skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I enjoy the bizarrely self-congratulatory tone in which this is written.

Congratulations! We prevented a popular service from adopting an open standard! Mission accomplished! Open standards are the worst!
The "empathy for management" bit was definitely a positive outcome of the shadow program for me.
Not who you’re replying to, but I’m from the Czech Republic, have been driving for 10+ years, live in Prague (the capital), I have never even seen valet parking anywhere. Even the local Hilton hotel doesn’t have it.
I'm not sure if ego is playing into it, and I dont think he is necessarily "underperforming", but its getting hard to accept the terms of the deal. Even with the money we have raised, I feel as though I am handing over my very hard won software skills to someone for free. Is this rational? Maybe its just this stage of the company that has this dynamic
It's mostly just kind of funny that "View Source" diverged so much from the F12 debugger. For most of its history Spartan Edge had caught and fixed that mistake and View Source just dropped you into the F12 debugger. It's almost sad that Chromium Edge again shows you a different unrelated view.

Firefox has also seemed to wander back and forth between View Source just reuses the full Dev Tools and View Source is a disconnected view from Dev Tools for whatever reason. At the moment the big difference flag seems to be if you install/use Firefox Developer or not.

(Allegedly, one of the reasons is that some non-technical users have strange reasons that they View Source from time to time and they get upset if it opens Dev Tools because Dev Tools is just too confusing. Mac Safari has that interesting dance to ask it to opt in to showing Dev Tools. I seem to recall IE11 did something similar that if you ever opened Dev Tools for more than a few minutes it then took over for View Source, but otherwise used the older and simpler View Source from ancient IE history. I'm surprised that if the reason is "it confuses non-technical reasons" there isn't an opt-in flag in Chrome or Chromium Edge. The "Firefox Developer Edition" is a separate SKU is also an interesting way to approach that.)
The Wikipedia community has generally been pretty resistant to allowing fully AI-based tools in. We've had tools such as Lsjbot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lsjbot) in the past, but they've failed to gain community consent on any of the large Wikipedias. If someone tries to bring an LLM-based tool to Wikipedia, it would take a lot of finesse to have any shot of the community allowing it.
> what is there that's not machinable shape-wise, but is still castable

Yes. For example imagine a 3d jewellery made of a web of thin filaments.
It can be non-machinable for two reasons: The wires can be too thin individually and machining them out of a solid block would break them, while they can support themselves once cast. Or you might have shapes where one of the wires is surrounded by the other wires and you can't get the tool in.

As an example image: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/4f7223_21af8794dc874622a6...
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Why not? A 2GHz is very attainable in modern CPUs and translates to 0.0005ns per cycle. This isn't theoretical either. 802.11mc[1] is a real standard and is accurate to 1-2m.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11mc
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I think in part it's because the web also just got shittier.

One of the common reasons given in this thread is that Chrome is faster, but I've found that aggressive use of NoScript and uBlock will make Firefox much faster than your stock Chrome browser. Excessive JS, excessive CSS, and of course the browser made by a company that pushes both excesses is better at handling them.
I think about a year ago they toned down pockets presence. It's basically just another extension now.
Not only during blackouts. Regenerative energies come with a more volatile pricing, and the car will be able to buy power when cheap, provide the cheap power to the home, and sell the unused power when expensive. This induces additional charging cycles on the battery of course, but the additional cycles usually still don't exceed the maximum cycles over the EV's lifetime.
So what? None of that wall-spaghetti supports an argument for keyed ignition locks as the solution. It's not like those Russian troops had just stepped away to get coffee.

If anything, it suggests other things like:

1. Russia shouldn't have tried a desperate blitzkreig through muddy terrain.

2. The Russian military should have had better policies/equipment to destroy or scuttle the ofabandoned tanks.

3. Russian tank-drivers should have had better training so that they didn't get their vehicles stuck in embarrassing ways.

