skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It reminds of the quote about Americans sometimes falsely attributed to Churchill saying they'll always do the right thing, "once they've tried everything else" (since it isn't a real quote you'll find a variety of phrasings)

Parametrisation is the Right Thing™ and yet people love inventing new half-arsed workarounds when they could just use parameterisation.

Elsewhere in security, historically you would find any number of hacks to try to avoid needing to use a good Mode Of Operation for your block cipher. People would rather expend mental effort and protocol complexity on trying to still do ECB when that's the Wrong Thing™ than just use the Right Thing™ (these days that's an inherently Authenticated Encryption Mode of Operation like GCM or GCM-SIV)

Or look at all the work trying to shore up human memorable shared secrets (passwords) when you almost never actually needed this and could have instead deployed stuff like WebAuthn.
Americans also often don’t have the same relationship with their nuclear families. In India, and from what I’ve heard Europe and AUNZ, it’s not uncommon to live at home and commute to university and sometimes after. That’s anathema to the American model. 18 and you’re out the door.

Many of my friends’ parents financially cut them off when they graduated high school, and/or immediately moved out of their town to a lower tax area (and these are upper middle class folks). So that safety net of weathering the storm in a hometown may not always be there IME.
I think it's somewhat disingenuous to compare DevOps requirements of 5-7k/m projects with systems run and operated by companies in the mid market.

That said, something I often wonder about is if you could minus out 100% of the cruft systems run by realistic sized companies, exactly how cheaply could you run them and with what DX? Half of the problem is things built by 100 people with competing and shifting priorities will never result in a clean, tidy, sensible system and it's mighty difficult to minus out the effects that the organization scale has on the end result.

I'm currently working through building a hobby project on that as far as I know will only ever have one user, but I'm enjoying the total freedom to take my sweet time building it exactly as nice as I wish the systems I wrangle in my day job would be and I'm 100% looking to run it for free or as close to free but with as much performance as I can get because why the hell not? It's a totally different ballgame.
If you look up the definitions in any source, that is what you will find. If there wasn't a big difference, then it wouldn't be the case that every single military in the world uses assault rifles with select-fire capability.

Also, if you watch videos of actual military operations, you will find the 3-round burst used very frequently because it is a lot more lethal than semiautomatic mode. Only special ops troops tend to use semiautomatic mode for fighting (since they are better marksmen and are concerned about noise). Police also only use semiautomatic weapons, because they don't have access to automatic weapons.
"(slang) A coping mechanism or self-delusion one clings to in order to endure the hopelessness or despair of existence."

- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cope#Noun
The best "coding test" I saw recently was a company that just asked "send us some technical writing (white paper, blog, whatever) you did about working a problem, if you don't have anything you can legally send us, just write a short essay about something cool."

The funny part was that they linked to it and called it a coding test.
You posted this story 8 times in the last 4 years.
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Maybe it's fair to propose that the abandoned attempt may have had a major influence on LotR?
Translators at least have official documents (aka the only times I see a translator in my life across 3 countries) because the government is retarded and needs someone with a title to translate "Name" and "Surname" on a birth certificate.

There is no equivalent for illustrators.

My friends who studied some specific language are all unemployed or doing unqualified jobs. Their peers from a generation before are teachers or work in some embassy.

That said, before some unicorn really start doing some serious polishing, you'll still want some illustrators to piece art together. Taking the output of these models won't deliver a ready made product easily.
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YES! On a recent re-read the different tones Tolkien uses for different parts of the book were really apparent (I was readinbg it aloud to a child).

The two main modes are, of course, the pastoral Hobbit sections (not just in the shire, but right up to the end whenever we're following hobbits as our pov character you get to hear about day to day concerns of cooking and cleaning and homelife) and the high fantasy style of the Men esp anything with Aragorn and no hobbits (full names given at the drop of a hat and plentiful information about lineages and ancient battles).

But along side this we also get the oral/ lyric tradition exemplified by the Bombadil sideline, the rambling medieval scholar (gandalf reading the half descroyed chronicle in Moria) and yes, the grumblings of modern industrial bureacracy of the orcs and later the hobbits in Sharkey's thrall.
New Scientist does have a pay-wall problem. It needs to generate income but I feel it is over zealous to the point of losing a potential audience.
Why send nuclear fuel with rockets to the moon, if there is plenty of solar energy available on the moon? I thought for Moon and Mars solar energy is more than sufficient.
The problem with your analogy is that

a) someone being shot and someone pointing a gun are very well defined things while what is or is not intolerant is very subjective

and

b) unlike in your analogy, if someone expresses a opinion you consider intolerant then you are not dead, you can still defend your own opinion and counter theirs and most importantly you have not been harmed irreparably.
It looks like police may have caught 2 of the fellows: https://twitter.com/POL_Limburg/status/1541740088786288641
Thank you so much for this. I wrote the GP comment but I couldn’t give specific examples apart from the War of the Dwarves and Orcs. It’s been too long since I read Tolkien.
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I believe the keyboard on this is designed to be typed on like a normal keyboard, not with your thumbs, which addresses some of your concerns. I seem to recall hearing somewhere (possibly in an interview) that the 7 inch size was chosen because it was the smallest they could get with a keyboard that still feels nice to type on normally.

