skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That wasn't a simple comment—that was clearly a flamewar comment, guaranteed to produce more of the same and likely worse.

I’ve reread my initial comment [0] probably a couple dozen times (at least) trying to see why it’d be considered a flamewar comment and I just don’t see it. What am I missing? Is it me calling the text I quoted an understatement? Or is it the last part where I object to the consistent negative rhetoric re Elon I see on HN? I have a feeling it might be the latter, since it specifically calls out the community. Do you mind clarifying so I can understand?

> You're not being targeted personally and we don't take ideological sides nor care what your (or anyone else's) views are. If other people are breaking the site guidelines too, and their posts don't look moderated, it doesn't follow that moderators have deemed it ok.

You’re generally pretty fair from what I’ve seen (and also from communicating with you via email), so I believe you and I appreciate that. Thank you for making that clear though.

> […] it's more likely that you (I don't mean you personally—I mean any of us in this position) are underestimating the degree of provocation in what you posted.

Fair enough—I’ll keep that in mind moving forward.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40591011
Pushing the code into a user-space library used by many programs means bugs can be fixed once in the library, instead of being at the mercy of every vendor fixing their driver blobs.
except that means theres an perverse incentive to make things as difficult as possible so customers are incentivized to pay for support because they actually need it. And then someone comes along and offers easier setup as a product, along with competing support, for cheaper.
The mainboard on my Framework died, randomly. They replaced it, (almost) no questions asked. Shipped me a replacement, and I was able to replace it myself in fifteen minutes.

Speak with your dollars. Even though I was unhappy that the device was broken, my next laptop will probably be a framework. Although I would love if they started selling replacement chassis, mine is bent (that was my own fault).
it's not due to some arbitrary cut-off date, it's that windows 11 requires TPM 2.0. It's likely that your PC just either lacks a motherboard that supports a firmware TPM on AMD CPUs, or is just missing a TPM module. Accordingly, I've prevented my system from being auto-upgraded to 11 by just disabling my system's TPM.
Baidu specifically claims they have orchestration technology to train on heterogeneous gpu clusters.
No doubt, but I dare say she'd have agreed with us about low-value internet comments too.
For some reason I could never ever trust HP, their products never seem high quality and given the brand culture (especially about printers and cartgridges) I'm not even remotely surprised.
I love classic youtube lol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here - When someone or some group prefers to re-invent something rather than using an existing, perfectly serviceable solution.
I am wondering if such moderated model can induce significant security risk, for example it can generate exploitable code, or try to trigger some action base on some specific input.
"Bad Apple " shadow art video ported to a LED pharmacy cross
You are not riding the atmosphere down, the atmosphere is riding you.
>You’ve changed the goal to something I didn’t state and then demonstrate that it’s a bad idea.

No - I guess I should have been more clear but I don't think `unsafe` demarcates the boundary between sound and unsound. I think what happens in unsafe are things that potentially memory unsafe or thread unsafe. Pointer casts are not included in that - I feel that would only provide a false sense of safety.
What is the difference, really? Our minds exist in a physical state, and our moods/thoughts/reactions/etc are just configurations of physical states.
You can see details of ProPublica’s funding here:

https://www.propublica.org/reports

$43 million budget in 2023.

Looks to me like typical American non-profit funding. Several significant donors rather than an “angel”.
Latest AI use cases, appear to be built for executives,and nobody else
Naah, the feds need Telegram to exist so people don't accidentally use something good like Signal.
The current behavior is clearly documented in the Rust Reference[1]:

>The following language level features cannot be used in the safe subset of Rust:
> Dereferencing a raw pointer.
> Reading or writing a mutable or external static variable.
> Accessing a field of a union, other than to assign to it.
> Calling an unsafe function (including an intrinsic or foreign function).
> Implementing an unsafe trait.

It also calls out the behavior in noted in this specific post in "Behavior not considered unsafe"[2]:

> Exposing randomized base addresses through pointer leaks

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/unsafety.html

[2]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/behavior-not-considered-...
It's a very slow progress. Boston has been making tons and tons of progress over the last few years that impressed me but any benefit public derived from increasing bike lanes, safer bike lanes etc were essentially undone by the absolute unspeakable clusterfuck public transportation became (frequent subway closures due to maintenance, practically unusable bus service due to disgusting amount of traffic, no investment etc...). I am hopeful things will improve steadily and Boston will be a European-lite city in USA in the next decade or so, but I might be too optimistic. It's relatively practical to bike in NYC and Philadelphia as well. I personally enjoy biking in NYC but many New Yorkers complain about safety, which makes sense given how chaotic and aggressive NYC traffic is, you do not want to be a meat pie on the road. We have tons of more progress to do, not enough investment into this because 99% of Americans who don't live inside a major non-driving big city don't give a shit about non-car transportation.
Do you think this was on purpose? Or just a botched update?
It's not just forums. So many things, both internal and external at HP are like that for some weird reason (for a very long time now)
How do you automate what?
I'm going to go on record and say that the Tragedy of George Lucas started in ROTJ. Watching it for the first time in a while a few years ago, the Gonk Torture scene[1] was where my switch flipped. That scene is just a callout to the looped animatronics in the line at Star Tours --- does bad looped robotic torture add anything, or did Lucas put it in because nobody would tell him no. I think ROTJ is also where Lucas started becoming dependent on chroma key (although he had used it before). Some of the chrome keyed scenes are groundbreaking effects wise, and that's neat, but it takes away from immersion.

