skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> either we have a junior admins running vast amounts of core IT infrastructure around the globe

> or we have idiots defining policies without technical guidance and understanding how things really work.

Or, horrifically, both?

In both cases, also, it amounts to lack of knowledge, by juniors or the C-suite.-

PS. Also, methinks, companies have trouble retaining, organizing and accessing and using organizational know-how, and this doesn't help.-
Indeed. Security (all apps get all keypresses and hard to implement correct behaving lock screens) and multi-monitor with factional scaling per monitor; those were the things that apparently were to super-duper hard to fix in X11.

Maybe a years or two until Wayland gets to full feature parity (except for features Wayland specifically does not have like network support and drawing window borders etc.)

In those same two year I expect all app I use to be running native on Wayland as well. (IntelliJ being the main app I'm waiting for and they are making progress)
> In the UK, and I suspect elsewhere, pub glasses are manufactured to indicate their age

I think that is a TikTok 'story' which sounds reasonable and is spreading despite it being not true. Yes perhaps the year can be an indication of older glass and perhaps they have more wear, but that is down to use and care rather than just age and not what the year means.

The M mark indicates the year the tooling for that specific glass was certified and marked. Years ago the glasses were manufactured, then tested for capacity, and finally stamped to show they passed.

More recently the manufacturer, this is a major factor for plastic glasses which are moulded, has their process and tooling regularly certified and random samples regularly tested. This means they can be marked during manufacturing rather than an additional process.

This has a good overview of the markings on a UK drinks glass
https://advancedmixology.com/blogs/art-of-mixology/what-does...

A bit of legislation from Trading Standards who police it.
https://www.southwark.gov.uk/assets/attach/2503/Alcoholic-dr...

A bit of Government legislation about applying the mark.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/applying-a-crown-symbol-to-pint-...
Granted you can also maintain your close circle.
Not only Arrow Lake does not have AVX10, but even Panther Lake, the 2025/2026 Intel CPU does not have it.

Panther Lake will introduce FRED (Flexible Return and Event Delivery) a new manner of handling interrupts, exceptions and system calls.

FRED will bring tremendous changes to the operating system kernels, but it will have little influence on user programs, except that the computer will spend less time running OS kernel code than now.

For now it is expected that Intel will introduce AVX10 in its consumer CPUs only in Nova Lake, the Intel 2026/2027 CPU.

Meanwhile, AMD Zen 4 and Zen 5 are already happily supporting AVX10, except for implementing the CPUID AVX10 flags. AVX10.1 differs from AVX-512 only by adding a simpler method for identifying which instructions are supported. AVX10.2 will add only some instructions that are not needed on the CPUs that support the 512-bit AVX-512 instructions, like Zen 4 and Zen 5. AVX10.3 has not been defined yet and it is far in the future.
Japan and Germany success post-war were not due to US occupation but in spite of it. Both were pretty industrialized nations before the war and had highly skilled population. Their success afterward was a continuation of their previous trend but under a different regime.
Well, that's a lie. Before COVID, I was a digital nomad and didn't have a permanent address, and you refused to open an account for me because I couldn't confirm my address with the limited options of acceptable documents. I guess it's just a German thing with the Anmeldung's and all that...
So, we finally found the cure for the replication crisis in social sciences: just run them on LLMs.
That is a huge oversimplification, if I ever saw one. If you look at the early commits, you can see that it isn't just a simple fork. For starters, the initial commit[1] is already using Typescript. As far as I am aware puppeteer is not and is written in vanilla JavaScript.

The license notice you mention is indeed there [2], but also isn't surprising they wouldn't reinvent the wheel for those things they wrote earlier and that simply work. Even if they didn't directly use code, Microsoft would be silly to not add it given their previous involvement with puppeteer.

Even if it was originally a fork, they are such different products at this point that at best you could say that playwright started out as a fork (Which, again, it did not as far as I can tell).

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/commit/9ba375c063448...

[2] https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/blob/3d2b5e680147577...
I won't be buying it either, but there is merit to understanding when you are not in a target market!
Second this! Quite interesting. @Xen9 please follow up!
> It's like saying "I though canine were dangerous?" (yes for big cats, no so much for your average French bulldog).

Big cats are not canines :(
This reads like a tragic story. Once you've collected enough data on every internet user out there to group them into different advertising cohorts, the remaining ungrouped users, by process of elimination (due to privacy or targeted advertising laws), are children; and now they can be targeted just as easily.
These is a digital replica of the original synthesizer Casio CZ-1 from the 1980s by Arturia. It has a very distinct sound. Some demos are here to show how it sounds like:

https://www.arturia.com/products/software-instruments/cz-v/o...
So many references to thermodynamics here, which is entirely irrelevant unless you choose "immortality" to mean surviving the death of the sun.

