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This comment broke the HN guidelines, which ask: "Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also - it looks like your account has been using HN primarily (exclusively?) for ideological battle. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of what they're battling for or against*. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for, so I need to ask you to stop doing this.

It's fine to occasionally post on divisive topics as part of a general mix, but we ban accounts when they are primarily used for that, and single-purpose accounts are definitely not ok here. We want curious conversation, which is quite the opposite.

* i.e. it's not about your views - it's about not using HN as intended
Something along these lines feels like a decent alternative to (but not a replacement of) social media that's privately owned and for profit, that could exist in parallel to what we have now. If we can build something on a platform whose goal isn't profit for shareholders, maybe we can avoid the inevitable enshittification.

It's also crossed my mind that the government could provide something that's one more layer of abstraction away from social media: a public cloud infrastructure, that people could use to spin up virtual servers to do whatever they want, e.g. running federated social media servers? This would absolve the government from the responsibility of moderating a social media platform, while still giving motivated people the resources for running one themselves.
Not at all. You store a salt and the hash(pw+salt).
Doesn't basically all modern hardware and software already support IPv6 just fine? Aren't we just waiting for more ISPs to start rolling it out and sysadmins to remove their stupid "disable IPv6" policies?
Every investment is a gamble.
Because nobody would want to use FedBook. People on all ends of the political spectrum have reasons to not want to share their most personal and sensitive data directly with the government. Plus, because FedBook would have to be very careful about how it moderates content in order to not infringe on users 1st Amendment rights, it would likely be a cesspool of racist and conspiratorial content.
I was thinking of a variant where there's a finite pool of candidates, and everyone is implementing a similar algorithm. Each time a candidate is hired from the pool, a candidate with IID skill level is put into the pool.

What does the average skill level in the pool converge to over time?

(This might be too hard for a whiteboard problem.)
> this really makes me wonder why Rust has gone down the Javascript-style async/await route with function coloring - the only reason why it remotely makes sense is that it also works in WASM

As someone who’s done asynchronous programming in Rust before Futures (I’ll call it C style), then with Futures, then with async/await, it’s because it is far simpler. On top of that it allows for an ecosystem of libraries to be built up around common implementations for problems. Without it, what you end up with is a lot of people solving common state machine problems in ways that have global context or other things going on which make the library unportable and not able to easily be reused in other contexts. With async/await, we actually have multiple runtimes in the wild, and common implementations that work across those different runtimes without any changes needed. So while I’m disappointed that we ended up with function coloring, I have to say that it’s far simpler than anything else I’ve worked with while maintaining zero overhead costs allowing it to be used in nostd contexts like Operating Systems and embedded software.
Seconded. If this had a robust-simple option for how i can use this purely locally, i'd get one instantly. "Push JSON to this local web server" sort of simplicity, or w/e.

You're right though, it would need to "just work".

edit: Also battery options for wall mounting would be amazing too. I'm actually super interested in this project, but the local-first API is my primary entry point.
> Your concern is the restraint against the police? When the riot is burning down the houses of innocents, robbing them and even taking their lives?

What I find ironic is that the French Revolution, with its execution of the previous government, gave birth to the conditions for modern property rights to exist [0].

I find it double ironic since my country is founded from a riot triggered by state violence [1].

[0]: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/james-c-scott-seeing...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party
But then the question you should be asking is, is this the best way to understand what is going on in the world? I would strongly say it isn't. If you can wait 2-3 weeks you can catch up on events much quicker by reading the relevant wikipedia entry.
I have been in this situation too and tried to do the ‘polite’ thing and sit somewhere else. Then of course another group comes along and I am in their spot. So now when this happens I refuse the suggestion and ask whoever is in my seat to move to their original seat. It’s the only proper solution to this problem.
As far as I can tell, this author is writing a language just for the experience of writing a language, without much regard to getting it used, so it sounds like their success criteria may be a fair bit different than yours.
The ability and willingness to perform well on IQ tests is a metric which deserves adequate analysis.
Taking it out of scope by conflating it with "potential" and "heredity" is a lack intellectual rigor.
I use Ripgrep daily for searching anything in code or in text files, and I'm grateful every time I use it (on windows, linux, mac, vscode, vim, etc...). It's one of those software that has changed my life and how I work. Whenever I'm forced to use `grep`, it feels like I've travelled back in time when everything ran on a single core CPU and data were on slow spinning hard disk on PATA/IDE. Anyway, burntsushi definitely deserves honor amongst other great programmers.
Learning for the first time what the issues are (or who the people are) to be voted on day-of is a great way to get manipulated.
I'm not referring to lolicon or shotacon, most of fedi has a chip on their shoulder even about much less controversial things (see: preemptively defederating threads.net) while it's far less of an issue in japanese artist communities - pixiv for example, gets by fine with it as long as it follows japanese laws.

