skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pointing at the GPU is an excuse. That thing doesn't need to go over 1% load to make good text happen.
I like your comments, shuhamjain.co.. I'm pretty sure I don't want to live on Mars.

Why didn't you pick the Moon, Mr Musk? (Not that I want to live on the Moon, either.)

How about stick here and help us? We have a great need for clever engineering right now.
One day, some unanticipated discovery might be made, and a non-rocketry solution to fast space travel might be found. Maybe then we could explore Mars.
The existing space travel technology is destructive, polluting, and wasteful.

The Earth is our mother and is not to be considered expendible.
Is this actually true? I searched and didn't find anything about LG ending their computer display LCD manufacturing.
LunarVim may be what you're looking for.
Published packages should be immutable. Sure, "unpublish" so it's no longer listed. Even display scary messages in your package manager's stdout. But once you publish a package, any package manager with the hash of the package contents in its lockfile should be able to continue retrieving it indefinitely. The fact that it's possible for any maintainer to break all consumers of their previously published works on a whim is insane to me.
From the article:

> The message to me as a maintainer is quite clear: once a project achieved criticality, then the index wants to exercise a certain amount of control

I don't think that's the definition of control. Pypi gains no power with this, only more work.

And 2FA is really not a big deal.

> One could imagine that an index would like to enforce cryptographic signing of newly released packages.

Yes. Please yes.

Letsencrypt was a boon to the web.

Having a quick way to sign your package to send it so pypi would be a great thing.

This is a long article over nothing.
Levine certainly thinks this is true.
I have a pair of 2019 LG 4K 27s that I covet.
just fastforward to rust
I'm not talking about the names of the copyright holders or contributors. I'm talking about the name of the software.
Everything.exe
TaskBarGroups.exe
StartAllBack.exe

Legendary.exe
There are a gazillion settings and commands for everything now: you take any simple component, like "Search in files", and there are probably 200 settings to customize it, it didn't use to be that way. I do not like it and that was the main reason why I switched to VSC in the first place, instead of using a JetBrains product. I fully know and understand I could just ignore those and go on with my life, but I still do not like it.

I am a huge fan of minimalist products with a minimal set of configuration settings that I can fully master, and the "number of settings" is negatively correlated with me liking a given piece of software (the worst offender here being, I'd say, MS Outlook vs GMail). The difference between JetBrains and VSC is reducing at every release, and it is not a good thing for me.

I fully understand and appreciate it is a biased opinion, I am not looking to be convinced otherwise. It is the same reason why I shop at Trader Joe's and Costco, with their limited and curated availability of options, as opposed to Walmart or Safeway.
Biggest takeaway from the article seems to be that few (30/100) low traffic area reverted back (in London).

While I like being able to walk, bike, etc to stuff, this strikes me as a little disingenuous: the neighborhood had enough votes to change it, that same group would resist putting it back. Might does not make right, in other words.
* Cantrill
Perhaps we do have problems with that model. But are the problems of the "tens of millions of humans have potentially been exposed to this harmful compound and the result seems disastrous" variety? Or are the problems of the "it takes longer than normal" variety?

Because both are "problems". But I know which one I'd rather have as a society.
> In biology the code is the DNA and RNA, whereas the hardware is the proteins.

This distinction isn't as clear as you think. The active parts of ribosomes (the machines that translate mRNA into proteins) are catalytic RNA. There are organisms that use RNA to store templates (RNA viruses).
This last decade has played host to some of the most fascinating series of debates, an almost visceral push and pull, concerning individualism vs collectivism, distribution of control vs centralization of power.

- COVID vaccine mandates

- Cryptocurrency

- Deplatforming

- Abortion

- Closed platforms beating open web

- Monopolies controlling tech

- One party governments gaining in power

Strict control over package indices is one manifestation of this. Controlling a blast radius (safety) vs unlimited, unfettered publication (freedom).

Power structures are everywhere.
Per the spreadsheet here https://awsmaniac.com/aws-outages/ :

There seem to have been multiple "full" outages in 2011-12 in AWS' us-east-1 region, which, granted, is the oldest AWS region and likely has a bunch of legacy stuff. By "full" outages I mean that a few core services fell over but the entire region become inaccessible due to those core failures.
> There’s a genuine danger that the result of this case will be “some people are too powerful to be regulated by the US system, and this is now obvious”.

