skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, is this some kind of a joke? That's swift evolution number *seven*. They're on hundreds now. That was committed in 2015. This is what, Swift 1.x days? Before?

What production code was even using swift back then? The vast majority of people didn't _start_ using swift until 3.x.

I know we're supposed to take the best-possible interpretation of someone's comments here, and in my opinion a joke is the best possible take on the above post. The alternative is you're being disingenuous.
It's super common to switch from support to development! Maybe half of the developer/ops/pro services folks at Linode came from the support team (promoted over time).

I think it can be easiest to switch positions within the same company from support to dev or ops if you start building relationships with developers/ops and their managers and ask to start taking on small tasks with them.

However even if you don't have a supportive company you can still switch to development. Just start interviewing! Interviewing is always a numbers game anyway so don't get discouraged if they don't turn out all well. You'll probably have an easier time too if you don't target FAANG/whatever up front.

Email me if you'd like to chat more! You're in a pretty common situation!
It's OK with nVim in Terminal.app on OSX, when you set a nerd-font of some sort. Has presentational ligatures, doesn't interfere with editing.
Nice things about this:

- not pay to win

- has a set ending

- allows for replay if/when you want

- multiple party setups

- specific way to play if you want to speed through, but no need to read a wiki if you want to play to the end

- nice active and passive unlocks

However, not a lot of choices once the game gets going, which is fine for me. Still has interaction via the handful of spells you can cast, and what you choose to unlock.

I think I've 100% the game on Android twice (two different phones).
The key there is "occasionally". Fitness is deliberate practice: you don't just carry heavy weights when you need to get something done, you explicitly go when you have time to exercise your muscles.

Similarly, if you want to occasionally exercise programming without assistive technologies, more power to you. But if you're tying one hand behind your back while your goal is to actually produce useful code, then you're just being silly. Might as well use a screen reader instead of looking at the screen, or literally tying one hand behind your back.
Anyone know where bamboo(s?) would fit on this chart?
I observed it from the other end. There was a group of kids who got together and stole from the neighborhood 7-11 and then everyone got punished with regulations like “no more than 2 kids at a time in the store” because the stores just thought in terms of “it’s always the kids stealing” and not “I’m not prepared to handle an influx of customers some of whom suffer bad impulse control”. Such a policy was problematic for us because the 7-11 was a 15-20 minute walk which meant that trip was the bulk of the lunch hour.
IMO tunneling is the best solution today. I see below that you're looking for something different, but this list might still be useful:

https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
Data structures have to compose too
20-Year-Old Apple Power Mac G4 Gets M.2 SSD Upgrade, Despite 133 MBps PCI Bus
She looked up your FB profile.
You're assuming technological development is linear. In reality, it can develop in an infinite number of directions. We existed naturally for 200,000 years and produced no more technology than a chimpanzee. It is only in very recent history that humanity has undergone a technological explosion from very primitive beginnings. What do you think changed. We are now attempting to use AI to develop new technology ourselves, with limited results. If we could harvest some outside intelligence, we would.
ReactJS – Well explained controlled and uncontrolled form inputs
How to write LaTeX without writing LaTeX
Yeah, the article is...not very good.

I submitted it due to the quote/tweet, not the article's journalistic prowess. But, perhaps I should've submitted the tweet directly.

Moving past the article to the subject, what I find interesting is that I haven't heard much discussion WRT the real impacts on the USD or the US economy/standard-of-living if crypto continues to find success.
Yet another standard (TM).
Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/927/.
> The Internet was so cheeky and fun 20 years ago… now it’s just tears and fistfuls of cash

Too much capitalism can ruin anything.
> Should we all just be programming on pen and paper because that’s lower down the progression stack and has less chance of failing?

Yes. Not because of the resiliency (it's hard to imagine a failure mode where pen-and-paper programming would be the only option) but because it makes you better at your craft.
He is not your boss, so chill.