Plus it's not like the opposing force will be a bunch of joyriding delinquents: Even if you completely remove your abandoned truck's steering-wheel and pedals, your way out, they've got mechanics and tools and factories, they can just fit their own. Truly denying them any valuable salvage is actually a lot of work/damage.
Let's Talk California –| Peter Zeihan [video][6 mins]
So you managed to rationalize not building a nuke through your superior morals. Now inevitably there will be a different group that operate on different moral principles that will eventually develop a nuke. (Unless you somehow think they are too stupid and not capable)

I guess have fun being right and on the side with no nukes?
> I'd rather not have the laws change radically as I cross the border.

This is a fair preference, but many people prefer the exact opposite. For instance, people leaving high-tax states for lower-tax ones, or people leaving abortion-restricting states to less restrictive ones.
FDA approves antibody to protect infants from RSV
Created an account just to comment - what is awful about 16:9, or "low res" about 1920x1080, for a laptop?
How could u not know that all ios browsers are just reskins of Safari if u r a developer? So ios devices are not even in the discussion
Was it actual pair programming (where you actually build something tangible) or was it a leetcode style interview?

In a leetcode style interview, I could see being thrown out for debugging. In a true pair programming exercise, I wouldn’t think this would be super common but guess it depends a lot on the exercise. Pair programming is extremely variable with the tasks.
> However, this can be fixed by adding a motion sensor that makes key fobs go into a sleep mode when they have been inactive for a minute.

Now I'm wondering how hard it would be for the thieves to shake the ground outside the house enough to fool the motion sensor...
> The difference is: If there is a weekly breakage on a weekly update, delaying with it is just part of the process and timed in.

That entirely depends on your operations model. There's a difference between, say, a nuclear power plant and a colo web hosting shop. With the latter, sure, no problem risking "minor" weekly breakage. With the former, I'd much rather have scheduled, heavily tested and carefully monitored maintenance windows.

And HN tends to underestimate the number of places like the former exist. Backbones of global finance and telecom, industrial facilities of all kinds, etc.
Really putting in some work on HN, Sam.
Econ 101 Example Database (Google sheet)
An example of nearly 250+ real life examples of various economic issues as studied in an Economics 101 class.

the list has been collated by Jodi Beggs (@jodiecongirl)

https://twitter.com/jodiecongirl

The data is mostly from ~2015, but I still think HN would love a view of economics in practical terms.
Take this with a hefty grain of salt. This a one-author paper from a MD that got their license suspended by MA's medical board. The author also pushes some anti vax rhetoric on their website.
That does not mean the claims in the paper are incorrect of course. But there are reasons to be skeptical
The only laptop I've ever considered perfect was Apple's Pismo Powerbook G3 line.

Hot-swap modules, a sturdy build, a great screen, keyboard and trackpad.
It's clear that you haven't had to get an interview from a non-connection in the last year. It's a literal fucking nightmare unless you have connections that can literally hand you a job. I have 8 years of experience.

TL;DR: Connections don't mean shit. Companies require multi-hour takehomes and then ghost you. Every reply is automated unless you are moving forward. Recruiters take a week to reply to even the most basic updates.

For reference, I've job hunted twice in the last 2 years. The startup I joined in Feb of 2022 folded in Feb of 2023. My style is to treat it like a full time job, usually completely filling my schedule with interviews.

2022 stats: In 1 month I interviewed with 31 companies, received 6 offers in under 5 weeks and had a job secured making ~30% more than my previous role. Of the 25 companies that I stopped interviewing with, 13 were me cutting off the process to save time and 12 were rejections. So ~50% success rate depending on how well you count the 13 that I cut off.

2023 stats: First month I interviewed with 14 companies, was ghosted by 6 of them. GHOSTED. 3 of these were from direct referrals from friends and previous coworkers! Not even my connections could get information on my process! I interviewed just as strongly as my previous year and they vanish, not even with a rejection. Of the remaining 8, 4 were not actually software jobs and 4 were rejections that refused to elaborate at all.

