skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started my familiarity with programming using a bunch of Micorosoft's products, but later was able to completely migrate away from them. Today, if I'm required to use a Microsoft's product, it's kind of like asking a North Korean who valiantly fought to get away from that cursed country to go back and live there again.

You see, my understanding of what's happening with MS is that their sales department is exceptionally successful, which lowers the requirements for everything else in the product. A particular quality of this sales department is that they rarely sell to individual end users: to be efficient, they sell to people who have absolute control over the end users, but are also incompetent when it comes to software. Think governments, hospitals, schools etc.

Another aspect of MS software is that they, internally, don't really allow anything that's not made by MS, and they are big enough for this policy to succeed. The unfortunate side effect of this policy is the Stockholm syndrome: MS developers not only get used to the MS tools, they genuinely seem to like the suffering incurred by using them. Another unfortunate side effect of this policy is that MS developers have no idea what normal users actually like. So, they are kind of like Bender (a robot, who has only a very faint idea of how humans eat) in the Futurama episode, where he enters a cooking contest. He then proceeds to put all kind of inedible components into his meals (but eventually wins by adding some LSD to the mix).

So... I will never touch any MS products with a ten feet pole, unless forced to by my employer. And if the employer goes as far as requiring me to use MS products a lot, I'll look for another place to work. My job today is quite meaningless, boring and I don't get to work with things I like or people I respect... but having to use MS tools for work would still be a lot, lot worse. It's a kind of a torture... well, of course, it's an exaggeration: it doesn't cause me physical pain, but it's a kind of frustration that makes me want to punch a wall every few seconds.

And to top it: using C# for anything is kind of like... starting a cooking recipe with "put a handful of chopped garlic into the pen". You just know it's either a mistake, or a prank, or total incompetence. You just don't keep reading after that line: there are plenty of recipes around, it's not worth your time to try to figure out why this one is defective.
No problemo, I was curious also!
It's also public knowledge that the USS Jimmy Carter is a "very special" submarine. I have no direct knowledge of what it can do (I was a surface warfare type) but splicing into fiberoptic cables has been rumored many times by many sources.
Yeah, nothing new under the sun about this.
I keep seeing this quote but as stated those numbers allow for all truck owners to use their trucks for any of hauling, towing, or offroading 100% of the time.

I share the perception that pickups are underutilized but this quote really doesn’t support that belief.
Vanilla live view does exactly that, but I think the point of trowing svelte (or any other frontend) into the mix is to keep some updates frontend-only.

It seems to go against the wisdom of the last few decades, but the network latency seems to permit it now. Throw some edge computing to the mix and maybe it's all a good idea.
You don’t need an 8ft bed to haul 8ft material. I have a small truck with a 4.5ft bed and I move 12 ft boards and 4x8 sheet just fine.
There are quite a few vehicles that do this without an electric door release, for example the Dodge Challenger. I think the whole idea was pioneered by the domestic automakers over a decade ago.
The Texas Triangle: A rising megaregion unlike all others (2021)
The ordinarily “The Ancient World” means an era ending with the fall of the Western Roman Empire circa 476 CE.

All that world was well before computers were a thing (even the human type were called “scribes,” “clerks” etc.)

So of course I read it the same way even though “before computers” was redundant once your comment made me think about it.
Thank you for your work on Redis, Madelyn, and I'm sorry for the utterly unjustified abuse that's been thrown your way simply because you work at AWS.

One feature that would be very helpful would be some form of analytics and a memory profiler. At one point I'd written a python library to iterate over a RDB to identify what the top keys consuming most memory were, but Redis has added a lot of complexity and new data types since, so I doubt it still works.
twitter only shows the first tweet if you're not logged in, can you post the repo here
I guess some people have "privacy" and others have "secrecy".
The industry has shifted greatly for creatives. Musicians especially. In the 90s which was peak old industry music, the labels would take chances on various artists and those artists would have a shot at something big for little while. The label paid for the studio time.

These days with creative tools so accessible and widespread, and the ability to publish so cheap, artists need to produce their own music and find their own following before the label takes them on. Instead of the label paying for studio time the artist does. I think that's why these discussions concentrate on the whole "fewer artists making more of the share" part. It IS different, but its not the whole story.

