skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Men think women will never change and they do

Women think men can change but they don't

That basically summarizes my experience (including lots of negatives re me not changing). I think managing those expectations is much more important than knowing some particular thing, which in any event would probably map to my aphorism.

(I generally reject gender stereotypes, feel free to swap the gender anywhere to match your situation, the point is about expectations for the future)
Favorite line: "The carrot stays a carrot. The carrot, if anything, gets tastier. And the stick becomes a security camera."
Australians were not allowed to leave Australia for some months until recently.
I get the impression that Google used C++ (their dialect) for the first MapReduce system, while open source Hadoop and HDFS came later in Java.
Your development bias reflects that of a decade+ wisened & mature developer, well set up, prodyctive with great tools in your toolbelt.

I think you conflate the development environment with the hypermedium. You stick lo-fi tools with shame, but you're not actually talking to the language & it's lightweight versaility & hackability. You're not talking to the editability, the malleability, & simplicity of the medium as it was, and which, if we can do just a little bit of healing, can be again.

> Even with this change, you will still need a build pipeline

Will we? Why? I tend to wager a decent static webserver (especially one that has decent cimpression built in) will be a very fine deploy target for many again, soon. ESM, early-hints, http3... it could happen. Yeah we probably should strip comments & these type annotations, but need to? Meh. I think we fret too much about the small stuff & havent spent nearly enough time conisdering incremental loading architectures & better use of service workers. The endless pish for optimizing what we have has been a race of folly ignoring the real peaks around us daring us to be summited.

JS can & should be less build intensive. Non-build module-using js was the high fantasy we were driving for a decade ago, when the idea of modules was new, & it's been slow, but that objective was there for really good & importamt reasons. A js which is naturally accessible, which is evident & real, is good for humanity & how the web reconnects with itself as a hypermedium, as more than just another shitty developer app-dev toolbox for nerds like us. We can be better. We can make the source real again.
Some dogs in Moscow have learned to use the metro system to navigate the city, hanging out with other dogs or a friendly person who they know will feed them at certain times of the day [0].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_dogs_in_Moscow#Subway-d...
The highest level trim has 130 kWh of energy storage. It can output 9.6kW of power.

It looks like the battery alone would be about $30-$40K, plus you’d need an inverter and.. it’s not a truck.

https://sunwatts.com/amp/100-kwh-solar-battery/
Somewhat related, this cracked me up the other day:

> Mechanic tells crew what he found:
"Tank was out of fuel & broken down as you said. I found a leaking fuel line, timing belt snapped, puncture in oil reservoir & cracked radiator"
"A cracked radiator you say?" interjected one Russian soldier.
"Huh. I don't remember doing that."
Nothing's wrong with it, if you turned off the Fisher-Price theme. It was usable and simple, and displayed information clearly. It wasn't suitable for mixed-DPI, but a replacement easily could be without losing anything. Instead, we get the garbage that is Windows 11. All three desktop platforms have been taking leaps backwards in usability.
Fastify DX
Look at tables 13 and 14.
"Literally work on amy URL" is right. As far as I can tell, if you give i0.wp.com/ i1.wp.com/ or i2.wp.com/ *any URL of a media file* those domains will happily scrape it, spread it around their CDN, and start serving it!
I wonder what the author's view of the gaming industry is. On the one hand I agree with him that useless work or work that achieves little shouldn't be done. (in case of gaming a lot of work provides entertainment which could have been achieved by other much more efficient means.)

On the other hand we're not gas molecules confined in a chamber. So as much as we'd like to apply the laws of thermodynamics to our lives it just won't work. The reason we exist is a mystery. Usefulness takes an entirely different shape when you're not sure what it is that you're trying to optimize for. Useful to what end?
I've been wondering about this -- I'm making a text editor RPG, and in the medium term I want to make a file picker that builds a procedural dungeon based on your file system. I know such a thing would have been trivially fine in older versions of windows, but I didn't know if going down that road has any foot guns a more educated win developer would know.

Is protected folder access an on-by-default thing, or is it only certain folders?

Quick googling makes me think my plan might trigger windows defender for an exemption request. Hm That's a drag, but understandable I suppose?
That took at least a minute to even load...
The point was, in keeping with the context of the story and prior comments, that you didn't have to make up people to be able to ring up votes as an insider.

On the larger topic of voter registration, it shouldn't be that hard for them to keep relatively clean rolls. Even if it's not causing an issue, having clean rolls promotes the integrity of and trust in the voting system. I mean, most of the dead people voting is just people signing in the wrong spot.

