skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I own both editions and am re-reading with 2e.

Thank you for the recommendation, it's a good one. I stand by my position that the video seems confusing without context. "Start with Why".
I've never gotten (into) Touhou culture. What's the appeal? Do you like other music besides VGM? Were you into the tracker scene and it's mostly a way to keep that alive? Was there a common board or chan everyone hung out on?

It's just always been right outside the periphery of any social group or outlet I've been part of.
What Is Peter Thiel Thinking?
Here's what I'm seeing on firefox on macos

https://imgur.com/a/VGaeBEW
I have a Anne Pro 2 running a custom build of QMK. It has a customizable keymap and can even replay macros with no software running on the host machine.
Found this article lacking. If you read a previous HN thread you probably got more of both sides of the conflict.

This doesn't go into any more depth or provide sources for the claims of bad activity on KF. I don't say this to defend them, but because I want the choice to punish them to be obvious, and so far its been a bunch of "somebody said" without clear evidence leading to the conclusion. I had hopes if Ars was writing on it they would go in depth and provide that clarity, but it is a surface level look.

Specifically I want to see evidence that ties KF users directly to the real world harassment. All I've seen so far indicates they were a very disgusting audience for those activities and therefore encouraged the continued harassment.
I think the amount of technology made those magazines so much more exciting than today's computer magazines which are almost always about computers as black boxes or marketing nonsense or pure software with no hardware applications.

Back then, I used to dream about buying an eprom programmer!

I miss electronics...
SUSv4 requires that "if an operand resolves to the root directory, rm shall write a diagnostic message to standard error and do nothing more with such operands":

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/r...

But last time I checked, busybox's rm happily removed everything. :-/
> I feel there is a lot of room to develop better tools that are not so horrid

Most organizations have horribly convoluted organizational structures and processes, and SAP has been shaped by those customers over the years to cater to those clusterfucks.

A clean, sensible ERP system can only work if the organization it serves is also sensibly organized. It is much easier (and less risky) for a company to choose an ERP system that caters to them, warts and all, rather than overhaul the way it conducts business.

As the old saying goes, SAP and its customers deserves each other.
My sentence about "very different feedback circles" indeed does not accurately express my intent. I should have written: "We should expect a very different pattern of feedback circles becoming relevant for the future dynamics of the weather/climate as was important to stop the temperature rise 8000 years ago."
> Zig has a pretty good memory safety story

No, Zig is simply not memory safe. That's a property of a programming language that has a definition. Zig does not meet that definition.

> I find it funny that fans of a language of a not-so-young-age that is struggling to find relevance and capture even 1% of the market are treating it as such an inevitability that it's irresponsible to talk about anything else.

Leaving aside your weird description of a language powering software that serves billions of users as "struggling to find relevance", most software in 2022 is written in languages that are memory safe. Zig is quite the outlier here. It would in fact be very reasonable to survey the landscape of popular languages today and come to the conclusion that memory safety is an inevitability.

> It's also detached from reality, as much of the software we all depend on is being written, in 2022, in languages without sound memory safety guarantees.

Virtually all of that software is being developed in C or C++. The most compelling reason to use those languages is that they have a huge install base and a huge amount of code already written in them. This says nothing about whether a brand-new language should be memory safe.

> There are various approaches being tried for how we should write low-level programs in the future, but there is no consensus yet on the best one.

No, there actually is PL consensus that all new languages should be memory-safe, maybe aside from very low-level specialized languages, which Zig is not trying to be--Zig is trying to be a general purpose language.
Pointing out that conflating two things is incorrect isn’t the same thing as defending either of those bad things.

Your points are dishonest and sloppy, and this subject is too serious to just accept it.
go.mod lists minimum versions. Minimum Version Selection may increase the versions used as required by other packages in the build. go.mod isn't a lock file.
Wow that cellular automata sandbox is almost identical to something I wrote a while back! You might find this article interesting for running arbitrary code in a browser sandbox:

https://blog.risingstack.com/writing-a-javascript-framework-...
Oooh! I have a copy of that at home! https://imgur.com/a/rWHmft0
We have had this for years. The term is Light Field Camera. There was an attempt several years back to do this with the Lytro camera. It worked but had a few major issues. For one the resolution loss was fairly substantial. There was also a fair few issues around the fact that the only way to share the photos was a cumbersome vendor lock in site iirc.

