skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing really wrong with it, but it's core design is pretty outdated in ways that are difficult to fix without putting together a totally new language. Couple of examples

- Support for nullable values. Swift and Kotlin have first class support for these, which are meant to minimize or reduce the number of null pointers in your code. You can mostly fix this with annotations, but those your team using them very consistently, and are not supported by most java libraries.

- It's approach to concurrency. Java built in synchronization primitive is based upon an older model of concurrency whose name I cant remember but it involves every object basically being able to maintain internal consistency with it's own state. No one still uses it like this, with most method creating an `Object lock` as a synchronization primitive.

- Serialization. Java has built in binary serialization support that ended up being a massive security hole. Most people are now forced to use some json serialization, but the old serialization format is still lurking in the background to ensnare less knowledgeable programmers.

- Generics. Smarter people than me can probably give you more detail on this, but generics were grafted on to the language long after it was introduced, and it shows. At runtime, there are no generic types kept, meaning it is technically possible to break the generic typing of an object.

None of these it should be noted are deal breakers or reasons why you shouldn't use the language. Almost every single one has some form of workaround for it. But if you're not aware of them (or stuck with an older legacy codebase like a lot of people are) they can be major headaches that can just be avoided by using a more modern language.
I'm fine if a story doesn't have a point, or if it leaves things unresolved. The problem with Stephenson (for me) is that the book is written as if it is leading to some shattering conclusion, and then it just doesn't. It fizzles right at the point that you are about to discover the long (because it's Stephenson) sought resolution.

I would have preferred the Diamond Age if it just was about that world, but without all the kerfuffle about the big secret. Nell wanders off into the sunset, or whatever.
I think a lot of people who complain about the complexity of the US tax code and the "need" for TurboTax would benefit from directly filling out the 1040 by hand one year - most of them would have a pretty easy time doing it. For most people, all you need is a 4-function calculator, your W-2s/1099s, and a pencil, and it will take at most an hour or so.

Where the IRS's UX is really bad for the average taxpayer is all the other forms and instructions that Americans feel the need to read and think about despite none of them applying to your situation. However, I think this is mostly psychological, and Americans are wasting their time and money trying to get ahead by finding a "loophole" that applies to them.
> in fact, in most cases, there is no filesystem at all

Huh? With few exceptions, applications write to disk using a VFS provided by an operating system. Can you provide an example of cloud storage that uses raw disks (bypassing VFS)?

There also isn’t a POSIX file system, just POSIX compatible file systems. Those file systems may expose non-POSIX APIs to do other low level work (trim, clone, snapshot, etc.).
Their tagline could be 'it's not lemonade'
Well, now I want a new keyboard.
Be careful with Continue. It has opt-out telemetry and by default it seems to send all prompts to the developers. Have a look at ~/.continue/telemetry.log to see what is being sent. Don't enter any passwords, credentials or other sensitive data in prompts unless telemetry is disabled.
Nokia bricks 14,000 human cuboids.
I find it interesting that my (at the time) low class, uneducated American family thought it was hilarious.
(codecrafters dev here)

Rate limits issue should be fixed now!
Netflix is raising prices, again
From the article:

Netflix also announced it's raising the price for its most expensive streaming service by $2 to $23 per month in the U.S. — a 10% increase — and its lowest-priced, ad-free streaming plan to $12 — another $2 bump. The $15.50 per month price for Netflix's most popular streaming option in the U.S. will remain unchanged
Visual Regression Testing with Storybook
With this sort of thing, there's a 100% chance of getting pictures of dicks
Grover is the figurehead, but he's got backing from plenty of other billionaires and other large tax-is-bad action group.

also directly sprung from Bush Sr. saying "read my lips: no new taxes" and then immediately going the other way. that ruffled a few feathers and took the "tax bad" lobby into the Tea Party / Norquist insanity we've seen.
SAT Solvers I: Introduction and applications
You can use them for servers, but they're meant for workstations with resource-hungry applications.
There even are companies that make a threadripper-box-with-a-handle-and-wheels when you need that oomph to be deployable to locations.
Yes, they have said explicitly they are working to improve the user experience. Likewise, they are working to assure their advertisers that the numbers they are showing them are real users. This has been a known issue since well before Musk's acquisition.

My point is that the $1/user is not solving a revenue problem by raising $1 times 10,000 bots, as you claim. It's designed to eliminate bots so that they recruit real users that advertisers value, and which also improves the user experience.

Musk hatred consumes too many.
Using Helm dashboard and intents-based access control for network segmentation
Why are they allowed to "discharge urine bottles along the road"?
The protagonist (and presumably Milton) has 8 different bosses.