I'm referring to creeps announcing in their bios that they're into real children (with them emphasizing the "real" part) and talking about what they want to do with them.

My japanese isn't good enough to tell if the situation with that sort of thing is bad on Misskey.io, but with Pawoo I think it gained enough of a reputation for it that there are a lot of english speaking creeps like that there.
Actually, the coercion would have to be forcing the European governments to use the expensive European launcher, when they could save a great deal of money just launching on SpaceX.

SpaceX has definitively shown that there's a disconnect between delivering a great product and acting as a distribution mechanism for aerospace entitlement.
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Interesting take. Different strokes for different folks? You aren't right or wrong here, it's preference.

That being said I am in the opposite camp and I find that more and more, the systems that I am building and maintaining are large and distributed.

Despite what a lot of commenters here on HN will say - yes there absolutely are businesses out there that need tooling like Kubernetes and huge column databases.
You missed the key statement in the commenter's post:

"If that's a requirement just say so"

Clearly the roles they're applying for are not concerned with the ab initio design of large-scale systems. Which is why they said what they said. They're not whining for the sake of whining.

Your experience writing Linux kernel code and device drivers obviously isn't a substitute for understanding these large scale system design questions.

A drop-in substitute, no. But an engineer who has the wherewithal to truly master the grisly low-level stuff can easily ramp up reasonably quickly in the large scale stuff as well, if needed. To not understand this is to not understand what makes good engineers tick.

We get the fact that, yeah, sometimes, for certain roles a certain level of battle-tested skills are needed in any domain. Nonetheless, there's an epidemic of overtesting (from everything to algorithms, to system design, to "culture fit") coursing through the industry's veins at present. Combined with a curious (and sometimes outright bizarre) inability of these companies to think about what's truly required for the roles -- and to explain in simple, plain English terms what these requirements are in the job description, and to design the interview process accordingly.
According to whom?

Weights are a type of program, which are interpreted by the neural network runtime. Same as Java bytecode interpreted by the JVM runtime.
(Assuming this is what you meant by *but there you'd at least hope for encryption*, but expanding to verify): Even in this case, it seems unreasonable to store the password. Rather, the user's Plaid login should act as a part of multi-token access setup, where Plaid's backend services' tokens can also be used to decrypt the user's credentials in order to authenticate to those other service.

In short: even then, storing plaintext passwords seems... like choosing convenience for security, and that seems very wrong.
I've always seen weights as akin to configuration files.
Wow, "History of Technology" is a very wide subject...

Are you interested in early computers? The first portable watches in the 18th century? How textiles were painted in antiquity?

The main international organizations on this front are ICOHTEC https://www.icohtec.org/ in Europe and SHOT https://www.historyoftechnology.org/ in the US. They have regular conferences, multi-track multi-day events, which attract many presenters and participants.
Papers appear in Technology and Culture (published by SHOT); ICOHTEC also publishes ICON.

Besides these two large, international groups, there are national groups in many countries. And even more groups for specific areas of History of Technology, in either chronological or thematic focus.
Sure. All of HN is marketing for YCombinator.
Wow the quality of code comments is over the top!

> If we ever do make it part of the API, we might want to rename it to something less funny like runUnsafe().

I wonder, when you write that, why you wouldn't chose to rename it right away rather than using a funny name? Is it a strategy to avoid people using it? (runUnsafeAvoidUsing) or a strategy to make sure it doesn't get into the API? (wouldn't a flag or runUnsafeDontMakeItIntoTheApibe better )?
https://blog.hnnng.space/

I write about technical stuff I encounter throughout my day, mostly as a support for myself remembering it. Since it might be interesting for some people I asked myself why not putting it into some blog format.
This would be in the "damn lies" category of the "lies, damn lies, and statistics" aphorism.
https://www.ionhowto.com/

How to fix things around the home car, pc, kitchen.

Whatever I encounter goes on the YouTube channel and some that need extended details reach the website.
Government-built doesnt necessarily mean government-run or government moderated.

You could, e.g., have funding for social media "rails", as in developing fediverse platforms of various sorts as public goods on which people could build commercial, community or personal instances.

