skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Soya bean farmers in the last round of tarifs got hit very hard by retaliatory tarifs.

The premise of a trade war is that you're negotiating with the other country. It's not that it has zero impact, it's that the impact on them is larger than the impact on you, so you have more leverage.

> Most of the high-tech stuff isn't really subject to tarifs, mostly because none of it is manufactured in the US.

Still implying that the other country can't use those things to retaliate even though the money is going to US companies.

> Yes Biden kept the tarifs, but didn't go on the news to announce it.

The premise was supposed to be that the tariffs would be unstable and companies wouldn't act, but companies looking at the past for guidance would now say that once the tariffs are there they stay for a while.

> The point is that he (or any president in the next 20 years) could simply as a political win (ie reducing prices). Whether that is good or bad policy is irrelevant. Yhe point is whether I want to risk substantial capital on that.

The alternative is that someone else does and you don't and then they can undercut you in the market because you're paying the tariffs and they don't.

Also, what's the alternative supposed to be? Even if the tariffs were put in place by Congress, every two years you have a new Congress and they could do something different, and the same with any other rules or regulations or taxes.

> Mexico is likely the big winner here. It has cheap labor and can't (easily) be tarrifed and likely would not be reverse tariffed.

Which is also good for the US, because it gains a second supplier for things currently only made in China, and Mexico is geographically closer to the US which saves on shipping forever once that manufacturing base is self-sustainable, and likewise provides geographically closer production of lower tech products which are the inputs to higher tech products and facilitate production of higher tech products in the US.
That is my experience too. In my neighborhood, by 8pm, the streets are crawling with drunk salarymen (and women) stumbling out of izakayas on their way to a snack and/or karaoke -- 5 days per week. They clearly werent working overtime with how often I see them.
The US compensates for their lassiez-faire employment model with their gym memberships and other subscriptions, which are harder to get out of than Japanese companies.
Now do "How American companies oppress workers and run lives". We got wage theft, abuse, sexual harassment, at will firings, wage slavery, and all sorts of fucked up healthcare forcing people to work here. Edit: to say nothing of our prison slave labor here.
The way it’s phrased matters.

Bad, because it implies that corruption exists: How much corruption is there in the Booker prizes?

Better, because it comes from a place of curiosity: What do folks think about the Booker Prize? Is the nomination and selection process considered fair or are there issues (corruption etc) that have affected other awards?
You do know that Edge is Chromium repackaged, like all other browsers except Safari and Firefox?
> I wonder why Fibre Channel isn't used as a replacement for TCP in the datacenter

But it is often used for block storage in datacenters. Using it for anything else is going to be hard, as it is incompatible with TCP.

The problem with not using TCP is the same thing HOMA will face - anything already speaks TCP, nearly all potential hires know TCP and most problems you have with TCP have been solved by smart engineers already. Hardware is also easily available. Once you drop all those advantages, either your scale or your gains need to be massive to make that investment worth it, which is why TCP replacements are so rare outside of FAANG.
While the benefit of processing chunks of 8 bytes is obvious, what's the purpose of grouping those into macrogroups of 4? Does it trigger any implicit parallelism I failed to spot? Or is it just to end this phase with the 4 h[] having had the same amount of entropy, and thus starting the next one with h[0]?

> The way it loads the 8 bytes is also important. The correct way is to load via shift+or
> This is free of any UB, works on any alignment and on any machine regardless of it's endianness. It's also fast, gcc and clang recognize this pattern and optimize it into a single mov instruction on x86 targets.

Is a single MOV instruction still fast when the 8 bytes begin on an odd address?
> For example, how might an arbitrary statement like "Scholars believe that professional competence of a teacher is a prerequisite for improving the quality of the educational process in preschools" be put in a lean-like language? What about "The theoretical basis of the October Revolution lay in a development of Marxism, but this development occurred through three successive rounds of theoretical debate"?

> This takes for granted a formal setting, which is what I'm questioning in any of these 'real world' contexts.

A formal model of semantics would likely be a low-level physical representation of possible states augmented with sound definitions of higher-level concepts and objects. I don't think humans are capable of developing a formal semantics that would work for your sentences (it's taken us hundreds of years to approach formalization of particle physics), but I think that an automated prover with access to physical experiments and an LLM could probably start building a more comprehensive semantics.
It’s not inefficiency. This has a tinge of slavery to it.
HTTP/3 aka QUIC (UDP).
The software mentioned in the article, Wiki.js, is a Git-based system. I've been using it for years and have all my pages in a Git repository.
I think a combination works quite well: first getting a small set of candidates from all the data using a lightweight model, and the using a heavy-duty model to rerank the results and get the final candidates.
The reason is explicable - health insurance paid by the employer is tax-deductible, while insurance paid by the employee is not. Therefore, employers include it as a way to increase total compensation at a lower cost.

