skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - A Language To Encourage Modular Monolith

> But what's being proposed here?

I read it, and to me it seems like they're worried about the wrong things. As I understand it, they're worried about the difficulty and hassle of calling unrelated code in the monolith, and proposing things that would make it easier. But that's wrongheaded. Monoliths don't suffer because it's too hard to reuse functionality. They suffer because it's too easy. Programmers create connections and dependencies that shouldn't exist, and the monolith starts to strangle itself (if you have good tests) or shake itself to pieces (if you don't) because of unnecessary coupling. You need mechanisms that enforce modularity, that force programmers to reuse code at designated, designed module interfaces, not mechanisms that make it easier to call arbitrary code elsewhere in the monolith.

In my opinion, a great deal of the success of microservices is due to the physical impossibility of bypassing a network API and calling the code of another service directly. Because of this, programmers respect the importance of designing and evolving APIs in microservices. Essentially, microservices enforce modularity, forcing programmers to carefully design and evolve the API to their code, and this is such a powerful force for good design that it makes microservices appealing even when their architectural aspects aren't helpful.

A language that made it possible to enforce modularity in a monolith as effectively as it is enforced in microservices would make monoliths a no-brainer when you don't need the architectural aspects of microservices.
Enshittification - SF will become a legacy tool
SpacemiT Develops V100 RISC-V Server CPU Chip for Next-Generation AI Apps
Your idea of ownership is simplistic. Around me, the local government owns the home as can be easily found out if you don't pay your annual rent called "property tax".

Even if you are not a homeower, you still are not free and clear...
> despite the evidence to the contrary

Humans being unable to figure out how inanimate matter gives rise to consciousness is not evidence that "strict materialism on consciousness is misguided". Or is there some other evidence I'm unaware of?
> If you do that, it might turn into "you were the engineer".

The correct solution would of course rather be "you were the manager". :-(
Dark Side of Open Source: The Community Strikes Back
I love that you care this much. It warms my soul.
A lot of the things we sort of know are also related to studies that look at a very small subsystems attempting to isolate variables. Like take a slice of neurons, apply a certain chemical and check how it changes action potentials. Over time a bunch of that kind of data can be pieced together in larger systems analysis. That kind of things relies on extrapolation from that lower-order data though, ideally with confirming studies from subject animals, but the data is really clean. The media reports on research is usually bad too, usually taking whatever speculative impact the research might have that is suggested for funding or future work ... but wasn't actual the results of the paper just something tacked on as basically informed speculation.
God of the Gaps is not intellectual honesty. Neither is running from an argument.
In the days of jQuery… all the time.

In the days of webpack, not so much.
Stackable Business Models in the Age of AI
Wayland works fine with Nvidia’s drivers. It has worked fine for years. Nvidia was the only option for 3D graphics on Linux 20 years ago.

Interestingly, the SteamOS documentation mentions Nvidia driver support:

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS/wiki/Getting-Starte...

That is for SteamOS 2. The newer SteamOS 3 does not officially support anything other than AMD hardware because the Steam Deck uses AMD hardware and their current focus is on improving support for that.
I don't follow such a program, but I sleep when needed, so if I'm sleepy, I go to sleep, and I wake up at wathever hour, no alarms. This means that sometimes I have long sleep nights, other times I only have naps, most of the time it is a mix between both. Lately I go to sleep around 3-6 in the morning, wake up around 8-11 and sometimes have naps during the day. (same principle for eating)

I do this at least from 10 years without bad effects, the positive effects are that I'm more awake and feel fresh longer, in control of my mental power.

It is quite easy to do it while having normal life obligations, I can wake up sooner if something needs to be done, and then, after the task, I can continue to do my day until sleepy, at which point I can sleep again. So, if I have many meeting on a day, I can stay up all day without issues, maybe I'll sleep more in the evening or following day.

I think the quantity of sleep I require depends on the tasks I'm doing. If some task is particularly mentally exhausting I'll automatically do more naps during the day, this in turn makes me more efficient at solving difficult problems.

It is extremely comfortable to solve hard problems in this way, when you work too long on it, you get sleepy, and as you wake up, you are again fully focused and with fresh perspectives.
Try working at a company that doesn’t know how to do sales, and you’ll learn to appreciate a good salesperson.
There's been much debate about Raspberry Pi straying from its mission to provide affordable computers. I disagree.

Raspberry Pi offers models ranging from $10 to $120, all readily available — more so than ever.

