skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are commenting on a very long post in which I explained in detail how green threading wasn't compatible with Rust's lack of garbage collection. Your response is to just insist that you wish that wasn't the case - that you could have no garbage collection and user-space concurrency without any special syntax. Just repeating a demand in the face of an explanation as to why it isn't possible isn't going to get you far.

I actually think what you want is green threading and garbage collection and the language I described at the end of my post, but you've sort of ideologically decided garbage collection is bad for whatever reason.
I have heard this argument quite a few times, and it sounds plausible, but I'm not sure if I believe it. I'm in my 40s and the perceived length of months or years varies a lot for me. It appears to be influenced by my health, how much routine I have in my work, how much I'm travelling, how much crazy stuff happens, etc.
Does Apple's secure enclave thing support ed25519 now? I think that was missing support a while ago, probably other hardware too.

Webcrypto had missing support in some browsers too (though that was rsa-only on firefox for a while, unsure if ed25519 was added)
"Is it a simulation?"

If it would be, we could scientifically test for the limits of the experimentation model.
You can say, all of science is doing this effectivly. So far, no flaws have been found. If there were flaws, then within our models, so we adapt them, systematically approaching reality.

Now sure, if there would be an allmighty god, we would have no chance proofing him or her, that is tautological. But if it would be "just" aliens of a higher level, doing rat lab experiments with our universe, we could figure that out eventually.
Terrorist sympatazer's brain goes - poof (if there was one in the beginning)
My comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37892571 addresses this
So why did the frontend engineers move on from Ruby on Rails?

When I was an ROR developer, RailsCasts would tell you to do basically the same thing as HTMX, return partial HTML and use a tiny bit of JS to update the appropriate part of the DOM.

It’s a good fit for simple experiences, but breaks down when you need the result to update more than one place (say, a counter by the cart icon, or a set of options in a select in the sidebar.) Then, you hypermedia approach has forced you to try and explore your HTML snippet to pull relevant information, rather than get it in a nice structured format.
How will anyone find your site in order for it to become popular, if Internet giants gatekeep the only methods that people use to find or access things?

Internet giants control your browser, your smartphone, your search engine, your digital assistant, your DNS, most of the traffic going through CDNs, advertising, online shopping, app purchases, news, etc. Most of the internet is only accessible through the giants. Most of the experiences people have with the rest of the world is through them. (I'm being charitable; it's likely all the experiences people have with the rest of the world is through them)
They do, but you don’t want to risk a power failure during the update. It’s penalty not totally unrecoverable, but certainly not something you want the customer to open the box to.
This is definitely part of the problem, and another issue is quality decrease. Sure, maybe a given item has only increased 80% in price, but perhaps now the quality has decreased so that ultimately you are comparing apples to oranges.
I got mine on launch. The issue is that people were skipping the update which in some cases caused transferring to fail. I'm not sure how people managed to skip since it's heavily suggested as part of the setup, but maybe people are in a rush.
Make sure there are no spaces or dashes, digits only.
Well no, I use a phone that I could install an OS on myself.
Aha, as a non-gamer perhaps I should just stay out of this thread :)
Show HN: Neverinstall AI cloud computer better than copilot?
Suffering isn't actually wrong by some law of physics, it's just immoral when your morality is slave morality and your highest aspiration is safety and your most important motivator, fear.

Affronters are just more alive, more vital, actually trying, actually risking things; than the Culture HR department drones (heh), as comprehended by the ambassador, but it's still weird because the ambassador's actions are viewed from the confused uncomprehending PC perspective throughout the book.
If your client puts sensible options first, those are the ones that will get used. So most likely you're using chachapoly and x25519 always anyway.
All browsers now default to blocking HTTP URLs.

Anti-virus software blocks native applications that use HTTP.
> Decided it's time to switch to Linux because everyone says windows games now work on Linux thanks to Valve's efforts

> Installed Nobara (fork of Fedora made for gaming) and proceeded to install my copy of Red Alert 2 (my most played game) via Wine

> Try to run game, 'Error: xxx32.dll not found' or something

> Spent over an hour looking up forum posts on fixing that error, manually copying that dll and other modded variants of that dll to the install directory, but no cigar, still same error or other error, don't remember exactly

> Throw in the towel and went back to Windows where Red Alert 2 'Just Works TM'. Definitely no "year of the Linux" for me. I don't care how many thousands of Steam games work on Linux if they're not the games and apps I own and play. But good luck.

Edit: nice to see I'm getting downvoted for telling a personal story on this topic. Very emotionally mature of you guys.
My baptism by fire was when I had to write Protobuf parser and generator. It's the same exact story: format author didn't think it through, didn't realize some bad consequences are about to be had, made vague or unrealistic claims in documentation (or forgot to mention things in documentation).