The origin of the practice was in WW2, when Roosevelt froze wages. To attract more and better employees, the companies threw in health insurance as a way around the restrictions.
What makes you think onscreen keyboards are not useful in macOS if at least for accessibility reasons?
Mobile networks especially are widely IPv6, with IPv4 being translated/tunneled where still needed. (End-user connections in general skew IPv6 in many places - it's observable how traffic patterns shift with people being at work vs at home. Corporate networks without IPv6 leading to more IPv4 traffic during the day, in the evening IPv6 from consumer connections takes over)
I'm thinking you misinterpreted the comment you responded to? I read it as saying that you don't necessarily have to have employment linked healthcare just because you have at-will employment.

The "inexplicably" being a commentary on the wisdom/sanity/compassion of linking healthcare to employment, rather than a claim that the parent comment had made an inexplicable leap of logic
Is that a cause, though? I can see both as being consequences of the sheer amount of money sloshing around in the Silicon Valley. It generally helps things because there’s just so much resources to tap. It also helps employees getting poached with better salaries and compensation. But it does not mean that it can be replicated that way in another country.
Same. It’s over, you won’t get performance or loyalty above some cold baseline, while still paying for the most expensive class of resources. What’s the point even?

I can guess that maybe it’s a well-known cultural thing that only prevents people of this culture to think about leaving. A sort of a group control thing.
Can't mastodon, bluesky, twitter, threads, etc. not just be federated together? It seems like a relatively straightforward problem to solve. Especially considering several of these are kind of designed for federating.

I'm actually on most of these networks. I'm not on Threads yet. Just not especially in a hurry to join that crowd. But with four networks largely not sharing any content between them for mostly petty (non technical) reasons, it's a definite downgrade from when everyone was using Twitter.

It seems a lot of energy is being wasted on raising walls against federating or arguing why such a thing would be a bad thing. I agree with Tim Bray that the tech largely doesn't matter. What matters is the users and the content. And that is fragmented all over the place right now.

Twitter messed up by becoming a toxic waste dump and then losing a lot of its user base. What remains just isn't very interesting to me.

BTW. Twitter had changed for the worse long before Elon Musk got involved. I see that more as a symptom than the root cause. The real problem was infighting inside Twitter and many years of stagnation of the platform because of a complete and utter lack of leadership. And good old corporate greed and VC induced stupidity/madness.

They gradually rolled back features that made the platform interesting. They shut down the fire hose, they killed third party clients, and then AI was imposed. And then you got all the clowns gaming the AI trying to "win" at everybody else's expense. they threw out the baby with the bathwater. Enshittication is a great word for that. Everything that made Twitter great was killed/removed. And then they got Elon Musk. Not the other way around.

The shock therapy applied by Elon Musk was pretty brutal and ugly but also highlights what a bloated, dysfunctional platform it had become. There wasn't much left by the time he took over. Just a bunch of clowns pretending to be a mature company and clearly failing hard at that. I don't think Musk will save it but it's interesting that you can just remove layers of dysfunctional crap from an org chart with a flame thrower (in human form) and not have the whole thing collapse into a pile of rubble. The platform continues to function with a fraction of the people involved. If somebody adds federation to the platform, unexpected good things might actually happen.

This isn't rocket science from a technical point of view. Mastodon runs on a shoestring budget. Flicking short text messages around at scale is kind of a solved problem technically.
Yes, lots of complaints on forums about this bug. Saw it happen to my phone today.
That’s super expensive. ACA is often better but that may change now with the republicans having control of congress.
This idea that Google is pushing too many features is just silly.

The fact of the matter is that the web has been losing to native mobile apps and closed ecosystems. For many people, Facebook's mobile app is the Internet, and they're installing it from a closed app store. The web is an open application platform, whether you like it or not, and it either evolves to compete with mobile apps, or it's going to die.

For this reason, Google does more to preserve the open web than its competition in the browser space. And yes, I find these stats worrying when opened in Firefox:

https://howfuguismybrowser.dev/

And look, if you want to use a text-based browser like it's the 90s, go for it, but I'm pretty sure that most people are glad to see apps running in their full-fledged browser; because the browser is cross-platform, it's the perfect sandbox, and opening a web page isn't gated. YMMV.
Are we not talking about galaxies? No galaxy is "close".
Looks like the Google OAuth authorization flow.

Google's policy[0] is that apps should be requesting OAuth authorization using the system browser, not an embedded webview. It's a sensible policy. We don't want to teach users to write the credentials for their Google accounts into random apps.

Going via the system browser is likely to be better user experience anyway, since anyone using a "sign in via Google" option is likely already logged into Google on their system browser, while they obviously won't be on a webview.

