skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Cecelia Lewis was asked to apply for a Georgia school district’s first-ever administrator job devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion.

They disagreed with her politics.
This is par for the course for law enforcement software, and demonstrates tidily why every line of code used in a LE or legal context must either be open source or available for legal and public review.
How to Prevent JavaScript TypeErrors
This has been tried a lot with very little to show for it.

The problem is running a real newsroom that actually has the capabilities to do serious coverage is shockingly expensive.

So you need a revenue model. Being local, it can't pursue scale like WaPo or Dotdash-Meredith, so programmatic isn't going to work for you with. National advertisers want more scale and more specific demographics than you're able to offer, and besides, why should they deal with you when they can target the same people on Facebook?

So you're left with a few local advertisers, who may be willing to spend some money, but the metro papers have tried that for the last decade and it's not enough.

Which leaves subscriptions.

And here's the question: Newspapers were never actually in the political coverage business, they're in the Information Business, and local politics and news are loss-leaders inside that. In the old days, their offering included sports, real estate, classifieds, jobs, shopping, movie times and various other near monopolies that are now scattered to the winds of the internet.

So that leaves two questions:

1. What is a local information product that's good enough for a sizeable percentage of the community to pay for?

2. At what price point?

3. How big does that community need to be in order to make it work?

Can this be done? Actually, I think there's a shot if the right person tried it in the right place. I have some ideas, but odds are long, and I don't think anyone without a deep grasp of both the local community they plan to serve and the business they're going into has a chance.
I'm not sure what tech stacks you work on, but I've worked with lots of tech stacks and high profile projects that use it and also saw the quality that resulted from the practice.
Not really. GPUs regularly implement 256-bit or wider RAM.
If you’re going this route there is a whole field of early childhood development; don’t read one archaic text and declare “this is the way” or you risk coming off like the new grad student in Good Will Hunting. [0]

Montessori (the person) and Steiner are other interesting originating sources in Western culture but reading about how the e.g. Aka parent might be a shorter path. [1]

[ 0 https://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/specialengage... ]

[ 1 Review Barry and Bonnie Hewlett’s research particularly]
I tried "make tinyconfig" (https://tiny.wiki.kernel.org/) and I got bzImage to just under 500 kilobytes. Now, that is only the bare minimum and you would still probably want stuff like amd64, but it does give a good baseline reference. (https://scribe.rip/building-a-tiny-linux-kernel-8c07579ae79d)
Well, if React native is anything like the many react websites, then this isn't too far off actually. "modern" websites can already send your CPU puffing, when you hover over some element with your mouse pointer and it triggers some JS emulated style for :hover.
I recommend this too. I tried an alternate browser notification based solution as it was showed on HN[1] but it doesn't seem to handle HN traffic as I received notifications weeks later.

[1]https://www.magicbell.com/ (This seems to be their main product, Couldn't find the HN page).
If you're into very small linux desktops- I've had a lot of fun with Oasis: https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis

The full desktop image is 77mb
Man with rare cancer given 6 months to live save by first-of-its-kind transplant
> The hallmark of our times is the death of the individual.

I see it as the opposite. The current mood of the day in the US is individualism over any sense of civic obligation or cooperation.
It's not that there's an "advantage" to pointers, but rather it's the reality that they exist. Everything you're doing in JS also "uses" pointers under the hood, but the language and runtime abstract that away from you. C exposes you to pointers directly, so you have an opportunity to learn what they are and how they work.

It's important to learn how they work, because it'll give you a better idea of what's actually happening in the higher level languages you're using. That may not be important if you stick to JS or Go, but if you'd like to learn Rust then it's impossible to accurately think through tradeoffs like whether to use Box, Rc, Arc, etc. without understanding how pointers work. In other words, I'd only recommend learning Rust if you take the time to understand pointers, and the best way to understand pointers is to write C.
Both are examples of deceleration, but in the latter case, the vector is in a different direction.

