skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“libertarian” is as much of a slant as left or right is; that its largely orthogonal to the left/right axis, and lots of people think only in terms of that axis (on which Reason is clearly on the right, but not as far from center on that axis as it is on the libertarian one) doesn't change that.
Can we please change PHP's die() function to unalive()?
If you’re in rural Minnesota that might be true. But there are no tech jobs in rural Minnesota. And where I live rent alone can run $50K a year, and mortgage is scary to even think about nowadays. Then there’s $20K in medical insurance (before deductibles), which if you do not work you’d have to pay yourself. Then also $24-25K/yr for groceries, and $6-7K for utilities. Then there’s car insurance, and home insurance. That’s $100K already and we didn’t even get to disposable income, home maintenance (I just paid $30K for a rather modest master bathroom remodel), subscriptions, and a modest vacation once a year. For most people there’s also a car loan or two to worry about. Also I own a house, and the property tax alone is $18K/yr. There you go.
I'm seeing about 2% efficiency for incandescent, 20% for LED, and 40% (claimed) in that article for the experimental incandescent. That tracks with your 10-15x number and would still be twice as efficient. I am assuming it would be cost related, but can't find any info and wanted to see if others knew.
I think they described the situation fairly? The folks who legislate against sex work tend to tick most of those boxes.
Exactly, they just want more mass surveillance.
> This is the kind of thing I'm thinking of

I think you're focusing too much on language. If two humans (who experience similar things) can communicate, they'll figure out how to express themselves. Hell, they don't even necessarily need language.

The problem with a human and an alien trying to communicate is not that they speak different languages. The problem is that may experience different things (xrays, slitheryness, whatever).

I don't think a Japanese human is so different from a (say) English human.
Party stances are always going to reflect the country they operate in.

On an absolute scale Republican’s support for expanding Medicare drug coverage was left leaning compared to at the time current law even though it’s to the right of many countries and Democrat’s stance on the issue.
Check out open source simple and local only note taking application
The #1 reason I don't use Clear is because I don't want to be That Guy cutting in line in front of everyone else. If they had their own lines I'd consider it.
Ask HN: What are some signs to tell if a rewrite is going well or not?
Some backstory, I work with a company for many years now and they hired new engineering teams for a rewrite for a bout 2 - 3 years now. I'm not happy with the rewrite, I think it makes mistakes that are common with rewrites even though it's being sold as "not a rewrite", it's a rewrite.

The business partners I work with have also been frustrated at lack of estimates, things constantly breaking, lack of flexibility / features that were available prior, etc. So far after many years the project has only been used on a small set of our products.

The problem I see is that writing new features on the new platform takes a LOT of work, because of mistakes in the abstraction. However all the new hires don't want to listen to the people who were here before, are often ignored, they work in silos and prevent other people from pushing code while they approve whatever they want within their inner circle, and the whole thing feels like a project where once it launches on a few more products they get to send their resume out and hop to the next level on the enterprise ladder at a different company.

I'm frustrated by the whole planters / gardeners shebacle going, the idea that people can just come in without taking the time to truly understand the problem in depth and look at past abstractions, and then when the work they do is incomplete or half-baked, they dump it to one of the other teams while they plow ahead with their next feature and get to say they met their goals.

They've also slowed down the rollout of the project, and some features have been scrapped altogether just to get the new platform out so that the company can stop supporting two platforms at the same time and invest in the new one only.

So what are some signs to tell if the project is going well or not? In public I always see a lot of congratulations and praise on small wins, but I'm not impressed. I've also heard the project has been under a lot of scrutiny because of the introduction of bugs, etc. Are there any tips / tracks to get a feel for the temperature of the project and wheth
To provide some detail if you haven't clicked, it tunes the Ruby garbage collector based on runtime behaviour.
Probably something like an "80% of applications can be supported with 20% of the MySQL-specialized flavor", which is probably closer to 90/10, and those 90% of applications account for 99.9% of MySQL installations.
Amazon Neptune supported both Gremlin and Cypher. AWS states in a blog post[0] that Cypher is the pathway to GQL. That aligns with the blog post. Personally I was hoping Gremlin would go farther, but it appears GQL is on track to be the unifying language for property graphs in a few years.

Guess it is time to learn Cypher as increasingly graph db vendors are adopting GQL. Is there an existing GraphDB that implements the GQL spec?

More open source projects should have fun text and drawings in them like the Tinkerpop[1].

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/gql-the-iso-standard-f...

[1] https://tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#preface
Countless things to go after. Some straightforward, some esoteric, some ridiculously challenging, like making contact with 100+ 1x2 degree grid squares via 1.2GHz Earth-Moon-Earth ("moonbounce") -- that will take some effort, I guarantee.

