skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is...that doesn't scale. If somebody was still manually updating the homepage with a handful of curated beautiful items, then we wouldn't be talking about it because none of us would've heard of it. Or maybe it would have transformed into a mad scramble to snatch up the limited, curated items. Part of this thread suggested it was headed in that direction. In either case, it would've been more or less irrelevant, and we'd be talking about some other site full of AliExpress garbage instead.
True, if a metric has a target the metric is the target. If there ever was an incentive to game a KPI, that is it.

SPC is tricky case in that regard. Because it, kind of, makes the trend and long term development of metric the target.

Edit: You had me thinking. Settng a target, or rather target tolerances, for a metric can be necessary if that metric is directly measuring the output of one process that is used by another process. E.g. forecast accuracy, if downstream ops are expected to cope with, say, a deviation of 20 %, that tolerance kind of becomes the goal for the forecast accuracy. This is not some arbritary goal so.

For me, setting limits on certain metrics is something different from a target. It is a thin line between those.
This is not victim blame. RTFM READ IT!!!

Most sane languages and low level tools describe what you want and how to work correctly.

If you don't want this feature in the filesystem, move to one that doesn't support it, or better yet submit a patch to run the filesytem you want with this feature deactivted for "security concerns".

Demanding a whole OS change the way it works for bad/lazy/inept coders is akin to 2 people getting blind drunk and blaming the other person or the drink for the stupid things they did. Take some responsibility.
How about the current DATE formats based on the EPOCH. Hell, they knew there was nothing to it, but some backstreet performances inspired my Y2K formative years where my normal, kind, religious mother became a hoarder that destroyed everything she touched. Why can Java still not do simple date processing when even M$$ nailed that formula generations ago? Not letting devs communicate cross platform without Linux level religious arguments is ridiculous. Git this, Linus, is the EPOCH the final destination of the post-Christian measure of time (i.e. the common era)
I left paid development for any role other than developer.

Industrialised standardised scrum/ micro management sucks. Multiple jobs, same experience.

If something can’t be implemented properly, then as much as you might say it’s not scrim, well, communism isn’t dictatorships, but it always happens that way. So, there’s a blurry line that isn’t established or doesn’t work in most places so it’s not useful.
Is the expectation the Emirates won’t extradite? These clowns have left a black eye on Singapore’s MAS. (In their favour, they haven’t pissed off the U.S., who could actually force the issue.)
Luke Smith is somebody who LARPs as a technology skeptic while using technology, and who spouts his insanely uneducated opinions about anything he wants while shilling Monero as if it is God's greatest gift to the earth. One example is the (unfortunately, massively popular) youtube video where he tells everyone that all jobs are fake, deflation is a good thing, and the reason central banks don't want deflation is because they are in a giant conspiracy to make you poor.
When was the last time you checked the currency conversion?
So I tried this and think that one of the issues that stops people from sharing is that you don't really make it easy and inviting.

I tried the practice runs: Why is there no "share practice run results"?

I played a real game: Why can't I share results from the first run if I don't want to play further?

Finished 3 tries: The share results button has no feedback - I clicked it, why is there no "results are in your clipboard now" text? Why no platform specific buttons with a ready Tweet / fb post? (you can embed the contents of the message in the link)

What's stopping you? Why is the last game you shared on Twitter from March if you want to make it more popular?
Did you mean Yahoo!?

Or gopher?
>What if you just solve the problem by making society a better place?

Because I don't know, and I don't think anyone else knows, how to better society in a way that wipes out all the dictatorships and malign powers of the world that mean to do us harm merely for their own gain. Ultimately the world is not always a friendly place, and sometimes if you aren't the shark at the table, you're the fish.
Launching an unjustified war on false pretenses may not be a war crime, but it's not a good look either.
That is a huge list. In what way do you consume this? I would feel overwhelmed following this many blogs. How much value would you say you get from following this many blogs?
A rant about the current state of ML (video, @52:10)
The one about insanity always struck me as something Einstein wouldn’t have said. On its face, it would seem to imply that stochastic processes (system evolves according to a series of random events) and chaotic systems (slight changes in initial conditions can result in very different outcomes) don’t exist. Those ideas definitely predate Einstein. I mean, Boltzmann was Austrian and was known by Einstein. Half of my physics undergrad was thermo, and one of the major things we learned there was how much of our understanding in that domain is based entirely on statistics. As for chaotic systems, I think Ian Malcolm proved that point simply in Jurassic Park, and he’s certainly no Einstein.
I heard they use the entire 'crates' repository as test-cases for breaking changes. If that's accurate, the backwards-compatibility is commendable.

Forward-compatibility is near-impossible. Obviously it'd help if new code didn't use new features, but .. then why add them? How mature does a feature need to be before it's permitted to use them? How does a feature become mature if no-one's allowed to use it? etc.
>In short the system of inspections is working.

