skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps people learn French, Latin, and German because they want to. Who are you to say what they may or may not choose to learn? A diversity of education and knowledge is a good thing for a culture, and if it was not, people would still be justified in learning what they want to learn.

Besides, that we have a sizable population that either has not yet learned English or has chosen not to does not create an obligation in others to learn their language. Are you certain it's more important to enable a sub-community that has not embraced the dominant language of the country, rather than be able to experience the thoughts of the ancients in their own Latin? To extend your argument, I live in an area with a large Hmong population that has not fully embraced English; should the schools here abandon education in all languages but English and Hmong?
> The GitHub release has a single 8.4M binary.

That's a definitely acceptable size, thanks for pointing that out. Yeah a bunch of symlinks should solve the issue. If the binary is kept cached in RAM at least, there should be no overhead in starting it. I think it's pretty rare to have environments that are so memory constrained that they can't hold onto 8 MB of RAM.

Note that not all targets are that small though. Musl has indeed 8.3 MiB, but in coreutils-0.0.12-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz, the size of the coreutils executable is 12.6 MiB. On the bright side, on the same target, a local build with the cargo features to reduce bloat enabled gives only 7.1M. All these numbers are acceptable.
I can't really believe that devs in the ukraine make as much as in germany.

Why would then work a lot of devs here? Cost of living is a fraction there.
Signal works just fine without Play services.
Wait, if my phone is IPv6, then what does it mean that a site 'supports' v6? I can get on HN just fine.
I grew up in Germany, but the first time I really learnt about the concept of race was when I went to the doctor in the US, where you need to fill in your "ethnicity". Same in the UK. I don't think anything can be more racist than being asked about your race or your ethnicity, because really, what exactly is that? Am I here for a medical appointment, or a psychological and philosophical introspection of myself? I usually just fill in Cosmopolitan there.
https://jokes.one/joke/billy-the-goat-fucker
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. Are they dead bulbs and alignment. What else is there really to fail on?
Head of WhatsApp on releasing an iPad app: ‘We’d love to do it’
they care. they care that it would cost them money.
Probably because it is completely offtopic.
In Australia, I've never seen a government form asking your race. They'll ask questions about country of birth, language spoken at home, indigenous status, etc – but none of those map exactly to "race" as that concept is understood in the US.

Here, the government, media, etc, generally prefer to refer to people using fine-grained ethnicity/nationality terms, not in terms of coarse racial categories.
At one of the datacenters I used to work in regularly the SAN engineers were always up for demonstrating the base isolation of their Hitachi storage array - The whole thing sat on a plate atop a ball-bearing pit, and could be shoved about a foot in any direction. Which they would invite you to do. Given the weight of the unit you'd never get it to budge more than a cm but they had videos of it during earthquakes showing it moving around the full range of motion.

It was very 'v1' as far as base isolation goes and their newer equipment has more sophisticated protection, but it's an interesting field. On a larger scale the use of damping weight to protect entire buildings is amazing to see: https://youtu.be/NYSgd1XSZXc
As a manager I feel my days are always short, I work in a big company and have 1:1s with other departments to develop relationships, to try to influence other team’s roadmaps , to check how other people are doing that used to be on my team and how can I help, to talk with end users, to mentor junior developers… I can pick and choose what I feel has more impact on above.

I also have a vision of where I want the team and the company to be and try to get strategies to achieve it. For example, increases pay bands justification, promotions, career ladder, more training budget, paying for software, approve open source usage requests that are blocking someone etc.
> I'm never going to use this

I agree but I think the difference with languages is that it's almost impossible to avoid that for most people. Most children go to countries speaking other languages very rarely.

I live in the UK and "learnt" French in school. I went to France twice before I was 18.

