skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think they are comparable really.

10+ years means over ten years.

+/- 10 years is an addition/subtraction and making a range.
Have you heard of Dynamic Programming?
About 20 years ago I had a job where I was called an 'Integration Engineer'. It would be called Dev Ops now. It will be called something different in 20 years. Who cares?
Fixing a Flaky Test and Avoiding Sleeps with Playwright
I hate virtually all notifications, and go out of my way to disable as many as I can. My devices are in permanent DnD mode.

Only exception is for phone, some IM (not all), and some mail.
I think there are two trends missing:

1. Immigration. The global worker shortage will result in countries competing for workers. Many young people will move to the country that offers the best quality of life. Global wage discrepancies will disappear, and high-tax countries need to justify their high taxes by offering more services to workers.

2. Energy. While in the short run there's an Energy crisis especially in Europe, there is so much money being invested in research that sooner or later new technology will offer an abundance of energy. 20 years may be not enough to reach that state, but energy abundance will have an enormous impact on humanity and even the prospect of it will change thinking.
The best part is how Cook declared that the future of Apple is in services like Apple Music, but then Apple made it harder to consume those services by removing the headphone jack from its best-selling music player (the iPhone) and gimping its battery to make it "thinner."

So dumb.
Ask HN: Fnac's Stack?
I've been impressed by the user-experience, stability etc at Fnac (the French Amazon, if you will). I guess there're a few Fnac devs who hang around here; could anyone give an outline of their tech stack? (I'm not looking for trade secrets, just a high-level summary).
I agree. The mini is smaller but has a larger screen than the SE. Face ID works really well.

I just hope the 13 has better battery life than the 12. My 12 mini drains half the battery on idle within 24 hours if mobile data is enabled.
The only notifications I ever use are IM, SMS and work e-mail (with all work-related stuff only showing up when the client is open) - and this includes my phone. I don't know why would I ever need anything else; maybe aside of calendar - that one I can understand, I just happen to not use it.
If it’s a thing for you, then celebrate it. Personally I hate the pressure of gift giving or making a big deal about it and practically beg people to not mention it. Unfortunately there is a social stigma where people feel they have to acknowledge it.
I wonder whether a voting system with more than one dimension could work here?

(I am sure people have tried it before..)
Funny to see something from CSIRO on HN. I have an indirect connection with them (client wanted to integrate with one of the tech companies they sponsor).

Agree with most of their list, save 7 - they've made a diagnosis but think there's still a cure. I don't and reckon it's probably worthwhile to start thinking about a peaceful path forward when public trust reaches critically low levels, rather than letting something happen "spontaneously".
This, really. While screen sizes have been getting bigger, the aspect ratio has been getting taller and the bezels/body of the phones has been getting smaller. While I agree that regardless of all of this modern phones are too big, you can't just look at the screen size.

Here is a comparison between a few phones: https://phonesized.com/compare/#1784,1862,1863,365,632,126 (the Zenfone 9 is not in the database yet, but it's almost identical at the Zenfone 8).

What I find more interesting is that their website focus so much on it being compact, but it's actually just pretty much the same size as the regular iphone.
I'm not sure any of this stands out to me as particularly imperialistic. The standards thing just seems like a sensible move to try and get leadership in high tech industries, which any country would be smart to do. As for the military aspects, I think this is a bit funny. China has 2m active military personnel vs 1.3m US active personnel, which doesn't seem outlandish whey you compare populations.

As for the fleet and the disputes, we are literally talking about disputes between China and the US in the South China sea. All these disputes are quite clearly about China being pissed off that the US is projecting power right on their doorstep. It's similar to Russia parking its missiles in Cuba - completely unacceptable to the US. I don't think it's unreasonable for China to be looking at finding ways to challenge that hegemony.

