skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting that the Reddit post is about web frameworks and stacks, as the title made me assume this was purely about devices/hardware.

Maybe I was projecting my own feelings onto the topic, which are mostly about hardware. As I’ve gotten older, I find it much harder to care about new PC components, cutting edge graphics for video games, and processor cores. I just value stability and consistency above all else
Worth remembering that this allows unlimited censorship of social media. What kind of things do they plan to censor? "Disinformation", broadly defined. The European Commission can now censor anything it wants, globally, and has already compiled lists of things it thinks are disinformation:

Consider, for instance, some of the key “disinformation trends” listed in the EDMO’s recent 2023 briefing on disinformation in Ireland. They include “nativist narratives” that “oppose migration”, “gender and sexuality narratives” that touch on drag queens and trans issues as “part of a wider ‘anti-woke’ narrative that mocks social justice campaigns”, and “environment narratives” that criticise climate-change policies and Greta Thunberg.

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/08/25/the-digital-services-act...

This gives the EU an extraordinary amount of power. The regulation of the DSA will be overseen by the Commission itself, not an independent regulator. What’s more, the DSA includes a ‘crisis-management mechanism’, added last year in a last-minute amendment. The Commission argued it needs to be able to direct how platforms respond to events like the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Apparently, in a crisis, the ‘anticipatory or voluntary nature’ of obligations on tech companies to tackle disinformation would be insufficient. Under the DSA, the Commission has given itself the power to determine whether such a ‘crisis’ exists, defined as ‘an objective risk of serious prejudice to public security or public health in the Union’.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/23/the-eus-censorship-...
It's the fault of the manufacturer, but that is a distinction without a difference. OpenAI has marketed it as an "everything" tool, whereas McMaster-Carr have been more conservative about the capabilities of theirs.

An electric drill's capabilities are known, in the way AI's is not. There's no drill bit coming in Q4 that will let you drill into steel for example. But there will be a GPT 4.5 or something that will add new capabilities.
This is what governments are for. Sometimes your individual liberties collide with other people's individual liberties, or the collective liberties of the society. You elect a government and then they act on your behalf in order to reconcile these conflicts of interest. The people of the EU elected their representatives. They're free to leave the EU (individually or collectively) if they don't like how that's working for them.

If you're not in the EU and you don't like their terms, don't do business with them.
I think you mean: the collapse of a superpower nation caused a temporary drop, the sharp rise in quality of life.
min and max are in fact defined this way in JavaScript.
> pay us a better wage or we'll stop working for you

unfortunately it's illegal to fire a group of people who strike, so if you're wondering why companies don't just say "sure, stop working then", that's why.
I've definitely had situations on Spotify where I've been listening to Abba and the Scissor Sisters, and started to be offered playlists aimed at LGBT people, but this is musical-choice targeting. It just happens that I like stuff that gay people like.
Which is why we have RIGHTS so that we can go after those who do us wrong.

What the EU is doing is regulation HOW they should act which is the sure way undermine your own citizens ability to stay competitive in the long run.
I fail to see how a box's position on a digital whiteboard is considered more up for debate than a box on a real whiteboard. Have you ever used a real whiteboard in a collaborative environment? When you move it, you have to redraw all the lines to and from it. Also, what is your point?
This depends on how much you value the history.

Honestly, we are generating too much information, have problem archiving them all and too low attention span to consume/sort them out
Elan knows that any asylees or refugees he hires will, over time, be 100X the legal and security grief that SpaceX has with green cards and citizens

Hiring managers who wish to discriminate against physically disabled applicants (and women!) often use the same flawed reasoning. I am glad those laws exist to protect those groups!
Another mail in the coffin of proofreading
I agree in one aspect, but in another aspect, I disagree.

Humans have natural instincts which makes them hoard because that would have been adaptive in times of scarcity (i.e. our ancient past). Now, in times of surplus, that instinct is mostly maladaptive.

So I DO posit that humans on average place a higher value on hoarding than they should, and that if they actually took the time to override this basal instinct with higher brain functions, then on AVERAGE they would be happier.
Taliban Says Huawei to Install Cameras to Locate Militants
Yeah this makes sense. "CLAs (or DCOs) assigning copyright to foundations are good, CLAs assigning copyright to corporate entities are questionable" does seem like a pretty good rule of thumb for contributors who care about this kind of thing (which I agree most people should).
Nearly every USB-C connector I've used, on multiple devices of different manufacturers, has eventually encountered problems. Google's connectors are particularly bad. I'm not even doing anything like tripping on the cables.

> And on the male side, Apple dutifully makes up for the claimed robustness of the by making some of the worst cables.

