skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The purpose of a Michael Lewis book is not to tell you who the good guys & bad guys are.

The purpose of most books (like this book or by a similar author or topic) is to sell books and entertain. The value to most readers is not knowing the truth but to be engaged and entertained. Similar to movies
based on real events (which take liberties with happenings and story telling to make the movie interesting and watchable and profitable).
Some of these (availability of places for sale vs. for rent; difficulty of actually getting the rental even if you're financially capable...) depend completely on your location.

But I agree with the general sentiment, that the numbers are an oversimplification: it's not only a matter of finance; the two products are different.
LL and LR Parsing Demystified
Sad thing is: When you said him... I can replace your friend and the manager into the rest of the paragraph and it makes sense.

But I could see that at any firm, in the right situation.
Making everything a webpage with worse security is an odd way to "improve" something.

I'm also not really sure how IDEs factor into this, to my knowledge there are no electron based IDEs.
I acknowledged upstream effects, but this is specifically about accurately accounting for the energy input required to run the car. If I purchase X units of energy, whether it be in the form of fuel or electricity, how much of that energy is actually going into the battery, and how is it affected by climate? It's one thing to get an answer from California where it doesn't really get cold, quite another if you rely on on-street parking in, say, New York.
This is a great, great article. I'm always interested in the Hindsight Bias: people say "oh, it was obvious it was fraud."

Well, not really. If you're one of those: tell us what opinions you have NOW that everyone else doesn't also have. That's the test: what do you see that isn't generally accepted?

What I especially like about this article is, in the "How can we do better?" section he tells you how you can avoid falling in with the conventional wisdom.
The pigs or the helmets?
I'm a DevOps/Infrastructure engineer and thought the Godot Engine looked pretty interesting, so here we go.
Was reflecting on this, and my kids actually do have a fond memory of pandemic lockdown. We spent a lot of time watching movies, board games, and local hikes and I think it made a decent memory out of a hard time (meanwhile we we going crazy working in the hours they were asleep or occupied with virtual school, etc — but kids have mostly fond memories of the time).
I don’t like absolutes when talking about remote work. Multiple things can be true at once; for example that RTO is used by poor leadership to make it less obvious how badly they are managing operations and leading people, while accepting that four people working in the same room against a common goal is materially different and more efficient than four people in a remote meeting.

The most obvious example to me when remote work is simply unsuitable is when it comes to onboarding. Being able to ask lots of low effort questions quickly to many different people and building an esprit de corps through eating and laughing together matters for long term success.
Re: running / activity...

I've always been a runner of sorts, but not super consistent. On average I would say I run 2-3 miles a week. But that could mean 15 miles in 1 week, followed by 2-3 weeks of low, or even zero running.

My main problem is consistency and I can only hazard a guess that its consistency that produces the really beneficial effects? Because on those weeks where I do run a lot, I generally don't feel much better. In fact, in the last 2 years I've started feeling worse. Beat down, tired, and not energized by the run.

I've recently tried going from distance running (5 miles) to speed running. I'll run two miles, in a 6:30 pace, rather than 5 miles in a 8:00 pace.

The result is actually a much more brutal feeling, with much heavier breathing, and much more soreness. But surprisingly, I actually feel a little bit of that positive feeling. I've only JUST started doing this so its too early to tell, but the really high cardio and heavy breathing seems like it may have some potential to reverse some of the negatives I've accrued.

To sum it up - I've actually always been active and I'm in good/ok shape, but I generally am not really pushing it. I run distance, not speed. I rest a lot. Maybe I'm just not active ENOUGH.
Turbine in a car is completely impractical. Some tanks, like M1 Abrams use a turbine and they are painfully loud and the exhaust is so hot it can literally set on fire anything too close to it. Imagine sitting in a traffic jam and lighting up a car behind you :)
I'm pretty sure that "... there must be some kind of conspiracy" is the literal definition of a Conspiracy Theory. Nice to see that even the FBI is into that fun stuff.
Also, I forgot to mention that you shouldn't be advising people to use a consumer router if you know anything about technology.
I'm personally disappointed you're aware of this issue and have done nothing about it.
Sunk cost fallacy: they invested time, effort and their reputation
on the "smart solution", its going against the consensus.
There is no point optimizing overengineered stuff,
it will be simplified to that closed-form equation on its own,
and the company will gain some technical know-how managing
that system to implement advanced ML analytics.
Installing Cond* in Emacs Core
The program had/has many ISP participants, my small local fiber company participates ATT and Comcast just streamlined the application for their customers with applications on their sites, otherwise you apply with the government's ACP site which takes about an extra month longer to be approved. If approved it provides a $30 month credit to the ISP.

There's a huge need for subsidizing the internet for low income elderly/rural folks though. That's the intent. I work in digital equity and inclusion so tons of my learners/clients utilized the ACP. These are not middle class folks utilizing a loophole. I'm skeptical of these loophole claims as I know many who were denied for being ever so slightly over the poverty level.

