecting rent, they are actively investing and keeping their status by simply being the best.
As a technical expert, it would not be unreasonable for you to counter propose a more narrow definition of the technology that would qualify. Either you come to an agreement about something that would not overly constrain you in the future, or maybe they realize that they are being ridiculous and it is not worth spending more time on iterating some paragraph that some lawyer threw in there because they were feeling feisty when they wrote the first draft of the standard contract
Any proof for this? Because in the Netherlands wait times are increasing because, get this, more (old) people are using health care.
This increases pressure on the people who work in health care so they burn out, leaving fewer people to pick up the work, who then burn out, lather, rinse, repeat.
Salaries in health care are not fantastic, true, but the people burning out do so because they have to work too hard, not because the government is defunding them.
Another problem is that there simply is more treatment options available because of scientific progress. Afflictions that used to kill people can now be treated or at least managed, but this takes up a lot of time and money. Great for you if you end up living longer and in better health, not so great for the system as a whole.
Hear me out, what if we allowed people to access health care regardless of who has how much money?
Isn't that what the windows-rs crate is for? Doesn't seem abandoned.
Yes, but what happened after the astronauts died as a response?

The entire point of my comment is that funding cuts happened. That is the reaction.
For folks that enjoy the idea of fooling around with ancient and weird computer tech, I can recommend the YouTube channel Usagi Electric. I'm there for the valves but there's plenty of other stuff, including 8" floppy drive repair shenanigans.

https://www.youtube.com/@UsagiElectric
Frustrating to find that they're more expensive than regular studs - they ought to be cheaper because they need less wood to make, less mass to transport, etc.

The actual manufacturing steps I'm sure are all automated, and not exactly complex, so the added manufacturing steps should be far outweighed by the reduced raw material and logistics cost.

I'm going to guess the increased price is some combination of 'we have a patent on it' and 'we charge more because there are no competitors, because we have a patent on it'.
Mmtk: Memory Management Toolkit
An impressive write up and understanding of the available ecosystem and the way various things stack.

Conversely, an appalling advertisement for the state of GUIs with Rust.
Sorry for not being specific enough, let me give more details about the incident.
My bank tell me they can see the transaction but it is not approved so they cant do anything about it and recommend me to contact with the sender's bank. Sender's bank tells the sender that the amount is held by the beneficiary bank and they can not do anything about it either. At some point, sender's bank told the sender that the beneficiary bank released the payment (around 25-30 days ago), but the transaction is still not completed anyhow. Weird thing about this is, the amount is very small (around 1k EUR), and I have received 20-30 payments from the same sender, same bank in the past 4 years.
The most troubling part is, I or the sender, can not take any action to fix the issue and the neither bank tells us what the issue is or recommends us an action to fix the issue.

I am not saying this happens all the time, or all SWIFT transactions are flawed by nature, but this occurring even once is enough for me to be in a very stressful situation without any remedy.
> Curing cancer would be infinitely more profitable than yet another crypto exchange.

I'm interested to know why you think this.
Boxcryptor Is Joining Dropbox
Emily Mitchell Commemorates Life of Songbird Daughter (2009)
I'm not contradicting myself. I think inheritance should be for emotional reasons, but at the end of the day things have a dollar value associated with them. A car, or jewelry, can be an asset but also have emotional value. Setting a limit lets people keep the important things without hoarding wealth.

And the rest of your comment I mostly agree with, it's not an easy change, and there's lots of challenges to be solved, but that doesn't mean they can't be solved. We don't just have to live with it, we have to solve the problems 1 by 1.
Looking at the article, I can't help but to find the summary of the past releases to be really nice:

PeerTube v1 (Oct. 2018) allows you to create a video platform with federation, peer-to-peer streaming, redundancy, search tools and multilingual interface.
PeerTube v2 (Nov 2019) brings notifications, playlists and plugins.
PeerTube v3 (Jan. 2021) adds federated search, live and peer-to-peer streaming.
PeerTube v4 (Dec. 2021) allows to customise each platform’s homepage, to sort and filter displayed videos, and to manage them more easily.

