skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work with an Amazon engineer who has been working on storage systems since 1990 (NT kernel) and is an absolute wizard. He could probably write a durable concurrent B-tree in an afternoon.
I was indifferent to systemd until podman shipped quadlet. Now being able to bring up containers, tied to the system, in a reliable and efficient manner, without docker compose or big bespoke commands, has been incredible
Aren’t Tcl tv’s on the cheaper end? Not saying it makes deceiving customers justifiable, but I don’t think people buy their products looking for cutting edge quality.
Specs:

- Dimensions (mm): 73(L) x 50(W) x 27(H) (98.55 cm^3)

- Weight: 95g including battery

Presumably the majority of that weight is battery. And 13.3 cm^3 would occupy less than 1/6 the total available volume.

Battery is described as "Lithium battery, up to 85 days with 2.5 hours for full battery charge, USB-C charging."

From: <https://www.gapollo.com.tw/product/ar-924/>

Archive: <https://archive.is/Kw0Pg>

(For some reason the origin is unreachable presently.)

From comments and news stories elsewhere, it seems highly probable that the explosive was engineered into a battery form-factor, and replaced the original battery of the device.
Trying to compare Windows updates favorably to updates on systemd seems a bit bizarre. I can't ever remember seeing an upgrade ask for a reboot on Raspberry PI OS (debian 12). And I can't ever remember seeing a Windows update that didn't reboot the system.

As a long-time Windows developer (both apps and device drivers) substantially coming to Linux long after the decision to use systemd was made, I am impressed as heck by Systemd.

And was completely horrified by my very limited experience, as a user, with pre-systemd Linuxes. That was insane. Manually edit what in to which system file? And my system invariably didn't even HAVE that file.

Even writing systemd units is virtually effortless.
STORM motivated me to independently create my own similar project https://github.com/impredicative/newssurvey which works very differently to write a survey article on a medical or science topic. Its generated samples are linked in the readme.
I think there are two parts of systemd - the functionality and the implementation.

It IS functional - it does things that are helpful and important.

But the implementation is hard to swallow. It is just so far away from elegant, understandable and usable.
Archive version of this?
Here’s my take. I haven’t used this feature yet so I haven’t dug in too deep.

drink() takes a Drinkable. A Drinkables can be non-copyable.

Copyable is the default, so it has to mark itself as accepting non-copyables.

Coffee is non-copyable. Water doesn’t say which means it’s copyable (the default).

You can use a copyable anywhere you’d use a non-copyable since there is no restriction. So since drink can take non-copyables it can also use copyables.

I’m guessing the function definition has to list non-copyable otherwise it would only allow copyable drinks since the default is all variables are copyable.

“consuming some” means the function takes over the ownership of the non-copyable value. It’s no longer usable in the scope that calls drink().

For the copyable value I’m not sure but since they can be copied I could see that going either way.

On syntax:

Yeah it’s a bit weird, but there was a big debate about it. They wanted something easy to read and fast to use. NotCopyable<Drinkable> is really clear but typing it over and over would get real old.

~ is not special syntax. My understand is “~Copyable” is the name of the type. You can’t just put ~ in front of anything, like ~Drinkable. But since that’s the syntax used for bitwise negation it’s pretty guessable.

& is existing syntax for multiple type assertions. You can see the evolution in this Stack Overflow answer:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/24089278

Seems to read like C to me. It has to be Drinkable and not Copyable.

Like I said I haven’t gotten to use this yet, but it seems like a nice improvement. And I know it’s a step in the path towards making it easier to do safe asynchronous programming, object lifetimes, and other features.
I made a custom Iosevka build by selecting glyph variants based on Atkison Hyperlegible.

Iosevka: https://typeof.net/Iosevka

"Hypersevka" build plans: https://github.com/jdknezek/Iosevka/blob/jdk/scripts/hyperse...

Screenshots:
https://imgur.com/7BZS3Pp
https://imgur.com/sudNqWM
>This is an indiscriminate attack.

