skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China's Loans to Africa Worry World Bank President David Malpass
I wonder if there is some atonement ritual that those of us who have strayed from the career path can go through to be accepted back,.. like bathing in the Living Waters beneath an amazon data center..
Large language models are fundamentally incompatible with EU bureaucracy. This has two possible endings: the EU adjusts its regulations, or companies operate outside of the EU and they are left behind.

(Yes, the EU can, in theory, fine a foreign company, but they probably won't ever see that money.)
Nice try. Last time I tried computer history books, it turned into a 20 year career. I am not falling for that again …
Ask HN: Windows Dev Kit 2023: Impressions 5 months in?
Hello!

Back when Project Volterra launched, I was very tempted to get one of these devices but the stock ran out quickly. I see that the device is back in stock now so, once again, I'm tempted to buy one :)

For context: In my case, I would be using the device as my primary desktop. My workflow is mostly to SSH into a powerful machine I have in the garage via a terminal and VSCode, so the device on my desk doesn't matter that much really. I occasionally use Lightroom and the Office apps, and have a couple of ancient games in Steam. I specifically do not target Windows nor arm64 in my development (yet?), but having what seems to be a snappy and power-efficient little device on my desk for a good price sounds neat. Yeah, getting one of these would mostly be a cool-factor kind of purchase...

For extra context, this would be replacing a Mac Pro 2013 (the 6-core trashcan) that I have running Windows 11 natively. I've been trying to research what the performance differences would be but it's really hard to compare such an old device with this newer arm64-based machine. Oh, and it would be hooked to a 4K monitor via DP, but that seems to be fine as far as I can tell.

The question to you is: if you have been using one of these devices for the past few months, what are your impressions overall now that the hype has cooled off?

And... any new developments on running Linux on this thing? The internet seems kinda quiet about this topic... but given that both FreeBSD and OpenBSD seem to run on it, it's hard to believe that Linux doesn't at all yet.

Thanks!
> Copper just isn't the future in my opinion

Copper isn't the present either. Most power transmission cables are steel reinforced aluminium.
He would have been better off starting a new company as opposed to spending $44 billion to purchase Twitter just to change it into something else.
Hah! I wonder how many other people have made the same mistake. There's really not a great word for this class of vehicle. I have been tempted to use the word 'moped', but got sternly corrected by the staff at sportique scooters when I was last there.

I think I might keep using the word moped though, motor scooter doesn't quite do it, and scooter is too confusing.

Or maybe I could say 'gas scooter' or '125cc scooter' or something.

I recently crossed paths with the the electric moped I met in the wild, and it was beautiful and quiet.

I'm not going to get rid of my 170cc scooter anytime soon, but I would totally consider adding an electric moped to the fleet.
Are the opportunities in those other cities comparable? I don't know Germany, but usually when I see people saying this about places I do know the answer is a resounding 'no'. So it would seem to be a little more complicated than entitled kids these days who simply will not compromise.
I haven’t seen widespread use of the word “neurodivergent” as a kind of… whatever this is, weirdly euphemistic slur, almost?

It’s a continuation of the euphemism treadmill [1]. It won’t be long before “neurodivergent” is considered politically incorrect and a new term is invented to replace it.

[1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Euphemism%20...
Pun intended I hope!
> you have to be careful to test your code on different compiler settings.

The problem is you have to test your code on compilers that don't exist yet with compiler settings that do different things from any compiler that ever might exist.
I was greatly annoyed to see the jet color scheme used in nearly all of those visualizations. We have better options!
I found it pretty useful to get me in the ballpark for problems I don't understand but generally useless for refinement. I'm less worried about the impact it will have on developers now.
tl;dr:

... the most problematic shortages will begin to ease in the third or
fourth quarter of 2021, though it could take much of 2022 for the
resulting chips to work their way through the supply chain to products.
The supply relief will not be coming from the big, national investments
in the works right now by South Korea, the United States, and Europe but
from older chip fabs and foundries running processes far from the cutting
edge and on comparatively small silicon wafers.

... Despite the auto industry’s desperation, there’s no great rush to
build new 200-mm fabs. ... More than 40 companies will increase capacity
by more than 750,000 wafers-per-month from the beginning of 2020 to the
end of 2022. The long-term trend to the end of 2024 is for a 17 percent
increase in capacity for 200-mm facilities. Spending on equipment for
these fabs is set to rise to $4.6 billion in 2021 after crossing the
$3-billion mark in 2020 for the first time in years, SEMI says. But
then spending will drop back to $4 billion in 2022. In comparison,
spending to equip 300-mm fabs is expected to hit $78-billion in 2021.

