skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If the trend of the last couple of weeks continues

In the current volatility, which is lasting since a year now, a trend of a couple of weeks means absolutely nothing in my view…
It's also somewhat outside of their capabilities, I think. While they're quite good at supergluing themselves to roads, blocking ambulances etc - locating a pipeline ~70-90 meters below the surface and then successfully detonating explosives down there, twice in a day, is quite a few levels up from that.
I am so relieved that the late Rush Limbaugh is not one of the author's mentioned as banned.

I am so sure that I can go into a school library in California and New York and see his "Rush Revere" series of historical time-travel books for kids featured on the bookshelves.
Not sure how Nature lets through a paper like this without mandating the raw data is included and a detailed protocol to reproduce the results.
That's not what I meant to say. Actually I searched for words, thought about 'informative', 'enlightening', other rephrasing, but been lazy. I like (some) fiction too. But all the discussions about this short story seem to remain fuzzy, coming to no real conclusions, not pointing to the core. Because, hey, fiction, so what? That is detrimental, I think. And because of that, I've put it that way.
> That's frankly absurd.

The notion that NS2 would enter operation is absurd. NS2 has been dead in the water for months, and the prospect of entering service have been dubious for some time before the Russians invaded Ukraine.
It’s going to be strange 50 years from now when the internet is fragmented (more than it is now) by country.
Vonnegut was brilliant, but I never found his writing subtle. He generally was pretty straightforward about things. imho, Harrison Bergeron should be taken at face value as his indictment against holding back the gifted among us.

Remember that his exemplars aren't great Randian industrialists, but like... dancers. Artists. Quietly intelligent men like himself. Vonnegut isn't saying "the strong should triumph and stand on the backs of their lessers and dominate the world" but rather just "let great and beautiful things be great and beautiful".

And there's the subtle misogyny that our hero is smart and his wife is a bit dense and happily accepts their dystopia. I love Vonnegut, but that fits with his writing through and through. Vonnegut's women generally... aren't great.

Yes, letting greatness be victorious has kind of a conservative bent because it also implies letting the losers lose, which runs runs against progressive ideals that Vonnegut seems to hold of making sure everyone is taken care of. I think Vonnegut was the kind of man who could hold both those thoughts in his head at the same time.

We contain multitudes.

In general, it's a cute story within Vonnegut's body of work, but anybody who fixates on this one piece... it's kind of a red flag of "I would do great and awesome things if only the bleeding heart liberals stopped holding me back!"
Of all the nice things to say about Julia, popular isn't one of them.
That is the overwhelming global intelligence consensus, yes. Even Russian allies aren't fully behind the conflict - if Russia were provoked, allies would be offering materiel or training, no?
> Russia turned the taps off in order to raise pressure for European concessions in order to turn them back on again.

I don't want to sound dismissive, but that's a characteristically western take on things.

Nord Stream 2 was largely redundant and Russia missed the window to use those pipelines against Germany by allowing it to fill it's storage.

Russia is no stranger to causing damage to itself just to ensure that their enemies also suffer.

Case in point: back in 2015, as retaliation to sanctions they banned some imports of food from the EU deeming it "unsafe for consumption"(a particularly funny reason for someone familiar with the respective food standards). Contraband was publicly destroyed, upsetting a considerable chunk of the Russian public.
Two things:

* his ability to scale is greater than yours

* his work nets income even when he is sleeping
I had a similar feeling - I'd stop every once in a while and savor a particularly wonderful line for a minute or two. I wondered if I should make a note of such lines, but ended up just enjoying them and letting them go.
Every concern he had that wasn't based on fabrication, yes.

Airplane mode leaves the cellular radio on? Not according to signal tests!
You don't need a weather forecast to know that winters are cold in northern part of europe, but that doesn't matter, because with cheap energy we can heat or houses, workplaces, the industry continiues running, and then comes the spring.

