skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There is a stigma associated with failure that society still hasn't accepted.

I don't think that the stigma is only associated with failure, but also with lacking talent/gift. Founders, developers, etc. simply want to look pristine, flawless, gifted. The mythical unicorn who "everything who touches turns to success" and any setback or effort is downplayed.

In the company I previously worked for as a junior developer I had 2 colleagues. Let's call them Tom and Bob. I once made the mistake of asking for feedback on how to improve from Tom. And the mistake I made was thinking that his feedback would focus on maximizing constructiveness aka. inform me with ways that would be actionable for me. When I asked him how to "become as good as you are" what he instead gave me as an answer was "my brain simply works differently".

We can argue over whether I asked the right or wrong question and I will agree with you that perhaps if the question was posed differently the answer may have been more constructive. However, I don't think that this detracts anything from my original point: When communicating, especially in career/business contexts, we have multiple goals in mind. And one of the goals that we have is to ensure that we don't show to others how hard we had to work, or how many times we failed until we understood a concept.

And this need will never ever go away, because impressions and perceptions are important. It's also the reason why companies will insist on keeping in their job openings "call for talents", "seeking talented developers", etc. I've even seen Linkedin job posts with 200+ applicants and at first was impressed, but then found out that some companies just reopen the same job ad to avoid resetting the counter because apparently having "200+ applicants" is giving the impression that lots of developers out there who would do anything to join them.

You'll always have people or/and companies that prettify or up-sell something they did because (especially in career contexts) perception and impression is important, and it's not just about being constructive/educational to other founders/developers etc. but to also look great while doing it.
> Yes, journalists used to speak truth to power.

So people say. If you don’t trust journalists then why should you trust their history telling about the-way-things-were?
The graph they show has the 1% lows being close to the same for both cards, yet they're saying the older 8GB has stuttering issues.

Wouldn't the stuttering issues show up specifically in those 1% figures?
The EU is a tiny part of Fraunhofer funding:

General Finances:

https://www.fraunhofer.de/en/about-fraunhofer/profile-struct...

Research Funding Figure:

<https://www.fraunhofer.de/en/about-fraunhofer/profile-struct...>

EU is 93 Million Euro out of a total of 2,518 Million Euro.

That vast majority comes from German governments and ministries, both in the base funding and through project grants. Then the next major block is R&D done at Fraunhofer funded by industry (723 Million Euro). EU Funding is often as much about the prestige as it is about the projects.
Build a tiny chess bot challenge
It puzzles me how people can ignore stuff like DARPA while simultaniously argue against stuff like publicly funded Fraunhofer research.
Oh come on we owe Fraunhofer at least psychoacoustic compression, the basis of MP3 and most current audio formats. It was also a moonshot project at the time. It's like complaining DARPA lives on the govt handouts: of many things that to it's among the least problematic.
SpaceX increased launch cadence – animated infographic (2008 – 2023) [3min]
Journalism is necessary in the sense that thought control is necessary in (nominally) democractic societies. See Walter Lippmann and others. (This comment is not an endorsement of that worldview.)
Why is that skeezy? It’s no worse than using your credit card to buy something. In fact, maybe better since it’s backed by a real asset.
That's "CO2e" (CO2 equivalent, measured in global warming potential), not CO2. The time scale isn't specified, despite making a big difference in some cases, so I'll assume it's calculated over 20 years, which seems to be the most common. It's important to distinguish CO2 from CO2e, because a large part of CO2e emissions from animal farming are methane, which is a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. Methane emissions could be reduced in multiple ways, e.g. we could switch to farming kangaroos, which don't produce methane, or supplement cow feed with seaweed, which was found to dramatically reduce methane production:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Called it, unfortunately: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30104740

The only way around the dystopia this will lead to is to constantly and relentlessly shame and harass all those involved in helping create it. The scolding in the issue tracker of that wretched "project" shall flow like a river, until the spirits of those pursuing it breaks and it is disbanded.

And once the corporate hydra has regrown its head, repeat. Hopefully, enough practise makes those fighting the dystopia effective enough to one day topple over sponsoring and enabling organisations as a whole, instead of only their little initiatives leading down that path.

