skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"When I start working again, it won’t involve picking up where I left off, but something completely different and oriented around these deeper realizations and helping other people find the same insights for themselves."

Such condescending drivel. The first "realisation" is what is commonly taught within the first 5 sessions of cognitive behavioural therapy. The fifth seems like a move in the right direction for a person who considers (2) and (3) to be so enlightening to justify teaching other people about them, but ultimately coming up with purpuses for your life and ranking them sounds like setting yourself up for a lot of disappointment once the inevitable days where such self-proclaimed purposes can't be achieved come.

Envisioning dedicating an entire blog to enlighten others about these "realisations" people generally have before turning 20 just makes you sound like a narcissist.
I think the parent commenter meant "investment" in the narrow sense of "financial security" and not in the broader sense of any activity that generates a figurative return for the effort applied — in the case of roads, turning government action into economic activity.
Adobe takes text rendering very seriously, because all their products were at one time primarily about targeting high-end printing applications. Back when I was there, there was one dude who was "the text renderer guy" for all the applications products (e.g. not printers and systems stuff) and when things got gnarly and an application had a text-related ship-blocker, they'd call him in and he'd patiently fix the ways in which some noobs had fucked up text in their particular application by not knowing a lot of the stuff that's in this blog post.
The system that gave us wealth is not the system we have now
My Dragonfly does not, but the odor definitely lingers when it's not running.
If that were materially true, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
I prefer https://www.trueup.io/layoffs
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> whereas in France the EDF made a 20 billion loss last year and it only exists still because it's state owned.

EDF made a 18 billions loss in 2022 mostly because of government decisions. Welcome to French state-owned companies, the government giveth, and the government taketh away. This doesn't happen to German electricity companies.

> My family of four would thus pay around 1200 Euros in taxes just to make up for that loss, which is almost two years of "expensive" German electricity we actually spend.

Your family of four spends €50 per month on electricity? You're heating and cooking with gas right?
This is basically the setting of Gravity’s Rainbow.
Yes, it's not about being able to pay the salaries of engineers. It's about being able to pay dividends to shareholders too!
Which is an arms race in stupidity.
Gas stations can get their labor levels back. Make the gas $20 per gallon and pay an attendant $100 per hour.

But that would not be popular, and so the current staffing levels are also not popular, so there is finally sufficient political pressure to somewhat drop the gas station attendant requirement.

Let labor prices keep going up, and soon no gas station attendants will be required because voters will want cheaper gas prices more than they want someone to fill their gas.
This is probably the closest example, and he is toeing the line there on a direct appeal to workers. But it also seems like broad expectation setting to both workers and employers that high inflation will not continue, so you don't need to price that in. It is a bluff on his part, but one that (in theory) works out if everyone believes it.
> start your own gas company with competitive margins

Are you serious? Why would existing large companies allow this? And even if you succeed they are just going to buy up the company.

Beautiful example of this is large IT companies buying startups and stopping competition.
> Another example is Secure Boot, some laptop manufactures are no longer allowing Legacy Boot. Were is the Foundation on this issue. Instead Microsoft donates large amounts and nothing is said about who signs the keys. It is just about impossible for many people to install Linux (or a BSD) on some new hardware without jumping through Secure Boot Loops.

I think you're wrong on this one. You seem to be mixing up UEFI vs Secure Boot. The elimination of legacy boot in favor of UEFI has nothing to do with Secure Boot being enabled. Secure Boot is a good thing. In this case Microsoft is just acting as a Certificate Authority. Mainstream distros like RHEL, Ubuntu, and Debian have signed bootloaders. They pay MS a modest fee for what is essentially CA services. If a hobbyist distro doesn't want to pay then they don't get the benefits. A lot of OSS developers don't even sign their code because they object to paying for a code signing cert. If you want to play in the walled garden you have to pay the toll. Despite this I've yet to come across a device that prohibits disabling Secure Boot.
Oracle Linux is also not a pure RHEL clone. They customize it as they desire and ship it accordingly. For example, they have an alternative kernel for their distribution with different features.
The common answer will be "liquidity".

The honest answer is probably nothing.
Regardless of your or my opinion, the Vice President of Core Platforms Engineering at Red Hat seems to think that this is a fantastic idea. They read the negative coverage and thought the best move was to educate people on _why_ they are so convinced this is a fantastic idea.

I can't help but wonder what this person is thinking. I get that they look at Oracle Linux (or maybe even Rocky Linux) and think, "there's money we're losing". Is that really the whole story?

I don't see how, at the end of the day, this is going to help Red Hat. There's no way Oracle is going to start shelling out dollars to IBM for licenses. Maybe Rocky Linux will lose some customers, I doubt it's going to be enough to make it worth the time, effort and negative press that RedHat is suffering.
I came here to make the same point - you are spot on.