[0] https://developers.googleblog.com/en/upcoming-security-chang...
In fairness, that is a weird versioning scheme, and I really do wish that Linux either switched to full semver (in which case it'd be version 2.9000.0 or so by now) or just drop the leading digit and go full build number kinda like NT does. But as cousin comments note, not my project not my call:)
If it takes only 5 seconds, it doesn’t sound like a reboot. Does it show a black screen and the apple logo during this event?
The asymmetry is an artificial distortion of the market, and like all such distortions, reduces overall productivity.
Sometimes I envy that although I am not a SWE. I work in a field that is so close with the open source and tech scene that we don't have to rely on commercial products like some other fields. It is hard to compete or gain enough interest in some fields of engineering to any open or free solutions.
How They Control You
You can absolutely hear someone writing in a room.

Whether it's audible on a train, depends on how insulated the train is.

I get the OP's point, but indeed this probably wasn't the best example.
I don't think enlightened beings can be traumatized. A better theory I've heard it's that it is easy to keep vows when you live in a temple and never been tempted.
As a potential employee your friend needs to first consider what the potential employer wants.

Your friend needs to demonstrate that they are an exceptional hire, only then does negotiations about compensation and working arrangements come into play.
I notice the website now redirects to the path /no-yc apparently our presence has been felt. It's using a redirect based off the referrer, you can strip the path off the URL and browse to the article. I agree that JavaScript should be used sparingly, but you can't deny there are amazing things done in JavaScript and the list keeps getting larger.
Thank you very much for the feedback, I plan to add the ability to select board size in future versions. The 5x5 is made to make the game easier to understand
I think this is a normal experience, keeping a dream log https://medium.com/luminasticity/the-i-g-dream-log-5c3e5de92... of dreams that are "out of the ordinary" seemed to increase the number of out of ordinary dreams.
Since the story of Noah is a direct copy pasta from The Epic of Gilgamesh, then when do fictional characters start producing real-life offspring?
Mad girl's love song [Sylvia Plath]
Yes, I know it's far from a unique app, but I was also making it for the experience of publishing to the store
Its an (political) echo chamber, and will ultimately contribute to the division of people.
Thanks for sharing your perspective. Your idea of an AI that detects and rejects unwanted traffic, such as scrapers or visitors from platforms you feel don't align with your website's purpose, is a great one—and totally achievable.
Great points—it really does depend on the user group and their needs.
Planned obsolescence isn't only a thing with fast moving technology either. Engineers design bridges with a finite lifespan in mind as well, and it's not because they think there'll be a much better bridge in X years. It's just that the relationship between the expected lifespan of a thing and its cost to develop is exponential.
> But the whole "it's repairable, and up-gradable part" isn't as big as it seems.

I think a lot of that comes into play as second hand machines. Except very few models once you buy a laptop second-hand, you're stuck with an older quickly to be obsolete model. Not so for Frameworks.
Didn't it shut down at the start of the month?
Fortran II Hypersource
Thanks, Ondsel - it was a worthy and welcome attempt. And you left FreeCAD much better off than when you found it. For that reason, Ondsel may be shutting down, but it is anything but a failure.
Whoops, you're completely right. I stand corrected. Thanks, I just learned the difference between the 2.
If more people shared perspectives like it was shared in this article, altruistic organ donation might feel less like an exception. Kudos to the author for not only doing this but also writing about it in a way that invites others to consider it for themselves.
“Are you aware” - are you aware that you sound condescending or did you do that deliberately?

“Condemn it” - but I didn’t condemn it? I was just pointing it out. You assumed I made a value judgment when I didn’t.

“Good work requires effort” - that’s well known. Anything big or complex does require effort and no one expects different. My contribution (such as it was) was that even something that appears simple like gathering the facts and coming to a reasonable conclusion before sharing an opinion is too much effort. Far easier to take the simplistic view, share that and move on.

I hope that meets your high bar for a comment and you won’t come after me with further critique. And if you do, I hope you actually read what I’ve written and not imagine I’ve written something else.
No Apple logo, just black screen with loading spinner followed by requiring passcode to unlock
A friend of mine in Japan recently needed a lawyer to quit their job. Very unusual to me, being an American.
I need to give this plugin a try, even though I already use too many

BTW here are my favorite plugins: https://www.dsebastien.net/2022-10-19-the-must-have-obsidian...
The termination period in a Swedish employment contract certainly applies in both directions.

If you have three months notice period in your contract, your employer could sue for loss of income if you don't honour that notice period.

