skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a rocket built by congressional committee. Therefore it will never be worth the cost, but we'll keep funding it because it's a jobs program and not a lot more than that.
Agreed. I splurged on a Blackwing One-Step Longpoint Sharpener and I really like it. Unfortunately I loaned it to my wife and she really liked it too... ;-)

https://www.amazon.com/Blackwing-One-Step-Long-Point-Sharpen...
I never thought of it. Thank you!
> After earning a degree in computer engineering from Stanford, Garry was an engineer at Palantir and then created one of the earliest and best-designed blogging platforms, Posterous.

This is a reminder that Palantir is the firm that sells data mining software to US police and military organizations that then use it to violate human rights.

It should be a black mark on anyone’s record.
I browse with "showdead", and I find it to be a constant reminder of why such things are necessary. It is rare that I find a shadow-banned chucklehead who isn't an actual chucklehead blow-hard, and when I do I let them know (if possible) that they might want to hit up the moderators. Can't remember the last time I felt it necessary to do that, though.
/r/keepournetfree mod here. Conservatives benefit from net neutrality too - I wouldn’t blame politics as much as general fatigue.
Correct, this is NOT what it means to be masculine, which means the behavior is just toxic. No good is served by coupling the two words and has only served to denigrate all masculinity.

We don't typically use the term toxic femininity, even though there are women out there that display toxic traits which they link to feminity.
Well then you have to skip the nuts. And the seashells. And the milk. And everything containing gluten. And probably eggs. And whatever else people can have allergies to. Gonna be an interesting diet.
They'll just say "we re-evaluated and they're fine for a bit longer". I'm pretty sure they've already done that for something.
More accurately, this is a Latency/Throughput/Cost problem.

The article assumes "max throughput" means "operate the cluster at 100% utilization". But for a parallelized service that's actually assuming they want "max throughput per $". As described, BigTable can have low latency and high throughput if you are willing to overspend on compute.
Various ASMR stuff on YouTube does it for me, vast majority is designed for sleeping to. Ephemeral Rift and Goodnight Moon are favourites.
Whoa, you have an iPhone 16 Mini??? What's the future like??
Marry a rich Caribbean.
I also rewrote my blog's static site generator to a bespoke one (in Dart in my case), largely for performance reasons. Prior, I was using Jekyll and Pygments. Jekyll and Pygments are really slow. My new site generator is literally 100x faster, and I did, like, zero real optimization work. In fact, it can rebuild my entire blog and every post from scratch faster than Jekyll's watch mode (with caching set up properly) could rebuild a single page.
We make the decision to post here, not our managers. Prescribing these sorts of rituals from a position of power is going to do a lot more to make automatons than forced greetings are going to undo.

If recognizing life outside work is really a cultural issue then encourage change around that and make it interactive instead of prescribing only your view. It'll come out better for everyone and it's exceedingly unlikely to come to exactly what one person was thinking it should be like.
I've been trying to make a cool static site generator numerous times. Well, yes, it actually is a quite fun thing to tinker with, but I've found myself struggling to decide on what do I want to see in the final app and what I do not; what features might be needed by other users and what features might be an overkill. So I ultimately went with Zola[1] and encourage you to try it too! Aaaand it is written in Rust, too. It's available in Alpine Linux's repos so it's trivial to set up a CI/CD to compile your blog.

[1] https://www.getzola.org/
I really loved Dad's selections of music he played. I tried playing the violin but didn't get far at the age I tried. My brother learned piano and did program computers. I can't say Dad's music made me a programmer but it did inspire me to program.
DNS, proxy and cert settings should be exposed to the user without question. And if apps bypass it and do things like cert pinning they need to be banned off the stores.

This is the only way to fix the ecosystem.
It kinda store diff in `rr-cache/` the preimage | postimage | thisimage combined is a kind of diff.
> Video platform, like Vibehut.io?

Oh that’s your website…
That. Plus...

