skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1. Provide estimates when you can make them.

When one is super confident, for instance, if someone screwed up DNS and you know everything will be resolved exactly 300 seconds from the time it was corrected, because that was the TTL on the bad record... That's when I'd be happy saying "Service will be restored to normal at 3:15PM."

When you're not sure if a fix you're trying will succeed or not, that's not the time to say "It'll be resolved in 15 minutes." That assumes that the current plan will fix it, and now you're just setting up 'future you' to look foolish when they have to post again to retract that promise (and worse, possibly make up another estimate that may also be wrong).

As a general rule I'd say not pretending to have knowledge of the future is humility.

> I'm going to reasonably read that as you not have a good understanding of the issue and are not confident in whatever you are doing. Basically, you are incompetent.

I envy the person who has always understood exactly what course of action they should take -- and exactly how long that fix will take -- before they've had even a few minutes to investigate the problem! What a perfect tech stack and perfect knowledge that person must have. They probably don't have any downtime in the first place though, since they know every bit of their application's state at all times anyway.
I am as worried about LLMs taking my job as I am about parrots or magic taking it, and for the same reason. Do not worry about make-believe stuff.

Interviews are irrelevant if you publish enough good things that companies reach out to you and offer to skip them. Write. Learn. Publish. Thrive.

Building fluff is indeed a serious issue, but there are plenty of places that are doing useful things, eg: Medical. Aerospace.

Demand is weak for javascript monkeys. It is plenty strong in the same places it always has been: solving complex problems in complex systems. Go work there.
Are you removing paid working time in doing the extra work? If not it is just an opportunity cost
I'm always happy whenever this old article goes viral. For two reasons: First, learning to accept the fact that the better solutions doesn't always win has helped me keep may sanity over more than two decades in the tech industry. And second, I'm old enough to have a pretty good idea what the guy meant when he replied, "It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken."
the default executor must be ThreadPoolExecutor. But you are right you can pass ProcessPoolExecutor too.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-eventloop.html#asy...
Pre-AI internet.
I don't like Atlas Shrugged and you can't convince me otherwise. The most interesting paragraphs in that book were rants about cigarette brands, and even that was a total bore.

Neuromancer is enjoyable, but mostly because I enjoyed cyberpunk inspired media before reading it. Seeing all the influences Neuromancer had on books, movies, anime/manga, and even half life mods was a real treat. That and I empathized with Case - in my youth I was addicted to amphetamines, and it was a really nasty habit to kick.

As for Dying Earth, although the first wizards story is a little bit of a slow burn, seeing the elf sisters come back for their own pieces in the anthology was a real treat. Seeing the disturbed one overcome her sickness and find love was a fun triumphant end for her character arc. I'm also a DnD player, so seeing the early inspiration for the spell slots mechanic was a really cool experience for me.

But, really, what really annoys me about what people like you do is interrogate people for purity. I lost too much time in my youth trying to keep people, who I thought were my friends, like you happy.

That sort of stress isn't worth it. People who act this way are not a positive influence on my life, and I just don't have the time for it. And it's perfectly acceptable not to want to be friends with people who accuse other people of being too chuddy.

It's just gross, man
Is there a business with a "house brand" that doesn't do this?
> I’d rather just de-orbit every StarLink satellite, stick next gen data satellites in geostationary orbits, and outlaw more any more space trash at that scale in LEO, full-stop.

Flip side is that stuff in LEO deorbits pretty quicky, while geostationary junk doesn't deorbit in any timeframes humans care about.
Is this some kind of test?
If by implicit state management, you're including the abomination that is `useState`, I could not possibly disagree any harder.
It's pretty misleading not to mention the performance overhead. That's an obvious downside and quite easy to benchmark. Skipping any discussion of performance feels like sweeping it under the marketing rug :/
Yep. And nary a tear is shed these days over the death of the so-called superior Lisp machines.
We should absolutely be deploying these where we can, but they do take up a lot of space relative to their traffic throughput, and are only really suitable for a fairly narrow range of traffic volumes.