My thing is HF contesting. Scratch building antennas is also a kick.

If you are interested in radio, find a club. They will help you get oriented.
Fortune 500 companies tend to have them. I saw one at Godaddy and IBM
Didn't Greenspan outright say at some point that its independence was a fiction?

I might believe it was independent if its governors got appointed for life, SCOTUS-style.

If the power is there, those with power will want to control it.

The solution is to jettison the idea of a command economy.

It's no less absurd to fix the price of money, which is one half of every transaction, than it was the Soviets fixing the price of bread.

When the market decides its own money, it chooses bits of metal that are hard to find and extract, which coincidently no president or other state actor can have any power over.

And to front run the party line on "but the gold standard meant banking crises", the current system just replaced that with stagnation and different kinds of bubbles that they blew up themselves. It's also an unfair comparison when private banks back then didn't have the same technology nor the same knowledge in risk management practices that are available today.
Of course they are, but to me at least, it seems like their cost-benefit is very different from the US. I don't think the war is worth it to them just to learn more about warfare.
And back at that time they had way fewer employees than they do now, so that made sense.
Incandescent or LED?
I doubt Microsoft would ever open-source any NT Windows versions because the current ones are based on the same code, just with added touchscreen nonsense, adware, and overt contempt for the user.

We may see Windows 9x open-sourced. But then again, it's a stretch because Win32 API is still in wide use today. Releasing the sources for 32-bit Windows versions even this old may have an adverse effect on Microsoft's market domination.

But maybe ReactOS will reach beta by 2038. Does this count as an open-source version of Windows XP? :D

If you really wish to look at XP sources and don't care much about the legal aspect of it, you can do so right now. They were leaked.
I wish that there was an equivalent to The Onion with a different political slant, but the quality of the writing in all of the Onion copycats is just plain bad. The Babylon Bee is awful.
Interest rates, inflation. Pick one. I'd rather the Fed print the money than banking execs with no oversight; the banking execs would prefer the highest interest rate the market will bear, and the Fed has every incentive to keep them as low.
There's about a 50/50 split in the libertarian party so it really isn't. Actually, I would say most of the people there lean left, or center.
I prefer bash because I'm more used to it and I feel like zsh gets in the way. One example would be tab completion. When there are multiple matches, zsh will cycle through all possible matches (like cmd.exe, but slightly less annoying). Do Not Want.
You have to be in a position of extreme privilege to even make a decision like that. I'm barely getting by and yet work more than I should. I don't have the option of just working less.
I'll, uhh, let your comment speak for itself. Good luck in your future endeavors.
Everyone is ignorant the key thing is to know you are.
Some participants in the world don't give a shit about the rest of the world
At that time, car insurance was also easily $200-$300 a month for under 25…

That plus gas, rent, utilities would leave plenty for food… like ramen and bulk rice.
If the fertility + immigration rate is decreasing below replacement, housing will be available due to deaths. Building housing only reduces housing costs for a generation (at most) while increasing pollution, straining infrastructure, and uglifying formerly beautiful places.
abstraction....i stopped reading there...we did a rewrite at IBM and the lead guy over-abstracted everything. I couldn't google shit because it was all in this guy's head. I eventually got a negative review from my manager and quit because some idiot abstracted all the open source away.
Where did anyone say that?
DR-DOS hasn't been open sourced. Caldera did release the source for the kernel and a few other bits, but the license only allowed free use for evaluation purposes. After 90 days (for a company) or "a reasonable period" for non-commercial entities you were required to buy a license.

Bryan Sparks did open-source CP/M a little while back, but AFAIK he hasn't said anything about DR-DOS so far.
Google used to be good. Now the result you want is sometimes on the third or fourth page. They've cannibalized it.
> Bryan Cantrill's been sounding the alarm for years—yes, that Bryan Cantrill, the one who posted this gem

The video is of Brendan Gregg, not of Bryan. Am I missing something?
I had a problem last year with opentelemetry.js where it started concatenating numbers as strings instead of summing them. The backend, which I believe is Python? Did not blow up until we hit somewhere north of 300 digits, which is still pretty good.

But a million digits is a pretty good BigInteger. What is that? Half a megabyte?
Problems can sneak in when you use the low-level API to do something to an object that can't be cleanly represented in the higher-level API. You need some kind of escape hatch, like a list of links to or ids of low-level details or a blob (Map<String,arbitrary-JSON> of miscellaneous data that can hold the low-level additions.

