skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You posted something where you literally had to give the disclaimer "This isn't sarcasm", because it reeked of sarcasm.

It only "reeked of sarcasm" here because it's the opposite of the HN groupthink.
I believe the next evolution in generative images is stringing them together!

If you can come up with the key frames with descriptions of the same style, a neat little program can interpolate them and produce a generative movie!
Why is talking to all authoritative servers so hard? As long as you cover all the cases such as CNAMES and have the IPs of the roots, you seem to be good to go.
Thank you for picking up the rest!
Just make a whole new thing. Html and css are technologies with decades of technical debt.

Like a remake of a movie, we are long overdue.
Because coal is not an alternative today, renewables are and they have miniscule external pollution in relation to everything else.
> So are users completely at the mercy of its recommendation algorithm

Yes they are.

It's the same old situation with YouTube's algorithm, where it dictates what gets seen or unseen on people's feeds and which tags get blacklisted or not and that is all done by TikTok. Once you change it, it can be controlled by a single entity for any reason. Since they have done this previously, angering a large section of its user base, they have the power to do it again.

> Or is there room for people to game the system? I.e. publish content, and pay click farms to make your stuff look legit?

It already has been gamed, both by amateurs and professionally.

In the professional case, it's already happened with the large advertisers, existing influencers and companies that have started to jump onto the platform. They have done it through promotional and backroom corporate deals, since they have enough money, influence to make sure that their content is pushed to the largest amount of users regardless. Hence this, all these systems have been gamed by this old tactic, and that includes this over glorified recommendation algorithm.

This is how it will get ruined, and it is beyond the hype comments and boosters that you see here screaming about the number of views they have, reminding us of the basic near peak of the power law where the majority of the hype will deplete once the large companies, existing influencers, advertisers start aggressively pushing their posts, ads, etc for engagement farming and growth in another social network, that will appear regardless of TikTok's algorithm.

Rinse and repeat.
From the comments: recursively linked linked tweets

https://twitter.com/mauritscorneIis/status/12668346972560875... &

https://twitter.com/mauritscorneIis/status/12668346965431296...
The Democratization of Airport Lounges
More like this, don't try to mine gold when you can sell shovels.
Sometimes I feel there are more platforms than products.
We have a script called ipcalc[1] has written in Perl on Linux and Unix. It takes an IPv4 address and netmask and calculates the resulting broadcast, network, Cisco wildcard mask, and host range. So this name is confusing, I guess.

]1] https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=ipcalc
> The three balances one must make with their career is: (1) doing things you enjoy, (2) doing things you’re good at, and (3) doing things other people want.

> Having only 1 or 2 of these 3 can be OK, but not ultimately fulfilling or sustainable.

Surely you mean "fulfilling and sustainable"? It seems to me that there are certainly people who find great fulfillment by satisfying (1) and (2) without (3), even if they have to sacrifice for it (and even then, sometimes if you (1) and (2) hard enough it'll create (3)—think of how many esoteric passion projects get rapt attention, and sometimes even financial support, when the right community of interested people finds them).
In the UK, if you sell food made at home, you are subject to all manner of laws that you must comply with — to not follow such laws does, to operate outside of such laws, means that one's business is not legal, and thus illegal, no?

I'm pretty sure that this is the same in lots of countries.

— Related story, cos it's arguably more interesting than the argument here... My friend makes and sells a Chilli Jam, from homegrown chillies. Just once a year. He used to make his jam batches at home. But ran afoul of the various rules and regulations that make up UK food law. So now he simply gets himself some time in the kitchen of an already established restaurant to make his batches, because it's much easier than setting up one's own home for such a business — particularly for a single annual batch.

Edit: sure, one could easily argue that the UK is an over-regulated hellhole, I guess /shrug
here's one i did recently:
https://vimeo.com/724055394

a reading of dreamtigers
by jorge luis borges

images created using @openaidalle. sequencing and morphing in #python with credit to András Jankovics morphing library [github.com/jankovicsandras/autoimagemorph]. featuring borderlands granular synth (artist template: @kingbritt), other desert cities delay by audio.damage , #rymdigare reverb, mixed in #kymaticaaum.

headphones recommended, awards eligible

(text here: thefloatinglibrary.com/2008/09/02/dreamtigers/ )
For what it’s worth, as an individual dev, if I can trust the logos, I think it does add social proof. “Trusted by developers at…” can be a way to contextualize it.
TikTok is about short videos. Youtube is about longer videos. People expect short videos and are looking for short videos so they'll put up with random videos. On Youtube I look for 10-30 minute videos on specific topics, not just random funny videos.