Not a pretty thing, but necessary.
I have noticed that female senior technology principles in the military are far more common despite both the military and technology being each male dominated.

In the US military technology principles are uniquely designated by a category of ranks called warrant officers. With the exception of pilots all technical warrant officers require completion of a selection program consisting of prior military experience as an NCO with satisfactory combinations of experience and education. Females appear to comprise about 10-30% of the population of information integration principles (255A) and network infrastructure principles (255N) after examination of required professional education participation.

Female are also far more likely to achieve senior military grades (O6 and above) than become corporate C-suite employees or even startup founders. I don't know why this is because at every level the military appears to be male dominated, yet provided sufficient talent and ambition the odds of maximal success for females appears to be substantially greater in the military than the corporate world.
Or emit events and have listeners for them. Something more similar to message passing and, incidentally, one of the original definitions of OOP.
You can block USB mass storage devices through OS policies, it doesn't prevent everything though (people have demoed frying computers using capacitors, or using USB keyboards to open the terminal and execute code)
I agree in principle. The reason we are not doing this is because it would destroy the economy and when that happens basically everything falls apart. We would still have enough food and essentials for everyone but loads of people would be without jobs and others would lose billions of wealth.

A fully green economy might be possible in the far future but the transition seems like it is going to take a century or more.
Does a writer have to be intimately familiar with every location they describe in their books? I know some are, and it's great when they get stuff right, but I don't think it's really that big of a problem when they don't.

Although I'm also reminded of how movies get things hilariously wrong in ways that can't be an accident. When I was young, there was a Dutch thriller called Ansterdamned, about a scuba diving murderer moving through the canals of Amsterdam. Lots of locations I recognise. Then there's a massive speedboat chase, and suddenly they're going through a famous and unmistakable canal in Urecht. Fun movie, but the sudden teleport to Utrecht is a bit jarring.
I don't expect to have a retirement, but not due to demographic factors. I don't expect to have a retirement because Sarkozy then Macron have reformed the pension system despite quasi-unanimous opposition across the political spectrum. They are taking it away from us, and short of an actual revolution there's nothing we can do about it.

However, it's important to note that the equation cannot be equated to euros and jobs. As i previously mentioned, due to the increase in productivity in the past centuries, it's now possible to feed and house the entire population with lesser people working these fields. If a government wanted to find a solution, they would at least study the emergence of bullshit jobs, what jobs are actually "essential" (as they said during COVID lockdowns) and how to better share the actual workload and benefits across society.
Years ago the topic of Internet search was one of the core philosophies of Search Lores:

https://web.archive.org/web/20191201105759/http://search.lor...

Gwern's site somehow reminds me of this Fravia's site.
Getting started with Fortran 77 [video]
Exceptions in BPF
Can you point to exact moment in the video, because video is long and I cannot find the argument against lab leak.
wouldn't any programmer already know this, assuming you studied for a bachelor's degree or more?

At least if you didn't skip the computer architecture and operating systems classes.

For me it was a common thing to define an ISA, implement a simulator and assembler, and hand-write some assembly as part of learning how computers work.
A dedicated man might go the extra mile and implement it in FPGA, or write a LLVM backend.

Then there is all the operating system aspect. It's quite common to implement your own kernel there to learn, or at least to modify an existing one.
Android has many lines of Java to support its frameworks and system services.
This is meant to be a Play Integrity API proxy for the web.

Now, I'm not opposed to having a locked down device when performing actions like using a bank app.

However, Google is abusing this, because they force their adware and spyware into that device, so I can't have a secure, locked down Android device without that.
Yep there are already multiple heatpumps on the EU market that work with Propane. Interestingly, they are also marketed as "high temp", capable of emitting 75C water to drive normal aluminium radiators, similar to how a condensing boiler would.
I don't understand the appeal of these things. For games that are not skill and/or reflexion oriented like Diablo once you've finished the campaign you have experienced what the game had to offer, a good hero journey. Replaying for other classes, missed side quests or simple monster bashing can be fun too. But what you describe seems not to be the satisfaction of discovering, only on collecting and checking boxes for the sake of it. This is akin to trying every parameter on a slot machine and trying to get every combination. That's very close to gambling addiction or OCD for me.
I wonder why it's a mix of human & mouse. The novel aspect seems to be that they're lab grown/multiplied, rather than 'freshly donated'? Rat brains have been used for robot cars & games (like pong in TFA) for well over a decade.
> people don't understand how they should useMemo for derived state, and instead emulate the old way with useEffect/setState

The problem is react keeps coming up with new leaky abstractions, instead of solid building blocks. Fashion is not a good way to do engineering.
There is historical data which suggests that there has been two ice ages in the time of modern humans. The climate only appears to be stable when observed over a short timespan.

