skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might be a little philosophical for some, but if you ever needed evidence of the awesome level of human contribution to the world of free software, then these kinds of chaotic configuration puzzles are a great example.

Take a walk around /etc and you’ll also see evidence of the diversity of contributions in the diversity of config styles.

It’s like a community center that has a completely weird set of chairs in the dining area, because every chair came from a different random donation. The design shambles is an awesome emergent property of the level of community engagement.

With apologies to ”Facebook is a chair”.
I used to feel a bunch of that same pointlessness, and I still do sometimes, but a novel helped me frame what I was feeling. Stoner (1965), by John Williams. It is not about drug use.

It essentially covers the life of an assistant lit professor born in 1891 that ended up not living up to his expectations in all areas of life and how he handles them internally. It really helped me draw meaning from my life again while I see friends have their money making them money and fly upwards in their careers and build their families.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoner_(novel)
More of a scam than you think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYwB63YslbA
Thanks, I'm glad you found it useful. I'm working on a series of posts about VQGAN+CLIP, so if there's anything you'd like me to cover please do let me know.
That was problematic for me when I was testing it out. Can’t access the window object without excessive workarounds that I couldn’t make work with my project. I ended up reusing existing react components and move it to all browser rendered react and even that experience has me leaning toward moving it to Vue or dropping the framework altogether and grinding everything out in css again. That said, I did enjoy using styled components. I found that pattern pleasant to reason around.
Nice fighting with you, thanks for the feedback. :)
Yes and these ironically sounds like the most interesting pieces to complement international media.
Yes, one of my favourite and most unique gaming experiences. I thoroughly enjoyed the process of travelling around the island, and how it encourages you to change your thinking and perspective to progress.

It is essentially a puzzle game though, so if you get frustrated by being stuck on things you may not like it. I found it pretty relaxing personally, and it feels great to figure a puzzle out.
Toomanysecrets.
Don't worry about it because Dunbar's number is discredited nonsense anyway
I know it was a long time ago, but the announcement of the iPhone wasn't terribly significant at the time. We already had smartphones with apps. The iPhone didn't have apps. It had a large screen using a touchscreen technology that worked better than the competitors, but it had no keyboard -- something seen as a disadvantage by many.

The most important thing the iPhone brought imho was low, fixed-priced data plans that were affordable by regular folks. This was a true innovation by Jobs and perhaps his single most important achievement, although obviously someone else would eventually have pulled it off.
The Consultant’s Craft: Becoming More Than a Programmer
Strawman. Not an argument.
Just install metal detector app or similar, and walk and see what it will show.

For example, near me all shores covered by the metal-concrete structures, and also I seen magnet anomalies on just ordinary streets, looks like there where unstable surface (my district built on sand) and there created underground metal-concrete structure, so road will not break every day.

I also noticed, near large bridges magnet anomalies are largest, and usually are like roots of tree - extend about few hundreds meters beyond bridge itself.

Also exists some other large metal underground structures - pipes for water, for gas, etc.

Problem is that those underground metal where not demagnetized, in civilian building nobody cares, so only in very pure rural locations, you could be sure that nothing will disturb magnetic compass.

At other side, when move, GPS give very reliable direction vector, it is not affected by any magnet anomalies or others, so now nearly all map soft/hard using GPS direction when move and switches to unreliable magnetic compass when not move.
I personally think that is an intended consequence. In their minds, it keeps out the riff-raff.
Glad that you liked it. I like the "get a random page" function on your blog.
My humble site: https://chambers.io

Good 'ol Jekyll + GitHub pages. The combo just works so well that I've never had a reason to change.
>> The US has a fantastical food culture because it's a large country that can natively produce almost every crop, and was historically agrarian. Adding to that, the US food culture always changes to wars, new immigrants, boycott, and government subsidies. Most countries aren't like that, and are significantly more conservative with dietary changes.

With all these advantages in the US's favor, why is it that Europe is held as a standard of food done right? Discourse on the American diet is almost always concerned with obesity and diet-related diseases and induced by a villain-of-the-year ingredient (e.g. transfats, sodium, cholesterol, oxidants, monosodium-glutamate, corn syrup, etc). Where as, say, the Dutch breakfast and Italian wine culture are respectively associated with growing heights and increased longevity.
I'm a bilingual American (English and Russian), and I didn't know the word "polyglot" until a year ago. I learned it as part of a software localization project--it has never come up in my life otherwise.
FAANG manager here, with experience in other industries. I have definitely seen that promo committees here value maintenance work less than other industries. I think the problem is that the committee is made up of individuals from other functions, so they really have very little idea about the services a candidate supports, they're just looking at the accomplishments written in the packet. In other industries, that's typically but the case - if you run a service that has a reputation for being unreliable, you're not even getting considered.

