skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why 200 years, an not say few million years? Used to be more CO2 and plants liked it better. Definitely grew higher back in those days.

I suspect the answer 200 because it is assumed these days that CO2 produced since 1800 is all man made. Would like to genuinely know if that's the case or I'm missing something.
I think Noam Chomsky even believes that human's language ability was selected for to aid computation not communication. Therefore in humans: communication IS computation.
Yep, agree 100%.
lol, only 5 fairly crappy/generic/obvious ideas, one of which is presumably too good (or way too crappy) to share? Sorry to be harsh, but you can keep them.

I always maintain that ideas can be valuable in themselves, against the repeated VC argument that 'ideas are worthless', but this is an example where the VCs are right.
Two thoughts:

1) The failure of

func (t *fishTank) fishCount() string {
return fmt.Sprintf("How many fishies? %d!", t.size())
}

to work has nothing to do with generics; methods are always "removed" from types defined this way. If you want you can cast `t` to a `*container[fish]` and call it, but this is also where I would ask why "extend" rather than compose - are you gaining anything by ensuring identical layouts?

2) The bigger issue, that interfaces cannot require their implementations to be comparable, is https://github.com/golang/go/issues/52614 and linked tickets.
The first idea on the list: “ Create an auto-updating website from a Google Doc or Sheet” can be done pretty easily already, without writing code.

(I’m the founder of a company, Makerpad[*], that teaches people no-code)

Glide[1] - lets you create apps from a google sheet. Set up the template connected to your data and as it updates, your app will too.

Stacker[2] - build web-apps without code. Supports Airtable and most recently, Sheets.

Softr[3] - similar for websites but using Airtable as the data source. I think Sheets support will come soon.

Sheets2Site [4] - website builder with google sheets.

For GoogleDocs you can use parameters in the doc that change using something like Zapier (disclaimer: they acquired my company last year). I haven’t explored it the other way around eg. Data into a google doc updating something elsewhere.

[0] https://www.makerpad.co/
[1] https://www.glideapps.com/
[2] https://www.stackerhq.com/
[3] https://www.softr.io/
[4] https://www.sheet2site.com/
> I live in a big city, it could be raining frogs in one part and a happy sunny day in the other and the best thing any weather report could say to me is 'expect rain'.

Just in case you haven't seen it: some services provide conditions and forecasts for particular locations with better resolution than ‘the city’, and can show the projected movement of rainclouds.

(You'll have to research the services for your country yourself, as I doubt it that my local one is useful for outsiders. But I'd guess that these days many big web services have these features.)
yes, because as we know; SWEs are shit at proper testing.

A good QA department will know what the software does, but more importantly how it should behave, and how its changed over time. They should be a good resource for working out how a feature should look and behave.

a good QA department is worth its weight in gold
The thing is… if you already pay for iCloud storage, this is thrown in for free. Plus it doesn’t feel like it’s via a VPN when using my 1Gbps fibre in Singapore. On Mulvad it does, unfortunately.
Plenty of guys complaining about dating on TikTok too. It’s an absolutely massive platform and there’s videos on just about anything especially interpersonal relationships (coach industry)
But is water actually wet? Wouldn’t what makes it wet instead be classified as making the body of water larger instead?
Forgive me if I'm being dense, but that number seems really implausible to me. 172 kCal an hour is (assuming just waking hours consume calories) about 2700 kCal just from the cortex over the course of a day, which is more than the average Total Daily Energy Expenditure.
I’m usually bad at arithmetic, but I think it’s only 172 cal ie 0.172 kcal, no?

0.2W x 3600s -> 720J -> 172 cal
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The case mentioned was 'just monitoring a couple microservices'. If you want minimal effort E2E monitoring, create an AWS Lambda scheduled job with your test and have AWS SNS email you when the lambda fails. It's reliable, cheap, and significantly less complex than something like Prometheus or Grafana. For much larger or more complicated cases, try the route in the article.
All of your ideas already exists. It’s not about having ideas or sharing them, because there’s thousands of people who have the same thought. What actually makes a difference is building them.
Feels very much in the realm of Love Hultén’s design language.

All it’s missing is a half sphere dome lens in front of the panel.

https://www.lovehulten.com/
I love how they call it a budget surplus, it isn’t. It is as you say, residents were over taxed by $100B, which won’t be returned to them. Which is terrible government, not good-great government.
Knative is such a brilliant framework for building internal / infrequently called apps.

It's a core pice of our infrastructure and it has enabled non-tech employees to develop apps that cost cents per month[1].

You would be surprised how many business opportunities arise when people who are not developers are comfortable to write their own services.

