skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very good advice:

> Also contact a good estate lawyer. Who can often be the same as elder care lawyer. They’ll help you get a lot of the estate and also powers of attorney in order.

This has been worth every penny, because the laws are infuriating and boring. I need someone to wade through all that for me. My estate/elder lawyer helped me get power of attorney in order, and also explained how the will works, how it's saved in digital form, how often to get it refreshed, etc. She also knew the wrinkles of benefits my father gets because he's a military veteran -- there's no way I would've learned that stuff on my own.

Thanks, OP, for this thread and the work you're putting into this. This is a point on your checklist:

> Hire an accountant who can manage the finances, ideally including taxes, insurance, payments, bank accounts, benefits disbursements, retirement planning, and more.

My advice to anyone reading this is don't underestimate this point, and dig into it. There are finances that can be handled by a financial planner, but there's also really annoying swamps that a financial planner isn't as useful in, which I'm dealing with now -- e.g., financial distributions from a deceased spouse, that same deceased spouse's name being on a joint bank account. The various institutions can be really old-school and annoying to deal with: long wait times on the phone, inconsistent bureaucracy to prove you have power of attorney, insistence on talking to your parent, who might be slow and confused, etc. It has sometimes required I take a PTO day from work, because of how exhausting it is.
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It may be shallow, but architecting for this is not really "advanced, FAANG-only accessible methodology". I'm surprised their services have been as "reliable" as they have been considering such trivial stuff is just now being employed in their architecture.
Lol.. reading that article shows us how the establishment really wants to get rid of homeschooling and is afraid of it growing in one of the population.. they can hardly wait for some scandal in homeschooling so that they can exploit it as a crisis to shut down homeschooling
> Amazon recently disabled the ability to keep the screen always on so it doesn't really work.

Too bad. There are probably other use cases for "keep the screen on continuously".

> It's kind of finicky as well: I would have the network selector pop-up and stay there if there was a temporary disconnection in the WiFi (say if someone used the microwave).

Now this I've never seen. The WiFi is pretty solid here, though... there are 5 WAPs in different parts of the house (primarily so I can get signal out to the edge of the yard -- the house is only medium-sized)..
Nice . I was wondering about the algorithm
I've always used ncdu for this. It also allows deleting files/directories for when you're trying to figure out how to free up space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ncdu
Well played, HN.
Ah, yes. Debhelper, and its many integrations. I routinely work with the various attachments dedicated to the management of sysuser accounts, systemd units, config files...

Yes, it's daunting. It also handles literally everything.
An ideal choice for people that do not like their face.
This could have done with better design.
> architecting for this is not really "advanced, FAANG-only accessible methodology"

Sorry - where are you quoting this claim from?
It's California so it's probably the latter. This is the same state that declared they want all semis in the state to be electric by end of the decade and then signed a contract with Nikola whose CEO is in prison because the entire business was fraudulent and had no product.
> Does anyone else use Rust outside the blockchain/cryptography space?

Cross-platform desktop app development, systems programming and authorization which is still cryptography related, I guess.
Not sure which example you're referring to, but all the "all you can eat" restaurants I've been to always respected their promise, as in, you literally can eat as much as you can.

I was never charged more because they decided I was full. Certain restaurants have a "no food waste" policy that will make you pay the stuff that you don't eat.
True, but given the role of ZFS in FreeBSD this hits most FreeBSD installs, thus the claim of any BSD solving that isn't true.

OpenBSD solves that by limiting their features.
>something that has data to back it up and the intention to get to the truth misinformation

It's hard to infer people's intention. Maybe I'm being naive but I think even flat earthers have the earnest intention of getting to the truth and use data and observations.

My algorithm to deal with untruth is engaging with everyone and asking for clarification/evidence. To me creating a blanket label for "people you should never listen to" is dangerous.
I really like the writing style in that article:

> PHP makes it really easy to make a dynamically-rendered website. PHP also makes it really easy to create an utterly insecure dynamically-rendered website.
We don’t do viaducts over streets or houses. We have to tunnel under tunnels, and so much bureaucracy. Newts on the site? Need to be moved. Some other animals? Need to wait a year to move them. Bats? Careful there. Well motivated neighbourhood group? Some sort of legal challenge. Protestors in tunnels that can’t be removed for months. The list is endless.
Well this thing is less available and will have less ecosystem support. Get a Raspberry Pi Zero W if you want something with a visual component and want to save some cash.
I do remember a discussion very early on ycombinator; one of the posters was brainstorming and presented the following:

- 1. zinc ions deactivate many viruses, esp. rhinoviruses such as COVID, and zinc lozenges had long been used to halt virus advance in the mouth, throat and lungs (limited),

- 2. hydroxychloroquine acts as a "zinc ionophore", allowing zinc ions to pass through the cell wall and to attack viruses inside the cell (that is, not just in the bloodstream),

- 3. COVID patients were falling prey to secondary infections (i.e., COVID rapidly damaged the mucosa of the mouth, throat, lungs, opportunistic bacterial infections invaded the already-damaged tissue. Ergo use antibiotics to suppress bacterial secondary infections.

into the conclusion that a valid COVID treatment was:

- IMMEDIATE hydroxychloroquine and zinc supplementation (not after hospitalization), followed by

- antibiotic therapy to keep secondary bacterial infections at bay.