Since then, I've seen a lot of this stuff... I cannot think about a format suitable for archives / data transfer / configuration that was well designed. And by this I mean that the claims made by the author of the format are shown to be true in a formal way.

It feels very sad that despite countless failures, which all result from the lack of a tool for doing this formal thing that can check the specification and tell you if it makes sense... nobody really works on that. It seems obvious that you'd want to have a tool that tells you how well you are doing, and programmers are very dedicated to tools that do formal verification (s.a. compile-time type checkers), but when it comes to something with far more reaching consequences is a "whatever".
To be fair the last century has seen near-inmmeasurable improvements in the human condition.
No, he means a run loop which polls for events, often by using poll() or select(), but it could also just be sleep() and then a SELECT statement.

Then it contains logic to handle events.
From my experience with Firefox (which is better) and Chrome (which is faster, especially on old CPUs, compared to Firefox after installing a similar set of extensions) and the knowledge of Edge being a customized Chromium build (notably with some awesome features added, e.g. a vertical tabs bar) I once speculated Edge probably is fast, also modern-standard, so in many cases there probably is no rational reason to install another web browser on a Windows machine which has Edge anyway. I then found out I was wrong: Egde turnt out to be slower than Firefox, let alone Chrome. All my slower/faster ratings are subjective though, I didn't run any benchmarks, it just really feels slow. Curious to mention that even on a low-RAM (4GB) PC Chrome feels the fastest even though it consumes more RAM than Firefox does.
Any alternatives that you've used successfully in medium or large organizations?
> Unfortunately history has taught us... the prevailing plenty of
people will happily do that which they instinctively know they
should not do ... if there is money or authority involved.

The authentic human escapes this, for s/he does not care one jot what
the "plenty" think, feel or do. Not out of callousness, indifference
or individual narcissism/solipsism, or even because authenticity
exists despite and outside of that frame - but that it flourishes
through and in it.

Sartre put is as; "One always has a choice". It's an existential truth
that even if you are on your knees in front of a ditch, with a gun to
your head and the choice "comply and live, or die on principle", you
can always choose to die. That's the essence of choice, not a mere
toss up between two picnics.

And once that threshold of understanding is passed -- that _choice_ is
the one thing that cannot be taken from you -- it is possible to see
further into Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling" and "Sickness Unto
Death", in which that choice allows one to become not merely a gadfly
but "an error, stubbornly and indelibly written into the text of
consensual reality... one that refuses to be erased". The harder the
system scratches at it the more the itch spreads.

Obviously there's a lot of Christianity at the base of this, and
returning to the GP, P. K. Dick is clearly immersed in that. Maybe
that says Christianity is still a relevant religion in the
technological age? I also find it bizarre that Nietzsche, who saw
Christianity as mere bloody-minded resentment, still arrived at the
same basic idea of all-too-human authenticity. So it goes deep.
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I always had the impression that the lack of meaning in The Culture was fairly overtly portrayed with many side stories and the fact that the main story line always had to follow some special operation outside The Culture in order to be interesting.
The Chinese gov't has limited their equivalent of TikTok—which is purely educational content—to 40 min a day and zero access for kids between 10pm and 6am.

That's not a bad start. Overexposure is literally giving users dementia, aka brain atrophy.

eta: if anyone was spending 4.8 hours a day playing the slots, we'd call that a serious addiction, let alone kids whose brains are still forming.
Sad to see him go. He will always be a legend of the gaming industry.
I tell them that I have a stress induced brain diseases and living there would put me closer to death.
Inflation numbers are nationwide, but bay-area housing prices are not. And high housing raises the costs of all labor-intensive services (like your McDonalds), since employees need somewhere to live.
I use Termux to do SSH once in a a while. It makes me want to install a web UI to be honest. Most of the time I'm fumbling my long sudo password to restart some systemd service that crashed or manually running a maintenance script, that stuff is a massive pain on touch screens.
Killnet Discusses Cyberattack on Nuclear Warhead Site Amid Israel-Hamas Conflict
Hackers from Killnet were found deliberating Israel's nuclear capabilities and the potential consequences of a cyberattack on Israeli nuclear warhead site.
Ooof, accepting Bitcoin/currency donations for a product that explicitly strips out monetization of another 3rd party service is going to be a problem for longevity of this project on GitHub.
I have all of those running on my machine and the only thing I had to configure was fractional scaling, through a setting. Things have improved a lot.
Yes, businesses will return value to shareholders by default.

But here's the thing about competition:

If there is one monopoly, it can simply return all profit to shareholders and ignore the customer

If that is split into 5 businesses, then consumers must choose. Whichever company consumers don't choose will do poorly and their investors will suffer. Whichever company does will will do well and their shareholders will be rewarded.