This should have been obvious by now. Cash rules everything around me.
You might notice something very peculiar about this story. Here are the pieces:

> What she accomplished next could easily be called miraculous [bullshit]

> Buoyed by her newfound knowledge, Strathdee began reaching out to scientists who worked with phages: "I wrote cold emails to total strangers, begging them for help," she said at Life Itself.

> she convinced phage scientists around the country to hunt and peck through molecular haystacks

> One stranger who quickly answered was Texas A&M University biochemist Ryland Young. He's been working with phages for nearly 45 years. Young, a professor of biochemistry and biophysics who runs the lab at the university's Center for Phage Technology. "We just dropped everything. No exaggeration, people were literally working 24/7" ... [that's what happens when I need help, university departments drop what they're doing to assist]

> Next, the US Food and Drug Administration had to greenlight this unproven cocktail of hope [in a week]

> But the woman who answered the phone at the FDA said, " 'No problem.' ... " [like magic]

> And then she tells me she has friends in the Navy [who doesn't]

> Yet just three weeks later, Strathdee watched doctors intravenously inject the mixture into her husband's body

> Legal staff at Texas A&M expressed concern about future lawsuits ... But Stephanie literally had speed dial numbers for the chancellor and all the people involved in human experimentation at UC San Diego. After she calls them, they basically called their counterparts at A&M, and suddenly they all began to work together [suddenly it happened, a miracle]

Ready for it?

> Strathdee was the associate dean of global health sciences at the University of California, San Diego

It wasn't a miracle. It was extreme privilege. She had elite access and got extraordinarily special treatment and response at every step. The phage aspect is very interesting, I've been reading about phages on HN for over a decade probably (and in that time there has seemingly been relatively little progress in their usage in the West). The rest of the story is rather disgusting in how it's portrayed in the article vs what's actually going on (connections, status, privileged treatment). Oh but it was like a miracle - no, no it wasn't.
We've seen it with social media and content moderation. It's just a little ahead of the game because more people means entities come to the conclusion faster.

Content hosts have hosting rules. Don't like updated rules? Move to another network or self host. You as a platform user have to weigh the pros and cons that come with that decision.

Personally I have stopped contributing to open source due to consumer expectations around free work. My passion projects are now all private and they are all mine or employers who gain from my learnings by paying me. If that's a loss to society, well society can figure out the cost-benefit analysis and get back to me with a better proposal.

Side not: upon going down this rabbit hole, I find that Facebook/Zuckerberg is their primary sponsor[0] and the fact that auth is becoming more of a thing leaves me with zero surprise

[0] https://pypi.org/sponsors/
Crypto may, one day, find utility as part of the financial system (outside of drug deals, sanctions evasion, money laundering, tax minimisation, greater-fool scams, and Ponzi schemes), but its recent volatility has been in no way related to that.
Perfect, this is what I was looking for!
Its rather close to 16:10 which is more ubiquitous (I have 32" one funnily enough from LG from pre-covid times, and oh boy was I glad I bought when it came).

It feels so natural to my eyes, I definitely don't want vertical panel but 16:9 is pretty crap for any kind of work.
Ask HN: Personal finance blog as monetizable pet project?
I am a FAANG tech worker bee (experience as software engineer, tech lead and engineering manager) who is growing significantly tired of the corporate rat race, and the fact that I have really no control over pretty much anything I do all day at work, I am at the whims of corporate politics that make every effort I spend objectively pointless, if it wasn't for the fact that it pays my salary. As such, I am looking to start some sort of pet project to satisfy my craving for ownership.

I think over the years I gained a unique perspective when it comes to personal finance, financial independence and passive investments, working in tech, tech compensations, startups and equity, and similar topics (a few snippets of this "wisdom" are available in my other comment down below). I routinely get calls from friends/acquaintances/ex coworkers asking for advice regarding one of these topics.

I am trying to understand if it would be worth starting a blog that covers these subjects. The goal would be to eventually monetize this in some way (ads, affiliate, consultations, …) just so that I could consider it worth my time.

Do you think this could be a viable strategy, or am I embarking on a sad journey that after thousands of hours spent creating content would leave me with nothing valuable to show for? A brutally honest answer would be highly appreciated, since I haven't started yet.

Thanks
Thank you. Honestly, working with GraphDB and SPARQL inspired me to create this. I did consider if I could create a "real" knowledge graph and even went as far as searching for in-memory graphdb that lives in client browser (maybe one that's built on top of IndexDB. I thought, hey if in-mem RDBMS like H2 exists, is there an in-mem GraphDB available? :D) so that I can query it using SPARQL, but couldn't find anything on it. I wanted to do this without any infrastructure while keeping the bundle sizes low but yes, the way you explained is how it should have actually been done.
#1: “In a future where digital assets are worth not $10 or $20, but hundreds or thousands of dollars, ownership that survives a company becomes an essential substrate of commerce.”