This brainstorming brought the hounds of Hell up on these forums, who decried that, in the absence of a cure, one might be free to speculate on possible remedies [there were no vaccine and no "silver bullet" yet and the need for big pharma to suppress cheap, effective treatments before release of a proprietary vaccine or a "COVID silver bullet" drug was a primary big pharma goal.]

But need and time proved the poster correct: the world went ahead and treated COVID successfully without a new drug or vaccine. But on these forums the naysayers won (yes, his posts were removed from this board).

Even today the word "hydroxychloroquine" is flagged on ycombinator during entry, even though not a misspelling.

That was the end of my trust in ycombinator.
‘Generative Inbreeding’ is a risk to human culture
Spot on, a 2x increase in complexity can easily increase final cost by 20x in the real world, 5x by 50x, etc...
I migrated some old BigIP load balancers over to Apache in 2004ish, and extended some of mod_proxy to do some "unholy" things at the time. We also did a lot of direct server return stuff when no load balancer you could buy could handle the amount of traffic statefully. Man, how times have changed, and lesson forgotten.
There’s an interesting blindness on a forum full of tech workers to the idea of market pricing being divorced from COGS. That’s kind of the whole premise of our industry.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think skiplagging should be a crime or anything. But I also think the airline is well within their (legal and moral) rights to prohibit it contractually and to enforce that prohibition.
This tech only detects already burning fires.
Teams is doing well because it's often an IT department's simplest choice, but I don't find it's great for users.
Ask HN: Decoding QR code text ouputs
Not a tech expert here. I'm digging some information from a certain set of QR codes that I collected. I got the texts 'ഒ悚絰捭换敥污汦恧籤' also 'ഒ黪黲墤慟敠稲꿭뷩彘ꛭ뛤???鮞景彘' by scanning the QR codes. I'm suspecting it might be Mojibake and am wondering if I could decode it by CyberChef or such.

No luck with understandable outcomes so far though. If anyone has any leads, I'd appreciate it very much.
Let me guess, they should rewrite everything in Javascript?
LLMs too are a remix with a few tweaks. Most of the major things you listed fit under that bill too. React, just a better Angular. Facebook, just a better myspace. iOS just a better PalmOS.

This is the problem, you are expecting something brand new and revolutionary while looking at the past through rose coloured lenses. None of that stuff was revolutionary! It was only so because you were in a stage of your life where everything of this sort was new to you.

Couple this with the fact that genuinely new technology is always berated at first, and you've got a wonderful recipe for aging pessimism.
At my $BIGCORP, we have a multi-mode (discrete/continuous) simulation engine written in Rust. It has to be extremely fast, and interface with both firmware written in C, and scripts written in Python. C++ was the only other viable option, but none of us were confident writing safe and performant C++, so we picked rust instead.

Now that I've been using rust for ~5 years, I reach for rust for when I have to do almost anything else. I write small backend services in rust[1], and small utilities that would previously have been python scripts[2]. The only thing I still use any other language for is python for writing test scripts + interactive data exploration, and typescript for front end stuff. We still use a lot of C for firmware because the Rust target support isn't as good as C yet.

[1] you might argue that Go might be better suited for this, but I disagree. The lack of null safety and less strict typing would come back to bite me a lot. A typical backend service we write is 10x simpler than our simulation engine so 1) compile times are approx the same as the project is small and 2) we usually don't care that much about performance for these services so we can just clone or RC away any problems we might have with the borrow checker. Swift might be a nice, but the ecosystem isn't there for backend apps last time I looked.

[2] Total LoC for small scripts ends up being about the same for python/rust in my experience. Development time is approx the same, but I much prefer maintaining small rust apps when I come back to it after 6 months. You _can_ set up safe and maintainable python projects with external libraries for validation, but its too much effort when rust has it all out of the box. Also, python deployment/venv management is still immensely frustrating
> The objective of public school is to break down the regional identities of old and assimilate the youth into the “new” national identity.

Having read a bit of history about how many modern national identities were constructed over the last three centuries, that's a disturbing sentence to see written so casually. Phrases like 'breaking down regional identities' and 'assimilating the youth into the "new" national identity' remind me of the forced assimilation of Sami peoples in Norway and Sweden or the historical efforts of French governments, both republican and monarchist, to ruthlessly crush regional languages in the name of a 'right' to common language.