The world in which we live and die is very far from thermodynamic equilibrium. A reasonable definition of escaping mortality is being able to continue to live as long as the environment continues to support life, which involves it providing suitable energy gradients, which the sun will continue to do for a very, very long time relative to a normal human lifespan. The second law of thermodynamics does not preclude this.

The second law of thermodynamics is also not some quasi-mystical curse of doom, and it's not about "disorder" either, but that's a whole other discussion.
Ever since I read book about Scaling by Geoffrey West where human's average age is about 40 years I feel tons of problems of modern society are due to stretching human life far beyond 40. From population rising, declining, pension gap, bankrupting social security, care for old people, loneliness, old age diseases and so on and on.

Before life was nasty, brutish and short and now for large population on earth it is still nasty, brutish but long. And I am just not fan of long.
I use it to run the Jellyfin client, but it's still painful to use because you can't bypass the Firestick home screen, which is bloated with ads and takes seconds to load. I find this unacceptable in a commercial product.
Been shouting this for over a year now. We're training AI to be convincing, not to be actually helpful. We're sampling the wrong distributions.
I've posted a fuller reply, but they year on the M stamp is about certification of the tooling used to make the glass. This can be updated annually and so does give a decent indication of year of manufacture, but it is there as part of the Weights & Measures legislation and not about obsolescence / "use by" etc
A phone is an extremely versatile device (Audio, Camera, Storage, Display, Battery, USB-C), but for some purposes it is just not the right choice.

I use old phones as

remote
audio player
surveilance cam
book scanner

What I would love to have is an Android KVM device - an old phone capable of remote controlling a PC like PiKVM[1]. Should be possible, but remote display stuff is pretty hard to handle...

1: https://pikvm.org/
Wow these comments are depressing here.

Of course I want to live as long as possible! Because life is awesome! I want more of it!

The fear of death is of course real, but that's not the main reason for wanting to live longer. I want more experience, I want to see what happens in the future! I want to understand more, learn more and be able to do it at a more relaxed pace without the feeling that time will run out!
Because there's no need.
I mean the big hat is like a baseball cap, that's within the nonchalant part of the Venn diagram, but the headphones are classed as using tools, only no tools and hands in pockets fall in the center of don't give a fuck.
I think most people who don't want to be extend life are actually motivated by extreme fear of death.

A fear so profound that they've reasoned themselves into a corner, that this way we live must be correct and cannot be questioned, because if we start to question whether death is necessary after a 'natural' lifespan, whether research into prolonging life might be possible and might not actually not be a ridiculous endeavour for a few madmen, then that deep dread they cannot speak of may return and consume them.

Beyond that your comment is full of odd assertions - yes, people grow and change, but no, that doesn't imply discontinuity or repeated death.

Your older relatives are living in ageing or aged bodies, including their brains. Their experience of life is not necessarily what we could expect if we were to be able to put off the effects of age indefinitely.

Edit - but I'll take your few centuries over what we have now, as a starting point :)
Funnily enough, this is one case where contextual advertising would actually work better than what we have now.

With contextual advertising, you could very easily target children with very specific interests and/or in specific age groups by targeting the ads at the videos they most often watch.
This isn't about the Lancet specifically. It's about someone on the internet challenging the overwhelming medical consensus without providing a shred of evidence to support their claims. I can assure you that 'people saying things on the internet' have a far worse record on medical matters than the Lancet, or the medical consensus more generally.
Why do you think Google was paying that much to be the default choice on iOS?
File Based Routing in Inertia.js
My family is from Scotland and I was surprised how many slang names for things matched scandinavian languages (Swedish, in my case).

Kirk: Church

Barn (Baen): Children

There was a bunch more, maybe I’ll make a proper list some day.
Learning Antipatterns
I mean, there are situations where there could be a bit wiggling room to allow a neurodiverse person to break decorum a bit. For example, if someone has tourette they could be excused a bit the same way an autistic person can be excused a bit for not noticing a subtle social cue.

But there is a clear difference between allowing a bit of leeway to break decorum and allowing one to be a massive asshole.

I think there is a balance, like everything in life.
Good ones, loving it.
note to myself: strictly stick to technological subjects on hackernews or accept the suffering from having to read nonsense by keyboard philosophers.
Leveraging Laravel's built in driver functionality
Hopefully that doesn't factor into their calculus at all. I'd like space programs to be run by practical people who value merit over noise, and I personally don't care if a space transport system is owned by Ronald McDonald as long as it works right. Boeing is a very respectable company or so I've heard. I'm sure their executives watch what they say in public and wear the proper in fashion business suits as expected. I would still rather hop on a spacex vehicle right about now. If you're right and they care about Musk owning Twitter and saying inappropriate shit out loud, I'd say that would reduce my trust in NASA.
Karpathy writes that there is no cheeply computed objective check for "Or re-writing some Java code to Python? " Among other things. But it seems to me that Reinforced Learning should be possible for code translation using automated integration testing. Run it, see if it does,the same thing!
Not everyone is the same. Some people are more open to change and new experiences than others. And ultimately, I'd bet that if your relatives were facing death tomorrow, they'd take a pill today that would avoid it, notwithstanding that they prefer the past to the present. Just because a person doesn't like change doesn't mean they prefer death over change.
JSON lack of comments is their worst error.