It’s the opposite. They discriminated carefully.

Perhaps you mean to say innocent bystanders also were collateral damage, which certainly seems true also.
Of course: https://crates.io/crates/enigo
I'm unable to distinguish between this narrative and the premise of "Jurassic Park"
BHAG = big hairy audacious goal

https://www.jimcollins.com/concepts/bhag.html
Wow that’s an interesting decision. I didn’t know they went that far.
I've always thought it was a real shame that the Boston Marathon is so mythical, because there's a much more symbolic potential route: start at the Old North Church in the North End (the "one if by land, two if by sea" place), through downtown/the common/Back Bay, then take Mass Ave all the way to the Lexington Battle Green (site of the first battle of the revolution), and that's almost exactly half a marathon in distance while more-or-less reenacting the Midnight Ride.
Yet, having Google as the default Spotlight Search provider is an intelligent and advisable business partnership that fully benefits Apple users. Thankfully the best type of developers are advocating for those decisions, the ones who care more about their perfect tech diorama than what the users might actually select in a free-market environment.

And no, don't start whining to me about monopoly abuse if Apple willfully contributes to the entrapment. This isn't an ideological plight, it's a Microsoft-level power grab.
It's been a long time since I last read it, and it's interesting how times changed.

On daily standups, from he manifesto:

> Business people and developers must work
together daily throughout the project.

> The most efficient and effective method of
conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.

The "standup" theatrical part isn't in it, but that begs for daily meetings in the same physical place really.

Also...no. Verbal communication isn't effective or efficient. It's fast and natural, and perhaps comfortable to many.

In our current corporate environment, effectiveness (providing the right info in the right form) and efficiency (minimizing back and forth) will probably be better achieved with documents and open chat with all the parties involved, even if (in particular if?) it means slower throughput and more deliberate communication.
Israel's economy is already in the toilet due to them becoming an International pariah because of the ongoing genocide - this will just make it worse
a fair shake

Benno's entire argument is that Linux is the only operating system that matters and whatever problems systemd has are irrelevant. Everything else is obsolete. Especially when couched as "look at what this BSD guy thinks of systemd" it's a disingenuous argument. That talk is no more a fair shake than anything to come from Lennart's mouth.
I'm not sure what happened there, but I used the same link as you, and this was the intended functionality:

https://chatgpt.com/share/66ea22ad-5d20-8009-a3b0-909c5f500a...
Likewise I've used Fantasque Sans Mono (related to Comic Sans) for a long time as a coding font.
They were lucky someone wasn't carrying one on a plane
They’re pretty clear on both. UIKit, AppKit, and Objective-C(++) aren’t getting new features except in rare cases.

This is the way forward. And they’re dogfooding it. Even in some of their embedded processors.
> This is false. Many innocents are killed including children

That article - just like all other sources - mentions one 8-year-old girl, not "many innocents" and not several children either. Hence, this is deliberate misinformation.

> You can't determine where the device is when the bomb is activated.

You absolutely can. It's highly likely to be in the targeted person's pocket. Where else would it be?

After all, people usually don't hand their phones to random strangers or leave them lying around - and those pagers aren't even mere personal devices used for private purposes. Why would any of those devices end up anywhere else but the pocket of the person using it?

> This is an indiscriminate attack.

Launching rockets at civilians is. Blowing up pagers explicitly used for terrorist activities isn't.
You are likely referring to ignorance: not knowing what you don't know thus resulting in a possible false confidence.

The article is about "feeling stupid" in hindsight. Because you cannot unsee it anymore. Which makes you wonder about other myriad obvious things you are missing.

"Feeling stupid" can also mean that you get the impression that everyone around you gets it but you don't.

The irony especially in maths - it seems - is that you can feel stupid because you don't get it and then quit but also keep feeling stupid if you finally got it because in hindsight everything falls so neatly into place that you can't imagine that you had so much trouble to get it in the first place!
I get that people want to make fun of management. But the complaints were that Amazon was stagnating and frugal. The idea that they're spending extravagantly on programming language fads is amusing, but isn't really consistent with what others were saying or with what we know about Amazon generally.

