skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Works on a few machines / connections I tried. Perhaps you should switch to a better browser or change your ISP if they don't let you visit websites that are on the web.
The company may be worth less than 0, but the stock can't be (thanks to limited liability).

I've seen scenarios where creditors and owners work together. In practice what this means is that one or two big creditors - usually friends with the owner, or unofficial partnership - get their money back, dozens of small suppliers and other unsecured creditors get shafted.
A benefit of this is the resurrection of the cash economy and death of CBDC.
I am able to push my local change to github but the changes don't show up in a PR
https://varun.ch
It's definitely still a work in progress with only a handful of posts (I have at least 2 posts ready to publish but I'm waiting for permission to disclose vulnerabilities), but my favourite is probably https://varun.ch/video-id, which is about creating a self referential YouTube video.

https://varun.ch/history is an experiment into getting a users history through a fake CAPTCHA, and it's my most viewed post so far.
Tbf it doesn't default to the really slow snaps. Instead it defaults to the dreadfully slow flatpaks.
Programming is easy. Asking the right question is hard.
Some code writes itself, and I hope generative AI will help with it, but a lot of code doesn’t. Which is likely why generative AI is so terrible at writing good code.

Of course that doesn’t mean that generative AI won’t see widespread adoption by non-programmers in digitalisation in the coming decade. We already have a lot of “process people” making things with GPT, and those things work. Or at least, they sort of work, but they are also build so terrible that they won’t scale and won’t be maintainable. Which is fine for a while, and it’s probably even fine for the lifetime of some programs. Because let’s be honest, often the quality of the programs that are implemented in non-tech enterprise aren’t important. In fact, often excel “programmers” can frankly do wonders in terms creating business value on short lived automation that won’t need to scale or be maintained in the long run because it’s simply going to be replaced by the time it stops being useful because you’ll have grown to a size where you’re buying SAP or similar (regardless of whether it’s a good idea or not). I do think that a lot of us are going to spend a lot of time “cleaning up” after non-programmers doing GPT programming. Which will be lucrative and boring.

But writing good code for complicated problems? I’m not sure when/if generative AI will be able to handle that. I had hopes until GPT. We use it quite a lot mind you, it writes a lot of our documentation. We have high hopes it’ll eventually get good enough to write a lot of our unit tests as well, and obviously we’re already in a world where a lot of the “trivial” code can be auto-generated, but we were frankly able to do that before generative AI, but actual programming? Heh.
https://faingezicht.com

I write very little these days, but you can find a mix of tech and economics, as well as a selection of my photography (mostly travel and street photo).

For the HN crowd, I’d highlight my piece on evaluating startup offers: https://faingezicht.com/articles/2021/09/20/evaluating-start...
Embrace The Red: https://embracethered.com

Blogging mostly security related things, red teaming, pen testing, AI security, threat modeling and stuff.
Radiolab had a fascinating episode diving into this very topic: https://radiolab.org/podcast/body-count
Most financial firms face less scrutiny from their own customers too. Flying under the radar is generally a reasonable decision.

It's not good to have a double digit percentage of your client base coming from a small, insular community. They can act in quick succession if you appear to do anything untoward, and this can kill your business.
https://ssg.dev - there are more in the drafts than the published articles though.
Some people don’t want to mess around with Linux to that degree. The OP said he wanted a seamless base system; he can always “fall back” to vanilla gnome if the customizations break somehow. With a custom desktop environment I always kept Gnome installed anyways “just in case”.
Through android? Interesting approach will try this to see how it performs, thanks!
Can confirm alpine works fine as a libvirtd/kvm/qemu hypervisor, fwiw.

The one gotcha to be aware of here is that libvirtd as of now has two ways to be operated: Either run just the monolithic libvirtd service, or individual subsystems like virtstoraged. Trying to do both at the same time will cause issues.