Even if doing this would result in a lawsuit against the company, it's unlikely to impact those middle-managers personally.

Which is a key takeaway from the movie, it consistently shows apathy at every level.
Never had a blackout in NYC or KC
there are a few apps that I don't want to quit any time (about once every 2 weeks) that I want to clean my laptop keyboard.

currently, I'm fighting slack to make sure it doesn't update again.
Not really, Nokia isn't really at the start startup-y end of the tech field like that. It's way more "esoteric backbone hardware for the world" these days. Closer to General Electric than Google.

My wild ass guess from living here is this is somehow coming from the larger Finnish economy; Finland is only now starting to really feel the pinch of inflation after the combination of COVID-19, which it weathered fine for a time, combined with the war in Ukraine, which is affecting food prices all over Europe and also (understandably) closed off trade relations temporarily with Russia.
> biggest corporation

Nit: it's worth the most, or has been at times, but Apple is not a big company or organisation compared to others, and I think the number of people involved is perhaps the more useful comparison here rather than market cap. They're roughly an order of magnitude below the top end.
Using sustainable aviation fuels could reduce emissions by up to 80%
Yep, "Seeding files" is an extension: https://app.codecrafters.io/vote/challenge-extension-ideas?c.... Not supported yet, but will be available soon (we add new extensions based on user votes)
So does that mean that literally everyone who sends in tax information other than accepting the government's calculations is a huge audit target?
No question, I just wanted to thank you for your work on what became VB. I'm still using VB6 to pay the bills today, believe it or not!
Yeah, but we don't want to actually kill them, just get them to not eat our garden.
> Amazon actually used to be the world's most customer-centric company

What's contradictory here? They focus on their customers at the expense of their employees.
But in this case apparently they didn't actually sell the company, so no employees moved. The employees were still employed at Epic, until laid off by Epic. So presuming there was a violation of labor law (in the US or hypothetically in the UK) wouldn't all liability rest with Epic? Unless the argument is that it really _was_ a sale of the company, which probably rests on very technical arguments specific to the jurisdiction.
https://archive.ph/GyzOF
5 years ago you could have bought a Zen2 threadripper (non-pro).
I found the fact Copilot is close sourced -- not just the model, but even the plugins are close sourced -- is very worrying. Good to see efforts on the alternatives.
Any software developer can easily use any number of available cores for a proportional speed-up of compiling projects.

Nevertheless, Threadrippers are not really useful for software development, because using two computers with 7950X and 64 GB memory each as compilation servers would provide a much higher speed than one computer with a Threadripper 7960X and 128 GB memory, which would cost about the same.

Threadrippers are not useful for who wants many cores, because the 7950X cores are much cheaper, they are useful for those who want a large amount of memory in a single box or a large amount of PCI lanes (e.g. for multiple GPUs) in a single box.
Peter Thiel has publicly said he doesn't believe in democracy, and he heavily backed someone who tried to violently overthrow the US government.
Islam teaches that relationship between Jews and Arabs due to Mohammed building on preexisting monotheistic traditions in the region, but Judaism does not. The Arab people and their ancestry is not part of Judaism’s own lore.
If you have a fast API it's very feasible. I'll take slighly reduced UX due to slower page load times any day over unpredictable completely broken UX introduced by bad state management (common with e.g. Redux non-RTK in the hands of inexperienced frontend devs).

I'd personally still favor Next.js + TanStack Query if given the choice.
I'm on Firefox and have been seeing the popups off and on - the uBO developers are doing great keeping things updated
Thank you for making this a public benefit company. We need more companies to follow this route to protect against future enshittification. But with public benefit corporations, I’ve been wondering, is it possible at some point for the board vote to change to some other type of entity, like a C-corp? And what rules are in place to enforce that it is working in the public benefit?

Cory Doctorow talks about using Ulysses pacts like this to protect against future bad behavior, but I’m wondering, what is the strength of the pact?
Everyone is bickering but I agree! Also, there are SO MANY church and camp busses. There's a million medium sized vehicles that make life possible that people just ignore.
TIL:

> This theory was first put forward by economist Bruce Yandle in a 1983 article published in the American Enterprise Institute's magazine Regulation titled "Bootleggers and Baptists: The Education of a Regulatory Economist."[1] Yandle, at the time serving as executive director of the Federal Trade Commission, used the example of early 20th century Sunday closing laws restricting the sale of alcohol to illustrate his belief that "durable social regulation evolves when it is demanded by both of two distinctly different groups" - Baptists, who support a regulation for moral reasons, and bootleggers, who stand to gain economically from a regulation.[2]

* https://ballotpedia.org/Bootleggers_and_Baptists

* https://www.aei.org/articles/viewpoint-bootleggers-and-bapti...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers_and_Baptists

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20544240-bootleggers-and...