A more accurate way to understand the purpose of public schooling might be: the objective of public school is to break down regional identities of old and forcibly assimilate the youth into the 'new' national identity so that, as adults, they will become a more compliant, fungible labor supply which is more easily legible to the state and elites.

That deeper purpose, which you either left unspoken or weren't aware of, is what many people in the US have against public schools. There are a lot of regional identities in America that don't have much in common with mine, but I'll stand should to shoulder with them against attitudes like yours and against the policies that follow from those attitudes. Doubly so in cases where their identities were crushed in the past, which is sadly common even in America.
The S in FAANG is for Slack.
Indeed the load/load fence must be before the "final long currentVersion" load—which in turn can be a relaxed load—not after the first load.

On x86 this produces optimal code because the load/load fence does not need to be compiled into a processor instruction (LFENCE and SFENCE exist but are only used in very special cases; they aren't needed for normal memory and normal load instructions).
We spend a ton of time working directly with DevOps teams of our customers, helping them in using Release, but also just a lot of questions related to their infrastructure and AWS/GCP. We have some crazy good Integration Engineers that field a lot of this and we thought maybe AI could help free them up and scale That’s what sent us down this path.
Multiple tiers of redundancy. There is usually redundancy within the AZ and then a following copy in another AZ. Usually at least four copies exist for a tenant.
Mug shot of Donald Trump : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mug_shot_of_Donald_Trump
My own words, but this is fairly trivial in the context of these massive companies with presumably PHDs working on their architecture.
If your goal is to monitor your staff and gather metrics on their communication - Teams outdoes Slack and is incomparable. If your goal is to have a platform that enables your employees to communicate with as little friction as possible, I have yet to see anything capable of replacing Slack.

Teams especially, is something I loathe using every day. Everything about the UI and UX gets in the way of what I’m trying to do, rather than assisting in or even enabling it. It’s like it doesn’t want me to communicate - it wants me to react and offer as little useful information as possible.
The algorithms which control robots do not come from heaven, they are created by humans with their human weights and biases.

You can trust robot law enforcement as much as you can trust those who programmed them, at most.
Possibly, but then I would ask how that's relevant as well!
My 32 core threadripper builds ue5 in 12 minutes on Windows. Single file changes on our game are usually under 10 seconds due to unity builds, and a good precompiled header.

My first clone on symbolicator took the same length of time on my windows machine. Even with your numbers, 4 minutes to build what is not a particularly large project is bonkers. I
Probably SIMD support and constant time support. Crypto libraries tend to use SIMD a lot to be fast.

You can write constant time code in Rust by carefully making sure your code only compiles to constant time instructions without branches, but you'd really want some kind of annotation on the code to enforce that.

That's mostly a guess though.
People charged in Covid fraud sweep targeting $830M in stolen money
I'm building a 2D simulation game compiled to WASM using Bevy!

It's nicer writing in Rust than JS, no GC makes Rust a good WASM candidate, theoretically the performance can be better if you're careful, people take 2D game engines more seriously in lower level languages, and it keeps the door open for shipping on Steam later.

I've found it much slower to develop in, though. Compilation times are an issue and after working in JS for decades I realize how big the JS ecosystem is compared to something like Rust.

I doubt the decision was a good choice overall in terms of trying to ship an MVP, but it might still pay dividends for a finished product, if the game gets there, due to having a higher cap on performance
The situation is as you describe if you believe the US Constitution. Unfortunately the Constitution is an obsolete piece of paper that no longer serves as the constitution of the US. The real constitution has long been the set of creative interpretations issued by the Supreme Court. According to those interpretations, non-citizens often have substantially fewer rights than citizens. That was particularly obvious in the aftermath of 9/11.
For our client, we've developed a desktop application in Rust – with a thin GUI frontend in C++/Qt – to filter, process, and visualize sensor data streams (3D point cloud data from a Lidar). Each data stream was about 400-500 Mbit/s in 55k UDP packets per second, with support for at least 4 simultaneous streams. The focus was on high performance and development speed, security didn't matter at all.

We chose Rust for its unique position in the performance/productivity tradeoff space, and didn't regret it even for a second. There's no way we could have pulled this off with C++ in the same time, especially the bug-free parallelization.
My employer buys no Microsoft SaaS service, since we're mostly on Google services, so a stand-alone like Slack works quite well. And nobody uses Google Chat.

And besides that, the UX of Teams is miles behind Slack.
A couple things to pull out…

(1) sometimes alternative education is worse.

There’s no question that, in some cases, alternative school is worse for a child’s development than standard public school. I’ve personally seen children who were falling behind because their parents were not equipped to teach them in high school.

(2) it can sometimes be better.

Alternative school is higher variance than public school - the children who do poorly probably do worse while it can be spectacular for some children.

