skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started using M68K based Sun 3 machines in high school in 1991. In college from 1993-97 we had thousands of Suns, HP-UX, DEC Ultrix, Unix RISC workstations on campus.

I joined the semiconductor industry in 1997 and all of of chip design EDA software ran on Suns. Everyone had a Sun on their desk and some people also had a Windows PC for MS-Office. We had big 14 CPU Suns in the server room with 16GB RAM for big jobs and would remotely display to our local Sun machines via X11.

I convinced my manager to let me install Linux on a PC and we got a 21" monitor running beyond 1600x1200 (1800x1440 I think) and everyone thought was much nicer, quieter, and most importantly far cheaper than the Sun on their desk.

Then everyone decided to switch and we stacked all the Suns in the server room.

In 1999 we were trying a new chip synthesis tool from a startup called Ambit (later acquired by Cadence) I submitted a bug report with a crash dump showing "Sun4u SPARC Solaris 2.5" and got a reply back from the support showing they replicated the crash and it had "i686 Linux 2.0 GCC" or something in the log.

I was surprised to see that the developers were running it on Linux. You could only buy this software for Solaris / HP-UX / IBM AIX. I asked for the Linux version and the developer said "We don't sell the Linux version, we're a startup that doesn't have money to buy a Sun for every developer so we use Linux x86 and then compile for Sun/HP/IBM at the very end"

Around 2002 the Linux / x86 machines had gotten so fast and cheap that the EDA companies started releasing their software for Linux and we started buying Linux machines. I remember recompiling a custom Linux kernel to change the user / kernel memory split for 2GB / 2GB to 3GB user / 1GB kernel and then 3.75GB user / 250MB kernel. We had some programs that needed over 4GB RAM so we kept a few 64-bit Suns for those.

Then the AMD 64-bit Opteron came out and it was all over. We never bought a Sun after that.

I'm still in the semiconductor industry and everything still runs on Linux. We have clusters with tens of thousands of Linux machines and access them via a remote X11 desktop session (Exceed, NoMachine, X2Go)
> So China's only card it can play is, being as sick as it is for at least a year more, is to be a paper tiger. and threatens with empty promise.

Everything you wrote before this, and in particular "you will note all the anger from normal citizens" is reason enough to worry that this time it might be more than an empty promise. China may end up needing more than sabre rattling to distract its citizens this time.
Twutter is quite fast on the backend. Mastodon is still written in Ruby. Twitter migrated away from Ruby long ago. Of course language is not the primary factor in performance, but I'd bet that most Mastodon instances are CPU-limited.
Rust takes the best parts of C.

I guess a lort of people are missing the worst. :)
Take a look at https://infosec.exchange and you'll find folks.
There are two possibilities:

1. Search engines are getting less good at ranking bad content below good content

2. The good content is getting worse. So bad, in fact, that it looks like bad content.

It may be a little of both. I lean towards 2, though. It’s kind of a race to the bottom in terms of jamming your page with ads, buzz words, and popups these days.

Generally speaking, the web doesn’t have great results for e.g. product recommendations. Part of it is because of how centralized the internet has become.

The best you can do a lot of the time is to just serve mostly Reddit results. But even that can be gamed.
I don't have much of an advice for you, OP, other than what you already knew: try to find a new job ASAP. You may have to leave the US for a while, and come back to interview on a visitor visa, until you can get a new job to sponsor your work visa, which I can only assume to be H-1B.

The above is not a substitute for the advice of an immigration attorney, which you absolutely must consult.

More generally, I wonder if post-2022, offer letters are going to matter at all. 2022 exposed the fact that their protections was always a sort of a "gentleman's agreement". Your case is a great example of that: your only recourse is suing Amazon, a near trillion dollar corporation.

My understanding is that your legal case would be shaky. The offer letter never provided much of a legal protection, we just liked to assume it did, and operated as if it did - hence why the typical advice on tech forums for employees was never to rescind our acceptance of an offer letter.

Because it was never level sound, we saw the sanctity of the offer letter violated en-mass in 2022. It was exposed as an empty promise.
Ok? And Russia had been threatening to invade Ukraine since 2014. It can change drastically overnight.
I noticed that every "standard tech journalism template" on his list was either tech Corporate Press Release stuff, or tech celebrity news stuff...

...vs., jumping over to Ars Technica (called out in these comments for having 80% of commenters assume that Mastodon is a for-profit Twitter competitor), and their "20 Most-read Stories of 2022" article - gosh, maybe three stories of their Top 12 fit any of those templates.

Conclusion: Article author's mental image of "tech journalist" is actually "tech gossip columnist" - for people who want to sound cool & informed, but wouldn't actually want to know anything useful about tech.
The Bezos Post continues its crashing decline down to earth
It takes some research and effort, the title of the post wasn't [do you host your own email and is it so easy a stock broker could do it].
I've been thinking a thing similar to the closing paragraph for a while.