Rewrites to save compute resources are done pretty frequently at huge companies. It's a relatively easy source of projects for high level engineers because they can see the fleet-wide metrics and have figured out how to choose projects that have clear dollar value in their performance write-ups.

Could an L7 have wasted a bunch of time on a fruitless project? Of course. Could an L7 have wasted a bunch of time on a fruitless project at a notoriously cutthroat and frugal company AND be super proud of it? That seems much less likely since they have to show some numeric impact at that level, but I obvious still possible. Would their manager then also be proud of it? That seems even less likely.

So when the only description of the project also accurately describes a large class of valuable projects (i.e. decrease fleet-wide cost of a ubiquitous tool) I was genuinely curious if there was more to the story.
> Just like 'Ivy League' or "D1 sport".

Just for the record, Ivy League is D1 sport ;)
Physician–patient racial concordance and newborn mortality
Furi FLX1 Linux Smartphone
More to the point, it isn't the politicians of only one party who are getting rich this way.
Sure, except Moses and the Jewish people were on the land around 1500 BC, and the Islamic religion didn't start until after 500 CE. So the Jewish people got there at least 2000 years earlier, so if we are doing the "who ethnically cleansed who" game, I think the Jewish people appear to be at most, reversing the previous ethnic cleansing? Or is there some kind of moral "expiry date" on ethnic cleansing?
Shout outs to Shiva who has appeared in some videos but is often behind the camera so doesn't get enough recognition as being the other half of their duo :)
Honestly? No.

I've had the chance to work with world class people in three different fields now. Inevitably, the people who were at the very top (World Champions, folk who literally invented (parts of) the Internet, people creating products for a massive fanbase) didn't "want to be the very best". And they were extremely comfortable with other people being smarter, if it happened.

They inevitably got to the top because every day, they wanted to be a bit better than the last day. "The best" never mattered. "Better than yesterday" did. And when they were at the top, they were the most kind and helpful people you can imagine - uplifting others whenever they could.

And they certainly didn't want to be "like no one ever was" - they invariably had a deep appreciation for the ones who came before them, and they copied everything that seemed worth copying.

The people who don't heed that advice, who don't give that advice, who relentlessly claw? Perpetual second tier, without exception.
To complete the data, the company is trading at $0.34/share, so while $0.40 is a bit lower than the typical 20% premium (~$0.41), I'm not sure it counts as "lowball". It's a typical premium over market cap.

Is there any reason to think the company is worth $4.7B or whatever ($9.30/share)? If so the stock is a steal at its current price and we should all buy lots. But can the market be THAT wrong?
IT services is a very broad term. You need to be more specific about what you are able to do and deliver. Once you can clearly express what you do and what value you deliver, then just go and door knock local small businesses.

I'm not surprised online adverts don't work. My inbox gets a couple of unsolicited offers to do IT work every week. If I needed IT work done, which I don't, I would reach out to my professional network and not take chances with random strangers on the internet.
I Am Legend is probably closer.
open letter to all font people: You have a skill, design, which is a skill I don't have, so I am glad you are working on fonts and not me. A beautiful font is a thing to behold, it decreases stress and leaves us muy tranquilo-OOOOMMMM

however: when I am in a spreadsheet, trying to choose a typeface & font for one column, my goal is NEVER to suddenly expand either the width, or the height, or the amount of hover over the baseline, or fabulous quantities of descender or ascender, or linespacing or i-don't-know,-you-tell-me-the-terminology, I don't want your typeface to shockingly change its alignment to all the other text I have

and that includes "oh, just select a different pointsize"; if things are the same pointsize, then they should be able to sit next to one another; I know it's not your fault, but you know whose fault it really really isn't? MINE

I really want to use your typefaces; don't make it so hard
Ill say that for me and my team, implementing SCRUM has worked well and overall reduced stress.