Second month I interviewed with 34 companies. 12 ghosted me, 4 of which required a multi-hour take home assignment. With a mortgage and kids, I was doing it all.

Of the 22, 11 didn't work out for non-performance reasons (found candidate before I was through the process, recruiter misunderstood the role, company moved so slow that I couldn't complete the process). Of these 11, 4 were from connections! They could not get their internal recruiters to reply to me in less than 2 weeks.

Of the 11, I was rejected by 6. Again, with no feedback or even a response when I asked for it.

Of the remaining 5, I got an offer and ended the madness before waiting to finish my remaining 4 interviews.
Think of all the places Linux runs. Planes, trains, and automobiles. Medical equipment. So many other places. Many places that don't have readily available network access. Yet, many "enterprises" need support here.

If a medical device or train works but needs support for years and years, should someone be constantly updating Linux? What about the software that runs on Linux and is tested there?

Considering just the modern cloud environment really limits where enterprise Linux runs and is useful. And, where there are calls for really long support contracts.
You should probably wear a P100 elastomeric respirator when firing guns and have a Nomex flight suit or something you wear only at the range and wash separately. I don't think a lot of people do it though.
BGP Hijacked 1.3.3.7
Mine removed the starter relay at night. (The car didn't have a distributor AFAIK, or if it did, it wasn't as accessible).

This wasn't to foil thieves, it was to frustrate the repo man.
Ghost guns meet ghost AI
Security by obscurity in automotive?
Ah nix! Ok thank you very much
Starting by having systems programming languages that actually have proper strings, arrays and bounds checking.
Surprised no one has mentioned the obvious issue: plagiarism

(Not sure if the authors have indicated any method for attribution of the original data)
Sounds like a good motivation to hide what you're really earning from the state
My current Lenovo laptop comes pretty close. I enjoy it a lot.
They want to install security patches, and not change anything else. 8 years ago was Red Hat 6.7 and 7.0.
Windows Server 2012 R2 and 8.1 were 10 years ago.
I actually had a desktop motherboard, purchased about 2003-2004, that did this.

Mind you, as it slowly succumbed to age (capacitor plague, most likely), it would start repeating "No CPU Installed, No CPU Installed..." as I watched it boot without issue. Once the sound driver was configured, it would stop.
Well, only the permutations which are also a valid domain, that narrows the field a lot and is also an easily obtainable list.
Having worked in both kinds of cultures, I tend to agree. Keeping up is ultimately less pain than trying to upgrade things in huge chunks.

But it can be really hard to change the culture at a place that has a long history of "ain't broke, don't fix it" engineering.
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I am currently using asdf, is there anything Nix does better than asdf?
As it happens, a non-trivial amount of Downtown St Louis is now failing commercial real estate: It's not just the AT&T building, which could be had for cheaper than many Seattle single family homes, or the two hotels in receivership, but also now Bank of America plaza. Wework exited downtown too, leaving two more empty floors in One Metropolitan Square. Its current use is basically sporting events, and the few government buildings that have to stay there.

Now, I'd not recommend that we centered any serious investment making downtown less car-friendly, but mainly because downtown's fixes are way too expensive: In its current form, it's not doing well, and not trending up. Walkability could help, but walkability downtown isn't a matter of making Market street narrower, or slower: Many buildings themselves are set up to be anti-pedestrian, with huge setbacks to the street, and no retail space. Just huge office buildings nobody wants to rent. Interventions to help the city of St Louis just have to start in parts of the city that have better bones. Spend a little to make the somewhat successful parts of the city a bit more successful. Allow relatively walkable neighborhoods to become denser, bigger and more walkable, and see if people vote with their feet.

Downtown? We couldn't afford fixing it, for either cars or pedestrians.
Tri Dao and Tim Dettmers ftw
Simple? Not if Furiosa is programming the start sequence.[0]

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq5rQlfEcjY
Because firefox let itself be defined by its competition (chrome).