Adjusted for inflation, the original $35 Raspberry Pi Model B (launched 2012) would be $50 today. The Raspberry Pi 5 2GB is also $50 today and vastly outperforms the original, delivering far greater bang for buck.

Though I can’t speak to their internal decisions, it’s seems from the outside that they continue to try to maximise the value of the Raspberry Pi while maintaining the original price point.

Disclaimer: Co-founder of Pimoroni, one of the first Raspberry Pi resellers.
There is also one called Decentraleyes: https://decentraleyes.org/
Obviously a talented individual. Nice to see them wasting time making something ridiculous
I am a bit sad I finished factorio space age, it was such an amazing game, I wish I could have spent more time on it.

All good things have an end.

I really hope Wube could make it more interesting to play in multiplayer, in games of 50 or 100 players, unfortunately there are no incentives for it.

I suggested to add some resources trading and currency, coupled with a land ownership system, to prevent trolls and scale the game so that any player can join, but it would probably require some balancing.

This game is already 10 years old and still going strong.

Unfortunately mods are not very good quality, or too difficult to enjoy.

Space age is interesting because new planets are being added by fans, but I don't think they're going to be as well designed and really bring anything interesting.
This forbes article is lacking in details; here's the OG threat analysis report:
https://blog.xlab.qianxin.com/gayfemboy-en/
Rust 1.84.0
At a recent IT event, I heard a revealing story during a sub-postmaster interview. In the audience was a software engineer who, during the Horizon scandal, had been a first-year software engineering student whose family ran a Post Office branch.

Her technical background helped her recognize the system's flaws - this wasn't user error, but a fundamental software issue. Acting on this insight, she convinced her family to implement manual double-entry bookkeeping alongside Horizon, creating their own audit trail.

The family ultimately sold their branch due to the operational burden. Tragically, the next owners, without this technical foresight and parallel accounting system, fell victim to Horizon's failures. The Post Office then attempted to blame my source's family for the 'missing' funds.
Point of Order: tobacco smoke was suspected of being harmful a couple centuries before the scientific method started to catch up to the suspicion. King James I famously penned a treatise against tobacco use in 1604 and slapped some eyewatering taxes on it's importation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Counterblaste_to_Tobacco
Standards enforcement like tagging, TF structure, pipelines etc is currently owned by the platform team. We also have mechanisms to figure out the cost change (approximately) with each Infra PR.
The struggle is to attribute cost changes in application-only changes and to identify them early in the lifecycle. These would be PRs for microservices that add features, fix bugs and handle tech debt.
I actually printed a few designs and hung them up in frames in my home. Maybe I'll add the idea and some links to the readme. Can you recommend a printing service?

I think it's not possible to access the actual file upload using the galaxy hall of fame (https://www.factorio.com/galaxy) or I just can't find them. Otherwise it would be pretty cool.

Oh yeah, I like the mod idea. That should also be quite doable, thanks.
While I agree in general, I think you overstate things here:

> Many STEM people hate this because they want to axiomatically believe materialist science can reach everything, despite the evidence to the contrary.

Do we have actual evidence that it can't reach everything? That would be "evidence to the contrary". What you have given is evidence of its inability to reach everything so far, in its current form. That's still not nothing - the pure materialists are committed to that position because of their philosophical starting point, not because of empirical evidence, and you show that that's the case. But so far as I know, there is no current evidence that they could never reach that goal.

[Edit to reply, since I'm rate limited: No, sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. The materialists don't get the freebee, and neither do you. In fact, I was agreeing with you about you pointing out that the materialists were claiming an undeserved freebee. But you don't get the freebee, for the same reason that they don't.]
TBF having others edit posts is pretty key to SO. It's how, for instance, the site handles those still learning English - editors try to parse what the person meant and reframe the question or answer accordingly.

I've made drastic edits in the past... but the goal was always to capture the intent of the writer. From your anger it sounds like someone, a mod, went way beyond that?
Back in school pdfs would circulate that had a bunch of flash games on them. I have no idea how or who made them, but they let us play dolphin olympics on lab computers with no internet connection.
The name 'hardcore history' keeps popping up now and again so I decided to do a quick Gell-man-amensia check on a topic i am somewhat familiar with it.

It seems he hasn't tackled Israel/Palestine on his podcast but so i had to make do with whatever tweets i could find :

https://xcancel.com/HardcoreHistory/status/17111815214603635...

https://xcancel.com/HardcoreHistory/status/17121572074864849...

