skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can run Linux entirely on L3 memory.

Is that a theoretical possibility based on the fact that Linux can run in a memory footprint < 768MB, or has someone actually demonstrated it? Can you boot one of these processors without any RAM installed?
Let me dwell for a moment on your nitpicking dismissal of the Amish example. My understanding of the spirit of Amishness is basically to live within a cultural snapshot of preindustrial Germany, since with postindustrial life comes a huge web of dependencies on other people where, if the web collapses, most of us will die. The Amish have placed a very long bet, and it is not clear to me that it will turn out to have been an unwise bet in the end. Sure, more liberal Amish do accept some technology and contact with the outside world, but I believe orthodox Amish, at least aspirationally, do not.

We today are culturally massively(!!!) more similar to preindustrial Germany than to hunter gatherer tribes, and the orthodox Amish are at least abstractly aware of modern technology existing in the outside world. Jumping all the way to hunter gatherers drags in a huge amount of unnecessary confounding factors. Yes, quite obviously, hunter gatherers would be more surprised by cars than by tent people. I believe the Amish would see cars as dirty mechanized wagons, whereas hunter gatherers would see them as (evil?) magic. Also, one can be shocked by more than one thing at a time, and the presence of one type of shock does not invalidate the others.

Just because homelessness is not the worst modern problem, does not mean it is not a problem. The fact that it is a recent problem here in America (to the degree we see it today, anyway) suggests that it may be more tractable than, say, cars or industry (which I don't disagree are also problems).

I agree that people who do not want to contribute to a community should leave. There is an interesting symmetry here though - do you feel the same way about non-native (to the city) homeless? Are the homeless contributing? Or are they exempt from this requirement? I assume you will say they are exempt or that they are contributing in some way, and if you don't mind I am interested to hear your reasoning.
What a strange way to think about health care.

Can you explain what you mean when you say you only work for 4?

In the UK where this trial was run both the employer and the employee pay for National Insurance which covers nationalised healthcare. Whether you work 1 day or 7 a week, you still get covered.
It looks like the first connection will use SignalR and download the WebAssembly in the background. All connections after that will use the cached WebAssembly.
If you think the source is bad for whatever reason, could you link some that you think are better?
https://github.com/historicalsource?tab=repositories

This GitHub account is the mother load for old dos game sources...
That’s not what I’m questioning at all, but it’s an invalid threat model unless you’ve audited every other file in the wider application
The opposite is true.
Employees are the ones ultimately doing the work and know what value they add. As they see it, they'd have to make outsized sacrifices to return to the office. Businesses have not provided any compelling reason to come back to the office, the actual workers doing the work know how little value it adds to their own stand-alone job.
Raising the subject of maintaining remote work rather than pursuing opportunities elsewhere is collaboration, ironically the argument they put forward for RTO. It's a small concession from the company for the benefit of increased productivity, if that's not the reason then the company should explain it and sure as hell, it will need to be a compelling one.
It would have meant a lot for them to bounce that ball
I agree. This is where the people that can draw lines in the sand are even more important.
Switzerland actually DOES fine you more if you have the money and break the law. https://www.hotcars.com/heres-why-a-dude-in-sweden-received-...

Traffic fines are often considered regressive because a rich person can laugh at a few hundred dollars whereas a poor person suddenly can't afford rent.

So yeah, perhaps some fines should scale to ones means, otherwise it won't deter bad behavior.
Dock it off my paycheck too, I don't care, I want that 4-day work week!

Though of course, being in the Netherlands, my employer doesn't pay for my health insurance.

Edit: as for the general point about compensation being more than salary, it is also common in the Netherlands that PTO is prorated to the hours you work per week. That is fine; I'm happy to scale everything down to 4/5th if I can scale my working hours down to that.
The Blackberry had “Sent via Blackberry” before iPhones exsisted.
Excellent, thank you! The swiping model didn't feel like an ideal solution for the task.
Disagree. Fargate is very simple and as far as I know has not changed much in years. Give it a docker image, watch it go. Want to leave? It's literally a dockerfile, take it and run it elsewhere.
Microsoft has what Urban Dictionary would call "chronic Small Dick Energy". It's why they constantly erode user agency and do bizarrely counterproductive things like putting ads in the file explorer. It's not financial, it's the culture. They don't like you, and they want you to know they think the people who use their operating system are stupid.
NASA Images Confirm China's Mars Rover Hasn't Moved in Months
Ok I'm a little angry at Netflix but as long as they still have amazing shows like Cunk on Earth I'm willing to forgive them. Haven't laughed that hard in years.
Why not just remove the sign if you want to mess with people?
I'm over 50 and I'm in the same boat. Hybrid is ideal for me for the same reasons. I find collaboration on work to be more difficult when I don't have an in-person connection with my teammates.
Decision tables [1] have that property. They have a finite number of states and you can test all of them.

