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While true, it's quite an underappreciated factor and rarely considered seriously by people.

You are correct that the human ability to manifest our imagination is remarkable.

We dream of flying like a bird, eventually we build machines to do it, and then it's taken for granted as part of our society.

In the 2nd century Lucian thinks up impossible things, comes up with a ship of men flying up to the moon, and less than two millennia later the impossible is increasingly old history.

Often, our invention even outpaces imagination. I can remember watching GATTACA long before watching its primary plot point become obsolete with CRISPR.

But despite a longstanding trend of imagination and prediction preceding invention, I regularly see those things dismissed as fantasy when they haven't happened yet. Much like the op-ed saying humans wouldn't fly with a million more years of effort just a year shy of the Wright brothers, I often see a disbelief in human advancement over the status quo as the more predominant perspective that the opposite, especially as the imagined thing is more fantastical.

So as an example, I've been talking privately a lot since GPT-3 about how digital resurrection is going to be an increasing trend to the point nearly everyone alive and online today will have a digital twin that outlives them. But because it's considered weird and "Black Mirror" in the present it's often dismissed as fantasy, even though the foundational concept of resurrection is at least as old as the Sumerians and there's already a patent granted to a trillion dollar company for an early technical vision of it. The Wright brothers' plane wasn't going to change the world as it existed that year, but the improvements over the future did.

It's seeing the trend of incremental improvements to early versions of a thing that I think people struggle with, and moreso now than a generation before as we've become so conditioned to shorter windows of consideration. "AI can't do my taxes only three years after allegedly doing impossible things that alarmed the most cited scientists? It must be a fad like crypto."

Long term vision of sufficiently advanced technology looks more and more like magic, and we're used to dismissing magic as fantasy. So when the things we imagined or predicted in fantasy begin to take shape with emerging technology, we ignore the past trends of realizing fantasy with technology and overemphasize the present state and limitations in predicting the future of it.
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In re the active discussion on Bun, JavaScript, and tail calls. I thought I'd tap the sign a bit.
Or if on the iOS side of the fence, I’ve found the Octal app is fantastic
I'm competing with this for the attention of my girlfriend and losing.
I was hoping it was the Amiga's Enhanced Chip Set
because they know people need money to pay their rent
That's crazy that the gaslighting stage has already begun
The prologue comes off as scatterbrained and emotional; I suggest skipping forward to the introduction. Author is a former securities manager whose basic thesis is that international harmonization in securities trading has led to the creation of a superclass of secured creditors who have first call on all assets in the event of a credit crunch, to the detriment of retail investors who are relegated to the status of unsecured creditors. Author argues that the financialization boom of recent decades is essentially a covert wealth transfer scheme in which title any assets you don't have physical custody of has essentially become meaningless, and that supervising financial authorities can reallocate title by fiat.
I agree.

Hacker News is pretty much the only website I personally still visit, and it has very kind to our blog posts in the past. :)

Happy 2024 from the entire team at pikuma.com.
How to get a tech billionaire body like Jeff Bezos
The second line in the article clarifies:

> It’s the first marine fish confirmed to have gone extinct due to human actions
A denomination is not a cult. Protestants go to church, not to work, every sunday.
Everyone drop your nerdiest NY resolutions. I’ll start: turn my to do list into a priority queue and never let it exceed a length of 25
Just the homepage. Click the hamburger menu en choose “explore”. It’s worth it!
> Also, did you know the qbert arcade cabinets contained a the free game wood block traditionally found inside pinball machines.

I did not know that and still am not sure that I understand, after Googling: is this a wooden block that provides audio/haptic feedback for "specials" (usually free games) unlocked in pinball games by achieving certain scores? If so, what was its use in QBert?
This is pretty common takeaway from martime analysts. 90% of US transport command missions are run by commercial operators. Maersk contracted DoD vessels refused to transit red sea pre Prosperity Guardian when they already had USN escorts is pretty big red flag on US ability to rely on civilian shipping (and air) for protracted conflict. And right now a lot of rear logistics has been outsourced to civilian sector, frequently international crew, whose interests are not always aligned with US DoD. And since they're civilian, and frequently not American, US can't leverage/pressure them to go into active war zones. Some of civilian shipping is run by US agencies, but again civilian with retention issues. They might get drafted but overall there's large margin of uncertainty on current model of US sealift if Houthis can disrupt so much.
Although it's nice to hear an optimistic perspective, I can't help but think it's overly optimistic.
1. I don't think moderation works for most people who struggle with addiction. I think this is fairly incontroversial. AA doesn't give out "only-one-drink-a-day" chips.
2. The reason we got smoking under control, I suspect at least, is because the downsides are so obvious. And even then it took a long time. I feel like the negative effects of technology usage are so much more varied and subtle that it's going to be hard for society to rally around an opposition movement the way it's done for smoking.

