skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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lol.

First, it's 2 rewrites. Second, those were all 98% backwards compatible for the users (might need to upgrade plugins), and just refactored the internals.

But sure, let's all write perfect code on day 0, taking into account all the ways libraries you depend on (React) can develop in the future. It's not like "frontend" is a moving target or anything...

/s
You do realize that in China they also vote for changes? That’s why the country is changing so fast, as opposed to stagnating like Russia or US. China doesn’t have a president for life, this guy needs to have support or he’ll be voted out.

But this is kind of besides the point. What matters is what “real life” looks like. Are Chinese scared to call an ambulance, because it would bankrupt them? Are random black people being shot on the street?
If your brother works in tech, make sure to ask him for permission first.
I mean it's really not cultural appropriation. Pizza is one of the great American inventions. It was brought over by Italian immigrants and evolved into a main stream staple served the world over, and that's based on the American Pizza, not the Italian one. Hot dogs are similar in that way.
Not if it's cold enough ;)
This is a great thread with many insights about group dynamics.

One analogy/model I like is the gravitational effect of groups. This
doesn't say much about their quality, but affects size.

People talk about the "value" of a network, but it can also be seen as
power. A large network exerts a power, not only on those inside it,
but also on those outside.

"Gravitational" large groups suck-in individuals, and other smaller
groups, in a runaway agglomerative process, like stars. Once
commercialised this happens by acquisitions and mergers.

Groups start out with control over their boundaries and size. You can
take or leave them. Past some point they lose that. Other groups die
because of them, and we get a "Monopoly" problem.

Facebook and Google were both harmless until it got to where you
constantly heard about them from everyone you met. Then comes
pressure from others to join. Eventually the cool, or individually
empowering thing to do is to not be in that group. That can induce
loyal stalwarts to leave too.

To press the "star lifecycle" analogy (perhaps too far), I think the
jury is out on the end-life. Some may become Red Giants, just growing,
diffusing into space but growing cold. To me, Google has become that,
"ubiquitous yet amorphous" offering an extremely low value prospect
but permeating too much. Some, perhaps like Twitter, will go White
Dwarf, pulling-in to a smaller, super intense thing that goes bang!
Although it has millions of participants, people outside it's small
gravitational range are barely aware it exists.
> an epic last stand to try to kill the invincible dragon, something that had only been done once before and was itself a legendary piece of MMO history.

From a story linked below it sounds like the sleeper has been killed many times. The article seems to incorrectly state this 2022 attempt would be the second kill ever…

>> players of Rallos Zek, who were congratulated by SOE and given official confirmation of a game-first accomplishment. The Sleeper would be killed many times after this, but never quite as memorably.

https://massivelyop.com/2022/04/04/the-game-archaeologist-wh...
There's cable gutter kits you can probably get at your local DIY store to make that look a bit neater if you're looking to improve. They're usually stick-on so no drilling or anything required.

There's also decorative ones that run along your floor, I forgot the English name, but they're a bit bigger than the usual ones and can hold a number of cables out of sight.
The video doesn't work

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If that is needed for the situation at hand, like it is with headphones, why would it be unreasonable to complain about a road that doesn't fulfill the basic requirements?
I'm an embedded developer, and I've recently started teaching a coworker about microcontrollers. I think it's most helpful to first understand the basics of digital electronics. Transistors can be wired together to create logic gates, and logic gates can be wired together to create flip flops. A flip flop can be thought of as a single bit of RAM. Logic gates and flip flops can be used to create all sorts of useful circuits like counters, shift registers, adders, multipliers, multiplexers, etc.

With this foundation, one can understand a microcontroller as a big digital circuit. A CPU executes instructions by using a digital circuit. The instruction's op code is selecting the appropriate circuit to operate on the instruction's operands. Microcontrollers also have peripherals like timers, serial communications (spi, i2c, uart), and analog to digital converters. All of these are digital circuits that are configured by writing bytes to registers. Those registers can be thought of as the inputs and outputs of those circuits, just as if they were built with discrete flip flops and logic gates. In fact, many microcontroller datasheets provide diagrams of the logic circuitry for these peripherals.

Once you can truly understand how the hardware operates, writing the code to configure and operate that hardware is pretty straightforward.
You can use lightening earbuds theoretically
>"Appeal to authority" doesn't apply to actual authorities in their domain – otherwise you would never be able to call expert witness at a trial, for example.

