skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, I wouldn't be too sure. Each generation introduces their own new abstractions on top of whatever existed before. Any code that was written before their era is outdated legacy unreadable stuff, and it can only be fixed by writing new shiny modern blazing fast rocketemoji stuff. It doesn't matter that existing code already works, it must be changed anyway, and we all know that change==progress.

Maybe it won't happen during the next decades. Most likely it won't happen until all currently-alive maintainers of Linux "retire", and most programmers alive are from generations that grew up being pressured to use either Rust or React.

So I can easily imagine a future where there's two main camps: low level code in Rust (where "low level" now means "anything up to, and including, the web browser"); and high level code in some graphical thingy that compiles down to WASM.

And the path I see where we'll reach that point, is by the Rust community continuing to do their thing, and by SaaS companies continuing to do their thing (VM->Docker->"Serverless"[1]->"Codeless"[2]->"Textless"[3]).

With all that, I think it's possible that visual programming might become the dominant way of doing general programming. Not the only way (after all COBOL is still a thing today, so it would be like that), but I can see how what's "normal" is shifted up one level of abstraction higher, so that "code" in that future is seen the same way as "assembly" today; or "assembly" in that future is seen the same way as "punch cards" today.

Those old timers think their Rust language is good enough with their memory safety and stuff, and prefer to ignore decades of progress on programming. Separating the code in text files? Yeah no wonder they keep having incidents like the DeseCRATE or Cargottem supply chain attacks (years 2038 and 2060 respectively), if they install dependencies willy-nilly without even looking at the code they're bringing in (nobody wants to look at dependencies with that primitive tooling). If they used modern tooling instead, they would be able to easily tell at a glance which "nodes"[4] are trying to do suspicious stuff just by their location or relationships with other nodes; or even restrict network or filesystem access to a region of the canvas. They say "well, just use capabilities", but then the code looks like an unreadable mess and way too error prone, when modern tooling lets you just draw a square on a canvas and "any node[4] inside the square can read filesystem, everything outside it can't", without needing to modify any of the nodes[4] themselves. It eliminates whole types of vulnerabilities and whole types of human errors.

(/s, mostly)

[1]: Still needs servers, but you don't worry about it because servers are too low level and you only want to focus on the important stuff (just code).

[2]: Still needs code, but you don't worry about it because code is too low level and you only want to focus on the important stuff (just English).

[3]: Still needs text, but you don't worry about it because text is too low level and you only want to focus on the important stuff (just visual concepts).

[4]: Module, function, macro, etc.
Electrical signaling runs into ground potential differences over long distances, fiber does not - each node is optically isolated.
You could put the attenuation stage after the power amp stage but it would require big beefy resistors that could absorb a lot of power. They'd get hot and the whole thing would be very inefficient.

But hey, very low distortion.
While Prop 22 was a blatant effort by Lyft/Uber/Doordash to write their own laws, the court probably was in the right here, in that it was technically a legal maneuver, albeit a sneaky one.

What we really need is reform to ensure that nothing like Prop 22 can ever be allowed near the ballot again.
Economics 101 also assumes perfect information symmetry, perfect competition, and spherical cows. In other words, it only vaguely models reality... Good enough to teach the basic concepts, but without diving in the nuance that makes the basic models break down.

If one competitor is far enough ahead of the rest, they can maintain that lead given that they can extract sufficient momentum from their early mover advantage. If they keep this up long enough, competitors never reach the scale to sufficiently prevent them from becoming a monopoly (at least over their local market segment).

None of this requires anti-competitive behavior; simply good execution on the part of the leader.

Unless, of course, you're suggesting that "free markets" also involve government intervention to suppress their lead in the market...
That's a mandatory guaranteed $8bn per annum funding for an operation that for the past decade has run at approx $14 bn per annum operating costs, so there still needs to be annual discretionary allocations to keep the IRS afloat at "normal" levels.