I hope the article is right and I'm wrong, but it feels a little bit like another "the solution to tech's problems is more tech"-argument
Never said I myself had no passion for tech, or wasn't working on interesting projects. Just that it feels weird that tech seems to get this far more than say, accountancy or architecture or brain surgery.
Not for the studios. There’s nothing more they would love than to get a continuous and non-ending stream of money for content they themselves have forgotten about owning.
At this point algo trading is a race to exploit the other algo created patterns, and is less predicting inherent market inefficiencies as much as fellow algo trading inefficiencies.

Self-fulfilling prophecy is a thing, even when the prophecy is algorithmic.
thanks! Seems very pragmatic. It seems the secret ingredient is having a responsive userbase big enough to have statistical significance though. Something we've struggled with in a recent startup.
The popcorn button is his most popular video of this year @ 3.7 million views. His one pedal brake video is next @ 3.5 M. If his most popular video only has an audience of the US market that seems okay if it resonates with the YT community and places it is shared.
Agreed, although they seem on a mission to eliminate open wifi networks; the homepage has a prominent graph celebrating the growth over time of secured APs.
Ask HN: What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?
Currently read the mainstream things: Stratechery, Wired, Verge, Arstechnica, etc. but looking to diversify my sources in 2024. Any recommendations?
My rule of thumb of a company cutting costs was when the healthcare & 401K literature goes from glossy color pamphlets to cheap black & white photocopies that they snail mail to you.
Kind of funny how for decades people were wishing for some sort of Star Trek device that put the world's knowledge literally in your pocket. Now that we have it...
Okay. I can agree that that subset of sex offenders shouldn't be defined as sex offenders.
Upcycling battery materials for next generation EV batteries
Can't think why, given that it was little more than a short lived LARP.
I'd join - not joking either! I'm willing to bet that most technically-minded people have devices that act strangely, and yet are powerless to fix them due to, say, the difficulty of getting GDB to connect via the non-existent serial port to capture the stack trace of a once-a-week glitch. I'm in that category with a few of my devices right now, so a group where people could explain device drivers to each other would be really interesting to me.
The Tesla wouldn't replace the Land Cruiser. I treat vehicles like hammers. You have to have different ones for different purposes. I have the Land Cruiser for recreation and driving my 4 year old son to and from school which happens to be on the way to my office so it is more often than not my daily commuter.

My pickup truck only gets used when I need a pickup truck. I believe I've only put ~500 miles on it in the past 3 years. But it is a single cab 2500 so my son cannot ride in it. Maybe when he's older and out of the carseat.

The Tesla would simply be to haul my son to school and myself to my office. I'm looking at just getting a Prius or a CRV Hybrid now. The Land Cruiser only gets ~10 MPG so that's a bit of an annoyance for me. Getting a steady daily commuter would mean the Land Cruiser can be simply for recreation and longer road trips where we need the storage space.
Happy new year folks! It's just turned 2024 here in the UK, and I'm hoping it's a great year.
If someone has zero understanding of what you just wrote but is curious to learn, what resources would you recommend starting with?
If Star Trek had what we did, it wouldn't look quite as desirable.
the two i tested were downloading the videos
>It looks to me it's the other way round. I never heard a pro-nuclear guy (I'm one) saying don't build solar or wind. It's the anti-nuclear guys (presumaby you're one) that say "DO NOT BUILD NUCLEAR". Or am I missing something?

That's true, I'm basically saying do not build nuclear. But I feel like I have investigated it with an open mind, looked at the facts and reached the logical conclusion that spending money on nuclear infrastructure is a mistake.

Basically I am convinced that we can add more stable energy with less downsides in shorter time to the grid using other means than building nuclear plants. And the money we need to do that comes from the same purse that finances nuclear.
Often it is not about people not being honest, but about them having bad task management processes and things falling through. There is so muvh inefficiency and incompetency in basic skills it's crazy.
I don't really use my phone as a software developer, mostly because I have my pc with me all the time and pretty much all software is better on pc than on phones (thanks Apple/Google).

I don't really know what people are doing to be addicted to their phones? maybe you're just addicted to social media? find other hobbies...
Wishing everyone the best for the new year. This is a wonderful place amongst the craziness of the modern internet
Oooh, looks cool ! I was just googling for something like "pc with steamdeck like specs" because I don't need the portability, I can't stand fan noise but I'd like Steam's ease of use. Now there is a path to a "normal"/quiet/dedicated PC to easily run games. But I suppose there won't be optimizations for any combinations of GPU/CPU/RAM like Valve and AMD do for the Steamdeck ?

Also:

> - Comes with patches from SteamOS BTRFS for full BTRFS support for the SD card by default.

