skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would you bluntly assume my comment lacks any foresight? I was simply recommending you a tool that I used, albeit briefly, that solves the exact the same problem for which you are claiming no solution exists.

Nobody is denying that it would be ideal if there is one best solution to every problem in the ecosystem. But at the end of the day all software, including core and third party libs is just code written by people, and it is too much to expect that any person (or a group of them) gets everything right the first time. Change, breaking or otherwise, is inevitable as people learn from their mistakes - its not like the core is guaranteed to never have any breaking changes either.

Just like you can pin the version of libraries, you can pin the versions of your tools too, as long as they are not depending on external services with no versioning. The point of the post is not absolute avoidance of change. It is to opt into a workflow and tooling setup so you can deal with the upstream changes at your own time and convenience.

And BTW, looking at their versioning, poetry hasn't yet had any breaking changes in its 4+ years of existence.
These are all great series, but they are also on three different streaming services, which from a consumer POV is exactly the problem. Everybody wants a marquee drama series to draw the punters in, but the punters don’t really want to be shelling out for every single streaming service just to watch the one good thing on each of them.

So a sizeable chunk of the potential audience picks one channel at a time & chops and changes between them, cutting revenues by 4x, or else they drop them altogether because it just gets boring trawling through the piles of low-grade content trying to find something worth watching.
I know not with what weapons Half-Life III will be fought, but Half-Life IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Ha ha, just kidding, they'll never make Half-Life 3.
I’m with you. Docs need to provide 2 things: the reference and specific examples. That’s it. Tell me what all the options are and what they do, then show me usage of as much realistic possibilities as possible.
Disney could have done that and I would have paid.

But they don’t make shows people want to watch any more. Live action Mulan could have been awesome! But they destroyed the themes of family honor and removed the music and comedy.

Pander fatigue is real. I’ve got kids but I’m letting my Disney sub lapse. Anime is way better than the schlock Disney puts out.
There are definitely going to be interesting use cases like yours. I'm in no way against this development. The more the merrier!

But to be honest, I haven't looked at binrepos so far. Perhaps your reply is a good reason to.
You could do the alternative.

Pay the musician $400-$500 for each song and then you don't need to pay a recurring fee for it in perpetuity.

Also I'm pretty sure if your carpenter has been studing to produce the works they produce and each work takes several months to a yeah then my estimated price above is off be at least 1 but probably more factors or 10
This is humor, right?
I'm in complete agreement with you. I use i3 (still using Xorg) and find the ability to have multiple desktops that I can move atomically between monitors to be far better than having to position windows individually. I put reference material, chat, etc, on the side monitor and then can very quickly move it back to the primary monitor when I need it. I find a normal 16:9 monitor to be just right for two side by side windows, or a tile of three, with one tall window taking half of the screen and two terminals top and bottom on the other side.

I hate using the mouse to manage windows, and having one huge ultrawide just feels like a nightmare to manage -- I'd need some way to split it logically into 2 or 3 virtual monitors.
It's even better. Partyism is baked right into to local governments who

administer and fund party elections

protect party power thru primary voting restrictions - and then by doing all that

gift parties a veneer of gov authority (which helps lock out competition).
Central bank digital currencies where the currency can be spent only on certain goods, and can be set to expire.
Wow, thanks! I've added those to the list above.
Huh? What does that have to do with anything I stated?

The same would be true if I was watching Netflix in France with my device locale set to fr-FR. I’d just consider English content to be foreign language content instead.
I dunno, I worked with Qt5 and Qt6 recently and creating a UI felt pretty fast and smooth to me (Much more so than the last time I did frontend web work anyway)

That said, I've never used VB6 so maybe I'm missing something...
I think it's down to personal preference, so obviously do what works for you!

I have the triple-27" monitors @4k setup described elsewhere..