I'm not sure how a federal registry would really help much. I doubt there are really people voting in multiple states. There is a federal ID - the passport. Although that is relatively expensive, but it is also valid for a much longer duration, so the card can be cheaper than a state ID. I do believe that state IDs should be free if people are under the poverty level, but I also have a hard time believing that $40ish dollars every 4 year is the real barrier (things like the documents needed to get one are a bigger pain in my opinion, like birth certificates, marriage certificates for name changes, bill with your name and address, etc; even more so for Real ID). Plus the hassle of spending hours at the DMV.

"So maybe let's kick the facetious "supposedly" of the last sentence."

I'm not being facetious. Many states have implemented new programs to clean up the voter rolls. There's very little data to show if it's any improvement. In part, that's because the problem had little baseline data to go on (few occurrences of dead people voting). The other part is that many places haven't been very strict about cleaning (like Philly having approximately 1M registered voters when there's maybe 700k eligible to vote just based on age). So not much to speak of on the actual "problem" side since it wasn't large to begin with. But also not much progress on the trust side with cleaning up.

Also, I think that 19 number is low. I thought they found something like 35 in Philly in one election (year 2016? out of the 6k dead people who voted). The rest were simple mistakes. Still not a big problem, but certainly more they 19 nationally in 25 years. Again, it's mostly a trust and integrity issue than a true functional issue.
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It didn't really come across as a joke despite the /s, it seemed like an earnestly held opinion that is, TBH quite reasonable, although it isn't something I would agree with.
As a Catalan... that's standard behaviour for Spain since more than 300 years. No surprises there.

If the Colombians don't give the treasure willingly the Spanish will start calling them tight arses.
Into the Future with IntoFuture – Improving Rust Async Ergonomics
Another interesting datapoint is that Rimworld came out which took 25% of the game and put a great UI and in game learning experience in. The game was a massive success.

Accessibility matters so much more than feature count for success financially and by popularity.
Intelligent move according to its user-centered philosophy.

It is better to slowly decouple partnering with less than stellar ethics companies that do not share its values, such as Goldman and fintech that uses ML to discriminate against lending.

A harder challenge is to replace Google yet...
I do indeed use all 6 cores of my server simultaneously, and the caching on the database part of memory is quite effective. If I had a little spare cash I might just purchase some more CPUs :-)
I'd love a buy it now option for a display like this. No Manufacturer spyware, no bloat ware, just a panel and Rpi.
> Yet, not doing things is what, most of the time, brings the greatest results.

The only result nihilism brings is a slow and dangerous detachment from reality and the world we live in.
> To be fair

There's no way to be fair with this. There is no "rightful owner" of this gold, so anything that's done with it is unfair in some way.

It's true that the descendants of the people who were harmed in the collection (stealing, mining, or both) of that gold were not alive then, but their current conditions were determined by the behavior of the colonists who collected the gold.

They would have inherited a very different (likely better) life if the colonists had not arrived.
No, it's for all apps.
It’s more than that. The game is not _that_ complex and it doesn’t have to be so hard. It’s also not impossible to have the game walk you through your first playthrough. People don’t want to read a manual before playing a game. They want to see those in game popups pointing out features as they play until they are fully warmed up and can play alone.
https://archive.ph/wVvTp
>Spain insists that the bounty is theirs since it was aboard a Spanish ship

This quote is making my head spin, what a damn bold statement from a modern democracy.

"Yeah you know how our ancestors enslaved, murdered and plundered your natives? Well, we're calling dibs on that bounty, after all conquistadors dropped it as they were heading home."

Granted, the article doesn't establish who exactly is "Spain".
That's totally understandable. I did not mean to imply that workstations have no security requirements, just different. I feel pretty much the same about the host OS on my workstation, but I also spin up lots of temporary environments that I need to abuse badly. They are thrown away again, usually within hours or days.
You can say anything in quotes. People wont get mad at you, they get mad at the person you quotes.

The same thing happens with ventriloquist. The puppet takes the heat.
It's a small drop in the bucket of corruption that plagues the US election system. It likely has little impact compared to other well known forms of fraud: gerrymandering, lobbying, ads / social media, etc.

The fact these are all known yet nothing is done to change things means that those in power have no incentive to do so, and the public doesn't care or is misinformed enough to not care about it.
> His memorial service was full of amazing people whom he’d met and worked with in the Valley over the decades

I was at that service and several people spoke about how his ideas did not really get the backing they deserved, Ted Nelson not the least of them.

This makes more sense when you realize that what Doug really wanted was to transform the way people worked far more than he wanted to invent cool new tech, but while people were happy to have him as a member of staff he needed to be given freedom to play with organizations and no one was ready to try anything as radical as he had in mind.

