skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This conversation is tricky because there are technical questions (what is in userland vs in kernel?). But the real question of whether something is a first class citizen is whether it’s part of the ecosystem, such that essentially all software can depend on it being available. The elf loader is clearly part of the Linux ecosystem, regardless of whether it’s in userland or kernel space. All shipped Linux software just assumes elf is part of the system. Zfs is not, even though you can apparently get it to run as a kernel module.

> I'm actually rather keen to know what downside there is for not trying out your new idea in an existing OS.

It might be more fun. It might be easier to experiment, since you don’t need to read or change as much code. And it might be easier to make a new community than it is to convince people in the existing community to take your patches seriously. - Eg like what happens in programming languages.

Long running software projects like Linux are conservative - and for good reason. But the result is that there’s a lot of potentially good OS ideas that Linux will never adopt at this point its lifecycle. (Eg, “What if everything wasn’t a file?” / “what if we formally verified all the code in the kernel?” / etc.)
Social media usage does not cause anxiety or depression
This is what it boils down to. The combination of competent and contrarian often becomes extremely toxic for the workplace.
If you think carbon dioxide is scary, wait for your cup of Pepsi.
(Low toxicity of CO2 is actually one of the reasons it is not treated seriously enough).
I'm pretty sure he was joking about people who have skill issues and get mad at society when they can't keep up
ISTM that's just an a priori feeling. The value or lack thereof of the product totally depends on how accurately it predicts human survey responses, which you can't know without looking at the data.
This headline is definitely not correct - the actual heajne should be "some reports of free tier users being locked out of their netlify support".

I've worked with small providers who don't provide an SLA on support for a $9 tier, and I've worked with large providers with a 2 hour SLA - I can't say that the 2 hour SLA is alway better.

That said, if you rely on something it's incredibly naive to use a free tier and then feel indignant on a forum when you can't immediately get a response.
Thank you for the fantastic guidance! As you mentioned, improving SEO isn't necessarily difficult, but it does involve a considerable amount of knowledge, and I find it quite challenging. Our product seems to be struggling in that regard. Moreover, I'll heed your advice and aim to increase my engagement within the community!
How is the Snopes article misleading? They write "prison conditions were quite deplorable at the time".

Appalling and deplorable, yes. But you said they were tortured.

If appalling conditions = torture, then nearly all of the captured revolutionary troops were tortured, yes?

As well as the captured British POWs held by the Americans?

Which would mean both the US and Britain were systemically and institutionally engaged in wholesale torture of white British subjects (or at least people perceived to be British).

Which would seem to diminish the severity of the term "torture".

Also, Stockton wasn't a POW.
Backside Power Delivery and Bold Bets at Intel (2022)
Yes, I do tend to agree, but on some things (AGW geohacking) I'm less sure. Mostly I agree. Maybe it's best to moderate euphoria and stick to wry humour in dark times.
Humans communicate in natural language. When a CEO or project VP commands to have something they want produced, they're not using any kind of "reliable/stable" exact language. They may barely be able to even use a computer, much less write code. Nevertheless the final production product is still completed.
horrible article, title is super clickbait and totally not what the article represents. There is no backfire and all it says is that some people dont know what can or cannot be recycled...
The same person who quoted the sales team said customer support usually replies quicker via the forum than via email which would be the official support channel.

To be clear, i'm not against best-effort support and that's actually what i use and provide year long (i never sign SLAs). I'm just saying it's scammy to call a plan without SLA "pro". Things can go wrong and things will go wrong, but when you can't have an actual human acknowledging your problem in the next few work hours, that's certainly not what i would call "pro" service.
It's well documented that the word salarius is derived from salt, it's just very unclear why.

Paying out salaries in cash (well, coins) so soldiers can buy trade goods like salt certainly makes more sense than handing them sacks of NaCl.
It also depends of the region you live in. In Brittany for example people drunk a lot of watery wine and sweet cider but they drunk it in quantity for some of them.
You canread in Jean-Marie Deguinet's "Mémoires d'un paysan bas breton" (19th centuary) that people were drinking a lot of cider and particulary his wife who was a cider Alcoholic.

The gnole as you speak is more something that became popular amongst the Poilu during the first world war and after, I'm not sure if there was loads of people drinking it in the past but it feels like the spirits became more popular by the end of the 20th centuary.
> Though might still not enough for replacement TFR, but perhaps settle at a more sustainable equilibrium.

