skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And then there's them not blocking some trackers (Google, Facebook, etc) by default, but if they did, they would break logins on many websites.

Then what should they do? It sounds like they're between a rock and a hard place
> The resolution with 64-bit floats (let alone integers) would be absurd, roughly a million times finer-grained still.

Careful there! Floating point numbers do not form a proper field, not even a semi-group. Due to the uneven distribution of elements, the field axioms don't hold (e.g. both commutativity and distributivity can be violated) and great care has to be taken to assure the numeric stability of computations.
No offense, but this really reads like a post from 15 years ago. It's not true anymore for NES and SNES and has not been for years. Look at mesen and bsnes -- 100% compatibility, indistinguishable from real hardware on every released game.

Your post is still accurate if you're talking about newer hardware like the Wii or PS2. Even N64 emulation is still kind of sketchy 25 years later due to the weird exoticity of that system.
Why does that make it easier to write insecure software? Which is easier: dealing with bytes, only 2 of which have special meanings (/ and \0) or dealing with a ton of different character classes, each of which you have to think about and code for. The second case happened with URLs, so there's all sorts of weird rules about you can have a ? in this section but not that section, and percent encoding and punycode and stuff like that.
Plenty of people use node.js, including top companies etc.

It’s not necessarily used for long running processes or production services.

I would not use it for a production service without an explicit reason WHY I must as

1) there are better typesafe compiled options that generate machine code and don’t waste resources and scale suitably.

Go, Crystal, and Rust are modern suitable service coding languages, IMO
> As more people exit the labour force than enter it, wealthy countries worry about how to preserve economic growth.

Why? They're already wealthy. How about just stop allocating the vast majority of that wealth to a handful of people and then focus on total well-being metrics rather than "growth" for its own sake.

> To soften the economic blow of ageing, Sciubba presents four options: raise retirement ages, cut benefits, push more people in the country to work or increase immigration.

Or just push the peasants harder, I guess.
I find it amusing that nobody really cares about inflation and only about the artificially induced housing shortage which has nothing to do with economics and instead is all about urban planning. People used to build cities like NYC but now they refuse to do that.
Have you thought of somehow mitigating brute force auth attacks?
Opening a window is free, and not everyone has the freedom to modify their living arrangements(rented houses etc)
Probably more like ~2005. I was a web developer in 2001 and XMLHttpRequest still felt like secret knowledge that you only found out about by digging deep into Microsoft documentation (and wasn't well supported if you weren't using IE). Most people I knew were making pages interactive by targeting forms to iframes.
Plenty of people use node.js, including top companies etc.

It’s not necessarily used for long running processes or production services.

I would not use it for a production service without an explicit reason WHY I must as

1) there are better typesafe compiled options that generate machine code and don’t waste resources and scale suitably.

Go, Crystal, and Rust are modern suitable service coding languages, IMO

Node is often part of a build tool, or as a local service worker in an IDE or something
You wrote:

I don't see how you could possibly think that is an appropriate subject for a 3rd grader, much less a kindergartner.

I'm confused. If a child has two parents of the same gender, or a parent that is transitioning gender, or is friends with... or has reletives that... etc.? What if a child wishes to present as a different gender?

Why isn't it appropriate to discuss all of these? Young families that I know now own some children's books with "non-traditional families" (yuck, I don't know a better term -- please suggest!) Of course, the books are age-appropriate.

The point is to normalise gender and sexuality diversity as early as possible. Generations before had to learn much later.
One of the authors of the tests and blog post here, let me know if you have any questions about our testing process.
Interesting stuff! We do know, of course, that Nintendo has partaken in very open artificial scarcity recently: Mario 3D All Stars.
How to get an invoice?

For some strange reason it's still not possible to get an invoice and people and businesses are having issues with that.

https://community.frame.work/t/how-to-get-an-invoice/16033/

https://community.frame.work/t/where-can-i-find-my-invoice/1...
What about pointer size? Is still only 32-bits? It is impossible to write some C programs when you do not know the size of your data and pointers.

I'm asking that because despite all the hype, wasm binaries are still 32-bit (at least in browsers), while 32-bit OS are being deprecated. 64-bit pointers are really good for some applications, with no performance degradation at all.

Does Wasm 2.0 support branch instructions needed for irreducible control flows? (without the relooper hack)
Provide less but better content or keep flogging a dead horse? As the music industry discovered (eventually), people will pay for content if it is reasonable quality and reasonable cost.
why? the answer is simple ... control

you need to hit them with low salaries and high taxes, when they try for a better life quickly squash that crap with overly broad non-competes

welcome to Europe

how about paying employees adequately to a point where they don't have to work multiple full time jobs at a time, such an outlandish idea
If it's not sold directly, how would they be able to control the pricing? Framework starts at 1149 € for the base spec, the DIY version starts at 899 €. A MacBook Pro starts at 1449 €, seems fair to me.
Self-correcting because frustrated users will simply start their own Google? Even if that happens, their second generation of employees will start a revolt if their company doesn't follow the latest DIE best practices.

