skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is only a fair comparison if you disclose the waiting time between ordering the Tesla vs delivery.

The Audi, Volvo and Mercedes dealers may have been directing you at sub-optimal cars, but they were available to drive off the lot that day. If you're willing to wait 3 months, you can certainly order the latest Audi or Mercedes model with the exact specs and options you want. You can even pick it up at the factory in Germany and take it for a spin on the Autobahn.
I corrected the GGP's confusion about "substance" vs. "solid". However, the question you answered was "What is this congestion powder?"
Www.lobbyfacts.eu would like to politely dissagree with you. Just look at the biggest donors.
The net energy gain is very slim and has to be converted to electricity to power the lasers – in doing so, there's so much loss, it is again NEGATIVE.

It's always the same…
I'm curious, when you're talking about the SMR projects, does that include the Natrium reactors from TerraPower? I think they're backed by the Gates Foundation? Those seemed pretty interesting to me as a nuclear layman. Also, I don't know a lot about Bill Gates, but he does seem like the kind of guy that if they showed some real success, boondoggle or not, he'd be willing to brute force his way past those issues by throwing money at the problem.
I had a Treo 600 and (more importantly) a Treo 650, which were direct descendants of the Pilot. In the years before the iPhone it meant I could read email etc on the way into the office - it was pretty great. Of course, the iPhone was a substantial leap forward, and Palm's unwillingness to realize that such a thing was even possible - combined with godawful native development tools - made it a victim pretty early on.
I did but then I realized it’s better to find something else that gives me fulfillment. In this case it’s 3D printing hobby.
Try to attain more autonomy in your role, which admittedly may require a certain tenure or level, and propose work you find interesting for your employer’s or team’s domain. I work at a medium/large tech company and consistently find those of us who feel like we have some control over our destiny to be happier. I also continue to bump into people who it never occurred to them they could propose and lead projects, it really makes a difference.
I don't think anyone is considering this as really bringing them back and releasing them into an ecosystem, just Jurassic Park type novelty.
I would argue (of course not seriously) about the opposite: ChatGPT has a metaphorical soul. What it learned very well is how to structure the responses so that they sound convincing - no matter how right or wrong they are. And that's dangerous.
> the increase of FUD against Binance the past months

This is disingenuous framing. Was the run-up to FTX’s dissolution similarly FUD?

Even if it was, not all fear is irrational. Not all caution unwarranted. Trusting a business that refuses to be audited, refuses to disclose its ownership or even where it’s physically or legally based, and has—wherever sunlight shines—been caught breaking the law carries obvious repurcussions.

> the CIA/FED to promote a digital EURODOLLAR issued by the central bank

Wat. Is this the new NAFTA currency conspiracy?
Exactly me. I’ve been scheming to “get out” of the tech industry for 15 years… but for me that means still doing tech without the horrible finance/techbro culture that made so many of my tech jobs unbearable.
Debugging mysterious recurring hangs in a storage appliance. The nodes were connected via Infiniband, so there were two parts to the hack. The first was to write a program which would find all of the kernel memory areas and register them with the Infiniband controller. The second was to slurp up all of the memory on a hung node via Infiniband from one of its peers, and convert that into dump format so we could use gdb on it. After collecting a couple of dozen such dumps and poring over them for a couple of days, I was finally able to debug one of our most intractable problems.

That led to a second, though lesser, hack. The problem turned out to be code that was allocating way too much memory. (Userland programmers working in the kernel, ugh.) This would sometimes cause the stack pointer for one task to jump all the way over its task structure into the stack of the previous task, which would make that stack very confusing. That's why it took two days to figure out, even with dumps in hand. (Also, putting the stack right next to the task structure was a stupid decision on Linux's part.) To find the dozens of places where this was happening, I wrote a tool to disassemble all of our kernel code and look for the part of the function prolog that allocated stack space, thus creating a list of those that were allocating too much. Then I spent a week fixing them.

It was a grueling process, under lots of pressure at a struggling startup, but ultimately the result was very rewarding.
What's really awesome about this is I think you independently discovered a huge trick in performance optimization. "Zero copy" solutions for eliminating the overhead of moving frames around are very popular - if you look up that term you'll see it pop up everywhere. Companies/teams of engineers spend months coming up with this solution and its a reliable way to reduce overhead of moving data around. It works across all layers and in fact entire hardware architectures are designed to allow for this kind of stuff. Kudos :)
The Ghost of Texas Hero Sam Bass Led Me to His Secret Treasure
Are you sure this is the case? All the carrier app loading implementations that I am aware of (this is a small number) explicitly whitelist some carriers or even some apps by certain carriers. For instance, the implementation I worked on myself (as a reviewer) only granted a single carrier to load one of their apps when the SIM card was inserted.

