skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I think that most of your reply is pretending to not notice the real problem and making lame excuses, I specifically want to point out this:

> You can program in another language other than C and avoid using GNU libc

Linux is a set of various system interfaces. Many of which are exposed through libc functions. If you deliberately exclude libc and program something parallel to it instead, then you aren't really using Linux. You've created a hybrid system. This only reinforces OP's complaint about not being able to program in a different language, because, in other words, this means that to C language programmer Linux is available fully, and to other languages the functionality is not completely available.

Take, for example, async I/O, which is implemented in libc around other system primitives, s.a. threads. If you don't use libc, you don't have async I/O, and by extension, you don't have Linux, since Linux is supposed to have that.
I did the same thing with my old Samsung. Disconnected it from wifi and immediately had way faster boot-up times. The ads were really bogging it down.

Somehow, 3 years later, it still recommends the movie "Hancock" every time I turn it on. Perhaps it was the last ad it ever fetched? And it has an eternal cache? Who knows.

Turn off wifi, get a chromecast, an Apple TV, or a gaming console.
America's power is primarily financial and TPTB will see to it that this pillar of power never collapses.

They will let 1 bank fail to send a message but paper over the losses for everyone else.

If you hold cash and aren't invested in something, you're a fool. Stocks, real estate, hell even crypto is better than fiat.
Why African filmmakers aren't producing nature documentaries
Does anyone know how the FDIC insurance is funded? In the case of total financial collapse at what point does the FDIC break?

I know its un unlikely event but I've always been curious what would necessitate it to fail. As we know, all things can fail.
I am 100% sure. It is indeed an SM951/M2/ACHI[sic, that's what's printed on it], I have it in front of me. It went in the only system I've built in the last 15 years, so there's no room for confusion.

It had to be AHCI because macOS didn't support NVMe in this era, and the motherboard was also chosen for Hackintosh compatibility, but I only ever used it as a data drive because of the boot issues. That was probably the best option for its use as a fast compile machine anyway, but it did become a PITA when I wanted to sell the machine.

I'm afraid I am not familiar with this technology - as I said I am not an expert - so perhaps driver is the wrong word. Perhaps I did end up reading advice relating to the NVMe variant, information was very hard to come by. All a very small historical footnote now anyway!
fork+exec is great in so far as it lets you do arbitrarily complex process setup between those syscalls. APIs like posix_spawn are far more restrictive. The issue is the overhead and the restricted post-fork environment in a multi-threaded process. Rather than CreateProcess we need io_uring_spawn[0] + all relevant syscalls ported to io_uring.

https://lwn.net/Articles/908268/
Isn't there a labor shortage for COBOL engineers to maintain the mainframe code that powers $3T of transaction volume in banking and healthcare enabling skilled COBOL contractors to name their price?
Never seen high-profile politician with an Android device.
Google accepts obfuscated apps though (even ones that are heavily obfuscated). I've never heard of anyone getting their app rejected due to obsfucation.
"The distrust sowed by the sham campaign in Pakistan could conceivably postpone polio eradication for 20 years, leading to 100,000 more cases that might otherwise not have occurred"

Doesn't really make sense to measure tragedies in terms of 9/11s, but I wonder how many 9/11s the US has caused in the name of killing Bin Laden.
You are referring to SVB. They absolutely did not.
I got a textbook that had a piece of lint embedded in a sticker. I don’t remember the actual authentication workflow, but I think the idea was to enter a code to a website, which would pull up a series of photos and you could select the right one, like a captcha.
Care to elaborate on that?

I've been using their services for some 20 years at various scales, and the only complaints I've had are that their shared mailservers occasionally get blacklisted.

That, and the UI of their KonsoleH could do with a bit of a refresh.
To be fair, most jobs where one is sitting on a computer all day run on bullshit.
Does capitalism make 'non-playable characters' of us all? An uncanny exploration [video]
"Hardly Working sheds a limelight on the very characters that normally remain in the background of video games: NPCs. They are non-player characters that populate the digital world as extras to create the appearance of normality. A laundress, a stable boy, a street sweeper and a carpenter are observed with ethnographic precision. They are Sisyphus machines, whose labour routines, activity patterns as well as bugs and malfunctions paint a vivid analogy for work under capitalism."
A guide to endpoint security/device management that doesn't erode your values
Thanks for the links, measures like that might at least cause some concerns. On the other hand individual risk estimation sometimes seems to be completely out of whack when it comes to high level executives.
No, it's not. Google was just first to the scene and established its name as synonymous with internet search. Just like photoshop, tesa, band aid, yoyo, jetski etc.

Stop acting like everything is a conspiracy against you specifically, you aint a victim.

