skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making nice-looking and interactive diagrams for your PCBs
Which aspect is a retcon? I am not sure if you're taking the pro or con position
I walked into a comment that expressed my feelings as invalid before I even participated. I am cool with that most of the time but I’m still going to express my feelings some of the time too. I really appreciate the kindness of your response but I don’t really care about being right. I care about some expressions being welcome as part of a conversation and challenges to those being unwelcome, under the guise of “curiosity”.
> I agree that it’s ultimately the developers fault for allowing code to be automatically injected

Let's not do victim blaming here.

This is ultimately the fault of the person deliberately updating their package to break other people's software.
Most of what you wrote has merit, but I dont believe the author was trying to impart much of what you wrote. I let my comments inline with yours.

> a) blindly 'updating' and deploying code without testing is a horrible idea

This is important risk factor each organization should be aware of. Though he wasn't trying to convey this, it was merely a byproduct.

> b) these trillion dollar corporations just take and take and never give, and boy do they whine and cry when the devs don't 'hold up their end of the deal' and keep turning out perfect, fully tested software for free

This was the intent, but anecdotally, Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Twitter, Meta, Stripe, Netflix, all contribute to open source.

> c) 'the source is open so anyone can look at it and therefore it's bug free' is and always has been a mentally retarded philosophy

Since the source is open, it must be bug free is a flawed conclusion. Again, not the lesson Marak was imparting.

> d) the software deployment process as it's currently practiced is horribly flawed

I don't think that is accurate.

> e) these people ought to count their blessings that the code is flawed in such an obvious and immediately detectable rather than subtle and devious and much more destructive way

I can't imagine a more destructive way that would result in the catastrophe one is expecting. Should Marak have been more malicious, having a myriad of well funded corporations targeting him would not be fun.

and last but not least:

> f) giving control over one's code to evil microsoft via github is an incredibly stupid idea, as such authority WILL be abused by the evil scumbags.

Another tradeoff organizations should understand.
The usecase I’ve seen similar to this has been Artifactory. If a dev wants to use a package, then a specific version gets pulled and hosted in the internal Artifactory repository and then all build tools use it to pull packages.

The way I’ve seen (and might not be the best way) people handle ownership is if a dev wants to use lets say ‘colors’ from npm, then they/their team takes ownership of that package internally. I guess an issue would arise if the big co is doing development on a public repo, so they’re forced to use npm/dockerhub/etc.
He is leeching off a "corpo" by hosting his library on a "corpo" site.
Incidentally, while this is a great post, the order of yak-shaving is actually pretty close to the opposite described in the post.

He started with wanting a digital version of Monotype Modern 8A (what became Computer Modern). His first idea was to go to Xerox and use their scanning equipment to digitize the font, but they would only let him use it if they would have copyright on the resulting fonts, so he started looking deeper at the fonts himself. That gave him the idea of describing the font shapes from scratch (with equations) instead of simply scanning them, so he came up with METAFONT. To use his own digital fonts, he would need a typesetting system: TeX. He did implement TeX in SAIL, but when it became clear he would need to rewrite it in a portable way (Pascal), and Hoare suggested publishing the program as a book, he came up with literate programming and WEB.

And as mentioned in another thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29862858), TAOCP is itself a "yak shave", Knuth's response to being asked to write a book about compilers, in his first year of grad school in 1960 (given his compiler exploits earlier, like http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/B5000-AlgolRWaychoff.html#7). The publishers who were hoping to sell a book to aspiring early-1960s machine-language compiler-writers never got their wish, but they got something much more.
The argument for the vaccine mandate is care for others (don’t spread to someone else) which is harmed by vaccinated spreaders.

The argument that forcing people to care for themselves is good would use the severity reduction as a point. But that is not presently the point.
Thanks for the elaboration. I see what you mean by deterministic now. Is it also deterministic in the sense of always getting an answer within 6 guesses (maybe convergent is a better word)? (Maybe it's not possible to guarantee this. That's something I've been wondering.)

My solver is a naive one at the moment, where I've only done a little analysis to get a good starting word. From there, my solver just tracks the results from each guess and randomly selects a word that meets the constraints for the next guess. That actually works surprisingly well, and it hasn't failed Wordle yet.

I've been meaning to go back and do a more thorough analysis and create a more targeted strategy.
I agree with all your points, but I'd like to add that IMO most of the old Pixel phones are great value second-hand (at least where I live).
How to deal with tech debt at the scale of super app
are tacos and burritos sandwiches? How about a Chinese pork bun?
I've wondered how much of that is really just laundering crypto?

Lets say you had a successful ransomware attack and got millions of dollars worth of BTC. How do you transfer that to a wallet you can use to cash out?

