skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://github.com/ysoftwareab/yplatform that this a notch higher (disclaimer: author here)

As others have mentioned on this thread, the problem is not just "use Makefiles instead of package.json scripts", but quickly ending up with duplicate Makefile content and then supporting more than just one language. It's inevitable.

PS

for those that don’t know, npm’s “scripts” functionality as we know it today was not “designed”, but it was simply a byproduct.

First introduced as an internal functionality for lifecycle support https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/c8e17cef720875c1f7cea1b49b... on 1 Mar 2010

and later extend to run arbitrary targets https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/9b8c0cf87a9d4ef560e17e060f... on 13 Dec 2010

This is the entire design backstory https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/298 .

Needless to say that GNU Make’s equivalent (or any other build system) is not to be found in npm’s scripts.
Awesome! A huge amount of work must have gone into this.

I did some playing around with VGA graphics from the Pico when it first came out (wrote a simple library to produce SNES like graphics, wrote it all up on my blog https://gregchadwick.co.uk/blog/playing-with-the-pico-pt6/). It felt like Doom should be doable but I figured you'd need an off chip RAM expansion interfaced via the PIO. Clearly not.

The Pico really is a very fun board to play around with. Could be a great target for a retro style mini console thing.
Not sure how that happens unless they decide to launch their own DoorDash clone.
Two bites at the apple?
> Sigh, I was just thinking of moving all my stuff, projects and even websites from cloud hosted solutions to my own home server ...

Good thing you didn't follow the other link to the changes in pricing for (egress) network traffic!
I think it's perfectly reasonable to blame/be upset with both the delivery operator (for infringing upon the restaurant's trademark by causing confusion as to the source of goods/services), and the e-commerce platform for knowingly facilitating/allowing the trademark infringement to occur on its platform. This is called 'secondary' or 'contributory' infringement in legal jargon.
Music and sound too???

...what am I doing with my life
I've even had my search logs attacked by bots submitting spam search terms multiple times in hopes that I run a "popular search terms" page... Thank goodness I don't allow public comments, it seems like the ability to comment on things may be totally gone by 2024 unless we don't address the specific places the spam is really coming from and why instead of just hardening our own local security.
Very good description, thank you.

One thing I don't understand is why not:
1) change Sass implementation to support "sass-if" and backport these changes to some older versions if necessary
2) upgrade the Sass's version and do a mass replace which sounds kind-of simple
3) use CSS's if happily
Well, if I'm looking to buy an Android phone with the latest specs, then it's either a Pixel, Samsung or OnePlus. Out of those, I guess Pixels are less bloaty than any other phones, except if preinstalled Google apps are 'bloaty'. And there's always an option to bootloader unlock and install LineageOS.
I wished a lot more companies would learn that lesson. It is such a pain when you have to use some software and then you get the popups about new features. The features may be brilliant, but right now I don't care. I am doing something.

Yet somehow PMs never realize that if they let the features be visible in the corner, I would click on them in 10 seconds when I am done with what I am doing and would actually want to read them.
Do you have any examples of this? It makes sense that old hardware be replaced but it's usually over a LONG lifecycle and the new instance type pricing is often lower than the previous generation.
Recent and related:

Amazon shuts small Seattle office after spate of crimes in area - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30635654 - March 2022 (115 comments)
Absolutely, I have a partner who has had severe PTSD and went through a great month-long program, she's overcome many longstanding fears and triggers and has made huge strides in being able to feel that she is living her life once again.
Ha ha! We still go there because my kid likes the toy section. It has gotten better since the current crackdown has taken place, it doesn't feel like a dystopian retail establishment anymore.
In a similar vein, a high-res ISS image by Alessandro Bianconi showing a damaged radiator:

https://www.astrobin.com/375799/?nc=all

(Taken with a 14" telescope. Good "astronomical seeing" conditions and necessary post-processing notwithstanding, the smallest resolvable details depend linearly on telescope's aperture (i.e., the primary optical element's diameter).)

EDIT: I also like this animation a lot, ISS crossing the sky (9.25" telescope):

https://astropolis.pl/topic/79691-przelot-iss-z-ogniskowej-2...
Are there other options? I want wireless charging and under $600, and there is basically nothing except Samsung or no-name brands.
Looked this episode up on YouTube. Some quality TV right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_0O8zB5M_I&t=70s
Ah, reminds me of the good old days when I connected a Windows 98 box directly to the public Internet and was spammed every 10 minutes with WinPopup messages, instructing me to visit a dodgy website for "registry booster virus removal".