Not OP but I disagree, an appeal to authority can be any authority, even those that are experts in the field. Even the most knowledgeable experts make mistakes, so appealing only to authority is not enough, granted I haven't read the paper nor have any stake in this issue, so it's possible that when the op appealed to authority they were actually trying to appeal to the arguments presented in the paper by proxy, which is fine. But a bald appeal to authority is always flawed, and expert witnesses are just a concession the law has to make to get anywhere. In the words of Richard Feynman; "Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts".
The K family of languages hew very closely to versions written by Arthur Whitney who famously rewrites the entire codebase from scratch with each major revision. Kona is largely modeled on K2 (the second major revision) and ngn/k is modeled on K6. K6 introduced a few more types, more flexible dictionaries and added/changed some primitives from earlier versions but the overall structure of the language is very similar.

Someone here has to post ngn’s survey of K languages: https://ngn.codeberg.page/k.html

oK is also modeled on K6 and its manual comes highly recommended.
That’s why it only benefits you if you want to downsize (you gain the inflated delta) or move to a cheaper location (you gain the inflated location premium).
There are more American types of pizza than Chicago Deep Dish (though I do love that as well). And yes the most common type of Pizza in Europe is also based on the American invented version, not the Italian one. It was reverse imported back into Europe from America.
Great weather, but Bangalore (tshirt all year around) doesn't make the cut? makes me suspect something is off with the data or analysis. (Perhaps it's the anchoring on 9 celcius? that's chilly.)
I think so. For each and every attribute (of anything) there is an "interval" of proper values. Too few/too much is dangerous.

A recent pertinent thinker was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Kohr
> hobble together a ruby goldberg of SaaS services or try and cram their businesses into a monolithic piece of software that expects your business to run a certain way

In practice the most common option is to have everything run on massive Excel sheets, with spaghetti formulas and VBA coded by long-gone employees or interns. But it works.
I have a fairly modern house (built mid 2000's) but for some reason wasn't built with ethernet; what was there was phone and coax cable lines, going through these yellow PVC tubes embedded in the wall.

In theory it would be a matter of tying an ethernet cable to an existing coax cable and pull through, but in practice, eek. I don't believe those lines are continuous, or there may be debris or kinks in it somewhere in the wall. In the end it took an electrician half an hour and an improvised cable pump to get it through.
I like it. It's the only social media where people are actually upvoted for being right. Despite the community growing there's still an emphasis on quality here. If you get downvoted for your political opinion, it's probably because you're just venting a baseless opinion, or you're ranting off-topic. Show me a well reasoned on topic political comment you made that got downvoted and I'll eat my words.
>In other words, the complex systems we build usually end up having surprising failure modes, we don't get them right the first time. It's enough to think about basically any software written by anyone. But it's not just software.

That is true, but how often does a bug actually improve a system or make it inefficient? Isn't the unexpected usually a degradation to the system?
hourglasses and other similar devices are for keeping discrete times, not continuous times like in

"it cooks in half of that"

but they are circular inherently, when the top half falls to the bottom, we flip them and the cycle restarts.

analog clocks started as 24 hours historically [1]. the division of days in 24 equal segments was well know since ancient history, we still use base 60 to measure time because that's what babylonians used when they invented time keeping and started counting days in a year (360 of them, in base 60)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_clock#History
After 30+ years in Chicago, I can tell you this data processing approach, deriving results presented, is completely wrong. Period.
Something can be simultaneously bad, but necessarily allowed.
Can you elaborate? I don't understand what you mean (as somebody with 10+ years in embedded software + electronics space).
Because it's not food, but recycled food industry waste. It's not even a proper name for this topping, it means "pepper" in Italian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5AZhjhbxf8
At most you can tell people that, even more but similarly as with regular stocks, you should only invest money you can afford to lose.

People talk about Bitcoin going down but S&P 500 lost about 1/8 of its value as well.
> but there are no VHS cassettes that can match the clarity of 1080p or higher.

A rare VHS format from 2002 called D-VHS could do 1080p on VHS tapes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT4lDU-QLUY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiu0LPeLQPE
> realistically, he will be able to retire for life after this if he chooses, [...]

People who have enough drive to become CEOs seldom want to retire like that.
Assuming Dublin is pretty similar to the UK, it's the blandness that gets you. I'll take inconvenient variety over months of grey, dark dampness anytime.
Big Eastern cities have robberies too. And fights too. They are not some kind of hellholes, most are safe enough. But they are not safer then western cities.

Small Eastern cities do have criminality too, for that matter. Both organized and low level one. As I said, it is all improving in general, but claim that they are oh so safer is not true.
there was an obvious trend with other phone manufacturers as well. as soon as they made their own brand of wireless headphones/earbuds, the headphone jack was removed from their phone.
The author of Kona has written kerf which I believe is intended for this same space. I’ve never used it though. https://github.com/kevinlawler/kerf1
> See those radishes? Most human-drawn radishes are happy.

