skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What helps me is realizing that basically no one is every going to read what I write. And if they do actually read it, then that's a good problem to have.
There's the "I did my own research" guy, with bonus sex shaming.
Pretending that someone can leave their country as casually as changing high-mobility jobs is extremely disingenuous.
* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9669

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBPF

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Packet_Filter
All spending should be taxed instead of income. Income is too easy to move and hide. Spending tax could be unified framework encompassing all financial activity. If you purchase anything, labor, imports, energy, stock, politicians, you should be taxed.

Spending is the moment when the money shows its ugly head and does harm.
> When exposed to massive amounts of it, it becomes desensitized

This is what I was going to say. But looking backwards, I think it's a consequence of large cities vs little towns. If you lived in a little village, it's harder to ignore someone in need. You're going to see them again, you know their name, and almost like your family. This is how societies operated for millennia. But in a metropolis, it's easier to stop caring, expect the government to fix it (lol), and fear your neighbor instead of thinking of your city as "yours" and investing in it.
Damn those are really good features they could have contributed to Kubernetes.
The financialization of housing has been an unmitigated disaster and must be rolled back at all costs. The responsible individuals are unfortunately long dead and we will never be able to hold them to account - the next best thing we can do is to reverse it.
Do you think pundits will count these deaths as "deaths as a direct result of capitalism" or will they say "no that is not real capitalism!".
Are there any sufficiently large organizations (500+ employees seems to be right around the mark) that exist that are NOT doing illegal things? I have a list of 2 from personal experience, 4 from family experience, and several more from friends experience. From this I would be surprised to find if there exists one that is not regularly doing illegal activities. The story is extremely believable and I have no reason to doubt it because it mirrors what I have seen personally.
It's actually neither. Its the software leadership. Ideally the product people should know what they want and provide that in writing, because that is what they are getting (whether or not it's what they really want). The developers/engineers are responsible for building according to the requirements and constraints provided.

Somebody has to own that. Ownership is important because that's where risk and failure live, and somebody ultimately must make the adult decisions that drives the product forward. Software leadership own the process definitions and risk acceptance while project managers own the budget and process operations.

In software this is often tiny, so its easy to gloss over and get sloppy. Consider freeway construction though which deals with a project budget that can exceed $5-20 billion, physical inventory, hundreds of people on site providing labor, and much more. There is still engineering, product delivery, a customer, and such but the liability is greater, so the planning and ownership are more disciplined. The incentives are also greater. As a result planning and modeling become more important. Injuries and defects cost money and result in halted work, so you have to account for risks and personnel in your planning. When there is no liability and limited incentives people have no real motivation to take ownership.

Other industries solve for this with some combination of licensing and broker/agent model. Licensing solves two problems. First, it sets the minimally acceptable baseline to practice and second it defines a set of ethics that become more important than employer directives.
> No I think this perspective is a product of your own biases. There are plenty of people out there who care and as the article notes, there's lots of charity in the world. But it doesn't solve the problem.

Plenty of people care most don’t care.

Your perspective is unique. I’m talking from a perspective of someone who looks at poverty like a foreign country. Most people have never experienced it.
> Wood should not be damaged by temperatures high enough to kill living cells

Yep, in NASA's planetary protection guidelines they have bakeout timelines specified for microbial reduction at temperatures between 112C and 155C. There are a number of other cleaning and sterilization methods in there as well.

[0] https://planetaryprotection.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/img/conte...
> They paid 18% less tax in 2016 than in 2013 while the number of flats available on the site went from 30k to 300k

Completely meaningless without also saying what their costs and investments were.
So… eBPF is now BPF and old BPF is now cBPF or classic bpf.
Isn't the Wirecard case still pending with execs in jail waiting for trial?
Did all of that allow them to do more prescribed burns?
I've been writing / editing technical blogs for the past decade, and I found that the key thing is to be engaging.

Most technical blog posts are boring. They look like documentation.

My best technical blog posts were the ones where I added personal stories about how I used the library/framework I was referring to.

The best advice from OP is to hire an editor. Especially for non-native English speakers (like me). A good editor can transform "good" technical content into exceptional content.

Michael Lynch, who regularly front-page HN has a great article about this: https://mtlynch.io/editor/
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> How can that only be coming out now?