Obviously there are places where it's different. I bet schools in California have some success teaching Spanish for example. But it's easier for subjects like Maths and English to answer "why will I ever need this" (even if they still usually do a pretty terrible job).
Agreed, and with Latin, it's entirely defensible, because there is no country or province other than the vatican where you can even select it as a language on the ATM machine. Latin's positioning as a purely academic pursuit, both as a cultural treasure trove and an excellent gateway to linguistics is the only thing that even makes sense. Modern day spoken Latin revival is cute, and I certainly support it insofar as it can aid reading fluency, but it's about as useless and artificial as Esperanto.
Arduino Uno Interrupts with Rust
This article details some solutions to programming interrupts in Rust on the Arduino Un
> trying to undo that mess decades later

This implies that it has been used (successfully) for decades. That's a phenomenal success. Most software gets replaced after a few decades because the requirements change.
Discussion of “dbm” data base system (1984)
I am only a half rank higher then before reading the books and the improvement could be also because of more playtime, but it really influenced my decision making. Actually I came to the decision to play aggressive openings only, build more traps, do hit and run attacks whenever I can and get more distractions before and while my attacks (sending some lings before spawning two nydus tunnels at two different locations really helps).
> Why not use concatenation?
>
> const y = x f g h;

This can't be broken into multiple lines.

const y = x f
g h

Will have an implicit ; in between.

const y = x
|> f
|> g
|> h;

Will work as expected, and potentially increase readability.
Rust executables are statically linked by default. This makes them oftentimes substantially larger than their dynamically linked counterparts. For me it is not a deal breaker.
This operator proposal has been there for quite some time! Seems like it gets rediscovered periodically and continues to provoke heated discussions.

Personally, I used to be fairly strongly against it, but nowadays I'm not sure if I care. I suppose I'm still not particularly in favor. But maybe I'm biased towards minimalism. I don't dislike the idea of the operator in itself, just how it fits (or rather doesn't fit) into JavaScript. I think it makes more sense in F#.

Four years ago I got really sucked into this topic and thought about this a lot. I had a lot of fun writing down a few counterarguments:

https://djedr.github.io/posts/random-2018-01-25.html

This was partly inspired by this HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16193112

It seems that since that time `Function.pipe` appeared as a serious alternative or complement to the operator. Nice!

Besides `Function.pipe` these alternatives mentioned in the article are good:

https://2ality.com/2022/01/pipe-operator.html#using-intermed...

https://2ality.com/2022/01/pipe-operator.html#reusing-a-vari...

The first one is actually the most simple, readable, safe, and has been supported forever. It's just verbose and suffers from the hard problem of naming things. Though sometimes just thinking about a good name for an intermediate variable can lead to good refactoring idea. And intermediate variables provide clean breakpoints -- easier for debugging.

The next alternative solves the naming and verbosity problem. Back when I was into this, I was writing a blog post about this technique. Ended up not finishing it before my interest in bikeshedding faded. Which reminds me to cut this post short and tend to more pressing matters.

It can be fun though.
Alyx is cool but it also sucks. The little interactions with items feel novel. The combat is bad.

It’s a thin layer of game design tricks to make you think you’re in something intricate but it’s actually dumb as rocks. The lightning dogs are the peak of this. Even on the hardest difficulty they telegraph their attacks for like… 10 seconds. It’s not clear if it’s possible to dodge it by physically walking 5m. The game wants you to teleport pretty much anywhere to “dodge” it. I don’t blame valve for this. What they almost certainly realized is that humans are incompetent in vr so the enemies need to be dumb as rocks. Not that the AI is bad or anything, but the principles behind their behavior are built for the fact that humans are slow, have low situational awareness, and and especially in vr don’t have a good intuition for where their body is exposed. The electric dogs are still decently challenging. But the limitations on it were incredibly immersion breaking to me, much more than having a helmet benefited.

Superhot solves this the other way by having very short high failure levels and just letting you lose due to human incompetence at your own pace. It works pretty well but it’s not a generalizable strategy for other games. I’m looking to do boneworks next. I’ve never felt wires were a real problem. Mostly because the games I play don’t involve moving around much. I have tried wireless.