Recently the costs have increased to $16 bn per annum as part of an expansion to collect more of the inferred unpaid (avoided) taxes.
10x YoY, 2x over last 10 weeks...

I suppose, if only for the sake of stimulating conversation, it is worth ignoring the substantive stuff to transmute "hockey stick" into "it is software, 0 and constant marginal cost"

I just don't really know what to say back, because I obviously don't think the self-driving car is software. You know that. I know that.
> Seems like the author moved from a “speakers + networked amp” setup, to a one where with active speakers where everything is built-in.

Close! I moved from a "speakers + non-networked amp + streamer" setup.

I'm still running separate components for nearer-field listening at my desk, where I've got KEF Q150s powered by a small Schiit pre-amp and amp.
Exactly. Part of Nokia still lives on in Jolla and they have a modest team.
You probably have not read the various texts written by Stallman about this subject, as the main arguments were different.

I have searched now for your quote, and it is extracted from a context where its meaning was different.

In that context, Stallman was replying to a newspaper article that had accused Minsky of "sexual assault" against an underage woman. Stallman was arguing that even if it were true that Minsky had intimate relationships with an underage woman, then the term "sexual assault" would still be inappropriate, because Epstein's employee must have presented herself, as instructed by her boss, "as entirely willing".

So this was not an argument about whether Minsky was guilty or not of something, but it was only an argument against a journalist using the hyperbolic term "sexual assault", without having any evidence backing it up.

As we now know, the newspaper article was even more baseless, because there has never been any evidence that Minsky had any relationship with an underage woman or that he knew that such a woman had received the suggestion to please him, among other eligible guests.

Stallman's position was right, because true sexual assault must be clearly distinguished of statutory rape, exactly like armed robbery must be clearly distinguished of fraud, even if all are crimes that must be punished. True sexual assault and armed robbery are felonies everywhere. On the other hand, whether something is statutory rape or fraud or it is not punishable, that depends on the jurisdiction, as the laws are very different from place to place.
Funny that the url is https://www.busybox.net/kill_it_with_fire.txt
It's Hard to Strategize
> trust as a counterweight to probabilistic answers

The basic problem with that is that even with 5 9s of good results, that remainder still gets you very public cases of "put glue on your pizza". And we're not even at 5 9s yet.
i was being hyperbolic and sarcastic for the sake of illustrating a directional trend we seem to be barreling towards.

my apologies if i didn’t go far enough to make it more obvious. my fault.
Another example is Rust's borrow checker, which has roots in substructural type system papers from decades earlier. Many academics considered substructural type systems dead (killed by GC, more or less) until Rust resurrected the idea by combining it with some new ideas from C++ of the time.
I think there's an invisible side of the story: deterrence. Maybe 30 bln will never be recovered, but the barrier to cheat is now higher, so less evasion will happen, and more taxes will be collected? How much more? It's difficult to measure.

Imagine you have a barn with mice and you get a cat to eat the mice. Most of the mice run away. If you measure only how many mice the cat eats per day, you might be underwhelmed, and might think the investment in the cat was not worth it. But you should care less about the cat's diet and more about the fact that there are fewer mice.
> Volume controls also shouldn't just be a flat wideband gain - they should respect how we actually perceive sound so the timbre doesn't change as the level changes (when you turn the volume down, you are typically left with just the stuff in the vocal frequency range, and lose all the bass etc).

The amp I'm upgrading from was interesting in this regard. In addition to the main volume knob, it had a loudness knob. The manual actually recommended keeping the volume knob fixed most of the time and using the loudness knob to set the listening level throughout the day.

From the manual:

> 1. Set the LOUDNESS control to the FLAT position.

> 2. Rotate the VOLUME control on the front panel (or press VOLUME +/– on the remote control) to set the sound output level to the loudest listening level that you would listen to.