I'll certainly enjoy the throwback to simpler times.
To add one tiny thing to this, it’s absolutely imperative that your project be setup with safeguards for node version dependencies. I can’t tell you how many projects I’ve joined that don’t even have an nvmrc file, much less some guard to ensure a clean install and build.
We are in an arms race now. Turnitin. Proctoring. Next? Airport style
security scanners at the exam hall. I wrote about this arms race
recently [1] and where it will lead.

The problem is really that, under conditions of self-commodification
(reification), intrinsic motivation to learn and be a better person is
replaced by extrinsic motivation to appear to be a better person. The
experience (simulation) means more than the reality - which is a
general trend in Western society now proved by the very existence of
the company Meta.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/we-cant-teach-...
That would be Nadella. He has major Google envy.
WebOb uses cgi for parsing multipart uploads/forms...

It's not obsolete, and it is heavily used, it's working software that works well. Ripping it out just means now there will be N copies floating around that will all need to get patched/fixed instead of just a single version included with Python.
When you hit a paywall you can try 12ft.io website just past a link in the box and it removes the paywall. It works for most paywalls.
How did I know this man was Indian or was in India? Lol.
>"These are pretty minor crimes lol I'll be really happy if we get to a point where we have to worry about these things."

"Pretty minor crimes, lol". I sense you live in a nice area and have lived a sheltered life. You may not have to worry about such things, but plenty of people are not so fortunate. Have you ever had your home broken into? Your family's car stolen and joyridden? I have, multiple times. It's easy to write these things off as minor concerns when it's not happening to you.
What's the process for this like? Been curious about the current state of psych medicine.
In my undergrad days, my sibling's medical college (KMC Mangalore) had an interesting case where the student had hired the service of a rice-engraving artist to etch complete medical manuals onto the sides of metallic ballpoint pens. He was wearing a high powered lens as bifocals.

He was caught because he was noticed shuffling a wad of pens too often & then the bifocal glasses were peculiar, prompting some investigation.

He had paid the grain-engraving artist to the tune of $30,000-35,000 for the whole set (2006). It is a lot of money!
Improving the reliability of file system monitoring tools
ok trying
Wealth inequality may explain an increase in property crime. I do not follow how a rapid increase in violent crime factors in. Resentment is another motivation I understand but it seems a stretch to attribute baseball bats to the head as being a direct consequence. I suppose if you pair it with a social messaging narrative that true “class warfare” is ok you might be able to get there. It seems more likely though that the core driving force lies elsewhere.
If you ever get funding, may I suggest ads if gdb too ?
How does snort.io compare to hypothes.is which is open source?
Reminds me of the "essays" I wrote in English classes/technical reports. Full of fluff and no substance, just to sound fancy.

It took me a while to learn that writing is not just putting words together and filling the page, but actually to tell something, to convey an argument. That meant learning to get rid of all unnecessary conjunctions and keeping it simple and clear.
I would give so much to see doctors who simply "google" things.

As someone who works as dev improving data and efficiency in a business.....i hate people who don't just google things. I implemented something a year ago, maybe its time to refresh my knowledge and see if anything has changed? Some doctors are infuriating, using knowledge they gained 10 years ago. Medicine also changes fairly quickly and quick search could really be a great tool.

Imagine this, I have seen many physicians (40+) at top hospitals about "mysterious" symptoms due to a reaction to a medication. 3 agreed its possible. The symptoms are listed on the medication label, plus I have been tested for everything else under the sun. I have sent research to my primary physician who has said, I am the first patient to change his mind about a drug. A quick search just listing my vague symptoms would bring up a possible reaction, or just looking at the damn label.
What a coincidence, I was working on porting doom to the e-ink badger2040 last week. Getting doom to fit into memory was fairly straightforward, but they did a better job than me. I'm very impressed they got the original WADs and networking going as well. Great work!
Sell you a few racks of servers, ready to use out of the box, I guess?
I have never bumped into that article before, thanks for that.

I did implement though that uniform interface in https://github.com/ysoftwareab/yplatform
There is a lot of evidence that it's very effective and cost-efficient just in practical terms, but that is not why I support those policies. I support them because everyone deserves a home. Choosing not to provide one to someone who needs it when we have the ability is vicious and immoral.

What they do after that isn't really relevant to be honest. I'm not trying to polish people into perfect rule following members of society and anyway homeowners get addictions and commit crimes all the time as it is. We don't generally leap to questioning their right to have a place to live though.

If giving homeless people houses solved no other problems it would still be correct and morally necessary.
I am surprised that the team didn't choose to add the "Fusion" append at the end.

