skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
re: whether the new version is actually an improvement - yes, I like new version more than the old one :)

While I agree that in new design headers are more recognizable as clickable links, I still find "Read more" link being useful (after reading the article paragraph).

Regarding adding name and photo - I think it's a personal taste :) Personally I don't feel a need to have them on the main blog page, but if you like it - please do, to give the blog a bit of personality. With name and photo the blog will probably feel more personal - written for those people who know you (either IRL or online). And without - the blog feels more like designed to be a thing by itself. Although note that it's my personal opinion, which might change tomorrow morning :)

Regarding tags - note that you can see "main page with tags" at https://incoherency.co.uk/blog2/tags/all.html :) Wonder how much heavier it makes the page look. Maybe hide it behind some "show tags" link?

Also check the <title> tag of the main page - I'm not sure if it was your intention to name the page "incoherency - ", but for me it looks kinda broken (something's missing on the right side of "-"), so maybe call it something like "incoherency - all posts"?
Don’t think I said I am a democrat. I might vote that way sometimes as a harm reduction strategy though. I’ve seen what happens when Republicans get power (millions dead in Middle East, world historical wealth inequality, destruction of public institutions - don’t want to hear how moderate Dems aided in these, I know)

What you might call social engineering, others might call rejecting social Darwinism. Now the elderly and disabled can live till old age instead of dying on the streets like they did pre-social security. Thanks FDR? The TVA was pretty sweet too.

The core of the Democratic Party (the oldest in the world) has been distrust of big business and advocating for the common man (literally white men for most of it but that can change). It’s essential they go back to these roots and start attacking things like Citizens United with the same verve Republicans go after their goals
Age- and sex-specific risks of myocarditis/pericarditis following mRNA vaccines
Any resolution to the failure to deliver issue?

Folks selling stuff they don't own, and then not even fixing the issue in time for settlement?

It's so weird that the SEC doesn't crack down harder on this behavior by the bigger players. The volume in dollars and shares is massive. The penalties way too light.

This would seem casually to create real fragilities in the system.

If I'm reading this correctly about $42B worth of fails in the second half of may alone.
> welcoming. This includes people I disagree with politically.

I disagree on this one vehemently. This is spoken like someone from a privileged position of the majority or in a relatively cosmopolitan area.

Be an atheist or agnostic in the Bible belt. You will find yourself either in conflict or holding your tongue A LOT.

Be a nurse in the Bible belt. You will get attacked by your family for promoting "vax conspiracies".

Normally, I would just hold my tongue in these situations, but I've stopped doing that. I'm quite a bit more outspoken lately and becoming moreso. Why?

Because I have had people breathe sighs of relief when I tell them up front that I am pro-vax and pro-science and pro-medicine and if they don't like it they can shut up. Because I've had multiple people crying with gratefulness because I stood up and forced some asshole yelling at them to back down. Whole swathes of US society are taking advantage of the fact that decent people normally avoid conflict.

That is unacceptable. And it stops with me. I refuse to allow this to continue quietly.

I won't seek conflict, but if you want to avoid conflict it's time for YOU to hold your own damn tongue, thanks.
Centralizing this does not scale.

Sure it does.[1] What doesn't scale is manual sorting. It complicates collection, because there are all those bins to empty,the trucks are more complicated, and humans aren't good at separating the different types of plastics. That's easy with multispectral imaging, but humans lack that capability.

Bulk Handling Systems seems to be the US leader in this. Robots are used but do under 10% of the job. Most of the sorting is done by screens, shakers, drums, DC and AC magnets, and air-jet optical sorters. The robots only do "quality control", pulling out stuff that the heavy machinery mis-sorted.

San Francisco has one of their plants.

Aluminum is easily separated and recycled, and is the only profitable part of the operation. Steel gets separated and melted down, and about 40% of US steel is now recycled. Which is why Nucor, which started as a recycler, is the biggest US steel company. Some kinds of plastic bottles recycle well, but it doesn't really pay. CarbonLite, with three big plants, went bankrupt in 2021. The buyers kept the plants running, but the investors didn't get much. CarbonLite was caught between high fixed costs and not enough market for their product.

There's not much use for mixed paper. Offices used to generate large amounts of good quality paper, and newspapers were a consistent source of uniform product. But now, most paper is discarded packaging, with too much else mixed in.

It's hard to make money at this. Separation, though, is not the problem.

[1] https://bulkhandlingsystems.com/wp/
The funny part of the Reddit conspiracy theory was “they blocked buying but not selling, so the price went down”. Who were you selling to if buys were disabled?
Yet it made sense to give people from Bangladesh visa to work in SF for SF wages before?

