skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buy the lot and build a house? Home builders and realtors are pretty established business models. Land developers can do both.
I don't blame agile I blame the consultants and charlatans and the execs that listen to them. Also get rid of retro if there's anything to talk about do it in standup.
ooo, that auto rollback sounds really cool-- got any idea how that's done? I assume it's handled by checking for eg. a dirty-fs-flag just before the initfs boots the real system, but what if there's breakage in userspace (eg. the login manager) or in the initramfs itself?
yeah it looks like everybody's focused on the mechanics of the computation and not appreciating the math i.e. why the two expressions compute to the same value.
An interesting pair is Saloons of the Old West (Richard Erdoes) and Jacob Hamblin Peacemaker (Pearson H. Corbett), not for contrasting views but rather contrasting visions of the U.S. West. Saloons details the all purpose role of the saloon, as social center, post office, traveling preacher's pulpit, etc, in support of a rapacious gold rush mentality to extract each resource as quickly as possible and move on. Hamblin, by contrast is an early Mormon pioneer repeatedly sent by Brigham Young to establish new towns in West as the Mormons made a bid for their own Zion. The early Mormons really were different from the rest of the folks heading West, very much intending permanent settlements and a farm based economy. The book title comes from Hamblin's command of Native American languages and ability to regularly make peace with the Native Americans.

Peacemaker has references to the laying on of hands and other religious hoo-haw, but just ignore that and read it for the interesting historical document that it is.
It's an issue of the Canadian government getting duped by private equities who own Canadian newspapers to pass rent seeking laws and frame it as being tough on tech or whatever they think is political savvy nowadays.
Finally, a justification for Gnome!
The government already has the power to regulate foreign media and broadcasters because it's well understood that their agenda may be inimical to national security.

We're just discussing how this may be applied to a 'broadcaster' such as TikTok which isn't covered by the legislation that covers legacy media.
Yeah, I totally get that. And I absolutely knew going in that suggesting you write exactly the same thing I wrote in that exact comment couldn’t help but sound condescending.

But in complete honesty, hedging around it any more than that would have felt insincere to me. And in exchange I got sincere feedback! So really, I’m just doing things your way, and I’ve seen the benefit of it :)

With that said, for your future reference: if you hadn’t said “Interesting!” first, I wouldn’t be engaging charitably right now— I’d be debating whether to engage at all. Based on the next sentence I’m guessing you meant it more as a way to call my sincerity bluff, but I’m telling you it fucking works. Might be an idea to keep around?

To your parenthetical: One other thing to keep in mind is that those employees (I’ve been one) have to talk to terse, grumpy people all day long, and even if it’s not reciprocated, that can be a way to carve out a little moment of real human kindness. I’d keep some weight on the possibility that, sometimes, for a moment, they do just genuinely hope you have a good rest of the day.

I know there’s probably no way I can now convince you that I genuinely hope you have a good rest of the day, so, uh… take care?
The problem is, some of these missing cmdlets are pretty basic/essential (speaking as a sysadmin), so it's a bit ridiculous that they're still left out. I mean, sure, I could just call the native *nix binary, but then I'd lose out on the objects, which then defeats the whole point of PowerShell. Plus, I'd have to rewrite all my existing scripts/scriptlets/libraries, which kills the portability.

I could write wrappers around the native binaries, or build custom PSCustomObjects on the fly in the pipeline, but I don't want to waste my time doing this, when these cmdlets are all pretty standard on Windows, and we really shouldn't be expected to do Microsoft's work.

For instance, Test-NetConnection, Resolve-DnsName (and other net commands), Register-ScheduledJob (background jobs), Get-Partition (and other disk management stuff), I could go on, but these and a lot of essential cmdlets are missing.

More than that, my biggest issue is that a lot of my favorite modules and scripts that I've been using (from the PowerShell Gallery and other places) don't work, and many of my scripts have dependencies on them - which means I'd have to rewrite them all to make it work, and some of them may never have a hope working in Linux/macOS due to missing .NET libs/Windows APIs.