I honestly think that only the Russian/Chinese model of a nationalized IT ecosystem has a chance to resist these trends.
Because the 5 is not where the population is in the central valley.
It is interesting about the Maps thing. We have a similar one in our city, where part of the CBD is designated 'Frog's Hollow', which was the colloquial name for a small area (basically mostly a slum) for a time in the 1800s. It makes it look like that's the actual name of half our CBD!

But it hasn't slipped back into actual use, it's just a curiosity. Interesting that it's been like that for years and they still haven't fixed it...
What fraction of Netflix's shows have trans characters?

According to this report: https://www.glaad.org/whereweareontv21

As a percentage of just the LGBTQ characters, both overall and in streaming specifically, trans characters were about 7%.

I'm not sure exactly what their total character count was, but that seems to put the percentage of trans characters solidly under 1%. Which is about right for matching the real prevalence of somewhere vaguely around half a percent. I think a slight overrepresentation could be justified, too, but there doesn't seem to be overrepresentation by these numbers.
There s a great documentary of NoClip about GOG where they talk about this subject. As they sell a lot of old games, they need to do the detective work to find the license holders. Highly recommended!
European job markets and societies are simply at a higher level than anything in Africa. Whatever problems you can find, Africa has them five fold.
Also see the stagnation of Central American and Caribbean countries despite their large populations of migrants in the USA.

Remittances are not some kind of economic cheat code or the basis of a national development policy, they’re basically a painkiller that might help prevent a complete collapse of the country.
Ok, I might have misread the comment. But to clarify my own position, I it doesn't necessarily have to be the lack of Experience with Elisp, but with the way you use Emacs and how it behaves (managing buffers and windows, how scrolling works, the little differences in how GUI features behave, etc.). To make use of the easy customization interface, and not get frustrated by it, it help to have some basic experience with Emacs. My intention is to provide a guided tour of what someone might want to have in Emacs, before they begin using it. That way they can get common annoyances out of the way before starting, and have less friction when dealing with whatever remains.
But then maybe Django templates are not so great? You can also have UI components in the backend. Interactivity can be a little tricky though.
You might be right! I'll try with other AMP pages...
The consumerism/industrialism train cannot stop, only crash.
Will be good to see if anyone has tried running Jepsen testing for it?
If there would only be a way to reward people for good content.
Come on, Trisomorphic rendering or Distributed Persistent Rendering are pretty simple, basically these are just [insert joke about monoid in the category of endofunctors].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydration_(web_development)#Tr...

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/04/jamstack-rendering-...
Because it allows to create an even wider gap between the elite and/or rich and the poor/middle class.

Guess who will have access to books, literature, proper writing skills and intelligible when speaking?

It just ensures social reproduction.
You have convinced me that hostile aliens exist. They won't hunt humans to extinction, no they will legally acquire the rights to earth so that they can maintain infinite economic growth.
I dunno man, my "backend architecture" is a bunch of Rails servers (some web servers, some queue servers, but they run on the same codebase with different entrypoints), a PostgreSQL server, and a Redis server.
>Gone are the times when what was needed was raw work force = muscles.

Not at all.

Modern economies require huge amounts of people to do service jobs, and many b of these do not require advanced degrees. Here in Melbourne (not Europe, but we have a fairly sizeable African refugee population) you see plenty of black people working in aged/disability care, security and driving jobs.
There are some tools like https://doorstop.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ that streamline it.
Ask HN: Which new skills for a data science career?
Hi HN, long time lurker with a throwaway here:

I recently quit academia (social sciences) and I plan to transition into a data science career within the next year or so. This is the part I liked about my academic job and the stuff I am good at (statistics, analytical problem solver, data wrangling/modeling).

Reading through job ads the technical skill palette for DS seems overwhelming: python (+pandas, scikit, ...), R, docker, k8s, PowerBI, Tableau, PostgreSQL, DevOps/pipelines, different cloud providers, maybe add some javascript, various ML toolkits (Tensorflow, etc.).

I have 15 years of experience as a statistician (R/STATA/Linux/SQL) and a sabbatical year in front of me, which new skill(s) should I learn/prioritize?

Edit: I have a PhD.

Thanks!
I used an extreme example, for sure! I think it highlights that stable zoning rules can promote property rights rather than undermining them. Sure, they can go too far-- but there is no fundamental contradiction.