Actually no, it isn't working because it cannot possibly work, at least not with decades old structures (that however do not collapse because they were often over-engineered, because after all they weren't built so shoddily and for a thousand other possible reasons).

A bridge inspection more often than not amounts to a visual inspection, to detect cracks, check bearings, but while some elements of the structure are visible (as said bearings and concrete surface) the state of internal cables is hard or impossible to check, though there are some new techniques that look promising (though they are not yet AFAIK properly documented/standardized), as an example, JFYI:

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

And there is another key point, norms have obviously changed a lot in the several decades since the construction, original calculations and drawings may have been lost, and there is the need to re-do the calculations with the new standards of loads and check whether the current loads/frequency of traffic is compatible with those the original project took into account.
And it makes no pretense otherwise.

Why bring this up?
I try so hard to _not_ dislike public transit but its generally been an awful experience for me.
People making Einstein say whatever they actually want to say looks pretty close to /r/adviceanimals memes, or just memes in general.

In that respect, what he actually said and didn’t has become mostly irrelevant Imho.
Rescue attempts for a variety of mountain sports do put others at risk. In addition most of the above post was about the effect on first responders.
To be honest, I don't think I could tell the difference between how they would act with ex-cia people in their ranks or without.

I don't see how content policy, adhering to privacy regulations, etc... would be different when there's facebook person or an ex-cia person.
Do you think you could hire Luca for $100?
I could make cryptographic oaths with this on my laptop!
I agree. To have gone this far, you must already be forever lost.
One thing I miss about Mercurial was only having to type enough of a subcommand to be unambiguous. `hg st` is much shorter than `git status`. I wish all CLI tools worked that way.
>Examples: rock climbing, mountain biking, sailing, surfing, skating, skiing.

Doing those every day sounds both expensive and an organizational nightmare.

I love skiing and i do it every few years but I cant rely upon it for exercise.

I tried badminton / frisbee in the park but that still needs geographically close, willing partners who are willing to exert themselves with matching schedules and good weather.

In the end i solved the motivation/availability problem by being 25 seconds away from a reliable heavy HIIT cardio + anerobic workout - having a rowing machine at home. It's overall less fun than skiing perhaps but the barrier to entry being negligible makes all the difference.
++ on espressif

It is really nice to see a company firing on all cylinders. It is interesting to see them get a training partner and release a language targeted development board (to be released soon?).

https://www.espressif.com/en/news/ESP_RUST_training

https://github.com/esp-rs/esp-rust-board
Problematizing the serotonin hypothesis is nothing new. I'm disappointed that this is not a new study but just a meta review. It does nothing to resolve the issue with serotonin levels not causing depression while antidepressants have a proven (slight) positive effect on depressive symptoms. It also doesn't do anything for explaining the effects from antidepressants that affect other things than serotonin. Like sertraline with its dopaminergic effect.
Knowing a handful of CIA personally, one thing they've all said is "There are no "ex" CIA."

It seems to be similar to the USMC's "Once a Marine, always a Marine."

Food for thought.
leftist politicians

Texas

Bwaaaaaaa, hahahahahahahahaha. Oh Murgatroyd.
How do you figure the self-driving car was built by cutting corners? Just to be devil's advocate... usually its a small team of people that genuinely care about making self driving better. What prevents it from simply being an accident?
It's possible to read the post you're responding to a lot more charitably than that, and I think it would be more along what HN aspires to be to do so.

I understood his point to be that due to the heightened scrutiny given to all questions of discrimination nowadays, any sort of "holistic" evaluation was abandoned in favor of supposedly objective "Spreadsheet Mentality" evaluations.

This certainly has advantages, not only against conscious discrimination, but also unconscious biases (the infamous "team fit" ending up in homogeneous team composition). But it has large disadvantages as well, in that all employee contributions which do NOT easily fit into the few "objective" metrics are disregarded, which can lead to employees' value to an organization being substantially distorted. I find the rating scales I've seen a highly imperfect fit to the entire contribution an employee can bring.

And the underlying assumption that such rating scales are objective and not subject to manipulation or biases is highly questionable. Ultimately, it all comes down to a manager's judgement, and a bias does not disappear if you dress it up with a numerical weight.
My uninformed opinion is that this smells of a hidden agenda. Is anyone here more educated on the subject to comment on this new study and the articles that are being based on it?
"depression" is a big word behind which dozens if not hundreds of causes hide.

