skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be really nice if software developers that rant about X instead come up with a better alternative to X. You don’t like Electron? Great! Come up with a better alternative that still gives you the multi-platform/cost advantages of Electron. You don’t like Node? Great! Show all of us what a better solution would be that still gives us all the advantages of Node. It is super easy, but also super lazy, to ignore the advantages of X and only focus on the disadvantages of X. There is a reason why X became popular! An alternative needs to give the same benefits while fixing the problems. If nobody can come up with a solution for that then perhaps X is a pretty good technology.
A large portion of "Tokyo" includes mountainous areas where nobody lives. In any case, even if you expand your NYC search to include nearby parts of Jersey or whatnot, you're not gonna find $700 1br's as a common thing.

And then if you look at the Bay Area having a low overall population density but it's still really expensive, it's pretty obvious what needs to happen.
I've personally written code that was immensely difficult to read. Branchless stuff with single letter variables. Even though I commented it thoroughly, its ridiculously difficult to read and modify.

This was a good lesson for me, I won't do that again and I'm far more verbose now.

My thinking is that maybe math should learn from things like that as well, perhaps expanding equations and being more verbose within the equation instead of an explanation next to it would make maths more accessible to a broader audience.
It seems like everyone has reached much the same conclusion: there may be many factors, but the real killer and root cause is that Chromium is well suited to being embedded, and Gecko is not.

So hey, any companies out there interested in bringing back a little diversity in browser engines? Or just making a tiny dent in Google's dominance for the greater good? Consider funding work to make Gecko better suited to embedding.
I read somewhere that the soil is the problem, not just the local climate. And soil takes a long time to accumulate the good stuff. So in short, places with good soil will become less farmable and places with now better climate won’t have good soil. We’re all kinda screwed then.
That sounds like a problem of people not understanding what middle class means. Its even worse than that, its a fairly basic part of history class when talking about things like the American and French revolutions. If your biggest nitpick is that the author isn't using the phrase "middle class" incorrectly, then I don't see anything to complain about.
Many stressors have an adaptation phase. It is plausible those effects get reduced with prolonged exposure in humans although that wasn't necessarily the case in mice: "Long-term exposure of mice to 890 ppm atmospheric CO 2 alters growth trajectories and elicits hyperactive behaviours in young adulthood"

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34731494/
Do you believe “invisible man in the sky” is an accurate representation of of the beliefs of billions of people?

I read that as snarky. Maybe I am too cynical.
> But if you build the mass transit and it removes one lane worth of traffic from the road, that's the same result as adding the third lane.

Mass transit can handle much more than one lane worth of traffic.
You don't get to do that in a discussion, just act like the main thing being lost would be only the nicest thing on your 'side'.
It doesn't matter that nobody cares. Nobody wanted to care about the pandemic either. It matters that when the tide goes out and things fall down, some part of the system stands up through it. That's when it matters.
yes i could make a mask out of plastic film and it would have 100% efficiency
mathematical notation would be kind of unreadable without the terse and compact symbology, imho. it makes it much easier for the mind to parse.

mathematics is partially a language (maybe one of the most universal ones), once you learn common conventions, it becomes easier.

Obviously it's no problem for human minds to learn huge numbers of symbols, just like some CJK languages with a large number of ideographs that have to be understood in context.

I do think auto-annotation, as well as other types of interactivity are great, though!
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> If I’m reading a paper outside of my field then I’m not really interested in the details of the equation but more of its application and what it means.

This is fine, until you find the application interesting, and try to apply it. I've had to contact authors just to figure out which one of several parameters a, b, c, or d actually represented. To be fair, these came with apologies.
B-1's run K8s these days.
Thanks for posting this. I was wondering why my build was broken.
Depends on if you count hard forks as new chains. Successful hard forks require decentralized consensus to follow the new chain.
Well, one can always look at other primates sleeping patterns.
Samsung no-showed on its major Exynos 2200 launch
On-die HBM is already happening in the CPU space:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/17067/intel-sapphire-rapids-w...
I love this technique.