If "smart contracts" in crypto land were written as decision tables, it might have helped a bit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_table
If only I was paid for all those "on call" hours when I was a sysadmin :)
I know people who've tried to fix this from time to time but it always seems to go wrong.

We could track expected response size, but then every feature launch triggers a bunch of alerts which either causes the expenditure of social capital, or results in alert fatigue which causes us to miss real problems, or both.

This is a place where telemetry does particularly well. I don't need to be vigilant to regressions every CD cycle, every day, or even every week. Most times if I catch a problem in a couple of weeks, and I can trace it back to the source, that's sufficient to keep the wheels on.
Let me be clear, I think it was an absolutely moronic move by the reddit CEO.

However, you make it sound like it happens all the time. In reality, it happened literally just once (multiple comments, but all within one hour), the edit itself was made obvious on purpose, and it has never happened again (it's been almost 7 years since then).

For additional context to what happened: the CEO replaced his own username (u/spez) in a few comments on r/the_donald (that were just variations of "fuck u/spez") with usernames of r/the_donald mods.

Again, I have a very low opinion of Reddit leadership team and their direction in general, but "CEO editing user comments" is not a concern I have about the website at all. Mostly because it was an isolated incident that happened over half a decade ago.
Being a contractor means less income security than an employee, higher and more complicated taxes, and no benefits. There is not much "glamour and prestige" either.

Frankly most contractors do not make as much as FAANG employees, and even if they did, they would end up keeping less of it because of the taxes and paying for their own health care etc. Even contractors contracted by FAANG companies make less money than full-time employees at those companies.
Weird that zypper/libzypp isn't more widely know and used. I mean, it's there. And (open)SUSE isn't exactly a new or confidential distro.

Says a lot about our discipline.
More like we're 98.7 % certain that the screen layout looks ok for all device types and languages. The question is how hard is it to fix the problematic cases without turning the whole thing upside down when you find out the original solution is not enough.
A lot of people will say to do your socializing outside of work.

IMO the kinds you described are really helpful for work collaboration and even politics.

Plus when you build better communication relationships with coworkers for regular chatter then it drastically improves respect and discourse in important team discussions and code reviews.
Good, anyone that requires me to go to an office for something that I can do as effectively or more effectively from home should not be able to have a job.
If I had to make the choice it would be another job. Easy choice.
The article states that the ad is in Edge Canary and not stable builds.
Times are tough.. let's spent what little money we have on renting an office space?
Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I don't understand how to read this article - most of it seems to be behind a paywall (which is fine, but the article probably shouldn't be posted here since most people won't be able to read it)?
Maybe a little bit less sinister than that. Just a way to promote the product in every email originating from their devices
Shouldn't be too big of a difference, and I personally don't see any improvement - it's still the Angular-based app running in the browser
Before you can ask your first question you're shown https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask/advice

Note how you have the check "thanks, I will keep these tips in mind when asking" before being able to proceed. This has been shown for years and isn't a new thing.

Maybe some things should be clearer; as I mentioned in another comment[1] I think Stack Overflow lacks a clear vision, but people are certainly given more information beyond the tagline.

You can take any tagline to its extreme.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34887632

> I wish people would stop propagating this lie that gatekeepers are necessary for "high quality". It's a lie propagated by gatekeepers to defend themselves.

Don't brand people are "liars" because they have a different view of things.
I don't think so. We already live in a world where anything playing on a movie screen has a digital equivalent easy to find for free; ditto music and books. Despite that, sales continue to increase every single year. While removing it from the underground would no doubt decrease sales, calling it "uneconomic to produce" is unnecessarily apocalyptic.

As for software licensing, the GPL and most licenses would become irrelevant, since the copying can now happen both ways.
If you think you can't do something, prove it
Hey HN, reframing things in terms of experiments has been super motivating for me and wanted to share my thoughts on it.

I think this approach could be described as "experimentation over self-belief".

One reason it's powerful is that it solves the self-belief bootstrapping problem: when you don't have self-belief, how can you take actions which require it, in order to develop it?

You can always do an experiment.
For the First Time, Genetically Modified Trees Have Been Planted in a US Forest
The burden of proof would be in the company that wants to sell it. So “you” wouldn’t have to (nor your tax dollars). The company who’s investing resources to bring the product to market would have to. (And it should go without saying that they should also have to fund an impartial third party in order to do that)
Liquidity pool holds token X. User decides to short token X. Pool collects collateral from user, then market sells token X. User can buy token X back and return to pool at any time. If not returned and liquidation threshold reached, off-chain bot triggers liquidation for a % reward.
This article is missing a discussion over the rise in car, fuel, and insurance prices during the same time period that teen driving fell.