So sure, on one hand giving more dollars to Comcast seems terrible, but that's like not wanting a school lunch free program because it's going to benefit Sysco or Aramark. There is a real need for helping low income access the internet.
Drone strike by Iran-backed militia kills US troops in Jordan
WINE is an emulator for 16-bit binaries.
There's Visual Studio Code, which is based on Electron.
> https://speed.cloudflare.com

Love this for super quick no brainer data. I used to use speedtest.net, by Ookla, back in the day, but this is so much better in so many ways and provides so much more data.
Qantas Airways is set to launch longest flight
That just makes sense. A sealed environment full of human would tend towards fungus.
Quic throws away roughly 40 years of performance optimizations that operating systems and network card vendors have done for TCP. For example (based on the server side)

- sendfile() cannot be done with QUIC, since the QUIC stack runs in userspace. That means that data must be read into kernel memory, copied to the webserver's memory, then copied back into the kernel, then sent down to the NIC. Worse, if crypto is not offloaded, userspace also needs to encrypt the data.

- LSO/LRO are (mostly) not implemented in hardware for QUIC, meaning that the NIC is sent 1500b packets, rather than being sent a 64K packet that it segments down to 1500b.

- The crypto is designed to prevent MiTM attacks, which also makes doing NIC crypto offload a lot harder. I'm not currently aware of any mainstream (eg, not an FPGA by a startup) that can do inline TLS offload for QUIC.

There is work ongoing by a lot of folks to make this better. But at least for now, on the server side, Quic is roughly an order of magnitude less efficient than TCP.

I did some experiments last year for a talk I gave which approximated loosing the optimizations above. https://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/talks/euro2022.pdf
For a video CDN type workload with static content, we'd go from being about to serve ~400Gb/s per single-core AMD "rome" based EPYC (with plenty of CPU idle) to less than 100Gb/s per server with the CPU maxed out.

Workloads where the content is not static and has to be touched already in userspace, things won't be so comparatively bad.
If you need a visual presentation of this, enjoy this classic scene from Malcolm in the Middle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0
While I would agree that Russia was an aspect of the motivation for those incursions, I disagree that it is the total explanation. Russia is an aspect of a larger picture. After all, we don't go to war with Nations simply because they exist or are influential anywhere. There's a larger picture, just as the war in Ukraine is part of a larger picture than "freedom" or any other such condescending explanation.

The mainly-Russia explanation is also too convenient on a number of counts. First, in this current era of anti-Russian sentiment, it offers the large number of people that were responsible for the widely panned Iraq invasion an "out" that is, just now, socially acceptable.

These are people that are still neurotic about their attachment to the accepted situation that the predicate for the invasion was a lie. A neuroticism that is evident for anyone paying attention to what they still write with some consistency.

All national strength and well-being has an economic basis. Especially military projection. One can't separate our percieved interest in "getting Russia out of the Middle East", or some such, from economic interest. Or at least from economic calculus. Anyone attempting to sell such a tale should be suspect (not you, necessarily).

There are other massive red flags that indicate what the Iraq invasion was about, in terms of a larger picture. These stare in the face anyone willing to look, as they hide in plain sight. At the same time, at least one is inclusive of both the Russia and oil angles. I won't talk about that one. Look harder. Reinterpret crucial data for that era in a different manner from what we are widely told its nature was (and is). Its actual nature is sensible. What we are told about it is not.

The other motivation is military positioning, but has a scope that is well beyond Russia and China.
There’s been generic microcontrollers (usually single shot programmable) available for less than 3 cent per mcu for half a decade already. Check out Padauk and similar MCUs.
> If you don’t know what you’re doing they just accelerate the pace that you make mistakes.

100%

And if you know what you are doing, they will accelerate the way you're building stuff.
Annotating the Debian Packaging Directory
One of the factors of burning out is a lack of control over the pipeline, that is over the contents, speed, and quality of what flows in and out.

So the weekend coding is an example of the opposite - having control over the choices, owning your time and inspiration.

Well, some degree of OCD likely is another factor in the burnout and the weekend coding just manifests this OCD.

Managing the high degree of complexity while being constrained by time by itself has a huge toll in the burning out.
That's interesting because after the first time I got COVID, I honestly felt OK. It was after the second time that I felt like "hmm, have I fully recovered?"

After the third time, that's when I felt for SURE I was struggling relative to before. Granted, I've had other infections over the last 3 years so it's hard to say it was all COVID.
Sleep tight: A curious history of beds through the centuries
> It’s kind of interesting to hear from someone who had a job offer from SBF until they asked questions

Well the OP counters his own speculation (but even if he didn't who knows what really happened):

"(indeed, I was missing the domain knowledge and operations experience required for my role, as I had only ever been a trader)."