That would be quite a change from the future from the earlier internet, where digital assets were free to copy for all.

I don’t think I look forward to that newer future (but then, it shares the “not everything is free” with the earlier earlier internet of Ted Nelson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu#Original_17_rul...: “9. Every document can contain a royalty mechanism at any desired degree of granularity to ensure payment on any portion accessed, including virtual copies ("transclusions") of all or part of the document.”)
References from above (they didn't fit in the original comment)

Personal finance

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31968739

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27110625

Financial independence and investments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31477963

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30387395

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28791747

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27158110

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26698271

Working in tech

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30235803

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29941417

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29928141

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22095891

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19444016

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30913548

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30303106

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19628583

Tech compensations

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29712724

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27524302

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27524348

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27278017

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25275763

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21643916

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16812648

Startups and equity

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30238169

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28798566

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26101853

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24206506

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21105044

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19627154

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19131939
I disagree that biology, or by proxy any other science, should be written in such a way that a non-expert in the field should understand everything without consulting wikipedia or any other source. Studying a natural sciences includes learning a certain vocabulary and grammar. The reason for this is simple. We agree on certain definitions, words and sentences, to minimise the possibility of ambiguities and misconceptions. This is a very important aspect of any science.

In the same sense, abstracting things is important. Abstraction gives us the opportunity to apply the results from one seemingly foreign field to another.

It is not the task of science to create enthusiasm for the result for people outside the field in technical articles or textbooks as this post tries to endorse.

The excitement for a certain topic should be given by the teachers and, to be honest, this was also always the case in my experience, but I might have been very lucky.

Furthermore, the vast generalisation “Instead, we’re told that if you ever find yourself wanting the area of a triangle, here’s the procedure” couldn't be further from what I've experienced. I’ve never been given a “procedure” in math without being taught why and how it works.
As mentioned in a parent thread, compare the installation instructions between Windows/OSX/Linux for Radarr: https://wiki.servarr.com/radarr/installation

Radarr needs functionality that is more specialized than most apps so there's special instructions and edge cases on all three platforms. But the Linux version is significantly more complicated because Linux doesn't provide as many out of the box tools for installation that works across all distributions like Windows or Mac.
A spoon is good for your health, a glass will make you run to the toilet if not worse.

It's also very hard to swallow even in modest quantities.

Not surprisingly it was one of the most popular forms of punishment and humiliation fascist blackshirts used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castor_oil#Punishment
I reverted back to sublime (and jetbrains for projects beyonda certain size).

My complaint with VS Code is the amount of notifications and distractions.

Already, there's plenty to deal with. Work software should be geared towards productivity, not engagement with their marketplace.
In most states, first-degree murder is defined as an unlawful killing that is both willful and premeditated.

So, it comes back to my first argument - if you really think that an abortion is the murder of a human, then it is in the first degree, right? And if so, the penalty would be pretty high. Are you OK with that?
Ender differences in creative potential: A meta-analysis
If anyone from Oxide is here, could you guys restart the "On the metal" podcast . It was the only CS related podcast I ever liked.
wait are you suggesting this companies were not guilty? are we reading the same settlements?
> Bayer [...] intentionally sold HIV infected blood to people.

I had no idea about this. For anyone else that's curious:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/23/aids.suzannego...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_haemophilia_blood...
Can you please elaborate on what makes it clear that Twitter management was incompetent in the last few years?
This is why I switched to apple and never looked back, can’t stand OSes manipulating interface controls arbitrarily after updates.
There was a paper a few years ago about a similar effect in artificial neural networks [0]. The gist was that a large network can contain many subnetworks, and the number of subnetworks grows much faster than the size of the network they are contained in. They were able to find a subnetwork in a randomly weighted network with equivalent performance to a trained network of a much smaller size.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.13299
You should see how slow people are at doing the following: creating a new directory, creating several files, initializing git, and creating a new work tree.

While learning vim/emacs and CLTs may not make you a better programmer, but they can absolutely make you better at understanding and using your tools effectively.