As for the layout, the previous Reform has free keyboard firmware so you can change the keymap however you like. I assume this one will be the same.
CVOps - hahahaha. I've always heard and used the term "Resume Driven Development" but I guess CVOps is a nice term too.
“Free speech” doesn’t mean you can say what you want. It means they can say what they want.
Cries in sorrow from the UK

All our carriers said they wouldn't introduce roaming fee's pre-Brexit, then did to the surprise of no-one but the Brexiteers.
As an ex-FAANG developer, it does not test anything other than your ability to put up with BS and your ability to learn to play an arbitrary game. Ironically, those are skills you kind of need at a FAANG.
This. I'd buy a reasonably priced 10+ inch E-ink display that I can use as an art display on the wall or a creative dashboard of things I care about. However, anything above the size of a Kindle is too expensive for this purpose. A kindle is rather too small...

I will wait until I can buy one for < EUR 200.

I dont need wifi, "smart", or "cloud" features in it. Just the ability to push images into it statically.
Other forums do not suffer from this particular political lean. Reddit mods in particular are known for authoritarian ban hammering because its the only way to quiet ideas that go against their worldview, and they often approach it as a holy war that they should control the information that is visible to the public eye so they can protect the public for them, and that the public themselves are unable to decide what is right or wrong by themselves. Political discussion is often so skewed on reddit the term hive mind is not only a term used to describe the website userbase, but also observable in real time.

Hacker news doesn't suffer from this, thankfully, the moderators do not think its appropriate to manipulate or outright silence any viewpoints dangerous to the reputation of their ideologies. Which is why we're allowed to have these types of discussions here in the first place. On reddit, however, I have written statements that have been moderated away I presume "for the safety of the public" as if the public could not decide on its own. Don't assume that everybody on the planet agrees with that kind of sentiment. Go out there and talk to your right wing nutjob friends. They have differing opinions. Just because you don't see them on reddit doesn't mean they don't exist, nor that they are not normal people with normal opinions either.

You can label it a conspiracy theory if you want. But that doesn't eliminate the presence of the facts from which the conspiracy theories have arisen, nor does it eliminate the the presence of covered up removal of those facts for the sake of engineering truth.

You are just unaware of the world beyond the veil of your lived experiences. But it doesn't help that your emotions are so tied to your defense of your ego.
I'm an ex-demonite too. Had all the telehone numbers of the local pops (point of presence) in a file to copy to the moden after the ADT command. As the pops were heavily subscribed and would often just give engaged tones, I used to use the net at 6am. The phone rates were cheaper then too.
I do remember this not-quite-internet at university in the 90s. Telnet was "spad" and FTP was "hhcp". If you wanted to connect to a real FTP server, you had to send hhcp requests to "ft-relay" and the FTP hostname was the first folder name under the root.
Opus feels like it solved the problem of audio compression. Even if someone came out with a codec that gave same quality at half the bitrate, I don't think I would care much; I just want Opus in all my devices, everywhere. :-) It's good enough along pretty much all axes, except, of course, universal support.
You may be right about the pre-existing "wedge" in the semantic/LD community, but this paper is an attempt to address it and provide a unifying perspective. I'm not quite sure what you're seeing as "arrogant" or tone deaf in it.
I keep forgetting about the Psion (the 5 I think). It almost seems as if it got excluded from computing history because it just worked, did well in the little it tried to do instead striving for something more ambitious and then spectacularly failing.

Dad of a friend had one I think, not because he was an eager early adopter of futuristic gadgetry but because he wasn't the kind of person who'd inevitably try to maximise spec sheet numbers per dollar, happy to spend money for nominally "inferior" tech if it just worked. I guess that might have generally been Psion's market segment, and that's all explanation needed for the relatively low visibility in computing history?
great idea. Transformer wire has an enamel coating, so for a resistance based system it wouldn't work.

Also I wonder what effect will corrosion/shock have on the resistance ?