PS search "yandex code leak racial slurs"
> Hum, or the government takes the worthless banks for free, make good on their obligations,

So bail out the customers / depositors and wipe out the equity investors? That's what they did with SVB...
High-throughput screening
My wife works as an aid for elderly people and a fall is frequently the kick-off event for their death. Older folks often have a reduced sense of thirst and hunger, even when they're not experiencing dementia, and that can lead to lightheadedness and balance issues. Independent living is great, but not everyone who wants to live without care and supervision is capable of it.
So Apple needs total control over the entire world, because high-ranking politicians are too stupid to take care of themselves?

I mean, if they had the choice not to buy Apple, they might buy something that they're unprepared to handle, so what you're saying necessarily implies that they have no non-Apple choices at all, or at least no choices that aren't just as locked down as Apple and run in just as hidebound a way.

With all sincerity, fuck you and fuck everybody who thinks like you.
The Big 5 banks have unlimited FDIC coverage because they're "too big to fail" and they scoop up the remains after the FDIC swoops in. Everyone else has the $250k per depositor.

That is why the CRE loans are such a huge problem. Their debt is owed to regional banks, not the big ones.

That said, the FDIC ignored their playbook and rules to try to calm things down last March. A few more banks went down but not the numbers people expected. That means we're in uncharted territory.. will the FDIC follow their own rules next time or do whatever they want? We don't know.
Signed up from an Asian country and during signup they asked me to upload a passport copy page.

I thought that was weird (I mean no other cloud provider asked for it but okay). I uploaded anyway because I thought it’s in EU so they at least have better privacy laws so they may end up deleting it later from their systems but I immediately got rejected. Not sure why no reason specified. So now they have my passport copy page without me having an account.

Oh well, seems like either they have an overly aggressive spam filter that gets false positives or they don’t really like accepting signups from Asia
I agree.

In my experience, this exists in a few, rare (investment bank) trading floor technology teams. From a distance, it looks like traders who are programmers.
Well, start paying the check when the dinner bill comes!
There's some videos out there showing off their custom motherboards, it's an odd mixture of standard-ish consumer ATX but stripped down to the absolute bare essentials and with some components rearranged for better airflow in racks chassis they also build themselves: https://youtube.com/watch?v=V2P8mjWRqpk

Another video showing the custom racks and other infrastructure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eo8nz_niiM
I think a lot of this comes from the additive cognitive bias, which is really deeply entrenched in most of our thinking.

Here's a concrete example, stolen from JD Long's great NormConf talk, "I'd have written a shorter solution but I didn't have the time", which is itself drawing from "People systematically overlook subtractive changes" by Adams, et al., 2021:

Give people a Lego construction consisting if a large, sturdy plinth with single small spire supporting a platform on top. The challenge is to get it to reliably support a brick. As is, it will collapse because that little spire is so flimsy. Ask participants to modify the structure so that it will support the brick. Incentivize simpler solutions by saying that each additional brick costs $0.50.

Given just this information, people universally try to fix the problem by adding a bunch more bricks to overbuild the structure, and they spend a lot of energy trying to come up with clever ways to reduce the number of bricks they add. But then the research team makes one small tweak to the instructions: they explicitly point out that removing bricks doesn't cost anything. With that nudge, people are much more likely to hit on the best solution.
If that’s true then a large number of candidates should be passing leet code tests, right?
> Come on, other industries have garbage companies putting out garbage products, too.

That's correct, but we have to admit that the software industry excels at this.
An American Education: Notes from UATX
Do note that you can opt out of ACR and data collection, though who knows what data they are still harvesting anyway. Most/practically all newer TVs are doing it, even e.g. my high end LG.

Sadly opting out of this junk is the first thing I do on any TV nowadays, along with sticking it in a locked down VLAN if it's mine.
It really was an era when the British empire showed its true character, treating the lesser colonies as inferior. This continued through the 80's, even, with the "White Australia" policy, which still produces much suffering for the Stolen and White Stolen Generations.

Pretty sinister to think about how all of this was white-washed in the face of so much other terror and calamity that was being exported around the world by the UK and its citizens at the time.
How do you square that with the fact that shit usually hits the fan precisely because of this complexity, not in spite of it? That's my observation & experience, anyway.

Added bits of "resiliency" often add brand new, unexplored failure points that are just ticking time bombs waiting to bring the entire system down.
The comment (from the author):

> shared it with a few people who Know Telephone before I posted it here, and their theory is that what we're hearing at the end is the audio path going open-circuit when the PC crashed.
It probably blue-screened, and we're hearing the EM interference from the CPU or I/O controller hub as Windows writes a minidump, then begins waiting for a debugger to attach (the blerps at the end being scans for connected serial port, PCI, network or 1394 debug hardware)
Agreed on all counts, airgapping a TV is trivial I don’t get the complaining here for a dumb TV (aside for less technical people). That said, my LG G2 will full screen block content to show a “voice control” feature awareness notification that tells me to connect the TV to the internet about once a month :/
> beauty of a car free environment. ... you can see how your street might look without that noisy road and those dirty cars.