I've always figured thats why people will pay massive amounts of crypto for really stupid NFT things. Its sort of like an express lane for more traditional methods of money laundering. For example, you don't need the physical art piece to launder fine art. NFTs are way easier than doing it the old fashioned way.
Honestly, this is literally the very last person on the internet to get angry at you. Hackers talk, a lot. I hope he buries them deep. They have wasted an inordinate amount of his time, and his patience.

Steve at BMOW, is a straight up guy, who can teach a lot of companies about customer service.

I have the same beef now with "GoFundMe" and their ilk. "Its not my fault," and worse, "I am not going to do anything." followed by "It's our policy."
Hauling ass is the more common form of the phrase. It means going very fast. What he means here is that if you take it in the day, it’s stimulating, but at night it will help you sleep. I have personally never heard of Taurine as a sleep aid, but it’s a common component of energy drinks.
My questions with this line of research are always:

1) How do you deal with the toxic ozone gas that's produced, and

2) How do you prevent eye damage from happening when you look at the device?
and i guess, y7l doesn't help... :pondering:
Are you talking about economical or social rights and liberties? Because one party would like to remove or reduce the latter, while the other party the former.
Isn't crypto a natural fit for web3?
What can we do to oppose this idiocy that is trampling legitimate fair-use provisions of otherwise licensed content? It's been 10 years since the SOPA protests and while we may have stopped that three headed monster, the global situation with USA attempting to expand DMCA and similar measures to other countries is atrocious.

Other than recent EU court rulings potentially expanding what constitutes fair-use in that territory the situation is not looking good in the West.
Doesn't Planck's constant seem like using integers in fixed point? Doesn't the speed of light feel like a sneaky limit on the maximum size of those integers? :-)

I humbly suggest the reason the universe we live in does not use Real numbers is because you couldn't simulate that with a Turing machine.
What would it be like if the goals of that subreddit were accomplished?

- Would it be that most people could choose not to work? (I.e under some kind of UBI program?) I’d like to not have to work ;)

- Would it be that the benefits and pay for many jobs would be vastly improved? That also sounds pretty nice.

- Maybe it’d be that companies have to compete harder to be actually nice places to work. Also a good thing.

What exactly would be to our detriment? Something about lack of work ethic? But why does that really matter? Is it so that we can maintain technical prowess? But why is that important?

What if we were happier and less stressed instead? We’re really failing hard in America to consider our economic systems from the perspective of human flourishing and quality of life.

So, I find your comment very strange. What are you so scared of with the movement for better working conditions such that you want it to be outright banned from the internet?
As a relentless enemy of freedom, Zuck keeps inventing new ways to take whatever freedom is still left, even though his wealth allows him to not work for next thousand years. I dont know, maybe thinking about how some people still have some tiny bits of privacy left, inflicts physical pain on him - I cant explain his drive otherwise.
It really depends on the culture. Discernment is still really necessary. I've read a few things that suggest the Inuit have the most gentle approach to children.

With respect to showing them limits, what you're describing aren't natural limits. It sounds like you didn't reach a limit beyond your control, but made a calculated decision. That's not a natural limit; that's an arbitrarily chosen one.

Gentle parenting suggests offering cuddles, hugs, gentle restraint (I haven't looked into what this means), and other forms of emotional connection. It's not about patient permissiveness, but connecting with the emotional state of the child and holding space for them to feel their feelings.

Also, something I often see and hear is people getting distracted by the behavior instead of connecting with the needs being expressed. Usually, there was something that preceded the behavior. We had grandparents over and unbeknownst to me, grandma (who loves making mean jokes) threw a diaper at the child. The next day, they threw something at her. Everyone focused on the act of throwing it instead of what came before the throwing. Kids do what they learn from others. If they're taught to emotionally/verbally hit, they'll learn that hurting by physically hitting others is a way to accomplish whatever the verbal/emotional hits are doing as soon as they learn hitting hurts, too. They're not stupid and this is not a hard logical leap anyway. Also, anything that gets more focused attention than the norm will be repeated. That's why giving deep quality attention and connection is the easiest way to prevent unwanted behaviors.

There's no need to act out if not acting out gets the job done. Otherwise, act out.

There's a lot more to this and I'm still learning myself. Things to search for along these lines are gentle parenting and mindful parenting.

On a related note, did you read about the dev who crashed thousands of apps and sites today? That person clearly has needs going unmet. I wonder if anyone's reached out to them and asked what they need yet. Think I'll do that next.
Oh it's way beyond "social opprobrium". And no, I don't think these two changes are entirely unrelated. Maybe not direct consequences of each other - tolerance of tattoos of course does not directly cause intolerance of free speech - but likely having related causes beyond mere coincidence in time.
Google is far more than 'pushing': currently any app added after August 2021 is required to let Google manage the keys. I expect it's a just a matter of time before it applies to all apps. Really disappointing that they are using their market position to completely ruin developers' ability to provide security.

