skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This post implies the decision is between nushell, MS Powershell or something based on shells from the 70s. But there are a plethora of other shells like nushell, that have been around for longer than nushell.

It’s actually a pretty crowded market space.

So why are people still using bash? In part because it’s a default (defaults are hard to change) and in part because it’s largely “good enough”.

It’s the same reason JavaScript is everywhere. First because it was the default in browsers and then because it was good enough that people didn’t want the effort of having to learn nor use another language.
Unless laws of Physics can be broken it is not possible to migrate anything through the universe. Currently galaxies are moving away from each other at the speed of ~light. You can't just reach anywhere.
So there is a Windows VM for windows-y backup tasks that needs 10GB of RAM while the VM hostig around 20 containers uses only 4G

Thanks god we don't need to run windows on servers.
Can AI Make 'Call of Duty' Matches Less Toxic?
For me, the magic trick was getting up the same time every day even in the weekends (almost no exceptions). After a few weeks of zombie-state I got naturally tired at an appropriate time - and now, I go to bed when I feel sufficiently tired.

Also, I try to keep mentally far below full tilt the last 60-90 minutes before my expected bedtime.
> There are lots of more nuanced ways to technically tell the truth but still significantly warp the information to your benefit. I’m kind of surprised that China seems to be less savvy to this approach.

That is the national government's approach, for the most part: tweak the basket of goods you use for inflation here, pick the best looking among several measures there, and so on. The overt manipulation occurs at the subnational level: Chinese statistical work is heavily decentralized and officials are promoted (or not) partially on the basis of meeting growth targets. The national government corrects for this to some degree - but estimating just how manipulated the data is is hard, and provides another lever you can pull to push it one way or another.

Federal statistical agencies in the US conduct more and better direct research and report through fewer (though not zero) layers of politically motivated actors.
Probably, but we know how much Google loves to kill its creations. So, sprinkle liberally with salt. :)
The Postgres TEXT type is limited to 65,535 bytes, to give a concrete number. "Big" usually means, big enough that you have to stream rather than sending all at once.
I simply use calc in emacs, it has arbitrary precision (really bound by process memory limit on modern systems).
This opinion has already been expressed plenty of times.
Of course they do. They hold a power that people will give them money for, they'll go for it. I'm surprised we don't get more of these - pet friendly zones, smoke friendly zones, peanut free zones and peanut allowed zones, and so on. We're so disturbed by anything anyone else is doing that asking for a premium to get any sort of angle is always a profitable
> You don't need to try to infer one from the other.

So you should make your system more cumbersome for 95%+ of users just for the sake of doing the right thing in occasional edge cases?

By all means make it possible to override, but you should absolutely default "what would you like to be called?" rather than making everyone enter their name twice.
Blogs are far from dead. Mass appeal is maybe dead. Niches are alive and well. OSR ttrpg blogs paper wargame blogs (fewer) but still more content than I can keep up with.

And niches have always been the strength, the value of the open web. That you and the 14 other people on the planet with same obscure interest can connect.
https://archive.is/DTMSH
It’s a poetic way of viewing the possibility of life spreading throughout the cosmos: tiny cellular “ Noah’s arks” journeying across the vast oceans of space, potentially bringing life to new worlds.
>If I want a programming language I use a programming language. A shell is an interactive environment

That's the mindset behind us still having crappy shells...
My father was an MD (psychiatrist) and had this saying:

- 1 drug, it works ok, still very patient specific.
- 2 drugs at the same time, only if you validated correctly at least one alone before.
- 3 at the same time: clusterfuck/total mess.

Base rule: do everything possible to use only one active ingredient/drug at a time.
Can you think of a ethno-religious group, one that has been persecuted for centuries, that is over represented in US academia, media and finance?

Is it a big deal that this is the case and does it imply a grand conspiracy? Or are there other explanations?
Rushed to comment?