To put it another way, TikTok is Ice Creme, Youtube is dinner. A popular Ice cream stand has a lot more throughput than most restaurants. It only takes ~1 minute to serve a customer some ice cream.
In London it’s not uncommon for transit to be 2:1 faster than driving. It’s only ever really faster going from suburb to suburb without going through the center. It all depends on what kind of infrastructure you have.
It takes me at least 29 minutes to park in NYC. Taking a taxi is usually faster but it depends on the route.
Tau Prolog is an ISO Prolog system from scratch and just for JavaScript. It tries to follow some of the innovations of Scryer and Trella Prolog. Dogelog inherits some stuff from Jekejeke Prolog and has an innovative GC.
> How many PSY

PSY was successful before and after Gangnam Style... But he's a Korean artist and never meant to go global so of course his appeal might be limited beyond one funny video.
> 63.8%

3:2 is 60%, 2:1 is 66.6~%, therefore the median is 63.3~%.

63.8% is above the median, so strictly speaking it's slightly closer to 2:1 than 3:2.
Javascript objects have some differences to Clojure maps that make them harder to use in the same way.

For example, you don't have to store functions in objects in Javascript, but the language design encourages it. This is problematic because we can't pull data out of an object without considering the functions that rely on it.

Another issue is that keys are not unique. Two objects might contain an "id" key, for example, that identifies them in different ways. This is problematic if you want to arbitrarily merge objects together.

Idiomatic Javascript might look like this:

user.orders.total_cost()

But if we want to program in the same way as Clojure, we'd perhaps be writing something more like:

Orders.total_cost(user["user/orders"]);

Not impossible, but certainly more inconvenient.

The more you force rigid categorisations and behaviour on data, the harder it is to manipulate and organise in different ways. In-memory data is almost always ordered with a hierarchical structure, because that's what closed records gravitate toward. But if we take a look at databases, its rare to find any organised along strict hierarchical lines.
You used to be able to search “ip address” and get it direct. That also disappeared maybe a year or so ago. Annoying as all the other major hits at covered in ads.
is the tail fiber bare or in standard shielding (rubber sheath?) for this setup?

either way, this is clever and fun.
Consistency. It's in the same place and works the same way on every platform.
Also does this include trying to find a parking space?
I was planning on creating a timer on my home page anyway. At the very least I'm thankful for google for the timer. It has served me well on many occasions. Rest in peace.
Yeah but I wonder why. (Invoking `login` at the CLI in Terminal.app yields the same result as opening a new tab on macOS.) Trying the same on Linux says you have to be root, and does not log you in.

Anyone got a Linux distro configured differently that they can explain, or a *BSD they care to try and compare on? Is there any reason (security, 'correctness') to prefer one way over the other?
Generating images seems almost a solved problem. What’s the next big problem to solve in this space?
See also, from the article: "Commuter rail passengers spend an average of 69 minutes traveling to work, far longer than those taking bus or light rail." Gee, could that be because they're traveling longer? (It's certainly not because commuter rail trains travel slower than a typical New York City bus!)
Trains have no traffic. At least, when they're run properly
Pretty much. I keep asking people "Why not Elm?" ( https://elm-lang.org/ ) but no one has a very good answer.

The weird thing to me is that the two main customers or consumers of front-end programming (publishers and users) never see and do not care about the underlying language or implementation! Businesses and other orgs (schools, NGOs, etc.) as well as individuals (FB users, WordPress blogs, etc.) that publish sites/apps on the web and their visitors and users never see under the hood except when something goes wrong or they deliberately click "View Source", eh?

Ergo, all this whole Javascript ecosystem is solely for the developers. It's like a giant and largely irrelevant MMORG that we play that produces mostly-working websites and apps almost as a side effect.

"Change my mind?"
the (US) state is too (politically) biased/volatile to manage even something that isnt basic science. look at Nasa. And btw this is an investment wich could create more economic activities and down the line tax revenue.
> … trams and horse carriages, and that these didn't pose much of a problem?

Horse manure was a huge problem on city streets. (Trams we’re originally horse-drawn.)

> According to the 89th Annual Report of the Board of Health, nearly 500 tones of horse manure were collected from the streets of New York every day, produced by 62,208 horses living in 1,307 stables.

https://www.nyhistory.org/community/horse-manure

Edit: A more in-depth article
https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2021/02/the-unpleasant-side-...
The current government's investigation found no sign of criminal collusion at the government level. It also found that money laundering had barely any influence on housing prices.

At worst, the Liberals were just inept.
This is the same here in Ontario, Canada in 2 of the biggest non-toronto cities.
Why do you require sources from majormajor and not anonporridge? Neither presented supporting data for their opinions, but majormajor was simultaneously pointing out that anonporridge didn't. You seem to be showing your bias in favor of anonporridge's positions by who you choose to demand evidence from.
My experience in London is that it just depends on where you are going.

