skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone has the same incentives, their personalities and cultures give a different shade to them but the incentive of accumulating resources and self-propagation remain constant across people. No one objects to "the truth" per se, it's how we use reality or the perception of it to organize and conduct ourselves that matters to people. All this dissident stuff is giving me "what's the truth about gay genes and racial IQ differences" vibes.
Show HN: I made a CLI rip-off of Find the Sets
Not going to install something that seems so vague, but I do use ExplorerPatcher [1] on my Windows 11 machines to basically re-create Windows 10 UI and fix all of the annoyances I have with Windows 11. I've got the old right click menu, the old task bar, the old alt-tab interface, pretty much the whole thing. Only reason I use Windows 11 over Windows 10 is because Windows 11 seems to handle my triple monitor setup better, especially when waking up from sleep.

[1] - https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher
> You couldn’t compete with that if you wanted to.

Unfortunately, I was forced to.

My company was one that paid “competitive” salaries.

That’s code for “below average.”

This filtered out 90% of applicants, right there.

So the ones that applied, did so, out of genuine interest in the company and the technology (we were a “marquee” company).

I was forced to look for “diamonds in the rough,” and became fairly good at evaluating whether or not someone could handle the tech and the learning.

I kept them, by being a really good manager. I treated them with respect, didn’t burn them out, and shielded them from a lot of the corporate BS. They appreciated that, and stayed.

When our team was finally rolled up, after just short of 27 years, the employee with the least tenure had ten years. These were seasoned C++ image processing professionals.
nononono, first you need a risc-v cpu!
> These aren't mom-and-pop organizations buying penny stocks, they are some of the most sophisticated investors out there

Agreed, but they're facing KKR and Apollo, who are even more sophisticated. PE is a small proportion of CALPERS portfolio. They can't be the top expert everywhere, and they can't be better at PE than PE firms.

> They turn down investments all time because they don't make sense.

But can they turn down a whole asset class?

> If you have a product with high demand and low supply, you can set the terms. It's a sellers market

Maybe we can agree that PE firms are not competing enough on the liabilities side, which makes it difficult for institutional investors to negotiate fees down?

> I have a hard time feeling sorry for highly sophisticated investors complaining about the terms of an investment they had complete free will over investing or not.

To me that sounds like the typical free market fallacy, "no reason to complain or ask for regulation because you can just buy the product elsewhere if you're unhappy". Sure, that works fine when there's enough competition, but I'm not convinced it's the case in PE.
felt strongly enough about this that I sent them an actual literal paper letter (or maybe an email, don't remember....) back in 2004 to ask the question.

The question was asked in the magazine and the answer by Mr. Kapur was published in the magazine.... but my google-fu cannot find the answer he had posted back then...

Unfortunately, I don't remember the answer so the cliffhanger continues.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2567061/no-bull-approa...
Says you, without mentioning any of the strong reasons.
*updatable views.

Not every material view is updatable, and a view doesn't need to be materialized to be updatable.
Ask HN: Which tool for log aggregation on self-hosted web server?
I'm running a very simple self-hosted web server with just two websites on it. The sites are Python (Flask) applications running with gunicorn behind Nginx.

I would like to be able to get the logs from all Python processes as well as Nginx into a single datastore that is then searchable via a nice, snappy UI. I would also like to get some basic statistics and analytics from the logs (like visitor count, view count per page, errors), since I do not run client-side analytics on the pages.

I tried installing graylog and opensearch but gave up because it seemed too much for my simple needs and after I pushed through the installation following the official docs, something didn't work and I couldn't figure out why (graylog couldn't talk to opensearch or sth, it was a while ago and I forgot already, forgive me).

Are there any simpler tools out there that I'm missing, or is graylog the right tool for the job and I just need to suck it up and wrap my head around it?
I have no confidence this is useful or even safe to run, seeing as the website has at least three <head> tags and two <title> tags.