His few tweets and replies are pro-israeli apologia (whose facade has become thinner and indefensible in the past year) with zero incorporation of the palestinian side and glaring misrepresentation and omission of facts. I am sorry but i can't trust him to speak honestly and fairly on the other parts of history i am unfamiliar with.
This is awesome! I think you should add the explanation of how it works in the PDF itself as well
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The Pi500, which is essentially the same hardware, works with passive cooling.

Active coolers exist to fit within the tiny footprint. If you have the space, you can go with passive cooling or a cooling case (essentially a large heatsink).
There was a MRI looking video showing this
My assumption is that the weight of including vegans socially is too much to bear for some. On the extreme end, you can't use store pasta because it was made in a facility that processes eggs and dairy. But even on the lighter end, social eating modification is pretty extreme: don't use butter when cooking, or eggs, or honey, etc. It's a lot easier to accommodate vegetarians than vegans.

Though I do have a vegan friend that always brings her own food to gatherings, and it does make things far easier.
What about your diet, specifically sugar and carbohydrates. Personally, I have much, much more energy and stamina when I avoid them.
Japan says Chinese hackers have launched attacks
I have tried that in the recent past and not found that to be the case. There were no obvious wins in the things I get regularly, and quite a lot of things I get on Amazon just aren't available on Walmart, or if they are they are quite hard to find. For example, a recent purchase of "Fresh Roast" decaf whole bean coffee is over 10% more expensive on Walmart ($27.95 vs $24.25). A Milwaukee track saw blade is $58 vs $37.

As you say, not that Walmart is better than Amazon, but it would be nice to have some more competition to Amazon.
Hi, i like your effort and was subscribed for a while. The vast majority of jobs were from us so they were almost irrelevant to me (based in eu). I would appreciate if you added some location filtering before subscribing. Thanks again.
I burnt out mid-Aquilo. RIP
Your argument is not very convincing unless you can show numbers of people who have an Game Pass Ultimate subscription and use it for PC gaming.

> not everyone can afford an extra Xbox if they already have a computer

Gaming PCs are much, much more expensive than consoles at same performance. Most people have consoles and no gaming PC. In markets where that's not the case (e.g. China), game pass and Xbox in general happen to be also less relevant -- if they get a console, they'll get a PS5.
This is an interesting movie along those lines, although it's about pirating music rather than games. The protagonists live in Naples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_by_Erry
>> Speaking generally, for a CTO to personally ship more (non trivial code) code ... I think is such a double edged sword and even potentially dangerous.

It is dangerous and is likely to cause a range of problems. The challenge is stepping away from that part of the work. It would seem the best way to do this is to progressively give up this direct work and mentor your replacement(s) possibly reviewing changes before quitting entirely.

It seems to be a personality thing with some people being unable to take those steps before being forced by circumstances. I love leaders to have curiosity about details and want to create the environment for great technical work, but that is a very different type of work that doesn't drive the same rewards (or dopamine hits.)
If OP were willing to drop $3500, they’d see another phase change. The Vision Pro does pass though and SLAM nearly perfectly and the resolution and brightness of native content are better than I can see with my 20:12 LASIK-ed eyes.
Judging by what I have to deal with in Salesforce this shouldn't pose much of a problem. In fact it might even help things.
It's proprietary but relatively easy to reverse engineer, the details are out there. In the US it uses like 914.5 MHz or something, and I can send instructions to devices with an extremely simple serial protocol on my computer.

No Bluetooth, no Wi-Fi, no protocol sophisticated enough to distribute code. Just locally transmitted instructions.
"A passive RPi5 connected to a small 4TB external SSD is an almost industrial device you remember you have one because it becomes unresponsive to a power cut or something."

Is this booting from the SSD.
Wow this sounds like extortion to me.. I mean not just from the school, but also in the court system. I don't really understand Academia much or if this would effect a person attending another collage, but with something like this, I would drop out of college entirely and take the self-teaching route or online education. I'm not going to allow myself to be subjected to an abusive educational and court system.
> moderately strenuous exercise like riding a bicycle destroys my sleep quality for several days.

this is surprising! Not that this would be easy to just do, but have you ever leaned into it for a while (like a month) and seen if that persists? I'm obviously not a doctor or anything -- I just wondered in reading that whether it may possibly be a change shock that would subside after a brief period at a higher activity level, resulting in the best of both worlds.
“Yes, it’s okay to compare Trump to Hitler. Don’t let me stop you.” -Mike Godwin

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/20/godwins-l...
How is criticism of VLC project management a criticism of AI?

