skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> HN is all about that cult of personality, we want to believe in heroic programmers (or founders) who singlehandedly change the world with their geinus clarity.

I'm not one to defend the culture here but this isn't fair. Everyone is like this and it has nothing to do with HN. They do it with politicians, rock stars, capitalists, etc. Just look at the cult of Elon Musk. And they do it because all of those people put a lot of money and work into making sure they do it. Worship is paid for. That's what PR and image firms do, not to even mention that it's the default culture of the media in pretty much every country on the planet.
Most technical people are not perceived a threat all because they do not pose any social damage. Tech threats can be handled in all kinds of passive or escalated to cruel and insane ways without any risk of public backlash.

Someone with 1mil+ followers is a whole other story. They have enough people watching their every move to cause problems if they are dealt with directly, so they need more attention for implicit handling over time, psychological and financial handling, etc. People with an audience can cause a lot of social, political, and ultimately financial damage to many entities just by some words. And in a world run by marketers, salespeople, lawyers, bankers, and politicians — this is the scariest threat imaginable.

Tech people can do a lot of technical damage but it is mostly just a thorn in the side of the machine. Even if they built something disruptive, an audience is needed for it to go anywhere, and most avenues for scaling anything disruptive are already tightly controlled / monitored by big tech.

I say this as what I believe the controlling authorities perspective is on the matter.
> BOFH is older than the Register.

I knew that BOFH is old, yet...

> "The BOFH stories were originally posted in 1992 to Usenet..."

I didn't know that it was that old.

Amazing. Thanks for sharing.
As a senior SWE at Amazon I had the autonomy to do this sort of thing as soon as the several years worth of work my team had planned was done. Half the senior SWEs at a big job board that calls itself a tech company are concerned with migrating everything to per-table microservices that expose endpoints that do exactly the SQL queries other services used to do directly. Thanks for your report of your different experience in a different org. I'll try not to give people a false impression by posting about mine.
From experience working with Mazars, they are perfectly capable of destroying their business without the aid of crypto.
I didn't even know Hot wheels existed up until few years ago, while I played with Matchbox in late 80s or early 90s as European kid, they seem to have better marketing/distribution here in Europe, you can find them displayed prominently while Matchbox is either hidden somewhere or not sold at all. My kid has both brands. From what I noticed Matchbox seem to produce real models, while HW has huge share of weird (unbuyable) models.
Yes, but humans are really good at doing it at scale.
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Honestly no one really cares about VR that’s the problem.

It’s cool in concept but whose going to shell out cash to be tethered to a machine wearing goggles sitting in a chair?

AR has potential but even that is marginally better than alternative solutions.

Also, I don’t know about y’all but I don’t trust Facebook so I don’t trust Meta. They are a data-leach.

We still probably have a decade or more to go with this technology it has to be affordable, lightweight, AR glasses not tied to a company that sells peoples data!
I had a major troubles with linux suspend on a 2021 T14 - not a cheap system - and did not get past them. Moved to x1, no problems. Colleague has the T14, still running windows.
> I see this mentality everywhere.

Really? People absolutely worship hardware engineers who work on projects like the LHC, the ISS, or the JWST. Or even on much more mundane things: "Wow, you design bridges? Such important work!" And if you're not ready to accept that medical researchers are second in status only to God Himself, then God Himself won't be able to help you.

But software engineering? You mean those geeks who develop better ad targeting systems? What did they ever do (other than connect five billion people and revolutionize how every industry on the planet functions)?

The really sad thing is that this attitude is shared by many software engineers themselves. I couldn't care less about what the "man on the street" thinks about a profession that he can't begin to comprehend. But watching this self-disdain coming from my own colleagues really hurts me.
As you mention, the world is about cult of personality, not just hacker news. Look at the situation with influences and such and why brands are following over themselves to link there products with some personality.

We like to think it's some super human person that is some for of genius, but there are very real limits to human intelligence and while there are some admittedly great and lucky people in that regard, they are still very limited and would likely be disappointing if we knew what the rest of there lives were like outside of what we see.

In some ways we seem to love the idea that others are just somehow more gifted than we are and then idolize them, we don't like to accept that everyone is just making it up as they go along all the time, maybe it's a defense mechanism in some ways as it keeps us from doing some of the more exciting things that we could do, because that's only for these special people that we somehow idolize and of course to make it worse, these people generally love the attention so play up to that even more.
Ok, that is an example where his advice was apparently incorrect.

Was that a rule though? If you give advice in 100 different meetings, you'll be wrong in some of them for sure, even if you're a domain expert.

If he was the CTO and co-founder it seems that his approach worked well, at least to get him and the company to that level.
> The US where everything is private and is the most expensive (by far!!) with the least covered and worst outcomes compared to the one's we're talking about. You're ignoring ALL the evidence just to bolster your ideological nonsense.