I mean, it's not. There have been estimated death tolls available for years, but people don't ever care. You can safely assume that once this documentary is released, people still won't care.
IIRC some Chinese spy sats that still used photographic film to capture images used treated wood for the heat shield of the film return capsule. Not that special actually as IIRC treated cork has been used for spacecraft heat shielding quite regularly.
Revenue tax? We had that before the fall of the wall - not again please. The VAT system works well and should be used more.
It’s not a response to the article, it’s a response to the headline which says “Apple ‘broke law’” when they haven’t been found guilty yet and is clearly utilizing quotes to make clickbait without getting sued, I may choose to read it to get one side of the story but I am not getting real journalism given that headline

my comment probably deserves downvote as it’s not related to the article, but I wanted to condemn a headline obviously meant to lure people who hate Apple and want organized labor to click on it, rather than real journalism
> There have been estimated death tolls available for years, but people don't ever care.

Can you share?
Guesses below:

1) by being "base32hex" the "hex" part resulted in inclusion of 0, 1, and 8.

2) whomever originally defined it simply did the most straightforward extension of appending "GHIJKLMNOPQRSTUV" without thought as to the fact that for some fonts, I O and B could be confused with the numbers with similar appearance.

The appending of the next sequential characters G through V also simplified the encoding/decoding algorithm [1] by only having one discontinuity (the gap between 9 and A) to contend with instead of four discontinuities (three of which are only one character position wide).

[1] the original algorithm was not likely implemented as a lookup table.
By some metrics, the US is considered a developing country. For example the U.N. places it at rank 46, below such countries as Romania, Cuba, Bulgaria, Albania:

https://dashboards.sdgindex.org/rankings

Edit: you US people can downvote me as much as you want, that won't change the facts :-D
The article explicitly dismisses those as unreliable
Is this a ghost job? Been posted for the past 3 months but somehow hasn't found a candidate....
I don’t think this is a technology problem…
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> Additionally it’s important to remember that the news report is a one-sided interview basically.

It's an interview of two of the three sides, not a one-sided interview. The motivation for the article is that the US National Labor Relations Board has now joined the initial complainant in making the allegations against Apple and asking them to settle by agreeing to specific remedies.

They did also try to get comment from Apple, and since Apple declined to answer their questions (see the end of the article), they nevertheless quoted Apple's statement to Reuters on this topic from last month. So all three sides are at least represented in the article.

Sure, it's true that no judge, jury, or administrative hearing officer has yet ruled on the allegations; that is still in the future if no settlement occurs, but part of the news report is that such an administrative hearing has now been scheduled.
Async Cancellation in Rust (2021)
Is there a CGM that's not disposable and not prescription or subscription?
I've been getting my CGM via https://siphoxhealth.com/ which takes care of writing the prescription.
They seem to claim a universal fix/cure.

I didn’t read the link
Text I was going by the comment that faith in g-d is effected by magnets. I don’t believe faith is universally derived.
Erlang is most definitely strongly typed [1]. Perhaps you confused static & dynamic typing? Easy mistake to make. Similarly, from what I could find Erlang is typically run on BEAM [2] which is an interpreter virtual machine that executes BEAM byte code (with a JIT option).

Since I’m not an expert on either language, here’s my take of how ChatGPT summarizes Erlang vs Go on various options.

Go’s standard library is primitives driven for general purpose programming while Erlang’s is purpose driven for distributed programming. So it depends on what you mean by “comprehensive”. For example, out of the box Erlang provides an environment for writing correct, robust distributed programs. If comprehensive means having a bunch of knives & start juggling that’s a different use case.

[1] https://learnyousomeerlang.com/types-or-lack-thereof#:~:text....

[2] https://www.erlang.org/blog/beam-compiler-history/
Unless your EV is powered by 100% renewables and you completely avoid plastic products somehow you're probably still consuming it in some way. Ethical consumption isn't really possible in today's world, unfortunately. Nearly anything you touch is the result of slave labor or human rights abuses somewhere.
Isn't that what it is - a place where we don't have to pretend we don't care about details.

I see the point of the documentary, it would have absolutely floored me a couple of months ago. However, I have very recently spent a month learning Serbian, which included learning (Serbian) Cyrillic, which led to me finally asking some obvious questions - where does Cyrillic come from, where does Greek come from, where does the Latin alphabet come from, etc. So I've binged similar information of the sort that documentary describes, I think.

I still might watch it later though and see if there's more juice in there, thank you very much!
Why does python have to be slow? Improvements over the last few releases have made it quite a bit faster. So that kind of counters that a bit. Apparently it didn't need to be quite as slow all along. Other languages can be fast. So, why not python?

I think with the GIL some people are overreacting: most python code is single threaded because of the GIL. So removing it doesn't actually break anything. The GIL was just making the use of threads kind of pointless. Removing it and making a lot of code thread safe benefits people who do want to use threads.

