skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, I'm pretty sure Backbone and Knockout are more stable than React :) They didn't have a release since 2019.

I mean, React itself is quite fine with backwards incompatibility. But how many completely backwards incompatible versions did react-router have? I think there four, but I can be wrong.
“Filter topics by mood” still positions the slider to the left (angry) side. “Mood” column is still predominantly angry faces. IPad, Safari, haven’t upgraded to the latest OS.
What's a good resource to gain more-indepth knowledge on DNS?
As of a few months ago at least the toolings still basically the same lol.
/usr/bin/groff -Tpdf -P-pletter -step -ms -z -rpdf:bm.nr=1 -rRef=0 -dPDF.EXPORT=1 utp_book.t 2>&1 | grep '^.ds' | /usr/bin/groff -Tpdf -P-pletter -step -ms -rRef=0 - utp_book.t >utp_book.pdf.tmp
/usr/bin/groff: can't find `DESC' file
/usr/bin/groff:fatal error: invalid device `pdf'
make: ** [utp_book.pdf] Error 3

Just replace -Tpdf by -Tps in Makefile and run ps2pdf manually afterwards, then it works.
Have you tried using herbal tea (no caffeine) to get your routine and see if it's the routine or the caffeine that helps?
Rudy Rucker: https://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/

Gnarly!
Additives, preservatives and sugar. Although you can find cheap wine without them you just have to look. I have some local "home" made wine and it is the best I have ever had
To expand on this, there are problems solved well by competitive markets and problems that are not. If the above were in the first category people would have solved them and we wouldn’t be talking about them.
Alternative anecdote:

I’ve never consumed caffeine intentionally and never had a cup of coffee. I’m very focused and productive by default with pretty consistent energy throughout the day.

It’s interesting observing folks who consume caffeine. I notice a frantic burst of energy and lack of presence in social situations (like reading the room or not talking over others) followed by a crash of low energy and sometimes depression, rinse and repeat.

I’ve also observed folks who appear to need caffeine to function, to the point where they can’t go on a road trip, or go out for an excursion or have a slow morning at home without bending plans to accommodate some caffeine intake.

From an outsiders perspective it’s clear to me that it’s a very intense addiction for some. And I’ve yet to see examples where it felt productive or helpful or fun to be around folks on caffeine while not consuming it myself.

Although, I guess that’s probably similar to many substances where it’s not always fun to be sober around those who drink. And if someone had never tried alcohol I’m sure it’s bizarre watching people obsess over it.
This isn't a bad article; the title is just completely misleading. More appropriate would be:

"How to implement the simplest possible version of TensorFlow Probability [1], a probabilistic programming framework".

[1] https://www.tensorflow.org/probability/overview
> I stand by the rest, that being unpleasant or hard to work with will make it harder to do cool things. Unless you are literally Elon Musk, Steve Jobs or maybe a few others.

What makes you think it wouldn't [be | have been] easier for them too, if they'd [learn | have learned] to be less of an arsehole?
> You cannot calculate the EV of a random variable X by taking the mean of random samples drawn from the distribution of X

My understanding of statistics is rudimentary so forgive me but doesn't the sample mean of a normally distributed variable tend towards the expected value for the population?
> There are vulnerabilities in JS and Ruby code, languages that are even easier (and just as type-safe) as Rust.

This is completely misleading. The vulnerabilities that exist in those languages are completely different. They often are also far less impactful.

Memory safety vulnerabilities typically lead to full code execution. It is so so so much easier to avoid RCE in memory safe languages - you can grep for "eval" and "popen" and you're fucking 99% done, you did it, no more RCE.
Yea the building is open to the public; there is a hotel and I have stayed there, and some stores too; there's a grocery store on the lower level. I did some "sightseeing" indoors so to speak; I walked the corridor all the way down through the pool & gym area and the school area.
The catch, IMO, is that the need to stay in the numpy sandbox really constrains how you choose data structures and algorithms.