Most human drawn cats are evil. Most AI drawn cats are happy.
I noticed when stepping out of a train BT drops for a brief moment, what causes this interference? The powerlines ?! Interference from other commuters?
An ancient Italian proverb state "poca brigata, viata beata" (small brigades makes wonderful life's), more prosaically in societies of any sizes we have various kind of individuals, most are "good" some are not. As the society grow the slice of "bad" Citizens cohort can grow enough to unite against the others.

That's happen with organized crimes as well as élites (witch tend to evolve toward dictatorship witch actually is organized crime), meanwhile "interprocess communications" start to exhibit more and more issues, hyper-subdivision of labors, made possible by the bigger size, remove large slices of generic knowledge so makes people fragile, for instance just look at those who live "in nature", they mostly know what to do if a tree fell on the road during winter, how to fix some plumbing, change a tire etc, nothing special, just generic knowledge. Those in big cities tend to know far less, so you can tell them that a broken plumbing joints means a 300€ complex work or that there is or not an immediate emergency of some agricultural productions etc. On scale that means it's easier to make people believe what some PR what they believe AND peoples are far less "adults" because not having a large slice of generic knowledge they can't much stand on their own feet depending more and more on third parties who tend economically to concentrate in oligopolies.

So yes, there are size limits, I can't really tell where is the threshold but there are different many thresholds...
I’d say mentioning China and Russia together in the same sentence already shows a massive bias. The only common thing they have is they are both hated by US.
All new tools have to be made with the old ones.
Because he wanted to imply it. He wanted us to be clear on that it was not white person robbing him.
Seems interesting. As a note, I am not able to view the video on an iPad. (Not complaining. Just FYI.)
From what I have read, it sounds to me as if they implemented a new storage engine. The needed hooks/interface were introduced gradually over the last two or three releases.
I'm seeing a MIME type not supported for the video on Android Firefox
Is there a version of this that doesn't require javascript?
Bluetooth is fine, it's just the codecs that suck.

As soon as you enable the microphone on a headset, the codec switches to "American cell phone circa 1990" -mode and everything sounds like shit.

Airpods Max seem to circumvent this with the W1 chip though and it's a complete game changer. I can actually use noise cancelling while having the mic enabled.
Op really dislikes snow..
Por que no los dos? Most of my donations go to things like AMF, but I do put some money towards the causes that my ape brain prefers.
Look at the tweets of these guys a few months back. Both have several positive mentions of Tesla, Starlink and/or Musk himself. They may actually be Musk fanboys....

It may be that they are fired because Parag and the other leaders are concerned they will (or have already) share(d) information or otherwise cooperate(d) with Musk in ways Parag wants to prevent.
...and people still want to manually disable bluetooth on their phone "because it eats up their battery".

Dude. You posting that message to FB took more power than your idling bluetooth will spend all week :D
I think this is a misconception that software developers tend to have; their comfort zone, their work passion and their perceived goal is to sit behind a screen and type the code. But that's just the programming part of the job, as a software engineer your responsibilities are much wider. Meetings can (I'm not saying they will) tweak what code needs to be written and how. Left on their own, developers may end up writing code that isn't needed or doesn't do what it's supposed to, which is wasted time, dead code or branches, or worse, sunk cost fallacy kicks in where it's kept anyway because someone wrote it.

I wouldn't have minded more meetings in my current job. I'm leaving in two weeks. Not because of a lack of meetings mind you, it's a combination of factors.
Yes it is, girls as young as 13 are having their breasts removed for exactly that reason, see these news articles:

https://4w.pub/tiktok-gender-doctor-per-breast-removal-on-13...

https://thefederalist.com/2018/09/12/u-s-doctors-performing-...

And the demographic data in this research paper, published in a pediatrics medical journal:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abst...

I hope you would agree that this is a horrific practice and that these minors can't possibly meaningfully consent to this.
The reaction time of the gold-graphene-gold gate is wonderful. How long does it take to set the phase of the lasers?
> Regulating away mitm proxies doesn't make sense because we don't need to do it, you can prevent middleboxes with nothing other than tech by breaking the ability to mitm connections.

You can, because you're talking about middleboxes. But you can't really prevent the owner of the device from MITM-ing traffic, you can just make their life needlessly harder. Or you can attempt to make them not be the owner of the device, so that they are not fully in control, which is unacceptable.

I agree middleboxes shouldn't exist, but the only reason they are able to is because you're not the owner of the device you're communicating from. That's a problem you can solve with legislation.

> In my ideal world it wouldn't be, it would be done on the endpoint before/after the traffic is encrypted/decrypted. There would be no need to mitm anything, the OS would happily show you the content and be legally required to provide facilities for the user/software to do so.

This sounds technically unfeasible. HTTP can be done by any number of userland libraries. How is the OS to ensure that all such libraries are compliant?