You still have to do the above and beyond work elsewhere, but in FAANG some people will get into the conversation by ditching maintenance and focusing solely on the stretch work, and they tend to have success getting promoted.
As someone not at FAANG, I'm right there with you.
GameMaker (version 4… in 2001, man I’m getting old) had a similar system. It’s also what got me into programming, as I could also attach my own scripts to event triggers (and sets of event triggers, in a linear visual GUI logic way), and so I learned GML as my first programming language.
Graeber and Wengrow dug into it recently and generated compelling research that shows it is indeed untrue nonsense, simply inaccurate given the evidence
+1. Having children causes one to be deeply, intimately invested in the future. “What kind of future shall we leave our children?” is just an abstract ideal to one who does not have children.
The benefits of a "cybersecurity program" at a big company are very clear: they keep employees safe from outsiders who attempt to infiltrate the organization, exfiltrate data, etc.

However, aren't these exact things literally the tasks of intelligence services? (infiltration, exfiltration)? If so it seems that there is is no benefit to funding them.

Besides what you've written about an analogy with cybersecurity programs at big companies, can you think of any specific benefits to having an intelligence community, and if so what?
The nuance is it's lose-lose for the FAA bureaucrats if they approve an unleaded gas and something later happens.

There is NO risk to the bureaucrats if they keep stalling on unleaded and let everyone run 100LL for all eternity.
Heh, this reminds me of the mess with separate Microsoft Windows, Outlook and Skype personal accounts...
> In 2022, we shouldn't be reserving any area of a file as 'spare space' like this.

In 2022, we should have file formats that are not naive of the underlying filesystem. I store my text notes in Git, but I also have two LibreOffice documents in there because org-mode doesn't handle their contents well. It would be nice of only 5% of the file had to be rewritten when I change a single word, rather than the current 91% of the file. A 5% hit to storage for a 91% reduction each time I update it would be a great trade off.
It's not about peer review, it's about making predictions. Theories that make predictions that come out true are good ("correct"). Peer review is a poor substitute.
Why would ripped CDs not exhibit the same thing if this was intentional?
Weaponisation of finance: how the west unleashed ‘shock and awe’ on Russia
I started the Witness and did maybe a dozen puzzles. I never really felt like I was in the game world. It just felt like a sequence of puzzles that I might as well have found on a website. Maybe if I had progressed further, but this was probably the main reason I didn't progress further. I'll try again someday.

Funny enough, I loved Talos Principle and all of the games in the Myst franchise.
- EFF [0]

- Riseup[1]

[0] https://www.eff.org/

[1] https://riseup.net/
This is the kind of crap that makes me think the US is in real trouble. It’s like “quagmire” has replaced “competency” across all our institutions, and there’s no escape.
How often do users change the metadata of music bought from Apple Music? When ripping stuff by hand, this is understandable.. you make a typo, want to add a year, do some locale changes to add local characters, etc... so in this case i see a possible need to waste 5 kB of space to save a couple of seconds after an edit.

But with downloadad music with all the metadata (hopefully) correctly set, even 5kB is a waste of space.
Whenever I've interacted with Rackspace they've seemed almost proud to be expensive.
I think it happens organically, you start increasing your sphere of influence in some area and with some audience and gradually those goals kind of emerge as natural steps.
> In 2022, we shouldn't be reserving any area of a file as 'spare space' like this.

I completely understand your point, but maybe it would be a breaking change.
France24 is kind of alone on its purpose though, it's only meant for international audience and it's not read much domestically
Of course you can be more driven (there is of course a limit but most are far from it). I have done it I used to be content with where I was in life. Made decent money, family, friends and hobbies.

But I decided that I wanted more so I let my hobbies grow a bit and changed employer. Sure I'm not a million miles from where i was but I'm not in the same place.

Once I took the first steps the next got easier and I started to look for more opportunities. Find your first step, it should be small but in the right direction. Ask to take lead on something at work or push yourself in your hobby.

What I think everyone with kids should have as one of their goals is to get them one step up the ladder. Give them a slightly better chance than you had. Most successful people have successful parents, very few start from zero. My parents were middle class but I'm upper middle class.
Ask Socrates.
Religion is just fiction to make you feel better. Which does have a point, but once you see it for what it is, it is hard to go back to it.

The community is kind of what I miss a bit about it, and that community makes a bit more sense now that I'm middle aged. But I don't know if the rest of the crap that comes with it is worth it for the community that you can achieve with it.
The spinning rectangle with the 4 inner circles in the video is really fascinating :)
Congrats for the creativity!
Also interest results shown by GPS test plus, but compared to metal detector, they just show numbers and crazy compass arrow, don't tried to make any conclusions from them, so need dome experience to figure out what you see.
Whenever someone suggests a central bank creating money will lead to inflation I suggest they read this report - https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...

tl;dr Private banks create far more money than central banks. If you're worried about inflation from UBI, stimulus checks, bailouts, etc then your brain will explode when you learn about how much money banks put into the economy in the name of profit every year.
Not only that, they don't care about user experience. Success is measured in profit, not user happiness.