Left-side monitor is Slack and Discord, and sometimes a File explorer or other misc apps that usually live minimized (Spotify, etc)

Center monitor is my IDE and terminal, or whatever "main" app I'm working in at the moment (sometimes Lightroom etc)

Right-side monitor is work browser (we use GSuite so lots of various tabs in GDrive, Calendar, Gmail, Docs etc)

You can certainly do this all on one screen, but I like to be able to glance at those things while still having my main screen laid out for ongoing work.

I also use multiple desktops so I have one for work and one for personal, and I can swipe all 3 monitors over to a different workspace with one key command, which makes macro context switching easier.
> having golang as primary lang in your stack is the bulletproof way to suck all the joy out of daywork

Huge disagree. Working with Golang is amazing to me: you actually get to spend time thinking high level instead of low level unless it’s needed for business reasons. And when you need to think low level, there’s no 100 ways to do, everything is reasonable.

I get shit done fast, efficiently, and writing good code (easy to read, maintain, test refactor and extend) is easy as hell. Whenever I go back to a Go code base I’ve not touched in years, I’m impressed at how everything still works with no trouble at all and how fast it it is to dig in and be productive.

In comparison I’ve recently picked up a React code base from 2 years ago that I was pretty proud of, and… it doesn’t even build anymore. I spent a day trying to fix the dependencies but wasn’t able to succeed yet. I’ve had similar experiences with Python code bases too.

You’re talking about maps.contains as an example and I used to agree with the sentiment, but in the end it doesn’t matter. I sometimes spend 2 minutes writing a contains method, so what? It’s never been a real issue in my experience.
i used gentoo 15 years ago. went to debian than ubuntu and now on arch. arch is the best btw.
Someone ought to give them a kleenex for all of their boo-hooing.
> Is this a uniquely US thing?

No, in Russia people have been xerring documents since photocopiers appeared there.
> never understood why teams of literally 1 or 2 devs are always forced to try attempt to acheive the visual quality of apps like instagram, whatsapp, etc

For the same reason those kinds of places have more managers than workers… it’s a vanity project.
I see this very often where encryption experts and FOSS advocates pooh-pooh obfuscation and opaqueness. "It's not REAL security", they say. And they are right.

This is like those Chinese outfits that laser off the part markings on ICs so others can't copy the design as easily. Eventually someone will find out what part number it is and the mitigation will be nullified. But it IS effective for a period.

In the same way obscurity provides a time bonus that must be worked through before exploitation can begin.

Hackers tend to complain very much about this obscurity stuff "all it does is waste people's time and it's not secure" which is exactly the point. Surely by now researchers must have realized that creating a 100 percent bulletproof security implementation is very unlikely when compared to how impenetrable any modern encryption system is, due to gotchas and flaws in the implementation details. And this is why obscurity slows down the discovery.

Denuvo DRM for new games is the same way. It is very hated but does work very well for the publisher at mitigating piracy for the initial 2-3weeks after a game launches where the bulk of sales happen.
Thats a good point. The theoretical best case is an inelastic collision.
Yes, and? What’s the problem? I would have less incentive to do things if I couldn’t profit from it.
That may not matter to Velcro (TM). As long as they're publicly making attempts to defend their trademark, perhaps that is enough for them to keep legal rights to it.
I feel that for the indie community, the web is dying thanks to modern browser bloat. We need to move to alternatives.
In the generic (integrated over a 20-year timespan), actually, yes, I do use other peoples' computers often. I do that less since Covid, since everything has switch to working-from-home, but:

* Nowadays, technical development occupies a plurality, but not a majority, of my time.

* Much of the time on technical development is spent mentoring people more junior than myself, rather than coding myself.

In the in-person version of the above, I'd spend a lot of time sitting next to someone, either at a keyboard or a whiteboard.

Working with the right junior developer (bright, inexperienced, ambitious, open-minded), I find it very rewarding, and they do too:

* I'll usually pose a problem to them to solve.

* They'll come back with questions, or perhaps a little bit of prototype code.