Everything in firefox in the last 10 years feels like they are just copying chrome with a bit of a delay. You don't win the market by doing the same thing as the market leader (Especially when the market leader is as well funded as google). You need to find a niche and execute on that.
even simpler, they could have used morse code ...
"The changes are fixes for minor regression bugs in the standard library and library."
I've got a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Nano Gen1. Better than Gen2 IMHO.

The touchpad is the first thing I disable on any laptop. I use the keyboard and the red dot.
That's a poor analogy. It's more like you're threatening your neighbours, fucking around with their apartments and they join the local neighbourhood watch. And as a response your reaction is to break into their apartments and cry about their "aggression" against you.
This whole model is in decline. Most companies have moved to the cloud and are using kubernetes. If you're running servers a datacenter then you might use enterprise linux. You are probably using some kind of virtualization like ESX or Nutanix. You might be using k8s there too. The age of running your own linux servers is ending in a way.
Have to sign up without even knowing what it even is
What actual harm would come to you from someone watching you in your bedroom?

What harm would come to people simply registered as Jewish in Germany prior to WW2?
Ford slashes prices of F-150 Lightning trucks as EV wars heat up
I wanted to like Crystal but the documentation was heavily lacking. Even BeefLang had better documentation and that seems to be the brainchild of one single man.
Allowing infill development of existing parking lots to create mixed use neighborhoods is in reality very cheap for cities to do. All it costs is rezoning: if they then increase taxes on the now very-desirable-to-build land, it’ll be a huge net win, with cheaper utilities and transport infra to maintain relative to the tax base. Sewers cost roughly the same per mile regardless of if you’re serving 1,000 or 10,000 people.

This becomes really obvious when you look at where cities like Kansas City receive the most taxes vs where they spend the most: suburbs cost Kansas City huge amounts of money that the inner walkable city neighborhoods subsidize, despite the per-capita tax returns being lower in the more dense neighborhoods.
The Linux kernel has a pretty strict "don't break userland" policy, and if it does it's a bug, so I wouldn't expect using a newer kernel to be a problem.
ArchLinux-style rather thsn NixOS style. Just roll the updates when they are ready into your very own test, int, acc, and finally prod.
If you read TFA then you'd realize they've solved almost every issue you throw down. They allow enough current through to power electronics (like your break-in alarm) but not enough to turn the engine over.

The target market for this is not "anyone with basic car or electronics knowledge who can do it themselves"... it's, "people who want an extra level of defense against car thieves".
I can see AI bots submitting convincing edits at random times in no particular pattern. Eventually they will overwhelm Wikipedia checks and balances.
I feel sorry for your ex.
So, the only way to grow Firefox now is to have a website Google can't hijack to advertise Chrome, and also a website everyone wants to use.

"ChatGPT runs better in Firefox. Click here to install it."
Coroutines for Go
Many of these issues are not the simple binary choices that politicians and the media would have us believe.

Abortion is a great example, the issue isn’t as simple as banning it or allowing it. At how many weeks and under what circumstances should it be allowed? Should the father be part of the decision? What about if the mother is below the age of legal consent? Do her parents get a say?
As soon as the "current generation" decides to return plundered cultural artifacts, give me a call.
i wouldn't.

but i'd totally download a car
I agree but I don't think that's SUSE's or Red Hat's problem. If you deliver a solid and stable product humans will get complacent.
Personally, I don't like it as it's too large.. and I keep hitting it by mistake... for a while I ran Thinkpads with a touchpad disabled, just using the "nub".
> even Hayao Miyazaki can't release a movie with zero marketing and expect no effect

At Hayao Miyazaki level, having no marketing IS a very clear PR move. The article states it clearly, it's adding mystery to the movie. Everyone knows that it's not going to be a bad movie since it's a Ghibli one, but also no one knows what it is about so everyone is impatient to go watch it and discover all that mystery.