This seems to fit into the genealogy of KinectFusion, ElasticFusion, BundleFusion, etc.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/dyson-robotics-lab/downloads/elas...
https://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/bundlefusion/

Very impressive work. I have not seen any use cases for online 3D reconstruction unfortunately. 6D.ai made terrific progress in this tech but also could not find great use cases for online reconstruction and ended up having to sell to Niantic.

Seems like what people want, if they want 3D reconstruction, is extremely high-fidelity scans (a la Matterport) and are willing to wait for the model. Unfortunately TSDF approach create a "slimey" end look which isn't usually what people are after if they want an accurate 3D reconstruction.

It SEEMS like online 3D reconstruction would be helpful, but I have yet to see a use case for "online"...
The article says stories of cheating are common.

I think the manner is what makes this story interesting.
They probably think that the section in the iCloud subscription settings about what the product costs and what it provides is "settings ads".
A few years ago I noticed an interesting trend in music in that it was going back and reviving old styles from the 1970s and 1980s. And like the 70s and 80s, it worked when it worked, but when it didn't, it really didn't.

It's interesting seeing the same revivalist trend in public policy, particularly with respect to law enforcement and drug policies.

Like those musicians, I can only surmise that younger generations think, for whatever reason, that they can do it better this time.
Galaxy Store is the only way to update several essential packages on Samsung devices, they don't publish everything on Google Play.
I worked on a lightfield(ish) camera at Facebook, but Lifecast is more focussed on what is practical with current camera hardware. We prefer to make the best possible 6DOF using existing VR180 cameras which people already have. A second challenge is to render the results on a Quest 2 (the most popular VR headset today), with its limited GPU power. Our format is optimized for the rendering capabilities of Quest 2, which means we have to make some tradeoffs on visual quality. I don't think Quest 2 has enough power to render multi-layer images (MPIs, the format in DeepView). This is the difference between making a product and doing academic research. I'm looking forward to Quest 3 or whatever comes next; I hope it has enough power to do stuff like MPI.
True, they are full law enforcement but assigned traffic duty.

"law enforcement agencies who are specifically charged with traffic"

Are there really any that are? I didn't think that was common, even in cities. In fact, many cities are issuing guidance to not enforce basic traffic violations to prevent pretextual stops.
if you are on android can probably download and side load the apk for a while? iPhone would be harder. There are alternatives like newpipe, and I imagine eventually someone else will create a new fork/project. there is lots of discussion on the reddit thread about what to do now https://www.reddit.com/r/Vanced/comments/tdazfr/discontinuat...

personally I just only watch YouTube on my laptop with blockers that remove all ads and using emby on mobile/tv. I never was willing to put my google creds into a non google app.
That's so interesting. I (and I imagine many other people) wouldn't have the guts to confront you about removing your hearing aid, even if I knew that they had bluetooth capabilities.
First, there's no reason to think the student implanted it themselves.

Second, I think most amateurs could probably cut someone open, put something in and stitch it up. Not causing further complications would be the hard part.
The $100k per year for incarceration includes food, medical care, counseling, maintenance, facilities, etc. The cost just for housing is dramatically lower than $100k/year. You are comparing just the cost of housing with the cost of taking care of all a person's needs.

Those $700k units that LA built will also require constant repairs, and the inhabitants will still need food, medical care, counseling, etc.
I live in the Seattle's university district. Homelessness has doubled or tripled since COVID. The vast majority of them mentally ill.

Tell me how COVID ruined our citizens' moral fiber. Tell me how COVID made us soft on crime. Tell me how COVID suddenly tripled our population of mentally ill.

If we'd actually defunded the police, instead of saying we wanted to and then not, maybe there would be some money to care for people who are obviously incapable of caring for themselves. If we taxed our local corporations at all, maybe there would be some money for that.

Yes, there are plenty of people on drugs. You can put them in jail, and see where that gets you. Or you can treat addiction like the public health crisis it is. Fund the goddamn services, with tax money from Amazon.
Just curious, are you all working out of the same place or all remote? Curious about hardware startups and how that works. Thanks
An old Seinfeld episode outlined the correct response:

Ask the recruiter to tell you their salary, and If they do, ask them how any competent recruiter would agree to work for such a pittance and hang up. If they will not divulge theirs, just remark that they obviously know how you feel, and hang up.
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> I can’t imagine Enterprise versions of Windows will have this enabled.

Free Windows licences through MSDN (if you work at a .NET/Microsoft shop) ftw. Running Enterprise on my personal machine.
now i'm just picturing the student trying to cheat using one of these lollipops, haha.
Good tips. Thanks for this.
On the Covid Situation in Hong Kong
Julian Assange denied permission to appeal against extradition
You get them if you don't, but if you dismiss it it goes away forever.
It was mootools.