Sustainable equilibrium is replacement TFR.
In regulated industries, surveillance is known to the communicating parties, so there's no need to hide the presence of the mirroring member. From the interview above:

Raphael: .. the protocol itself is not enough to give you a completely private system because it’s really just one component, and to degree it is agnostic. Like, if you take double ratchet and X3DH, that’s when— you know it’s run inside of, of the Signal app, it’s super private. If you run that inside of WhatsApp, there’s two tons of metadata, but, it’s agnostic to the protocol as such. And the same is true for MLS.

Thomas: .. MLS does makes it possible to design secure group membership protocols that don’t depend on a server making sane decisions about who’s in the group.

Raphael: .. the list of members is hashed and then fed into the key schedule. So that’s how you have agreement on who’s in the group and who’s not .. when you receive a message, you also know who the sender thought they were sending it to.

Deirdre: .. that’s the thing you don’t get in Signal groups: you don’t know, everyone else that this person was trying to send to, because it’s all pairwise .. That’s pretty cool .. you can have your own [MLS] client that does whatever it wants, that can detect or reject or whatever it wants.
Thanks for that first sentence. I'll share that with people around me that propose delaying.
Indeed.

More specifically, a genius who had a stroke
So, tell me... what's the minimal necessary agricultural footprint for a city of one million human beings.

This is the social sciences are viewed with contempt by the real scientists and engineers, by the way.
had no idea you cant recycle plastic bags. really? why not?
How was it a ridiculous deal at the time? He paid what the company was worth just a few months before. I think it is normal for acquisitions to be higher than the current stock price. Initially it wasn't even clear whether the deal would go through. Had his offer been significantly lower, he may have not succeeded.

https://images.app.goo.gl/see6HtsjsuSZMioP9
Would be nice if an expo dev could assure us that this won't happen and also remove the dependencies for them while building
This story’s carrying a beautiful irony about tech giants that seems to be lost on FAANG‘s entirely.
Even then, your job as a developer is reading and comprehending other people's code and your manager's intents; writing your own code should be a detail.
Considering recycling is mostly promoted by consumer brands to avoid acting on their own end (for instance, by setting up deposit schemes to reuse parts), it's not very surprising that recycling is not really successful.
North American Indian cultures seem to have somewhat avoided this mindset. At least from what I’ve read written in the last couple hundred years.
Dataplex, Dataflow, Dataproc, Data Fusion.

BigQuery, Bigtable.
The other planets, moons, and the rest of the solar system has tons of resources too.
> I think he's cultivated that negative reaction himself;

No, my point was that all the derision was undeserved and you didn't provide evidence to the contrary. Journalists just hate him.
Corporations whose profit margins rely on continuation of current patterns of consumption say any deviation from this program is unwise.
Yeah, even if I were to agree with the standpoints, they all say "I do not work well with other people and I am an angry person", which is a disqualifier for most jobs.
I don't have a dog in the dark ages fight, but

> In some remote provinces, writing disappeared entirely.

The remote provinces were filled with recently conquered barbarians, and the writing that disappeared was the writing that the Roman colonists and state brought with them where they went, including back home.

but throught the middle ages, Christianity kept spreading and by that period of history, where it spread, writing spread too. And from what I understand, the Moslem lands also launched on a positive slope literacy-wise.
Had to look that up: "Good old fashioned artificial intelligence"
Running code on a priority thread enables interception of data on a normal priority thread which can then invalidate the data.

Its a problem I'm facing at the moment, trying to keep the data as it moves around the hw, tamper proof.

Intel CPUs are designed with certain characteristics, which can highlight thread priority attacks.

Cant comment on ARM or AMD yet, havent tested them.
This is the same as `reboot -f` without systemd.
Ask HN: What's your favorite thing about Hacker News?
Jonathan Blow recently streamed over weekend building from scratch a tree map viewer for code base of his own and in his own programming language.

Treemap Viewer, part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqF2SbY99B8&t=1455s
Treemap Viewer, part 7 The Last https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_TWdyAbKwQ
I mean, using --force twice to get different behaviour to just one --force is a bit funky, but having a way to force an ungraceful reboot from the terminal might be useful if the system is wedged in some way and you can't do a graceful reboot. (Although in many cases you could just hold the power button on the box / use ILO / use the cloud providers admin panel to similar ends).
Your definition of "easy" is certainly unconventional.

> Once I decided I really want to get something, the rest is relatively easy

I hate this phrase, but I think it fits here - check your privilege. It's quite possible that you ignore your starting position and don't consider it doesn't have to apply to everybody else - especially when you're forming very general statements.
Securely scaling big data access controls
You can brew a 5% beer, then mix it 10:1 with water, and you'll get 0.5%.