But if he was, it would be OK, no?
Ask HN: Examples of “Gradual” or “Integrated” Technology?
As far as I can see, people today often play on the opposition between "high" and "low" tech.
The idea being that "high" tech is often:

* not ecological;

* not repairable;

* not robust (inflexible, finicky, buggy, etc);

* not democratic;

whereas "low" tech fares better in those respects.
I understand it as high-tech being a kind of black-box which final users can only consume without the possibility to tweak, repair, understand and evolve.

I'm looking for examples of what I would call "gradual" or "integrated" technology, in the sense that the object makes use of high tech concepts, either in its conception, or its operation, but where the high-tech aspect does not preclude low-tech use and tweakability/repairability/understandability/evolvability.
Said differently, the high-tech aspect only _adds_ to the product, and does not subtract anything.

I know it's a bit of a vaguely question, but hopefully someone can come along and help me crystallize it :)
You forgot covid.
Oxford Invited an AI to Debate Its Own Ethics–What It Said Was Startling
You're welcome, glad you agree!
I like the ligatures in Fira Code. I find the arrows, boolean operators and the pipe symbol "|>" a lot easier to read as symbols instead of three seperate characters. I can understand why some people would dislike them. I'm not sure about merging together regular letters, although I haven't actually ever noticed this.

In my mind it depends on where you are on the spectrum, the hardcore programmers that are one with the code and want to see every letter in a terminal editor and those that stray more towards the designer and practical side of programming. Just do what works for you, and get burned, otherwise you don't learn but endlessly follow "best practice" advice.
No, doctors shouldn't give in to quack notions of a Q family, who punched said doctor in the face, just to make the conspiratorial family feel better. If doctors believe it is harmful with no benefit, they are obligated by oath to not do it, full stop.

Are you a doctor, healthcare provider, or even in the medical field? If not, I urge you to stop spouting your amateur theories about medicine on the internet, where they can spread and cause further harm.
Ask HN: How do you stick to projects?
Posting here in case someone else is going through the same thing and could benefit from reading the comments.

I get passionate about a new language, framework, idea, project, or hobby for 1/2/3 months, then quit. Like clockwork.

For some concrete examples, I'm talking about things like: journaling, Arduino, web development, game dev, photography, writing fiction, tweeting, posting videos to YouTube, knowledge management, 'note-taking,' and more.

I used to think it was a question of burning out, so after a time I started limiting myself to 'x' hours a day. That did extend things slightly, but it wasn't a game changer.

I always seem to find an excuse as to why it's not worth continuing, right before actually accomplishing anything with the tool/skill in question. This applies to things both big, like getting into a whole new hobby, and small like trying some framework out.

As such, I spend many days feeling like the donkey in front of the stack of hay and the pail of water. I know that if I only stuck to one thing I would be much better off, but somehow, I don't.

This translates to my work as well, (at a startup) where my title is, quite literally, "generalist." I do stuff ranging from the software side all the way to marketing, sales, and everything in between. It's working for now but I get the feeling it's not viable for the long run.

I was wondering what the HN crowd thought about this, and if there is someone who managed to escape this trap. Thank you.
He's obviously thinking of Labor Day. I mix them up myself. I believe HN guidelines suggest steel manning here, not accusing him of being nonsensical because of a simple mistake.
Overpriced, Im guessing one would be buying the name. I commute mostly on bicycles and these just dont seem very special. Entry level brakes and a top speed of slightly more than what most average riders attain on flat ground. Also, motor assist on a road bike makes it for old people or those that dont actually ride much. Further, dont see very good rack mounts either. Youd get the same bike for much less on alibaba or amazon. That being said Ive never ridden and probably wont.
Can you really delete anything from NSA servers? Or from Internet in general?