The specific reason for Boston Dynamics to develop four legged robot dogs is agility over broken terrain.

If wheeled robots become the norm it'll just be Dr Who and the Daleks all over again; Quick, run upstairs (or other wheel defeating tactics).
The comparisons provided are borderline non-sequiturs

The C++ library and Chapel were solving the same problem, but Chapel (in the author's framing) did it better. Javascript and Typescript solve the same problem, but Typescript (in the view of people who care about type systems) does it better.

Nushell is not trying to solve the same problems as a shell:

> Nushell is really an interactive, data-focused scripting language with shell capabilities.

Great, but that's not the problem I give a damn about. If I want an interactive, data-focused scripting language I will use Python. And against Python, Nushell is not nearly as attractive.

Nushell is trying to blend two domains, shells and programming languages, which I see distinct advantages in keeping seperate. I do not want the world to be built on the back of shell scripts, regardless of how good you make the type system. I do not want to ask more of shell scripts and view that as a negative.
I've worked on large projects for almost 10 years before I started working in the field, though perhaps not as complex as an emulator.

I dropped out of college due to medical reasons and was given the "opportunity" to receive disability benefits for the rest of my life. I accepted this and just continued my hobby doing programming. In that time I met many hobby programmers online who didn't seem to work or were temporarily taking breaks from studying to eventually find a job.

Eventually I felt a bit lonely not knowing anyone in real life who were interested in programming, so I found the meetup website and started going to events to get to know people. The friends I met there told me I should try working professionally as a programmer, so I tried and now I've been 5 years in the field and really enjoy it.

In retrospect being outside of the professional field, I knew it existed but it never crossed my mind that I could be part of this as it was for educated and highly experienced programmers only. Because of this maybe I never bothered to even try.

One issue for me entering the field was that I was highly specialized, but the field required me to be more general and perhaps specialize more in other things. Luckily for me I found the right people from the start with similar interests (game engine development, graphics rendering, etc) to help me understand the professional landscape.

I still find it satisfying to work on hobby projects in my spare time. I don't have as much time as before because of work and family, but I do manage to find the time now and then. :)
I absolutely did look at the data and you could, as well. The issue with NCAP and similar ratings is that their only method is to collide a vehicle with infinitely massive and rigid structure. In reality, it’s more nuanced. While a semi might not look good in the NCAP chart, it’s basically invincible in the case of actual crash involving other vehicles smaller than itself. If you’re careful enough to not go off the road or hit concrete barriers, the larger vehicle will provide more safety to the occupants.

https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/driver-death-rates-remain-h...
Amazon Honeycode beta service is ending soon
>The case for Nushell is weak because shells are not an ideal environment

Not sure what "an ideal environment" even means, but shells have tons of very nice features. The problem is they also have a lot of legacy bs and tons of footguns.
Honestly did you even read the article? "Yes, there are cases of Southeast Asian nations slapping their labels on Chinese goods and then sending them to America to allow Chinese manufacturers to get around tariffs. But look at the graph of U.S. import shares above, and you’ll see that if 7% of imports from Asia ex-China are due to re-exporting, that would only shave 1.7 percentage points off of Asia ex-China’s share — only a fraction of the 4 percentage point increase in U.S. imports from that region since 2019." It refutes this point like 2 minutes in.
NIST to Standardize Encryption Algos That Can Resist Attack by Quantum Computers
That doesn’t seem right to me. Of course a context switch includes the memory protection, but in a traditional OS there are also registers and other CPU state that need to be saved since a process can be interrupted just about anywhere.

I suppose that I’m idealising a bit here but ISTM that the structure of FOMOS means that the CPU state doesn’t need to be saved, so the context switch involves only memory protection, register resets, stack pointer reset and little else. You don’t even need to preserve the stack between invocations. And unlike preemptive multitasking, there seems to be little or no writing to memory needed, which would seem to obviate a bunch of contention. (Noting that it’s 30 years since I fiddled with operating systems at this level)

Frankly I find this really elegant and exciting.
Let's hope they release a risc-v laptop with Linux
> Videos are too light on solid information and are too hard to use as references.