- Local neighborhood? Walking or cycling is fastest

- Next high street over? Bus or cycling is fastest

- Most places in central London? Tube or train is fastest

- That neighborhood a mile away that inexplicably has bad bus connections to you but you need to go because that's where the vet/store/whatever you need to visit is? Driving is often the best way, especially if you need to carry something. Cycling is pretty good, too.

- That village 30 miles away? Driving or train (depending on your train line connections)

- Full-size Ikea in Wembley? Driving (pretty hard to get there any other way) and you are probably going to want to bring something back

- Mini-Ikea in Hammersmith? Take the Underground, driving wouldn't even really be possible

Overall, I end up driving fairly rarely to never except for vacations or home repair type stuff. But having a multitude of transit options is really nice and most daily activities just require walking or quick local bus rides.

I'm as pro-public-transit and cycling as they come, but there are definitely some types of trips where cars make sense. But I probably only drive 2-3 times a month vs. multiple times a day in the US. Zip cars are fairly omnipresent around London, so you don't need to own a car to drive those rare trips.
What could they do? It's kind of like a failed state. How to you recreate a core with integrity?

You cannot rely on the managers that you want to let go to implement the change that you need.
So you do realise that it is an intentional design by Apple to prevent upgrades. (Must be nice to have money to waste if one is willing to spend 10x to 50x replacing a whole motherboard because one of the cheaper soldered parts stops working and can't be easily replaced ...)
The Chinese fixed their rockets using classified information that the American companies leaked in their report on the crash. This gave the Chinese missile industry a major advance in guidance tech.

In recent years the "cherred" (sic) Chinese space program has heavily borrowed without asking from the soviet and other world space programs to race through a checklist of space achievements the Chinese want to pretend they developed themselves.

For example: see Shenzhou 5's uncanny resemblance to a Soyuz capsule.

Now, to be sure, China hasn't cloned these 1:1. They have even managed to hit checklist items that the rest of the world hasn't got to yet, like communicating with a spacecraft landed on the far side of the moon. But foreign design bones are deeply embedded in their entire program and it's plainly visible to any that care to look.

Contrast this behavior to the US/Soviet space race where each side developed unique spacecraft and spacestation designs with unique abilities and unique degrees of success. With one exception: in the late 80s, on the verge of their collapse, the soviets copied the American spaceshuttle. They even made it better than the American version in almost every way but didn't realize that the entire concept was a huge boondoggle that was a mistake for the US to even develop and fly.
I always love to see Prolog in the wild, but a project that's this protective about its documentation (e.g., http://pages.xlog.ch/littab/doclet/en/docs/15_manual/02_refe...):

> All industrial property rights regarding the information - copyright and patent rights in particular - are the sole property of XLOG Technologies AG. If the company was not the originator of some excerpts, XLOG Technologies AG has at least obtained the right to reproduce, change and translate the information.

> Reproduction is restricted to the whole unaltered document. Reproduction of the information is only allowed for non-commercial uses. Small excerpts can be used if properly cited. Citations must at least include the document title, the product family, the product version, the company, the date and the page.

(am I already violating the provisions by quoting those paragraphs?) makes me immediately scared of what will happen if I use it.
> One thing I've wondered about with such systems as performance: I would be nervous about pathological cases leading to really bad performance or even DOS attacks. My understanding of Prolog in particular is that sometimes I get in your program to run to completion requires a nontrivial understanding of the backtracking algorithm them so you can judiciously place cuts, etc.

That depends on which constructs are you using. It's perfectly fine to write modern Prolog code without any cut, but the sad thing is that those constructs (once/1, dif/2, if_/3, tabling, ...) aren't taught in most books out there (the exception is The Power of Prolog) which still perpetuates these ideas about Prolog.
My experience is that it’s common for people to meet in central London (and/or to have loca friends in the area you live) for this reason. Houses and workplaces are usually coordinated to minimise travel time (although there’s been a huge increase in homeworking since covid which is reducing the need for this).
Does this app do anything special, or is it just $8 a month for something that nobody's bothered to make an open source version of yet?
bare js, or bare DOM specifically has no way of doing declarative changes. if you're okay writing purpose-specific imperative dom manip logic, it gets quite tedius and long in the tooth. your app that could have been 2k lines with a framework is now 10k lines without one, and will grow at 5x the rate, and amount of JS parsed and executed needed to do the same thing.

bare DOM works fine up to a certain size/complexity app, and up to a certain size dev team in the single digits.
But it is, Blanche! It is hate based!
Imagine removing a timer that helps all types of professions(teachers, parents, therapists, etc) to make more money.