It's not up to modern standards for "alcohol free" beecs, but it works if you're just aiming to hydrate while avoiding pathogens in your water supply.
> there's thousands of non-profits that'll do it for free

Name a few please. Should support own domains and automatic SSL certificates. I'm fine with uploading HTML files manually.
They can be, if pre-sorted correctly. But just putting them with the rest of the recyclables usually causes problems with clogging equipment - they get wrapped around things, then everything has to stop and workers have to go into the machines to clean them out. I assume future generations of equipment will improve on this but this equipment is pretty expensive to replace so it will take a while...
Now do the same narrative for Germany and Singapore and Korea who are on the same slope
One time I bicycled something over 40 miles in the hills outside Las Vegas on a 105-degree day. I:

1. Drank a gallon of liquid (could have been water or sports drink, I don't remember) on that ~3 hour ride.
2. Didn't pee until I got home -- and not much then.
3. Came home with dry clothes, despite (obviously) sweating something like a gallon of liquid. There was no evidence of sweat, ever -- it all evaporated.
My point is that you can, and should, try to change people's minds about stupid beliefs. And I gave examples of that.

Your point is that it is impossible to change peoples minds.

If that is what you believe then why were you trying to change someone's mind?

If I accept your belief, then that goes back to my earlier question: why should anyone have bothered to change peoples minds about slavery or racism? Why not leave it as it was?
I really should work on polishing up my public appearance, but right now my job and personal life take up any creative energy I might have outside of work. I have a blog (multiple?), but posts are few and far between and I frequently regret publishing things. I barely go back to previous comments I leave on the internet / HN, afraid of what others might think. Maybe I should talk to someone about that <_<.

I could be shadowbanned for all I know, come to think of it.
> First, a programming language is just a syntax to describe functionality that could be turned into an actual program. Lisp[1] was defined in 1958 but didn't have a full compiler until 1962. Was it not a programming language in the intervening 4 years?

The claim that you make here is not true, and the example that you give does not support your claim. A programming language is more than just syntax - it is the combination of both syntax and semantics together to give a computational meaning to the strings in a language. This is not controversial, this is emphasized in the introduction to any textbook on compilers / language theory so I'll just give you one easy to google reference for this claim:

* https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/p/Progra...

A programming language is more than a well defined set of strings. Each of those strings defines a particular computation. This is not true of natural language, where any definition of semantics relies on the semantics of the natural language.

For your specific example of lisp, here is the original 1958 letter:

* https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/368405.1773349

As you can see the description is more than just the syntax of expressions - it describes the evaluation process and how to perform it. This is different from a modern description of semantics as it predates the introduction of operational and denotational styles by a couple of decades.

From the same era here is ALGOL, again it is more than the syntax as a description of the semantics is required to defined which computation is being written down in the language:

* https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/report/B...

One of the pillars that you are building your argument upon is very faulty, and I think it would be good to take a moment and consider what that means. Marsha is clearly a program synthesis tool. It is clearly automated in the production of programs. It looks useful in the overall process of programming. But describing it as a programming language is not helpful or useful. Watering down language and definitions does not help to explain what Marsha is or can do, and when you have made something new there is no particular need to try to fit it into an old label that means something else.
> Perhaps you need to be a contractor, not an employee.

Unfortunately, I'd say a key skill for a contractor is probably reading code written by others because - at least in my experience - you're 90% of the time coming in to clean up or maintain an old mess someone else has made.
Credit Karma Engineering Career Ladder
Got it from Reforge Artifacts, good stuff
I don't understand - you're not allowed to submit blog posts to my blog, am I censoring you?
I don’t get “never trust a for-profit”?

Maybe you mean VC?

Because almost all hosting is for-profit.
Data point:L7 annual salary and bonus are $718k and $603k if the data from this article is accurate.

See https://nypost.com/2023/07/21/leaked-google-pay-data-reveals...

L8+ would be more obviously.
Bigger grids might be more resilient, but that doesn't really help all that much when dealing with sabotage like in South Africa. When you have people deliberately destroying infrastructure to get contracts for fixing it, it becomes difficult.
First they need to look at your application / resume.

Then they need to have questions, which triggers curiosity that has them looking for more.

Only then does having a piece of content help you.

Yes it helps, but it doesn't help as much as having a resume that suggests you're a potentially good match without oversharing why you're not a good match. A good resume raises questions that leads to a conversation.