Depends on the video.

I rarely use videos for how-to though. The written word is more convenient as it allows me to skim it and it’s easier to skip ahead. Video is good for demonstrating things where motion information is useful though.
https://archive.is/G1uUp
BizHawk is basically a wrapper for other emulators, though. Essentially a fancy frontend.
Dark Patterns: Indiegogo edition [video]
Until youtube or google’s algo decides to kill your chanel without much recourse or get nearly 0 visits because the algo expects some kind of engaging formula. These abuses are enough to warrant not ‘posting content’ (I highly dislike this term) on their platforms at all.

But at the same time I understand that a large number of people choose convenience over managing their own hosting.
I can't see how you're so confident. As we continue to haphazardly destabilizing the climate and the environment there could be catastrophic tipping points that we're currently unaware of.
If being a good programming language is what makes a shell good, use the Python repl
>But how do you as a user manage, when your muscle memory is used to something else?

Like with anything else new: if you find it worth it, you develop new muscle memory.
I have never before seen ASCII stereograms! https://hidden-3d.com/index.php?id=gallery&gallery=text
Useful for what? Seems like it’s pretty useful to make us think

And you said quite a few very interesting things

Why do you say the undetermined unity contain nothing of interest?

Having a conscious experience of undetermined unity, can be a life changing event (as for example, reported by astronauts when going to space)

Experience, and for that matter consciousness, doesn’t need thought

But we kind of live in the intersection of both
I see heaps of useful blogs and personal websites linked from the HN homepage every day.
Rising Above Prompt Engineering in the Age of AI Giants
https://archive.is/3hK6O
It's pretty cool, of course the need for this kind of setup has become pretty rare as proton runs pretty much everything nowadays (apart from those pesky anti-cheat games).
Individual creators put far less effort into stuff like reddit than they would if they were writing their own content.
Love to see someone do a deep dive on the hardware and compare with Nvidia. Wonder where this wonder card is being produced as there are so few foundries that can produce the Nvidia type chips.
Thanks, I already know Python for basic scripts. This tutorial looks awesome to build simple web apps, thanks for sharing. I'm looking forward to studying "Designing Data-Intensive Applications", it truly looks like a gem
This what basically what a Saga is... a process that uses custom protocols to resolve the state of multiple entities to a consistent valid state.

Sure, avoid Sagas when possible (use a DB transaction if you can merge microservices), but when you aren't setting system boundaries (aka your world isn't a single system supporting XA everwhere), the Saga is a completely valid and necessary mechanism.
That's what the other cols are for. Or put the metadata in the blob if you really want.
There are many things that slow down my productivity. Typing speed is certainly not one of them..
Does it also strikes you odd that asians represent far more percentage in IT jobs than their representative population? it can be explained in number of ways, mostly immigrant population, self selected population that is privileged to have money to come overseas, culture of emphasis on education than rest of the population etc.

So while striking odd part is correct. Assuming that only explanation is discrimination is incorrect in my opinion.
AI is undoubtedly useful, perhaps not revolutionary as heralded.

Crypto was never anything else than a grift. The only true feature of de-fi is to evade financial regulators, for a time, and enable large scale movements of shady money.
Trump represents Republicans. Literally. It's representative democracy. The point is not Alex Jones is a republican, just that it's a not many months between Alex Jones being deplatformed who was by all definitions fringe to the representative in our representative democracy being deplatformed and alienating half the country. Trump has over 90% approval rating among Republicans.
The false dichotomy is the issue. There's no reason (compatibility aside) a shell can't be both a great interactive environment and offer a great language (one 10x more well designed and consistent than what it offers now).
Indeed. There was never anything in crypto.
You don't need to measure software developer productivity. The article (or ad) admits as much:

> Further, attracting and retaining top software development talent depends in large part on providing a workplace and tools that allow engineers to do their best work and encourages their creativity.