I don't think there is any doubt that human activity is contributing to climate change.

It's ironic that modern civilization and population numbers aren't possible without fossil fuels, but their use will ultimately cause it's demise.
Yep, the Secure Element runs little Java applets
They write HCL/JSON. It’s not by definition low level anything per computer science standards. It’s very high level. It’s declarative.
Confirmation Bias. How many "programmers" went through a traditional university CS course?
> leaving earth in uncharted territory

"uncharted" is the keyword here, do you understand what it really means?
You asked for sources, they gave you sources and now you complain about when those statements were made?

4 to 5 years isn't even that long for these kind of plans, but at the very least offer a good faith counter argument and state your case instead of vaguely begging the question and doing some hand waving about the age of the statements.
I wonder if we should instead embrace the climate change. We know that no one will accept stopping rising standards of living or even lowering them. As such we are not going to emit less in long run.

Can we instead of make some changes on local level that effectively work with the climate change or minimise the impact? Might mean need to abandon some locations, but there has always been population movements.
> If that were generally the case there would be no need for them to legislate that there must be fast chargers every 60 km.

It's still early days for EV infrastructure, even in Europe. They're setting the direction.

> So what happens when no company actually wants to build chargers in a place where the legislation requires chargers?

They aren't specifying particular locations, just maximum spacing. Member states can incentivize deployment however they like. And there are deployment exemptions available for exceptional cases where there just isn't going to be the traffic:

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230327IP...

A lot of it will be as simple as adding more chargers to existing fuel stations along those routes. Circle K, Shell, BP, etc. have been doing that for years.
Why is debugging IAM policies and auth issues such complete dogshit on AWS? Seriously, if you want to be a competitor, focus on this.

I've wasted hours trying to work out why I get an unauthorised error, and the official docs say to manually pick your way through the 8 or so different policies that might apply (SCPs, IAM, resource policies, etc). Yeah right.

When you eventually find the page showing how to use Athena with Cloudtrail, you discover half the requests are inexplicably missing. And even though error messages include a request ID, you can't easily query for them, if it's even possible. Maybe it is and I just haven't discovered the right athena incantation. They should make it easy to just query by request ID and get clear messages telling you what policy denied the request.

It's a total train wreck from start to finish. I guess by keeping such a shitshow they sell more support contracts though.
Anecdotal story time. We have a family villa in Spain about an hour and a half south of Alicante. We just got back from two weeks there like we do every year. The heat and humidity this time was the first time it was too much so that we didn’t enjoy our time there. We’ve had this place 21 years.

Yes it’s Spain and it’s always hot which is why we bought it but this year was something else. The mix of both very high temps (higher than usual for July) and much higher humidity just made it very uncomfortable. We don’t usually need the AC on in July but we had to run it every night this time to be able to sleep.

Even the pool wasn’t refreshing as it was a constant 33C whereas it is usually around 28-30.

On the Wednesday night just gone we also had a heat burst. My first experience with such a thing and wow that was something else. It was like opening an oven door. The blast of scorching hot air in my face was almost suffocating.

Of course there have always been outlier days that have been too damn hot over the past two decades but this time it was the whole two weeks. Not just the odd day. I dread to think that it will be like in August which is when the temps usually hit their highest.

I’m a simple software guy I don’t pretend to know much about the climate but I listen and when thousands of scientists present data that shows average temps going up it makes me worry. If things continue like this some areas just won’t be reasonable to live or visit. They’re just not comfortable. You have to stay indoors as the sun roasts you in minutes and the humidity just makes you feel like crap constantly.

Even our neighbours who live there are talking of moving as it isn’t a nice place to live anymore. You feel trapped indoors with AC and do all you can to avoid going outside.