Hopefully the top-level important concepts like "amount_due" will still reflect the correct numbers!
These are all great, another good one is

“This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t”

https://www.theonion.com/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entir...
Amazon Virtual Try-all: A way to virtually try out products
I get the impression the writer's opinions are extremely niche. In the case of blue pumped LEDs he's referring to bulbs that use a short wavelength LED in combination with phosphor that absorbs the light and reemits it at lower, and broader, wavelengths. So long as the desired CRI and color temp is being produced, I'm not seeing the issue with method to get there.
>This thing could have cost $1,000 and we’d still be here having this conversation.

At $1,000 I would have taken the gamble on the 1st gen product and a toy.

At $3,500, I need a more compelling use case and want to give it time to mature a little more, with v2 or v3 likely being the sweet spot to jump in.

It will be interesting to see how committed Apple is to the platform. I hope they iterate on it and developers are able to find some compelling use cases unique to the platform. For the productivity angle Apple wash pushing, I don’t see it. I like the option, but a normal screen has a much lower barrier to entry and exit. Whatever the Vision Pro is doing, it has to be worth strapping in for.
It's interesting that Valve's policy requires disclosure of AI generated code:

> Any kind of content (art/code/sound/etc) created with the help of AI tools during development.

But that none of the categories the author of this post identified included code, only visual, audio and text content.
I’d say there’s a difference between expressing an opinion, and moralizing about it. One can make great comedy with the former, while the latter sucks because the comedy is completely subjugated by the message. It’s the same difference between heavy metal and Christian metal. Same instruments, same basslines, etc., except the latter is trying to push you towards belief, and thus it’s annoying.
I appreciate your hard work on open sourcing this!

If you’re taking requests I’d love to see MS-DOS 5.0 or at least QBasic next.
Eh, my ISP (Comcast) has extremely unreliable internet across two different homes I've lived in, to the point that I absolutely rely on having both a 5G modem and a wired one. If my 5G signal was strong enough to keep me going on a rainy day, I would absolutely ditch the wired connection and its flaky mysterious dropped packets.

Don't get me wrong, I'd much rather have a wired connection. But if my isp can't even be bothered to give me a functional connection more than 90% of the time...
Steam only banned AI in June and I'm aware of one game released before the ban that got roasted.
IIRC 6.22 was the pinnacle of MS-DOS, with all the comfort and niceties one could expect at the time. Then began the Windows era.
For some insight, look how people are combing for curse words/ devs making jokes about people being brain damaged etc. There is no upside for the company, and all that has to happen is some unsavory politically incorrect joke to get missed from sanitization and the are on the cancelled chopping block.
This is why Netflix built fast.com
Same, many places in the codebase where it's impossible to grep and connect the dots between point A -> point B in the code
> It's just as easy to make your own surrogate key in the case where there aren't enough natural identifiers

A row with no natural is misdesigned. Proof: what does the row _mean_ if its values don’t distinguish it uniquely in the real world?
Yeah but it wasn't so ham fisted / power to truth.
IRI is the acronym for Iran's official name, Islamic Republic of Iran. I'm reading this as Iran is in control of Iran's Revolutionary Guard. What are you referring to exactly in your first sentence?
You've posted this four times this week. Reposts are allowed, but please wait a while before you post again so your posts don't get flagged as spam.

Since this program is your work, you should prepend 'Show HN' to the title.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Not true. Go is also made for this.

Node is awful with lots of connections. Go gives me way fewer bugs, easier to properly trace, static typing is a blessing, etc.

With a db that can handle thousands upon thousands of connections, Go trounced Node in my experience
I got a half dozen obvious spam calls in the last 72 hours; by "obvious" I mean they had the same area code+nxx as my number. There's at least another 10+ that were flagged by AT&T as 'telemarketer' or 'probable spam' (according to voicemail, I have many home and car warranties that are about to expire). And there's a handful political calls, which maybe aren't spam technically but I don't want, and will only get worse later in the year.

I don't advertise my phone number, tho I'm sure you could find it if you really want to. If you've really only gotten 10 spams in the last decade, I question whether we are living on the same planet.
A friend setup RedHat 2 server to run NAT server so my housemate and I could share a DSL modem c1997. And the LAN let us play Marathon and Myth between our Macs. Weekly games ensued for a time.
I meant like say brieghbart is, it's a conservative source. I've never known of reason to be such thing though.
I agree Ukraine never had a chance against the far superior Russian military. The reason the US and NATO did not officially send ground troops, although many of their people are on the ground, is that it would trigger full war between NATO and Russia which would go thermonuclear. If that ever happened, Russia's larger and more advanced nuclear arsenal (ballistic missiles) would give it an advantage. Their large land mass, twice that of the US, would give them a better survival chance after the fallout.
This is just what I could find in a few minutes. Some are more privacy-focused, some are more de-bloat focused. Some add new features or enable new tweaks. Some are flexible, some are one-and-done. They're everywhere since Win 10 released.