With more modern sensors you might be able to fix the resolution issue as I recall it being around 2010 or so.
I never said more money doesn't make you happier. I said more money has diminishing returns, and other things become more important. Even you are only able to suggest things that bring you personal fulfillment as a way you can use more money. This actually supports my point that it makes sense for someone to decline money that doesn't bring them fulfillment if fulfillment is what they're going for.
The difference with property is that its not a consumable. In an ideal world you pay off your mortgage then you dont have to worry about housing costs much, allowing you to budget on real expenses for things you consume. If you buy a house and then the area gets more popular and expensive should you pay more even though its the same house? This is especially important for retirees. Worse if you lose you job you stop paying income tax but you have to pay property tax still. I get it if you're a regular worker paying rent its a different world but hopefully one day you'll understand.
It's not an extreme position. Most languages in wide use, and virtually all new languages, are memory safe. Zig is an extreme outlier in this regard.
Admittedly, the "used to" is rather longer ago than the 90s :-) More like through the 70s.
> The value is that I can compare data to months if not years ago.

I'd say it is quite specific case. The most important data is recent data. Monitoring system should help you to identify current issues. Be reliable and performant, so you don't spend minutes waiting for response while your production is on fire.

Second in importance is data for last N days. The period when you analyze recent changes (updates, releases) or incidents. You want this data to be easy to get and pivot, changing queries ad-hoc and get results immediately. So root cause analysis won't take days of work.

Data older than month is rarely accessed. It is usually used for capacity planning, retrospective analysis - things which you do once in 3 months, or even once a year. Here, you can afford long, slow queries.

Both, VictoriaMetrics and Mimir, do a lot to provide fast access to the recent data: to get it stored and to get it ready for queries.
Yes, that's me. I even wrote an unofficial proposal for C slices!

https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html

Feel free to model your work on this and/or on D as you see fit. It'd be great if you made it into an official proposal. That one thing will greatly benefit C programs, much more than any of the other improvements in the C Standard I've seen over the years.
Not surprising though, as others have mentioned.

GitHub does this too, if you click on the Issues page and change the search query it searches all of github, not just your own repos. But you can't go to the last page of the results (not sure about the max page number, but there is a limit and for good reasons).
In my time developing jet engines I was told a story about how IBM in the early 2000s was paid 10s of millions of dollars to develop a fleet monitoring tool to spot maintenance issue, still a manual task.

Over the course of a two year period all operational and development data (since 1980) was fed into a model with all the records of maintenance and issue.

IBM came back and said, hey all these issues correspond to this parameter “EOT”… what’s that?

EOT stands for “Engine Operating Time”. The insight provided by this model was essentially useless, and their contract was canceled.

While ai is very cool, and interesting I think what the author is really saying is “AI” is really naive optimization where the the implementation is really only as good as the practitioners application knowledge.

Let’s not forget that at the end of the day Neural Nets are really just overfitting data
I agree and would even go further. Economics as a whole is basically a right wing social science. Most models bear little resemblance to real life and offer virtually no predictive power. It is an entirely unserious field.
If everything was fine, businesses wouldn't often demand cash.

The cost of using a credit card is fees, and similarly splitting your bill with Paypal or Zelle means you are paying those firms. It would obviously be a boon to get rid of all those transaction costs somehow.
Why doesn't he have tasks? I always have something on queue. If I don't, I make something up like refactoring, fixing technical debt, writing a tool, a script, something to ease my chores. Or I go yak shaving.
<query> | head -n 500
I totally remember this issue back in the day. I’m so old. Sigh.
let's talk about single use plastic which was a result of the war efforts.
The purpose of the random subdomain is to ensure that the browser doesn't just show a cached version of the page.
Cats purr when they want something. Often what they want is more of what they are already getting, so they continue purring while they get it. But, crucially, they purr before.

Of course they only purr for what they want when somebody else can supply it.
Wow, what an interesting response. If someone told me they were trying different approaches to similar problems on their own time I'd say "Sounds like you'll probably learn something someone using the same approaches or not solving the problems on their own time wouldn't".

Those engineers sound like the kind I don't like to work with. Giving you gaff for wanting to tinker on your own time is downright haughty.
yea they really just removed a whole product category, the only difference between the series 7 & 8 is a temperature sensor and better accelerometer, i bet they'll be alot of people seeking out titanium series 7's just like how people still seek out ceramic series 5's
There you go. Hence, the parent comment has falsified their own sentence, by making a false comparison (iPhone, Android) in the first place and by making a sweeping generalization of the whole crypto industry, just because the first one is useless. So the whole argument in their sentence is invalid.

A better comparison would be on the protocol level like Bittorrent, IPFS, etc.
"Some people are not doing it anymore" is a ridiculous reason to not-ban something that absolutely should be banned.
Lower bound but pretty confident in accuracy - Have eyes on all catflap traffic, some accelerometer/position data (a cat collar tracker, not a cat tracker!), and observation thus far supports the conclusion that he stages all kills in his "abattoir" area unfortunately underneath the couch regardless of their eventual disposition - pretty common behavior
I’ve been working as a hands on developer [1] for over 25 years between 8 companies. I’ve worked for companies with 20 people all the way to AWS.