NL seems to quite commonly have this kind of physically large but medium traffic suburban junction, but outside of Milton Keynes and the outskirts of some towns that got heavily developed in the 60s, it's hard to see many places where we could just drop it in.
Get firmware from most hardware for $10 (video about CH341A)
Brave new world describes ... approximately the 21st century 1st world countries' upper-middle class. We are living it. TokTok/YouTube is soma.
I think your technique is working because a lot of people got triggered by your friend test.

I kind of love it.
Sadly (for me) this now needs an annotated version for younger reader to fully understand.

I'm starting to feel old on a more and more frequent cadence.
I know what you meant, just saying that somebody reading "brand of cheap but decent" may read as "brand of cheap stuff" and for clarification that's not what they represent.
> Why aren't retailers suing?

Because Amazons wiped a lot of them out, and the ones that remain are either doing the same thing, or stand zero chance of comign out of it anything less than bankrupt.

Amazon for all its convenience has decimated likely close to if not more than a million businesses at this point across the world.
https://www.wired.com/1996/10/atm-3/ Netheads vs Bellheads
$50/month, these days, if I'm not mistaken. (You can only use it abroad for two months at a time, but you can update your location as as far as I'm aware, and it's $/€ 50 in most places.)

Price wise, it's no comparison, but the two don't directly compete yet – power usage and antenna size of Iridium and Starlink are orders of magnitude apart (largely due to the L-band spectrum available to Iridium globally).
Illusions by Richard Bach is also mind-blowing, or at least was for me during puberty..
You are leaving out a major part. Such as that there were not nearly enough. Adopting a "new & shiny" is a long way from all the troops actually having it. My father was in WWII; he was drilling with 2x4s, because they didn't have rifles. The entire division only had two Sherman tanks. A lot of our overwhelming production was 1943 and later.
I meant it from the perspective that games had to be made longer (in terms of playthrough) without using more bytes.

And killing the player and making them replay the game adds a LOT of playtime.

Also, and probably more importantly, I feel like gamers' attention spans and tolerance for bullshit was higher. We mostly played games because we were bored. If not {game}, then what?

We didn't have access to the everything, whenever, wherever post-mobile-internet, on-demand world. The web was slow, static, and sucked for ~1980-2005. (Flash was a poor substitute for real games)

That's a fascinating question though... how much disk space did death scenes take up?!

I know in Another World it's non-negligible. :D
This is a great line, though it might not have aged well. Younger generations might just think "Oh, the sky was black"
One of Microsoft's biggest lessons out of their anit monopoly trial was that they were not political enough.

Before the trial Bill Gates though spending money on lobbying was a waste and its a widely held belief that their anti trust trial wouldn't have happened if they had spent on lobbiest like healthcare, finance, and anything military do.

Post 2000, silicon valley learned this lesson and became one of the biggest lobbyers of the government. To the point where they eclipsed the oil and farm lobbies.
Maybe not in any position to do anything about it, but I'm quite sad :-/
(just saw this.)

I just got the 100th edition of that handbook from 2023. It's a huge book; do you suppose they removed the analog stuff? I'll keep that in mind and maybe pick up an old edition for comparison.
Waverley did a tour of the UK this year I think, I saw her in Falmouth towards the end of August then a week later in Plymouth and I heard they were doing trips for a few days, they certainly looked packed out on deck. Unfortunately the day they were doing a trip out to Eddystone lighthouse (7 miles off), there was fog so I don't know if it went ahead or was very interesting.
The issue in both cases is that you have to give up a certain amount of control over your application which may hinder your ability to sell it or keep it secure. It is also much easier to arrange for a library to be dynamically linked than to provide code or object files to swap the LGPL product.
I has officially been released: https://blog.python.org/2024/10/python-3130-final-released.h...
Here's a choice bit of stream-of-consciousness from the "Lotus Eaters" episode, as Mr. Bloom is contemplating the wares at a tea shop on a balmy June morning:

