skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They also don't cross borders with such things, as a foreigner, I'm not defending it but it was stupid to do.

Of course a foreigner is going to be possibly vetted more.
All this is true but strictly in terms of military equipment needs, it amounts to the same thing. I don't think GP meant any more than that.
I think the Japanese have smaller hands to begin with, and Nintendo's controllers have always been small and uncomfortable. It was a much better experience playing them emulated with an Xbox controller.

But the Switch Pro controller (found it, https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/pro-controller/) is basically that... a full size, Xbox like controller you can bring with you. You can leave the smaller side controllers at home and just use Switch in tabletop mode, maybe...?

There are more comfortable PC and Android handhelds too, if you're not set on the Switch ecosystem.
An income based repayment system (e.g. max 10-15% or something like that), low interest rates and a cap on max tuition wouldn’t be that terrible?
Awhile ago, my employer was indicating their intent to deploy a mobile app for time tracking and scheduling, and so I created a "work account" on my personal Android phone. Unfortunately they somehow forgot to enable the Play Store for my account, so I can't install anything other than the stock Google apps.

So one day I tried to "do work" on my phone and it was a comedy of errors. Chiefly I use three apps: Slack, Google Docs/Sheets, and our internal website. Slack and Google Docs were slow as molasses in the Chrome browser. It was clear within 3 minutes that I would never get anything done if I was ever restricted to "work" from my phone.

As a counterpoint, I determined that my employer's software requirements are so simple that they allow me to use a Chromebook, so I purchased a middlin' Chromebook and it's working great! Of course, Chromebooks are definitely more of a notebook computer than a mobile device, but they are often pooh-poohed as underpowered or "toys" because they don't run all the apps. I think it's an undeserved rep now, seeing how far they've come.
Regardless of language, you can structure your program as a pure, functional core and an imperative shell. All of the io happens at the boundaries, i.e. the shell, but the application itself consists of functional, side-effect-free code.

Some languages make this easier to model than others, and some make doing so in a pure style easier, eliding real-world side effects like RAM access, GPU, etc.

Once you are comfortable with this concept, functional languages make a lot more sense, if you don't get lost in symbol soup.

Edit: a simple Google search for "functional core imperative shell" brings up many writings on the concept.
Educating the next generation is a public good. Can anyone explain to me why free education from grade 1 to 12 is a good idea, but after that it’s bad?
Maybe hard work has gone out of style?

Yesterday I poured over two companies documentation. About 200 pages of their API docs only to find:

Dozen of typos. Errors in versions. Conflicts in examples. Broken examples.

I barely invest in this much reading but this time I did because I was trying to deliver and sure enough I'm able to benefit our entire product because of this effort.
The F360 businesses strategy is to sell subscriptions to companies. The free and cheap tiers are a lure for their target market which they're gradually reeling in. Don't get personally invested in it for fun unless you can sustain the financial investment.
5G wireless signals could disrupt flights starting this weekend
A lot of the weapons we have given to Ukraine are old, and we'd have to pay to dispose of them before too long. Giving them to a good cause is a fitting use for them, and actually saves money. See for example the Zuni rockets and many other items.

It's totally crazy that the pentagon put out a contract for more of these almost obsolete weapons. I'd love to blame RTX, but if someone at the pentagon is willing to put the money out, it's hard to blame them for taking it.
Well if you want to ignore things like advertising and other administrative expenses (which are necessary when running a global beverage company), you will still find that their Costs of Goods Sold is 40% of their revenue: https://investors.coca-colacompany.com/filings-reports/all-s...

Again, materially different from asking for money in exchange for nothing.
can I sell pg a https cert plz
There are also innovations in implementations. A recent one was the development of CLASP, a Common Lisp implementation with deep C++ / LLVM integration.

https://clasp-developers.github.io

"Clasp is a new Common Lisp implementation that seamlessly interoperates with C++ libraries and programs using LLVM for compilation to native code. This allows Clasp to take advantage of a vast array of preexisting libraries and programs, such as out of the scientific computing ecosystem. Embedding them in a Common Lisp environment allows you to make use of rapid prototyping, incremental development, and other capabilities that make it a powerful language."
> software is orders of magnitude more complex than civil engineering

Come off it. Even if software was that superhumanly complex (most software actually isn't all that complicated, most of it isn't even new, and it has a unique benefit that it can be easily isolated and modularised in a way that physical things usually cannot, and you can easily "checkpoint" things that work and iterate), civil engineering is just as complex and fraught. Buildings, bridges, railways, etc have thousands upon thousands of interlocking details to get right. Structural physics, ground conditions, materials, electrics, HVAC, drainage, specification and sourcing of parts, safety, regulations, building scheduling. It goes on and on. And fixing stuff is more than pushing a new commit.
> Jesus Christ, you need help

I am flattered you see me as the son of God. I am not. If I were, I'd waste no time and fix the world with a single well-aimed divine fart.
>they are giving their children’s privacy away for something as trivial as likes.