Hahaha

Assuming I know what you are talking about, yes, their cables suck. The plastic/rubber degrades way faster than other cables, turning yellow and eventually splitting open after just a few years.
The author was hit by a motorist. As a road cyclist, I ride predictably, visibly, and legally. Yet every close call or collision has been due to motorist impatience, inattention, and/or lawlessness. By over-emphasizing the "luck" factor and using the narrative of some inanimate force of nature "a car" causing the harm, we continue to fail to hold those directly causing the problem responsible.
There’s plenty of old technology to explore!
I'm glad that it works better for you, but I have literally none of the problems you list.

I have never in my life typed out a URL (with an id, google.com and stackoverflow.com don't count).

I don't put naked ids alone in spreadsheets. If, once a year, I do need to make a spreadsheet, I put full URLs there.

Length of these ids is comparable to that of base-10 numbers and neither are "very long".

And so on.
Yeah, to turn it into Belgium, first you have to enslave and genocide people in Africa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free_S...
How to ensure that an optimising compiler will terminate?
> And an MRI will find something...

Not my/my family's experience - in fact MRI were used to clarify CAT scan false alarms / rule out real issues.
Where kafka comes in though is no-code db following. These are super handy when you want to be informed of changes to a table, but don't know which "micro-service" is changing the data. KafkaConnect is very handy.

Though I will concede, it's a bit of a bazooka for a mosquito, sort of thing.
Not for beeing sick for 30 days in a year.
Case: We did BMS in the shopping mall (Reddit)
To add a bit of context for those not too well versed in Eastern European history (from someone with a Croatian background): Back in the real-sozialist/communist era, the people didn't have much rights (especially not those that were against the dictators), but in exchange at least the government took somewhat of a care of providing everyone with a life worth living (notable exception: the remote areas of Russia that have historically served only as a supply for young men to grind in Russian wars) - it's not unlike the societal reality currently in China. The nation blocks, either the Soviet Union or the "non aligned movement", supported each other and distributed workload to make sure everyone (both in terms of nations as well as people) could make a living - even if that was often far less efficient than Western countries, because the Communist nations prioritized jobs for their people over having machines do these jobs.

Then, Communism fell... corrupt entities took over many of the countries, only looking to enrich themselves, and as the international solidarity system failed against "cheaper" products there was no hope to keep the often horribly outdated factories alive, and at the same time Western societies hungry for more labor force (and way more attractive currencies) began to "brain drain" the former Communist countries.

Today, the people may have rights on paper, but in practice they're worthless (either due to corruption or because the state is too poor), and society is crumbling apart from decades of looting and corrupt elites on one side and young generations moving abroad because they can't see any way that their country escapes the death spiral. Many people struggle with survival every day. So yes, in conclusion it's warranted to say that the fall of Communism led to a massive drop in quality of life.

TikTok and the "gangsta" life style are just the cherries on the cake.
Some people create website for new born and post life photo them.

Think like a photo book, but it's public.
My best idea yet for the signs around a dangerous waste depot:

Just put up a sign that says “no cash kept on premises” and an empty cash tray on a counter, behind some glass sliding doors.
>As I get older, I just care about boring technology.
I want things to work without me having to faff around or spend too long configuring them. This applies to both software and hardware.

There's something intellectually alluring about new technology or new shiny in general that I think appeals to your general technologist, it's a trait the draws such people to various fields. I know when I was young I drank the Kool-aid every turn.

As I got a little older, and after I was burned several times adopting shiny things either wasting my time or never seeing them widely adopted to a point of reasonable usability, I came to the very realization that everything we create, including technology, exists to serve human needs. It's stupidly obvious, it shouldn't need to be stated but I think it does. Law exists for humans, medicine exists for humans (even medicine for animals, it exists to serve altruism or empathy in humans) and so on. Technology is absolutely no different.

There's a few ways technology can serve humans. It can appeal to the general intellectual interest but ultimately, few if any pay money for that. People in general don't care about it, it's neat for a few minutes then gone. So ultimately what functional need does technology really serve? What does it enable me to do that I otherwise couldn't? How does it make my life easier?

If it doesn't do these things, I frankly don't care about it anymore. I have plenty of places to tap into serving my intellectual interest, places where the things I learn aren't as vanishingly ephemeral in nature and entirely artificial, be it learning something about physics of the world, medicine, whatever. There's well over a lifetimes worth of other mature and well established things to learn about you won't waste your time in like NewWebFramework with NewSyntacticSprinklings.

To me, this is why I similarly only care about new well crafted tech. Your thing needs to either help me do something I otherwise couldn't or make my life easier. A huge amount of new tech does neither, it pedals novelty and the ambiguity of some type of miniscule improvemen in quality of life, all while trying to make a buck.
This is essentially the Stoic perspective is it not?
I think that’s true, but those “small changes” end up being large enough that they practically require a human in the loop for maintenance. In comparison; you’re right about the toaster, as there are practically no changes which need to be made to an otherwise working toaster from 1920 to get it functional in 2023.