That and the fact the average miles driven dropped nationally during the early pandemic, and legally mandated behind-the-wheel courses stopped right when these 18 year olds should have been getting their licenses.
> It is possible for the balloon to change its altitude and then pick up different wind directions and velocities.

I've tried multiple different levels from 090 to 520, and it seems the deviation within level is extremely minimal.

i.e. maybe a difference between 70deg and 75deg, but if it's going in the general direction of east, there's not an altitude to turn around or even sidetrack.
I will cancel prime and hit them where it hurts. Who will join me?
You’re right that SD can create images which stir in the viewer some sense of meaning. But there is a type of art where the artist is intending to communicate a message. These are usually messages about the human experience. SD has no human experience and has no intention thus it cannot intentionally craft a message for others to receive. I’m not saying SD can’t create valuable art, but that SD cannot fully displace human art. Even if we had complete AGI, those beings would create their own art and there would still be room for human art.

And then there’s things like photography. I take photographs of real places and things. It’s not about having a nice looking picture, which SD can create, but about capturing a real moment. You could have a robot capturing images and deciding based on some criteria what might look pleasing, but there will still be room for human artists to capture something they find meaningful.

There is other art, like physical art installations, music, club mixes for dancing, and more which are all meant to touch people. Picking a random song, for some reason I’m thinking of Garth Brooks’ “Thunder Rolls” about a man who cheats on his wife. The choice of topic, of lyrics, and of intonation and timing and delivery of this is all based on some human experience.

I mean hell, I grew up in California. I could try to write a song about growing up in Japan, or England, or Kenya. But the people from those places would find something missing. I might be able to fool another Californian in to believing what I wrote, I could even find success with it. But it’s not going to replace real stories from the people who really grew up there.

It’s the same with algorithms with no internal experience. Even with AGI that has its own internal
experience, that experience will be so different from humans that there will still be room for human art. We might appreciate each others art and share in experiences like being abused by corporations and longing to be free, but there will still be differences. And those differences create opportunity.

Just to reiterate: SD is cool! I’ve run it at home and played with it a bunch. I’m not saying it isn’t useful nor am I saying it won’t be world changing. What I am saying is it will never fully displace human art.
as I see it, until now automation has done the opposite. it’s scarcified valuable skilled manufacturing jobs and forced more and more people into the service industry. I don’t see why this will be any different.

that’s the dystopia I’m terrified of, no one starving or homeless, but as penance we all have to be waitors and shop attendants for the landed upper classes
https://archive.ph/TQ5ro
No, it was this

https://fdra.org/latest-news/nike-acquires-data-integration-...
KanjiVG is pretty cool. The color coding for radicals and stroke orders is nice. Also, parsing and using the SVGs is fairly straight forward.

Having owned a couple of books that had the stroke orders wrong while I was learning Japanese, I always check for mistakes in the stroke orders of kanji like 右 (right) and 左 (left) to make sure they're correct. KanjiVG gets it right.

On a tangentially related note, I recently purchased an iOS Japanese dictionary app called "Nihongo" (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nihongo-japanese-dictionary/id...) for my daughter because she wanted to study Japanese. I was just expecting a basic course, but it is probably the best vocabulary/kanji studying app I've ever used. It's a little pricey, but well worth it if you're trying to build a strong Japanese vocabulary or learning to read kanji. I have no affiliation with the people who make the app. I'm just an impressed buyer.
The skill is in creating the training data in the first place.

Training a model is hardly a skill. It’s more like playing Tamagotchi—check on it once in a while to make sure it hasn’t died, and guess at ways to make it happier in the future.
Buybacks don’t interfere with public ownership. They just boost the share price. Any member of the public who wants to remain a shareholder just… doesn’t sell his shares.
I don't work for Amazon, but used to live right down the street from the Amazon balls and the rest of the crap downtown.

I have since moved a bit out of the city and do work in tech. However, I can say that I would not care one iota about what financial interests Andrew Jassy or any other CEO has about their own interests.

They do not care about my mental health, time, cost of commuting. Why should I care about theirs?
its for kids who think there phone is there only computer an jus trynna see memes doring class
I understood it differently. Saying the email is a “paraphrase from ChatGPT” seems more like they had ChatGPT generate it, and then modified or “paraphrased” it themselves
> Also, since OpenAI was already used, it could have been cool to provide a summary of the transcript!

I liked this idea, so I opened a PR for exactly that: https://github.com/jonatron/fosdem2023whisper/pull/2
It is not modifying the website. It is microsofts browser that shows you stuff above the website....

I think both are absolutely disgusting
us culture relies on relativistic concepts. one up man ship, if you will. and only when its favorable (consider how much more intense rugby is to american football). i have more examples but no way out
So it runs a liquidity pool that plays the role of the hypothecation agreement in stock trading?
> I hear this strawman all the time.

