skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the simplicity story is more than that. First, state management is a tricky thing to do in any environment, but in an environment of a billion random variables it’s tedious if not impossible. I’d assert that each of those complexities you highlight are actually solutions to a specific challenge in peer to peer interaction between computers that are simpler in the aggregate than if they didn’t exist and we had just focused on, say, making Bluetooth not be a massive annoyance. The ability to simply ensure a tcp stack is configured then be done with the entire end to end problem of peer to peer collaboration across platforms, devices, stacks, local RF environment, LAN configuration, and it includes durability and available assurances, etc, are enormous.

I also think it’s kinda not true that protocols have stayed stationary in that time. Certainly Bluetooth has improved, there’s lot do innovation on small device adhoc networks, there even a lot of innovation on internet protocols over the last 5 or so years. My observation (having been at Netscape at the time) was the real demise of network and internet protocols until late was the MSFT destruction of Netscape. We were a huge driver of protocol innovation and had demonstrated there’s gold in them thar networks. We hired a lot of protocol and standard developers and built products that implemented as close as our talent allowed to the spec. It was a heady time. Microsoft realized at the time this push really threatened their core business model. They so publicly and roundly pwn’ed us out of existence that it created a massive chill in anything internet tech related (most of us went into e-commerce as a result). It wasn’t until sort of recently Google self servingly started bullying standards out the door that things sort of unwedged again and despite the kind of sad way Google primed the pump, things are really exciting right now on the internet.

I’ll note that our Mozilla play was a really important effort on our part to ensure that culture we had built around open internet standards and technologies could stay afloat into the present. I’ve been happy to watch Gecko and Xul and others grow from their sapling state to where it is now. It also prevented Microsoft from establishing a real hegemony in internet standards. But most of all, I am so happy to see a real C/C++ replacement candidate emerge (Rust) from that effort. It was a real thumb in Microsoft’s eye to one up their $1B free browser anticompetitive play with taking our then worthless IP and establishing a long lived foundation around it.
Wow, that ethics statement at the end
Ukraine isn't called the breadbasket of europe for no reason. It's hard to grow crops for export when you're at war.
I'm pretty sure the latter (Win8 and on?) versions of Windows had some sort of framework for writing FS filter drivers or something, that the AVs are supposed to use?
Impressive how absolutely no evidence is given by such a massive claim.

At least attempt to refute the article which makes multiple separate claims as to why there is a shortage.
Yeah, the third paragraph says (of telnet):

> This works perfectly fine, assuming you're testing only one service and one port

... which is what I'm doing about 99% of the time.

I usually don't use telnet just because it's usually (annoyingly) not installed any more, so I have to stop and try to remember how to do the same thing with nc.
Somewhat ironic that this post is flagged.

No community is perfect, and HN has its biases which turn ugly when posts about certain things show up. Best to assume it's humans being human and ignore it. I've found that to be a good strategy.
F-Droid won't mind.
The official recordbooks will now show that patient is officially the first to lose an appendix but gain a preface.
You are correct. Though in my institution we do not get around to teaching that in that one semester of elective LP.
> I hope one upside might be a critical mass of people comes to understand how to value people independently of their economic output

They are valued independently of that. E.g. in a democracy someone who is super productive will get paid a lot, but will have exactly the same number of votes as someone with nothing.

If you think their wage should be valued independently of their economic output, then I think that is a misunderstanding: money is only useful as a measure of economic value.
I have a feeling that we're on the way out of it now. People are tired of the anger and the cancelling and the extremes
> More than once I changed the setting on my parent’s television to stop stretching SD channels to fill the wide screen. They didn’t care.

An aunt of mine even positively preferred fullscreen, distortion be damned.
> You are ignoring the fact that most of the writers are bullshit vendors regurgitating books, quotes, themes and things they read from somewhere else.

I don't understand the vitriol HN has for professional writers and anyone who might work in gasp marketing.

Replace "writers" with "programmers" and your statement is still true but you don't hear it being shouted from the rooftops on every post about programming on HN.
> It's a part of the semantics of the runtime:

This is implied. It would be absurd to have a different static and runtime semantics. in fact, the core goal for formal methods is a statically be able to reason about runtime dynamics.

Just like it would be absurd to build a compiler for C where "+" in fact is treated as "-", it would be absurd to build a compiler and runtime system for, eg., Elixir that is not able to execute GenServers.
Who said that Tanks in Ukraine are the main drivers to oil price increases?
That's a convention, but hardly the convention.

I used to work satellite navigation for NOAA. For the GOES sats we often used Intrack (Prograde/Retrograde), Crosstrack (Normal/Anti-normal), and Radial (Towards planet/away from). I don't think anyone really referred to any directions as "plus x" or "minus y"
>but talking? Much smaller radius.