If these kinds of temperatures do continue to rise as predicted there is going to be a huge relocation of people to more liveable locations which is going to be a whole other problem.

I live in [redacted] where we have hot temperatures in the summer but we have pretty good humidity and it rarely feels “too hot”. I have AC but almost never need to use it unless it climbs to around 40C for a few consecutive days so I am used to pretty hot but I just did not enjoy Spain these past two weeks and was so glad to arrive home last night to 29C.
I clicked it - It works.

There is also a link to the PDF - try this one: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-023-00795-w.pdf.

RE: The single most important thing an individual can do is inducing systemic change in one way or another.

And that was my point. Vote with your wallet and inform others in your circle that reducing / avoiding will have positive impact. This will trigger systemic change.

Is it the only thing we can do, no it's not, but it's something you and I can do right now.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36780752

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36797471
An (almost) production-ready blog engine in <300 lines of Elisp
Hi fellow HNers,

I wanted to start a blog. After reviewing the existing engines I decided to write my own, as I couldn't find an option satisfying all my requirements. The requirements/design goals are:

- it must work in Emacs Org mode,

- the resulting blog must be just a bunch of static HTML/CSS/JS/etc. files,

- preferably, everything needed to generate a complete blog must reside in one Org mode file (I allow exceptions for images, fonts etc.),

- it should be as simple as possible so that molding it to fit someone else's requirements should be easy.

This way, Org Clive was born. There are a few missing features (most notably RSS, which I'm going to add soon), but it works, and it turned out to be less than 300 lines of Elisp! (It will be more once I add RSS and a few other things, but not too much). Note: if there is something missing you think should be there, it is probably so because I didn't need it for my blog.

Enjoy!
...or ask a closely allied country to spy on their behalf.
I'm absolutely 100% certain that AWS (for example) wouldn't do that for you with the instance types that feature direct attached storage.
Fun story, thank you for sharing! The beginning reminded me of the concept of the Pale from Disco Elysium.
We have a lot of unmanned stations here. No option for cash payments so most will just pay with card. And it seems to work well enough.
Sounds like an admin friend of mine who shoots himself into the foot with his alternative init systems constantly and complains about systemd all the time — and if you ask him it becomes clear he never bothered to read up on how to use it properly.

Meanwhile I have never had a single problem with it — including with complicated microservice structures, maybe because I started diving into Linux after systemd already was present everywhere?

Edit: I want to add that I am aware of the unfortunate way in which systemd was introduced and I am not too symphatetic towards Lennart Poettering, but that doesn't change that I had no troubles with systemd. Pulseaudio on the other hand...
The role model nonsense, I never got that. How is that supposed to do anything.

As for the comparative wealth, I already earn 1/3 of what I would in the US, my home is smaller, I don't own a car and I have no A/C. And now I should also be taxed even more, while Americans who already pollute 10x as much keep doing as they please.

Fuck that. That's fucking unfair and I am not willing to do that.
As I said in the other comment not that huge compared to alternatives with much less troubles:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36823558
I still think this is way off-topic and not related to Tantacrul or his content (and rather, his employer). But why are you blaming Muse Group for everything and not the Audacity devs?

Wouldn't they be the black mark of the FOSS community for accepting money from a known bad entity? I also think this is discounting a big problem in the FOSS community, volunteers giving years of their free time on passion projects while dealing with angry users and not getting one cent out of it.

I routinely see people bitching about OBS and its devs for not being utterly perfect for their setup because they forget that once upon a time XSplit used to be the only good option. How much have they paid for OBS? zero. If company X comes and says "hey I can actually give you a living wage to work on your passion project" I think it's in some case reasonable to see their loyalty to whiny end users to be quite fragile.
https://twitter.com/jarredsumner/status/1680805432665985025
> Can we instead of make some changes on local level that effectively work with the climate change or minimise the impact?

We can always get our towns ready to receive the millions of climate refugees we'll be creating.
Pretty much everything in AWS APIs is a trainwreck. They mindless wrap objects other objects, for seemingly no reason. The customer bears the burden of learning and implementing the extra logic for complex data structures. It's incredibly annoying. They need to pair up UX designers with engineers, but they don't.