Storing N-dimensional points in a Point class, for example, is often so slow as to be a non-starter. Admittedly, it's not just a Python problem: struggles with array-of-structs vs. struct-of-array representations are pretty ubiquitous.
I agree with the others commenters who say the code "improvements" lead to unwarranted complexity and unreadability. Academic version of enterprise fizz-buzz this is.

IMHO, the quality of the code is not so important but more the documentation and testing around the code, and the use of best practices like git, versioning, etc. A good place to learn about these things is Patrick Mineault's The Good Research Code Handbook which is available here https://goodresearch.dev/ (intended for scientists who must produce code artifacts as part of their research).
thanks for sharing your experience! Yes, the grass is greener... and I'm green enough that I must have a look!

I agree about the potential of SaaS. If I can find the right culture fit, I'm down to stay in SaaS for a while.
I'm not the guy you're responding to, but I thought I had a reasonable strategy to simply calculate it. I can't do it for America, because I'm not sufficiently familiar with what data you have available and am instead going to do the analysis for Sweden.

In Sweden the labour share of GDP is 55%, however taxes on wages are 60% of the total government income, and a large remaining fraction of the taxes on work income. Another 30% is from VAT. Let's assume arbitrarily that half the VAT is paid by workers and not with income from capital.

Under this assumption, workers receive 55% of GDP in compensation before taxes, but pay 70% of all taxes.

If taxes on income were the same for workers as for capital then workers would pay 55% instead of 70%, so taxes would be 18% lower than they are now.
>The 80s and 90s had a more libertarian or liberal (less authoritarian left) vibe.

Looking back on it, it's hard to decipher. I explained to my son that once, a movie usher asked me to put out my cigarette at a midnight movie. This while the rest of the patrons were smoking pot, which was so commonplace at midnight movies that the authorities just ignored it. Those decades were a strange battleground between intellectual freedom (and hedonism) jousting with the establishment. This decade, I don't feel that promise of wholly unbridled intellectual freedom, and the excitement it caused. I suppose the establishment won.
This is beautifully written thanks for sharing.
True, if you interpret "we" as "the community of people on the Internet" (who in the early days were mostly hackers, academics, and technologists of various sorts), then that interpretation is no longer valid. Now "The Internet" is roughly synonymous with "everybody".

But the group of people that made up the "old we" (to the extent that such a thing ever existed) still exists. That's the "we" I'm referring to now. So the question, to my mind, is whether or not there is still a distinct "we" who had grand visions of what the Internet and technology could do for society (in a good way) and whether there are still actions we could take to encourage development in a positive direction.

I think the answer is "yes", but that may just be wishful thinking. But I try to be an optimist.
The natural power structure emerged in the beginning but once established only an act of God could reset it and even when reset it would naturally reform. The kids didn’t get any tools to challenge and improve their position in the the structure which is really the only thing that matters.
Exactly the same here. Two coffees a day, and I look forward to making them sometimes even at the end of the previous day: Let’s go to bed, and tomorrow I’ll make myself a nice cup of coffee and it will be a new day.

And with two cups a day, “withdrawal” really isn’t a big factor. There are (rare) times where because of different circumstances I forget to/can’t drink coffee before my self-imposed deadline (for sleep), and I’ll be a bit more tired and a bit sad that I have to wait for my next coffee…
Do you think you’ve ever been around someone while they were on caffeine and not known about it?
The Spectrum was first a very beautiful object thanks to Rick Dickinson. And, as a side note, he proved with the Spectrum Next, he still have all his talent.

Frankly, to have this object at home in the 80 was classy! A work of art.

And for me it's what define the Spectrum. The main games were not the most beautiful but had a very distinctive and enjoyable touch. A tiny machine but which a lovely and specific spirit. It was a so nice time in my memory.
Do you think Apple is already at the frontier of what can be done to detect or refactor out these bugs in their existing languages? Static analysis, Valgrind, modern C++, etc?
It will raise your blood pressure, so if you’re in the half of adults that have hypertension that could be worth considering.
What happens when your account is overdrawn?