I don't think this adage is true now, or won't be for much longer. Fewer and fewer things are read, but everyone is watching videos now. That's the current trend at least. However, written text does have the potential for long out lasting whatever digital video/audio anything, so to that point I concede the original sentiment
The article suggests is due to rice replacing other grains in the global diet.

Between Russia and the Ukraine 27% of the worlds wheat supply is impacted by the war and another 15% of the worlds corn.

It seems reasonable to conclude that would have an impact on the price of other grain staples.
The company is owned by humans.
> Whoever came up with "companies donating millions to politicians is free speech so nothing can be done to limit that" is either a massive idiot or extremely biased towards big money influencing elections.

Isn't this a straightforward deduction from combining an extension of the first amendment with corporate personhood?

I'd think that the actual problem (which manifests itself in many ways other than this one) is that latter legal situation, not the first amendment or the logic itself.
Years earlier in 1905, the University of Iowa moved it's Science Building to a new location, off the famous Pentacrest park to its current location across the street. It had to be turned to pass through the neighboring buildings, then turned back to its final location on a foundation prepared.

Here's an article (a pdf, not a web page)

https://pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/ihi/article/id/1547/download/pdf/
Interestingly my immigrant welder/mason grandfather (RIP) told me the same about 20 years ago.

He was dropping me off at a mechanic shop for an automotive Boy Scout merit badge and I think he thought I was interested in becoming a mechanic. He told me before dropping me off that if I wanted a trade electrician was the highest paying and easiest on the body.
I like the idea of moving back to having the Senate controlled by the States, I think it would help clean up some of the mess.

I disagree on the point that the states have cleaned up their act, what has happened is that the Federal government has taken on more power and responsibility from the States, for better and worse.

Meanwhile, people have become more disconnected from their state politics and only focus on the federal. Up to the point of blaming the federal government for not acting when it is the state's responsibility.
> There's no middle ground between wanting to kill someone and wanting to let them live in peace.

A big part of the problem, though, is that the extremist voices/views get amplified the loudest, and then get trotted out as a typical example of the "other" side. And thanks to modern communication, you can always find bizarre extremist voices to amplify, so it leads to this narrative that the extremist view is held by vast numbers of people when in reality the percentage of people who hold those views is effectively 0.
Writing bash is fun the same way as doing cross words are fun. And I say that as someone who enjoys writing bash scripts.

But you are right, posix shell are not in the need of fixing. They need a complete overhaul.
PCIe switch chips can be used to multiplex many devices on to a few lanes already, today.

There isn’t much market demand for an extremely low power chip with excessive PCIe IO and a ton of RAM because most applications with high RAM and IO requirements are going to be very power intensive.

It’s already possible to build an Intel system with plenty of RAM and IO where the CPU doesn’t take much power.

For building a high capacity NAS you don’t need the throughput of PCIe for all of your drives. Cheap SATA SSDs can easily saturate your network link when used in parallel.
'Haben sie gespart? Ja, wochen.' is a German two-liner my wife and I use a lot (we are both Dutch). Not even in a sexual way, btw.

I'm not even sure where its from. Probably some comedian.

Tina, was kosten die kondome? Tina replies: 3,99. To which a customer says: Nein, 2,99, sie sind in Sonderausverkauf.
Can't obliterate even the tiny Russian economy without some knock-on effects on the rest of the world.

Between Russia and Ukraine, they produce some vital materials including lots of fertilizer, despite making almost no money. So while we're all taking a small financial hit right now, there are odd things like this as well.
I'm a software engineer and I also write fiction. (90+% of my income for SE, as you might guess).

For the fiction, editors are getting flooded with submissions written or assisted by LLMs, so the competition has increased and editors have less time to evaluate submissions. It's all the way up and down the chain: online magazines, small press, agents, big publishers. Not life-changing for me. I think it has been for some of them.

At work, one of the non-technical managers is writing code with ChatGPT. It's a little like working with a junior developer who doesn't know that they are junior. I don't mind that he's writing code, but he's only taking the interesting and low hanging fruit. The difficult and tedious work is still left to the engineers. I wish he would manage instead, because my team and the project we're on has little oversight or guidance. And we're not likely to get it because the lead manager is now a prompt-engineer. Not life-changing for me, again.
Wisdom in the population too seems to follow a power rule. There are only a small number of wise people around, and there is a large number of unwise, and many times malicious and crazy people around (with voting/speech rights). Consequence is: mostly the unwise/average things float to the top, reflecting the (interests and biases of) majority.
I can buy you a ticket to Ukraine so you can check yourself if this is actually more harm or maybe less
Still only responsible for 3% of global production, and there are bigger European producers:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/08/top-10-countries-prod...
It’s interesting, thanks. I played in Gran Turismo with Dutch folks and they taught me to swear a bit.
My favorite Dutch eyes is Swaffelen (or zwaffelen or dick-slap) is a Dutch term meaning to hit one's soft or semi-hard penis - often repeatedly - against an object or another person's body. Swaffelen was named as the word of the year in the Netherlands and Belgium in 2008.
Little Twitter Game Boy Won’t Work Now the API Is Dead
I'm blind in one eye almost since birth (had blurry vision until 10, then gone, am now mid 40s) and on a daily basis I couldn't care less and don't even notice! I can do everything I want and do sports and everything, the only slight issue is I'm sometimes a bit worried if I were ever to loose sight in my one good eye! But that's the only thing. I actually wear robust glasses just to protect my good eye :) - hope you (and others) figure it out, and I feel sorry for people with no vision at all.
> ...have skills worth very close to $0..