So do that!

Happy people are productive, and talented, creative people move your business forward.
At my job, there's a thing where owners of internal systems always say "X is not a database" or "X is not a filesystem" in reference to things that anyone else would call databases or filesystems, to the point of it becoming an inside joke. I don't mind if people misuse terminology from my field (databases). Like I'm not going to stand up every time someone says "Postgres is a type of database" instead of saying "DBMS."
A high-speed rail line in California is chugging along towards 2030 debut
> So you should make your system more cumbersome for 95%+ of users just for the sake of doing the right thing in occasional edge cases?

As the app is apparently developed for use in Asia-Pacific, no, it isn't.
Did you come up with it just for this post? It would be good to document it for the sake of "first known use".
This is lumping Asia Pacific into one big group. For example in the Philippines, its first name - last name that’s the standard. And then there’s a minority of Chinese-Filipinos that sometimes have traditional Chinese names.

It’s more complex than what it seems that I think a razor would work rather than going through all cases.
I agree but it’s still hard to search and find such content. And it goes back to google for routing all search traffic towards ads
This was a huge trend in the 90s that I missed out on, because for some reason I can only see the cross-eye versions, but all the books and posters you could buy were the straight-eye versions.
Modern "economy".

There are a bunch of thousands of guys with a couple to a couple hundred billion each. There are millions of people desperate to own a house and afford life. The rich guys want to be more rich. They're hiring some of the poor suckers to check how others got richer in the past. The answer is tech!

New tech is created every couple of years. People hype it up as much as they can. The rich guys give a fraction of their billions each to finance whatever seems remotely reasonable while squinting in that space, just for a chance to hit the jackpot and get more billions, maybe even a trillion, and their face onto Forbes and on TV.

The poor suckers gotta scramble. They invent all kinds of bullshit, and they sell it to the other poor suckers who advise the rich guys. Teams of specialists are created. Whole organizations. There's HR, somebody to organize team building events. Every layer spawns another layer. Lawyers, somebody to give sexual harassment trainings, someone to run the cafeteria.

Buildings are rented from the rich guys via managment companies run by the poor suckers. Every day a handful of people make it and can even buy a house! Codes of conduct are written, company values and mission statements. People pivot, jump from place to place, try to sign the best contract. Every once in a while an exec jumps ship with several hundred mil in the bank.

It's a great life. What could be better?
A minimalist yet pluggable Markdown editor?
Given the absurd pace of open source, I'm not sure if the money itself is in "AI", maybe certain applications but if I can run something 95% as good as ChatGTP-4 on my home desktop in a year or so, then I'm not going to be paying for any "AI" solutions.
https://archive.is/HxQqJ
I was going to say that. It’s amazing how often French users get it wrong when filling in forms. It can result in online services trying a more informal tone calling people by their last name only (“Salut, DUPONT!”), which can be seen as a bit rude. People don’t read form labels with great attention.
Ask HN: I think have a genius business idea, what now?
Today talking to some people, i asked about their hand dragging on the mousepad because of big hands or small mice, etc. Some discussion arose regarding pinky rests and such, which is neat, but it sparked an idea from another product ive used for my feet. I really think this could be a fantastic thing, but Im not a business person, im just a guy with ridiculous ideas and computer/electronics experience.

I dont want to just blast out the idea here and have it appear on the market next week from someone else. I also dont necessarily want to run such a business either, but i want someone to make this, and i want to profit from it. I feel like i should go to the mouse mfgs or the product i used for my feet, but i dont know how to go about proposing the thing and ensuring im not gonna have the idea stolen before i make any progress anywhere with it.

So where do i go from here?

Thanks HN!
I actually semi-appreciate being 'forced' to read through the great write-up.