We shouldn’t ignore that a relatively large percentage of homeschooled kids emerge at or near genius level. For kids for whom homeschooling works, it really works.

(3) policy should encourage choice.

On average, the US public school system is mediocre by world standards and in some parts of the country it’s an utter failure. Parents should be trusted with the care and education of their children because they’re in the best position to know what their child needs. Certainly some regulation around that freedom is in order, but we should expect more competition to produce more growth from a policy standpoint.

Just like capitalism is the best-bad economic system we have, parent-choice is the best-bad educational system. Some parents will fail at their job and others will not. But centrally planned educational systems have massive problems, and parents must be allowed to opt out of those problems as their only real form of accountability.

(4) we should avoid drawing conclusions from individual stories.

When something bad happens at a public school - kid fails, someone gets shot, drugs are found, some one gets pregnant, there’s a fight - we accept those as being part of life, not a problem with public school. But when something bad happens to a homeschooler, we tend to wonder if the _system_ of homeschooling is broken. But the reality is that those stories are likely more surprising but probably not more common than the bad things which happen at a public high school.

In the story, someone is quoted as saying “Eventually, something horrific is going to happen in one of these situations.” Which may be true and I hope we can find a way to avoid anything bad happening to anyone. But let’s not forget how many horrific things happen every week in high schools across America. It is a false promise to say that simply going to a public high school would fix all the problems found in homeschooling.

Finally, if a parent wants to outsource the teaching of their child to a person who is operating out of a house, we should let them. The parent is the person most able to accurately assess their child’s needs, and it has to be their responsibility to make good choices for their children.
Microsoft bought Convoy in 1998[0]. Then incorporated it into NT4sp6a and Win2k as NLB/WLBS. One of its features was to gracefully remove a server from the cluster after all connections were closed - draining. But, cluster not the same as an LB.

[0] https://news.microsoft.com/1998/08/24/microsoft-corp-acquire...
> Pretty straightforward really. You combine Brazil's history of monetary stability, with Russia's respect for property rights, India's domestic tranquility, China's financial transparency, and South Africa's investment opportunities - and hey presto, you've got a new global money

* https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1665053372402081792
The 8088MPH CPU Test
I’m missing a refutation of the fact that China is genociding Uyghurs. It’s just criticizing the sources.

You’re posting actual CCP propaganda here.
To those painting parking lots in the UK: You had one job, and you failed miserably.
Cycle of life
How will AI + drones achieve that? Sounds like a needlessly complicated system when we already know prescribed burns work in fire dependent ecosystems: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/fire/indigenous-fire-practices-...
ISAs regularly leave all kinds of behavior undefined when they think it doesn’t matter (such as the state of the arithmetic flags after operations that shouldn’t need to the tested).

(But this is also irrelevant: assembly can be completely wrong and exploitable while also being perfectly well defined.)
For Elixir, you might be interested in Broadway [1], described in their website as "Build concurrent and multi-stage data ingestion and data processing pipelines with Elixir." It is maintained by Jose Valim's consultancy company, so it should be pretty good. I'm looking forward to using it in a project at work soon.

[1] https://elixir-broadway.org/
BRICS aren't actually going to create a new settlement currency for international trade. The interests of the major members aren't aligned. It's all talk. I guarantee that in 20 years no significant volume of trade will be settled that way.
But if they call it cellular architecture, it sounds much more exotic than a shared-nothing active/active service!
Carried all the tools to break open the box... like a rock? That doesn't look like the work of any tools.
How AGI Happens
In the link you posted, please scroll down to the reply by Robinsoh - the "patent thicket" claim is bullshit, and people keep repeating the myth without a real source to back it up.

E-ink is expensive because it's a niche product that lacks economy of scale, and it's a niche product because it does almost nothing that can't be done by LCDs (which are incredibly flexible). E-ink is amazing, but it doesn't have the best business case.
You don't need to communicate in real time. You just need to agree on which date to do the measurement and that is determined by reference to the stars. Priests had been maintaining the calendar already for quite some time. Then you just wait for the sun to reach the zenith, noon. Now you can measure the angle of the sun from the vertical then it's relatively simple trigonometry to calculate the circumference.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_circumference
There's no reason why both can't happen side by side. Don't see any cause for your derision.
The problem wasn't Swift Codable, the problem was Apple's implementation of JSONEncoder / Decoder on top of Obj-C runtime, which created unnecessary round trips.

It was only fully addressed in Swift 5.9.
My comment started with "As a last resort...", meaning if none of the DL scripts worked for him/her. I didn't advocate Premium as the primary solution.
Wouldn’t the low readability make it easier to slip a vulnerability in by splicing it out into several changes?
I have to wonder what he thought when he got his answer. Was it much bigger than he thought? Did he wonder what was on the other side?