Due to the limitations of OpenRC compared to systemd for interdependent and interoperating system services like this, I stuck with the monolthic libvirtd approach and it's been running fine so far.

https://libvirt.org/daemons.html#architectural-options
MetaGPT: Given One Line Requirement, Return PRD, Design, Tasks, Repo
Yes, because I totally want to continue working to pay taxes, rent, utilities, clothing, food, etc. forever. Frankly, I am not trying to hasten my death, but I am looking forward to it. Finally a break from the eternal go go go go, just to maintain life.
https://rishigoomar.com/blog
Ubuntu Maker Canonical Pulls in Control of LXD
https://blog.whilenot.dev

I should write more.
https://infinitelimit.net

I started it fairly recently (linking it here will probably cause the server to melt)
Just my space to talk about whatever I'm thinking/working on.

Currently it's focused on Fang, the programming language I'm designing/developing.
https://pv.wtf

Just got started this year so it's only got two posts so far. One on logging and the other on config languages.
I'd like to spend a bit more time writing but still need to build it into a habit.
I had exactly the same experience. I've been using Gnome for the last 7 years, with few extensions that were essential. The latest upgrade to Fedora 38 broke everything. Extensions, fractional scaling, Gnome and apps were crashing.

I tried KDE after many years. Other than some UI choices that I find not that great, it has been an amazing experience. Everything works out of the box. No hacks are needed for electron apps, fractional scaling, no extensions necessary.
Its mostly german, but nowadays the translators work quite well for german to english (vice versa not so much), so I will post them anyway:

https://autotagebuch.net - car repairs and experiences

https://maltris.org - my personal thing, rarely used

https://coders-home.de - small hacks and experiences of technical nature
I would say for backend i would say GO Lang is best.
I recently learned about Typescript transformers[0] and wish they were better supported in a first-class manner. Working with ttypescript or ts-patch[1] is easy enough, but it still feels like you're doing something you shouldn't be doing.

My goal was to pass the Typescript types to the JS runtime, maybe there's a better way and GPT-4 just led me astray...

[0] https://github.com/itsdouges/typescript-transformer-handbook

[1] https://github.com/nonara/ts-patch
> Can both the government and the economic system fail in the United States to such an extent that all existing companies on the stock exchange become valueless with no prospects of any future business? Perhaps.

Stock market != economy. If the stock market crashed overnight, the economy would take a hit, but the expectation would be for it to be functional.
Typed Racket (not a dependently typed system mind you) has zero as a type. It’s a fantastically useful type to have.
That's actually the desktop I was using the longest before I realized I wanted a more feature complete desktop. For example I prefer a file manager with integrated file search over Thunar + Catfish. Also xfce has a bug where it will change the resolution everytime the screen goes to sleep. That being said I might've been happy with LXDE + xfce4-panel + Dolphin but it seemed safer to me to use one desktop environment rather than mix and match parts from the different ones.
Wouldn’t you need zoning codes to ensure you don’t end up with a McDonald’s or a seven eleven in your neighborhood?
Theming is not a thing anymore since Gnome 3 anyways. I really regret the amount of themes you had available for Gnome in the past...
We cannot quite justify how there has seemed to be little customer reluctance, before EV, about vehicles

-- with diminished repairability, far away from the paradigm of e.g. Dante Giacosa (must be repaired with tools found from drugstores in barren lands), or exemplary car-making like that of old Toyota (can be abused spectacularly and still works);

-- with diminished lifespans;

-- with multiplied points of failure;

-- with little guarantee for privacy (see europe's "e-call", but also other embedded GPS systems);

-- with open doors to malicious third-party hacking;

-- with useless-to-irritating costly features built-in - boosting the price for systems you want removed;

-- with poor quality materials in the areas of creaky, fragile, smelly etc.;

-- (surely the list could extend).

Maybe a threshold was reached.
Not that I tried, but surely rootless (and daemonless) podman should work?