I'm not going to try and make the claim that US and China are similar regimes- they're not, not at all. I don't beleive for a second that a hegemonic China with power similar to what the US has had would be anywhere near as good as the US has (and I'm not saying the US is perfect). But I do think there's a certain level of asymmetrical judgement here. Why is the US running warships through disputed waters off the coast of China? That seems a lot more like US Imperialism than Chinese Imperialism.
I think this is true in the US (from the stories I've heard/read about at least), I grew up in Southeast Asia though, there isn't much of a culture for over-prescribing (or prescribing anything really :p) people medication there. I've never even been medicated for my ADHD, and only 1 or 2 of my friends have as well and that was well after they turned 18.

I think tech really does have a bigger impact than we'd like to think, and certainly prescribing kids things like Ritalin at young ages when they're naturally a bit hyper definitely doesn't help either.
Hard agree on AI, hard disagree on Tech Debt. The sheer force of opinion saturated into so few words made me smile :) My highlights:

- OOP 'modules, but using the word class'

- Agile 'It used to mean “not waterfall” and now means “waterfall with a status meeting every day and an internal demo every two weeks'

- AI 'an algorithm pushed to production by a programmer who doesn’t understand it'
The trouble with the term "technical debt" is that people tend to use it retroactively to describe messes which may not have been necessary or the result of an intentional technical choice.

It's uncomfortable to say, "In retrospect that was an unfortunate, unnecessary, and shortsighted choice that didn't really save any justifiable amount of time or money", so instead people say, "We've accumulated some technical debt" to cover up mistakes instead of acknowledging and learning from them.
This is wonderful. I just learnt that a composer I love the music of was born where I currently live (Michael Nyman) and that some of my favourite actors come from where I grew up (UK South coast).

Great idea, good way to learn more about people and places.
I agree, the story would have had to go:

Shire -> Buckland -> Old Forest (Tom) -> Bree -> Rivendell

Instead of:

Shire -> Bree -> Rivendell

Part of me still wished he featured; or at least the spirit of Bombadil's relationship to the ring was embodied by something/someone in the story.
not sure that will fly with the marketing team
Yeah, EU has a much richer history since we don't know much about the US pre-1750.

Go over the Levant and you start seeing Paul the Apostle, Diogenes, Ptolemy, etc. which makes Voltaire look like a modern political commentator.
I really enjoyed the books from the 50's before people really started thinking of computers, plastics, composite materials and so on.

They would be flying around in their spaceships using slide rulers to calculate everything, wearing their fur-lined space suits etc.
Interesting. For our small town in Germany (Lastrup) it's Ludger Gerdes [1]

But even tho not born in Lastrup, Özlem Türeci [2] who helped develop the Biontech Corona vaccine grew up here.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludger_Gerdes

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96zlem_T%C3%BCreci
My answer to the question of whether should X know Y is yes if this is what you do on daily basis. If this is relevant but needed only occasionally, then just having a vague awareness of it existing and being able to find exact information when needed is enough. In my opinion, a professional is not somebody who knows absolutely everything there is to know in the field, but someone who firstly has a lot of hands-on experience and somebody who can quickly fill in the gaps in the knowledge when necessary.

A "professional software dev" is a very broad category. In most of web development, you can get away just fine without knowing how many bits are in a byte. On the other hand, in Arduino you'd encounter bits and bytes on a regular basis.

As for me, if somebody was to ask me this question during an interview, I would assume that it's a trick question. There were some old exotic architectures in the past such as IBM that stored data in 6bits.
FWIW dropped my iPhone 12+ several times (a recurring occurrence with some pants I use when I put the phone in the front pocket and sit on my office chair). So far, I can still wash it and even use it in the pool with the kids.

Of course, YMMV.
Anyway, can't help you with how, but I'll sure read a blog about this.
That's true. It's still the case that the Aztec are famous for it, and for other pyramids, most notably the Templo Mayor, which was destroyed (and good riddance) to build Mexico City's cathedral.