I'm so thankful we have a variety of cultures and people and ways of life. I'm excited to learn things from all of them.

This is a big experiment, and nobody figured out the best way to do things, yet.
the lobster guy?
>War against humans and AI commences. The AI content farms will destroy everything by reducing the signal to noise ratio so that all content is worthless regardless of who wrote it.

That already began this year. We may realize it in 2023 though.
I think you misunderstood the point.

Most of the time, the things that are screaming for our attention are not the truly important things, so it's easy to get distracted and waste time. When we have little kids, they happen to be both important and screaming for our attention, which makes it much easier for us to focus on what's important. That's the point he was making.

I actually observed this in my life a week ago. We just moved our toddler from the crib to a bed and he's been waking up in the middle of the night asking for attention. When this happened, my first instinct was like "ugh. I have to go lay down w him rather than doing advent of code". Then I realized that laying down w my 2 year old is so much cooler and meaningful than anything else I could be doing w that time.

I heard the phrase sometimes "you don't have to do this, you get to do this". That's what I think the quote is about.
I like this approach to FOSS contributions, thanks for the answer, sfpotter.
Same as last year

1984 Will continue to be the high water mark of secure general purpose computing, as nothing since offers the security of hardware enforced write protected floppy disks that can easily be copied and verified as main storage.

Added for 2023

Passwords written down on paper will make a comeback as people realize the general insecurity of their computers. Backing up those lists will use either Non-networked stand alone cameras with SD card storage, or copiers known not to make permanent records.

Capabilities based operating systems such as Genode begin to make an uptick in popularity on HN. Widespread adoption won't happen until about 2030.
The first bullet isn't completely true. Some cities are opening up and going out of lockdown, people are fed up.

I know people in Korla that got together and protested at the police station, and that city is no longer under lock down.

China also just lifted the travel quarantine requirement...
PhDs in the humanities are a net negative to humanity.
Not in the current market no.
The silly walk is a pure crazy workout.

They were in so many ridiculous things against ahead of the curve. It always amuses me how many of their absurd skits turned into reality.
Yes, what was that Steven King advice; "...two shitty pages in a day"
Such is the price of free speech. "I may not like what you have to say, but I support your right to say it"

There are other, far more honorable, avenues to killing initiatives one doesn't like. What's to say I don't start a counter-lobbying campaign?

That so many embrace such a pathetic weapon as censorship speaks loudly about just how easily we sleepwalk into Orwellian society

I bet a lot of these folks would happily report their neighbors to the KGB or Stasi over falsehoods and bullshit, were this the appropriate era
December 2008 to Dec 2022, I am getting SP500 at 13.5% and BRK-B at 12%:

https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/

https://dqydj.com/stock-return-calculator/

Dec 2007 to Dec 2022 is 8.86% for SP500 vs 7.99% for BRK-B.

Dec 1997 is 7.7% for SP500 vs 10.57% for BRK-B.

BRK even provides this information by year in their annual report on page 2, and the all time record is BRK at 20% versus SP500 at 10%:

https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2021ltr.pdf?mod=ar...

Of course, I should not debate that it is possible to beat the market, but the question for an individual is, is the potential return over the relatively risk-less SP500 worth the risk? And the data for the past 14 years or so indicates that BRK’s edge may have decreased.

I write “relatively risk-less SP500” because on a sufficiently long timeline, I assume US federal government is bailing out SP500, or the US federal government has big problems (such as does not exist in the form it is in now).
Would a few nukes solve the Taiwan problem without needing to deploy any troops?
> I just told in what sense ZFC has not been replaced, and you mentioned something different.

You told me your personal experience with textbooks and I told you mine. That’s how conversations work — why are you upset?

You’re also factually wrong: I was pointing out areas of mathematics that (contrary to your claim) were never formalized in ZFC.

> You have still not given a statement an ordinary mathematician should be interested in!

I don’t think you’re being sincere at this point: the formalisms to accelerate reasoning engines and to extract semantic content of DNNs is of clear interest to many working professionals.

- - - - -

I think both threads have something in common:

You’re dressing up your personal feelings (and ignorance) as grand statements about the field.
There is a serious push to find a way to tax electric car owners to make up for the lack of a road tax that’s normally rolled into gasoline prices. Some people will propose tracking the mileage, while others will resist that idea because of privacy reasons. It will be debated here on HN.

Kind of a cheat guess since it’s already starting to happen now, but I expect it to intensify as more and more people get EVs.
It's not a bias, 99.999999999% of things in the Universe could have been better.
Microsoft was the most valuable company in the US in 2000. It still is in the top 5.