> one is a different type of use instead of just a more dense one

Differences in density are differences in use! perhaps insubstantial ones--- ones that don't meaningfully impinge any existing residents property right, and if so they shouldn't rightfully be restricted by zoning. And obviously they are-- I'm not attempting to defend existing practices-- only arguing that the conflict is not fundamental and that people arguing over them can all be making reasonable arguments over the right thresholds.
There’s a whole category of headless content management systems, either API or git based, to give a friendly editorial experience (also for non technical editors) while maintaining the advantages of static sites.

Here’s a good starting point (not my post): https://pagepro.co/blog/jamstack-headless-cms-which-one-to-u...

Disclaimer: I work for a vendor in this space
Our economic paradigm is based on an ever increasing population. This is not sustainable and is coming to an end as the global population cannot keep growing and should in fact decrease for the good of the planet and of our quality of life.

Immigration is a short term, economically lazy option, and on large scales leads to major political and social issues, and people do not want it. Politically it is either naive or a tool to advance an agenda.

Our societies need to face the issue of constant (even decreasing in the medium term) population and adapt to it economically and socially instead of trying to kick the ball down the road. The sooner we realise this the better.

> Remittance money will boost the local economy and in time

This pie in the sky thinking. All countries developed today or on their way have got there through their own development and industrialisation work. Countries that rely on remittance have an interest and need to keep sending people abroad as that is de facto their "export product" they rely on to survive.
Good, this is how community is formed and seems much better than people defecating on the street.
Or one could also choose to not deliberately misinterpret words and thus not get annoyed about it.

Like if you’re a software engineer and someone refers to you as an engineer, you don’t get all annoyed and pedantically explain that you’re not someone who drives trains, because you know that’s not the sense in which the person meant the word.
React is for sure a relatively stable part of frontend, but the ecosystem around it seems to be building mountains of complexity on top of React.
Why should a renter get an ROI when they have zero investment in the property? No risk no reward.

> I assume you will be renting apartments and leasing cars for the rest of your life surely?

No. I will consider my current financial and life circumstances like a rational human being. Do you understand how the world works?
Nuisance isn't it. I've just had the same problem with a phone LiPo but I solved it by completely discharging the cell to the extent that in the end I could short the terminals without effect or drama.

I've often done the same with old 18650s from laptops.

BTW, ages ago, I had a box of about a dozen Li primary AA size pigtail type cells and one shorted. They were in a plastic bag inside a cardboard box and shortly before I'd placed that box in a plastic milk crate type container.

Suddenly there was a bang so loud I thought the police would arrive - the neighbors having reported a gunshot. The plastic bag was turned into confetti that covered the room, the cardboard box shredded into little bits and a hole was blown straight through the side of the milk crate and what remained of the battery's nickel casing was embedded in a nearby wall.

Had I been in a slightly different spot in the room I could have seriously injured or killed. This isn't exactly the same scenario but I'm very particular about the way I handle Li cells after that experience and that also applies to when I'm flattening them to make them safe.
If a random poor third world person can easily obtain a valid certificate, then any attacker can also do so - identity theft or totally fake identities are a thing despite all our best efforts and it's naive to assume that this will be magically solved in the future; and if it is not easy a random poor third world person to do so, then they won't, and all their real, valid user-generated content (e.g. real cell phone videos from conflict zones) won't be signed, and the society will consider unsigned videos as valid.

Furthermore, any attacker with the desire and resources to create a disinformation campaign can simply recruit a new real person to sign each deepfake campaign, just as criminals now hire money laundering mules (I mean, that expense would be less than the actual effort of creating the media) and any intelligence agency using deepfakes for propaganda can literally create new valid identities by fiat (just issue new real passports/birth certificates/whatever for nonexistent people) that are indistinguishable from real people as far as google or anyone else abroad can verify.

In essence, what you describe would work if and only if we had a global, trusted database of all people worldwide that doesn't allow for fake people. We're very far from that, and the obstacles for that aren't technological, it's definitely not something that Google can solve.
Wifi is not a replacement for cellular networks. As more and more people have wifi access points it makes sense to focus on speed and congestion management.

What I would like to see is the ability for wifi devices to relay others without having access to the data. Similar to a mesh network that every device supports and some sort of decentralized management allowing better signal for all devices.
Because normal work behind a computer is essentially 90% of what was called cheating in schools back in the day?

Is something cheating when the resource you use to cheat will essentially always be 1 device away? Just call your device your cerebral prosthesis, it will always be there anyway. It’s how humanity grows and people become more effective.
"We’ve become a weak inbred continent" ... "Europe thirsts for new blood"

That sounds really weird, like a rehashed mix of old style eugenics.

By the way, the worst problems with inbreeding are either in royal families, or in countries that condone cousin marriages. As you can see from this map, it is not Europe that takes the top spots in consanguinity.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Global-prevalence-consan...
I work on this team! (Specifically: applied deep learning research, chip design).