Well done!
I fully agree with you about the SSO tax.

I would like to add that configuring Azure AD as an SSO provider is available to any tenant free. Some of the functionality like Conditional Access does require paid licensing.

I’m aware of a number of businesses that are very happily using Keycloak in production. Not everyone can, although there is RH SSO if you need the support contract.

Then there’s Gluu, Authelia, and many others depending on your needs.

Sadly even with basic security we can’t seem to fully trust our own vendors to have our interests at heart.
Any guesses why author begins by using the word caste, then uses the word category for a major part, and finally ends with the word caste?
https://archive.is/K2Wj1
And there is no way Windows actually needs all that RAM, either - there is only so much an OS can do, I feel like maybe a lot of code in Windows (probably userspace) copies and caches way too much.
> I’m not sure I understand your point.

I’m pretty sure you do, because the poster is pretty specific. You make statements around micropenises and the required compensation for them that are incredibly toxic. The whole meme is dead, yet you persist in continuing with it. The poster is not questioning your assessment of the suitability of owning these vehicles, as you are no doubt aware, they are questioning your use of toxic language to make your point.

There are better and more eloquent ways of making your point. There is no need to shame a bunch of people that are born a certain way. Do you also make blanket statements about people of colour? LGBTQ+ folk?

Be a better human.
I would absolutely agree with this, were it not for the fact that your table appears to grow without bound - and is very very hard to clean up.

I know this, because this is exactly what I did. Put the images and the logfiles from an automated test suite directly into the DB. Brilliant, I thought! No more tracking separate files, performance was great, everything was rosy.

And then I tried to prune some old data.
One example would be a cooktop and electric oven. I have one that connects to 3-phases. On the cooktop, the left and the right sides are each connected to their own phase. You can run both sides at 2,600 watts max at the same time. In the oven, there are 3 heaters: top, bottom, and one inside the fan; each connected to one of the phases. Together they can reach about 10,000 watts. The oven has a heat-up program that uses all 3 heaters to reach the temperature you've set.

Overall, it can heat things up more quickly than a typical gas or electric stove while being more efficient. And you can quickly change the temperature like with a gas stove.
The product would have been worse without the contributions. More expensive for Hashicorp to maintain. And if it wouldn't have been free, their value proposition would have been very different. People would've used alternatives, for many of them that'd have meant something homegrown. Terraform would not have been so successful, Hashicorp wouldn't have been as big a company as it now is, as a result. The model as it was was a win-win for everybody. But sure, freeloader competitors may be a fair concern of Hashicorp, thank goodness they solved that problem, didn't they? But at what expense, they are disturbing an equilibrium that was established between themselves and their users.
I have no idea what your comment about Musk is referencing. I can't think of a less inspiring figure.
I guarantee that if someone vaguely familiar with the countries they operate in spends half an hour actually trying, they'll come up with heuristics that are correct for 95%+ of the target population.
> I still disagree.

Have you measured the penis size of every large vehicle owner, published your findings, and had them peer reviewed?
You can’t have a conscious experience of the undetermined unity because it isn’t a thing. It contains nothing of interest because it’s totally indeterminate. It literally doesn’t exist, it’s like pure death. It’s just the starting point before consciousness and thought. The absolute is the state of maximum development away from this original undetermined point. Attempting to return to it is to try and reverse time

If you understand German this video may help, else there are subtitles https://youtu.be/mh_KE4VwPDk?si=-zCwWSAIFdQi8nKe
Developer Productivity?
https://archive.is/axiGM
Work-stealing has been there since 1996 and is optimal if greedy. Original Cilk paper: http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/papers/cilkjpdc96.pdf

There are other techniques that are optimal like Parallel Depth First scheduling from Blelloch.

Since then there has been a lot of work for distributed work-stealing.

Boggles my mind that at "cloud-scale" people still use round robin and assume uniform workloads and that at the server level there is uniform load as well.