Basically, PowerShell on non-windows systems is not fun. It's neither here, nor there - ie neither does it provide all the functionally of Windows PowerShell, nor does it fit in like a proper *nix shell, and even then, it doesn't object-ify any popular *nix native binaries, so you lose out on all the object-oriented benefits, unless you spend time writing wrappers or constantly build PSCOs in the pipeline.

At the end of the day, if I've resolved myself to just parse all the text from *nix binaries, then I might as well work in a shell that is a first-class *nix citizen like fish or zsh, which is more suitable for that sort of workflow, instead of working in a confusing shell that's neither here nor there.
This isn't about what's in their best interest. Google has no way of knowing what analytics are being collected on websites they do not control.
I use s7 Scheme compiled to web assembly and love it. It uses its own GC and is 100% ANSI C so was quite easy to get going (it is fairly similar to Guile but liberally licensed). This allows me to reuse my domain code from Scheme for Max projects in a webaudio/webmidi contex, and control a WASM synth in C++ from Scheme.

Here's is my ultra simple example page which I will eventually update with the progress from the private app I am doing.

https://github.com/iainctduncan/s7-wasm

Edit to clarify: I am using s7 specifically because that's the one I use in Scheme for Max, my main OSS project. It is great for computer music.
War is a different beast entirely. Every year spent at war is a 3-5x of years as a civilian.

Living in constant stress, fear and potentially malnutrition and disease takes a pretty big toll on you. 20-somethings begin to look like 35-40 year old men really quick.
In America you see the opposite. Young faces but 50 year old bodies.
Don't those things tend to increase the value of crypto?
Given how much Bezos and now Jassy push data for decision making I find the “culture” hand waving ironic. The fact they have economic value to the south lake union “neighborhood” on hand but nothing about how “serendipity” helps Amazon or its employees is telling. My favorite is the “it’s for the children” rationale for RTO. My observation has been kids rolling out of college having been successful enough to graduate with good grades through covid hit the ground running at remote companies. I think it’s folks who have had a long successful career by exploiting in office dynamics who can’t see a different way of doing business, despite the fact their mode is a post highway commuter culture emergent reality itself.

However my understanding is Amazon negotiated aggressive funding and tax agreements in many locales including Seattle that are contingent on the people they have in office to create economic activity in business districts.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-02-21/another-t...

All this malarkey has a shelf life IMO. I know from the companies I worked at urban office costs per seat often run in the $18k/head. Google’s average per head (I know, average doesn’t tell the best story) is $124k. That’s more than a 10% “tax” for “serendipity” - I just don’t see the hand waving and emotional appeals working past the end of tax agreements when talking to a board looking to boost EPS. At a certain point you need to prove it’s worth it, and I don’t think anyone will be able to demonstrate that big a lift from “culture” and definitely not for the “kids,” who as the structurally lowest earners would be marked up more than the 10% average.

I also suspect workers would rather not commute and make 10% more than be able to see the actual photons reflected from their coworkers faces rather than real time reproductions.

Finally, I think after 3 years of really leaning into remote work we haven’t scratched the surface of the tools and techniques possible to improve “serendipity” and our ability to save the children by warehousing our bags of mostly water in human hamster wheels.
There definitely is some kind of 'cult of stupidity' where people are proud because they are clueless about stuff. This is one of those things that I'll never get.
Employment does not resolve the entirety of public need. Even if every person is working, there will be public work that needs to be done.
Less smoking and less drinking perhaps?
Wonder if they’ll go back on their print-only stance. Kirn was very adamant that it would never be online when he was plugging it on America This Week, but for myself I’m wholly uninterested in “the newspaper experience” but would still like to read the articles given the chance.
I understand your point about the (theoretical) equal split between styles, so why close one or the other.