* I'll usually explain some complex algorithm, piece of systems programming, or architecture, with a lot of theoretical background about not just what but why.

* They'll implement that, or sometimes, something better I didn't think of.

* I'll review their code in-depth, line-by-line, sitting together talking through it.

* They'll make changes, and by that point, we'll usually be ready to merge.

At this point, people half my age implement things faster than I could. Part of that is youthful energy, but just as much are distractions (meetings with stakeholders, home/family/etc. constraints, administrative overhead, keeping funding flowing, etc.). I put a lot of energy into making sure they have room to focus.

For me, it's rewarding to see systems built quickly, and it's rewarding to see the level of personal growth which comes with this. Very obviously, a lot of information flows both ways too, and I learn a lot through the process.

The right junior developers find this very rewarding as well. We're solving hard problems, and it's a much faster, deeper way to learn than e.g. a grad school course. The process also results in very high quality code.

Footnote: A lot of this requires building a close personal relationship and a lot of trust to work well too. That's important to me too. If I spent 40+ hours at work, I want a village. I feel better in that sort of workplace, than a 3-year mercenary-style career job-hopping and keeping a clean work/life split. I am not pushing that on anyone else, but the way my brain is wired, that's the kind of workplace I feel good in. For someone to sit at my terminal (or vice-versa) it's very intrusive with people one doesn't know well and trust.
This seems like a good idea and hopefully becomes more common in other countries.

The requirement to work for a foreign company and have an income double the average seems to allay the complaint of taking local jobs and consuming local social services.
This comment reminded me of South Park’s Panderverse for some reason.
On that subject, Someone I knew used to use the bartech cto network. But I'm not sure if it still exists, as I now can't find any trace of bartech online. There is this page: https://discourse.bartechcto.net/login but it seems to be invite only.
This thing hasn't been touched since 2021
ARM Windows probably already does better than future Asahi+Proton+FEX in that it includes a Rosetta2/FEX like layer of it's own, is otherwise the native Windows without needing to fake that interface, and e.g. Parallels already has DX11 working through Metal without the need for a future version of Asahi drivers combined with the layer in Proton.

The downside to either approach is anticheats. Games without them can run great today, games with them can't run at all because they are kernel level x86 code and emulating the kernel architecture is too slow for games. It looks like Windows is doing another ARM push with higher end chips and less vendor exclusivity this time around - maybe that'll finally get enough market penetration to make this less of an issue going forward, at which point virtualized ARM Windows could be nearly fully viable.
Do you think that many people were even using it and compiling regularly? I left it around 2010 for linux mint. Just last summer I tried it again just out of curiosity, and couldn't even get it installed. They had a broken release and of course there was some hack to re-update everything back to the last stable version, which gave me flashbacks of what Gentoo Life was all about and I stopped then and there.
Actually, I have redone the steps on my computer after that comment, and well, I was wrong.

Firefox sync seems to work by key authorization, that is done by in-channel sharing and user confirmation for PCs and a QR code for phones. It's a quite good process, that looks similar to what you are describing.

I just don't know why I remembered something different.
The generic problem is that nuclear plants have to be big to amortize fixed costs (like personnel to operate and guard them), but if they're big they have lots of parts and more connections between parts, so to make them sufficiently reliable they need expensive careful construction. The more welds a NPP has, the more reliable each individual weld must be.

In contrast, something like a solar field, while it has lots of parts, doesn't depend on all those parts working for the field to work. It's by its nature highly redundant and fault tolerant. It also doesn't require supervision anywhere near the same extent as a nuclear plant.
I'm guessing that anything functional-language-focused aimed at a higher level would work. But I would also like to know the answer to this (and also am focused on Elixir).

Informally I just tend to write tight modules that loosely adhere to hexagonal architecture and are easy to unit-test.