Poacher Hunter to the paying authority: "Bob was a poacher. I didn't shoot him while he walked home from work. I promise."
> AGPL-3.0 license

https://github.com/runsidekick/sidekick/blob/v0.0.1/LICENSE

I knew what it was going to be before even looking
> I find it hard to believe that each customer has a user account on the mainframe

Why? Do you actually have any experience in this area? I do, and I can tell you, they do exactly that. Then multiple systems integrate with that mainframe, often using the user account as the unique identifier for the entire organization. Migrations are an absolute nightmare.

> Users have to go through that to do online banking, and the account system on that can be totally separate from whatever account system is running on the backend banking system.

It can be, but it isn't. Thus, the problem.

Honestly this type of "hardly believe" take is what every new employee right out of college (or myself 15 years ago) when they come up with ten thousand "simple" ideas for improvement without any organization, political, or system understanding. Then they act confused when their ideas aren't instantly implemented, because they don't even understand what it is they're proposing or why it is complicated.

Banks have been trying to get off of mainframes for 30-years or more at this point, spent tens of millions of dollars, but had someone just told them to "run a web server in front of it" this could all have been avoided.
EU faces awful winters without gas cap
It a very unfortunate that Google decided to throw their legal weight, but I suppose predictable.

When that day comes, I'll be very tempted to have a crack at modding it myself, if nothing else springs up to replace it.
You've made two extreme leaps (accepting not eating nuts would lead to accepting an untested vaccine; accepting an untested vaccine would lead to accepting genital mutilation) and implied at least four complete falsehoods (that the COVID vaccine was "loosely tested", that COVID has a 99.98% survival rate, that GRS involves "chopping off genitals", and that absolutely anyone supports making GRS available to minors) here. Is that intentional?
By saying “Americans” rather than “human beings in general” you are implicitly comparing countries.
Probably not for a few years, you need a (maybe few) A100(s) to be able to backprop a model that big with float32.
Not sure. But it seems they at least aware of Alex's work on image recognition systems because the CIFAR-10 reference. Training ImageNet at that time involves a lot of engineering work.
It's on my road map. I got requested support for reMarkable & Kobo but I wanted to build a _really_ good tool for the Kindle first. Stay tuned. Thanks
>why continue with the SLS?

Thinly veiled welfare or a grandfathered in earmarks depending on your perspective.
...and I guess I should add, I still use Krita as a result of the continued overall baffle-crash of GIMPs UI and general behavior, regardless of the fact that GIMP does have a great feature-set in the abstract.
Health: Wales' children get F in fitness in global study
Mosquitoes are really good at smelling humans
> As much as it pains me to say this, I kind of wish it was in TypeScript or something, just to reduce the mental overhead.

If you once knew how Elixir works (syntactically), then you will be able to quickly bounce back. If comparing TypeScript with Phoenix, then you would have to relearn your in TS written functionality, in contrast to relearning Phoenix.

I don't see how it being TS would help much tbh. I think what matters much more is, whether your past self left good comments and wrote readable code.
> Odd - being downvoted for what I see as having some compassion for this man. Maybe I'm missing something. If so, please explain so I can learn.

Many people make judgments relative to a group rather than an individual. Such people wouldn't see your stance as positive because you're allowing for a loss to the group. Any cost to that individual that brings a benefit to the group would be acceptable in this worldview.
A private welcome message is nice, a public welcome message is at best uncomfortable. If it's private, I know it's meant for my benefit and any information provided does not distract from anything else. If it's public, maybe the poster/moderator has good intentions but it's still pointing out to everyone that I'm the new guy so I need to worry about how everyone on the forum might interpret it. And of course in those situations where the moderators actually are hazing, it's always public.
Because one is a raised D and the other a lowered E. Shit hunny...

(flippant, but also accurate! of course explaining why that matters is a whole different beast. Lots and lots of good books available though...)
Its interesting because I've looked into these "automated prescription" telehealth services for a year now without much luck.