You can also use it when writing a block of code where you haven't decided what kind of functional abstractions or data structures you want. Write the code you wish you could write. Then fill in the code needed to support that.
I think they didn’t know. Pasteurization didn’t come about until the mid 1800s. Maybe they suspected heating played a part - Wikipedia says it was a known method of preservation in China since the 1100s, but I think it took longer to get to Europe.
GitHub appears to be having issues
> but the "somebody else would have done it" crap is even worse

Except for that it is not so much the exception as it is the rule.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery
I'll stand up for using the gameplay (although paying for longer words is ridiculous when there's clones with it for free: https://engaging-data.com/wordguessr-wordle/ ), but using the name is indefensible.
Yeah nothing has changed after the late 2000s when the memory controller moved to the CPU die rather than the northbridge
Patterns occur in code, too, especially when allowed to span multiple lines with indentation.
That's just the paradoxical thing about it though. With induced demand congestion doesn't improve so travel times don't improve, so there is the same (dis)benefit to moving as there was before and living elsewhere doesn't, or rather shouldn't, become an option.
If it’s under warranty they send it out for the depo repair, but I have been that IT guy before and when there was down time I did crack open dead machines to try and bring them back to life.
Group chats are coming.

https://twitter.com/lockheimer/status/1480663656463437824
Firefox used to be extremely extensible: there were some software based on Gecko and Xulrunner. However, they all died out after Chromium and Electron took over.
Given the number of “this is what web3 is and isnt” posts that have surfaced lately I’m not holding out much hope for its immediate future.
Your argument seems to be that bad developers write bad software? Isn’t that true no matter the platform? I have written equally successful software in both Electron and Qt. In my experience, a competent developer can write great software given almost any platform.
We built a platform to take the pain away from running K8s, Istio, Prometheus, Vault, Grafana and more. It is so that microservices developers can focus on the code and not have to spend time on Ops related activities that can be codified.

https://controlplane.com
Years ago I started developing a new theory on randomness, logic and supertasks and took all my notes and experimental results into Google Docs. Researched for months on any scientific papers that would go deeper into these topics, and realized that nobody have previously explored some of the questions my theory pointed to. I became more paranoic on some Google researcher having access to my documents and developing the theory on their own, with way more computational resources. So I poisoned the docs with fallacies and fake data while transfering them on paper.
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It's not new news. This idea (i.e., permafrost thaw) has been circulating for quite some time. I'm sure I've read similar at least three times previously, probably more.
Here's the thing. Work in progress limits have been around forever. If you ever wanted to learn about kanban on a Saturday afternoon, you'd come by the term of "WIP limits" and a reasonable number like 3 at a given time.

I think the author is jumping the gun a bit based on their previous work "A World Without Email" in which he hints at the "hyperactive hive mind" being an entity in which everyone is fighting for each other's attention unknowingly.

This article somewhat assumes that because we're part of this hive mind, we don't actually get time to actually work deeply on one thing at a time and thus "slow productivity" is the solution so we can actually complete things.

> The autonomy that defines the professional lives of those who toil in front of computer screens has led us into a trap of excessive work volume. We cannot escape this trap by expanding the weekend. We must ultimately brace ourselves for the larger challenge of slowing down the pace of the workday itself.

Want to know the secret to these things? Read books.

Seriously, some of the best books on this topic are by the very author of this article.

Read High Output Management, The Effective Executive, Deep Work, Four Thousand Weeks, Thinking in Systems, An Elegant Puzzle, etc.

These books should empower you to take back control over your work life balance and hold others to a higher standard. Most of the time the "hyperactive hive mind" is simply your line manager and some middle manager's todo list sitting in your inbox because you're the one who can actually do anything about it. Yes, the very same boss who always changes your priorities last minute is surprise just serving their selfish needs through you.

How about flipping the script instead? You should give your boss a list of your priorities and tell them to not bother you until they are done. You should hold your boss accountable for the time they steal from you every week to discuss or talk about something that isn't one of those things. And ultimately, you should be in control of what you want to work on. You only live for so long, might as well be on things you actually believe in and can make an impact with, not some nonsense pushed down from the top or your boss's big breakthrough idea that everyone knows will flop.

Ever since I did this, I've been happier, healthier, and more impactful at work. Setting boundaries is fucking hard, but necessary to get anything done at a big company. The IC has the ultimate power. Don't be a doormat.
That’s not how it works. When an iMessage cannot be delivered for any reason (phone changes to Android, no internet, etc.) the message will be sent as SMS within minutes. It works per message and this behavior can be toggled in settings. I personally toggle it off so that I don’t get accidentally charged for SMS. When iMessage fails it tells me under each message’s bubble so I can send via SMS by tapping on it if I like.
yeah and after a day of labor? a little drink with some bread is all it takes…
You aren't wrong, but cultural expectations are hard to beat.

However, these days, everyone barring McDonalds asks for a tip. I eat/take out less because of it, but I'll tip at least 10% even if there is no service involved.
What an amazing technology, it's really a shame there's not a current version. Maybe given the original paper's algorithm and the OSM dataset we could recreate it?

I think this would be particularly useful for transit and other multi-modal trip maps. A Mercator might be mildly useful for driving (though as your link points out, not so obviously useful that it should be the only option), but there's really not much of a reason you need that for a bus or train trip. Individual bus or train lines very frequently have published maps in this style, and many subway system maps are reminiscent of it.
Having just done a bunch of research into OCR providers and encountered your site in the wild, I'll give some actual potential customer feedback on the site.