Source: I have been developing on Android since Android 1.0. Also see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68710048/no-opt-out-opti...
Why is it that ES6 modules load only asyncly but Node.js CommonJS modules only syncly?

I find sync is often simpler to code for.
Again, twisting facts by some Julia novice about a topic they have no familiarity with. Fortran does not require features to be built-in. Look at all the intrinsic Fortran modules. But array-based indexing IS built-in to the language. Unlike Julia, you do not have to rely on an external package for it. Perhaps the Julia community's relatively young age has made it so arrogant, Machiavellian, and fact-twisting about other languages to prove their presence here and there. Other programming communities are old enough to put decency and honesty in their core values.
I don't think it's unlikely that ICEs will be phased out as quickly as the optimists are suggesting. Once there's critical momentum things move quickly, so +1 from me.

However, all that new electricity demand needs to come from somewhere. Drawing power from the grid at night works great today, but that's because of a coincidental uneven energy demand, which I doubt will last for too long. Once EVs are truly mainstream, it will (1) saturate the grid at all times of day and (2) make the grid more critical than it already is (meaning mitigations like rolling blackouts are gonna be even more infeasible). Sprinkle some demand surges from A/C and heaters from extreme weather events on top of this, and while we're add it let's decommision nuclear prematurely for political points (see e.g. Germany and Sweden).

Anyway, what I mean to say is that electricity supply will be a real problem (especially in the US due to car centrism) and short sighted politicians will need to provide immediate duct-tape fixes. Fossil fuels are sinfully well suited for fast energy injections, and I'm afraid that will often be the only option.

In other words, I worry little about the ICE-EV transition, but that doesn't mean anything for the fossil-renewables transition in general. I wouldn't be surprised if tomorrow's electricity will be dirtier than today's.
Some clarification needed,

> The Android build system works by including all recipes to be built (programs / libraries / etc) using the GNU Make include directive, so that you end up with one giant Makefile that holds all rules for building the platform. Possibly to avoid the problems laid out in the paper Recursive make considered harmful.

The old build system (ndk-build) works like this.

Modern NDK applications are supposed to use CMake and Android's own build system is based on Soong.
Candy crush is a highly profitable "free-to-play" game that makes millions of dollars though in-app purchases.

I'm pretty sure King pay Microsoft for it to be included in windows, not the other way around.
I think it’s a bad stunt that outlines an issue with mega corps using oss and blindly updating their packages. Or anyone blindly updating their packages really.

But I don’t see how GitHub has the right to suspend him and rewind his work. I mean, that has to be a copyright infringement if there ever was one.
I strongly encourage anyone reading this to watch Dr Ben Sessa's lecture on using MDMA to treat addiction and trauma.
https://youtu.be/11u7iX4j1tA

The reality is, SSRIs and other pharmaceuticals that have been used to treat common psychiatric illnesses (anxiety/depression) have dismal outcomes and fail the vast majority of patients that they have been given to.

Fortunately, there is a growing body of evidence that MDMA and psychedelic assisted therapy could revolutionize the treatment of mental health disorders.

Unfortunately, for the last 50 years, governments, industry and the military industrial complex (together with the MSM) have spread lies and scaremongering to block the therapeutic use of these life-changing therapies.

Here is another video for anyone wanting to know more about the topic:

(Lecture by Prof. David Nutt: The New Psychedelic Revolution)

https://youtu.be/1JjzVcfei60

I'm optimistic that the next few decades will bring about better approaches to these massively underserved (and largely exploited and discarded) people.

References:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01336-3

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540261.2021.1...
https://archive.fo/4pSSU
I miss laptops with full travel keyboards. Totally wouldn't want the bulk now, but I still miss them.
Only for people, who neglected their mythology studies.

Ask veit ek standa,
heitir Yggdrasill,
hár baðmr, ausinn
hvíta auri;
þaðan koma dǫggvar,
þærs í dala falla,
stendr æ yfir, grænn,
Urðar brunni.
HEPA filters block particles smaller than it's rated size, and they block those particles more easily than larger particles because of Brownian motion and the physics of electrostatically capturing particles.
Oil Rigs Are a Refuge in a Dying Sea
>we are not in the position to set the price point by... market expectation

While I do like the project and wish you the best, producing a product that the market will not pay for is a business model doomed to fail.
There are serpentine pans that optimize for perimeter, specifically marketed to edge people. They will be fine.
I've been wondering how I might be able to get a license so that I can make a physical Space Cadet pinball machine. I was thinking about building a single one as a hobby, but it would be a ton of work, so I'd prefer to do it as a business. I would want to make quite a few and sell them or set them up in arcades. I'm sure a lot of people who grew up with Windows XP would see them and put in a few dollars to play it.
Just from reading his wikipedia bio, whatever gravitas he may have once had seems to have been traded for conspiracy theories and pseudoscience.