I have prescription OCD meds that I've been on for a couple of years. I pay 100 USD out of pocket every 3 months for a telehealth appointment with my doc where she asks "everything okay? Same prescrition?" Its totally useless, but I've yet to find a service that is <33 USD/month to save me any money on this.
Thanks for the article.

I do feel like engineers who put themselves out there and engage on HN, Github, Chat groups, etc, get "polished" and get better as engineers, assuming that association in these forums causes them to read more code or think about paradigms.

If "silent" are mostly keeping to themselves, they might have some of their own innovations independent from mainstream engineering, but lack common knowledge, which can be accounted for by reading a lot of programming books, release notes, docs, etc.

Unrelated, some unsolicited feedback for bloggers, I like to click on images to zoom in (quicker than ctrl+equal 5 times). So at the very least please wrap the images in a link to the image src. a humble request.
I don't know what _they_ think is wrong with it, but if you need docker-compose to run unit tests, they're not unit tests. Unit tests really shouldn't have external dependencies of the kind docker-compose helps to provide.

That's more of a terminology point IMO, and probably not what they were talking about.
I read lot of blogs, made something similar [0] a while ago.
Write now installing it is painful, if you don't have calibre or node js installed.
Re-writing it all in nodejs, so that installation is easier. Calibre is not needed now, as amazon started converting epubs to azw3.

[0] https://github.com/nikhil1raghav/kindle-send
But we actually _do_ accommodate those allergies. I know someone with severe peanut, tree nut, and milk allergies. I spend lots of time with her, and yet I can still drink milkshakes and eat Reese's Cups. The idea that accommodating someone means utterly restricting everyone else's freedom is, frankly, ridiculous.
No, I’m saying that the same physical ports, on broken hardware, won’t always enumerate to the same physical port. Say port 0 is the one on the left and port 1 is on the right. You’d expect that the computer is able to reliably get that right and be consistent. I’m saying that in the case of broken hardware / bad firmware that it’s not, and port 0 will come up as the right port, with port 1 on the left, with no working, proper way to identify between the two.
Do you have any good resources in mind on this topic? I've been reading Boyarin's Border Lines, which hypothesizes that the concept of religion was created around that time to describe what kind of thing Christianity was, and to explicitly separate it from Judaism (which was cast as another thing of the same type by both sets of leaders). Really interesting perspective.
Don't forget: Al Einstein played his violin.
congrats Garry!! you are a founder's founder and will do great things at YC.
35 sounds pretty impactful though. The physical limit of ear plugs COMBINED with ear muffs is 36db NRR.
It has gotten more tolerable with flex and grid, but no, the problem is not primarily developers' lack of moral virtue. The design of CSS has deep problems. The most thoughtful critique I've seen is still Bret Victors in Magic Ink. While the piece is old and CSS has improved a lot since then, the basic points are all still relevant:

http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/#p255
Facebook settles Cambridge Analytica class action for undisclosed amount
Not commenting is a superior personal strategy.

I've always been the vocal outspoken critic. XML, EJB, annotations, aspects, ORMs, everything JavaScript, agile, ad nauseum. (My non-technical list is way longer.) It's always cost me.

I really wish I could tell young me to just smile and STFU.
Germany orders Sept 1 shutdown of digital ad displays to save gas
ReScript community is well and alive and is actively working on improving the ReScript compiler and tooling. V10 just came out with records with optional fields - https://forum.rescript-lang.org/t/ann-rescript-v10-released/.... Async/await is in the works. The language is really really good (especially say comparing to TypeScript). Make sure to check it out.
Image generation ethics: Will you be an AI vegan?
Past the Salt
"how do you get whoever it's aimed at to care?"
When there is an emptiness inside that must be filled. What do you fill it with?
It's important to understand that SoftBank is no ordinary bank; while it had been a reasonably successful bank, the distortion truly began with the Saudi government turning up and asking them to invest $200bn for them.