The main feedback is the visual design of the site is sufficiently non-professional looking (mid 1990's looking?) as to discourage any deeper evaluation of the product. I didn't stick around long enough to assess the product because your marketing materials communicated to this potential customer that your site was not worth looking at in more depth.

Marketing is hard and as specialized a skill as programming. The site at present radiates it's either an ancient or hobby site rather than a service provider customers can depend on. The lack of a visible business model makes the site seem even sketchier. Someone is paying for those compute cycles, so is this site in operation with the goal of monetizing the uploaded data? (As the saying goes, if you can't tell who is paying for the product, you are the product).

There were enough questions raised by that initial quick look at the site to lead me to immediately move on to other competing OCR providers.

As is the case with most tech startups, building the tech is just one of many hard parts of actually doing the startup.
Wouldn't HTTP2 imply https://github.com/grpc/grpc-web instead?
It's disgusting how people drive away from truth and it causes other people to have to make wild corrections to manage the lies. It snowballs into meaninglessness.

I once gave a detailed estimate of a project I thought would take 2-6 months. I called out the major blockers, explained the highest variability parts of the project, and made suggestions about how we could reduce variability.

Rather than address any of the points I made, the managers focused on nailing me down to a single estimate. Presumably they had to sell it as a quarter-long project.

I sat in the office of the engineering manager, and explained that any single estimate would be a lie. He told me that it wasn't a lie, it's just my best guess. I said my best guess is 2-6 months. He asked for 3 months. I said he can use whatever he wants, but my estimate is the same. I think they ended up using 3 months.

The ordeal complete drained my energy and the project went no where. My future estimates went through the roof and they eventually stopped asking. Now projects don't have any believable plans.
You're presuming that these users would have a product, even if it took several times longer for the developers to build. That isn't always (or maybe even often) true.

There are tradeoffs to be made; being absolutist about it isn't helpful.
The problem is that code comments tend to skew from the actual code over time. Let's just stick with readable code everywhere.
No noise on their status page[0] yet, but I'm getting 503 when I try to run Actions.

[0]: https://githubstatus.com
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I agree with the sentiment. I've been in a Magento and WordPress shop where I had to implement badly written plugins that my boss payed money for. I've seen people come out of code bootcamps calling themselves developers and all they can do is implement a design spec with HTML, SCSS, and jQuery. Yes, I taught myself a few programming languages,but I put in the work and effort to make my skills worth the time to an employer. We shouldn't lower the barrier only to call whomever can get past it with the low-level skills an expert in the field.
You’re strangely curt. I think your proposal would absolutely result in insufficient street parking. That seems self-evident since the plan starts with charging enough to reduce street parking congestion.

Fine if you don’t want to discuss, though.
This rant reads like some old dude got left behind and is now yelling at the clouds; this is what gets on HN front page nowadays? It's clear he hasn't researched WHY these newer technologies and tools exist if he believes it is because we are just adding "unnecessary complexity."
Actually I'd prefer greek letter.
At first I read iota as itoa which is also a thing.
I wonder how flexible the serdes built in test equipment stuff is.

A BNC-to-PCIe-lane board with some signal conditioning would make for a hilarious oscilloscope.
Nothing on status page?

https://www.githubstatus.com/
This is a very good list of things more people need to understand. Could it have been a lab leak? Yes! Could we say with any certainty that it was? No. If we levy such accusations without proof does it provide any benefit? Yes, to politicians with an agenda.
From comments here it sounds like people already deeply familiar with the mathematical notation used in a domain really want to stick with the compact, black-ink-only equation representation. However, as an engineer who occasionally wants to translate papers from a mathematical field I rarely encounter into code I will use all the time, annotations like this would greatly increase the utility I could derive from a paper in a given amount of time.

Also, as yunruse mentioned in [0], and as I have done in my own videos that include math, syntax highlighting for math is very useful for absorbing new math. How acceptable would that be to practitioners already deep in their fields?

So, could annotations of this form be acceptable to both groups if they were switchable on or off in an online version of a paper?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29899938
Mmm. Modern fertilizer has done a lot to neutralize the importance of good soil.
You can't farm rocks, but the US west has done a lot with sand + fertilizer.

As long as you have money, water, sun, heat, and something better than bedrock, I wouldn't call it unrealistic.
Sigh, so much for a last minute deploy before recording a progress demo... Darn modern conveniences...
GitHub Pages currently shows as "degraded" for me.
> Null hypothesis: early humans slept much like today's humans [...]