I’ve always strived to “live in a position of f%%% you” (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xdfeXqHFmPI). Why would I let a company “burn me out”?

When the pay/bullshit ratio gets too low, I send my always updated resume out, review my “career document” to prepare for behavioral/informal interviews (I don’t do whiteboard coding interviews), talk to people in my network and I get another job.

Before my current job, I was a dev lead and then the de facto “cloud architect” at smaller companies. My current job is much less stressful.

[1] currently my official title is not “software developer”. But for all intents and purposes, I still develop user facing software along with a crap ton of yaml, HCL, diagrams and PowerPoint slides.
There are close to zero genuinely great mobile-exclusive games that aren't simple action or puzzle games. It makes me want to dig up some of the breathless hype about mobile/social gaming from 10-15 years ago, because basically none of the predictions have come true.

It's pretty depressing how the F2P formula has taken over.
The site is hosted in Fastmail - I think they must have enabled https or perhaps I missed that it was active when I put the site in there.
California's electricity mix made EVs pretty good (especially with timed charging) but I believe you are right in general. A classic example is environmentalists who want sprawl over dense cities.
Ah yes, in typical "enterprise software" fashion, blame and gaslight the victim
Very nice. Congrats. This looks interesting.
I think the parent commenter’s script was posted with tongue in cheek.
If we stopped subsidizing their manufacture I think we would see that gradually improve.
The money equivalency is the problem, not sure taxing it will work either, only because will set the tax too low, or it will get raised too high and be used to do something unrelated. It doesn't matter if they pay enough to sequester equivalent carbon, it matters if it actually gets done. What if we tax, but in the form of stable or usable carbon? If you emit X tons of co2 then you have to bring Y tons of coal, diesel, crude, diamonds, graphite, preserved wood or whatever, to government sequestration sites, or pay someone else to do so. Laws to prevent the government from using the stuff, and you'd drive up the price of fossil fuels simultaneously to account for their externality as well.
What the month we launched looked like
This is the first monthly update I wrote. I used it as an opportunity to get both the team and our investor on the same page. I think it offers a candid behind-the-scenes look and I hope it's interesting.
You were interested in buying a used Land Rover, of course they’re going to try and soak you. People that are good with money generally don’t buy used Land Rovers.
Why does the government need to be involved at all? Surely some bank will happily lend money to 1,000 different gas drilling operations and take a cut of the successes and eat the losses. How is getting what amounts to a loan from Big Brother any different? (Because remember, another term for "covering frontloaded costs and recovering them on an amortized schedule" is "loan"!)
> Now renewables are competitive with fossil fuels

This isn't true. They might be competitive in a shallow sense (price per kWh) but in terms of benefit (specifically, reliability and output capacity), they're barely a sniff—hence the nightmare in Europe right now.

That doesn't even factor in the fossil fuels and emissions that need to be expended to create those renewables (which are greater than the individual renewable will ever offset in its lifetime).
This is so incredibly refreshing to see. I can't express just how much I appreciate and respect this.
I think the interesting aspect to me is how so many on here complain about Signal in comparison to Matrix in the context of one-on-one or small group chats. How federization makes Matrix "more secure", but I think meta data is probably more important at this point. (Still excited to see Matrix grow, but this is clearly an issue that needs to be resolved)
I can recommend Keeper (my current password manager of 2 years) or Passpack (previous password manager of 5 years). Never experienced any problems with either.

I am surprised that they are not more popular than "fan-favorites" like LastPass which I absolutely can't stand (it's like from the dark ages UX wise) or 1Password, or, for that matter, Bitwarden. Bitwarden particularly experience degradation of service like every month or so, maybe due to their popularity.
> Ok, but surely you see the difference between this very simple/straightforward "demo app" and a real webapp? Something like Zillow, Facebook, Doordash, Spotify, etc.

Yes and no. What are those apps really doing that's fundamentally so much more complicated ? Obviously there's a lot more to their UI's and you'd need to be careful about doing full re-renders. I suspect anything that affects global page layout could become problematic. But I think it should be possible to predetermine the page layout (unless the viewport size changes, then you'd need to re-render everything, but that should be uncommon) and only re-render within div's of preset size.

> I looked at your code and you had to write your own render loop to accomplish this which would break down if you had interactive stuff that you were rendering out

You mean like generating forms/controls ?

I have some other code I'm working on that does that and also doesn't seem particularly hard. For example I'm working on a chrome extension with an options page that updates another page and the local storage as soon as a user changes an option setting.
Sure. It's possible, but as the article you linked noted:

But American academic Professor Steven Kaplan, who published
a book in 2008 on the Pont-Saint-Esprit incident, insists
that neither ergot nor LSD could have been responsible.