Do people not know how to write proper HTML anymore?
What happened with the bull?! The author undermines their thesis by leaving the audience hanging. The interesting bits have all been omitted. "James bond survived, foiled the villain's plot, and got the girl" is not a movie. I would hate to have to work or associate with someone who communicated like this.
I think its more about the kind of interesting age we live in regarding content, attention, time and direction with all this. Don’t know for example when we will reach some kind of limits with how much our brains have evolved to process and enjoy all these tiny gratifying things versus how fast our environment develops. Such things.

And what it means for me as an observer and onlooker is that I don’t wonder kids may be objectively having more issues than past generations or why some of my friends choose to watch a couple of videos at idle moments instead of spending time interacting, focusing and connecting.

It’s also completely fine to not care at all about any of this. It’s just interesting to me how we develop.
Note that this also aligns with incentives of the largest voting bloc, retirees and near retirees.
There are too many books that I would want to listen to and don't have audiobooks. i'd definitely give it a try with that in mind
New finding boosts Panspermia theory that life on Earth originated in deep space
> How many legitimate transactions are made more expensive, or never begun at all, because of AML regulations?

Vanishingly few, I'd say? You're asking that in a rhetorical sense: "Ah, but you didn't think about this did you? That invalidates your point."

But your question is a real one with a quantitative answer. And in fact AML statutes exist (or don't) in lots of different markets in the real world, and were introduced at different times. You can look at the macroeconomics if you want and try to puzzle out the effect.

And really there is none. Western capitalism was going gangbusters through the whole period in the 20th century where cash flow tracking was being introduced. And contemporary regimes that resisted AML introduction (c.f the famous swiss bank account) really didn't grow any faster or slower.
> and get duplex bandwidth faster than the M2 Max's entire memory bus.

Doesn't seem like it. Looking at the wikipedia article for the M2 Max, that says:

... with up to 400 GB/s memory bandwidth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_silicon#Apple_M2_Max

Looking at the current "Nvidia networking" product page, it lists ConnectX-7 adapters with 400Gb/s total bandwidth:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/networking/infiniband-adapters/

So, accounting for the bit -> byte unit difference in those figures it seems like having eight ConnectX-7 adapters would roughly match up.

However, the data sheet for those adapters seems to say those 400Gb/s adapters are for PCIe Gen5 x32 slots (not the standard x16 ones).

Host interface: PCIe Gen5, up to x32 lanes

Eight slots of x32 lanes doesn't quite seem possible, even with very latest generation AMD EPYC (9004 series) processors:

https://www.amd.com/system/files/documents/epyc-9004-series-...

Those have 128 PCIe Gen5 lanes per cpu. Dual socket systems seem to expand that out a bit, allowing up to 160x usable PCIe lanes in a server.

https://www.servethehome.com/pcie-lanes-and-bandwidth-increa...

So, at least on paper it doesn't seem possible for a single server with a bunch of PCIe Infiniband links to actually match the bandwidth of the M2 Max memory bus. Maybe 3/4 of it though, which isn't terrible. :)
An “about face” is a term commonly called in military cadence indicating the soldier should turn around, completing a 180 degree turn. So when used colloquially it means someone or some business had a complete change of mind on some topic. In this case, Microsoft has changed their approach to repairability.
Most of them probably aren't eligible. I've been told there's still only 3mo allowed every 3 years for families with non officially-disabled males resident.
Healthcare is just another cost in your life and you should view the benefit as part of your TC. It's only slightly distorted here in that companies can use pretax money but it isn't like it's a small expense to companies either.

I've personally never used Cobra, because it is in fact cheaper to buy individual plans.
> That is how to conflate branches of government.

It's the government though. The point from the start was that the judicial branch is part of government control. You are the one confused if you don't understand that.

> IMO it also is an unfair characterization of the underlying complexity of the situation.

IMO it isn't.