Interesting, what advantages does BTRFS bring in gaming/steamdeck scenarios ?

edit: juste read on https://gitlab.com/popsulfr/steamos-btrfs:

> Btrfs with its transparent compression and deduplication capabilities can achieve impressive storage gains but also improve loading times because of less data being read. It also supports instant snapshotting which is very useful to roll back to a previous state.

I guess it's for easier rollbacks on the system and maybe rollback different versions of the same game ?
I'm interested in the content for the same reason as you but was put off by the title. I think it's fine to rewrite bad titles, and doesn't violate the guidelines as long as your aim is to clarify rather than deceive.
But that’s the thing. He is American and I guess his target audience is the US. And from his comments I think he likes where he lives and comes from. So what? I also follow a builder from New Zealand who started his channel showing the projects he gets contracted with and now shifted to a home renovation channel. But his content is from NZ and he only sometimes explains compares with other countries building houses with wood and only if he gets comments about it and reads up the differences. Because: why should he care how timber is treated compared to the country he lives in. All in all I have no issue with the content. I even watched the hour long ramble about EV charging status and the switch to the Tesla connector in the US. As an European nothing could interest me more. But I still find it interesting and entertaining.
His rant about US turn signals or why LED traffic lights are bad for areas with real winter are exactly my kind of relax content.
A case of science progressing just slightly faster than by-the-funeral.
Okay, then I set the date on my computer to year the 2124. Now the DRM is unlocked!

You can't build a "time lock" with just encryption primitives. Even if you could build a time lock with just encryption primitives, we don't know when the copyright will expire until the original author has died, since copyright term is life + 70 years.

Someone would have to run a server that specifically chooses to start serving the keys on that date, which is an absurd notion given how absurdly long copyright lasts these days.

If the federal government were interested in passing a law that required this, I'm sure the Library of Congress could run such a server, but no such law exists.
Do whatever you want. There aren't any actual rules for this stuff.
What does content-addressed mean?
It amazes me that there is so little familiarity with Decision Tables. The greatest effort in software development or documenting processes isn’t coding; it’s the effort of covering every possible combination of circumstances – user input, database transaction, or any other events/rules – that the program/process will encounter. If any combination of inputs/events is overlooked, the program will function randomly, or the business process will be incomplete. Here's a couple of tutorial videos on an AI enabled Decision Table Processor, LogicGem. It shows how to build a table representing your Program Logic or Business Rules and then how it can find any missing, redundant, contradictory or ambiguous rules and then automatically fix them. It then shows how it generates documentation in English, French, Spanish and German and even generates source code of the validated and complete set of rules in 25 different programming languages for inserting in your application. Check them out at https://youtube.com/@logicgem
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Seventhed - I've written to HN's email address and received a personal response from Daniel the same day. You could have the greatest, most expensive commercial support contract and it wouldn't get you a Daniel!
The same way backups are most rigorously performed by people who've lost data, ECC is a non-negotiable requirement for people who've suffered slow data corruption via silent memory failures.

It surprises me that people are happy with 64GB+ builds of non-ECC, especially for NAS (ie. very long term storage, where corruptions probably wouldn't be noticed for years).

Periodically I look at replacing my small fleet of HP micro Gen8's, which use Xeons, have 4 x 3.5" bays (with proper h/w RAID1), but max out at a frustratingly low 16GB. They're quite robust, but because of their age - and HP - a horse veterinarian approach to component failures is usually indicated.

A Ryzen + ECC whitebox build is massively appealing, but almost everyone's build-out includes caveats like 'check the datasheet of the mobo and CPU' (because series aren't consistent), and about half the time a terrifying disclaimer to the effect of 'ECC is present / enabled in the kernel, but I can't tell if it's actually functioning properly'.
People complain all the time about "being addicted to our phones" but my memory of the world pre-smartphone was that newspapers and magazines were everywhere and frankly...I'm not really seeing the difference - in quality or content.

Because while "the newspaper" was always considered respectable...that's ignoring the endless mounds of gossip magazines, fashion magazines, lifestyle...basically every category which has now moved to Instagram and YouTube. People went somewhere and it was expected that there'd be magazines and newspapers to read.
"Right now" is an interesting choice of words; I don't believe Saab has made a production vehicle for ~10 years now. I personally think Saabs are far better than VW/Audi, Mini (the absolute worst in terms of repairs) and Land Rover/Jaguar (second worst). But my techs refused to work on them due to the electrical systems being finicky and not worth the diagnostic and labor times.
> Especially if you-the-employee approach the situation with a natural and genuine desire to fix or heal the situation, in the face of the (unbeknownst to you) deliberate and ongoing undermining coming from management.

I've only tried this once. In the process of trying, something dawned upon me. If you think you can run a company better than your management does, go start one.