It's like "headache", maybe you took too much coffee today, or maybe you have stage IV brain cancer
the story is probably 2008 or so, maybe a little later but not by much. The author was long gone before any of the changes you're talking about happened. Etsy was still very handmade for many years after this story takes place. It wasn't until after the IPO (2015) that activist investors pushed out the folksy leadership and installed a more corporate CEO (2016) that changed everything and made it suck.
Programming:

Github Engineering: https://github.blog/

Mitchell Hashimoto: https://mitchellh.com/writing

Tech:

Ars Techhnica: https://arstechnica.com/

TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/

Finance:

Warren Buffet's letters to shareholders: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html
I think the author was smarter than that. They used profiling tools to identify the bottlenecks, then used much smaller/faster test cases to fix the bottlenecks.
Ask HN: Solo founders(Multiple projects)- How are you handling customer support?
Hi there,

I have a 8-5 job that needs constant attention and I maintain a couple of services on the internet. I'm curious to know how, someone like me, is handling the customer support.

I receive an average of 15-20 user emails per day, 70% of them asking for the same information on the website FAQs. I reply to them with the templated responses. Is there a reliable tool to automate responses for such emails based on the questions? The remaining 30% are generic questions related to the provided service and some involve updating the subscriptions.
I really feel like the lack of well-structured citations is what's keeping many Wikipedia articles back. It's just not good enough to throw some paper reference (potentially behind a paywall) or a news article after a full paragraph of text.

Often when editing a page, I am left wondering where exactly the previous editor has gotten a fact from. The Wiki markup even allows "quotes", i.e. short extracts of what exactly you're referring to, but I've yet to see anyone beside myself actually use it consistently.

Having a structured list of references for a given topic in a Wikipedia article is incredibly helpful!
Genetics, behavioral and thinking patterns, lifestyle, life circumstances, ...
I can second libvips, I had to work on a project that needed to resize GIFs and vips was probably 10 times faster than the ImageMagick or Pillow. I think the only thing that compared to libvips was ffmpeg.
That’s a hard article to read, but really good. Gannet has basically done the same thing here - the newsroom is the only thing left, and it’s rented space in one corner of one floor. And they own all the major papers in Ohio now, and probably many other states.
But at least they work all the time. Whereas solar/wind work... occasionally. And then when they work they generate too much for the grid. The EU energy situation is really in flaming death spiral. With too nany bets on solar/wind power which doesn't really work.
It does a disservice to the people that actually were there at the forefront making shit happen. All so we can "check some boxes".
The shirtless men were optional. But curating a selection of photos out of a bigger amount of photos is creative work, I'd say.
I think JetBrains is doing it quite well. They have different subscriptions, but also an affordable All-Products-Pack. And they have discounts for individual developers over companies.
Anecdotally, remote work must be a pretty small slice. Rush hour (and general overall) traffic in the Boston area anyway seems to be at pretty much pre-pandemic levels.

My expectation is that we'll probably see a bit more flexibility for office jobs overall going forward. But it's not going to be the sea change that some expected/hoped for.
It is absolutely not a good look, and nobody said that. Calling Blair a war criminal is like calling Trump a traitor, both things are factually wrong.
> I think you mean linked-list here

Yes, I specified this explicitly, e.g. "The Zipper acts like a linked-list with a cursor" and "Where [a, b, c] denotes a singly-linked list".

> Parent is talking about "arrays"

You're using quotation marks, but I don't see what you're quoting? The parent explicitly says: "a list and an index"

In any case, arrays come with most of the same problems I mentioned for lists:

- They have invalid states, e.g. ([], 42)

- They require bounds-checking, a consistent notion of subtraction on the index type, etc.

- They can't be infinite

- They require O(N) time, O(N) memory (and O(N) garbage if we're discarding the old value) to replace the focused element

- etc.

Plus, arrays come with all sorts of extra gotchas, like buffer-overflows, pre-allocation/re-allocation decisions, over/under-provisioning, etc.
Did you print that right? Most phone plans are $10 for every GB. I cannot stress how absurdly evil, how anti-person, how undefensible $10/50MB would be. Absolutely craven absurd obscene pricing. Any company charging that should not be left running.
I think the overprescribing of SSRIs to the millenial generation is one of the least talked about public health issues today. We have an entire generation of kids who were force fed these things from as young as 4 years old. I know because I was one of them. They literally made a Prozac "syrup" for young children, and I was taking it in kindergarten. God knows what all those chemicals did to my developing brain.
I think a better TLDR is: Europe relied on fossil fuels that it can no longer obtain. Blame clean energy nuclear power which the world refused to adopt over the past 30 years.

This was a classic “Pay now or pay later”. Congratulations, it’s 4 decades later and we made the wrong choice and waited for solar, wind, and those batteries.

https://youtu.be/Wp-WiNXH6hI
This is indeed a wow statement. Not from the field and completely anecdotal. I know 5 people in my family taking Lexapro for anxiety and all with significantly improved results after a month or two of use. I know it's not depression but still.
The codes for non-venomous frogs were introduced on the same day, so I think it was just frog day at the IDC.
One of the most interesting parts about this to me was what wasn't said among the sea of what was said, and maybe shouldn't be an epiphany, but kind of was. The what wasn't said part was that, at least in its early days, Etsy was a site heavily targeted towards women, and what was said about the sea of shirtless dudes and the dickfilter made me realize that in large enough groups and without any sensible moderation, both men and women will focus on their basest desires.