Companies raise prices whenever they can and lower them whenever they have to. Which is true for everyone - we demand higher wage when we can get away with it and suck it up with lower comp when we can't.

To your point, companies can't max out the prices whenever they want (or an apple would cost a hundred dollars - why not?) They have to deal with a world of consumers and competitive response.

As a consumer, my response to a raised price could very often be to drop demand (I like apples but not at a $100 per) which then punishes the overall revenue of the supplier. It also draws competition (I wasn't gonna plant an apple orchard in my back yard but now that apples are super valuable, I will. And I am going to undercut your $100 apples to get the business.)

In general this process has worked to generate an affordable plenty for us. Lamenting something at a narrow point in time is myopic.
It's more that the Arduino ecosystem is now so well-supported and wide ranging that it makes sense to have the association with it. e.g., I have an STM32 Discovery board on the table next to me that has the standard Uno pinout available in case I want to use Arduino shields. For prototyping using the ecosystem is insanely fast. In many cases it also makes sense for low volume production.
> less blind forces, more "well, what would you do in their situation": the people who first paid money for a given square of land were also the first to try to convince someone else to pay them more for that same land

It seems a bit silly to argue that increasing land prices is principally a result of marketing. The amount of earth on the planet in the last 10k years essentially hasn't changed but the number of humans has increased almost 2000%. Population growth is surely a "blind force", right?
Oh that's interesting, I always thought schema names pacing was a part of the XML spec, learned something new!
Reddit coasted for a long time on goodwill from the early 2010s, even though the current site and company seem pretty poorly run and stagnant.

This latest debacle killed that goodwill for a lot of us. Why bother contributing -- through moderation, posts, or even upvotes/downvotes -- to a site that clearly doesn't value the rest of us?

On the bright side, HN has continued to host decent conversations for years running now. There are a few decent communities growing on Lemmy, Tildes, and Squabbles as well. I'm excited for the distributed future, I think the Fediverse is going to provide a lot of decent competition in terms of hosting, UI, and moderation over the next couple of years. It's much needed after almost two decades of stagnancy from Reddit.
My question is just... why?

It's not like carbon fiber was any cheaper than just making the thing out of steel or titanium like literally every other submersible. It just doesn't make any sense. You have none of the weight penalties that exist in aviation, so the heavier and the thicker the better.
If he was willing to risk all this, imagine just how fucking annoying that alarm must have been.
Haven't been in a long time. And as I've written above, drug checks are part of a public health approach that makes it easier to treat addiction, including by offering opportunities to engage in therapy.
The difference is that RedHat changed the status quo. Perhaps not illegal but worthy of complaint and contempt.
> that's worshiped in SV

No need to generalize. (In fact as I understood it he haunted the Pacific Northwest.)
>Explain to this former colonist what cultural cue he's missing, because how is it possible that 42% of a country's population lives in public housing?

Because they criminalized private construction of housing. It can only be done after a lengthy procedure where you beg for permission from a bureaucrat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_and_Country_Planning_Act_...

>The Act established that planning permission was required for land development; ownership alone no longer conferred the right to develop the land.[1]
> you can buy a share of a company you believe in, they get the money, do stuff

I think that's only true for IPO shares which often aren't available to retail investors/gamblers like me.
So your contention is that corporations just suddenly got greedy and realized they could raise prices and keep the extra money? Why didn't they think of this sooner?
EY wrote a good book about that very topic: "Inadequate Equilibria -- Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck"
https://equilibriabook.com/
> but once you get a job, save up for a deposit, and buy your own home, you eventually transition to become yet another middle-aged Tory voter. [...] That pipeline is now broken

Not unsurprisingly, I've seen the same theory/sentiment in the US as well: The conventional wisdom (whether true or not) was that aging voters would increase their support of the status-quo, but that doesn't seem to be happening, and the theory is that they aren't getting the same wealth/status that would cause them to be protective of it.

That said, we should also ask whether our story of "how it used to be" was actually (statistically, scientifically) true, as opposed to just being a common belief. There's evidence that one's political/party-leaning is actually consistent after being established earlier in life. [0]

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/07/09/the-polit...
It's magit, not magit, nor magit.
Why did Red Hat's previous model stop working now, after 25 years of success? I'm not angry about what Red Hat is doing. I'm just puzzled and I suspect that its a very stupid move.

What Red Hat is doing now will probably increase their license sales in the short term. But they will do so by cannibalizing the entire Red Hat-compatible ecosystem. All the "freeloaders" provide RHEL with most of its share in the distro market. Kill them off and it will become a technical backwater, all the small and medium users will go somewhere else and there will be no on-ramp for new customers (as Red Hat is too technically different from what they have). It can take a while, they might get RHEL for their old systems but they'll go SUSE/Debian/Ubuntu for new stuff.