With energy prices rising, people won't have money to heat their houses, industry won't be able to produce stuff, people will be left jobless, etc... meaning, a hard winter for europe.
Better check those numbers, only those forced by Mountain View minions have done so.
Sadly, a new risk with "100% remote anywhere" culture. Employers need to stop trusting blindly and do more due diligence. People like these are the reason why some employers will never trust remote employees.

I suggest calling the candidate in person for 1 day at a co-working location and meet them in person once you are ready to make an offer. Pay for their time since you have anyway decided to hire them. Yes, this adds cost to you but it will be a huge deterrence for fraud. If a candidate doesn't like it, they can move on.
> That doesn't mean that everything is perfect and we shouldn't fix things that are broken,

Okay, so this is exactly what GP said. There is a difference between "not adding new features" and "not fixing bugs".
Cloudflare offers web standard javascript API's out of the box and is very fast as is
Can anyone familiar weigh in on advantages/disadvantages of this to Bedrock Linux?
Never heard of these glyphs in Australia before, but they seem to have been debunked as fake pretty quickly. (Sources 1, 2)

That being said, Indigenous Australians of New South Wales (where these phony glyphs are) have done a lot of impressive things themselves and have an amazing history to learn an appreciate all their own. The most famous I'm aware of was the complex societies built upon massive fishery management. (Sources 3, 4)

Sources:

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosford_Glyphs

2: https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/tim-the-yowie-...

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewarrina_Aboriginal_Fish_Tra...

4: https://asia.nikkei.com/Life-Arts/Life/Ancient-Aboriginal-fi...
Have you guys ever thought that maybe you just aren't able to perceive the differences in modern speech and vocab because you choose not to? Maybe viewing the past the way you are kinda leads itself to not enjoying the modern world to the extent that you possibly could. Speech evolves in ways that are often very challenging to perceive, particularly if you think of modern society as somehow dumber and less apt to convey emotions through language which mostly comes off as the opinions of someone who somehow thinks that language only works "one way" aka the way they were taught it works, and the way that they personally speak in. In the example you're using here with the rap critic, words do have meaning, and playing with that meaning or lack of meaning is just as interesting and intelligent as some rural turn of phrase, and also isn't a very new concept if you're younger than say 150.
I agree with you -- but I also don't say no to free food.

I mean regardless of whether mypy was going to make my code run faster I would have used it for the shear confidence it gives wrt to my code correctness. The fact that I can use that same code (untouched) to speed it up... that's just means I get to have my cake and eat it too :P
Write a DefaultFoo function which returns a Foo with default values set. Then unmarshal into that.
Really ? Yet, we label all nations that do that dictatorial repressive regimes. In fact people frequently do so on this very forum. Maybe they are, but come on let's have some consistency in our behaviour.
DECtalk source code and new version under development
A while back, the late Edward Bruckert released an archive of source code to the DECtalk mailing list. For those who don't know, DECtalk Is a text to speech system that was Invented by Dennis Klatt In the 1980s, and It still has a niche audience to this day.
Several developers Including myself are working on a new version that sounds more classic, as the original code we got from Bruckert Is for a Beta version of DECtalk 5.0, which sounds almost nothing like the classic versions that most people like.
Recently, another former developer released the sources for several older versions of DECtalk, and this speed up the development process quite a bit, as we previously relied mainly on reverse engineering older versions of the software. I have uploaded the original archives of source code to the Internet archive, as there Is a lot we can learn from this collection. Long live DECtalk!
https://archive.org/details/DTK_SRC
Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior from China and Russia
Check the Foreign Corrupt Practices act
Yes and no.

Since the Russian invasion in February, Europe has been working out how to get by without Russian gas. For this winter, stocks are high enough that Europe can probably get by without gas rationing or a major hit to GDP (although this also depends on what the weather's like). There's also a variety of short-term (increasing gas flows from North Africa) and longer-term (increased renewables energy production, more LNG terminals) efforts to eliminate the need for any Russian gas. That goal is, the last I've seen, ready to be hit in 2024.