[edit] Apparently I'm wrong. All the definitions of deceleration I can find are actually negative acceleration.
> Then one of the big players comes in and adds the feature to their main product. Poof, everything somebody worked long and hard for disappears.

There's a lot of wisdom in the statement above, but you also have a point... which I think you went much too far with.

Basecamp is not a relationship; it's a brand, but it's much weaker than, say, Apple, Ferrari, Nike, etc.

See, Basecamp was what all the kool kidz were using. And the Basecamp founders were soooo koooool! They even wrote a book! Oh yeah, and they used "the hot new technology" red choo-choo trains, er, uh, I mean Ruby on Rails.

Hey, if people can feel passionately about sugar-flavored water with bubbles in it, they can feel passionately about software... I guess.

Buuuuut the inherent problem is this: you can show off your Apple, Ferrari, Nike, etc. to your friends and to the girls/women you want to impress.

Basecamp, not so much. Basecamp seems like a dying brand to me. I don't see why anyone would begin using Basecamp these days because it's waaaaay overpriced.

But for a 40 year old who started using it 18 years ago, sure, he might have enough money, nostalgia, and, well, laziness, to keep using it.

I doubt Basecamp has many users under the age of 30, and probably never will. And I doubt it has many new users. At the end of the day most software doesn't have a social aspect to it; these days I assume Basecamp essentially is seen as a commodity (like a pillow case) by most people, even those who use it. Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube are outliers which are extremely popular and have network effects.
Related:

Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26153823 - Feb 2021 (92 comments)

Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15415278 - Oct 2017 (218 comments)
Musk, every year for the last seven years now:

"Full Self Driving is coming, this year."

Not even close.
A good $500 PC [1] 10 years ago seems to have a 2x3GHz Pentium, 4GB RAM and a 500GB HDD. The $1000 PC [2] from tomshardware was a 4x3.4GHz Core i5 with 8GB RAM, a GTX 670 and a 60GB SSD paired with a 750GB HDD.

The $1000 still sounds totally adequate for surfing, office use and some light gaming, as long as you invest $20-$50 in a bigger SSD (or have some patience when starting software). Machines like this are still sold, they're just smaller and cheaper now. Even the 2012 $500 PC is probably fine if you upgrade the RAM, and even without that upgrade is not much different from some of the mini-PCs sold today [3]

1: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-pc-overclocking-...

2: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/build-a-pc-overclock-be...

3: https://psref.lenovo.com/Detail/ThinkCentre/ThinkCentre_M70q...
I wish I’d practiced good form in picking things up and done some core exercises. My son gained a lot of weight quickly and my back was killing me for months before my strength caught up.
They're not. I worked in a local news station's news room (and grew up working in them alongside my dad). I would pull stories off an Associated Press feed [1], copy the scripts verbatim, and throw them into the rundown. It's one gigantic feed trough. People deny it because they want to feel like they're in control, but they're not. They're cattle.

[1] https://www.ap.org/media-solutions/enps/
The whole idea that something has to have a high profile success story available to the public for it to be an actual success doesn't really hold. Lots of people are far more busy with their work than they are with blogging and/or publicity. There are plenty of examples in my practice of quiet successes, some using TDD, some without and for those companies it may well have been a factor.

Depending on the industry, reliability and ability to ship software that functions as advertised from day #1 can be a huge advantage, and for others it can be a wash or even a competitive disadvantage if it consumes too many resources. But I would not dismiss any such tool out of hand just because you personally have not seen or heard about the success stories.
Just bought this book (used) for my kid based on your comment. Thanks!
Lift with your knees.
> Microblogs are largely irrelevant if you aren’t already a known expert on a given topic.

An enormous number of people have established themselves as known experts on a given topic via "microblogging" channels, which for nearly everyone means Twitter and Facebook. Hopefully, open/federated microblogging will break out of its niche.