I'd say that they are literally doing what Travis CI and other companies have done in the past, they have no vision of growing their market anymore, now its all about cost cutting and squeezing the most out of their existing share while the music is playing. So no, I'm not angry about it, but on the other hand I can't see it as anything but a sign of irreversible decline.
Sure but that's an appeal to the employer setting the wages, not the worker. (Or is he talking about executive pay for themselves? I couldn't read the article.)
A person after my own heart! I ended up with an MR2 but very seriously considered every single car on that list
I agree that society has progressed enormously, and that there was a time where harsher attitudes about this were appropriate given the prevalence of these behaviors.

It may be that during some time periods, the impact was not disproportionate. My point was that in the current social climate, it seems equally appropriate to reexamine this rhetoric, and direct focus to bad behavior.

To your point, there are things you could never get away with today, and that is excellent. But it is that very progress that makes it questionable to perpetuate the same attitudes towards a younger generation, who will not have the contextual understanding to know why it was necessary, or how it relates to them and appropriate behavior relative to the current norm.
It’s a superb tool with Yubikey, but has a bad name. Can’t be easily googled.
Beyond functional programming: a taste of Verse. Simon Peyton Jones, Tim Sweeney [video]
The source is in there somewhere. Finding the exact source that corresponds to, say, RHEL 9.3 is intentionally difficult.
Is it that foreigners are less welcome, or is it that anyone with other options for places to live is leaving the country to avoid the tanking ecomomy?
'Joan Is Awful' Black Mirror Episode Rebounds on Netflix
Ah I see, yeah if you store your secrets in keychain that’s even more of a reason to ensure you have multiple backup locations too.
Very cool. We're working on something similar but we went more narrow because its really hard to unravel the business context from just the data alone. Ours is ponyrun.ai if you want to check it out. Also open to chat and share learnings if you're open to it.
Oh, yeah, the old inversion of "inflation is high because the dollar price increased".
Years go by, and I, a simple webdev basement dweller, just can’t stop looking at Postgres and think once in a while: “man, what can’t this thing do?”

(Of course it can’t do a lot of things, but the stuff that’s baked into it already or can be enabled by some extensions is simply amazing)
> this post doesn't provide any detail about who sponsored or funded this work

actually, the announcement that the blog post links to does.
> I still thought it interesting

I don't know why you've been downvoted to oblivion but I DO find this thoroughly uninteresting. I am however interested in why anyone WOULD find it interesting.
Commercial pure open source was a ZIRP phenomenon.
Not anymore, all links are noreferrer now.
I think this is a really interesting perspective. This could decentralise the population and solve many problems that way, and also reduce the costs and risks associated with utilising fully modernised technology; no need for compromise
Show HN: Rotaboxes – 7 months after launch update
Hello there,

I would like to share a few updates about the relaxing puzzle game I made 7 months ago.

- dark mode

- bi-directional rotation on big screen

- winning streak

- overspin number (for competitive players)

- 244 games available + 150 more scheduled

- share button heat map showing extra-clicks

- visual clue of tile in right position

- visual clue of game won

- click and win sounds

On the TODO list:

- leaderboards

- multiple games collections based by categories
I couldn't help myself. Despite my better judgement, I wrote an extension to my original essay specifically dissecting this response. (It's now linked at the bottom of the original page.)

Thanks for sharing this transcript with me.
plenty of benzene in white gas/naphtha. The stoves burn very hot and should theoretically limit exposure if you're decently ventilated. White gas is $20/gal, gasoline is a bit less
It is only the same when you observe the visible results and your APM, and nowhere else. The stacks you mention -- and many others -- engage much more system resources per request compared to the BEAM VM. I have personally achieved 5000 req/s on a 160 EUR refurbished laptop with a Celeron J CPU, a pretty anemic one you know, in my local network -- by bombarding an Elixir/Phoenix web app; Elixir steps on Erlang if you did not know -- and that's without even trying to use cache.

RE: error handling, Elixir apps I coded and maintained never had a problem. Everything was 100% transparent which is another huge plus.

In general CGI and PHP had the right idea from the start but the actual implementations were (maybe still are? no idea) subpar.

Erlang's runtime is of course nowhere near what you will get with Rust and very careful programming with the tokio async runtime, but it's the best out there in the land of the dynamic languages. I've tried 10+ languages which is of course not technically exhaustive but I was finally satisfied with making super parallel _and_ resilient workloads when I tried Elixir.

For a lot of tasks I can just code in the Elixir REPL and crank out a solution in an hour, including copy-pasting from the REPL and into an actual program with tests. Same task in Rust took me a week, just saying (though I am still not a senior in Rust; that's absolutely a factor as well) and about 3/4 of a day in Golang.