... So warm. His right hand once more more slowly went over again: choice blend, made of the finest Ceylon brands. The far east. Lovely spot it must be: the garden of the world, big lazy leaves to float about on, cactuses, flowery meads, snaky lianas they call them. Wonder is it like that. Those Cinghalese lobbing around in the sun, in dolce far niente. Not doing a hand’s turn all day. Sleep six months out of twelve. Too hot to quarrel. Influence of the climate. Lethargy. Flowers of idleness. The air feeds most. Azotes. Hothouse in Botanic gardens. Sensitive plants. Waterlilies. Petals too tired to. Sleeping sickness in the air. Walk on roseleaves. Imagine trying to eat tripe and cowheel. Where was the chap I saw in that picture somewhere? Ah, in the dead sea, floating on his back, reading a book with a parasol open. Couldn’t sink if you tried: so thick with salt. Because the weight of the water, no, the weight of the body in the water is equal to the weight of the. Or is it the volume is equal to the weight? It’s a law something like that. Vance in High school cracking his fingerjoints, teaching. The college curriculum. Cracking curriculum. What is weight really when you say the weight? Thirtytwo feet per second, per second. Law of falling bodies: per second, per second. They all fall to the ground. The earth. It’s the force of gravity of the earth is the weight ...

The vocabulary is colorful but hardly obscure, the sentence structure is broken but readily comprehensible.

Personally, I find it utterly transporting.
+1 for this one, it’s such a delightful experience to read.
Very interesting idea but I have to say that those goals are not possible with a simple OS, at least by OS definitions of simple :P
I'm obviously in the minority, but I breathe a sigh of relief every time I encounter a website that works workout JS, don't hijack basic browser functionality, don't make dozens of AJAX requests in the background, and overall just focuses on presenting the data I want.
Wow, you're not kidding about book-length: at 246 pages, that's an epic takedown. Learning all kinds of other things about networking along the way, though.

I do remember all nine layers of the OSI stack though: physical, data link, network, transport, session, presentation, application, financial, political.
1. There's a fun reference to this book in the movie "24 Hour Party People"

2. Chaucer's translation is referenced in the OED as the first use of the word "twitter" in the English language
How do you think the S&P500 was able to increase profit per employee by 5x?
Potentially related:

https://www.redfin.com/news/hurricane-helene-impacting-reloc... ("Redfin: Nearly One-Third of Young Adults Say Hurricane Helene Has Made Them Reconsider Where They Want to Live in the Future: Survey")
there is nothing like this. the closest thing to it is something called TTP (trusted third party), that works as intermediary between telco and law enforcement agencies. they perform wiretap order processing, setups actual wiretaps, collect/bundle and ship away to agencies wiretapped information.
but there is a bunch of them and you (telco) don't have to use them
These previous discussions (including the author in the second one) were pretty fruitful:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10404517 (2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26513518 (2021)
Oh nice! I follow sites like cnx software for embedded news but had missed this CQHCI/Command Queueing Host Controller Interface. I've been wondering when we might see

Is this the first cqhci driver in Linux? Man, back when sata got ncq and USB got UAT which both help with queuing it was such a huge help. I've wondered what the state of SD cards is, what might have changed or be changing. There have been some interesting really small nvme attempts, some with just a bunch of extra contacts on the cards - but this seems like an interesting offering!

I hope it or something else like it spreads! We are leaving performance on the table. And I really really dig the small size of micro-sd!! Also huge shout out to RPi for testing resilience by power cycles during heavy use. RPi is definitely going to raise the bar & others are going to have to improve (testing/reviewers will too), with this leap. So excellent.
"The internet" isn't for or against anything, it's just a vast computer network. It's the humans with an agenda that exploit the internet (specifically the web) that are against you.
There's a second problem here. OP is either unaware or doesn't care that they're being filtered by people who are wary of others who knowingly and consistently lie to strangers as the common case of getting to know one another.

I think most adults have a sensible aversion to that. In fact I'd go so far as saying that this common filter is to social cohesion what determinism is to a programming language. I'm happy to have an escape hatch for novel cases, but there are very good reasons for the common case being common.