I would rephrase this. They are stuck in their circumstances which forces them to survive on a few cents a day. MNCs like Nike take advantage of this by getting their goods manufactured in Bangladesh at next to no cost and sell them for thousands of dollars. If the same workers in Bangladesh were to migrate to US I am sure they will make minimum wages, so their skill is indeed not $0.
The person I'm directly replying to said the war in Ukraine is causing oil prices to increase. What else would be using major amounts of oil in a war?

But like I said it's beside the point. The price of oil is effectively set by the production volume of Saudi Arabia. Ukraine does not factor into it at all.
The CNBC article doesn't really explain the change, or why it's just happening now. I had to do a web search on "Section 174" to find this:

> What are the changes to Section 174, and do they affect the R&D tax credit?

> Among the sweeping changes to the U.S. tax system brought by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) was an amendment to Section 174 of the Internal Revenue Code. Many experts, however, believed — or at least hoped — that the scheduled change to the provision addressing the deductibility of research and experimental (R&E) expenses might never take effect.

> But the amendment did indeed kick in, beginning with the 2022 tax year. It’s left many businesses that conduct qualified research activities confused — about the change itself, how it affects the Section 41 research and development (R&D) credit, and the likely negative impact on their tax bills. Here’s what you need to know.

...

https://gusto.com/resources/articles/taxes/section-174-r&d
Yes, more "please don't be bad" than an ethics statement.
In the context of layoffs, I feel like junior software engineers have been indirectly impacted by AI. There's seemingly a lot of demand for senior talent and much less for junior talent.

I imagine at least some of this would be caused by real or imagined productivity gains from AI tools for coding. The typical executive might have gone from thinking "staff up at all costs!!" to "AI will mean fewer devs doing higher value work". As these decisions have come from the top, the implication around wanting to "increase talent density" feels like there's less room for junior, lower skilled workers. And I can't help but think there's AI tools in the back of these execs minds.
Refusing to sanction an aggressive nation empowers that nation to continue its aggression.

Sanctions can be painful in the short term, sure, but they're a necessary evil. They heavily disincentivize violence without the need for more violence.

War is arguably the greatest source of human suffering in history.
It's quite shocking when you think about it, that your "friends" here are in effect not allowing you to be yourself. And will potentially socially ostracize you (i.e. punish you) if you do something, that is harmless, but is not accepted by the group for some reason. Dystopian stuff indeed.
I believe the fuel being referred to is natural gas, much of which has historically come from Russia.
Landing junior software engineering job in 2023
I also think that the corporate-strategy angle for this makes the concept useless. Intel will accidentally clobber you
> Apparently Nintendo made some 15B in revenue last year. Would that punishment be ok if they made 5B? Or 500M? At what point does the punishment become acceptable?

Honestly, I don't see how this form of punishment would ever be acceptable. This is a life-long debt we're talking about. This is the kind of punishment I might imagine in "you destroyed a town's water supply and all the newborns died" territory.

Companies do significantly worse things that affect millions of lives. They walk away with a slap on the wrist. Destroy lives? Insignificant fine or they settle with some people and they keep doing bad things. Companies can literally steal money from its employees and nothing will happen to them. Somebody "steals" money from a company? Destroy his life. Make an example of him.

When are we going to make an example of companies? Never? Okay, then I'm on the pirate's side with zero hesitation.
I think we are in a 3D Printing/ Block Chain/ VR hype cycle where something important is happening but everybody is over reacting.

I really doubt 90% of anyone's skills have become worthless. Mediocre art and mediocre writing weren't valuable or expensive last year. People have been having programs write articles for a long time now. In the long run, yeah things are going to change a lot. But we knew that didn't we?

I wouldn't invest into this now, because there is too much is being promised too soon.
What I was trying to say was that the thought process never really involves actually wanting to bust criminals. It's about attacking civilians from the beginning.
I won't be sad. Not just because RISC-V's CPU is still not all there (but could be in another generation or two), but also the software, the lack of backwards compatibility with older Pis, the increased cost of that chip that even with 2 additional CPU cores doesn't quite beat the Pi 4, it's just not tenable right now. There's also no way the Pi Foundation will use it, as the moment they use a standard chip instead of something proprietary Broadcom, they lose a lot of their unique value and become interchangeable with any other board.

