skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I don't like in this is the defeatist attitude of "slowing myopia progression".

If you have myopia, your life experience is already ruined, and it's not very much relevant whether it's -2 or -6. You're stuck with glasses either way so why bother "slowing it". Yes you can get retinal detachment but on average you won't.

I'm not even sure I can be bothered to spend effort on "slowing myopia progression" in my children by annoying treatments such as contact lenses or applying topical chicken guano, unless there are serious concerns. If you already have myopia just live with it. I would love for them to not have any myopia at all and perfect vision, though. Just very unlikely provided that basically everybody in my family wears glasses.
Or use one of the combined CPU+FPGA chips like the AMD/Xilinx Zynq, there are plenty of low cost dev boards for them.
Letting off steam is good; doing it publicly is not good, unless it’s your job (writer, comedian, etc.)

It’s offputting that someone can’t control well what they say in public. It’s okay to talk shit in private, it’s natural —but making it public in such a voice is offputting.

There are many hilarious stories from the tech support trenches that are well written, captivating, without descending into the badmouthing trap.

One that I recall is a kid who worked like a house call Genius Bar in the Chicago loop neighborhood or thereabouts, it was funny, witty storytelling about the mias entires he suffered, but never shat on people.
I strongly suspect that weaseling their way into government agencies and then using that to launder influence over the bureaucracy is a key selling point for management consultants.

Regulatory capture as a service.
ghost is way better. good choice OP!
> Offended by the above? Tough shit. The web is for documents.

Meh. Not offended, just bored by the silly maximalism. The web is big enough for all kinds of shit, and is better than anything as a distribution platform. Who is he to say what does and what doesn't belong on the web.
The real problem was that Wayland was extremely bare-bones initially and needed many extensions to approach the usefulness of X11 for desktop use - it basically just supported dispatching input and blitting rectangles. And initially, getting extensions standardized was like pulling teeth. These days, "obvious" extensions get in in a matter of months (about one DE release cycle), not to mention that most already exist by now.
wut? where does this comment even come from?

are you under the belief that you either earn 400k a year or 0?

what if middle management just got a reasonable compensation in line with what ordinary people earn? this is actually not even a foreign concept in the us.
just look to the 60s.
Startups Showcasing at HAX's May 1 Demo Day
Selling vouchers where you know some of them will go unused should be straight up illegal. It's fraud imo - taking money without actually providing a service. At the very least they should be automatically refunded after a reasonable time period.
The X11 DRI3 buffer swap mechanism is identical to the one used in Wayland. The fact that Wayland has still worse performance across the board (especially latency metrics) might be an indicator that Wayland is fundamentally mismatched with the needs of a modern graphics stack.
“That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
― George Carlin

USA is dumb cos too many USAians believe that greed is good ~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_mddzPl6Go
I'd be with you here, if not that I've long learned to associate an empty results page with the search engine timeouting or otherwise breaking. Refreshing the page would usually fix it.
Don't worry, IBM has you covered!

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/datapower-gateway/10.5.x?topic=2...
All very good points! Which apply to all social networks, not only TikTok. The difference with TikTok being that the US do not have control over it, and they are not used to that.
I work there. One thing I appreciate is full leeway to decline any work assignment for ethical reasons. I was asked to do something in Saudi Arabia. I said no. Perfectly fine.

I sure wish the rest of the firm made the same choice. But it’s a decentralized company with partners doing their own thing in their own corners. If you want to work on green energy, are you accountable for the folks doing Chinese mining? Or German agriculture? Or American pharma? I’d say it’s ambiguous at best. It’s not like working for a tech product where, say, the QA team for Facebook is still actively enabling Facebook.
Programming ADA: First Steps on the Desktop
I enjoy music but its not a hobby or anything for me.

There's tons of music out there and I find the plethora of niche subgenres now fairly overwhelming and don't even know how to classify the stuff I enjoy listening to.

Recommendation engine feedback loops do not aid in discovery, just repetition.
The standard recommendation is to avoid shingle roofs for rainwater collection, and use a non-toxic metal or tile roof instead.

Ignore the advice saying plant cells or fruiting bodies can "keep out" pollutants; this isn't true across all classes of pollutants, so best to err on the safe side.
And guess what. I tried like hell to sue the government, this is only viable through your legal insurance. They said no chance. No second opinion lawyer said decent chance. The insurer said again I can't make a case, they are allowed to do all this. The government lied and published that this was a neighbor conflict but I've seen police files that show he was involved and letters from the government that prove the involvment.

But I still haven't been able to get any journalist to publish my story. Without journalists wanting to publish stories, democracy doesn't have a chance in hell.

The chief editor of the New York times came to the Netherlands to do a talk about how journalism was the savior of Democracy. I told her my story, but she ignored it. So much for that then.