> 3. Rotate the LOUDNESS control counterclockwise until the desired volume is obtained.
Or in other words, we were paying that already, and this is just the return so far on removing some of the hoops the organization has to jump through to cover expenses.
Windows by default, un-firewalled, will announce its presence to a network, and in old versions, that could even be the internet at large (back then you could even see SMB shares over the internet and would often see thousands of 'nearby' system).

The malware he got appeared to use a PNG exploit to affect remote code execution once running, but we don't see what bootstrapped that malware into the system
It’s a short term paradise. You’re not going to be able to keep it that way when the rest of the world is more technologically advanced and you slip into poverty.
Then how come so many people are buying GPUs with that amount of VRAM for extraordinary amounts of money?

Nobody said it was for gaming. Though of course consumers could use it for both.
The biggest 3. problems in resolving clownstrike debacle are to know what and where to delete (if you don't know, you also can delete everything as well), bitlocker locked hard drives and having a lot of VMs running on Windows out there.

The first problem, however, is more significant, but you even won't come to solving if you've encrypted filesystem. And then you have to do it for each and every device/VM. It's just too much.

if you could boot into safe mode, then you already knew what to do and what to delete. Just imagine - bsod - you don't know why. A hint may be shown ;)
It’s called Housing and Development Board (HDB) housing policy. First of all.. it’s not a freehold model but it’s sold to Singaporean citizens only.

They are highly subsidized and based on their income. Singapore also has CPF or central provident fund.. payments go from there but there has to be a 10-20% down payment.

These are highly subsidized. As are the maintaining costs and repairs etc. the state takes care of it. sometimes the owners do it. There is a central savings account too. They can choose how to pay for it.

But the key point is that it’s always a 99 year lease. They can only own it for 99 years. As everyone is going to be in some sort of workforce or is eligible for govt monies, no one needs to be without housing. It goes directly from their CPF or OA account.

The kind of housing is dependent on income level. And another condition is that it’s for families only.

Single people have a different scheme. And there are also ways to apply for Joint singles HBD flats.

They have to be at least 35 years old and anyone younger than 35 can buy under a public scheme but with their family. There are separate schemes for orphans and single unwed citizens, divorcées and the widowed.

Basically there is a scheme for everyone so no one is left behind. But they can’t own it after 99 years. Because it can be beyond a normal lifespan(they start at age 35.. so even after they are gone, the family will be housed until they themselves reach age 35 to qualify with CPF/OA for a HBD unit.

The flats can be resold but again only for the remaining period of the 99 years. Never for speculative purposes and only for residential.

Singapore is a high trust society and can be called as a benevolent dictatorship. They don’t look kindly at any kind of shenanigans.

There are very strict rules. It has to be a mixed ethnic development and it can’t be rented out etc..and if it is to be rented, there is a process for that too.

All HDB estates are meticulously planned. From schools to parks to shops and public transpirt, these are planned communities.

The idea is to give the people housing stability and housing security. The state takes care of its people but expects them to be responsible and accountable. The result is a highly ordered and high trust society that is stable.

Having said that, Singapore is not for everyone. It’s super ordered and appeals to many Asian mindsets and especially for those who would rather spend time raising their families instead of worrying about crime or housing or food security.
It's be nice if the two parties didn't have a goal of making bad policies to prove their points.
The path you describe is so realistic.

Facebook will leave the AppStore. Grandma can’t find Facebook anymore on her new iPhone, and will google “how to install Facebook on iPhone”. Thousands of websites will SEO for that, and give instructions (“There will be a popup that says ‘You might install dangerous software. Are you sure?’ Press YES.”) on how to install their AppStore with some Facebook clone/spyware/VPN MITM attack/keyloggers. They will have complete control of grandma’s phone, collect all the data they want. Soon she’ll have a new default browser with 7 toolbars, a new search engine, and be mining crypto on the side.
> You'll struggle to find people who are against the Digital Markets Act for this reason

You missed most of the discussions about DMA on HN, I guess. There's always someone ready to say how EU will kill all innovation and make Google/Apple exit the market because they dare to question anything.
Puckishly: it need go nowhere at all.