Signups/purchase flows are meant to trap users and keep them from escaping--not create a smooth, easy to use experience
Funnily enough that was a use case for dedicated servers I encountered. Usage based pay is great if you have an unlimited budget, but most companies would rather have predictable cost and not serve every traffic spike.

Especially for internal use (CI/CD, Analytics), you'd rather want to queue a few things up than always having to consider your budget when you want to run something.
Only 51%: “Le Monde owns 51%; the Friends of Le Monde diplomatique and Gunter Holzmann Association, comprising the paper’s staff, together own 49%.”

https://mondediplo.com/about
https://jasonmaa.com

A Jekyll site (that briefly became a React SPA at one point) with some blog posts, mostly reflections on my projects. I've been trying to expand into writing about other things.

https://jasmaabox.github.io

A digital graveyard for projects I abandoned. I still wanted to write in Markdown but Jekyll felt like too much for one page, so I ended up writing a small static site generator for it using Jinja.
> I feel a lot of the skills I had to learn to be the kind of parent I wanted to be translated almost 1 for 1 to improving my business outcomes.

This 1000%. I would say the same applies to learning how to be the spouse I wanted to be.
Isn't 0.5MB 500 KB? Not 5? Or are you referring to something else
Show HN: Full Stack Serverless Apps
## tldr

You can deploy javascript apps on Cyclic after logging in with GH. Quick starts: <https://docs.cyclic.sh/docs/overview/starters>

## Description

At my last job I saw new developers struggle to get experiments and POCs from their local to live in the cloud. As we continue to expand the software development profession, more developers will need this same help. So we built cyclic.sh. Our aim is to empower even the most junior developer with robust infrastructure and deployments that just work. We can build and deploy your code in less time than it took to read this paragraph.

## What works now

- Zero-config build, deploy and hosting of javascript apps

- Github integration supporting 'push to deploy'

- Branch based builds

- Auto-scaling Serverless backend

- Custom sub-domains and custom domains

- Token based authentication

- Integrated single-table DB on top of AWS DynamoDB (in preview)

## Limits/Constraints

<https://docs.cyclic.sh/docs/overview/limits>

## Ask

Let us know what you think and what we need to add to make it so awesome you would start using it for all your projects.

Built with joy by:

- Mike <https://github.com/korostelevm>

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sorry for the confusion, by "increase the number of registers" I meant the arity of an instruction (3 for risc vs the typical 2 for x86). So you need an additional log2 bits to encode the extra operand.
The guitarist who saved hundreds of people on a sinking cruise liner
Spain: https://english.elpais.com/
Yeah, there is no excuse for not having an unleaded avgas by now. Just approve one already, octane can be raised by many other means, and aviation engines are rebuilt all the time (every 200 hours you need to xray the crankshaft to ensure there are no cracks), so if parts need to be replaced it would have been done already anyway. Sure sometimes airplane owners skip some of that (the odds of a cracked crankshaft are low enough and the rule only applies to specific uses which you can not do), but even still it is safe to say if they had the fuel approved 10 years ago most airports wouldn't even have 100ll anymore because the demand would be so low.
TavaresLabs.com
OpenAI’s DALL-E AI image generator can now edit pictures, too
Yes; a lot of tech (and other subjects, but especially tech) education is sadly low-quality, being either way too surface-level (learn to make a Twitter clone in 20 minutes by coping & pasting) or far too arcane and assuming a lot of prior knowledge.

I think we're making progress though - we know how to be more effective, but it's a slow process to get there. Mastery of a subject does not necessarily include mastery of how to effectively teach it, and we need to start treating the 'education' bit of 'tech education' as an important and separate element requiring expertise.
GitHub Availability Report: March 2022
Not really, France24 is the more the voice of the French language community, it does not have the same vision as the French government. It has its own bias of course but different ones.
As a puzzle game I think it's one of the best, certainly I became totally obsessed with that aspect of it. It's very atmospheric too and has a great sense of place.
I really don't watch much TV either way, as I agree advertising is atrocious these days.

Still, in US there's no TV license you have to pay like in the UK. So if you don't want to pay for TV service in the US, you don't have to. In UK, if you own a TV you pay for TV service, it's the law.
have you ever seen a simple microsoft product?
Walking on the moon (or Mars) likely gets boring very soon.