The prequel trilogy has so many scenes that feel sterile because the actors are clearly separated from the backdrop. It's hard to feel like the actors are in a desert wasteland when they don't even look warm.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O0-dCLFadQ
Amazing, thank you for this!
Self-response: the article does consider this (section 6), argues that the exceptions to restrictions on the use of publicly available data in GDPR are exactly in places where it makes sense to prevent AI usage, and further argues it makes sense to consider AI profiling a more severe breach because of the higher potential for harm.
Yes, same here. I don't notice it until I do.
We have several HP Spectra X360s at work. People seem pretty happy.
Well, exactly that. I was a Mac user, enforced by my employer at the time, and I did not quite like it but was ok with it. Would never pay for it, with the high price, though.

I use (soon to be used) Windows on my home PC since Windows 95. I really liked Windows 7. The free upgrade to Windows 10 was... underwhelming, to say the least. Windows 11 is ten times worse. So, yeah, the year of the Linux desktop arrived for me because Windows is now complete crap.
In my 25-year career I’ve experienced easily fifty times as much pain from underthought and hastily-implemented systems than I have from overengineered ones.

Sure, build user-facing stuff cheaply and ready to be thrown away as requirements change. But libraries, tooling, and infrastructure that everything else is built on top of should have thought and care invested in it. This will return dividends.

We spend so much time as an industry worried that somebody might put five percent more effort into a project than it’s worth, that the overwhelming majority of engineers have no idea whatsoever of how to build something to be reliable, to be easily iterated on, and to last. And so we spend tens of times more effort trying to build on top of a mountain of crap.
I have 10 years old Z840 workstation which I use as a server with quit fans. Built like a tank and works like a charm
>Regardless, he seems to have disdain for the tastes of the public, which doesn't quite jibe with the idea that he's treating the public as capable of appreciating music without it being dumbed down.

Their "tastes" are not set in stone - and according to him they're not even consciously their own to begin with, in the sense that they arrived at them with knowledge of the possible options and/or after cultivating them. Just conditioning from the music industry and lack of education. Like a teenager who defaults to the current hits everybody listens to.
This.

I buy Apple mainly for reliability (not just that but that's an important factor), and HP is polar opposite of reliable in my view as a consumer.
The data (according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...) shows otherwise:

US road death rate: 12.9 per 100k inhabitants, 8.3 per billion vehicle-km

France road death rate: 5 per 100k inhabitants, 5.8 per billion vehicle-km

UK : 2.9 per 100k inhabitants, 3.8 per billion vehicle-km

Sweeden: 2.2 per 100k inhabitants, 3.3 per billion vehicle-km

etc

The numbers aren't close, US roads and drivers are just much more dangerous
Omnidirectional Movement in Godot
> it is clearly not a disadvantage in some contexts for some instances

Putting aside that this isn't exactly "clear", you qualified this statement with "some" twice - ignoring the vast majority of other contexts where it is decidedly not an "advantage"
Here is another review of "The World Until Yesterday", also from 2013, which presents the book from a different angle:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jan/09/history-societ...
Ask HN: The Starliner spacecraft issues, how harrowing for the astronauts?
Five of 28 thrusters did not work, there were three helium leaks, and they manually piloted the docking. Experience and training took over, but what must have this situation felt like to those astronauts? What goes in their routine?
Webb Finds Plethora of Carbon Molecules Around Young Star
Reading Boca Raton reminded me, they used the names of cities close to the offices for the internal names for products. I co-oped at IBM in Austin in the late 1980s and we tested the new models of PC Jr/Portable/PS2/peripherals and the internal codenames were stuff like Boca Raton and Cedar Key (which none of us got until our boss told us) but I can no longer remember which was which anymore.
They did not have private property with landlord and employers. They had common property and usually some kind of gift economy.
Tyrants are still subject to the law. Why would they not be, given they make the law?
I remember when I was switching from Windows to Linux over 15 years ago. There were a couple of failures because I found the curve very steep. Then I came across Zorin OS (Linux distro with Windows UX) and that took all the transitional pain away. Used it for a few months before moving again to Kubuntu, which is where I'm happily at today. Can recommend a similar path for anyone else having such transitional issues.
The Snowflake Attack May Be Turning into One of the Largest Data Breaches
In the article they also talk about otoacoustic emissions being a known phenomenon:

> Present in most children but believed to fade over time, they’re also found far more in musicians than in other adults, for reasons yet unknown.
>But I recently sold several Core 2 IBM/Lenovo laptops, for significant money, because people love those.