This country is screwed if a six part documentary can be broadcast showing how 9 people were framed for something they didn't do, a young one committed suicide and they can even publish the name of the responsible prosecutor and still nothing happens and that prosecutor becomes the president of the court of Maastricht. That's how much the government of the Netherlands act with impunity facilitating years long criminal offences against innocent people not involved in any crimes.

Viva la democracy de la Netherlands!
let’s all be diplomats instead. That will save our allies!
"broken by design" proceeds to work perfectly, lol, i don't can that broken by design
The doc is on paper, not properly organized, and the people who wrote it are mostly dead: https://www.wired.com/story/nasa-voyager-one-space-probe-los...

So they test in production, and they see what happens.

It's a really cool job they have (I'm not sarcastic), life-balance at NASA is known to be great ( = low to no pressure ) + since it's publicly funded, no clients, no profit to make, and if politics ask for feedback, you can claim anything and they can't verify it, and you can play with tech that others don't have the chance to see.
Analyst consensus I've seen on long-term price has been floating around $32-34 per share. Take that with as much salt as you think it needs but it's at least interesting that it's within shouting distance of (but not over) the IBM offer.
8M per year is not very much
Used to be able to just use quotes to find exact matches

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30130535
I agree with you on Copilot’s clunky integration in VS Code, but I never really thought of it as slow, maybe because I have no other code assistant AI to compare it to. Are others faster?
C'mon, man!
Einstein was referring to the hydrogen bomb of course.

If high tech superpowers went at each other full bore with H bombs we’d probably be LARPing Mad Max, but so far that hasn’t happened and seems unlikely. All leaders in all these powers know that any such exchange would be mutual and thus suicidal (MAD) so the only way it happens is if you get someone truly insane in power.

What has happened since the bomb was developed and what’s likely to continue are skirmishes and proxy wars. Drones are the modern weapon of such conflicts with Ukraine and the Israel-Iran skirmish being heavily drone based.

This is ugly because it’s often not the soldiers of the superpower puppet masters dying but those of puppet states, and drones allow more technological powers to beat up on less technological people like it’s a video game.

If nukes are used in conflict in this century it will probably be just a few in one of these conflicts, followed by an overwhelming condemnation.

But the silver lining is that since the bomb was developed the overall per capita number of humans dying in war globally has fallen dramatically. As long as we continue to avoid huge scale conflict this number will probably stay low. Without the bomb it’s likely that a WWII style conflict between the US and USSR would have erupted and killed many millions more.

Some argue based on this that the bomb was a peacekeeping invention. So far that’s been true but we will see how the future goes.
Thanks !

Wow, talk about slaughtering the golden goose...
> This is unnecessarily dismissive.

No, it is not. HN has both a "greybeard" audience that will cheer in "Go boring tech" posts and an "hipster" audience that is heavily start-up and disruption focused as GP was saying. When talking about IBM and acquisitions or similar topics, it's usually the second audience that speaks more.

That doesn't mean that some acquisition really kill the product, but you don't need to be as big and old as IBM to do that.
More on x86 – The Chip Letter
Sure, a good example of a step between a really tiny system and 100k+ systems.
what was the phrase?

ah, right.

“do your own research”.
What helps me make sense of it is that attributes in the narrowest sense are DOM nodes (Attr nodes). They can have properties (such as `name`, `value`, `ownerElement`, `prefix`), and collectively (as a NamedNodeMap, not an array) they can be accessed as the value of the `attributes` property of the element that owns them.

So in a sense the name of getAttribute(name) is misleading: it's probably better renamed getAttributeValue(name), because it doesn't really return an attribute (in the sense of an Attr node), but the value of the `value` property of the attribute node (owned by the element on which it is called) whose name is `name`.

See:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/get...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/get...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Attr
Feel free to give your definition of free will.

My one is that one is more free if one is aware of the full scope of one's options. This is not an ephemeral idea, it is not related to the 'what might have been' aka the 'opportunity cost' of choosing. One's present awareness (and potential expansion of that awareness) has an impact on how free one is.
Sounds like Peter Scholl-Latour: "Wer halb Kalkutta aufnimmt..."

Smart man, spoke fluent arabic, and reported from the middle-east.