I have also done one of those vr domes with a huge open warehouses and multiplayer vr shooters with mild graphics but big gun peripherals. This is the biggest freedom you could possibly have. In my experience playing and watching others, people just slowly walk from place to place, rotate in place, and stand still shooting while monsters get too close and “hit” them because melee attacks feel unintuitive still. They move like they’re an old resident evil tank control character lol.
Rust extension traits, greppability and IDEs
Not full services like Gmail pCloud etc... Non-tech people can keep using those services and can access tech support even if OP is no longer available.
Tesla, the stock, is currently priced as if it will never face competition. Even with the big correction of recent weeks, it is still priced at more than several of its competitors combined. This is not a rational price. The fact is that the market will soon be flooded with excellent electric cars from Toyota, Mercedes, BMW and more. This article certainly should worry anyone holding Tesla stock: less than 4% of the BMW Smart Fortwo Electric Drive showed defects, compared to 10% of the Teslas. And this is in the year 2022. It's only going to get worse and worse from here on out, as the big companies bring their whole networks to bear. Even worse, whereas Toyota, Mercedes, and BMW have international networks of dealerships, Tesla has only a very small base of institutional support to work with. It simply isn't rational to hold Tesla stock. The preponderance of evidence favors the idea that Tesla will shrink and the other companies will grow, in the electric market.
> The purpose of stimulus was to prevent those from looking even worse and causing more permanent damage to the economy. In that regard it's been a huge success; somewhere above, Keynes is smiling. In exchange for that we've got only 5%ish inflation, driven partly by a newly-tight labour market in which people can actually negotiate incomes upward, and partly by a big spike in natural gas prices? I would absolutely take it.

Me too. I would take that deal again.

As I recall, for a few weeks in early-to-mid 2020, the world was in the grip of fear, consumers everywhere had drastically cut their spending, and businesses everywhere were in free fall. Government intervention stopped the free fall. I know of several small and midsize businesses that briefly considered Chapter 11 and of one billionaire who had his lawyers draft personal bankruptcy filings during those few weeks. Every CEO and business founder I know took out a PPP loan -- and no one repaid it. The moment government money started flowing, everyone changed their tune. I'm 100% sure that, had it not been for all that government intervention (fiscal and monetary), we would be in the throes of a horrific Great Depression right now.

That said, I think there will likely be two significant costs to all the "mopping up" to be done by central banks (stopping their purchases of government bonds to replace holdings that mature, reducing the pool of capital available for buying government bonds, and raising rates): (1) asset prices are likely to decline, perhaps significantly (that is what has happened in other periods of voluntary/involuntary monetary tightening throughout history), and (2) we will likely have to suffer through a normal recession -- much better than a Great Depression, but still, not fun.
Here's Bill Gates defending "internet" in 1995: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gipL_CEw-fk.

He gets totally annihilated by Letterman. Bill can't even say a single use-case that is better than what already exists.
I pick boring tasks that have been sitting on the backlog for a very long time usually .
Why is this person's photo on EVERY.SINGLE.WEBSITE in India.

I know the answer. Just unbelievable self-promotion at public tax payer expense.

Is there a similar case elsewhere in any other democracy that's comparable.
I'm not sure how point 2 is and advantage for anyone but the company tbh.

It's also going to be _really_ hard to be more portable than GNU coreutils, when it comes to platforms it's available on.
The main reason I despise it is that the term is often used to imply that there is "no technical debt" or "no maintenance costs" or that this is "not real programming". In reality, users are still creating software, so technical debt and other maintenance costs will still build over time. Project management, feature prioritization, data/schema design, system design, module decomposition, testing, etc are all still important tasks and don't go away just because the tools are visual.