It's an excuse for a company to save money on the back of workers. That's it.
Yes -- I hear encouraging things about ARIA. It hasn't been stood up yet, but Peter Highnam, former DARPA deputy director, was supposed to be the first ARIA director, if I recall correctly. I met Peter very briefly, years ago. Good guy.
What's plan 9?
I'm wanting to do a phone & computer distraction free day per week. I just haven't gotten started.. of course.

Maybe disabling data on the phone will be a good way to do it! (I still need to keep it around at work hours for calls.)
I don't think Linux's goal is to eat the world (or should be), which seems to be a common misconception in and outside of the community. Linux does not make a good desktop operating system in an age of smartphones and iPads, and I think that's perfectly fine. Linux effectively has 2 communities to cater to:

- Developers, sysadmins and power-users who intend to exploit the depth of it's featureset

or

- Crypto nerds, privacy advocates, free-software puritans, and other alt-software niches

To that end, I think it holds down both bases quite well. Linux is the #1 server operating system in the world by an insurmountable margin, and the alt-software crusaders are fat and happy. Linux isn't a panacea, it's a piece of software that was made to solve a problem. To this day, it continues to solve that problem (and people still misconstrue it's goals).
I rode with a gentleman once who decided he would become a full-time Uber driver after being laid off from his last gig, because he had children to support. He told me that he was renting the vehicles he drove for $300 a week. When I remarked that it seemed expensive, he said that it was vastly preferable to driving your own car and losing income because of breakdowns or servicing. He was driving over 100K miles a year, after all, and so he figured the depreciation from the mileage on whatever car he'd buy himself would be about as bad as the money he was paying for renting the cars. He'd drive one for a few weeks, and then they'd supply him with a different car to drive.
thanks for the link. I watched this documentary and it's super interesting although very sad.
You can argue all you like, but American kids have been dying in much larger numbers than they should, in a way that happens only in America, and not a thing has been done about it. Saying it's not an issue because it doesn't kill a significant percentage of kids is monstrous.

Even among rabid USA fans like me, American prestige is currently falling like a brick.
Limit? The US federal government has over 100 million acres of public land for animal grazing.
Two concepts that seem entirely missing are "ownership" and "transformation". The root of ownership is "system of record" with intermediate systems combining data and doing transformation. "Getting data" becomes a question of where, in a differentiating tree that has it's root in the SoR, you connect to, and the trade-offs that implies.

This post (and the book it points to) is perhaps teaching a new generation what has been known for a long time: the "body" of your business is the data, not the code. E.g. if you have limited space on a thumbdrive and can only keep one thing in a datacenter fire, your database or your codebase, you keep the database.
Who cares? Anyone who believes that plagiarism is wrong.

Not to mention anyone that believes in respecting other people’s licensing terms when they’ve provided their code to the world for free.
Most of my favorite MMORPG memories are with AC, despite playing WoW for many more years. There was something about the way skills were done and how your character could feel truly powerful. I learned to program because of that game so I could write decal plugins.
If mass recycling doesn't work well except for two materials, then it's not unreasonable to disparage recycling in general. Especially when you're talking about recycling as an alternative to landfills.

> Nor is cheaper ways of reducing CO2 a sensible argument. Every method of reducing CO2, except for one, has cheaper options. We should do all the ones that are a net positive, and so save us money, not only the very best one.

Since CO2 is all fungible, we should only spend significant amounts of money on the methods that are in the same ballpark as the cheapest option.

And what do you mean "save us money"? One main point of that piece was that it cost a lot of money to try to recycle everything.

You can't even give away many kinds of recyclables, after paying to collect them.

> The whole article is weak sophistry of this kind. As I said, it doesn't support the argument, just does its best to pretend it does.

The argument was that trash isn't piling up. Which is supported just fine.
I occasionally port my C code to C++ just for more ergonomic strings.
I would have said the opposite - I like the few changes in the novel and I think that the whole story is a bit more impactful when it takes a bit more time instead of being very compressed like the short version is.
Is virtualizing aarch64 macos via qemu on aarch64 Linux within the realm of possibility? I know it can be done for x86-64, but would be pretty cool if an aarch64 kvm hackintosh would be possible. I have an Nvidia Jetson AGX and honeycomb lx2 which in theory could be up to the task.
Any chance to add OneDrive in the future?
The simple reason for that is that wages for the 'man in the street' have not kept pace with inflation.

Back around the 1960s, a blue-collar production-line worker could afford a house, a car, and a wife that was able to stay home to look after 3-4 kids.

Today, both the blue-collar man and his wife are working, they can only afford to rent a house, buy a car on a long-term loan, and can only afford to have 1 to 2 kids.

When the bulk of the population is like that, the country as a whole is not doing very well at all. Businesses can't sell the 'extras' to people who have no spare money.
Employment is dehumanizing, unless you are a partner or have something your employer can't live without.