Beautiful. But I see that picture-perfect pathway, and wonder the cost and time to maintain the vegetation.

Bicycling through California suburbia, I see mostly dead lawns, ever since the droughts began. Few people (or cities) have time/money/motivation to create beautiful gardens. So I'm imagining a dusty gravel pathway instead.
My experience with those who claim to be denied some opportunity or other due to affirmative action is that they often aren't as good as they think they are. It's (ironically I suppose) just another victim narrative that people construct in order to preserve their ego. I'm sure we all do it in some form or other.
"Up to xyz MB/s"

This very detail is the reason USB flash drives have useless performance numbers on them, which oftentimes lead to 1/100th of the advertised performance.

Everything that's bigger than the sector size (4k) is usually far lower than those numbers.
Because the banking sector in aggregate holds the payment system hostage. The issue isn’t that the bank will lose money, it’s that you won’t be able to buy things and pay for utilities if banks can’t clear payments.
These are good you have a pi-hole
Basque stonelifters are the best in the world. I'd love to write more about them!
It's not only a concern for developed nations but a global issue. While demographic growth is gradually decelerating, we are still heading towards a population of 10 billion individuals, each consuming increasingly more resources. I completely understand the reluctance to contribute to this problem.
One of the main "problems" with proposing microservices is that trivially, there is nothing a microservice can do that can not be done by a monolith that is designed with discipline. Over the years my monoliths have grown to look at awful lot like a lot of microservices internally, except that they can still benefit from passing things around internally rather than over networks.

(Meaning generally that performance-wise, they clean the clock of any microservice-based system. Serializing a structure, shipping it over a network with compression and encryption, unserializing it on the other end, performing some operation, serializing the result, shipping it over the network with compression and encryption, deserializing the result, and possibly having to link it back up to internal data structures finds it hard to compete with "the data is already in L1, go nuts".)

I've even successfully extracted microservices from them when that became advantageous, and it was a matter of hours, not months, because I've learned some pretty solid design patterns for that.

If you can't design a well-structured monolith, you even more so can't design a microservice architecture.

It's not wise to try to learn too many lessons about what is good and bad from undisciplined, chaotic code bases. Chaos can be imposed on top of any nominal architecture. Chaotic microservices is not any more fun than a chaotic monolith, it's just unfun in a different way. The relevant comparison is a well-structured monolith versus a well-structured microservice architecture and that's a much more nuanced question.
For the syscall raw ASM/libc debate, would it be possible to provide an interface that just does syscalls and separate that from the rest of libc? It would be more inconvenient for people using ASM, but they wouldn't have to conform to libc. I imagine it's a breaking change for everyone, so consider this in a hypothetical OS.
Its not perfect, but at Starbucks, the “working on your drink” notification comes when they rip it off the machine, so it is kind of real time.
(Kind of, because often they rip off 3 or 4 and stick them to the wall)
One of Musk’s Achilles heels is that he is principled almost to a fault (at least that’s what it seems like from the outside since I cannot read his mind or see into his heart).

That principled view can get in the way of being practical.

One of Starlink’s stated principles is that the network is not meant for war (see the motives section I link to above). Now it could be because of moral reasons or it could be for practical reasons (compliance with new sets of laws and regulations).

Starlink has provided Ukraine with service but it is being financed by the US government. They have refused to do the same for Russia.

Earlier in the Israel/Hamas war, Musk announced Starlink service for humanitarian aid (https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/musk-says-starlink...). I haven’t followed whether that actually happened and to what degree but 6 days ago they announced service for an Emirati-run hospital in the south.

> Musk doesn’t love you

I can see how my points can come across as I’m running to the defense of the guy.
What’s actually happening is that I’m trying to seek something closer to the truth than what my gut reactions and news sources lead me to conclude.
Depends on the machine. Big desktop systems and servers yes, but early Atom-based netbooks/"nettops" are 32-bit based and could still be useful as thin clients or for very light office work. You won't want to run a modern web browser on them though.
Posting jobs the company has no intention of filling should be considered felony fraud and prosecuted as such. It'll only take a couple of prosecutions before HR and hiring managers lose interest in playing that game. You don't even have to make the definition expansive; it can be narrowly focused, and most will still be unwilling to take the risk as whatever benefit they're currently receiving from it is magnitudes smaller than what they're stealing from candidates.

For those who think that's a bit excessive, consider the value of the cumulative time wasted by job applicants for positions that don't exist. If you embezzled that much money from your employer, it would be a felony. If an employer does it to job candidates, it's all honky-dory. It doesn't matter if the value to the employer was small, the value stolen was large.
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>somehow turn an intellectually handicapped gardener into a psychic genius

waddya mean somehow? They got him to understand the Sacred Geometry. I saw it in San Francisco when it came out and the guy next to me said "oh shit! it's the SACRED GEOMETRY!"
Seeing all the mentions of Conway's Law here jogged something in my mind -- could one assert the converse and "reverse engineer" the org structure of a company by examining the systems it has designed?

