skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They are so slow, though.

I guess that depends?

I used to go to an AS/400 ERP software conference every year. The number of users dwindled and each year was a game of "Who's missing this year..."

Rightfully, everyone was going to SaaS products or Windows-based systems.

One year, I didn't see a group that was usually there (they were missed as always bought tons of company swag to give away). Emailed the CTO after the conference to ask what was up, and they were 75% complete switching over to one of the big-name, Windows-based on-prem ERP systems.

They bought the software, 4/5 Windows licenses for SQL, IIS, backup server, etc. The next year they were back at the conference! They could never get the new software to process their daily shipping fast enough for it to work.
I wish that Shelley had co-written this letter with either a tech employee or a more tech-focused librarian. The problem that she mentions is real: I've worked in her position and can confirm. But the way the letter is written makes it clear that she's not very familiar with the tech industry or how things are developed.

If I were a Google engineer, this would read like one of dozens of pleas we get constantly to change X, Y, or Z for some small portion of the served population. And software devs in general find those demands annoying, particularly given some of the language that Shelley uses.

I think this would have gotten more reach and been better received if Shelley had a co-writer that acknowledged the reasons for 2FA from a security standpoint and emphasized the trade-offs that are being made + suggest other security measures. Likewise, having someone with a better understanding of tech would mean being able to do things like present some solutions that don't amount to "Oh most magic of Google Oracles, please fix this." Also the suggestion that they could contact her to learn about where patrons get stuck made me cringe slightly.

Basically, there's a misaimed moralizing tone throughout the letter that I think is at odds with its stated purpose, and it could have been written better, but the problem is real.
Wait until you hear how many Starlinks have already fallen to the ground...
A report from 1995 published in Berlin? You could do better than that.
The craziest thing about this is that it’s effectively an attack vector for any adversary to be active within that time window given it can measure eye movements or predict it. I’ve come across some material that shows some ML/NN stuff was trained on it to validate if it could pass human perception (yes, easily).
Me too facing this issue
That's utter bullshit. Do you have a source or even examples of their biased reporting?
>definitions "have to be changed" for bidens words to be "true"

I think that's backwards from reality.

The definition used in the US for decades (the NBER one, founded 1920) would say no recession yet. The naive, yet incorrect, definition some people want to change to (2 quarters) would make it a recession.
I introduced Docusaurus as the way to finally unite all documentation for our project and it has been a huge success.

Our project consists of many components and we used to have a bunch of md files scattered around. Due to the MD-native nature of Docusaurus migrating from that to a Docusaurus site was really easy.

Even though a lot of customization is possible, the default theme is a great start and made our docs looks much more polished.

The thing I liked the most is that it's now a lot easier to contribute to it, and a lot of internal and external developers are adding content to it, which at the end of the day, is the important part.

Last, y discovered unDraw (https://undraw.co) through Docusaurus and it has been an invaluable resource!

Thanks Docusaurus team! <3
Sorry about that you are not the first to tell me I use too much bold. Will remember for next time
As it looks now we are heading to a semi slump with declining demand and oversupply while bailing out a disfunctional giant. My guess we are going to see fabs that are so challenged on revenue that they are unable to cover the operational costs. Let alone provide a return on the amount invested.
> I suppose you missed that it was a bit tongue in cheek

Indeed I missed that! :)

> You can just compile to JVM bytecode

Perhaps, but it's a hack with no clear advantage, whereas with a container I'm just using kernel features for better isolation and resource management. The application was compiled the way it was meant to be compiled when written.

> the tautology of your previous comment. It boils down to "it doesn't run anything that doesn't run on it."

Perhaps if you take my comment in isolation, but when you put it in context it doesn't.