Since the opposite is true, I've lost interest in movies when the trailer revealed way too much, I can see this as a clear move in the opposite direction.
As the other commenter said, and I want to reiterate, what led me to start with the talk about the private keyword is the big bold header that says "Myth: C has no equivalent to “private”" and the first code snippet that shows how you can have "private" fields in C++ and the following ones that show an "equivalent" implementation in C. So I think it's reasonable to infer that the author is talking about encapsulation and "the private keyword" as somewhat interchangeable (and I don't disagree, for this discussion they're practically the same). Not only that, but the points I made are about the implementation shown in the article, which is independent of whether the talk is about "private equivalency" or "lack of encapsulation": the gist of it is "yes, you 'encapsulate' things but not in the same way and it comes with disadvantages that aren't really there in other languages".

With all that said, I don't think all that condescending talk about the lack of reading comprehension or skills, without actually going into the arguments themselves, is really necessary or positive.
No it was implementing a feature. No palindromes or nonsense like that.
Overhead is required to pay for space, electricity, admin, etc. This is not inherently a problem, but the percentages getting too high is...
> Oracle has also publicly continued to commit to keeping “…the binaries and source code for that distribution publicly and freely available”. At this point their distribution has been around for 17 years, and they’ve never tried to restrict access to their source code in that time.

I’ll be impressed when they open source Oracle DB and let Microsoft fork it and sell support for it.
It’s pretty easy to commit to “open source” a copy of RHEL. Especially when linux isn’t core to their business but a bait and switch to get their customers on Oracle’s platform.
> In fact, I'd go so far as to say "a long way out" is a clear victory for the free fediverse's cause.

What victory exactly?

Meta already sent NDAs to the biggest Mastodon instances before the release of Threads which that got 100M+ users onboarded alone. Even before releasing to the EU which eventually under the digital services act they have to interoperate with the (tiny) fediverse instances to show that they are not incentivising social media lock-in and users can migrate.

So what both the author fails to mention is that nothing was stopped, and eventually, ActivityPub is coming to Threads, like it or not and the so-called 'fedi-pact' did absolutely nothing to change that direction.

> ActivityPub advocates are optimistic that they'll be able to resist embrace-and-extend.

Money is power. Meta has billions and the Fediverse has no where near that amount. 'Principles' does not pay the bills.

This author and the article cannot be taken seriously at all. In fact, this post was quite hilarious with such premature claims of 'victory'.
Software engineering: problem-solving and critical-thinking
I mean, by the same logic you could also change the name of people? If your name is Michael should I call you Michele because that’s how it translates in Italian? I say no because that’s stupid.

Still, even if the parent post is indeed technically correct I don’t think it really matters the same way it doesn’t really matter if you call Roma Rome or Milano Milan or Venezia Venice.
> $1.2 mm is cheap for this sort of feature, assuming that money goes to the actual implementation, standardization, homologation, and integration on the assembly line.

Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but it sounded like the $1.2mm went to some prototypes and a research paper.
> can’t put my finger on why this is so much better than everyone else

Because it doesn't move. When you press down on an Apple touchpad, it doesn't displace at all, it vibrates. This gives you an identical touch response across the entire trackpad, plus nifty things like Force Touch and customizable response intensity.

Nobody else has done it, and it makes every other touchpad feel awful.
This is a two part system. There's the relay under the hood, and a keypad plugged into the cigarette lighter port. When you put the correct code in, the device will induce the voltage fluctuations that tell the under-hood relay to close.

I think the whole "flip on wipers, flash high-beams twice, turn on map light" thing is a fallback for when you don't have the keypad or don't want it to always be plugged in. If the voltage variances for those actions changes, I suppose you can retrain it with the keypad plugged in.

And the point of that analog signalling is to make installation easy. You just plug the keypad into the lighter port. It handles the rest.
Is that correct? I get a larger number.

In either case, they said a single byte saved. Any amount of minification is going to save more than just a byte.

It’s also incredibly low effort to do so.
Yep. Shameless re-victimization.