Generally speaking I'm sharing with friends and family ... there's more to it than likes when it comes to human social activity IMO. I feel like this post boils it down to too little.

As for the consequences such as cyber bullying. Is the idea here is some bully at school one day might find some other child's photo and that spurs the bullying?

That sounds like "hide your shameful pics someone might be mean" and IMO completely misses the whole bullying situation. That sounds like a horrible (and frankly childish) way to live life/ teach your kids.

This whole topic is often so generalized (how much sharing are we even talking about), driven by fear, that it doesn't make any sense and the mysterious consequences a sorta boogie man.
This is incredibly ignorant bud. Hope you are just white knight virtue signaling for upvotes.

There might be a few people that put make up on and never leave the house, but that is a minority. People wear makeup so they look good for other people.

Nope, people can't just act 'normal' and be avoided. Normal people have conversations.

Anyway, remember its that you can't have a conversation. The rest of the world has no problem.

You've built up having a 5 minute conversation to thinking you are a telemarketer.
Also, I don’t understand what all the fuss is about. The sources are available in CentOS Stream.
> you could have saved yourself some time and downloaded one of the many, many versions of this available online already.

I enjoy the act of technical drawing and 3d design. Downloading pre-existing models doesn't have the same "I did that" feeling. Especially after a long day at the coding mines, doing some shape manipulation is like brain yoga.

The biggest reason why I love freeCAD is how it's just there. All other cad software has long user agreements, log-ins, subscription tiers. The fact I can just install it and open and get to work somewhat makes up for the odd workflow. I learned AutoDesk Inventor when I was practically a child so I always reached for it when I could get a student license, but after that expired and the cad market started moving fast, I just went to freeCAD.

I don't want to do real work in a browser, I hate browsers. So on Linux its either freeCAD or wine+fusion360.
I mean, you don't marry someone that is going to do that, right?

It's not like you have a coin flip chance at a happy life or an unhappy divorce. You can influence the odds here. In fact, you can really stack the deck in your favor, so to speak.

Sure, people lie and people change, but it's not like you have to get married after a certain amount of time. You can wait to see what the person is like at their worst and then decide. Yeah, it's a 2 way street and you have to work with their timetable too. But no one is forcing you to just jump into a marriage blindly.
What I want is a system that starts off very quiet to lure the perpetrators into upping their headset volume, then blasts discordant sine waves at maximum amplitude.

This is probably kind of antisocial and some might make the “they’re just following orders” argument, but I want consequences and a conditioned psychological response for those who call and especially those who defraud.
Well if you're in a vehicle you can. I suppose the equivalent of this would be a rash of rural road incidents with grizzly bears attacking cars.
the psychology of "ok if you dont like that, here is more punishment" seems very at-home with that company; more of the same ? really?
Stingers aren't a critical part of the US military though. We go for air supremacy through fighters, Patriots, and NASAMs.

The Russian-Ukraine War, with no direct US involvement, is a weird edge case we weren't prepared for.
Some of my greatest joys are cooking a meal and doing the lawn. They are so much different than writing software. There's a start, an end, and a clear set of steps in between where you can easily see your progress. When you're done, you can step back and admire your work, and show it to others.

Do you ever refactor your LEGO builds into new builds? Do you prefer kits or building something of your own design from generic sets?
I was subscribed to a pretty niche/narrow list of electronics-related subreddits and used a really heavy keyword filter list in Apollo

It was a great way to see what beginners were asking and hobbyists were brewing

I'll miss being able to easily keep a thumb on where the hobby side is heading
> Are there really so many users who rely on 100% RHEL compatibility, and support for 10 years of the same ancient kernel?

It's not unimaginable. Think systems which have been certified by some regulatory body.

So, most of finance and banking, some of health, all of munitions and arms, many aviation systems, many industrial systems, etc.

I worked in EMV and munitions, and a lot of the time it was simply cheaper to continue making the old system than it was to certify a whole new system.

The fastest certification process I knew off took about 6 month. The longest took about 2 years.

At those timescales it becomes expensive.
That the party ignores to access Twitter for propaganda and privileged people ignore for entertainment.