For me the problem with IPFS is - it is just not interesting enough. It's not a storage solution, it is distribution and caching mechanism. You can't really upload to IPFS, you can only publish via IPFS - the same way you publish via HTTP.
Everyone can do whatever they want in their own editor. My personal peeve is being subjected to ligature'd fonts in code examples in programming blogs. I find it particularly egregious when the blog is explaining a new language or syntax to an ostensible beginner.

Fortunately Firefox still supports user styles. Here's how to stop the madness for anyone that cares. https://winaero.com/enable-loading-userchrome-css-userconten...

Inside my userContent.css I've got this gem.

* { font-variant-ligatures: none !important; }
It seem TinyVG don't support LOD which I think an important feature for icon use case
> Any line at all is a positive test.

It's not obvious what counts as a "faint line" -- is this too faint? Is it not really there? Am I misreading natural variations in the colour of the test strip?

It's not a matter of reading instructions -- even intelligent adults who have followed the directions 100% correctly can still struggle with knowing what counts.

Anyone who has ever taken a pregnancy test (or seen someone else take a pregnancy test), can tell you about the major amounts of stress possible attempting to read a "simple faint line" -- see https://www.reddit.com/r/TFABLinePorn/ for one example.

I'm not saying that every test strip needs $20 of Bluetooth gizmos and e-waste. Just that normal, intelligent, fully-instruction-following adults can reasonably be expected to not always know how to read "any faint lines" accurately.
"Available" and available are two different things, and I'd guess OP probably meant Labor Day instead of Memoridal Day.

I can say that in my area of the US, the only tests that could be found were PCR, 2-3 days for results.
Probably meant Labor Day
They effectively half the size of symmetric encryption keys (via Grover). They aren't considered as "breaking" them because doubling key size is pretty cheap. 256 bit symmetric is generally considered relatively safe vs quantum since a 128 bit key is still quite strong. That said, transitioning to 512 bits wouldn't be bad, since that would pretty much completely nullify quantum assisted breaks.
This looks pretty cool but right now I don't have any animation software.

To fill that need I've been using svgator (https://www.svgator.com/) to create some simple animations. It can SVG files with embedded animations and no JavaScript.

I have haven't gotten too deep into it, but as someone who has done quite a bit of work in Flash, Adobe Premiere, and Final Cut Pro; it seems to be a pretty full-featured animation software. I didn't have to read any documentation and got my animations finished quickly.
And support for keyboard, mouse, and four controllers.
Micromanaging the fonts your employees use for their own environments would be a pretty big red flag.
Technical difficulties keeping WVLA off YouTube TV
>And sometimes people don’t want to see a specific answer, and will fight over if something is positive or not.

This sounds like an entirely different issue. Seems like they could write off the results of the Bluetooth device readout as well if they wanted: "oh it must be faulty"
Is Van Eck phreaking really a concern since moving from CRT? I know there is a paper showing it was possible for CRT but it seems impossible now. It would be easier to install a custom cable to wirelessly send the display currently.
I'm excited. Haskell gets a lot of attention but I have the feeling that OCaml may be better for engineers.
Reminds me of "A Beautiful Mess" by Jason Mraz (video): https://youtu.be/ECFFNKELnIU
Disclosing Shamir’s Secret Sharing Vulnerabilities and Announcing ZKDocs
Intuitively I feel there's a big difference between my glasses and your ligatures, but I'm having a hard time putting my finger on it...
What is your tabstop length preference, then? :)
>This makes sense, because you can calibrate the sensor in the factory and not worry about "is that a faint line I am seeing? Do faint lines count?" situation anymore. Converting continuous data to a simple yes/no output has value.

But can you trust this calibrations? I bought a infrared thermometer and for some fucking reason for my son always shows at least +1 degrees but is fine for everyone else in the family. I discovered this only after a few days where his fever would not calm down and I found some old thermometers and confirm that is broken(still shows fever for him a month later and I could not find any logical explanation what is special with my son)
This is all cool and stuff, but kids in the UK found a way after the first lockdown by dipping the lateral flow test into coke
Yeah, I got filebot now too. I wish it didn't have to exist, but Plex practically demands it!
Faces and biometrics are finding a formidable opponent in one of the positive externalities of COVID:

Masking.