Its personal computing operating system has had a 80%+ market share since at least the early 90s.
I can't seem to remove terms from search results any more, and I've tried every syntax I could think of. The reason I tried every syntax I could think of is because I couldn't figure out anywhere on DDG where search syntax is explained (other than !bangs.) I could have sworn there was an easily accessible page in the past that explained that.
There's no best way, my friend.

Hartl's tutorial was where I started, many years ago. I think he keeps it updated.

The best way to learn web dev is to build the thing you want. You'll learn what you need as you go.
Journa.host for journalism is interesting
The most nostalgic part of this is that he's doing the presentation with a camera pointing at paper/books setup. Back in the 90's when I was talking CS, professors routinely presented by writing on plastic sheets using an overhead projector.

Not sure what I was expecting from Knuth though - maybe I was imagining some amazing TeX-based live diagramming environment, but then again he doesn't really use email which should have tempered these expectations.
It would be very useful if it was required by law to inform people when they are interacting with or consuming content from a ML/AI system. Like how you get a warning when you are being recorded on a call to customer service. Have a known icon present in a chat box when a computer system is responding. Same on social media, blog posts, articles, art, etc. Otherwise I think things are going to get very weird and lots of mental health problems are going to get worse.
Merry Christmas People
Hi Community,

Christmas is almost here, So I decided to make a little app to allow the members to anonymously share Christmas Greetings with each other.

Just enter your Name, Email, Your Christmas Message, and you response will be recorded.
On 25th December, your responses will be randomly shared with other people's inboxes, and a random other person's response will be forwarded to your email (the same email you entered in the form).
I deleted my account over 12 months ago. I never assume that my data was deleted and changed my important (not all) passwords when I did so. I'm now going to go through every password in my current password manager that's older than the LastPass deletion date and scrutinize them again.
Posted 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34090931
What is Cybertruck's target market? I find it hard to believe there is a non negligible amount of people who want one.
Serious question: what's the alternative? I've been using DDG for 1-2 years now (switched away from Google), but I'm open to trying alternatives.

My rough requirements are:

1. Ads are served based on searches, not tracking me across the web (I could also probably be convinced to pay a reasonable price for an ad-free search engine, but the search better be _really_ good)

2. Something similar to DDG's bangs. And yes, I know I can replicate the effect myself in browser, but that's not what I want - I want the pre-existing library of them.

3. Ability to search a specific site, (i.e. Google's/DDG's site:example.com)

4. Image search (bonus points for a reverse image search)
Judging by property prices, ie supply and demand, California has nothing to worry about.
Sorry to hear this. Hopefully you find something new soon.
China is thrashing while the rest of East Asia is starting to feel confident

Look at Japanese Bonds, Look at Taiwanese resolve, look at Korean growth - Chinese citizens are starting to recognize that the only thing the CCP has left is fear and domination and they aren't going to support it anymore

So the CCP are going to freak out and start acting crazy, in a (hopefully) futile attempt to get people to react so they can mobilize domestically around national pride.

I trust that the Taiwanese people have the resolve, and the US has the resolve to support them in their resistance to these tantrums without overreacting.
I'm pretty pissed that when LP upped the iteration count for new accounts, they didn't tell legacy users that they should consider changing it themselves. I had an old account which was almost certainly 500 or 5000, and I'm fairly certain that I changed it myself at some point to a larger, different value. But at the time I figured a value like 100,000 would slow the process to the point of being unusable.
This sentiment annoys me because this seems more like an inability to express one’s needs and communicate.

And it inevitably it gives ammo to those who want to take away remote work for everyone.

“See, they don’t actually want to work remotely!”
Wealth is not the only variable, though people with wealth try to turn it into one.

Can the richest person on earth in a free society, get a personal armed forces with the state of the art platforms directly under their control today? They will be unable to indulge in this aspect as a splurge, because their money is restricted.
That's different from a sentence.
Millions of deaths per day is just outright fantasy. It's estimated that total COVID deaths China will occur now that they're pivoting from zero COVID to herd immunity will be 2-3 million. Not to mention, the vast majority of people adversely affected by COVID aren't military age.

China still would lose far more than it'd gain from invading Taiwan. This [1] does a good analysis of the geopolitical consequences of such an action. That said, the same was true about Russia invading Ukraine, but it happened anyway. The right path is to do rigorous analysis but be honest about the uncertainty.

1. https://www.csis.org/analysis/reunification-taiwan-through-f...
xoj was great

https://cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x11/#xoj

There are a bunch of great stuff on this link
You're already interacting with a lot of bots on the net. They'll increasingly become more invisible.

I think human interaction might move offline a lot, or to spaces like video chat where bots (currently) cannot fake it.
"Are all places like this?"
Well most of EU is not like this...
There are plenty of users for whom having to write configuration in JSON is a significant barrier, either because they find the syntax obtuse or because they want things like comments, multiline strings, or expressions. Using a DSL can be a huge UX improvement in many cases.
Another key difference is that Russia is in decline and China believes they are in ascent. One of the main reasons Russia attacked in 2022 is because they believed that an attack would be more difficult in future years.