The experiences as a CEO of a large company seem much more interesting, and you get to hire a team of experts working on those cures (or whatever floats your Boaty McBoatface).
https://ecweb.xyz/

my April 1, 2022 site (...half-meant :))
I Was a very early aws client (first year of ec2). I moved to azure for better ai/cognitive features, sso, ad blabla, also ms being better open source steward, better docs, better vscode plugins, also felt aws re: kibana/elastic license is/was not aligned with my desire to not live in a dystopian version of the future.

It was painful but Az has improved a lot of the sharp edges I encountered.
Yes correct then you can do Them in parallel
I absolutely love Paul Bertorelli's communication style. It comes across perfectly in his writing and in his YouTube videos. Little things like:

> To keep you from opening a vein, I have blurred the chronology a little.

Might not sit well with some people, but says so much in just a few words.
I am a happy customer of O'Reilly Learning. I do not even earn US level salary, but for a few hundred dollars annually I get access to a massive collection of books, training videos, live training, interactive coding and much more. In my country (Australia) self education is tax deductible as well. I consider this a small investment for my career.
Just look at the name "Core Web Vital" - I thought "vital" was already as important as it gets (I mean, the name implies that you are dead without it), but apparently there are "core vitals" and, er, less important vitals...

That aside, the article sounds suspiciously like management techniques that define "important" metrics and then optimize for those metrics (while neglecting everything else).
DirecTV dropped OAN today, rejecting pleas to keep network
> and that is one of those things reported to management.

Yeah unit testing as I see it is just optimising for the success of middle management, at the expense of both the organisation's goals, and the developers.

You are making predictability the only focus, because that's the metric which middle management is evaluated by. At the expense of performance, end product quality, and work satisfaction. "It was done in exactly the excruciatingly slow and mind numbing boring way, and was exactly as shitty as designed" = success for management.

If you would try to increase performance, end product usability, and/or work satisfaction, you would have to put the predictability at risk, which means that the success of the middle manager will not be the highest priority at all cost anymore.
Trump used to borrow from major banks. Now look who's lending it money
I guess I never felt the need for a global hotkey to show window. 90% of my password autofill is through the browser extension, and if you click the KeePassXC icon next to a field and the database is not open, KeePassXC itself will pop to the forefront to allow you to re-authenticate.
https://henrystanley.com
DARPA says US hypersonic missile is ready for real world
This is because for some reason the organic milks are almost always UHT (ultra-high-temperature processing) where the milk is heated to a higher temperature for a shorter time.

Some people notice a significant taste difference between UHT milk and non-UHT milk.
Sofar Sounds | Fullstack, Growth, Devops | Boston, MA or REMOTE (Eastern Time ±1) | https://www.sofarsounds.com
Sofar Sounds is a global music community which brings people together for concert experiences in unique and interesting spaces.

We're still a small engineering team, our TPD org is ~20 people with ~10 of those being engineers. We use Ruby on Rails, React, and are currently hosted in Heroku.

We're hiring for the following positions:

* Growth engineer, rapidly develop features for new user acquisition and integrate marketing tools with our concert planning platform - https://grnh.se/83629f462us

* DevOps / Infrastructure engineer, as our first DevOps hire, help shape the future of our infrastructure, improve our developer productivity, and increase the speed at which we release features - https://grnh.se/3fa4299d2us

* Full stack engineer, mid level and principal, develop features on our concert operations platform to allow our concert planning team to maximize efficiency in the planning, staffing, and execution of shows - Mid Level https://grnh.se/fc2835992us - Senior/Principal https://grnh.se/d8cc3b642us

Feel free to reach out to me at eric.lundin@sofarsounds.com, no agencies/non-candidates please
Rule of law: European Commission targets Hungary but spares Poland
Existential crisis with a dash of nihilism. I see you have already gained a number suggestions. It ends up being pretty simple for me when I feel this setting in. Focus on what I enjoy and cultivate deep hobbies. Gain new skills. Turn off the content consumption in your life unless it is making you a better person. Stay curious toward the endless wonder that exists on this planet. You can’t fix the world or other people.

I did sell a company and make a lot of money. Does not change much. Did not make me feel successful or somehow complete as a human being.

HN is a poor substitute for seeing a therapist. You are not alone and millions of people feel the way you do from time to time. If this problem feels “bigger” than you, find someone to talk to about it.
So, those chemtrail guys were right when they said: "The government helps spread substances that make us more stupid"?!
The HBM3 Roadmap Is Just Getting Started
Cloud isn't about cost though. Cloud is about value. You can scale super easy when you inevitably need it (assuming you've "made it" anyway - whatever that means). You get a burst of new users, it's trivial to add additional nodes (again, assuming you've set up your infra to be easily scalable).

With own hardware, scaling is not as easy. You'll have to do a lot more around plumbing too. Networking, security, many other things that you'll have to address. Stuff that has already been solved for you.