Edit: clarification
I see, so you're saying static cling "at a distance" is different to the interaction of positive and negative charges in a chemical reaction?
Regularization in Machine Learning: A Guide to Prevent Overfitting
We have about 800 tons of the fuel and now we were barely able to pick up a few grains.
https://mylog.hashnode.dev/regularization-in-machine-learnin...
News sites aren't just providing information: they're trading reporting for ad impressions.
Gravity at levels 19-28 is 2 frames per cell, and level 29+ is 1 frame per cell. Rolling is pretty much required to survive at level 29+ speeds.

Lvl 19 (start): 140 lines
Lvl 20-28: 9 x 10 lines
Lvl 29-234: 206 x 10 lines
Lvl 235: 810 lines (because of level up overflow bug https://cohost.org/rgmechex/post/5264863-rgme-article-33-81)
Lvl 236-255: 20 x 10 lines

Total of 3300 lines cleared before the level overflowed to 0.

Looks like Dog continued playing on for a while, ultimately reaching level 91 again before ending the run with an additional 916 lines cleared after rebirth, due to not being able to recover from an i-piece misdrop.

To clarify, this was on a modified version of the game that prevents game crashes. The original unmodified version of the game actually starts experiencing possible crashes after reaching level 155 (Bluescuti being the first to reach this point is what made headlines some months ago).
The other doesn't discuss the 'prices' vs 'currency' question which would relate to your sentiment. Recently visited Japan where they have a lot of different coins, 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 yen. We don't talk a lot about dollar coins, but they were there to replace the $1 bill which gets worn out. A $5 coin (like the the 5 L coin in the UK) would be the 'you can get a meal with one coin' coin.
Well then it sounds like they are progressing in the right direction. If in the future you get to a point where 80% of all energy is renewable and 20% are peaker plants that’s a pretty good place to be in. I’m all for nuclear but a 1 in a 1000 year event causing a nuclear spill, say by the Danube, that makes multiple countries unlivable is a pretty scary proposition. That being said, I have no idea what the state of the art is when it comes to nuclear power plants so maybe plants are very, very safe now.
Yes, in this case I meant the Gemini search-enabled user-facing product, not the model itself.
See also: war crimes
But the best books are "A Canticle for Leibowitz", "Neuromancer", and "The Dying Earth".
From The Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple
https://shepherd.com/book/from-the-holy-mountain

I read this in my early 20s and it had a huge impact in changing the course of my life, sending me traveling over a Christmas break, and changing my entire perspective. He is an amazing author and this book is beautiful.
I guess I fell for it, then - I’m not particularly intelligent nor media-savvy, so perhaps that’s no surprise.

In your estimation, what’s an example of a fact that Boyle misinterprets in this video?
This product pays lots of Youtube creators to shill it, and I do mean shill. It's just another BS "supplement" product milking people who do not need any supplementation of any ingredient or nutrient. Nevermind that the supplement industry as a whole has a terrible record for actually putting the ingredients in the product that they say they do. I think buying random chemical compounds from small batch Florida labs off of ebay has more regulation than the supplement industry.

If you live in the US, and you get enough to eat in terms of calories, and you aren't so picky as to only eat one thing, you are most likely not notably deficient in any nutrient. Even if you think you are, if your doctor looks at your bloodwork and doesn't prescribe any specific supplement, you don't need one.
I see what you mean. Yet I feel like the first one (at least, as outlined in the article) is more about accepting an inevitability that you probably have little control over, while the second is more often adopted as a cultural process guideline for things you can control. But that's just my impression.
ENV variables having the names with PASSWORD or SECRET should be ignored by logging and monitoring systems. Most of the web has been built on trust of following conventions.

common secrets used on server side - `JWT_SECRET`, `DATABASE_PASSWORD`, `PGPASSWORD`, `AWS_SECRET_TOKEN` etc.,

Being a long time developer, this breaks the standard of backend apps which mostly uses 12 Factor App[1]. This approach introduces a new dependency for fetching secrets. I see all new open-source projects using "paid" or "hosted" solutions. It is no longer easy/simple to host a full open-source app without external dependencies. (I understand -- things are getting complicated with s3 for storage etc.,).