Masking has effectively been normalized in the western world thanks to COVID. Masking is a huge win for a free society. Before COVID, it was actually illegal to hide your face in some US States and many countries [1]

Mask + sunglasses, and you should be effectively anonymous in public.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_law
when you realize this author makes money from shitcoin content:

https://news.bitcoin.com/author/jonald/

drink the kool-aid , rather than trying the software itself.

good luck
They are definitely more on the right than on the left.
Some questions:

- Is merging this PR going to be more or less a formality now? I'm assuming subsequent PRs will make further improvements/fix any further bugs discovered. When is the merge to trunk likely to happen?

- (Not that it really matters, but I'm curious). Will this PR be merged as-is with nearly 4000 commits or will it be squashed? The history exists in the multicore repo but will the history be brought into the ocaml repo?
i loved using kazaa or hotline because you could browse other peoples directories, sometimes with random odd or forgotten files . It was a unique kind of communication / learning from other people's file organization habits
Comets' heads can be green, but never their tails
OP here - the crazy thing is that WVLA says they are trying to contact YTTV staff but that:

"Compounding the problem is WVLA engineers can’t get in touch with anyone from the streaming giant to solve the problem."
And yet, we usually count hagfish as fish.
Stylify.dev. Dynamic CSS Generator. Write HTML. Get CSS
I wonder if it ever collapses. It's probably unlikely, the analogy of layers that strictly build upon each other might not be the best, but on every iteration where we hide complexity, some knowledge from a few layers down is lost, and we might do one thing more efficient now, but another thing in a more convoluted way, without even realizing. So it's hard to say whether it was worth the tradeoff. I guess everyone working in tech for long enough has some pet peeve about where something was way easier 20 years ago, or stories about junior devs frequently not knowing X and doing Y in a really dumb way, and are super surprised when they learn X and then get told it had been around for decades. It's obviously a net gain after all, but if you were able to look at it from a distance with total knowledge, it's also hilariously stupid. But then that's exactly how evolution works, and why there's a nerve going from your brain to your throat taking a detour around the aorta.
Quantity has a quality all of it's own. Wiretaps against a specific individuals is a lot different than dragnets covering an entire nation.
Any plans for native WSL integration similar to VS Code?
Mapping Data Flows
The best app I know of for this is Monodraw (https://monodraw.helftone.com/)
Took around 7 seconds to load for me on an iPhone 11.
Toyota to start car hardware, software update service in Japan
Does this apply to snowflake relays?
Proxying ipv4 by address and port is an interesting idea. I think you'd need dyndns to keep things relatively stable, and at that point you could probably use the dns-01 ACME challenge to get certs, which can be used even on different ports.

EDIT:

One problem is if your current proxy goes down and you have to change, you might get moved to a different port, which would break existing urls. But maybe it could be part of the protocol that you search for a new proxy that has the same port available.

Dang it now you have me wanting to try and prototype this...
> operating system researchers widely believe

Tanenbaum did SAY that, but that is different from it being true.

Fact-checking doesn't mean just accepting the declaration of the more credentialed party in a debate that their view is expert consensus.
Then every time I travel overseas I cannot use my phone or a US phone number? What about living close to Canada, Mexico, Caribbean…etc and you pick up international towers?

It’s an easier fix, but not really a solution.

The reality is that everyone wants fairness but no one really wants government regulation (Russia is a great example of this where your phone number is essentially treated like an assault rifle. Registered, monitored, and geo-tracked).
If my time, your time, Chris’s time is going to be occupied, compensation is normal.

Software comes with bug fixes, dependency upgrades, support, infrastructure. All of this takes someone’s time. Which should be compensated.