YAML near the user and JSON for the rest.
The Constitution isn't meant to be immutable, the Constitution itself specifies a process for changing the Constitution. That process has been used numerous times before, so we know it can work. The people who want to ignore that process are people who want to change something in the Constitution but lack the requisite political support to do it properly. This is why they get told off.

The Second Ammendment could be nullified with a new Amendment that undoes the Second, but this isn't seriously entertained by gun control activists in America because it would be extremely unpopular so there's no way they could pull it off. Instead, they intend to simply ignore the law.
Seems a bit of a ground control trust issue given there are 2 Russians up there at the moment, I wonder how they are intended to return at a future date.
You could also argue that old people are not hyped by AI and new tech because they have been through so many hype cycles, and seen so much in general, that they know that things come and go, and tech advances, but the really important things in life never change

So not lack of understanding, more that they see through the hype

Pretty cool if you ask me
I find them very helpful, personally.
Sounds like an American issue. In Germany (at least in Berlin), things still operate largely as they did 30 years ago. I wonder how much of this is the Bay Area automation cancer bleeding out into other areas in the US. I hope the market corrects itself and it does not invade other countries.
> that doesn't undo the last 15 years of Java code that I've written where that wasn't really an option.

Same for C# with this new feature. Sum types (as I like to call tagged/type unions) are such an important tool to have, not having it makes languages resort to all kinds of abominations, e.g. exceptions, product types (= records, structs, etc) that are actually sum types, "null to signify something went wrong", etc.

Not having them from a language's start results in an std lib that does not use them and hence teaches new comer to the language a bad way to do it.
And it's frankly disgusting that some countries allow such ads.
Institutions have shown themselves not well-geared for coordinating and enacting consistent policy changes and avoiding unintended consequences under time pressure. Hopefully COVID was a lesson they learned from.

I remember how in Seoul city authorities put yellow tape over outdoor sitting areas in public parks, while at the same time cafes (many of which are next to parks, highlighting the hilarity in real time) were full of people—because another policy allowed indoor dining as long as the number of people in each party is small and you put on a mask while not eating and leave when you are finished (guess how well that all was enforced).
I remember that someone posted a very similar project here some time ago.
You noticed reusing premises, potentially reinforcing your choices. You also took time to analyse and write down your thoughts. I think it was useful in some ways even if you didn't use the output afterwards.
A copy living on is meaningless to the original consciousness, since the subjective experience of the copy is decoupled from the original. There is no more connection than between you and me. You can dress this arbitrarily in grand words of leaving a dent and so on, but no matter the phrasing: once you’re gone, you’re gone. I don’t care if people remember me, if I cease to exist, I cease experience the world, and it’s all void.
Are you aware of current situation in Israel? It seems like it's very dangerous to live there right now.
At least they will confirm the experiments they have been trained on.
Pure speculation: The part where the Delta team didn't want Microsoft's help feels like it is probably that they knew that their systems were a mess of old, unpatched Windows clients and servers and were embarrassed about it (and that their legal teams probably knew that it was better to keep everyone out so they could sue later on)
didn't you hear? the EU forced them to let Crowdstrike to be able to do it...

This is the EU's fault :-P
They would just find another route. They’re already contending with cartels, bandits, profiteers, deadly terrain and the Panamanian army. The US army would be the least of the their worries. They’re not doing this journey easy, they’re doing it because they’re desperate and the limited rewards of reaching their goal are worth the great risk.
AGI singularity is science fiction and, while interesting, none of that research comes close to biological immortality in humans. Don't deceive yourself.
After reading that python discussion I have a very hard time believing the suspension was warranted unless there are some major factors i'm missing. It looks like a relatively cordial discussion yet in the suspension notice his posts are framed as having created "an atmosphere of fear, uncertainty and doubt".