Ergot contamination would not, he says, have affected only
one sack of grain in one bakery, as was claimed here. The
outbreak would have been far more widespread.

He rules out LSD on the grounds that the symptoms people
suffered, though similar, do not quite fit the drug.

While the "symptoms" listed is just a report from a single person nearly 60 years later are scary, as someone who took LSD dozens of times I have to agree with Professor Kaplan that the effects mentioned don't comport with my experience.

That doesn't mean it didn't happen (or that the CIA wouldn't have done such a thing -- they've done much worse), but the "evidence" is pretty thin IMHO.
Wow. I've been on that one a few times. It had intense acceleration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfzfoPuBgfc
JSON Hero
Same. Used to really like some of the old stuff, like Lewis’s, but these days I only visit if an item is linked from here.
In 1983 I was 6 and already starting to write code daily, using BASIC. But because the lack of something like Internet I was so culturally detached from real world IT that I learned C only in 1997: 14 years later.
A Turing machine has unbounded tape, not infinite tape.
The last rabbit we had at home ran around on its own.

I developed a friendship with our horse, but did not seem to be on friendly terms with the neighbors cat. One time I saw them running across the driveway: the cat first, panicking, the rabbit a meter or two behind chasing it.
Amazon Music Unifies Music Queuing at Scale Using AWS AppSync and AWS Amplify
I've been telling people how great this idea is for years, because it's simple for organizations to plan around as it gradually ratchets up, easy to administer, and sort of progressive in the sense that the poor benefit more (relatively) than the rich.

But this year the penny finally dropped for me how demoralizingly futile it is to make rational carbon policy in the US by talking about its merits. The success of the Inflation Reduction Act ($370bn for climate) was entirely due to a cunning political hack: not taxing individuals (only corporations) and reducing the deficit at the same time (by staffing the IRS to enforce existing tax collection laws), so that it could be acceptable to the holdout conservative Democrats.
An idea: Smart contracts for derivatives. Nowadays a lot of OTC derivatives are collateralised between parties. Collateral payments depend on each party’s valuation which might differ and may come late. You could program the valuation and transfer of the collateral.

Whether a regular person can get an CBDC wallet is another (orthogonal) question. It’s equivalent to whether regular people can open an account at the central bank, even without CBDC.
Hero points.

Thanks also for explicitly spelling out what it means to be a professional. (duty to profession and society as well as employer, written source, summary "sell my labor not my ethics")
Not that I'm necessarily defending this sentiment, I did recently watch a lecture about ML (I think it was fast.ai's Jeremy Howard) with a similar real life example.

He spoke about a project from the 2000's looking to apply an artificial neural net to a medical diagnosis problem. What they did was spend many years of work with domain experts to identify the best features for the net to use. The professor then proceeded to explain that nowadays feature engineering approaches became so much more powerful, that significantly better results could be achieved in a more recent project much faster and without almost any domain expertise.
It’s hard mode if you’re poor and easy mode if you’re rich. For the top 1-2 deciles I think most of these things are much better in the US than other countries. I’m a long time proponent of universal healthcare, but I’ve heard terrible experiences in Canada and the UK in getting relatively basic treatment in a timely manner.

I think a lot of HN doesn’t understand that all the shitty things about the US that people from other countries love to rag on basically don’t apply to many people in the US. If you have a job that is in demand you will not need to worry any more about these things than if you live in another developed country. Especially in American corporate culture, sure people are worried about their mortgage and some do live paycheck to paycheck, but the culture of excessive work in places like tech or finance is not generally about getting thrown out to the streets with cancer.
From the article:

> in this astronaut cohort (median age 44 years, range 37–67),

I'd like to see also a comparison with 7 normal persons with ~45 years old. How many mutations is the expected value for a ~45 years old person?
The interface just sucks. I really think that's more or less enough to explain it. You can only do so much when your only mode of interaction is pawing at a tiny screen, so people who want to design good games mostly don't bother. In the absence of real games, the void is filled by cynically engineered malware for your brain.

The iPad was slightly more promising as a games platform, but it just isn't popular enough.
> Transactions like this undercut the basic concept behind carbon offsets—that they should fund green projects that wouldn’t be possible without the additional cash they bring.

Is this really the basic concept? I thought it was meant to deliver carbon cutting at the cheapest cost. Redesigning a Delta airlines jet to be electric or make the engine more fuel efficient is $$$$. Now, there is a village in India that uses a coal power plant. It's cheaper for Delta to build a solar power plant in India, shutdown the coal plant, and claim all the carbon output they've reduced in India then to try and build a new airplane.

Capital is therefore efficiently allocated to whatever carbon cutting project is the cheapest, therefore maximizing carbon reduction per dollar spent.