> I love it when you disagree, because I believe lively civic debate is very important. It’s just hard for me to become concrete when we get stuck in generalities about “the elite” and “those in power” without precision about what it is exactly that is the problem.

And yet you seem to know that the government is the solution to them all apparently without knowing what they are.

> I also recognize my bias, because I am actually a (small) part of this omnipotent dangerous government filled with “others” you hate so much so I think we need to agree to disagree on just about everything.

I think you're angrily lashing out at strawmen of your own making because it has become difficult for you to reconcile the scary new ideas in this conversation. But I do find it very interesting how wildly irrational and angry governments and bureaucrats become at the suggestion that they should be held to account for their actions, or that anything they do could be questioned or disagreed with, and by those "hateful commoners" of all people!
I am making the point that Obama's energy policies were a deliberate, concerted disaster for coal mining far in excess of any gradual market changes.

Anecdata, but this was common knowledge in the region at the time. Retroactively, the broader public thinks the industry faded away. But no, it was shived.
The AGPL doesn't prevent Amazon from competing with you if they wanted to (although they don't yet). There was an AWS employee just the other day saying that the AGPL isn't very hard to comply with. I'm sure that they could do that if they wanted and probably will do at some point.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37085386
Jumping in here since this has floated to to the top and I responded to a similar comment below.

Felt strongly enough about this that I actually took the time up write an actual literal paper letter (or maybe an email, don't remember... but paper letter , stamp, walk 20 miles uphill to post office works better for dramatic effect ) back in 2004 to ask the question.

The question was asked in the magazine and the answer by Mr. Kapur was published in the magazine.... but my google-fu cannot find the answer he had posted back then...

Unfortunately, I don't remember the answer so the cliffhanger continues.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2567061/no-bull-approa...
Right? The community has been quite honest on its wants/desires for dart with little progress in 10+ years.

Thankfully Skia+React metaphors are being actively developed in more mature and healthy language ecosystems.
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Haven't you always wanted an AI to decide your worth in mere seconds?
Welcome to Robot Rejection, an AI experiment that blends the despair of corporate job hunting with OpenAI's GPT-4. Built with robotic love in Python.

I couldn't just do one AI website so I did a second one, this time inspired by rejection letters. Somehow, I think Linkedin is probably the perfect place to share this...

Choose your dream job, give your resume, and anxiously wait seconds to receive a rejection email (or sometimes an invitation to a - fake - interview). Happy for any feedback ! Either leave feedback in the AI chatbox, or here on Linkedin.
Resumes are safely handled and discarded, no humans will lay eyes on them.
I remember being a kid at Babbages at the mall in the 90s and some guy told my friend and I that he just built a system with 8 gigs of storage, and my friend I talked about it endlessly as the coolest thing ever.
What was the email attached to the paper about? Was it notes on the paper or something?
If you don’t think there are any downsides to wearing masks, you probably don’t have children and maybe you haven’t tried to speak to people with masks on :)
‘About face’ is refers to ‘a reversal of attitude, behavior, or point of view’.

In this case, they used to be against allowing users to repair their devices (using glue, usually), but they took an about face and are making it easier.
I'd argue remote is way better, if you share screens over google meet or similar it is far far better than physically sitting around a single workstation. Also, by default it encourages respect of people's time rather than tapping people on a shoulder or an interrupting them (don't get me started on open plan offices).
I was about to write that this needs an extra decoding step because an addressing mode that uses a base register, a scaled index register, and a byte offset is a very CISCy thing. But of course with 0-based integers, it's no longer necessary to decode the index, so it's probably a wash.
it is. But RSC make many library authors and maintainers question whether their library is still needed in a RSC world and if so how they can support it. Same story with tRPC https://github.com/trpc/trpc/issues/3297
org-mode tables are great. So is magit, I highly recommend it! I'm comfortable with command line git, use it quite a lot, but I also use magit a lot, and magit is especially great as a much better `git add -p`.
Pharmaceutical Company: Vaccines are safe and effective

Concerned Parent: Then why do you need immunity from product liability laws to sell them?
I'm a native speaker and I didn't even know what it meant. Don't worry lol.
> and so inhibiting access to information.