The resume matters more... but if all else is equal and candidates you're competing against also have great resumes, then content matters. You'd be very surprised at the lack of great resumes though.
You’re correct. In GvR’s own words:

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-November/...
So I read somewhere that apparently packaging can greatly increase the shelf life of the produce and so the overall waste is actually reduced by using packaging.
Population decline is bad for the species because the endgame of population decline is population == 0.
All developed countries have falling fertility rates, most below the replacement rate. Japan used to be the poster child for the issue, now they're not even the worst example. How many tens of millions of migrants would be needed to offset the unbalanced age pyramids in Japan, China, South Korea and all the Western countries beginning to experience the same problem? How could such a massive number of people integrate into a country?

The reason people don't have kids is not just the cost of doing so but the massive commitment it entails. People have more agency and mobility than they did before and they don't want to give that up. Importing people and ignoring that is printing more money to pay off current debts.
I do not know. First, I take it just as a way to deny responsibility for any consequence of the advice in the article, the same way one starts with "I am not a lawyer" before giving half thought out legal advice.

But second and more importantly, your conception that before people used to talk about mental health issues seems very romantic and unrealistic. People from older generations, at least in the two cultures in my family, tend not to talk about emotions at all. The most striking example is that of my father's grandfather, who fought in the first world war and could not enter a forest for the rest of his life and get very pale and shaky in the vicinity of one (what we would today call PTSD). So what did his wife do when she wanted to collect mushrooms? "Just drive me there and stay in the car, if you do not want to man up. It's just trees, you idiot". You cannot talk about your weaknesses when you are expected to be strong and unbreakable. What a therapist can offer is a space where those expectations of society do not hold, and where the fear of looking weak or dumb can decrease a bit.
Only Google has this bad execution. The other MANGAs are pretty good at it.
We have burned through approximately 70 million years' worth of carbon and hydrocarbon resource [1] in less than 200 years, certainly enough that any anthropologist will tell you the rebuilding of our civilisation would be impossible. We have additionally created a mass extinction [2], and already drastically changed the climate of, for example, Europe, created unprecedented wildfires [3] - a Europe which is also, coincidentally, rapidly deindustrialising now Vlad's turned off the spigot [4]. Living standards have already declined [5], with the obvious answer: we no longer have the abundance of resource per person. That,not money, as every economist on the planet is supposed to know, is wealth.

No, we are not being supported. You are coping.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
[3] https://greekreporter.com/2022/07/20/greece-wildfires-2022/
[4] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2022/09/11/europe-is-...
[5] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/there-s-a-generation-...
A Cure for JavaScript Fatigue?
Add the third type please:

finding any reasons to contradict to parent commentor and win the arguments at any costs.
You can replace the centralized navigation system in a federated system if it becomes necessary. But that is not possible in a centralized social media system. Everything is permanently centralized in that system.
Well, it is! It’s a training. It’s like someone coming in to lifting weights and saying “squats are useless and no one should do them”. Without training you might not know that’s wrong. Buddhism is just like this
Exponential does not mean infinite?

Resources and population will both remain finite, fear not.

Even here on only Earth, there are more than enough resources for several times more human beings, and more resources are produced on a regular basis thanks to the sun.
Haha didn’t catch that. Spot on
Couldn't have asked for a better reply. This is insane (in a good way)

Thank you so much!
Pretty sure “reboot” is aliased to a systemctl command but I’m not 100% on this.
> I wanted to write a couple posts about anarchism on my personal blog, nothing crazy, and kept being concerned it might drive off a potential recruiter. Who the hell cares, a company where I cannot have a touch of personality is not a place I want to work at either.

If it's important to you then you should. There are places that allow/encourage people to be individuals.

>The only potentially "controversial" idea (as in, corp might not like it but will have to deal with it) that is still accepted in tech is being trans or a furry. I have no issue with either, mind you, just pointing out that anything else is a no-no.

That said be careful what you write and how you phrase it because it's one thing to have an opinion, and another to make a statement like that.
IMHO, asking end consumer to "correctly sort" the trash is a non-scalable, non-solution.

First of all, packaging isn't even standardised: you need to assume all the information about materials used to be available to end consumer, and the consumer must follow the guidelines to separate them. If packaging were standardised (with a limited number of options, not like two hundreds different things) it would be much much simpler and more efficient. Plus, even in France (just example), sorting instructions vary from town to town, which makes everything even more complicated

But even in the case above where everything is as simple and efficient as possible, and end consumers are 100% benevolent, why would you want to rely on N millions agents, each making some mistakes, when you could rely on a couple (of dozens) sorting plants, with professionals paid to do just that ?

For me it's just blaming and punishing the weak (end consumer) , because coward and mediocre politicians don't want to tackle the strong (industry)