We have a lot of control about what we pull in and the issues in out backlog, and if we need to designate prep work, we put it in as a spike.

The only time i really have work stress is when we have to many interrupts, but SCRUM has a process for buffering for that and I find that very effective for telling the story when that happens.

So it sounds like I am a SCRUM fan, and I am, but i would def be open to hear about other systems that teams use who have tried SCRUM and prefer their new solution.
Nice! Thank you. I really enjoyed this. Gave me those Douglas Adams flashbacks.

I'm not so sure about the packaging/pacing though: the first episode took 29 minutes but it actually had 4 episodes glued together. That made it feel repetitive and like dragging on. I think I'd enjoy it much more if I was presented with individual ~7 minute episodes. Easier to consume and to give it a daily spin.
Of course they do. But "lower taxes on ordinary people by defunding corruption" is a very different proposal than "sustain funding for corruption by raising taxes".
Well actually, that submission is a duplicate of this one and was posted 5 hours later.
Thanks for sharing! I'd never thought to click through and see
The interactive component was just there so you didn't have to compute the buffer yourself, but I see your point--thanks!
Yes, but the CEO was trying to take those profits for herself by biding to take the company private, which the Board of Directors refused to put up with
I’ve been meaning to do this for years, and just played around with rust a bit (liked it, but the wrappers around some c++ stuff i wanted to use were half baked). Learning rust, there was this “rustlings” thing [0] that was a set of guided exercises to go alongside the rust book. Fastest I’ve ever picked up a language, thanks to that. Do you or anyone know anything similar for c++?

[0] https://rustlings.cool/
A 10 year old girl died too. They took no precautions to limit damage bystanders even assuming every person with one was a BadGuy™ which makes it terrorism and reprehensible.
I have no real complaints about systemd as an init system. I have plenty to say about systemd not staying in its lane.

systemd's developers have formed a habit of deciding to implement something like an NTP client or DNS resolver, bringing a healthy dose of ignorance of how those services actually work, and then doubling down on their poor design decisions when problems are brought to their attention.
If you're trying to say that the labor market for programmers is immune to issues of over-supply that causes under-employment, you are delusional.
She founded it
An otherwise unmotivated position sustained as desirable only by the difficulty generated by the number of people trying to crowd into it serves as a deeper representation of this country than the story you're proposing to replace it with. ;)
They had total control of the pagers, sigint and social graph, command and control hierarchy. They knew exactly who was who.

Question is how did Hamas slip by this same highly skilled org?
The board is making it clear that they don't think the CEO/largest shareholder is making good on their duty (as CEO) to the other shareholders.

"Good luck ......" or so.
You can get support if you sign up for Meta verified. Did you try that?

https://help.instagram.com/261957349507759
>citing American and other officials briefed on the operation.

How far should I be reading into the fact that people outside of Israel leaked this info so quickly? Does it mean the US was very unhappy with the attack? I doubt they were happy with not being given a heads up.
Binding a DNS server to 127.0.01:53 is a perfect example of what has always bothered you about systemd? Seriously not getting it.

Providing DNS services on 127.0.0.1:53 has nothing to do with systemd. It's a convention used by NetworkManager, and associated network services. The very good reason being that network interfaces that are being brought up and down can choose to forward their DNS requests to 127.0.0.1, and allow a completely separate unit (resolved?) to deal with the details of where DNS requests get forwarded from there. (Or not, if they so choose).

Was there some OTHER burning compelling use-case that makes you want to use 127.0.0.1:53 for some other purpose?
Exactly. The Roth IRA is tax avoidance.
What do you want them to sell? Personally I’m glad the paid features are trivial rather than core functionality.
For the record, 23andme is one of the few companies where the CEO never once responded to one of my emails (2017, 2019, 2022, 2024).