Almost as if the mission statements conflict with each other to the point where a creator’s timer on YouTube leads to more selling of ads and thus makes them incentivized to remove it from search entirely.

https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/our-approach

Hopefully is a fluke. I’ll be moving on if it’s not.
For another cli based IP address utility check out IPinfo.io's CLI: https://github.com/ipinfo/cli

It doesn't currently support calculations, but it does support conversion of start-end ranges to CIDRs (via `range2cidr` and `cidr2range`) and `grepip`. If you just want to get details for an IP it's gives a great overview, and supports bulk lookup too:

$ ipinfo 8.8.8.8
Core
- IP 8.8.8.8
- Anycast true
- Hostname dns.google
- City Mountain View
- Region California
- Country United States (US)
- Location 37.4056,-122.0775
- Organization AS15169 Google LLC
- Postal 94043
- Timezone America/Los_Angeles

ASN
- ID AS15169
- Name Google LLC
- Domain google.com
- Route 8.8.8.0/24
- Type business

Company
- Name Google LLC
- Domain google.com
- Type business

Privacy
- VPN false
- Proxy false
- Tor false
- Relay false
- Hosting false
- Service

Abuse
- Address US, CA, Mountain View, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, 94043
- Country United States (US)
- Email network-abuse@google.com
- Name Abuse
- Network 8.8.8.0/24
- Phone +1-650-253-0000
Yes, but someone from Long Island or Connecticut who works in Manhattan is unlikely to drive, while someone from those areas who works one town over will almost certainly drive. That will definitely skew these numbers if they don’t adjust for it
I think everything you're saying is exactly right. I think most developers wouldn't be happy doing what needed to be done to be successful (mostly the emphasis on marketing).
Breaking into the big book scene with no name recognition is almost impossible. It is a lot easier to gain traction in new media like podcasts/webcomics/socials(tiktok)
> I think there is also a new profession coming: a DALL-E prompter job.

Exactly, except we call this job "Artist" or "Programmer".

Whenever something like this comes along and people decry that it will "replace artists" or "replace programmers"... someone needs to generate the inputs to get what they want. Nothing helps solve the "But I know what I mean" problem. Either it's not good enough to do "general purpose" tasks, or it is, but it needs coaxing and someone who understands interacting with the systems well enough to get the desired output.
"Every org , team , project and task is a pawn in an elaborate multiplayer game of promo chess. Career success is defined not only by technical excellence but also in how well you can align and deliver your projects within the chess game that is currently in play. Fail to learn this and you will burn out or be forced to quit."

I guess so. I can relate to this 100%. So I guess so. Hate that it is like this, but it is 100% correct.
Why don't just work on current position? I'm working as a programmer for 15 years and I'm trying my best to evade any kinds of promotions because my salary suits me and additional responsibilities will detract me from writing code.

Those people who don't get promoted are fired?
This is almost certainly an accident. I remember when the Search SRE team got paged because some simple math formula wasn't giving am answer box. Something like 42+7 giving 49. Turns out that this was getting classified as "porn seeking" and giving an empty results page if Safe Search was on. This probably would have never been noticed if there wasn't a end-to-end prober test because this particular formula was an example in the Google Home instruction pamphlet.

Search is very a complex system and quite possibly there is a poor SRE looking into this right now.
It's weird to see this topic discussed historically without mentioning Foucault (Discipline and Punish, English Title), even if just to dismiss him. I have to assume Baldwin read it, and can only assume that he dislikes that book so much he doesn't want people to read it.
I open my Windows 10 start menu, type in 'timer', and no results are found. Same for 'stopwatch'.

The google timer just worked.
That makes sense, thank you. This reminds that most people don't really want "native" experiences on their devices, and mostly think about "consistency". I guess that's the same use case for using a shell to do basic chores.
I mean people don’t put up with those costs and complexity for no reason.

Carrying stuff and long distances are the big ones for me day to day. My nearest grocery store is 1.5 miles away, my friends 19 miles away, the nearest Costco is 5 miles away, IKEA is 11 miles away.

Just last weekend I rented a small venue for a birthday party and had to transport about 100 lbs of food, drinks, serveware, decorations, and alcohol 18 miles of highway.

The weekend before I was camping at a festival and again the car was packed with coolers, tents, and clothes. That was a 56 mile trip.

Getting to my airport is 2.5 hours by public transport or 20 minutes by car.
Yep, after thinking about this and trying my hand at being the first "engineer" at a pre-product fit startup, I decided that this kind of thing is fine and even sensible advice for people who just want to run a successful business, any business at all, but just very much isn't for me. I like thinking about how to scale up software, not how to get more engagement. I'm just a better fit for more established companies that have a product with some amount of existing flywheel and need to keep it working, improve it, and expand it.

I think the advocacy for these content based businesses would honestly make more sense directed to people whose direct interest is in business and marketing who just need to learn how to do some simple "low code"ing to turn their ideas into businesses. I don't think most of us here got into the programming game to start blogging and book-writing businesses!

Edit to add: I do really like The Pragmatic Engineer by the way! I'm glad the author is interested in this kind of business, because I benefit from it. It just isn't the right sort of thing for me to work on. Different strokes for different folks.