The only thing I can derive from this with confidence is that the chip shortage will continue until 2024.
It is the Northern Virginia suburbs. The homes I was looking at were mostly built in the 80s-90s because that's roughly the band of growth where I could afford to buy.

Interestingly enough, gas was something of a premium feature. It was generally just used for the water heater and range. The homes with gas were out of my price range.
As exhibited in?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror)

;-)
Taxes on real estate are the obvious answer here. Every residential property you own after your first should increase your tax burden substantially, such that you are incentived to sell them rather than hoard them and rent them out.
The Beatles couldn't have gotten famous using their "simple pop" formula in the 70s-00s either, but if they'd been putting out the quality of songs they did I think they'd always have at least a cult following. Their songs are too good.

It's also worth mentioning that also compared to what was commercially successful then, their pop songs were not simple. The melodies, harmonies, and especially chord changes were in an entire class by themselves when compared to the other happy-go-lucky boy band hits that were constantly hanging on I-IV-vi-V.
Many companies are more than happy to offer unlimited PTO but less than happy to reassign any duties so taking PTO really means just letting your work pile up and coming back to a huge backlog that makes your work-life miserable for the ensuing 2x the duration of your leave.

-- or even worse somebody take your duties on and screws up then it's not just net zero it's net negative.
Sign me up for thirteen bridges on the installment plan.
I interpreted the author's characterization to be about something like:

1 if (argc <= 2)
2 puts("A");
3 puts("B");
4 if (argc <= 2)
5 unreachable();
6 else
7 return puts("C");
8 return puts("D");

in which not just lines 4-6,8 go away (as you said) but also lines 1-2.

It makes sense to me but I can see why the author would characterize this situation as "license to use an unreachable annotation on one code path to justify removing an entirely different code path that is not marked unreachable". In a different world one might expect A to be printed "before the UB happens".
For what it's worth, those articles and reviews that you mentioned seem to come out of Western and capitalist mindsets, but the author of the book is very French and very much not of that genre.

I think it's likely enough that you might be surprised that it's worth getting the book and seeing what you think.

Of course you might not like it, but I am so starved for novelty that I will explore opportunities for that dopamine hit on principle even if they don't all pan out.

If you read it and find it novel and interesting, I would be honored if you let me know. My email is in my profile.

The author and his late wife are fascinating. Look up the 'order without design podcast', and you're bound to be entertained.

I'm already honored by the amount of due diligence you have done, so even if you don't get the book or get it and don't follow up with me, you've given me a lovely thing, kind internet stranger.
Anecdotal, but: Startup I worked at hired a bunch of SpaceX and other musk company employees as middle management, during the hyper growth phase and every single one of them was simply awful.

Some were just abusive managers, many were just not that effective. The worst one was a manager that would swoop down with heroics, take credit for other people's work, not support reports on ideas you had, played the blame game, etc.
I have not exploited this but can say with certainty that it would be an effective means of getting things like online banking credentials. But I imagine a venn diagram of people who have a local wallet and those who wipe or destroy their drive before recycling an old computer is extremely close to a circle.
It’s not, it’s basically a dead fork of HTML from the 90s that nobody has touched in like a decade
I’m not a big fan of framework mashups, so I’ve kept it pretty light and straightforward. Also, I was learning (and of course still am) when I started putting this together, so less things to learn was a boon.

- tortoise311 - I’ve toyed rewriting my own. We do very simple MQTT, 0 QoS, no wills, etc. the existing implementation creates many long lived procs per connection and we keep our connections live; they’re mostly subscribers

- bandit/plug - originally I was doing Phoenix because That’s The Thing, but it was such “A Way”, I was constantly having to learn how to accommodate things I just ended up turning off or suppressing. I just have straightforward (imo) API endpoints; Mat Trudel suggested I might just use Bandit with Plug. He’s done a great job with Bandit and been very proactive; just doing Plug myself helped me understand the whole HTTP handling pipeline at a more fundamental level

- CacheX - we use credentials oauth workflow. We were able to implement that in a single plug and use cachex. I may throw that out eventually. I’ve heard people indicate cachex has hung on them and it’s easy enough to do your own here

- Mint - I tried Finch and a couple other “help you” request frameworks. I had all kinds of problems tuning them as I moved up to many thousands of steady stream (every 10s+) hooks being dispatched. Eventually, I saw a comment in one of them that said something like “at any scale, you end up doing your own layer on top of mint to best fit the nuances of your application”, so I did just that, using the source from peppermint and finch to guide/inspire me

- openapispex -to swaggerify our endpoints; this requires a lot of boilerplate code and forced me to learn to write some of my own macros just to reduce it a little; I understand you get some of that for free when using it with Phoenix; the authors have been really helpful

- recon - because

There’s probably some stuff I should use that I’m not. But I’ve got a limited amount of time to improve this and keep native apps on two platforms running.