And I'd probably argue in favor of making creative endeavors more widespread instead of being in the lap of a few label executive taste-makers, but you definitely have fewer artists who can just concentrate on making great music and getting nice royalties. Now you have to do everything for a smaller pay day.
"Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

It's remarkable how people forget how we all got here.
Today's 1/2 ton has the same capabilities as a 3/4 ton from 20 years ago. Payload, HP, torque. I own both. Objectively more usable.
If it can't go on a freeway, it is not an option for many people.
Wow, I've seen that a few times. That opinion piece really did its job.
I got a huge Premium opt-in box (on mobile) with a large button labelled "Disable" and small text to 'continue without'. I'm guessing Disable is to disable this box and subscribe to Premium so I clicked the small text not the large green Disable button.
>> another reason we haven't melted it down yet?

Because it was gift. It was supported in the US locally by donations, but it was conceived and built in France as a gift to a younger nation.
The issue in the current market isn't ex-FAANG employees. Most of them can probably find jobs elsewhere or should have plenty of savings to live on until the Fed cuts the interest rates and they can get funding for their startup. It is people who don't have FAANG on their resume and can't find work at all because FAANG decided to use its monopoly power to manipulate the labor market. Specifically recent graduates and people who've been laid off from companies that aren't FAANG.

Manipulating the labor market is far worse than manipulating the consumer market. People can choose to live without computers even if that's increasingly challenging. People can't survive in a country like the US that lacks a basic social safety net without stable employment.
I do my threshing where I do my winnowing.
I miss my 1994 Ranger. I wish I hadn't gotten rid of it.
This is not a war. No matter how many times you use the word war it still doesn't make it true. Herding people and indiscriminately killing the same people is not a product of war.

There is also the part about proportional response which is glossed over with "they would do this to us", but forgetting we are doing this to them right now.
GPUs have memory hierarchies too. A 4090 has about 16MB of L1 cache and 72MB of L2 cache, followed by the 24GB of GDDR6 RAM, followed by host ram that can be accessed via PCIe.

The issue is that GPUs are massively parallel. A 4090 has 128 streaming multiprocessors, each executing 128 "threads" or "lanes" in parallel. If each "thread" works on a different part of memory that leaves you with 1kB of L1 cache per thread, and 4.5kB of L2 cache each. For each clock cycle you might be issuing thousands of request to your memory controller for cache misses and prefetching. That's why you want insanely fast RAM.

You can write CUDA code that directly accesses your host memory as a layer beyond that, but usually you want to transfer that data in bigger chunks. You probably could make a card that adds DDR4 slots as an additional level of hierarchy. It's the kind of weird stuff Intel might do (the Phi had some interesting memory layout ideas).
I'm not very familiar with shell companies, so I'm curious – why isn't this just a matter of privacy for those involved? I'm generally pretty understanding of pro-privacy-oriented behavior.
The code names for secret operations can be dead on or funny at times. I remember a few being emoji’s. It’s only a matter of time until USA or other allied countries secrets are released for using AI enhanced information.

How do you think they process millions of call records, intercepted messages, sim swaps, etc?
In the UK in my rural area there are two types of pickup truck. The first is the old beatup two-door ones which you see in a field or with a sheep in the back.

The second is far more common, they are pristine, as if they've just been valleted, they have 4 doors, and are often parked in the disabled space at the local shop.

Seems that these 4 door monstrosities "Ranger", "Warrior" etc, have major tax benefits. You can claim them as a working vehicle so your company pays for them, where paying for a typical car attracts benefit-in-kind taxation.
How do you advance decisions about yourself when there's an infinite number of future possibilities for you?
In all honesty, people tend to start dating on most apps (including games). :P People always find a way to do that!
The hood I lived in was east sacramento, which still has walkable groceries, etc. It was a very nice neighborhood but had a lot of trouble with overflow social issues from downtown.
Game theory: Any country can do it, and the company in which the corporation is registered is not going to suffer. So what is their incentive not to allow it?
> i think a more useful question is...

I don't: that is a different question which isn't as useful as the one actually asked. Like the person you responded to without answering, I, too, am interested in hearing your direct and clear answer to the question, "Is the US as it operates today a free market?"

Would you mind answering that question, please?
Just wait until one of them pushes for Moonlight Savings Time...
Or a 10k Toyota IMV 0.

Seriously - a simple, inexpensive yet utilitarian Toyota?? Yes please.

But of course, they won't sell that in North America.
Side projects, especially those that are popular (open source) or profitable.
So, do tell, are you a human?
I can understand why people wanted that, and the benefit of doing that.

With that said, I also see benefit in having limitations. There is a certain comfort in knowing what a tool can do and cannot do. A hammer cannot become a screwdriver. And that's fine because you can then decide to use a screwdriver. You're capable of selection.