I'm at a startup that is hiring, btw (I would be the one to reach out to). Seeking someone that is... probably like you, actually. Interested in Elixir but trying to aim higher as a self-motivated learner.
Show HN: Wasker – A WASM compiler for running WASM on your favorite kernel
Wasker is a WebAssembly compiler. Wasker compiles Wasm binary into ELF format binary.
What's new with Wasker is, Wasker generates an OS-independent ELF file where WASI calls from Wasm applications remain unresolved.
This unresolved feature allows Wasker's output ELF file to be linked with WASI implementations provided by various operating systems, enabling each OS to execute Wasm applications.
Wasker empowers your favorite OS to serve as a Wasm runtime!
The content quality is excellent, but the English-language voice acting is horrible.
Pakistan leaned pro-China since the 1960s after Ayub Khan normalized relations with China over Aksai Chin and Pakistan helped negotiate the Sino-US Pact, but fully pivoted after Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto became PM, as he had a good working relationship with Mao [4]

The Pakistani nuclear program was jumpstarted by PLA technology transfers in the 1970s [0][5], Pakistani Tank Technology like Al-Khalid are results of PLA tech transfers in the early 1990s [1], Pakistan began adopting Chinese fighter jet IP in the early 1990s [2], and the entire indigenous missles program in Pakistan began thanks to Chinese IP transfers in the 80s [3]

The US-Pakistan relationship was always transactional and surface level. Chinese SOEs would at least invest in Military affiliated companies like Heavy Industries Taxila, Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, Khan Research Laboratories, Global Industrial Defence Solutions, and National Defence Complex

The countries in the list abovr had a relationship with the US that was similar to that between China-Pakistan, but began pivoting away from the US in the 2010s.

[0] - https://www.jstor.org/stable/41394229

[1] - https://www.dawn.com/news/1217909

[2] - https://web.archive.org/web/20121021154725/http://www.flight...

[3] - https://web.archive.org/web/20081007232310/http://www.wiscon...

[4] - https://www.nytimes.com/1972/02/02/archives/bhutto-confers-w...

[5] - https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB114/
The video has more information, but even the video has a lot of filler, so start from 2:12.

https://youtu.be/L_mH6Ak_Ny0?feature=shared&t=132
> I have to wonder why consumers so desire new content.

After watching kids grow, it struck me.

That's how we learn. New stuff = different stuff = learning. My kids would look at the floor for a bit as babies, it would be interesting. After a while, watching the same "old" tiles would become boring, not much to learn from there (color, hardness, temperature, grip, etc). So they'd start looking for lint, pebbles, bits of paper or dirt on the floor, cause that was new :-)

Content creation piggy backs on this intuitive understanding and hacks it, since as you say, old content can have great educational and entertainment value.

But I think it all boils down to "new = potential for learning" being wired into our brains.
I’m assuming this is meant to be a joke.
Good books, good music, good movies are absolutely scarce.

Idea about kid getting into wizarding school is probably not that unique and you still can write your own flavor of it there is no copyright on that.
It still is that somehow Harry Potter story is single best one out there.

The same with all the love songs you can make new one any time you want but it is not like everyone makes "Endless love" like Diana Ross with Lionel Richie.
My take is that there’s such variance in people’s skill levels and so it’s really hard to cater educational programming content. Personally, I’ve found getting introductory books/courses and skimming through it until you hit something that you don’t understand and then diving deeper into that bit.
That's trade mark laws for you. If you don't try and protect your trade mark at every opportunity it can be stripped from you and every Tom, Dick, and Harry can put out whatever they want with your name/term.

I get it, but still, that's the law for you. The most of us will still say Velcro because it's what we all know it as.

Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericize...
Personally I'm shocked this service still exists at all, I imagine abuse is a huge problem.
Seriously, check out Monero.
Are independent artists and musicians getting any significant amount of money with the current policy?
I'm not sure I can trust a magazine that has a grammatical error in title of an article on the front page.* Now this doesn't say anything about the quality of the article itself (who doesn't make silly mistakes) but it does speak to a lack of editorial oversight. These sorts of basic mistakes do not inspire confidence.