What do people do with them? Those chips came out in 2006. Loading a modern JS heavy webpage will kneel a Core 2 Duo laptop chip.

Maybe it's tinkerers and businesses who buy them, not people. Business who depend on keeping older machinery going in workshops and what not.

If you're an average joe in need of a laptop at home for web & stuff, for 200+ USD used you can get much more modern machines for home users that will be better at running modern web content than core 2 duo machines.
Postgres to ClickHouse real-time replication
Their business class devices are pretty damn alright. Typing on one right now.

Also the 3 year onsite repair included is pretty great.

Would never buy a printer or so from them though.
DuckDuckGo offers “anonymous” access to AI chatbots through new service
It’s such a weird idea to me that an interviewer would be hostile towards AI. Reminds me of my co-workers from the early-00s who claimed real engineers didn’t use Google.

If a candidate wants to use AI, why not allow them do it supervised and then ask more interesting follow up questions or throw a twist into the problem that AI will stumble on instead of copy/pasting solutions out of an answer book?
To this day I configure all my machines to look and act like Windows 7 with a combination of tweaks and 3rd party applications.
So does all other countries, especially Russia and China; only our closest allies aren’t this blatant.
Yes, I agree.

With current hardware and tools, it becomes much cheaper to reach graphics quality that is 10 or 15 years old, so such game would be just enough and be profitable enough.

I think that high quality rendering is reaching a tipping point where it's mostly of diminishing returns, this means AAA studios could differentiate with good graphics, but this becomes less and less true.

Gameplay matters, and the innovation is not the on the side of AAA studios.
I believe that's called shadowbios or similar. I think a few laptops have it.
Plume, Layer-2 Blockchain for Real-World Assets, Pulls $10M in Seed Funding
I think that's fine, though maybe surprising. Regular PCs don't have redundant power at all and we still update their firmware all the time.
https://duckietown.com
Ditto. Commercial software turned out to have limited headroom.

GIMP is here but I can’t quite get my head around the lack of integration with open and save dialogs, even while I recognize your reasoning. The dumbest stuff becomes the biggest obstacle sometimes.

But no matter, because said commercial software companies are finding new paradigms for shrinkflation while reaching new heights in fiction and fantasy.
This thread has bastardized serialization with storage even though the two are orthogonal concepts. If you don't want shelve to unpickle a hazardous object, give it a string or byte representation.
It depends on your requirements and experience level. Using WebGPU is _much_ easier than Vulkan, so if you don't have a lot of prior experience with all of computer graphics theory / graphics APIs / engine design, I would definitely start with WebGPU. You can still get very far with it, and it's way easier.
Absolutely. Even if zero additional problems crop up while they are at the ISS, the Controllers will need to have fall-back-back-back-and-further-back plans on tap, in case of yet more failures in the Service Modules' propulsion systems.
Why would you build new housing when someone can waltz in and change the locks and youre shit out of luck?
Proxmox is great as a FOSS hypervisor, but their docs for doing pretty much anything advanced are just "here's a qemu command".
When I was a boy scout (so 16 -18 yo) we were walking as a team 50-70 km per day and could sustain that for 2-3 days. More perhaps, but there was nowhere to go any further. We were wearing 20 kg in rather uncomfortable backpacks.

On forced marches we could keep 7-8 km/h speed. And sometime we have practiced legionary walk which is alternating 200 steps jogging and 700 steps walking.

One of the badges was for walking 100 km in a day and lot of my friends got it.

But back then we were generally walking a lot, day by day, every year.

Good shoes and good motivation.

I am not doing this anymore.
Looks good! I've seen a few such libraries. My favorite is chafa: https://hpjansson.org/chafa/
The root misunderstanding is the "social species" part of my statement. Neurodiversity benefits the species, so it will be selected for as a survival trait for the species, even if it is recessive or those who express it never reproduce. Those "genetically adjacent" benefit and keep the traits alive

If you think survival traits mean being healthy and happy, ask Darwin why the evolution of caterpillars killed his faith in god.
It's called "STEP." The NHTSA encourages states to do it. Several California cities engage in it once a month. Search a little harder before you victoriously declare "citation needed!"

https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/hs810851.pdf
Subgroups have actually been added very recently. The rest, sadly missing (along with multi-queue and bindless) :(
Do you think "but it was an accident" should be an accepted legal route to escape liability for your actions?
I like tmux for keeping a remote session open but I don't use it for my local machine. On my local machine the only thing it would really buy me are tabs/split panes, and iTerm does those things natively and far better than tmux does.
Killer app for criminals, money laundering and for illicit payments.
Awesome, we'll reach out soon!
The creator is the creator of Ruby on Rails so I doubt he is very concerned with nodejs
The person you are replying to seems to be advocating for the use of force. A swift, extra legal solution
My wife read about an endangered butterfly called the Small Blue. The female feeds exclusively on a plant called kidney vetch. Isn't that crazy? One fucking plant! This isn't a plant that you can buy in a garden center.