I remember there was a period where Google was trying to make him a permanent fixture and he said in a private conversation something to the effect of it feeling like being surrounded by a bunch of young people who just wanted to admire him like a statue, not engage with his ideas.
I can’t imagine a case where the browser wouldn’t do the decency of closing a connection.
Virgil Earp is seldom acknowledged for his gun control policies in Tombstone
Plenty of games do both. You can have buttons with hot keys visible on them. Age of empires is a good example. A total beginner can play just fine while a pro can play at extreme efficiency via hot keys. But most importantly, a beginner can transition in to hot keys gradually as they are very visually obvious.
That's surprisingly cheap. I always assumed that there would be a yearly fee just to hold them on retainer, and then another fee if you actually use them. Maybe I should get a lawyer on retainer, it is cheaper than some other insurances that I have.
If you started that chart in 2020 it would be pretty eerie. If I worked at motley fool I’d regurgitate this as a blog post, Reddit dd thread, and so much more.

But really if I knew finance I’d be interested to see - since who’s hiring is posted the first day of the month, using month over month/etc post volume to inform trades.
Java classloading is a natural fit for calling into a typesafe plugin fetched from a URL. Spark can even serialize lambdas and distribute their execution.

It seems to be more of a hassle to do this kind of thing over IPC with native binaries, and if ARM starts displacing a lot of x86-64 in datacenters it gets more complicated.
i think they have to water it down so much because hardly anyone would understand the math, even people who consider themselves good at math or have degrees in STEM..it's just so advanced even relative to that .
Dwarf fortress is the result of over a decades work and it’s still not widely played. But most interestingly it’s one of the few games where more people know about it and don’t play it than people who play it.

There is huge interest in the game but the barrier is stopping people from playing.
I argued Google is a good name (IMO, subjectively) in the first part, while I understood OP as saying it's a bad one and that the company succeeded in spite of it (which I indeed agreed with in the second part). I've also already acknowledged said agreement/reiteration in my comment.
The characters are selected because they possess specific characteristics that make them ideal to handle various cases.

p possesses maximum "descent" for a character (the bit below the baseline on a font).

É not only meets the traditional "ascent" but exceeds it since diacritics normally extend past the traditional ascent on a capitalized letter.

These aren't the only characters that possess these values (although, I assume some selected code points are unique), but just ones that do.
I can’t tell if this is a joke.

Is that really a Democrat position? I feel like there must be a “quiet part” no one is saying out loud, because it makes no sense to me.
>This is more than a little ageist, don’t you think?

It was not meant in that way, same thing could be said about 20 year old, who have no idea (or unable to grasp) about password manager but more importantly about Authenticator Apps (Micorosft Authenticator, Authy, Aegis).

>This is actually a very valid question; hope you didn’t just dismiss it due to “the oldie doesn’t understand.”

You are reading my comment from a wrong angle.
Make pointless meetings and involve as many people as possible.
Far be it from me to gainsay the Chicago school.
Good thought, though fiscal year v calendar year probably messes that up. Oracle did budgeting in FYQ1 and so tended to not hire much during that quarter, but then hired a lot in Q2, then slightly less Q3/4.
As a skeptic by natural, I first go to wondering how we would ever know if it wasn’t.
Keywords: Optimal Control, Bellman. I'm serious.

For a first exercise, forget Dijkstra and just solve a maze by doing Value Iteration, and plot the cost-to-go at each step.

Then consider that this function doesn't have to take a graph vertex or grid cell, but could instead be some continuous function on R^n.

The next step usually is to learn about the Linear Quadratic Regulator problem, where the cost-to-go is a quadratic, and you get to do an iteration of "Value Iteration" by updating the quadratic coefficients.

To connect to physics, see how you'd write the Action Integral in these terms.
That's oddly specific to the point I wonder if you're referring to someone I know.
> probably should have just given him a lab with a couple of employees and a modest budget. Who knows what he might have invented?

This is perhaps the defining sadness that most saps at me. This is a world of such potential that does such expensive vast things. I really wish there were more room & space for people to go off & explore, try testing new novel spaces.

Dont we have some surplus, to feed the promising with, to give them a couple allies to go boldly sally forth with?

The corporation as a model has such deficiencies, has such need for alignment & concensus & purpose. Humanity is just so much greater when there's some permissionless innovation, some real testing & pushing things just to find out, to try & see, to go further. Our models of labor & vue seem so unable to make small but long bets on so many bright stars.
> dogs that grew up with humans and get lost (in nature) are known to change behaviour very fast

This is especially true in Northern Canada, where abandoned and neglected pets have (for decades) formed roaming packs that, on average, kill one person per year - usually a child - and leave many others with disfiguring injuries. [0] (An old reference since media has generally pulled way back on these stories, but recent firsthand accounts indicate that there's still an issue.)

Many communities have an annual cull to keep the stray/pack population at bay, but residents from 'southern' cities travel north to adopt and rehabilitate the animals - usually with limited success.

The remoteness and unpopularity of the subject unfortunately hasn't brought about many solutions for the affected communities, and fear even more people abandoning their pets as they return to work may exacerbate the issue.