Just one example of this is the many thousands of virologists, epidemiologists, public health scholars, and statisticians who built huge followings (effectively from zero) during the COVID-19 pandemic.

> Longform posting allows you to establish your credibility and put your point forward.

Microblogging is a great channel for this too. These are not either/or choices, and any good strategy for establishing yourself as an expert — or whatever your goal is — will include both of these communications channels and more.
> Here's a Guardian article author claiming to have coined it:

Specifically does not claim to have coined it, no?: "I have retrospectively been credited as the coiner of the acronym “Terf” (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists). I suspect I’m merely the first person who wrote it on a website that still exists."
Having a house with two small eaters we pretty much had to give up all fresh produce that we weren’t going to consume or preserve immediately because it goes bad too fast and isn’t worth the waste.

There’s something to be said for the economics of moving enough volume to enable eating fresh.
What surprised me, given it's meant to be a shopping heaven, is how few food shops there are. At BER to get food we had to queue for a long time because every single food shop (there were only ~4-~5) had giant queues and there were nowhere near enough seats. Large areas remained panelled off. It seems like they struggled to get enough shops. The food places that did exist were real basic e.g. one was a currywurst shop.
> Most machines of the time had 4Mb of RAM. Something seriously powerful had 16Mb.

Yes I did mean to write MB rather than GB; thanks for the correction.

On that note, I found this 1995 newspaper article (linked from Wikipedia) on the subject. Conclusion was that W95 ran on 4MB, but slowly:

https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19950924&slug...

Funny that the writer remarks on having a bunch of Windows open and still having "73% resources free". I think I remember reading in one of the contemporary books (maybe Andrew Schulman's Unauthorized Windows 95) that the dialog that shows the % resources free inflates the number significantly.
My guess is that Germany still has a surplus against other euro countries, instead the money is flowing to oil and gas exporting countries. So that wouldn't help.
which auction it is?
I never said NoSQL. I think the relational model is incredibly valuable. I'm talking about updating the implementation, not the interface.

However there are some new databases that maintain a relational model (often fully compatible with PostrgeSQL or other relational DBs). The only real downside to these right now is stability and performance. Performance isn't a big deal when you can scale horizontally so I think when this "NewSQL" generation matures it will be nearly all upsides.

I'm not sure we will be stuck with SQL forever but strong consistency, SQL and the database-backed constraints and indexes are invaluable and I wouldn't want to be stuck without them.
I like the cut of your jib mister.
I can think of three great options for age 11.

First option get a makeymakey and work through the free project videos on their site.

Second option get a microbit and work through the free tutorials on makecode. If you have two microbits, they can talk via onboard radio. They also have Bluetooth so you can connect to a phone.

Third get a copy of the Getting Started in Electronics RadioShak book and build some of the science and circuit projects.
> A UI is NOT simply a replication of server / business logic state.

I don't think that was ever the claim, the rest of the article is similarly misguided. UI as a function of state doesn't mean "UI is a function of business logic state". It means we define the UI in a declarative way based on the view state.
Wrong?

https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/wiki
https://github.com/neovim/neovim/tree/master/test
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/master/test/README.s...

What are you trying to say, that people don't write tests for their code?
I wear simple digital Casios because I like them :)
It’s true 5nm definitely gives M1 an edge, but Apple’s ARM chips have lead the pack by a mile in performance for a long time, at comparable nodes. To say all the magic lies with TSMC is to claim that with M1 Apple suffered a huge loss is leadership position in terms of design, saved only by TSMC. I don’t see how that’s a credible claim.
https://www.php.net/manual/en/errorfunc.configuration.php#in...

I don't know what their PHP configuration is set to in production.

As a rule, I don't test systems that require me to send packets. I only look at code. This keeps me from having to care about the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

What I know: The particular bit of code that Paul tweeted is vulnerable, and the mitigation you're asking about only reduces it from a "grep the HTTP response body" oracle to a timing oracle, so it doesn't actually eliminate the issue.
If you're mainly worried about regular charging, Garmin has some models with solar charging and battery life up to a month. They're not cheap though.