What's interesting about this is the tendency for people to assume the reason 'asked questions' as completely true.
Israel is waging a significant campaign in the West Bank now as well as Gaza

Israel is not launching airstrikes or displacing millions or doing anything remotely similar in the West Bank. There is targeted fighting as there often is with tens of Hamas-aligned militants dead. Every time there has been a major war in Gaza for like the past 20 years there has been nothing similar happening in the West Bank, and that's because Hamas does not control the West Bank and Israel is fighting Hamas. Ramallah does not look like Mosul right now and it hasn't in any of these repeated conflicts with Hamas, and Gaza has and does.

The last negotiations between the PA and Israel were broken off by Israel because the the PA and Hamas both agreed that Hamas should be involved.

No, Hamas never agreed to be part of peace negotiations. Israel broke off talks when Fatah and Hamas talked about merging governments in 2014 — not Hamas agreeing to be part of peace talks, which they never have — while the Hamas charter still included explicit calls for genocide of the Jews. Hamas has never stated that they are willing to make a permanent peace deal with Israel, and if they had, I would love to see one of you provide a source from Hamas saying that they are willing to make a permanent peace deal: I've been very willing to provide sources for Hamas official's frequent calls for the total destruction of Israel, e.g. https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-official-says-group-aims...
Granted we are a Microsoft-based shop, but Microsoft Entra Application Proxy has worked out great for exposing our internal web based apps to the outside for mobile/home workers.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/app-proxy/a...
I kind of agree. Right now, too, what is happening is what you describe. The other options are getting cheaper and will eventually be the cost effective solution. On the other, taxing societal negatives is exactly how to disincentivize them. But at least have an industry for remediating the effects of emissions.

Also see above where I said to build out nuclear asap and at economically significant rates.
My car has wireless CarPlay and I use it daily. There is one quirk I have noticed and I’m not sure if it is a general issue with wireless CarPlay or just Volkswagen’s implementation and that is there are times that the phone gets disconnected and the infotainment screen goes black. My assumption is that it has to do with a signal that is stronger disrupting the connection causing the issue as it only happens in certain areas and not always. The latest area I know it will happen is on a bridge that is having construction done on it. When we get over the construction equipment the CarPlay disconnects and will reconnect a few minutes down the road. I’ve actually wanted to get a HackRF One to capture the signal and see if I could tell what it was but I can’t justify spending $300 for just that.
Please don't cross into personal attack in HN comments, regardless of how foolish others are or you feel they are. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the intended spirit of the site, we'd appreciate it.
But we learn in Psychology 101 that intermittent reward is actually the most motivating, and produces the best results for mice and pigeons and dogs and humans. So this theory would make the poor kids more successful.
If the argument is purely don’t use std::exception if you don’t want the overhead, use MyExceptionTemplate because it doesn’t introduce overhead then sure, I’m for that. If the argument is don’t use it because it’s non-deterministic, use MyErrorWrapperMagic, fine. But in the software engineering sense you are still exception handling, only deterministically - which I like. Everyone is getting hung up on semantics of std::exception instead of exceptions. Exceptions are a part of everyday coding. Why we call things exception-free when we really mean “goto-free”. I’m not a fan of goto jumps in my code.

ErrorOr is a better design for things to be deterministic. The point I was trying to make is that exceptions are errors and error handling and exception handling (while implemented differently) are essentially the same thing. In C++ std::exception is “exceptions” and everything else is “pretty error”. It doesn’t matter how the house is decorated. Exceptions = Errors = Oopsies = NotIntendedState
The conservancy is not enforcing the license nor are they representing the copyright holders in this case. The conservancy is representing itself as a 3rd party beneficiary to an alleged contact.

It does matter who wrote the document, but not in the way the poster suggested. One of the arguments made in the case so far was that the FSF's view of the document should be considered, but FSF is not a party in this suit most likely intentionally.
Apocryphal Inventions, an exploration of generative AI
Generally, what the average programmer "knows" about the law is the equivalent to what the average lawyer "knows" about programming: the superficial, easy stuff that you can pick up without any actual training or effort.
That "mental handle" makes it way too easy to push or pull on the "mental door" behind which the concept lies. "That's an XY problem".
It’s a remote job offering so it must be networked somehow. Probably behind VPN and Remote Desktop though.
The FBI has a checkered history. We do need federal level policing but, like all policing, it needs to be buttressed by accountability and oversight.
I’m no expert but $ASML might be a strong buy
Reminds me of a really interesting video Kurzgesagt posted recently: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JOiGEI9pQBs
I'm not sure about that. But I would say:

The typical programmer thinks they know far more about the law, than a typical lawyer thinks they know about programming.
I love how they wrote it out in pseudocode for everyone to understand. I've worked on projects like this (just the music generation part) and I greatly appreciate how they presented it.