Promotions are better than none, but you have to leave a place to really better yourself and change how you're perceived and the story of your career.

I just changed industries and got a 60% promotion based on how different industries value the same skills.
I wrote a blog post that tries to bridge this gap: https://www.brandons.me/blog/why-rust-strings-seem-hard
Gluttony is greed.
>I think we need a new WoW, and I think it’s going to have to come from FAANG level company.

FAANG huh... Considering the recent track record of the bigger US studios, I'm not holding my breath for anything that's more than a fleeting curiosity.

>A fully dynamic cloud backed world running AI agents, GPT-3+ storylines, Unreal 5 graphics.

So here's some MMORPGs roughly in order of current popularity: 1. FFXIV/Lost Ark, 2. OSRS, 3. WoW.

They're doing fine without fancy cloud tech, GPT generated nonsense will make any of these games worse (good side-quests aren't about having lots of text nobody reads), and players tend to not care about graphics beyond "is it good enough?" (Graphics sell games, they don't retain players). I think AI will be able to write, design and code interesting and fun quests about five years after it starts writing mostly good novels.

Looking at the games in general, it would appear that at the top end creativity, craftsmanship, and unique opinionated design beats formulaic games with pretty graphics and cool tech every time. If creating "the next big game" is what you're aiming for, technology should be the means to realize your vision and not the goal itself.
People on Robinhood were unable to buy, but other brokers and non-retail investors were still able to.
No. Fuck that. There is not 'two viewpoints'. There is:

* Oppress women
* Don't oppress women

This is the paradox of tolerance. You cannot negotiate with a monster who wants to force their views on people, especially those around forced birthing, you know, against the Helsinki Agreement on Human Right among others. There is no benevolent religion or philosophy that requires forcing a person to do something with their body.

I don't have pro or anti views. I just have a single view that you can do whatever you fucking like with your own body, and nobody can tell you that you can or cant. Anything else is fucking monstrous and will not be tolerated.
You're thinking of Bitcoin. In the RSA blinded signature scheme the token holder doesn't need a private key, so there's nothing to reveal. The tokens are signed by the issuer (i.e. the bank), using the issuer's private key, and the blinding ensures that the issuer can't see the actual tokens at the time they're signed—that's revealed only when they're redeemed. The tokens themselves are just unique random numbers and not associated with anyone's identity. The issuer keeps track of which ones have been redeemed so that they can't be claimed twice. That's the risk you take by not turning them in immediately: anyone who had the token before you could claim it first, and then your copy of the token would be worthless.

Edit: In the case of off-chain exchange of Bitcoin wallets it would reveal the private key (naturally, since that's what you're exchanging) but for that reason you would only trade a wallet with a unique private key not used anywhere else. The only thing that key is useful for is spending the funds in that wallet. It's not linked to your identity. This is exactly like the "physical bitcoin" model (BitBills, Cascascius coins, etc.) except there is no tamper-evident hologram to prove that the private key hasn't been accessed—you're taking that on trust until you empty the wallet or hand it off to someone else.
"Anything"-oriented programming is dumb. Every big problem is a collection of smaller, different problems. Different problems call for different approaches. Sometimes the best approach has data-oriented features, sometimes object, sometimes functional, sometimes piped. For big problems you want a language good at all of them.

It is why C++ continues to grow. Some complain about that, but every single feature got there over fierce opposition by making some common programming problem more tractable.
Everything here is a compromise or a workaround.

Onenote particularly is a hard no for any sketching in terms of actual artistic output.
If you look at similar videos, there's a number of people who try to mimic what he does. Often kids, and with much less preparation than he does.
It is. One thing you'll notice about all the copilot detractors - they frequently haven't actually tried it themselves.
This type of complexity is a huge downside for a language. A modern language, designed with all the prior knowledge we now have about language design, should not be this complicated for something as essential as a String.

For this reason, I do not like Rust. For similar reasons, I do not like Go. And I'm extremely disappointed that despite being developed so recently, they make these same mistakes.

I honestly think Python is one of the best languages (note I am strictly talking about the language, let's put aside performance). If there was work done to make it compilable I would be very happy. But even then, for my own uses this isn't an issue. I just wish there was something as fantastic in the system language space.
It's a little more nuanced than that. Developing home nuclear reactors is an example where the approach might not benefit society at large.

Edit: Comment is off-topic but I've heard this phrase so many times it's triggering.
As an alternative to unikernels, that the other replies are talking about, which require special builds and might not work the same, you can also do something pretty simple:

Just run your program as the only process.

As a Linux host with no other software.
No /bin/sh, nothing else in the filesystem.

Simple demo: https://github.com/tv42/alone
I think it very much depends on what problems you're trying to solve and whether or not proper data types have been defined.

If your primary data structure is

Map<Integer, List<String>>

we have a huge problem.