Do AMD and Intel have have a cartel, or do they have a healthy competition that drives down prices and improves product quality? That's direct evidence against your claim that a) I'm ignoring "ALL evidence", and b) that all corporations form cartels to avoid competition.

The fact that sometimes corporations form cartels does not entail that they always form cartels. The evidence is in fact overwhelming that this usually doesn't happen, but where it does I agree that the government should enforce its competition laws.

Finally, you didn't provide an argument refuting the point that government bureaucracy has an equally large problem in monotonic growth. Even if it were true that corporations always formed cartels, which it's not, it's not clear that this would always be a worse situation than that presented by monotonic growth and the inefficiencies that follow. Yes, the US has a serious healthcare problem. Other countries with privatize health insurance don't suffer from these problems, eg. consider Switzerland and Singapore.
Couldn't they just be in the Google family? Like there's a startup I work adjacent to called aker BP. BP owns a 30% stake. But aker BP is a separate company that's publicly traded.
AI Alignment Won’t Save Us from AI
A kinda depressing thought about AI: Even in a world in which we have perfectly aligned AI and there’s no risk of a “paperclip maximizer” destroying the world, we still have a decentralized technology that’s probably more powerful than an atomic bomb. If every person in the world today had a nuclear weapon the world would already have been destroyed many times over. The only hope for humanity is that somehow we create a benevolent AI dictator that’s more powerful than the other AIs and is able to prevent them from causing damage. I guess that’s a possible scenario but it’s pretty bleak that the bull case for AI is having an AI master controlling the world as a totalitarian dictator. My take is that it would be best for humanity to avoid any advanced AI development, although I understand that’s probably impossible.
They added it back iirc

https://www.xda-developers.com/windows-11-build-22621755-tas...
Don’t want to diminish ChatGPT, it’s very impressive, but the first joke analysis misses the fact that the guy says he quit drinking and then still drinks 2 beers.
At a gut emotional level this would be true

but trade is what has kept the world wars a bay. Start down the path of protectionism and what we see in Russia/UKR will seem like a nice day at the park

a Middle East-China-Russia vs US-EU-UK-AU-CAN would be the likely outcome, and not good for economic stability or national security
Don't move? Have you ever played Superhot VR or Beat Sabre or Pistol Whip or... etc.? You're jumping around all over the place for some VR games and it's extremely fun and the experience can't be reproduced on a monitor.
Hasn't been my experience working with ximea, point grey, and realsense— all these cams are at least some degree of plug and play on Linux. Obviously you end up with the vendor SW if you want more control over the shutter or something, but basic video stream capture is pretty universal.
I'm not sure what you mean by optional parenthesis. I'd say optional separators are a legacy feature, I don't think anyone writes Carp with separators.

Note: I'm a contributor.
Anything that involves constructing precarious fragile structures over large areas of land is not a practical solution.

Imagine wanting to harvest your crops and you can’t use any machinery because of all the structures. Or imagine there is a slight wind and it rips up 200k in solar panels.
Carmack's vision culminated in Quest 2, which is the only hardware Meta has produced that any significant number of people care about.

Instead of Macintosh, I might point at Commodore. Affordable hardware with success in some niches like video production, but poor broader acceptance beyond gaming markets. Weirdly out of touch management with a yearning to be accepted by stuffy business types, but completely misjudging wants and needs. With Quest Pro I get vibes of the Commodore 128, a game machine trying and failing to be a Serious Business Device.
That doesn't involve a laser like in the article, and is probably much slower. I don't think you can get Terahertz speeds by just using Newtonian physics on water.
Has anyone reevaluated his net worth?
It would imprudent to base a whole new business on the SPARC ISA (if that's even possible - would Oracle license it?), unless you were in some niche like the space industry where interoperability is important.

And David is quite right that the Digital architectures are really extinct.

[Now I wonder if Compaq would open source the IP of Alpha. I think they licensed a lot of it to Intel so sadly they probably still make a bit of money from patents there.]
If there is information/data freely available on other platforms, why is it that Twitter also has to host that content? The accounts tracking people's movement were clearly troll accounts. Correct ban imo. Also correct to ban journalists for the same rules.
This is the same type of reasoning that gave us the Patriot Act/Homeland security etc., though. I'm sure there is some truth to it, I just hope people push back against giving the FBI, or whatever agency arises, free reign. Tilting in favor of extreme safety measures sounds pretty bad to me, but I guess this is largely a matter of personal risk tolerance.

Notably, none of the content the FBI was monitoring in this thread had anything to do with terrorism, but that fear is still guiding many people's responses.
Correction: Trump's web site *says* he sold them all out.