So the real question isn't what happens over the next 6 months, which I suspect will be rather anticlimactic for most observers, but what happens in the 12 following months, especially if Russian seems determined to deliver 0 gas to Europe in 2023.
StackOverflow is kind of horrible. I keep waiting for someone to disrupt that market with a less awful product.
Thank you for releasing this! Had a question: if I have worker code that uses other Cloudflare storage APIs like KV or R2, what would you recommend as far as shimming those calls so this code could run via workerd (but, for example, just use basic process-local in-memory storage for now.) Is that doable? For my use case durability isn’t that important and I’d like to offer people the ability to self host my code via workerd.
There was a thread on this topic about a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32668694
AFAIK, only one of the NS2 pipelines has been damaged. Both branches of NS1 are leaking but there has only been one reported leak on NS2
Don't worry. The incoming nuclear winter will neatly offset the greenhouse warming.

/s but not really...
Try the whole "teach them to fish" vs "give them a fish" approach. So give positive feedback for asking, show them how to find the answer online or in documentation, and then over time, your first response to their question will become "ok, what have you tried so far?" and hold them accountable for following the (informational search) algorithm you showed them previously.

Some people have trouble turning your advice into a skill they perform routinely (partly because they don't take notes). So you can help them with that by asking them to make notes on what you are showing them, then getting them to send them to you for review.

And if the things really isn't online because it’s proprietary and it’s not explained in the documentation yet, then you get them to write the notes with the view to making that the documentation. So they take up your time on a task that helps them in the company, they pay it back with another task that helps others by reducing the chances that someone else gets stuck in future
Isn't the opposite of

>So, if a DOM element has an id that is already defined as a global, it won’t override the existing one.

So, if a global has name of the id of a DOM element, it won’t override the existing one?

Wouldn't it be clearer to say globals always before DOM ids?
Great suggestion, SAML SSO should really become commodity and made available to all tiers. Enterprise tiers are clearly dictated RFP/Security Questionnaires, there's no bigger admin hassle than that.
I don't think I've ever seen a paper that included much raw data. It's possible this may be a good suggestion, but it's not the way things are currently done.
> We do have some plans around making WebSockets more efficient by allowing the application to shut down while keeping idle WebSockets open, and start back up on-demand when a message arrives.

Please make noise when that rolls out! I was literally wishing for that yesterday.

I want to use Cloudflare Workers to quickly connect p2p WebRTC clients, but when a new peer joins there needs to be open WebSockets to send connection-setup messages to each peer in the room. But with how that works / is billed today it really doesn’t make sense to have a bunch of idling WebSockets.

An alternative is having each client poll the worker continuously to check for new messages, but that introduces a bunch of latency during the WebRTC connection negotiation process.
I saw this "shortcut" used in code snippets, on online JS/CSS/HTML editors like JSFiddle. It did not even occur to me this was part of JS spec, I thought the editor was generating code behind my back!
There's so much in this comment I'm not really sure where to start. I guess the first is the "especially men" comment is weird, especially in the context of women generally needing more iron and being prone to bouts of anemia. Unless you're shedding your uterine lining every month your iron needs are probably being hit unconsciously.

The average American consumes twice the recommended daily protein intake but half the fiber. If we want to talk about healthy diets we should probably start there. Plus the bit about cruelty is hilarious if not sad — condemning billions of sapient beings to lives of immeasurable suffering unnecessarily for tradition doesn't sound cruelty-free. But sure, feeding your kids fruits and vegetables without hot dogs is the REAL cruelty. Forget the fact we supplement animal feed with beta complex vitamins because we don't even give them the dignity of grass beneath their feet. Truly unconscionable to ask humans to take a b12 or omega-3 supplement; forcing living beings capable of complex emotions to take the supplement for you and then having them killed is comme-il-faut.