[1] Surprise, surprise, coding isn't the hard part of writing most apps
Indeed. The article came across to me as “video games with a story are too hard for me, therefore they’re not as good as movies”. I can kind of sympathize with this position (there are some games I have to turn down to easy in order to enjoy them and not get frustrated) but I certainly don’t share it.
It could still be called "crowdsourcing" if it were compensated.
i love the fact that jeffrey is upping his twitter game
I find it very relevant to this Brain FLOPs estimation as it reduce the upper limit by a factor of ten
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31385913
It means the brain has at max 8.1 million firing events per seconds so only 10% of neurons (or axons?) would be active in a second timeframe?

BTW if so this has a huge implication on consciousness.

premise 1) we know that reduced consciousness is a continuu, indicating a percentage of inhibited (deactivated) neurons, which can be gradually increased via e.g. benzodiazepines up to a coma or cerbral death. Many depressants reports as a symptom the intermediate feeling of reduced consciousness.

Now if we assume only ~ten percent of neurons are active at a given time, and as shown in premise 1) consciousness is a result of neuron activation and is physically located as the acitvated neurons. Then time passe and for some reason/stimulus, the newly activated neurons do not overlap with the previous 10%. In this experience of thought, since there is no overlap, the previous consciousness location has totally shut down like a brain death, and the new consciousness reside in newly activated neurons. Are you the same person?
Since the physical location is disjoint, if you suppose you are, you have zero criterion for discriminating you from newly made isomorphic clones which is a paradox assuming there can't be multiple you.
First, they've released three datasets, not one. It's wild to expect they'd release all of the data, both legally and ethically. Publishing data that turns out to be garbage is worse than publishing no data at all. Publishing unfiltered user generated content when they also have the resources to evaluate quality is silly.

They've built and maintained the site that nobody else is seemingly building and offering. They've already released data from the site that's high quality. They have committed to releasing more. What more do you want from them? All things considered, this is better than essentially every other big company is doing when it comes to giving away free training data.
Nope. They move at the speed of light. Our first detection of such a death start might be our oceans boiling. But the reality is that astrophysical jets come out at right angles from the rotational plane of the black hole. All the biggest black holes rotate in the same plane as their host galaxy. We are far away in the outer spiral arms, in the plane. Any dangerous jet will likely be at 90 degrees from us, missing earth by many thousands of light-years.
As written several times, the delays appeared unexpected due to COVID and later the war in Ukraine. Again, what exactly should be done in such a situation?

Also, what about such a situation makes verbally abusing support personnel reasonable?

This isn't about being expressing they're disappointed or angry, it's about abusive people lashing out over factors no one can control
> not that we should try to “represent” women in gaming more to fix it.

Maybe you’re making some assumptions about what “represent” actually means? What actions are you imagining people take when people say they’d like to see more female representation, as in this thread?

In my mind there’s no difference between saying I’d like to see more female representation, and work towards fixing discrimintaion in the workplace. More representation is synonymous with fixing the discrimination problems to allow more women to the table. In games this means not just more women engineers, but more women designers & modelers & environment artists & management. My personal experience in the games industry is that women were underrepresented in all departments except HR, though some departments (art) were higher than others (eng).

> As I’m sure you’re aware, there are many strong women leaders in game development

The only way I can read this statement in this context is as a suggestion that because some women survived ongoing discrimination, there isn’t that much of a problem, as literally downplaying the problem. While it’s some sort of progress that we have more than zero female representation in game dev, game streaming, and game players, that’s not a great reason to pat ourselves on the back. The industry needs to first move out of the toxic zone, and it hasn’t even done that yet.

> Video games is an art form that can be enjoyed or created by anyone

This, again, is a hypothetical that ignores reality. You can say the same hypothetical about almost any profession on earth. Airplanes can by flown by anyone. Politics can be done by anyone. It’s never been easier to start with any of them. And yet there are persistent stubborn disparities despite women having equal amounts of interest and ability as men in these fields.

If by ‘anyone’, you’re referring to being a solo indie developer on a mobile platform, the stats for people having a career there don’t exactly support your argument. And by “don’t exactly” I mean not at all. The majority of people who do game dev full time today work in a company, go through standard educational paths to meet requirements, and are subject to the company of other people and their, let’s say, foibles.
Why is having head and tail in the same cache line bad for performance? Given that the code reads both head and tail to check if the queue is empty, being in the same cache line seems optimal.
>I'd settle for the formula bar display of the formula not reformatting the line breaks.