There simply isn't $200bn of real positive capturable return investment opportunities out there available at once. Anything physical would be hopelessly bottlenecked by its own size and would be unable to scale rapidly enough for the investors. So it had to be thrown at all these hugely speculative projects with the goal of capturing entire markets.

The real problem is that, due to a century of fossil fuel dependence, there's a huge amount of wealth concentrated in weird desert monarchies.
>EDIT: it's a sad day on HN when you mention how M1/M2 MBs are a big step up from the Intel MBs to a comment about laptop recommendations and you get a bunch of commentless downvotes. WTaF?

>to a comment about laptop recommendations

The thread's title is "Is there a developer laptop that does not suck and is not a Mac in 2022?"
It’s refreshing to see a front-page Rust piece that just nails it on promoting the language.

It cites concrete examples of where the rubber really meets the road: e.g. Cargo as a one-stop-shop for platform insensitive, “just works” build and dep management.

It acknowledges that it’s ok for fun and novelty to be features, which it is!

It steers well clear of A >> B nonsense. No preachy TED talk about memory safety.

It’s respectful of the value that other languages provide in their respective niches.

This is how to sell Rust. It’s novel and fun but also pragmatic and industrial grade! And if you’re into X, that’s cool too!
Two old yet alive Indian languages Sanskrit and Tamil have hymns even older. I wonder why Sanskrit and it's rich collection of hymns completely gets ignored.

Nasadiya Suktam[0] from RigVeda[1] ponders the questions of our origins in sweet melody.

[0] https://youtu.be/SYlP7DXtyQ8

[1] https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigveda
Right. It's a tired trope at this point. Sort of like "disrupting" this or that business segment.
It can be used harmfully (as everything) but adding one isn't as harmful as for example deleting an A entry or changing CNAMEs to another domain
Ah yes, one of my favorite projects in a newly learned language: Make a blog, based on plain text files, maybe markdown, maybe something else.

But since I have done that, I feel that many existing site generators are bloated, probably, because they cover scenarios, which I would not want on my blog anyway.
Isn’t that basically what OpenAI and Google tried to do and it lasted all of 3 months.

Problem with tech is once it’s known to be possible if you choose to try and monetize it by making it public as OpenAI and Google were planning to do then it’s only a matter of time before another smart team figure out how you’re doing it.

You can do the Manhattan Project in secret and in 500 years someone else might not realize it’s possible. But the second you do a test of that concept the sign you did that is detectable everywhere and the dots of what you did will connect in someone’s brain somewhere.

Can’t put the genie back in the bottle.
Ah, thanks. You've reminded me about the 2016 debacle [0] wherein github rate limited the cocoapods repository because their practice of using a shallow clone and later fetches impacted github's performance. I'm going to warc that now, so I don't forget again.

[0] https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/4989#issuecomm...

[+] https://github.com/orgs/Homebrew/discussions/225
Look forward to see what the follow-up post has to say.

I've encountered these situations and solved it using common sense that might vary case by case. In one case we had 3 types of database servers: writer, normal-query, slow-query. The last one was added because certain queries would use up significant cpu and i/o.
Despite killing and dying to stop Hitler, and seeing many of their countries razed, they're guilty for not doing more to help the Jews? At a time when they were themselves in existential peril?

> They could have bombed railways. They didn't (US didn't either).

They did bomb railways [1], and sabotaged them too [2]. Many partisans were caught and executed for it. Yet you deny their sacrifice. To say nothing of actually showing gratitude.

> They could have bombed the camps. They didn't.

Let's ignore that "could" here means flying deep into enemy-controlled territory, with all the anti-aircraft defenses that entails, and focus on what would happen had they done that. What would happen if they dropped bombs on a camp full of prisoners, to those prisoners? What happens to anyone if you drop bombs on them?

And I see many countries attended that conference [3], not just from Europe. And the US was an ocean away. At that point, you may as well blame the whole world for not accepting the refugees. Yet you reserve your blame for the US and Europe.

> They did little/nothing to stop the atrocities. That they knew were happening.

