skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can't compete with what they once were, so they bury the past. I suspect many industries are like this. If classic movies were played alongside new Hollywood releases, the new movies would probably be choked out. Accordingly, Disney will even restrict the availability of their old movies on DVD. They can't stand competing with their former great selves.
SPAs certainly were not a "zero interest rate phenomenon".

It was early in the 2010s that I saw all the web design shops who made Ruby on Rails sites in my small town suddenly start building all their apps in Angular and struggling.

I'd ask them why they were doing this and it wasn't masochism, rather they believed that small town web clients demanded SPAs and that they couldn't sell user-friendly RoR apps that were affordable to develop.
And here I was thinking you were kidding, but you're not...

https://www.dynamicsource.se/recruitment/quality-assurance-m...
But that’s my question. If the AI generated the exact same words a human touch person would have is disclosing the author necessary?
Totally agree. I think it makes sense for fleet vehicles though. For a truck, bus, etc, I think it makes a lot of sense to swap and go.
The First Angry Man: Howard Jarvis and Prop 13 (2019)
As an embedded developer I'm always surprised that physicists and engineers spend decades pushing the limits of physics, for software devs to come along and make text editors no faster than they were on Windows 3.1
> but my iPhone is not going to kill me. That attitude is not Ok for airplanes.

This is the key point. I imagine the stakeholders here do not think the weight software is that critical, when in fact it could be. This is a common issue with complex systems.

Even though the software does not directly interface with the plane, its outputs are used to make key decisions on takeoff. Normally, there would be a large margin of error allowed, but in this case, due to the desire for max efficiency, the behavior of the aircraft is sensitive to the outputs.

The solutions are to (1) go back to having a large error margin, which of course should be cross-checked for sanity by the pilots, or (2) consider that the software is safety-critical, and should meet the same quality standards as the in-built flight systems.
They didn’t issue a software patch in 22 minutes. It sounds like 22 minutes was the time it took the airline to figure out it was a software bug and tell pilots not to trust the software.

The article says the software bug was fixed in 5 hours, but it’s not clear to me if that was a bug fix or a rollback.
Not to mention that there is already a better than decent chance that no matter who has your medical records, they are already being stored or backed up into one of the major cloud providers anyway.
How to specialize after a career as a generalist?
I have about 30 years in as a sysadmin / Linux / Networking person. I have
worked at a fairly large organization and some small shops, and would consider
myself very competent in linux (kernel hacking, networking, configuration,
automation, scripting, etc). Very good at building servers, configuring VMs,
configuring openstack infrastructure (e.g. building it from bare metal)...

However, I am now in my 50s, and want to move out of my position (e.g. away
from the organization I am at)... but it seems when I look around, there
are very few "generalist" jobs in the IT field (that pay more than entry
level). I am not making 6 figures, so not asking for a lot of money, but
I can not live on "fresh out of college" pay.

How does one go about specializing when there are so many things that are
interesting? I feel like IT is going through the same thing that happened
to engineering and medicine... at one time the barber was a doctor. At
one time a Physicist could do it all. I feel like I used to be that person
in IT. You need a database, no problem. You need a webserver, no problem.
You need some service stood up in the cloud, no problem. Now when I look
at jobs, they want specialists, but I am the old jack of all trades.

How do you HN "old timers" who have chosen to move on and can not find the
old general sysadmin position decide which field to go into? I mean,
do you just wake up and say "I want to get back into programming and do
full stack devops?" or "I want to go into networking" and spend thousands
getting a CCIE? I am just not sure how to take the first step on the journey
of a few thousand steps. I have done the "what interests me" games, but
I find a lot of things interesting (probably one reason I went into
sysadmin)...

I know this seems general, but any help would be appreciated.
I read about it before.[1] There is also a BLAS library made by Nvidia that makes use of CUDA. This post is about how to hook it up to GNU Octave but it also works with R:

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/drop-in-acceleration-gnu-o...

What sibling says about compiling R on your work computer so that it can make full use of your CPU can help too. I am curious if that closes the performance gap for you.

[1] https://csantill.github.io/RPerformanceWBLAS/
I am more surprised that people aren't calling for breaking up Amazon.
A lot of people are in denial of basic genetic factors and keep trying to intellectualize mating practices. I found that listening to the "Beat Your Genes" podcast the most helpful out of the resources available.