It's a shame to see so many people dismissing this work as marketing. I see lots of clever people working hard on really novel and interesting stuff, and I really do think that ML has real potential to customize a design much more "deeply" than traditional automation tools.
I've never seen an ecommerce or forums app that wouldn't be done better by more traditional techniques vs. an SPA. Interactive doesn't need to mean "driven entirely by Javascript", and also sites that use entirely HTML generated by a server can still use Javascript (there's even frameworks for this!)
Just an anecdotal perspective, but several of my friends have cancelled recently because there’s just not much new and good to watch. I’m also not finding enough content to watch lately, but I have two other streaming services I don’t mind paying for, so I’m not going to cancel it just because it’s been a few weeks since I saw something interesting.
I appreciate iFixit's role in the whole 'self-repair' movement, But exclusive deals for parts means absolutely nothing for developing countries and in fact counterintuitive for the environment as the e-waste are dumped in these countries.

Mobile repair shops in every corner in India aren't going to ship parts from iFixit even if possible by paying at-least 2X the shipping cost for the part which is already priced at a premium and then pay + huge import duties over the top. It would be funny if that actual phone was made in India.

Manufacturers should make the parts available on their website and to the repair shops locally if the era of fixing our phones has to nearly arrive.
Interesting Post
Could you give some examples of when a main character is black or LGBT and the story doesn't make sense because of it?
It seems that you consider employers keeping track of employee race, ethnicity, and gender data discriminatory.

Employers are required to provide this data to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: the federal agency charged with enforcing federal law which makes workspace discrimination illegal.

This agency came to exist through the legendary Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was supported by Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, along with Presidents JFK and LBJ.

You'd be forgiven for not understanding American politics.

But any American would be foolish to consider that race and ethnicity do not play a role in how our society is structured after over 200 years of slavery and nearly 100 years of Jim Crow.

Racism has been a poison built into the structure of our country's institutions, and being race conscious is a part of the cure.
One explanation could be that if you are a hammer everything looks like nail.

One problem with web dev in general is that we have multiple backend technologies, thus creating a complete client and server rendering framework requires you to integrate it against multiple backend technologies.

But if you assume that the best API is JSON over HTTP then you can completely ignore what makes sense from the perspective of the chosen backend technology.
I have never really understood the purpose of tailwindcss. It's main benefit seems to be that it exposes CSS rules using classes. Then I have to add a mountain of classes to my html. Am I missing something?
I had some trouble understanding the problem, since I've never had to translate a program that relies on goto into a purely structured one. Does this article cover it well? https://medium.com/leaningtech/solving-the-structured-contro...
If it doesn't accelerate fast enough the bandits catch up and cut you up into sewer oil streetfood.
I flat out refuse to be interviewed using it and if the company doesn’t drop the requirement, I drop them.
That gap is much smaller than it used to be.

At the peak of the muscle era, steelworks in my city of birth employed 100 000 people. Now they are down to fewer than 10 000, even though their production has actually grown.

Automation took those jobs away. It is not dissimilar to the collapse of the rural areas: once, almost everybody was a subsistence farmer. Now, 1 % of the population can feed the rest.
I used to work on Rincon Hill and the East Cut thing happened after I moved away, so I had long wondered whether it was an old name being revived (it kinda has a gold-rush ring to it) or another real estate scheme like calling the Tenderloin “Lower Nob Hill.”

Going by the article maybe you can just pay a branding company and they’ll get Google to rename your neighborhood whatever you like?

Upper Biztos Heights here I come!
> The "guys" as gender neutral is clearly the result of patriarical society.

No it isn't, there is nothing clear about this nor is it true in any way that actually means anything.
I agree with a lot of what you're saying. Thanks for the support, and for the information about compatibility. That sort of info is not always easy to discover (let alone contextualize), so I definitely appreciate the feedback.
Same with Moldova or Kosovo.
China's population growth has already mostly stopped. In 2021, they had 0.03% growth.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/china-population

Focusing on Africa isn't arbitrary. They are where the majority of future human population growth will be coming from.
Agreed. It's fantastic. Happily paid for it and switched to it from K9.
Opening a window in winter in Wisconsin is very much not free...
It's a classic OPEX vs. CAPEX tradeoff, plus the climate impact (of course building the ventilation system has a climate impact too, so there is a tradeoff there as well).
No we don’t need to be ‘replaced’, thank you for your kind offer but I and also a vast part of the European population want to reject it
>Motherboard

Oh my science I can't wait for the first generation of "personboards" to hit the market.
Do people email moderators asking them to change titles?
Basically what turbolinks did.
personally I try to avoid all dependencies (except a mere webserver, naturally) when it comes to reading.

I love the dokuwiki no-db filesystem storage approach, however.