As a matter of fact, we _do_ have something that is more 'visual' or 'symbolic' than written speech, and it has a critical role in certain abstract forms of writing. It's mathematical notation (or, sometimes, symbolic logic) and it's already great.

Thus, any sufficiently advanced visual programming environment is indistinguishable from rendered LaTeX.
Good.

Tech needs to slow down; neither society has caught up, nor quality controls.
Godbolt recently did an ELI5 on computerphile about everything CPU[0] and about branch prediction in particular[1].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhXevKMm3JI&list=PLzH6n4zXuc...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nczJ58WvtYo&list=PLzH6n4zXuc...
What's special about Paris 2024's flying Olympic flame and how does it work?
I wouldn't put too much weight into this. Not only is much of this content dated, but Chip is far from a subject matter expert. She loves to write (and is a greater writer), but don't expect anything beyond a cursory introduction.
When I was an admin for a Google Apps Domain, you couldn't even stop people from making a google account that aliases a google apps account.

Best I could do was run reports and yell at people. But it really would have been nice to stop all attempts to make google accounts for the domain.
Really cool, thank you!
I think it should be remembered that the personalized ads are not just valuable for ad platforms - most of the personalization value actually accrues to advertisers themselves, who basically represent the entire economy.

EU regulators think their enemy is big American tech companies, but they are hurting their domestic advertisers and domestic economies even more.

I am saying this as someone who hates seeing ads and uses adblock, but I greatly appreciate the societal value.

We should be making laws that foster competition and safety. I struggle to see how cross-site tracking and personalized advertising by itself is anti-competitive or unsafe. The bigger issues that need to be solved on these platforms are gatekeeper monopolies, social division, and mental health.
I haven't really looked (census.gov is your friend) since leaving the Old Country, so YMMV, but last century "the 1%" and "generational" were highly correlated.
Yeah, in the sense that my car cost $32k and I drove it to my job that made me $3k today. But I will drive the car tomorrow as well. And I drove it yesterday too.
What is the alternative, here? Letting all machines on a tailnet talk sounds like a security issue. Maybe a better onboarding flow that prompts you to set ACLs when inviting a new user?
It's special because it's not a flame: it's LEDs.

At one remove, it's all photons but I think personally this is a bit of an artifice: I don't see a role for the Greek actresses to dress up and.. put the AAA batteries in. But then, the idea of an actual combustion element being carried from Greece around the world has involved a few tricks to get it onto aircraft before now.

Story telling demands artifice.

There's no Santa Claus kids. Sorry. It's LEDs. But, it is pretty.
At least you could fix that yourself with a resistor and a soldering iron... whatever is up with raptorlake is inside the CPU itself.
> I think there's an invisible side of the story: deterrence.

Isn't this the theory behind mandatory minimum sentences etc. in the War on Drugs? It doesn't seem to work.

And it's also misunderstanding where most of the problem is. It's not that so many people are committing tax fraud. They recovered a billion dollars? The federal budget is over 6 trillion dollars.

International corporations avoid taxes by structuring their activities in ways that minimize taxes. It's legal. The problem is the structure of the tax code, which tries to tax "profit" instead of sales or wages or something else that physically exists in a specific jurisdiction, and then the "profit" ends up in whatever country has the lowest taxes.
I looked this up. It's "out of the box" and not "out-of-the-box".
Exactly my thought here. Such a privileged view of the world to not appreciate the luxuries that internet technologies have bestowed us.
Well, however, it’s still the Wall GmbH building public toilets. So what’s your point?
I've been looking for ages for someone trying to translate his _Reaping and Sowing_ era. Thank you for your service!
Dumb. It’ll literally be spent in hours.

The problem is the spending, not the collection.
What an interesting point of view. Very European. I wonder what will those Europeans do that do need the high-performance computer chips to create something new, to innovate.