Women (on average, obviously individuals are different) are attracted to status vastly more than anything else. All the other "requirements" are basically seen as proxies for status (job, income, character, etc).

IT is still seen societally as medium to low status, so people in the industry are going to struggle. I think the best thing you as an individual can do is get a higher-status hobby (i.e. not video gaming, but something like acting or guitar, etc).

I also find that America is completely in denial about the status game, where as other countries are more honest about it (i.e. people will actually tell you)
Further to the ideal, even if they did have to update the software, Alaska would choose to run both old and new concurrently until they're satisfied with the results. If the new code is producing numbers that are wildly off, and that isn't expected, abandon the update.
I was looking for some information on how VRFs compare to Linux network namespaces & found https://www.toddpigram.com/2017/03/vrf-for-linux-contributio... which does a good job of explaining why it makes sense to use VRFs even though there is some functionality overlap with network namespaces.

I also found some information about using VRFs in the documentation for RHEL 8: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...
"Phishing is possible to avoid" is almost as true as "it is possible to write safe C code." Technically true, but practically not so much.

Now, I grant that for most of us, if you are the target of any nation state level actor, not much you can do. For the most part, they can just compel the party that has your data. That said, security keys are far safer than portable data.
every US person of asian origin I've met while backpacking complained to me how its great the progress black minority receives, but they feel left behind and much more exposed to racism

Is there any group in the US who doesn't feel, on average, that they are the most discriminated-against?
I didn't say they lack the "DNA" for customer service. I just don't think the kinds of customer service they've optimized for are compatible with reasonable (and beneficial, in terms of patient outcomes) expectations in the world of primary care medicine.
Yes, the USS a very litigious Society at the moment and people do win court cases. The wins are rare but I wonder if it is the severity of the penalties which is the issue.
:) Evolution through Large Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08896
A melting pot means that everything (everyone) assimilates to the majority. That's not really what America was intended to be, but it is what a large part of the population wants it to be.
P&T Surplus in Kingston, NY
If you live in or near the Hudson Valley and haven't been to P&T Surplus, it sounds like now is definitely the time to make the trip. This place is like some of the old shops on Canal St. in NYC used to be!
I was unconvinced until I listened to the demos at the bottom. I might have to test this with the next book I listen to, seems like it might make the listening experience better too.
Or I could get the bytes data then create a really big hash table, boom have discovered a glitch in the simulation
Not sure the average German software engineer costs 1/3 of the USA one, but I am sure Germany is still in Western Europe and considered a high cost location. The average German still makes 2-3 times more than the average Bulgarian or Romanian, Indian or Costa Rican.
Show HN: Liftosaur – Weightlifting tracker app for coders
I made a weightlifting tracker app specifically for coders.

In weightlifting, progressive overload is one of the most important parts of gaining muscle. You should constantly increase weights, reps, use different set schemes, and that will make your muscles grow.

There're many weightlifting programs, using various overloading schemes - linear increasing of weights, some periodic ladder-up increase, switching to different set schemes in case of failures, etc. You can implement all of that in Liftosaur.

It works this way: each exercise may define a bunch of variables, that could be changed when you finish a workout. It could be weight, your 1 rep max, number of successful attempts, etc. You can use those variables in reps and weight values. To update the variables, you define a script, that will change them after you've done all the sets of the exercise. The script may change them based on whether you successfully done all the sets x reps, or if you failed any of the sets.

For scripting, I added a super simple scripting language with JavaScript-like syntax called Liftoscript. It mostly only supports if/else, variable setting, and has some built-in types like numbers, pounds and kilograms.

The app contains a bunch of built-in programs, they all are implemented using Liftoscript, and completely customizable. Check it out!
Ask HN: Is Reddit Down for You?
At the moment I'm caught in loop that says at the same time that I'm logged in and that I need to log in.
Or extend the duration of LTS support. For work we have dozens (if not hundreds now?) of AWS Lambda functions written in C# and the short duration of LTS has us considering switching to Python so that updating our code in order to stay on a version AWS supports doesn't become an every two year task.