Kind of makes me wish most software projects had summaries of changelogs like that. For example, for versions of PostgreSQL/MySQL/React/Vue/Java/.NET or anything else - just to see what the most notable features have been in the releases over the years.

Also, PeerTube itself is pretty nice, I'm still hosting v4 for my own needs and use it as a solution for backing up and encoding stream VODs from Twitch. Might eventually get a YouTube account, but still keep it as a backup just to minimize the risk of losing the videos, though storing hours of them does definitely take up some space on my server's HDDs, backups of those included.
The obvious thing is that the concept precede the word and the word reinforce the concept
You are really lucky man. Google says there are “About 529,000 results” for “linux acpi bugs”.
The difference being that Taiwan is a goose that lays golden eggs (TMSC) so you'd be crazy so invade and thereby kill it.

Pretty sure Ukraine had / has nothing that Russia wants to keep alive.
Well, electrons are sort-of fundamental.

But they can also be seen as quantized excitations of some underlying quantum field.
In large organization, you'll see people move to verbiage like 'improved' because it's true without the implication that 'fixed' has which directly implies that the previous implementation was 'broken'. I am with Apple on this, they 'improved' the software.
Now That FTX Is Toast, Is Binance Too Big to Fail?
Wendy Carlos: The brilliant but lonely life of an electronic music pioneer
yes ublock origin does the job, no need to pay. no need to pay google in particular.
The key is accepting legitimacy of various authorities under their respective domains and architecting protocols that respect and delegate or federate decisions to them as needed.
It also puts you in various positions to which you'd have to grow for years and years in large companies, gives you a ton of interesting experience.

(Then you go and apply it elsewhere, for a larger salary and RSUs that actually are worth something on the market.)
Go for it! If you have an opportunity to make a living outside tech, just do it.
(especially) if you have left this business you should blow the whistle on this. Have you thought about doing it? What are the main barriers?
What are the practical implications of this? Could cargo call GCC? Or would it be like gcj and allow compiled rust libraries & binaries to be distributed? (at least in theory, gcj didn't work out well)
I hung out in the #digi channel around 1997-1999.

Recently-ish (2016 I think) I logged back in out of curiosity.

Some of the same names were still there, chatting away.
Money that I have on my person, is always better than money that I cannot access.

There is usually at least a short lag between $DISASTER and $ECONOMY_COLLAPSE during which many people are happy to take cash and provide food, shelter and transport. Often you will have a steep inflation curve and rising transaction costs/exchange rates, but at least you are in control of the money that you have in your pocket.

The same cannot be said about digital money. Even though in theory you have a larger pool of places where you could spend it, money that is in your account isn't guaranteed to be accessible. Banks' infrastructure may be down, whether due to $DISASTER itself or corporate/political decision. The banks may impose withdrawal limits or a complete restriction on withdrawals and transactions. Online transactions may fail at any point in the acquirer-issuer-processor chain. ATM:s are likely to be empty.

Online transactions may be reversed. Even when you manage to "lock in" exchange rate X just before a currency's collapse in value, the merchant can and will cancel your order, make up excuses, and refund you the nominal value at the old exchange rate.
I know I am missing the point here. Locking the cosmetic GUI is totally bonkers.
yes, I was responding to the concept of a down round in general and explicitly noted that in this case, the company was worth less than what the people invested.
I think the parent comment was not (only) about facilities close to the coast, but, more importantly, at a low altitude, more prone to floods.

Couldn't the launch facilities be constructed near the coast, but at higher altitude, say on top of cliffs of 50m or so?
That, but also mimicing the pressure of the sun here is just not possible (yet? :D), why we need to play with higher temperaturs with different problematic consequences.
Ask HN: How to deal with managers who don't/don't want to understand the system?
Hi HN,

I'm a senior level contributor at a late-stage private company. I've previously worked at a FAANG company for a decade and my take was that most software managers, especially software managers that directly managed engineering teams understood how the system worked and how services interacted with each other.

At my new gig, it seems like managers (and leadership, whatever that word means to you) seem to care about the metrics and availability numbers, but from my experience there seems to be a lack of want to understand how the system works. A lot of managers are from FAANG companies, but were building software probably in the 90s. Things have moved on. We now use declarative APIs, large distributed services, etc.