Make sure to post the article on HN if it comes around, I'm sure it will be appreciated.
If you pick "pip" instead of a specific Linux distro it gives you instructions without a snap.
Back in 2017, I got hit with a seize and desist later for app name infringement called "TextMePrivate" and they trademarked "TextMe" and said I couldn't use it. It was related in a sense where it involved SMS/Texting, but mine was through a web app, whereas there was through the phone apps.

They were established in 2011 so I knew I'd lose this case if they pursued it.

That is the risk you take:

1. Send a seize and desist email and a letter if they list an address.

2. Depending on their response, you can either pursue a lawyer or send an even more detailed letter to try and scare them into changing their name. They may be too far into it to change it.

3. Understand that when you do hire a lawyer, you may to prove to them that they copied your app and your name.

There used to be an app called Dogbook that my friend worked for. They got sent a letter from Facebook for "being too similar" and it asked them to rename themselves. I thought they'd fight it, but it seems they didn't want to take on the giant and they renamed themselves to 3 Million Dogs.

I ended up changing my domain name. I lost $150 out of the deal, as I registered the domain for a decade, and had to inform a bunch of my customers that there was a name change and a domain change, Rather than deal with not doing anything, I came up with a new app name "textprivately" (now semi-defunct) and they left me alone.
> It's been a while but I thought the point was to experiment with static typing of XML transformations, but ultimately type inference complexity results hit a wall

Type inference for set theoretic type systems is expensive and that has not changed. It is not surprising either: inference is harder or undecidable in more expressive type systems.

We address this by providing reconstruction based only on patterns, guards, and return types. Other than that, inference is not a major limitation to us, given you don’t need to declare types today anyway.
With all the praise to Mastodon, I find it's still difficult and a expensive to host an instance.

I host two instances, an "original" mastodon for friends, and a gotosocial instance for myself.

The problem with original is once you want to get everything "right", starting from searches, you'll need to maintain an elastic search instance, with CJK language support you'll have to modify the the code a bit. I hate elastic search with moderate passion, and it's quite expensive to keep one up.

Then I had spun up an minio for s3 compatible storage, the complexity of running a mastodon is very close to a full time job at this point.

There's also something went beyond technical pov, e.g I'm worried about all of the image from the federated instances that were cached locally will raise some legal and compliance concerns. I will need to plan for moderation staffing for that if the instance grows, that's not very ideal.

For the personal parts, I don't have much complains to the gotosocial instance, with only exption bring that it doesn't have a good ui.
> that brand new building is probably coming down in 30 years or less.

Why do you think so? That's extremely short, even the worst quality soviet blocks last more.

Europe has some apartment blocks that are 200 years old.
I’d rather hire a secretary so I can spend my copious time doing things other than figuring out a daemon so I can plug in a monitor
Glass panes are generally poor insulation regardless of glass family.

You get insulation gains from double | triple paning along with low-e coatings.

https://engext.ksu.edu/buildingenvelope/windowsanddoors

For those not into defenestration, See:

National Fenestration Rating Council https://www.nfrc.org/
https://56k-modem.online/

It's my hobby.
Please answer my questions first.

Just test scores and GPA have never been the only factor and never will be. For example universities aren't looking for robots who are just good test takers. I'm surprised you're speaking on this subject but seemingly haven't done the homework and aren't aware of what existing practice is and what the ruling still allows.

Going forward almost nothing will change in outcomes. The ruling said universities are allowed to use a student's life experience of racism as a factor. Harvard already highlighted this in their public response to the ruling. That's not race but it is a very strong proxy for race isn't it?

Legacy admissions can only maintain the status quo so there will be no increase in diversity if legacy admissions continue. To increase current diversity levels you would have to put some effort into it. The status quo rarely changes organically when it comes to gaining or losing power.
The existence of a local cafe doesn’t require that everyone go there every day.
If it's technological and not limited by some natural scarcity of components, there's no reason for this to be the case, just like everyone these days can afford a smartphone that looks like sci-fi to someone from the year 2000.
> rather than trying to write the entire parser for a fully-baked language before proceeding.