On the other hand, if your primary data structure is

Map<CustomerId, List<Purchase>>

Then I'd rather see that than IPurchaseMappingByCustomerIdAbstractFactory or whatever other abomination OO priests will conjure. Generally speaking, generic structures are simpler and they allow for easier transformations.
So I would have to tolerate the Docker overheard just to use ENV vars? Versus the alternative of just responsible ENV var use (log hygiene, etc)?
It’s not. I don’t care about the blue team. If a yellow team popped up tomorrow that actually cared about the well-being of the public and not corporate interests I would vote for them instead.

Your history conveniently stops at around 1970 and leaves our figures like Jerry Falwell and Nixon’s southern strategy. The partisanship is not being driven by rhetoric - it’s being driven by tens of millions of people being left behind by neoliberalism with zero attempt at mitigating the harm done. If people felt like the current system worked for them then they wouldn’t adopt extreme views.

But sure let’s keep on liberalizing and consolidating economic and political power. It’s worked out great the last 4 decades.

Edit because you edited: wanted to drive home point I can barely stand the democrats. In a sane country they would be the center right party
There are additional instructions only available on Apple chips beyond the aarch64 standard, so I don't think that this could be done in hardware (someone correct me if I'm wrong because this isn't my area)

Of course it's possible in software in principle but obviously that would be awful.
If I was a retail trader I would simply not buy high PE stocks expecting to make a profit in the next year.

It’s not hard to beat them though - just don’t trade. Hold for 30 years in your 401k and you’re good.
In theory, people could have served HTML over Gopher with inline images and everything else, but it's true the Gopher model was based around text documents with distinct menu pages as opposed to marked-up documents with links in them.
Fully agreed. There seemed to be a trend in mid-20th century sci-fi for authors to expand short stories into full books, and I've yet to find an example where the novel was an improvement.
> Just ask, in advance. If you're a valuable employee, they'll say ok. Never heard of one saying no. And they'll appreciate that you asked instead of sneaking around

Yahoo told me I couldn't participate in the Netflix recommendation challenge (not that I would have done well), and then 6 months later praised another Yahoo employee who did well in it. #notstillbitter
Defense Department to keep access to “reproductive health care”
Ferel colonies of honeybees provide genetic diversity.
https://archive.ph/HA2xS
Very weak methodology here.

First, accidents per 10,000 vehicles is only one piece of the puzzle. You also have to consider accident outcomes: how well the car does in crash tests. Tesla does do very well but that data isn’t considered in this article.

I’m sure there are very few accidents in classic cars driven very carefully but that doesn’t mean they’re safe cars.

Accidents per 10,000 vehicles is also flawed because it doesn’t seem to be considering miles driven. Electric cars will be driven less than gasoline ones as a rule due to their range and recharging limitations. Tesla owners don’t go far, if they were road warriors they’d be choosing gasoline.

Also, Tesla has an exclusivity and recency bias. The company was only able to mass produce vehicles at significant volume in the last 3 years or so. All these other brands have millions of older cars on roads that don’t benefit from modern collision avoidance features.

If this methodology did more to only consider the most recent years of vehicles in a similar price range, I don’t think Tesla would be especially unique. A 2022 BMW or Mercedes is also going to come with very good collision avoidance and self-driving features.

The expense of a Tesla also means that people with the best socioeconomic outcomes are their customers. These are the types of people that probably already have fewer car accidents, health problems, and longer overall lifespans because they have more time, money, and eduction that reduce the problems they face in life.

They have the money to maintain a late model year vehicle with all the safety features and don’t drive on bald tires and shoddy suspension.

You can see this on their list with Ferrari being high on the list along with Tesla. There’s nothing particularly safe about a Ferrari compared to other cars, it’s just being driven by someone who is most definitely going to be paying attention.

Finally, I’ll point out that no personal vehicle is safer than public bus and rail transportation. Tesla isn’t solving the world’s transit problems, it’s still just another representative of unsustainable automobile-based city development that is bankrupting our towns one-by-one.
Maybe if HN supported IPv6 there wouldn't be the risk of blocking people sharing a small pool of IPv4 addresses
not any more! thanks UKIP!
This is the first “boots on the ground” thing I learned being subject to a procurement process: if someone - or the right person - within an org wants your stuff, then you’ll be surprised how many on-paper “requirements” are able to just fall away.
All stocks are owned by DTCC. Your exchange having your name on some of them is an illusion, except for fractional shares.

Why ACATS are so expensive is another question.
Where's the content going to come from? iPhone won on the app store. Have they been secretly making deals with content creators and nothing has leaked?
I wrote a whole book on this topic! There's lots of applied examples, and entire chapter dedicated to the Bayesian workflow. Happy to answer any questions

https://bayesiancomputationbook.com/welcome.html