It's very simple. Either you did not care about performance anyway and nothing really changes for you. You'd need to add threading to your project to see any changes. Unless you do that, there's no practical reason to disable the GIL for you. Or to re-enable that once disabled becomes the default. If your python project doesn't spawn threads now, it won't matter to you either way. Your code won't have deadlocking threads because it has only 1 thread and there was never anything to do for the GIL anyway. For code like that compatibility issues would be fairly minimal.

If it does use threads, against most popular advise of that being quite pointless in python (because of the GIL), you might see some benefits and you might have to deal with some threading issues.

I don't see why a lot of packages would break. At best some of them would be not thread safe and it's probably a good idea to mark the ones that are thread safe as such in some way. Some nice package management challenge there. And probably you'd want to know which packages you can safely use.
Awesome! (Unrelated: Now I just need to figure out how to overcome all these "Admiral" nags that are chipping away at my love for filtering on half of the legitimate news sites... any advice?)
Russia Firing Record Number of Shahed-136s at Ukraine
Nation state acts in its own interest, news at 11

No but seriously, this doesn't sound surprising? Why should France be against a French company buying up other companies and bringing revenue back to France
Agreed! That is my point. The tech already exists, it is paperwork/policy to fix. Someone must have the will to move the needle for the change to occur.

If countries sending folks to these places are complacent, certainly, the problem scope and level of effort required expands rapidly.
There's Base58, which is similar: https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/keys/base58/

I think B64 isn't meant to be human-readable anyway, and not having to deal with exceptions probably makes the code a LITTLE simpler?
Honestly, I think Branch Education does a solid job with topics like this. Yes, it glosses over details and sometimes simplifies to the point of oversights, but that’s often necessary in educational content to avoid getting bogged down. It’s a balance: if you dive too deep, you risk losing the main points.

Branch Education is designed to introduce complex concepts, often for high schoolers or newcomers to the subject. Even my first grader finds it interesting because it’s visually engaging and conveys a general understanding, even if much of the terminology goes over their head. Their video on how computer chips are made, for example, managed to hold the whole family’s attention. That is hard to do for most of the nerdy shit I watch on YouTube!

It’s not meant to be a deep dive—Ben Eater is better suited for that. His work on instruction counters, registers, and the intricacies of “how CPUs work” is incredible, but it’s for a different audience. You need a fair amount of computer science and electrical engineering knowledge to get the most out of his content. Good luck getting my family to watch him breadboard an entire graphics system; it’s fascinating but requires a serious commitment to appreciate fully.
> How can that only be coming out now?

Could it be that [social] media is too biased? It seems obvious to me that if you look at countries around the world, you’ll be astonished by our “global ignorance". It would be a great exercise if we had new tools to measure things at a macro, worldwide level and not just issue-oriented perspectives.
I've worked at plenty of organizations 1-25k+ and never done or known of anyone doing anything even close to illegal.
I think its more comparable to bungee jumping or sky diving than a roller coaster or drop tower. There is more perceived risk. I think the sense of falling slowly unattached to any physical object, with ability to move in any direction (I'm guessing) could be a magical experience.

I think there would be a similar experience to a reduced-gravity aircraft ride.

Its not necessarily just the physics of falling down a tube slowly thats interesting.

Getting a little whimsical, what if you had an Alice in wonder land experience. Wrap the whole "ride" in strange and fun visual effects while you fall down the rabbit hole.

Or, have protrusions from the tube where you could jump down to different levels and climb up the sides.

But, I really don't know the limitations or whats possible.
You’d really like the C community. They like to say things like “although I do find the setfaults annoying, it really makes me think carefully about memory ownership and layout”. The problem is that if you don’t have a consistent way to accomplish a task correctly, something like errors that could happen a nearly every function call, then you’re very likely to make a mistake. Coupled with that, most people ignore testing for error conditions or simulating errors, so the error handling has a very high likelihood of having bugs.
Facebook, Nvidia push SCOTUS to limit "nuisance" investor suits after scandals
Government findings and/or fines do not affect the bottom line enough to change behaviors. Only sufficient numbers of consumers willing to change buying decisions will ever stop corporations from doing things that they shouldn't.
> I don't know what the syntax should look like.

I'm not sure the syntax is all that significant. There have been numerous proposals, but the syntax was never the reason for rejection. It is that the entire concept is unusable in the state that it is understood.

That's not to say the problems can't be solved, but nobody has yet.

> It's very common to have a chain of these kinds of calls making up the body of a function.

Yes, like in Rust, for example. But it also has defined traits and other features on top of the chaining to deal with the same problems Go would suffer from it had such syntax. Theoretically Go could introduce the same, but it remains unclear how to do that in a way that makes sense in the Go language.