The only other small-friction no-BS language and ecosystem that came kinda close for me is Golang. I like that one a lot but you have to be very careful when you do true parallelism or you have to reach for a good number of libraries to avoid several sadly very common footguns.
Of course you are not going to be at the top of your trade. But you will know enough to do basic work.
Yep that's totally fair. I passed the question as an either/or but the real world answer is almost certainly in the middle somewhere

I like considering the extreme first, but mostly as a gutted check to see which ends of that spectrum I'd favor when finding the right balance
Buy a PC.

There is also dev mode on Xbox One and later consoles:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/xbox-dev-mode/9nljhzjrn0f4...
> did we all just happen to make the exact same decisions in lock step since the 70s by incredible coincidence?

It might have been a combination of circumstances and intellectual tides turning. The 70ties saw stagflation everywhere, which led to a decade of economic problems that couldn't be fixed with existing, socialist policies. Finally, voters everywhere (starting with Thatcher in UK ) decided it's time to try something else.

Part of it might also have been a disillusionment with big leftist ideas in general - in the late seventies, there was enough reliable information coming from USSR and China to make it clear that anything resembling communism (a holy grail for much of the left back then) is an unmitigated disaster. People started to realise that capitalism, much like democracy, might be bad, but is better than all the alternatives.
wow... who could have seen that coming?
And perhaps like the Tacoma Narrows bridge it will end up being a cautionary tale for future engineers.
No, it is not using openai functions. Since it is on top of langchain it uses the LLM abstraction of it and it can be used with other models as well.
What was their motivation?
Cannabis is not physiologically addictive, and an overdose is both tough to manage and only really results in nausea and can be safely slept off. Caffeine is physiologically addictive, not that hard to overdose on, and can be dangerous to quit cold-turkey.

I don't think either substance is "dangerous", but caffeine is definitely closer to dangerous than cannabis. I also wouldn't say I'm biased against either; I'm a big fan of both substances. I drink coffee about daily and use cannabis about weekly.
>Capitalization Of Boilerplate Oriented Language

this is not only true of COBOL, my friend.
I read it back in the day. I can't remember much of the plot, but i do remember that it seemed about twice as long as it needed to be. Which I find ro be typical of Stephenson's fiction. Plenty of people seem to like it though.
> That may have been one excuse, but as a long time Oregonian my recollection is that the real reason is voters have rejected it when it did come up for a vote. People liked the idea of citing in their car and letting someone else do the work.

About once a year or so, I get a person at the pump behind me that is FURIOUS that I am pumping my own fuel, and start yelling at me. They ignore what I say, until the station employees confirm with them that yes, it is legal to pump your own Diesel in Oregon, just not gasoline, since gasoline is flambile. (the existing law is governed by the state fire marshall). They are usually grateful, since they are always down at least one attendent, and busy as heck.
Well schools can teach whatever, but if your parent raises you to think education is bullshit liberal brainwashing, you aren't exactly going to listen to it.

For example, plenty of schools teach media literacy, and yet the kids who desperately need it don't pay attention because they are not motivated to learn, nobody encourages them to learn, they and the people around them do not value education on it's own merits, and sure enough ten years later they are posting that Obama is a lizard person.

We have a giant amount of, essentially, knowledge skepticism. These people are convinced that studying something robustly for four years is valueless, and meaningless. Some of them are so "skeptical" they want to homeschool their kids expressly to just teach them the bible and nothing more.
Yes, tried it on HTML to get "metadata" that was not present in the HTML meta tags, such as author, publish date, etc. Works good.
What about SUSE/OpenSUSE? Surely that would've gotten the green light?
> Despite claiming otherwise on their homepage (archive.org still has it) they did attach equipmwnt directly to the carbon hull on the inside by screwing (!) to the hull. Result, all the fibers cut by the screws don't take any load whatsoever anymore, increased risk of delaminations (the hull is compressed, the screw on the inside isn't)

This one is actually the most mind-blowing to me if true.

That and the fact that it actually made it to Titanic a few times and back without catastrophic failure.
>What government is arguing that employee wages should be lower/stagnant in order to fight inflation?

Austrian government for one because they're the pawns of the big industry. But I'm sure other governments too.
Another way to look at it - 1/4 of the time people who needed emergency responders had to wait because they were busy looking into false alarms.

Your position makes the assumption that the rest of the emergency services infrastructure is at maximum use at all times.

The OP was talking about a place where they use volunteers, so it's not likely that they're constantly in use.

While you are correct that seconds can sometimes matter, it's not always true. Not every emergency call is life-or-death. Not every emergency call even requires a response.

Imaging a hypothetical world where every call is a true emergency, and emergency services are at 100% utilization 100% of the time is arguing just for the sake of arguing.

I live in a place where emergency services is over-taxed. But I'd rather have actual lives saved with a certain number of false alarms than have people die because someone decided that perfection is the only option.
Interesting, but would tension and pressure be the same underlying mechanism? eg. pressure along the z axis causes expansion in x-y axes, so is the pressure result really just tension in disguise?