Take PostgreSQL. How many devs today know when it's the right solution? When should they use Redis instead? Or a queue solution? Cloud services add even more confusion. What are the limitations and weaknesses of AWS RDS? Or any AWS service? Ask your typical dev this today and they will give you a blank stare. It's really hard to even know what the right tool is today, when everything is abstracted away and put into fee tiers, ingress/egress charges, etc. etc.

tl;dr: limitations and knowledge of those limitations are an important part of being able to select the right tool for the job
Two things can both be true:

- Decriminalization of drugs creates better health outcomes for drug users.

- Criminalization of drugs creates better outcomes for non-drug users.

It's unreasonable to ask people to be okay with open drug use, and the consequences thereof, for the good of drug users.

A balanced policy between compassionate enforcement and properly funding treatment seems more socially palatable.
Are we talking brain here?
It's worked for me so far.
> Modern trucks (an all vehicles, tbh, even electric) need a massive size & complexity reset

You would need to rollback safety standards to achieve this.

One of the reasons vehicles are so big now is to allow passengers to survive diagonal and side impacts and rollovers. If it was all front and back collisions then vehicles could get smaller again.
It's hard to put a precise number on it because it depends on exactly how much context is loaded, how many model responses the task needs to finish, and how much iteration you need to do in order to get the results you're looking for.

That said, you can do quite a meaty task for well under $1. If you're using it heavily it can start to add up over time, so you'd just need to weigh that cost against how you value your time I suppose. In the future I do hope to incorporate fine tuned models that should bring the cost down, as well as other model options like I mentioned in the post.

You can try different models and model settings with `plandex set-model` and see how you go. But in my experience gpt-4 is really the minimum bar for getting usable results.
Melodic Techno – Opusmodus (Common Lisp) [video]
Mesa is about as much of a shim above GPU firmware as Ext4 is a shim above disk firmware.
> Americans don't want to keep buying $80K pickup-trucks?

They're about ~30% more expensive when you don't have ZIRP and have ~7% interest instead.

So that's probably half of the plunge - the other half being people aren't getting stuffed to the brim with government handouts.
I've had to go over open source package licenses as part of due diligence when my startups were acquired, but LGPL was never an issue, unlike AGPL.
You could also reach the 301.5 mile range by going on a diet/skipping breakfast. Win-win.
I'm reminded of an article[1] a while back about trucks getting bigger where a commenter pointed out they are also getting "meaner" looking. I'd argue that maybe aggressive, belligerent, menacing truck styling is popular because [some] Americans themselves are getting more aggressive, belligerent and menacing. Vehicles have traditionally been used by people as personality extensions, so this "My truck should be like a big fist" attitude shouldn't be surprising.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32425028
It's a bit easy to understand that in the context of gravity, because gravity bends light down. If you shine a flashlight on Earth, that light is in free-fall, bending down. Time follows the same path, because the speed of light is fixed.
Ideally it should be votes, but that doesn’t really work out like you’d want :(
Drug laws are hard - the reality is that enforcement is extremely biased along race and socioeconomic lines, but at the same time a bunch of drugs have real reasons for being banned.

The issue to me is how it becomes penalized - especially given the US response to ex-felons (and its use of felons as a non voting slave class) - it’s very easy for the result of a drug related offense to put people in a position where drugs are functionally the only practical option (either abuse or selling).

Wholesale decriminalization seems like a bad response based on the outcomes in many areas, but it really seems like there should be an option that doesn’t result in immediate criminal records for life.
That's not re-invention. That is just re-hashing. Every decade some car designer "invents" another not-round steering wheel. Every one has been a flop.
The step from pages to applications was bigger.
It doesn't guarantee that the output is null terminated. Big source of exploits.
In all fairness, driving a car is a lot more complicated and full of dangerous edge cases than dropping objects or shooting anyone within a geofence.
Feels like RIAA napster era all over again.
It's funny because your exact logic can be used to justify the attacks you're talking about. Israel has been attacking Gaza and Hamas, and occupied Gaza even pre Hamas (and always controlled Gaza's borders even with Egypt). That means that it was fully ok because it was just Palestinians using what they can for self defense.

See how batshit insane that logic is ? Remember, Israel has never stopped colonizing the west bank even after they stopped the armed struggle. So according to you, Israel deserves everything it gets in self defense.

That type of logic works well when you only apply it to the side you favor but it completely falls apart especially in this mess of a conflict
Yes but that’s actually not what’s happening, so seems a bit of a non sequitur.
I have not found that to be the case in the urban areas I have lived, and suggesting that people adjust their lifestyles to be more kid friendly would have been met with hostility.
Hope for @dang to fix it, I think.