This looks like idea laundering.
Your implication is that the "full staffing" makes up for the fact that inmates can't leave nor have anyone visit. In which case, there is little difference between a care facility under lockdown, and a prison.

A friend's grandmother died alone, without having seen friends or family for months, shut in her room in a care facility during 2020.

I suppose you are one of the people who would also tell us that house arrest is "not hard".
Your issue is but one of a variety of issues that could be fixed with better governance... here's the elevator pitch...

PPL
Peoples Policy Lab

The majority of governments around the world no longer serve the interests of their people. Increasingly governments are working in favor of corporate agendas, where we see out-of-control capitalism dividing humanity and pushing us to the brink of environmental catastrophe, if not, all out war. Power must be returned to the people if we have any hope of avoiding the complete degradation of our planet and the human race along with it.

How do we the people take the power back?

Having one voice is the first step.

PPL is a peer-to-peer app built on blockchain for the express purpose of developing best practice policies for all living entities and our planet.

PPL will invite the brightest minds of our time- leaders in their fields- to formulate best practice solutions before presenting them to the general public for testing and voting. Anyone can join with proper ID and by paying an annual fee of $1.

The platform will provide a ‘trusted’ source of information, where policies are derived from current scientific understanding. Once operational, PPL will work towards hardwiring itself into governments at all levels to address local, state, national and international affairs.

PPL will be launched with its own cryptocurrency, EarthCoin (working title). It is imperative we work within the current framework to push our best practice policies through government channels and financially back progressive politicians prepared to endorse and implement PPL solutions.
Too lazy to look them up but there have been studies done showing that eating while watching tv causes you to eat significantly more calories than just eating.

The word mindfulness gets thrown around a lot but that doesn’t necessarily negate the strength of these studies.
You realize the code above is based on runtime? Isolating the build here makes zero difference in such a time bomb.
Friend of mine works at IEA, specifically on water projects. Over drinks he told me his biggest worry is the Himalayas basin destabilizing. Water from those glaciers supply something like 2bn+ people.
Steam Deck Developer Kit Impressions
I prefer CommonJS. It's so simple. You assign the dependency to a variable and that's it. I still need to look up the syntax every time I use ESM.
With that argument, you might as well say that open-source/free software shouldn't exist.
I'm interested in this product, but won't participate in the Kickstarter raiser.
Imo Kickstarter is not the right platform for expensive products like this one. The risk is all put on the buyer and the probability of it fizzling is just too great.
And so is Andy Kaufman
> greater good isn’t in the Cambridge Dictionary yet. You can help!
I have always felt that the Chicken/Egg question was obvious.

We have to assume there is a line between "creature that is almost exactly like a chicken" and "a chicken."

A proto-chicken laid an egg. That egg after fertilization contained a mutation that pushed the proto-chicken INTO chicken territory.

Thus, the (chicken) egg came first because a chicken cannot exist without mutating as a part of reproduction.
Wow, TIL that some people puts their shoe before even putting the second sock ? And that they are the majority ? Where is that ? Is the civilization finally collapsing ? How do you do that ? Your socks are near your shoes ? Near the door ? What do you wear inside your house ? Am I an alien on this planet ? So much questions it broke my brain.
This would be quite useful. We have a couple of large-ish projects with a couple of hundreds files compiled in parallel and there are snags every now and then (which disappear when re-running make either in parallel or sequential modes). Getting a graph in these cases would be a nice time saver.

I’ll try the fork.
What about 40+ per cent charged in South Europe countries?

Do you think they're all that better
brave does not push crypto on you, you can choose to participate if you want to tip creators
Considering that all build systems must keep a dependency graph internally, it’s surprising how many of them make it incredibly difficult to inspect why things are being rebuilt. I don’t really get it either, I’ve talked to a lot of people and getting feedback on how the build system is doing its task is one of the biggest complaints I see (others are “what is the build system doing” and “why does this have the worst syntax and weird edge cases”) and I mean all the build tools have literally everything they need to show this externally, but basically none expose it in a reasonable manner (if at all). I should be able to go, “oh you rebuilt all of libFoo.a because I accidentally made it depend on autogenerated.cpp”. If you are making a new build system today (and I am sure some of you here are considering it :P) please make this one of your priorities when designing the tool.
If you point to Fastmail as your name server it will even setup the records for you.
Phew that is a lot. Do you know of any research that support this much for sleep, and how much the body can tolerate for extended periods of time?

The best I found was this from the European Food Safety Authority

https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.2903/j.efsa....