But I think you've landed on choosing your own way, when really you should try and match the vocal tone of the other person. After all the point of communicating is to get the other person receptive to your point.

And this goes both ways, I think overly perky and chipper people need to understand introverts and low-energy communicators, and match their tone as well.
Kale has goitrogens - that's why I said "thyroid-damaging."
Unfortunately, these diagnoses seem to get flung around by people quite unqualified to do so. My guess is that context and timing matters a lot and that these conditions are quite rare.
I'm not an expert but as I understand it, laws are a component of policy. By at least one definition policy broadly encompasses how those laws are implemented, and enforced, as well as regulations that aren't technically part of legal code.

It's a nitpicky distinction, but an important one, and one I wouldn't have even been concerned about had you not taken the Very Smart tone.
You are correct.

Words are cheap, and trust is expensive to repair, if it can be repaired at all.
It’s all about the tier of support. At work we bought 20k laptops and screwed up the support spec. So we ended up with some garbage tier support that wouldn’t fix issues caused by Dell docks. You have to have “ProSupport”

We also have a region where they have a 2 hour support SLA with part in hand. They will literally put your computer down to fix ours to avoid whatever punishment that gets meted out.

Back in the day a guy was collocated.
The point is that you somehow got offended by the parent comment that doubts Elon Musk actual intelligence and you used as an argument that he is jealous.

It's such a bad argument that I can't get over it I'm sorry ahah

>no one cares, I think, lol

Well someone cared enough to downvote you

>maybe you're projecting? are you depressed..?

It's just Elon Musk living alone after having destroyed three marriages, I cannot thrive to come close to that, he's on a special dimensional plane that I cannot project to.

Edit: I forgot the other argument, he's the richest man in the world
Perfect Dark decompilation ported to PC
SATA was released in 2000. You can still buy new drives or motherboards with connectors. NTFS was released in 1993. You can still use it with off the shelf operating systems.

If I have an NTFS formatted SATA drive from 2002 I can plug it into a brand new machine and it will work out of the box (except it won't because it would have been dropped)

LTO6 was released in 2013 and is end of life. I cannot buy a new drive to read it. Storagetek T10000D was released in 2013. It is near impossible to find drives to read them. IBM TS1140 was released in 2014. Again all the tape hardware is EOL.

My point was: why is it that a media designed for long term storage, doesn't have long term support. If you want more uptake of tape, support the hardware for as long as you claim the tapes last.
A New Take on Passively Cooled PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSDs
The key part of those studies is that they were comparing omega-6 fats to saturated fats like butter. They are healthier than saturated fats all else being equal, but that doesn't mean you should have that much of it.
Amazon's M7a AMD “Genoa” Instances Deliver Leading Performance in the AWS Cloud
Automatic Disinformation Threatens Democracy – and It’s Here
Maybe bedside manners
20 something years of using Linux and I have never had the urge to even look at Suse. who's life is affected by this?
Regarding ~/.cargo (and other tools), I've had some success with following suggestions from https://github.com/b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja
I made this mistake. Realized it was stupid UX. Then I did it again 5 minutes later.
yeah, I've given a lot of thought to all the scenarios that could happen. It's amazing how dependent we all are on a system of jugglers basically a few balls fall and it triggers a runaway domino effect.
For some examples:

https://twitter.com/BrimleyLine
I think you’re missing the boat here. The kids and young adults are in a specific job training program, not to get trashed but to learn. Furthermore, lots of programs (private and public) have substance free requirements. Anyways, requiring people to not come home trashed is by no means puritanical. They didn’t say you have to be completely sober and join a teetotaler society they just said “ don’t get visibly intoxicated.”
There is no guidance in those investors reports.

About those large margins - yes, they are a bit higher than others, but it's not that much - and they appear much more price sensitive now. Thing is, they compare themselves to Ford / Toyota etc, while they don't sell nearly as many cars. A much better comparison is to the likes of BMW / Mercedes - but it doesn't paint the same picture.