I can't believe the offensive word / slur that is mentioned is the word "slut", which was said in reference to a pypi package that was removed back in the day. He even censored the word and made the SNL reference so that people would know what the word was. So according to the suspension notice the following comment was showing lack of empathy to the community members, which is just wild to me: "It was about kicking a package off of PyPI, because its docs repeatedly used a word that Dan Akroyd used to apply to Jane Curtin (brilliant comic actors from America’s “Saturday Night Live” TV show, but back in the days when it was genuinely funny".
Your usernames add another layer of humor and coincidence.
> As others said, it's also a way to try to treat developers as assembly line workers

Yes, a constant reminder that, even if you are highly paid cog in the machine, you are still a cog that can be replaced at any moment.

Because, you know, real decisions about what the product have to be made by a businessy dude, while developers are relegated to playing with their ci/cd and expensive toys. I guess what pisses me off the most is the patronizing attitude. All these methodologies scream: 'I don't trust you, so I will flood you with process where I can micromanage you'.
> A school "banning" themselves from selling junk food isn't a ban,

Not relevant given that I highlighted how the schools were banned either by the district or by state law, not banning themselves.

Which would, per your definition, make it a ban.

Would you prefer seeing only scholarly publications describe it as a ban?

"Do School Junk Food Bans Improve Student Health? Evidence from Canada", in Canadian Public Policy, https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/cpp.2016-090

"Examining Compliance with a Statewide Law Banning Junk Food and Beverage Marketing in Maine Schools", Public Health Reports, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/003335491212700...

"Banning All Sugar-Sweetened Beverages in Middle Schools", Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med, https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/...

"Breaking habits: The effect of the French vending machine
ban on school snacking and sugar intakes", JOURNAL OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT, https://cris.unibo.it/bitstream/11585/606157/6/CapacciS_JPAM... (this banned all vending machines from primary and secondary schools, no matter what was sold).

With a Google Scholar search I could easily give hundreds of similar citations.

> I don't sell junk food, is that a ban because you can't buy junk food from me?

Are you being serious or merely cantankerous?

If the school librarian wants to have keep a copy of the 1975 book "Forever ..." by Judy Blume in circulation, and state law prohibits it, why is that not a ban?

It is, after all, "a prohibition on doing or having something."

If a school want to have a soda vending machine on campus, because of the extra revenue it brings the school, but the district changes policy to prevent that option, why is it not a ban?
Depends on who you ask.

Advertisement and propaganda is not necessarily helpful for consumers, but just needs to be convincing in order to be helpful for producers.
If you use the iris to widen depth of field, the lens error doesn't matter as much. The limit is the pinhole camera which has no lens at all.
Yes, while the big Intel cores are much bigger than the big AMD cores (e.g. 5 square mm in Meteor Lake vs. 3.8 square mm for Zen 4) the Intel small cores are much smaller than the AMD compact cores (e.g. 1.5 square mm in Meteor Lake vs. 2.5 square mm for Zen 4c).

The smaller size of the Intel E-cores is not only due to their different microarchitecture, but also because only their L1 cache memories are non-shared, while their L2 cache memories are shared within groups of 4 E-cores.

The shared L2 cache may not matter much for many general-purpose programs, but for other multi-threaded programs, which depend on having a great total throughput for the transfers with the L2 cache, the performance of each group of 4 E-cores becomes similar to that of a single core, instead of being 4 times greater.

The AMD compact cores have the same non-shared cache memories as the big cores. Only the shared L3 cache blocks that service a group of compact cores are smaller than for the same number of big cores.
both tuples and record (structs) are product types. tuples are "untagged", records/structs are "tagged" (the members have names).

sum types also have tagged and untagged variants. the untagged variants are less useful (more cumbersome) in case of sum types and hence often are not implemented in languages.
Yes I think Northern Europe has been quite a mixing pot for a while hence so many common links.

The Vikings first settled in Ireland in about 800 AD so presumably the languages were mixing and evolving.

Your list would be interesting, go for it.
If your goal is to avoid anything touched by msft employees, then the answer is you can't use C#. Just like you can't use Java if you want to avoid Oracle because of their predatory practices, or can't use Swift if you want to avoid Apple, or can't use Go if you want to avoid the AdTech company. In fact, just limiting to MS you probably can't use Java or C/C++ either as they have contributions to compilers for both.

But this is rather silly, so I'm going to assume the question is more reasonable "What can I do as a Linux user to have positive experience with C#?".

In this case, the response is very simple - you just install the SDK (sudo apt/dnf install dotnet-sdk-8.0) and then pick either VS Code and base (and free and MIT) C# extension (you do not need DevKit) or combine csharp-ls and Neovim. Other text editors that support LSP will also work. Nothing else is required.

Rider is suggested but it is absolutely optional, especially if you are not looking for that kind of high-tier IDE and prefer simpler (and faster) text editing experience.
Gullible people trust microsoft. I work with some of them, sadly.
If someone comes into my computer and tries to take away all my digital duck hunting trophies I keep on my desktop, I'll be loading up Counterstrike and defending my home.