The thread went:

- Kubernetes reinvented VMs in a good sense (OP)

- I thought we had this kind of covered 20 years ago with J2EE (a rebuttal of OP)

- Doesn't really handle multiple process isolation and IPC as well. (your own comment rebutting the rebuttal :P )

- It also doesn't really handle anything that doesn't run on the JVM. (my comment, adding that it's even farther from the J2EE)

Hopefully this shows how my comment, when taken in context, is not a simple tautology because it adds information.
The Chips Act Is Popular, Bipartisan, and a Bad Idea
You make this claim, but it's not supported by the edit history, which suggests relatively few changes to the actual text (most of it being standard Wikipedia nitpicking, not an edit war), a lot of bikeshedding about alternative wordings on the talk page few of which materially change the factual content and most of which places less emphasis on the NBER definition which Biden is using and Wikipedia always used, plus the unusual introduction of a Talk Page FAQ requesting people to read it before "hate posting" about Wikipedia editors conspiring to make the article more supportive to Biden...
I've never signed up for a newsletter and never will. It's not so much the newsletter awareness push that irks me but the incessant pop-ups and pop-overs that must be dismissed each and every time I visit a site. It's almost paywall-level intrusive. I really miss the RSS days - if you wanted to receive regular updates, it was opt-in and didn't feel like being accosted by a panhandler.
Too soon. Everyone is still milking it. Ask again in 10 years time.
Yes, many many times. I used to work in Haiti and though we had wifi on base I relished any time away from it.

I used to hike between the villages there and carry a $20 dumb (dual sim) that only had two numbers: my wife and my work. Even having the work number was fine because the conversations were very simple: no images, no text, just verbal exchange.

Blissful.
> They are the same value, but with different identities. vs[0], vs[1] etc. are different objects

What allows you to say that they have different identities? They are zero-sized types. Literally zero. `()` is a type and `()` its the only possible value. log(1) = 0 bit. If you look into machine code you will not find anything that you can call an object. The very existence of `()` is a shared dream of a programmer and compiler, and `()` ceased to exist after a compilation.

> But imagine the following program

In this program you are using types of size > 0bit, which allows more than 1 value of that type. But even then I wouldn't bet that they are different objects only because you changed one. If you didn't, it would be completely logical to replace them all with just one value in a memory, while pretending that there are many copies of it.

In this particular case I don't believe rustc would manage to do it even if we drop mutation from the example. And I can't think of a case when it will manage. But I wouldn't bet that such case doesn't exist.

> By the way, note that your example should be completely equivalent to the following C++ program

Hmm... And if we write in C++ something like:

fn main() {
let vs = [(), (), (), (), ()];
for i in vs.iter() {
println!("{:?} {:?}", v, v as *const ());
}
}

Will we get an output like this:

() 0x7ffdae96bec8
() 0x7ffdae96bec8
() 0x7ffdae96bec8
() 0x7ffdae96bec8
() 0x7ffdae96bec8

Will all addresses be equal? If they are, then the proposition "C++ also pays a price for insisting not only that objects have addresses, but those addresses are distinct"* is false.
This is just the brain correcting for inputs and it does it all the time.

My friend had a stroke which damage the occipital lobe (vision) and he had an "empty space" there (about 20% of the field of vision).

After a couple years it was gone. It wasn't really gone, it was just "filled in" by the brain to an extent it wasn't noticeable at all.

If you tested them using accurate equipment to see field of vision you could catch it. But if you asked him, there was no "empty" spot any more.
I think the Southeast will happily take over this nearly double growing season, with their climate.

Let the desert return to being a desert.
The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com
We've kicked the can so far down the road that the cost isn't really a factor any more -- both Nuclear and Renewable are less than the cost of doing nothing. The question is what

Sadly nobody in charge seems to be bothered. Europe should have been plating the Iberian peninsular in solar for the last 10 years, especially after Crimea. Germany was doing great with solar until about 2015, when it pretty much stopped. From 2009-2014 solar went from 1% of electric consumption to 6%. From 2014-2019 it went from 6% to 8%, not even the same increase let alone continuing on the exponential line.