A lot of it is due to perceptions - in my experience senior non-tech managers misunderstand the term, whereas "visual programming" still emphasizes that this is a software project with all that entails, just constructed in a more accessible way.
> Most days I can do somewhere between one and two hours of hard thinky work. Writing, programming, etc. Good days or easy tasks it might be three. It’s rarely four, and over a week almost never averages more than two.

too accurate
this is right. no, you don't get the big win. but you do get to put in that cleanup that everyone is always talking about. and you get to actually write the tests that no one else has time for.

you kind of have to do this. idk how I could function effectively if I didn't have a reason to be looking at the code all the time.
Suspension parts wear out, and something as simple as worn out rubber bushings will fail inspection.

3 years is quite short, but being a "solved problem" does not mean that no service is required. Nothing is permanent.
Move fast and break things is job 1!
The odds you’ll outlive your money
From a genetic perspective, its shockingly backwards. Classic US oversimplification and pidgeon holing too. We are all a bastard amalgamation.
Not sure how in an American context you can qualify people from the Middle East as Non-Minority? If anything they would have to be category 2 (Asian or Pacific Islander), since the Middle East is located in Asia. But really, that list is missing a couple dozen categories, or at least an "other" category.
Maybe you missed this part: "Model S placed third-to-last out of all cars, including ICE vehicles, only besting the Dacia Logan and Dacia Duster." I.e., it is not only (seemingly?) worse than expensive cars, but also scores at the bottom of cheap and budget cars. The only cars worse are the cheap Romanian Dacia rebrands of Renault cars.
Perhaps it's on there because it has recently been circulating on the Net generally. Not necessarily this narratively version; I think I saw a YouTube video about him in my feed a week or three ago.
Once their "devs" broke noscript/basic (x)html browers for good, I did ask them to reconsider, I got a "no", and it was over.
CloudFlare's supposed acceleration has been a bit underwhelming.

I was diagnosing some problems with latencies and it turns out that CF adds a good 200 ms to my page loads (making them load at about 400ms instead of 200ms*), meanwhile, their own tests claim they're able to reduce my page loads down to a roaring 700 ms from the 1 second default.

* depending on location
Well Tesla doesn't have a US PR or marketing team so now what?
I used to troll it a lot. At one point, when I first signed up, it was an incredible source of undiscovered great art, but at some point it devolved into narcissistic selfies. I created folders name "fat women" and "uglies" and put all selfies in it
And they are a tiny fraction of german tech jobs.
Yeah, I agree with all of this.

Doing this well also requires building relationships with the team and trust. Recognizing little things like how people can be afraid of a project (and that fear can lead to spinning), and how to break things down/prioritize.

In software I think there are also system changes that can make individuals happier (often stuff described in books like the Phoenix project and working effectively with legacy code). A lot of which enable the things you described.

People are happy when they’re productive and goals are clear/make sense (and they have the space to focus on the work for them) and they get recognized for it.
Privately owned companies merely enrich their owners. If anything they are more likely to prioritise profits.

Large charities accumulate wealth endlessly through active fundraising despite having enough to cover their costs for over a decade.

The issue isn't the collective fiction of the "company", it is "humans" and an inherent greed and self centredness (imo)
Ask HN: Please tell me about your under desk pedaling solution
I'm only just starting to look into it and it looks like a deep rabbit hole. I thought it prudent to take a quick survey.
Libraries in the UK ask for ethnicity when you register even nowadays, so do uni applications. Weird.
There are 611 tests, 298 is less than half.
Law enforcement is not NSA's job. They have no reason to help FBI here.
Even if it was just failure and they didn’t know, I feel like the city needs to have insurance for these things no?

Would seem insane for the city to just put it on the individual using it.
I threw together a one-liner to disable: https://twitter.com/mikefiedler/status/1487439545779949571
I love this as an exploration, but I think it doesn't go quite far enough. Are (socially defined) racial categories ridiculous from a biological lens? Sure. Does that mean they are not real? No.