With that implementation, it would not be possible for any random carrier in a foreign country to load random bloat onto my phone just by me crossing the border to that country.
Seriously. That got me curious so I looked it up and the deepest lake in the world is in Sibera and it's over a mile deep...
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No, you are correct.
25 years or so ago, I worked on a tiny part of software for testing of what I think is a precursor for that mapping submersible. I did a two week project for Norwegian Defence Research Establishment to write software to let them relay scaled down real-time mapping data for debugging from the small boat tracking the submersible to land or a nearby bigger ship...

It was limited by wanting it to be cheap, so we used GSM data modems to transmit a 2400 bps stream of the map data, using a slight variation over z-modem to retransmit blocks on error, and code to reconnect and continue the transmission from the last successful block if we lost connection.

I'm sure that code was ditched many years ago, as it makes no sense with modern hotspots, but it was a fun project to work on, and I got to go out on the tracking boat when we tested it.
Stylus is now standard on the most expensive "non-folding" flagship from Samsung too.
RAM latency is still an issue though and often the actual bottleneck.
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I used to chase down xfce, lxde, openbox,etc to find the best light weight WM for me, problem nowadays is that, I need chrome on all of them, whose memory usage alone overshadows all those windows managers.

unless chrome can somehow run in, say, 200MB of RAM, the windows manager are no longer that important to me on the resource consumption side.
World's governments to keep spending to erase technical debt
I had all kinds of Palm devices, but the only Blackberry I ever had was supplied by a company (around 2006) - I don't recall them being consumer devices in the UK until after the iPhone.
He's an idiot who has fallen upwards his whole life because money.
Tsai reflects on transitional justice in rights speech
Agreed. Starcraft in particular is fun to watch because you can see some longer term strategies at work.

Compare to CSGO or COD. I have no idea what's going on, only that one side has better mechanics than the other. I know these games have strategies / formations as well. But they're a lot less apparent to me, and engagements are so quick I can't grok what's happening.
Takeaways based on hard data of drone performance in Russian war in Ukraine
Becoming Athletic in My 50s
Minnesota can use wind, which is also cheaper.
About 15 years ago I was trying to debug a pesky timing issue and couldn't reproduce it.

I wrote a script to capture and replay network traces from Wireshark (then called Ethereal) that included keeping the timings intact. Caught the bug reliably every time.

I still think that's the best thing I every did.
Wouldn't the possible location for floating reactors be much more limited than SMR projects? I would think special financing might get the ball rolling for SMRs, strong decades spanning incentives for first movers.
Was reminded the other day about the time I arrived early at the night shift to learn a particular manual "scheduling" technique (how to match single size and double size packages to hundreds of deliverables, and I think there was some options too).

I saw the excel file, asked for 5 minutes, came back after 15 and had solved the problem to such a degree that it went from wasting two hours for two teamleaders on every night we did this job to being almost trivial for one to do in 5 minutes.

And the solution was trivial. Like really trivial. But no one had thought of it before : )

Second best probably when I saved a messed up server in US (an person on site hadn't noticed the . in rm -rf ./bin and had proceeded to use sudo without thinking, as every Linux user does when they go through that dangerous phase).

I realized I still had one ssh connection to the server, realized either scp or rsync or something was in sbin (or somewhere else) and we could use it to copy the necessary binaries to get it back on track.

This easily saved us a 3 days (RHEL with Oracle 11g something easily took days to get right and it also was a massive pain to do).
This is true for soccer, but almost all American athletes make the vast majority of their income off team salary.
I tried but couldn't redirect back to my website as they stripped / rewrote all JS.
I agree. It's part of why I like it, is that it's feature complete, and rarely changes without my explicit request, something I appreciate in a workstation.

I recently saw an article about "maximum viable product" in software, and it really resonated with me.
In my experience Linux DEs are notoriously bad at handling edge cases like this. Probably one of the more frustrating parts of the Linux desktop experience. It’s not a constant pain but on the odd occasion that you hit these edge cases it tends to really suck.
See you in ten years at the earliest when any nuclear generator you break ground on today generates its first kWh of power (assuming it isn’t wildly late or over budget, as every one built since the 70s has been).
“Telegram” is considered an invalid search query on Twitter
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I have been dealing with burnout on and off for a few years, with the biggest episode happening during the height of the pandemic. After being laid off in Feb 2020 and thus able to collect the unemployment plus the extra $600 per week. I started working on my own projects and having leisure time, I found that I could no longer work on things that my heart was into.

These days, I’m doing consulting mixed with working with a non profit I advise. The former being my fuel to keep going and the later being my passion.