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/702797
Do you happen to have a link to the talk about Nix on macOS you heard about it from? Or event the title/details so I could search?
That sense of community comes roaring back in times of calamity.

I've only ever lived in cities or suburbs. During a major calamity, those of us in the city drove out to a small town that was nearly wiped out and gave supplies, money, and time. When our own city was hit by an extremely damaging and deadly storm, we took care of our neighbors (generators for refrigerators, places to sleep, help with repairs, food, etc), even if we had just met them for the first time.
The 'clean' pattern to me is a complex data structure that is operated on atomically by relatively simple functions, but not so simple that you need to keep a 6 level call stack in your head to follow what is going on. Function decomposition is fine as long as - like everything else, really - you don't overdo it.
She was drummed out of town because she was supporting DEI and CRT, not because she was black.

Did you read the article?

"This is not about the color of her skin. It’s what she’s going to bring into our district and what she’s going to teach our children"
I agree. Win 10 + HDD = frustration.
If your company so as mentions layoffs, even (especially?) if they deny it, they are coming. Just like a Pip, if it gets mentioned, start looking for another job
Idk, I am someone, who has looked at many programming language, including all of those you mentioned. But a capable developer can be expected to learn a new language over the course of a few weeks if needed. I don't see how you could "run out of devs of language x", if you have capable devs on board. Especially, when those languages are all in the same programming language family/club.
AFAIK, AArch64 instructions are roughly 2x longer than x64's average, but that's 3x as much cache as a comparable Intel core.
Well, that’s the direction it’s been going for 100 years, so you should be happy
Related:

Crypto firm Bitpanda lays off around 20% of its people - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31867839 - June 2022 (117 comments)
I'm going to play devil's advocate and suggest that there are many potential customers who can't afford the "main product" but will do fine with just a few features of it at a significantly lower cost that a smaller business can provide.

It's entirely possible to make a living from crumbs as long as there are enough of them.
that's very good advice. it's important to be consistent, so once i say no, i try very hard to stick to that. and sometimes i wished that i had said yes instead.
What questions you have about Reddit?
I will be hosting Nikola Velkovski, Co-founder & CEO of Howtizer.co for an AMA session over Blkns.co

Nikola is a reddit platform expert. So, If you have any questions, comment below and I will make sure to ask him.
Rode the entire trail in 3 days in 2016! Quite the challenge for myself at the time and living out of your bike was a blast. Got to talk and meet many locals and go into many small towns to resupply food and enjoy the ride. My total milage ended up being 270 miles.
>These changes make sense even outside of any sort of political charge.

They only make sense if you disregard any costs associated with the change. In addition to logistical costs, it's culturally costly to make many people change, and even more costly that people who fail to adapt are demonized. Generations of text was written to use blacklist/whitelist, and people who read them would naturally be more comfortable with those usage, and you're asking them to bend over.

>If you were trying to learn the English language, I'd imagine a self describing term is much easier to understand.

The controversies of blacklist/whitelist are very America-centric and your argument is exemplary of that. Terms like blacklist/white list have already permeated many languages by this time. People who have seen blacklist/whitelist in their own language would have no problem adapting to the English version of it.
The article doesn't give details, but one of the quoted authors has participated in trials testing anti-ICOS antibody alone or in combination with atezolizumab, with results presented at an ASCO meeting: https://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/JCO.2021.39.15_suppl.26...

Describes one complete response in TNBC (and 4 partial responses in TNBC and other cancers). Couldn't find a related peer-reviewed journal article on very quick search.
For anyone like me wondering how many 1/3 is, they apparently reduced their workforce to 730 people, meaning they laid off 365 (or thereabouts).