So how does the game play out? They compete. They make a case to you why you should choose them. They introduce new products with differentiated features that will win the market. They undercut the competition and accept a smaller profit (or even a loss) in exchange for marketshare. They compete for your business.

At the end of the day, the increased profit might go to shareholders, but the rest of competition (reduced prices, new and better products, etc) go to the customer.
Couple of questions (with notes): Yes, I'd really like to write code next to the db with more suitable (for task) languages like Python. But at the moment SQL alone is supported..? Could one connect with Jupyter notebook somehow and have a REPL like experience with Omnigres instance?

Also, this [1] seems intriguing. How do containers connect to the db? What would the performance differences to the "internal" approach? Is this feature more like Lambda or for long running processes? Or something else? In any case very interesting.

Thank you!

[1] https://github.com/omnigres/omnigres/tree/master/extensions/...
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The only thing constrained by backward compatibility was using Pin instead of Move. Async/await itself is the natural progression for Rust for the reasons I outlined at length regarding how Rust represents zero-cost coroutines.
So you might say, Linux is not on par with Windows, which is what I said?
The whole article is worth reading, there's also the features matrix:

https://honeyryderchuck.gitlab.io/2023/10/15/state-of-ruby-h...
But the process looks more messy, for example, how do you clean the wafer? Or how do you prevent the resist from getting stuck in the wafer?

Do they get high yields with this technique?
Huh. I wasn't aware that cassette tapes were used on the systems that PKZip ran on either.

Pretty sure DOS didn't have tape drive support ordinarily, and I wasn't aware that PKZip was widely ported to anything that wasn't DOS or a clone/derivative?
It was clear that sooner or later there would be a leak, hack or end up in the government hands.
I never want to have to configure a file transfer program. For this to be useful to me, it has to be better than magic wormhole.
To call Mars Trilogy not colored by the authors ideology is, well, brave to say the least.
Trees have many benefits besides CO2 sequestration.
> It's interesting, that second option seems too malicious, how would you even coordinate a common understanding of this?

You can coordinate this with a coded message, such as:

"Our goal for 2023 is to make Edge a market-leading product, the best browser on Windows, and the customer's browser of choice. All executives ranked Vice President or above will receive $100,000 in shares for every percentage point increase in US browser market share this financial year."

Later you will be shocked - SHOCKED - to learn anti-competitive behaviour happened, when you were "just trying to encourage the OS and browser teams to cooperate on things like power efficiency and security"
I can too play a lot of games on Linux, just not all games that I want to play, yet at least
Yes, but just reading the other pages would be more useful. HN isn't meant to provide a constant endorphine drip of distractions like other sites, because the average quality here tends to be inversely proportional to posting velocity.
16 has a reputation for being much buggier than 15. There's also some UI/feature changes not everyone likes.
Funny talking about the toxicity of social media as a factor behind recent incidents and bleakness when every other language or professional community has exactly the same social media landscape presumably without the same issues or to the same magnitude. Not that said toxicity doesn’t exist, but struggling with it more (?), and doing other things such as the keynote incident which did not occur on social media AFAIK indicate other/deeper cultural issues I’d say.

These suggestions make sense to me though, all hands especially IMO … they can be a good way to force institutions to be grounded and can often be cringey for groups that have lost touch and the faith of their constituents.
But they're describing a poor and buggy implementation.
At a couple startups, I've promoted a mantra of "everything goes into GitLab".

If some information is not in GitLab Git and CI, it should be in GitLab Issues or (ugly) GitLab Wiki.

Those 4 words avoid a lot of problems. Including avoiding a proliferation of silo'd and leaked and lost information in numerous different SaaSes, apps/programs, and storage services that people will tend to do by default.
Seems like BLS is projecting programmer jobs to decrease by 11% by 2032 [0]. This isn’t perfect, but seems like a pretty reputable source for employment trends.

Of course it also says median salary is $100k and I haven’t been able to hire a programmer at $100k in 20 years. So I think there’s a lot of variability.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...
I used Linux when working at Intel, but I'm a programmer, so maybe not general case.
A technicality, perhaps, but the books that the article is about don't actually depict our future. Their civilization did not evolve on Earth and isn't biologically human, and the books are (with the exception of one short story) not set anywhere near Earth or even in our time.

The Culture books don't follow the predictive tradition of science fiction. Banks' books are more appropriately called space opera, though Banks has his own spin on things that sets him somewhat apart.