* https://www.ced.org/blog/entry/bootleggers-and-baptistshow-c...
Hi, course author here! You're right, this was left out initially to scope down the challenge (it's already quite long with 11 stages). We're planning to add it as a challenge extension, uploading is one of the highly voted challenge extension ideas by the community.
New York's Mayor Uses Audio Deepfakes to Call Residents in Different Languages
The IRS taking this on this way has incentive to automate and make taxes as easy as possible. Intuits incentive is to keep taxes complicated and as manual as possible.

Therefore, the most likely outcome is that the IRS taking this on will most assuredly result in saving tax payer money.
If you really want to learn about networking or want to improve your knowledge, I really recommend you to get into pentesting. You can learn from online platforms like tryhackme, where you have a lot of hands-on labs to learn about networking, AD, Linux, etc (even for begginers and advanced users). Also you have platforms like HackTheBox where you can practice your pentesting skills by hacking virtual machines prepared for that, simulating real scenarios. It's hard, but its fun and you learn a lot. You can use them to achieve the OSCP if you like.

If you are interested and want to know more about it just DM me, I'm a Pentester.

Hope it helps!
Disregarding externalities is the essence of free market dogma. Whether it's pollution, cheating customers, forcing unpaid overtime on employees, unsafe workplaces, collusion and price fixing. It's a disastrous race to the bottom unless "Big Government" puts rules in place to get companies to engage in positive-sum behavior.

And that's the key issue. Positive sum (along with "first, do no harm") behavior is what makes societies healthy and prosperous. Laissez faire free market capitalism rewards extractive actions over positive sum actions with predictable catastrophic consequences.
They didn't care, but clearly their checks and verifications failed, so they were probably not fully aware.
If it's just going to send it over the internet anyway, https://www.filepastebin.com/ is nicer.
News from PyTorch Conference 2023
after learning that drivers were being penalized for returning with urine filled bottles he searched the road near the warehouses, so it's urine very likely to come from an amazon driver.
Most vendors refer customers to their compiled releases as support is easier than having everyone compile their own binary.

The fact they stated this overtly does come off a little bit strange sounding.
> he separation machine is powered by employees on their break time

Did they finally allow warehouse workers actual break time? Weren't they were peeing in bottles or something for a while because they didn't have time for breaks while still making quotas?
Except there is no #4 in this case.

The question really should just be in #1 is legal. The extra shenanigans doesn't change that question.
Maybe they are (or were) an Amazon driver and were retrieving their own bottles.
Right. The devs have full sudo access. They can install and configure whatever they want. Our Bento tool has pre/post setup hooks for all services. So teams can automate this. When something is commonly used we just preinstall it for them. Or some just contribute to the repo. It is all fairly straight forward Ansible and shell scripts. We push nightly to everyone's existing machines.
FTA:

> Sustainable aviation fuel is made from renewable biomass and waste resources and can be used as a direct replacement for jet fuel sourced from crude oil.

until biomass competes with other biomasses...
For multi tenant environments like a provider running VMs, preventing speculative execution attacks is a priority; otherwise someone can literally see what another tenant is doing (and there are attack demos demonstrating it).

Furthermore, the entire concept of paging and virtual memory is built around the concept of not letting one process see what the other one is doing; the described attacks in the prime+probe/flush+reload attacks are quite practical and could let some JS on a website steal passwords (though the information leak rate is a little lower than what you generally get by outright stealing credential files using malware, though that tends to show up on EDRs, whereas speculative execution attacks just show up as memory access patterns with fewer cache hits than what’s expected.)

If we’re to say that you don’t need isolation, we could just drop paging and every process just have a view of every other process.
Yes, I’m sure if it weren’t for the taxes, they wouldn’t have any problem creating billions of dollars worth of warehouses, spending even more money for a logistics network.
Someone makes something awesome that people love, it gets bought by a giant company, the giant company extracts as much value as possible and discards the corpse, someone makes an awesome new version. This is the software lifecycle.
For sure, and Amazon keeps getting away with it because nobody is bothered enough to sue, or Amazon makes changes fast enough for a judge to go "Honest mistake, carry on", or Amazon has an army of lawyers that can keep going until the person or organizating suing runs out of steam and / or money.
Or for-profit hospitals…
How is a story about the government dictating the future by controlling information about the past relevant in a discussion about noise complaints? Referencing HOA-level pettiness seems more relevant.