Maybe an impedance or inductance based system with enameled wire would be more robust. So many questions, interesting :)
Will Microsoft open source it's GPT ?
Will Microsoft open source gpt like FB and Yandex?
And that is generally true. Whats your point exactly? Since we're here, what are some examples of this not being true? And again, whats your point?
> Because it is the only thing we have sufficiently sandboxed so that we can actually run it untrusted.

I just don't get why that property couldn't be language-agnostic. Isn't the WASM VM also meant to be sandboxed?
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My company closed all their offices this year. I’ve been full remote going on 11 years and I want to keep it that way.
Same reason tesla built a one off Frankenstein model S to try and get a nurbuergring time to quote against a production Porsche.
I think we must see those numbers in perspective.

44B is not much. The US is spending a lot, e.g. just the initial package to "support Ukraine" is 40B USD. With the pre-war support of the Ukranian democratic movement it adds up to 55B USD support of Ukraine just in the past 12 months.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/what-does-40-billion-aid-ukrai...
or they could just be choosing the prettiest glass and metal rectangle

without data, we can't assume either of our justifications are what go through buyers minds
Could you expand on that? To me the second quote seems to support the reading of LOTR etc. as part of an attempt to create/ codify an English myth cycle
Just because 4chan has a higher ratio within specific boards doesn't mean it's any worse than other places given that facebook/twitter which often reward cult-like behaviour and boosts calls to violence.

The difference here is that with 4chan it's easier to see unpleasant behaviour given that the two containment boards are easily accessible and observable without much effort. Though take note that not all of the site is represented by those two boards and they are `containment boards`.
Thanks Walter, that's a great example and I like that, because parens are optional, it could also be written as

e.d.c(3).b.a

which is even cleaner.

For those who are thinking UFCS is a trivial detail, consider that the shell and some other languages have pipe operators (|>) to make the code flow intuitively the same way as the data.

In my opinion, in a C-like language, managing to squeeze so much functionality out of the '.' operator without any downsides is the mark of a well thought out, elegant language.

Thank you for creating D.
This appears to have been fixed moments ago:

https://github.com/kuprel/min-dalle/commit/38ebe54a382f36dc7...
My favorite NIMBY story is of the Golden Gate bridge:

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/place/article/Golden-Gate-Bri...
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Please stop plotting exponentially-growing things in a linear scale. Of course it shoots up at the end of the graph.
> I think what most people miss is that a FAANG doesn't recruit for a specialized role.

I know this is false of Apple, for example.

> a generalist who might work on anything from embedded code in some smart home device to datacenter resource provisioning

Is this a real occurrence from your experience or just a hypothetical figment of your imagination?
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Some programmers are like wedding singers, some play for a global audience.

If you hire a piano player for large symphonic orchestra, or a famous band, and they are not already famous, you want to hear them play. Maybe one piece they chose themselves, but maybe also a piece everyone in the genre is expected to know.

And if they have to improvize a bit, that may tell you a lot, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtI3IMlGRMY

Sometime you meet programmer like this, than you can jam with on almost any topic. Those that can repeatedly improvize their way to "leetcode" solutions, while you observe their thinking process.

The "problem" with "leetcode" is that it has become too common and formalized. When people start to practice leetcode just to land the job, it suck the fun out of it, and it becomes harder to tell if the candidate is able to solve similar, but novel problems.
What you’re talking about isn’t the foundational security model of the operating system, but telemetry and tracking systems built into it.

I’m very much opposed to those too, but comparing them to the security model is apples vs. oranges. All I’ve seen so far, is that telemetry doesn’t open up any glaring holes in the security model of the operating system, but I’d be interested if you have any proof of that.
You can fight your tools or fight your problem. Tools that get out of your way and are multi platform are things that should be appreciated.
> It compares the speed of a basket of sites that happen to use Angular in some capacity with a separate list of sites that happen to use Next.js and makes a broad sweeping conclusion about framework speed?

I actually think this is a strength of the methodology. Every site is supposed to hit the same set of benchmarks regardless of how simple or complex it is -- less than 1.8 seconds FCP, and <= 3.8 seconds TTI. In this particular run, 1% of Next.js sites met this goal, as compared with 8% of Angular sites.

I'm definitely interested (and I say as much) in how this would change when you define the baskets in different ways, which is why I included the code, to make it easy for others to improve upon. But I don't really care about synthetic tests or micro benchmarks.

Ultimately my main interest was to figure out whether it might make sense to rewrite our site. But if our site is already faster than every site I can find that uses Next.js, which was legitimately very surprising, then frankly it doesn't even make sense to consider further. Especially since I already have three or four different things I can do to significantly improve our FCP without rewriting the site, where by far the most expensive of these options is maybe 10% the time and cost of a rewrite.
Current theoretical way of web standards is: a standard can only become a standard if there are two independent implementations of it.