But while the best time to be building out like your civilisation depended on it was 10 years ago, the second best time is now. Especially with Europe's reliance on Gas from Russia, it should be building everything it can, no moaning about planning permission or people complaining about the scenery etc. Every kWh of solar, or wind, generated is 1kWh of gas not used. More high voltage interconnections should be built to shift power everywhere, especially from Southern Spain, Siciliy and the Penlopenese (where solar should be going), and from Denmark/Netherlands for offshore wind, funded from ECB loans.

Overproduction is not a problem, it can be dumped into green hydrogen generation if nothing else (although again places like Finland are making strides with hot sand storage).
Yeh same for me, I'm a big thinkpad fan (I own 5 of them, 7 if you include the ones I broke in attempts to do some outlandish mods), but I do occasionally find issues out the box, though that can be down to the distro you use as well.

That being said, an imperfect out the box experience just gives me an excuse to get another (old) thinkpad, so every cloud
Why? The entire activity is within our simulated expectation of how time works vs how it really works.

To the aliens we are using bumper lanes for time. Like bowling.
> Given this, it seems like MacBooks could easily end up becoming the laptop of choice for Linux developers in the years to come.

Sounds like a failure for free software and open source, and the quest for progressing for open systems in general.
Write to your law makers. Don’t trust companies to provide access through public shaming and media, force them all to do so.
How to integrate with external concerns within a domain model
I recommend getting keyed into a learning community. These topics are really hot so lots of people do this. In fact… I’m getting ready to study the topic this upcoming semester as well.

Check out this discord server, it is very active, and has an associated reddit community. https://discord.gg/learnaitogether

I’m ember#4242, and I’ve set up a small server to focus me and some friends. you (and anyone reading!) are welcome to join: https://discord.gg/7yv6hF3Csq
This is really neat. I like how the compression can be applied to specific columns rather than whole rows - or whole pages. I could imagine storing JSON from an HTTP request here and using Generated Columns[1] to extract the bits my application is interested in.

I also like how simple and powerful the custom partitioning is.

[1]: https://www.sqlite.org/gencol.html
Oh yeah, it was just an example of how this population stays with familiar products far beyond their usual lifespan. So they often want support for products and services that are old or unsupported. And why changes really screw them over: A lot of these people just have GMail accounts from when they were easier to use.

MS did well on this one, I agree. (And I also hate MS but credit where credit is due.)
There is a podcast call "You Are Not So Smart" that talks about all the ways our brain tricks us. https://youarenotsosmart.com/podcast/
The NBER, founded 1920, has been the call for recessions for around a century. That is, and has been, the definition in the US for that long.
...

TIL.
And also AMD's market cap went above Intel's last week

Can we call this "the Nokia effect"?
The same thing happens to me with my company Thinkpad.

Closing the cover does not put it to sleep, no matter what I do to the settings (admittedly it’s a very locked down device so there may be settings that are not available to me).
This doesn't mean that support would necessarily regress on existing platforms, just that there will be a window of opportunity to catch up to the state of the art.

As for the fixed function accelerator blocks, vendors who cooperate will have more robust driver implementations derived from their work to support customers who rely on it operationally.
When I heard Matt Frewer was involved I initially said, "At his age?!" Then I remembered, it's not 1987, and Max can actually be computer animated this time around. Though in fairness he was spry enough in Altered Carbon that it probably wouldn't be too bad either way.
Since you are welcoming questions, you can save me the documentation search:

My use case involves documentation for, e.g., a software library that can be used in different languages/frameworks. The documentation is the same, but then we provide examples is different languages and we're looking for a way of elegantly presenting this.

Do you support any way of marking the original markdown so that a "switch" from the UI can present one of alternative parts?