Have you heard of the fog of war? The atrocities were not nearly as well publicized as they are today (least of all to the Germans themselves [4]), their scale was not yet known, and they had to contend with many other atrocities. Let me remind you Stalin killed 20 million of his own people (and Ukrainians) [5] around that time. Shall we feel guilty for them too? They were our allies, after all, and we generously gave them much of the Eastern Europe that they invaded and terrorized, and filmed hardly any movies about those deaths [6] - I guess some things are okay to forget?

And finally, since you so generously appoint hereditary guilt not just for inaction, but even for insufficient (by your standards) action, which nation would be guiltless by this standard? None. Certainly not Israel.

[1] Strategic bombing during World War II involved sustained aerial attacks on railways, harbours, cities, workers' and civilian housing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_sabotage_during_World_...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89vian_Conference

[4] In October 1944, Reitsch claims she was shown a booklet by Peter Riedel which he'd obtained while in the German Embassy in Stockholm, concerning the gas chambers. She further claims that while believing it to be enemy propaganda, she agreed to inform Heinrich Himmler about it. Upon doing so, Himmler is said to have asked whether she believed it, and she replied, "No, of course not. But you must do something to counter it. You can't let them shoulder this onto Germany." "You are right," Himmler replied. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Reitsch

[5] https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/04/world/major-soviet-paper-...

[6] https://reason.com/2000/06/01/hollywoods-missing-movies/
I disagree. The value Google and similar web services brings is enormous. That said, there should be people in the loop who are trained and authorized to work around the operational systems. This is the cost of doing business.
Related from 3 days ago "German digital signage ban prompts confusion" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32604821
Is that relatively cheap or expensive?

I have no context for this, do other model dveelopers publish how much it costed to train them?
You're right - this is exactly the topic. I replied too hastily.
I think it depends on your eyesight and programs. I have a 13.3″ laptop, but I just use vim and a pretty small font. My favorite laptop ever was the Toshiba NB305. At 10.3″ it was a "one app full screen at a time" machine, but that was appropriate for the processing power anyway.
> 1. I've actually developed that[0]. Using the browser extension is even more powerful as it could send content behind paywalls to Kindle — something not possible for the web UI.

Ah, I see it now when I load your full site, rather than the HN-specific page. Great to know!
mobile phone 80G plan (https://www.symamobile.com/forfait?req=compare they increased their price, but my plan doesn't change) and tethering

I pushed it further as student, supermarket garbage, restaurants, it's easy to get bread for free, and end of markets for vegs. There were other people and students doing similar, but probably not as extreme, the downside is I got some food deficiencies (and small mental issues OCDs, that went away after eating more properly)
It's possible to read on the internet without engaging in arguments.
Many nations have a way to fast-track citizenship through investments. It appears the Caribbean is one of them if the cost makes sense for your use case. [1] Internet latency to US/EU can be a bit high. [2]

[1] - https://nomadcapitalist.com/global-citizen/second-passport/c...

[2] - https://www.ookla.com/articles/caribbean-mobile-roaming-perf...
With the hippie forest life; you get to have a big pack of dogs and spend time playing with them. the other options leave less time, even for playing with your family. I say bolt for the woods ASAP.
In the US we managed to scare ISPs away from the worst behaviors although peering extortion is still going on. In Europe it's more of an active topic since telcos are trying to force a similar sender-pays bandwidth extortion model.
syntax doesn't typically matter as long as you are at least as productive as in other languages. i.e. if editors can do the same things with keybindings.

The problem with the (* *) comments is that I can select a block of text, a portion of which is already commented out, and commented the whole selection. You can't solve this without lossy commenting (e.g. removing the inner comment). The portion that is already commented will screw it up. This doesn't matter in single line comments since it will just add an additional "//" in front of a commented line.
Perhaps I wasn't clear, I am saying that this is bothersome because he wasn't convicted. It's my first sentence. I just don't care about the art angle.
What “word”? What “ground-up rewrite”? Do you really believe everything you read on the internet?