And for someone to have a video demo, it just makes it better. Lots of code projects die before they take off because the author only described it with a wall of text.
Why does an asteroid have to hit the earth? Life is constantly being shed from the upper atmosphere into space right now. As we travel through space we leave a plume of life behind us. Certainly almost none of it survives, but almost isn’t none, and a lot of life spreads as hardened spores that can withstand extreme conditions until more favorable conditions present and they “wake up.”
We had dividers that went to your chest height and no doors. Like a prison.

This was to eliminate smoking in the bathrooms.

It did, and nobody used them.

We just smoked outside the back of the building.
I am worried that AI assisted code will be a competitive advantage so that the downsides will not be addressed until there are serious failures in critical code. Boeing but for power plants, for example.
Maybe I speak for myself, but the reason I visit this site is for longer in-depth topics on everything, not just tech. I'm not a programmer, more IT, so some posts are way over my head.

But this site is a good filter to get good, long articles and videos and in-depth discussion in the comments.

Short meme comedy skits can be left to plenty of sites like 9gag/some subreddits etc. There is a time and a place for that too. But in my opinion, not on HN.
LMS is open source, always has been, and is not a version that which shuts down.

I've reset all of mine without any mysb dependency (I bought new hardware on ebay when the old ones died), and most of the radio streaming works without mysb too. Some stations don't, can't tell why.

Tidal requires mysb, AFAICT because LMS proxies via mysb and an API key is stored at mysb.
Contribute to Open Standards
Yup, that's totally fair and correct.

I honestly do not know if its related to COVID or if I'm just getting older and my body / mind are finally starting the inevitable downward spiral that takes place over the next 30-40 years.

It's hard to say for sure. All I can say is, relative to who I was in 2019 I feel like I'm easily 50% of that person both physically and mentally. Maybe that's "natural" for someone in their mid-30s, but to me it feels a little accelerated.
And the original blog/video isent saying this?
No. This is backwards. Peoplw should change jobs and should optimize for better working conditions and fair treatment. Super talented people should do it right now. The time for loyalty is over!

The corpos will never change their ways unless they are literally bleeding talent and money.
This is a great example of a garden path sentence. My mind tripped over “please do so” several times.
Oh good point, I hadn't even considered posting a photo of the clock itself. I'll add a picture of it to the post later. But to answer you question: no custom made clock case. The wood you're seeing is the wall. And the clock is a Junghans (so indeed German), I would say midcentury modern? Almost identical to this model (found through Google Images) : https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/upload/1121189/f_13997072...
There's a complex intersection near my house where my aftermarket Atoto CarPlay head unit will also reliably disconnect. Fortunately, after a firmware update to the head unit, it will now at least reconnect automatically; previously, I'd have to disconnect and reconnect the phone.

(Without any data to support,) I believe it to be a complexity of map issue (maybe causing a buffer overflow) rather than an RF/WiFi interference issue. It seems far too repeatable for it to be an RF issue.
On Thursday, the Expert Group for Studies in Public Economics (ESO) will present a report on the employment level of refugees between 1983 and 2015. Among other things, the study shows that the integration of refugees gradually deteriorated during the period, and that an average refugee represents a cost of SEK 74 000 per year for public finances.

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/ny-eso-rapport-flyktingin...
That rings true with my memory, I left the Windows world shortly after 3.11 for Workgroups came out, and there was a lot of Novell around. My job was writing a healthcare information system that used a ISAM database hosted on a Novell server, just starting to investigate SQL.
Anki is a great tool for learning.
Dumping bags on unsophisticated money.
> Its been proven time and again that these meaningless level rewards are pointless in studies and often even distort/bias the data (people treat it like a board game).

Do you have one or two references for this I could take a look at?

I'm as wary of bias and mistakes in research as "the next person" but if they are measuring brain activity it gets more interesting. To establish that there isn't some validity to this experiment then one would have to show that the brain's reward center can respond while receiving a reward while playing a game but not respond when receiving a reward in a different "non-game" context.

If such research exists or it's been established as fact that this is true, that would seem like a glaring omission from this study. I'd be interested to see that.

Secondarily, you avoided addressing the race question entirely :) I'll assume it is safe to say there is some bias there as well then.
Easy is a useless word
Oh yeah that's more likely the one, rather than paper.li . Surprising how similar they are! I forgot about Flipboard.
I'm in the security industry and I would never do this. Most companies don't appreciate unauthorized pen tests and most likely will just send your name over to the local authorities. Most companies won't make changes, even when it's authorized.

Besides, why work for free?
The ones with security fences stand out more obviously.
My question is, how do you become a senior developer when the junior developer just keeps throwing "working" "good enough" code at you?

I think companies will want more code faster to the extent that fewer people will emerge from the churn really knowing what they are doing.