I apologize if that is not clear -- and asking about a custom use case.
I had a T14 AMD for 8 months or so last years and it was death by a thousand paper cuts. Wake from (S3) sleep would not work well, e.g. the trackpad/point would often not come back up. Sometimes the GPU wouldn't wake properly. The fingerprint reader rarely worked. Bluetooth was very flaky. Battery life was much worse than Windows. I had a Lenovo USB-C dock. However, Linux configured the lanes wrong, making it impossible to use 4k@60Hz through the dock (worked fine on Windows).
Yeah, Google just doesn't give a shit.

I was a gmail user since gmail was in private beta 18 years ago. I never had a phone number associated with it. And yet two or three years ago when I tried to log in Google decided to just... not let me do that, because fuck you, and started extorting me to give it a phone number. If I don't give it a valid phone number it won't let me access my email. But I can't really do that because, you see, I don't actually own a phone number.

So now I'm essentially locked out of my almost two decades old email account, for no good reason whatsoever except the fact that Google is a bully. Fortunately I've long since migrated to another email address on my own domain as my main address, so it doesn't really matter.

Do not depend on any Google-provided service. They don't care about you, and they will screw you over sooner or later. You're just a number to them. Most importantly, pay for any critical service you need (like email). Do not wait until it's too late. Do it NOW.
It less about the devices and more about giving the mind some simple physical task.

I have the same thing with any solitary sport. Rowing/Sculling in particular. No phones in the boat (since they're very tippy), and an hour of reasonably delicate physical activity.

The rowing movement requires a little concentration so it absorbs say 40% of the mental activity, what's leftover flows into light thinking and connection-making, without much angst.
This is a great idea and it looks super clean. One thing I noticed is the spacing and line breaks are not always rendered the way the author intended. For example in Percy Shelley's Ozymandias compare the text in the app to the Poetry.orgs text https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias

I like that you're focused on curation rather than "algorithmic" feeding of content. The Criterion Collection does this with movies. One thing they do is have guest curators make lists of their favorite movies. My suggestion would be to have authors create guest curations of their favorite poems. Just an idea.
If this happens every time your eyes move, what happens during REM sleep?
Yeah reasonable, also judging by some other comments I saw on reddit IIRC the Implementations of registries in gitea are from scratch/dependency free.

Quite a bit of work must have gone in, look forward to hearing how support/compatibility varies
not in definitive, it was more a "see you later". The company didn't have enough resources (people) to maintain the cluster and we decided to use ECS while we were still maturing as a team.
Docusaurus is very similar to VitePress, VuePress, MkDocs, Nextra, Dokz, Docus... all those tools allow you to focus on content.

I believe we have much more features and more flexibility to customize your site in Docusaurus, but other tools are great too if you look for something simpler. Our showcase (and launch blog post) references great looking Docusaurus websites that would be hard (if not impossible) to build with the other tools.

Afaik Astro has a docs starter template but it's more a boilerplate that you have to maintain after initialization, so not really comparable with the tools above.
Who pays for the hosting of these websites?
The best solution I can think of that doesn't compromise security is hardware keys. GMail has very good FIDO support. The keys are easier to use than TOTP and vastly more secure than SMS. They do not depend on any phone or phone service, and there is no transferring necessary at any time.

The librarian would just need to get the person logged in successfully one time, get the key attached to the person's account, and get the key onto the person's physical keychain. The librarian would also print out the backup codes, laminate them, and put them in the person's wallet. Once that's done, this particular library patron should have few authentication issues going forward. Assuming lots of repeat clientele, the auth night mare will largely end once everyone is setup.

Yeah, the key and codes might get lost, broken, or stolen, but that's the best you can do. If the person lost their actual keys and wallet, they've got bigger problems.

The question really is who is going to pay for these keys? They're a lot cheaper than phones at least, but not cheap enough.
Yes, it is mostly ruby if you profile it.
The 5min inactivity shut down is only for free accounts though, is chunk going to continue to run my app 24/7 on a free tier?