Well when the commitment was made for Windows 10 to be the final version of Windows I guess they were right in costly ways that weren't anticipated.

Windows 11 is turning out to be less & less of the kind of Windows people once knew & loved.

Power users may feel like it's completely hostile but it's overall just less to love for everyone.

Failing to live up to the Windows 10 commitment before it had a chance to decently stabilize, with all those resources, is a major failure but without the continued follow-through now you've got to figure there's going to be a different force at work if Windows is to be all it could be or even kept relevant in some ways.

And if the force starts to depend on direct licensing fees from everyone for it's survival, which haven't been in place for a while that's just screwing the pooch that much more.

With Windows 10 & 11 so far you need to be really sharp with the numbers to keep from getting the feeling that users are costing Microsoft money somehow. If that happens inherent pressure may arise naturally to reduce the number of users in response and the overall actions of the company could become unstoppable in this direction. Once underway, overall corporate momentum could tend downward uncontrollably with very little chance of a turn-around for an entire bureaucracy.

Even worse a small part of the bureaucracy could be getting new income that was not there and they could be rewarded for devising the system, this will push a further group of users away since anyone who doesn't like going from tolerable to intolerable will be in the same group.

There is some appearance of the Bureaucratic Failure Mode.
Thanks for your response! Want to chat more about our pursuits? I'm anthony at yesrobo dot net
The only shared resource is a whiteboard on the fridge. It has immediate lists (ie: Phoned 3 plumbers, these are quotes for work to be done and phone number.) and immediate purchase lists (milk, eggs, prescriptions) and immediate ToDos (call Aunt Tracey re:insider trading).

Small whiteboard means it gets cleared and refreshed frequently.

I schedule myself a week at a time, and she prefers a month at a time. So before I schedule anything I speak with her. My family now contacts her to plan holidays however.
I have had such problems, and I live in a village 10 km from Prague. Gaps in bus schedules can be very uncomfortable, and you often get no choice scheduling the important appointments such as a CT scan; you will be happy to get any at all.
You could look at an XML publishing pipeline (XML + XSLT + XML-FO).
Sounds right.

https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/buildings/kingswood-warr...
Ah, I see. Somehow I thought it was for personal use. Too bad business use is complicated by (possible) differences in laws.
This seems effective at showing how nearby areas relate to each other (or at least where ridges and changes are) and hopeless at global comparisons. After staring at it for a little while, I have no intuitive sense of what any area's height is, unless it's the orangey/black colors that appear near sea-level, or the bluish color that appears in the himalayas.
There are a lot of kinds of meditation, so saying that without qualification is too broad to be correct.
hmmm, middle initial checks out. though it's possible it's another steve.
I'm finally on the path to quitting caffeine entirely. I've cut down to at most a single cup of green tea a day, with plans to stop entirely within a couple of days. Now I'm falling asleep much faster at night, and I am generally awake within 5 minutes of getting out of bed. There have been a ton of positive second order effects as well, like not needing an afternoon nap nor needing to scroll on my phone to fall asleep.

As far as your questions go, I feel much better and am finding myself more productive as a whole (for comparison, I was drinking 4 double shot cortados a day back when I worked in the office). I highly recommend trying it for a couple of weeks to see.
There was actually a natural lord of the flies experiment and the power structure that emerged was similar to what emerged with legos originally
I am by all accounts the SME on git at my company. I often am the VCS expert at my company. I don't like using tools I don't understand, and my brain is pretty good at handling problems that look like graph theory.

After using git for 6 years git still terrifies me. After 9 months of svn I performed open heart surgery to remove a 1GB zip file that some dummy merged before anyone thought to stop him. It was at least 18 months before I tried something similar with git and I made copies of my copies to make sure I didn't fuck it up. And I still almost needed a do-over.