I’m still buying a plot of land in the woods for a cabin, but it’s no longer for the reasons I thought.
I have to agree, my SO has been looking for something like this for a long time. Signing up today!
ChatGPT is the new Elon Musk. POSTED ABOUT ABSOLUTELY BLOODY EVERYWHERE.
This feels very much like a submarine ad for Commerce layer.
In 2022, can Windows (or Linux?) defend themselves against an USB drive that contains a virus?

If you go to some service that offers prints and use your usb drive there, Im like 100% sure you will get multiple viruses.

I dont understand why the operating systems dont seem to be able to defend themselves against it. Also in the past the drives had a "read only" mode, nowadays this is hard to find.
Shadow nefarious techniques are the best. Don't give them clear indications that there is a problem.

For example, I had an app developer start stealing API content, so once I determined points to key from them, instead of blocking them I simply randomized the API content details returned to their user's apps.

Hey, API calls look good, the app looks like it is working, no problem right? Well, the users of the app were pissed and the negative reviews rolled in. It was glorious.
'Tech' covers so much. Some people I know in 'tech' do urban planning, some archeology, others make movies or furniture or help invent new drugs. Tech is a tool, and that tool can be applied to just about any endeavour. You have to narrow down what it is you find unfulfilling about what you are currently doing. Is it literally the fact that you are working with modern computer technology or is it something else. Because if it's the specific industry you're in that is getting you down, you can certainly switch that without giving up on the tech part, which is presumably your competitive advantage.
>> In software engineering we can often afford to wing it in a way that other kinds of engineering can't ...

Just because you can doesn't mean that you should. Of course, with software that is truly noncritical, handling failure modes can be optimized away in favor of shipping-the-new-version sooner. That doesn't mean that it is a good thing.

The fact that this is so prevalent in the software industry is why the general public sees most software and indeed technology ("software is eating the world...") as a plague — time and time again, NO effort is made to ensure that things fail-safe, or even that they fail-gracefully.

So the user experience is that tech is good enough that we sort of have to use it (it's better than paper), but so bad that it is endlessly frustrating, whether it's endless glitches in client or web apps, data that gets mysteriously lost or corrupted, Bluetooth still screwing up connections, UI 'designs' that hide key functions behind a 'clean' interface that is nonetheless inscrutable for the occasional user... the entire industry has created a world no one wants to live in, one little decision at a time.

(And that doesn't even begin to account for software that kills people by bad decisions or oversights.)

The fact that an article such as this one is even necessary — that it is NOT simply assumed that an absolutely key part of the design process of every piece of software is to consider all failure modes and how to handle them in a way that is safe and graceful — casts a real shadow over the software industry, and shows why it is still separate from real engineering (despite software often being more complex).
We disabled the public facing because of insane number of bots (99.9% of traffic were bots). Teclis results are still available for Kagi users (in main results or through non-commercial lens).
last time I had to print passport they were asking me to send email. This is such a ridiculous thing to be honest from the privacy point of view.
This is why I picked up gardening as a hobby!
For newer class-based games like Overwatch, the classes behave so differently and exuberantly that people are going to want to know what ever new flashy effect means. In football, the "classes" blend together and share a common goal. The difference between the Offensive Guard and Offensive Tackle are minuscule to the layperson. However the difference between Reinhardt and Winston are huge, both in terms of playstyle and presentation. Compound this with games adding new classes sometimes as frequently as every three months. That's hard to keep up for the casual viewer.

However you are correct that the objectives in games are usually simple. Push this thing from here to there. Don't let enemy stand here alone. Shoot enemy until no enemy.
The government is planning to set up a reinstatement foundation, which would be responsible for returning property confiscated during the White Terror era and compensating victims targeted by the then-Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) regime, she said.

This is huge. Not much local coverage in Taiwan, so I guess people are skeptical, but a lot of families lost most of their wealth because of: 1) seizures by the KMT authoritarian government, and 2) the devaluation/replacement of the original "Taiwan Dollar" with the "New Taiwan Dollar".
Strong disagree with that characterization - please provide evidence on falling up.
https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/pic/orig/media%2FEpeZMhDUwAAY...

The screenshot says "BoxFight.verse". Either Unreal has two separate new programming languages both called Verse, or you're plain wrong.
I mean the West spent the entire cold war spreading propaganda. Russians knew what McDonald's was they just didn't have any.

And the Russian state did employ economists.
I built a fence around my yard a few years ago and got more satisfaction out of looking at that physical manifestation of work every day than I was getting from my day job.

Fence builders probably feel good when they do something outside of their comfort zone, though, so I think it's just a condition of being human.
You can get paid without getting paid well.

Take [1] as a random example - 18th in the pubg global championship, and they've made $53k split between 3 players in 2022.

How many hours of practice do you think they have to put in, to be 18th in the global championship and earn $17.7k per person?

[1] https://liquipedia.net/pubg/BBL_Esports
If your issue with Ubuntu is Ubuntu-specific patches, I don't think Debian is a solution. They patch a lot.