I can't imagine how much time this one thing would have saved over my last 40 years of spreadsheeting.
Yeah, it's very well written but seems to be forcing a conclusion. The one it arrives at misses the point of a medium, which is to be explored for all that can be done with it. Whether it's currently good or bad at expressing certain forms isn't the point, as effectiveness can change with usage of the medium. I certainly hope that we don't only get horror games because that's what the author seems to claim video games are only good for. It even touches on environments as video games become VR worlds with avatars. We have no idea what will work well and the article certainly doesn't.

> Yes, sure, you can tell a story in a game. But what a lot of work that is, when it’s so much easier to watch television, or to read. A greater ambition, which the game accomplishes more effectively anyway: to show the delightful curiosity that can be made when stories, games, comics, game engines, virtual environments—and anything else, for that matter—can be taken apart and put back together again unexpectedly.

> To dream of the Holodeck is just to dream a complicated dream of the novel. If there is a future of games, let alone a future in which they discover their potential as a defining medium of an era, it will be one in which games abandon the dream of becoming narrative media and pursue the one they are already so good at: taking the tidy, ordinary world apart and putting it back together again in surprising, ghastly new ways.
i both agree and disagree with this. on one hand, it’s true that having everything run in CLI mode would probably make programs truly cross platform. for example, recently I had to use namebenchmark to find the best DNS for my needs. on the M1 mac, the program cannot be run since it’s 32 bit. but i managed to simply run it in a terminal instead by calling its python script (used version 2.7). now i get to run this app on any platform since python is also cross platform. but the GUI version would not be easily ported to linux, windows, etc.

on the other hand, most users are not like me. they want something they can interact with using a mouse, and they often use keyboard only to enter words, not commands or shortcuts. so GUI has definitely a place in today’s world.
Would that mean 0.2 watt is the maximum energy expenditure of the cortex and not the average?
What's your comparison to there? 10w is a reasonable amount of power and you can do lots with it - my M1 Mac can browse the internet on 10w of power.
People really seem to miss that complaining about the kind of content on one of the biggest social media platforms on the planet that algorithmically shows you more of what you watch is a huge self-report.
But why (1)? If a `fishTank` is a `container[fish]` what is the benefit of requiring it to be cast again?
They used to burn c4 in Vietnam to heat coffee/food. Just don't step on it, as it suddenly remembers it's an explosive...
I rolled my own terrible sqlite replication system once. I used execution tracing hooks (https://rogerbinns.github.io/apsw/execution.html#tracing) to record all mutation queries and their arguments sent to the database, then periodically copied that log to a replica system and executed the identical statements.

It's rather primitive, but could be considered an intermediate step between this blog's full copying and litestream's WAL-based replication.
Anything the diplomat is carrying already can't be searched, the diplomatic bag just exists so a diplomat doesn't need to carry everything themselves.
screenshots without running the xscreensaver radar ping is such a cop-out
That's just a basic introduction. I would not call this article "everything you need to know".
God this is so annoying. I had chalked it up to bad big-box software engineering software but now I realize it’s private relay. Hmm…
Long Live Participatory Socialism! (2021)
Article from 2021, duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27191364
It made me think of Lamdu[1] a bit. I’m glad to see people thinking and building in this area.

[1] http://www.lamdu.org/
Does LinkedIN have an API for doing that or would you have to manually scrape a profile?

I don't have a LinkedIN profile with all my personal details but do have an account for doing recon and OSINT investigations and scouting for positions, obviously not using my real name.
This seems like a completely backward explanation to me. (But entirely in keeping with the biases of The Hustle, based on their headlines.)

Markets for everything and everything for a price - those things are probably driving the irrational behavior.

We just don't see that pressure because we're in that system. We're acclimated.
I ran into the case of needing to back up a write-heavy database without blocking anything, and came up with a solution: Writing a VFS ( https://www.sqlite.org/vfs.html ) that makes the application move the Sqlite journals file to a directory for processing instead of deleting them. Another process reads them to see what pages were touched and can very quickly get the changes to update the backup.
Correct me if I’m wrong but I thought the sparse histogram effort in Prometheus will still use single metric line counters for its storage abstraction?

I think it’s a great addition to the product and will excitedly use it but it’s a pretty big difference from a histogram centric db like circonus’ or a schema’d one like monarch.
Or maybe giving the other person the chance to say they're busy first is more polite because they don't have to decline after they know what's on offer.
I appreciate your statement (edit: and thank you!), and I must admit I feel like I'm at work de-escalating cases on a Sunday :)

To give as much good faith as I can, perhaps my post was overly focused on my frustration and didn't acknowledge that I can understand frustration on the situation.