That's the magic about ecosystems. They develop over aeons, and have intricate interdependencies. Many species are extremely picky about how they mate, where they lay their eggs, what they eat when they're larva, what they eat as adults etc. If you wipe out a single plant, you could wipe out an insect that exclusively feeds on it, which could wipe out some other thing that feeds exclusively on that insect. If an invasive species that threatens a single native species, this isn't just "something we don't like", it can cause a chain reaction of extinctions.
Dell business machines are great. I have had nothing but great luck with them.

They do not even come with much crapware. Most of what is there is from the base Windows OS.
Generally you actually want 0 "lessons learned" in human spaceflight. Test flights especially and unmanned missions have a much higher tolerance for error. A bunch of thrusters failing with people on board could have been catastrophic and is well into the territory of "enormous problems which never should have happened".

The astronauts may have to be "rescued" with a different capsule returning the departing astronauts to earth.
> Yeah, you can run an unsupported macOS forever (without ads for the newer one)

Not if you want to do anything other than email and web.

Xcode and all the supporting utilities deprecate pretty fast. It doesn't take very long before your old Xcode can't be used to sign or install anything.
This same kind of thing happened to a family member several years ago on his Dell Inspiron 3650 minitower. Dell’s automatic updates installed a BIOS update (3.9.0) that bricked the computer. It would just power off and on automatically forever, no way to even access the BIOS. A bunch of other people online ran into the exact same problem.

I ended up reflashing the 3.9.0 BIOS to the flash chip and it fixed it [1]. Later on, people discovered that changing an Intel ME-related jumper on the motherboard also fixed it - a much easier fix.

It seems crazy to me that manufacturers include BIOS updates as part of automatic updates, especially for out-of-warranty systems.

[1] https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2019/06/fix-dell-inspiron-...
> The poorest often don't own a car.

The poorest may not, but the working poor are likely to be highly dependent on some cheap, old vehicle.

> Yes, some laws disproportionately hit certain demographics, but not speeding is not one of those.

WFH software developers are probably going to be hit a lot less than someone who needs to drive from where the cheap rents are to the job site every day.

And that was a comment on performative liberalism.

And the "if the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class" aphorism applies.
What a joke: An accurate and all encompassing critique of the vehicle and the company who made it.
> Who is "we"? Vehicles and pedestrians mixing is something that predates recorded history.

The collective "we."

> Neither the radar gun, not the speedometer on a car are accurate enough for that.

You have a radar gun. You clock a car. The gun says 30mph. You clock the next car. The gun says 31mph. In the latter case you write a ticket.

You're free to argue the vagaries of measurement systems in court. Good luck.
I've worked with many engineers from HP. They were NOT incompetent. What they did describe though was a culture of firefighting and micromanagement complaining there was no opportunity to drive systemic improvement.
> You can have multiple layers of security boundary on most of the customer-exposed surface area, and avoid more risky surface areas in the kernel.

I fail to see what "risky surface areas" in the kernel you're avoiding. You have more packets going through the kernel network stack(since you're wrapping a TCP connecting in a UDP connection that goes through the kernel) than just using the TCP stack in the kernel. Are you saying that the TCP stack in the kernel cannot be trusted, but a userspace kernel you maintain can(that's a bit ridiculous...)

> can run just as easily on my macbook as in a cloud container

Any POSIX C code that listens on non-privileged ports will run on machines with the correct glibc version(and you can statically compile the glibc or not need it like go does). This includes linux and macOS(and if you're using a library that's on multiple OSes you get even more support without having to implement TCP in userspace).

> Constant security fixes for the kernel are a real pain in deployments unless you follow upstream kernels closely.

I don't think you understand. You're still at the mercy of the kernel for security patches to the UDP stack, you're just now also having to maintain a TCP stack in parallel.

> An alternative approach might be firecracker / microvms and so on

Wouldn't an alternative approach just be to use cross-platform libraries and non-privileged ports?

> The core point is that you want more than one layer between the host machines and the user code that wants to interact with Linux features.

You just said the opposite... how can more things requiring security fixes be a bad thing, while you arbitrarily want more layers between you and the most security tested code for networking available to you.