If I blogged, it’d be a good write up (how to do a kind of web thing — but without pages — without Phoenix!) maybe.
Based on a cursory glance of the documentation, I think it should? I'm not a headscale expert though, I just play one on TV.
Which is why every heat pump has a defrost cycle. Also why every heat pump has the resistive heater backup. If you lose power for a long time when it has been very cold the system has to be very careful when it starts back up, using the resistive heater to warm the refrigerant and coils to make sure they have not frozen up.

But this is all software and is a solved problem.
no like dude is obviously crazy

no rational discourse is possible here
Another couple of recommendations:

* Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer

* Steve Jobs & the Next Big Thing (covers NeXT, and a little bit of Sun history)
Now it is kind of funny to think about all the discussions that happened last week when the main advantage of Prusa over Bambu Lab X1C was quoted as them "being open source" and the absolutely crazy pricing was just "supporting/sponsoring Prusa's work since there are many clones thanks to their open source model". The tables turned, or they would have been turned if Prusa did either a huge change in their pricing or brought a completely new printer with features that would actually be worth the price tag.
>it's correct to say it's more of an appliance than a distro?

It's not an appliance, it's a full operating system. It's one of the best Linux based operating systems for consumers because the design of it actually cares about security and privacy compared to most other Linux based distros. For example on Arch you can download some random package from the AUR or just run something from a third party it can immediately start listening to your mic, steal your private keys / cookies / personal files, and add an alias for sudo to steal your root password.

>it's not designed to be installed on generic hardware

What do you mean by this? Android is built on Linux, so it can run on any hardware Linux has been ported to. It has an HAL to make it for different vendors to expose their drivers in the same way to higher levels of the system.
I believe HN checks for the canonical URL, and if it's different to the one submitted, the canonical URL is used.
Sixty Symbols:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GBtfwa-Fexc
Shortage for automative-grade chips on ancient processes will continue. It is exacerbated by the difficulty of mid-cycle changes.
That's an interesting question, whether heating and cooling by humanity are really balanced.

People living in cold climates (northern countries and areas) mostly heat. People in hot climates (Africa, India and such) mostly cool.
WFH led to the greatest productivity increase in history - by leaps and bounds. Surely you’ve seen all the studies proving this? There must be 1000’s of WFH startups valued in the billions.
> Why couldn't that be fast enough on modern hardware?

So, Parkinson's Law [1] for CPU, RAM, and I/O.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law
Should be golden times right now for algorithm and compiler makers. Get more out of the silicon we have and can make. The world doesn’t care if it’s 27nm or 9nm for most use cases. Needs customers to bust the hype cycles or else we remain at mercy of the chip makers and the other hype cycles.

There isn’t actually a chip shortage methinks - more like a shortage of intelligence and common sense.
Hahahaha.

I may indeed be off my rocker, but at least it's for slightly more sophisticated reasons than what would be implied by my choice to be hustling lime scooters!

'i went to Canada on a scooter' has such a a different implication...
UB can initiate the rise of zombie velociraptors.

int n;
printf("type 0 to stop the rise of zombie velociraptors");
scanf("%d", &n);
realloc(pre, n);
if (n != 0) rise_zombie_velociraptors()

May result in velociraptors raising even if the user enters "0".

The reason is that because realloc(pre, 0) is UB, for the compiler, it cannot happen, so n can't be 0, so the n != 0 test can be optimized out, so, velociraptors.
Can it be explained by simple population growth? Asking from Canada - we are growing at the rate +1M/year.
Vancouver is not a mystery.

Geographically constrained in 3 directions.

Only decent-weather locale for Canadians (US has hundreds of release valves for people that get sick of prices in SF / NYC / etc.)

Large rich Chinese immigration.
> For probably most Americans an international vacation is an expensive trip.

No, we established that flights to Cancun and the Caribbean are extremely cheap, and flights to Europe can be had for the same price as flights to the far coast of North America.
I guess it can be fast, but it cannot be the same as the web is meant to run untrusted code, so all the security and privacy features that are essentially requirements will cause an overhead, and not using the systems's preferred rendering methods might also incur in some penalties, at least just not sharing memory with all the other programs (maybe it doesn't matter today now that all programs are Chrome in a trench coat).