Cybertruck deliveries are definitely not happening this year (unless we talk about <100 units for marketing purposes - much like the Tesla Semi deliveries start a year ago...)
Good. Literally anyone’s copyrighted comments on the internet should get a settlement
Ask HN: Terraform is getting a FOSS fork, what about other HashiCorp tools?
The recent license change from MPL to a non-FOSS license was discussed to great extend on HN over the past week [0]. As a result, some companies with infrastructure/devops focused products announced that they plan to creating a FOSS fork of Terraform, as it is arguably the most popular tool in HashiCorps toolshed. [1]

But I was wondering if anyone was interested in or is planning to fork some of the remaining tools in the HC stack. I'm personally interested in keeping Packer going, as it currently seems to be the only solution that can create what HC calls "golden images" in an user friendly way. An alternative to Packer would be shoehorning something with Ansible, which I think would be rather tedious.

I was hoping that there maybe was some ongoing development already, but of which the greater HN community wasn't aware of, so maybe this post could be used to spread some awareness.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37081306
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37133054
Forgotten subscriptions can give companies a 200% revenue boost
I've been hearing a lot about private equity lately (particularly from folks who used to pursue VC money in the past). Can you expand a bit on the negatives of PE?
not totally sure what you even mean by this
These are "uses" of data but they don't seem to in any way involve making the data public - I think if you published deidentified data to a public forum of any kind under the auspice of "educating agents" you'd get a very big fine! (You need example charts to educate certain healthcare workers, using real ones with the name blanked out is fine - publishing that on the Internet probably going to get you a violation.)

These are just standard legislative exceptions saying "you can use the data you have to run the operation without fear of getting in trouble" not publication rules.

ETA: You obviously know about the legislation, if you know of instances of orgs using these rules to publish data.. blow that damn whistle!
Nick Colasanto was age 58 during the first season of Cheers, and died before the 4th season began in 1985 at age 61.
! can easily mean sarcasm

A: Hey, it looks like there is this and that issue that is caused by one of your submissions. Can you fix it?
B: Sure
A: Thanks!

Was that thanks genuine? Or sarcastic because A spent half a day trying to figure out what is going on
That's very much my experience: asymptotic reduction in bug incidence and matching increase in runtime between subsequent errors. To the point that they are so rare that you think you have fixed all of them. But that's usually an illusion: it's just that the error rate is now so low that you no longer observe incidents yourself. The only way to get past that hurdle is to do the bad thing: release and hope that you got it right and if you didn't that the incidents will not be too bad.

You could run many tests in parallel to reduce the chance but it will never be completely zero. Writing bug free software this way is hard. The better way is to design it from the ground up with a bunch of instrumentation that keeps all of your invariants under close observation and that stops the moment anything is not according to your assumptions. This usually gets you to a high level of confidence that things really do work as designed. But of course, that also isn't perfect and residual risk (and residual bugs...) will always remain in any system of even moderate complexity. File systems are well above that level, especially distributed file systems.
Xbox 360 digital store will close next July
Child influencers in Illinois can now sue their parents
Yup, first time via internship. Another time I wrote an SDK for a company’s API and they’ve sent me an offer.

2 times I did an interview but CTOs new me upfront from either previous job or my public presentation so it was just a formality and in both cases they target to hire me upfront.

Hope this helps.
mostly out of pocket by individuals
For happier customers, they should pick one of those and show it by default.
I spent quite a bit of time (about 8 years) looking into and working on VPLs. What I found was that our perceptions and interactions with various abstractions such as programming, mathematics, or even music (sheet music), are shaped by our individual mental models.

I code using programming languages because it was what I was taught in college and it's what I've used for decades. For me, something like SQL looks amazing and is super easy to rad. Whereas others may see SQL as something that is complicated to look at full of jiggling relations.

In the same way, a VPL may initially appear complicated, but this is often a reflection of unfamiliarity rather than inherent complexity.