This could be super useful when considering the next place of employment for example; the organizational dysfunctions and idiosyncrasies only become apparent once you've jumped in with both feet.
The HDMI standard has it (and the cable generation shouldn't matter, as long as it has all pins connected), but does anything actually implement that Ethernet channel?
I write a hierarchical structured task list (very similar to op) with a neovim plugin I wrote (https://github.com/gsuuon/note.nvim). Sometimes I'll write these items as commit messages, make the changes and check them off as I commit. I mark the current task so that if I get interrupted I can recontextualize fairly quickly.
The only place I see it is people who are using 32-bit python on windows for compatibility with something and can't use the 64 bit builds.
Crypto was a solution looking for a problem for the most part, and the problem people tried to solve with it tended toward "get rich quick." This is why there are so many scams, as you pointed out, and the volatility is great for some investors to get rich off the hodlers they hand their heavy bags to.

AI already has more legitimate use cases than crypto, and memes about shoving AI into everything aside, it has a much greater potential to disrupt in general as well as improve lives. One major difference is crypto is energy inefficient on purpose, while AI processing will happily accept and benefit from improved efficiency without suddenly suffering from a 51% attack.

The hype is real for AI but the difference is it didn't start by trying to convince people they could get rich using it like crypto did once the general population found out about it. The hype of crypto also required people to know how crypto works at a basic level before they can take part, while no special knowledge is required to tell an AI what you want to see and get it to spit out 8 different options to choose from. So from a user friendliness standpoint, AI has far less barriers for a person to get through before they can do stuff with it.
Or perhaps we're in a sort of galactic Bermuda triangle and they're actively staying away: https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Mankind
+1. We have been working on a schema migration tool called Bytebase for 3+ years. And we follow the similar principles.
The real asset and the financial asset are accounted for separately. That’s why a bank can sell your mortgage without selling your house.
Who do you want to be your mentor?

Ask them.

Good luck.
I had to switch off from macOS when they retired the 32bit system libraries, because I simulate my armv7/avr embedded firmware natively. On linux I still can, but on other systems soon not anymore.

My simulator is not an qemu/renode like CPU emulator, which would be too slow, just some mesh routing algorithms, with like 200 nodes simulated on a single machine. https://blog.nubix.de/2022/04/testing-baremetal-firmware-at-...
That article is basically "they say, they say" argument between two Twitter users, not sure one could come to any conclusion based on that. It's also a The Sun article, FWIW.

I've always thought the tracker was real, at least here in Spain (it looks different than the US one in the article pictures), as it always seems to have changed at different intervals. Could also be just randomized a bit I guess. Long time ago I ordered from Domino anyways.
Art Review Generator. 4 years ago I released a small book of images made with an early GAN tool. I thought it would be interesting to have an AI write the introduction to the book based on analysing the images. My plan was to do some basic image sentiment and classification with AWS and feed those tags into a LLM for a few rounds of generation. Back then, all that was much more primitive and I ended up building a bunch of bridge code to make it happen. The real trick was getting something that sounded like actual art language. That didn't exist, it was much too general, so I made a tool. I scraped 50+ years of ArtForum Magazine reviews and trained a model myself. After using it on my own project, I thought it might be interesting to build a free site for others to experiment with it. So, artreviewgenerator.com was born. My big achievement is not using GPUs for the generation. All old school multi-core server muscle. It gets a fair amount of traffic and I'm now on various mailing lists as an AI company owner, which I find hilarious.

https://artreviewgenerator.com/
Or prevented.
> Nearly all money is someone else's debt, $1 of bad debt can lead to a chain of hundreds of people - each losing $1.

Its probably not? Money is created as debt:https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
> Big 5 banks have unlimited FDIC coverage because they're "too big to fail"

Less than one year! We had three banks fail—the second, third and fourth largest in our nation’s history—less than one year ago [1]!

None were TBTF, let alone big five. Every deposit was covered. I get that the headline reads hysterically to a lay reader, but less than one year!

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_bank_failure...
It's the job of engineering management to stop this. We're supposed to say "why do you need this? Justify the need for this". I.E. "Why do you need kafka here? Will we have enough traffic volume to warrant it? Make a proposal." And they need to follow up and ask "Was that needed? Show how we're using it".

But engineering management is so busy filling out TPS reports they don't have time to actually do any oversight.
Off-topic but TIL about CoHost and Anti Software Club [1]

[1] https://antisoftware.club/
There are ink pens with 0.1 mm tips. https://www.jetpens.com/Copic-Multiliner-SP-Pen-0.1-mm-Black...