"standard RISC-V boot process rather than bespoke garbage"

AKA It has UEFI. You can get UEFI on a Raspberry Pi as well with TianoCore, even if it isn't quite as complete and requires Pi-specific because ARM is a mess. However, ARM has a specification for that, SystemReady, which is slowly rolling out. If the Raspberry Pi 5 were SystemReady compliant at a higher level (one can dream), then we could have unified images just like a PC.

Also, be careful what you wish for. RISC-V, despite all the hype, is just an instruction set. UEFI compatibility is optional. Open-source drivers are optional. Not having Secure Boot is optional. If you want to add your own proprietary instructions, you can do so. Apple could remake their own M1 with RISC-V while having the drivers and firmware support be just as complicated as with ARM and not one ounce simpler. Heck, Apple could switch the iPhone's next chip out with RISC-V and still keep their App Store monopoly and iOS-only boot process intact.

"standard usb-pd power supplies"

The Raspberry Pi 4 fixed that problem in an unannounced hardware revision years ago. Revision 1.2 in 2020.

"competitively priced with options under $100"

AKA 3 times as expensive as they need to be. Not good enough. It's hard enough for kids to fork over $35, let alone $90. By $90 it's a completely different product for a completely different market.
And 25 years earlier in 1905, 6000 ton Calvin Hall was moved on the Iowa campus in a similar way. It was a well-understood technique by 1930.
ChatGPT has failed me on code* I also run text through it. It is NOT good enough to convey what a good writer can. If anything, it reads like an over-zealous A student that was never too bright, just followed all the rules. That's the best case, where it doesn't completely misinterpret.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34648167
What matters to sailors with respect to the wind is the angle which it meets the boat or the orientation of the boat with regard to the direction of the wind. For that there are dedicated names known as the points of sail which include: close hauled, close reach, beam reach, broad reach, run, and in irons.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_sail
Yet Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and Bulgaria say Ukrainian grain is too cheap and upsets local farmers. Guys, but the EU said it was for feeding the poor, and not for making pierogi. I’m so confused at this point.
LinkedIn and Nextdoor are the two worst social platforms around, it's the worst kind of horrible, a sort of superficial rage and invasiveness, a complete disregard for others as human beings.

Say what you will about Twitter, but at least the insults there are direct and tend to stay exclusive to Twitter - as opposed to neighbors convincing each other of the worst or your ability to land a job being sabotaged because your profile doesn't have enough keywords.
> Is that legitimate, or is that just timely excuse making?

Arguably[1] a bit of both.

[1] https://scholarworks.umass.edu/econ_workingpaper/343/
shrug

All good, yeah. This place will end up a Mastodon instance of sorts but on the other hand HN is ancient and no community lasts forever. Onwards and upwards.
A.I. could lead to a ‘nuclear-level catastrophe’ according to researchers
> If I’m big & you’re small & you’re growing faster, then it’s a matter of time before you surpass me.

This is true: my son went from 50cm to 150cm in 13 years, so when he turns 26 he should be roughly 250cm, then 350cm when he approaches 40.
Do you speak Dutch? Anyway that 95% number seems also fetched from your personal experience, because the meaning of 'chill', in my experience, is just too different for that.

Here's an example which (again, for me) doesn't quite fit: when talking about a party with music and dancing and saying it is 'chill' we'd mean that it was relaxed, enough space to dance, no drunk idiots, fun overall, and so on. We might add to it that it was 'gezellig', not use instead, but then we'd mean there were also lot of friends around and/or new friends being made. While there's a link with being chill, they could just as well be orthogonal. Like 'it was gezellig but too bad it was so crowded' means it wasn't chill at all.
I dislike them because it falls into an uncanny valley that messes with my mind.

It's close enough to English that my brain tries to context switch from coding to writing English, but it's not close enough for that to actually work. It feels like I end up fighting my own mind.

I'm glad somebody has tried it so we know what it looks like, but personally I prefer the more "traditional" syntax.
Because the words come from Dutch nautical terms. “Starboard” is really “Steer-board”, an external keel on one side of a boat. Therefore Port is the only side of the boat that can dock to the port.
> I tried suspending the server and power dropped to about 75W - not a huge saving.

This doesn’t sound like it’s actually suspending. Or it may have left the drives spinning. Server gear usually isn’t optimized for actually sleeping. Workstation boards are much more likely to work.
How to kickstart and scale a marketplace business (2019)
I am tracking all my websites/products in a single place (https://uxwizz.com), both the quantitative data (stats/events) and qualitative data (session recordings).
Also the cost/availability of fertilizer on the other side of the conflict

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/28/1125525861/how-the-war-in-ukr...