That's a terrible null hypothesis, as there is no reproducible, controllable test for it, other than a time machine.

A better one might be "people exposed to pre-industrial revolution photoperiods (<12h per day) will settle into a biphasic sleep pattern".

This was empirically tested with a small N (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2869.1992...). At least it's testable.
How are we really in a place in the world where making a text message blue instead of green is considered “bullying”?
A pet is not a chattel to it's owner(s). It's part of the family.

One searing memory that I can't unsee is a video clip taken during the New Orleans evacuations after Katrina. A poodle is jumping up at the closed door of a bus and obviously bewildered that he can't get in and be with his owner.

I have thought many times about that video. If I couldn't smuggle that pet on board, I would hope I wouldn't be able to abandon him/her, and we'd take our chances together.
Actually. Those of us who fight for Assange and freedom of journalism fight for freedom from Draconian covid policies as well.

Authoritians are the ones who want censorship, no dissent and emergency powers that override human rights and informed consent.
My current iPad cover is thin plastic with a “smart cover”. It’s not a bumper. It’s also certainly heavier than 10 grams but still quite light.

It protects from scratches and very light falls, such as being bumped off a table. A drop from chest height would be iffy.
> > That's not at all what happened. Source?

> So this is not true, and it is all lies? [0]

Everything in that article sounds correct to me.

> So Mozilla can survive without Google's money and be free from the demand to be the default search engine by their own competitor? That isn't taking privacy seriously is it?

Ah, so that's the operative definition of privacy you're using. Yes, Mozilla sends people to Google's search engine, and that search engine is at least capable of tracking users (and many Google properties definitely are tracking users, intensively.)

But if you visit www.google.com with any browser, the same thing happens.

Yes, it would be better for privacy to default to DuckDuckGo, for example. (That's what my browser is set to.) Mozilla could switch to DDG as its default, but then it would be paid far less and would not be able to support anywhere close to the current level of development. Or they could continue to take Google's money to compete with Google. If Google is secretly in full control of Firefox's direction, then that would be better. But given my personal experience, that is nowhere even close to being the case, and so it's better that Firefox survives.

> Either way, Google seems to have Mozilla on life support and Mozilla will do anything to keep itself alive whilst falsely preaching their mission on 'privacy'. What else are they hiding?

Mozilla is working hard on privacy. If having google.com as the default search engine invalidates that in your mind, then I have no argument to give.

> > "Mozilla Corp. will walk away from Google Inc. and the millions it collects from the search company each year, if that's what it takes to stay independent, the open-source developer's CEO promised"

> I expect Mozilla employees to continuously deny it. Even when 14 years later, Mozilla still has no significant revenue sources or any plans on being independent and still wants to be heavily reliant on Google's money despite promising to 'walk away' a decade ago.

If that's what it takes to stay independent. Mozilla is independent. Therefore, no need to walk away.

It's not a comfortable independence, and Mozilla is actively working on diversifying revenue. I'm sure they could be doing better. I'm not sure random internet commenters could do better, no matter their level of confidence.

Taking Google's money is not identical to being "an arm of Google", as Baker put it in that article you quoted. I guess that's the fundamental disagreement here?
real killer and root cause is that Chromium is well suited to being embedded, and Gecko is not.

I don't think that's really the key problem since you don't have to build a new browser out of FF by embedding Gecko. FF itself is a browser that was made out of another browser, much of the old core Mozilla technology is basically a cross-platform app-building framework with one of the 'apps' being a browser. Somewhat unobviously, this turned out not to be a great way to build a browser in the long run.
I agree, it made me hope there'd be a way to pay for this particular article when I reach its end.
I’m interested in this as I have a child not far behind in age.

If I rolled my own it would be a little like Slack, probably a single channel with threads and like a 30-day history, to keep it pretty ephemeral. The logs would be in an admin feed I would keep an eye on.

I’m not sure how long you could keep that level of control and keep other technology at bay, but it’s worth it to avoid premature connection the matrix.
A lot of those questions are answered and i don't think first trials have to be in anything but mice, who are very similar in relevant organs.

Eg. Kids have more flexible immune systems, while adults immune systems react how they know. The older => the more inflexible when it encounters something new.

Eg. You are contagious if you have enough particles produced that are transmittable. With omnicron that's ~2 days, symptoms in ~3 days.

Eg. Different variables on why some have it severe ( excluding vaccinations). Health conditions and age are the biggest variables, but there are more, less relevant ones, eg. Vitamine D intake ( they have it to seniors in my country).

Omicron correctly is so contagious that the "test subjects" is analyzing real data on humans in place where outbreaks happen.

This is mostly because it appears to be very light. Also, Corona virus mutates so fast that performing an additional tests could be useless before results can be interpreted.