"Acshually, the Pyramid of the Sun is pre-Aztec!" is a bit like insisting the Coliseum isn't Italian. It's not that it's wrong, just autistic and annoying.
The Cutting Room Floor has an entry about a prototype version of the game from before Warner Bros started messing with its development. It covers some of the differences between the prototype and the production game and provides a download link for the prototype ROM.

https://tcrf.net/Proto:Superman_(Nintendo_64)
These are great. They must be abusing note velocity for the "art" sections, right? The melodic parts are obviously being played much more loudly (velocity in MIDI terms) than the beautiful tapestry-like backgrounds. Although I realise a lot of the crazy stuff is also a valid part of the composition (the big blocks of notes emulating drum beats etc).
right-click and save?
Not that I'd advocate for using notifications, but the problem with screen zoom seems easily solvable by showing notifications on an overlay layer that's placed independently of the screen zoom.
Unfortunately a great many people simply immediately and without thinking follow their feelings, never questioning the results before acting. And I'm not talking during a terror attack, or other high-tension situations where it might be understandable. Always, or very nearly always.

So the "advantage" people are after is often an immediate and tiny satisfaction of their feelings, a perceived slight increase in their social status. Most examples in the article, such as not stepping aside when something is in your way.

And, frankly, being "ready for that" to some extent is a great piece of advice. Unfortunately.
Though I suspect the Kalman filter only can be described as averaging, if the distributions are mono-modal?

(Or is Kalman filter defined to only work for Gaussian distributions anyway, and otherwise you call it Bayesian updating?)
Brian Blessed is more famous than Diana Rigg.
There are some differences between “tech debt” and “debt”:

Debt has to be serviced, and if it isn’t some asset is probably forfeited or you can be forced into bankruptcy. Not so for tech debt.

Debt is known for certain in a measurable quantity. Tech debt is not measurable and only exists to the extent people argue it exists. Two engineers may disagree in how much tech debt there is.

Debt can be used to fund things with a clear nexus. I borrow $1m to buy a house. Tech debt is taking on often unknowingly or even as a result of software dependency upgrades (or cloud) that turn debt-free into debted software silently.

There are probably plenty of other differences that make it a sort of half-applicable metaphor.
I forgot to say that TC simulator aims to high performance. That makes it more fun to use than Logicsim even if the feature set is more limited for now.
For one place of work, yes, just like you only need a couple of actual engineers to design a product and then an army of robots actually builds it.

This doesn't diminish the supply of jobs much though, as it lowers barrier to entry, many startups appear to compete, each needing its own artists to feed their AI with new and interesting styles.

And a new category of artists will emergence, one that is expert in specifically crafting styles amenable to AI transfer.
I appreciate that's a fair concern, perfectly legitimate, but how far we have come that only having half a charge after 24 hours is disappointing.
Almost every platform these days convert uploaded gifs to mp4 to display anyway.
It's a game of cat and mouse. As someone that works on detection content, I would consider patterns I consider false postivie a secret. Because potential attackers can otherwise craft their payloads and techniques to go undetected.

For example, if you consider a nikto or openvas user-agent a false positive when detecting for specific traffic anomalies all one has to do is use those user-agents and evade detection.

That said, I do appreciate and use things like MISP warning-lists with care.
I found it more Intuitive to control my computer with mouse instead of keyboard shortcuts, as most regular user do.
Why do you believe against all evidence, that government owned and controlled companies can run at a lower cost that provate for profit companies?

What is the incentive to reduce costs, make the business more efficient, provide a quality service? And if there is such an incentive, can you please explain why you believe it is stronger than the profit motive
, even with all the dis-incentives in place in a not for profit company
Climate change will increase storm surge flooding in NYC, Miami and D.C
Check this one out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1885690/Virtual_Circuit_B...