Humans are primates for whom social power structures are deeply important. (And not the only ones; see de Waal's "Chimpanzee Politics" for how it plays out in our nearest relatives.) As a species we are extremely good at building eusocial power systems, and we use that to get a lot done. But those can depend on a lot of effectively arbitrary markers to do that. Look at the British class system. What outsiders would call slight shifts in accent, clothing, and manners mark major division in social power.

The US wasn't nearly as classist, but it undeniably started out as a racialized and gendered power system. (E.g., 1700+ members of congress owned slaves [1], with slaveholders being in the majority for the first 30 years. It wasn't until 1870 we saw a black person in a federal elected seat, and the first woman was in 1917.) So it's not a shock that state and federal bureaucracies would be extremely interested in which box a person fits into.

These categories aren't biological, they're social, standing waves in our interactions. As a white man, there are many, many situations in the US where I get treated better just because of that. It's that lasting differential in social power that is what really defines racial categories. If we want to eliminate the categories, we first have to eliminate the power differential. Then the categories will go away on their own, the same way a lot of ancestry questions have become moot among white people (e.g., having ancestors of English vs German vs Irish vs Italian ancestry used to matter a fair bit). But as with the English class system, that power differential will not go away on its own; it has to be studied, recognized, and actively dismantled.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/cong...
yup, i noticed that when i saw the first commits; in fact i thought it was someone's pet project. however, when i read that first odenet paper, it's clear keeping track of the gradients is extremely useful.

I'm very familiar with the first paper, the second author was on my committee.

so what does a cloud migration at a biotech company mean?

is it sort of a standard orchestrator + warehouse/lakehouse + distributed compute + cicd tools stack?
I'm way too young to have experienced this myself and maybe this is something that has over-all been forgotten, but going back a few decades and looking at computer content from the 70s/80s it's amazing how crazy people got about spreadsheets. And that's for a good reason: It was a massive productivity boost.

These things have been driving our economy for a few decades at insane levels of productivity.
I don't mind USB-C but the dang cables and adapters have limited discoverability. Power Delivery seems to go up to 240W for USB-C.

Other options for passing power and data would be PoE (90W Max using all 4 pairs). PoE also is very discoverable and easily crimped by an end user.

Any other standards out there we should be aware of?
Been waiting for 10 years for the legacy manufacturers to flood the market with BEV. As recently as a year ago, Toyota was still betting in hydrogen.

Basically, I’ll believe it when you see it. Right now the BEV market is basically Tesla or sacrifices.
> Some of the laziest, least productive people I've worked with are the same people posting on LinkedIn on Sunday morning about their 80 hour grinds every week.

In my experience, people who claim to regularly work 60-80 hours/week are completely full of it. Yes, there’s this “thought about work for a second, that’s another hour” mentality. But there’s also just a ton of people outright lying about the amount of time they actually sit at a desk.

I worked at Yahoo for a while and nearly everyone told me they worked long hours, like 10 hour days, every day. The vast majority of them were working at most 8. People would talk about working late but they came in even late, too. Showing up at 11am and leaving at 7pm is not a long day. The people claiming to work until 7 were also not actually stating that late typically, because if I stayed until 6 the place was a ghost town. There legitimately were a few people who were working long days, but they very much seemed to be the exception. There was an unhealthy culture of pretending to work absurd hours, though.
He walked within a hundred feet of my old apartment so I'll happily use my local card to call absolute gibberish on this entire thing. I really have no idea what he was babbling about or why he's so confident in that weird reductive lens he views through.
> a solved problem, cars have has suspensions for over 100 years

The Ford mustang and Cadillac escalade have adopted rear independent suspension for the first time in the last 5 years.

Coaches and cars until the 80s mostly used leaf springs. Solid rear differentials and leaf springs are still common in trucks.

Tesla's have adjustable height, adjustable response, and 4 wheel independent suspension.

Other innovations in the last 50 years include aluminium, passive rear stearing, disc brakes, all wheel coilovers.