The level of dread I have using git is pretty close to how I feel when using a newly sharpened chef's knife - hypervigilance. And that feeling gets stronger when I hand that knife to someone else. Be very careful, that's super sharp... hold still, I'll get you a bandaid. Now you get a mini lecture on how to hold a knife without cutting yourself next time.
It will be a long while.

Besides, nothing about that automation actually changes the funding labor problem.

I have always found it tough to sell a robot a good meal too.

There will be basic labors we need doing and a lot of people doing them for the foreseeable future.
Automate that process that you find tedious; if you find it tedious, ask your coworkers if they do as well. Make the right time/automation trade offs. https://xkcd.com/1205/

Yes, work is tedious.
I think what they're saying is that by making devs use a less familiar language, you're going to end up with at least as many security bugs, just ones not related to memory safety. (Not weighing in either way, just clarifying.)
I didn't quit caffeine. I still drink tea. But I mostly stopped drinking coffee a while back.

A few weeks ago, I tried drinking a cup because I needed to be alert/less sleepy, and I felt like shit. Not sure why, headache, some anxiety, and nausea.
I am 3 weeks into a month of zero caffeine. It's actually a completely sober month: no alcohol, no weed, no caffeine, etc. I went cold turkey. The first 2-3 days I felt some mental fog and tightness in my head. I helped myself get through that by reminding myself that caffeine constricts bloodflow so what I was feeling was probably the sensation of more blood flowing through my head (which is probably a good thing). The upsides are that I am WAY less anxious and much more calm. Also much less prone to irritable outbursts. My self-control in general is very strong right now, probably because my psyche knows that we are going through a very challenging experience so being controlled in other areas is easier right now. One thing to notice is if any other goals around self-control start slipping while you abstain from caffeine. I.e. you can't have coffee so you start backsliding on other goals as a way to satisfy addictions. For example I practice a vegan diet and one day I caved into my craving for pancake (with eggs). Aside from that I'm hitting more of my daily goals which is why I say that my self-control is higher right now. I'm still thinking about coffee a lot. I miss my morning ritual of going to a coffee shop and reading. Also I just love the taste of a latte. I've been drinking a lot of zero-caffeine tea to substitute my oral fixation habits. Bengal Spice from Celestial Tea is very tasty! I don't notice a huge increase or decrease in energy. I still get tired in the afternoon and I still take naps (I had that habit even while on caffeine). After this experience I will probably set a habitual goal to keep my caffeine intake down to a drink per day or something. I have tried that before and it didn't stick. Suggestions on how to make it stick welcome! Last note: it's satisfying to see the gradual savings of not spending $5 or more per day at a coffee shop!
What's the point of dating someone you don't know?
Ah, fond memories of reading Mondo 2000 and Boing Boing, and there was also 2600 and a few smaller ones, and BBSs made you feel like an early resident of the future sprawl. I'll just link here to a cool comic that sometimes pops up on HN, and is pretty good regarding the whole vibe of the period:

https://www.electricsheepcomix.com/almostguy/
You're right, I had no idea about this sport.

In my defence I did bring up chess as well, and I do believe there is a shooting event in the summer Olympics so my query still stands.
Interesting idea, but elevations lower than 50m or so are colored black as if they're water. Looks like an apocalyptic flood. Don't understand why the author didn't make sea level a clearly visible threshold.
Have you ever been assessed for ADHD? I'm not trying to assert a diagnosis based on one post or anything, but "I had random bursts of creativity and energy, but couldn't maintain focus on anything or do boring tasks, and now that I'm taking a stimulant I'm much more able to regulate myself" sounds quite characteristic.
>wide availability of credit

I think I know the intent of why this is on your list, but, honestly, my family members who are in a cycle of poverty are there in no small part because of a cycle of debt. And I'm not talking about unavoidable debt like from a medical condition, but rather from debt from buying depreciating assets they cannot afford (cars, tvs, etc.) Widely available credit, IMO, makes the situation worse.
This is from Dec 1st of last year (so not too long ago).