Would be canceled immediately today.
go ahead them, show was how to make a good screen protocol that is as secure as wayland, and flexible, and one that support every type of screen, from cellphones, to VR, to desktop, go ahead, i'm waiting, show how these wayland normies(x11 too, they are the same people) how to make a protocol
tl;dr it's different for each coin

The valuation of different assets is calculated completely differently. Bitcoin's value is determined by the market rate, the most recent real buy/sell price. For defi coins (ETH, BNB, Solana coins) on decentralized exchanges, this is determined automatically (thus the term (automatic market maker). In this case, the liquidity behind the coin is the driving factor. The liquidity is the total amount of money in the coin. If the liquidity of the coin is $10 and someone buys $5, then the price is going to skyrocket. If the liquidity is $1,000 and someone buys $5, the price will not change much. In the case of automatic market makers, market cap is not nearly as important a metric as liquidity.
Electron is worse. At least Javascript was designed and meant for the web. The millions of dollars and hours of effort put into getting Javascript to act like C++ and replacing native apps with Chromium wrappers has been a disaster both for programming as a discipline and the end user.

Although I would disagree with the initial premise, too. Javascript has been a part of the web for nearly 30 years now. Pretending it doesn't belong there at this point and ranting about other people finding it useful is just infantile.
I'll wait for the GOG release.
I don't think he is saying, don't be surprised, or have unique experiences. But don't sit and watch YouTube all day. You can curate your inputs to some degree, and limit just sitting and soaking in social media.
This is an interesting page:

https://tuta.com/email-comparison

Whereupon we find the following comparisons:

>"Protonmail vs Tuta Mail

Fastmail vs Tuta Mail

Mailbox.org vs Tuta Mail

Posteo vs Tuta Mail

Hushmail vs Tuta Mail

Startmail vs Tuta Mail

Riseup vs Tuta Mail"

...in other words, there's no shortage of email providers...
After you retire from politics or government it's much easier to be a highly paid board member of one company than a badly paid member of five companies.
Fedora 40 Releases as a Prettier and a More Secure Distro
Easy to resolve. Who started the aggression now? That's the guy. Done!
actually ubuntu also paid people, but x11 is so fucked that was never enough, that's why google never used it, and why they adopted wayland in the chromeOS
php boomer, web is the new native
A priori you need the right density.

Bikes are just not gonna work for low density suburbs since you’ll need to cycle for hours to get anywhere.
I’m just wrapping up a project at work with similar constraints and share the same experiences. Good library, best used for simpler use cases. Drag and drop across browsers and devices is still not a smooth dev experience. Dnd did improve it a lot and performance issues are not noticeable to the end user in our use case. Hopefully the new version that comes out continues to be as good.
Meta AI spending plans cause share price slump
Most of these is why I prefer travelling from B-tier smaller airports. Security queues are usually shorter, there's few to no shops on the other end and you can go from airport entrance to gate in less than 15 minutes if only bringing carry-on, which is not difficult to do with a bit of discipline. It also means you can arrive at the airport an hour - hour and a half before departure. Of course that isn't always an option but I'm lucky that my most common travel route is between a B-tier medium-sized European airport and a tiny airport that sees less than 2 commercial planes a day on average.
The Secret Life of Arcade Machines: I-Zombie
it don't support multi-monitor setup lmao
Gee I guess I didn't need all of those years studying military history at university after all. Thanks for the crash course.

The last declared war the USA participated in was WWII.

I'll count most of the many conflicts the US military has engaged in since 1945 as wars in keeping with common usage.

Winning a war means achieving strategic objectives. It doesn't mean just blowing things up and killing people. Whether the failure comes from lack of military capability or failure of political will makes no difference when a civilian government controls the military, and sets the strategic (and sometimes tactical) objectives.

The four big conflicts since 1945 didn't go well. Korea drew to a stalemate. True, South Korea still exists, but so does North Korea. The American strategic objective -- preventing communist takeover of Korea -- was only partly achieved. After the war South Korea suffered under military rule and dictators until the late 1980s

The same strategic objective got us into Vietnam, a war we clearly lost. That war sapped political and public confidence to such a degree that the US allowed a horrible genocide to happen in Cambodia. Vietnam had to intervene.

The First Gulf War, a police action to protect Kuwait from invasion, went well except the US failed to follow through and disable Saddam Hussein's ability to fight another day, which led to a second war predicated on lies and no clear strategic objective. The USA did topple Hussein, but destroyed the country and its infrastructure in the process, and set the stage for ISIS and other terrorist groups still operating there.

Afghanistan didn't have clear strategic objectives, the justifications changed repeatedly. And the USA lost.

The Kosovo War ended by NATO action. The USA led by President Clinton intervened. Strategic objectives met, we can call that a victory.

Grenada and Panama were minor rescue operations and police actions; I hesitate to call those "wars." Panama was invaded to depose and arrest a single man, Manuel Noriega, a former CIA puppet who (like Saddam Hussein) turned on his former patrons. I think of those as Bay Of Pigs type small-scale actions, except the US succeeded in Grenada and Panama.

You left out Somalia, another UN/USA operation that ended with the US evacuating.