As with many technologies, given time and development, there's potential for something groundbreaking to emerge.

What may seem complex today could become a new standard tomorrow.
I dunno, looking at dell.com now all I see are bad CGI mockups of products and "AI" boldly slapped everywhere. It looks like trash and nothing like the Dell I used to use and own 20 years ago. I almost think the company is entirely fake and produces nothing based on their site today.
My first job after graduating was an envelope handed to me from a former co-op employer. I only happened to come by to say hello and they handed it to me. Good thing too as I wasn't interested in many grad placements and didn't line anything else up.

Lots of my other job offers have been quite random as well like the guy I bought a used Volvo 850 asked if I was a sw dev and could write a sort-of print driver. I said probably and they showed up at my door on the weekend with a dev laptop. Had it working by Monday, got an offer which paid for the car loan.

Another time was a coding contest, an obvious hiring stunt. I was interested in how fast I could make it go. Got 2nd place. When coning in for my prize was invited to socialize then an interview. I bombed the interview but must have been a good 'culture fit' aka fun drunk.
Sometimes I go down these Wikipedia rabbit holes, and one of the most fascinating to me is extinct animals that were not dinosaurs.

Specifically, how a lot of mammal apex predators are similar to extinct versions, just like, half the size. Like the American Lion and Direwolf.

Also how this was relatively recent, as others have pointed out they think that a lot of these species went extinct around 10,000 years ago. That fits even conservative estimates of when humans had migrated to the Americas.

This is an aside, but I found it really fascinating. Alligators and crocodiles are kind of obviously in the same area from an evolutionary standpoint (they're both in the Order Crocodilia), and they're both thought to be incredibly old - 30 million+ years.

But there are only 2 species of Alligator left in the entire world. There's the American alligator which is fairly plentiful all around the Southeast United States and a slightly smaller critically endangered variant in China. There's 18 species of Crocodile, and they're in all the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, all of Asia and a huge portion of Africa. And then I learned about Caimans which I didn't even know existed before. It really goes to show how some branches can be so much more wildly successful than others.
> if they didn’t burn their own money to lunch hundreds of starlinks, their growth in launches would be pretty flat

False.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aoRFnOFX_CzxTTOFLl8h...

Note that this significantly understates market growth because Amazon's 83 launch deal did not include SpaceX, as Starlink is a competitor.
I'm not saying that what Stripe, Paypal, Adyen, etc do isn't a lot of work, I just don't see how there's a moat there. For example I'd be shocked if the Amazon deal wasn't on terms that basically give Stripe very little profit - like you said, Amazon is capable of doing it themselves, it would only cost them XX million worth of engineering salaries, and Jeff Bezos isn't known for giving away money.

Fraud detection on the other hand I'd believe could be a very high margin business, the "moat" being proprietary techniques that perform better than the competition, better data (as you mentioned), etc. However I've never heard anybody sing the praises of any of these platforms' fraud detection products - is that really where they are making their money?
The Case for and Against a Policy of Unilateral Trade Liberalization
“Oops our ambiguous UI leads to extra ad impressions”

I’m sure they’ll get right on fixing that!
> What's odd about that example is that the optimization is only valid if the loop in fact overflows the array every time.

No, the optimization is valid if the function is always called with "v" that is actually exists in the table; in this case the function should always return true so it's only proper for the compiler to throw out the extraneous code.

And writing the loop in such way is programmer's promise/guarantee to the compiler that the function will indeed be called only in that manner. That's the essence of the UB: it's the programmer who promises to the compiler that she will perform all the necessary checks (or formal proofs of impossibilty) herself; the compiler may go forward and rely on the implied invariants and preconditions.

And this is, of course, the main problem of the UB because 95% of the time the programmer does not actually intend to make such a gurantee: she simply is unaware (for whatever reason) that there is a pre-condition (checked by nobody!) that's required for the program's correctness to hold... or it's even just a typo she made.