[1] https://12factor.net/
I saw one news story that called it "Pillar".
Show HN: OpenAI Realtime Console in Streamlit
Christianson and Chater's "The Language Game". This book changed the way I viewed everything, and also led me to read "The Philisophical Investigations", which I would also put up there.
Yea but there are a bunch of layers, lol, between that specification and the machine and I'm wondering if there's a way to reduce that assuming it's a bottleneck. But I'm not sure it is I'm just guessing.
crap what was that website that had such crazy ramblings - 2600 like technobabble spy hacker games... it wasn't what Shin Megami Tensei was based on... oh well, failed memory shapes reality
> I think I should shrink the size of my terminal window.Or can you make everything smaller?

So the board shrinks down as you reduce the size of window. Currently there is an issue in the chess pieces scaling down in size if we reduce the size of terminal. Showing images properly is quite tricky in terminal, hope to get to it sometime later this week.

> Need Keyboard support.

That's also something on my mind. Do you have any specific scenario in mind. I was thinking of hotkeys or chess notation as input.
One issue with Wasm is you essentially can't target it with a single-pass compiler, unlike just about any real machine. Wasm can only represent reducible control flow, so you have to pass your control-flow graph through some variation of the Relooper[1,2]. I don't know if upstream tcc can do that (there are apparently some forks?..).

[1] http://troubles.md/why-do-we-need-the-relooper-algorithm-aga...

[2] https://medium.com/leaningtech/solving-the-structured-contro...
Introduction to PostgreSQL Indexes
There is no best. Books mean different things at different times in your life. When I was a kid, The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Conan Saga, where the greatest books ever written and I still think they were amazing but, my reading interests have changed, here are a few of the best books I've enjoyed reading recently.

The War of Art - Pressfield
Outlive - Attia
The Fourth Turning - Strauss
> Skipping any discussion of performance feels like sweeping it under the marketing rug

Expecting performance while compiling C in the browser feels redundant right now though.
Haha what do you think people do with AI/ML? do you think that's currently in control?
If you were a Japanese tax payer, would it be a success ?

The total cleanup costs were estimated to be between 50.5 and 71 trillion yen ($470 to $660 billion). For the cleanup, only 184.3 billion yen was reserved in the September supplementary budget of prefecture Fukushima, and some funds in the central government's third supplementary budget of 2011.
That's interesting because the Genealogy of Morality was his greatest contribution as far as I can tell.

Is there something in particular that feels most egregious about master/slave morality or do you have some reading attempting to reject the ideas?
created: January 27, 2017

Very nice!

I feel like there could be a secret society around Illusions references.

(You'll understand if you read the book.)
>Let’s say we can get people to 200 by keeping them immobile and cold and nearly starving them of calories and oxygen—dramatically suppressing their metabolism. Who would want that?

I can imagine quite a few people. Maybe they are already in pain or have mobility issues. At that point why not say "yeah just feed me painkillers and keep me half-frozen. i can do everything in VR/online"? It's better than hospice.

https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Robert_House
Today every penny spent by a company that is not going to humans, is a cost, and leads to a tax reduction. Somehow those pennies are meticulously counted, so I don't see how it would be hard to measure.
I think this and validated sources are the best direction.

A trip to the bookstore to buy "x for dummies" can save dozens of hours of web searching.

The current iteration of the internet and AI is lacking depth, detail, and expertise.

You can find 1 million shallow answers on reddit, or echoed in AI, but anything more than the most cursory introduction is buried.

Not only is shallow information easier to generate, it is what most users want, and therefore most engines and services cater to it.

To find better content,you need to go to specialty outlets that don't cater to the lowest common denominator.
"Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should." ....
> Rust will only protect me from things my customers don't care about and don't understand.

Are you suggesting your customers don't care about CVE's, even indirectly when it affects them?