The boilerplate code part sounds interesting, so chunk is also a bit of a framework? That's really nice, could speed up development a lot more. You're totally right about glitch taking a while to get going with. Does that framework restrict users in anyway, can it be ignored?
I frequently see meson (and other tools like cmake) using build directories, which is something I don't like. Is there a reason to this that I am not thinking of (besides being able to "rm -rf" everything instead of doing something like "make clean")?
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You can become aware of it, or ignore it. Just like you can become aware of your heartbeat, and even influence it.

When I was a kid, I was fascinated with trying to control my heart. Even nearly 40 years later, I’m aware of my heart and it’s beating 24/7 and I can’t turn it off. I’m curious if you maybe did something as a kid that made you hyper-aware of your vision?
My guess is most people are hitting the Trough of Disillusionment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle
> First, it sends a signal to China that the United States is not serious about defending Taiwan. The United States has long maintained a policy of “strategic ambiguity” about whether it would go to war to defend Taiwan. The CHIPS Act announces to the Chinese leadership (and to the Tainwanese, for that matter) that the United States is leaning against going to war to defend Taiwan, so it’s investing in alternative sources for chips. If the United States were 100 percent committed to defending the island democracy, why would it be looking for economic alternatives?

Got it, so the CHIPS act is a bad idea because it takes war with China off the table. Typical neocon garbage article.
How about this interview where Nichelle describes what happened after telling Gene Roddenberry that she was going to leave Star Trek after the first season to pursue theater:

https://youtu.be/bpbufLzkoBM?t=549

The whole interview is great but long.
While the main focus is on the surprising compatibility of M2, I still laughed a bit at this:

> (*) I'll likely call it 6.0 since I'm starting to worry about getting confused by big numbers again.

It seems that he ran out of fingers and toes again.
I've just started using sheepit and I love it. I rendered a project in 15 minutes that took 7 hours on my own hardware. Now I just leave my windows PC running jobs from sheepit to build up my points and in two days I'm already well in the green.
I wonder if this explains how I almost never see the minutes click over on a digital clock. I think of how often I check the time, say maybe 1 second at a time staring at the clock, it should at least every now and then be flicking over to the next minute, but it almost never seems to happen while I'm actually looking at it
No reason, if you're willing to nationalize+split the monopolies.
What are the dependencies of Ninja? (I seem to remember it being a Python tool?)
"They may be a loser, but they're our loser."
James Somer's excellent blog post (and mcphee-draft-no-4) provoked a fundamental shift in the way I rewrite. Can't understate its effect. Not the least of which is that I now turn to the 1913 Webster's several times a day.

Agreed that the UI on the present iOS app is less than ideal. That said easy mobile access to those sublime definitions is super helpful. Gratitude to the dev.

Will definitely be using Wordnote (great work!) and I echo the wish that the 1913 Webster's be incorporated somehow.
Kind of?

For my new projects nowadays, I'm pushing mainly serverless approaches using AWS Lambdas (behind API Gateways for stuff that needs to be reachable by HTTP).

I think this shifts the complexity from managing Kubernetes and its accompanying ten-thousand-yaml-files to infrastructure-as-code and the complexities of dealing with AWS. And I happen to prefer the latter, even though it's not infinitely better by any margin.

For the few things that needs to be always-online, or 3rd party self-hosted apps, I'm still on Kubernetes, or pure Docker if possible.
I’ve been following that pattern in PostgreSQL and love it. It cleanly decouples the ingest and keeps the stack simple.
You really have to use the hardware to understand; things like the trackpad quality, battery life, blissful silence, and general build quality are beyond most other laptops on the market.
The only reason SACD failed and you can buy DRM-free music today is because people were concerned an pushed back hard against that crap.
Same. I also haven’t had email installed on my phone since 2012. It was such a life improvement that I can distinctly remember the day when I removed it.

Related: “inbox zero” is a trap. Why would you surrender your willpower to anyone who can reach your inbox?
U.S. Will Plant One Billion Trees to Combat Climate Change