How do you deal with this type of management? A lot of questions they ask simply boil down to this isn't important because XYZ... It seems as soon as you start explaining the reasons they just stop listening.

Have you'll dealt with this? How have you helped educate managers to increase their understanding of the underlying software services that they manage?
Ironically this is a Marxist argument, more or less.

But it lacks the historical dimension. Capitalism is a historical and technological phenomenon. One of the replies talks about it emerging in the Late Middle Ages. Of course it existed previously, in the form of a landed aristocracy, but the potential for concentration of capital didn't exist.

With the industrial revolution concentration of capital created the order we live under today. To describe it as natural is an unhappy choice of words. It is certainly engaged in the large-scale subjugation and destruction of nature.

Concentrated capital turns the machine up: it exponentially increases inputs and outputs, ramps up the engine, increases production, consumption, everything. It is a system that may be completely unsustainable.

You deal with the benefits of the system: good ideas, smooth returns, sophisticated investors. I don't see any appreciation of the costs: increasing inequality, environmental damage, immiseration of people in developing countries.

There may never be a permanent revolution against capitalism: it will simply be impossible to sustain.
If you have a better idea (that works), I'm all ears.

Edit: My daughter went from crying 3 hours every night with us comforting her every 10 minutes to sleeping 12 hours a night without interruption.
Of course, I guess that can happen if the bank decides so as well, but the transaction from local Binance bank account to my local bank account is not international and not via SWIFT (correct me if I am mistaken), so far those transactions have been always completed instantaneously (under 5-10 minutes) since they are domestic transactions (?).

To be fair, almost all of my international SWIFT transactions, except this one, have been completed in 6-10 business days (it's not so bad and I can live with it, as long as it doesn't take 3 damn months).
Well there's https://crank.js.org that uses native js generators where you would you normally put hooks in. Never used it but looked like a very neat idea.
I believe Reagent utilises Clojure's native "atom" to accomplish what hooks try to do but with much better language level guarantees.

I guess what js needs is an actual proper language level immutable type, and it wouldn't need all the hooks trickery?
Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ma#Disappearance_from_the... to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#SEC_lawsuit .

If I owned property, I'd rather be living in the west.
One thing I'd like to see are Rust bindings for wxWidgets. Contrary to the prevailing opinion, I think wrappers over native toolkits are a fine approach for cross-platform development.
The biggest issue with stick framing is the building envelope. It's very sensitive to the quality of the air/water barrier. Lots of subpar contractors around that don't care about taping together different pieces of house wrap, covering fastener and conduit holes, taping the window and door apertures correctly. You end up with moisture inside your walls and thermal losses that are annoying to diagnose and even more annoying to fix.
It is interesting how commit author could function here as a tech equivalent of "convincing some sucker to sign off on a legally dubious action".
They've released some information on this under the name "Project Catapult":

https://www.microsoft.com/research/project/project-catapult
Ask HN: What Are Some Good Books on the First Industrial Revolution?
What? I'm not making any comparison I think?

The person I replied to said (paraphrasing) "Why aren't cars going away? If they aren't, why can't you make the same arguments about coal power plants".

I'm saying:

- Cars aren't going away because they are much better than any available alternative for a large number of people from a short term perspective

- The same can't be said of coal power because electricity is electricity is electricity, there is no immediate difference, so the longer term differences have a greater impact on decision making
Step by Step Guide: How to Create a Dynamic Service Endpoint via K8s API
Hi, here is my new tech blog >> https://medium.com/@lightricks-tech-blog/step-by-step-guide-...
> If you want to see what you should never do as a software engineer if you like not being in jail, this is it.

Exactly. And if you suspect you _are_ doing stuff like this right now, speak to a lawyer, today.
> Curing cancer would be infinitely more profitable than yet another crypto exchange.

Treating an illness is even more profitable than curing it though
I addressed this in my comment, but it seems Jack thinks this was his mistake at Twitter. It’s Person C’s onus to block Persons A & B. Never mind if A and or B maim or kill C in actual meatspace, speech not only must go on but it must absolutely be unfettered by every single platform or else someone will claim speech has become something less than free.