Dude you need to level up your reasoning skills.
Should have specified "for Linux".
What comes after Web 2.0?
She cut the fire department budget by $20 million. Equipment, supplies,
and salaries were cut.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/08/wildfire-threatens-...

That assertion is wrong. The city was in the process of negotiating a new
contract with the fire department at the time the budget was being crafted,
so additional funding for the department was set aside in a separate fund
until that deal was finalized in November. In fact, the city’s fire budget
increased more than $50 million year-over-year compared to the last budget
cycle, according to Blumenfield’s office, although overall concerns about
the department’s staffing level have persisted for a number of years.

So… no?

DEI obsessed fire chief…DEI office and bureaucracy.

Ah, there it is.
re: LLM as UI: Given that I don't trust LLMs to be deterministic, I wouldn't trust them to make the correct API call every time I tell it to do X.
Learning to embrace the LOOP construct has been an experience, for me. Same with the FORMAT abilities. It is amazing how much hate they both get, for how capable they both are.
It costs $3000, and Nvidia is known to drop support for their developer platforms quickly.
I regret switching over to a free tier. super slow to delete emails in the app or on the web client.

Last I checked, my mail is trapped without any way to export it out without a premium subscription, but I need to check for an update on that.
This is absolutely ridiculous... shame on UW. Their quid pro quo offer is ethically very wrong.

My wife works at a major public university and fights with antiquated software and business systems all day long. The amount of IT system bloat and 'village-idiot dumb' processes for managing course offerings, course catalogs, class schedules, etc. is pretty bad at a lot of universities.
I can't relax, the fact that connections don't affect their speed/direction infuriates me.
There is always an origin to writing something (or aptly, a citation.)

"I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is also knative, which cloud run is based on
There are other issues besides changing the memory type. For instance, C has those rules about out of bounds pointers being undefined, but you can't implement that - if you return part of the pool and someone calculates an out of bounds address they're getting a valid address to the rest of the pool. That's why you can't implement malloc() in C.

(The difference here is that system malloc() works with valgrind, -fbounds-safety, theoretical secure hardware with bounds checking etc., and this one doesn't.)
See aicuneiform.com
I like the emphasis on this being beautiful and the pen plotter experiments. There's plenty of productivity tools for Factorio, including several blueprint renderers. This one's special for having some aesthetics.
> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

> Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
People talk a bunch of stuff about malfunctioning, bugged software and so on. We can assume, the car was just trapped in some infinite loop so it'll never reach it's goal for some reason but also wasn't able to realize that and call the routine for that. Fine.

It's not a dangerous situation for the passenger but it definitely something that makes you feel very uncomfortable which could lead to panic because you're trapped. The doors are locked and even if they weren't you cannot simply exit the car. That's okay. Trains don't allow this either to open the doors on a track section. You need a supervisor to do that. In case of an emergency you can still unlock the doors mechanically. So after pulling the emergency brake you can still do that. It would be interesting how these cars behave in case of a fire inside or something which leads me to my final thought:

In case of issues on or with a ride in a theme park, there are usually operators. So in case of a technical malfunction there's an emergency stop which should make disarm systems in a safe manner and bring the ride into a safe position or at least make sure it stops safely. Of course it's not possible to trigger an e-stop as passenger but an operator can do that in case you can somehow make clear that it's needed right now.

The situation in the video is a very bad experience because a phone call from the passengers device is needed and he was asked to do something in the app. Probably to identify the car and enable the remote control. Elevators handle this much better. There's an emergency system in the cabin which transmits all important information to the service center, so it's immediately clear where the emergency call originated from. An app on a smartphone should never replace this installation!
This is great. Will probably give the fun police in r/k12sysadmin a heart attack.
It seems odd that they would want the author to provided them with a system to automate it then.
Does the Vision Pro support SteamVR or OpenXR or anything for games? Because if not then it's not really competing with the Quest 3. I only use my Quest 3 for games, and the Vision Pro's selling point seems to be as a way of looking at really big spreadsheets. The passthrough does look impressive though.
> If you can't get into a required course, it can delay your graduation a full year. That costs way more than a couple hundred dollars.

Sure, but if you don't have "a couple of hundred dollars", you don't. It's a bit like saying "Why are people poor? Just put $1 million into a savings account, then you'll get enough to survive each month". Great for the ones who can, irrelevant for the ones who can't.
Not only web but majorly all OS pdf renderers support JS. It used to be a major source of malware long back.
Universities in the US administer the main second-tier sports leagues for basketball and football, so yes, it’s common (though strange, I agree).