It focuses on performance, and looks quite beautiful.
Yes, I use notifications from my bank and credit card so I know when someone is taking my money.
Are you for real? The edges are not sharp at all.
Expert Finds Compelling Explanation for Mysterious Red Glow in Ocean
It wasn't a "Stranger Things" portal opening to another dimension, like many social media users speculated online this week. In reality, it sounds like the mysterious red glow that pilot Dustin Maggard captured in photos and video of the Pacific Ocean was perfectly human in origin.
Speed limits for quantum phenomena have been extended to macro-sized objects
I had a Dell Mini 10 (actually 1012), and it was a bit larger, so keyboard was actually useable. Plus it had a useful screen resolution (1300s vs 1024 for width).
Ask HN: A technical write-up of the original QuickDraw region algorithms?
So this is maybe more of a rant than a question, but I just spent almost an hour trying and failing to find a blog that I read a few years ago. It had multiple articles explaining how Bill Atkinson's famous QuickDraw regions worked (maybe also including how he did the roundrect thing), and how they allowed for fast graphics on early Apple machines.

It's not any of these links [0][1][2][3][4][5], although admittedly they probably already got me 80% of the way of what there is to understand about regions. And I know the original source code has been released[6], but since I can't read 68K assembly that's not going to help me unless I turn this into a long-term project.

I'm honestly a bit surprised by this. Plenty of articles gushing about how important these algorithms were to the success of Apple and why they were patented, lots of PDFs of original manuals, old forum discussions on the expiration of patents, but no detailed articles that try to give a detailed explanation of how it all worked? It kind of feels like preserving history by saving the marketing but not the product itself.

So my slightly upset rant aside, I'm kind of hoping that I'm just unlucky with search engines getting worse at finding these type of technical articles with a niche audience. Does anyone remember the blog posts I was talking about and happen to have them bookmarked?

[0] https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=I_Still_Remember_Regions.txt

[1] https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.txt

[1] http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_View/Entries/2010/8/29_Regions.html

[3] https://www.info-mac.org/viewtopic.php?t=17328

[4] http://wg20.criticalcodestudies.com/index.php?p=/discussion/80/code-critique-roundrects-apple-quickdraw-source-code

[5] http://www.verycomputer.com/275_4a6b5f879a8d4eab_1.htm

[6] www.computerhistory.org/highlights/macpaint/
It isn’t telepathy, modern quantum terminology has it as “teleportation” (hate that word.) the wormholes are in our brains.

If you could reliably hear the thoughts of others a million bucks isn’t your problem, it is the secret power occult society of thought control (who will human sacrifice your children to keep you quite.)

Those skilled in manipulating consciousness (aka “power”) were less guarded in generations before (mastermind theory of MKS and Napoleon Hill discuss how intelligent people explore and identify this phenomena in the past.) I like those stories about the voices alerting people of health crisis. PKD even has one such stories.

Their explanations make more sense if disembodied others are fooling around in our minds, rather than these actually understanding what is happening to themselves. (Of which admit it, we’re terrible at that.)

As we’re talking about our brains being entangled, the voices aren’t hiding in another room, they are a thousand miles away in isolated security. Fewer can manipulate consciousness than those sensitive enough to “hear” it happening.

Notice how many times ”the voices” are mentioned in public shootings. Or “the thoughts won’t stop. HELP ME”. Yeah, “dismissed”. Thanks science.

“Easily dismissed”, is ironic considering it is easier to refuse to believe. That’s incredulity, not science.
I have a severe ADHD, so nearly all notifications are disabled, except for reminders, which I use heavily. This is literally a matter of survival for me.

But I don’t know anyone who doesn’t switch off most of notifications.
Ayn Rand for St. Petersburg...