One small example: TLS. Years ago someone may have very reasonably asserted “my website doesn’t really matter, I don’t need encryption, it’ll run forever without SSL”. Then, the browser vendors universally made SSL practically required. Then; it became TLS, not SSL. Encryption algorithms change every few years. But; ok; maybe you can get some high mileage by automating integration with LetsEncrypt and praying they survive (and remain free).

A three line HTML Hello World is quite likely, I’d argue, to survive and still render in 2120, discounting nuclear winter and such. But to keep a three line HTML hello world WEBSITE hosted and running until 2120 with minimal human intervention would require many magnitudes more executing code automating interface compatibility with the changing world around it; and every line of code you add and expect to execute is a liability.
Summarizes everything about EU and tech laws in the last few decades.

They fail to attract talent and they end up regulating big tech which they are unable to even create.
From whom did he steal wholesale? Also, the beatles suck wang and they ripped off elvis who ripped off blues
There is no contradiction here. Tobacco is legal and nobody is trying to make it illegal. Tobacco has very clear and present health risks which were lied about for decades and nobody is arguing we should lie about the health risks of other drugs. Nobody wants a "Don't you want to smoke what your doctor smokes" ad for weed.
These comments are missing the point: At this rate, within a decade 100% of web content will be covered up by video ads, so there'll be nothing to see anyway. I think /. is down to about an inch of reading space at this point (on a desktop).
“Pace yourself” is a general rule that can be applied to anything in life.

claim that you could work in blocks of multiple hours and never socialise with other writers and see the same results?

Yep. There were some writers that were straight up bed-ridden. They would laugh at your little ruleset.

Lastly, I wasn’t downvoted. A reasonable amount of people seem to agree.
> fleeing war or persecution

Q: Is there much war or persecution in France at present?
> Only 3 parties will benefit from this. Lawyers, Politicians who can use it as leverage and NGOs who can drum up false narratives and get donor money.

Guess who comes up with this crap!

I will add that this type of freezing effect on innovation protects existing elites the most. Can't get disrupted if the competition is outlawed.
This isn’t the way to speed up Rust compile times
You touched on an important one: managing expectations. Secondarily, this also means being a good communicator with non-technical people; i.e. being able to translate technical concepts (and their importance on the work being done) in ways the stakeholders will understand, and help to adjust any ideas they have over the work ("why isn't this easy?").
Wow I finally made the connected the dots regarding "award winning".
I always wondered, why is that the focus instead of the actual product
This is the best way to look at it. I feel similarly, and I’ve been thinking for a while now that the one technology that is actually worth embracing or paying for that I have used is adaptive cruise control. It’s close enough to self driving for me that I consider it self driving.
> Which causes companies to be very slow in hiring people, because if business turns they have less flexibility.

This is not entirely true. They are more considerate in hiring which means layoffs, including mass layoffs, happen more rarely as they have consequences.

But they can fire people (and they do) when things go bad. This is one of most common reasons for firing people. What they cannot do is to fire me today and tomorrow hire someone else to exactly the same things that I was doing unless I was doing something wrong and they justify it.
Yea, either you pick the tool that is most suited to the job or pick the tool that you are most productive is.

I agree about your sentiment about learning this that are important . I made a natural language network scanner and I got to speak about it at defcon. I never intended for people to find it interesting I just wanted to learn to apply LLMs . The source code is at https://github.com/zitterbewegung/saturday and you can interact with it at +1 (825) 251-9142
> don't do business with them.

Looking at economic trends, this is an increasingly popular choice
I wondered whether this was part of it. "People with lots of money think it's cool" explains a lot of stuff :)
SaaS isn’t consultancy and jumping through a million hoops for a single customer probably isn’t going to work when it comes to selling the software.
A few things both sides often overlook:

… … …

For Non-Technical Founders:

- Cost, Time, Value: Software isn’t built overnight. Both the timeline and budget are usually underestimated. Key is to control focus on priorities. The MoSCoW method of classifying work as Must/Should/Could/Won't plus a Kanban of ToDo/Doing/Done with a parking lot for Someday/Maybe items is simple but beats most other project management methods. For the iron triangle of Need, Budget, Timeframe, control RoE by fixing team size to the appropriate burn, and adjust throughput by adjusting focus on need.

- Scalability: While a quick MVP (Minimum Viable Product) is important, consider whether the tech stack used will allow for growth.

- Quality Matters: Bad code can work in the short term but can lead to expensive fixes later. It’s like building a house on a shaky foundation.

- Updates and Maintenance: Software isn’t a ‘build and forget’ entity. It needs regular updates and potentially costly maintenance.