There is nothing unusual in such arrangements and the funds required are miniscule compared to other government funded infrastructures.

This would provide an enormous range of possibilities. In would not by it self "solve" the various frictions that we know plague online platforms
Look at this thread.

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/147i7tc/lemmy_...

...Do ~50% of the comments look like an LLM reply to anyone else? Feels like I am looking at Chirper.
> But does it matter?

Yes, it does. It matters a lot. "The Word Gap ... has important consequences for children’s later vocabulary, literacy and school performance" [0]

Even if this whole line of research gets debunked, reading to your kids won't hurt!

> eventually converge to something approximating their parents' IQs

I haven't read much about this research, maybe it holds more water than I think. But does it matter? Do you really think disadvantaged youth are such because of genetics?

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S08852...
Ah okay, that sounds a lot more reasonable.
It is working at scale. Would you seriously characterize the US voting populace as "well-informed" or "well-educated"? They don't need to be because they have no real power.

And the mass-marketed "news" most of them watch is only reinforcing their ignorance.
No date on the letter or the PDF metadata but https://twitter.com/martinralbrecht/status/16764860651069644... from one of the corresponding authors is today, July 5.
Yep you’re 100% spot on. “He” works with hypotheticals (even if that’s a bit outdated) but not when talking about a specific person.
I don't; FISA courts & Snowden's revelations have basically exposed facts that the US government agencies have open back doors to all data in the big tech companies.
Allegedly they basically did that with facebook. The CIA venture arm in-q-tel[1] invested. Presumably they could do some loophole where a contractor runs a site that way but it would probably be a huge headache. Iirc there is a clause that governments cant compete directly with private enterprise, at least, the Federal gov.

[1]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-media-is-a-tool-of-the-c...
;-) Thanks! Corrected typo
Without randomized controlled trials, there's no easy way to separate the effects of increased educational spending and tutoring from hundreds of other factors that might affect someone's admission rate. Clearly we expect it helps or we wouldn't spend money on it. But it's not clear if educational spending is the dominant factor in academic success or a small factor among many.

In at least one study I've seen, smaller class size didn't have much effect, but private tutoring did.
Yeah it blocks the thread, any other "user work" needs to happen on a different thread. But if you just need multiple non-blocking IO operations run in parallel it's as simple as it gets.

(the operating system's thread scheduler is basically the equivalent to the JS "event loop").
High costs for studios seems to be something experienced by everyone in Hollywood; the difference for Amazon is that the studios sell their product on a pay-per-view basis upon launch whereas Amazon gives it away for free to everyone with Prime (at least for now... maybe Prime will start doing PPV on initial release adn then free for Prime members later?).

I've had Prime for years and wish the service was bifurcated such that I only get the shipping benefits -- I don't really care for the streaming media part of it.
Java bytecode is not "open source". At least for Java bytecode there are decompilers.
I'd give them access to technology and the internet first; a smartphone or laptop for everyone.
My government runs a successful Single Sign-On platform.

Which is probably more important than Social Network.
640k should be enough for everyone right?
I took qualifying exam on the last semester after I finished the thesis. They [university officials] thought in their system I have left the program. I had only 4 weeks to study for the exam because my advisor gave me a ultimatum after he thought I took the exam already. I was working full-time at this time and couldn't take 4 weeks off. After so much praying, I got the highest score, and I ended up becoming a Christian because of all the praying. It worked out at the end.
Good catch!

At the macro-level this is true, but at that point we'd also end up selecting based on major.

For example, the acceptance rate for a BSBA@McCormick will reach the 7-15% range.

Attending an elite private school, an elite public school (UCB, UCLA, UMich, UVA), or an elite program at a selective public school (Accounting@UCSB, CS@UIUC, Business@McCormick) will give you enough of a path to mingle with the elite.
I really like Steve Blank’s Secret History of Silicon Valley. You van find it via Google.
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Maybe the ones of the office variety? This particular mouse has only one switch under the wheel, which can be pushed downwards or to the right.
Both parties virtue signal with safe topics, but they disagree on what counts as safe (or virtuous).

Simple examples: every public Democratic figure will support pride month and every Republican will support the 2nd Amendment, regardless of what they actually think about the issues. If they don't, their own side will eat them.
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Hi HN,

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* Customer-facing analytics - expose analytics in your SaaS product for customers to understand how the product is performing for them via customer dashboards, insights, and reports.