Unless your point was "anything the government does is bad", in which case 1984 is a bad example.
Meta only has as much influence over our lives as we give it. I don't use Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, or any Meta product. What influence does the company have over me that even remotely rises to the level of "government?"
In the x years I lived in the United States my income taxes in other countries have been almost unbelievably easy. They just didn't exist, as long as I didn't live there.
…only 2 personas?

It's still good to lie about everything to keep stalkers off your trail. Furthermore, it contributes to the erosion of trust that everything online is literally true. People have gotten complacent in that regard.
And also the "egg" distribution format from "spam and eggs".
If I was still working with LLMs this would probably be how I get my managers hard
That's not the story.

The story is Amazon let him list urine in their food section AND fulfilled shipments of supposed urine for him to his friends.

The documentary this was done for is all about how Amazon is negligent in it's duties to the public. We wouldn't tolerate a grocery store putting rat poison in the food isle or selling knives to toddlers, so why are we tolerant of Amazon doing that? He had his kids order though an echo knives and rat poison. Those were delivered to his house without the mandatory in the uk age check.
Designer Vulnerabilities
The free market would have allowed those banks to fail and their customers would have lost all their savings. Personally I'd prefer if they'd bailed out the customers instead, but that still counts as a state intervention.
Well, I didn't. I am not ready yet to throw my 18 CPU cores and my 16GB graphics card away.
I guess it's a fine line. If Google starts pre screening ads and then bans somewhat legit ads - which may or may not look as legit - then we will see reports about them. Moderation is a tough problem to solve. We want convenience with the right stuff, and strong blocks with even slightly shady stuff. They are bound to miss a thing or two. Question here is that is this an edge case or a prominent one (as in do they have a lot of ads approved like these) with Google ads, which the article fails to answer.
That's not security theater at all. It prevents unsafe redirects (--proto='https'), which I've found in the wild exactly because I pass that flag. And specifying a min tls version seems like a good practice in general.
Those were nothing compared to some of the stuff people sent.
My print letters flow together so I don't end up lifting the pen(cil) as much.
The scarcity of your skillset will protect you. Nothing else can.
I'm the most pro-union person you'll ever meet, but this is so cringe. Strikes work when you can shut down a factory and physically keep the scabs from getting in with a picket line. Not so much when you're a remote tech worker who can be instantly replaced by an equally competent third-worlder for $2/hr. You gotta know where your bargaining power lies, or you're just being an idiot.
I can't entirely agree with this, but I like how the authors think about the issue (S3 being a de-facto standard without anything formal to back it up).

POSIX is outdated and problematic. It's outdated because it was conceived when hardware was vastly different than today. Storage used to be orders of magnitude slower than compute. Today, it's the opposite. POSIX APIs make squeezing all the juice out of the underlying hardware impossible. A standard duplex 100Gbps network link will carry ~300M small IP frames per second. You'll be lucky if you can do more than a few 10k/s using POSIX APIs. That's a massive bottleneck.

And it's not something that can be fixed with clever implementations. None of the POSIX APIs are async. So, to drive concurrency, programmers have to resort to threads that don't scale. That's a fundamental issue that no hardware improvement and/or software trickery will ever fix.

Today's reality is that software is seldom written against POSIX but against Linux, which offers many more APIs. Linux is, likewise, not formally standardized. It dodges the problem of S3 because it's open-source and ubiquitous. But that's not a good solution: it stifles innovation. For that reason, there hasn't been any new (production-ready, serious) kernel in decades.

We are at a deadlock, and POSIX is part of the problem.
How to Measure Interaction to Next Paint
I agree with this assertion. WebAssembly, on its whole, is extremely good.

The string stuff is, IMO, something the group has not come to realize the "right direction" on, but so much has been done right! Hopefully strings can get there too. :)
A lot of European countries have a higher household debt load than the US. Compared to Europe, especially the richer parts of Europe, the US compares favorably:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_househo...
We're not, and I'm very glad for it. I am the opposite of excited about the idea of CDEs.
This happens to many many small businesses, they unilaterally ban you for nothing shady. I'm talking about mom and pop stores, businesses who have been using FB ads for ages. Suddenly poof, that marketing channel and the revenue that comes with it is gone and is not appealable.
My dream job is building a DRM-free eBook store with all of the major publishers onboard. If anyone on HN is building that, please email me. I have so many ideas about how that could revitalize the books industry.

Aside: I think if publishers want to protect their books from being shared for free, watermarking [0] is a better solution than DRM. It brings back the same dynamics we have with sharing physical books (common with friends, less so with strangers), and also is a lot more obvious to non-technical people.

[0]: https://www.lemonink.co/home
"You can't manage to take a billion people out of poverty without one, sadly."

Please elaborate and defend.
He's got friends at Meta.

What do people do who don't have friends at Meta?