What I cannot understand is abusive and vicious harassment of my employees. We always try diplomacy, sharing as much information as we can and explaining exactly what the situation is. Some simply choose to react abusively regardless and think they can take it out on my team, which is never acceptable. It does not matter how emotionally strong it feels for the people, lashing out at people trying to help is not appropriate.
When talking about solid state what they actually mean Lithium metal anode.

Polymore batteries are a different thing.

This is just confusing nameing for historical reasons.
How to see who visits your website – and what they do when they get there
I once found pigeon nest behind my window with 3 eggs in it. I didn't have the heart to destroy the nest. Little did I know about what filth I will have to clean up once they take off. Also, they left behind some very tiny beetles that I battled with for few weeks to come. They were so tiny they managed to squeeze in through the window's sealing.

This year I found an egg again. I threw it away.
The audio and visual aesthetic of those games you name is also top notch. Mechanics? Top notch. Game loop? Addictive af. Overall polish? Top notch.

Your comment would make more sense if it were “games that check all the boxes sell”.
You're right that this would have benefits.

But the (very high) costs also must be considered.

In the end, I'm sure Earth's CO₂ levels will be engineered, and reverting to the preindustrial levels is not at all certain to be considered optimal.
Powershell Windows Toolbox is malware
I bought a broken one for 340 Euros in 2006. Replaced the cables and the needle light and it was good to go.

Still alive and kicking in 2022
Private Relay is a fantastic feature, definitely one of the better ones Apple has rolled out over the past couple years.
Most enterprise customers require SAML authentication, which is much more complicated with lots of quirks.
For the 2nd one, if Twitter is really a "protocol" one could tweet special crafted links and make a Twitter client app that parsed these links and Twitter threads and using something like ffmpeg to compile a single audio stream.

If more replies are added to the conversation, one can rebuild the ffmpeg audio file locally. This could be awesome for blind people, and a big win for accessibility.

Please note I'm not talking about text-to-speech systems, I'm talking about the autors speaking in specially crafted tweets (that results in audio files saved in some server and them some app parsing them as a single file).

The 3rd one already exists.

Windows can track the Clipboard history, at the Clipboard settings, just enable it and start using the "Windows logo key + V" key combo to open the clipboard context menu and select any of the latest copied items (including images).

The Samsung keyboard at Android also does this as well.

Maybe there's something like this for Linux and Apple equipment, I don't know.

The 4rth one I tried using the Web Archive to retrieve it, but it wasn't available. haha.

The 5th one exists as an app called Chklsty[0]. What you're needing is checklists for repeated processes. It's not for single-use to-do lists.

--

[0]: https://hello.chklsty.com/
Operator precedence by textual substitution
Why do these types of low quality, seemingly spam / SEO articles always rise to the top on weekend mornings? Is it lack of competition? Easier to manipulate votes?
Also, I found "Practical Cryptography for Developers", when looking for ECC.

https://cryptobook.nakov.com/
I created Callibella for this: https://github.com/bjesus/callibella
One of the only professional achievements I was responsible for is getting the FT to move away from splunk logging, to generating metrics directly.

I installed a graphite/grafana cluster[1], and delivered a bunch of tech talks on how to massage raw metrics into useable metrics that related to business goals.

I did this because I hated waiting for splunk graphs to generate, and I could never really get any kind of actionable graphs out of it.

over a couple of years it went from a couple of thousand metrics to well over a million active metrics. (anything not updated in the last 7 days was deleted)

but the biggest "oh its actually useful" was seeing product owners, scrum leaders and buisness analysts create, update use dashboards, and setting alerts on service health _without_ software engineering help. It was brilliant, and a testament to how simple graphite/grafana is to use.

[1]well, I installed a graphite cluster, someone twisted my arm to get grafana installed.
Don't you mean https://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa... ?
Maybe they use their product to generate upvotes O.O
>I am afraid there is currently no exact translation of the sign-sequences (= words) attested on Linear A tablets (as well as other document types). This is primarily because we have not yet identified the linguistic family the Minoan language belongs to (unless it has to be taken as an ‘isolated’ language)

Seems as though they may have made some kind of advancement in the relationship between symbols, but as always we do not have nearly enough written material to approach deciphering.
The minerals in the soil have already been weathered and absorbed as much CO2 as they can. The important thing to understand is that it is only accelerating a natural process that has kept earth's temperature relatively stable for billions of years. This is true long-term carbon capture and it is worth researching the best way to do it.
Reminds me of a family story about my aunt recounting a Feynman lecture to her kids. She was drawing some diagrams he'd used and they said, "Wait a minute, how do you know what these looked like? Weren't you just listening to the audio?"

She realized that Feynman's verbal explanations were so clear that she had not had any trouble visualizing the diagrams as he drew and discussed them.
That is absolutely ridiculous. I love it.