[0] https://www.rcinet.ca/eye-on-the-arctic/2014/10/17/struggle-...
> what Doug really wanted was to transform the way people worked

Yeah, people were at the center of his thinking, not machines. Again, crazy farsight by today’s standards.

> feeling like being surrounded by a bunch of young people who just wanted to admire him like a statue

This is hard: classic imposter syndrome makes ppl feel afraid to ask a dumb question.

> not engage with his ideas.

A separate problem; some of the drivers of this I touched on in another comment; would be interesting to read what you think.

I remember feeling that Ted was talking about himself, as he chronically does. Ted’s good, radical, and farsighted ideas didn’t get the attention they deserved either, but I feel a lot of that was self inflicted. And the amount they deserved might have been less than he thought.

Come to think of it, Ted should recast trans Lu soon as a web3 idea. His charge-for-everything approach would fit right in.
Flywheel while the diesel gennies spun up
That's standard practice for shipwrecks. I believe it's part of maritime law, but don't quote me one that.
MongoDB now has queryable encryption
Check out section "(11) General Interference with Organizations and Production", if you have worked as part of a corporation it may feel familiar...
Yet, it's weird how the U.S. is doing pretty well overall.

Maybe it's luck?

Or maybe something to do with the prescience of several men who laid out a framework for federalism and distributed power with clear checks and balances, ensuring resilience and the longest running constitutional democracy in the world [1], understanding that reasonable people can disagree and that the most effective form of governance is a non-centralized distributed system that serves the needs of state citizens first.

Or it could be all the corn. [2]

[1] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2011/aug/08/jon-huntsm...

[2] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets-economy/090316...
> Or even better- die in debt!

You know as I get older I've come to think the two ways to go out are with either 8+ figures in the bank (assuming you have unethically birthed a few offspring into bondage, of course), or owing as many people as much money as possible. You either have enough to leave more than a token amount to your kids (so they can escape their bondage) or you lived as good as a lifestyle as possible and got it relatively cheaply.

I'm kidding, but only mostly.
Also check out "The Last Answer", the only work by Asimov I've read that actually terrified me.

If it takes place in the same universe as "The Last Question", you could argue it has a bit of a "Roko's basilisk" flavor.
Chinese hackers exploited years-old software flaws to break into telecom giants
Fedora 35/36 now enables VA-API for Firefox by default
Side note/feel good moment: the author Raymond Chen is an OG beyond-super-engineer at Microsoft, and is an incredible person to work with. He assisted me with my intern project many years ago, and was amazingly eager to share his wealth of experience with a green-eared intern from outside his org.

Thanks Raymond! I decided to go the startup route instead of returning to MSFT, but you were an inspiration all the same.
Been programing Mac since 1985. Apple today is so messed up, I give up.
When you have a wife and kids the pressure is on earning. It’s fucking expensive to have a family.
This is true (ish, sort of, today) when you work for a corporation & have either years of experience or people backing you.

It completely ignores what it takes to get started, or how alive & malleable the web is.

The domination of concerns by deeply deeply industrialized ways of thinking holds back the joy of the hypermedium we work. And it truncates human potential. Making code & coding accessible is a virtue. One that could cost us nothing.
no, it's that what you believe to be in your clipboard is not actually in your clipboard, and Word is asking if you want to have that data after it closes and can no longer populate the clipboard.

it has nothing to do with clearing memory.. clearing memory for anticipated use isn't really a thing ever since virtual memory became a thing. (memory isn't prepared for use until after an application actually tries to use it.)
Matt Ridley famously quoted that "no one knows how to build a computer mouse" Well, this guy did.
Lol.. it most certainly has, just that others were relegated to mere footnotes in history
I feel the same way in the sense of not wanting to reinvent the wheel, but I often reflect on how implementation of 'best practice', 'zero tolerance' or other aspirational standards often falls upon administrators who might not have (or want) expertise in the practice area.
There's no way the connection just sits idle and the worker can't serve other requests for the full timeout, right? That just sounds... Wrong. And is not consistent with load testing I've done before with a nginx setup
While above normal intellect tends to bring a slight resilience to stress induced expression of latent psychological problems. It still doubles the probability that a latent disorder will develop if there is a generational precedent (roughly 20% of the general population). This is common 1st/2nd year developmental psychology and neurology material. Thus, I find it hard to believe anyone engaged in a pedagogical profession wouldn't already know this fact.

Have a happy and glorious day.
> The anxiety and depression that come from knowing I have to sleep because I have to wake up to an alarm tomorrow so that I can solve some arbitrary problem for my employer is pretty much killing me.

I mean, having crippling anxiety and depression because you have to wake up at a certain time definitely isn't normal, by any means.