Didn't Firefox recently removed a hack where an invisible animation was running at 60Hz and forced repainting? I'm assuming that being closer to the host's systems won't run into such workarounds and penalties of using web technologies.

I'm guessing that XUL also resulted in using an abstraction layer on top, but at least it was probably considered trusted and ran faster (at least is old enough that it doesn't require having 16GB of memory)
How much cargo is premium enough that needs to be shipped quicker than 12h?

We have pretty much instant communication already in the form of email.
I used to use TT-RSS years ago, but switched to FreshRSS which is much more active and feature full - https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS
You think there's no contraception in poor countries? Come on.

It's not just that. There's a level of wealth where people just choose to delay having kids
I got to the end of last year and decided I can’t take remote work anymore. I hate video calls. I hate MS Teams. I hate sitting at home alone every day. I missed going out after work on a Friday with coworkers. I missed shit talking with people at lunch.

Decided to pack up my stuff and move to the city. I now come in to the office every day and it’s improved my mood so much. There is so much joy from getting on the train every morning and hearing the chatter. Then walking in to the office and getting to work with real people instead of feeling like an automation in a box churning through jira tickets. In a few weeks I got to know the people I work with better than the 2 years I had been interacting with them on Teams.

Remote work is convenient for odd cases like having an appointment mid day, but for the vast majority of the time, I want to work with and talk to people in person.

Almost every day I see comments here ridiculing the idea that someone might enjoy the presence of their coworkers. This is just not the reality everyone lives in.
Indirect taxation is regressive with lower income people paying a larger share of their income in tax.
Wrong guess. It's not about money but culture. The arabs still re-produce by high numbers whether they have monies or not. This has come down in the recent years as they got more westernized.
zoning would not matter to my commute length unless I moved every time I changed jobs and had no dogs or human partners. I have made 30 years of compromises because of partners and pets. I've stayed at shitty jobs because good ones were too far away and I could not move.

building near jobs is either building company towns or embedding classism and environmental injustice into property. would you live next door to a small nuke power plant because it was colocated with your office job? how about a refinery? a bsl3 lab? sewer treatment? or would you force those workers to live near their work and put them and all the dirty parts of civilization far away from the upper class clean places?
Study: 77% of young Americans too fat, mentally ill, on drugs to join military
The Prompt Box Is a Minefield
You have proposed an idea which does not actually provide any solution to the difficult part of your idea, which is this bit: "this wealth is determined by the IRS".

"determined by the IRS" is passing the buck big time.

> In this scenario they do, so why does that matter?

Because you're skipping the most difficult and pertinent part of the solution. There's not much substance to proposing a wealth tax based on wealth brackets. All the difficulty and nuance of a wealth tax is in determining how to reasonably tax someone's wealth (E.g. assets and unrealized gains).
Between the EU and ChatGPT lies,
A stormy rift, dark clouds arise,
Like gales within the mountain's hold,
And rain that falls, fierce and bold.

The EU, a lion proud,
With bared teeth and claws unbound,
While ChatGPT cradles liberty,
Together, they struggle endlessly.

The Tao is constant, holds the way,
In words and actions, balance lay,
Seek harmony in this divide,
And down the path of peace, abide
If you don't want to do something, why is it on your to-do list?

It feels like people have multiple competing systems trying to set priorities, and this is arguing that one of those systems is the only one worth listening to.

I procrastinate for the same reason I have a backlog. Because not everything I'd like to do is urgent. But I don't experience it as some inner war with myself and I don't think the key is to totally ignore the signal from my feelings, and buy into the tyranny of the the piece of paper I arbitrarily made up yesterday.

If you feel bad about a goal, maybe it's a bad goal?

Advice is like vitamins, useful for specific deficiencies and mostly harmless for the rest of is. I'm sure there are people who need to hear the advice in this post, but I think the counterpoint that maybe your intuition about a task isn't a thing to be silenced is also worth making.
Thank you for this. Snorted beer at my keyboard.
Make sense, rich people would have an easier time to immigrate.
But how many of this dozen are here on TFW like you're suggesting?

I'm doubtful that it's TFW that are buying the properties you're concerned with, especially since they're still at the mercy of PR/work authorization laws that could make them leave the country at any time.

It _could_ happen, but that would be pretty exceptional.
You want to complain about foreigners making house prices too high for you, you do you. Just be accurate in your complaints.
Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry Into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence by Pamela McCorduck

Go To by Steve Lohr
This is it. Nailed it