On top of that, you're talking about the creation of a new kind of protocol for this kind of thing here. There's an insane amount of tooling currently using HTTP proxies for this which cannot be easily replaced.
Two interviews can to mind when I read this.

1. An in-person phone round interview at one of the social media Companies in the Bay Area. The interviewer came 10 min late, gave me a problem and was then busy as hell with his phone. At least he had the courtesy to tell me that there was a prod issue he was engaged in, but still, not cool.

The problem was tough as hell, and I didn’t solve it. There was no help/prompts either. I was curious about the source of the problem - and the person told me that it was his own personal twist on a problem from competitive programming competitions.

So, basically, unless you are a seasoned competitive programmer, you are screwed. Again, not cool.

2. An interview at one of the Big Banks in SF for a Engg role. One of the interviewers asked me about my current job and was visibly upset when I said it was cool and nice. Then they followed that up by being disinterested and openly hostile in the rest of the interview.

Didn’t get the job and dodged a bullet. But I still don’t understand what his problem was. Since when is it necessary to hate and abuse your current job when you look for the next one?
The phrase "AGI owner" implies a person who can issue instructions and have the AGI do their bidding. Most likely there will never be any AGI owners, since no one knows how to program an AGI to follow instructions even given infinite computing power. It's not clear how connectionism / using gradient descent helps: No one knows how to write down a loss function for "following instructions" either. Until we find a solution for this, the first AI to not to be "obviously erroneously evil" won't be good. It will just be the first one that figured out that it should hide the fact that it's evil so the humans won't shut it off.

We humans have gotten too used to winning all the time against animals because of our intelligence. But when the other species is intelligent too, there's no guarantee that we win. We could easily be outcompeted and driven to extinction, as happens frequently in nature. We'd be Kasparov playing against Deep Blue: Fighting our hardest to survive, yet unable to think of a move that doesn't lead to checkmate.
Europen Parliament agrees on Proposal to require USB-C for mobile devices
Yeah let's dump decades of electronics relying on different sized Jacks to the landfill for your convenience.
And let's not forget that you can upsell the mini usb-c dongle for a decent margin!

There's a middle ground working for everybody without going into audiophile territory.
Possible Terra/Luna crash explanation
I'm not super well versed in history, but I don't think Finland had much better options at that time, so yeah, it was kinda smart.
Similar to how you resort to cheap stereotypes within five minutes of being exposed to an uncomfortable topic.
> Bach’s wife had 20 children.

Which one? Cause he had 13 children with Anna Magdalena Wilcke. If he had 20 more children with another one, it would amount to 33 kids by Bach.

Loving being pregnant or not does not make pregnancy year after year for 10 consecutive years less difficult on body. That schedule means you are constantly pregnant, often pregnant while breastfeeding and sleep deprived from baby. While having two toddlers. It takes toll on the body.
Most cured meat products are ways to preserve cheaper cuts of meat for a long time.

Salamis, mortadellas, head cheese.

That doesn't mean they're not delicious.
9% is the long term annual return of the stock market over the past century.
The .com crash made me leave, it was almost impossible to stay employed afterwards, unless one would like to be jumping jobs every couple of months (many of my friends went through this, others created their own companies).

I left, now it is really hard to come back before retirement, due to the ways life drives us around.

It really feels like an ecochamber, or a generation thing maybe, because even with my regular visits I seldom meet people that think that way.

What I do meet, is the difference of working in Portugal, and how things work in central/nothern Europe.
Google Flight Operations Optimization for Lufthansa Group
> For developers, yeah, Bluetooth is like a torture device, but for consumers, it's wonderful.

Let me respectfully disagree. Most of the times it's a pain, from my personal experience.
Waze used to show *full screen* ads when it detected that the car was standing still. Maybe they still do in some regions, they don't do it anymore where I live...
> This comment is hilarious to me because this is the first example i have seen of white people getting their culture appropriated.

Happens all the time. Ever heard of Hamburgers?
It's no better. Part of the low pay, relative to pure software, is the much greater head count for all the tasks involved in designing and manufacturing physical goods.
no sony had waterproof headphone jacks a really long time ago.

a lot of their phones still have headphone jacks as far as i know. seems like they are the only decent company left in that regard
AMD and Intel aren't (or weren't at least) shipping cutting edge GPU tech so there's less need to look to them for ideas and shortcuts anyway.

Well I used to work at Google and the open source parts are a tiny, tiny fraction of their actual codebase. Windows isn't really open source at all, although in recent years a few utilities have been opened up - note, only after Windows stopped being so important to Microsoft.

And as for macOS. Well. You can download and read some code, sometimes. Good luck trying to actually build it or do anything useful with it at all. You'll find that it's (a) completely undocumented and (b) all depends on internal stuff you don't have access to. An exception is WebKit.