https://www.ntlite.com/

https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater

https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script/

https://github.com/builtbybel/debotnet

https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10

https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

https://www.w10privacy.de/english-home/

https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat

https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

https://www.revi.cc/revios/download/?method=playbook
If you want to get licensed I found HamStudy's[1] learning method the most efficient use of my time and was able to breeze through Technician and General class. Their "Find a Session"[2] page makes it easy and inexpensive to take the test(s) remotely too.

[1]: https://hamstudy.org

[2]: https://hamstudy.org/sessions
I have seen plenty of currencies come and go in my life: weird to lock that into your codebase.

And I'm struggling to think of where in a codebase I might want to hardcode Pesos or Euros.
Possible, but is there any reason to believe so? I'm open to hear it.

The whole point was that companies like Comcast don't give a crap what we think and will engage in this anti competitive behavior unless the FCC stops them. Don't get me wrong, I have no doubt they would if it was in their financial interest.

But can we agree that it is also possible that market incentives aligned and the infographics depicting tv-bundle-like internet packages weren't actually around the corner? To me it seems like the easier explanation. The incentive could be as simple as Comcast not wanting a new monopoly court case or to start being classified as a utility in areas where they have no real competition.
It's the mit press who's publishing it no? I very highly doubt the author has access to tracking decisions made by the org putting the work out.
Clinton Deploys Vowels to Bosnia

https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/clinton-deploys-v...

Cities of Sjlbvdnzv, Grzny to Be First Recipients
Java engineers need to see this. Goddamn Proxies, Factories, and Beans. Fragments, Surfaces, Runnables.
This sounds like a parody of Western individualism
100%
When I went to defcon in 2013, I saw all these kids covered in piercings and ink, studying for their exams.
They grew up in a wireless world, except it wasn't about DX, it was all local stuff, low power and multi protocol.
The tragedy of the ARRL was being too hardware oriented and not getting on board with open source, until it was too late.
What I mean is, to do the equivalent of async/await in Golang, you need to use channels. As I understand it, you can wait on a goroutine to finish by waiting on its channel to return something. Async/await would simply be syntactical sugar on top of that, it's already close.

One implication of async/await is that you need some kind of greenthreading or thread pool because you really don't want to spawn OS threads for it. In JS it's an event loop, Python and (I think) Rust have that too now as a lib, and Golang already has its own greenthreads.

And btw, the reason JS doesn't have threading is because for those applications, you don't need fast communication between parallel tasks like the things Golang is made for. NodeJS supports subprocessing, and the tasks will probably not talk to each other at all, though there's IPC if you really want it.
I think this doubles your ram requirements to make sure the turnover from blue to green goes smoothly.

You can definitely save money with a $5 droplet or less with VPS somewhere since the jump from hobby/free to pro is so large these days with the tiniest of throughput, but then you have to worry about uptime and security, non-edge response times and cdn too. Vercel et al bet most won't do that.
You posted this 8 hours ago[0] (flagged off) not sure repost is the play.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40161564
Several ISPs used intentional congestion to extort Netflix into paying peering fees they shouldn't have to pay. AFAIK Netflix is still paying.
Thanks for the suggestions.

It appears that the individual is using their phone to log into the company email, so there's no trail coming from the school routers or email account.

I hadn't thought about trying to trigger the reset notifications. I'll look into that.

We have a few people in mind, but with no actual proof the school is afraid of taking steps due to litigation based on "unfounded accusations".
Toward the end I was using PalmOS almost exclusively with fingertip input rather than a stylus.

The 5-way navigator on newer devices is still arguably better than anything we have on modern smartphones; you could page through Launcher categories using the hardware button, select an app using up/down left/right and open it with the center button. You could even navigate the menus without touching the screen at all. Much of the UI could be interacted with this way.

There was even a third-party keyboard which was somewhat usable without a stylus (although best in landscape mode).

But the iPhone brought capacitive multitouch to the table and changed everything. Even discounting the multitouch (eg pinch-to-zoom) features, it was lightyears ahead in terms of sensitivity and precision. There was just no comparison!
I think the pinnacle goes to MS-DOS 7.1, which while bundled with Windows was also usable as a DOS by itself and contained features like FAT32 support. MS-DOS 8 was the last version that came with the ill-fated Windows Me and significantly neutered.
On the other hand he does have experience in the field.