What Banks does is dream up a completely new, utopian, post-scarcity civilization, and then explores what kinds of conflicts and moral problems can exist in such an environment where anyone can be anyone, have anything, and go anywhere.
Not Prussians, what with the dueling ~scars~ amputations?
Many spoke similarly of Garry Kasparov and Lee Sedol.
Ah, but the Authentic Human knows that the Moloch knows that....

all the way down....
If I could have total control of the OS I would undo all of that bullshit. An OS shouldnt feel like it was made by Google full of ads nobody wants or is asking for. Also the insane telemetry considering telemetry left Microsoft with Windows 8 one of the more hated versions after Windows Millenium Me which was a buggy piece of trash.
For what it's worth, I'm French too, and DuckDuckGo works for me 95% of the time. It definitely has a different "flavor" of results though.
Yea I considered that once too like having a small web app which takes a link and downloads it via ytdlib and then sync it with Jellyfin. :)
I don't remember exactly why I have any of them saved, but these are some experimental data stores that seems to be fitting what you're looking for somewhat:

- https://github.com/DataManagementLab/ScaleStore - "A Fast and Cost-Efficient Storage Engine using DRAM, NVMe, and RDMA"

- https://github.com/unum-cloud/udisk (https://github.com/unum-cloud/ustore) - "The fastest ACID-transactional persisted Key-Value store designed for NVMe block-devices with GPU-acceleration and SPDK to bypass the Linux kernel."

- https://github.com/capsuleman/ssd-nvme-database - "Columnar database on SSD NVMe"
> Regardless, none of that actually need intrusive client-side analytics and tracking, it all can be done server-side but seems we've collectively forgotten how to do this.

Hear, hear. Heaven forbid someone in need of some dopamine greps their server logs, or increments some counter in a db...
Naive question: are there really expected gains to address natively an NVMe disk wrt using a regular key-value database on a filesystem ?
I refuse to believe that there are any non-gamers on HN.
The problem with Jira is that we don't have many alternatives at enterprise level. Maybe for smaller teams (<1000 engineers) something else is at table. It's also interesting neither of FAANG - except for Netflix - are using Jira, they are all on something home-grown AFAIK.

I had a lot of hopes for Github Issues [0] but since they announced the product on last year's Universe event, there were not many news. Maybe this November they will come back with an update.

At this point, I feel Jira is like WordPress. It maybe slow and overbloated, but you can have absolutely any plugin and/or integration you can think of.

[0] https://github.com/features/issues
You mean like on almost every laptop or phone sold today with their OTA update support? Whether Apple installs the updates before or after you first start the device doesn't change the risk.

Maybe you don't install any updates over the entire device lifetime? Okay but what if the firmware runs a keylogger? You always need to put a ton of trust into the company.
"There is more where this came from" reads differently based on how interesting/valuable "this" is. Cryptocurrency wasn't producing anything interesting beyond new flavors of old scams, and renewed appreciation for financial regulation. Transformer models and LLMs in particular seem to be blazing through any problem we throw at them, including previously unsolved problems, and every marginal improvement is instantly useful (both in terms of capabilities and in terms of $$$ produced). We hit the motherlode here - and it shows no sign of running out just yet.

That's the difference.

And even when we hit the limit of improvement on those models, when scaling up won't make a qualitative difference, we can expect many years of further breakthroughs in applications, as R&D focuses on less obvious applications and making more efficient use of the capabilities available.
For me, it’s not that 40 hours is a precise number so much as it’s the norm. So if the country settled on 41 or 39, it’s the same issue.

It’s not the number of hours but variance from the norm that makes it difficult to recruit and retain people.
I anticipate the horror stories of trying to import JIRA databases into new bug trackers when these news hit the fan. Things are going to get spicy.
The original author wrote their opinion in their own title.

You wrote your own opinion.

I read the same article and did not percieve bitterness even though it was critical. So now what?

This is probably exactly why there is simply a rule about editorializing that applies the same in all cases and leaves no room for creative interpretation.

It doesn't matter which of us is right this way. You can still think your perception is OBVIOUSLY the sane one, and so can I.

And the cherry on top is needing to have such a thing explained while presuming to lecture anyone else about maturity. Chefs kiss right there.
> It's not that hard to write a BASIC interpreter.

If you are Walter Bright and write C++ compilers for fun.
We will look into Python Online Compiler for Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow.
The only app still making me want Windows is Paint.Net. It really feels by far the best, if not say perfect, non-pro picture editor ever. I would even pay for really good (Pinta is quirky although indispensable) Linux and Mac ports. I also love Visual Studio but JetBrains Rider seems more than a match. Games indeed have ended being a problem long ago. Perhaps some latest and greatest games still are, I dunno. Have anybopdy tried something like Hogwarts Legacy or Baldurs Gate 3 on Linux?