This also entirely ignores the carnists and omnis that feed their children a diet of Smuckers Uncrustables(tm) and Kraft Mac n Cheese(tm). Let's not pretend malnutrition is mostly happening to children on plant-based diets when most Americans are buying ready-made junk food for their "picky eaters". Remind me what is in a "chicken nugget" again?

Lastly, good sleep / physical exercise / healthy diet / solid friend group are all protective factors against mental illness but they certainly are not more effective than any drug. People with all of those boxes ticked still get mental illness and suffer. The drugs we have today may be crude, but they most certainly work. Therapy is wonderful but wasn't exactly doing anything for my ADHD. Medication changed my life and I have Dr. Gordon Alles to credit for that -- not a diet.
With their insidious plan to put an anti-Russian military alliance on their borders. You obviously understand the depths of Putin's genius. He's playing the long game.
Yes, the best way to deal with social knowledge is to memorize the list of biases and sociopolitical behaviors from Wikipedia, and to recite the fitting ones when anything relevant comes up.
So what happened next? Did you fire him or is he still working for you?
> Honest question, does that matter? Ie if we say that they can do it better than i can, hypothetically that means i'll have more downtime than them - yes?

Yes.

> If that's true for everyone, then the internet will, in aggregate, be down less with CF than if we distributed better.

That depends on what we define as “the internet”. If we use any single service as a point of measure, then “the internet” will have more downtime. But my desire to use the internet is very seldom to use one specific service. Instead, I want to accomplish a specific task, and if my usual service goes down, with any luck they will have a competitor which is still up. This is why I think this alternative is better; it will encourage competitors to exist, which will provide a level of redundancy above the simple network layer.
As someone that struggled with envy as a kid, this story spoke to me. It made me think twice about trying to tear people down that I thought were hogging the spotlight.

Although, I'm sure there were people in my class that identified with Harrison and thought that everyone else was holding them back.
> when some of them are electing Russia-frendly government

What's wrong with that? I mean... we're either a democracy, and people choose their own government, or we're being governed by some other external force not obeying the wishes of the people.... if italy choses to be friendly with the russians, their people wanted that, so why not?
I would say not being able to buy Russian gas is good for EU. Supporting evil empire by buying gas is bad not just for European souls but also for long-term stability, as we can see.
Go is basically an AOT compiled version of Limbo with the method syntax and UNSAFE package from Oberon-2, and they stopped there.
Humans are social creatures. Perhaps the stereotype of the energetic and motivated individual is an anomaly of human behavior. Some degree of "loafing", to use the OP's word is natural and healthy for individuals and the group as a whole. Slack time allows recuperation, thoughtful planning, and enables available team members to unblock members that are stuck.

I say "some degree" of course. Pathological examples can be found.
"(nearly)"
They already showed off giant carplay updates at WWDC this year. They showed a car where the entire dash was a giant wide screen, where it even handled the speedometer, odometer, fuel level, etc

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/06/09/apples-2023-carpl...
OpenAI Whisper Benchmarks
The Cloudflare Calls launch post is really well written! But I agree that it perhaps somewhat overstates the uniqueness of their approach, given that Agora, Jitsi-as-a-Service, Stream, and Daily all offer WebRTC platforms with a mesh/cascading SFU architecture.

Relatedly, I didn't know that Stream had launched SFU cascading. That's awesome! I'd love to compare notes sometime if you're up for it. (I'm a co-founder of Daily.)
Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence [pdf]
I wonder how this would work in someplace like Ohio that's hot in the summers but cold in the winters. Would it make the home even colder in the winter? If so, is there some variation that works both ways?

I've heard of overhangs that block the sun in the summer when it's more directly overhead, but allow direct sunlight into the home in the winter when it's at more of an angle, so there are certainly some things that can be done.
Russia can just close the valve.