(And making the upgrade is a requirement because you cannot deploy updates to a Lambda if it's targeting a runtime version that's not in current support from Microsoft.)
That game was built with the same engine as maniac mansion, aptly called Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion (SCUMM)
>> Will the 4-year gap and my choppy CV be a major hindrance to my hirability?

>Yes.

Ultimately, your 4 years of not working turns into a maybe 4 minute story you’ll need to tell a few times when people ask about your gap during interviews. I’d probably ask about it if I was interviewing you OP because I’d worry we’d hire you on and find out you were still burnt or that I’d be effectively gambling about your productivity. Doing some open source work or even personal projects using relevant technology (check job descriptions for what people are looking for) and talking to me about it would assuage me, and boom 4 minutes later your gap is no longer a problem when I give my feedback.
On that note, is it illegal (or does your service provider send you a warning) if you download a torrent link or does there have to be proof you downloaded the actual content of the link?
there's theory, and there's reality. As mostly engineers here we'd love to live in theory, but that's not how the world works.
What about discrimination against North Indians by South Indians? If you are from North India and a South Indian manager screwed you over, please comment here. I would like to know if its a trend. Counter examples are not helpful.
That's probably an industry-wide phenomenon. One Medical IPO'd in January 2020. You know what happened after that? Covid, mass deaths, high burn out amongst medical staff, and a lot of career changes away from meeting Facebook-informed clients face to face.

Fuck Amazon, though.
I saw the same thing happen with Tetris. It was first released when the App Store came out. It was 99 cents and no ads.

It kept working and being available through the 32 bit era. But was never updated for larger screens and was replaced with an ad ridden version.

Plants vs Zombies 2 was also much worse than the original because of ads and in app purchases.

That being said, they did “bring back” Angry Birds Classic to iOS as a one time 99 cents purchase.
Nope, working fine here
Change is not HARD, your ATTACHMENT to your STORY is
Something which clicked my me this morning.
It hit me like a stone.
> The definition of art is controversial in contemporary philosophy. Whether art can be defined has also been a matter of controversy. The philosophical usefulness of a definition of art has also been debated.

Your own link _starts_ with a statement about the controversial nature of a definition of art. Are you surprised you disagree with someone on the nature of art?
>Critics say that Colossal’s money would be better spent in protecting existing species, rather than de-extinct animals that have been dead for thousands of years. Maybe that’s true, but it’s extremely unlikely that this $150M would have gone to conservation otherwise! If rich people want to spend their money on de-extinction, and bolster reproductive technologies in the meantime, then we say “let ‘em.”

There's a French idiom for that, "pompiers pyromanes", which means arsonist firemen. Seems appropriate.
It isn't real. That's the point. It's made up arbitrary classification. Continuing to use it by calling people "lower-caste" is how it persists.

You're not describing reality since there is no such thing as a "lower-caste person". Stop thinking, talking, and acting as if there is.

You can't legislate your way out of it, you just stop doing it, including the language.
I think you are giving more credit to corporations than you think. The exceptions are for top brass, not top ICs.
This is unacceptable anti-AI discrimination!
So many assumptions here! I use tooling to divide my 4K monitor into five rectangles: two across the top each taking up 1/4 of the screen, and three across the bottom each taking up 1/6 of the screen. Even with that, I have to layer some things, and am often actively working with three or more of the "virtual screens" at once.

I am old enough that I've started to wear reading glasses to counter my age-related presbyopia, but if I had an 8K monitor it would probably sit less than two feet from my face just as this 4k monitor does, and I would make use of every pixel.
JPMorgan Restricts Staff’s Use of AI-Powered ChatGPT Bot
No what they need is Freedom and big electric cars that do 0-60 in 2.4 seconds, that will save the world
>Oh, a picture him riding an ATV with the boys. Ah, here's one of him fishing with the boys. There he is, happily posing with a normally dangerous but sedated wild animal. Hmm.

>You get the idea.

I don't get the idea.

Half the comments here are about men lacking healthy masculinity. Now you just described someone who loves going out in the nature. Fishing and hunting are fun hobbies and it's not for men only (literally my local angling club is like ~40% women)
Yea.

Google actively forgets everything in order to encourage new content and paying customers.

Not to mention, many products hit their peak of usability, and then the publishers go ahead and make it a little worse each year just so some product person can look like they did something.
> The only current issue with ext4 that I found was https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/16392

A 3 year old ticket with only one reproduction from 2 years ago, and it appears to have been fixed in the interim, and now the ticket has been closed by the main developer of the ext2/3/4 driver. I wouldn't be too worried about that.