How's that not censorship?
There are others, but scancode is probably the best one, their license database is truly huge.

https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReviewTools
https://scancode-licensedb.aboutcode.org/
It seems fine for, like, project status reports (right to the point, very nice).

In life, I’m less sure. People tend to underplay their injuries when talking to others, right? So in the case of “I’m OK, I got in a car accident” “OK” could mean anything from “I’m totally fine” to “I’m going to have lifelong back problems and legal problems but I’m alive.” Meanwhile “I’m OK, my girlfriend has dumped me, want to go get a beer,” the range of possibilities is much lower.

And, if a person has decided to tell me that they are OK as the first thing, then clearly something pretty bad has happened.

So, I think I’d prefer “I got in a little fender bender, but nobody got hurt, I’m just going to be a little late.”
I don't think SC has delivered on $50m (or whatever absurd figure they have now reached) worth of value. However, "SC is a scam" meme hails from years ago and the game has been under continuous development since then.

There are now viable and enjoyable gameplay loops. You can do all the things with spaceships. The absurd level of scale has been delivered. But, the game is a mile deep and an inch wide (the exact opposite problem to Elite Dangerous) - there is very little content. It's also a buggy mess.

I am also somewhat upset with my purchase - in the intervening years I have grown to have less time, and the gameplay is too realistic/hardcore for a casual. I probably won't be playing it.

Regardless, your stance on the game is problematic from a factual standpoint: 2 minutes in the game would prove you wrong to anybody - a result that can be replicated a couple of times each year for free.
> Could repair shops troubleshoot and repair a bad trace or capacitor on a multi-layer board?

With schematics, in certain scenarios, absolutely.
I'm ok, no one else is hurt.

I hit a bull, the car is drivable but sustained damage.

The bull is dead.
Yes. And this is very similar to the (saner parts of) defund the police activism.

We need a body of law enforcement that can react to immediate violent threats of course. But much more of our societal ills are around badly managed mental health, where ability to defuse situations, find hospital beds and so on are necessary. The police in most western societies do this, to lesser and greater success in the same way that most firefighters today don't spend their time putting out fires but cutting bodies out of cars.

In my limited understanding, the financial and moral corruption of tyranny also corrupts their armies, day by day. Who is officially in charge, and their moral corruption, seeing what is needed for success will wear down even the best.

So we must make sure that what it takes to succeed in our armies or police is both moral and aligned to the goals of the organisation.

If you are not catching thieves but suppressing black workers you are not really a police force and it will show for generations. If you are an army that "extra judicial executes" mid level street thugs in Afghanistan you might start to think differently.

What we ask our services to do in our name must match what we see as moral - not because of some view of morality, but because the corrosive power of the dissonance can infect the whole organisation.

There is a scene in "Death of Stalin" where Marshal Zukhov smuggles some guns into the Kremlin to start the coup, and the glee with which the "real"
soldiers hunt down the KGB / Internal Security soldiers is ... telling.
Thanks. I keep my task bar on the left so that's the big thing keeping me in win 10.
Terraform would have avoided years of stringly typed mess had it not been written in Go. I’d estimate that half the provider bugs I saw were either because of a lack of generics (and correct unwillingness to generate code), or because of casting empty interfaces.

The only advantage was static binaries, which not many other languages in a usable state supported at the time. It’s not even like there was an ecosystem at the time - HC had to maintain an AWS client for Go for several years, and similarly for Azure.
To point 3, they’re not.

According to this UK government data which lists the number needed to prevent one serious case — which are higher than the number at which we’d expect one serious side effect.

Literally a QALY negative treatment.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Lisps have had this for decades. The realization that one could do this was one of the things that killed lisp machines, since it enabled lisps to be implemented efficiently on stock microprocessors, which were much cheaper due to economies of scale.