I personnaly think it's too much mostly because I don't value most of the reasons Debian patches (I don't care about exotic architectures - I value conformance to upstream more than the ability to have modular and small packages - I don't care about having some non-free parts in my package).
Well if they need help they could always ask their neighbor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship)
RIP - my coding playlist is filled with his work, love all the Ashra & Ash Ra Tempel material too.
There's not a lot of ecom discussion on hackernews which is weird to me since that's the line of business I am in.

The trend I see continuing is the commidification and standardization of ecommerce platforms, with Shopify and BigCommerce continuing to chomp away at former giants like Magento (now Adobe Commerce). For most companies, the TCO of an ecommerce platform is an important driver in the decision making process. Companies often balk at the demands of shopify (around what you can and can't do) but then come to terms with it and select shopify as their platform.

For anyone with real budgets (like Nike.com) - totally custom, or building on a practically custom (Adobe) site, there may be moves towards the headless trends, but for the most part, the people (SMB) I deal with do not care about the technology, they just want a short time to launch and a low cost. So for me, I've seen a shift towards to low/no-code platforms and low cost. In the headless space I think fabric is particularly interesting, though I do think Adobe has a chance to do it correctly, but overall, I've sat in on several pitches for going headless and the total cost in just doesn't seem to be worth it.
Or just make the whole page rotate

body[href*= "<OFFENDING URL>"] {
animation: rotation 20s infinite linear;
}

@keyframes rotation {
from {
transform: rotate(0deg);
}
to {
transform: rotate(359deg);
}
}
HN probably won't like this but if they are blocking all JS you can make all content invisible with CSS and use JS to unhide it before page load finishes. Temporarily of course until these guys go away.

The nice thing about this is it can be made arbitrarily complex. For example you can make the page actually blank and fetch all the normal, real content with JS after validating the user's browser as much as you like on both client and server. That's what Cloudflare's bot shield stuff does. Since JS is Turing complete there is no shortcut that the proxy can take to avoid running your real JS if you obfuscate it enough. They would have to solve the halting problem.

What a determined adversary would do is run your code in a sandbox that spoofs the URL, so then your job becomes detecting the sandbox. But it's unlikely they would escalate to this point when there are so many other sites on the internet to copy.
I visited the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL semi-recently, for the first time since I was a very little kid.

It was disappointing all around—lots of stuff broken, outdoor exhibits clearly deteriorating, nickel-and-diming for every activity after a not-cheap entry fee, a ton of floor space dedicated to a visually (at least) hideous display that looked like someone took all the material from an aerospace defense contractor trade show and dumped it haphazardly about the place, their collection of space travel artifacts generally being unimpressive aside from the obviously-amazing turned-on-its-side-and-broken-apart Saturn V (if you could pay half the entry fee to just see that, it'd be the superior bang-for-the-buck experience by a long shot)—but the goofiest bit about it was that 100% of its depiction of the future of space flight, which was pushed on little displays and such scattered about the place, was dedicated to the obsolete money-pit SLS. Contributed to the feeling that the whole facility was paid-entry advertising for the aerospace-defense industry (I assume the SLS has been a reliable source of fat contracts for the usual suspects).
In a Future Filled with Electric Cars, AM Radio May Be Left Behind
At least in XFCE, that "reasonable expectation" has been fulfilled for as long as I can remember.

In KDE, I have no idea, because the last KDE that I have used was 3.5, which was the best desktop environment that I have ever used, including in comparison any Windows or MacOS version (while KDE 4.0 was the worst).
Oh, I forgot about those. People still use those where I live (Poland), though Bluetooth streaming is becoming more popular. But it doesn't mean they're necessarily buying new sticks - 10 year old ones work just fine.

Or, some do as I do, and just play music straight from the phone speakers.
Also nuclear waste!
> written, composed, and (deep-faked) performed

Ok, so :

1- Written : ChatGPT already spits out pop-hit-ready lyrics (not a high bar...)

2- Composed : AI results are, by definition, perfectly attuned to our tastes. Plus pop melodies are the easiest. So if you curate a good one out off, say, 1000 random (midi) generations, you can compose a Hit with it

3- Performed : Videos are more difficult that images, but we are already conditionned to CGI + VFX heavy music videos (even low-prod ones). So I don't think it is difficult to generate an AI powered ("collage" style) deep-faked music video.

It is not over though. You did not mention if the sound is totally AI generated or if humains arrange/produce and play/sing in it.

As you can glimpse from the openAI jukebox [1], IMO it is convincingly generating these two elements with the three others into a coherent (less hallucinatory) whole that may be real difficult.

[1] https://jukebox.openai.com/
Microsoft plugs into LSEG’s data drive
Rust's traits come to mind as one example.