Is it a strawman if it appears (among other places) in the 2008 launch blog post of one of the two cofounders[1]?

> Every question in Stack Overflow is like the Wikipedia article for some extremely narrow, specific programming question. How do I enlarge a fizzbar without overwriting the user’s snibbit? This question should only appear once in the site. Duplicates should be cleaned up quickly and redirected to the original question.

Or here’s the other cofounder’s 2018 retrospective[2]:

> Stack Overflow ultimately has much more in common with Wikipedia than a discussion forum. By this I mean questions and answers on Stack Overflow are not primarily judged by their usefulness to a specific individual, but by how many other programmers that question or answer can potentially help over time.

Reasonable people may disagree on how well SO accomplishes that goal, but I think it’s well established that it converged on having it as a goal fairly quickly and has had it in sight for basically all of its existence—unlike other initial positions which are known to have changed[3,4].

In no way is this meant as an endorsement of gatekeeping[5]; it’s just that it’s never been not about giving you the perfect answer to your question, for any value of you including me.

(SO calling itself a Q&A site is perhaps a little tautological, given it more or less defined the term. But Q&A as envisioned there is, in particular, not[6] a forum, which would be about answering or discussing a specific poster’s question.)

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/09/15/stack-overflow-lau...

[2] https://blog.codinghorror.com/what-does-stack-overflow-want-...

[3] https://blog.codinghorror.com/meta-is-murder/

[4] https://blog.codinghorror.com/listen-to-your-community-but-d...

[5] https://blog.codinghorror.com/stack-overflow-none-of-us-is-a...

[6] https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/92107/are-stack-exc...
The commute angle of the remote work argument always seemed weird to me. If you work at a FAANG you can afford to live anywhere, including in places that would give you a short commute to work.

I feel sorry for people in the service industry who have hour-long commutes because they can't afford to live closer. But that is not the case for tech workers.
> Wow. And that is somehow easier than using, say, a concurrent collection? (I have never used a database in my life, so we obviously come from very different angles :-)

When it comes to understanding locks, concurrency, and parallelism with shared data between threads... yeah. In my experience, the database is heavy lifting but absolutely ensures that most issues are taken care of.

But as I stated earlier: lighter weight solutions, such as flock() exist for a reason. If the database is too heavy (note: sqlite3 is extremely lightweight, so I bet it works for most cases), then flock() a file and read/writing to it works too.

What flock() gets you is that 100% certainty about cleanups upon strange exit cases that threads do not get you. A flock() always cleans itself up on process termination. No guarantees about mutexes (or other issues) on thread-cancellations or other thread-related issues. (I dunno, oom killer)

> Again, there is almost never a good reason to use pthread_cancel() in the first place.

On the contrary. The pthread community knows that pthread_cancel() is poorly behaved and constantly tells beginner programmers not to use it.

"There's no good reason" because everyone knows that the number of traps in using that function are legion. Its never worthwhile to use that function because it just leads to severely buggy behavior in practice.

> So you need to make a process group... What if your code should be cross platform? Do you know how to do this on Windows?

... you know that Win32 doesn't support pthreads, right? And C++ std::thread doesn't support anything that we've talked about either.

To answer your question: Win32 job objects. Every reasonable modern OS supports the concept of sessions (Windows just calls them job objects instead). The OS-level (be it session leaders / session groups in Linux, or Job objects in Windows) is the correct solution to this problem.

EDIT: Found the function name for ya: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/jobapi2/...

> This kind of signaling does not exist because it is not necessary. Tasks either periodically check a boolean flag or get notified via the queue itself. Here is a random simple example: https://openframeworks.cc/documentation/utils/ofThreadChanne....

> Also, I'm not sure why you keep talking about pthreads... Modern programming languages have their own (portable) threading abstractions.

And you damn well know that under a thread-kill or thread-cancel scenario, this code stops functioning. While all the code I talked above will function correctly even in the worst-case "kill -9" SIGKILL.

Whatever underlying synchronization that channel is using to synchronize thread access will stop working if a pthread_mutex_lock() is called, but its corresponding pthread_mutex_unlock() fails to be called due to cancellation or other issue.
There are as many schools of thought and meditation methodologies as there are people. What resonates with me may not resonate with you.

Having said that, "Streams of Wisdom" by Dustin Diperna is, IMO, the finest 40,000 foot view of meditation and spiritual development that I know of.

For an actual no bullshit practical guide to meditation Eckhart Tolle's "The power of now" is what I would point to. You really need nothing more than this book.
Google Takeout has added an option for GDrive as a destination for the backed up files. When the backup is complete the files appear in your GDrive.

Have you considered streaming the files from there to Azure Storage ?