But Trump is a proven, habitual liar so it is just as likely that he called it off due to embarrassment from all the negative feedback.

How can we tell which is true? Wait and see if he repeats his grift.

He is also a proven con man driven by greed. If this grifter stunt was really an overwhelming success, what logical reason would restrain him from doing it (or something similar but even bigger) again?

Do you really believe Trump is one to ignore easy money at other's expense? That would defy the entirety of his lifetime.
There's even software that can adapt that DDC brightness automatically using the ambient light around you. I develop Lunar (https://lunar.fyi) that can do that for macOS.

For me, the screens I use are always at the brightness where white regions are as comfortable as a piece of paper. Sure, colors aren't reproduced "as the artist/developer wanted" at those values, but neither do I need that, nor do we have e-ink screens that can reproduce color more accurately.

I just want to create software, research stuff on the internet, arrange my music etc. and if I feel like doing that for 10 hours straight, I only want the screen to tire my eyes as little as possible.

I also read a lot of books and research material, both on Kindle and paper. My eyes get tired after hours of doing that as well. Light is not the only factor.

So although it's good to try to be optimal about the light that gets in your eyes over large periods of time, it's best to also try periodic rest and moving some activities to non-screen mediums instead of fretting endlessly over the last 5% of screen light optimization.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2860314/ Microfluidic Photonic Integrated Circuits?
At the moment I have several of them that receive email for just about any domain. Their banner says they are a honeypot and to not use them. I absorb thousands of spam emails per day per server. Spammers unfortunately no longer blast emails out as fast as they can or I would be accepting more. To accept more I would need to spin up a few hundred more VM's. I also use those servers as a temporary email address. Not really temporary, I mean they will keep accepting emails for a swath of my domains forever but I can go grep for specific senders to get a link or a code.

To my surprise I can still send emails from those nodes. I was expecting to be blocked but since I deliver all the spam to a flat file in a ram disk they don't seem to get listed anywhere. So I use them at times for automated emails and reminders or for reaching out to known shady companies.
Furness seems to have only a cursory understand of immunity (despite all his credentials). Boosters and yearly flu shots just some simple examples of how the immunological world does not work the way he describes. Too many public health officials are unwilling to admit they made mistakes and gave bad recommendations early in the pandemic. He should correct his errors or step down.
I think his point was something to sense zigbee? Would be nice to set it in your house and bridge your power meter, water meter, whatever, onto your wifi. Could have it incorporated into your budget app live. "huh, no dinner out this week, better turn down the heat!".

And if anyone figures outbhow to use that NPU you could even do some inference to get some trends or something. Or even a classifier that could detect a short or water leak perhaps.
From that link:

(defn say-hi [text]
(while true
(if (< (length &text) 10)
(println "Too short!")
(println &text))))

Surprisingly similar to Rust, though I wonder if borrowing-by-default wouldn't be more readable than adding & everywhere. If you really need to give something ownership, you could have a sigil that maps to (move <var>)
I know it's overpriced, people told me so.

So I decided to drop the price by 50% for Christmas, and then I think I'll keep it at least at this level or make it even cheaper.

It's not a sacred knowledge, just some material that I gathered for the past year.

The sacred knowledge, something really cool, I want to make the next year, but I need to afford it. Working FT job and making an interactive course at the same time is way too hard
Just look for older devs then.
That's correct, concurency is not supported right now. I have a POC for using pthread but essentially the borrow checker is not aware of it and so it's quite unsafe.

Note: I'm a contributor.
> dkozel and your kind, whoever you are, wherever you are, and whatever you are doing right now, you are legend.

Both of you are :-)

Heart=warmed. Happy holidays to both of you!
I know someone who built a solid business around using the Oculus Go to show off kitchen designs to prospective buyers. The fact that the Go was a cheap-ish stand-alone Android device was really valuable for them.
> Yes, they should. Who suggested otherwise?

Must have been the pointy-haired guy that hijacked your account to defend periodic formal self reviews.
> How exactly does the FBI asking a private sector company to take down posts violate this amendment?

Imagine if the FBI came to your house and asked you to take down a sign in your front yard.
Stadia is a great example. I am still using it today before the shut down, it's amazing how it's actually got me into playing games again and it's fantastic for casual games with friends since everyone can play no matter there hardware and the multiplayer features are fantastic for this.