It usually doesn't happen that way, because it is a waste of everyone's time and money. But, if some employer feels the need to set an example the option is there.
> the ideology of wanting a meritocracy - the idea that if you work hard you can reap rewards.

and of those hard earned rewards investing them and then sitting at home and watching the S&P increase you mean?

oh wait that’s problematic … let’s take those rewards away for “fairness” .. opps no incentives no meritocracy no prosperity
They would absolutely do that if contracts would be stronger. But as they want to keep their ease of firing and laying off people, contracts are weak in both direction.
A brief history of Mac ports: low speed
tariffs are there to give Western oligarchs an extra stipend in the form of more competitive pricing without the work. a carbon tax would punish Western oligarchs along with eastern ones, and therefore not acceptable.
> unglamorous cost-cutting

If they ever decide "we will make it glamorous", be very afraid: Whatever destructive idiocy arises, the entertainment won't outweigh the harm.
It is possible to be sued for damages in Germany if you quit and don't come back to work during your notice period.

Its not very likely and hard to prove damages by the employer, but possible.

Nothing really stopping you from simply half-assing your job during your notice period, though.
Yes. In Japanese this kind of abbreviation does not carry the childish/frivolous connotations it does in English.
Ah. That makes more sense.

Not clear that Google OAuth is worthy of trust for anything outside Google, though.
You make an important point about planning and support, which is often overlooked in discussions about donation. Recovery can be unpredictable... What you’ve done for your father is extraordinary, and even though the cost to you has been significant, the fact that he’s alive a decade later speaks volumes about the value of that choice.
The flipside is that you have no job security. In Europe, we've been moving towards more American style "flexible employment" for years, and it's highly controversial.

As an aging guy, I'm also staring down the barrel of cross-party consensus on replicating the predatory US healthcare model in my country. I see what things look like in the States, and no thanks.

> While getting terminated is disruptive, it isn’t the end of the world for the typical American.

Whenever conversations like this come up, I feel the need to remind folks that most folks don't work in tech for colossal salaries. Around a quarter of Americans have less than USD 1,000 saved, most under 5,000.[0] No runway is the norm, I'd put that well above "disruptive" for "most Americans".

[^0] https://www.forbes.com/advisor/banking/savings/average-ameri...
Well then you could have said that at the beginning. Now we can take your opinions and maybe agree with them.
The National Kidney Registry’s system is such an interesting safety net
That's a general feature of minimum-wage jobs, not just in the US. The reason is twofold:

-Huge staff rotation (a lot of it people getting fired).

-There being little consequences if a role isn't filled.

Regarding that second point: what happens if there's one cashier, delivery driver or store stocker fewer? Not much, except for delays, unless they're the very last one.
These parameters affect things at the hardware level, and in the kernel. There’s “good enough” defaults already, but if you want to take full advantage of your specific hardware, you need to tune it. This is especially important the more different your hardware is from kernel developers’ computers (like 10g nics).
How was the getting approved by Apple workflow? Historically speaking, they take a long time verifying your app. So just curious.
It’s remarkable that a liver can regrow to full size within months, making it a renewable resource in a way kidneys aren’t
This has already been done at scale with HTTP/3 (QUIC), it's just not widely distributed beyond the largest sites & most popular web browsers. gRPC for example is still on multiplexed TCP via HTTP/2, which is "good enough" for many.

Though it doesn't really replace TCP, it's just that the predominant requirements have changed (as Ousterhout points out). Bruce Davie has a series of articles on this: https://systemsapproach.substack.com/p/quic-is-not-a-tcp-rep...

Also see Ivan Pepelnjak's commentary (he disagrees with Ousterhout): https://blog.ipspace.net/2023/01/data-center-tcp-replacement...
Unfortunately, your "liver farming" business plan has a few hiccups—mainly, the law and the limits of biology!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Microarchitecture_level...

amd64 v3 are instructions included in CPUs starting from 2013, so basically any modern amd64 cpu supports all of them. As mentioned there on the Wikipedia page, QEMU 7.2 also implemented all of them. Those are more efficient instructions, thus "free performance boost".

But Rosetta doesn't. Which instruction(s) it doesn't implement doesn't really matter (I can't remember either). What matters is that when it runs an instruction it doesn't implement, it will throw an illegal instruction error and the code hard crashes.

So because of Rosetta, we can't build code with amd64 v3 enabled, and cannot have free performance boost (nice things).
Few others have brought up Apache Modules, and they are incredibly similar to my idea. :D Did not know about them while I was developing it. The main difference as far as I could see was the fact that you had to recompile / restart the server. Which I try to avoid, so little changes require almost no recompiling.
Bluesky now has a lot going for
it that solves real pain points compared to mastodon. It has quote posts, it has full text search, it has DMs that are actually DMs. It does not suffer from an experience spanned across multiple domains. Most importantly it has a good client.

A normal human being can use it as if it was a normal website and I really think this might just be what is needed for this to stay alive.

The discourse is also at least today much healthier than on mastodon for the communities I’m a part of.

I think the most likely outcome however is that Twitter will just continue to be the platform to be on.
Wasn't something like HOMA already tried with SCTP?