The party isn't technically the government of China.
No, meaning that any predator can save a video of my child for viewing any time they like. I don’t mean they’ll be preyed on, I mean they’ll be viewed outside of the context I wanted my children viewed in. It’s not always “oh look at this cute kid! That’s adorable!” It can become much darker than that.
Because most weapons programs are also jobs programs. The money spend on Stinger will stay in the USA.
I wish I were as optimistic as you on the fire prognosis. I think a lot of people like the forestry management angle because it's a simple, single root cause, and therefore should be easily fixed.

But the reality is much more complex. When Europeans arrived on the West coast, we fundamentally altered the environment. We clearcut the foothills, dried out vast wetlands in the valley, decimated native animal populations, dammed up the rivers, and are now depleting the groundwater. Not to mention climate change.

Is forest management a piece of the puzzle? Sure. But how do we even know what the proper approach is? The current situation is not the same as it was 300 years ago, and the same methods aren't necessarily feasible or effective. Forest thinning and well managed control burns are a good start, but I don't believe they're going to solve the wildfire issue on their own, even over a period of several decades.
Harpoon guns are designed to do exactly that.
Academia Seems Much Better at Producing Derailing Tactics Than Actual Arguments
I think we could support decentralized protocols like IPFS or Freenet 2.0 at the browser level. Or even perhaps build in some type of UDP that could be easily enabled or a separate download.

I assume these ideas are blocked partly because companies like Google that have influence over browser features very much do not want a decentralized web.

Tying web pages to specific servers is also maybe something that deep down people won't or can't accept or understand about changing.

Maybe part of it is that it's hard to make p2p protocols work well and so people just aren't willing to try to tackle that and the challenge of getting that technology into browsers at the same time.
Curiosity is key.

I know people who are perfectly content following obscurity with curiosity and the world would not consider them successful by monetary measures.
I'm struggling a bit to put two and two together here. Maybe it would help if you could tell me what you think "middle class" should mean. And I think because it has come up in this thread as well, also where "upper middle class" is.

I think the obvious thing to do is to define it by income percentiles, but you don't seem happy with that (or maybe you just disagree on what the floor and ceiling of the percentiles should be?), and I'm open to the idea that something else matters more.
I feel like I’m doing my greatest project at the moment.

I enjoy PGs work but I’m not a fanboy.

However in this case it’s uncanny that the path of this work I am doing is precisely as he has described here.

I kinda knew already I was making something special but it’s almost like PG has been leaning over my shoulder watching my thinking and watching my work process over years.

In fact this article is “great work” because actually distilling the essence of, and describing, great work would have been incredibly hard.

The article describes the process it must have taken to write the article. Kinda recursive.
This is a good article, but I don't think it acknowledges the challenges and dangers that come with working in disruptive technology fields. There are certain fields where great work is welcomed by all, and although their may be a competition between interested parties over who gets to control (i.e. profit from) the fruits of your work, nobody is interested in actively suppressing technological progress in that field. For example, nobody I know of wants to suppress the development of faster computer chips - although the US government doesn't want China to have access to the latest ASML process technology.

There are many fields where this is not true - e.g. neither Apple nor Microsoft were thrilled about the development of the open-source Linux operating system for decades. Similarly, renewable energy technology funding has been actively suppressed at the federal funding level in the USA by politicians in the pay of the fossil fuel sector since the 1970s, as even a cursory examination of DOE budgets will reveal. Decentralized robust energy grids not under the control of large investor conglomerates are another touchy subject.

Nevertheless, it's possible to do great work in these fields but only if you understand the forces arrayed against you in great detail. In some cases, making progress might require fairly radical solutions. For renewable energy development, moving to a country whose economy is not based on fossil fuel exports and which already is interested in replacing fossil fuel imports with renewables might be the optimal solution, particularly if the kind of work you have in mind requires expensive technological support. Otherwise, you'll have to accept shoestring budgets and active opposition to your work.

There are a rather large number of fields where these issues arise. Academic institutions have largely been corporatized in the USA, and one side-effect is the gutting of environmental contaminant research programs that measured things like heavy metals, organochlorine contaminants, etc. in water, plants and soil. Similarly, research progams that focused on the potential uses of out-of-patent medicinal compounds were eliminated because the private pharmaceutical partners of universities were only interested in new patentable compounds. Of course, there are fields where you'll get lots of support - development of military drone technology, say.