I see programmers, even experienced ones, making this mistake all the time when implementing larger changes. They try to get the whole thing implemented at once even when it's obvious from the outset that there are multiple sub-features that can be more easily implemented separately, so one can focus all their efforts on it, make sure it's well tested and clean, before moving on to the next sub-feature.
> there are conceivable circumstances where the "stock market" can go not just to zero but negative

No there are not. As a shareholder you cannot be held accountable for losses of the company you're holding the shares of. In the worst case, your share becomes worthless.
That’s not universally true, and indeed some languages (e.g. Haskell without extensions) have explicitly designed decidable type systems.
Yes they are. And they work very well and can be used in production
Here:

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YM3w4rD33mc/UIZ8-W32afI/AAAAAAAAA...

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xSf4aeoUeDs/TTrHrAjxD9I/AAAAAAAAA...

https://pzc-pics.blogspot.com/2013/04/indigo-airlines.html
> De-prioritize cars. Re-prioritize walkable, bikable, and train-accessible cities.

You do realize that the traffic will be moving at the speed of walking then, or ?

And mixing people with bikes and cars is a bad idea.
Hi, I am collecting links from various places. Even from Hacker news. I have links since start of the year [1]. Maybe someone will find them useful. You should look at files named like [2].

[1] https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2023

[2] https.hnrss.orgfrontpage_entries.json
Lol what an idiot
I've spent about 2 years cumulatively doing absolutely nothing at "work".

There was a funny case where I was assigned to a project that had almost no work and no meetings at all. And in another case I was in a dev support team as a junior, where we had meetings but it didn't matter at all what we were reporting, nobody cared if it took you two months or more for a simple bug.

So yeah I think I have some amusing experiences.
How does it compare to Goland?
In the case of GNOME, absolutely.

GNOME devs are infamous for actively fighting users' desire for customization. They have a long history; here's[¹] an example from a couple of years ago (not sure how the situation described evolved); this [²] is an article that describes the wider point of view.

[¹] https://www.osnews.com/story/133955/gnome-to-prevent-theming...

[²] https://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/gnome-et-al-rotti...
And this attitude is exactly why Linux is still 20 years behind everything else. Red Hat can't be Linux because Linux doesn't exist.

Every install is different. There's no platform to target. No API levels or anything like that. The Linux idea of compatibility is "You can make it work, with a hammer, if you spend a half hour".

I fully believe that it would be easier to add the missing bits to Android, to make it able to replace "Real Linux" even on servers, than to get Linux to a state that was fully ready for the Year of the Linux Desktop.

I used to think it was being held back by big tech or something.... but as time goes on, I realize it's more about the fact that Steam doesn't work on my laptop and I will probably have to spend 20 minutes fixing it, and this is on Mint.
*1991
https://shufflingbytes.com

I write about security research and curiosities whenever I have the time and inspiration.
I can't imagine someone who has ever written a Lisp macro coming away thinking "there's nothing special about s-expressions". Honestly, sounds like you're commenting on something you have absolutely no knowledge of.
Or, we need to pay everyone a universal basic income, so that they don’t need to take revenue into account when choosing what value to contribute to society.
Ask HN: How to start a career in the industry after graduating from college?
Those who faced similar issues in the job market of the early 00s and later on 08s, how did you kick off your career as CS graduate?

Currently, most of the jobs I am looking for have "3+ years of experience", which is just not possible for a new graduate. Does that mean I don't work anymore, or what?
Yes, although be careful, because running "defragment" will un-clone and therefore duplicate all your identical blocks.
No because productive people ebb and flow. The productive person is too burned out to make up an answer but the unproductive spent their time coming up with material for the standup show
gnome developers claim that gnome is a single block and actively fight splitting it into packages. They'd rather have one single "gnome" package containing all of it.
TL/DR: it's not. And for a fake, it's a pretty bad one too. Besides all of the points the Aviation SE users noted, notice how all of the passenger windows were photoshopped out except the ones partially overlapped by the large IndiGo logo at the front of the plane, which would have required some more work...