Germany has an option to talk with russia to make a deal, so russia reopens the valve... some other forces don't want that.
Washington had a very clear policy of never letting NS2 enter production (remember that ominous Biden quip before the war? [1]), which, by the way, is the opposite of absurd: Germany is a major consumer of natural gas and Russia is a major nearby supplier. NS2 is natural in a world without geopolitical drama.

"NS2 shouldn't exist" is a narrative manufactured in Washington (and delivered to Germany by Baerbock), that goes against basic economics and the interests of both Germans and Russians.

[1] - https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/07/biden-says-nord-stream-2-won...
Lobbying - Legal - When rich people and businesses do it via lawyers and consultants

Bribery - Illegal - When poor/unconnected people do the same thing
That fits. It sounds like it's not the high-minded anticommunist social criticism that conservatives want it to be, but more of just grousing about the tall-poppy problem of high-school that I think most gen-X-and-older nerds would be more than familiar with.
Sure, my email's in my github of the same username.
Come on son. I replaced tube-based Russian missile control with 8080 microprocessor while in the Finnish Army 1978.

Rumour is that this solution was field-tested in Afghanistan when Russians made KR580VM80A-processor.
When you point a finger at someone, three fingers point back at you. In other words, you're throwing stones in a glass house.
Yeah it reminds me of the CIA funding Jackson Pollock and the Iowa Writer's Workshop.

Vonnegut probably intended more shades of meaning, but it is instead a ham-fisted manifesto for liberals (in the more original, globally center-right sense) like Scott Aaronson whose entire worldview is rooted in loving accelerated schooling.
Yes, if US did it and it becomes public, it would be the best gift to Putin.

Then again, Russia might not have the monopoly on stupidity.
> appear to be very serious about genocide

Words don't mean anything anymore.
> in the US there is a lot of work done recently to patch the methane leaks in gas fields

This sounds like a business sustainability decision rather than out of concern for the environment.
Thank you. I'm really bad at calculus.
On the other hand, companies as large as small countries can afford to buy off everyone who could enforce such laws locally.
This is a valid conspiracy.... when it gets cold, people will protest, and demand that their government sits down with putin and make a deal... with the pipes blown, the government can say that they can't do anything, and that it's not their fault.
On my teams, we facilitate this by creating a slack channel called [new hire]_ASKS with a small team of dedicated watchers that set alerts to “all messages”

The new hire knows that there are a group of people whose assignment is to answer their questions.
Perhaps "canonical" would be a better word, and as your links suggested, the canonical way to work on JavaScript-language capabilities is to use a JavaScript interpreter you can run outside the browser.

Not sure Go has one of those wired.
If you haven't worked in science, please keep in mind that the literature has never been seen as holy writ. Wrong stuff gets published all the time. You have to read critically.

Not excusing sloppy work or whatever it was. Just pointing out to any laypeople out there that science has never had (and never required) a perfect professional literature. Far from it.
you got any books to recommend learning about all that?
I have seen belligerent aging managers use a news item about this criminal action to bolster their own "these people" management theories, on the other hand.

plenty of mob types are making mob money on this scam while we type, as excellent young engineers struggle to make $3k USD per month.. I will guess. Overall seems like collateral damage for the relentless wage-war with outsourcing.. from the engineer side, I tend towards "this is the (outsourced workforce) bed you made now you are getting it back"
Thanks for workerd! I saw a tweet from you mention that workerd could be used as a reverse-proxy (a la nginx), but the github readme is scant on the details and ends with (TODO: Fully explain how to get systemd to recognize these files and start the service.).

---

Cloudflare... uses... workerd, but adds many additional layers of security on top to harden against such bugs. However, these measures are closely tied to our particular environment... and cannot be packaged up in a reusable way.

Durable Objects are currently supported only in a mode that uses in-memory storage -- i.e., not actually "durable"... Cloudflare's internal implementation of this is heavily tied to the specifics of Cloudflare's network, so a new implementation needs to be developed for public consumption.

...the runtime parts I was most curious about couldn't be open-sourced :(