I can’t argue about pennies anymore. It’s a good value.
I’m the same way, VS Code is very hard for me to use. I quite literally don’t get what’s going on. I don’t know which is faster benchmark-wise, but I work much more efficiently in Atom and Sublime than VSC.
Just make sure that all your drug users do actually dismantle their guns before they take any! People are responsible as we all know, especially in our modern society where we value our own individuality above society, ie. "I can use drugs safely every once or twice a year, as such I want it easier for me to get some, and that's why I'm asking to make it legal for everybody, no matter the disaster we know drugs cause on a society". It's indeed exactly the same, "I want to hide my messages with my mom from my government so I will fight to prevent the government from being able to decrypt any message at all no matter the basis of the court order, no matter how many children have been raped or killed, I value my own freedom above security of society".

Basically, "the victims don't matter as long as I'm fine".
How much of that is due to changes in procedure (additional cleaning, more involved check-in, etc.?) How much of that is due to healthcare workers leaving the local area (e.g., for incredibly lucrative travel nursing positions) or the industry generally (due to burnout, unemployment incentives, vaccine refusal, etc.?) Finally, how much of the current situation is due to the "catch-up" effect of people who were unable or unwilling to have sub-optimal diagnosed in the midst of the 2020 hysteria and are now seeking treatment for more and more serious conditions?

There is much more at play here than the disease itself. Government, media, and institutions should be held to account for their role in exacerbating the situation.
Ah, I see what you mean. Thanks for the explanation.

This is just my opinion but doing that seems to be very dangerous. You're probably fine for small functions with single-developers, but once you get complex and have multiple people working on the code it seems easy for one dev to confuse another.

If you insist on that pattern (lets call it the local variable method) you can define vars such as

var localA = a

var localB = b

at the top of the function and work on it there. Personally I prefer function arguments to be immutable, so that any time you call them you know what you're working on is what the function was given. Forcing you to declare a local var makes the code much more explicit and easy for another human to reason about what you're doing, whereas they could very easily miss an "a=something else".
And it's still fairer to say not that party X and party Y are both corrupt but that both are corruptible. Rather than say everyone is bad, say everyone has the potential to be bad. Then you can react to individual instances of badness and hope to improve things. If you say goodness is impossible you are optimizing for badness.
I asked this same question on HN a short time ago. The modifications are advanced and not public, so anyone using them is suspected of being related to the same entity. There are also potentially other signature-worthy variables being observed as well.
Despite the garbage spewing from the top the engineers that actually do the work at Spacex are doing a great job.
Just a quick shout out to SetApp. I was very hesitant to use it but it is a pretty amazing service/platform. Very high quality apps for $100/yr is a steal.
This already here, but made with a subdomain that CNAMEs to a tracker domain:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.09301
On the other hand, there are open source options for most of this stuff. Jellyfin probably gets you about half of the list, and you can set up dedicated software for much of the rest with a little effort.

It's interesting that the parent expects this to all be a single piece of software. Is this a generational thing? It's the opposite of the "do one thing and do it well" philosophy I grew up on.

I like Jellyfin a lot but I actually sometimes feel like it tries to do too much.
This is false.

I grew up in rural Michigan, so similar weather and density to the Nordic countries. There are PLENTY of times when driving is perfectly safe and I wouldn't bike. And I prefer walking/biking to driving most of the time.
The fact that Go requires a linter to ensure errors are properly handled is a whole other topic
You daughter isnt the problem. You have a relationship issue. The problem is your wife. But you already know that...
Colour film gives the same results as black and white film when developed with the black and white process, except for the orange base.

IMO it's not really an interesting thing to do unless you don't have a choice.
Yeah except most of them are in water scarce region. Texas and Arizona are going to be in trouble in the next 10 to 15 years WRT water supply, the mighty Colorado isn't delivering enough. The fossil aquifers are being depleted.
Simple Doesn't Mean Easy
If you're interested in how metaphor and law interact I recommend A Clearing in the Forest, by Steve Winter.

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo363196...