Hmm, I would have guessed Putin would out rank her, but maybe name changes affect things?
What if they can have an engineer work 60h/week to try to deliver the promises, and not being able to say no (someone else signs off) and also gets to take all the blame if things too long? Wouldn't that be great
I know this is all anecdotal, but my 13 mini lasts consistently longer than my 8 ever did and I’m super happy with the battery. I’ve never had it not make it through a day, even when GPS and brightness is cranked with the Disney World app (which is why I had to carry a battery with my 8 when I went there). Makes me wonder how long the Xr battery would last with my workload.
Got one of these during my second year of uni. Couldn't afford a full blown laptop, this handled the job good enough for me. I was able to read class notes, do some coursework on it when the lab was full. Even got it run a LAMP stack for some coursework. I still have this in my loft space, I just can't bare to get rid of devices.
Answering a question I had looking at this amazing work, the data set has a heavy English influence, but they are aware of it and also worked toward mitigating the effect. From the source:

> This strategy results in a cross-verified database of 2.29 million unique individuals (an elite of 1/43,000 of human being having ever lived) among which 30% come from the 6 non-English editions of Wikipedia, a significant improvement over earlier works that have only focused on English Wikipedia only.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01369-4
The ironic part was when android manufacturers started mimicking this design; it was a factor in making me go back to the iPhone. I have had my current one for over a year, and the only falls it ever suffered were from my pocket in some pants when I sit in my office chair and start lazily reclining. If it ever slipped from my hand, it was so rare that I can't remember.
Undersea eruption filled atmosphere with water – Science – AAAS
I find it pretty helpful to just accept the new meaning of "artificial intelligence": a program making a decision you didn't explicitly code it to make. Note that this includes even the most basic statistical decision methods, which the term is used for not too infrequently.

We already have more specifuc technical words for the approaches that are generally sold as "artificial intelligence", like neural networks/machine learning etc.
Same here, there was nothing wrong with them.

Microsoft has been pushing for xml configuration files alongside applications, but even their own teams don't listen, so here we are.
It really is the best. People would come up to me and say "wow, you have a _classic_ iPhone". Now I'm just waiting for Apple to release an iPhone Classic!
> They have bajillions of notes but most of the notes are not audible

Good point; and if they would be audible the latency would have been unbearable, since the MIDI 1.x protocol only supports ~31kbit/s; each note requires 3 bytes for on an off each; so e.g. a chord with more than ~20 notes no longer sounds like a chord, but like an arpeggio; many expanders I had were even slower.
I thought devops was the cattle not pets mentality. Script all the things. Then CI. Then Terraform. Not necessarily that tool, but that class of solution.
Intel's 56-Core Sapphire Rapids Tested: Faster Than 64-Core EPYC
Compare https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/
>If there is a masterplan to blow up the west with silly music videos, then maybe our society deserves to be blown up and replaced by something freer and stronger?

I'd be much more sympathetic to this line of thought if society getting blown up - even if it ultimately results in improvement - didn't usually involve unbelievable amounts of suffering and death.
Samsung Z Flip 3. you're welcome
“psychologist/neuroscientist developing computer models to understand how intelligence works” is a very niche domain of artificial intelligence which has, for half a century, meant "the attempt to duplicate intelligence in algorithms"
That's a community effort, and from previous experiences some pretty random things can be broken, but if the contributors don't care, they won't even look into it. It's fine, but it's not an alternative to actual updates.

In the same way, mods for games aren't an alternative to the developer just fixing issues.
Ironic how you point out the subjectivity of what a likable phone is while also saying how the Pro Max is objectively great, lol. By the end of the day the person that you’re replying to is just expressing an opinion, which is allowed.
Opsec hates devops!
I've had "Eee PC" / Netbook for many years as my travel entertainment companion. I still have and use for the same purpose their newer thin and tiny Laptop (forgot what it is called) which is essentially netbook in anything but name
Isn't the speed just capped low for everyone, so that video streaming is unpleasant?
You're right, total false equivalence. Plain clothes thugs hired or forced to show up in person, and you can assume plain clothes users are hired or forced to comment online too.

It's how they stay in power, a living army ready to deploy for anything that makes them look bad.

Sure I'd do the same for my country, but the difference is I am not forced to do it. I choose to defend our values while earning a decent living.
I am curious about this statement:

[OOP] might mean ... “modules, but using the word class”

I would argue that "modules" is almost as useless of a term as "OOP". What does the author mean exactly?