To Jack, who has perfectly demonstrated the absolutist position, I have no care in the world whether to approve of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to force others to let you say it to enough people that someone winds up dead.
thanks for the detailed write-up, this is great
Open article, Ctrl+F, mobile, app, no apparent statements. Close tab

Any "rebuild" solution without heavy involvement of mobile first is destined to fail. Or it will just be a nich market on desktop websites for desktop browsers.
As an ADHD sufferer I’m the least valuable person on the planet :)
It isn’t often I verbally exclaim on opening an HN link. Wow.
I feel like I have 2 personalities at work:
1. Serious personality. I want to be relentless in achieving the best possible solution within our constraints. Good enough, isn't good enough when we can do better with the same resources and time. In meetings, I'll push people, argue and present data that's contrary to the proposal. At the same time, once we make a decision, we move on and don't revisit old decisions unless something happens that fundamentally changes our assumptions. My mental model is that these professional interactions should be devoid of any personal biases and even heated discussions shouldn't be taken personally.

2. Leisure personality. When I'm not talking about work, chatting about restaurants, vacations, etc. I'm more interested in learning about my co-workers. What they like doing in their free time, etc.

I tend to not let the 2 mix in the same interaction. Recently, I've gotten this feeling that people may have a hard time distinguishing these 2, especially in a remote first world. Generally in a non-remote world, there are enough small conversations before / after meetings that people realize that my serious side, isn't my only side. I care about you as an individual, but we still have professional pride.
I have two huge boxes full of 8" floppies. They belonged to my father, who used them to work on two Olivetti BCS 2025. [1] Unfortunately the BCS units are long time gone. Needlessly to say, it would be nice to recover data from those 8" floppies...

BCS units were running Olivetti BCOS 5 on NEC 8080 (2 Mhz), 64Kb RAM.

[1] http://museo.dagomari.prato.it/singolo.php?cod=149&ord=1
I don't think we were directing that ire at you, although sharing a private link is not great, but at twitter. It is a site that shows you nothing if you don't have javascript allowed and when you do you can't scroll for more than a few replies before you get a "log in, now!" pop-up. That predates Musk's takeover BTW.

Therefore I suggest people wanting to read what's on the site use a better frontend to do so.
Take wxWidgets and wrap or modify it to implement a reactive programming model. No need to reinvent the lower levels and wrappers around native widgets are better for many use cases.
ThreeUK blocks access to encrypted provider Tutanota due to 'age restriction'
what do they do with the males?
japan and korea use a proxy like a feudal-era lord systems. Hence, the chaebols and keiretsu controlling the bulk of the economy
Why should be someone responsible for how the product of their labor is being used?
They do. Finland and Russia love their timber houses (although Russia still mostly uses solid timber walls due to the lower quality of lumber and the lack of skilled labor).
No, it's because models are not accounts. They're not expected to add up exactly because they're based on approximations anyway.
Why would the protocol go out of its way to do the job of a person whose aim is to usurp any of these powers? It takes very little imagination to see what could happen if you provide Jack’s proposed platform, every single coup in the world is precedent.
There’s not plenty of energy in a lightning strike.

https://engineering.mit.edu/engage/ask-an-engineer/is-there-...
Reach is the problem.

Frankly, most say nothing of consequence. I wish we'd stop pretending that every voice matters.
I'm afraid that sooner or later he will be committed suicide just like Epstein...
I'm confused - Isn't paying bills cheaper than paying lawyers?
I'm really glad that George is involved in the project. She was part of the original Flickr team AFAIK. I worked for her at the Internet Archive and later for her startup Museum in a Box. Her particular blend of skills makes her ideal in these roles where there's conservation of digital assets with a social purpose involved.
Yes, and that's sad.
To my mind, the point of `unless` is that is combined well with something that is unlikely but still possible.

return the_obvious unless something_improbable_holds

the_most_astonishing

This also align well with the lake of scalability of the number of condition: I doubt that in usual prosaic English its common to use "unless first-condition or second-condition or … ultimate-condition".

Of course it is logically equivalent to `if not`, but it is pragmatically not conveying the same information at human interpretation level.