It works and it is fantastic, but it's ahead of it's time and most people don't know what it is. That and Google's mismanagement of the service, but if it was an accepted thing, Google wouldn't have had to push it ahead so much, but since it wasn't they did and they failed.
The Fair Labor Standards Act prohibits minors from working in hazardous positions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labor_laws_in_the_United...
The problem isn't the fisherman, the problem is the people buying the shark fins.
just a random thing: girls are more "responsible" because the societal bias is to teach women to be responsible from a young age.

from the perspective of a woman, I missed the possibility to make dumb mistakes because "responsibility" (and not even because my parents taught or encpuraged it, but from friends and family's pressure). Let your kids make dumb stuff and dumb mistakes, please.
They will all eventually get blocked when their crawlers expand the links. Have you tried something like putting conditional redirects in nginx to redirect http/2.0 and just give a silly landing page for anything other than http/2.0? I've never linked to my own sites on Tweeter so I do not know what their bots can do.
Elon Musk is offering the generous opportunity to invest in Twitter at $54.20
Previous submissions (2022): https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
This happens to some extent everywhere there is actual democracy going on. Different people care about different stuff, and sometimes they don’t trust each other to hold up each side of the bargain if there’s no legal process binding the deal together. Private people have contracts. Politicians had a need for a similar formal arrangement to make sure the legislation they’re offering isn’t passed without what they’re seeking. They came up with one.

Americans love their omnibus bills but everyone else just passes them all on the last day of the session. Or has the two bills sitting hostage, one in each chamber (when the chambers aren’t controlled by the same party) while a compromise is formed. Etc. No real difference in transparency or outcome or anything else. Just that in the US there are really quite a lot of people involved and a lot of interest groups in what amounts to a very large democracy. It is always clunky to have that many people represented.

You can still give a name to a sub-bill and talk about it individually. I don’t really see a problem with it except for the offices that have to deal with it.

Also, seeing as you cannot stop them from agreeing to vote a certain way in private, the omnibus bill is something of a transparency measure itself, in that at least we know in an omnibus bill which things were on the trading table and agreed upon at the same time. When there isn’t one, all you can lob is kinda evidence-scarce accusations that your party gave up something you care about and they have some plausible deniability.
Zuck must’ve been high when OKing VR, I still think Google Glass is the way forward with augmented reality. Very comfortable and isn’t trying to rewrite how humans communicate.

I have VR and it is immersive, but way too uncomfortable.
There are pros and cons. Some self-hosting PROs are that you can add essentially unlimited mailboxes and new domains without paying more in monthly fees. Have a new weekend startup idea? Set up your emails yourself for 0 additional mail hosting $. Another pro: Complete control over everything (which could also be considered a con if you don't want more work). Want to set up a catchall? Want to redirect a single incoming email to multiple recipients? Want to get a copy of all emails sent by one email account for backup? Pretty straightforward. Some CONs are that you will be adding yet another set of admin and monitoring duties, which will be dramatically compounded if you host emails for more than just your own interests (e.g. if you also decide to host email for your friends, family or clients). You'll also need to be pretty fluent in SPF, DKIM and possibly DMARC, although that is something you'd probably need anyway if you are a startup and buying your own domains. You'll also need some security, since mailservers tend to get more brute-force break-in attempts than web servers. At least in my experience. And you'll also need to be on top of blacklist monitoring services and learn how to request blacklist removals. Oh! And you'll need to decide if you want virus checking for suspicious emails and attachments. Oh! And a spam filtering solution! For your specific question, have a backup at all times, even if it's only the barebones mailserver environment itself, so that you can quickly restore to a new box and be back up (although you'll still need to change your DNS settings for all impacted domains and wait for that to propagate) TLDR; If you want complete control and want to pay one price for almost unlimited domains and mailboxes, self-hosting is great, but beware the added workload and headache.
I agree. I think he should write a separate article on what he wants to say.
I don’t live in Australia
Yes but I can’t live there
This backwards compatibility decision to separate threads from domains has been very useful and allows to gradually "port" existing code to 5.0: first just fixup C bindings to avoid naked pointers, and then code can safely run on OCaml 5 just as before.

And once a program (and all its dependencies) have removed dependence on global state they can opt-in to multicore by spawning additional domains.
I expect this to have the profitability and longevity of a Pyongyang mega hotel.
Didn't Twitter cite the California law against doxxing (verbatim), and then only publications which violated that have been suspended?

Based on that, it would seem removing the doxxed info and not publishing it in the future would be an easy way to get their accounts reinstated. Or they can just keep yelling into the wind on Mastodon.

It's so hard to have sympathy when the irony of the situation is so fucking thick.
I don’t know what I’m going to do when I have children. It’s scary how fucked up they’re becoming by being given ipads at 12 months old.

I want them to use technology but it needs to be controlled so that they aren’t overexposed to things before they’re ready.

I think I’m going to try and structure it so that they mirror my experience. Start off with simpler devices like consoles and basic programming. Wean them onto it so that they don’t start out with a billion terabytes of information and porn being fed into them before they can even read.