One simple thing I like to do at every job is setup an ansible playbook for the team I'm working on. What ansible allows is me to setup a tool to download all the relevant languages, binaries, create company specific repos for directories, establish a foundation of common CLTs, automatically install software, and fully setup all the paths. Now any person, old or future hires, can literally set up their machine in less than 10 minutes; an activity I see people usually give a full "week" to do.

This is just one example of being more productive with these tools. What's nice about vim are vim motions, they become extremely intuitive and all the supporting libraries, plugins, and other CLTs utilize these vim motions which makes productivity extremely nice.

If you want to see someone's workflow I'd checkout ThePrimeagen's video on his workflow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdumjiHabhQ
It had less to do with NIMBYism and more to do with car company profits. [1]

Here in the Denver metro area, we used to have trains running all over the place, and 100 years ago, there were daily trains between Denver, Boulder, Golden, and Longmont. Then they ended service and tore up most of the tracks.

Fast-forward to 2022, and now they're trying again to put rail between Boulder and Denver, but it's a $1+ billion boondoggle that hasn't gone anywhere in 15 years. [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-I8GDklsN4
[2] https://www.cpr.org/2022/03/01/rtd-fastracks-commuter-rail-b...
Well, it can be a signal of other effects. For example, if it is written in python (or ruby), it probably isn't very fast. If it written in JavaScript (especially with electron), it will probably be a memory hog. If it is written in c or c++, there is a bigger risk of segfaults. If it is written in rust, it probably doesn't have a good gui (at least right now). None of those are garantees though.

And the design of the language can influence the design of applications in more subtle ways, for example projects written in languages that are more difficult to learn, like rust or haskell will attract different developers than projects written in more accessible languages like python and JavaScript. Not that either is unilaterally better.

And if course, if you are going to contribute to an open source project, such as editor, that you use, then the language absolutely matters.
The argument the author makes seems really nonsensical. It really comes off as "i would like to have my cake and eat it too".

It's true it's not the fault of the author that a thing became popular.
So what?

If you don't want the responsibilities of being popular through a given distribution mechanism, then great, don't use that distribution mechanism.

Nobody is forcing you.

That will cause you to have no responsibility.
It will likely cause your adoption to be lower, but you just argued that it isn't your fault adoption is so high, so presumably you don't care.

Otherwise you are arguing that you owe nobody anything, because it's not your fault, but the distribution mechanisms owe you something - free distribution without responsibility!

In reality, most people care a lot and want their project to be popular, so making arguments that "it's not the authors fault it is popular" are generally pretty disingenuous.

Whether that is the case here, who knows, but it is pretty hard to be sympathetic to an argument that plays both sides, and claims you owe nobody anything while the distribution mechanisms owe you something.
"The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain."

-- John Adams in a letter to his wife Abigail

I'm sure many people would love to have their children study the arts and humanities and develop profound insights into human nature and life itself. Unfortunately, many people are stuck studying mathematics and other subjects like it in the hopes of having a decent career.
A difficult task indeed: red dye no. 2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaranth_(dye)
>PyPI is proactively considering critical packages without 2FA protection malicious

And it's ridiculous for them to do so. How can they verify that the 2FA program is not just being run in a virtual machine? At the end of the day it's the maintainer that decides the security of the package.
Particularly when using a license that explicitly says "you're on your own":

>THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.

If you want support, availability, or timely fixes, you need to form a business relationship of some kind. Which almost certainly involves paying someone.

That has not happened here (at least in the vast, vast majority of cases), so I think they're entirely fine stopping updates / going elsewhere / removing their package, if they want. Anyone who falls apart due to that hasn't been doing due diligence. It totally sucks for them, but that doesn't mean they get to force their issues onto others.
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How would you express superscripts in text, then?
NestJS 9
You see similar phenomena with long-term contractors (who jump projects all the time) - they are brought in with no agency in the project, get handed something to implement, they do it in move on. Sure they have experience implementing something others have designed, but that's just a small slice of software engineering. Although I agree it's not common to use that particular phrase with this situation.
>According to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Stewart avoided a loss of $45,673 by selling all 3,928 shares of her ImClone Systems stock on December 27, 2001, after receiving material, nonpublic information from Peter Bacanovic, her broker at Merrill Lynch. The day following her sale, the stock value fell 16%.[49]

Martha Stewart went to jail for 5 months for a meager case of insider trading. Musk manipulated Tesla stock in front of, literally, the whole world and got a slap in the wrist (i.e. a fine that comes to about 0.1% of its net worth). A citizen would to go jail forever for a similar thing.
Theorizing the 2017 blockchain ICO bubble as a network scam