It's nice to see private companies dive into the (automated) theorem proving and formal verification world, and I'm curious if throwing money at this will have a meaningful impact on the field (if that is what they're planning to do). It seems like we've slowly been getting to a point, where the tools we have available now might be combined in a way that makes some impressive progress on all this.
Quantity has a quality of its own. To use a similar example, arrest and imprisonment records are public data in my country. But you have to actually go to the courthouse and fill out some paperwork and/or hire a lawyer to do it for you.

This has consequences. For example, in some US states it takes a few seconds for an employer to find out a candidate was once arrested while drunk, or has a conviction for a minor offense from 15 years ago. And employers do that sort of search routinely, because it's free and easy. Only someone being targeted for a specific background check gets that treatment here, because it's not so easy.

Same argument applies to, for example, reading the previous divorce case for someone you're dating. Only a real weirdo would do that here, in part because it involves time and money. If it's freely available online, I do think it would be a lot more common.

I don't know whether it'd be better or worse to have such information more accessible, but it can change things.
> it is very clear that a huge percentage of the US population is still have 19th century views on race

I think it's clear that this is how it's portrayed. I'm not sure the portrayal is all that accurate, or even relevant in most of the cases being discussed.
"Poor people in Europe can easily hop a train to get to another town or village if needed."

Not completely true, there are many rural regions where the train or bus service is very irregular, if not discontinued outright.

One of the reasons why the Yellow Vests in France were so forceful: French countryside is seriously underserved by public transport and living there without a car or with very expensive fuel is hard.
For balance I only drink decaf tea and I am a terrible developer.
I take anywhere between 0-10 'shots' per day and it doesnt seem to phase me either way.
Last time I tried to quit coffee:

First day: Okay

Second day: Intense, soul-crushing beating headache, it hurt so much I didn't know what was up and down, my teeth hurt, I was out of commission entirely that day. I have previous experience with pain, if I didn't know the cause of this, I would have sought out medical assistance it was bad.

Third day: Headache less intense, still photosensitive, halos, dizzy.

Fourth day: Headache almost gone

Fifth day: No headache, "oh, that easy?"

Sixth day: Pain starts in right leg, mostly in the hip joints.

Seventh day: Deep, deep excruciating pain all down the right leg, it was almost unbearable, I was twisting and turning, couldn't lie down, couldn't sit up, walking was kind of okay.

Hip pains lasted the better part of a week, it was a hellish week.
Then my son was born, leg pain continued, I was useless, lack of sleep made headache return, I had a cup of cofffee, 20 minutes later I remembered how good one could feel. Now I'm back to about 2 cans of 0.5 liter monster energy + 6-10 strong cups of coffee per day.

I don't know why this was downvoted, but that's my "before and after" anecdote.

I stopped smoking many years ago (daily smokning 20+ cigs/day for multiple years), it was soooooooooo easy compared to this, because while the cravings were harder, they were only cravings combined with brain trying to make excuses, but with caffeine, the amount of physical pain I had to endure was very bad.

I might try again some time, if I ever get about a month of time where I can be alone and not have to do anything.
BenJojo sings “I’ve got too much…time on my hands”

The whole migration to IPv6 reminds me of DECnet migration to OSI…which basically never truly happened (because XNS/ITP grew up and became TCP/IP which was then extended to the edge with PPP/RAS, ending the era of store-and-forward email/usenet and destroying X.25/X.PC with its distance-based pricing, heralding the new era of free SPAM and Script Kiddies From Overseas). Same thing will happen to TCP/IP..something else will succeed it before IPv4 is obsolete, probably after somethingBad(TM) happens to create the market imperative for network operators to invest in the alternative.