This kind of situation isn't a new phenomena. Historically, technological stagnation is associated with the rise of autocratic monopoly power in all civilizations. The printing press was a threat to the established order in medieval Europe, the electric lightbulb was a threat to the kerosene lamp and oil business (note it took FDR's New Deal to electrify Rural America), and so on. Therefore, if you plan on doing great work in a disruptive technology field, don't be surprised when you run into headwinds of various sorts. Such forces can often be overcome (Linux eventually succeeded on a large scale), but pretending they don't exist is the worst mistake you can make. Understanding those opposing forces in detail is going to be a necessary first step.
An Android Phone Powers a Self Diving Car
10 years ago was 2013. Google bought YouTube in 2006. Not really a scrappy company at that point.
Weird, I don't think I've ever had freeCAD crash on me except maybe if I was being a real jerk to it.

I typically just use the latest version from the arch repos and it's been smooth sailing.
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Seimens Solid Edge is free and fantastic

https://solidedge.siemens.com/en/free-software/overview/
“You will own nothing and you will be happy” - WEF

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ll_own_nothing_and_be_ha...
yeah, but the extra features don't cost extra money for the manufacturer. For example, BMW sells a subscription for heated seats. But... EVERY BMW has the hardwere in place, seat heaters and everything installed on the car, even if you don't have the subscription. it's not some cost savings passed on to you, it's cheaper for them to put seat heaters in every car!!! They're just going to charge you more to unlock it. Hence, subscription services are not value added, they are value extracted, and understanding that difference is what drives the outrage here.
Same here. Both decided against that. We only share pictures to our relatives and we specifically tell them not to share them.
It depends what company culture actually is. I have worked at companies where documentation has been frowned upon – I'm not exaggerating either. That is something I most definitely will try and subvert.
Another one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36550194
> cheap industrial labour generally available was a “soft power”

Of course it is. But US and Global Capitalism fought tooth and nail to get into China. The manufacturing base in the US was dismantled (literally) on purpose by American billionaires and the politicians they owned.
From TFA: "Black 40-year-olds were much more likely to have never married than Hispanic, White and Asian 40-year-olds."

My understanding is that economic conditions for Blacks are not significantly better than those of Whites and Asians, and are probably somewhat worse.

Which suggests your hypothesis is not backed by data.
“Please solve this captcha before we continue the exchanging bank information”
It's interesting how much it parallels the novel 1984. The members of the party lived under extreme surveillance and control for what?

My analysis is that the outer party traded off those things effectively for a sense of safety, and the inner party traded off even more for pride. In total the party was only about 20% of the populace.

At any point Winston could have left. The party had obviously created an oppressive wartime environment that made it scary to leave the safety of the party, but Winston had many opportunities to simply walk away.

But he was invested.

And I think that's the parallel I see in modern capitalist society. We're so invested that we cannot imagine walking away. Disposable gadgets, next-day shipping from the comfort of your couch, virtual social scores (either crowd sourced or provided by your ruling party). These things all feed into the sunk cost fallacy that starting over would be too hard.

And maybe it is. Maybe that's why I keep marching with the herd.
Also fair - it’s possible that my choice of tense made that the only literal reading, but my point was intended as general and not accusatory.
If I could upvote you 100 times at the expense of not being able to vote for the rest of the year, I would do it right now.
Could you tells us more about that experience? It's intriguing.
How likely is that to occur? Is that harmful to someone?
Compared to mass shootings, mass stabbings are not as serious, really. You would need dozens of people to stand meekly and watch a stabber work down the line to get the same number hurt that a person with an automatic gun can kill in a few seconds.
The simplicity of tree-navigation in "closure" is pretty amazing: https://github.com/nalgeon/sqlean/issues/27

Given that SQLite supports huge sizes for text, you could almost use the above as a way to create an outliner, with everything stored in the database itself ...
Stories We Tell Ourselves About Inequality
> they specifically insisted on being compliant with the standards

that's wrong?
Never forget that if anyone wanted this problem solved it could be.

Failure to rate limit outbound calls is a choice. Failure to auto block bad participants at the network level is a choice.

They are paid to choose otherwise.
Hopefully a nefarious actor doesn't start training the orcas to engage in criminal activity. It has happened before with penguins, please refer to the excellent documentary, Batman Returns.
No, really. We've worked with Intel, Nvidia and AMD... Well for the latter, at least tried. We're not a big fish, but response time and quality of responses were stellar with Intel and Nvidia. AMD took weeks and even when asking very precise questions with lots of technical background, there was a lot of "hmm dunno have to find someone who'd know" kind of answers, and it would often take one to two weeks for a single reply. And that's not even dev work, it's just tech support for your own damn stuff you're trying to sell.

You can't seriously tell me that's not something they could fix.