OTOH China believes that their balance of military power is increasing relative to Taiwan and the west so an invasion will be easier in the future. Better to wait than invade in 2023.
That's a good catch. I'm still on a MacTel MBP, so this is not something I had ever considered. That's going to be just one more reason I'll keep the current laptop powered up on a shelf in the closet if/when I upgrade to a newer computer.
No, you are purely a number to them, it is very unlikely anyone cares or even is mildly interested in the full scope of the damage they’re causing. I have worked with companies like this, if you try to push them from the “guilt” angle they usually double down about how this is collectively the best solution (carefully omitting that what they mean is it’s the best solution for their personal ambitions and wallets)
// All I can conclude from the article is that PG is quite happy with his!

A great sign that we should pay attention to his advice :)
But all places are like that in fact. The best you can hope for are that they respect the law.

If you didn’t experience it yourself it’s solely due to a mix of luck, never being at places that struggled and being hard to replace, that’s it.
That is true. However, to the point made above, proof of work is actually using a scarce resource. If you fork a proof of work chain, the amount of mining power remains the same. You can’t mine both chains with the same resources. If you fork a proof of stake chain… everything just copies over. And then maybe if people place nicely in the name of the being good crypto citizens they agree to only focus on one chain.
I somewhat agree, but I have had bad experiences at micro companies as well (companies under 75 employees)

My experience the sweet spot is privately held corporations above 200 employees below 1000-2000 employees. Privately held is a key part, all publicly traded companies suck IMO
I know a few folks relatively high up in Amazon HR/TA/People Ops type roles and the scale at which they operate recruiting is nuts. Mainly driven by the insane need for people in the ops/fulfillment/delivery areas, but corp roles are also similar.

They typically make more offers than roles they have available, as they have fairly good analytics around what % of offers will not be filled post acceptance (ie someone simply never shows up for day 1 of work).

Now, fast forward to today, and as you've heard in the press, and from Amazon directly, they are slowing hiring and may even do cuts in the new year. I think what you're seeing is in some areas they may be over running offers, and need to pull back and kill some post acceptance to correct based on the new reality of hiring forecasts.

Still sucks and is a shitty situation.
It would make more problems than it would solve.
Which NATO ally?
Also you don't pick the first one, keep generating until it's something you like.
Why even bring him up repeatedly when he himself says it's not dead yet. Maybe it goes belly up in a year or two but at the moment it's not dead.
I worked at a company in about 2002-5 that was selling software to mobile phone carriers. They were still exclusively Sun hardware. And that was probably the last time I used Sun hardware.

I have no recollection of why McNealy left, but I’m not sure Schwartz was the right person for the job. He did some good work for forwarding the case for FOSS, but it always seemed to come at the expense of Sun.
In my experience layouts is consistently the hardest and most important part of CSS. I’ve tried to master it and am pretty good but still struggle sometimes. So simply creating smaller prototypes to see how a certain layout should be implemented, and then applying it to the real app after, has done wonders. Then pretty visual side i.e. colors, fonts, etc. makes up for the rest but individually is not that hard. I just look up what’s needed in case I need a complex box-shadow, some fancy background, etc.
Also discussed 3 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34091098 (325 points, 556 comments)
They do what any reasonable security company does, and call in vendors who have negative incentive to lie: https://support.1password.com/security-assessments/

I was especially impressed by the Cure53 ones, where they were provided access to the source code: https://bucket.agilebits.com/security/Cure53-1PW18-report.pd...
There’s an entire novella of Arthur just finding this notice, right? It could be serialized into three one hour episodes of Dent, queuing & requeuing and just talking to others inqueue.
If you want to get better at writing, be deliberate: practice with the goal of learning and becoming better. (1) read good works and study their authors' choices and techniques, (2) write often to strengthen your writing muscles and develop your style, (3) practice rewriting and editing (your writing and others), and (4) get feedback on your writing.

Books on writing can help, but there is no subsitute for doing the work. Being deliberate about learning from the work, however, will speed your improvement.

With regular work, you'll be noticably better after a month or two, especially if you're getting feedback. After a year, you'll be a different person. Your writing will be faster, easier, and better.

But don't stop then. You're just getting started :-)
The other thing the very good writers I know do that I don’t is practice. That is they will write explicitly for no audience but in a form they’d want to present to a hypothetical audience for a hypothetical reason.

This allows them all the benefits of practice in other endeavors. They can experiment, get faster, build “muscle memory” etc.

I don’t know why I keep being surprised that the answer to being good at things is working at it.
Moores law has nothing to do with performance and the metric is transistor count and like my example in the previous post we exceeded your 1000 figure...
Providing adaptive video (MPEG-DASH / HLS on any non Safari browser) still requires JS though.