I agree that a lot of potential conflicts -- Taiwan, Iran, North Korea -- have not erupted because the United States does have tremendous military capability, reaching around the world, and that has a real and effective deterrent effect on nation states. It has not deterred Russia, though. It has less value deterring terrorists and non-state actors such as ISIS, the Taliban, Houthi rebels, communist rebels in the Philippines, and Mexican drug cartels.
Odd thing about F-29, compare it's loading screen to the loading screen of the 2-year earlier ATF by Digital Integration on the C64 ....

They're probably both ripping off the same concept art of the YF-22/YF-23 (I suspect it's closer to the YF-23), but still.
It's not really 'silent', just pronounced differently to English (and a modifier to the 'd' rather than its own letter). gāñdhī is the transliteration of गांधी (correct name) vs. gāñdī looks like गांदी, and द is not pronounced like ध (which is is kind of a softer, more aspirated 'd').

(The ā, ñ, ī and similar 'accents' more often dropped in transliteration than the aspirative 'h' - I added them above just for accuracy, to talk purely of the d/dh, using the IAST standard for transliteration. But 'nobody' uses this for texting Hindi on qwerty. (And as someone learning the language the resulting ambiguity and variation is frustrating!))
The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself
This sounds like a miscommunication. They probably don't have a simulator for the entire device, but attempting to fix the software without having an emulator of the computer would be downright irresponsible.
H5N1 update: We have to do better, faster
I remember all the patches I had for idlerpg that took me forever to figure out what order to apply them in.
The exemptions are the first hurdle. Airlines are getting sick of compensation and often won’t pay until the day before the court date. And in some countries you must follow a procedure and depend on government officials, but they may ghost you for a year (maybe in cahoots or legitimately backlogged)

I always get downvoted for saying anything negative about EU consumer protection…but the protections are so well known and claimed, that it’s hurting airlines financially so they devise strategies. The politicians know this. Absolutely they do. The protections are only as good as how easy they are to claim

And anyway we are basically paying for this insurance anyway through increased fares and fees and baggage costs etc.
Wayland is also a "client-server" model. If you use DRI3, X11 and Wayland even do the exact same thing "under the hood". Only the sub msec negotiation phase is slightly more complicated on X11. We are talking about very cold code paths here.

Wayland not only has forced vertical sync it also requires every application to be double buffered. This can be detrimental for some performance metrics. That is why Wayland has worse performance despite being "simpler".
I just don’t think it’s a good life strategy to obsess over every single piece of media that you may inadvertently consume. Use an ad blocker and avoid outright garbage, sure, but that wasn’t the vibe I got from the parent comment. Constructing this sort of sterile world always ends badly when you’re forced to deal with things from outside it.

As a general life strategy, I think it’s always better to “filter” rather than “block.”
It's been going on much longer in places like Yemen. Obama was the first to recognise that by switching to drones you basically don't have to face any domestic political opposition to combat.
>> I think the defining factor of 'old age' is the degree of one's utility to the community

By this definition I was quite elderly as a young man.
IBM didn't just fork Vault to make a statement -- IBM Cloud Secrets Manager was (openly) built directly on Vault OSS.
It's a fair question, and in this particular case the math both light and irrelevant. But sometimes I see useful topics being discussed that are for whatever reason, marred by mathematics. Often these topics arent even particularly complicated, but the author's desire to give it (or themselves?) more credibility leads them to make it mathematical when it didn't need to be. See also, every discussion involving Haskell. A monad is just a Monoid in the category of Endofunctors, after all.

In most cases, especially cases of software engineering, as opposed to computer science, the math gets in the way of the point. It was never needed, it just served to obscure the topic. Plus, I'm not an engineer, and I'm not doing mathematics in my daily life. I don't think like a mathematician, I don't work with cardinalities, or set theory, or integrals. At most I deal with some multiplication and powers-of-two. Maybe a ratio here and there. If I was a graphics programmer, which I thankfully am not, I'd toss in some matrix algebra maybe. But my career doesn't involve anything requiring the use of ℝ. What it does involve, is thinking about composability of systems, debugability, simplification of processes, and otherwise making sure things work and can be understood by future maintainers. The article's topic is useful, but making things mathy for the sake of it is a navel gazing distraction.
Fake job postings have existed for the entire 27+ years I've been in the job market.

A big part of it is recruiters just trying to build their CV database for the future.

Another big part is recruiters and companies doing market research to see what skills are out there and compensation levels to make sure their employee compensation and candidate offers are in line with market.

The final part is companies fulfilling the regulatory requirement to be able to say "we tried to find Americans and couldn't" before bringing on the H-1B's they always planned to bring on from the start.
> Companies are amoral

It's a common refrain, but there are no companies acting--there are people within a larger organization who are acting. You say "[a] company uses psychology tricks." Well, no, people within the company have made decisions to do that. There's no way for the company to act on its own.