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* Internal tools - Integration with internal tools like Retools.

it leverages the impressive capabilities of DuckDB as a caching layer. This combination brings about cost reduction and a significant boost in performance, making it an excellent choice for high-concurrency, low-latency scenarios that OLAP not suitable for.

By utilizing VulcanSQL, you can move remote data computing in cloud data warehouses, such as Snowflake and BigQuery to the edge. This embedded approach ensures that your analytics and automation processes can be executed efficiently and seamlessly, even in resource-constrained environments.

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Similar question: why don't governments push the development / adoption of better operating systems? How much time and money would be saved around the world if people weren't stuck using microsoft junk? I know China has done some work on this, but have other governments?
Because there's no reason to.

Governments post on social media sites all the time. Unlike radio or television, the production costs are near zero, so there's no need to create an organization with significant staff and equipment like the BBC.
One of my favorite conspiracy theories is that the guy we know as Mark Zuckerberg is essentially just an actor, and facebook was actually made by the CIA. Imagine it: you're a kid in highschool, already a bit of a geek with a passion for programming, some guys in suits show up and say they'll get you into harvard and guarantee you a life of fame and fortune, all you gotta do is take credit for their work and play up your social ineptitude a bit. No need to change his name or anything, all the accounts of his childhood are probably real, he's just for lack of a better word the fall guy. The government gets the most powerful tool in the world to both spy upon and manipulate people around the world, but whenever you get a message saying "facebook wants access to this data" it seems like just an eccentric capitalist who doesn't understand boundaries. Of course there's no evidence to support the theory, and you could probably say the same for anyone that has built something a lot of people wind up using, but it's still fun.
Let's analyze the logic of the given statement:

1. In programming, the permissions required not to consume are less than permissions required to consume.
This statement asserts that in programming, there are fewer permissions or privileges needed to restrict or avoid consumption compared to the permissions required for actual consumption. It suggests that it is easier to control or limit consumption in the context of programming.

2. This is where the dissonance begins regarding the meme of a programmer.
This statement introduces the concept of dissonance regarding the meme (a cultural symbol or idea) of a programmer. It implies that there is a contradiction or inconsistency when it comes to the behavior or perception of programmers in relation to consumption.

3. A program can exist with near-zero consumption (a few neurons). A human cannot.
This statement compares the ability of a program and a human to exist with minimal consumption. It suggests that a program can operate with very low resource usage (represented as a few neurons) while a human cannot function without some level of consumption.

4. In short, every breath we take is a vote to participate in something greater than ourselves.
This statement makes a broader philosophical point. It suggests that every act of breathing or consumption signifies a participation in something larger or more significant than oneself. It implies that consumption is not just a personal action but has broader implications.

The logic in these statements contains a mix of objective claims and subjective philosophical assertions. The first statement is based on the premise that permissions in programming can be differentiated between consumption and non-consumption, although it lacks specific evidence or context.

The second and third statements introduce a comparison between programming and human existence, implying that programs require less consumption than humans. However, it's important to note that the analogy between programming and human biology is not straightforward, and the comparison may be oversimplified or metaphorical.

The final statement offers a philosophical perspective, suggesting that consumption, represented by every breath, carries a symbolic meaning of participation in something greater. This statement relies on subjective interpretation and personal philosophy rather than objective logic.

Overall, while the statements touch on different aspects related to consumption, programming, and human existence, the logical coherence is weakened by subjective interpretations and philosophical assertions.
You mean its initial launch or the rescue (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/the-s...) ?
If you use LXD you don't need Podman, the main difference between LXD and Podman is LXD runs System Containers while Podman runs Application containers.

One advantage of having a system container is you can use a package manager to update your applications. With Podman, you have to replace the entire container, with LXD you can just "PATCH" the container. This results in much faster upgrade / lifecycle management.

You can read about this on my blog post. https://zacksiri.dev/posts/why-i-created-pakman
Rush bought (his definition of) justice as a product. Justice isn’t a right in the U.S. it’s a product you buy, via an attorney willing to use the legal system to bully truthsayers into submission. Any feudal lord will tell you this is their right. This playground, that he alone created, is his fief. Lochridge was fucking with it.

I’m not super bothered by one lord getting other lords killed. Lawyers and insurance will settle this to the relative dissatisfaction of the other parties (lawyers and insurance companies never lose). What is a travesty is how often this happens in aggregate, lords consistently winning their idea of justice against serfs and peasants. And there’s an entire industry now damaged by this one person’s hubris.
No, it’s means it’s only a demo if it comes from
The Uusimaa region of Finland, otherwise it’s just sparkling graphical effects.