… … …

For Technical Founders:

- Business Goals: Keep in sight why you’re building what you’re building. Tech is a means to an end, not the end itself. Your user has a job to be done. Enable it and get out of their way.

- Speak the Language: Get good at translating technical jargon into plain English. Don’t assume the non-tech founder understands your lingo.

- Flexibility: Non-tech founders may change course based on customer feedback. Be prepared to pivot without getting too attached to your code.

- Validation: Always validate assumptions with real-world data. And wrap all systems with Observability. Think of it as Test Driven Ops. You can only safely "move fast and break things" if you know exactly what you're breaking when, so you can resolve it before your customers experience the breakage.

… … …

Mutual Blind Spots:

- Minimum Desirable Product: Shipping that MVP is fun, but make sure someone will pay for what you’re making. A powerful technique is to survey customers for whether they can make do without the product. More than 40% need to say they can't operate without it.

- Communication: Both parties usually think they are communicating enough. They’re usually not. Set regular check-ins.

- Documentation: Neither side loves it, but both will need it. Clear documentation can prevent a lot of misunderstandings.

- Roles and Boundaries: Establish who has the final say in what domain, and even more importantly, practice accountability. Power struggles can kill startups.

- Prenup / Exit Strategy: Think about what happens if one of you wants to leave the startup. It’s not fun to consider, but essential.
I presume it's (Lavarel) a good default choice for someone active in PHP. Like many people, PHP was my first programming language, and I migrated away from it long ago. What's relevant for me is:

* How many new developers are picking up PHP

* How many remain using it after say 10 years

* How many end up contributing to its tooling and ecosystem

If those numbers are good in absolute terms, then I agree with you.

I'd consider Perl to be a dying language, not PHP. I'd also expect an active language's tooling to improve over the years, so that probably doesn't stand out too much for me (there's brilliant people working in various languages, in PHP I consdier Nikita Popov as one of them).
> If we are to accept that the OpenTF foundation is going to be a better maintainer of terraform we need something better than "Hack on opensource if you want to!"

The plan is for the foundation to employ dedicated engineers that we can sponsor.

Regarding open source vs closed source, I have nothing against closed source software. I think the outrage about Terraform specifically is caused by people seeing it more as an ecosystem, not a product (like Vault or Consul), and the whole thing looks like a bait-and-switch of reaping the benefits of open source (and others building a provider ecosystem) and then closing that down, once you start getting the cons of open source (healthy competition building inside of that ecosystem).

Honestly, I'm grateful for Hashicorp for the contributions they've made over all these years, and the libraries they've built. And as is the beauty of open source, in a situation like this, we can just fork, which we're doing.

In a dream scenario, HashiCorp would eventually join us working on OpenTF in the open, with the load much better distributed across companies, and the roadmap better reflecting the community's needs. I don't think, however, that it's fair to call these companies freeloaders who just now decided to contribute, as HashiCorp quite openly didn't encourage community involvement in the development process of their core open source projects.

All in all, I hope we'll do a much better job of involving the community in the core development and decision-making process (via public RFCs), while the foundation part means you don't have to trust any of the companies specifically. A healthy open-source ecosystem here is both good for the companies using it (partly due to no vendor lock-in, better competition, more innovation, lower prices), as it is for companies building products that extend tools in that ecosystem, as it is for any individuals involved. It's a win-win-win situation.

Disclaimer: Work at Spacelift, and currently temporary Technical Lead of the OpenTF Project, until it's committee-steered.
I also like https://github.com/Byron/dua-cli, does disk usage like du but also has an interactive mode which makes finding and freeing up space a breeze.
Nice that social media is providing a clear pathway out of towns like this. Sad for the people left behind but the answer is for them to leave, not for everyone to be trapped there. And note the Eastern Europe is doing great at the country level.

In general people should engage in more geographic mobility.
You don't just need the VMC itself, you have to get a registered trademark, which is also probably up there in the thousands.

> I do not know how valid the paper trail concern is; I haven’t gone through the VMC procedure(s).

You can currently steal a credit card, lie to a registrar and start your phishing campaign. Having to have a legal entity for a phish paints a nice target on your back.
One thing that I hear a lot in the tech field is how exciting it is to work in tech since "I'm always learning new things." This doesn't excite me very much since many of the new things I'm learning are not useful outside of a narrow slice of time within that specific tech job. They're not broadly applicable to anything, and are wholly specific to a software product as a service which will be fairly different, or may not even exist in a few years. (even if it does exist, my company will have moved on to some different product by then.) For example, learning regex could be useful because it might be used broadly in many different products. Learning how a specific product handles certain data fields is really not exciting at all. It's wasted space in my mind, except of course for the paycheck.
You're right and I do agree. But a full description of events wouldn't make for a particularly catchy title.
Unironically, using Gentoo resolves this. If a package isn't up to date, you can rather easily define a new up-to-date package.