Again, there is probably a solution out there, but nobody has come up with it yet. Surprisingly, these kind of things aren't sent down from the heavens by a magical deity. It takes human effort, which isn't there because they are busy ranting on HN.

> It seems like "return err" is very useful for this pattern

Where would you find it useful (memes aside)?
Ask HN: How do you estimate the cost of a board?
Flavor text:

To keep it brief, I'm starting a new position in the cost engineering department. It seems that the electronic components division is fairly understaffed (only 1 guy can work on boards, the rest do cables), and my training supervisor intends to assign me to that division.

I don't really have a lot of experience in the field expect half a degree in CS and the awarness of reddit and this site.

NOW:

How do you estimate the cost of components of a board?

I understand the existance of sites like digikey, rs-online and some comparator sites (octopart and findchip) but i would like to know more about the logic behing logic cip design to at least understand what types of components i'm looking at.

Any resurces i should look at?

Books about circuit design and components and how should i price components, i should every time email suppliers? this seems really....inefficent
https://hp15c.elf.org wraps https://hp15c.com/, calculators make lovely web apps on smart phones, collect them all!
I'm going for a browse of the book now and realise they've a newer second edition, for anyone interested, it's here:

https://probmods.org/
Purchase tax would work like reverse VAT. Companies could be awarded tax credits for their sales (not 100% though) and pay tax on their purchases. This would be harder to evade and additionally incentivise companies to do more with less which might be good for environmental transition.
This is a cool implementation, for sure, but I'm not sure I'd recommend going directly for a structure like a CRDT and managing the distribution yourself. This kind of thing is exactly why mnesia was made, and that should have no trouble at all scaling to the hundreds of thousands of connections and beyond.
SCP started with a post from 2007. It's been going long enough to get its better bits filtered to the top, and have some kind of editorial board.

The Backrooms started with a 2019 post. It's only about five years old. Give it time and maybe it'll produce something like "There Is No Antimimetics Division". Maybe it won't. There's probably a few people who will say that their career as a storyteller twenty years from now owes a lot to their childhood fooling around in the Backrooms. And that's fine too.
Wittgenstein's Language Games and the Rise of Large Language Models
I'd look for a document called something like "How To Build A New Internet When The Existing One Has Just Gone Down Indefinitely".
I felt that I had misspoke with 'knots'! I only know miles, but miles are a land thing and I knew they used something else on the water. Should have checked sources!
If we know of 21,000 deaths it is safe to assume there are more deaths we do not know about.
It will drive the prices down when enough supply hits the market. Current numbers are a joke compared to the demand generated.
Leveraged loans can indeed create higher prices for a percentage of the market, but when supply approaches or exceeds the demand the "investment grade securities" will repeat the 2008 scenario.
Check for example commercial properties in SF before and after COVID. After COVID (and SF city mismanagement) the supply > demand and prices went down a lot and investors lost money. Retail market is different, but the same scenario would work.
Why not 100%? How is that even supposed to work in low-margin markets like construction, where the profit is 100x less than the costs, so even 1% tax would erase it? But any markets really, this makes innovation and business so risky that I'd probably close down my IT company too.
"On real free marked this would never happen!". It would be funny if was not so sad.
Well no that's not really what happens, what happens is that legally the french entity is just a service provider for the irish HQ. They pretend it's a simple marketing agency and that the real value is provided by the irish entity
Do you want euroscepticism? Because that's how you get euroscepticism.
Hi Alex Diaz from qbo, can you stop spamming links to your website all over the net? At least elaborate.
https://alqst.org/ar/posts/808

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68945445

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/05/saudi-arabia...
I would suspect that as scale grows, law breaking becomes more likely. However that doesn't mean that all those companies break the law with same severity, ubiquity and ill intent.

I do think if we uad a legal that could actually hold these organizations accountable, and we would see less corporate law breaking. A common stance on HN is that we should be putting more executives in jail for longer instead of just fining companies amounts that are just the cost of doing business.
There was an interview with Anne Brorhilker, who used to be state's attorney and was investigating in CumEx cases. She stated that it is a huge pain, because you always need to ask the foreign agencies for assistance, which you sometimes simply won't get.

It was a good listen. At first she needed to go empty handed, but then teamed up with competent tech guys. After that the smug faces stating, that the amount of data would be to much to handle for her little department quickly turned into concerned faces.
Criticker has been around since 2005, is super accurate with movie and tv recommendations and they're now owned by a big company!
@bryanrasmussen I wouldn't put it past the Irish one!
GA4 is pretty complicated now. Way too many clicks to get to the data and everything requires custom reports. This is exactly what the market needs.

Not sure why Google doesn't make it easy. Thank you for building this.