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/03/smooshgate
Just for completeness since I didn't find a comment yet mentioning it: Time to turn exam halls into Faraday cages.
I'll store your stuff at my home if it makes you feel better.
It's a cultural thing. It's literally a do or die situation for everyone to do well in school. Or you would have shamed your family. But, things are getting better, as cultural expectations are subsiding. I think in the next couple decades, India will be on par with the West in terms of social expectations as the average gross income and GDP of the country continues to go up. I think China is starting to see the same thing now.
I used to work in this industry. Medicine is the most broken, indoctrinated, risk-averse, technology-averse industry of them all. These are people who still use fax machines. Ask your doctor for some basic imaging or so much as a print out of your chart and they'll deny your problem, then give you confused dirty looks and talk down to you.

Compare that with Dentistry. I had a problem and walked in with an hour's notice, had a x-ray from a handheld scanner emailed to me with the problem highlighted within 5 minutes like something out of Star Trek.
My wife joined Amazon in Jan. She says that in her department (does not work in engineering), they are yet to see a change in comp and they are trying to figure out if it is real or just a PR stunt.
Not even close. If you go to iCloud (a tiered service with one free offering and only paid options beyond that), you get product messaging about iCloud. Not "how to write confidently in this other unrelated product that you don't have but you can buy from us".
The Underwood Dudley article on “trisectors” linked in OP’s article is one of the more delightful things I’ve read in awhile. Being acquainted with a few cranks myself, I always find the energy and time they have to devote to crankery both impressive and sad.
I’ve also heard one can easily lose ten ugly pounds by cutting off their own head.
Hard disagree. There's an entire segment of the population that thinks football is continually being "pussified". Any attempt to make football not turn it's players into broken bodies is seen as ruining the sport.

They actively cheer for the bloodsport
> Inequality didn't suddenly spring up mid-2020. Defund the police did.

But this is a problem that has perpetually growing in Seattle. There were growing tent cities in the area long before "defund the police". If you went to Seattle in the 90s you would see many of these same issues. Yes things are getting worse now, but so are the income related issues as well.

The idea that this is primarily driven by something happening in recent years is a bit ridiculous.
We didn't defund the police; Seattle PD took an 18% budget cut that was largely the result of declining to enlarge the department and moving some tasks, like parking enforcement, out to other departments. Also, SPD has something like 230 open positions for officers. That said, we would prefer that they not take the tack of "shoot first and dodge OPA later," if they wouldn't mind.

"Our prosecutors" is not the City of Seattle. The Seattle city attorney does not have the authority to prosecute anything above simple misdemeanors. It's up to the county who gets prosecuted and who doesn't, and King County has said that county policy is that you can't arrest people into better conditions.

> safe place again after the bad ol' days. And then we undid it in 24 months

Pardon? Are you really saying that downtown is less safe and less inviting than downtown in the 80s and 90s? You are aware that the waterfront largely did not exist back then, that violent crime in 98101 was almost six times its current amount back then? That the number of people living in downtown has rebounded from its COVID-induced trough and is now 4% higher than before?

I have lived through those "bad ol' days" and also the "good times" you mentioned and to say that downtown is undone and worse now than it was before, to quote an esteemed colleague, "is madness."
I think you might be missing that this is an operation count price tweak. How many ops could you possibly need for cold storage? Zip up your files and you end up with one op.

40 cents per 10k ops is still so cheap. They probably tweaked this to take advantage of their lazy enterprise customers that don’t care how much they’re paying for op counts, so they use a bajillion ops.
Based on how much discipline (or lack thereof) people have to learn. Or maybe simply lack the innate ability. Not even all the people motivated enough to pass all the hurdles to get into medical school graduate from medical school.

That is not the perfect proof, but I am also coloring it with my anecdotal data about which percentage of kids were enthusiastic to learn any advanced topics in school such as math, physics, chemistry, much less memorize a metric ton of advanced biology information.

It is true that supply is artificially restricted in the US, of course. In many ways, not least which is an unnecessarily expensive and lengthy certification process. But I cannot imagine anyone with the average discipline being able to come close to a full fledged MD.
> I think the viewpoint I find frustrating is that if we could "just" solve the housing affordability issue, that everything else would fall into place.

This is not a viewpoint that I've ever heard earnestly expressed by anyone involved in homelessness/housing policy.

Housing is something we should provide for two reasons: because it is the humane thing to do, and because it lowers the ceiling for other restorative/rehabilitative efforts. It can't on it's own solve every social ill that comes with homelessness or privation, and it isn't intended to.
To be fair, what you're looking for (black but not off) is probably not something many people would want or care about. But it does demonstrate how (A) inflexible and (B) feature-poor most Linux distros are