So I did! One of the best decisions of my life.
I’d rather they either give the assumptions in the puzzle description or at least in the examples. There were a few puzzles which I didn’t enjoy due to personal reasons but those I don’t have anything against, so long as the problem doesn’t boil down to „figure it out based on the real input since the example input doesn’t reflect it”
Fedora actually defaults to BTRFS, in the case of SteamOS the system is BTRFS out of the box, and only home and the SD card are ext4.

Main benefits are compression, and increased read speeds from compressed drives, especially from the MicroSD.

BTRFS de-duplication also solves the issue of wine prefixes with similar dependencies taking up more space than needed.
I started doing this a few years ago and my career dynamics markedly improved. To reduce the brag factor, I present it as voluntary status updates, and also I include lessons learnt to make it more sincere.
Someone should figure out why Iran wants to destroy America.
That's true, but if your goal is low power, that's not necessarily going to be a bottleneck - even if you dedicate all 16 PCIe lanes to NVMe storage it's going to be more than fast enough for 99% of home server needs.
Sure, but my original point still stands. OpenAI has a much better chance with how fair use actually works than with how you described it in your original comment.
Everyone in this thread is mentioning Clausewitz. Sounds like i should add it to my to read list.
Good point. I also heard (from a fairly credible source) that most plumbers in the area simply won't touch units in a particular large old condo building here, because it's just not worth the headache or liability of dealing with the building condition and quirks.

It sounded like the reason wasn't just the usual skilled trades preferences for kinds of work (e.g., new construction), but rather, yet another unpleasant surprise of old rotting apartment buildings.
Depends on the project, no?

Could build Figma or Google Sheets "with HTML files with a little PHP or other scripting?" I don't see how either app could be developed without significant amounts of "scripting" (i.e. code running in the browser and on the server).
This for one. This site is on the dopamine list. Phone is a metaphor. Choose your addictions wisely.

Edit: removed unnecessary, kinda rude, wording.
That's me. I've been my friends' glue to some extent since we moved away from high school. I like to think they appreciate it, as I appreciate when they reach out. Happy New Year all HN!
Copy-on-write filesystems are inherently better for flash media because they never overwrite in place. They always allocate a new block and mark the "old" block freed when it is no longer referenced by the active filesystem (or snapshots if supported).

Flash Media HATES overwriting data in place because it requires the block to be freed, then re-written.

Now, modern flash firmware tries its best to allocate new blocks anyway, so some of it is a wash, but it is overall a better way to write to flash media.
Aha, I see, makes sense!
I think that part of the problem might be that streaming no longer reliably supplies the old classics. I would likely pay for a service where when someone says "You haven't seen X? It's a classic!" I could reliably watch it. However, in practice the classics are spread across so many different services that none of them are worth subscribing to.
HOPE 2000 was a blast, but the place was already a wreck, even by then. Pity to see it go instead of being properly renovated.
There are couple of local terminal emulators in the App Store. I'm sure if you could source the binary you could run one of the linux tools. You could probably even build it from source if that's your jam.
Yes an improvement but that’s not hard to improve on terrible.
This is more wasted money, time and effort from the EU. The same people that made internet browsing miserable with cookie blah and the same people that don’t understand data or AI but will bring our garbage regulation about that too. Huge sigh!
Miscegenation and homosexuality aren't choices, getting high is. If you're punished for being with someone you love you're a victim, if you're punished for getting high you're not.
Indeed. I thrive with an in person team but also recognize the majority of my team doesn’t. I greatly appreciate all of us having the individual freedom to choose what works best at my employer.
It's very little. You can easily pay that off in a few years.
There’s also one in Seattle.

https://seattlepinballmuseum.com/
> the veracity of this type of contact

you mean, are they really good friends or not? One is always reassessing that, I guess.
We will be walking arround with ar glasses containing so much info that you would literally not able to survive without turning them on 24 hours a day. My doom scenario
What got me into assembly programming was my peecee getting infected with the STONED virus at the end of the 80's. DOS came with a small very thick binder user manual, and the DEBUG.EXE section was very extensive. It seemed to me that I could use it to repair my disks. It took a while, but I succeeded.

I managed to carve out the boot sector, learn assembly, and rewrite the virus code to more human readable format, and then the cherry on top: read the original boot sector off the disk (which I learned about through the virus code itself) and write it on top of the virus code. All this just from the user manual pages for DEBUG. The code for both reading and writing the virus code and the original boot sector, which was offset to a different sector, was right there in the virus. So it was an unusual self-documenting solution.

That was so much fun, I went head first into learning how to program in Assembler using TASM (Borland Turbo Assembler), which is in every way a more friendly way to write assembler. I still have the TASM programming book I bought way back then on my severely nerdy book shelf.

Those sure were the days.

Unsurprisingly, I kept up on viruses and antivirus, then hacking, then firewalls, then pentesting, in that order, as they were invented. The STONED virus and the DOS manual literally gave me a career path.