There’s one post linking to the Guardian, and one posting to some site I’ve never heard of (972 something, no idea who they are). I agree, it obviously has some tech salience and the Guardian is pretty respectable so I can’t see a good-faith reason to block this discussion.
These are great techniques and helpful advice, but note that they are basically of zero use whatsoever in the case of (for instance) a Delaware LLC.

The amount of information regarding beneficial ownership that’s out there varies by jurisdiction and entity type - and again, these tips are great ways to dig into those and quite likely come up with some interesting findings in a lot of cases - but in most cases a Delaware LLC is basically a black box.
Oligarchs using transnational legal arbitrage to avoid paying taxes isn't a matter of privacy.
When making sockpuppet email accounts use a plausible birth year as your numeric extension.
if you limit it to desktop browsers, opera is 3% to firefox's 6%. i suspect the mobile stats include opera mini, which is not really the same thing.
Attention is like a muscle, if you don't exercise it you lose it. But you can get it back by exercising it. Just read far enough from your phone/laptop/smartwatch
What would Alan Turing do?
I realize people just lean things against the gate or leave the gate open, but I figure if I'm going to pony up mid 5 figures for a PICKUP truck things I pick up should at the very least fit no worse than in a little hatchback. :-)
> They just overdid it with prices.

I'd argue vehicle and home pricing increased to match the decreasing values of currency.
It's a plot point which drives the entire narrative. If we took out ever sci-fi element that was scientifically implausible, you'd take out a hefty chunk of sci-fi.
Indian government fixed a cloud security issues that leaked personal data
Disagree, the modern man of 2024 isn’t that masculine, especially in the big cities where you see giant trucks everywhere. A good amount of women and wifes drive these as well. I think the modern truck replaced the station wagon of old as the default family hauler with big sofa like seats. There really isn’t anything else similar to the old comfy wagon, other than the minivan which is seen as uncool and unstylish. Trucks have a cool factor, comfort factor and ride over the dilapidated infrastructure of the modern city with ease.
Yes, privacy. Corporations are often used for trusts and investments. I wouldn't call those nefarious at all, though yes they are mostly only useful for more wealthy individuals. These structures all still pay taxes and are 100% legal. Arguments about tax law being good or bad are really a separate issue, and those should be addressed directly by updating the law, not erasing privacy for wealthy.

As much as the wealthy rightly get shit on for various things, they are still entitled to the same rights as everyone else.
>What is the benefit to buying a car from a company very few people have heard of?

Status? Once everyone old money and new money already has a Tesla how else can you stand out and start a conversation, but by buying more niche but equally expensive EV brands that look cool and nobody ever heard of.
Public use and illicit sale is still illegal even if possession is decriminalized. It's unclear what this recriminalization accomplishes from a legal standpoint to address the primary concerns of the public. Appears to be little more than a shallow political play.
Complicit is the word you're looking for.
> I just really don't understand the appeal from a usefulness perspective.

Most $100k are about signaling in the same way most $100k cars are...

The vehicle doesn't need to be useful (or have any utility) to signal.
They are extremely comfortable to ride in. I struggle with 90+ percent of sedans and crossovers because I have to slouch just to see out the front of the car.

I also use it for towing trailers and moving fallen trees that I buck and split for firewood, which is something I don't want to do with a lighter framed vehicle. I don't know that I'd own one if I didn't do that, I suppose.
strncpy won't always write a trailing nul byte, causing out of bounds reads elsewhere. It's a nasty little fellow. See the warning at https://linux.die.net/man/3/strncpy

strlcpy() is better and what most people think strncpy() is, but still results in truncated strings if not used carefully which can also lead to big problems.
If you believe your question is worth pursuing, then do so. From where I sit, it was ill-posed at best, most likely just heated rhetoric, and maybe even pure confusion. But I was willing to spend some time in the hopes of pointing you in a better* direction.

You can burn tremendous time on poorly-framed questions, but why do that? Perhaps you don't want to answer the question, though, because you didn't ask it. You get to ask questions of us, but don't reply to follow-up questions that push back on your point of view?

* Subjectively better, of course, from my point of view. But not just some wing-nut point of view. What I'm saying is aligned with many (if not most) deep thinkers you'll come across. In short, if you ask poorly-framed questions, you'll get nonsense out the other end.

P.S. Your profile says "I’m too honest. Deal with it." which invites reciprocity.
I think at that point we were still thinking of computers as expensive tools to be shared; it hadn't been that long since a computer took up a whole room and would be shared by all users in several businesses. We also weren't as concerned about security because most of the really important business stuff was locked away on the mainframe.
Putting an xz Backdoor Payload in a Valid RSA Key