Larger image: https://i.stack.imgur.com/DQdIY.jpg
Yes I am always configuring this out because I find it annoying... but others may like it?
Sell them on ebay!, oh wait
All the examples you give can be perfectly explained using arguments about rationality.
I don't get it. It is only summer in the northern hemisphere. Why is there no peak in January for the southern hemisphere? What am I missing?
I use it to have serial consoles on a number of other machines for remote administration. The sessions get started automatically on boot with tmux and cu, so it's very convenient and easy - much easier than having a ton of USB-serial adapters hanging off of a newer machine.
Who says they need great weather?

People said the same shit about Phoenix: "ohhhhhh, but what about the cities that don't have extremely wide streets and almost no pedestrians???" Now that they're in SF, the goalposts immediately move.

Weather will be gradually solved, just like other technical aspects.
> That's true for anything, and not a difference between LEDs and incandescents.

Yeah, except LEDs don't dim, they just flicker on and off very quickly.

> Which you can get from a bulb.

Turning a bulb on full power suddenly reduces its longevity. That's the moment when most bulbs fail. I'd go with a LED in a shed. I'd go with a bulb if it's a room I am in often and I care about my eyes and sleep quality.
> isn't that the whole point of AI

No. A feature of Artificial Neural Networks is automating function approximation. To not understand the output, the virtual function and its approximation, is not a feature but an issue.

It has been called "the problem of transparency" by some authors.

Artificial Intelligence, in general, is the construction of automated problem solvers and can be (historically has been largely) deterministic.
> You absolutely couldn't plan a calendar appt around it without adding 30 minutes of buffer.

These cars have ranges in the hundreds of miles, how far are your appointments? If I have an appointment that far away, my whole day's already shot.
The problem with this approach, as anyone coding on 8 and 16 bit home computers is well aware, anyone with a medium skill level in Assembly programming could easily outperform code generated from classical C compilers, and compiler vendors had to win those compiler benchmarks on computer magazines, so optimize exploring every UB trick in the book they did.
The concept of limited liability limits this negative scenario. And my limit buy for the entire US stock market @5cents keeps it from going to exact zero
Wait, KISS is a novelty? :-)
Partially, the other reason as far as I can tell is that the method of dark/light detection was based on the theme chosen, so if you wanted to mix light and dark themes (e.g. dark terminal, light otherwise), the app had to guess which theme to load. Instead now I think its a singular theme with subsections (and additionally, a 3 state theme selection, default, prefer-light, and prefer-dark. default suggesting that apps choose what is best for them).

For tens of years now, theming has been a prohibitively difficult thing to get into regardless: I'd rather try making a cohesive theme for windows than try with GTK.

For Windows theming, the Microsoft acknowledged WindowBlinds 11 and Curtains are both working options.

https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/
> useless yard

My yard is definitely not useless. It is a safe place for my kids to play. It allows my family to garden. I grow fruits and vegetables. I can entertain guests outdoors in a relatively private space. I have space to hang up a hammock. Sure maybe for some people it is useless, but for a lot of other people, it isn't.

> But rebuilding American cities

The fact that you have to rebuild the city is a pretty big drawback too...

> high-density housing

This implies a high density of people. Some people, myself included, don't like to be around a lot of people. Functional parks and everything being within walking distance wouldn't be worth dealing with crowds of people to me.
I don’t know if these are good examples. Money and electricity both have inherent liabilities that don’t seem to translate to stock. At the end of the day, cash has to be transported and stored somewhere. Negative interest rates can be used to effectively pay somebody else to store your cash. A similar situation has happened with oil prices going negative.

Negative electric rates could be used to increase load on a grid that would otherwise be generating too much electricity.

Is there any kind of liability that comes with owning stock in a company? I don’t see any motivation to ever pay for somebody to take ownership of your stock.