They will probably move to those whacked out societies.
Thanks a lot! Just ordered a bottle and will give it a try
I like the word scientism, but what he describes is really academic scholasticism. Maybe we should call it neo-scholasticism. The practioners of this profession is the same old "learned doctors." They make their living by selling (in this field "selling" means "teaching") the knowledge they have hidden in a proprietary language. Academic education is a ponzi scheme. You are forced to pass formal exams in order to gain the right to enter the next level of exams. When there are no more exams to take you are given a piece of paper and thrown out of the system. This is an exaggerated and pessimistic view but it has some truth in it.
Thelonius Monk is a source of amazing quotes. Apparently he came offstage one night and someone said to him "That was fantastic!" and he said "No. I made all the wrong mistakes."
> One of my all-time favorite Linux distros is a long-defunct Gentoo derivative called Sabayon which I daily drove for years. I don't regret it in the slightest! It was a great distro.

Interestingly, both projects actually have a bit of shared history[0].

Funtoo joined Sabayon to become MocaccinoOS[1], before the alliance seemingly fell apart[2] and the two projects went their separate ways.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33204970

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220619205105/https://www.sabay...

[2] https://www.mocaccino.org/blog/2021/12/06/updates-on-funtoo-...
I acquired every photo taken by my dad, mom, etc. about 8000 photos iirc. Almost all of the post 1975 ones had negatives, so I started out looking for negative scanners, as the negatives had probably been handled and scuffed less. I couldn't find anything with good reviews that was under $1000, so I settled with an Epson FastFoto FF-680W. After I did a couple of packs of prints, my wife took over. I think it took her about 6 hours over a weekend.

I then set up a "photo website" using a static photo site generator, and then uploaded the output to a racked server we have. Afaik no family members I sent the link to even looked. Oh well. I also sent the tiffs to Amazon glacier where it costs something like $20/yr to keep there.

Unless something has magically happened in the last six years, I'd still steer clear of negative scanners and flatbeds.

The Epson is soooo fast!
You should ask an economist to model this scenario for you and then see if you still feel this way.
What is it called in Tamil?
Heck. Look at 10 year old product launch PRs from big tech. Anything that Google launched 10 years ago and killed, but seems like a good idea today is probably also easier to do. And if you look 5-10 years before that, you can find the Yahoo launch PR where they did the same thing ;p
“May also” as in “like the previous version did”

Not as in “in addition to stopping shingles”, although that’s true too.
Also there is more than one government (and currency). And sometimes people would like to trade goods and services internationally...
Does this apply only to U.S. Citizens?

Or does it apply to everybody?

And if it does, is it reason to refuse someone? I.e. can they refuse an L1B visa holder entry because he/she doesn't allow them to search the phone?
With ads there is incentive for tech companies to harvest more and more data points for advertisers to use their magic orbs to find out whether you like Diet Coke or Diet Pepsi more. This in turn leads to powerful and concerning levels of understanding of a certain individuals personality and worse, behavior, that allows them to exploit those flaws in your personality, or exploit your emotion more than a billboard ever could.

On top of this, it creates an unregulated sky-is-the-limit 3rd party economy of data brokers who will sell these bulk collections of data to whoever coughs up the money for it. Enter in governmental intelligence agencies, there now is a concern of governments either sidestepping laws on lawful intelligence collection or outright breaking them, as the NSA and FBI have already admitted too if I recall correctly.

Edit: I'd also like to say, can you imagine how the intelligence agencies would pressure their legislators during attempts of reforming data brokers? "You can't take this away! We stopped this attack from happening with this! If you take this away, you'll cause 9/11 2.0!" That's exactly what they did for the FISA re-authorization this year in the US.
Apple is providing an entry into the free smartphone market that is a closed system with a highly controlled and curated software ecosystem. That is their product, that's what they offer.

It's no different than Nintendo's entry into the game console market being what it is—some people will choose that experience because what it offers is valuable for them.

For myself, I'm an Android phone user and a PC gamer, but just because I wouldn't choose those experiences for myself doesn't mean I begrudge their existence.