Now I'm kind of curious what sort of content ends up on Pinterest that has to be moderated out, because for some reason I assumed it would be categorically different from the type of content that has to be moderated out on a site like Reddit, but now I'm thinking it's probably pretty similar.

That said, I think there's something foundational about having moments like these in your career. Startups really are zany-land, or at least were, and the days of Flash and PHP were /full/ of weird things you'd have to deal with operationally thanks to completely absent conceptions of security. Some of the strangest things I've dealt with technically all were related to operating services built in PHP. I know it's not really en vogue to say, especially with how bad Javascript is as a language, but building services and sites for the web is MASSIVELY better now than it was in the past. The late 90s, early 2000s was fraught with ridiculous security issues caused nearly entirely by the entire ecosystem of languages, frameworks, and the people using them being ignorant that security is even a thing. NPM package security issues aside, the current situation in the web is so much of an improvement over the past it's hard to fathom.
Ask HN: Why is the support website traditionally hosted on a subdomain?
I thought that using a subdomain hurts SEO and couldn’t find an answer that justified this pattern:

support.google.com

support.microsoft.com

support.apple.com

EDIT: I should clarify that none of my examples use a ticket system. Instead, they have support articles and search. The content is very SEO-able.

https://support.apple.com/billing

https://support.google.com/a/answer/1224185?hl=en

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-store-and-billing
I really don't understand your point at all. You might be right, the use case doesn't exist yet, maybe never. But this never was the point of the blog post.

Making the application wait extremely long or even crash by importing _something_ is a bug in my understanding. Why shouldn't it be fixed? Why shouldn't developers improve performance and blog about it, so other devs learn from it?

It's not about the Moana scene, that's just the test case, so OP has a valid benchmark with human comprehensible durations. The scene could be anything that is smaller and it will be imported faster now.
Little known but you can "subscribe" to YouTube channels without Google account by using RSS
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=${channe...
Features add complexity and robust features add robust complexity. Robust features that span a core component like filesystem handling span many utilities.

Maybe we should do the same search on samba vulnerabilities have have him take a look in the mirror...
The framework makes me wish I was in the market for a laptop.
Maybe I should have said "as a person being used to German standards of doing business", would that have made you less defensive?
Yeah, it's not ideal. And 20% dropped attendance is pretty extreme for Norway.

However, we did also try to leave schools open while having everyone else WFH during subsequent waves, and that led to a host of other problems. Preventative measure were constantly being micromanaged, leading to student and teacher confusion, teacher and student abscence due to Covid skyrocketed and students were stuck with increasingly poor substitute teachers, etc. I'm not aware of any detailed comission on the tradeoffs between the two approaches yet, but both seem to have had severe problems.

Of course there was also the giant elephant in the room: the assumption that letting school children be massively infected couldn't have any long term health effects. There was no evidence that it could at the time, but also that evidence wouldn't have had time to exist yet, and so it's essentially just a gamble. Time will tell I suppose, fingers crossed...
MPC-HC v1.9.22
clsid has continued to maintain MPC-HC after the original development team stopped due to a lack of interest back in 2017 (v1.7.13 being the last release).

See: https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=175209
It's because of early covid times that I know German schools have iPads. In Berlin, one school was robbed of tens of thousands of euros of iPads.
How did you find a good trainer? Any certs/qualifications you should look for?
I take it an “alias” isn’t good in this case? An alias does follow a move of the original - usually.
If a bunch of people want to worship hunks of death inflicting metal as idols, I have zero problem with that as long as I'm allowed to live away from it. And I am allowed to! If somebody tells me that they go the firing range, that's just great, and I may even go with them some time. But I'm not allowed to live away from cars as a normal member of society.
Lived in San Antonio for 2 years in the middle of yet another drouth (welcome to the Southland). Mine was the only lawn in the neighborhood that was brown. Neighbors were pissed. Texas may know exactly how much water they have, but the residents don't seem to understand how important that water is. Part of the reason I moved elsewhere.
I wrote a version of this with Elixir: https://github.com/bschaeffer/til/tree/master/elixir/gen_ser...

Didn't know what to call it but PromiseMaps is nice name for it.
Lack of cooling water was an issue in the last couple of years already. Especially for plants along the Rhine and not just nuclear power plants.

Not that costal power plants have a huge advantage so, pretty sure there limits on the eater temp fed back into the sea as well. Either way, the location of those plants cannot be changed anymore.
Don't know if it fills the criteria, but some very basic concept: Circular arrays.

This is great for live updated time series data: you never have to expand your arrays, allocate memory etc. It is extremely fast, predictable and resource efficient.