*bottom article on the front page: "Rarely is the Question Asked: Is Our Children Learning?" should be "are our children learning".

ps what is the article that convinced you to go vegatarian, sounds interesting
Netflix isn't profitable if you reject that their production have long term value. Or did that change?
You didn’t make any mistakes encoding, I just screwed up my decoding, it happens :D

Thanks for clarifying, ok, hmm… that seems hard to do if you can check the IP block by using a subnet mask but the specific IP isn’t resolved until later in mailflow. It might not actually work like that in… ProtocolFilterHub? I always get this mixed up, wait… I think this might be something that we are already working on. And have been working on for a while, wow. Looks hairy. It’s stuck since the guy working on it transferred to another team, and no one picked it up, but some PM noticed before I did and put it up for vote in semester planning. Always creepy to see engineers get referred to as “resources”.
There are states that seem to be seriously considering secession. It would be a rational response to the belief that other states are manipulating the vote.

That would bring along a lot of people who don't hold that belief.
People want the same content but new, shoveled out almost exactly the same but slightly different each time.

This is most obvious in certain “genres” of entertainment but it has always existed - romance novels, simplistic comics, etc.
Is the power limit based on supplied power or “post-concentration” power? I thought it was based on power consumption but I see how the other one would make sense too.
Similarly, many people who own vacuum cleaners which aren’t Hoover-branded still own hoovers and many chocolate and creme sandwich cookies which aren’t Oreo-branded are still oreos. I think some people in the US will refer to drinks which I call “soda” as “coke”. Like a “Sprite-coke” if you don’t want a cola.

This must be a page for VELCRO®’s lawyers to point to during relevant lawsuits because the argument otherwise seems like a lost cause.
This past summer Waze routed me through one of the most dangerous areas in the US, for 30 minutes. To save maybe a few minutes. Tight side streets with "obstacles", at 10-15 mph.

I was on the highway when the re-route happened, and so wasn't in a position to examine the map and argue with it.

This type of thing is a major problem.
Solar has had exponential growth for 40 years.

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/...

( https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2023/12/25/all-i-want-for-christ... )

How do you compare storage to that? What storage btw? Because all we have kind of suck for the grid usecase. So there is of course a ton of research for better suited batteries. But we haven't even started production on those.

Are you not underestimating the time to ramp up production? Exponential growth is not gonna save you short to mid term. Especially not compared to solar and wind which of course have huge storage implications.
Yes, I'm sure governments are going to fork over a trillion dollars to demonstrate that this time, for sure, honest, nuclear costs will decline with experience. /s
Also in West London but no 5G available for me here in borough of Ealing on Vodafone. 10 mins up the road towards London and it works.

I think that says it all.
What’s the replacement service for google voice?

I like having a proxy number that I give out and route to my “real” number. So I have an unchanging number and don’t risk revealing my actual contact info.

I also like getting texts through a web/app interface.

Is there a similar nice, simple, and cheap voip service that I can just drop in? (When google inevitably kills their another awesomely useful service that doesn’t make them money.)
I'm confused about your numbers.

Disney+ apparently has 150 million subscribers.
(2017), according to https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/09/26/velcros-video...

They're trying to avoid genericide. I think if they didn't do this, they could actually lose the trademark.
ah let me get into my jeep to get some xeroxes of my opinion and drive to give them some kleenexes
Would be nice if a higher proportion of the profits accrued to the author though.
As others have said, joining a community has been helpful to me. I would recommend CTO Craft. You get to hear what issues others are dealing with and how they solve them.

https://ctocraft.com/community/
But they protect creators in the same sorts of ways.
Americans tend to use brand names instead of the words for things.. Xerox, Velcro etc...

We call it klittenband.. tangle band. Or tangle strip