That feels to me like a pretty big layoff, not just a headline trying to make a number sound big.
Wonderful, thanks for letting us know, appreciate your collaboration and patience in resolving the problem. :)
You can install web browsers including chromium-browser and firefox via the package manager.

List of packages: http://www.tinycorelinux.net/13.x/x86_64/tcz/
C# might not be the best language to try FP in. F# is a popular alternative that might feel more familiar than e.g. Haskell. Since JS was one of my first languages, I learned a lot just from using the library RamdaJS which helped soften the learning curve for me
It's expensive and risky. Telling truth to power invites power to fight back, and power has the means to fight.

A major unrecognised role of publishers is in providing legal shield to authors and reporters. Though some publishers are ducking out on that responsibility, see Cory Doctorow's take, "Reasonable Agreement":

https://doctorow.medium.com/reasonable-agreement-ea8600a89ed...

Alt (paywall / regwall / JS): https://scribe.rip/reasonable-agreement-ea8600a89ed7
Would you have any suggestions for finding work in fields like this? As a developer (mobile with some web and backend), I would love to have ongoing part-time work to provide enough income and free time to pursue other projects.
Sorry but the UI is awful.

Also "Discord for businesses", so Slack?
Why would you need to have several hundred thousand dollars in reserve if you can just get health insurance?
You don’t need passion you just need a real problem to solve.
> I like the concept of Talkers vs Doers, that I leant from Nassim Taleb.

That's so funny.
Ask HN: Advice on camera for black and white only photography?
I was very much into black and white SLR photography many years back, shooting manual with b&w film (sometimes developing film myself, but never really enjoyed that side of it so much).

I'm looking to get back into it, and was looking advice on modern digital cameras and software/workflows for b&w only photography.

I've seen there are now some dedicated monochrome cameras, but they seem hideously expensive for the features, and quite a few years old now (so not sure whether they never caught on, were overpriced, or are so great they didn't need improving).

Some posts I've read suggest using Fujifilm cameras due to some different sensor filter pattern. Others suggest shooting in color then converting to b&w in software to make working with color channels easier.

SLRs seem to be declining a bit in favour of mirrorless cameras, but I don't really have any experience with these to know whether they're now good enough to fully replace SLRs.

It's proving a bit tough to search for, so many search results just get me blogs/sites filled with ads or affiliate links, so hard to know who/what to trust. A lot of focus also seems to be on color performance, video, and autofocus, none of which I care about much (interchangeable lenses are a must though).

Any advice or pointers to trusted blogs/videos/sites etc. would be welcome - I've barely used any digital cameras other than my phone for quite some time.

FWIW part of the appeal of b&w to me is its limitations, rather than just an effect to be applied to color photos I'd taken.
Show HN: Top trending newsletter each day from Substack
I made a newsletter discovery website called Inbox World. On Twitter, we share the top trending post each day on social media from across newsletters - Substack, Revue (Twitter) and Bulletin (Facebook).
Hey I feel like I’m on ending on this path as an engineer would love to email some questions and have a convo if possible. Email in my bio
Your "straw man!" claims ignore that for every 'safety' related comment or action Tesla has done, they've had to be dragged kicking and screaming into it.

First there was zero monitoring of attention. No steering wheel torque, nothing.

Then when pushed and threatened they added it, and set the "hands on steering wheel" interval to "ONCE every fifteen MINUTES".

Then they had to be threatened to reduce that to a sensible value.

All the while, Tesla: "the driver is only in the seat for legal purpose - the car is driving itself", or "use Summon to bring your car to you while you deal with a fussy child".

So you can call them lazy edge-case idiots all you like.

But you can't pretend that Tesla hasn't absolutely fostered and nurtured this culture, because they have.
Would you have any suggestions for finding work in small-mid private businesses like this? As a developer (mobile with some web and backend), I would love to have ongoing part-time work to provide enough income and free time to pursue other projects.
email where?
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