In SBCL, this also allows cons cells to have their own offset, so car and cdr are implemented with one instruction and are safe (that is, throw an exception if applied to something they don't work on) even in code compiled at (safety 0).

Now just waiting for parallel GC in SBCL. ;) Well, also waiting for some other things, I will admit.
Go use Magit! Probably my favorite part of Emacs.
> really there is none

I personally know businesses owners who ceased operations because the laws around dealing with cash in quantity became too troublesome.
It's not necessarily the case, it happens that most of the people who come are happy to be in the same room for a meeting, but often they still have to endure one single distant coworker that preferred to stay home and selfishly forces all other ones to use the shitty tools.

At work we've bought small PCs for the meeting rooms so that all those present can be in the same room, and have the rare distant ones participate to the call remotely without preventing other ones to discuss in the room. It's obvious the quality of the participation is much reduced for the remote one in this case, which proves how poor such exchanges are when they're all remote. At least here we can preserve a good communication between those who make the effort to meet in person.
> Are you going to hire me to lead a team working on a 10 year old complicated Java app when all of my “enterprise” experience is in the .Net ecosystem?

Yes. The skills are fungible.
Harley Live Wire seems like fun.
> I'm not saying a monolith doesn't have problems, but I think the cons of microservices get very little play.

I was about to make the same point. I hear you though. In my case CI/CD, application framework, programming language, etc. was common. We manage to shoot ourselves in the foot multiple times because (a) our CI/CD was _way_ too smart, allowing for _way_ to many things to happen for us (SRE team) in non-standard ways and (b) Helm (Duh!) ... allows you to put deployment logic in there which leads to a mess.
> Is this preventable? I think not. If you look closely, all these problems fundamentally come from…

It is preventable.

I built an ISP in mid-90s, a digital agency in late 90s, another digital agency and a streaming CDN (world's first VDN) in 00s, as well as worked as chief architect for cloud at world's largest hedge fund and CTO of world's second largest bank. I'm currently an entrepreneur again, co-founding and building a hedge fund from scratch.

My experiences across these, particularly at the digital agencies (where I got to help hundreds of clients go through growth) and the mega bank (where I got to see how things working when small can also work somewhere global), tell me all the goodness from the initial list can be built into the operating model, with a couple caveats.

These are hard[^1]:

1. No domain versus technology divide. If you hear "The business wants..." or "I need I.T. to..." it's not going to work. At a fintech, for instance, all teams should have both fin and tech on the team, owning their outcomes.

2. No command and control managerialism better suited for piecework than building. No project managers. No scrum-masters. Importantly, and apparently pure heresy: no projects.[^2]

Instead of projects, think, what should we do better?

Instead of controlling for budgets and delivery dates, control for focus (like priorities but mostly about saying "no" to things instead of "yes" to everything with stack ranking) and outcome value (e.g. RoI or RoE instead of hitting dates). Then you can manage the money as investments in teams delivering outcomes, instead of budgets for projects.

Hitting dates well becomes easy and fun/rewarding when you scope using focus instead of pre-defining all (probably imperfect) requirements and you ensure teams are equipped with people (will, skill), and resources (tools, space) to own outcomes. (If people are called resources, run away.)

It is preventable, and I'm happy to talk live with anyone building a work management tool that is interested in our approach.

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[^1]: see wicked problems: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem

[^2]: You can do time-boxed work with an outcome. That could look a lot like a project. But the word “project” tends to bring with it a pile of practices that all kill the intrinsic motivation for building things you're proud of.

It's interesting even companies as smart as Linear (the Jira alternative, check out their Linear method pages for a lot of better than usual thinking) don't want to even listen why they should (and could just by allowing renaming a few terms in their tool) support a non-project-centric view of building your company and enjoying doing it.
AOSC OS/Retro: A Rationale (RFC)