> I don't think I will be plugging in my primary backup drive just yet

That's probably a good idea anyway.

> but at least it can now deal with journaling on ext4, progress.

I think it's supported journaling for many years, I don't believe that to be a new feature.

> ZFS and Btrfs both are very good these days?

We don't support ZFS at all, and btrfs support is read-only (there's experimental write support but it's disabled in default builds still, I think.)

> Can linux mount the Haiku version of BFS?

Yes, read-only with the upstream Linux driver. There is a way to get read-write support with Haiku's driver under FUSE, however it's not very performant to say the least.
Personally I'm a fan of any ecosystem having at least 2 languages that work well, specifically ones with very distinct set of strengths and weaknesses. No one language can be everything to everyone, though I admit Python tries incredibly hard by using C FFI to hide some of the speed issues.
Wikipedia doesn't place itself as an either/or. Defenders of the gatekeeping behavior present SO as only one way, whereas SO presents itself differently.
Calvin and Hobbes fans rejoice as creator plans first work in decades
Applications on the App Store need continuous maintenance and updates.
Is suspend working reliably on Linux for MacBooks?
> the bug [..] only presented when many aircraft at the same time were using the system.

This implies that the calculations are done externally to the plane? That seems... interesting.
$20 a month is the loss leader price. Thats gonna go up when the sector (eventually) matures.
Intel's Struggles
Basically yes, I see the content but cannot log in.
The article briefly mentions porn as an issue. I think porn is a much bigger issue than we're letting on. The men who are now in their 20's are the first generation of men to grow up with virtually unlimited access to porn. What are the results? We can empirically conclude they're struggling to form relationships with women. That's correlation, non causation, but others have been researching this issue and their preliminary findings are pointing to porn being a much bigger problem than we'd believed.
async does not work great, maybe for simple poc but once you start diging it's not well done. The debugging part is even worse.
Apple is convinced my dog is stalking me
It's not a simple matter of the organization making the most rational decision for the interests of the organization. Individuals throughout the organization have an incentive to suppress past products to make newer products, and by extension themselves and their own careers, look better in comparison. Organizations can behave irrationally when the constituent members of the organization have incentives that puts them at odds with the rational interests of the organization itself.
I wonder if this happens in Canada and to what extent it is a problem...
Tbf, it's not the original version - it's specifically the "Rovio Classic: Angry Birds" which is a remake of the original, using their newer engine - and yes, it has ads already integrated. The original version(released 2009!) has been delisted long long time ago.
Supreme Court justices weigh liability protections for online content
I don't understand your comment. We agree that caste discrimination is bad and should be "left behind," but you don't want laws passed about that?

It feels like you're saying "things should be this way, so I assume that they already are" rather than "things should be this way, so let's construct laws that encourage that."
Damn, the CIA had good taste in art, who knew...
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It's hard to recall exactly where I've seen them, but I think typically only in lots where either the lot is very congested (like airport parking garages) or where spots and aisles are very tight (making backing in a more difficult maneuver).

In my experience, drivers in the US at least are not very good at backing their cars up. I feel like the likelihood of an average driver in my area hitting a car parked next to them while trying to back into a spot would be quite high. Also, when I do see cars who backed into spots, they often did a very poor job of it and are not centered within the spot, making the spot next to them even more tight or sometimes unusable.

I do agree that backing out of a spot feels very dangerous (even more so as I get older), especially when sandwiched between 2 large vehicles. Personally I try to counteract that by checking everything I can see multiple times and then backing out very slowly, giving me additional opportunity to keep checking mirrors and also giving others a chance to signal me. I generally do not back into spots for other reasons mentioned in this thread - it's just not common around here and so others do not expect it and so they pull up too close behind you before you start to reverse, and also it limits access to the rear of the car for loading up purchases.
...but meanwhile it's still fine to corner the market on 3nm...

(nevermind that modern chips are a hybrid of different feature sizes...)
Inside Taiwanese Chip Giant, a U.S. Expansion Stokes Tensions
The 747-400 was one of the first aircraft with that capability. AIUI, customers hated it because it was fiddly.