You can make a lot of money just by betting on companies where the CEO (or the CEO's office) takes listening to customers'(who are rooting for them!) emails seriously, and shorting those that do not.
She's one of the original cofounders. Google never acquired it, only invested.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23andMe
The former is just a lot easier...
Israel isn't causing any civilian casualties in South Lebanon. Hezbollah declaring war on Israel by firing rockets onto civilian areas since the 8th of October caused them.
I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding but it sounds like you are implying membership of Hezbollah is deep dark shameful secret in Lebanon. The designation of Hezbollah as a "terrorist organization" is great for outside political propaganda, but the actual reality is they are a major and open faction in political life in Lebanon as both paramilitary group and political party - as is my understanding. Basically Sinn Fein/IRA.
University of Maryland President Copied Rocket Science Paper from Aussie Student
Because E2EE causes an absolute ton of friction to the chat experience. Stuff that you expect to just work like chat history and searching no longer works.
why are these companies worth so much, if not for sneakily monetizing and selling their user's most personal data?
[Israel Planted Explosives in Pagers Sold to Hezbollah, Officials Say - The New York Times]

https://archive.ph/YNREZ
Swift is the only language where I've had to fight the compiler to do its job. In earlier versions like 1.x and 2.x, it would often segfault. By 3.x it was still really slow to build. I regretted moving a project off ObjC back then.

I thought maybe that was all fixed by now, but guess not?
This is a great way for some people to play in public but still keep a work play wall up by following one simple rule: Only Legos. If you want to break the rule, a maker faire is a better venue. I think GBC is really cool to see, but I would feel like I was wearing hand cuffs if I tried it.
The author sounds like he's confused "being an asshole" with "being a visionary"

Maybe he needs more "ruthless self-reflection"
Bro what. It's very clearly meant to cover up a swear word.
Was the plan all the time to go B2B (drug development) and they just used B2C (selling SNP kits) to hoard samples?

Even considering all FDA limitations, I cannot understand how bad their genetic risk scores are.

They have talent, they have lots of customers and data. This is a position other companies, like deCODE, would have killed to be in.
When did that happen? A founder was married to Sergei Brin for 8 years but that’s it.
I would think a BSD developer has a good idea of the challenges facing OS development and the implementation of an init system.

I do not think it is charitable to them to say they think only Linux matters. If that’s the case why are they a FreeBSD developer?
The word on X is it was Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate (PETN): https://x.com/MattWGraver/status/1836093195240800522 (not me)
Thank you for the suggestion. It's an interesting project, but I'm more comfortable writing Rust code. Also I still have a lot to do for the library I'm maintaining. The libei and Wayland support is still experimental and buggy and I need to get better integration tests working. So much to do, so little time :-)
Calling Linux Kernel Functions from Userspace Using Drgn
Remove startups from your thinking, it has nothing to do with what AI winter was. The only winter will be for those that do not use AI.
If I were new to Swift and saw how complicated and version-specific the Stackoverflow answers* are for things that are super simple in other languages, I wouldn't expect things to get much easier from there. And that instinct would be right.

* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34540185/how-to-convert-... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32305891/index-of-a-subs... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39677330/how-does-string... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24250938/swift-pass-arra...
“Nearly every baby born in the U.S. has blood drawn in the immediate hours after their birth, allowing the baby to be tested for a panel of potentially life-threatening inherited disorders. This is a vital public health program, enabling early treatment of newborns with genetic disorders; for them, it can be the difference between a healthy life and an early death.

But recent news suggests that police are seeking access to these newborn blood samples in criminal investigations. Such use of this trove of genetic material — to hunt for evidence that could implicate a child’s relative in a crime — endangers public trust in this vital health program and threatens all Americans’ right to genetic privacy.”

All of our new babies had heel stick blood drawn, won’t the government be the eventual
competitor of 23 and me (since Americans don’t care too much about privacy).

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/police-are-usin...
Consider Phlebas?
OpenAI O1 IOI Submissions
context https://x.com/alexwei_/status/1836161724833247310?s=46