This somewhat prevents browsers from implementing fully proprietary tech that canät be replicated by anyone else. It does lead to problems like WebSQL being scrapped (the idea was to basically run sqlite in the browser, Mozilla said they donät want to reverse-engineer sqlite behaviour for an independent implementation, the idea was scrapped).

However, with Google dominance we see more and more things appearing in Chrome only and based on Chrome's own goals, and then advertised as standards.

There's an ideal state somewhere, but I don't know how we could reach it.
I don't think space tech is something that would be easy for a startup, there are a lot of regulations and its a lot of very costly (I assume) hardware needed to get into. I think reading things isn't going to get you immersed or enough context of the problems. So go work at SpaceX or Blue Origin to understand the problem sets and figure out what problem space you want to work on. Along the way you could be meeting future co-founders, etc.
as an observer, most of your responses to valid, good faith points (e.g. "I'm not even going to dignify that with a response") seem to indicate that you are arguing to argue, rather than to come to clarity with the other person.
Also, they are pretty rude (for reasons beyond the above one), and seem to me to be against the spirit of HN commenting.

tl;dr if you think your dignity is above responding to someone, don't.
The stereotypical false positive is a competition programmer who aces whiteboard puzzles and leetcode type problems but isn't actually a good software engineer. They fall down at all the other parts that aren't clever programming.

Thankfully those are usually junior hires and can often be mentored into a good or excellent engineer.
> The answer to your question is that PHP's mysql library was pretty much alone, even at the time, in not supporting parametrization.

And at the same time everyone and their grandmother was making websites using PHP and MySQL.

There should have been enough incentive to improve this early on.
%100. Hollywood is now ultra woke and I just don’t enjoy the content anymore.

It seems as if the primary goal of production is now to virtue signal instead of focus on artistic excellence.
Yes, the whole thread is trying to find plausible reasons why the population does not recover after disasters. The elves are leaving and gondorians have issue reproducing. Everyone else should've been totally capable of taking those big chunks of land and building new societies there. Orcs should've just made them build more warlike cultures and not just hide, because orcs are raiders, not an well organized force which can deny territory against an determined adversary for long periods of time.

People live in Bree for centuries. Why there are no settlements between the shire and it? Why Bree hasn't expanded in the other directions?
Thanks for catching this. I just updated it so that it should work with the latest flax.
Yeah, it was the result of a deal intended to provide NBC content on MSN, giving it news and stuff. As MSN failed, its most successful content got turned into websites.
I wish these projects would spend a bit more time on their marketing. The shop.jolla.com site requires you to login before you can view details about any of the items for purchase; they probably lose 90% of users right there. There are no links or descriptions pre-login to what Sailfish X actually is.

When you google for "sailfish X", the first link is the incomplete one above. The second link goes to a 404. The third link is the official sailfishos.org site, which has one sentence of description: "Sailfish X is Jolla’s officially supported downloadable version of Sailfish OS for selected devices." followed by a link to the above incomplete shopping site.

I get that this is a market for techies right now, but even so they're losing sales just by a lack of focus on basic usability in their web presence.
Yours is not the only comment I see here that eventually comes down to the OS discussion.

We are supposedly talking about Safari, yet Safari is tied to iOS not to the hardware. People can install Brave or Firefox on Android. But they are not ever satisfied. I don't have the numbers, but I suspect the sum of GrapheneOS and other de-Googled Android distributions might be bigger than the sum of Firefox and Brave on regular Android.

In the end, maybe Apple should just allow you to download some software that voids your warranty and roots the iPhone, while removing iOS. People can then reverse engineer and do whatever they want. But Apple's drivers and some of the chips are proprietary, and that I don't see a way people would convince regulators to enforce them to open-source those.
> Speech that singles other people or groups out for different treatment or is otherwise racist, sexist, etc is intolerant.

I wish more people would actually agree with that and not just apply it to groups thet they think need protection.
TIL:[0]

> Cold reading is a set of techniques used by mentalists, psychics, fortune-tellers, and mediums. Without prior knowledge, a practiced cold-reader can quickly obtain a great deal of information by analyzing the person's body language, age, clothing or fashion, hairstyle, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, level of education, manner of speech, place of origin, etc. during a line of questioning. Cold readings commonly employ high-probability guesses, quickly picking up on signals as to whether their guesses are in the right direction or not, then emphasizing and reinforcing chance connections and quickly moving on from missed guesses. Psychologists believe that this appears to work because of the Forer effect[1] and due to confirmation biases within people.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect
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It also is the basis of modern, Western literary culture and with it its philosophical tradition.
No, I honestly just don't know what you're talking about lol. What exactly are you building?